Redid the whole chocolatey thingamajiggy.
Can’t believe it, now my blog has been reduced to images rather than words…oh well, this can only go on as long as I’m working. As soon as I stop, I would be human and energized again. Another…1 month and 7 days to go…
Yikes, I haven’t been blogging in a long time haven’t I?
Not that I don’t want to blog anymore. The fact of the matter is, my computer recently up and died on me. It’s actually just lying upstairs collecting dust right now. So I’m currently using my dad’s computer.
From Left to right Whitney, Milkrie, and Darkria.
So as a peace offering, let me present to you, The Chocolate sisters! I promise to give a better peace offering some other time! I promise :3
P.S. Chocolate Sisters Milkrie, Darkria, and Whitney © Me
Meet my two little friends Pess and Opti.
Pess is a pessimistic devil and when he isn’t out causing misery to others around him, he lives as a moderately high class Duke. His motto includes “Pess owns you!” and “DON’T TOUCH ME” when it comes to Opti.
Opti is the perfect opposite of Pess. He is an optimistic angel who goes around spreading cheer and joy to anyone he meet. Part time, he lives amongst humans as a lower class peasant. He tends to use cute phrases and gets reprimanded on a daily basis by Pess.
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This is a spinoff from LIBE. I didn’t have time to make a new LIBE strip so I am putting up the one I drew while dawdling at work last Wednesday.
Pess & Opti © Me
Medium: Mechanical Pencil, 2B Pencil and paper
Editting: Photoshop CS 2
This isn’t the end of this series just yet. It’s just a prologue actually. Watch out in the next week or so for the following episode!
Was working by myself today, WL had to go to her boyfriend’s sister’s wedding so I had my mom take me to work today. Spent alot just buying food today hahaha.
McDonald’s Big Breakfast : RM 8.10
King’s Confectionery : RM 3.80
Total : RM 11.90
After that as usual, I went to work with the kids, thank goodness they weren’t a handful today. In fact, it was rather boring. Until of course, when 2 of the little kids had to go back to their home. It was an experience indeed.
I was on stakeout to sniff out the funny business if there was one. A stakeout is the coordinated hidden surveillance of a location or person for the purpose of gathering evidence, especially in regard to criminal activity.
But luckily, nobody got hurt and I hope the kids are fine as soon as they return home. I’ll update this post more as soon as I go home. I just wanted to make a reminder post to remember to do a full update tonight. But no full details of course since its all P & C.
The holidays have since come and gone. And to tell you the truth, I’m damn glad about it. I was getting bored of being cooped up at home doing absolutely nothing actually >.>
I’ve just begun my industrial training as an intern at the Womens Aid Organization. And boy, it was the right choice after all.
In the beginning, it was just plain anxiety about meeting the people already working there, the women, and the children. But so far, it’s been all good. My seniors were all rather nice to us, even sympathized with us when they handed work to us (seriously, the statistic work was a horror. Unorganized, had to read through doctors handwriting to be able to finish it). We finished it all ahead of time too.
The women living there are more or less in their own world, and it was hard for me to just go up and start interacting with them. I myself have been living in a complete family where my mom and dad are more or less in love with each other and never was there abuse in the family. So it’s a challenge when it comes to these women. I know their situation but do not understand it.
To know is not to understand.
So this week at least, I’ll be trying to read up on past cases (P & C, so I can’t mention them here. Very unethical) and see what they have been though and try to put myself in their shoes.
The children are all lovely kids. So very nice to us (WL is working with me there) and they have very keen eyes when noticing things. Very eager to learn and to communicate with us. Of course, some of them have very sad looking eyes, when looking at them eyes, it’s as if I was drowning in their sorrow, their souls pulling me into those sad pools of eyes asking for some love. All of them are more matured than they looked which kind of pulled at my heartstrings at what they have gone through.
It’s just weird, for me that is, to say that, I like it there. Just being with the kids and playing with them. Trying to comprehend what these women and children have had to have gone through to be there…it’s so sad yet feels like a warm place. Especially when they form their own community and trying to help each other out.
This internship is an experience that I’ll never forget as I continue to work there day by day.
Question Number 1 : Who is the professional image consultant dishing out juicy tips on how to look your best at CloveTWO.com’s Lookin’ Good section?
Answer : Wendy Lee
Question Number 2 : Name the bloggers at the Guy and Parent blogs.
Answer : Andrew William and Sharmila Rajah.
Question Number 3 : At which section do you find stories on women’s fashion and beauty?
Answer : Style Sheet
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Veoh is no longer available in MALAYSIA.
If you are not in MALAYSIA or you think you have received this message in error, please report the issue below.
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Was what greeted me this morning when I got online to find some videos to download. Can you say “omgwtfwhyisveohblockingmalaysian?!” in 2 seconds? I believe I did just that in the span of 2 seconds for a whole 5 minutes.
I don’t usually frequent Veoh due to the load time. I much prefer crunchyroll for my daily dose of anime and drama. But hey, Veoh happens to have Gokusen 3 where crunchyroll does not.
Curious to find out the reason behind the blockage of Malaysian viewers into Veoh, I scouted out their forums to find that it wasn’t only Malaysia! In fact, they have blocked just about all the minor countries there is!
The list of blocked countries A to Z updated as of 1st July 2008 :
And countless others that haven’t noticed that their countries were blocked as of yet. Not to mention the number of countries being listed here is GROWING by the minute!
The question here is…Why?!
The answer as per what the administrator of the forum says (repeatedly answering the same over and over again as I might add) and the conclusion that COULD be made :
“Hello Everyone,
Unfortunately Veoh has ended service in your countries due to a low concentration of users. Veoh is maintaining service in countries when we have the highest concentration of viewers.
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for using Veoh.”
We can conclude that yes, minor countries MAY not bring in as much revenue when it comes to their advertisers and what not. And yes, minor countries may not have the highest concentration of users. BUT, as I’ve already mentioned, MINOR countries. Compared to MAJOR countries, of course we minor countries will have less viewers compared to them.
“Folks - bear with us on this front. It certainly seems like a harsh decision, especially when you’re on the wrong end of the rule, however this is something that is necessary for us to do to keep providing the service that we have. I am sure this, like the 5-minute preview limit, is something that will likely undergo some tuning as we go forward.”
Was it really? Was it really THAT necessary for them to block minor countries to provide their current services? Wasn’t Veoh doing fine even before this blockage? I don’t see other video sites such as YouTube, Google Videos, Crunchyroll, FlickPeek, Imeem, or other sites for that matter, doing what Veoh has currently done.
Think of how many viewers they have now lost due to this blockage. As minorities, it wouldn’t look like much, but if you add these minority countries together, the number of viewers can come close to equal to at least one or 2 major countries. An ant does not build a nest on its own.
Furthermore, I’d like to mention that, in these modern times, there are a considerable amount of bloggers out there whom are going into the whole video blogging frenzy where they like to make videos of things that interest, fascinate, intrigued them to make a video out of it. Where do they upload these videos? Video upload sites of course. What happens next? They get a link of their videos and post it up in their blogs.
Their initial goal? To keep a memory of their video. Their secondary goal? To share it with the world. But how can this be done for these Veoh video bloggers if their videos can ONLY be viewed by major countries? More or less upload the video if they so happened to be in the minor regions. And not to mention, the videos that were ALREADY uploaded!!
I’d understand if it was bandwidth problems and such but excuses such as “low concentration of users” is just plain discrimination in my point of view. And here I thought most the world have went past those barriers. Especially if you’re a matured individual/organization/country. We are, after all, residing on the same planet and would die the same way as everyone else when the world comes to an end thanks to our contributions to the growing amount of pollution, global warming, and everything that plain kills.
So dear Veoh, why discriminate us minorities and hurt yourself? Think about it! If you combine miorities together, you’d come up with one third or half the worlds population! (This is a rough estimate from me which I’m unsure of.) So do us all a favor, unblock us 
EDIT : I smell a crisis from this corner of the world where Veoh is concerned. Veoh users are on the move with their protest! *Arms self with rotten tomatoes*
EDIT EDIT : For your protesting delights, please look for more information at Veoh forums.
EDIT EDIT EDIT : Added more regions to the list of blocked countries. My my, how the list have finally grown up…
EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT : * updated blocked countries as of 1st June 2008, FYI, that’s 17 updated countries.
EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT : Finally finalized the list. Look at that…a whopping 166 countries blocked.
Episode 3 of the LIBE series.
I’ve always wondered how it would be like if I would to one day drop into hell and be told that I’m to studying there too although I’m dead and 7 feet under. It would be…hell 
