Five Virtues Shiraz

The biggest wine bottle in the world -- 6-foot-5 and 1,300 pounds Australia. Its cork is keeping the equivalent of 387 regular bottles of Shiraz away from thirsty mouths at bay.

The owner of a liquor store in Albany, Australia, had commissioned the glass bottle itself to be crafted in Germany. The cork was cut and hand carved from a tree in Portugal which cost U$3,500. The huge label cost $1,500 to manufacture.

The wine has been christened as Five Virtues Shiraz.

Tags: Five Virtues Shiraz, Australia, Albany, Germany, Portugal, Wine, Liquor

Cute Panda Bear

If you have seen this panda bear appearing in your computer screen, got bad news for you.

Each of the panda can move actually, with the first one bowing its head while holding the joss stick and the rest with its respective movements.

Whether it's moving or not, you can start calling your computer geek friend or the vendor that sold you the computer/laptop as you have been hit by a deadly virus. Death for your computer, not you.
Tags: Panda Bear, Virus, Computer, Laptop

Film Festivals

Just when you thought that Academy Awards would be next after the Critics' Choice Awards and Golden Globe Awards, the following film festivals came in between:-

Sundance Film Festival - The films receiving jury awards were selected by distinguished jurors from films screening in the Independent Film Competition and the World Cinema Competition. Awards were given to both dramatic and documentary films screening in the four competitive categories: Documentary Competition, Dramatic Competition, World Cinema Documentary Competition and World Cinema Dramatic Competition.

Screen Actors Guild Awards - These awards are for outstanding motion pictures and primetime television programmes. Movies like The Last King of Scotland / Dreamgirls / The Queen / Little Miss Sunshine have won awards here. Primetime TV winners were Elizabeth I, House, Grey's Anatomy, 30 Rock and Ugly Betty. Complete list of nominees.

Tags: Festival, Film, Movie, Cinema, Theater, TV Series, Sundance Film Festival, Screen Actors Guild Awards, SAG Awards, Nomination, Independent Film, World Cinema, Documentary, Dramatic, The Last King of Scotland, Dreamgirls, The Queen, Little Miss Sunshine, Elizabeth I, House, Grey's Anatomy, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty

Night Market in Khartoum

Went to a night market which was 10 minutes' drive away from our home. Need to stock our groceries, vegetable and meat stuff.

We bought some lamb meat for our lamb soup (mixed with pepper). Solid soup.
The night market was really busy. We were there at around 7pm.

The place was not properly lighted, thus the dark background.

This Marwa Center is one of the main supermarket that we frequent to pick up most of our stuff. If you read the sign "the place where you pay less", it's true but still Sudanese goods are still 3 to 4 times the price of Malaysian prices.

Tags: Journal, Life, Diary, Night Market, Vegetable, Food, Khartoum

How To Ask Your Boss For A Salary Increase?

One day an employee sends a letter to her boss asking for an increase in her salary !!!

Dear Bo$$
In thi$ life, we all need $ome thing$ mo$t de $perately. I think you $hould be under $tanding of the need$ of your worker$ who have given $o much $upport including $weat and $ervice to your company. I am $ure you will gue$$ what I mean and re$pond $oon.

$incerely Your$,
Marian $hih
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The next day, the employee received a nice reply like this:-

Dear Marian
I kNOw what you have been working very hard. NOwadays, NOthing much has changed. You must have NOticed that our company is NOt doing NOticeably well as yet. NOw the newspaper are saying the world's leading ecoNOmists are NOt sure if the United States may go into aNOther recession. After the NOvember presidential elections things may turn bad. I have NOthing more to add NOw. You kNOw what I mean.

Yours truly,
Manager
Tags: Jokes, Funny, Humor, Boss, Salary, Increase

Dinner at Home

Some of my friends will ask "What do you eat over there?"

At times, the senior management is nice enough to reward/pamper us with nice food. Not just food but seafood. Nice crustaceans.

Just in case you can't imagine the size of that crab, my colleague suggested to put his cigarette box (international size throughout the world as mentioned) besides the crab .... hahaha.

Since we have more prawns, we decided to cook Sambal Prawns (mixture of garlic, onions, tamarind, chilli) yesterday night.

Tags: Crab, Prawn, Crustacean, Dinner, Journal, Diary, Life

Skip Malai Shia

In January 2007, President George W Bush is visiting several Asian countries including Indonesia and Singapore.

Bush: Well Condi, is there anything you need from Singapore that I can pick up for you while I am there next month?

Rice: That's very kind of you, Mr President, but no, there's really nothing I need right now from there. But Laura will certainly enjoy the shopping there, sir.

Bush: Ah yes, she's been talking about it. Lee's wife has promised to take her shopping at the newly opened Vivocity.

Rice: I'm sure she'll enjoy a trip to Sentosa too. Especially now that the haze from Indonesia has more or less lifted. Talking of which, you're going to Indonesia too, aren't you sir?

Bush: Yes I am, and while I'm with Susilo Bambang, Laura will visit Acheh and give away a cheque to the tsunami victims.

Rice: How sweet. Would you be dropping by Malai Shia, sir?

Bush: Naw, giving them a miss.

Rice: Don't blame you, sir. They have some rough motor cyclists there. Called themselves "Mad Ram Piss" or something. They think they're the Asian equivalent of our Knievel. They would certainly scare Laura to death.

Bush: Nah, Laura is made of sterner stuff. But that's not the reason why we're not going to Malai Shia, Condi.

Rice: Oh? Then it must be their traffic jams. They even have monorails that run off the tracks and dangle in mid-air. And highway pillars that crack.

Bush: Really? Incompetent, that's all I can say. But no, that's not the reason why we're skipping Malai Shia either.

Rice: Oh I know. You don't want to distract the Prime Minister from his nap, isn't it? Heard he's getting some shitty stuff from his predecessor telling him off like a kid.

Bush: If Clinton did that to me, I'd personally throw him off an F-16. But no, that's also not the reason why we're skipping Malai Shia.

Rice: Must be the floods then, sir? It's the monsoon season now and it floods bad after just two hours of rain. Landslides too; bring down houses but then people there build 4-storey bungalows without approval.

Bush: Naw, the rain wouldn't bother us. That's also not the reason for not going there.

Rice: I give up. Why are you visiting Indonesia and Singapore, and yet not go to Malai Shia, Mr President?

Bush: The reason, Dr Rice, is that I don't want their Religious Department people banging on our hotel room door in the middle of the night, demanding to see our marriage certificate. Now THAT would scare the hell out of Laura.....
Tags: Jokes, Funny, Humor, George W Bush, Condi Rice, Susilo Bambang, Indonesia, Sentosa, Singapore, Knievel, Religious Department, Laura Bush