Climate Change Week

A conference entitled "Cut Carbon, Grow Profits - Business Strategies for Managing Climate Change and Sustainability" will be held at the Ritz Carlton Conference Centre on 8 March 2007 in conjuction with the Climate Change Week being organised by YTL Group.

Following websites have useful tips and information for climate protection:-
* Green guides and daily tips
* Count savings from devices like solar hearters
* Renewable energy systems in the home
* Online auction on solar panels and wind turbines
* Offset carbon emissions
* Low carbon technologies
* Plant trees to neutralise emissions
* Invest in renewable energy
* Green suppliers, appliances and eco-friendly lifestyle options
* Carbon calculator and tips to cut down on energy use

Or you can be part of this solution by following this 10 simple steps and see how much of carbon dioxide you can save.
Tags: YTL, Climate Change Week, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Technologies, Energy, Environment

Nollywood

Hollywood is at Los Angeles, USA where the highest acclaimed movies award would be the Academy Awards.

Bollywood is generally referred to India's numerous movies being produced annually. It's annual movies award would be the GIFA Awards (which was hosted by Malaysia last year)

Nollywood is the name given for the African Film Festival or Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) where it was held at Burkina Faso recently. A Nigerian movie entitled Ezra, directed by Newton Aduaka, has won the top award. It's a story about a seven-year old boy kidnapped by rebels and forced to fight in a civil war. Though no location is ever specified in the film, the story is based on the war that began in Sierra Leone in the early nineties.

Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bekolo won the Silver Stallion, or second place, for his film Les Saignantes, an erotic story set in the future of two women who try to win politicians' favor with their beauty.

Chad's Mahamat-Saleh Haroun won Bronze Stallion for his film Daratt in which a young man tries to find and kill the man who murdered his father. (source: Chosun Ilbo and BBC News)
Tags: Hollywood, Bollywood, Nollywood, Movies, African Film Festival, Fespaco, Ezra, Les Saignantes, Daratt, Academy Awads, GIFA

Parental Control

Wonder how some parents would control their hyper-active children especially when they need to get something done. Got a tip for you shown in picture below.Tags: Parents, Parental Control, Jokes, Funny, Humor

Handphone Usage Etiquette

At times, you couldn't stand a fellow handphone (mobile/cellphone) user's inconsiderate action in responding to a phone call in a cinema hall, during a church service or raising their voice in a crowded bus (as if they could save the world by answering that call).

Well, a judge in Johannesburg of South Africa couldn't take it either. This guy who was seated in the public gallery of the Johannesburg High Court answered his phone call. He was ordered into the witness stand, questioned about his conduct, convicted of contempt of court on the spot and sentenced to a month in jail. So sad.

Good thing for him that the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the case and he's free to go but I'm sure he'll be very careful when he takes his calls next time. (source: Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Tags: Johannesburg, South Africa, Court, Etiquette, High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal

Internet Service in Turkmenistan

If you have been complaining how long it took you to connect to the internet or how long it took to download a movie/song from the internet, you are considered very blessed already. Some would even complain that at 1MB/sec is still bad just for reading their favourite websites. As for me, I have experienced internet services since 1996 or 1997.

But for the citizens living in Turkmenistan, they have just gotten their FIRST taste of internet services on 16 Feb 2007. Internet services were available in Turkmenistan for quite some time but it was restricted to the state or officially approved groups, embassies, foreign journalist and international bodies.

Even though internet services are available now, it's only available in 2 government-approved internet cafes located in the capital city of Ashgabat. The country is still quite repressive and I'm sure you would be monitored on which website assess. One of the main promise during the pre-election campaign was the availability of internet services to the citizens. The cost of internet service? Well, it's £2 per hour. (source: Times Online)
Tags: Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Internet, Internet Cafe

Three Tortoise

Three tortoises, Rodney, Derek and Gary, decide to go on picnic. Rodney packs the picnic basket with beer and sandwiches. The trouble is that the picnic site is ten miles away. So, it takes them ten days to get there.

When they get there Rodney unpacks the food and beer. "Ok Gary give me the bottle opener." "I didn't bring it," says Gary. "I thought you packed it," Rodney gets worried and he turns to Derek, "Did you bring the bottle opener?" Naturally Derek didn't bring it. So they're stuck ten miles from home without a bottle opener.

Rodney and Derek beg Gary to go back for it. But he refuses as he says they will eat all the sandwiches. After two hours, and after they have sworn on their tortoise lives that they
will not eat the sandwiches, he finally agrees. So Gary sets off down the road at a steady pace.

20 days pass and he still isn't back and Rodney and Derek are starving, but a promise is a promise. Another 5 days and he still isn't back, but a promise is a promise. Finally they can't take it any longer so they take out a sandwich each and just as they are about to eat it, Gary pops up from behind a rock and shouts

"I KNEW IT'......AND I'M NOT GOING!"
Tags: Jokes, Funny, Humor, Tortoise, Picnic

Indian Mom

Phone rings. INDIAN MOTHER (in strong Indian accent) picks up the phone and answers.
Indian Mother: Hello?
Daughter: Hi Mom. Can I leave the kids with you tonight?
Indian Mother: You're going out? chi chi chi chi
Daughter: Yes.
Indian Mother: With whom?
Daughter: With a friend.
Indian Mother: I don't know why you left your husband. He is such a good man.
Daughter: I didn't leave him. He left me!
Indian Mother: You let him leave you, and now you go out with any bodies and no bodies.
Daughter: I do not go out with anybody. Can I bring over the kids?
Indian Mother: I never left you to go out with anybody except your father.
Daughter: There are lots of things that you did and I don't.
Indian Mother: What are you hinting at?
Daughter: Nothing. I just want to know if I can bring the kids over tonight.
Indian Mother: You're going to stay the night with him? What will your husband say if he finds out?
Daughter: My EX husband. I don't think he would be bothered. From the day he left me, he probably never slept alone!
Indian Mother: So you're going to sleep over at this loser's place?
Daughter: He's not a loser.
Indian Mother: A man who goes out with a divorced woman with children is a loser and a parasite.
Daughter: I don't want to argue. Should I bring over the kids or not?
Indian Mother: Poor children with such a mother.
Daughter: Such a what?
Indian Mother: With no stability. No wonder your husband left you.
Daughter: ENOUGH!!!
Indian Mother: Don't scream at me. You probably scream at this loser too!
Daughter: Now you're worried about the loser?
Indian Mother: Ah, so you see he's a loser. I spotted him immediately.
Daughter: Goodbye mother.
Indian Mother: Wait! Don't hang up! When are you bringing them over?
Daughter: I'm not bringing them over! I'm not going out!
Indian Mother: If you never go out, how do you expect to meet anyone?
Tags: Jokes, Funny, Humor, Daughter