Fantasy English Premier League

Was “forced” to participate by a colleague of mine. Registered a team for the Fantasy English Premier League new 2006/2007 season and named it Excalibur. In fact, I’m quite knowledgeable about English Premier League and had been watching English football since I was in primary school and started supporting Man Utd for last 24 years. Hopefully with the vast knowledge I could make good predictions too.

Following are my team members:-
Goalies: Shay Given (Newcastle), Andre Isaksson (Man City)
Defenders: John Terry (Chelsea), Rio Ferdinand (Man Utd), Pascal Chimbonda (Wigan), Michael Dawson (Tottenham), Sylvain Distin (Man City)
Midfielders: Michael Arteta (Everton), Scott Parker (Newcastle), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Lee Bowyer (West Ham), Gary O’Neil (Portsmouth)
Strikers: Louis Saha (Man Utd), Henri Camara (Wigan), Bobby Zamora (West Ham)

Have to work around with the above players due to limited funding provided in the game. Unlike what Chelsea has in the real world of football. Anyway, it’s just for the fun of it.
Tags: Fantasy English Premier League, Fantasy Football, Prediction

Most Expensive Home in USA

In 2004, Donald J. Trump bought former health care executive Abe Gosman's palace, Maison de L'Amitie, at bankruptcy auction for $41.25 million. With the refurbished version--complete with a ballroom, conservatory, 80,000 square feet of space, 100-foot-long swimming pool and 475 feet of oceanfront--he aims to set a U.S. sales record (could be a world record too) at a price of US$125million.
Tags: Donald Trump, Property, Oceanfront, USA, Lifestyle, Luxury

State Of The Art Toilets

Paying RM1 to use an air-conditioned fully-automated street toilet (AST) for 15 minutes is set to be a new experience for Malaysians and tourists soon.

Twenty of the hi-tech toilets made by GBH Bhd will be placed at various parts of Kuala Lumpur soon, two of them in the Jalan Bukit Bintang area (shoppers' paradise) by the end of this month. However, users should take note that the automatic door will open by itself once the 15 minutes are up. I can imagine the embarassment but of course, there will be a notification at the 14th minute.
Tags: Toilet, Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Bintang, Technology

Luxury Cellphones

Talking about luxury lifestyle, some people cannot do without the daily cellphone (a.k.a. mobile phone or handphone in other countries) even though it cost a bomb.
Vertu, a Nokia subsidiary, retails cellphones around €4,000 up to €80,000, or US$5,100 to US$102,000. Such customers, as commented by Vertu, bought it because people noticed them. Egoistic???? Vertu is expensive due to it being assembled by hand in pristine workshops, Vertu's internal architecture features more than 400 mechanical parts, among them 18 jewelled bearings, all inside a case constructed of the finest materials. The effort to create such an instrument alone resulted in over 20 new patents. The sapphire used on the face is a scratch-resistant crystal second only to diamond in hardness.

GoldVish, a Swiss company, plans to ship in October a line of solid gold and diamond-encrusted handsets that start at US$24,500 (entry level cellphone). Goldvish is marketing their products as a collection for buyers. Next week in Cannes during the Millionaire's Fair, Goldvish will launch their top of the range, a 1001hp Bugatti Veyron, dressed up in platinum, gold and diamonds, costing a cool €1million (US$1,278,000). A Guinness world of records.

Siemens introduced a series of phones called Xelibri in 2003 with unusual shapes and odd- looking dialing keypads intended to appeal to style-conscious users.

Not getting left behind, the popular Motorola Razr VEi DG phone, a co-branded between Motorola & Dolce & Gabbana and sells for US$600.

Tag Heuer, the Swiss watch brand, will introduce a branded phone retailing at around €1,500 (US$2,835) next year, said ModeLabs Group, the French company producing it.

Why luxury cellphones appeals? "Ask yourself how bad it looks at a meeting when you wear a Patek Philippe watch, carry an Hermès briefcase, use a Montblanc pen and then answer a plastic phone?"
Tags: Mobile Phone, Cellphone, Handphone, Vertu, Nokia, Goldvish, Siemen, Xelibri, Motorola, Razr, Dolce & Gabbana, Tag Heuer, Modelabs Group, Lifestyle

Made In Japan!

A Japanese man was in a hurry to go to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, so he took a Proton (Malaysian-made car model) taxi. The taxi driver took his sweet time driving within the speed limit but the Japanese was getting impatient. The following is their conversation on the way to the airport.

A Toyota Camry overtook the taxi.....zoom.... Jap: Look ...look ...Toyota!! ...very fast!!!.... made in Japan! Proton...no good.... made in Malaysia . Driver: yah....

After a few minutes a Nissan overtook the taxi....zoom. Jap: look.... look.... Nissan!!!..... very good!! very fast! made in Japan! Proton.... no good.... made in Malaysia. Driver: yah....yah...

After a few minutes a Honda overtook the taxi...zooom. ! Jap: look.... look... Honda!!.... very GOOD!!....very fast!!....made in Japan! Proton...no good...made in Malaysia. Driver: yah...yah...yah....!

Arriving at the airport,the Jap is about to pay the taxi driver.
Jap: How much?
Driver: RM150/-
Jap: Oh... very expensive..... you overcharge ! !
Driver: Noooo .... look .... look .... Sony meter!!....very good!!.... very fast!.... Made in Japan!
Tags: KLIA, Malaysia, Japan, Toyota Camry, Nissan, Honda, Sony, Proton, Jokes, Funny, Humour

Wet Market

Extracted from LensaMalaysia, a group of enthusiastic photographers took some interesting shots and played with the colorful backgrounds. Suddenly, you don’t see the dirty environment usually found in a wet market.
End of day's work in the wet market but it's still wee hours in the morning.

Tags: Wet Market, Kuala Lumpur, LensaMalaysia

"heart4love” project

Yvonne Foong is a 20-year-old full of heart and soul.

She suffers from a genetically incurable disease called neurofibromatosis (NF) that has robbed her of her hearing and scarred her face. Sadly, Yvonne has NF2, the more rare form of NF with the characteristic of acoustic neuroma, where tumours grow on hearing nerves, impairing the ability to hear.

The computer became her window to the world as she scoured for information, and her search led her to Dr Rick A. Friedman, an expert in hearing preservation in acoustic neuroma treatment. He performed surgery on her for free in Los Angeles on Sept 13, 2004. Dr Friedman and the co-surgeon will not be charging me for removing the tumour and doing the implantation,” said Yvonne. Out of the RM230,000 (US$62,162) she needs, she has received RM63,581 (US$17,184) so far.

From selling T-shirts to giving motivational talks to organising a rock concert, Yvonne will do whatever it takes to make sure she does not burden her old-age parents with her operation expenditures.

Yvonne and her friends are also organising the Rock4Hope concert featuring Deja Voodoo Spells and A Day at The Zoo at the Sunway University College on Sept 9 under the "heart4love" Project. Tickets are at RM20 each.

“My journey is really tough but I need to travel this road because I yearn for a normal life. A life so normal that I will be able to pursue an active career in journalism, write books, give motivational talks and have my own family in years to come. All I ask for is a chance,” she said. (Extracted from The Star)

I like Yvonne's persistency and strong DREAMS as I always call for in everybody's mindset. If your dreams are powerful and big enough, it will bring you places. If you don't have dreams, you won't be going anywhere at all. Trust me!
Tags: heart4love, Neurofibromatosis, Sunway University College, Dream, Yvonne Foong, Rick Friedman