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AT&T might buy Maxis majority stake in Indian telco. Thing is, does Maxis need that money? It’s like giving up gold for diamond.

While Malaysian political scene is pathetic, you can always pretend to be an American with YouChoose.

Everybody use Facebook like plastic bags these days. Practically everybody you know are on Facebook unless they live in Syria or Iran. It’s a great tool to catch up with friends who live in other places and can sometimes be a means of self expression. But it’s bad when it’s bad. Here are some rules to using Facebook.

1. Thou shalt not create a Facebook unless thou already have one
Let’s face it. Facebook is addictive. They make money from the time you spend on the website. Hence, they gonna make it more and more addictive. There would always be a click after one, then another click and another and another until you realize that you’ve wasted so much time doing nothing productive. So listen to this advice: if you don’t do Facebook, better do not start to. And don’t create another if you do have one already.

2. Thou shalt add only thy own friends who know thee
Some people are crazy. They add practically everybody on the network as their friends. Only add people like Anwar Ibrahim, Kenny Sia, Miley Cyrus or anybody famous if they know who on earth are you. Heck, who wants to add them anyway?

3. Thou shalt send invites to only thy friends who are interested
I am really sick taking invites to join groups, add applications, attend events, etc. that I don’t even care. I mean like do think I would be interested to take the “what‘s your porn star name” quiz? Or do I care to join your silly anti-oil-price-hike group when you don’t even care to know the purpose of that group?

4. Thou shalt not forward every frigging message on thy wall
Super Wall, Fun Wall and all the innovations of the original, the Wall, are full of spams. People keep on forwarding messages with silly pictures that tell you to “click forward to know what happens next” or “forward back to me if you really are my friend”. Come on, your friendship only worth some silly message? They are all bogus! That does not count all those religious garbage and chain messages people just happily forward each other. All these are so web 1.0!

5. Thou shalt not clutter thy profile page
Do you know that you don’t necessarily need to put every frigging quiz and each application you add on your profile page? You can actually place those garbage in extended profile. Scroll down to the bottom most of your profile page and click on “Edit Extended Profile”. I have a friend whose profile page is even more cluttered than my bedroom. At least, I could find my keys in my room. His profile, couldn’t even locate the Wall! For your Facebook profile stick to the “less is more” mantra.

6. Thou shalt not use fake names
Sometimes there are genuine friends who add you but you’ve no frigging idea who they are. Most of other social networks, by default, allow access to one’s profile page even though you’re not “friends” yet. Facebook, on the other hand don’t do this so it’s really difficult to recognize someone who use fake names. But when you don’t approve their friend request the next time you meet, they would think you try to avoid them. I strictly add only people that I know and who I have talked with. My friends say I’m paranoid, so be it. Better be safe than sorry. Please use your real name.

7. Thou shalt put only thy own picture
There are people who look like Hello Kitty, among all other non-human objects. There are also people who look exactly like celebrities when they are not. I do have problem with these people for the same reason as in no. 5.

8. Thou shalt not suggest thy friend to other friend unless they know each other
I have, on several occasions, been suggested to add people who I don’t even know. I added them anyway thinking that they were mutual friends of me and the person who suggested them. I thought they just happened to use fake names and pictures of others as above. It turned out that I didn’t even know them. No, they are not my fans either. I felt so violated because these people have seen all the things on my profile page which might question my morality and sanity. They could use all these against me in the future should their intent towards me be bad.

9. Thou shalt not miss reading everything on the screen
Facebook is bitch! They keep your information. Do not trust anybody with too much information, especially a website. Make sure you know how they manipulate your information. When adding an application, read every single word. Make sure you share things that you really want to share. OK, I’m being paranoid again. But what do think million-dollar company like this do? They just make more money!

10. Thou shalt stop using Facebook and deactivate thy account if thee are spending too much time on it
For the same reason as in no. 1, you should stop using Facebook if you are addicted to it. Apparently, Facebook don’t delete your account completely. Your account would be deactivated. The next time you try to log in, they will send an email to activate your account back. The scariest thing is, everything would still be there, remain intact. Yes, including all those stupid quizzes you did before. I tell ya, even the devil don‘t trust Facebook.

OMG. I never thought you could see mother bird feeding baby birds in real life.

Like my grandparents, Bill Gates not happy with Windows, too. Mr. Gates must had not used Windows for a long time.

Sime Darby backed out from undersea cable project. So who gonna take this up? Or are we seeing another dead end to the long overdue Bakun project? Either way would definitely raise suspicions.

Journalists snapped back after being snubbed by parliament management. Funny that the Speaker said other parliaments he has visited are not as “chaotic”. Where did he go? Uganda? Aussie and British parliaments have live telecast, stupid. US Congress is chaotic. Go figure.

Eric Chia died at 75 in a hotel room he has stayed for a month.

One of the reasons I don’t wanna study in Aussie: Australians are the fattest. Mom and Dad, please take note.

To all Malaysians who like to flirt with me unnecessarily, this is for you: Read While Waiting.