Chinese New Year

Yes I’m back again after a period of writers blog, and just to let you know that this blog is not a daily but more of an if and when blog.
Anyway went to midvalley on Thursday afternoon because there was supposed to be Chinese dancing lions for the Chinese New Year. Unfortunely this was not to be the case as the lions will be there on sun 13th Feb. Instead we get the Chinese youth acrobats, which are not too bad. Obviously more skilled than I am at it and well received by the audience expecting lions. The photo below shows the skills of three girls balancing on a bicycle. Incidentally if there is no photo below – I apologise. I host these photos on Yahoo because I have no where else for them and the link does not stay very long. If anyone knows of a free hosting site that I can link my photos to I would be grateful.








Well I suppose that’s one way of solving the traffic problem of KL. I wonder how long before our intrepid moped rider come up with a similar feat. Oh of course they already do. Not 1, Not 2 Not 3.. But 4 people on a moped or rather a family. Dad on the main seat mums on the back seat. First child usual either between mum and dad or in front of dad. Second child usually in the shopping basket up front. Somehow I don’t think that’s what the moped designer had in mind when they thought about somewhere to store your books or shopping whilst riding. If the kids are fortunate they will get crash helmets, but likely they will not. I’m waiting for a rider to put two kids into a makeshift saddlebag to go over the back wheels. If I see one of these moped riders I will try and photograph it to show. It has to be seen to be believed.

Anyway to all the Chinese out there - gong xi fa cai

So then I’m off to the carrefour in midvalley to top up the shopping and I notice that one of the staff is on roller blades. Good idea, but a precarious surely? I’m waiting for one to crash into a palette of rice, or more likely a very recently stacked pyramid of cans. You know like you see on TV, where someone is running around the shop floor to avoid being caught for whatever reason in this great big store and they happen to run towards the only location in the store where some new person has spent 2 hours stacking a pyramid of baked beans. The person running like crazy has somehow managed to not run into anything but just can’t avoid these cans, oh its so keystone cops – its not.

Anyway I’m waiting for the rollerblader to get go faster stripes or even better a cherry bomb (sports cars exhaust) because there are quite a few young men out there who put these on their cars. Which leads me to the question. When you drive down the road and the first people know of you is when they hear the cherry bomb and they look round for this flashy sports car only to see a…… proton ! – Did you really think it would impress anyone? Maybe your girlfriend if it really counts. How about getting yourself a decent car or at least souping it up properly – and that means no furry dice or rear spoilers, or even rear spoilers with the neon light that looks like knightrider with a directional problem or a cylon with a twitching eye(think about it).

Ok next – Elektra the movie. Went to see it last night and it was .. pants (slang for rubbish) I was so disappointed, it looked so good in the trailers. Typical martial arts meets xmen hero movie. I thought the comic that it was taken from was supposed to be so good! But at least Terence Stamp who plays the blind leader of the good guys was good and if you want to watch the movie to see Jennifer good-looking body then you won’t be disappointed. Oh and something else what is up with the picture quality at the movies in KL. I haven’t seen so many scratches on film since I saw film matinees as a kid. And the colour looked a little washed out.

Well today it seems I have become a PC widower! You have heard of golf widows where the hubby plays so much golf she hardly sees him. Well I made my wife a PC widow recently whilst playing warblade- an addictive video arcade game (shareware version). But then Mrs. Klite ups the stakes and starts playing my game so I have suddenly become a pc widower! At the moment I am mostly hearing the comments of warblade shouting “game on” and “alright” in a demented voice that sounds like the cylons from battlestar galicatica. I think there will have to be an accidental erasure of the game very soon.

Moving on I received a DVD of 2 TV programmse shown on British TV from my brother- cheers bro!. An episode of the west wing (one of my favorites) and bill bailey in concert (comedy). I have only watched the first 5 mins of bill bailey and some of the adverts. I do miss the dry sarcastic wit of British humour. But I didn’t realised I would miss the TV advertising! Talk about quality! I don’t like the one they have here like one s that are badly dubbed into English from Hong Kong or are receiving a celebrity endorsement from someone we have never heard of!


Music of the moment: Poem Rouge – Garde du nord