Do You Use Disposable Wooden Chopsticks?

Tags:I'm sure you have used those disposable wooden chopsticks before in one of those meals, right? Depends on how it was manufactured, those disposable wooden chopsticks could be very deadly in terms of the sort of chemicals that had been retained in the tiny holes of the disposable wooden chopsticks.

Reading: Chopsticks picked up in new China scare - Reuters

Tags: Disposable Chopsticks, Hygiene, Health

Kenyan Bloggers

African nations have lots of issues at times that may not be known by the general public. Earlier, I have blogged about a few well-known Nigerian bloggers, where Nigerians have also taken the stance to blog about happenings within their country. In order for the general public to get their hands onto such blog news, Africans may just have to go online to obtain the news. This contributed to the growth of blogs and particularly in Kenya, number of bloggers have grown tremendously.

Daudi Were, Mentalacrobatics.com - stated that Kenyan youth are reading more from the internet. Another socio-political blogger on the way up.

Ory Okolloh, Mzalendo.com - stated that most area in Kenya were not well equipped to access the internet. Ory's blog is like those socio-political blogs where it provides wider discussion on existing/new goverment rulings.

An anonymous blogger based in Nairobi, Kenya, bankelele.blogspot.com - is looking at the way the members of parliament are giving themselves a huge bonus with the country's economy in much doubt.
Tags: Kenya, Kenyan Bloggers, Africa, Bloggers

The Sri Lankan and the Ducks

A Sri Lankan guy went hunting one day in Ontario and bagged three ducks. He put them in the bed of his pickup truck and was about to drive home when he was confronted by a game warden who didn't like Asians.

The game warden ordered the SL guy to show his hunting license, so the Sri Lankan man pulled out a valid Ontario hunting license.

The game warden looked carefully at the license, then reached over and picked up one of the ducks, sniffed its butt, and said: "This duck isn't from Ontario. This is a Quebec duck. You got a Quebec hunting license, boy?" The Sri Lankan reached into his wallet and produced a Quebec hunting license.

The game warden looked at it, then reached over and grabbed the second duck, sniffed its butt, and said:"This ain't no Quebec duck. This duck is from Manitoba. You got a Manitoba license?" The SL guy silently reached into his wallet and produced a Manitoba hunting license.

The warden then reached over and picked up the third duck, sniffed its butt, and said: "This ain't no Manitoba duck. This duck's here from Nova Scotia. You got a Nova Scotia hunting license?" Again the SL man reached into his wallet and brought out a Nova Scotia hunting license.

The game warden was extremely frustrated at this point, and he yelled at the Sri Lankan: "Just tell me where the hell are you from?"

The Sri Lankan smiled turned around, bent over, dropped his pants, and said:"You tell me, you're the expert."
Tags: Jokes, Funny, Humour, Duck, Hunting, Sri Lankan, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Nova Scotia

Largest Pet Cemetery

Some people really loved their pets so much that they were willing to part with tons of cash just to ensure that their pets have a wonderful after-life.

The largest memorial park built specially for pets is at the Nirvana Memorial Park where currently, the park serves only dead people...... hehe

You may wonder what's the price like? If you have RM6,800 (US$1,943) to spare then a call to Nirvana Memorial Park will do. They will send someone to pick up your dead pet where it would be taken to the memorial park for disinfection. A specially made coffin is part of the package too and will be buried in a plot within 24 hours from the time they picked it up from your place.

Another great marketing idea by the NV Multi Corporation?
Tags: Pets, Memorial Park, Pet Cemetary, NV Multi Group, Nirvana Memorial Park

Luciano Pavarotti / 1935-2007

One of my favourite classical singers, Luciano Pavarotti, 72, has passed away today due to pancreatic cancer. Lost one of the best in classical music history.

In memory, will be playing one of his songs,
Tags: Luciano Pavarotti, Classical, Singer, Pancreatic Cancer

Malays Calling for Changes to NEP?

Read opinions from two persons who are well respected in their respective field.

* Tun Musa Hitam, one of the former prime ministers and former chairman of the Malaysian Human Rights Commission.

* Nazir Razak, the CIMB group chief executive and the younger brother of the current deputy prime minister.

Both of them called for a review on the New Economic Policy that guarantees the 30% interest for the Malay race in all business sectors, deals, transactions marginalising the non-malays in Malaysia and foreigners too.

This two persons who are very familiar to the business situation in Malaysia said that with such a ruling still in place, foreign companies are reluctant to invest in Malaysia and rather go to neighbouring countries which has no restriction or not 'forced' to give away shares to people they do not know. Malaysia's Foreign Direct Investment has been on the decline and lower than our neighbouring countries. With that too, Malaysia's competitiveness cannot match the greater business environment nearby.

The NEP does not affect foreigners only but locally, it deprived the non-Malays from earning their rights to participate in business fairly. My previous postings on the local scene affecting the freight forwarders and legal firms do affect the business scenario as the best may not be involved.

Asking for such a review is not taking the privilege away but we have to look at the future. Anyway, everyone is entitled to give their comments, so I think their comments would be read once only and put aside later on.
Tags: NEP, New Economic Policy, Tun Musa Hitam, Nazir Razak, Doing Business in Malaysia, Malay

Mattel is Bleeding Away

Call it bad luck, call it bad control, call whatever but Mattel is not smiling at all.

The situation is again the same. Mattel and Fisher-Price have gotten 2 contract vendors to do the work and this 2 companies subcontracted the jobs to China based manufacturing companies which didn't meet with the standards at all. That also took a number of months to detect. The toys, if it had been bought / played by the children, would have affected children across the world by now. With that, another batch of recalling again. This time, 8.5m toys. More to come???

Barbie-branded toys. The specific affected parts include:-
* Dream Puppy House – orange on miniature dog
* Dream Kitty Condo – brown on miniature cat
* Table & Chairs Kitchen Playset – yellow food on two dinner plates, brown on miniature dog, yellow and orange on potato chip bowl, orange on salad bowl
* Bathtub & Toilet Playset – brown on miniature cat
* Desk & Chair Bedroom Playset – brown on miniature dog
* Living Room Playset (deluxe) – brown on miniature cat
* Living Room Playset (premium) – yellow flower on purse

Fisher-Price toys recalled are two Fisher-Price GEOTRAX toys and one "It's a Big Big World" toy. Fisher-Price toys with specific parts affected include:-
* GEOTRAX Rail & Road System Freightway Transport – yellow headlights on train car and miniature ladder
* GEOTRAX Special Track Pack – yellow headlights on train car and miniature ladder
* "It's a Big Big World" 6-in-1 Bongo Band – painted decal on top of clear plastic on drum
Tags: Mattel, Fisher-Price, Toys, Barbie, Geotrax, It's A Big Big World, China