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Upgrading to Sexier, Touchier Handy Mate

If guys could have girlfriends like having the cellphones - extension of our hands to accomplish many things, and completely upgradable to new sexier, even irresistible version.

Three or four years ago, we were all happy with 2-megapixel cameras embedded into our phones--it was enough to get a pretty good picture, record a VGA-resolution movie, basically capture moments you'd otherwise never photograph because you take your cellphone to more places than your camera. But then the megapixel count began to creep higher.

There was the 5-megapixel LG KG920 and Sony Ericsson K850. Samsung's SCH-V770 pushed the figure to 7. Some kind of barrier was then broken and over the last year or so there was a flurry of 8-megapixel devices: the Sony Ericsson C905, the LG KC780 and KC910, the Samsung SPH-V8200--which was reportedly the first--and many others.

How many of us print out our pictures bigger than a standard letter-sized piece of paper? For that, you need only around a 6- to 7-megapixel image for that task--anything higher adds detail you will never see. For the standard 6 x 4-inch photo, about 5-megapixels will do. And that's just printing them out: To show photos on the HDTVs now beginning to grace Malaysians' homes, you need a maximum of 2.1-megapixels, and the average digital photoframe will do VGA resolution--that's 640 x 480, or only 0.3-megapixels.

And now 12-megapixel phones are here!

An an iPhone 4G that's not an Apple iPhone. It has an interesting, if excessive-sounding 12-megapixel camera there, looking like a super-slim pocket digital cam. It's powerful too, with masterpiece Schneider-Kreuznach optics, autofocus and a 3200 ISO rating. It's also got a proper xenon flash. And it records video in 720p HD. It's too iPhoney.

The handset comes complete with a new feature dubbed Intellizoom. Other camera stuff include ISO up to 3200, camera images geo-tagging and zero shutter lag, which presumably means images will be taken as fast as with a dedicated digital camera.

LG GC990 specs include:

• 3.2 inch touchscreen display with 16 million colors and unknown resolution
• S-Class Touch UI
• Accelerometer for UI auto-rotate
• Wi-Fi with DLNA
• GPS and A-GPS
• Bluetooth
• Wi-Fi with DLNA,
• camera images geo-tagging and zero shutter lag, which presumably means images will be taken as fast as with a dedicated digital camera
• TV-out
• DivX and Xvid video formats support.

LG GC990 Louvre's 12.1MP camera features autofocus, plus:

• Schneider Kreuznach lens
• ISO up to 3200
• Xenon flash
• Intellizoom and Touch Focus
• HD (1280 x 720 pixels) video recording at 30fps

Manufacturers should instead, spend all that R&D money improving the optics, autofocus and flash on the poor-performing models we already have, and let us buy a cellphone that takes great photos, irrespective of how many pixels it has.

And guys can stick to a single girlfriend without having to change to a new upgraded version.

Hot Agnes Monica at Bidayuh Gawai Festival?

How Bidayuhs Measure Up Today

If Agnes Monica's hot statistics are to reveal anything, it would be that many rural Bidayuhs also do not have enough clothing to cover their bodies. But Agnes Monica's exposure is nothing compared to UNDP statistics that reveal communities living in rural areas of Sarawak are among the worse off when compared to the rest of the country, and often face considerable hardships including securing land rights and other basic rights to development.

Many of the state’s communities such as the Bidayuh have, relatively low human capital, lack ready access to basic amenities and facilities, and because the physical infrastructure is underdeveloped in the areas where they live, they remain poorly connected to markets.

We know that for a strong Sarawak, we need quality human capital across races including minority groups such as the Bidayuh. However, our education system today is failing us. Quality health care fail to reach the majority of Sarawakians who are in the rural areas. GDP growth is concentrated only in major towns, not in the rural areas where most Sarawakians are.

The Bidayuh and other Dayak people have seen escalating erosion to their land tenure held under Sarawak Native Customary Rights (NCR), from first massive logging, and then giant plantations and dam building have robbed many Dayak communities of their land. Without land, the physical survival and the survival of their cultural traditions and ethnic identity are threatened.

Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation (AIPP) secretary-general Joan Carling urged Malaysia to take up the recommendation by other countries such as Mexico, which raised the issue of poor human rights record with regards to indigenous communities during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) hearing in Geneva last year.

She said indigenous groups in Malaysia had long been fighting for their right to their native territories, and these struggles continue today. Although Malaysia adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in September 2007, there has been no real change on the ground to address the land-grab issue affecting many indigenous people, such as the Bidayuh.

Bidayuhs are a minority indigenous group in Sarawak. There are about 169,000 Bidayuhs, who constitute some 8% of the state’s population. Most of them live in Kuching, Padawan, Serian, Bau and Lundu areas in the 1st Division.

Bidayuh today remain one of the marginalized indigenous minority groups in Malaysia and represent a population of those living below poverty line. Like the other Dayaks, living mostly in the vast rural areas of Sarawak, many still live without basic amenities such as roads, jetties, clinics, treated drinking water, and electricity. Time for them has stood still since independence in 1963.

Issues of the Bidayuh Today
While the rest of the majority races in Malaysia progress in terms of socio-economic and education, the Bidayuh remain in the fringes of development and some Bidayuh communities live in poverty. Critical and urgent issues facing Bidayuh include:

1. Land are not titled and unaware of their rights under common law. Native Customary Rights land has been taken over by the state government for sale and development at any time. As Bidayuh are still dependent on subsistence farming, titled land is necessary to progress to modern farming.
2. Bidayuh participation in both the traditional and modern businesses are poor. This is hampered by limited business opportunity, highly dependent on public spending and government projects and poor networking. Some small sized firms made some inroads in small-scale construction sectors. However, none appears to be able to sustain their business due to easy entry and hence are very competitive.
3. Bidayuh form a large portion of the hardcore poor in Sarawak, living in poor housing with insufficient food supply and lack of access to quality health care, communication and transportation.
4. As most Bidayuh live in the rural areas, they are receiving the poorer quality of education than what people in the urban schools are getting. While good early childhood education is critical to the development of children, rural children are not getting pre-school development that urban children are getting. This leaves Bidayuh children to continue to lag behind others in education.
5. The high number of Bidayuh children not getting entrance into public institutions of higher learning, give rise to more Bidayuh children being left behind in the knowledge economy.

What Bidayuh Need to Achieve Equal Progress
There is widespread resentment among Bidayuh that they continue to be marginalized and continue to be left on the fringes of development. To achieve equal progress with other races, equal opportunities and privileges must be given to Bidayuh. The following are critical for the state government to provide the Bidayuh in order to achieve progress:

1. Immediate halt to indiscriminate acquisition of untitled native land by the state government.

2. Expedite the issuing of titles to all native land.

3. Allocate native land that have been designated as state land to Bidayuh families as temporary occupation for a minimum of 60 years for the purpose of modern farming. Land not developed within 3 years are to be taken back and allocated to other families.

4. Establish a well-funded and appropriately staffed Farming Program for Bidayuh that will among other things, do the following:

• Provide financial aid to Bidayuh families to develop their land for modern farming. Access to the aid must be easy and mechanism for repayment must also be easy.
• In addition to providing financial aid, the government must also provide quality professional assistance to upgrade the knowledge and skills of Bidayuh families on modern farming.
• Encourage Young People to Become Farmers: The Farming Program will establish a new program to identify and train the next generation of farmers. The program will also provide incentives to make it easier for new farmers to afford their first farm.
• Encourage Organic and Local Agriculture: The Farming Program for Bidayuh will help organic farmers afford to certify their crops and will also promote regional food systems.
• Strong Safety Net for Family Farmers: The Farming Program for Bidayuh will provide family farmers with stability and predictability and strengthen producer protections to ensure family farmers have fair access to markets, control over their production decisions, and transparency in prices.
• Support Small Business Development: The Farming Program for Bidayuh will provide capital for family farmers to create value-added enterprises, like cooperative marketing initiatives and farmer-owned processing plants. They also will establish a small business and micro-enterprise initiative for rural Bidayuh kampongs.
• Improve Rural Education for Bidayuh: From the moment our children step into a classroom, the single most important factor in determining their achievement is their teacher. To improve the quality of education that Bidayuh children are receiving, the state government must provide incentives for talented individuals to enter the teaching profession, including increased pay for teachers who work in rural areas.

The government must create a Rural Revitalization Program to attract and retain young people to rural Bidayuh kampongs. More quality community colleges should be created and increase research and educational funding for community colleges in Bidayuh areas. Early childhood development centres must be established in Bidayuh kampongs and staffed by only trained and qualified professionals. The government must ensure all rural Bidayuh children have access to pre-school; provide affordable and high-quality child care that will promote child development and ease the burden on working families.

The government must ensure competent, effective teachers in rural schools that are organized for success. The government should provide service scholarships to recruit and prepare teachers who commit to working in underserved Bidayuh dominated districts. To support teachers, the government must foster ongoing improvements in teacher education, provide mentoring for beginning teachers, create incentives for shared planning and learning time for teachers. To retain teachers, the government must support career pathways that provide ongoing professional development and reward accomplished teachers for their expertise. An initiative must be taken to help eliminate teacher shortages in hard-to-staff areas and subjects, improve teacher retention rates, strengthen teacher preparation programs, improve professional development, and better utilize and reward accomplished teachers.

6. Increase the number of seats for Bidayuh students in public institutions of higher learning: In order for the Bidayuh community to come to equal progress in education with other races, more places should be allocated for the Bidayuh students in local public colleges and universities.

7. Improve Health Care for Bidayuh Communities: Rural health care providers are often less experienced and do not have access to the latest medical and healthcare practices in order to deliver the best clinical outcome. Rural folks have to come to Kuching city to get better medical treatment and that is often when illness become more serious. The government must increase rural access to quality care by promoting health information technologies like telemedicine and staff rural clinics and hospitals with more experienced and better trained physicians and nurses. A Nurse-Family Partnership should be established to all Bidayuh, first-time mothers each year. The Nurse-Family Partnership provides home visits by trained registered nurses to Bidayuh expectant mothers and their families in Bidayuh kampongs.

8. Establish a Bidayuh Business Development Assistance Program: As Bidayuh community lags far behind in participation in business and entrepreneurship, the Bidayuh need specific business development assistance. The assistance program will include allocation of government infrastructure projects to Bidayuh community, allocation of business premises in strategic locations and access to financial aid and grants. Rural infrastructure projects must be allocated to local Bidayuh contractors.

9. Expand Access to Jobs: The government must invest in transitional jobs and career pathway programs that implement proven methods of helping low-income Bidayuh succeed in the workforce. The government must also create a program to directly engage disadvantaged youth in job opportunities to strengthen their communities, while also providing them with practical skills in important high-growth career field.

10. Establish At Least 20 Promise Bidayuh Kampongs: The government must create at least 20 Promise Bidayuh Kampongs in areas that have high levels of poverty and low levels of student academic achievement in Bidayuh dominated districts. The Promise Bidayuh Kampongs have a full network of services, including early childhood education, youth development efforts and after-school activities, to an entire kampong from birth to college.

The government should work with community and business leaders to identify and address the unique economic development barriers of every one of the 20 Promise Bidayuh Kampongs. The government will provide additional resources to address community needs.

The government, by implementing all of the above with full commitment on a sustainable basis, can help bring the Bidayuh community on equal progress with other races. As Bidayuh progress, Sarawak and the nation thrives. The nation will be strengthened for further prosperity.

PLKN - Icon of Malaysia's Failed Education System

The Malaysian Nation Service Camp or PLKN is a symbolic icon of our failed education system. The main objectives of the program are to instill patriotism among the younger generation, enhance unity and national integrity and to develop participant's character. These are the same objectives of our schools, but how is that 11 years of schooling cannot achieve what a 3-month camp intends to achieve?

Our nation continue to have racial polarization and our crime and corruption rates continue to increase. All these while the BN government continues spend good money on the wrong things. The costs of our mistakes and abuses today will become even more costly for our future generations to correct.

As the government continues to spend enormous amount of taxpayer money to try to rectify what our schools fail to do, owners of the PLKN camps continue amass wealth from the PLKN contracts. It is obvious that this is a scheme of wealth distribution to enrich cronies of political party leaders and eventually fund the political machinery. Guess who are the owners of the national service camps all over the country.

Now we are degenerating into a worst of situation with the government making failure to attend the camp an offence.

In the process of making the failure to attend National Service Training an offence, the amendments to replace imprisonment and fine with community service does not make an unfair law morally justified.

Although the amendments to replace the existing penalties for a person who is absent without leave from national service training from imprisonment or a fine to community service is welcomed, the main complaint is that failure to attend remains an offence.

According to the Hansard, Najib Abdul Razak as the Defence Minister in tabling the Act on June 25 2003 said that the objectives of the Act is to enhance the patriotic spirit of the younger generation, to improve unity among the races, improve national integration and help in character building.

The Defence Minister made it clear that the programme is ala Malaysia and is not military training. Therefore, not attending a three-month camp does not harm any person and is not a threat to the nation. There is thus no justification for making it an offence.

The Defence Minister in moving the Act said that in order to ensure the success of the programme it is necessary to make it compulsory for those selected to attend and to provide for penalties to enforce the attendance.

This is where the government and Parliament fell into error. It has caused the Act to become an instrument of oppression and injustice.

An example of this injustice is the case of Ahmad Hafizal Amad Faudzi. He admitted guilty to the charge of committing an offence under section 18(1) of the Act for not attending the National Service Training Programme.

No moral and legal justification

He was 18 years old. He had stopped schooling after Form Two to help support his mother and brothers when his father divorced his mother. He was the sole bread winner of the family. He would like to attend the training but he needed to feed his family.

Ahmad Hafizal Ahmad Faudzi was fined RM600.00 in default imprisonment for 14 days. He chose imprisonment because he did not have the money to pay the fine.

What is the moral and legal justification for putting this boy in prison? What has he done that society deems to be improper. No right thinking member of a civilised society would condemn a child who prefers to support his family and not go to camp as improper conduct.

Ahmad Hafizal Ahmad Faudzi did not do any wrong. It is the government and the Members of Parliament who approved the Act and made it an offence that committed a wrong.

Ahmad Hafizal is not the only person who is charged under the Act. According to the Auditor-General’s report, as at December 2007, three persons have been charged, 3,856 cases are under investigation and 751 cases have been referred to the Deputy Public Prosecutor for charges to be preferred.

It is a recognised right of a person to life. This is enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights and also the Federal Constitution. This is also embodied in the Penal Code as the right of self defence. No person can be forced to risk his life and injury.

In the five years that this National Service Training Program has been implemented we have received reports of the following:

1) 17 trainees have been killed.

2) On Feb 28, 2004, a 17-year-old female trainee was raped by an instructor.

3) Hundreds of trainees have suffered sickness ranging from food poisoning to various diseases.

4) Trainees have been bullied and beaten up.

Instructors are not qualified

The Auditor-General in his 2007 Report stated as follows:

1) Instructors are not qualified. There are instructors who do not have the necessary experience and expertise.

2) The locations of the training camps are unsuitable and the facilities inadequate. There is a camp that does not have running water and is dependent on the river for its water supply. The Beringin Beach Resort Langkawi is flooded when the tide comes in.

3) Trainees’ uniforms do not meet specifications and quality. And many other problems.

There are thus undisputable facts that the National Service Training Programme is not only unsatisfactory but poses a risk to lives and limbs of the trainees.

Although the government spent billions of ringgit each year, the problems and risks have not been eliminated. They are real and they are deadly. The parents of the trainees have therefore justifiably lost confidence in the programme.

Jane Lim is another example where the Act has become an instrument of injustice. Her parents requested for her to be exempted from National Service Training on the ground that her brother, Ricky, had been killed nine days after attending the National Service Training Programme.

This was rejected. Her parents have not been able to come to terms with the loss of their son and are not prepared to risk their only surviving child in the programme.

Under the Act, Jane Lim and her parents commit an offence. What is the legal and moral justification for parents carrying out their duties of protecting their children to become an offence?

The Act has failed

A law that requires parents to be in default of their responsibilities to protect the lives and limbsof their children cannot be legal and moral.

The Act has failed. The programme has become an instrument of injustice. The proposed amendments do not resolve the problems of the National Service Training Programme.

Instead of building a patriotic spirit it has created disharmony, suffering and grief. The government must realise that not all programmes must be enforced by the use of force.

The carrot and stick approach cannot be used all the time and this programme is one of them. Sometimes, programmes such as this can be carried out successfully other than by using the stick.

It is better to be carried out by providing incentives such as scholarships or grants. In moving the amendments, the Barisan Nasional government has missed a golden opportunity to correct the mistakes of the National Service Training Programme.

Malaysian parents and the children unfortunate enough to be selected by the computer shall have to continue to suffer grief and sorrow until the unjust law is abolished or if the government is changed.

Source: Lina Soo http://linasoo.com/blog/?p=1212

Butter, Woman's Legs & Learning, What's Common?

Butter, woman's legs and learning have one thing in common - GOOD WHEN SPREAD!

YouTube EDU and Academic Earth have done well in spreading learning.

This is welcome news for students and families around the world who have had little educational choice in the past, except that provided by the public sector. It is globalisation bringing education to students across the world, shortening the distance between countries and bringing quality lectures to emerging and developed nations.

Given that we are entering into the Web 2.0 era, Google has an opportunity to go further in upsetting status quo. It can do so by launching, in tandem with YouTube EDU, contests and small prizes for students to enrich the core material.

Opportunities for improvement include creating and sharing translations, mini-case studies, transcriptions, and slides to accompany the courses. Winners of such contests can be chosen through a combination of peer voting and expert review to ensure accuracy of the proposed enhancements.

Precedents exist for engaging students from poor communities in creation of eLearning resources. At http://www.openworld.com and http://www.entrepreneurialschools.com, sample YouTube clips and online work-study research projects show what students in extremely impoverished, war-torn areas of the world can do in response to small (USD30) microscholarships, vouchers, and prizes.

Billons of camera phones capable of recording and sharing short video clips are heading to impoverished areas of the world in the next few years.

If YouTube EDU opts to encourage co-creation opportunities for students, a wealth of new eLearning resources may be generated by media-capable students who are now shortchanged by 19th century-style schools.

This may create an grassroots opportunity for new, market-sensitive learning ventures to flourish.

In line with its “Education anywhere and anytime” vision, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) imparts on students, courses on public health, art, music and various other subjects through mobile phones. IGNOU now serves about 1.8 million students in India and 32 countries abroad through 21 Schools of Studies and an elaborate network of 58 Regional centres, 1804 study centres, and 49 overseas centres.

Looking at the mobile phone penetration in Malaysia, we can think of using the medium to impart education. Education and technology cannot be seen separately. Following IGNOU's steps in spreading learning to rural India, Malaysia can likewise, take education, especially vocational education, to our kampongs through mobile handsets.

IGNOU believes in imparting quality education to the masses. These easily accessible modules would be implemented in collaboration with the Communication and Manufacturing Association of India. The courses are offered through text, video and graphics mode. IGNOU would also provide public health courses on nutrition, public health, AIDS awareness, and many other educational contents. Furthermore, students do not have to pay anything extra for the new service.

YouTube EDU launched, on 26 March 2009, an educational hub “volunteer project sparked by a group of employees who wanted to find a better way to collect and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities”. The site is aggregating videos from dozens of colleges and universities, ranging from lectures to student films to athletic events. Some of this stuff is solid gold (the Stanford and MIT lectures are really good).

Academic Earth is an organization building a platform for video and other educational resources from top universities, think tanks, and conferences. The company has the stated goal of “giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.”

Academic Earth offers 60 full courses and 2,395 total lectures (almost 1300 hours of video) from Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Princeton that can be browsed by subject, university, or instructor through a user-friendly interface. Additionally, editors have compiled lectures from different speakers into Playlists such as “Understanding the Financial Crisis” and “First Day Of Freshman Year.” The site also features a roster of famous guest lecturers on entrepreneurship and technology including Larry Page, Carol Bartz, Tim Draper, Elon Musk, and Guy Kawasaki.

These aren't radically new ideas. Fora.TV and BigThink both offer intellectual video content online. iTunes U hosts a lot of university content as well. Unlike Big Think, Academic Earth isn’t creating original content, it’s just repurposing existing academic content. And Fora.TV seems to focus more on speeches and public lectures. But Academic Earth has the right plan around providing free course lectures. You can watch an entire semester’s worth of lectures in a few days.

Spread the learning! Butter the loaf!

The Hottest Stimuli For Sarawak's Economy

What's more stimulating than revealing, eye-catching sizes? To citizens of nations today, nothing is more stimulating than the revelation & size of economic stimulus being formulated by their governments to minimize the impact of global recession.

But like the stimulus of revealing sizes, short-term economic stimulus cannot sustain the feel-good moments.

The 12 new dams to be built in Sarawak under SCORE could well be the erectile dysfunction of a 12 inch possession. Sarawakians concerned with the well-being of the future generations to come must seriously think about what is really needed.

I am recommending that the hottest stimuli for Sarawak's future prosperity is investment in innovation, not in another dam. Failure to do so, future Sarawakians will be beggars in their own land despite the wealth of natural resources today. Because besides Korea, Japan and Taiwan, China & India will be important centers of innovation in the coming decades, leaving Sarawakians to live on scraps in the region.

Not only are both China & India producing a rising share of key technological innovations, but they are also pioneering innovations in business models that allow their companies to prosper in low-income markets. These new models tend to be capital light while heavily leveraging technology. The companies employing them produce goods and services at surprisingly low cost and use the vast scale of home markets to create new technology standards. These are practices that companies in neighboring nations will need to watch closely as they attempt to grow their competitiveness and as they meet new competitors from both countries in global markets.

Education levels are rising in both countries. China and India have world-class technical universities and produce a steady flow of talent at the top of the world’s academic pyramid. In addition, both cultures reward entrepreneurial risk taking. Innovators in China and India possess immense drive and desire to succeed. Their commitment and focus on business execution make them notable entrepreneurs on the global stage. It helps that both China and India allow successful people to retain much of the wealth they create, though both governments expect contributions back to broader society from those who become millionaires or even billionaires.

What is the situation in Sarawak? Firstly, our education system is failing us, educating us out of our inherent creativity. As the government builds infrastructure in the rural areas, GDP growth remains in the urban. Indigenous technologies is unheard of, not even in the farming or timber sectors which are the main economic activities in the state. In Sarawak, revenues from natural resources can be allocated to the benefit of seeding innovations rather than being pocketed by a few individuals.

India's flexible local entrepreneurs are creating new models that bake in low-income levels. ICICI Bank is a good example. Making intensive use of technology, it has created a banking model with capital outlays that are one-tenth those of banks in the developed world. ICICI reaches deeply into India’s rural areas using mobile ATMs and simplified Internet banking. It runs a booming and profitable business in remittances at fee levels that undercut Western Union by 70 percent. Health Management Research Institute (HMRI), meanwhile, uses technology to revolutionize medical services. Paramedics rove through rural areas in vans coordinated by GPS. Routine ailments can be efficiently diagnosed with the help of algorithms; more difficult diagnoses can be provided by remote medical experts via a video kiosk in each van. HMRI can already serve over 50 million patients.

China selects and invests in what it believes are next-generation sectors—biotechnology, electric vehicles, and clean energy. These are markets where China’s domestic demand could lead the world. The government’s goal is to accelerate the market’s development and nurture national champions. In telecom, where the Chinese market is already one of the world’s largest, the government is encouraging national standards that it hopes will eventually define the global industry.

Can Sarawak build & sustain China's & India's innovation pace and eventually move to the next level of technological innovation? Absolutely. The talent is there, as are capital and effective new government that encourages it. With stronger protection and rewards for intellectual property — a likely development as international companies begin to license technology from Sarawakian entrepreneurs — the stage will be set for the next step forward.

Sarawak must wake up to the realization that investing in innovation is more critical than the 12 dams. The most innovative countries — which will also be the highest earning in the future — will be those that embrace a model of “innovation economics,” which places technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship at the center of economic policymaking. Successful nations will not be content to wait for innovation to happen or expect it to occur as a byproduct of other activities, such as rural development or dam building.

On the contrary: the new leaders will search out innovation and actively create an environment that nurtures it. That is the job description of Sarawak's new leaders when Pakatan Rakyat takes over from BN.

Sources: Alessi, IDEO, NASSCOM, ADB, Global Institute for Human Capital Development

Borneo Hosts Anything-Goes Sex Club

Killing Kittens, you may have heard, is not in Borneo. It is an exclusive members-only sex club run by and targeted at women and couples, and held in opulent splendour — a business that sells itself as a playpen for “the world’s sexual elite”. The business owner had chosen to profit from women by creating an environment for them to have sex with men. Read more about Killing Kittens here.

Now, the Sarawak government is like the Killing Kitten - also an exclusive members-only club, run by politicians who have chosen to profit from raping the fragile and beautiful rainforests. Twelve dams will cut through virgin land and displace thousands of native Dayak people,threatening rare animals and plants.

Teams from the China Three Gorges Project Corporation are at work on the first of the 12 new dams at Murum, deep in the interior, from where Sarawak’s great rivers uncoil towards the South China Sea. The state government says the dams are the first stage of a “corridor of renewable energy” that will create 1.5m jobs through industries powered by safe, clean hydro-electricity.

The dams would slice across a vast sweep of Sarawak, a place where wisps of cloud cling to remote, tree-clad peaks, huge butterflies flit through the foliage and orang-utans, sun bears and leopards roam.

Critics argue that Sarawak does not need more electricity. It produces a 20% surplus and there is as yet no cable to deliver power to peninsular Malaysia – which itself generates more energy than it needs.

Company records filed with the Malaysia stock exchange show that a big beneficiary of the policy is a firm whose shareholders and directors include the wife and family of Abdul Taib Mahmud, Sarawak’s chief minister.

Taib, 72, who drives around in a vanilla Rolls-Royce, is one of the richest and most powerful men in Malaysian politics. He also serves as Sarawak’s finance minister and planning minister.

The family-owned firm, Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS), has interests in cement, construction, quarrying and road building. It has signed a memorandum of understanding with Rio Tinto, the London-listed mining group, to build a “world class” aluminium smelter that will get its electricity from a dam at Bakun.

The Bakun dam, a separate project due to be completed by 2011, has already displaced an estimated 10,000 indigenous people, leading to bitter legal battles and a chorus of dismay from economists about cost overruns.

Malaysia’s reinvigorated opposition is now campaigning against what it calls “crony capitalism”, helping hitherto powerless tribal peoples to challenge in the courts land grabs and cheating.

Campaigners are furious but appear powerless in the face of a project they fear will compound the devastation wreaked on Dayaks and native land by previous dam projects and the felling of its forests.

For now, Sarawak government is like an anything-goes sex club - sex in the open, narcissistic sex, loving sex, drunken sex, no-strings-attached sex; no blame, no guilt, no-holds-barred sex; basic, fluorescent, animalistic sex. And Sarawak Borneo is the playpen.

Until each of us use the power in our hands to change that.

The Sexy New Normal for Sarawak

It is increasingly clear that the current downturn is fundamentally different from recessions of recent decades. We are experiencing not merely another turn of the business cycle, but a restructuring of the economic order. The structure of the order will be dependent on a fundamentally new leadership and new government in Sarawak.

For some of us and for some organizations, near-term survival is the only agenda item. Others are peering through the fog of uncertainty, thinking about how to position themselves once the crisis has passed and things return to normal. The question is, “What will normal look like?” While no one can say how long the crisis will last, what we find on the other side will not look like the normal of recent years.

The new normal will be shaped by a confluence of powerful forces—some arising directly from the financial crisis and some that were at work long before it began. The most powerful force is the one that each of us can exert to bring about the long overdue and much needed new leadership and new government in Sarawak.

Obviously, there will be significantly less financial leverage in the system. But it is important to realize that the rise in leverage leading up to the crisis had two sources. The first was a legitimate increase in debt due to financial innovation—new instruments and ways of doing business that reduced risk and added value to the economy. The second was a credit bubble fueled by misaligned incentives, irresponsible risk taking, lax oversight, and fraud.

Where the former ends and the latter begins is the multitrillion dollar question, but it is clear that the future will reveal significantly lower levels of leverage (and higher prices for risk) than we had come to expect. Business models that rely on high leverage will suffer reduced returns. Companies that boost returns to equity the old fashioned way—through real productivity gains—will be rewarded. Nations that are governed in a truly transparent manner by the true power of the citizens will flourish and endure.

Another defining feature of the new normal will be an expanded role for government. All signs point to an equally significant regulatory restructuring to come. Some will welcome this, on the grounds that modernization of the regulatory system was clearly overdue. Others will view the changes as unwanted political interference. Either way, the reality is that around the world governments will be calling the shots in sectors (such as debt insurance) that were once only lightly regulated.

They will also be demanding new levels of transparency and disclosure for investment vehicles such as hedge funds and getting involved in decisions that were once the sole province of corporate boards, including executive compensation. Only new and capable leaders can engage at this new level of integrity and transparency.

While the financial-services industry will be most directly affected, the impact of government’s increased role will be widespread: there is a risk of a new era of financial protectionism. A good outcome of the crisis would be greater global financial coordination and transparency. A bad outcome would be protectionist policies that make it harder for companies to move capital to the most productive places and that dampen economic growth, particularly in the developing world. Companies need to prepare for such an eventuality—even as they work to avert it.

These two forces—less leverage and more government—arise directly from the financial crisis, but there are others that were already at work and that have been strengthened by recent events. For example, it was clear before the crisis began that US consumption could not continue to be the engine for global growth. Consumption depends on income growth, and US income growth since 1985 had been boosted by a series of one-time factors—such as the entry of women into the workforce, an increase in the number of college graduates—that have now played themselves out. Moreover, although the peak spending years of the baby boom generation helped boost consumption in the ’80s and ’90s, as boomers age and begin to live off of retirement savings that were too small even before housing and stock market wealth evaporated, consumption levels will fall.

As Sarawak moves into a new era with new leadership and new government, by observing the impact of the two above-mentioned forces on the economies of nations, our new leaders can learn and develop better strategies to develop Sarawak.

Companies seeking high rates of income and consumption growth will increasingly look to Asia. The fundamental drivers of Asian growth—productivity gains, technology adoption, and cultural and institutional changes—did not halt as a result of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. And Asian economies—though they have rapidly deteriorated in recent months—are unlikely to be stopped by this one.

The big unknown is whether the temptation to blame Western-style capitalism for current troubles will lead to backlash and self-destructive policies. If this can be avoided, the world’s economic center of gravity will continue to shift eastward. And for Sarawak, only a new leadership with sharp foresight and passion for the peoples' well-being will be able exploit this new opportunity coming to Asia.

Through it all, technological innovation will continue, and the value of increasing human knowledge will remain undiminished. For talented contrarians and technologists, the next few years may prove especially fruitful as investors looking for high-risk, high-reward opportunities shift their attention from financial engineering to genetic engineering, software, and clean energy.

This much is certain: when we finally enter into the post-crisis period, the business and economic context will not have returned to its pre-crisis state. Leaders and executives preparing their countries and organizations to succeed in the new normal must focus on what has changed and what remains basically the same for their citizens, customers, companies, and industries.

The result will be an environment that, while different from the past, is no less rich in possibilities for those who are prepared. Effectively, Sarawak will not have to bear more of the same for any longer.

Confirmed - Women Are Objects

A new study of male behaviour, reported in the National Geographic confirms that sexy women in bikinis really do inspire some men to see them as objects.

Brain scans revealed that when men are shown pictures of scantily clad women, the region of the brain associated with tool use lights up.

Men were also more likely to associate images of sexualized women with first-person action verbs such as "I push, I grasp, I handle," said lead researcher Susan Fiske, a psychologist at Princeton University. Read more about the study here.

If a similar study were done with women, Fiske told National Geographic News, it would be hard to predict whether a woman shown a scantily clad male body would dehumanize him in the same way.

Evolutionary psychologists have proposed that women tend to look for mates who have wealth and power, so some of Fiske's colleagues have suggested running a similar test where women are shown pictures of men next to expensive cars or other affluent symbols.

But Fiske doesn't think such an experiment would work the same way, because women usually react to men they desire by "interpreting their minds, thinking about what they're interested in, and then trying to please them," she said.

Picture above, from National Geographic, shows women dance as part of a bikini contest in Cancún, Mexico. Brain scans reveal that when heterosexual men are shown pictures of scantily clad women, the region of the brain associated with tool use lights up.

Men were also more likely to associate images of sexualized women with first-person action verbs such as "I push, I grasp, I handle," researchers said in February 2009.

World's Sexiest Malaysians

If low moral values and scant civility can be equated with low-cuts and skimpy attire, Malaysian politicians are the world’s sexiest people. If the perversion of government perpetuated for its own wealth and power can be equated with fetish indulgence, Malaysian politicians are the world’s most sexually perverted people.

Instead of progressing to achieve Vision 2020, Malaysia is, in fact, descending towards the lowest possible moral ground. Elected representatives and politicians are taking this country spiralling down that path. Effectively, the people who elected them are being betrayed. Now, who should be brought to justice for treason and betrayal? Don’t these politicians and elected representatives have any conscience?

As our politicians bring down this country to the low moral ground, everything else goes down in tandem – our education system, our value system, the standards of our sports, the capacity of our human capital, the standard of innovation and so on.
When we pollute our environment until the rivers become dead, who picks up the bill to do the clean up? What’s our moral obligation to our future generation? Where’s the civility to know that we must leave to our future generation, a better world? Not one that is polluted and not one that they need to clean up and yet having to foot the bill for the cleanup.

Lets make civility sexier than the perversion of government.

Porn Industry Seeks Bailout

The porn industry wants a bailout.

Leave it to Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and "Girls Gone Wild" CEO Joe Francis to take the absurdity of what is going on now with the US federal bailout program to a whole new level.

According to their press release, the adult entertainment industry needs $5 billion of American tax money because it, too, has been hit by the economic downturn.

Rolling Orgasms During Childbirth

Here's how to turn excruciating, unbearable pain into orgasmic pleasure. Orgasmic and childbirth — you wouldn’t think the two could go together in a sentence, but this reminds that when women give birth in a supportive environment, pleasure and ecstasy are possible. Revolutionary.

Check this out on ABC News and Barbara Harper's Orgasmic Childbirth.

Sexy Curse of Facebook

Pictures of two 19-year olds in bikinis partying on a yacht with U2's lead singer Bono has been posted on Facebook. The diary detail says they took a stroll along the beach, then made their way to a luxury yacht, where Bono and the girls partied into the night.

With a 26-year strong marriage, I thought my idol is clean.

Read more here . . .

Sexy, Youthful Aging

Most would do a double take on this picture. This is 69 year-old Dr. Jeffry Life, Chief Medical Officer of Cenegenics Medical Institute. His body looks like that of a 30 year-old.

For men, having a young wife ( or wives better) helps keep him youthful. So says the myth. It may be with this believe that a number of Malay men marry women many years younger following a divorce.

But Cenegenics Medical Institute has a proven prescription for youthful aging. Not only does the anti-aging regimen helps people stay young and healthy, but it also gives an increase in energy, muscle and libido.

What's in the regime? Human growth hormone six times a week,weekly testosterone injections, in addition to swallowing a handful of dietary supplements every day.

Now, in one of the largest and most careful studies so far of human growth hormone in healthy older people, researchers find that it can markedly transform older people's bodies. The effects were potent. Those who took the drug gained lean body mass, much of which is likely to be muscle, and lost fat as if they had been working out in a gym, lifting weights and doing aerobic exercise. Some men gained 10 pounds of lean body mass and lost an equivalent amount of fat. Yet the subjects, who ranged in age from their mid-60's to their late 80's, were sedentary and did not exercise or change their diets.

What for? Those on the prescription say makes them feel better, more energetic, clear-minded. They want to live long, healthy life, to be able to get out and be active and travel and see the world and be able to make a difference in other people's lives, then yes, to have as long an existence as possible.

It's good business! IMS Health, a company that tracks drug sales, prescriptions for growth hormone made by Genentech and Eli Lilly have more than tripled.

Source:
www.mindfully.org

www.huffingtonpost.com

Jennifer Aniston Naked at 40

Maintaining good physique even in our forties and beyond isn't difficult. Actually doing the maintaining is the difficult part. While there are many books and mags that give us 101 Ways to maintain lean body and to stay healthy, the reality is that we don't need those 101 Ways prescriptions at all. Here's the ABCs of it all and of Jennifer Aniston's naked truth:

A. Sweat it out. Exercise regularly with intensity at least 3 times a week, each time for at least 60 minutes intense workout.

B. Eat well. Small portions of meals with less carbohydrates. Avoid the roti canai, fried noodles, fried rice, rendang, oil-loaded curries, etc.

C. Practice A and B consistently everyday.

Would we want to burden our loved ones at old age or when we suffer chronic disease associated with our eating habits and sedentary lifestyle? When we suffer, so do our loved ones.

Love your body first before you can say that you love somebody.

Women of Mass Influence - Sa Dingding

Unnervingly good-looking, she's China’s most in-demand musical property. Twelve months ago, she was hardly known. Then she recorded Alive, an album that mixes traditional Chinese melodies and Buddhist mantras with electronic instruments.

Sa Dingding, the new age chanteuse, is one global export that in many ways echoes the Beijing Olympic fantasy of "One World. One Dream."

Born in 1983, the daughter of a Mongolian mother and Han father, she grew up a nomad. She sings in Mandarin, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and the rare dialect of Lagu, while fusing chill-out beats and floaty instrumentation played on zither, horse head fiddle and bamboo flute.

In terms of popularity, can we compare her to Siti Nurhaliza? Not only is Sa Dingding hugely popular in China, she is also finding similar success elsewhere: Her first album sold 2 million copies in Southeast Asia, and she has appeared on MTV. Earlier this year she won a BBC Radio 3 World Music Award and performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Source: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3805225.ece

Women of Mass Influence - Cher Mi Wang

Cher Mi Wang is the dame behind the success of High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC). The daughter of one of the richest man in Taiwan, in 1997, she entered in a partnership with HT Cho and Peter Chou to form HTC.

She invested heavily in the company. The first success came in 2000 with orders from HP. HTC became the big hit in 2002, when the first Pocket PCs based on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile were developed. This attracted the attention of some big wireless providers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, O2, Vodafone and Orange. HTC began producing units for the various carriers mentioned above and brands like Qtek, Dopod (division of HTC), Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, i-mate and Sharp.

HTC has brought innovative ideas to the industry. The popular Touch series, models are attractive and employ the finger friendly TouchFLO interface. On top of that, HTC is the creator of the first Android OS phone, the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1). Today other major carriers are using HTC's smartphones.

Women of Mass Influence - Gina Bianchini

Gina Bianchini, Co-founder & CEO, Ning.

Bianchini's Ning is possibly the most exciting thing in social networking right now. Ning lets users create their own mini communities, complete with customizable layouts, profiles, blogs, videos, and ads, instead of simply encouraging people to join one ubernetwork such as Facebook, MySpace and the rest. It lets you build your own MySpace.

Just as blogs changed the Web by turning ordinary folks into pundits, Ning could do the same for community. The company estimates that, at this rate, by New Year's Eve 2010 it will host some 4 million social networks, with tens of millions of members, serving up billions of page views daily.

In terms of its influence on business, people are going to have a ton of experiments going on, and they should. Not every company is going to have their own social network. A lot of them will, though, and they can be used in all sorts of interesting ways, whether it's a large computer company we know of that is using [Ning] for an internal social network, or what ImSaturn is doing in having a direct two-way conversation with customers.

Do we have a Malaysian equivalent or better?

Read more in Fastcompany's Ning's Infinite Ambition.

Sexy Way to Build, Share Ideas

Sustainable entrepreneurship has evolved. There has been a wave of innovation that is providing new platforms and resources so that good ideas can be nurtured to fruition. Innovative resources that can provide support to this niche entrepreneur has become increasingly evident.

One such platform is Ideablob.com, an online community that allows entrepreneurs to share and grow their business ideas. In addition, each month a winning idea is awarded $10,000 based on votes from the rest of the rest of the ideablob.com community.

Women of Mass Influence - Irene Au

She's Google's User Experience Designer.

As Director of User Experience at Google, Irene Au is responsible for design and user research for Google’s software products worldwide. Her mission is to champion the strategic value of design at every level of the company.

Au is the former vice president of User Experience and Design at Yahoo!, and was an interaction designer at Netscape. She holds an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.

See also, Malaysia's own planet-roaming user experience designer and recent breed of world citizen of free agents, http://www.ringae.com/.

Women of Mass Influence - Aimee Mullins

“If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. It’s much easier to stay in known mediocrity than blossom into unknown glory.” Aimee Mullins, athlete and artist.

Aimee Mullins’ legs were amputated at the age of one, yet with the help of advanced artificial limbs, she has set world records in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and the long jump at the Paralympics. Off the field, Mullins has a multifaceted career as an artist, actress, model and public speaker.

“I want to challenge people’s ideas of beauty and the myth that disabled people are less capable,” Mullins says on chickspeak.com. “I want to expose people to disability as something that they can’t pity or fear or closet, but something that they accept and maybe want to emulate.”

Women of Mass Influence - Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg - The elder in Facebook.

Facebook, the social networking giant, founded in a dorm room at Harvard University, is mostly young male software engineers working in a freewheeling culture.

Facebook recently hired Sandberg, former Google executive, to provide some adult supervision and help Silicon Valley's hottest startup to grow up - and make oodles of moola. If anyone can figure out how to capitalize on Web 2.0, it's has to be her. At Google, as vice-president of global online sales and operations, she oversaw huge growth in its international operations and managed its lucrative advertising business. As COO of Facebook, Sandberg will be a big influence on the expanding world of new media users as she scales Facebook operations and build its business model.

Change Can Happen

The full speech from Election Night in Grant Park, re-edited with multiple camera angles and shots of the spectacular crowd of over 200,000 supporters.

View here on youtube.

Sexy Society of Givers

The massive amount of donation collected for Obama's campaign makes me wonder how we could develop a society of givers. While US is world's largest donor of aid to the rest of the world, but in terms of per capita giving, Sweden and Norway are tops.

I'm reminded of a taxi drivers who take a whole week off, to ferry people for free to fundraising event in Genting Highland. When it comes to education, certain communities make the sacrifices and give generously to the cause. Schools built on donor money are evident in these communities.

On a trip to Mukah, I chance on a gentleman from Ganu Kito and we spoke of community building. What he said will ring forever in my mind. He said, unlike some communities that have money to give and to help their people, the natives have software. He meant that natives have educated people who possess valuable information and knowledge that can be exploited to develop their community. Giving software aid as assistance for human resource development and community building is indeed a better form of giving than giving money or hardware aid.

On the other hand, we have communities that are always expecting to receive. And the government willingly give hand-outs.

All Things Are Possible

Sexy New Gadget

The Xperia from Sony Ericsson. See the demo here.

Digg Found Zombie in Google

Software programmers would know these codes used by Google to protect itself from zombies.

Century-old, but sexier

Century-old and winner of 7 Pulitzer Prizes, switches its daily to entirely Web. The pressure of evolution is certainly squeezing newspapers as more of us get our news form the Internet.

This is one evolution to watch as the Web presents an entirely different playground for newspapers and journalists. We'll see the rise and fall of species. Already, many of us get great news content from sources like Beet.tv. And the way news are gathered and presented in Beet.tv is rather different from the normal staple. Journalism is redefined.

Miss Allocation

RM5 billion of EPF contributors' money is being pumped into Bursa Malaysia to bailout selected companies.

That's an injection of 1% of equity into Bursa Malaysia.

Did the gov't guarantee that the return rate would at least equal the EPF 5.8% dividend rate?

How easy the principle of accountability, transparency and good governance flies out the window at a time when UMNO election is hot.

What's the Integrity Institute doing about this?

Why aren't the star bloggers holding candlelight vigil outside EPF and MOF to save our savings? Oh, I forgot - our bloggers are trivia kings.

No Community is Best Served When Only The Elites Are In Control

J.J. Abrams is a model of what creativity is all about. If you look at who he is you can see why he was able to create his wonderful series Lost. He's passionate. He doesn't have limits. He demonstrates his level of depth as he talks about the jaws scene. What insight! He reminds of us to teach our children to be curious. He doesn't say it outright but he models it. He gets to do what most just wander around unsure of how to get there, which is to live his passion and get paid for it. The idea of the mystery box is a great metaphor. Watch it here on TED.COM.

Whiplashed By Vagina Monologues

The UN statistics say that 1 out of every 3 women will face some kind of abuse in their lifetime is staggering but true.

More likely, the world needs a type of Male Monologue, than a Vagina Monologue. Being a true man is not taking advantage of someone because you are bigger, stronger, or have more testosterone, it is treating others and yourself with respect. It is protecting and defending the weak, the disadvantaged. Negative actions by "weak men" destroy the lives of the the ones they hurt and will ultimately hurt themselves in the long run. Watch here on TED.COM

Light After Death - Gastric Juice As Flashlight Batteries

Nice idea about giving light to your loved ones after death. And lots of other very unique design ideas that open up our minds. Guaranteed worth viewing.

How To Stay Sexy with Zero Carbon Footprint

If only we would check our carbon footprint as often as we check our rear.  But going beyond just checking how they emit, Castello Monte Vibiano Vecchio olive oil farm, north of Rome, is attempting to create a pioneering carbon-neutral farm. A range of new technologies is being installed at the farm as part of an experiment to cut its CO2 emissions to zero over the course of the next year.

They include everything from electric farm vehicles to sun-reflecting paint on storage buildings. One of the key investments is in a unique solar powered battery re-charging centre, built by Cellstrom of Austria. Until now, electricity generated by the sun has generally had to be used immediately. It is one reason why opponents say solar power is limited. 

Depending on the amount of usage, the battery centre can store solar-sourced electricity for up to three days. They are working to extend that to 10 days and more, enabling the farm to continue operating through foggy days when the sun does not shine.

Cellstrom estimates the farm can save 4,500 litres of petrol every year and reduce CO2 emissions by 10 tons.

The farm owner believes they have no choice but to get agriculture to adapt to climate change, and that "it is our interest for the sake of our crops to be friendly to the planet."

So, agriculture is now doing its bit on climate change.

Source: BBC News

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Killing of the next generation

You may not know that chicken nuggets, sausages, and burgers that you get from the supermarkets are made of mainly chicken skin and chicken fat. That's why they taste sooo gooooood. Kids love them and we feed them often with these non-nutrient food, at home and mostly in school. Watch this video from start to finish. We really should be jailed for how we feed our children. You can download the video here.

Priceless, What Flooded KLIA on 30-Sep-2008

For all that Russia was, and for all I once knew of Russia, I would never expect Malaysians in droves, and let alone, my child, to be studying or living in Russia. Well, she is the generation of a globalized world - a global citizen. Citizens of one borderless world. Will the more advanced global citizens defeat those of us staying put in the confines of our hometown? How are we preparing the future generation for an even more borderless, globalized economy? Will parents, our family institutions and our education system build generations that can thrive in this new era? Will we leave generations of Malaysians that will fall to the more advanced societies?

Read Richard Florida's "Revenge of the Squelchers" or visit http://creativeclass.com/

Carsutra - Car Park Sex in no Dream City

This report in The Star, did not highlight a common feature of parking lots in Cyberjaya when it's after dark - CARSUTRA (watch video below). Check the parking lots of the SME buildings after office hours - it's a venue for wriggly bodies in the confines of parked cars.

Many have said it before too many times - at the rate things are going, Cyberjaya will lose out in more than one ways. The Cyberjaya City Command Center (CCC), if you knew what it was supposed to be, is now just one empty building rotting away. As the name suggests, it was to house the brain of the city, monitoring the smart sensors and cameras around the city, alerting whoever are supposed to be alerted and dispatching response teams to do the needful. But that's only a small portion of the big dream. Has anybody been held accountable for the millions in wasted taxpayers' money?

Observing the behaviours of the guys of Cyberview, it's not difficult to forsee the future of Cyberjaya. It's a common symptom of organizational dysfunction - the boss buys himself a brand new E-Class, parks right at the office entrance (what if there is emergency?), VIP themselves at events and functions by having VIP parking and VIP tables for themselves, and sit among themselves. You'd be lucky if they return your calls or apologize for missing a scheduled appointment. When you hold yourself high and mighty, and use your position and taxpayers money to indulge in self-glorification, you'll certainly fail the purpose that you are supposed to serve.

You can't even get the car parks right! Given that the car parks have other useful purposes after office hours, Cyberview should take the opportunity (not to engage in voyeurism) to be the city for outsourcing sex. Think about it - Cyberjaya, the world's premier city for outsourced sex and sex shared services. Imagine how lucrative it would be - thriving call centers, sweaty body shops - all so unlike any other cities. Why not - Cyberjaya already has some of the infrastructures for that and the large population of foreign workers in Cyberjaya provides ready market.

To promote to the world and get instant impact with little cost, Cyberview can learn from British "media consultancy" ST16. ST16 won the International Gold Award for viral film at the New York Film Festival for its hit online short called Steamy Windows. The video has attracted 2.4 million views on YouTube in 6 months and another 65,000 on Kontraband. Why so many views? Watch this "Hot Girl Having Sex In A Car" video. Best backseat romp ever.

Cut The Cord to Stay Young and Sexy

Still having a fixed landline? That's equivalent to many wrinkle lines. Your age is showing.

While most Internet users still surf over landlines, traditional phone providers like TM aren't growing landline subscribers. The young, hip, cool people, mostly ages 18 - 34, have cellphones or 3G modems only. As cellphone makers and Google introduce even slickier iPhone rivalries, the Internet is in the pockets of the millions of young cellphone users.

Still asking your 8 year-old for help with your cellphone?

Inflated, Big Bust

The myth is busted! Subsidies, hand-outs, cash rebates for fuel, cash incentives for farmers and fishermen do not help the economy in the long term. We're heading for the big bust.

Most of those receiving these cash monies aren't paying income taxes that fuel the nation's growth. In KL city, many live in DBKL low cost flats subsidized by rate payers and still many will spend the money on the luxuries of Astro TV subscription and higher end cars. It's so frustrating to see tax payers money being spent on those who should not receive the subsidies. Drive by the flats in Sri Sabah Cheras, Desa Tun Razak, Bandar Tun Razak, to name a few. It's amazing to see there are more Astro dishes and expensive cars than there in the more upmarket apartments.

The big bust - Malaysia's inflation rate jumped to a 26-year high of 8.5 percent in August, driven by the escalating cost of food and fuel, according to official data released Wednesday. Thanks to more subsidies and cash hand-outs. And municipal council members can now have illicit sex with women from China.

The result was slightly higher than expected but the central Bank Negara would not raise interest rates to ensure growth.

With that kind of inflation, will the government increase the key interest rates? Or will it be maintained at 3.50 percent till the year-end to support growth?

The Department of Statistics revised downwards the inflation figure for July to 8.3 percent.

It said the cost of food and non-alcoholic drinks rose 11.7 percent in August compared to a year ago. The high inflation is already hurting consumers with many Malaysians cutting down on their food bill.

The August data showed escalating prices in most categories, including transport which jumped 21.8 percent, and restaurants and hotels which rose 6.5 percent.

Wholesome bust (pic) isn't such a bad thing even in times of inflated prices. We continue to delight in diligently pay taxes while others enjoy subsidies, Astro trivia and trash.


Source: Agence France-Presse - 9/24/2008 9:15 AM GMT

A Blow to Jobs, A Gloomy Outlook

Inflation fears among executives around the world have decreased sharply in the past six months, according to the latest McKinsey Global Survey on economic conditions.

Despite the ongoing financial turmoil and a notable lack of confidence in national economies, respondents indicate that many companies have some flexibility to cope: most of those seeking external funding have so far been able to find it, respondents who predict higher inflation are also likely to report that their companies will be able to raise prices, and a majority of all executives expect the productivity of their companies to increase.

However, almost 30 percent of respondents now expect their companies to shrink the size of their workforce in the next six months, up from 18 percent a year ago. (click on the exhibit). More than 60 percent of the respondents report that their companies have acted to become more energy efficient. Among the most widely used moves are two that can be made very quickly—using less energy to heat or cool corporate offices and reining in business travel.

A year ago, the executives’ fears about economies at the national level rose appreciably. Today, they worry still more: 78 percent say that economic conditions in their countries are worse than they were half a year ago (See exhibit), compared with 64 percent in June.

Source: Economic and hiring outlook, third quarter 2008: A McKinsey Global Survey

In Various Positions, Women Drive

In which ever positions women are laid, they can become dominant and drive better.

A McKinsey research shows that:
1) Companies that hire and retain more women not only are doing the right thing but can also gain a competitive edge.

2) There is a correlation between high numbers of female senior executives and stronger financial performance.

Click on the graphs to view McKinsey's findings or read more on the McKinsey Quarterly website.

Some companies have moved successfully to increase the hiring, retention, and promotion of female executives. Their initiatives have included efforts to ensure that HR policies aren’t inadvertently biased against women, to encourage mentoring and networking, to establish (and consistently monitor at a senior level) targets for diversity, and to find ways of creating a better work–life balance. Changes like these have a price, but there are business advantages to making them—above and beyond the branding benefit that might accrue to companies viewed as socially progressive.

Or should that read as "sexually progressive"? And "better work-life balance" includes better sex life in a sexually progressive workplace?

Mind-blowing Blow Job Of The Century

It's unlike seeing pantyless Britney Spears. On Monday, Sept. 15, Lehman Bros. filed the largest bankruptcy case in history. It's assets before filing for bankruptcy were at least USD639 billion. That's seven times the pre-filing assets of the second-largest bankruptcy since 1980. How many times of Malaysia's GDP is that?

Lehman Bros. collapse was soon followed by the once impregnable, 158 year-old American International Group (AIG). Through its insurance policies AIG touches far more consumers around the world. There goes all my insurance policies with AIA. AIG is in a much scarier situation than Lehman — the insurer has assets of USD1 trillion, more than 70 million customers and intimate back-and-forth dealings with many of the world's biggest and most important financial firms.

The iconic Merrill Lynch, known for with its famous bull logo in the Wall Street, suffering billions in losses in the last year due to fallout in the U.S. mortgage market proved too much for the 94-year old firm. Bank of America rescued it for USD50 billion.

Now the US Treasury is putting together a mother of all bailout plan of USD700 billion for the troubled institutions.

Even some of the smartest, savviest people in the financial world — like the folks running the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board — find themselves reacting to rather than getting ahead of them. The top financial market analysts and writers like those of Time and Fortune magazines, with a combined 65 years of writing about business, say they have never seen anything like what's going on.

How did this financial tsunami come about? Should the tsunami hit Malaysia, which institutions would collapse first? How could such institutions that have endured for over a century, admired by many management gurus and students, and featured in books as built to last, finally suffer such devastating blow. Anyway, does anyone need to explain a mind-blowing blow job?

Offshoring Sexy No More

Is PIKOM representative of the industry? I associate PIKOM with PC Fairs, not the ICT industry. So I conclude that PIKOM represents only the PC retailers.

The Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (Pikom) is disappointed with Budget 2009 allocation for the country’s ICT segment. David Wong, PIKOM's Chairman said there are areas (within the ICT segment) that need to be seriously addressed, such as promoting (Malaysia as a regional centre) for outsourcing.

I thought that people don't talk about outsourcing any more. It's a period topic. In reality now, outsourcing isn't sexy any more. The wage inflation in this country has risen so much that it is no longer attractive to offshore.

The Real Minister of Education

Watch and listen to this transformative creativity of one man who is consumed by his passion and spellbinding eagerness to advocate for students and teachers. Here's what it takes to be the Minister of Education. (Don't be misled by the long intro. The video builds up to an awesomely inspiring presentation).

Free Access to Rear View on Sexy Environment

It may be rare to find absorbing websites on environment compared to anything sex-related. Environment and sex are two opposites. While sex is forbidden, sex is the most sought after, online or offline and all statistics confirm that. As free as there is access to environmental protection, it's almost as if environment is a forbidden topic - it's among the least accessed. Like me,some prefer to leave environment in the back - heck, there's nothing orgasmic about it.

So if you're like me, lets take a rear view for free at this Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research.

Over 1,300 peer reviewed titles owned and published by over 340 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies are now available in more than 100 low income countries.

Research is provided in a wide range of awesome disciplines that would ensure our enduring sexuality.

Now, to make environment-related topics hot, again we learn from marketeers, that sex sells - blend sex and environment. It's only natural.

Sexy Home In A Box

When a cyclone hit Myanmar in May this year, killing 130,000 people and leaving millions homeless, Rotary clubs were among first responders, delivering ShelterBoxes. Designed to help an extended family survive for a minimum of six months, the lightweight, weatherproof box contains items such as a 10-person tent, blankets, basic tools, water-purification tablets and containers, a multi-fuel or wood-burning stove, mosquito nets and other items tailored to the particular region in crisis.

ShelterBox, created by ex-Royal Navy search and rescue diver, Tom Henderson, with Helston-Lizard Rotary Club, has aided more than 600,000 victims of disasters of all scales worldwide since 2001. Read the story on CNN's special edition, CNN Heroes, where you can also get involved.

Dedicated to Newly Wed Datuk J

Wilder Sex As Deforestation Rise

These pictures show two common things about rainforests anywhere. For example, Brazil, Malaysia and Australia all have huge areas rainforests. These rainforests are all home to some of the world's beautiful babes. Huge tracks of rainforests in all 3 countries have been cleared for golf courses, agriculture, timber and hot pit girls.

Myth: Hot pit girls drive you wild. Truth: Burning rainforests drives many wild.

Some 3,088 square miles of Amazon's forest were destroyed between August 2007 and August 2008 — a 69 percent increase over the 1,861 square miles felled in the previous 12 months, according to the National Institute for Space Research, which monitors destruction of the Amazon.

This is the first such increase in three years — as rising demand for soy and cattle pushes farmers and ranchers to raze trees.

The Amazon rainforest is so vast and full of life that even its defenders don't know exactly what it is they are protecting. The rainforest, which encompasses an area nearly as large as the continental United States and stretches across nine countries, is considered the world's richest and most varied natural habitat, with several million species of insects, plants, birds and fish calling it home. It also plays an important role in regulating Earth's temperature as its dense vegetation absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen into the air.

According to Cláudio C. Maretti, Brazil-based director for conservation for the World Wildlife Fund, the wealth of biodiversity is so immense, ". . . we cannot even estimate the amount we don't know. Every new expedition you do to the Amazon, you might find one new species of fish. Every other, you might find some new bird or frog." Read more on CNN's special edition, Planet in Peril

But the Amazon has been under pressure from outside forces for decades. In the past 40 years, roughly 20 percent of the rainforest has been wiped out, according to Maretti. The threat to rainforests in South East Asia is also acute. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, from 2000 to 2005, Cambodia lost nearly 30 percent of its primary forests and Vietnam lost close to 55 percent.

What's uncommon about rainforests: In Sarawak, after milking the land, a large timber company, gives salt to the natives of the rainforest. Read more here . . .

Do something sexy here . . .

Here are 3 take-home lines from www.savetherainforest.org:

If you are thinking a year ahead, sow the seeds.
If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree.
If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people.

Wonders of Sex on Ice With Grid Girls

Grid girls they say are hot. I've never seen them in action. Ice shelves they say are icy cold. Such oxy-moron statements. Hot sex with hot grid girls will melt the ice - that's the truth of the century. Why don't the morons doing the Merdeka Endurance Race take this simple truth instead of going round and round like goldfish in a fish tank, burning fuel for 12 hours and contributing to a warmer Earth causing ice shelves to melt.

(Picture: Large pieces of ice float off after separating from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf July 29. That shelf has lost about eight square miles and the Serson shelf 47 square miles as the Markham Ice Shelf has separated and gone adrift. Source: Associated Press / MSNBC)

A huge chunk of ice shelf, more than 60 sq. km has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.

The 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean. This comes on the heels of unusual cracks in a northern Greenland glacier, rapid melting of a southern Greenland glacier, and a near record loss for Arctic sea ice this summer. And March this year a 160-square mile chunk of an Antarctic ice shelf disintegrated.

The loss of these ice shelves means that rare ecosystems that depend on them are on the brink of extinction, said Warwick Vincent, director of Laval University's Centre for Northern Studies and a researcher in the program ArcticNet.

It is the burning of oil and other fossil fuels that scientists say is the chief cause of manmade warming and melting ice.

We know it's you and me are the culprits.

Find out more . . .

Erotic Stimulants for Dead Zones

Sometimes some guys who think they are smarter can tell us to screw ourselves. Here's how we do just that. "If we screw up the energy flow within our systems we could end up with no crabs, no shrimp, no fish. That is where these dead zones are heading unless we stop their growth," said Robert Diaz,co-author of the research in the journal Science. So we screw ourselves.

Like a chronic disease wasting a body, ocean "dead zones" with too little oxygen for marine life are spreading around the globe. The experts counted 405 dead zones in 2007 — a third more than their 1995 survey. The problem is growing to a magnittude that is starting to affect the resources that we pull out from the sea to feed ourselves.

Fertilizers, fuel, sewage blamed
Pollution-fed algae, which deprive other living marine life of oxygen, is the cause of most of the world's dead zones. Scientists mainly blame fertilizer and other farm runoff, sewage and fossil-fuel burning. Areas where there are prawn culture ponds and salmon farming cages have become hypoxic, too.

Rivers in South America that were once thought to be too large to have the same problems as the Mississippi River, now have their estuaries and coastal areas suffering the same malady.

This is a global problem and it has severe consequences for ecosystems. The trend could lead to global food problem. Now that's stimulating.

Towering Reach of Breast Cancer

“It is estimated that one in 19 women here are at risk of getting breast cancer in their lifetime. Even men are susceptible, although in small numbers.", said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen. Compare this to 1 in 8 women in the US.

The exact cause of breast cancer has not been established but clinical data has clearly shown a number of risk factors, which may be responsible for it:

Age: High incidence in the age group above 50 years and very low below 25 years. The disease is more aggressive in younger patients.

Menstrual cycle: Common in the ladies who have a longer menstrual life, i.e. the onset of menarche is earlier and cessation of menstruation is late.

Marital and maternal status: More common in spinsters, or if married then have not given birth to children, or if given birth then have not breast fed their offspring.

A positive history of breast cancer in mother, sisters, and daughters increases the risk.

Smoking and alcohol intake are supposed to increase the risk.

Women with a past history of having breast cancer on one side are at a greater risk to develop cancer on the opposite side also, about 1 per cent per year and the lifetime risk is 10 per cent.

Obesity and higher intake of saturated fatty acids have been also linked .

A woman who exercises atleast four hours per week reduces her risk of breast cancer. Exercise pumps up the immune system and cuts the oestrogen (female hormone) level.

Radiation to chest: Exposure of breast to radiation that may happen during radiotherapy for any cancer disease located either inside the chest or on the chest wall, may make the person more vulnerable to the development of breast cancer. This may happen 10 or 12 years after the exposure.

Oral Contraceptives: Women below the age of 35 years, who have been using oral contraceptive pills for more than 10 years, are at an increased risk of developing breast cancer.

Hormone-Replacement Therapy: It has been shown that continuous or sequential uses of combined oestrogen plus progestin hormone therapy (CHT) after the cessation of menstruation cycle are linked with an increased risk of breast cancer. The researchers also found that the women who have been using only oestrogen therapy as hormone replacement therapy (i.e. not combining with progestin) for 25 years or longer had no significant increase in the risk of breast cancer.

The readers are cautioned that these facts have been derived from the statistical analysis of the factors seen in the breast-cancer patients; they should not be taken as causative or predisposing factors. In the present era when breast cancer has become such a common disease, it is advisable to follow the guidelines.

This post is a tribute to the Avon Walk Around The World for Breast Cancer and the Pride Foundation.

Article abstracted from the Spectrum column of The Tribune by Dr S.M. Bose.

Best Chicken Rice in Kuala Terengganu

The name Batu Buruk (literally, means ugly rock) may not sound appealing. When in Kuala Terengganu, it is a place not to be missed. It's a one-stop local food haven or haven for local food.

Discover food varieties you can't get anywhere else in the country. Savour the crispy crusted fried seafood - crunchy on the outside, juicy on the inside. Seafood may be limited in variety, but surely fresh from the sea. The Hainanese chicken rice stall in Batu Buruk beach is one of a kind - generous serving of tasty roasted chicken with a choice of 2 vegetables. Probably the best chicken rice you can find in Kuala Terengganu.

I don't have the word "sex" in the title of this post because it's post number 70.

Is There Sex in Redang Island?

There were all the reasons for me to be in Redang Island this weekend - the nice weather, the beautiful island itself, the lovely people at Merang jetty who would crowd the island, and of course, the wonderful people of Trustgate. I've been there a few times and have done the common things people do - open water diving, snorkelling, fishing, eating, lazing, and all, except for one thing. I couldn't figure out that one reason, but I have a feeling that it's gotta there and it has to be something orgasmic. Swim with a mermaid? Get attacked by a shark or a school of barracudas? How an attack by a swarm of bikini-clad sweet young things? Sex on a jet ski round the island? Reef ball planting? Chance on a bikini-clad Miss Universe (as in the picture)? Found an ancient treasure chest in a scuba diving trip?

Yet, I'm certain the Trustgate people would not find that orgasmic thing. It would only come to life because I'm there.

Check out useful information on Redang Island here.

Sex and Snakes - Very Amusing

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1U1TmyCewZk&feature=related

Sex and Adult Movies in Malaysia

The script is still unwritten. I got a great book from Amazon.com on how to write winning movie script. The book has a case study on one of my favorite movie, The Usual Suspect. Sadly, there's nothing about how to write orgasmic sex movie script. Would anyone need a "How To" for that?

This guy makes things so real - they almost come to life. The pic is taken from bodohland.wordpress.com. It's got amazing ideas for hit Malaysian sex movies. Now, the script will be written.

Arab Sheikh and Sex

It's unfortunate that the people who know how to run this country and fix our economy are bloggers, taxi drivers, and those lepaking at Starbucks and kopitiams.

With the crude oil price soaring towards USD200 per barrel, I should die and reincarnate into an Arab oil sheikh. For every dollar increase in crude oil price, as an oil sheikh I would be USD2 mil richer per day and fulfill my ultimate fantasy of surrounding myself with all the beautiful women I choose everyday. I wouldn't need a magic carpet (as I still can't imagine doing it in mid-flight), but sail around the world in any of those luxury boats - minus the hawk.

Prices of Multi-ethnic Sex

Comments reserved. Don't try to figure out why the difference in prices. Read more at Elizabeth Pisani's Wisdom of the Whores here.

Sexy, Sensual Fuzy Armour

«The first proposals to ban cluster bombs were made in 1974. Since that time the weapons have been used in some 25 countries and, most worryingly, they are now in the arsenals of 70 states world-wide. Cluster bombs have already killed too many innocent civilians both during and after conflict.» —Bianca Jagger, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador

On 30 May 2008, at the conclusion of the Dublin Conference, participating states fulfilled their commitment made in the Oslo Declaration, to:

“Conclude by 2008 a legally binding international instrument that prohibit the use and stockpiling of cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians and secure adequate provision of care and rehabilitation to survivors and clearance of contaminated areas”.

Major manufacturers and users of cluster bombs - including the US, Russia, Israel, India, Pakistan and China -refused to sign the treaty.

The Pentagon states that "blanket elimination of cluster munitions is unacceptable". The Pentagon not only told the world that it would keep on using cluster bombs -- it called the controversial weapons life-savers, too. The Defense Department's new policy on cluster munitions, describes the weapon as "legitimate weapons with clear military utility." The new policy is designed to reduce the danger of unexploded bomblets by mandating that bombs with a "dud rate" higher than 1% will not be used after 2018.

Why wait 10 years???

According to the Times, "There are about 720 million of the bomblets. The Pentagon adopted a policy in 2005 banning acquisition of cluster bombs with a dud rate higher than 1%, but the inventory contains many munitions purchased before then."

According to the US Congressional Research Service report, the U.S. dropped more than 1,200 cluster bombs — containing nearly 250,000 submunitions — in Afghanistan from 2001-2002. And the U.S. and British forces used about 13,000 of the bombs — with more than 1.8 million bomblets — during the first three weeks of combat in the Iraq war.

We all know one American live is worth about 10 European lives, or 50 Asian, 100 Muslim or 500 Africans.

Further readings on http://www.globalsecurity.org/ and http://www.noahshachtman.com/

Cluster Bomb or Sex Bomb

Which is the better bomb?

What if the US used sex bombs to invade Iraq? What if the scientists who are doing so much research into developing high-tech weapons, instead spend that effort into producing sex bombs? Imagine, instead of Sensor Fuzed Weapons (SFW), we have Sex Crazed Hottie (SFH)? Imagine instead of having millions of unexploded cluster bombs left out in the open spaces harming many civilians, we have millions of ever willing sensor-fuzed sex bombs roaming around our bedrooms, ready to explode upon sensing our urges.

Food for Sex and Four Wives in Terengganu

Common offerings at food stalls in Terengganu. Plenty in Batu Buruk beach, Kuala Terengganu. You'll never miss this in any pesta, carnival, festival, and other public events in Kuala Terengganu.

Nuggets, sausages and beef patties (burger) are actually made of loads of animal fat and skin. That explains why these taste so good and yummy. I believe the so-called fish balls and sotong balls are flavoured flour with loads of MSG. Eat at your own health risk.

What You Wear Matters Not

Cheap or expensive, street or elegant, all clothes look their best in a crumpled pile by the bedside in the morning.

Ask the Terengganu people who flock the Terengganu Carnival where affordable wears almost dress up the whole carnival. Clothing stalls are the dominant feature of every carnival, pesta or expo in Kuala Terengganu. Here's where you can get all the clothes your four wives will ever need.

So really, in the end, what you wear does not matter.

SIRIM Sells Pau, Sex Maybe

Think Rio - think Brazilian babes in birthday suits.

Think Terengganu Carnival - what comes to mind? Beautiful islands, kites, turtles, kerepok lekor, sun, sand sea, surf and cool coconut water. A carnival in Terengganu would not be complete without hot girls in sexy batik silk blowing in the wind. Somehow, the carnival is incomplete. So, sorry guys - no shots to take, so no pictures to show.

Next time, think Terengganu Carnival, think SIRIM selling pau. If you check out the gloomy, poorly lit SIRIM stall at the carnival, you'll probably discover something more fulfilling than pau. Something like what you may find in those glitzy hair salon. Given the twisted, wickedly convoluted politics in our country, anything can happen.

But SIRIM selling pau in a gloomy stall begs taxpayers to get answers to one big question. What are we getting from the well-paid scientists in SIRIM? Literally Permanent Head Damage?

Trading and Sex at Bursa Malaysia

I'm trying to imagine the scenario whereby, while grinding and pounding like a piston at high speed towards seventh heaven, your hardware fails. Bursa Malaysia CEO, Datuk Yusli Mohamed Yusoff, told a press conference yesterday (3-Jul) that the suspension of two trading sessions was due to “hardware failure”. And according to him, such technical glitches are "normal market risks" and "is a purely technical issue". Can we say hardware failure is a normal F*^%@ risk?

Bursa's CIO, Yew Kim Keong, said "the back-up system had taken longer than expected to start yesterday due to additional measures adopted to ensure trading integrity. It is our policy (to ensure) that not more than a third of the brokers are unable to connect to the central trading system.”

Blame it on the system!!! That's what I used to do and I thought it's the best excuse you can ever give to your boss or your customer or your supplier when you owe them. But now Bursa's CEO and CIO use the same excuse!!! I thought the higher-up people with such designations are more intelligent than me.

Isn't it people who built the system and maintain it?

Given what Yew said, if you're intent on grinding non-stop to seventh heaven, make sure your system is not "HP Non-Stop Hardware, which was commonly used by exchanges around the world".

“Most importantly is the loss of credibility," said Malaysian Investors Association president Datuk P.H.S. Lim, in responsed to the system breakdown.

Guys, make sure you have a backup penis in case your hardware breakdown while at it. With a loss of credibility, the only ones you could have sex with would be people at Bursa Malaysia.

How to give a blow job to Bernard Dompok

It's now obvious why divorce rate in Malaysia is as high as France's. Not that we can speak of France's culture in the same breathe as we speak of Malaysia's. Tan Sri Bernard Dompok had a one night stand with Tan Sri Leo Moggie till they got their arses blistered, but not by the infamous buttman, Dato Seri AI.

Leo Moggie didn't make any statement? Why? Isn't it obvious that he owe his living to the BN? So Bernard Dompok spoke up. Why? My guess is that Leo Moggie gave Bernard Dompok a blow job in return for him to do the talking.

Why is Bernard Dompok raising the demand now? I'll stick to the conspiracy theory for my answer. The Prime Minister or his people gave a blow job each to Bernard Dompok, Leo Moggie and Federick Lojingki in return for them to play lead roles in the "Sabah, Sarawak Demand More" drama.

It seems so real - such fine acts. But they missed the most telling evidence of a fake - Bernard Dompok, Minister in PM Dept. How convenient. In these trying times for the BN, succeeding at main wayang-wayang is critical success factor.

Sex Worshippers

Now, here's an alternative religion that I've created to prevent incidents like rape and illicit sex as well as to safeguard the morals and dignity of women in Kelantan. And the gods are between the legs. Every time you look up to the heavens in prayer, you get RM500.00. That's the equivalent amount of the fine imposed by the Kota Bharu municipal council if you wear thick make-up, bright coloured lipstick and high-heeled shoes which made a tapping sound. Convert and be rewarded now!

Love, Lust, Sex, and Orgasm in Malaysia

Here's the real deal!!! 73,000 Malaysians have it. In 2006, 5,400 Malaysians got it. Based on current trends, by 2015, 300,000 Malaysians will have it. 36% of them are amongst people aged between 13 to 29 years old. It is likely that people who found out that they got it before the age of 30, actually got it in their twenties and sometimes even during their teens. What's this "it"? Nah, too dirty a word to mention.

If you care, find out more here.

Sexual Prudence in Terengganu

This is one AWESOME video!!! Full length of the infamous "Girls Gone Wild" videos which ruthlessly exploit the sexual imprudence of American college girls. The age of the non-procreative union is here and discerns the signs of a new counter-culture.

In our sex-saturated culture, we pay homage to the Terengganu man who, after siring 25 children with 3 wives, has taken a 4th wife with whom he intends to produce another 15 children. The archetype of modernity is no more the young women who take on opportunities to flaunt their attributes and prove that they are "sex positive", but the "bertudung" ones who'll be 2nd, 3rd, or 4th wife. In this new culture, we liberate young women from the constructs of patriarchal society (where fathers guard their daughters) to a, perhaps, more incestuous alternative. Watch this video and say bye-bye to MTV sexual exhibitionism.

Ashley Dupre Girls Gone Wild Vid

Sarawak's Best Gourmet Fish

This is the Empurau fish, of the white species (there are 2 other species - red and black). Found upstream in fast flowing Sarawak rivers with clear clean rock-bottom waters (major rivers in Kapit, Belaga, Limbang, Lawas and Ulu Baram). Catch for the family table weighs 2 - 10kg, but can grow up to 30kg, tho rare nowadays. Feeds on certain type of flowers and fruit - ensurai and engkabang trees. Dwindling in numbers. Only on a vey lucky day can you catch one - like striking a lottery ticket prize.

Very, very tasty, flesh with tinge of sweetness. Juicy in its own oil. Best cooked steam. Most yummy fish. Way, way tastier than the common salmon, cod, tuna or others. Even the scales are soft, sweet to eat.

Guess how much it costs.

RM300 - RM450 per Kg from the kampong fisherman, depending on which part of the river. RM500 - RM1,000 per Kg from the middleman. Served at RM1,000 - RM1,500 per Kg in selected chinese restaurant.

According to Dr Elli Luhat, the empurau is found mainly in trans-Himalayan countries like Nepal, Afghanistan and all the way to Burma. It is known as “mahseer” in some of these countries.

Said to be the king of the Himalayan rivers. Locally, the Semah, which is of the same family, is often mistaken as the Empurau. The Empurau's long median lobe on the lower lips distinguishes it from the Semah.

The empurau’s population is dwindling due mainly to indiscriminate logging. It has been successfully bred for the first time at the Tarat Inland Fisheries Station in Serian. This breakthrough is the result of three years of collaboration between the Fisheries Division and Deakin University headed by Prof. Sena De Silva.

Contact Dr Elli (+60.13.8289795 or ordrelliluhat@gmail.com), for conservation and breeding of empurau.

Father's Day Gift - Boy or Girl

How is that the guys in the adult movies can last for hours before reaching orgasm? It's movie magic, stupid! But even in the live performances (go Europe), the guys seem to last forever.

This post is for the poor guys who can't last even a minute (normal is over 7 minutes). At the same time, it's also for the fathers who want to make baby girls or baby boys. What' the relationship? It's my theory to explain why there seems to be more girls than boys. I see more women than men in my office, I see more women driving on the roads in Kuala Terengganu than there are men, and certainly there are more females in schools, colleges and universities in our country.

For Fathers Day, I'll stick to absurdity and sexiness - how long you last determines if you'll get a baby girl or baby boy. No, you don't need the expensive high-tech techniques. Check to make sure I'm correct here.

The acidity or alkalinity of a woman's vagina is very important in determining baby boy or girl. An acidic environment favours girls, since it will kill the weaker male sperm first and leave a greater number of X sperm (female) to fertilise the egg. So, if you are trying for a boy, a good time for intercourse is when the vaginal balance changes to alkaline - on the day the woman ovulates, or ensure that she orgasms first before you do. Orgasms play a role in determining the sex of a child - the female orgasm. A woman’s body releases a substance that rises alkaline levels when she orgasms. Boys are produced much quicker when there are higher levels of alkaline.(so the explanation for the apparent more-female-than-male phenomena is perhaps because our women don't orgasm enough or because many men now don't last long enough for the women to orgasm).

Fathers, on this Fathers Day, if you want to make baby boys or just want to last as the guys in the movies do, check this drug, Dapoxetine, and this spray, the TEMPE Spray. Don't get over-excited yet. The drug and the spray are yet to be released. If you can't wait, these drugs are in use - Anafranil, Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil.

Happy Fathers Day, guys! Don't rush, but last.

Fathers Day Terengganu Homestay Package

Fathers Day Special Homestay Package in Kuala Terengganu

Fully furnished, quiet, cozy place to stay in Kuala Terengganu at only RM500 per room per night. Limited rooms available.

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Amazing Creations for Father's Day

Craigslist
In Kuala Terengganu, you can't find any classifieds in any newspaper or ads in any 7-Eleven Community Board on room or house for rent. I scouted the city and suburbs, but not a single notice on any unoccupied house if it's for rent. But, in many US cities, Craigslist is the best way to get a job, find an apartment, buy furniture or get a date. It's not flashy or slick, but you won't see any commercial ads here, and the Best Of section is not to be missed.

To me the attractiveness of this creation is that the classifieds are not edited. Another attraction, too, is the anonymity of the Internet - so now I get to shed some inhibition. Some landlords and apartment dwellers looking for roommates are offering to accept sex in lieu of rent on Craigslist. There's an ad offering a room in exchange for "sex and light office duty." Another, a one-bedroom pool house is free "to a girl that is skilled and willing." Yet another ad, a USD700-a-month room is available at a discount to a fit female willing to provide sex. I just wonder if these guys really get to collect rent under the sheets. But it gives me some absurd Father's Day idea.

I got two empty rooms in Kuala Terengganu and now that I could shed some inhibition, I'm thinking of taking a little adventure with this form of voyeurism and hope that it does result in an actual exchange of sex for rent. I'll use the local Terengganu term - homestay, instead of house for rent. Guys, when you see an ad that goes like this, let the hot chicks know: "Athletic MBA Man offering attractive Homestay package in Kuala Terengganu. RM500 per day, negotiable for attractive and willing young females. Offer expires after Fathers Day". Should I change the tag for this post to something sexy and absurd?

Google Maps
I could find, with ease, my way to Kampong Biawak, Lundu, Sarawak with this Google Map on my HTC TyTN II phone. People said I could get fish, fresh from the fishermen's boat a Pulau Kambing in Kuala Terengganu. I located the place on Google Map on my phone and got my fresh fish just as they landed from the sea at the Pulau Kambing jetty. Google's Street View brought a new dimension to mapping this year, offering users real-life images from ground level.

Yelp.com
At Yelp, customers write critical appraisals of everything from theaters to public restrooms. It's the "wisdom of the crowd" in action. Does anyone know if we have something similar here in Malaysia, comprehensive, reliable? If so, it means we Malaysians have moved one level up from being mere consumer of internet-based info to providers of good content.

NYTimes.com
So much have been said about how this grand old newspaper reinvented itself. It has crafted a strong, user-friendly online presence spiced with engaging interactive graphics and first-rate news video. Check this out to see how brilliant the online presence has been designed to give us such an awesome online experience. Our local thestar.com.my is almost there, I think. But the poor guys in RTM, Media Prima and NSTP's www.emedia.com.my continues to remain latecomers, if they ever get to survive the next few years.
http://www.nytimes.com/

Sidestep
SideStep scans more than 200 other travel-focused Web sites, looking for low-priced flights, hotels, rental cars and cruises. The bottom line: It's surprisingly effective at finding deals. It's a great model. Somehow, I haven't found a low-priced deal that low-priced enough for an average Malaysian like me.

Digg
Digg continues to serve denizens of the Web as the most reliable barometer of must-read news on the Internet. Another interesting idea.

Flock
On Father's Day when you get sick of having to surf to all your favorite sites and services, get Flock. Flock integrates Facebook updates, Twitter feeds, YouTube videos, Flickr photo streams, Gmail and Yahoo Mail and blogging tools into a single navigation (and browsing) interface. Read a review here.

Communicating with Young People

The coming Wet n Tech Camp will again be a time for adults to exercise effective skills in nurturing young people in an informal setting. We have seen too many programs targeting young people, but fail to involve them in building life-skills. Take the National Service program for example. Would it not benefit the young people if they are involved in the designing, planning, running and evaluation of the program activities? Wouldn't they at least learn about planning and leadership by being involved that way? Have you seen how the adults communicate with the participants?

Often, we adults talk down to children. It's almost a natural thing to do and our children grow up to do the same thing. We lecture and preach to children. We talk to them condescendingly or without respect, judge their actions, force our own values unto them, use punishment or anger, and make their questions seem silly.

Experiences from raising 6 children (I'm sure you have your experiences to share), combined with community sevice work involving children, here's some positive adult-children communication that may help improve how we get along with young people. It's no different from the communication skills we need in the office. But it takes us to change our own way of relating to young people:

1. Listen and ask questions.
2. Understand the problem or issue.
3. Give facts and correct information.
4. Be able to say, "I don't know".
5. Share your values.
6. Be patient.
7. Share your faith.
8. Respect their opinions.
9. Assure confidentiality and build trust.
10. Share alternatives and options.
11. Give choices.
12. Develop their decision-making skills.
13. Give guidance to live long, healthy lives.
14. Help them identify their feelings and opinions.
15. Build their confidence and self-esteem.

Facilitators of the Wet n Tech Camp, as usual, will need to exercise this communication skill. These may also be especially useful when communicating about family issues, sexuality and growing pains with young people.

Tube, Instinct, iPhone - Where's the sex?

Buying new phones now may not be a good idea. No, not because of the fuel price hike. Apple just launched its new 3G iPhone, priced at USD199 (previous iPhone retailed at USD399) and will be available first in 70 countries (not Malaysia, yet).

For those who can't wait for iPhone's availability in Malaysia, we have two iPhone killers worth owning, but yet to be available.
1. Nokia's Tube
2. Samsung's Instinct

With the iconic iPhone redefining the user experience in mobile phones, Nokia and Samsung have been toiling away with touch-based competitors to the iPhone. Both touted by critics as iPhone killers. (From my experience, nothing comes close to Apple's user experience). Tube is Nokia's first touch device, powered by the new Symbian operating system with built-in Java support (iPhone does not support Java, but Sun has announced will port JVM to iPhone).

Samsung Instinct has a touch screen (smaller than iPhones) featuring localized tactile feedback, called haptics, which allow the virtual QWERTY keypad and other operations to become a sensory experience. It has features like Visual Voicemail, allowing users to listen to messages in their order of preference and manage them with a simple tap of the screen. It also provides support for (POP3) email, multitasking capabilities that allow the user to play music in background mode while surfing the Internet, texting or playing games, a 2.0 megapixel camera with camcorder and expandable microSD memory of up to 8GB. It also includes a Global Positioning System chip. Does it have a feature that enables one to have more sex?

Here's a great review of Instinct vs 3G iPhone:

50 Years of Eating Dust

Kampong Biawak, Lundu, Sarawak is home to the Selakau people, a Dayak group. It's a border village. You can get across to Kalimantan on a day pass. Across the border is the other half of the kampong.

I spent the first day of Gawai, 1st June, visiting open houses here and enjoyed the rest of the day at open houses in Lundu, moving on to Bau district to the villages of Kpg Opar, Kpg Serasot and Kpg Stass.

Of all th kampongs, Kpg Biawak is a deep contrast to the others. Even after 50 years of independence, the people of Kpg Biawak continue to commute on dusty gravel road, an improvement from the earthen road.

It's no wonder that more and more people are demanding change. For me, that change means that the boss of Petronas must be a Sarawakian, that Sarawak decides how the revenues are spent. That change means instead of giving out oil revenue royalty, the Federal Government must now request for from Sarawak and justify for revenues for its expenditures.

Come Experience Gawai in Singai

Kampong Apar, Singai, Bau, Sarawak. Be there on May 21, 2008. Pictured is a screenshot from thestar.com.my.

Sex Sigma vs 6

Here is the new, more acceptable Six Sigma logo. "Quality is like sex. Everyone wants it, but few people get it", that's what a friend and one-time mentor (now CEO of MyBiz) once said. I have never been able to dispute that. There are just as many sex therapists as there are quality management gurus to remedy the many who fail to have sex and companies that fail in quality management. The companies I work for all fail their quality programs and for me, it's always the other guys who have all the luck with the hot chicks. Both quality and sex have many terms by which people refer to them - Six Sigma, QCC, Shag, Copulate for example. Both quality and sex have so many stuffs written about them and there are just as many 101 Ways of Enjoying Sex books, articles and websites as there are 101 Ways of Improving Quality in Your Company books. More similarities:

1. I don’t “get” either one.
2. They both have a measure phase.
3. People have used both to pay their bills. (pls check with Motorola if people have used sex to pay their Six Sigma bills).
4. Exciting at first, then disappointing.
5. Lies, myths and exaggerations are rampant.
6. They both make me sleepy.

One difference between the two - in business institutions there are quality programs such as Six Sigma program or QCC, but we don't have sex programs in our marriage institutions. Another difference - after the initial arousal and excitement, quality programs die off without ever reaching climax, but with sex and good play you can get multiple orgasm and spiritual fulfillment.

Lesson from experience - use of the term "Sex Sigma" (or similar terms) to describe a Six Sigma quality program indicates the term users have rejected the Six Sigma program. If you start hearing such terms around your company, then you can conclude your Six Sigma program is being rejected within your company.

When that happens, it is time to use a more acceptable logo (such as the one shown above) for your Sex Sigma program. With sex being the most searched topic on the Internet by Malaysians, you can't go wrong with Sex Sigma as a successful program in your company.

What A Great Gawai

These people certainly know where the best Gawai is - always in Singai. The Super Bikers, the former diplomat (diplomats are the biggest party people I know), the UNDP folks, all the children and even the poor boy who got sick through out the holidays.

Sexy Kites in Terengganu

Think of Terengganu, you think of beaches and turtles. When I think of beaches, I think of all things associated with it - sunshine, sea, sand and bikini-clad unidentified female objects. And really, that's what I came to Terengganu for - hot, sexy bikini-clads.

So far, I've never found any. But here's the closest I could get to my fantasy - girls trying to fly kites on the beach. I learnt that if you do not know how to fly kites, try wearing the kites instead. You could make the kites look good.

Another lesson - forget the bikini-clads. Instead, hang around the hotel's jacuzzi coz' you could get lucky shots for your blog.

As for the turtles, they're nowhere to be found, perhaps because they too don't see any bikini-clads on the beaches. Don't you see why the SUKOM 2008 mascot, Si Diman, is a fish? No matter how educated or how religious we are, we continue our despicable inhumane acts of destroying our environment and cause the extinction of God's wonderful creations like the leatherback turtles. Some redemption can be here and you'll find more serious fun, bare naked with nature here.

Beaten By My Angel

My eldest angel beat me to a skill that I never even taught him. He got all the roses that I couldn't even get in a lifetime.

He pulled the stunt in a place I couldn't even dream of going to - Kamchatka Peninsula, one of the most spectacular regions of Russia. The Russians knew that he was the one their mother warned them about. So they did not extend his visa.

Find out how you can spend up to a year living with a few host families and attending school in a different country. Get to learn a new way of living, a great deal about yourself, and maybe even a new language. You’ll also be an ambassador, teaching people you meet about your country, culture, and ideas. You can help bring the world closer – and make some good friends in the process.

My Male Agents

These are my angels. One of them is a Japanese. He's the only one who loves durian and I thought that's amazing. Even more amazing - as warriors, they're not wearing their keris.

A Sexy Technology Scheme ends in Anticlimax

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) mission is: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. The target group: The nearly two–billion children in the developing world who are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. The means to the end: A project to build and distribute a small, simple, robust and sub USD100 laptop that would revolutionise life for the poor by educating their children - or, in the most idealistic version, allowing them to educate themselves by playing with the software.

I'm reminded of OLPC upon visiting the Intel booth and surprised that it is apparently still alive. Even more surprised that our Ministry of Education is running the pilot in 10 schools. We had the Smart Schools MSC Flagship Application that drained hundreds of millions of taxpayers money without any results to show. Then came the Education Blueprint. Now this.

OLPC was launched in Jan-2005 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland by founder, Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Lab. It was endorsed by Kofi Annan, Rupert Murdoch, Presidents of Brazil, Nigeria and 20 or more countries that announced their intention to buy. Several hundred thousand of the laptops have actually been delivered, mostly in Peru. Reportedly, no one knows exactly where.

Critics say it was an expensive gimmick. In places like my kampong that can hardly afford pens and pencils for their schools, it is not obvious that a USD100 laptop for every child is the answer to mass illiteracy. Read the blog of a OLPC senior executive who quit this year, Ivan Krsti, after he was sent out to Peru to oversee the distribution of the some 40,000 laptops in about 570 schools there. He describes "across jungles, mountains, plains, and with total variance in electrical availability and uniformly no existing network infrastructure. A number of the target schools are in places requiring multiple modes of transportation to reach, and that are so remote that they're not even serviced by the postal service. Laptop delivery was going to be performed by untrusted vendors who are in a position to steal the machines en masse. There is no easy way to collect manifests of what actually got delivered, where, and to whom."

Even if the laptops reach the schools they are supposed to reach, there is no evidence at all that they will actually help children to learn. Lets learn to learn. Lets learn lessons from our not-so-successful Smart Schools project that emphasized computers. It takes a leap of faith to believe that children learn better through computers than books.

The last I report I read the OLPC is going down. The collapse of the scheme higlights the falsity of the believe that IT alone can lift people out of poverty. Knowledge may, but the technology that spreads knowledge best is literacy, not laptops. Supporters say that the laptop enables people to have access to more information via the Internet allowing them to tap into a vast reserve of knowledge - e.g. Wikipedia. But how much information does a person need to consume to have sustainable livelihood? Though the Internet gives you access to information, but so does a good textbook.

How is a laptop more efficent than a book? Textbooks require no power, don't need winding up or solar cells, they can be passed to the next kid when it is finished with. They only use sustainable trees in their construction, and are cheap.

And what can a unsustainable laptop teach that a book cannot? Only IT skills, and I'd imagine that an agriculture community like my kampong, Singai, in Sarawak, does not have IT top of the survival skillset.

I'm 40 something and the Internet wasn't there to impact on my secondary education. I'm sure none of my forty something colleagues would regard our education as woefully deficient.

Not that I want to generalise, but back in my kampong school in remote Sarawak, we studied English lit with 10 copies of the novel to be split between about 60 kids. In that situation, at least, a laptop for every child would have been laughably irrelevant.

In the age of the Internet today, how is that a McKinsey study finds that only 11% of our graduates are employable by multinational companies?

An even deeper lesson: Just watch our own children - without adult support and encouragement, children will use all technology to play with. If you give them paper, they will make paper aeroplanes; if you give them laptops, they will play solitaire. So really what our beloved Malaysia needs is better educated teachers.

MOE, please learn one more lesson: In the Smart Schools project, the people in charge don't bother to find out what the end-user really needs and can cope with. The project ends up enriching some private companies, wasting lots of taxpayer money, and doing no good, and no-one takes the blame. In the end the verdict is that "lessons will be learnt" but in fact they never are because the same mistakes are repeated over and over.

At the Intel booth it was revealed that its soon to be released new generation of the OLPC, the NetBook, will be powered by the new generation Intel Atom processor.

Intel joined OLPC in July last year and introduced its version of the laptop.

Watch a video of Intel's Classmate PCs in Dr Craig Barrett's Keynote Address at WCIT 2008. His presentation defines what is a world-class presentation.

Foreigners not Sexy at WCIT 2008

At expos, I observe that booths of exhibitors from foreign countries are usually less patronized. Be it IT expo, halal showcase, MAHA or any other exhibition, the response is the same, no matter how well-designed the booths are.

I can offer free professional advice to these exhibitors, but my advice is nothing new and in fact successful exhibitors use this tactic all the time to attract - attractive young girls in skimpy, sexy or skin-tight clothing.

Instead of giving hand outs, goodie bags or cheap gifts (some offer sweets and candies), nothing beats offering sexual favours. Imagine the kind of response a booth offering 40,000 sexual favours would get.

Hey, even Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad (MDV) exploit those sweet young girls to entertain people at MDV booth, asking for business cards and ofering gifts in return. MDV's CEO sat behind watching over the girls. If he was wearing other than a black suit, he would almost look like a pimp watching over the brood. In the scheme of things, how about repaying our loans with sexual favours? If you check out the blog of MDV's CEO at http://www.debtventures.com/cms/index.jsp, the possibilty is there.

I'm yet to imagine the number of visitors to my blog if I offer 40,000 sexual favours on this blog.

Do I Feel Empowered?

I'm not sure. Are you? The incredible ease at which I submitted by income tax returns last month left me feeling truly empowered. Like having sex, the feeling subsided after logging out off the e-Filing website. Reality struck back - the BN gov't will continue to ensure that our tax money is not well-spent and will enrich the few. The soaring cost of food and fuel, the many tolled roads, the increase in crimes, the unstoppable waste of taxpayers money, the ever churning datukship industry - I'll never feel empowered. Perhaps that's how it feels to be impotent, too.

Who will ever be held accountable and prosecuted for the over RM50 mil waste of public money on the failed e-Village project in Dengkil? Will taxpayers be able to get back the RM500 mil burnt in InventQjaya in Cyberjaya? Can MDeC answer what happened to taxpayers money in its investment arm, Meitech Development Sdn Bhd and the investments and subsidiaries such as Optica Fiber Technologies MSC Sdn Bhd, Knowledge Worker Exchange Sdn Bhd, e-commerce application service provider (ASP) GO2020.com MSC Sdn Bhd? Perhaps Datuk Arif Nun and Dr Muhammad Ghazie Ismail can explain.

Proud Taxpayer for WCIT 2008

Don't be mistaken when MDEC proudly proclaims that it is the pinnacle partner of WCIT. MDEC equals Taxpayers. And MDEC management must always remind themselves this when they treat themselves lavishly.

Sexy School Uniform for a Moral Society

This article in The Star today caught me like the momentarily-blinding sunlight. I'm reminded that Sweden has minimal wife-beating incidences. Really, because there is almost no wife to beat. We know that Swedish people are often referred to as the freest society (unburdened of morals, also in terms of Index of Economic Freedom) and most advanced (refer to human development index, also the 2nd most ICT connected society).

More than half of Swedish men and women live without marriage, any Swede with any other for any length of time (this is the part I like). The people have coined a name for this arrangement: sambo (sam means together; bo means live). The family is no more legitimate. In fact, the family is looked down as un-modern, antiquated. Sweden is often cited by liberals as an example for freedom, gender rights, and human rights. However, Sweden has high incidences of women-beating, i.e men, whom are not husbands, beat women, whom are not wives. How free is free?

In Sweden, as an institution, the family is dead. The gov't has to step in to fill the gap - care for the infirm, the aged, and the unemployed. In substance, the Swedish are consequently, the least free - they are most state-dependent, in fact. Result, the Government bears the costs of helpers to look after the uncared for aged Swedish. Even medical care brought to them if they are unable to get around easily.

A nation like ours, need moral police such as Munirah Bahari, vice-president of National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia. Never mind Munirah's concern that “The white blouse is too transparent for girls and it becomes a source of attraction. ... This is the source of the problem, where we can see that schoolgirls themselves are capable of using this to attract men to them. ... This could see them getting molested, having premarital sex and all sorts of things . . .” (as quoted from the article). (by the way, I grew up in a community where women go about topless. Yet, till today, the community has zero molest, rape or incest case. In fact, respect & protection of women is a community norm. It came as a surprise to me that the east coast states of Peninsular M'sia has high rates of these 'silent' crimes compared to other states). It is the broader longer term effect of unpoliced moral in our Malaysian society that should be of more serious concern to us.

If not for saviours who are holier than us, like Munirah, the final phase of modernity is already on us - the non-procreative man-women union. If you are a regular at Fitness First gym, you'll also think that the continuing phase of modernity is the non-procreative man-man union. Consequently, population regresses threatening the existence of our nation, our cultures, and economic prospects.

Societies and families unshielded by the normative moral standards respected by our society, and not policed by the moral police such as the likes of Munirah, cannot survive. The society and family that function on normative moral standards, unburdens the gov't, releases people from the master-client relationship of Barisan Nasional and voters, and frees the citizens from state dominance. That is why we have a family provided social security and Western countries have a gov't-dependent social security.

We can now count on Munirah to set up a moral police department in the PM's Office. It is strategic for the enduring prosperity of our nation.

Is the momentarily-blinding sunlight coming through open windows better than the claustrophobic blackness of a secure and perpetually closed room?

Find some answers here.

If you are keen to be a moral police like me, watch this sexy school uniform. Munirah?

WCIT 2008 at Mount Kinabalu

I loved this booth. It's like they brought Mount Kinabalu to KLCC. Or was WCIT 2008 held on top of Mount Kinabalu? The setting of discussion tables with the backdrop of Mount Kinabalu provided that pleasant & therapeutic effect after fighting thru the KL traffic to get to WCIT 2008.

Can Our Children Cocreate As Free Agents? WCIT 2008

Here's my 3rd and final two cents worth in conjunction with WCIT 2008.

We’re already witnessing a few smart companies using the Internet and related technologies in radical ways to harvest talents of innovators working outside corporate boundaries. Some of these companies routinely involve customers, independent contractors in the creation of new products. Loncin, a motorcycle manufacturer in China lets its suppliers work with one another to design components, making sure everything fits together, and reduce costs. The Linux operating system was developed over the Internet by a network of specialists. When this approach to innovation becomes widely practiced, the impact on labour activity and skills of our workforce could be significant.

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is a product or service created by its distributed customers. OhmyNews, a popular South Korean online newspaper is written by over 6,000 citizen reporters. Threadless, an online clothing store engages hundreds of customers each week by getting them to submit new designs for T-shirts. The community at large votes for its favorites.

As more and more sophisticated work takes place interactively online and new collaboration and communications tools emerge, companies can outsource increasingly specialized aspects of their work.

Top talent for a range of activities—from finance to marketing and IT to operations—can be found anywhere. The best person for a task may be a free agent in India or an employee of a small company in Italy rather than someone who works for a global business services provider.

The implications of shifting more work to freelancers are interesting. For one thing, new talent-deployment models could emerge. TopCoder, a company that has created a network of software developers, may represent one such model. TopCoder gives organizations that want to have software developed for them access to its talent pool. Customers explain the kind of software they want and offer prizes to the developers who do the best job creating it—an approach that costs less than employing experienced engineers. Changes in the nature of labor relationships could shift payment schemes from time and materials to compensation for results. The other interesting thing, in conjunction with this new model, our workforce must have the required skills to be able to engage in this new model. Talents entering this workforce will require even stronger skills in team collaboration, information processing and problem solving.

I would not be wrong to say that this trend would gather steam in sectors such as software, health care delivery, professional services, and real estate, where companies can easily segment work into discrete tasks for independent contractors and then reaggregate it. As companies move in this direction, they will need to understand the value of their human capital more fully, seek new skills in the talents they need and manage different classes of contributors accordingly.

Again, all these trends in the way companies harvest talent and manage human capital will have a significant impact on future workforce. Are we preparing them for this new trend? Will our education system evolve fast enough to meet the future workforce? Are we doing anything as individuals, as parents and as responsible citizens to prepare our children who will enter the workforce?

Further reading:
Thomas W. Malone, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004.

Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life, New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Daniel H. Pink, Free Agent Nation: How America’s New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live, New York: Warner Books, 2001.

Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Cambridge, MA: Yale University Press, 2006.

C. K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy, The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004.

MCMC, Who Needs Reality Talent Shows? WCIT 2008

Here's my second two-cents worth in conjunction with the World Congress on IT 2008 (WCIT 2008)in KL, May 19 - 21. Sellaband.com is revolutionizing the way artistes or music and singing talents become popular stars. Sellaband.com provides a platform to match aspiring singers with fans who are willing to bet on potential.

An aspiring artist puts his demo songs on the sellaband.com website and offer 5,000 "parts" for sale. Fans and artist and repertoire (A & R) wannabes shop on the site for songs they like. When they find something worthy, they invest in the artist by purchasing one or more parts, at USD10 each. Upon raising USD50,000, the artist is assigned an experienced A & R person and producer, and goes to the studio to record an album. Believers (the investors) get a limited edition of the CD.

Three songs are given FOC on sellaband.com website. The rest are downloadable at USD0.50. Believers, sellaband.com and the artist get portions of net profits from the downloads and from the advertising revenue.

The artist can also order his own CD at cost and sell it - Believers share USD2 per CD. Believers can also set up shop on sellaband.com, selling related products from their artistes. So, MCMC, who needs all those dumb copycat reality shows on local TV? Wake up, MCMC, the revolution has left you far behind.

MCMC, your website, www.skmm.gov.my, has not changed a bit after 10 years. That means you're 100 years behind the revolution. Your MyICMS 886 strategy, in its 14MB 2nd edition, clogs our creative networks. Your Networked Content Development Grant can be better used to open up our education system that continues to suppress creative innovation. Look, even RTM uses YouTube when it should be at the forefront of innovation in both delivery and content after being in existence for many decades. The minds in RTM are as old as those in MCMC, backward, stale, non-progressive.

It's not the broadband, stupid!

Government Incentives for Farmers

Finally, the gov't delivers on it's promise. Now we're hearing the cheers from the farmers.

It would be interesting to see if the incentives really get to the real farmers in need. This is fertile ground for BN politicians to enrich themselves while influencing who gets the benefits. These incentives will go a long way in alleviating the food crisis and in helping farmers sustain their business in the wake of soaring production costs. So, politicians, think of what hungry people are capable of doing.

Kadar Insentif Tanaman
Sayur-sayuran - RM81/mt
Buah-buahan - RM78/mt

Kadar Insentif Ternakan
Penternak Kecil (RM/mt)

Telur Ayam 411
Susu 195
Daging Kambing 906
Unggas 780
Daging Lembu 1,122
Daging Babi 774

Penternak Komersial (RM/mt)

Telur Ayam 137
Susu 65
Daging Kambing 302
Unggas 260
Daging Lembu 374
Daging Babi 258

How We Rank, WCIT 2008

As the World Congress on IT 2008 in KL is only a few days away, here's a glimpse of how we fare among countries in the the world in terms of ICT.

Connectivity has been recognized as having a positive impact on transparency, good governance,and democracy. There are also implications of increased connectivity that are currently in the process of being defined, particularly in areas such as urban systems, lifestyles, and quality of life. For example, according to a 2006 technology needs assessment and economic development impact study, high bandwidth connectivity has the ability to enhance a city’s appeal to the “creative class” of knowledge workers. Across the world, increased connectivity has also become a prominent factor in the discourse on strengthening and maintaining social cohesion. Narrowing the digital gap between urban and rural areas has been a priority for our public sector, at least that's what our BN politicians say. The ranking benchmarks how far our gov't has gone to do so. This agenda has also served to placate fears that the rapid advances in technology would benefit urban areas at the expense of those geographic segments that are already struggling with their distance from markets.

Read more about the World Economic Forum's Global IT Report 2007-08 at http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Information%20Technology%20Report/index.htm.
Watch the Report presentation here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YnTba0rcPM.

Now, take a moment to reflect on the implications of the benchmark on our country's future competitiveness against our nearest neighbours. Then, lets think further about how we, as responsible individual, NGO and corporate citizen can respond.

Meraki-The Love Route to the Web, WCIT 2008

Innovators: Sanjit Biwas (r.) and John Bicket have created inexpensive wireless technology that allows Internet signals to carry into remote areas.

Over the past two years Meraki has powered several thousand wireless networks across 70 countries and opened up the Internet to people who otherwise could never afford it.

The mission of the company is to bring affordable Internet access to the next billion people. Read more about how these two 25-year old PhD students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and founders of Meraki, a Silicon Valley start-up that has powered thousands of simple, inexpensive wireless networks around the world, http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1212/p13s01-stct.html?page=1


Now we can tell Telekom Malaysia to close down its miserable service and mediocre effort to try to connect the rural areas.

You Can Build Weapons of Mass Nutrition Here

The world hunger crisis is all over the news this week. In just three years, the price of staple foods like wheat, corn and rice has almost doubled. If we don't do something soon, hundreds of thousands of people face starvation and a hundred million more could fall into extreme poverty.

I just took action with the ONE Campaign and you can too, here:

http://www.one.org/hungercrisis?rc=hctaf

Developing Life Skills Using Technology

Here's a pretty innovative youth programming that uses technology for developing life skills.

TheOneMinutesJr Network. www.theoneminutesjr.org. They are sixty-second videos made by young people (between the ages of 12 and 20) from all over the world. Time may be limited in a oneminutesjr video (this challenges the youngsters to form their ideas clearly), but not the freedom to express oneself creatively, which is the basic right of every person.

TheOneMinutesJr network is a non-commercial community without any set political belief or ideology. The network gives young people, especially those who are underprivileged or marginalised, the opportunity to have their voices heard by a broad audience, to share with the world their ideas, dreams, fascinations, anxieties,and viewpoints.

It consists of the interactive oneminutesjr website, a yearly festival competition, workshops across the world, video broadcasting on ten European public TV channels, and screenings at festivals and events. And this is only for now... As they involve more partners and explore new ways of getting the oneminutesjr videos out there, the network will continue to expand.

Also check out these similar projects:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/. A BBC initiative offering opportunities for young people to develop their own ideas, find contacts, explore their interest in art, dance, music or film and showcase their own work.

http://www.netdays.at/ netd@ys promotes the use of new technologies, especially the internet, in education and culture.

http://mediarights.org/launchpad/ The one-stop shop for the next generation of mediamakers" launchpad highlights stories by and for young people. it features tools, resources and media, exploring what it takes to launch, promote and distribute their work. from New York to Bangalore, join these emerging voices and become part of the growing community.

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/philanthropy/youthvoices/

World Class Sewage Equestrian Resort

Kuala Terengganu is the Heritage Waterfront City. Or is it the Sewage Waterfront City. This is a picture of the self-proclaimed World Class Equestrian Resort - the Terengganu Equestrian Resort or TER, www.ter.com.my. There are at least 5 sewage drains feeding the resort's lake. The main ones feed untreated waste water from shops and houses across the road.

We may recall a Hollywood shoot that was supposed to happen on the waters of the Hong Kong harbour. It was called off because the harbour sea water has dangerous levels of contaminants. The TER lake is where people fish and do recreational activities. Take a walk along the lake and you'll be breathing pungent air from the lake. So here's the deal that city-status citizens get.

You Got It, You Flaunt It

LCCT is where everyone gets to fly. Now, even boobs want to fly...each time she retrieves items from her luggage on the floor. These landed on an island beach off Kuala Terengganu. (This is the censored copy).

Lim Kit Siang MUST Be Arrested under ISA Now

Lim Kit Siang has to spoil it all. He MUST be now immediately arrested and detained under the Internal Security Act. The way that he's handling the new found power, it's really getting too dangerous for the country. He's no different from the mafia or triad gangsters.

Great power must come with even greater responsibility. Lim Kit Siang is obviously irresponsible. Power and greed will kill DAP, PAS and PKR before they even know what's coming to hit them.

New Prime Minister Must Be A Sarawakian

Following Barisan Nasional's resounding victories in Sarawak and Sabah, and its poor performance in Peninsula Malaysia, Abdullah Badawi must step down and give way to a new Prime Minister from Sarawak. May I also suggest that the federal capital be moved to Kuching? East Malaysia must now get a major portion of the development projects. Sarawak deserves to be rewarded for saving the Barisan Nasional from total annihilation by the Barisan Rakyat.

In Malaysian democracy, that script is still unwritten.

Thanks to all the voters who have brought about the long overdue changes.

Favian Tisen Stunt of the Century

When I saw his name as a 2008 General Election candidate for parliamentary seat, I thought I was halucinating. I had to close and put back the newspaper, recollect my thoughts before I turned back the page to confirm. I spent the last 6 hours of the eve of polling day accompanying him on his campaign trail Bau to Lundu. I couldn't believe that people actually waited for him even till 11pm to give his ceramah and to answer some grassroot issues. If he wins, it would be a classic David vs Goliath story. And it would be the stunt of the century.

To Bring Down Two Giants in Mas Gading

This is the man tasked to bring down 2 giants in Mas Gading Constituency, Sarawak. A simple man, one of the humblest human beings alive today. An accountancy graduate turned entrepreneur.

It is a very, very tough fight, seems almost impossible. The odds against him are too many.

But I've flown all the way from Kuala Terengganu to be with him through the last 6 hours of campaigning. I'm for him because he's sacrificing for national service for the greater good of the Bidayuh in Bau and for my beloved nation. If we continue with the status quo, we'll only continue to rot in the filth of corruption, abuse of power and the self-enrichment of our supposed representatives.

If Size Matters, Here is the new definition of democracy

If size does matter, then here's the new definition of democracy. Where mainstream media has been insulting our intelligence with their Opposition bashing frenzy, this size certainly catches more eyeballs. March 8, 2008, my vote will shape the actual size.

The Majesty of Democracy Humbles Barisan Nasional

The majesty of democracy humbles even the Barisan Nasional. High flying flags uplift the spirit to rise to the call of duty and to exercise our right to choose wisely, for our country, for our family and for the future. My vote will make a difference for the greater good.