Happiest People

THE BRICK

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something As his car passed, no children appeared.

Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door! He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That's a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?"

The young boy was apologetic. "Please, mister...please, I'm sorry but I didn't know what else to do," He pleaded. "I threw the brick because no one else would stop....." With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car. "It's my brother, "he said "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up." Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, "Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me."

Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay. "Thank you and may God bless you," the grateful child told the stranger. Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy! push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.

It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message: "Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!" God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don't have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. It's our choice to listen or not.

Thought for the Day:

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!
Send this to every "beautiful person" you wish to bless.
God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow,sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Read this line very slowly and let it sink in....

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Maybank Account Holder (Hoax)

Blogger at MindaCergas called Maybank about the following email and was informed it is a hoax.
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Whoever has the Maybank account number with ATM card, please be careful when withdrawing money through ATM machine,

1. For the first time when you enter the right pin number, a message "invalid pin number" pops up.

2. Then, when you enter your pin number for the second time, a message "invalid pin number, please call this number "xxx-xxxx" pops up.

3. If you call this number, you will lose all your money.

NOTE : if you encounter the above matter, please DO NOT call the number. One of victim just lost RM 700.00 on last Sunday and Maybank checked his last transaction was on that day itself even though he did not withdraw any money. Please forward this to your friends.

Best Regards,
Normah Zakaria
Credit Risk Management
Level 29, East Wing
Menara Maybank
Tel : 03-20708833

English to be the official language of Europe

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English'.

In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl

Ladies Period Caution

It is usually very difficult to follow advices we received from the older generation when they do not have any reasons to provide for the "taboos" they share with us. "Do not wash your hair during your period", is one that every Asian girl must have heard of before.

Check the following message from a Taiwanese medical professor who is based in a Japanese university and specialises in cancer research and decide if it is an advise you should adhere to after all.
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It has been a traditional theory that ladies are not suppose to
wash their hair during their period.

But there are no solutions to the question why?

The victim will only realise at their later stage of their life,
facing the symptoms of breast and ovary cancer.

Today ladies still wash their hair during their period with the
thinking that they will be safe if they blow dry their hair.
But this will not prevent them from getting the cancer. Please read
the article below:

A well known Taiwanese medical professor specialise in cancer
research based in a Japanese university did a survey on 30,000 pre cancer
patients.

She found these patients are very choosy in their food, wash their
hair during their period and carry heavy object and drink cold drinks.
This will course the incomplete of ovulation and the remaining
menses will turn into toxic and the imbalance of hormone will lead to ovary and
breast cancer.

During the research she found the method of prevention to these
cancer.

The secrets are;


One must change their lifestyle and eating habits.

Do not wash our hair while having period, do not wash your hair just for
the cooling effect and contraction of ovary.

Excessive bleeding
must be investigated by a gynae.

No cold drinks.

If you feel drowsy, breast expansion and constipation, these are
the early
symptom of ovary or breast cancer.

To prevent use:

Black sugar

Chinese lotus (leng ngau)

Carrot and Barley

Boil to soup and drink. This is the best prevention.

p/s : Guys...please share this message with your wife & lady
friends....:)

Need a new wallet? Go find some duct tapes.

The Sungai Long Golf and Country Club has set up a new ruling so, we have to register our children for their own membership cards. My son is very excited about that and the first thing he asked for is a wallet to store his card.

Since it's the school holiday, let see if he is able to create his own wallet with the help of this video clip I have discovered.



If your children enjoy cutting and sticking, check out my posting at Can't draw? Can't sew? Can stick? for more sticky activities to fill up their school holiday.

Into survey? Try this.

I took a regional travel survey supported by Tourism Malaysia as it offers many exciting rewards including a chance to win a top prize trip to Hong Kong Disneyland for referring friends and family to take part.

I do not know if I will win but I know that I have gained 50 Pulse point as I have been accepted to be one of their official Planet Pulse panelists. That means that I will be receiving more paid survey invitations from them in the future.

I will update you on how I fare with this survey thingy in my next posting.

Be a rapporteur or a volunteer video person.

Are you available for this event?

GK3, Third Global Knowledge Conference
"Emerging People, Emerging Markets, Emerging Technologies"
Date: 11-13 December 2007
Venue: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

If you are, eHomemakers is looking for:

1) A Rapporteur
You will be paid a fee to help eHomemakers if you have writing/journalism experience,

2) A volunteer video person (with own camcorder)
You get an opportunity to attend a training seminar on video editing and podcasting on Dec 10.

You also gain:
1) fee waiver of USD 350/pax to attend the 3 day conference for two international panel sessions.

2) A great opportunity for members who want to attend a UN related ICT conference as an official delegate and add credibility to their resume.

What is the "GK3, An Event on the Future" conference about? Find out more and how to participate at GK3, Third Global Knowledge Conference

All-expenses paid trip to Bangkok. Anyone?

If you are good at taking pictures, don't miss the chance to win an all-expenses paid trip to Bangkok along with a mobile phone by participating in "Postcards" organised by Apostrophe.

The contest is all about coming up with interesting and compelling images revolving around the theme "1.30pm". So, all you need to participate is your imagination to produce a photo or drawing in postcard size that tells Apostrophe what 1.30pm means to you.

Check out their website for pictures already posted for some ideas, FAQs and how to send in your entry or entries.

Good luck.

Foreigners bullying a senior citizen

Do you show your ugly side when you are abroad?



Read what STOMPer, Sylvia Kong, hopes to achieve with this footage.

Halloween 2007: Darwin Awards

If you like what you have read here, there is more at:

DARWIN AWARD
A Chronicle of Enterprising Demises
Honoring those who improve the species...by
accidentally removing themselves from it!.

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> CONFIRMED DARWIN AWARD: Mummy Says, Don't Smoke
> "Another Incentive to Kick the Habit"
>
> For Halloween 1998, a Canadian man dressed as a mummy by wrapping
> himself from head to toe in fluffy cotton batting. The cotton was
> taped at the wrists and ankles, and white gloves and running shoes
> completed his ensemble. As the mummy waited for his girlfriend
> to dress for pictures, he carelessly lit a cigarette...
> and the fluffy cotton burst into flames.
>
> The reason for flame-retardant costumes became clear.
>
> Firefighters arrived within minutes, yet already the mummy costume
> was reduced to ashes, right down to the white coveralls underneath.
> The man kept repeating, "It's my fault." He was taken to Soldier's
> Memorial Hospital with 2nd and 3rd degree burns, where he died.
>
> http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1998-11.html
> --------------------------------------------+---+-+---+-+-+-+-+
>
> CONFIRMED DARWIN AWARD: Steel Steal
> "Gravity Still Works"
>
> July 2007, Czech Republic | A pack of thieves attempted to steal
> scrap metal from an abandoned factory in Kladno. Unfortunately
> for them, they selected the steel girders that supported the
> factory roof. When the roof supports were dismantled, the roof
> fell, fatally crushing two thieves and injuring three others.
>
> June 2007, Philippines | Three entrepreneurs planned to profit
> from stolen scrap metal. They entered a former US military complex
> and approached the prize: an abandoned water tank. Bedazzled by
> the potential upside, the three threw logic to the wind, and began
> to cut the metal legs out from under the tank. Guess where it fell?
>
> Straight onto the thieves.
>
> Darwin notes, "What are these thieves doing, playing a deadly
> game of Jenga?! This entire category may soon become too common,
> in violation of the Rule of Excellence. See Scrap Metal Thieves
> and Barn Demolition."
>
> http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-09.html
> http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-02.html
> http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1997-03.html
> --------------------------------------------+---+-+---+-+-+-+-+
>
> UNCONFIRMED DARWIN AWARD: Death of Dracula
>
> 1994 | A college student dressed up as Dracula for Halloween. For
> the finishing touch, he put a pine board down the front of his
> shirt, so he could stick a knife into the board and pretend he was
> transfixed with a killing stake. He didn't consider the strength
> of the thin pine board when he tapped in the knife with a hammer.
>
> Propelled by the force of the hammer, the sharp knife tip split
> the soft wood and buried itself in his heart. He staggered from
> his dorm room into the party, gasping, "I really did it!"
> before succumbing before horrified friends.
>
> REFERENCE: Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. Maples, Ph.D., 1994
> http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1993-09.html
> --------------------------------------------+---+-+---+-+-+-+-+
>
> CONFIRMED DARWIN AWARD: Beer for Bears
>
> August 2007, Serbia | It's well known that alcohol impairs judgement.
> It's well known that carnivorous wild animals and humans don't mix.
> What happens when we combine all three? One might expect men, bears,
> and beer to combine with lethal consequences. Such was the case for
> a 23-year old man who inadvertently fed himself to Masha and Misha
> at the Belgrade Zoo.
>
> The Zoo director said of the incident, "Only an idiot
> would jump into the bear cage."
>
> The man's naked, mauled corpse was found inside the bear habitat, along
> with several mobile phones, bricks, and plenty of beer cans. His clothes
> were completely undamaged, suggesting that he approached the bears
> bare-naked. The bears, fearing that his intentions were as dishonorable
> as they were ill-informed, meted out a summary justice.
>
> Later, Masha and Misha "reacted angrily" when keepers tried to recover
> the man's corpse, but were eventually persuaded to give up their tasty
> prize. We await word on how many beers were bartered for the body.

Mother-in-Law hates you? Be consoled.

Maybe this wedding invitation will show you that your mom-in-law is not that bad after all.

To change password to your Streamyx connection.

TM Net advised that should you have revealed your password, you should change it to a new one for security purpose. The process can be done at TM Net website, following are the steps they have provided:

Step 1 - Enter your username and password. Select "tmnet streamyx" for service.

Step 2 - Click on "login" button. You will be directed to the main menu, with a list of items that you can access.

Step 3 - Click on the "Change password" link.

Step 4 - Please check on "Individually change password for each service" box, and you
will be directed to change password menu.

Step 5 - You should be able to see three rows of column under the service type, which is:

/service/tmm_ichoose
/service/email
/service/tmm_streamyx

- If you wish to change for your e-mail password, please check on the "No Change" box
for "service/tmm_ichoose" and "service/tmm_streamyx".

Please type in your "Old Password", "New Password" and "Confirm New Password"
at "service/email" respectively.

- If you wish to change for your account password, please check on the "No Change" box
for "service/tmm_ichoose" and "service/email".
Please type in your "Old Password", "New Password" and "Confirm New Password"
at "service/tmm_streamyx" respectively.

Step 6 - Click on the "Update" button.

Step 7 - Log out.

If you are using the Streamyx auto-connection, we would like to advise you to set the new password at your modem.

Old test paper and school books? Re-used!

The primary school examinations are over for my children and the third term school holiday is just round the corner. It is near time of the year to spring clean either for Christmas, the new year or the Chinese New Year.

What do you do with all the old test papers and school books? I have decided to give them to, May Lim, the owner of the day care centre my children go to. This is where my children go to for their daily revision and to complete homework that they need guidance with since both my husband and I are English educated and we have placed them in Chinese medium school.

I have suggested that she also collect test papers from all her students who have performed well in their examinations. She can use them as testimonials of the performance of her centre for her potential customers to review. She can also use them to gauge the kind of questions, the school my children are in, will set in future and teach them accordingly.

With the old school books from my children, teachers she engaged will have a set of their own text books to teach with instead of sharing with the children they are teaching.

If this results in more students for her, I hope it will reflect in the rate I have to pay her to put my children at her centre;). Maybe you would like to give this a try too.

Wash Bras and other clothing before use! (Half Truth)

I received a message with very horrifying looking photos of a breast being infested by larvae. I did a search and discovered that though the message has been fabricated, there is some truth in the story. Read more about it at urbanlegends.about.com.

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Wash Bras and other clothing before use!
Most people do but this is just a warning for those that don't.....
Read the account first, then brace yourselves before looking at the

pics.............
WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT PARASITES ARE IN OUR CLOTHING
WHEN WE BUY THEM.



Oh my god.
This is disgusting. Forward to all females!!!!
Wash your bra's before you wear them!!! Please make it a habit from this point forward to wash your just-purchased Undergarments before wearing them. This is sensitive.

After anthropologist Susan McKinley came back home from an expedition in
South America , she noticed a very strange rash on her left breast.
Nobody knew what it was and she quickly dismissed it believing that the

Holes would leave in time.

Upon her return she decided to see a doctor after she started developing
Intense pains. The doctor, not knowing the exact severity of the disease, gave her
Antibiotics and special creams. As time lapsed the pain did not subside and her left breast became more inflamed and started to bleed.


She decided to bandage her sores, however as Susan's pain grew more
intense She decided to seek help from a more certified doctor.
Dr. Lynch could not diagnose the infection and told Susan to seek the

aid of one of his colleagues who specializes in dermatology.

Unfortunately, the doctor was on vacation. She waited for two weeks and
finally was able to reach the dermatologist. Sadly, a life changing event was about to unfold during her appointment.


To Miss McKinley's surprise, after she removed the bandages, they found
Larvae growing and squirming within the pores and sores of her breast.
Sometimes these wicked creatures would all together simultaneously move

around into different crevices. What she didn't know was that the holes were in fact, deeper than she had originally thought, for these larvae were feeding off the fat,
tissue, and even milk canals of her breast.



Please share with as many women and men that you know. Our undergarments

are made in different countries all over the world. They sit in boxes and go through many hands and exchanges before we purchase them for ourselves.


PLEASE WASH ALL NEWLY PURCHASED BRAS AND UNDERWEAR BEFORE WEARING THEM. WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT PARASITES ARE IN OUR CLOTHING WHEN WE BUY THEM.

Maximize your stuff? First rework your storage.

Do you have stuff in your home that you have not been using for a while? While some people would tell you to throw anything that you have not missed in a while, I would suggest that you start organising your storage space!

My sis love bargains and she will not miss a sales if she can help it. I once discovered a bag of unopened toilet rolls in one of her wardrobe closets that have turned yellow on her. She has forgotten that she has kept them, and this and that, there.

So, if you have been storing your stuff all over your house, it is time to take a look at the storage cabinets available at Car Guy Garage for some inspiration to start making changes. Remember that if you leave all kind of stuff, no matter how useful they are, in a big pile and cannot see what you have, they devalue into a mess of junk.

Though the Car Guy Garage storage cabinets concept is meant to create another room out of your garage, to store your stuff, looking at their designs, I am sure they will look good installed in any of the rooms in your house. Yes, even the kitchen ;-)