Hi! I'm a Sainsbury's basics guy.

Those of you who are not living in UK might feel a bit clueless with the title of this post. Nevertheless, those who had the experience living under the same roof with me, like Mus or Ijan, or close friends like Fezal, might have noticed this before. And of course, my beloved family, including my aunt and my cousin, Nurul, who on several occassions had advised me to pamper myself a bit more and be less stingy.

Does this picture do any help? Hehehe

I don't know when and how I picked this habit up, but I can't resist myself from buying, not only own-brand products but the lowest end (read: cheapest) of own-brand products.

Wait a minute... I guess I must have picked this trait up when I started to shop at Carrefour way back in 2003. I think I can blame Fezal for driving me to the Carrefour stores, be it the one in Wangsa Maju or in Maluri.

But the funny thing is Fezal didn't buy the things that I bought. I bought, for instance, Carrefour's own-brand detergent which only cost less than RM7. A saving of RM5, if I were to buy my usual detergent i.e. KAO Attack! And I save another ringgit by buying own-brand biscuit.

My "obssession" was further supported by the opening of Tesco Ampang, which is really "sepelaung" from my rented flat. Moreover, with the arrival of my beautiful NEO into my life made every thing more smooth and less painful. It was painful because my "obbsession" had caught the attention of Fezal and Mus. Therefore, by going shopping alone, I will be spared from their teasing eyes.

I even bought Tesco 250g toothpaste, which is only RM2.99 instead of my usual FreshWhite, which costs me almost RM2 more. My list of own-brand products beginning to grow even longer - facial tissue, juices, bed linen, etc.

And another funny thing is I only buy these products for no one but myself. Hmmm...

Now, although I shop at different hypermarket i.e. Sainsbury's but I still buy its own-brand products. I even bought the Sainsbury's health supplements and paracetamol! I guess I never change and remain true to myself.

AIM? Alahai...

I've been receiving a couple of reminders from my friends on what they claimed as my long overdue prediction of Anugerah Industri Muzik 15. Actually, there is a reason behind my ignorance of one of the biggest events in the Malaysian music scene, which is scheduled on this coming Saturday.

Let me put the record straight, I'm boycotting this year's AIM.

I don't deny that there were a few questionable nominations in the past, but this year's nomination is the all time worst! Almost all categories have nominees which had raised our, or at least my, eyebrows.

I understand that Anuar Zain's latest album was not a Malaysian production and therefore, disqualified for most of the categories. But, how about the Best Male Vocal Performance in an Album category? Well, they might say that the vocal arrangement and direction in the said album were done but non-Malaysian. Therefore, not qualified!


How about Aliff Aziz? Is he not a Singaporean? Oh... don't tell me he has a PR status.

If people make so much noise about Mila's name missing from at least two categories, namely, the Most Promising Artiste and the Best New Artiste, I'm more sadden to find out that AIM repeated that same mistake that they did to Nikki. This time, it's another talented artiste - Farah Asyikin.


And the funny thing is both Nikki and Farah Asyikin won the Best Artiste awards in the Anugerah Planet Muzik, which the panel of judges consists of big names in the music industry from Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. In fact, Anuar Zain had just won his first Best Male Artiste in this year's APM.

While they think they're smart by dropping the category for Best Duo/Group Vocal Performance in an Album, the decision to split the Best Musical Arrangement category into two categories based on language shows how weird their interpretation of music are. All this while, I've always thought that music is the universal language! Hmmm...

And poor Meet Uncle Hussein, because they lost the chance to repeat their winning as the Best New Group in the recent APM.

Some of you might say that I'm biased, but I really think that one of the tracks in Mawi's Satu Dalam Seribu deserves to be in the Best Song category. Or how about Bila Naik Saksi by Spider? In fact, Tam Spider's vocal is more deserving to be in the top 5 Male Vocal category than Aliff Aziz or Kaer, although I'm a big fan of Kaer.


Actually, I can go on and on for days on this, but I think I better stop now. It will only give more publicity to AIM, which I'm not in the mood to do so. Sorry, guys... NO prediction from this time and thank God I'm not in Malaysia right now. It makes more easier for me to continue with my boycott.

Me and sex robot?!

Don't worry, my blog will never be the likes of LeeUK1972, although I'm fully aware that sex sells. This is because of two obvious reasons.

Firstly, I've low sex drive (don't get me wrong because I'm not suggesting that LeeUK1972 on the other hand, has high sex drive) since selling friends on Facebook or watching Brothers and Sisters or Graham Norton Show online or planning for my Europe Tour or blogging (and of course, studying!) is currently (I reiterate, currently) 1000000 times more important than looking for otak-kuning (or is it otak-blue?) clips on youtube or youporn.

And the second reason is, I'm a shyguy, for God sake! A shy guy is too shy to think about sex, isn't it? Hehehe, I can "see" Rina and Azzril are making one kind of face!

I first saw the above picture in the METRO newspaper a week or two ago. Yesterday, I saw it one more time in the email sent by a friend of mine with a special note, reads as follows:
"I know this won't be available until 40 years plus from now, I guess it's good idea to start saving from now!"

And this is my spontanous reaction, "&%^$#@*)!!!" (Yes, Azzril... I do swear, like 1 in every 5 years!)

Oh, my God! What's happening to this world. Not enough with the shock that we got on pregnant MAN (thank God, he used to be a she. Wait a minute, if he still have female reproductive system why on earth we call him, he?), here comes another attack on marriage institution.

According to the article, David Levy, who is an artificial intelligence expert, claims that the sex robots will be uninhibited, free of sex transmitted disease and probably much better in bed! 'One of the downsides of prostitution is the spread of sexual diseases; with robots you can just take out the artificial genitals and wash tem or dispose of them.'

Okay... at least, there's some economic sense here.

And according to Dr Glyn Hudson-Allez, a psychosexual therapist, these sex robots are aimed at men with low self-esteem or men who want to objectify and control.

Hmmm... I wonder which category my friend who sent me this email thinks I fall into. Siap kau, if you think of the former!!!

Although some men might feel a bit threaten if their partners or spouses start to compare them with the likes of David Beckham or even worse, some pornstars, but I still find the idea of having sex with robots as absurb as having sex with animals. Instead of horny or steamy, it's definitely a scary one, man!

By the way, don't you think that David Beckham's balls in the latest Armani ad has been doctored? Not that I feel insecured of his balls, but should we have some sort of standardised ethics here. Because the consequences of this or similar act such as doctoring a supermodel's boobs might fuel the teens' obssession towards unrealness beauty.

For the record, I'm saying NO to sex robots and NO NO NO to cosmetic or plastic surgeries. Sorry... so NOT me!