I ****** a ****

Ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause, please, for the Malaysian Censorship Board has managed to amuse and entertain the public yet again. You see, there is a song on the pop charts at the moment by Katy Perry called "I kissed a girl." Obviously, this sentence did not go down so well with the censorship board, who first decided that they should censor the word "kiss". This, however, left the bleeped out word too open to imagination, and people who hadn't heard the uncensored version thought that it was something far worse than merely "kissed." So, plan B: leave the word "kissed" in, and bleep out the word "girl" instead. So the word "girl" has joined the ranks of the word "gun" and "murder" and yes, "kissed" as a bad word in Malaysia. And if I didn't know better, I'd have thought Katy had said the 5-letter word starting with B or something. Heck, why not just censor the whole song, given that all the lyrics may be construed as bring a "bad example" to Malaysia's obviously robotic and dumb "rakyat." Yes, that's what they call Malaysian "citizens" now - can't even be bothered to say one extra syllable.

On the subject of connotations, there is a new shop in Bangsar Village II that is called brutally yours. It sells lingerie. 'Nuff said.

I had a pleasant weekend, despite the fact that that it was really uneventful, and I felt a bit pathetic for having absolutely nothing to do and nowhere to go, and no one to see... I ended up going to Bangsar Village to look for a nice quiet cafe to sit at, maybe have a slice of cake. I chose Bangsar Village II because it is usually really quiet, even on Sundays. Not today, though. As luck would have it, just about every cafe in the building was packed with people! Malaysians are supposed to be feeling the pinch of higher petrol prices and the general increased cost of living, yet you wouldn't have known or thought it from the number of people there today! I finally came to the last one on the top floor, and was glad to see that at least this one was really quiet. Should have been a bad sign, I know, but I really didn't want to be around the crowds, and when I looked at the cake counter, they had a tiramisu cake that vastly resembled the heavenly tiramisu cake that I shared with my sister last Sunday at Alexis. To my huge disappointment, it tasted nothing like it: not as fresh, the sponge was a little too soggy, and the caramelised nuts coating not as, well, caramelised. I also decided to order an iced coffee, since it was only an extra RM2, but even this really disappointed me. It was so watery, tasted a little bitter, and that was about it. I'll have to go back to Alexis soon to erase the memory of this second version!