Anyone realise that suddenly it became "hip" to come from Ipoh? I mean with the sudden movies and a play about the place where I grew up. The city never recieved this much hype before.

Watched "The Girl from Ipoh" last Saturday. A light hearted play - not bad but not too good either. With commentary like that, I might as well not say anything. Anyway the company was what made the night special. The day started with me walking around Times Square with a bouquet of flowers and getting funny looks from everyone especially the women. Well, as long as it makes her smile, I'm willing to go through it all over again.

The only thing that i can think of that's special about Ipoh is that:

1. we speak funny Cantonese. No, actually we speak proper Cantonese and the whole world speaks funny. We're right and you're wrong. Screw you all.

2. our coffee is extra rich and extremely sweet. One glass and you're already hopping, 2 glasses and you can have marathon sex for 14 hours straight without even breaking a sweat. That's what makes "Ipoh-ians" (god forbid if there's such a word) shag like a sledgehammer. There are great powers in those white coffee, I tell you. It's like our own gummyberry juice.

3. our bean sprouts are fat, stout and crunchy. This is a total mystery to me as to why it only grows like that in Ipoh. If taugeh can fetch the price of that of truffles, we'll be all millionaires, secede and piss on the whole of Malaysia. Alas it is not to be and 5 bucks can buy you a bloody gunny sack of it.

4. Pameloes and our pamelo beauties. The age of sex and capitalism has dawned in the city and it's so intwined that young girls wearing short, short skirts are hired to sell those succulent things. Just drive slowly along the stalls in Sam Poh Tong and you can see droves of bored beauties rush out and stand attentively displaying their wares - just like Thailand. But here they are actualy selling the pameloes and not selling "their" pameloes.   

5. We're clean and the whole world is dirty. That is a fact.

6. Ipoh girls - for those who said that Ipoh girls are cute, I say to you; "You're daft and need to get out more often". Cute girls anywhere are still cute, irregardless of where they come from. If you say Ipoh are full of cute guys, then i concur (please, I do not mean that in a gay way. I am just trying to flatter myself).

Feel free to add.............

Cheers.