Oct 31
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Delighted Brazilians let off fireworks, released balloons and draped giant yellow team shirts over landmarks to celebrate the announcement that their soccer-obsessed country will host the 2014 World Cup.
Brazil has won the World Cup five times - more than any other nation - and its dazzling football prowess is a defining character of the vast, multi-racial nation.
With typical optimism, Brazilians said they were sure the country could overcome decrepit stadiums and rampant urban violence to stage a successful spectacle in 2014.
By that time I will be 29 years old. I wonder where will I be watching the world cup? Perhaps i will have no time for world cup because I am stucked with the jobs in I-banking. Having a good day dream huh? Really need to finalize all my job application soon….
Oct 28
Just when the Malaysian Minister gave a statement that “All bloggers are liars” and threaten to arrest Socio-political bloggers in Malaysia, Indonesia declared today as the National Bloggers Day. Seems that Malaysia is now even lagging behind Indonesia. Sad story for Malaysians huh?
News from Malaysia
Tengku Adnan: Bloggers are Liars
80% are Unemployed Women
updated:2007-03-08 20:11:32: MYT
(Kuala Lumpur) The Tourism Minsiter Tengku Adnan lashed out today (Mar 8, 2007) that all bloggers on the Internet are liars, out of which 80% are unemployed women.
“All bloggers are liars, they cheat people using all kinds of methods. From my understanding, out of 10,000 unemployed bloggers, 8,000 are women.” Continue reading »
Oct 26
I’m not joking. The daylight saving time will end this Sunday and I will need to change my clock to an hour earlier. This also means technically I can go ”late” one hour for all my lectures and classes! lol.
If you still have no clue on what am i talking about, check this out.
In the European Union, Summer Time begins and ends at 1:00 a.m. Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). It begins the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October. In the EU, all time zones change at the same moment. In the EU, clocks change at 1:00 a.m. Universal Time. In spring, clocks spring forward from 12:59 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.; in fall, clocks fall back from 1:59 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. Continue reading »
Oct 24
I just found out that I haven’t been blogging about personal stuff lately and some of my friends have been nagging me to post some of my photos here. So here you go with this post. Today also marks a full month time when I reached London on the 24th Sept.
Let’s start with the weather here. It’s almost end of autumn now in London and it gets dark quite early at around 5/6pm. In winter it will get dark at around 3pm and will be much colder than now. The temperatre in previous weeks was still ok, just a bit cooling in the afternoon. But it gets much colder now even in the afternoon. I need to keep my windows closed at night. Luckily I have central heating and that keeps my room quite warm. BTW, I am just saying two station away from Arsenal. That station was packed yesterday due to the champions league schedule. Will find a day and visit the Emirates stadium in a liverpool jersey. Continue reading »
Oct 23
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Lim Goh Tong, Malaysia’s third-richest man who turned a forested hilltop into a thriving casino resort, died Tuesday, leaving behind a diverse business empire worth US$22 billion (€15.70 billion), a company official said. He was 90.
Lim died at the private Subang Jaya Medical Center, said an official of his Genting Group, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to make the announcement. He said details will be released by the company later.
Read the full report at International Herald Tribune
Oct 23
I wasn’t aware that David Copperfield is coming to Malaysia end of this month until I overhard it on My FM just now….
It really feels weird listening to “cha bou ma bou”(Double Chappel) at 1am here. lol. After all it should be a morning breakfast show…
Check this piece of news out.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — David Copperfield’s performance in Malaysia this month has been cancelled after the FBI launched an investigation into the world-famous US magician and illusionist, a report said Monday.The organisers of his two-day stint here on October 30 and 31 said the decision to cancel was made after agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations raided Copperfield’s storage warehouse in Los Angeles last week.
“He needs to help in the investigations. Copperfield is not prevented from leaving the United States but he needs time to get to the bottom of things,” Arianna Teoh, director of Arianna Event Management, said in The Star newspaper. Continue reading »
Oct 21
I have been searching for free sites to watch EPL since I came. I couldn’t find any. Most of the sites required you to pay. My friend said the only way to watch free tv channel is to get a tv card and watch it on your pc.(You need to pay for a tv licence to watch tv program in uk)
Calvin Tan recently intro this site - LiveFooty to me where i can watch sports channel for free. (I just watched the F1 Brazil grand Prix where Raikonen was crowned champion) But before you can watch any channel on LiveFooty, you need to install a software from SopCast. Just get the software on your pc and you are ready to go.
And also check out this site - GoalTube where all the soccer highlights are posted online, just minutes after the final whistle. You will love it if you are a soccer fans. Continue reading »
Oct 20
I was browsing through some pyramid scheme information on the web and I came across these few very interesting sites regarding religion and pyramid scheme.
Religions are illegal pyramid scheme
You know what pyramid schemes are right - and how they’re illegal. Well it occurred to me that there are a few long running pyramid schemes that for some reason have not been stopped by the authorities so far.If at least a couple of these points are true of a venture or organisation, then you’ve probably discovered an illegal pyramid scheme:
1. Only the people at the very top are the top earners.
2. You are promised future monetary rewards or bonuses based on your advancement up the structure.
3. Over time, the hierarchy of participants resembles a pyramid as newer, larger layers of participants join the established structure at the bottom.
4. The illegal money-making venture is modified and adapted to suit the victims - often in times of crisis.
5. It is presented as unique, miraculous, and unavailable elsewhere - accessible only to those with the vision to appreciate its benefits to humanity.
6. They rely on widespread ignorance of basic mathematics.
7. Pyramid promoters are masters of group psychology.
8. At recruiting meetings they create a frenzied, enthusiastic atmosphere with group pressure promising a spectacular result in the end.
9. They play upon people’s fears of missing out on a good deal.
10. In the end, members at the top seem to be above the law.
So what does it mean if all are true?
Religions teach very primitive laws by today’s standards, retaining that legacy in modern society causes more harm than good. You don’t need religion to be a good person, don’t allow yourself to be brainwashed. Continue reading »
Oct 18
Check this out guys, it’s cool. I just tried it on my pc and it works.
MAGIC #1
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”. This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable… At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE ” CON ” FOLDER
MAGIC #2
For those of you using Windows, do the following:
1.) Open an empty notepad file(notepad NOT Microsoft word)
2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want..
4.) Close it, and re-open it.
is it just a really weird bug? :-??
MAGIC #3
Microsoft’s crazy facts
This is something pretty cool and neat…and unbelievable… At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this happened!
It was discovered by a Brazilian.. Try it out yourself…
Open Microsoft Word and type
=rand (200, 99)
And then press ENTER
then see the magic…………. have fun :-))
p/s : My Vista just crashed yesterday night, formatted my NB. Everything’s lost. Now working on my cv in the school’s pc T_T
Oct 16
At last the AC550 Quantitative Methods for Accounting and Finance had come to an end! It’s kinda nightmare to me cos never in my life that I have not understand a single mathematic lecture/class. Math had always been one of my strongest subjects and I was still thinking of taking two very quantitative papers as my electives since the beginning of the course. Luckily I changed my mind last minute else I will have to suffer for my lent term. Perhaps the oxford MFE selection committee is right to reject my application since the MFE is a highly quantitative course.
If you think that i am the only one who couldn’t understand the calculus lecture, check this out from my coursemate Yinyin,
She did her Finance Degree in Beijing University. Continue reading »
