Perpetual Tockism

19Jan

#yorais – A Malaysian-made Twitter Trending Topic Story

So it all started when Dr Rais Yatim, Information Communication and Culture Minister of Malaysia made a statement (quoted via a Bernama piece and theStar), saying ‘Muslims must avoid being totally immersed in Facebook, Twitter’ thus exhorting Malaysians to be wary of the popular Internet services. Now what Rais did NOT know is how he’d become a mini-celebrity in Twitter, touted as the most viral social media tool ever to be created, within a span of 4 hours from when the hastag, “#yorais“, got formed.

Update #2: Thanks to @bal_agil and @wernshen we have proof that #yorais made #4 and #3 respectively. Also, just updated The #yorais Chronology with the addition of theStar’s article!

Update: Never miss another #yorais moment, click on View More for the full transcripts!

A direct rise from 3pm to 4pm, 19th January 2010 to an even higher gradient line onwards. The viral effect is really an exponential force.

Malaysian tweeps all around the world of all race, religion and age got hooked into the hashtag #yourais so much that everyone was soon participating in what could seem to be an “orgy” of sorts. Friends and strangers alike pitched in their wit to form the best “quote” that best describes Rais’s fear for the social media tools, and soon, it became what we call a “Trending Topic“, as shown below.

Pic source from Icednyior, read her post here

To us Malaysians, it was an achievement of sorts, as it wasn’t an easy task to match up to other countries with giant populations such as our neighbours, the Indonesians. What more with a minister who does not support the use of social media in our lives commanding Information Communications of the country, no less.

As of 6.42pm the hashtag #yorais is the world’s 6th trending topic, only three below #Haiti, a world re-known phenomenon. In a mere half an hour, it got to 4th place as shown in the pic above. Just imagine the sort of interest this would place us at an international level, a blunder that would shame us as social media believers in the face of the planet.

Thanks to @wernshen for the 3rd spot proof! Click on pic to head to his post in LowYat.net

If you want to know the sort of quotes being made up by our fellow Malaysians in both Twitter and Facebook, click here. For more in-depth statistics, find them here. Best watched with a large pack of Caramelized Popcorn and a can of Coke. Just don’t blame me when you laugh out loud in public spaces though!

And as for Dr Rais Yatim himself, maybe it’s about time he read up on this article instead, because doing anything else (like banning the internet) will definitely not be such a good thing to do after all this. (source via @zhiq)

The #yorais Chronology

3:05pm |@bongkersz confirms that he started the first ever #yorais hashtag. He’s now a legend, and secretly hopes #yorais doesn’t ISA his rais. Also, he owns royalty rights. lol.

3:05pm |@bongkersz confirms that the first to comment after his first #yorais tweet goes to: RT @hidsie: @bongkersz LOL siap ada hashtag!

6:30pm | @spinzer: Ladies & Gentlemen, #yorais is now a trending topic. Dr Rais Yatim, how ironic.

7:17pm |@yoonkit reports that #yorais is now #4th place out of 10 – announcing Dr Rais Yatim as the best Minister of Information Communication. In a way, he’s right.

7:38pm |@timothyteoh reports that #yorais is now in #3rd place, while #haiti makes its exit. What a sad, sad day.

8:04pm |@jenkinyat reports that #Haiti is back on track on 2nd place..pushing #yorais to #4 on Twitter’s Top 10 Trending Topic

8:12pm |@amrirahim reports that we don’t need 1Malaysia. #yorais is uniting Malaysia y’all!! (via @tekong)

8:35pm |@nileshbabu reports that #yorais is now at 5th! This shows 60% of Malaysians are currently watching Berita Jam 8 RTM

9:00pm onwards |Nothing else to report, most Malaysians are probably more interested in #food, while the hashtag #yorais slowly slips off the radar, leaving only trails of jokes to chuckle on…

2:42pm 20th January |I can’t believe my eyes, but TheStar has gone on ahead and reported about the #yorais phenomenon! Kudos to @starIntech’s team for your bravery! Many in the Twittersphere are stirred by this move, and we’re going to see a rise spike for #yorais once more.

ps. for reference, below is a dynamic 7-day chart to see how long the #yorais effect will last.

6pm – 7pm showed Malaysians having the highest Twitter usage at 0.16% of the world’s twittersphere

A question for you: what would you say, then, of the difference of influence between Twitter and Facebook judging from this scenario?

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18Jan

LG’s LED LCD TV Launch @ Hilton KL

Some of us were lucky enough to be invited to the launch of LG’s latest LED LCD TV at Hilton, KL. As part of the media we got to witness a start of a new decade where flat screen TVs are a passé, while LED technology rises up as the next “in” thing to have.

I was pretty excited because this was something I was looking forward to, a price I would pay for such an amazing piece of technology. Fine, it may mean another one or two thousand extra for similar tv size- but who could resist this sexy product, oozing with glory and fame? It’s the TV of the future!

The few of us gathered together, ready to rumble. Simon just couldn’t wait to plug in the PS3 and play Final Fantasy 13 on the machine, that is, if he can even afford the system in the first place :p

As you enter the hall, I swear you wouldn’t be able to resist the sexy back of this 42 inch SL90QD. You’ll find that it has just about every interface available (supporting USB, Bluetooth and even DivX among others!) to plug into your existing system. Better yet, you’d be force to find better system to accommodate this piece of beauty here!

This picture is to prove how thin the TV is, compared to that beautiful LG Lady. Ok joke :p But seriously, if it wasn’t for the special anti-reflective glass covering the LED LCD screen, it could have been thinner than 2.9cm wide, and that’s very, very thin already! LED technology has made this possible, among other benefits

*inserting picture here just to prove a point :p*

The whole theme of the launch centered around living borderlessly, hence the tag “Live)Borderless”. Smart I must say, and even the performance given during the launch emphasized much on the fact that due to the rich colours and amazing contrast ratio (3,000,000:1) even the pictures can come alive right out of the TV!

The official unveiling is done, and here we see LG’s LED LCD TV model number SL90QD (this one’s the 47” version, as compared to previous 42” above!) placed FLATLY on the wall, kinda like a picture frame. I think it beats Plasma TVs, don’t you too?

Here we have the VIPs (General Manager of LG, Product Manager) giving the thumbs up to the future of media, the introduction of HD quality images and videos to your very house via the Live)Borderless LED LCD TV series!

You’ll soon be hearing about this at every news station and magazines, including technical information that I can’t be arsed to type out here :p

Adele here either looks damn excited over the crystal clear images, or she could just be inspired by the presentation of the event as a whole, complete with lucky draws and a huge, scrumptious luncheon after the Q&A sessions. Kudos to the LG team for the well done job!

What food, you say? True to #tockism posts, here’s the yummyliscious pictures for you to chew on!

The salad bar!

Yummy Seafood Salad platter

Ever awesome smoked salmon!

Golden fried rice! )

Roast duck… OMG.

Sesame seed flavoured prawns omgwtfbbqdvd!

Cod Fish. Word.

After all that techie information download makes me go hungry gaga ooh lala!

End of story.

So after all that, doesn’t it make you feel like getting the LG SL90 LED LCD TV Series? Live Borderless, no barriers, no boundaries, certainly living in all awesomeness

14Jan

Craft Brews, proud to be non-halal

If this doesn’t make your mouth water, I don’t know what will! Presenting you the latest ultimate bar in town, also known as Craft Brews. They are so advanced that they even have a solid working Twitter account, so do FOLLOW them for LOTS of FREEBIES and DISCOUNTS!

Crafty Craft Brews offers beer connoisseurs a whole new drinking and dining experience, starting with their international microbrewery look, yet maintaing a chic, casual and cosy setting. Looking at the place, it probably fits around 45 people comfortably, perfect for a relaxing corporate evening out!

There’s also an additional space outdoors for those who prefer to wine and dine al fresco. It’s huge capacity outside allows for up to a further 88 seats in total. All will enjoy not only scrumptious non-halal food to go with their home-brewed beers, but the variety of these rare, unique unfiltered beers makes Craft Brews something out of the ordinary, at least in Malaysia!

Utilizing microbreweries around the region, Craft Brews serves up to four draft and 10 bottled beer selections, where two coloured beers from Singapore-based Reddot Brewhouse will be the Restaurant’s signature, premium beers. They are called the Monster Green Lager and the English Ale respectively, served fresh on tap, yum! But more on that later.

Those invited to the bloggers night include our “atas” #porkgang like Horny, KY, Shaolin Tiger, Eyeris, Kim Cun and more. Suanie, Rebecca and Nicholas is pictured above

The place looks awesome, take a look at the wall decorations! Talk about beer-education ;D

There, I told you they had plenty of taps. Crazy Shit.

Oh did I tell you being invited also entitles you to a set of ingredients needed to brew your very own home-brewed beer, among other perks (ie LOOK AT MY VIP CARD!!!)

Of course, the Crazy Ones are here too. How could they not? Nigelais, Kellster and Yatz, at your service.

THEN THE MEGA POP CAME IN! Look at them beautiful towers… don’t you wish you own them? I know you do Well, at least Jessica does haha!

This is when the free flow starts and everyone sings in tune together

Food. OMG. NON HALAL FOOD. Let me try and decipher for you what’s in those plates:

1. Back Ribs – complete with three kinds of style: Honey Mustard, sweet Malt and Maple Glaze, or tangy and smoky Tex-Mex Hickory BBQ Sauce!
2. Caribbean Spice Chicken and corn cobs, served with yummy portions of home-made wedges (freaking good!!)
3. Lemongrass Butter Grilled Dory Fillet (halal, but nevertheless yummylicious!)
4. Lamb Shank. Word.

The foodies, Ah Bok, Sloppy Chic and BBO also came. It was a meat-crunching galore I tell you, nothing was safe with them around!

April Yim decided to get something different. Here’s the Scampi Aglio Olio pasta which was pretty good. Luckily we were too full otherwise we’d have their desserts which sounded pretty yummy to us! Read:

1. Chocolate-filled Banana Fritters
2. Cinnamon Apple Pie
3. Papaya and Grape Melange
4. Premium ice cream flavours~!

The aformentioned #porkgang, who wiped the servings clean. Thanks guys.

Look at the colouriffic glasses, awesome pawesome aren’t they? You’ll also get a good look at April Yim’s lips here, now don’t go getting any thoughts hehe…

The day was later spent with some games among others, with free vouchers to give out. Here’s Shaolin Tiger doing the tasting test… and I don’t think he got it right, not with the number of beer selections that was available! I swear I could taste the Spirulina though, which is the ingredient contained in the Monster Green Lager, which is, well, green.

It was truly a fantastic evening for us, thanks to the people at @craftbrews for having us around. It was kind of the first time seeing different groups of blogosphere all congregating at the same place. I will surely visit this place again

And if you do visit it, do call me along! Why? Cause i have this pretty awesome VIP discount card that allows me 30% discount on food items! (not on drinks, sorry ) and best of all, I’m supposedly the only one that has the card that’s valid till 31st of December 2010!! How cool is that haha… not even the REAL beer drinkers nor the #porkgang has them. *does the victory dance

In any case, you can find them at the following addresS:

G3 Podium, Ground Floor, Menara Batu Kawan,
No.1 Jalan PJU 7/6,
Mutiara Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
03 77223000

You can find them just beside Tesco’s, you can’t miss it at all. Do note that there are Happy Hours from 5pm to 8pm daily, and opened from 12 noon till late

10Jan

Alamanda’s A Callin’ – Part 2: The Rock Climbing

After our sumptious breakfast and shopping session, we then headed to the Putrajaya Challenge Park at Precinct 5 for a rock climbing session at Putra Climb where we sweated it out with a morning workout. The Putra Climb is currently the largest indoor climbing gym in Asia which had been recently opened and charges really reasonable fee for equipment rental! Just to show you how excited we were…

So excited that some of us did the smashpOp jump ie MynJayz (muka fail :p), smashpOp and JonYKT himself !(all who’s blogs recently got featured in theStar2!)

The walls were super daunting, but that also depends on what level you are able to do. For instance, Purple is pretty difficult compared to the white one…

The instructor will be there to give you a set of rules.. which consists of two rules really. Yes, contrary to popular belief, rock climbing is so easy that you don’t even need a license to do it!

Here you can see Honey Madu from Fly.fm and Belinda Chee being sporty enough to sign up. It’s going to be one hell of a time

Rebecca and Bangsar-Babe all looking good before the climb, as though as they didn’t think it’ll get sweaty and all that shit. Aih, girls will be girls :p

Here’s how you climb the wall, and it took Leonard a pretty good while to reach there haha!

Here’s how you DON’T climb the wall. Rames, stop fondling Leo la :p

All of us at the top. We’re HEROES!! (and who thought I couldn’t climb cos I was fat? BOOYAH TO YOU!

All acting cool wtf.

All except for Leonard. Wei, can you look more manly or not? HAHHAHHAHAH!~

Apart from Putraclimb you can also visit the Skate Park, MTB tracks and the Dirt Jump with your BMX bikes.. so many to choose from!
More information here: http://www.putrajayachallengepark.com/main_page.htm. You can find your way using the map here:

Sunday – Thurday : 10am – 8pm
Friday – Saturday: 10am – 10pm

I guarantee you an awesomely sweet time

Coming Up Next
The Buffet Spread @ Pullman Hotel

Awesome buffet spread at Pullman Hotel, and a view of the lake from the hotel rooms.. Wicked ;D

08Jan

Longest post in Malaysian Book of Records: How Infinitesimally Small We Are

From OMGFacts.info. Interested? Click on it for large picture (1.67MB file!)

Reason for this post:
when all kinds of shit is happening between opposing forces or factions, try not to take sides with the infinitismly small assumptions you have, because it’s probably not worth it and aimed to cause confusion and ruckus among the people.

Don’t seek to blame anybody in the burning of churches in Malaysia for example, or for the usage of “Allah” that caused this whole issue in the first place.

Just look to your left, and pray for forgiveness instead of reacting with violence, because we are but a speck compared to what God has planned for us.

Top leaders who came to the spot said a few words:

Marina Mahathir: “very important for all Muslim Msians to wholeheartedly condemn this attack. This is not Islam.” @netrakl http://twitpic.com/x5i7f

Khairy KJ: “both ‘Allah’ and church attack issue have to be approached w great wisdom” @khairykj http://twitpic.com/x5gqj

Lord may you lead us out of this, and grant leaders of Malaysia wisdom on how to handle what we see as a nonsensical issue serving only to make us laughing stocks of the world.