Thursday, 25 September 2008

World's Shortest Essay

This is a story of a 16 year old boy from New Hampshire , England who won the World's shortest essay competition. He was awarded a scholarship at the University of Harvard for his imagination and
humour ...

Here's an example of absolute brilliance....Shortest Essay:
An English university creative writing class was asked to write a concise essay containing the following elements:

1) Religion 2) Royalty 3) Sex 4) Mystery
The prize-winner wrote:
'My God,' said the Queen, 'I'm pregnant. I wonder who the father is'.

Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Social security in Kuching

I haven't been reading Sarawak based newspaper for the past months due to super 'attraction' to local politics movement which I normally view online.

Just happened that i picked up today's Eastern Times and basically there are 2 groups of news making local headline: Local political scene, Robbery and road accidents. Let me just summarise the robbery cases reported:

COMMON CASE: House break-in (under the sun light or under the moon light who cares!!!), snatching
NEW SCENARIO: A group of friends having meal at Open Market was robbed by 3 guys at knife point!!! KNN, just imagine you are robbed (and you are not alone!!!) while having meal at the most open and frequented by people.

Just happened that a friend of mine today shared this recent news in Kuching that protection money is being demanded from a local pub and upon friendly gestures of the pub manager who offered free drinks to the gangster instead of money, the poor fellow was beaten up and landed in ICU. This has been headlined in local chinese newspaper.

Where is social security nowadays?

My darling used to say, 'Honey, who are you going to have drinks tonight?' 'Friends lah, of course!', I replied. 'Don't stay up too late yah, many bad guys nowadays.', she said. 'Aiya I'm with friends mah. Where got alone? Why worry when I'm not alone? Go to Open market eat beef noodle and drink soya bean only', I lamented.

I think I'm having second thoughts now whenever I want to go out nowadays especially at night. It's very sad because Kuching, once a peaceful city is now a dungeon of robbers and gangsters. BTW, I felt sick after reading all these negative news. No wonder my buddies migrate to overseas one by one.

Are our authorities doing enough or have the crime rate increased exponentially? Are the punishment severe enough in order to deter the convicts committing the same case again?

Friday, 19 September 2008

Psychological effect

If you are always lamented as 'STUPID', 'STUPID' and 'STUPID' for any mistake that you have done, you are actually going through the process of accepting the psychological effect that you are STUPID which in actual fact that none of us are born stupid unless you think you are.

Our country is going through the process of changing the country premier and he has been pressured to hand over his job earlier than planned. Everywhere he goes he would be asked whether he would hand over his job earlier so in the end he is actually psychologically effected to hand over the job earlier though he initially stick to his plan consistently. Poor fella.

Friday, 12 September 2008

Paul Potts at Britain's Got Talent

Must Watch, Truly truly fantastic......

Watch this link and watch the judges faces. This is a story about a guy, a guy like most of us, common, questioning his existences, measuring himself to others, never believing in his abilities or his worth. Then one day, his passion outgrew his fears as he stepped onto a stage, a stage that took him to a place beyond his self imposed prison. Watch the faces of the judges as this guy walks out on the stage. You can almost see what they're thinking as they pre-judge this guy based on his looks and the fact that he's a cell phone salesman. Maybe this guy stopped believing in what people told him for so many years and ultimately started listening to his passion .

http://www.maniacworld.com/Phone-Salesman-Amazes-Crowd.html

Proof of global warming

you see you see.... ha, this is the proof :