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Quoting the Deputy Defence Minister in Berita Harian today:

"Kita menganggap anai-anai sebagai musuh bawah tanah di bangunan kem tentera, malah jumlahnya jauh lebih banyak berbanding bilangan anggota tentera."

This evidently, is about termite attacks in government military buildings and offices. I wonder, with billions of cash thrown into getting ourselves nifty tanks and warplanes, are we that stingy to upgrade from the dawn of our independance?

The way he talked was as if the termites would be capable of overturning our armed forces. I don’t mind subtle exaggeration, but this is a bit off, don’t you think?

"Lazimnya dulu hanya bangunan kayu yang diancam anai-anai, tetapi sekarang ni nampaknya anai-anai macam dah ada teknologi baru kerana bangunan simen dan batu pun boleh dimakannya," katanya selepas melawat pangkalan Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) Sepanggar di sini, semalam.

Okay, this exaggeration is way too far. It’s downright stupid. I won’t even bother to explain why.

And no, that is not the new All Your Base are Belong to Us phenomenal phrase.

I was scouring Lelong.com.my for a replacement motherboard that I could plug my existing Celeron in (the present one works fine, ‘cept that the CMOS circuitry failed, had to reset the clock and re-enable the ACPI setting everytime the computer has been off the plug) and I’d like an AGP slot to put a 3D Graphics Adapter in.

So I found this.

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