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How racist can one be…

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Here we are projecting ourselves as a multi-racial country (dominated by 3 major race), living in harmony. We just celebrated our 10year anniversary visit our country year to attract tourists. We project ourselves to the middle east as the moderate Islam, fair to all, multi-cultural, living in harmony, good business practices,etc; underneath such prositive images, lived millions of people marginalized by economic wealth, business opportunities, education opportunities, etc.

E.g. We still hear voices telling us their kids scored exceptional, excellent results and not able to entry into the university. The University entries are still based on quota allocating to 3 races. Once the quota for the 2nd & 3rd races have been filled, these students with excellent results are not allowed to entry into the same university.

There are voices telling us that 1st race had their grades entry qualified "loosen" by fill up their quota even as the results from the 2nd & 3rd race students are far more excellent.

Entry into university based on quota is such bullshit and old fashioned.

We still have a certain race group paying more for housing and vehicles whilst the 1st race group get better discounts.

There is a recent email circulating in my country, which saddens me. I gave my reply duly with respect to body building experience and support the boycott of that restaurant.

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From: olsagen

To: _ong@.com ; B

Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 8:55 AM

Subject: Fw: Pizza Hut Malaysia- Hot Issue… must read and send to who u knows]

I think a boycott is in order – maybe this is Umno ‘ s cunning racist plan to keep the malays on their side and keep voting for them. They have special NEP, special discount for houses – now this. What next – maybe they can buy petrol cheaper and do not have to pay toll – just flash a songkok or something at the smart tag lane and go through free!

Hello everyone. I have some interesting news.
I was in Pizza Hut (Sunway Pyramid) yesterday and suddenly my friend showed me the bill.
The bill contains normal things la (number of person, bill. number and what is ordered). But, what shocked me is that they had space called ‘ RACE ‘ .I guess since we were all wearing tudung, they labelled us as 0, which means MALAY. Later, when we went to pay…we had no service charge and no tax charge.
Still in shock, I peeped into another bill in the counter. In that bill, under the race space, it was labelled as C (which I guess means Chinese). That bill had service and tax charges!!!
I started investigating. One of my Sri Lankan friends was labelled as Indian it seems and she also had to pay service and tax charges a few weeks back. What I ‘ m wondering is that…does anyone know about this? I find it rather strange that they charge service and tax charge using racein Pizza Hut, out of all the places!
WE SHOULD NOT GO EAT AT PIZZA HUT!

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Subsequently, the particular restaurant manager of the country responded.

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Lawrence Ding Says:
October 19, 2007 at 10:24 am

Dear all my friends whom I have not met, but came across through the circulation of this malicious mail alleging that Pizza Hut Malaysia practises racism, charging sales and service taxes only to certain races and discriminating against others.

Just want to assure you and all your friends that this is a hoax and hate mail that has been going round since mid 2006.

In Malaysia we do not need anymore of such nonsensical and irresponsible lies through the email.

Thus, if you could please re-circulate back to those who has been propagating the hoax and hate mail, we are doing ourselves a favour by telling the truth.

Pizza Hut Malaysia is a Public Listed company and we are bound by law to collect the 5% sales taxes and we also have a 10% service charge on table service as all dining restaurants do.

There is NO service charge if you do a take-out/ takeaway order.

We will never ever deviate from the law of our land. Should we do anything as accused in the hoax and hate mail, we will be asking for big trouble.

At one time, we were collecting some info about our customers to see what is our customer profile so as to help us serve them better.

However, some malicious people have turned it into a hate mail. So it is a lie and please do not believe in the hoax and hate mail.

I am the Senior General Manager of Pizza Hut Malaysia and I am assuring you and your friends that we are also a franchised company from Yum! Restaurants International, another Public Listed company in the US. We are law abiding and honest company.

Final note, I think it is really grossly unfair and unwise for Haris Ibrahim to post a hoax mail (complete with pix to make it look real) on your website without checking its authenticity.

Someone once said that if we kick-around a lie around long enough, people will believe it as a truth.

Haris Ibrahim, efforts like this will undermind your very credibility that you are championing!

Your help to just circulate this to your friends will be greatly appreciated.
In addition, I have also attached our official statement for your attention.

Thanks for your help

Write me! (EMAIL INSERTED)

Lawrence Ding
Senior General Manager
Pizza Hut Restaurants Malaysia Berhad.
Mobile: 019 329 8687
Direct : 03 2732 8383

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My reply is as followed:

I am not from IT. It’s for those who have study digitial photography perhaps can check the photos out.

( i ) is there a photographic forgery?

( ii ) has Pizza Hut studied the photo and confirmed those photos are real/fake?

( iii ) In defense of such claims that such email is hoax, should the Pizza Hut organization advise the above ( i ) & ( ii ) before stating so?

If you are in exercise, bodybuilding, keeping fit, etc, which I noticed there is such a trend rising in Malaysia; I will advise you this.

( a ) every fitness instructor will educate you that you can bulk with other bulking food; there is NO NEED for pizza.

( b ) But if you are into keeping slim, fit; pizza hut is the last place you want to visit. You do not need simple carbs for keeping fit. Pizza Hut is serving your simple carbs, why bother going there?

( c ) save your money and have a massage with the money in hand.

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My 5 day business & massage trip…

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Well, I have not been updating my blog. I just being lazy. Yes, being lazy but I had fun. I went overseas for a business trip. Along the way, I met a few foreign friends and made new ones.

We drank some whisky, XO….eat bunch of high protein/high fat food. Mostly seafood & meat based diet. LOL. I also met up a few girls during the business trip. LMAO!!!

For the last 5 days, I didn’t workout at all. I had a fulfilling business & massage trip. 5 days straight massage and facial spa. LMAO. I had a cucumber facial spa. LMAO HAHAHAA!!! I took a picture of my face covered by cucumber, I did look like mummy. HAHA!!!

The massages are done by young ladies. Mostly under 19s. But their technique are good such that they gave me wild thoughts. with a sexy hot body massaging you, the wild thoughts almost gave a “woody”. That would be embarassing to go on the massage session. LMAO !!! HAHAHA I almost wanted to do some “screwing” right away. The masseur was embarassed and her face turned peach red highlighted situation even more so.

To be honest with you… I am a shy person actually. so the above situation truly is one of my most frequently occured shy moments. LOL!

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Cardio & Play

Friday, January 4th, 2008

I have been doing cardio at a steeper angle approximately 30 ~ 40degree angle, multi curvature road on the hillside. I feel that this give myself a little be "awareness" of the surrounding. You kinda have to be careful not to knock off by cars and it keeps you on the alertness as well.

On the other hand, because of steeper ground; I mixed and matched my running drills running from higher to lower ground, vice versa. It makes the cardio more interesting more challenging.

Whilst the cardio is completed, I hit the box jump at 1.9ft approximately. And hit my tri-sets box jump (vertical jump), I hope I can hit above 2.5ft jump in due time.

I almost got knocked by the a few cars and have to quickly hop/jump off to safety. LOL.

Another good thing about doing cardio on the hillside is you can peep inside people’s house. I don’t do it on purpose. I did it for the cardio but the peeping comes as a bonus. LMAO! I once saw a guy picking his nose whilst I box jumped. LMAO!

That mofo quickly hid his disspeakable action right up. I noticed he quickly put his "uncleaned" hand into his pocket. LMAO HAHAH!!!!!

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New workout idea

Friday, January 4th, 2008

I am just being lady to update my workouts.

I am still hitting the gym scene with 2 days on 1 day off. Hitting tri-sets vs. supersets principle. It means a tri-sets each (chest) vs. back (tri-sets) at a go. It means 6 sets at a go. It is tough but it was stamina building.

The next thing I’m comtemplating of trying is such manner:

#exercise : tri-sets each (1st bodypart) vs. (2nd bodypart)

#exercise : dual-sets each (1st bodypart) vs. (2nd bodypart) @ higher poundages

#exercise : 1 set each (1st bodypart) vs. (2nd bodypart) @ maxi poundages.

Or the order can be reversed.

The idea is to keep intensity high while slowly easing myself into strength building.

I also incorporate box jump at ~1.9ft height tri-sets with reps increment. I would hit 12each for tri-sets (total 36reps), rest count 4 x 50,000 in between set. And 2nd tri-sets @ 15 reps each, 3rd trisets @ 18reps each.

Believe me. The sweat is full and my tshirt is soaking wet. I realized also my bodyweight dropped with this cardio & play days. Box jumps is really a must for intensity, stamina, cardio building. Not bad for a wide ass nose dickhead like me. I lost about 7 ~ 8lbs thusfar since Nov 2007.

I have been eating relative clean not much changes into my diet. Less chicken and more fish, lean pork and some beef. I threw in some Thyrotabs from Gaspari and I have not even started on Cyctolean yet. This Thyrotabs thing is some good shiet from Gaspari.

Also my breakfast has been rolled oats or instant oats with 1 scoop of Zero Impact Protein Chocolate. yum yum.

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