Thief ON BARS!!

If you think that being a thief is an easy way to get rich, well think again as you may end up not just behind bars, but ON BARS!!. Not clear??? Well.. read on..

"This alleged thief had to be rushed to hospital last night after being impaled on a fence.

The incident took place at the East London museum.

The suspect is alleged to have broken down the back door to the museum. The alarm went off, giving him a fright, and he ran away.

He climbed a tree and then attempted to jump over the fence. However, he lost his footing and was impaled by one of the spikes on the fence.

The man was discovered by a tow truck driver who heard his cries.

The man was taken to Frere Hospital and it is understood that he is due to undergo surgery"

Are Woman Careful Drivers?

Now lets talk about this topic..ok..let me ask you all a question, what will you get when u add a woman and a car? Whats your answer? Most people will answer "SAFE".

Ok i had heard this phrase that "woman drivers are always more careful drivers as compared to men". Let me see, i heard that from my mum, my school teacher, my friends (mostly girls) and also from the instructor who thought me driving. The instructor said to me that so many years that he had teach driving, he was very proud of the girls as they emerge to be very careful drivers. He said that even though men are better learners and drivers, women will always be the most careful ones.

when first i heard this, of course i will did not believe it. well i mean why are they categorizing based on gender? I had seen woman drivers who are reckless and some men drivers who have not even met with an accident as long they were on the road..

well regardless of what i think, as usual we need to see the actual case happens to change the mind set. so i just came across todays news in the star and guess what? a wife accidentally knocked down her husband in an attempt to reverse her car.Apparently she was trying to reverse the car but she accidentally put the gear into drive mode and stepped on the accelerator.
the poor husband who had so much fate in her, was standing in front of the car at that time and that was his final moment on this planet.

Report says that he suffered serious head injuries when he was admitted into the hospital. The wife must had pressed the accelerator quite hard to have caused such a damage. So the moral of the story is, any can make mistakes and accidents do happen. So please be careful at all times. As usual, the hyper link below contains the news. happy reading.

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Food prices keep rising

Yesterday i just finished typing on tips to save during meals and guess what that i saw in today news headlines? "Food prices keep rising"...The most interesting thing is that the news was ranked on the most read news in the Star Online website. Well, what to do? Its understood when the oil and wheat price increased, there are bound to be increase in the prices of food and beverages sold. What did you expect? The government going to take the hit directly? Even though that the government will subsidized, but there will be after effects and will hit us consumers in the end.

Those who conduct their business can't be expected to absorb the hit and suffer own losses rite? They also need to keep their business running and when prices from operation cost and raw material increase, the pressure is bound to be passed on to the consumers. Let me just state a brief comparison of prices done by the star in Miri as below

Items//B4 Price//After
Iced milo and iced lemon tea//RM1.50//RM2.30
Bowl of wantan mee// RM2.50 // RM4
Bowl of plain kolok mee//RM1.70 //RM2.50-RM3
Plate of economy rice//RM3.50//RM4-RM5
Plate of char siew rice//RM3.50//RM5

Now there y0u have it. look at the increase and difference. Thats food and beverages which we as humans consumes everyday. We need to eat and drink to continue to live. but with the increase at this rate, our salaries alone will not be enough to cover the basic means of survival. One thing which is certain is our salaries doesn't go up as fast as the rates of increase so its either we earn more or we conserve and consume less.

The worst things that i read on the site is that the government is not able to take action on those business operators which drastically increase their price as long as they do not increase those things which are controlled items. The best thing that the government can advise us is to avoid going to the store.

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Petrol Increase at Midnite!!!

The most awaited news had finally came to a reality. previously we only hear that globally, the price of crude oil has increased but now out country can no longer bear the heavy subsidy. They finally let of the burden to the public. The sudden news really gave us all a shock of our life. the last i heard was the price hike will be imposed in the month of august. Now suddenly the government said it will be increased before midnight.

when news was 1st announced in the public, naturally everyone will start their engines and speed off to the nearest petrol station to get their tanks filled. so what happens is massive jam had occurred in all places that have petrol station. even in my housing estate, i am not able to get out of it coz of the jam an queuing up of other cars. luckily 2 days before i filled both of my cars tanks till the max. i didn't know why i did it but i did. well maybe it was a hunch that the price will go sky rocket today.

any how, when this petrol price goes up, all other things will go up as well. food, services and many more will definitely follow the hike. What do you expect? the previous fuel price was sold at RM1.92 per liter and after midnight the price will be at RM2.70!!! Thats a 40% increase per liter!! the most affected by this increase will be the lower and middle income group. how can we continue to survive in this condition? i believe that our salary raise will not be 40% right? inflation is really going to take a hike as well.

what can we do to reduce the pain of this increase? almost all of our life will revolve around fuel usage. ok~ keep aside the outing and leisure part. we still need fuel to go to work, do our groceries, getting the kids to school and etc. so how we try to reduce also the pinch will still be felt.
the government had tried to help us further by decreasing the prices of road tax for vehicles below 2000cc. well i guess the gov had to do something in order to show that they are helping the public, if not there is sure to be an uproar due to the sudden increase. Enough said, we need to source another alternative besides fuel coz this will be a never ending story. let me put it this way, price of petrol will continue to increase in the future. when fuel increase, other things will increase as well but our salary will not increase as much as the price hike all over. well when this happens, even a small kid can do the maths rite?
its either we all use our legs to get to work or get a bicycle and cycle to work. this way, we don't need to pay so much for fuel. well, look on the bright side of walking to work, 1st u will be more healthy coz its exercise, 2nd you will save on fuel, 3rd you will be able to save the world from air pollution 4th if u keep doing this, u will be representing Malaysia in the Olympics. Ain't this great?

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Fake RM100

Just ran into todays news which stated that there are fake RM 100 notes being circulating around in the country. Before this, there were RM50 notes around but now there is even higher value of notes being counterfeited. So folks out there, please check your notes to see if there are fakes ones among them.
When i say check your notes, i do not mean use a fake note detector to check them. Those gadgets can only be seen in banks and casinos. Apparently they claim that its very easy to distinguish the real ones and the fakes. Based on the article from The Star, there are 5 main points to differentiate them. I will highlight them as per below.
1) The security thread on a real note is embedded in the bill and appears on the reverse side of the note as a silver dotted line. When the note is held up against light, it is seen as a continuous dark line and the repeated text 'BNMRM100' can be read. This feature is missing on the counterfeit note, where the 'security thread' appears as a silver dotted line.

2) No raised Braille feature on the counterfeit note.

3) The holographic design on the LEADA (Long-lasting Economical Anti-copy Device) strip represents the same motif as used in the purple patch as well as the text 'BNMRM100'. The colour of these elements change when the viewing angle is changed. The counterfeit note features just a silver thread with a floral pattern.

4) The portrait of the first King on the right of the real note is raised (Intaglio Print). This effect is missing on the fake note.

5) Watermark portrait of the first King is missing in the counterfeit note. The numeral 100 watermark at the base of the King's watermark is also missing.
The method to check on the notes to see if its real or fake is to hold them up to the light and check for the differences. It is said that “The watermark portrait can be seen easily. At the base of the watermark, the numeral 100 is clearly visible in a real note but absent in counterfeit ones,”.
The MCA are aware of this and they will highlight the event to Bank Negara for further action. They had tried an experiment by using the fake notes with several merchants and suprisingly it got through 5 merchants without being detected. Kind of dangerous rite? What can we do on our side is to make sure that we do not have this fake notes in our possession as we won't know when then next person we hand the note to will say "hey, your notes are fakes and we do not accept them!". So the next time someone hand you a RM100 or RM50 note, you know what to do besides smiling.
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