A Place For Me To Share

I’m writing this post just because I just watched the first half of Siti Nurhaliza’s documentary on History channel just now. I watched the second half of it last week. Which commenting a lot on the juicy controversy of her marriage to Datuk K. Didn’t like it that much. But I gave it another chance to learn about the full story of her and watched the first half of it when I stumbled on that documentary again earlier today.

Never know her personally even I lived in the same town more than a decade ago. That was just before her big break in entertainment industry. The closest I’ve been to her family is knowing her younger sister who is one year older than me(Siti Nurhaliza is 5 years older than me). We went to he same primary school and I didn’t know her until I went to Lipis District Jamboree in 1995(or 1994. I couldn’t remember which year it was exactly). Spent a week with her in the same camp with a bunch of others. And the most memorable thing I could remember of is we had to prepare a performance for the closing ceremony of the Jamboree and our school decided to go with traditional dance.

Had to learnt, practice and rehearse the dance routine for a few weeks before going to the camp. To tell you the truth I wasn’t even close to her. I’m very poor in memorizing people out of my circle, and she wasn’t in that. I do however remember her because she gave me a photo of our performance that night to me personally about a week(I think??) later. I am still bad at remembering person but I do however will always remember an honest nice touch.

My point is, despite any controversy Siti created over the years, she came from a very good family and was educated well by her family. Her personality along with her hardwork has catapulted her to be what she is(or what she was if you think that she is declining from her peak). The two combination helped her reaching a height that a small town girl like her could only dream on. She resonates with Malaysian with her conservative actions. And not to mention we were longing for a big star to portrait the majority of Malaysians since P.Ramlee era.

Her looks, her voice, her personality. Three components that have been packaged in her plus her hardwork helped her with her success. As for her marriage and personal life, everybody have an opinion on it. And while every other article on her will love to have a hot gossip on her to spice up the story, I do believe whatever her decisions and actions is up to her and is her responsibilities. If the documentary on her on History channel even only at least 80% correctly portraying her trueself, I believe she deserves what she get with her effort. The only comment on her marriage I could make is love is a strange thing. Me myself don’t rule out the possibility that I could fall in love with a much older divorcee woman and married her. And just by thinking of it I know how people around me will talk about it and how the family resistance will be.

p/s: To any family members or friends reading this post, no I’m not in love with an older divorcee woman. Just giving a thought about what Siti gone through before she get married. And at the strategizing how to handle the resistance if I am one day will have to face the same situation or any kind of family resistance in the future.

And owhh.. Frankly speaking I’ve never been a big Siti fan. Not a fan at all I think. She doesn’t really resonate with me. I guess I’m the Malaysia’s minority. I have to say she have a really good voice and personality. Hurmm.. or should I say I’m a fan of her(herself) but not a fan of her songs?

James May name is commonly known in UK for men and women especially for those who love cars and comedy mashed into one in a very popular series of Top Gear. James May co-hosting the series alongside Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson.

A couple of years back I remember James May was hosting a couple of TV series(James May’s Toy Stories and James May’s Big Ideas). Fascinated by his knowledge, sense of humour and common interests, I think I’ve my new favourite TV host. James May’s Man Lab is a must see show for a man. As we’re moving to a more complex society and specializing in works, we tend to forget basic skills to survive and live.

In my opinion basic skills to survive shouldn’t be forgotten by anyone eventhough we’re living in this sophisticated world. This TV series will remind us how the basic skills are useful to us, teach us the basic things for the skills and last but not least in a fun way.

p/s: A man is not a man when he don’t know the basic things and skills a man should know how to do and have.

Search for James May’s Man Lab at Dailymotion.com to stream the show or bobrelease blog for download links.

This is the site I was talking about when I wrote about Geekybids.com before. It has been a while since I’m active using the site. I still have some unused coins to bid but since it is a mess to get the items I won to be shipped to Malaysia from Japan, I’m taking a long break from the site.

This site is a small part of D2Pass network. You’ll need one coin for a bid. Each coin cost USD$0.49 and lower depending on the number of coins you buy. About the same price as Geekybids.com selling their bids but surely much more affordable for the Japanese as for them it is less than 1/3 of what we have to pay here for them.

The lower entrance bar surely helping with attracting more users. And if you see the site, you could see how the wide range of items offered and majority of it costs between RM50-RM200 which is pretty low for a Japanese.

A few months ago when I was active using the site, items ranging RM500-RM1500 and items with higher price tag dominating the list. I guess those price range are too high for a beginner to start spending their money on and majority of the users don’t like to gamble that kind of money to buy something even for a bargain price.

The site in my opinion adapting very well to attract more low end users which I think is good for their business while keeping top users going back to their site with enough big ticket items. Looking at the recent winners list I’m happy to see some users I spent uncountable sleepless hours trying to win the stuff I want in bidding wars with still actively using the site. That is a testimonial of a good site.

I could call them real users because in so many occasions they were using different psychology tactics to prevent other users to win the items they’re bidding. And I don’t see how a robot could read the mind of a human bidder as well as a human do.

I’ve given the proof that site such as Geekybids.com could be real. And by using PayPal you have the ease of mind if the service provided by Geekybids.com is not true as they said you could always file a complaint and get the money you spent back.

I’m not willing to put any real money to Geekybids.com just because if I lose an auction I will lose all the money just like that while when I was using hot-oku.com even if I lose, half of the amount of coins I spent to bid will be converted to points. With that points I could buy more coins or exchange it with other services they offers which I’m using anyway.

The legitimacy of Geekybids.com certainly is questionable. But I’m hoping there will be undeniable proof of truth surfaces. I can’t wait to use it and scoring some great deals.