Today it has been confirmed in the Star Online that Ipoh's airport will get a RM60 million extention of the runway and antoher facelift to the terminal building!  I have presented my views in many local newspaper and blogs about the waste of effort to  improve the present Ipoh Airport and have cited various reasons for it.  Of course, my opinion would fall on deaf ears as the ringing of money people can make from a huge project like this one will drive them deaf to other warnings!

The ADUN spoke of Perak's potential for tourism as one of the reasons (a weak one) for extending the runway to take in more flights.  Until and unless we have the tourists and that comes about when the Perak Government knows how to attract tourists by promoting and ensuring that all our tourists attractions are well maintained and kept, it is pointless to expand the airport first!  It is a case of the chicken and the egg but in this case, it is not so complex!  You can have the best airport in the world and the best attractions but when you do not develop the tourist attractions and promote it right, there will be no tourists and therefore no flights coming in and out of Ipoh Airport!

Secondly, these people keep on ignoring the danger posed by the airport as there are large housing projects all round the present airport since it was closed some time back, people started buying houses and developers kept on developing around the airport!  Should there by an accidental crash landing, many will DIE!

Ipoh is surrounded by high mountain ranges on both sides and dotted with limestone hills making landing rather limited!  Any bad weather situation will make it impossible to land and many flights have been diverted to other airports and many passengers standed!  Are we still going ahead with a 'dead' airport?  Whose brilliant idea is this?  Let us have the feasibility study report?  Is this the BN election gimmick?  I thought when the PR govt. wanted to bring in Firefly it was a sheer waste of time and money, subsidizing that airline to fly into Ipoh and all!, but to extend the runway is more stupid!

Wah!  Gone lah Ipoh and Perak when we have such people in power!

Malaysia drew 2-2 with Austria in the 2010 World Cup Hockey Qualifiers.

You bunch of nerves have to entertain New Zealand and China and I expect Malaysia to lose to both teams.

Therefore, I feel shy even if you win the gold medal at LAOS Sea Games because you all are a bunch of JAGUH KAMPUNG!

Please do not play in qualifiers anymore because Malaysia should qualify without going through qualifying rounds.

Shy Shy Shy!!!

At last, government scraps end-of life policy for vehichles more than 15 years old without sending it to Puspakom for checking every year. It could save a lot of waiting time for vehicle inspection and save money for owners.

However, is that enough? Is that trully scraps end-of-life policy? How about ban the import of used spare parts? Without having enough spare parts in the country, the owner are 'forced' to change their car too. For those who have lower income, how are they able to get new car especially paying the car loan? As we know, Malaysia car is not cheap by compare relatively to our income.

If the car have faulty parts but four wheels still running, unable to get spare part to replace it and unable to get new car, i believe the owner will still continue drive his old car. This is trully cause higher chances involve in accident. Dont forget also, many cars on the road are imported including Mercedes.

Apologize for being demanding.

i havent' been posting due to a slight problem i had.

i believe i had a bun in the oven for ages already but i refuse to believe it.

 

I am ashamed of wat i am doing and i have not informed my company that i am in this state.

 

wat should i do? I also havent contacted my best fren for ages..

 

loss for wordz..signing Angie

Guys,guys,guys please be united.You guys going after each other neck is not going to do any good, but it will give the enemy more oppornutity to suck us all dry!!!!

So dont blame anybody but ourselves if you guys cant even be united!! So sad!!!!

When are you guys gonna wake UP!

Sometime ago, someone I knew (from over a decade ago) became a victim of a sexual crime. Here is the story as heard from the "grapevine".

This person was in her early 20s and a Uni student who loved socialising and spending time clubbing on weekends. Needless to say, she did not lead a very "proper" lifestyle but being young and all and being a true KL-ite youngster, she enjoyed her social lifestyle and the hordes of male admirers she had. Needless to say that she was quite pretty and knows how to dress and groom herself well. Her family was quite well off.

One night, after her usual clubbing haunt, she was sexually attacked by some males of her acquaintance who were heavily intoxicated from the clubbing. Shaking and traumatized, she called an older female friend whom she knew to be a responsible and mature person, to pick her up for she was afraid to call her parents. After some persuasion from that female friend, they went to the police station to report the incident.

There were a handful of officers manning the station at the wee hours of the morning when they arrived but they were served by 2 officers - a male officer and a female officer. The male officer took one look at her and sneered,
"Kena rogol, ya?" The young lady nodded, still shaking, while her older friend spoke on her behalf to lodge the report.

The female officer with a "Why do you borther me at this hour with this" attitude, prepared to write the report but heartlessly commented, "You pakai macam itu, pandan kena rogol."

That shocked both females who went to report the incident. Sure, the young lady did dress "sexily" for the clubbing and her lifestyle was not commendable, but to be judging a victim of a sexual crime was below basic humanity. The young female learned the hard way the consequences of her lifestyle and dressing but it was hardly appropriate nor the right of a police officer to be making comments that further discouraged the victim from coming forward.

The male officer even added " Apasal keluar sampai pagi buta? Mana bapak you?" followed by innuendos that what happened was the victim's fault and that the victim "enjoyed" male attentions.

A sexual crime victim went to the police station to report a sexual crime only to be lectured and judged by the police officers for being the victim! Amazing! Would anyone be surprised that not all sexual crime victims step out and reported the crime when the authorities themselves have little compassion towards the victims? And to think that even FEMALE officers were as dis-compassionate as their male counterparts when dealing with sexual crime cases further indicates that there was little sympathy for victims of sexual crimes from the authorities.

Despite being lectured by the officers, the victim in this case proceeded to lodge the report due to the strong support of her female friend. After this incident, the victim had stopped her clubbing ways and had turned over a new leaf. Sure, some people learn the hard way but that does not mean they should be judged for it when they became victims. It was at their lowest that they need our support and understanding, not judgment and condemnation. I do believe that if it wasn't for the strong support from her female friend that night, the victim would not have reported the incident and the victim might even tried something stupid on herself (eg suicide). What was done was done! The authority should divert their attention towards catching the perpetrators instead of lecturing and judging the victim.

I do not know if this is a stand-alone case and I hope this story does not reflect the general attitude of authorities towards sexual crimes. To solve and prevent sexual crimes, we must first have victims willingly coming forward and reporting it. Any factors that may discourage victims from coming forward or for people to cooperate in solving those crimes should be addressed immediately!

Beware of Garbage Trucks
By David J. Pollay

David J. Pollay wrote The Law of the Garbage Truck™ after an experience he had in a New York City taxicab nineteen years ago.  David has made it his mission to share The Law of the Garbage Truck™ philosophy with as many people as possible. 

How often do you let other people's nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive colleague ruin your day? Unless you're a robot, you are bound to blow your top off. However, the mark of a sucessful person is how quickly he or she can get back his or her focus on what's important.  Sixteen years ago, I learned this lesson. I learn it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here's what happened .

I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car's back end by just inches!

The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us.

My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean he was really friendly. So, I said, "Why did you do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!"

And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now called, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck'.

Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. If they happen to dump it on you, don't take it personally.

You just smile, wave, wish them well, and moved on. You'll be happier if you did that rather than fight them.

So this was it: 'The Law of the Garbage Truck'.

www.bewareofgarbagetrucks.com

I started thinking, how often do I let garbage trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people: at work, at home, on the street? It was that day I said, "I'm not going to do it anymore." I see garbage trucks everywhere and everyday. I see the load they're carrying. I see them coming to drop it off. And like my taxi driver, I don't make it a personal thing; I just smile, wave, wish them well, and I move on.

Good leaders know they have to be ready for their next meeting.

Good parents know they have to welcome their kids home from school with hugs and kisses.

Teachers and parents know that they have to be fully present and at their best for the people they care about.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.

What about you? What would happen in your life, starting today, if you let more garbage trucks pass you by?

Here's my bet. You'll be happier.

So ... love the people who treat you right.
Forget about the ones who don't.
Believe that every thing happens for a reason.
If you get a chance, TAKE IT!
If it changes your life, LET IT!
Nobody said it would be easy ....
They just promised it would be WORTH IT Cheers!

"Life is short. Enjoy the journey."

According to the Ten Commandments, or the Decalogue followed by all Abrahamic religions:

"Thou Shalt Not Take the Lord God's Name in Vain..."

A more accurate word for word translation would be,

"You shall not make wrongful use of the Name of the Lord your God.."

The wrongful use of the Name of God is not just to speak the Name of God in vain but also to use it for purposes that does not serve God.

God has many Names in many tongues.

So does Satan and all the Angels and Demons.

It makes no difference what language/tongue you use to call God, it is the heart and the intention that matters.

Man has politicized the Name of God. They believe that it belongs to them or their religion or organization, but not to God. Some clever ones even said the Name of God belongs to God but that God belong to their religion!

Would that then, by logic be, a disobedience of the "Thou Shalt not take the Name of Your God in Vain"?

The wrongful use of His Name in this case, is the use of His Name for the glory of men and their religions and not for the Glory of God.

It is a sad and shameful day that men had degraded so much that they no longer believe the Name of God belongs to God but rather that it belongs to their religion or particular organization.

Again, this comes back to the issue of ownership, as highlighted in one of my previous blog. Men has been wrestling with ownership issues with God since the fall of Adam & Eve. Now, the issue has gone to greater degree with the use of religion and religious doctrines to justify the ownership of men. Satan has indeed effectively made use of religion to blind men against God.

No matter how different the theology and teachings of the main 3 Abrahamic religions are, you must agree that we all worship the One God - the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob. The great I AM.

Please, people, can't God at least has His Name when you had all claimed everything from Him????

Stop this useless bickering. No sides will win. All sides will only lose. And the only one winning in this issue is Satan.

Brothers & Sisters in Judaism, in Christ and in Islam - remember who our true enemy is and stop fighting each other just because we had decided to worship and believe in God in different ways. Set aside your human concerns and set your sight to God. Call Him what you will, but remember that His Name belongs to Him and Him only and that all His children has the same right to call Him by His Name.

After my  exam ended, I quickly rolled out of the exam hall gasping for air. Well, my second exam is now over. Though as I was walking down the stairs I spotted one of my friend holding a smoke. Well, I know that it is normal to see people smoking around, but I never did thought he out of all people would be holding up a box of smoke in his left hand and puffing out grey smoke using his right.

I was shocked to see him holding a blue cool mint smoke box so casually. Maybe it's just me, but I'd never thought he would actually smoke.

Hey, call me a discriminator towards smokers but I do not want to end my life with lung cancer. What makes it worse is when you just want to have a meal peacefully, and as casual as everyone else, a smoker lands his behind right beside you spreading all "tobacco fun" around.

I remember being a participant in a camp when I first joined in. There were about 7 smokers out of a hundred high school kids there. The best part came where when we went outdoors and were asked to do push-up until all seven smokers admitted themselves. Yes, it was bad.

I remember calling my mother before dinner that day saying, "Mummy, did you send me to the wrong camp? I think I'm in a military camp. I can't lift my hands anymore!"

Though, imagine if out of 100 teenagers in high school, 7 of them are smoking. What about when teens go out after high school and turn legal to buy smokes themselves?

What makes a person start smoking? Stress? Peer pressure? Oral Fixation?

I understand that the first puff taken would most likely cause a cognitive dissonance inside. The mind would most likely be going "I know this is wrong but... I'm stressed." Two different self-concepts clashing with each other, one knowing it is wrong and the other wanting to just smoke. Though, don't forget that the more you start puffing, the more cognitions you will find to support taking another puff.

Oral fixation as an excuse? Puh-lese... go bite your nails, you can't kill anyone that way. Probably a bleeding finger, but you're saving the world.

If you're peers are pesking you to smoke, and you know it is wrong. You are not in the wrong then, they are. They have no right to force a smoke onto you, if they are and you know it is wrong, LEAVE.
No one in this world can force you to do something without your choice in complying into it.

Stress? Go let it out in the arcade or something. Humans created computer games for a reason.

Well, as how Frued would put it, "sometimes smoking is just smoking"

It's just smoking. It's just you're life. It's just that you're second hand smoke can cause infants to not wake up the next morning.

It's you're choice. You hold the solution out there.

Probably the best solution ever given by Dr. Anasuya, if you feel the urge to smoke, just suck on a pen. You won't cause anyone to die that way.

Also known as EFT. A forgotten ancient heeling technique now reintroduced for the new age. Two experts, Gary Craig whom focus on health and Margaret Lynch in creating intentional wealth. I have also spoken about this latent power in one of my post The Power of Intention (which embarrassingly did not receive any reviews). I’ve read some posts here on Cancer and depressed state of emotion and I think it is really no waste of time or money to check them out.

Gary claims EFT is a powerful new discovery that combines two well established sciences so you can benefit from both at the same time:

• Mind Body Medicine
• Acupuncture (without needles).

In essence, EFT is an emotional version of acupuncture wherein we stimulate certain meridian points by tapping on them with our fingertips. This addresses a new cause for emotional issues (unbalanced energy meridians). Properly done, this frequently reduces the therapeutic process from months or years down to hours or minutes. And, since emotional stress can contribute to pain, disease and physical ailments, we often find that EFT provides astonishing physical relief.

Gary Craig's EFT

In Margaret’s course however, she promises that just through her free video, you will learn:

• Why it is VITAL for you to set big, juicy goals that you don’t even believe you can achieve right now (don’t worry, within a few minutes of watching this video, you’ll shift that)…
• A laser-focused method to find your key resistance points to your goal (your resistance is there, guaranteed)…
• A super-fast, kind of crazy-looking method of exploding you out of your current limited thinking.
• Why your “positive affirmations” may NOT be the best way to start manifesting your goal…
• How you got stuck in your “Wealth Set Point” and how to blow past that internal limiting number.
• Why you should DOUBLE your current income goal…if you have a goal at all… (Did you know that 95% of all people DON’T even have a written income goal?)
• …and much more…in only 20 minutes of your time…

You can also download both of their PDF copy from my resource center. Click on Free E-Book. You can also check out more than 40 free self-enrichment and health books, take all you want, have a field day. If you would like to contribute any other book, send them to alithome@gmal.com and I’ll upload it. Make sure they have free distribution rights.

Be well, Ali Karim

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