The American fast-food giant McDonald’s has lost an eight-year legal battle to prevent a Malaysian restaurant calling itself McCurry. McDonald’s argued that the use of the “Mc” prefix infringed its trademark. But the Federal Court in Kuala Lumpur ruled that there was no evidence to show McCurry was trying to pass itself off as part of the McDonald’s empire.

The owner of McCurry insists its “Mc” prefix is an abbreviation for Malaysian Chicken Curry. Long process McDonald’s, which has more than 180 outlets in Malaysia, first sued the McCurry restaurant in 2001.

McDonald’s has more than 180 outlets in Malaysia A High Court ruled in favour of the international chain in 2006, but then McCurry took the case to the Court of Appeal, which overturned the ruling. McDonald’s then went down its final legal avenue, taking the case to the Federal Court. But chief judge Arifin Zakaria said on Tuesday that the three-member panel had unanimously dismissed the application. “We feel great that this eight-year legal battle is finally over,” McCurry owner P Suppiah told reporters. “We can now go ahead with whatever we plan to do such as opening new branches,” he said.

McCurry opened for business in Kuala Lumpur in 1999, and serves Indian dishes, including fish head curry and breads including tandoori naan. Lawyers for McDonald’s told the Associated Press news agency that the company accepted the judgement.

taken from -BBC NEWS-

So, that big-evil-greedy-capitalist corporation of McDeath think they can have it all..and they should not disturb Malaysian Curry at 1st place..

and they learnt a lesson..the hard way..Malaysian McCurry really kick their ass real hard this time.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians can expect hotter and drier days till September as an El Nino phenomenon is forming.

While the real extent of the El Nino impact could only be gauged sometime in August, more open burning was expected to contribute to more haze, the Meterological Department said in a report.

Malaysia experiences a hot and dry season in the months of June, July and August and temperatures range between 33C to 34C.

It is understood that temperatures could soar another 3C during El Nino.

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Douglas Uggah Embas said the ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) satellite report had identified 125 hot spots in the country since May 25 to June 7.

“The ministry has taken a pro-active measure by reviving the committee which monitors hot spots.

A national haze main committee meeting was held in February and June 8 and local government agencies have been ordered to be on a stand-by for any eventuality,” he said after launching the ‘Genting Goes Green’ at First World Plaza, Genting Highlands Resort Tuesday.

In a further preventive measure, the ministry has continued to increase its monitoring on the situation via daily aerial surveillance with co-operation from the police air unit and private airline companies, said Douglas.

“Emphasis is given to areas that are prone to fires such as Selangor, Pahang and Johor, especially peat swamps and garbage landfills.

“We have also roped in commercial airlines such as Malaysia Airlines and AirAsia to help report open burning cases that they spot while up in the air,” he said.

The ASMC report also showed that there is an increase of hot spots in Sumatera and Kalimantan, Indonesia, totalling to 996 and 108 hotspots.

Douglas added that the country’s Air Pollution Index (API) has slightly deteriorated and now stands at 51 to 100, which is moderate.

“This has caused it to be slightly hazy. This hazy situation happened because of a stable atmosphere with a high humidity level of above 85%.

“This leads to air pollutants such as dust and emissions from vehicles and industries to collect and continue increasing in the air space, thus causing poor visibility,” he said.

According to a Meterological Department report on June 8, visibility at certain areas in Prai, Bayang Lepas, Subang, Petaling Jaya, Malacca and Kuantan has deteriorate to between 6km to 9km.

The Star Online

So, it going to be a really-really hot day.The interesting part is, El Nino will always pair with economic crisis. Just like back in 1997.

Military experts says, 1 unit G-550 CAEW/C can replace 2 units of E2C and with 4 units of G-550 CAEW/C , Singapore now will have the total superior control over west South East Asia’s airspace.

So, i wonder when Royal Malaysian Airforce will start joining the league of ‘Electronic Warfare’??

Read Full report here in Tempur May 09 Edition

G-550 AEW/C

We dont even have AWACS (or AEW) aircraft. I remember in 1996 there was a proposal to buy Swedish ‘s Saab 340 AEW Erieye (Codename, S-100B Argus) for RMAF, but in the end, nothing happened.Like always.

SAAB 340 AEW (S100B Argus)

Thailand will get their 1st delivery of Argus next year ,out of 3 Unit which included in Grippen package.

With the new & refresh military coalition between Singapore and Israel, i can’t stop from being a paranoid.

” Why the hell Singapore need 4 AEW plane to defend its Island? Unless they have ‘another plan’ for their ‘Forward Defence’ Strategy…”

The Question is : If they use that ‘another plan’..are we ready? are we well equipped?are we goin to wait and lose everything before we counter back with our famous ‘Jungle tactics’.

I don’t how those top brass in MINDEF feel about this, but as a citizen of this Federation,..i am afraid..

“Be afraid…be really really afraid..”

But, honestly,..If they come, i can’t wait to kick their soft+sissy soldiers ( Who claimed themselves as the best and well equipped  arm force in S.E.A)out from my country. I am not concern who is going to win or lose but the most important thing is,..lets have the war 1st.

It is a desire, off course. To have everything in one time. It’s like trying to grab anything and any possible opportunities that walks in front of me.All in one go.

I now ventured into a partnership of limited shares.An entity that need a lot of resources and cash ,just to lubricate its initial move. In the name of being an opportunist.To grab every opportunities. Or shall i rephrase that as to serve my-greed-and lust?..

Venturing into ‘Brick and mortars’ are quite risky right now but it is worth it.(i hope..).So ,into the risk , I jump.We shall see where i end up.

well..it have to start somewhere, it have to start sometimes…what better place than here, what better time than now?

kecoh pagi ni dgr stadium runtuh
gegaran terasa smpi ke rumah sy
ni antara picture yang baru sy terima

tgk mcm agak terok

Nak tahu sebab ape stadium ni runtuh…..
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Perhimpunan secara besar – besaran ultraman di stadium ..memberi peluang baik untuk raksasa membalas dendam.

* Nice Joke.A brilliant one. But those who involved in the construction of this poor stadium are the real ‘jokers’.

Roof Of Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium Collapses

KUALA TERENGGANU, June 2 (Bernama) — Just a year after it was officially opened by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, the roof of the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium in Gong Badak collapsed today.

In the 9.30am incident today, 60 percent of the roof at the stadium that was built at a cost of RM270 million and opened on May 10 last year, collapsed, including that above the royal box at the grand stand.

According to a worker, Mohd Zaidi Ahmad who was one of two workers who were fixing lights at the stadium about 300m from where the incident happened, said he rushed to the scene to see if there were any casualties.

However, though there was no immediate news of any victims, a team from the fire and rescue department and the Civil Defence Unit were at the scene to check if there were any victims trapped under the rubble.

Another witness, Asmadi Hashim who lives about 400m from the stadium, said he heard a loud explosion and had initially thought it came from an aircraft engine as the Sultan Mahmud Airport was situated close by.

Other witnesses claimed that the roof above the VIP area of the grand stand, including the royal box, was the first to collapse.

A visit by Bernama to the site saw workers clearing the debris but as of noon, no casualties were reported, however a number of motorcycles and cars parked nearby were reported to have suffered damages.

Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said is expected to visit the stadium at about 4pm before issuing a statement.

When opened last year, just ahead of the SUKMA that was hosted by Terengganu, the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium stood as a landmark for sports development in the state.

It was also the venue for a number of other major sporting events, Super League and Premier League football matches.

– BERNAMA

It seems that ,in Malaysia , Rm270mill is not enough to build a very solid-strong-world class facility.Maybe the stadium actually need an amount fo Rm1 billion instead of that tiny sums of RM270 million tax-payer money.

SHAH ALAM: A second-year undergraduate is suing Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) for negligence after a man entered the girls’ hostel and sexually assaulted her in the bathroom.

The 21-year-old hotel and tourism management student is suing the university after she failed to get answers from the university administration about the incident. She filed her suit at the Sessions Court here on Tuesday, claiming general, exemplary and aggravated damages.

 She claimed that in the incident in November last year, a man dressed as a woman wearing a black bra went into the girls’ hostel and tried to rape her. According to her police report, she was having her bath at 5am on the second floor bathroom of Kolej Seroja in the Section 7 campus.

She said someone knocked on the cubicle door and when she asked who it was, the person asked her to open the door. She described the voice as that of a man trying to imitate a woman. When she refused to open the door, the man forced it open.

 She said a naked man barged in and molested her. She screamed for help but nobody came to her aid. She managed to run out of the cubicle but slipped and fell at the bathroom entrance.

 The student said the man also ran out of the bathroom and minutes later, other students saw a man wearing only shorts and a black bra walking out of the hostel. Shah Alam member of parliament Khalid Samad and the student’s lawyer, Mohamed Hanipa Maidin, revealed this at a press conference here yesterday.

The victim was not present. Hanipa said the university only gave his client extended leave when they should have given her proper counselling and investigated the incident.

 Khalid said the victim’s family approached him for help in December last year and Hanipa had sent a letter to UiTM asking them for more information and damages. “But there was no response. We were left with no choice but to file the suit,” he said.

When contacted, UiTM legal adviser Dr Aidar Dziyauddin said the university had yet to receive the court documents. He said he needed to go through the statement of claim before he could comment on it.

For original Version of this news: Click here (NST Online)

This is not the 1st time la, UiTM Shah Alam oii!!..we ‘ve heard this before and in 2003 there were serial cases where the girls were being raped in their own room. Remember ‘Kolej Mawar Rape Cases’? No action were taken by Ibrahim Abu Syah’s administration.All they can say is “..it was just a rumours and if it is really happened,..it is just an isolated case..” ..WTF!??

So there you go. Now you got it. A really big smack in your face.You asked for it. The girl should claim millions buck from UiTM Shah Alam for negligence and breach in security.

Talking about UiTM Shah alam security, who can forget the famous ‘UiTM Pak Guard’? the fierce a la military security force that only concern to penalize the students for tiny felony like not wearing proper shirts, parking tickets and all sort of tiny-minor unlogical things that you cannot think of. Ironically, the foreign construction workers are free to roam in the Uni compound ,going in and out ,without any harrasment from the guards. I m not saying that those workers are the rapist or the molestors but hey, go figure la.Bukak Mata sikit!!

and where are those MPPs (Student Representatives) who supposed to fight for the students’ right to think, learn and express themselves? ..and not to forget, to fight for the  students’ right to feel safe and secured in the university.

Or maybe they just busy pleasing the administration and busy marching on the street of Shah Alam..fighting for Artikel 153?   

I am male..typical,i guess.

and nothing more and nothing less…

Most of this diagram is true

Well, can’t blame me.I am a guy.What do you expect my brain to looks like?

and the result?…that night, i got a really bad backache and i can’t feel my legs at all. All numb.I guess its how our body try to tell us..” hey, u getting old,man..stop doing the mosh!”

So, now as a working adult, i totally left the pitt.

I love music but Im a not pure musician or an artistic dude that can elaborate a drawings or a weird looking sculptures but i really appreciate live music performances. From Hard Rock to ballads ,from rave to downtempo ,from traditionals to big band ochestra.

Just recently, this year, i found another ‘pitt’ . An acoustic cafe, Cantumas Cafe in Setiawangsa (i mean Seattlewangsa..)KL. A place where a so called working adult like me can sit ,eat ,drink and chill out while listening to nice  local indie music, performed lived that will smoothen your ears after a hard day at the office.

This is where i start to know names like Wani Ardy, Estrella, Bite Me Butterfly,Rivernation ,Kabus and some more local independent (underground??) artistes. Kudos goes to those who wrote and sang their own songs in Bahasa Malaysia.  I am glad to know that , how our music are evolving in the indie scene but i wonder why our radios and TVs still keep playing those Indon songs soo hard?it’s like over and over again. I remember  that even bloody Celcom used that Indon band, Peter Pan, to do cover song ‘ Football Mad Nation’ on TV ads for their UERO CUP 08 promotion. Why didnt they just used the original artistes, Disagree and Pop Shuvit for that TV ads? and MALAM PESTA MUSIC INDONESIA in KL recently?..What the fuck is that!!??

oh yeah..i forgot ..there are about 2.5 millions foreign workers in Malaysia now and almost 50% from that are Indonesian. It is all about quantity and figures.So those mediacos and telcos just doing their job as a fucking capitalist.

Anyway..about this kakak named Yunalis (Yuna). i saw and heard her name at Urbanscapes 08 but i didnt really saw her performance that day.So, i dun really know who she is until a colleague at the office gave me a copy of her EP with self titled; YUNA.  It have 4 english songs with one Malay songs.He got it from his brother and he insisted me to listen to it.i heard she is from Kuantan?

and yeah,.i start to like her..i mean,.. her songs and voice..

I know this sounds crazy but  i started  humming this song everyday ever since. (Do you believe it?)

yeah..she wears tudung (Hijab) and pluck the guitar.

( Her video in my profile contributed by fungusinthemilk of Youtube.com)

DAN SEBENARNYA by YUNA

Oh bulan
yang melayan diriku lagi
Pabila air mata membasahi pipi
Dan lagu-lagu di radio seolah-olah memerli aku
Pabila kau bersama yang lain

Adakah perasaan benci ini sebenarnya cinta
yang masih bersemadi untukmu
Dan sebenarnya ku mengharapkan
di sebalik senyumanmu itu
kau juga merindui aku

Ku enggan
berpura-pura ku bahagia
Ku enggan
melihat kau bersama si dia
Oo ku akui cemburu mula menular dalam diri
Pabila kau bersama yang lain

Adakah perasaan benci ini sebenarnya cinta
yang masih bersemadi untukmu
Dan sebenarnya ku mengharapkan
di sebalik senyumanmu itu
kau juga merindui aku

[Bridge]
Di saat kau merenung matanya
ku rebah jatuh ke bumi
Di saat kau benar benar mahu pergi
seperti ku bernafas dalam air

Adakah perasaan benci ini sebenarnya cinta
yang masih bersemadi untukmu
Dan sebenarnya ku mengharapkan
di sebalik senyumanmu itu
kau juga merindui aku