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...even begin to eat this?? Anyone tried before? Is it like crisy roti canai/prata?

Me: What's the banana doing out on the laundry rack?? Rick: Oh can throw it away. Me: Why is it there in the first place? Rick: A bird flew in and pecked at it. Me: (?!) All the way into the dining hall (just to eat your banana)? Rick: Errr yup. So since it already has a peck on it, I hang it there so that it can eat it. Seems not. Me: Ok...hey, can just cut off the tip and eat the rest? Rick: *Rigorously shakes head side to side* Don't want. Bird flu... Me: Oh yah, good point.

Is that a lightning rod on the roof of the bus stop (on the right side)?

Normally if a taxi driver doesn't know how to get to my destination, he would do the following (or a combination): Ask me Call and ask his contacts Look up a street directory I have no qualms in assisting the taxi driver as much as possible to reach my destination (it is after all in my interest to do so) but the I'm only assisting: the onus is on the taxi driver to get all the relevant information, if he hasn't already gotten it, to enable him to drive me there. Although I generally try to get as much information as possible about how to get to the destination, it should always be the taxi driver's responsibilty; not mine. Recently, I took a taxi to a client's office and here's what happened: Me:   10, CBP Central 1. Taxi:  Ok. Few seconds later... Taxi:  Is it after the ABC building? Me:   Mmmm yes it's near there. Later, as we were nearing ABC building, I was looking out for the road CBP Central 1 and lo behold it was right after the buildin...

The beginning I have invested in unit trust funds since 2000/2001 and have a Fundsupermart account (a distributor of unit trust funds) for about 9 years already, almost since the day they came into existence. Note that Fundsupermart since day 1 has always been an advocate of regular saving for the medium to long term (rather than speculation). The only explicit charge that I paid (until now) was the sales charge i.e. a certain % of my subscription which is levied only once. Other charges are implicit within the unit price, which is the same for all investors, big or small, as it is determined by the fund manager. The change However, in a recent announcement , they are decreasing the sales charge quite significantly but introducing a platform fee, which is an ongoing fee charged as a % of amount of assets invested. Any normal investor would know that this is detriment to him as such ongoing fee will very soon offset whatever saving that's gotten from the reduced sales charg...

Civ 4: Bread country , originally uploaded by Jaded Jeremy . What do you do if your country is a desert with a long river (ala Nile River)? Well, in Ban's case, he used his magical units to turn desert squares to plain squares and feverishly turned them into farms which in time generated plenty of food (see those bread?). On those squares, he also earned plenty of money (see those money bags?) It's just amazing how many farms he had. Too bad food from farms is not something one can export in Civilization IV (or any Civilization game for that matter). He would had been filthy rich!

Recently I received an sms on my Malaysia handphone from a phone number that I don't recognise. The sms asked me to provide him/her my bank account number so that he/she can transfer MYR50 each month to me, preferably to either of two specific banks (one of which is RHB and I forgot what was the other). I thought it was a scam but on hindsight, it could be a genuine mis-sent. What do you think?

One of the poses I learned at yoga classes is the happy baby pose. You know how babies, after a few months, start holding their feet? It's like that. Recently, I asked Ban to do that pose. After a split-second (probably trying to remember the actual pose hehe), he turned and hugged me and said, "Happy baby pose!". We were helplessly laughing after that :)