Monday, February 05, 2007

HIV Cure Available

The cure's claim was there but widely condemned. Why?

The President of Gambia (located at West Africa), Yahya Jammeh, has claimed that he could heal people from the Aids disease within 3 days. The Gambian Health Minister has mentioned that the secret medicine is taken orally and cannot be revealed at the moment. Something like the OSA cases in Malaysia for the Toll and Water Tariff Agreements.

Even the World Health Organisation has no comment on this claim. (source: BBC News/Africa)

If you have watched the Blood Diamond movie then you should understand this - T I A.

Expose War Crimes: Criminalise War

Perdana Global Peace Organisation has started the Expose War Crimes: Criminalise War conference cum exhibition at Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur beginning today till 7 Feb 2007.

Following are the speakers for the conference:-
* Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad - former Prime Minister of Malaysia & Honorary President of Perdana Leadership Foundation
* Mr. Denis Halliday - former United Nations Assistant Secretary General
* Mr. Hans-Christof Von Sponeck - former United Nations Assistant SecretaryGeneral
* Professor Francis A Boyle - Professor of law, University of Illinois School of Law
* Professor Dr Michel Chossudovsky - Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
(Photo sourced from Screenshots)
Tags: War Crimes, Exhibition, Conference, Peace, War, Perdana Global Peace Organisation, Putra World Trade Centre, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Denis Halliday, Hans-Christof Von Sponeck, Francis A Boyle, Dr Michel Chossudovsky

Customer Feedback

A little boy went into a store, reached for a soda carton and pulled it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the carton so that he could reach the buttons on the phone and proceeded to punch in seven digits. The store owner observed and listened to the conversation.

The boy asked, "Ma'am, Can you give me the job of cutting your lawn?" The woman replied, "I already have someone to cut my lawn."

"I will cut your lawn for half the price of the person who cuts your lawn now." replied the boy. The woman responded that she was very satisfied with the person who was presently cutting her lawn.

The little boy was even more perseverant and said, "I'll even sweep your curb and your sidewalk, so on Sunday you will have the prettiest lawn in all of Palm Beach, Florida." Again the woman answered in the negative. With a smile on his face, the little boy placed the phone receiver.

The store owner, who was listening to this conversation, walked over to the boy and said, "Son...
I like your attitude; I like that positive spirit and would like to offer you a job."

The little boy replied, "No thanks, I was just checking my performance on the job I already have. I am the one who is working for the lady I was talking to just now.

Dare to try this with your existing customer??
Tags: Customer Feedback

Island House - For Sale



Your idea of a dream house has changed after seeing the above picture?

This private is located at Lavallette, New Jersey, USA. It has 5 large bedrooms. You could travel there by helicopter landing on its own helipad or via boats (part of the package), one 19' & another at 25'. The island also has an in-ground pool, bocce court, jogging path and a beach. For sale at US$8.5 million.

No Liberty To Choose

Imagine a lady suddenly came up to you and put a plate of ready-to-eat fish in front of you. Whether you like that fish or not, that's not the issue. The moment that plate of fish was placed in front of you, you have beeen chosen as her spouse/husband. You have no right to decline that offer but just to accept. To signify the acceptance (without any choice), a bite is taken from that fish. Whether you knew that lady it doesn't matter also. Age is not a factor too.

Where in the world is this happening? Well, it's still being practised in the archipelago of 50 islands off the western rim of Africa, called Guinea-Bissau.

But the elders in the country are worried on a certain trend now. As the guys are getting exposed to the world as time passes by, the guys are actually going after the girls now. The elders viewed it as dangerous and divorce rate has gone up due to this also. Crazy world! (source: Associated Press via Yahoo! News)
Tags: Guinea-Bissau, Africa, West Africa, Marriage

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Illegal Moneylenders

It's an offence to borrow from the illegal moneylenders (a.k.a. Loan Sharks or Ah Longs). That's what the Federal Commercial Crime director Datuk Ramli Yusuf has intended to do by proposing to the Housing and Local Government Ministry. He has even stated that with such a law in place, it would deter people from borrowing from Ah Longs and instead compel them to go to licensed moneylenders. (source: 30 Jan, The Star)

At the same time, borrowers-to-be have been advised to check with the police or the ministry to see if the moneylenders were legal. At times, people who needs money urgently have no time to wait for the government staff's response time. All this talk in the newspapers lead to nowhere. How are they helping?

On the contrary, Malaysia's no. 1 cop, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan, stated that the priority in the fight against loan sharks should be to educate the public against such borrowings, instead of prosecuting the borrowers. Meaning to say, that Ramli's statement is now redundant? (source: 2 Feb, The Star)

And then the Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting made the following statement (source: 3 Feb, The Star)
"The Cabinet has rejected a recent suggestion to prosecute those who borrow from loan sharks"

I agreed that actions should be taken against the loan sharks instead and not the borrowers. The above really shows how bad is the communication between the police force and the federal government as was in the case of increasing traffic fines previously.

On one hand the borrowers would be in deep shit if they had defaulted on the re-payment which will incur the wrath of the loan sharks known for being ruthlesss in obtaining the capital amount plus the high interest rates. Then the borrowers will wander around as they can't even report to the police for fear of being arrested even though there was property damage, assault and in some cases murder. Only way out of this deep shit - suicide. This will be the scenario if the new act was implemented.

Hopefully in future, people who wants to suggest something to the public at large will think through before opening that big mouth.

(Extracted from 4 Feb, The Star) MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Michael Chong noted that hawkers and farmers were sometimes left with no choice but to borrow from loan sharks due to the requirements imposed by banks.

“How could you expect a hawker or farmer, for example to produce all the necessary documents required by banks?” he asked. “Furthermore they have to be subject to Bank Negara’s Central Credit Reference Information System and private credit reference agencies. “In addition to this, they would have to wait for a long time before their loan is approved,” he said.

Michael Chong is just playing politics here as he agreed with the prosecution of borrowers earlier: (source: 30 Jan, The Star) "Michael Chong agrees with the police proposal to penalise people who borrow from Ah Longs. “This is the best way to teach the public a lesson. They know it is illegal to borrow money from loan sharks but they still do it,” he said."
Tags: Loan Shark, Ah Long, Illegal Moneylender, Moneylender, Police, Malaysia, Borrow, MCA, Michael Chong

Seven Natural Wonders of the World

Next lesson on Seven Wonders - the Seven Natural Wonders of the World:-
Mount Everest is a rock and snow peak of the Himalayas. It is in Nepal and stands on the border of Tibet. The peak was named after Sir George Everest. Its Tibetan name is Chomolungma. It is the highest mountain in the world. Its height is 29,028 ft (8,848 m).
Spanning more than 2000 km along the northeastern coast of Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is home to thousands of species of plants and animals. The Reef which runs parallel to the Queensland coast has been designated by the Australian Government as a Marine Park.
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River is the largest gorge in the world-a 290-mile-long gash across the face of the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona. Rim to rim, it measures up to 18 miles across, with an average width of 10 miles; its average depth is one mile.
The Victoria Falls offer an inescapable closeness to the natural elements. The towering column of spray when the river is high, the thunder of the falling water, the terrifying abyss that separates Zimbabwe from Zambia
At the beginning of the 16th century, the Portuguese explorers sailed down Brazil's coast. The great bay that looked like a river was only one of many illusions that the Harbor of Rio de Janeiro held. Guarding the entrance to the bay, the naked and lopsided mountain the Portuguese called Pao de Acucar evoked the sugarloaves fashioned on the island of Madeira. They called the highest mountain Corcovado - "the hunchback" - for its humped profile.

On the afternoon of 20 Feb 1943, the ground swelled and raised itself to 2 or 2.5 meters high. In that year, the cone topped 1,100 feet, four-fifths of its final height. Over the next years, lava flows continued with little interruption. But in February of 1952, almost exactly nine years after Paricutín Volcano was born, the volcano experienced its last major spasm of activity.
The Northern Lights - ever changing dance of lights belies the aurora's permanence. Though only parts of it can be seen at any time, and almost never during the day, the aurora borealis forms a 2,000-mile-wide auroral oval above the magnetic north pole day in and day out, year after year.

Tags: Seven Wonders, Seven Natural Wonders of the World, Mount Everest, Great Barrier Reef, Grand Canyon, Victoria Falls, Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, Paricutin Volcano, Northern Lights

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 ...