Email

FW:Please spend 2 min for this girl

I'm 11 years old.
My mommy worked on the 20th floor in the World Trade Tower .
On Sept. 11 2001 my daddy drove my mom to work.
She was running late so she left her purse in the car.

My daddy saw it so he parked the car and went to give her the purse.
That day after school my daddy didn't come to pick me up.

Instead a police man came and took me to foster care.
Finally I found out why my daddy never came...
I really loved him....
They never found his body.
My mom is in the the Hospital since then.
She is losing lots of blood.
She needs to go through surgery.
But since my daddy is gone and no one is working.

We have no money...
And her surgery cost lots of money..
So the Red Cross said that..
for every time this email is fwd we
Will get 10 cent for my mom's surgery.
So please have a heart and fwd this to everyone you know I really miss my daddy and now I don't want to lose my mommy too...


R.I.P. Daddy..(James Thomas)

Pleasefoward this e-mail to as many ppl you know, each person you send it to,the red cross will donate 10 cents for m om's operation!!! !!!!
Hey friends please forward this mail to as many ppl...
If you love ur mother...
Bcoz...
She is waiting for her mother......
It would hardly takefew minutes....

Dear 11 years old girl, I do love my mother very much. Because of that, I've spent 15 mins instead to help you.
Since 10 cents is too little for each forward (and probably the most i can forward to are 40 people due to email restriction), I have found a better solution.

Do you know Bill Gates? Great man indeed, he's giving out 200+ bucks for each person we forward to. So here's my great deed to you, I'll forward you the email. So all the best to your mom's operation which lasted since 9/11.

To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my good friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is an attorney.

If she says that this will work - It will work. After all, What have you got to lose? SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I'm an attorney, And I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing a multimillion-dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long ago.

Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, You will repent later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.

When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it ( If you are a Microsoft Windows user) For a two weeks time period.

For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, You will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a check.

I thought this was a scam myself, But two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on. Microsoft contacted me for my address and withindays, I receive a check for $24,800.00. You need to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can affoard this, Bill gates is the man.

It's all marketing expense to him. Please forward this to as many people as possible. You are bound to get at least $10,000.00. We're not going to help them out with their e-mail beta test without getting a little something for our time. My brother's girlfriend got in on this a few months ago. When i went to visit him for the Baylor/UT game. She showed me her check. It was for the sum of $4,324.44 and was stamped "Paid in full"

Like i said before, I know the law, and this is for real.

Oh yeah, you will get bad luck for 7 years if you don't forward this email to 7 people.
See ya!

Should I Submit This?

A week ago, Phui Yee posted a note on facebook bout this contest from Proton

Proton will be releasing their very first and new MPV, not sure when, but it has become an official news. So the contest is simple enough, name the new proton.
The winner will get one of those oversized milo tin (just a prediction) and have ur witty suggestion as the official name for the MPV

There are some 'hints' which i assume they wanted us to associate the name with.

It is comfortable:
It means more leg rooms, more space to carry your luggage and most of all it is a car for the entire family to travel in.

It is affordable:
Malaysians love value-for-money and Proton MPV is giving Malaysians just that!

So this is what I can think of:

I am gonna be in trouble for clicking SUBMIT right?

Anyway, have fun joining this contest :)
-Contest page-

LOL-able

There's this 'gal' (no idea, just assuming from the nick and email) added me on msn. This is the conversation.

Miux says:
Hie

cuteser says:
?????

Miux says:
do i know u?

cuteser says:
(a bunch of boxes and I suppose its chinese since i didnt have the language package installed)

Miux says:
i can't read chinese

cuteser says:
sorry,i cannot read english

Miux says:
ookkkkaaayyyy

Hahaha, this is classic. I never see that coming. It could be a mockery, but its certainly funnier to assume she meant what she said.
Its like telling other people online that you don't know how to use a com.

Probably she really can't read english at at all! She could be throwing random words from a dictionary and hopefully it make sense. Should have replied her with a bunch of random chinese words as well.

cuteser...I suppose thats a non-english nickname. It could be german for all i know.

Starship Troopers 3 : Marauder

I was browsing around to see if there are any good movies, i thought i give this a shot.

Recall to the first movie, bout 10 years ago or so, it was a pretty awesome movie. I liked it alot as a kid. A bunch of modern soldiers went around killing bugs which appears in millions. Everything doesn't look that real if you watch it again this time around, but heck...its 10 years ago!

I'm not gonna lie to you, THIS MOVIE IS DARN HORRIBLE!

I didn't watch the second part of it as it simply looks terrible on HBO, Starworld or Cinemax? I'm not sure which channel but it better be on cinemax, coz it suck! I can't even bear 5 mins of it.

How could they be relating this to the original movie? Its probably another movie trilogy where everyone remembered the first one as epic and the rest of it as a peice of crap in the recycle bin. No...make it a trash bin, you wouldn't even want it in as a recycled item!

First of all, this movie looks promising thru the trailer and poster. People would be expecting alot of mindless bug fighting. But NOOOOO....they need to put in some corny love-political-religion twist into the plot.

First half of the movie, its friggin filled with puns and corny punchlines.
Look at the poster, ITS A GOOD DAY TO FRY???
Thats like some Scary Movie tagline! You know where they got this tagline from? From the very beginning of the scene where this mr technician-nobody was exclaiming how the electrical fences are frying the bugs.

The characters and role-play in this movie is definitely gonna laugh ur ass off. They were trying so hard to potray a signature personality and ended up being completely awkward and it just doesnt blend in!

Its like, why the hell you're acting like a superior general in command whose trying to be friendly where everyone just gives you the 'oh-its-just-another-insurance-agent look'. Even my discipline teachers can do a better job in that role.

Don't even get me started on the effects. The very first battle scene with the bugs, there were ppl running in chaos as they were attacked. Fair enough, seems like an anticipating moment.
Until they started shooting at the bugs.

Ok...there were bullet sounds, bugs dying, soldiers screaming. Wait, ARE THEY JUST POINTING THEIR GUN AT THE BUGS THE BUGS JUST DIED FROM BULLET SOUNDS???

Omg, i cant believe it, you cant even spot a single spark from the guns from the first battle scenes. Its like bugs just decided to explode when being pointed with the rifle. How awesome.
Can't they be more obvious on not making much effort?

Yes, they can. Remember how the potray the commercial like scenes during the first movie to line up some story line along the movie? That was pretty creative at that time.
NOW GET OVER IT.

I can't believe that they actually still reusing the same concept. It just doesn't work anymore, not anymore.

If you've seen sci-fi movies these days and you watch this crap, you would be thinking "This is quite a good movie, when was it released? 2001?"

"No, it was released past 2 months"

"Okay, i take that back. It looks like a pile of shit"

I think they just recycled stuffs ever since the first movie. Barely any new bugs in this besides the SCORPIO. Hell with it, tht fella only made its appearance for less than a minute and only his tail and claws be seen. Same old ugly battle suit and bigger, more plastic looking guns. Even Halo looks cooler.

Ok, here's the thing, everyone loves the naked shower scene in the first movie, so i assume the producers would slip in some nude scenes in the next 2 movies.

First movie
Second movie, I love how they labeled it as the success of starship troopers. lol.
And the third one
Lol, did somethin happened to Skinner and someone needed to replace his place to fight for mankind?

Lets look at the positive side of this movie k?
I'm not sure how the naked scenes would affect ya, but its certainly wont be much of a turn on compared to the huge pile of nonsense going on in the whole movie.

The settings are pretty good in planet OM-1. At least they weren't recycling another past scene.

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Okay, thats bout it.

Bottomline:
I had hell lot more fun of playing the game than to watch 10 mins of this movie. Go get the game k, its so much fun playin that then to watch 1 half hour of pure crap.


This is a far cry if compared to the movie.
Thats it and I hope you like this angry-ranting review :D

An Econs Lesson

I had my mikro 2 mid sem exam today, I need to say that it wasn't that pleasant. Anyway, as I was revising, i came across this case study (sort of) and i thought it would be interesting to share it with you ppl.

Case: Price of oil

Ok, stop picturing your car, petronas station, number 2.70 or our PM.

There are lots of hoo-hahs going on between who to blame: the government or the supply of worldwide petrol. Theorotically, its both.
Lets start with the supply of oil.

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Everything in this world are bought and sold based on the current price and interest rate (maybe except selling your soul, since I doubt there will be any inflation in hell). The interest rate would be the key to this issue. So actually the future price of a product/service would be the disruption of the trading flow.

How? Future prices are affected by interest rate.

Let say you're selling little hamsters for 2 bucks each. Based on speculation that next week's interest rate would increase to 10% (from none). So your tiny little friend there would worth 2.20 instead. Its calculated with this formula if you're wondering;

Future price = (1+R) * Current price

R= Interest rate (Divide it by 100, eg. 10% would be 0.1)

So, if you're the trader of hamsters (where you're not the only seller and others are selling the same price as you), would you sell your hamsters today or you keep it till next week where you can earn more?
Same goes for the oil.

Basically oil traders/producers are left with two choices to maximize their revenue.
1.) Rely on market price and interest rate
2.) Keeping the revenue in the bank with a high rate

Its either making more money or letting the money grow in the bank, that simple. Unless the banks are having high interest rates, then most probably they are keeping and limiting the supply of oil. By lowering the supply, the prices of oil will increase based on the supply-demand theory.

If you're a little confused, refresh your mind bout Malaysia's past food crisis issues. Sugar and cooking oil.
Because there are speculations that there will be shortage of those stuffs, it has caused fear to Malaysians (so gullible) and hence, everyone rushes to the nearest Tesco or Giant and fill up enough supply of oil at home where they could fry enough french fries for the next 3 months.
Supply went down and demand went up. It has pushes the price of cooking oil sky high (of course these are market price controlled items, it cant get up that far).
Worse than that was, traders are keeping those cooking oil at the back of their storage room and only selling a handful. They were waiting for the price to go up further so they could sell it at a more expensive price. Such crooks aren't they? Getting a profit while we are busy stockpilling gazillion cooking oils which we don't need.

Ok, I'm sure now you understand how the situation works. Back to the oil.

The oil producers would be working their asses off to find new sources and building more rigs if they can generate more money in the bank than making revenue from future prices speculations.

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As for the government part, its rather trivial. Let say they have a sum of money (actually they do, what the heck i'm talking bout), its all depending on how much its allocated to each sector and area. The reason our oil prices went up its because of the world supply of oil PLUS they decided to subsidize more to the citizens instead of the oil...and probably towards a whole lot of other stuffs like giving Lee Chong Wei 300 grand.

And politics played a huge role in this as well. Trust me or not, these decisions are made by human being and does not form naturally out of the economy system. Sad to say, they are the ones who decide how much our oil price going to be. Of course they will nag that the oil subsidies are gettin sky high, but nevertheless, still do-able rite? Its all boiled down to how they allocate the money. We're not some less developed countries where we are dying in each and every sector. For god's sake, Malaysia is being categorised as Upper Middle Income Country! Probably we will be having better budgets if they didn't send that angkasawan's ass up to the moon and buying 2 fighter jets from Russia. They must be laughing their ass off at us.

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That's the rough theory on prices, future prices and interest rate affecting each other. Of course there are always other factors in role as well such as inflation, political relations, substitute products etc etc.

I could be wrong (or right) on this matter. But nevertheless, thats the interpretation and facts extracted from a uni level reference. If its wrong, blame them and leave me alone :P

I hope this edu post bores you, cause it sure did to me :D
I thought i might be able to make use of my education for once