Came across this interesting link in ChiQ’s blog today. It is a campaign to make people aware of the problems that disabled people face in emergency situations when they have to be evacuated from a high-rise building based on the experience of fellow blogger Peter Tan. It may be an uphill battle but we have [...]
Archive for April, 2005
Emergency Evacuation
Posted in Thoughts on April 30, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Coloured envelopes OK until Dec 31
Posted in Local News on April 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Further to my previous post on increased postal rates, I read in the Sun newspaper today that Pos Malaysia has extended till Dec 31 two specifications of Standard Mail to enable its customers to use up old stocks of coloured envelopes which was earlier considered non-Standard mail. The public can still use envelopes of any [...]
‘Idol’ fans shocked by rocker’s elimination
Posted in Entertainment on April 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
OK I peeped at CNN News instead of waiting for tonight’s episode of American Idol on TV8. (we don’t subscribe to Star World) And lo and behold….. bye bye Constantine Maroulis!! I am more than happy to see him go after my favourite in the competition Anwar Robinson was voted out last week *sob* *sob*. [...]
It’s mango season again :)
Posted in Personal on April 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Yes it’s that great time of the year when local mangoes are in season again. The best one must be the Harumanis variety grown primarily in Perlis/Kedah and as the name suggests it is both fragrant and sweet. According to Bernama News however farmers in Perlis are turning their back on the fruit because of [...]
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Posted in Entertainment on April 26, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Less than a month to go before Star Wars Ep III and all the fans are awaiting this momentous event with bated breath. It is no surprise to read on BBC News that tickets for a back-to-back marathon screening of all six Star Wars films sold out in five minutes on Monday. Fans had queued [...]
Visually impaired struggle with smart machines
Posted in News & Oddities on April 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Jay Leventhal, who is blind, still fumbles with the tiny controls on his iPod but has given up on the kiosk in his New York office building that lists all the tenants. For Leventhal, even laundry has become a task requiring the help of a sighted person. The washers he uses now takes smart cards [...]
E-mails ‘hurt IQ more than pot’
Posted in News & Oddities on April 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana, a British study shows. The constant interruptions reduce productivity and leave people feeling tired and lethargic, according to a survey carried out by TNS Research and commissioned by Hewlett Packard.
The survey of 1,100 Britons showed:
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Increased Malaysian Postal Rates
Posted in Local News on April 22, 2005 | 6 Comments »
I discovered to my horror a few days ago that I was unaware that Pos Malaysia had very recently (as of March 1st 2005) reclassified mail and increased the postal rates. Looks like I’m not the only one according to the Star Online. To make matters worse I recently sent a draft overseas and the [...]
Rainy Days are here again!
Posted in Home on April 19, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Back last month when we were in the middle of the heatwave, the Meteorological Dept predicted rainy weather in April…..and they were right! It’s been raining almost every evening the last 2 weeks. Thankfully the weather is usually bright and sunny in the mornings so there’s adequate time for the laundry to dry. And of [...]
Woman beats off burglar with gnome
Posted in News & Oddities on April 16, 2005 | 1 Comment »
A grandmother stopped an intruder from entering her home by lobbing a heavy garden gnome at him, police said Friday.
Jean Collop was woken early on Tuesday morning by the sound of an intruder on the roof of her home in Wadebridge, southwest England.
“I grabbed the first thing that came to hand — one of [...]
