Here’s the daily grind laid bare: traffic jams and crammed parking lots. Everything else is just details, really. It’s been a while since I last ran around KL in broad daylight, and today brought back memories of, well, being pissed off in jams and growing old and grey looking for a parking bay. Oh well. […]

British pubs aren’t what they used to be – rank, smoke-filled flea pits that serve grub that could have been scrapped out of a dog bowl. The Duke of Cambridge in Islington bills itself as the world’s first certified organic (gastro)pub and is a blinding beacon of the future of food. It doesn’t view the concepts of profitability […]

Fancy being a technologically-superior silicon-based repository for artificial intelligence? www.cyborg.namedecoder.com might have the answer. Fill out the form, choose your robotic avatar, and let the site generate an acronym based on your moniker. More fun than reading the script to Michael Bay’s interpretation of Transformers, surely.

I kinda sorta reckoned it would happen some day … but Monday? Britney Spears has filed for divorce from second husband Kevin Federline, also known as - on his press kit and nowhere else - K-Fed, the hip hop superstar. Mizz Spears made the surprisingly shrewd move of announcing the divorce publicly on Tuesday, when America and […]

Heard this on the radio news on the way to the office today - and yes, I listen to the radio on the drive to work. Radio stations that have hourly news broadcasts, no less. Anyway. I was busy dodging lunatic buses and Mat Cemerlangs/Gemilangs, so details are sketchy: apparently, earlier this morning an LRT […]

Like most people (the ones in my circle, at least), I fancy the idea of bringing my camera everywhere I go so I can snap candid things at inopportune moments. But because I’m getting old (yes, I admit this willingly) and my calcium-deficient bones sometimes get the better of me when lugging a heavy handbag full […]

This past Saturday was beautiful. No haze, no smog. Just a beautiful blue sky, for just one day.
Here’s hoping the haze will end soon. In the meantime, keep yourselves safe. We’ve gone through this before, we can pull through.

So here we are again - the year’s worst traffic jams, the worst restaurant reservation season, the most blindingly blatant advertising campaigns, the most garish roadside decorations. Ramadhan in KL is like Christmas shopping season, first day of school, and annual bonus week all rolled into one and loaded full of cocaine. It never fails […]

It’s the weekend. The deadlines are upon us but the mind wanders to other things, gets sidetracked by menial tasks. Like looking for photos. Anyway, I was trawling through my photo archive looking for images and came across this. I took it in Chaweng on Koh Samui in Thailand. I’d say Koh Samui island but Koh means […]

I’ve got a bad habit. It’s not that I don’t remember people’s name. Sometimes I do. But lately I’ve noticed that after an introduction I start my conversations with “What do you do?” I guess it’s not as bad as “and you’re whose daughter/son?” or “Excuse me, do you know where the exit is as […]

You’re probably thinking, why in the world would a streetculture magazine all the way in Malaysia be blogging about a terrorist attack that happened 5 years ago in the States? Good question. I mean, it’s got nothing to do with me, does it? No one I knew was among the 2,700 people or so who […]

Recently, I got into a very enlightening conversation on Malaysian lifestyle habits, and one thing that kept cropping up were shopping malls.
The average urban Malaysian frequents the mall, well… frequently. The multi purpose mall caters to a wide range of needs - cinemas, supermarkets, retail shops, food courts and other distractions all in air-conditioned comfort […]

Chill, I’m not telling you to buck the Government. But with last week’s budget presentation, the same social scourge has gotten its fair whipping - that’s right, cigarette prices have gone up again. I’m not saying I smoke (*blatantly fake halo*), but for those of you who do, this might be a good time to […]

I hate Murphy’s Law.
Today has been a bright, sunny, gorgeous day. Birds chirping, brooks trickling and wind wafting through your hair and all that (I’m just guessing on the last bit. I have no hair). Beautiful views. But I didn’t have the trusty JUICE camera with me! Oh woe! Must jump into Sungai Gombak now!
Anyway. […]

Wa-hey! Merdeka has come and gone and the feeling of patriotism I had in my fingers and toes, that I mistook for early warning signs of stroke, is still tingling. Despite the overcrowding, I enjoyed myself tremendously at Laundry where Madison Flynt was playing. Amidst the Merdeka revellers - snarling city-wide jams and the elbowing […]

By tomorrow, Malaysia will be 49 years old, and many of us will be scraping ourselves off the carpet in a hungover stupor, trying to make sense of the universe again after a night of hardcore partying. Nothing wrong with partying, of course. Go ahead and knock yourself out. But maybe the festive mood would […]

In an effort to find ‘proper direction for them’, the authorities have decided to rebrand those ubiquitous motorcycle hellions colloquially known as ‘Mat Rempit’ into something more inspiring, say for example ‘Mat Cemerlang’.
I don’t know about any of you, gentle readers, but there’s something unusual to me when the participants of an unlawful activity are […]

I read about the August Saturday Feast of Flavours in the papers and naturally, being a foodie, I decided to check it out. After all, the affordable price tag (RM28nett) was only more incentive to the already inviting row of restaurants called One Bangsar. There are a total of 9 eateries that make up this […]

Okay, maybe I’m being dramatic. Waitaminnit, no I’m not. Yesterday’s traffic gridlock in KL was atrocious, maybe one of the worst in my 28 years of living here. With flash flooding, uprooted trees littering the roads, and buses and lorries breaking down right and left, driving through our fair city last night was about as […]

There’s something about Paul.
I came across this thread post in the Malaise Forum, one of the best Malaysian independent rock hubs I know. Here’s the skinny:two nights ago, at approximately 8.30pm, a plain clothes policeman approached a group of indie rockers hanging out at the cafe close to Paul’s Place in Old Klang Road and […]