Being a biker in Malaysia really isn’t cool at all:

In a poll by The Star, out of 14,150 Malaysians who voted, more than NINETY PERCENT or TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE think that it is a waste of time having a program to rehabilitate Mat Rempits!

And the most amusing thing is… more than 50% think this particular brand of Malaysian bikers is - beyond rehabilitation.

LOL! Poor fellas! Even drug addicts and terrorists have rehabilitation programs prepared for them. But Mat Rempits are apparently of a breed of evil that is simply beyond all hopes of salvation.

*Warning super boring entry~~ Skip to the next post if cannot tahan *

Have you ever imagined what it would be like after you’ve died?

Suddenly thought of this topic and decided to blog about it. Death.

You’ve never thought of what’s gonna happen to you after you die? Well you should! Because if you are lucky, you would have around half a century left to live; if you’re typical, you’d have a couple more decades to live; and if you’re just slightly unlucky, you’d have only a few hours more to live and breathe and talk to your friends and family!

You could die the next time you drive out and some drunkard slams into your car and pierces your brain and stomach with glass and metal shards. WHAM! Done.

And then? What happens?

Do you go to heaven or hell? Why would the creator of this whole vast universe bother to reward or punish one tiny little creature on a typical planet in a typical solar system in a typical galaxy in the entire universe, so gloriously (to live in heaven with god and his angels) or so severely (to burn in hell for eternity), and so personally (every single person to be judged)?

If god created the entire universe, and possibly multiple universes, what makes this particular species of ape, us, so special?

Or maybe according to some others, after you die, you would be punished for your bad deeds and then your soul reincarnated. But then again, why the punishing? Our entire system of right and wrong is designed to increase the overall survival rate of human beings. As if we care about the mass murder of a thousand bees when a ‘threatening’ bee hive is burned or the brutal genocide of the Aedes mosquitoes, just because they were unfortunate enough to transmit certain diseases when they have their food (suck blood).

Obviously, there’s no bad or evil intention in the mosquitoes’ mind. But just because they happen to be harmful to our species, murdering them by all means is moral.

This does not happen to cats and dogs and elephants and lions and whales, the killing of which is illegal and greatly despised.

So I ask this: How ‘moral’ are we when we brag loudly about animal rights and human rights when we mercilessly murder animals that are simply ‘not so good’ to us?

And reincarnation? Well, that’s if god does not have enough souls to spare and does not have the ability to create new ones that he needs to ‘recycle’ used ones.

And perhaps you would just end up as a ghost, or a spirit, that lingers and prowls the world aimlessly and indefinitely, playing pranks and scaring people for entertainment.

If humans do linger as spirits after we die, then I would boldly say that we do not have spirits. Because there would be no reason for the creator to create them in us in the first place. And if spirits were a product of the natural world, then any animal from goldfish to fleas would have spirits.

And if that’s the case, the ‘spiritual world’ would be so overpopulated that spirits of all animals from the ancient past to the present would be either piled up to outer space or crushed into the core of the earth.

So finally, what’s left? Many people would say that we would all lose consciousness when we die, and never regain it, forever. Because our consciousness is in the brain and when the brain dies, it ceases to exist. The body rots and returns to ash and earth, and nature and all universe moves on.

In other words, it didn’t even notice you died.

To me the last explanation makes the most sense. Although it is indeed the most depressing one. Or maybe because it is simply too depressing to believe that we are nothing special and just a species of animal that happens to roam the earth at this particular time in history, that we made up hopeful stories of afterlife, and faithfully believed in them.

And so, if we are to just live our lives, and regardless of how well you lived it, die, and disappear into nothingness… Why the hassle to live?

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P.S. Haha no worries I am not thinking of suicide and never will! =D

*Pics for this blog post are not ready yet because I haven’t been home to extract he photos from my camera.  Hehe give me three days and I’ll add them in.*

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This month is, without a doubt, going to be the most exciting month for James-Chow.com in her entire history!

In slightly over two weeks’ time, ladies and gentlemen, James-Chow.com – the fair domain that hosts the blog you are reading right now – is turning THREE!

Yes, James-Chow.com is gonna be THREE YEARS OLD on June 21, 2009!

Hooray!

Now, I feel that’s pretty awesome for my little blog to turn three – and still being alive – because from what I’ve seen, many blogs die within two years from their creation.

And by ‘dying’ I mean without any new updates or posts for at least three months in a run!

I’m right, aren’t I? Don’t you have a blog that is either dead (no updates for more that three months), half-dead (there was at least a one-month period in the blog’s history in which there were no updates at all), or still growing-up (less than three years old)?

Hehe… Alright, maybe you do have a healthy, grown-up blog – so now you can be happy with me! Yay!

To celebrate this glorious occasion, I have prepared a gift for my blog:

A brand-new hairstyle, the most gorgeous make-up, the latest designer heels, the most glamorous accessories, and the wildest, sexiest dress ever seen by the insatiable blog-viewers on the internet – on June 21, 2009, you will look at James-Chow.com like you’ve never seen her before.

Renovation works has already begun! Hope we’ll make it in time!

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Meanwhile, I went to Menara TM on Tuesday and ‘kinda’ sorted out my TMNet problem!

Before I tell about how it went inside, let me tell you about the outside of the building first. Without a better word – it was parking hell.

The compound wasn’t too big, with very limited public parking space, and that’s because most of the space were purchased by those pesky parking operators putting up signs saying ‘PARKING – RM8 sekali masuk’!

And there were not just one, but MANY of these ‘parking areas’ surrounding the building! More incredibly, most of these parking areas were FULL! Damn crazy corporate people can pay so much everyday working in this place.

I could pay RM10 for a parking spot like this in downtown KL, but not in PJ – not even RM8; more so when all I needed was 10 minutes in-and-out to complain about a friggin’ ridiculous problem that wasn’t even my fault in the first place.

So, I turned into a small path with very few traffic, made sure I was on the left lane and that cars could still pass in the opposite lane; I stopped the engine in the middle of the road and got out of the car.

Who cares.

Stepping into the tower itself made me understand instantly why these people were willing to pay a fortune for parking to work here. The interior was like a goddamn hotel, with a really comfortable and quiet environment as well as convenient points like a San Francisco Coffee outlet in the lobby beside the huge glass pane facing the busy PJ streets outside.

I stepped into the TMPoint there and a receptionist promptly tended to my problem. She ran a check on the system and immediately confirmed that I was indeed still using two packages. She gave me a number and a form, and asked me to fill in the latter.

I think probably the most admirable thing here was that this TMPoint was… empty. By empty I mean no customers, of course, and a counter was immediately available to me even before I could fill up the form!

(Contrary to the standard 2-3 hours waiting time needed in the stupid TMPoint in Cyberjaya.)

In the end, after checking though the records, I was told that the branch in Cyberjaya really HAD NOT processed my cancellation request in March.

Meaning that the lady in Cyberjaya had, despite her promise that she would process my request the next Monday, completely FORGOTTEN about the matter, and made me pay two months of package fees for nothing.

I was slightly annoyed. But they quickly provided a solution for me: they would submit the complaint to an investigation team, who will look into the matter; in a couple of weeks’ time, if they can confirm what I said is true, they would refund the full amount that I had paid for the package in the past three months.

They cancelled my package on the spot anyways. So nothing can go further wrong.

Gotta wait 3 weeks before I get the results of their ‘investigation’, I’ll wait and see… Meanwhile, you should wait and see my website’s new look on the 21st this month!