Hold on to Your Luggage Bag in Airports

I travel quite heavily two to three years back and each time I travel I will split my personal belongings into two luggage bags. In case, one gets lost I would still have spare underwear in my handheld luggage bag.

My mom would always tell me to be careful with my bags. The big luggage bad is normally checked in, so it was not within my control and always pray that it would arrive safely at my final destination. See how insecured I felt as an airline passenger after seeing so many of my colleagues/friends experiencing such event.

Most of the time I would travel alone and I don't leave my bag lying around without the corner of my eye having a sight of it. When I'm in the airport lounge, at times you don't get a table near the food counters and I would grab a few magazines to be put on top of it while I quickly zoom to the food counter.

Upon arrival at the final destination's airport, I would usually keep an eye on my luggage bag at the carousel. Even if I was standing further down the carousel, I would wait patiently for my bag. Wouldn't want someone to pry open the bag to insert something into it and put it back onto the carousel without you knowing it.

I don't take things for granted, call it kiasu or too careful. The old folks would always say "Don't carry other people's bags even for a moment".

Imagine a guy who held on to his luggage bags was almost framed for carrying drugs into Japan. The Japan Customs Department has the cheek to insert a small packet of cannabis into a traveller's luggage bag and the reason for doing so was to test their sniffer dogs capability in detecting such drugs.

The Cathay Pacific passenger, coming in from Hong Kong, didn't even notice that the drugs were planted in his luggage bags when he was collecting his luggage bags at the carousel and upon passing the immigration and customs counters, nothing happened. The stupid dogs didn't even get to sniff anything and the passenger disappeared into thin air.

The relevant government personnels held frantic searches for this traveller and managed to retrieve the drugs the following day at the traveller's hotel. What an embarassment!

What if the dog managed to sniff it? Do you mean the traveller will have to go through the hundreds of eyes staring at him when the dog starts to bark? Do we, as unsuspecting passengers, need to go through such humiliation just because you need to train your dogs?

Can't anyone from the Japan Customs Department be called to just walk pass the dogs? Seriously, I really wonder what kind of logic they have in their minds for getting unsuspecting passengers to play that role. You mean that the dog could differentiate whether that person was actually a customs officer in disguise or a real passenger.

Reading: Japan says sorry for planting drugs on passenger - The Age
Tags: Drugs, Drugs Sniffer Dog, Japan, Japan Customs, Cathay Pacific, Cannabis

Tattoed My Name on a Lady

Click on the following picture and arrangements will be made for your name to be tattoed on a lady's body (thinking that you may not want it on your body, why not let someone else carry your name around).

Wait for the above website screen to appear, then ...

2. Write your first name in the 1st line.

3. Write your family name in the 2nd line.

4. Right after completing instructions 1 and 2, click the Visualizar button.

Tags: Tattoo, Bar Da Boa, Unique

Nuffnang Wild 'Live' Blogging Party

Was invited by Nuffnang, the blog advertising company to a function held at Modesto's Sri Hartamas on Saturday evening.

Robb Chew of Nuffnang was so busy running around getting things in order for the night. Bravo Robb!

The event was sponsored by Maxis Broadband.

Maxis Broadband provided laptops and connections for bloggers to blog live from the venue of the event. Some bloggers were going at it.

The bar counter where it served soft drinks / beer throughout the night but ran out of soft drinks towards the end of the function.

Was called to take a family photo with my extended 'family members'. Kimberly asked how come I look different from the three of them. Told her I was a male cow. So, don't tempt me with their presence.

Can't recall Wee Lim's (next to me) blog name. The person next to him was Nicholas wherelse the person of the far right, Christopher Tock, won the best costume award for the night. He made our clan proud!!!! (picture stolen from Shaolin Tiger)

Nuffnang should have organised an original animal costume. Simon Seow came with two planks depicting a horse face (front portion) and a horse backside (back portion of course) with a tail hanging down his pants. Very original.

Mine was of course trying to emulate a cow. I was still trying to get those black sugar paper (as cow's black spots) to stick on my white T-shirt and beige pants at 5.30pm Saturday afternoon with by using double-sided tape and staplers to ensure it stick through the night. (picture stolen from Simon Seow)

David Cheong, we are each other's frequent blog traveller.

Joshua Ong the Lion, one of those guys that I have been chatting with albeit virtually all this while.
Chubby Penguin the Bunny flew all the way back from Moscow on the same day just to attend the function. So, happened back for summer holidays.
She's doing medicine there.


Shad the Elephant was the real cool dude. When he drinks or eat, he needs to lift up his trunk .... haha. Really like your outfit beb. He was nominated as the top 3 best costume nuffnangers.







Kue was there as well and she was there with her sis.

Skyler the Leopard was there too. Long sleeve? I thought it was stuffy in Modesto's.

Vivien the Bee was the first person that saw one of my cow's black spot falling off. She brought along her friend, Iris the Bunny, to the party.

As a reward for locating my spot, I allowed them to pose with me.

Timothy Tiah the King of the Jungle (aka Boss Stewie), one of the co-founder of Nuffnang. Great work in getting the function to this stage.


Wow, this guy is really superb. He came as a a a a ...... what's your costume Liang? Anyway he was our emcee and a marvellous one indeed. Gifted emcee.

He's Kevin Chan the Cat.

Michelle the Bunny successfully made it to the venue as she did tell me that she was not familiar with Sri Hartamas area.

Yee Ming the Monkey. Another up and coming doctor in Malaysia.

These two beautiful ladies (Germaine and Jessica) were greeters as we enter the venue. They handed out goodies' bags to partygoers. Who hired them? Nuffnang? Maxis?







Su Ann the Ladybird. She was the top 3 nominees for best costume. You did that headgear on your own?

Kimberly the Batgirl. Noticed that she was not wearing that headgear towards the end of the function.

Kelli Goh the Bunny. We didn't get to chat much. We'll catch up another time then.

Hanis Zalikha the Moth.

If you follow the Malaysian Dreamgirl online reality series, she was one of them.

Pamsong the Catwoman came in her elegant self.

Kelly Tan with her orange Butterfly.

She has to walk sideways like a crab at certain areas as her wingspan was too wide..... LOL! In fact, all the butterflies walked like that in the party.

All the 'animals' enjoying the games organised by the emcee.

Liang asked for Bunnies to appear to play a game where winners received 2 complimentary cinema tickets.

Then came the Bees' turn.

Then the Leopards' turn.
Then the Gorillas' turn.
Then the Zebras, the Butterflies, the Tigers ..........
Liang, why didn't you call the Cows?????







Hwei Ming gave the excuse of being the cameraman for the night, therefore no animal costume.


Samantha the Bunny with superbly big ears.

Adeline Lee the Zebra too???? Another one of the Malaysian Dreamgirl contestant.

Asked her how come you are so tall ...... "I'm wearing high heels today". I thought I shrunk.


The Shaolin Tiger that is without his skin.

Caryn Leong the Zebra. Or was it a white tiger in the first place. Another budding doctor-to-be.

The other Ladybird by the name of Min Li.

Arif in traditional costume that comes with a bow tie. In actual fact, he didn't get to finish his intended costume.

Ringo the Lioness. One of the three Malaysian Dreamgirl contestants that were at the function.

Aronil the Butterfly. A good source in obtaining drama / stage acting info from her. Thanks for that.
Tags: Nuffnang Wild Live Blogging Party, Nuffnang, Wild Live Blogging, Modesto's, Party, Maxis Broadband, Christopher Tock, Simon Seow, David Cheong, Joshua Ong, Chubby Penguin, Shad, Kue, Skyler, Timothy Tiah, Liang, Kevin Chan, Ching Wuen, Yee Ming, Pinkpau, Kimberlycun, Kelli Goh, Hanis Zalikha, Pamsong, Curryegg, Hwei Ming, Wen Qi, Adeline Lee, Shaolin Tiger, Caryn Leong, Min Li, Arif, Ringo, Aronil Low, Malaysian Dreamgirl

Nuffnang Wild Live Blogging

Will be attending a party organised by the blog advertising company, Nuffnang, on Saturday evening.

Supposedly an animal theme party which means to say that I'm supposed to be going into the function dressed in either an animal costume (as blogged earlier) or in simple dressing i.e. plain T-shirt with animal pictures ................ last thing I want to do so. Still cracking my head on what to wear.

During the function, Maxis Broadband will be providing laptops and connections for bloggers to blog 'live' and real time at the function. If we bring our own laptop, we get to do it even quicker. Nah, I won't bring mine as it will retrict your freedom in roaming around. I will line up to use those provided by Maxis and that too, I have to bring along a USB cable.

At this second on the clock, Croatia scored their goal against Turkey. So tiring in watching this dull game.

Guess what ......................... the dull game became alive in 60 seconds. Turkey has drawn level. The score is 1-1 at the last minute of the extra time. Now I have to sit through the pulsating penalty kicks.

Related post - Roaring My Way to Nuffnang Wild ‘Live’ Blogging Events
Tags: Nuffnang, Nuffnang Wild Live Blogging, Maxis Broadband, Animal Theme Party, Event

Don't Worry, I Can Do It

A friend of mine who's based overseas in the construction field do enjoy his work even though far away from home sweet home.

When he asked the locals to do their work, their standard reply is always "Don't worry, I can do it" or "No problem, will do it accordingly". Similar kind of response at your workplace too?

One fine day, he went to the project site and he almost had an instant heart attack seeing the end result of a construction work.

How in the world that they can build a staircase that has no links from the ground floor up to the second floor just like what you see in the attached picture?

After some investigations, he found out that two teams did the work at the same. One team began from the upper floor and another team started from the bottom.


This is a pure case of lack of communication even though they were working on the same side of the building.
Tags: Construction, Construction Method, Lack Of Communication

The Danger of Flip Flops

When I was young, I was told that the slippers' name (left pic) is called Japanese slippers. Those days you can't find so many kind of designs for it.

As it's easy to wear, casual, flexible and with various designs that suit all ages, this is the only kind of dressing that hasn't change much since the yesteryears.

But all this may change when wearing slippers is linked to health concerns. Ever heard of contracting skin cancer when wearing such flip flops? No? How does it happen?

Most people would be wearing leather shoes (men) and high heeled shoes (ladies) or properly covered shoes for almost a year. Once these people go for their holidays, they would expose their feet out of a sudden to high temperature sunlight by wearing the easy to wear flip flops or sandals.

Due to this, the skin at your feet which is quite sensitive at that point of time may not be able to protect the feet. Normal kind of skin cancer at the feet is known as "acral melanoma". Such skin cancer may occur at the sole of the foot, between the toes or under the toenails. To protect, it's encourage to apply factor 15 sunscreen.

And if flip flops were not produced with clean plastic materials, it could affect your feet badly as highlighted by a USA consumer (be forewarned of unsightly pictures).

Must walk a lot more under sunshades and away from the sunglight. Will go out during night time ...... (ending up like a dracula).

Reading: Flip-flops linked to skin cancer - Telegraph UK
Tags: Health, Flip Flops, Sandals, Skin Cancer, Acral Melanoma, Sunscreen, Japanese Slippers

Malaysia's Space Science University

Malaysia will be on the space science map again after having the first Malaysian astronaut up in space last Oct 2007. This time Malaysia will be ensuring that space science are being taught here to generate more interest in it. This won't be a government project but the proposed Space Science University of Malaysia would be financed privately by a local private company and an overseas partner.

This proposed university will be located in Kota Tinggi, Johore and maybe our two Malaysian astronauts or spaceflight participants (as defined by NASA still, wonder why?) will be there to cut the red ribbon during the opening ceremony of the proposed university.

Faculties that could be found in the proposed univeristy:-
* Space Engineering and Aeronautics
* Mechanical Engineering
* Bioengineering encompassing Biomolecular Engineering and Medicine
* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
* Computer, Robotic and Software Engineering
* Electrical Engineering and Electronics
* Geological, Atmospheric and Planetary Engineering
* Mathematical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy

Possible laboratories for research purposes:-
* Fusion Reactor or Thermonuclear Reactor
* Linear Collider
* Large Binocular Telescope-Neural Network Telescope
* High Performance Computing
* Supersonic Wind Tunnel
* Three Dimensional Simulation

Personally, we are aiming something too high for a nation that is still considered as a developing nation status. Not that we can't dream of having for which I would envisage it fully but not at this point of time.

Definition of a developed nation:-
A country with a relatively high standard of living, achieved primarily through social, economic, and technological infrastructure. The nations of Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand are referred to as developed, or industrialized, nations.

Definition of a developing nation:-
A country with a low standard of living, generally indicated by severe poverty, low income and education levels, high birth rate, and poorly developed social, economic, and technological infrastructure. This term has become favored over "Third World," which gained popularity in the mid-20th century. Many countries of Africa, Asia (except Japan), Latin America, and Oceania (except Australia and New Zealand) are referred to as developing nations.

To spend RM6.1 billion (US$1.84 billion) on just one university in an industry where Malaysia is not even at an infant level is wasteful and not viable. I am sure that all the proposed university's technologies and professors would be externally sourced.

Countries which have huge space exploration programmes like China, India, Japan and Russia do not have such space science university. In comparison, their annual investments in space programmes are as follows:-
* India - US$450 million
* Russia - US$500 million
* China - US$2 billion
* European countries - US$4.5 billion
* USA - US$16.2 billion

The proposed Malaysian university was to emulate the world's only two space science universities, namely Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida, United States and International Space University in Strasbourg, France.

By the way, Malaysia has a similar private university by the name of Malaysia University of Science and Technology ("MUST") which has been established since Dec 2000. Why not combined the efforts cohesively which will generate better economies of scale.

Really hope that this proposed Space Science University of Malaysia won't go down the same road as what MUST has gone through where MUST received financial assistance from the government when the plans couldn't 'take-off' as anticipated. I really wonder how well is MUST doing nowadays after reading MUST a flop of "smart partnership" with 10 students after 5 years.

Reading: RM6.1 Billion Space Science University Planned In Kota Tinggi - Bernama
Tags: Space Science University, Space, Space Science Education, Tertiary Education, Space Science University of Malaysia, Kota Tinggi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, International Space University