Mahathir dilemma revealed

Former Indian Prime Minister Mahathir Kutty today tell his Barisan Nasional ally MCA to rid itself of “extremist Chinese” before demanding Umno reject the Malay right-wing group Perkasa.

“If MCA wants Umno to distance itself from Perkasa, then MCA must distance themselves with extremist Chinese. Yes, there are lots of extremist Chinese. They even said that there are no people such as Malays,” Mahathir said.

Mahathir was right. MCA must rid itself of extremist Chinese since Mahathir had rid himself of his root.

BTW, Ibrahim Ali's company was awarded a road widening project along MRR2 and subcontracted it to Suncon. It's quite lucrative profit. There's a song: Ali, Ali Baba ...

Today's Thought

If you aren't going to go all the way, why go at all?

-- Joe Namath

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Today's Quote

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

-- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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Jose Mourinho: Why he's a Special One?

by Bob Holmes

Jose Mourinho is a roundhead, not a cavalier. But when the pressure to win is mounting, Clubs will trade swashbuckling and styles for a manager who is a proven winning manager. His good fortune was as evident as the way he subdued Lionel Messi and how much the 985km coach journey the Barcelona team had to endure. The likelihood is that the volcanic ash cloud will have cleared by Wednesday to allow Inter Milan safe passage to the Nou Camp next week.

Mourinho may be lucky, but he makes his own luck and deserves the breaks that come his way. Some men profess to move mountains but the Special One has got the nod from a volcano.

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Lessons to be learned:

You got to make your own luck; but you can't cause the volcano to erupt. It's timing and preparedness.

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Jose Mourinho was named the world's best football manager by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) for both the 2004–05 and 2005–06 seasons.

He doesn't just talk the talk, though; he's done his share of walking, managing FC Porto to the top of the Champions League in 2004 and, in a more profiled job, leading Chelsea to their first English Premiership title in 50 years, in 2005 and repeating it in 2006.

Jose Mourinho is considered to be one of the best coaches in Europe, having won five consecutive league titles (two at Porto, two at Chelsea and one at Inter Milan) and also the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup with Porto. This year, Inter Milan is chasing the double - European Championship and Italian League.

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Fart Facts

Farting is the act of passing intestinal gases through the anus. These can sometimes be odorless and sometimes deathly. But do you know why you pass gas? Do you know why your farts are sometimes as loud as a blow horn or as quiet as a mouse.

The facts below will tell you a thing or two about something everyone does multiple times a day.

Flatulence is the production of a mixture of air and gases in the digestive tract that are by-products of the digestion process.

The average person will fart 14 times a day and produce half a litre of fart gas per day. Average flatulence composition:

Nitrogen = 59%
Hydrogen = 21%
Carbon dioxide = 9%
Methane = 7%
Oxygen = 3%
Other crap = 1%

Top 10 Farters

(1) Termites (2) Camels (3) Zebras (4) Sheep (5) Cows (6) Elephants (7) Labradors/Retrievers (8) Human - vegetarian (9) Human – non vegetarian (10) Gerbis

Fart blazing speed = 7 mph
Fart temperature = 98.6oF

Most farts that come from swallowed air (largely nitrogen and CO2) are relatively odorless. The bubbles from these farts are large and can produce large sounds.

Bacterial fermentation and digestion processes can produce various pungent gases. The bubbles from these farts tend to be small and smelly and do not produce much sound.

A person can still fart after death.

The nerve endings in your rectal area help distinguish the difference between farts and poop … but sometimes these nerves can get confused when your poop is more fluid than usual and results in things such as mud butt and sharting.

Source: http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/19/786305.aspx

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Corruptness and corrupt system may be okay?

Womanising also ok?

Discrimination and Opression should be ok?

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Sunday night tales

ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
Doctor: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.

ATTORNEY: And Mr. Teoh was dead at the time?
Doctor: If not, he was by the time I finished.

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ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
DR: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
DR: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
DR: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WDR: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
DR: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
DR: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practising law.

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ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight.
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ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
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ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there with my legs wide.
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ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
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ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, "Where am I, Vivienne?"
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!

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sent to me by Stanley

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Today's Thought

A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.

-- Denis Waitley

Today's Thought

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

-- Viktor Frankl
-- Man's Search for Meaning

Learn English (Part 2)

#1: Goth

This word contains over a thousand years of drama. In brief:

Around the fifth century, the Goths were a tribe that helped defeat the Roman Empire; by the 1500s, gothic meant "barbaric" and was used to insult a new style of architecture; that architecture became associated with the medieval age; ideas of medieval darkness and mystery inspired gothic fiction of the 1800s like Dracula.

All this eventually led, in the 1990s, to goth fashion – characterized by vampire-ish black clothes and eyeliner, and a preference for dark music and moody Romanticism.

#2: D'oh

Officially referred to as "annoyed grunt" in The Simpsons scripts, Homer Simpson's signature interjection became a catchphrase of the decade (and later an audio trademark of Twentieth Century Fox).

Merriam-Webster thoughtfully defined it this way: "—used to express sudden recognition of a foolish blunder or an ironic turn of events."

#3: Globalization

Positive word? Negative word? In many ways, both.

Although globalization dates back to the 50s, it went into overdrive in the 90s – representing not just the excitement and opportunities of an electronically connected global village, but also the conflict between multinational companies and local interests.

#4: Grunge

Punk rock mixed with heavy metal: a defining sound of the decade.

With the Seattle band Nirvana (and its 1991 album Nevermind) leading the way, grunge bands filled the 90s with distorted guitars and angst-filled lyrics.

The word comes from grungy, meaning "dirty," but the outsider look – flannel shirts, knit caps, ripped jeans – was adopted by high-end designers and mainstream retailers.

#5: Politically Correct

It so happens that the Left invented this phrase: it entered Communist lingo in the 1930s to praise loyalty to the party line.

But eventually politically correct turned against them.

By the 90s, it was used mainly by the Right – as a kind of battle cry of the Culture Wars.

Here's President George H. W. Bush, in a 1991 commencement speech at the University of Michigan:

"The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred, it replaces old prejudice with new ones. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expression off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits."

#6: DVD

In the second half of the decade, these slim shiny objects slipped easily into our lives.

The inventors never really decided whether the acronym stands for "digital video disc" or – to cover more than just video – "digital versatile disc."

Either way, DVDs pushed clunky old VHS tapes off movie rental shelves (remember those stores?) and introduced an important new revenue stream to Hollywood.

#7: Gen X

You know who you are (and you can still hum the Brady Bunch theme).

This term was initially used to describe British teens, first in the 1950s and again in the 1960s.

But finally – after Douglas Coupland's 1991 best seller Generation X – it stuck with North Americans, born in the 1960s and 70s, who grew up in the shadow of the baby boomers.

#8: Dot-com

The digital revolution uploaded a huge batch of new terms into the language: Internet, the Web, spyware, MP3, the prefix e-, etc.

Dot-com evokes memories of the 90s: startups boomed in the decade's stock market bubble – then went bust in the collapse that followed.

These days, successful online ventures simply call themselves businesses.

#9: Genome

"All told, genetic technology will give humankind an almost godlike power to improve its condition." – From a 1992 Time article about The Human Genome Project, a massive international collaboration to fully understand human DNA.

As a result of that project, which ran from 1990 to 2003, this decade saw unprecedented popular interest in what makes us who we are – our genetic material, or genome.

#10: Virtual Reality

Video games with head-mounted displays. Highly sophisticated simulation training for the military. In the 90s virtual reality became, well, more real – more science, less sci-fi.

That said, sci-fi continued to express the dream nicely, particularly in one of the decade's defining films:

"If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain." – Morpheus, in The Matrix

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SOURCE: Merriam Webster

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Today's Thought

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

-- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

Today's Quote

"I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way."

--- J.C. Penney

Today's Thought

Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we’re not, where we want to go, and how we’re going to get there.

-- Howard Behar

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It's a long road to freedom,

It's winding, steep and high.

With patience and perseverance,

steadfastness and diligence,

we will reach the ultimate,

the desired destination,

the place we want to belong to,

where the poor, with sigh of relief,

are happy and delighted to have you there!

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Today's Thought

"When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

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Easter Joke

An old nun who was living in a convent next to a construction site noticed the coarse language of the workers and decided to spend some time with them to correct their ways.

She decided she would take her lunch, sit with the workers and talk with them.

She put her sandwich in a brown bag and walked over to the spot where the men were eating.

She walked up to the group and with a big smile said: "and do you men know Jesus Christ?"

They shook their heads and looked at each other very confused.

One of the workers looked up into the steelworks and yelled out, "Anybody up there know Jesus Christ?"

One of the steelworkers yelled down, 'why ' ?

The worker yelled back, "Cos his wife ' s here with his lunch"

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Contributed by: Saw Ewe

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