Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Yogasana??

DO THIS YOGASANA AFTER LUNCH, IT REALLY HELPS YOU TO STAY HEALTHY

(IF ALREADY DOING PLEASE IGNORE.... SORRY TO DISTURB YOU. YOU MAY CONTINUE ...!)

Tags: Yoga, Yogasana, Exercise, Health, Fitness, Funny, Humor

China's Space Range Missiles

China at long last developed a new type of long range missiles. The target area? Space!

China was quiet in this area of missiles development and out of a sudden, with the last such missile being used by another nation was 20 years ago, China shot a missle up to the space to destroy one of its own weather satellite. It shocked many other nations such as USA, UK, Australia, Canada, South Korea and Japan.

China's explanation for the launching of such missile is to force USA into talks in doing away with space weapons. The missile was launched from Xichang Space Centre in Sichuan province at a speed of 76,000km/h (47,000mph) slammed straight at the weather satellite.

Reading:
* Missile test knocks out satellite - The Age
* Space attack will force US to rethink tactics with spy in the sky satellites - Times Online
* Canada expresses 'strong concerns' over China's satellite destruction - Canada Post
* Britain Concerned By Chinese Satellite Shoot-Down - AP via Space War
Tags: China, Weather Satellite, Missiles, Space War, Arnament, Military Force, Defence, Xichang Space Centre, Sichuan, USA

Monday, January 22, 2007

Young Love

A six-year-old boy told his father he wanted to marry the little girl across the street. The father, being modern and well-schooled in handling children, hid his smile behind his hand. "That's a serious step," he said. "Have you thought it out completely?"

"Yes," his young son answered. "We can spend one week in my room and the next in hers. It's right across the street, so I can run home if I get scared of the dark."

"How about transportation?" the father asked."I have my wagon, and we both have our tricycles," the little boy answered. The boy had an answer to every question the father raised.

Finally, in exasperation, his dad asked, "What about babies? When you're married, you're liable to have babies, you know." "We've thought about that, too," the little boy replied. "We're not going to have babies. Every time she lays an egg, I'm going to step on it!"
Tags: Young Love, Marriage, Jokes, Funny, Humor

Bloggers Unite

With Jeff Ooi and Rocky being sued, lots of Malaysian bloggers have united together. It wouldn't have happened if NST didn't initiate the legal suits.
- Malaysian bloggers unite against defamation lawsuits

Susan Loone has created a webspace for Bloggers United for bloggers to join hands calling for freedom of speech.

Kickdefella has allowed bloggers, young & old, Malaysian & non-Malaysian to unite to denounce NST.

Certain individuals have put up a blog, called Walk With Us, dedicated to support both Jeff and Rocky.

Paris-based Reporters Without Borders and the Southeast Asian Press Alliance have also come out in support of Jeff and Rocky, urging NST to drop the suits.

Another blog called Blacklisted writer is just for your reading pleasure.

Tags: Malaysian Bloggers Sued, Bloggers United, Malaysia, Reporters Without Borders, Southeast Asian Press Alliance, NST, Jeff Ooi, Screenshots, Ahirudin Attan, RockyBru, Walk With Us, Susan Loone, Kickdefella

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Advancement of Computer Technology


Birthday Parties

How do people organise and celebrate their birthday parties?
How does a kid celebrates his/her birthday that is being organised by their parents?

For the rich adults, they could hire superstars to entertain their guests as the main artist for the night. The star's presence may not even be there for more than 2 hours.
1) George Michael performed before a few hundred of guests of Vladimir Potanin, owner of Interros Holding Company with interest in mining and lumber, for 75 minutes only and he got paid for US$3 million.
2) Christina Aguilera, Robin Williams and Bette Midler performed at Joe Hardy's birthday party at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort at approximately US$1 million each.
3) Robin Williams together with the Rolling Stones and John Mellencamp performed at David Bonderman, co-founder of Texas Pacific Group, at a price of US$10 million.
4) A group that comprise 50 Cent, Aerosmith, Don Henley, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks and Ciara was at David H. Brooks' (of DHB Industries) daugther's birthday part at New York's Rainbow Room for a staggering price of US$10 million too. Guess what? The daugther was only 13 years old. (source: Post Gazette)

For little children, cost is not spared too by the rich and famous:-
a) A 90 minute party held at the Dylan's Candy Bar in New York will cost US$1,200 for only 20 pre-schoolers.
b) FAO Schwarz's toy store will organise a sleepover party at their store at a starting price of US$25,000.
c) A 1 year old’s party in a Minnesota community has 60 guests. The gift opening takes two hours; the party infant sleeps through most of it.
d) A 3 year old’s parents in the same community rent a fire station for party #1 and a private club with a pool for party #2.
e) 7 year olds in rural Minnesota get picked up by stretch limos to transport them to a friend’s party. (source: Birthdays Without Pressure)

How much did you spend last year for your own birthday party or your kids' parties?
Tags: Birthday Party, Rock Star, George Michael, Christina Aguilera, Robin Williams, Bette Midler, Rolling Stones, John Mellencamp, 50 Cent, Aerosmith, Don Henley, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Ciara, Vladimir Potanin, Interros Holding Company, Joe Hardy, Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, David Bonderman, Texas Pacific Group, David H. Brooks, DHB Industries, Rainbow Room, Dylan's Candy Bar, FAO Schwarz, Post Gazette, Birthdays Without Pressure

"Storm Worm" Virus

A new virus, called Storm Virus (a trojan horse variant) has swept through USA (2o.7% of total servers in USA) and enroaching into Europe servers (15.3%) now.

Originally propagated on the heels of a killer European storm, the worm has been seen in the wild with the following subject lines: "230 dead as storm batters Europe," "A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and...", "British Muslims Genocide," "Naked teens attack home director," and "U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked German Chancellor Angela Merkel".
When one of four attachments is opened -- Full Clip.exe, Full Story.exe, Read More.exe, or Video.exe -- the worm installs the "wincom32" service, and injects a payload, passing on packets to destinations encoded within the worm itself. (source: PC Magazine and Symantec)

FYI, I did receive the email entitled "U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked German Chancellor Angela Merkel" yesterday night. Be careful even though the email is from your close friend. Why did I labelled this under Technology.....well, it's indeed a technology created by someone and most of the time, people do say that it's created by anti-virus software companies to generate buyers for latest software programmes to counter the new virus which the software companies have came out with a new virus 'cleanser'.
Tags: Storm Virus, Computer Virus, PC Magazine, Symantec, Anti-Virus Software

Pattaya International Fireworks Festival

Pattaya is definitely firing up its presence internationally. Covid19 has hit many nations really hard and Pattaya wasn't exempted from ...