Sexy Talk

Someone sent this insightful observation to me via e-mail. He/She claims to know a lot about these things...

From what I heard, places where hanky panky occurs include:-

health centres (yeah! whose health?)
executive health clubs (fancy name for brothel)
some hair saloons (need a wash and blow? cough!)
some golf course clubs (different courses different strokes)
seafood restaurants (different type of fish swimming)
karaoke places (singing on different mikes)

Better watch out if your husbands / BF go to such places.

I think the solution to philandering hubbies and wives who are prepared to splash their bucks around, are brilliant robots...

The good news is... all the lonely hearts out there will feel lonely no more when the scientists have finished their research and do start producing en mass these special robots for every one's health...Here is an interesting review of book by by a normally scholarly brilliant researcher.

Programmed for love
Author sees hard-wired sex in the future - and apparently it's all good - especially if you like robots

By FRITZ LANHAM
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle


Love + Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships

By David Levy

Harper, 334 pp. $24.95.

If you're younger than 35, you'll probably live long enough to put David Levy's prediction to the test. Levy says that by 2050 we'll be creating robots so lifelike, so imbued with human-seeming intelligence and emotions, as to be nearly indistinguishable from real people. And we'll have sex with these robots. Some of us will even marry them. And it will all be good.

Levy lays out his vision of a Brave New Carnal World in Love and Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships, which, despite its extended riffs on sex toys through the ages, is a snigger-free book. Levy's no Al Goldstein. Rather he's a 62-year-old British chess master turned artificial-intelligence expert persuaded that robot sex can brighten the lives of many, many unhappy people. "Great sex on tap for everyone, 24/7,'' he writes on the final page of the book. What's not to like?

"Chess'' and "sex'' aren't words that normally share the same sentence, but in Levy's case, the one led to the other. A keen chessman since boyhood, by the time he got to St. Andrews University he played at the international level. At the university he got interested in computers and the challenge of programming machines to play chess. Eventually he earned international recognition for his work on chess-playing computers and natural-language software, and in the mid '90s headed a team that won the Loebner Prize, widely regarded as the world championship of conversational software. Today he owns a firm that develops electronic hand-held brain games.

Designing computers that talk like humans naturally led to the larger question of how humans interact with robots, which are nothing more than computers with arms and legs and a head. The Japanese have taken the lead in developing "partner robots,'' machines that, for example, might do household tasks for elderly people. But if you could invent a robot that serves cocktails, could you not invent a robot that would make a superior bedmate?

It sounds like a mighty tall order. A machine with skin that feels like ours? With our physical dexterity? And, most important, with a mind like ours - imperfectly rational, sometimes emotionally intelligent, sometimes emotionally dumb?

"I think it's a reasonable assumption,'' Levy said in a telephone interview from his home in London. He lays out his case in a voice that's calm, rational, almost flat, more geeky than goatish.

"If one looks at the advances in technology in the last, say, 40 or 50 years, they've been immense, and the more we learn about the science and the technology, the quicker it will be to discover even more within that science."

Smart money never bets against technological advances, but it helps if you stack the deck. "The automaton simulates man when man has been defined in an automaton's way," literary critic Hugh Kenner wrote. Is that what Levy does?

"I take a pragmatic point of view," he said, "partly because in my original field, computer chess, that was how the problem was solved." Not by making machines that thought like chess masters but by making machines that beat chess masters. Similarly, Levy thinks, robots need only "simulate" human intelligence and emotions "to the point that they are absolutely convincing." If you can't tell whether the thing is man or machine, what difference does it make? You'll treat it as if it were alive. The rest is philosophical hairsplitting.

So who will avail themselves of 21st-century sexbots?

Sad cases, for one, people so physically unattractive or anti-social or isolated or emotionally crippled that they have trouble finding human romance. People who love their computers more than their fellows. Hey, they're out there already.

"They're lonely; they're miserable," Levy said. "I think society will be a much better place when they have an alternative that satisfies them without doing any harm to other people."

Add in those who have a satisfying sexual relationship but are simply curious and somewhere between 20 percent and 50 percent of the population will experience man-machine mating at least occasionally, Levy predicts.

He respects the fact that plenty of people, out of moral or religious conviction, will contemplate this with horror.

"But by and large," he said, "it will be very good for society, very beneficial, and I think that will be the majority view within a relatively short space of time."

Sexbots may put prostitutes out of business, he notes.

Near the end of the book Levy alludes to a set of vexing questions. If robots become utterly humanlike, must we not treat them as more than machines? So if you marry a robot, can it inherit your estate? If you catch it boffing the mail carrier, can you toss it out with heavy trash? If your robot pops your neighbor in the mouth, who does your neighbor sue?

Levy admits he doesn't know the answers.

"There are lot of questions here that need a great deal of discussion and consideration from people who are much wiser than I am in the field of ethics, philosophy and law. Clearly the law makers and the lawyers are going to have a field day debating these issues."

He expects the impetus for creating sexbots to come from the sex-toy industry rather than, say, MIT. Already a Japanese sex-doll manufacturer has announced plans to market a doll with electronics in it, and Levy has read that Japanese companies are working to produce sex robots for people living in outlying fishing villages.

"I think the Japanese are probably working on this more than one would realize from the little that's been published so far," he said.

Levy has been amazed at the publicity the Love and Sex With Robots has generated since its release last month. He's done a dozen radio interviews and a TV interview. Howard Stern raved about the book. So far, no hate mail.

Would Levy himself have sex with a robot? He doesn't have to ponder the question.

"If there was a robot of the sort I describe in the book, I would certainly want to experience using it for sex, and I wouldn't regard it as anything untoward," he said. "I would do it out of curiosity. Not that I have a need for a new sex partner. I'm happily married."

And the wife would be OK with this?

"Yes, yes, and if she wanted to try one I wouldn't have a problem with that. I would regard it as genuine scientific curiosity."

'Hum Sup' Malaysian Humor

I confess that I have been quite ignorant of the sense of humor amongst Malaysians, especially those of the fairer sex. I didn't search for the light and find it ... the light in the guiding hand of a female found me!

Here's a saucy extract of a conversation between two Malaysian women. I'm not disclosing who wrote it or where it's found. I might do so if 50 votes are cast in favor of disclosure!

Before proceeding with the hilarious Malaysian original humor, I want to say that I'm not a sex addict like Michael Douglas who went to Sex Addict Anonymous for help. I just believe sex is good clean fun that God has made for us as a gift to enjoy. I have seen how many persons of different faiths act as hypocrites in publicly condemning, assaulting or persecuting others on moral issues and yet in their private lives are worst in what they do during sex!

Here is the extract...

Two married women talking on MSN.

Woman #1 : i cook dinner jor. waiting lk come back. sked sked mah, must serve properly

Woman #2 : better feed nice nice and full full. if not eat at yilai’s place

Woman #1 : yalor yalor, i told my lk i want to ask the csl wife, what she cooks for him. 61 still going strong, iLike. That time I am 57 liao. LOL.

Woman #2 : wear see thru lingerie whilst serving hoh

Woman #1 : Yayaya, wear Y-shape, crotchless panties. Nay…like those paid posts we wrote? Somemore, hor, sek jor, do on dining table thimmmm.

Woman #2 : eat abalone

Woman #1 : and sausage

And hor, I think all these Wanita movements and their basket weaving, songket making, line dancing and other classes not applicable in this age already. They must go hire some of those Pattaya Tiger Show (since Rose Chan is dead) girls and conduct courses on opening cork. C O R K of the bottle lah! And teach what what eat lollipop and eat icecream skills lah. You say correct or not?

Wa mui lu ai mai nia…..Hahahahaha. Someone kill me already! But when you put two married women together, we have to bitch. Otherwise, how you think we make moolahs all day long and fook si lou kong all night long wor plus jaga anak-anak 24/7 and our dozens of blogs all year long?

Tiu lor, Yahoo labelled my site under pornography. Muahahahar….I am bad.

It's the song diva, Christina Aguilera! What's common between singing and sex? Answer: Both begin with the letter 's'. What's the song I wanna hear? Answer: One with lyrics that rhymes with Paris, Britney and Christina. No, those were not comments.

A Malaysian BIG BANG!

2008 started with a big bang with fireworks almost everywhere. For some Malaysians it was an even bigger bang of a shocking kind when the nation's popular highly competent Health Minister had his secret affair exposed and he confessed to it! What comic relief after a year of grisly murders, human rights violations, fiscal scandals, tragedies, demonstrations, ISA detentions, political harassment, bigotry, racism and religious injustice!

Iran. Sister-in-law. Kama Sutera. Designer Vaginas. Chua Jui Meng. Curse. Chinese Mafia. Lingam. These were like a jumble of words that may seem unassociated to the Health Minister Datuk Sri Dr. Chua Soi Lek's scandalous sex escapade. But they seem connected in some ways and I'll tell you how.

Call it synchronism or whatever you want.

Before the first whiff of the sex scandal and the compact discs hit the Johore streets I was either coming across these words or brandishing these words verbally and electronically.

Iran: I read about the pitiful girl who was stoned to death for merely appearing in an x-rated movie shot secretly in that Islamic nation. The religious police zealously tracked her down after recording the reading of her exposed electricity meter in the movie! Here we have a filmed consensual nefarious act that ended in a rather painfully agonising slow inhuman death by stoning.

My sister-in-law. After not having any desire to speak to this shrewd Johore businesswoman, with a late dad who was a datuk there, we finally were on speaking terms. Yes, Dr. Chua is from Johore.

Kama Sutera: I was referring to this famous ancient sex manual as the book I consider as my favorite to read. I was encouraging others to pick up the book! So the minister was having some adult acrobatic fun as depicted in it...

Designer Vaginas: I came across the Newsweek article about the dangers and risks involved in having surgical procedures performed on the female genitalia on a commercial scale. It wasn't necessary to have it all done, and problems could arise. Surgically done or not-for powerful men to fall into sexual addiction...there's sexual power to all of you ladies as in the minister's case!

Chua Jui Ming: Another Chua who came to Miri recently, proclaimed the good Word and sharing the testimony of how his son was saved from the clutches of evil men when a stranger appeared to help him escape. This is the Chua who was the predecessor of the present scandalous Chua.

Curse: Someone wrote in MMalaysiakini about the curse of the Health Ministership position. All the Chinese who were in that position ended their political lives except Tan Sri Dr. Chong Hon Nyan who ended up in another smaller political post before retiring shortly after that. The position seemed to have a jinx I suppose!

Chinese Mafia: I was also recommending a book about the Chinese mafia... and explaining away the oaths that these secret triads make to protect the Organization. Is there a sinister underworld connection in this scandal? Maybe not-the Truth Is Out There!

Last but not least, the word 'lingam': When the scandal broke about the secret recording of judiciary shenanigans, I was told by an Indian buddy that lingam also means phallus. This was an astonishing revelation and so it seems to me, there's a Cosmic Joker who is showing me this superior being has concocted everything to create one big scandal to titillate Malaysians.

For those who are still curious about the actual hanky panky stuff that mainstream media teasingly hints at, here are the juicy details extracted from Malaysiakini-the news portal with guts!

THE TAPE

According to those who have watched the tape, there were two separate DVDs depicting the alleged sex act purportedly recorded using closed circuit television (CCTV).

The first DVD lasting 56 minutes showed the entire sexual act from four different camera angles showing the bed, main door and living room.

Labelled as ‘(name of politician deleted) rapes and threatens woman’, a man can be seen walking into a room believed to be in a hotel and engages in sex with apparently a woman in her 30s.

Meanwhile, the second disc lasting 44 minutes was labelled ‘(name of politician deleted) sex video’ and featured the same sex act from a sole stationary camera that zoomed into the bed.

The couple can be seen in the video speaking in the Hokkien dialect.

The video clip begins with the politician in the room taking a shower and changing clothes. A woman later knocks on the door and is seen entering the room. The couple appears to know each other.

The video then shows the woman taking out a laptop and placed it on the bed, and then going into the bathroom and emerging later naked.

The woman then performs oral sex on the politician and this is followed by sexual intercourse on bed. The couple appears to be watching something, perhaps pornography, on the laptop during their sexual act.

Here's an added bonus about the star of the scandalous sex escapade as reported in Malaysiakini.

Long political career

Chua, a trained psychologist, began his medical career as a government doctor in 1974 before moving into private practice two years later.

The senior politician, who hailed from Johor, was first elected state assemblyman for Penggaram in his home state in 1986. He held Penggaram for 18 years – winning the state seat in four consecutive general elections.

Chua was a Johor executive councilor - in charge of various profolios - for 14 years from 1990 to 2004.

He moved to federal-level politics in the 2004 general elections when he was picked to run for Labis, a parliamentary constituency near Segamat which was vacated by outgoing MCA chief Dr Ling Liong Sik.

Soon after the general elections, he was also picked by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as health minister, a much-coveted cabinet post.

From there, Chua moved up the party hierarchy at lighting speed – he bagged the second highest number of votes to become one of the four vice-presidents in the 2005 MCA polls.

Here's the additional straight-faced Newsweek article...

The perils of 'designer vaginas'

As more women undergo cosmetic vaginal procedures, experts warn that such surgery may not be safe or effective

By Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert for Newsweek
September 19, 2007

Women are being urged to be careful down there when it comes cosmetic vaginal procedures. We've become a society obsessed with the quest for physical perfection. If you don't like the nose (or ears or lips or breasts) you were born with, there's a solution: find a doctor and get it fixed. Last year Americans underwent nearly 11 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. That's an increase of 7 percent from the previous year and more than 400 percent from a decade ago. Clearly, the idea of altering nature's plan for your appearance is now widely accepted. But are there parts of your body that should be off limits?

Some doctors think so. Last week the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Gynecologic Practice issued a statement to its members warning about the dangers of trying to create "designer vaginas" through procedures that purport to trim and slim the vaginal lips, tighten the vagina or add extra bounce to the G-spot with injectable materials like collagen. Over the past few years these procedures have been marketed in magazines and over the Internet largely as boosts to sexual satisfaction, turning labiaplasty (the technical name for surgery that snips the vaginal lips, or labia) into one of the fastest-growing procedures. Labiaplasty is sometimes necessary for medical reasons--if there's a problem with urination, for example. But doctors say those cases are not the reason for the surge. Although there are no firm numbers on how many procedures were performed last year, doctors around the country report more and more requests from patients for purely cosmetic changes. When there's no medical reason for these surgeries, they're not covered by insurance and can cost patients as much as USD $10,000.

Not so long ago, the main clientele for cosmetic vaginal procedures was sex workers and nude entertainers, but with the increasing popularity of bikini waxes, women have become more aware of the appearance of their vaginas, and a growing number seem to feel they don't measure up. Others worry that they don't enjoy sex as much after pushing a baby out the birth canal; they hope that tightening their vaginas will restore the thrill. In many cases women say that they began to question the look of their vaginal area after a comment from a male partner who had been influenced by images in sexually explicit magazines or movies. Doctors say they're seeing women of all ages--even in their 60s and 70s--who want vaginal makeovers.

But the peril may be much greater than prospective patients realize, ACOG warns. "What we're concerned about is that there is no safety or efficacy data for these procedures," says Dr. Cheryl Iglesia, a member of the committee that issued the statement and the director of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. "There are no studies in peer-reviewed journals that show long-term outcomes." The vast majority of these procedures are not medically indicated, Iglesia says, and women could end up in worse shape than when they started because of complications like severe pain from scarring by lasers used on the vaginal wall, decreased lubrication or incontinence. In the statement, the ACOG committee warned that "patients who are anxious or insecure about their genital appearance or sexual function may be further traumatized by undergoing an unproven surgical procedure with obvious risks."

ACOG says that women who are contemplating this kind of questionable procedure need to understand that there's a great variety in the appearance of the vaginal area--just as there is in any other part of the body--and most of those differences are well within the normal range, which means they do not require medical intervention. "You can have [vaginal] lips that are a few millimeters to a few centimeters," Iglesia says. "It's all normal. You don't have to look like a Playboy bunny down there." And a tighter vagina is no guarantee of a better time in bed. "There is real potential that you could make your sex life worse," she says. "You can't just say we will tighten it up and it will work better." Female sexual satisfaction is dependent on a wide range of factors. "It's not just the size of the vagina," Iglesia says. "There's a lot more involved, including nerves, blood supply and lubrication" as well as the critical emotional components of sexual satisfaction.

Women considering cosmetic vaginal surgery might also want to read up on the international campaign against female genital mutilation, procedures among some African, Middle Eastern and Asian cultures that often involve cutting or stretching of the labia and inserting corrosive substances into the vagina to make it tighter or narrower. Sound familiar? The World Health Organization and UNICEF, among others, have been actively lobbying for the elimination of genital mutilation, which may be performed on infants, children and teenagers. While this campaign continues to make progress, women in this country are paying doctors for what many think is a high-tech version of the practice. It's something to think about.

Having said and shared all these stuff, let me come back to the present scandal: I admire the good doctor. He has done much for the public with his new policies, cutting a lot of red tape, thus creating a more efficient service to the ordinary Joe.

How tragic it is that a rising star who has fallen between the political cracks will not be given a second Clinton chance. Who knows what this affable statesman could have achieved if he ever holds the reign of Chinese power through the powerful Barisan main partner, the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA). Perhaps he could be as famous as Clinton during his presidency of the United States.

One thing is for sure: by admitting his marital indiscretion and resigning from all offices, Dr. Chua has proven himself to be honorable, decisive, courageous and wise after a lapse in judgment. He should not be condemned by anyone else as every person has his or her own vices. We remember our loving Christ as saying to the "holier than thou" hypocritical religious persons who were about to stone to death someone who was accused of adultery in the old days this: "Let he who has no sin cast the first stone". Everyone quickly disappeared!

Who knows, our Cosmic Joker will pull this rare leader out politically as a hat trick in future after entertaining Malaysians with this amazing hilarious joke on the first day of 2008! Oh yes, my memorable Year of the Rat!

An Insightful Peep

Here's just a fascinating article I came across in blogosphere... and it will make you think out of the box alright! Having said that, it would be best I say nothing else as an objective blogger...

The Iranian Mullahs' Secret
By Dinesh D'Souza
September 26, 2007

I wasn't in the audience at Columbia, so I didn't get to pose a question to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I would have guessed that he is pretty capable of answering questions about the Holocaust ("at least we didn't do it") and Iran's nuclear aspirations ("entirely peaceful").

Even his stated goal of wiping Israel off the map doesn't break the register on my surprise-o-meter. Nor would I be entirely astonished if there are many leaders in Israel who'd like to see today's Iran wiped off the map.

I would have liked to ask Ahmadinejad about the Shia practice of sigheh (in Farsi) or muta (in Arabic). This is the practice, widespread in Iran, of "temporary marriage." Such marriages are forbidden in Sunni Islam but they are permitted in Shia Islam.

The origin of temporary marriage is in the early days of Islam, when warriors would go to faraway battles and not return home for several months or even years. During this period, they were permitted to enter into temporary marriages which could be dissolved after an agreed-upon period by the man simply proclaiming the end of the arrangement.

Since Islam allows polygamy up to four wives, this was not considered a radical departure from the rules of the Koran.

Whatever you think of the original arrangement, it is mightily abused today in Iran. Mullahs who are traveling on pilgrimages routinely take temporary wives, sometimes for a week, sometimes for a day, sometimes for a few hours. In the West we call this prostitution.

In Iran it is hallowed by the name of sigheh and it has the full sanction of the law. One can only imagine the plight of poor women in Iran who are driven by necessity to become de facto prostitutes. I'm sure there are some at the ACLU and on the left who would say the women are noble "sex workers" whose only deprivation is that they are not paid the minimum wage. They are, after all, consenting adults. But anyone who believes in female dignity and family values has to consider sigheh a complete scandal.

I'm curious how a fellow like Ahmadinejad, who likes to portray himself as a defender of human dignity and of the Muslim family, would respond to what his mullah friends are doing on a regular basis. These abuses of power--financial, political, sexual--are more likely to discredit and ultimately bring down the regime of the mullahs than all the "tough questions" about nuclear weapons and the Holocaust.

Forgotten Non-Asian WWII Sex Slaves

One of the most astonishing discoveries any historian can find in cyberspace is news that the general public will seldom find in the mainstream press.

Imagine my amazement to find out that a guilt-ridden Japanese apologist, Tomiichi Murayama, has a blog with a digital museum embossed with the title "The Comfort Women Issue and the Asian Women Fund" dedicated to all women who were forced to be sex slaves by the Japanese Imperial Army, sexually satisfying the lusts of many Jap soldiers daily.

I was even more surprised that whereas Asians were making hell to pay over the slave issue, European women were also used as "comfort women" and they have remained silent to this day, thus very few realise the burning sensitive sex enslavement issue isn't one that is confined to Asian women.

Here is the documented evidence as found in the website:
Go to "European Sex Slaves"

Woopie Vs. Watergate

Here's another funny satirical gem from Art Buchwald's book, I am Not a Crook. For other breaking in depth and even salacious news that most of Malaysia's intimidated cowardly local media is too chicken to cover, please drop by Malaysiakini and Malaysia Today, amongst many other blogs with balls. Though I do not agree with all that are in some of these outspoken courageous blogs, I recommend them because their sensible mature and honest opinions and views reflect the reality of what goes on in the country and make everyone realise how much of the rights and freedom that is so cherished by Malaysians under the Constitution have and continue to be eroded with the compliance of many of those whom ignorant or misled voters have elected.

By the way, it won't be long before I join the growing disillusioned and disgusted friends of mine who will be canceling our subscriptions to the local papers. We are not getting our money's worth
in papers that do not report the latest news but which merely serve as the Hitlerian propaganda mouthpieces of others with dictatorial mentalities.

Sex Vs. The Watergate

I don't wish to put down our own Watergate affair, but when it comes to a good government scandal, the British have us beat by a mile. A recent British scandal had to do with sex.

It is the type of intrigue that even a charwoman can understand, having for its major characters Cabinet ministers, lords, dukes and call girls.

While our Watergate investigation has to do with who bugged whom, the British inquiry zeroed in on who slept with whom and for how much. And while the senate drones on endlessly about what one lawyer told another lawyer in the Watergate break-in, the British scandal delved into the motives of why a man of title, wealth and position would pay for pleasure in the arms of a fallen woman.

What makes the British story different from Watergate is that all the major players kept a stiff upper lip. There was no begging for immunity, no taking the Fifth, no threats to implicate others.

When Lord Lambton, Prime Minister Heath's defense under-secretary, was confronted with compromising photographs of himself and a call girl named Norma Levy, he did not say he was doing it on orders from a higher authority. Nor did he explain he took his action to protect national security. He did not hide behind the Union Jack.

He explained it simply on the BBC, when asked by the commentator (and this is an exact quote, which shows you why British TV is so much better than ours), "Why should a man of your social position and charm and personality have to go to a whore?"

"Because," Lord Lambton replied, "I think that people sometimes like variety. I think it is as simple as that and I think this impulse is understood by everybody."

The main fear in the Lambton affair was that state secrets had been divulged during the liaisons. But Lord Lambton squashed that on his BBC broadcast. "Businessmen do not go with call girls to talk of private matters. If a call girl suddenly said to me, 'Please, darling, tell me about the new laser ray,' or, 'What do you think of the new Rolls-Royce developments?" I would have known something was up."

What also makes the Lambton scandal more interesting than the Watergate was that there was more than one lord involved. As a matter of fact, after Lambton, Lord Jellicoe, the lord privy seal in Heath's Cabinet, admitted to having affairs with call girls as well and tendered his resignation. There was also a duke mentioned, and nobody knows how many knights will eventually be involved.

I must say the British newspapers took it very well. They kept the public fully informed on every last detail of the sordid affair, interviewing the call girls in question, the friends of the lords, the wives and everyone else who could shed light on what became the best story since the Profumo affair. As far as British journalism was concerned, there would be no cover-up.

Some Americans in London believe that the British broke the story because they were jealous of Watergate.

"It was pure spite," an American State Department official told me. "Britain knew it couldn't be a major power without a first-rate scandal, and the only way it could top us was to find one with lots of sex in it. We consider the breaking of the Lambton affair at this time as a very unfriendly act."


The only bright side of the story, from the United States point of view, is that although Lord Lambton wiped Watergate off the front pages of Europe's newspapers, its hard to sustain a call girl scandal for very long.

Watergate on the other hand, will probably go on for years. Americans can take comfort that while Halderman, Enrlichman and Mitchell will remain household words for a decade, Lord Lambton, Lord Jellicoe, Duke what's-his-name and Norma Levy will soon be nothing more than a footnote in Britain's long and illustrious sexual scandal history.

Oscar-winning Ang Lee's Hot Movie...

That's right, guys! It's so hot that you betcha the weird Malaysian censorship fellas will have sharpened scissors for this one!

With a no-brainer ominous cool title like Lust, Caution, what do you expect?

Set in war-strife Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II, it stars the handsome Tony Leung as a married Japanese collaborator and the ever beautiful Tang Wei as the young lady who is sent out to assassinate him after seducing him...

And seducing him she does extremely well according to the peek preview of it ...

The mighty scissors will go snip...snip...snip... when the sizzling scenes of the two charming couple share their tender loving sweet moments in bed ... Guys, go through the illustrated Kama Sutra (Hmmmnnn... is that banned too? Too bad!) to imagine those graphic occasions after the censors have had their perverted sado-masochist fun. But of course, we have to forgive these censoring prudes as there is a boisterous hypocritical minority segment of society which will vocally attack all forms of liberal arts and demand restrictions but it will commit incest, rapes, adultery (Yeah, if not in Malaysia, elseway will do!) and a host of far worse evils.

How Bloody Innovative Humans are!

I am woman... I am strong... sings Helen Reddy. That's the song that I have in my head when I picture how this wild act is carried out by the ladies concerned in this report in the Borneo Post dated 10/2/77.

Frankly, as an animal-lover, my first reaction was to be concerned for the cute animals that were used in the show.

Then obviously, the whole news item made me admire the ingenuity of those who planned the whole thing.

Of course, its exotic Thailand that would offer such shocking thrills and unbelievable surprises...Even though I've heard lots of amazing tales about the country, I've never been there myself so I won't pass any harsh judgement on the place.

Come to think of it, I wonder if devilish guy, Patrick Teoh, aka The Voice was inspired by this news and decided to play his April Fool's Day joke on air mentioning the special animals, the ducklings??? Hmmmmnnnnnn...

BANNED IN BRUNEI!

This September 12, 1987 Asiaweek was definitely banned in Brunei. For the sake of its Sultan, (whom I admire for his generosity) I will not open this magazine for all of you dear visitors to read the juicy bits. Here's a tantalising glimpse though:

Orang Utans are humans!

This story appeared in The Borneo Post on March 20, 1977. It's in its original form, with a mysterious slash across it, typical of some of the early editions of the paper. We loyal readers simply gritted our teeth, put up with it and remained, perhaps rather foolishly, loyal to it. Maybe the wealthy company that owns the paper will one day reward loyal readers like us with something special-a get-together cocktail party, recognition plaques, free papers for a year, et cetera, et cetera, eh?