New Seven Wonders of the World

Have you voted for the New Seven Wonders of the World? You must be wondering if this is the new ones, which were the old ones? Well, I have blogged about Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. You see, it's too long already since the last one has been decided.

Besides this Ancient World listing, there are also the Seven Wonders of the Medieval Mind and Seven Natural Wonders of the World. This list doesn't end here, in the Seven World Wonders' website you will see the full listing.

Today is the last day you can vote for the New Seven Wonders of the World. The New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007 - 07.07.07.

As from now this hour, you have 8 hours left to leave your mark on this voting process. Decide for the generations to come.

How to Vote:-

You can vote online or by phone. You can vote online either by becoming a member of New7Wonders and choosing your seven candidates once during your registration or by buying a personalised certificate and voting for one candidate of your choice. You can also vote by telephone. Voting is possible from anywhere in the world. You can vote by telephone or by buying a certificate as many times as you like.

Your vote counts! Help make history...

Leading contenders with 90 million votes being taken into account (votes are still coming in and the list could still change):-

1) Great Wall of China;

2) Colosseum in Rome;

3) Peru's Machu Picchu;

4) Acropolis in Greece;

5) Chichen Itza Pyramid in Mexico;

6) Eiffel Tower in Paris;

7) Easter Island;

8) Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;

9) Taj Mahal in India; and

10) Jordan's ancient city of Petra.

Tags: New Seven Wonders of the World, Seven Wonders, N7W, New 7 Wonders, Lisbon, Portugal, Official Declaration

Killing of 10 Lions

Animal lovers, where are you? The world is already faced with many endangered species that are disappearing due to poachings, environment, destroyed habitats and climate change. And yet, 10 lions would be killed soon. Hopefully the International Organisation for Animal Protection can do something about it. Already the world is filled with weird animal, we don't need the originals to be extinct.

Reason was these 10 lions mauled a 10 year old boy to death..... but why kill those 10 lions when it was negligence caused by the farm workers. Congress of South African Trade Unions is looking forward to press charges against the farm owner actually as the farm owner should have taken precaution steps. The authorities are going for the wrong source then.....kill the lions???? Not looking at the root of the problem. Am I right to say that?

The unfortunate incident happened at the North West Province, South Africa.
Tags: Lion, Congress of South African Trade Unions, COSATU, North West Province, South Africa

Putting Your Face on Stamps

Many people have the hobby of collecting First Day Covers ("FDC") locally and internationally. I did too when I was much younger and having the time to go through my stamp collections and I do subscribe for international FDCs from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

Thought that was a unique collections besides collecting those really antique stamps of the yesteryears. You'll be amazed how much it's worth. I don't know how much I could sell off my collection but I'm pretty sure it could be a hefty sum.

Stamps on those FDCs would tell a story. But what about a stamp that could even print my own face onto it? That would be marvellous. More stories to tell.

It can be done now in Malaysia. A personalised stamp could have your face printed on it and you could use it as a normal postage stamp. Unique isn't it?
This unique service is opened to individuals and corporate bodies. Imagine you have your wedding photo printed on it and you use the stamps to mail out your wedding invitation cards. Or with you fully dressed up in your traditional costume printed on it so that you could paste those stamps on the festival celebration greeting cards.

Malaysia's national post office has started this new service called "Setemku Service" with the following packages at a minimum price of RM500:-
*Emerald package, you get 34 stamp sheets of 30 sen stamps each;
*Diamond package gives you 12 sheets of 30 sen stamps each and 13 sheets of 50 sen stamps each; and
*Ruby package gives you 20 sheetlets of 50 sen stamps each or 400 stamps.
Tags: First Day Cover, Stamps, Setemku Service, Pos Malaysia, Philatelic, Personalised Stamp, Stamp Collection, Postage Stamps

Crossbreeding Gone Awfully Wrong

Eclyse (name as given), a crossbreed between female chapmann-zebra with a male brown-white horse. Was born in Italy and being taken care of in Safaripark Stukenbrock in Germany now.

You know what ..... HOW DO I TEACH MY CHILDREN IN TIME TO COME? HOW WILL KINDIE/SCHOOL TEACHERS TEACH?

Please lah, this is just a crossbreeding gone awfully wrong and just admit it instead of giving such a good reception. People ought not to dabble with their genes created by God from day one.

So what do you call this? Zeorse? Hobra?

The incident happened more than a year ago when the zeorse/hobra's mom was taken to an Italian ranch and a male horse did the unthinkable. So, it was an accident.....not a scientific research. Anyway, it's not funny. It's totally confusing to the children and parents would be tongue-tied.
Tags: Horse, Chapmann Zebra, Crossbreed, Safaripark Stukenbrock, Eclyse, Italy, Germany

Unlicensed Travel Agencies

On 24 May 2007, I have blogged about a Holiday Package being promoted by three related parties of Best World Vacation, Slyways Vacation and Dynasty Vision Resources.

Today, the Ministry of Tourism has responded to my enquiry. Please read their email:-

From: Mahizah [mailto: mahizah@motour.gov.my]
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 2:59 PM
To: Johnny Ong
Subject: Re: Verification of a Travel Agencies

Tuan
Syarikat-syarikat yg. dimaksudkan tidak berlesen dgn. Kem. ini. Tindakan telahpun diambil keatas Dynasty Vision Resources dan tindakan keatas kedua2 lagi syarikat akan diambil sedikit masa lagi. Sekian terima kasih.

Translation to English for your reading:-
Sir
The companies that were mentioned were not licensed by this Ministry. Actions have been taken against Dynasty Vision Resources and actions on the other 2 companies would be done in due course. Thank you.

----- Original Message -----
To: Norizan
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 2:04 PM
Subject: Fw: Verification of a Travel Agencies

Hi
Please verify the agencies. Thank you.

----- Original Message -----
From: Johnny Ong
To: info@motour.gov.my ; ppwtimur@motour.gov.my ; admin@matta.org.my
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:56 PM
Subject: Verification of a Travel Agencies

I hope that the Ministry / MATTA could assist in verifying the travel agencies as listed below. I suspect that they are cheating Malaysians lately with the promotion & selling vacation memberships together with Slyways Vacation and Dynasty Vision Resources. Todate, there are emails being circulated depicting the cheating scenarios.

Please let me know whether the following 3 travel agencies are properly registered and whether it’s a Malaysian company or not. From the website, it’s doesn’t show its affiliation to any organization which is rare.

BEST WORLD Vacation
B-6, 1A Lorong Tun Ismail 6
Sri Dagangan Business Centre
25000 Kuantan,
Pahang Darul Makmur
Malaysia
Tel: +609-5146 766 / 5156 676
Fax: +609-5156 654
Website: www.bestworldvacation.com
Email: info@bestworldvacation.com

Slyways Vacation
Suite 2-2-2A, 2nd Floor
Wisma Rampai Town Centre
Setapak
53300 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-41492122
Fax: 03-41493122

Dynasty Vision Resources
73-1, 1st Floor
Jalan 3/23A
Off Jalan Genting Kelang
Taman Danau Kota
Setapak
53300 Kuala Lumpur

Please treat this email urgently as we do not want to hear another case of Excellence Holidays where it folded up overnight.

Regards.
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Please pass the word around with a link to this blog posting. The reason is because I did receive an email from a blog reader who regretted not reading my blog posting on Holiday Package earlier. This blog reader has purchased the membership and was hoping to cancel it now. Both Dynasty Vision Resources and Slyways Vacation are still operating out there hoping to rope as many members as they can BUT UNFORTUNATELY, they have not been licensed by the Ministry of Tourism.

We can't change the world on our own but if every single person was to lend a hand, the world could be a better place.
Tags: Best World Vacation, Dynasty Vision Resources, Slyways Vacation , Ministry of Tourism, Holiday Package, Travel Agency, MATTA

Nelson Mandela and Japanese Man

Nelson Mandela was in his house when there was a knock on the door, he answered it and a Japanese man was there. "I have 10,000 windscreen wipers for you" said the man. Nelson said “I don't want them".

The next day Nelson was once again relaxing in his house when there was a knock on the door another Japanese man was there. "I have 6,000 tyres for you". Nelson said "I don't want them now”.

The next day Nelson was having a drink and once again there was a knock on the door again there was a Japanese man on the door step. He said "I have 400 car engines for you". Nelson was really fed up now he said "I do not want them, and why do you Japanese kept bringing car spares to my house".

The Japanese man said "We were told this was the house of the nissan maindealer".
Tags: Nelson Mandela, Japanese, Nissan, Nissan Dealer, Jokes, Funny, Humour

7-11 in China

In China, it's really convenient to find a convenience store. If you can't find a particular one in building, there are those on wheels. They will just pack up and push it into a storage area at the end of the day. Simple. Tags: 7-11, China, Convenience Store