Global Malaysians - South Africa

Many Malaysians have been successful in their adopted countries/current residential country be it in their occupations or business ventures.

Today we will go to the African continent where Mr. Wan Abdullah Wan Salleh has been residing in South Africa for the last 12 years (he hails from Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia). To earn a living, he has played for bands to being a cook in a catering company and also worked as a clearing agent in a trading business.

Mr. Wan Abdullah now owns a company called WGS Africa (established in 1994) which deals in semi-precious gemstone with his shop being located in Sandton, on the outskirt of Johannesburg. His shop makes beautiful decorative items out of polished and colourful gemstones. Mr. Wan Abdullah said his factory is one of only two in South Africa producing gemstone souvenirs; four other producers have since closed down. His company's monthly revenue is between Rand80,000 and Rand100,000 (RM33,000 and RM42,000).

Syabas Mr. Wan!
Tags: South Africa, WGS Africa, Gemstone, Sandton, Johannesburg, Souvenirs

Blogging Away???

Blogging is becoming a hit amongst net users. Bloggers blog about their personal life, interests, a particular topic, comments on world's happenings (like me) or venting on certain issues. According to Technorati, a blog is created every second at this moment.

But some bloggers blogged about their working lifes and were dooced due to those blogs. A blog, named Morpheme Tales, has been created recently highlighting bloggers that were dooced or almost.

Two write-ups (here and here) in the STAR newspaper also highlighted this today.
Tags: Blog, Technorati, Blogger, Morpheme Tales

Sudan Man Forced To 'Marry' Goat

A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.
They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars (US$50) to Mr Alifi. "We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said. Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat. "When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up". Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.

"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper. (extracted from BBC News)

Tags: Marry, Dowry, Goat, Sex, Upper Nile

Food Collection

Dear All,
I hope this e-mail finds you all well. I am once again sending out the e-mail for the next round of collection. As mentioned before, I am now collecting for quite a few homes as listed below. This collection will also mean the food is being delivered during Ramadan so let me know if you want to give anything extra. However, I am away from the 10th till the 16th Sept for work. Please start to deliver after that and when ever possible inform me as to what you plan to buy so I can update every one. Thank you all for your support and please pass this on to people whom you think can help.
Items listed below:-
(1) Rice- 150 Kilos (2) Biscuits- Cream Crackers and assorted as much as possible (3) Condensed milk-100 tins (4) Evaporated Milk- 30 tins (5) Powdered Milk- for coffee usually so generic brands fine (6) Jam -30 bottles each collection (7) Peanut Butter- 20 bottles (8) Milo- 10 big packets (9) Insect repellent- 8 tins (10) Margarine (must be TINNED) 12 tins -large (11) Kaya- 10 tins (12) Instant Coffee- 20 soft packs (13) Tea- bags and tea leaves (14) Cooking Oil-30 bottles of 5 kgs (15) Green Peas- 100 tins (16) Baked beans- 100 tins (17) Sardines- 150 tins (18) Tuna- 100 tins (19) Jam- lots of it (20) Any other canned food including corn beef and canned chicken and mutton curry! (21) Oats- 5 bags (22) Thick Kicap- 10 bottles (23) Thin Kicap - 10 bottles big (24) Chili Sauce- 20 big bottles (25) Tomato sauce- 20 big bottles (26) Chilli powder (27) Curry podwer (28) Nestum.

Non-Food/Household:-
(1) Antiseptic- 20 bottles. Dettol or Savlon (2) Dishwashing soap-please buy the tubs only (3) Shampoo- 20 Bottles large (4) Bathing soap- 150 pieces/bars (5) Candles- for power cuts use NOT decorative (6) Baby lotion/baby powder/baby shampoo/baby oil- 4 bottles each (6) Tooth Paste- 20 tubes large (7) Toilet Bowl cleaner (8) Sanitary Napkins (9) Diapers- size S,M,L ,XL enough for 2 months (10) Naphthalene Balls (11) Baby wipes (12) Feeding bottles- 4 (13) Toilet paper (14) Tissue paper.

The delivery address is: 40, Lorong Maarof, Bangsar Park, 59000 Kuala Lumpur.
from Brian Lariche, Associate Partner, The Liaison Combination-TLC Sdn Bhd
www.liaison-combination.com mobile phone:+60122975613

1) WAO- women's shelter, P.O. Box 493, Jalan Sultan, 46760 Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Tel: 03-79563488 Fax: 03-79563237 Email: wao@po.jaring.my Website: www.wao.org.my
2) Pelangi Community Foundation- Contact Person: Rainer Rotthoff Tel: 03-4025 2820 or 019-743 7232 Website: www.pelangifoundation.org. Based in Terengganu
3) Rumah Ozanam- revamped and open to HIV+ people again. Home for HIV+ women and children 48100 Batu Arang, Selangor
4) Rumah Jaireh- new home-Dr Lucy- 016-2033295. Home for HIV+ women and children. Batu Arang.
5) Food Not Bombs-Soup Kitchen- A group of young people who serve vegetarian food to the homeless outside St. John's cathedral (Bukit Nenas) in KL on Sundays at 6pm
6) Tenaganita- shelter for trafficked women.
and 2 other homes.
Tags: Charity, WAO, Pelangi Community Foundation, Rumah Ozanam, Rumah Jaireh, Food Not Bombs, Tenaganita, Shelter, Homeless, Donation

Louis Vuitton Flagship Store @ Kuala Lumpur

A magnificent facade for Malaysia's first street front store now greet passers-by along Bintang Walk, Kuala Lumpur's ultimate "fashion walk". Louis Vuitton unveiled its new flagship store at Starhill Gallery.
With a much larger retail area of 6,000 sq ft and three-level split platforms, the Louis Vuitton's store exudes the charm as a haven of luxury. Such is the gratitude for these loyal customers that LV has taken a step further to ensure their comfort. Louis Vuitton's top clients and celebrity guests can look forward to a truly decadent shopping experience at the boutique, because the boutique has a VIC Room, for "Very Important Customers".
The VIC Room in Kuala Lumpur is the only VIC Room in the world that is equipped with a kitchenette and even a washroom.
Tags: Louis Vuitton, LV, Starhill Gallery, Bintang Walk, Kuala Lumpur, Flagship Store, VIC Room, Fashion, Luxury, Lifestyle, Boutique

Novel Wedding in Chongqing

A bare-footed bridegroom looks at his bride sitting on a cart as he walks forward during their marriage wedding in Qinjiang, Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.
Tags: Bridegroom, Bride, Marriage, Wedding, Qinjiang, Chongqing

My Super Ex-Girlfriend - movie review

My Super Ex-Girlfriend - starring Luke Wilson & Uma Thurman, about a man trying to befriend a lady in an underground train. Unknown to him, the lady was the city's supergirl....appearing from nowhere saving the day.

They got along fine and a close relationship developed and the supergirl has to share with him about her secret about being the supergirl. As time goes by, the man found it hard to live with her and decided to break off. Supergirl couldn't live with that and started to follow him and disrupted his personal life. A colleague of his caught his attention later on. His new girl was also exposed to the same meteorite rock one night and caught the super strength too. A fight erupted between 2 supergirls now for this guy. Hilarious movie and quite entertaining.

Few more movies to go........maybe 5
Tags: Movie, Review, Cinema, Rating, My Super Ex-Girlfriend