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  The 2 millionth mark reached!

Yay! A giant landmark in the blog's history. Today we hit the psychological mark of 1 million hits. Thank you to all visitors for their support all these years, seven years to be specific.

188, Hugh Low Street. The Stories of the Scissors Sharpener's Daughter. Written by Ipohgal. 2013. This is not a story of conquerors or industrialists who shattered the course of a civilisation or something like that but rather of the stuff that Malaysia is made of -  of small people who had a big strong heart to work hard to bring a better future for the family and the country. Ipohgal, an avid blogger, has earned another feather to her cap. Now, she is an author and this is her maiden publication. It traced to a time when it was peaceful and safe where children could play in the streets without a care. They did not need expensive gadgets to pass their time but rather they used their ingenuity to improvise. To give a nostalgic twang to her book, Ipohgal managed to capture a few pictures of the inside and outside the building that she knew as home. Coincidentally, the Indian eatery that she refers to 'Kedai Nasi Ganja' is the same one whose owner's son (deceased)...

Sex blogger takes to Facebook to blast media, critics By  Lydia Gomez  |  Yahoo Newsroom  –  Mon, Oct 22, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.: When it comes to sex bloggers Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee's attitude towards their expose', the phrase 'taking it in their stride' is a gross understatement. The duo, whose mercurial rise to infamy became the topic of frenzied online discussions and non-stop  media coverage, have bulldozed their way through the harshest criticism with what appears to be confident, sarcastic rebukes. Tan, an ASEAN scholar and law undergraduate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) ,  took to his Facebook account to systematically rebut the highly publicised brickbats thrown at them, mostly through local news headlines.  Taken from his profile, these are his posts:   "I love these NUS Board of Discipline hearings, where the judge and the prosecutor are the same people"  - [The NUS is conducting an interna...

After a few weeks of cerebral constipation and writers' block which was not helped by a vacation, (what do you expect when there is no substance between the ears?), I am sitting down to pen down a few words which are void of literary craftiness. Did I mention about of the nightly episodes after episodes nocturnal viewing of 'Law & Order SVU' (thanks to Uni-fi) which seem to be frying my brains of whatever there is of intelligence? Unlike Barry Manilow who wrote his songs for the whole to sing, I doubt Rifle Range Boy, the blog, is ever going down the annals of nostalgic history of mankind. But I still write.... Blogging is a catharsis of sorts. Ideas that nobody has the time or care to listen can be written in full glory at his leisure and pleasure in his own outlook for individuals with nothing else better to do (in other words, 'got no life!') to peruse, percolate and masticate before they spit it out or find common grounds. (Losers get together!). Blogging a...