Good Rest

Public holidays on Tuesday (Labour Day) and Wednesday (Wesak Day - a buddhist festival) in Malaysia allowed me to rest again. At this point of time (2.04am), awaiting the UEFA Champions League semi-final match between AC Milan and Man Utd in 40 minutes' time.

On Thursday and Friday, have to fix my car's air-cond and also to attend to my last tooth. Forced to go for root canal operation now ....... terrible situation.
Tags: Public Holiday, Labour Day, Wesak Day, AC Milan, Manchester United

Lamborgini Coffee Maker

Tonino Lamborghini has produced a classic coffee machine to just 1,000 limited edition units. Not only can they produce excellent sports cars but this company has now produced the handbuilt machine. Why? Maybe as a gift to their car buyers?

When you purchase this coffee machine, you'll be presented with roasted coffee beans (prepared by them as well).

You could get this for your mom for the coming Mother's Day (if she likes coffee, of course). Selling price is 895 pounds (or around US$1750). That's if you bought it in Italy. (source: Winding Road)
Tags: Tonino Lamborghini, Coffee Machine, Coffee Maker, Limited Edition, Coffee

Chinese Mathematics

In order to gain entry into universities as a science undergraduate, UK universities will be having entrance mathematics examination based on China's national test on advanced mathematics. How hard is it? (source: BBC News)

The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry has offered a £500 prize to one lucky but bright person who can answer the questions below correctly:-

As for Engineering undergraduates, you could see Logarithmic on sinusoidal motion:-

Tags: Mathematics, Advanced Mathematics, UK, United Kingdom, Univeristy, Exam, Royal Society of Chemistry, Engineering, Sinusoidal Motion, China

Kryptonite Found!

When I first read this word, "Kryptonite", it brought the old memories of Superman and its sequels. This is the piece of mineral where it will maim Superman's power and where you would have seen the bad character in Superman movies, Lex Luther, ensuring that he gets the mineral in preparation of Superman's retaliation for his bad deeds.

I do not know whether the movie producers knew about the existence of the Kryptonite mineral during their script writing but it sure does exist now.

It seems that the real Kryptonite mineral has been discovered in Serbia. Geologists and mineralogists from mining group Rio Tinto which discovered the mineral passed the mineral to National History Museum, UK ("NHS") for further research.

This piece of Kryptonite will be known as Jadarite when it is described in the European Journal of Mineralogy. Together with NHS, Canada’s National Research Council, scientists from Natural Resources Canada, the Geological Survey of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Nature have collaborated to ensure that the new mineral is recognized by the international scientific community.

Tags: Kryptonite, Jadarite, National History Museum, Serbia, Superman, Mineral, Rio Tinto, Geological, Geologist, Mineralogist, National Research Council, Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Museum of Nature, Science

Choices in Hell

A rather bad man dies and meets Satan in a room with three doors. Satan explains, "I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that you have to spend eternity behind one of these doors. But, the good news is that you can take a peek behind each and take your choice."

So, the man opened the first door and saw a room full of people, standing on their heads on a concrete floor. Not very nice, he thought.

Opening the second door, he saw a room full of people standing on their heads on a wooden floor. Better, he thought, but best to check the last door.

Upon opening the last door, he saw a room full of people, standing waist-deep in shit and sipping coffee. "Of the three, this one looks best" he said and waded in to get something to drink while Satan closed the door.

A few minutes later the door opened, Satan stuck his head in and said, "Ok, coffee break's over, back on your heads!"
Tags: Jokes, Funny, Humour

Zimbabwe Inflation Reaches 2,200%

What's inflation? Inflation is:-
1 the action of inflating or the condition of being inflated.
2 Economics a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.

In Zimbabwe, a nation at the southern African continent, it's inflation rate has reached a record 2,200% in March due to economic destability coupled with political crisis. That's what could happen to a country when it's not stable. Malaysia's political people tend to play with fire, trying to ignite various issues and blamed it on racial. Or setting up terms and conditions on racial terms. Imagine your plate of 'nasi lemak' could rise up to RM44.00 from RM2.00. But your salary MAINTAINS!!!!!!!

Zimbabwe's banks' secured interest rates would rise to 600%, up from the current rate of 500%. Malaysia's current banking rates at the moment is around 6% to 7%. Imagine if it jumps up by 100%, current monthly repayment of RM1,000 will be come RM2,000 in no time. A 600% jump???? (source: BBC News/Africa)

As what the Malaysia's new king said yesterday "Stay united / We must maintain this precious unity to the best of our ability".
Tags: Zimbabwe, Inflation, Economics, Purchasing Value

CIMB's Emerging Asia Fund

CIMB-Principal Asset Management Berhad published this advertisement last week in a major english newspaper. It showed that their Emerging Asia Fund could generate a 1-year return of 25.85%. That's a very good achievement. But somehow on the very next day, CIMB-Principal published the same advertisement but this time, the 1-year return has dropped drastically within 1 day period, i.e. down 7.45%. The advertisement followed the daily stock market index as well?????
I wonder what's the rate of return for next week.
Tags: CIMB, CIMB-Principal, Asset Management, Funny, Humour