1) Petrol and sugar price increase by a few cents, you complain.

If Starbucks increase RM1, no complaints. New gadgets like Apple iPhone 4 and iPad cost thousands, NO COMPLAINTS.

2) When Manchester United comes down to Malaysia to have a friendly match with the Malaysia national football team…

…you support Manchester United kau kau.

3) You love the variety of Malaysian food.

Everyday eat a lot, complain fat and then decide to hit the gym.

4) When the national anthem Negaraku is played, you usually don’t stand.

You only stand during official occasions and school assemblies.

5) You drive a Kancil like a Ferrari.

Always speed and use the honk because other drivers are idiots on the road.

6) You don’t like lining up and waiting for queue while paying bills or banking, even though it’s just an hour.

But for an Apple product, you can wait for HOURS.

7) You blame the bad traffic, lack of parking spaces and distance when being late.

8) You always rant and complain about the Internet Service Providers being so slow. Especially Streamyx.

Thought of changing to other ISP because they promise improved packages.

But nothing improved, you keep complaining and still use Streamyx because your house got many users.

9) You use Manglish often.

And jumble it up even better.

10) You learned Malaysian history during school years and forget almost every details after you left school.

The only historical information you remember is the date of Malaysia’s Independence Day – 31st August 1957.

Happy 53rd Merdeka Day, Malaysia!

During the recent World Cup 2010 period, Maxis organized a contest called the Biggest Fan contest.

10 lucky winners will be able to meet Messi at Barcelona or Lampard in London. Participants can either submit photos or videos claiming why they deserve the Biggest Fan title and get to meet Messi or Lampard.

Since the prize is so lucrative, I decided to give it a shot. A video would be so much interactive but since I suck at it, I submitted a photo instead.

So I drafted my idea and started working on it.

Anyway, I prefer to meet Lampard but I picked Messi instead because I’ve never been to Barcelona – so I wanna take this chance to get to Barcelona for the first time!

I don’t own a tripod so I used text books as my customized “tripod”. Not really stable – explains why each image wasn’t at the exact same frame. =/

I started off with this pose. Munching on some potato chips. I used it as my base photo where the other cropped photos are combined with it.

For this pose, I wanted to photoshop a Vuvuzela with it. But realized that the arm’s position wasn’t right after the photo-shoot, and I was lazy to retake the pose.

So I left it like that, the organizers must be wondering what’s the dude in black doing.

For every pose, I gotta change my shirt (and shorts if the pose reveals the legs) and quickly get into position.

I practically went around the sofa for each pose – some quite exaggerating, some pretty plain.

And after hours of cropping, editing, adjusting and cleaning up, the end product is out.

Title: The Maxis Biggest Fan: The Biggest Quantity!

Yeah I know very common, but I thought it would be one of the best submissions in the Photo category. Honestly, I believe it has a little more effort and creativity compared to the other photos.

Here is how the combination of other poses look like with a plain white background instead of the base photo.

Anyway, I didn’t check out the video entries but at the Photo category, many of the photo submission entries are almost like this…

Even though I could have followed the rest, I did something different. So I submitted and patiently waited for the results to be announced.

And by now, the result is already out…

Unfortunately, my name is no where on the list.

I failed again. Oh well… Better luck next time.

Perhaps I could have done a better photo. A photo which is more exaggerating and spontaneous. Something like this…

Title: The Maxis Biggest Fan: The Biggest Balls!

I spotted this scene the other day. Firstly, it’s a fallen tree trunk.

Nothing malicious right?

But if you have a look at another angle, you’ll see this…

Someone must have placed the plastic bag in between the broken trunk!

And I believe that someone must have thought it’s a new dumping site for rubbish.

Polluting or reusing? Or plain ignorant. You decide!