ezral ghazali is a mpp

It's official, Ezral Ghazali is one of the MPP High Council. He won the post with no votes (cause of the lack of candidates).

I have so many things to ask from him.


Hopefully this will mark a change for us... Congratulations everybody that wins...

Are We Still Living On Tree Top (And Eat Worms)???

And by we, I mean 'we' (people living in Borneo)... that is a question raised by 'people who apparently does not live in Borneo'. So why don't we gave them the answer in a proper manner so they won't ask it again.

'Yep! That's Borneo'

Question:

Does your people lives (and still) on tree?

Answer:

Nope and never had been, until now there had been no historical evidence stated that we had lived on tree in the past. We might live in caves but cave is cave, it's not tree.

Even nowadays we lived in our own house but not on tree. Pay a visit to Kampung Budaya Sarawak, you won't see any tree top houses there...

"Maybe this picture had confused them, the house is build on a ground but not on tree top"

Question:

How do you get here (Peninsular)? Did you swim?

Alternate Question:

How do you get here? Did you swim? You must be very tired... oh wait you're not cos you guys are jungle man!

Answer:

(This makes me laugh) If we did, we are going to be in the Guinness for being the first one to swim across the South China Sea... The answer is we used aeroplane @ flight. Even jungle man have their limit, right?

Trivia: Flights from North Borneo to Malaya was available since 1956. No reason for us to swim

Question:

What do you eat for lunch? Worms?

Answer:
This can be true but not all true. Some indigenous people did make worm as their delicacy but not every tribes in Borneo though. The worm is a sago worm which is a larvae found in sago tree. Sago is the white transparent thing you eat in your Bubur Lambuk. Although it's a food, we don't get to eat it during lunch. It can be considered as a gourmet food like escargot (snail) to the French.

"It taste better than escargot"

That's 3 of the questions, there are more but I only posted this because these are the most popular questions. My friends told me that she was asked this question when she first came there. Shocking but true.

Now it's our turn to ask question... why do they asked us this? I came up with my own theories.

• They trying to be funny - Different people have different sense of humor, apparently they thought this was funny, well my first impression when they asked me this was, " These guys are stupid hilarious"

• They were given false education -  We can't blame them for not knowing because they don't live with us, it's normal for them to ask. But how did they come up with such assumption, maybe they saw it in a documentary and got confused or maybe Alphonso d Albuquerque or Francis Light told them this.

• They mistaken us for barbarian or vikings or Spartans - They really thought we came to the west by swimming, sounds crazy but maybe they thought us to be a strong race with nothing but physical strength. Maybe they thought Sabahan babies are pushed to the cliff of Mount Kinabalu as a rites of passage (remember 300)

 "Thank God this never happened to us"

• They've watched Survivor (First Season) - The first season of this hit award-winning reality show was held in Borneo. It showcased Americans living on Borneo and trying to survived as an outcast. Maybe they've watched this show and assumed that Borneo people lived like that

"How to live like a Borneos, out on DVD" 

I hope this post will help ease the tension among us, we should not get upset that easily cos it's ok for people to ask even when they don't mean it. Thanks for joining.

P/S: Supporting 1Malaysia!

Car Drama, Birthday Muffins and Red Faces

This week in The Bridge @ UNIMAS...

The election day for MPP was held on Thursday apparently there were no candidates that I have to vote for so I skipped it.

The highlight event for the week was Friday because other than lab session it was Jenny's birthday (29 January!). I skipped class because I have to finished my assignments.

There is no way I'm going to missed this function, after I've been excluded in two birthday party because of two reasons I'm a male and I still obey my mother's warning.

Car Drama

Unfortunately the car that we rent for the event was not supposed to be ours to rent. Stress!

The traffic jam was insane plus it's raining, the car brake is not properly working and hey the fuel meter is broken! Perfect recipe for disaster, and our driver had just recovered from a traumatic car incident... Stress !

Birthday Muffins

the birthday is held in Hilton, yep one of Paris Hilton's grandfather's hotel...
we sort of trying to break tradition a bit so we served birthday muffins instead of birthday cakes...

That's the muffins !!! Notice the glass of orange juice far left (above) that thing cost more than my 1 month phone bill....

  I admit that it was a lil bit intimidating eating in Hilton because we don't have this kinda thing in Tenom (FYI Tenom is a district in Sabah). We enjoyed the foods and the ambience there.

Red Faces

I arrived in UNIMAS late because of the traffic jam, faces are all red because we were running... and during the intervals we went around forcing people to get red faces...

Anyway it's a great week...

P/S: I was informed that LKS is going to leave us, everyone was sad...

kids nowadays are sluttier !!!

forgive me for the offensive title but i think people will agree with the headline after they read this post.
when i say kids, i mean those who age 5 years to 12 years old.

i was babysitting during the semester break, i thought the job could be easy cos the kid is an 8 year old girl but i was totally wrong.

my first task is to cook for her, so I'm like I should give her sandwich for breakfast and some fried frozen food with rice for lunch (I'm not a good cook, so that's the only option). so i give her the sandwich which is a simple peanut butter and kaya sandwich and she refused to eat it because she simply hate it. instead of eating what i gave her she gave me a list of what she wants me to prepare for her.

Breakfast:

• Egg Sandwich with generous amount of mayonnaise, cheddar cheese and ketchup with 1:1:2 ratio respectively.
• Orange Juice
• Hot Chocolate Malt (aka MILO)

Lunch:

• I know you are cooking spaghetti but I hate it so I want something else.

Apparently, I was thinking about cooking spaghetti that day but have to crossed it due to the kid's demand.

• Western breakfast set for lunch
• Orange Juice
• Neapolitan Ice-Cream with chocolate chip (I have to grind some Chipsmore first)

That is what I should give them for their lunch and breakfast or else they won't eat, and you know what happened when kids are hungry... they bite you!
I mean where does these kids learn how to demand like that, Mariah Carey perhaps...

The episode doesn't end there, one day she was wearing this outfit which shows her belly button, so I told her that the clothes were to small for her but she replied that the dress is made that way. For what??? I was shocked to see these little girls wear something worn by Britney Spears circa 2000...

FYI,  designer had started to design slutty clothes for little girl, Don't believe me? Just watch this video



It's called couture !!! Fishnet stockings are safe for children nowadays !!!
So who's to blame then... Teacher? Parents? MILEY CYRUS !!!!!?

"It's art you guys!!!"

Children as little as 5 now wants to have their own reality TV, since when do the old days 'masak-masak' game turned into family drama.

I was watching my nephew and niece playing and they were acting as mother and a child. The child were (played by my nephew) fighting with his mom because his mom were using her photo without her permission... sounds familiar? Yep that's cause they were depicting an episode from the Kardashian's reality show.

What's more, my niece now dancing like a stripper whenever PCD song popped out on MTV...

What will happened to these poor kid when they grow up... anyway they are just kids they know one day being w***** is not worth it unless you're Paris Hilton.

who will be the next mpp?

as a new semester opens, the mpp will be replaced soon, which means election day!!!

do you think our previous mpp did a great job?

we know the mpp can't run from gossips and scandals so best luck for the new people

(C)Picture courtesy of mppwatchdog.blogspot.com

jane is stalked

Only happened recently, Jane claimed to be stalked by not one, but many people.

The stalkers raided her facebook profile with inappropriate stuff.

So far no report have been lodged, which I thought would be unnecessary...

nancy is a preggers !!!

one of the most reported person in TGG is nancy, last time we covered on her marriage with her beloved husband, Michael.

Well, recently Nancy posted pictures of herself (with a baby bump!!!) on her facebook site, unfortunately I still haven't got permission to use the picture in my site.
I can describe the pic if you want, of course Nancy look bloomed and one source say she gain weight and Nancy is always known to have being size 0 and being pregnant gives her this new glow we never seen before this.

Congratulations and please share with us the picture of the baby!!!

"Now we know the culprit behind the weight gain"

HELP HAITI

 On January 17, the world was devastated as news about earthquake in Haiti that killed thousands of life was reported.

So come on and do our part to help the victims by donating.

Say our prayer for them...

NOTES: Makes sure your donation is handled by an eligible agency...

(C) Picture courtesy of Guardian News UK

did our power couple called it quits?

are they or are they not?

one of our power couple had split! true or false, we don't even know cause both of them haven't talk about it yet. but rumors had been circulated that they have been doing less stuff together and spend more time apart. they act like nothing happened and that was just an act they pulled to cover up their split...

one source told that, both of them who used to do almost everything together had been doing stuff separately.

"I've seen one of them walk to class alone, and try to avoid questions about the other person whereabouts by hiding herself," one source told TGG.

When the class ends and the crowd disappeared, they both go their separate ways but they are still sitting together during lecture, so it's kinda hard to tell and still no one have the guts to ask any of them aware how sensitive those two emotionally (yup, I've witnessed it myself)...

Anyway, we wish for the best for both of them, hopefully the breakup news was just a rumor.. Look at this space for the couples' update in the future

the problem with public display of affection

Image by daedrius via Flickr

public display of affection a.k.a pda is when people shows their love to each other in public

here in my campus we have a bunch of them, i don't have any problem with any of them but i make up a small percentage of people who doesn't care bout this problem, but about another big percentage of people loathe this kinda behaviour.

here are example of 'pda'...

• holding hands
• kissing a.k.a lip smacking
  
• sitting next to each other tightly
• playing with each other hair
• praising each other in with voices that can be heard by people around you
• etc

to all the couples, they may not realize that they are doing it, but when people around you start to look at you and feel uncomfortable with what you doing that's when you know you have crossed the line.

some couple may say that they have their rights to do so, but come on guys, use your morality sense, this is Malaysia... there's one time when I was in KL, waiting for the train to come, a couple was standing in front of the crowd of people and hugging... it was so awkward because there are kids there and their mum just keep telling them not to look at the couple .

so as thegossipgeek, i want to warned y'all pda couple to ease a little bit before you got your ass reported here in the blog and we don't want that...

this is my first part of pda couple report and on the second part we will explore pda problem that spreads ONLINE !!! shocking but true...

rain rain go away

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

Day 7 of heavy rains...

i wonder when this rain is going to stop, i don't hate rain but when it rains i can't do some stuff that i like to do

for instance, i like to blog but due to the heavy rains the wi-fi connection sucks... and i can't blog

but the rain is nice because now i have excuses to drink a cup of coffee....

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ... DEAD PEOPLE ... IN UNIMAS...

Have you watched that movie where that kid can see dead people, I'm a bit of a skeptic when it comes to paranormal stuff. Tho I've witnessed lots of paranormal activity I still thought that it was just science playing with our imagination.

I don't have the ability to see dead people but I have friends who claimed to have that certain ability or what we usually called 'Sixth Sense'. His name is ****** and he's a very religious person, unfortunately I don't like the way he smells... he smells like dead people if you know what I'm sayin'.

Being around with him sure is creepy and many stuff had happened. I will tell you one... or two.. or three...

Our school is known for it's co-curricular activities, one of it is 'Kawad Kaki' (what's kawad in english, marching is it?). The students always trained day and night. At night they trained at around 8 - 10pm...

So there's this one night, the competition is just around the corner so the team decided to intensified their training by extending it till midnight. So it happened, the voice of the commander usually cause disturbance to the spirits that stayed in our school.

My friend (the one with the sixth sense) usually told us that he can see lots and lots of spooks, ghosts and spirits in various form came out from every crooks and nooks of the building in our school compound whenever the commander commands...

And at one time just after the Commander screamed ,"BARISSSS!!!!" a group of spirits that my friend said is family actually popped out of a tree near the hostel and swing around the tree (they're monkey ghosts, perhaps), we were looking at the tree he told us and the tree were really shaking hard (although the weather is actually windy at that time) and we were so scared the image of the ghosts came in our mind...

So that's a story about my paranormal friend... If you've seen any dead people please contact me

REVIVAL OF A NEW TERM

First week in campus...

What else should I do other than drinking at the cafe with friends, talking and catching up.

Then one of my friend said the word... the word that I haven't heard since 2006, It was surprising to heard that word used in a different environment, let out by the mouth of people not from my high school...

you see, I've been learning lots of new vocabs from my former school, and this one special word is not an exception... this word is used to describe certain type of people, well there are other words which we can use but they are taboo, so we hardly heard them, so we created a word that can be used to describe them but at the same time trying not to insult anyone...

It's like calling a stupid person 'KURANG PANDAI' instead of 'BODOH' or using 'KURANG ASAM' as a curse word instead of 'KURANG AJAR'.

thanks to the person that created the word, good job...