something i got forwarded

During the Mahathir's Era...
One lousy day in the middle of the economic crisis, PM Mahathirwas feeling extremely frustrated and wondering how another neighboringcountry can be doing better than Malaysia .
One of his aides said, I heard that the leaders consult FengShui masters to ensure prosperity for the country.
Dr M thought if that is the case Malaysia Boleh also, and wentto seek the top bomoh's advice in the cuntry.
After reviewing the case, the bomoh told Dr M that there are 2things that he must do:
Bomoh: Step 1. You must blame the crisis on SOROS foreverything.
Dr M: But Why?
Bomoh: Because SOROS stands for: "Speculate On Ringgit OrStocks". You must blame him, and look at ways to control the ringgitand stock market.
Bomoh: Step 2 - You must get rid of ANWAR.
Dr M: What, why him?!
Bomoh: Because ANWAR stands for: "A Nation Without Any Ringgit".
Dr M: But how? This is most difficult to do, he is popular withthe people.
Bomoh: Aiyoh, you bodoh lah ! Look at your name, MAHATHIR, seewhat it stands for!! "Make Anwar Homosexual And Then Highlight ItRepeatedly"!!!

The departed

Was watching the departed a week ago, it made us asians proud! we have a script that hollywood wants to stea---adapt! and best of all, the script is so bloody good it gave the directors and actors another new lease of life, and some brightly coated bookends.

the one thing i like most is this quote:

"Bringing automatic weapons doesn't add inches to your dick!" -frank

Because i'm lazy, so i'm plagiarising this quote:-

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. - Albert Einstein

Reply to previous post

dear all

this is the email replied by the UN personnel regarding the issue.

my conclusion, 'UN to abolish traditional chinese' is a hoax.

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Thanks for your enquiries regarding United Nations' abolishment of Traditional Chinese in 2008.

Early this year, someone on internet made an ungrounded claim that UN will abolish Traditional Chinese in 2008. To clarified the rumor, correspondent from Xinhua News Agency at UN interviewed a senior Chinese staff who did Chinese translation at UN for more than 30 years. At the United Nations, the Traditional Chinese was used until 1972 when GA voted the seat for China should be represented by mainland China. In 1973, all the type setting machines(Chinese typewriter) were imported from China and Simplified Chinese was the only characters on those machines. We can say that UN has been using the Simplified Chinese in all its documents since 1973.

There was no UN resolution to specify which variant of official language should be used. (Only Chinese has the Traditional vs. Simplified character problem). The consensus was that the official language should be the language which the member state used. In this case, the Simplified Chinese is used by the Chinese government. The Traditional vs Simplified sometime became political issue due to their representing. Fueled by possible political reasons, some people made the online petition. Most people think it is just a hoax.

Hope it helps.

Jianqun

Ms. WANG, Jianqun (Jane)
Information Systems Officer
Communications and Information Management Service
Department of Economic and Social Affairs (http://esa.un.org)
United Nations, New York, NY, 10017, USA
Room DC2-1428
Tel: (212) 963-3385
Fax: (212) 963-4444
E-mail: wangj@un.org

CC:ENQUIRIES: United Nations' abolishment of Traditional Chinese in 2008

To all viewers (if any):
recently there are rumours on the net regarding the UN decision to abolish/unrecognise traditional chinese and only to recognise only simplified. whilst there are many sites that will vouch so with news snippets or ref. from various sources, a search for an officialy announcement from the UN seems to turn out scarce (my lack of research ability i suppose).

Hence the following enquiry I posted to the UN on their website (screen shot as above, while a copy of it is below) in an attempt for clarify an issue, if proven true then action/petitions can be justified in a better way, otherwise it would save both parties time and put many worries to rest.

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Could the UN or any of its revelant departments respond to the following?

Recently (since 2006) there have been rumours on the internet regarding UN's decision to officially recognise only the written simplified chinese.

Examples can be found at the following:http://www.gopetition.com/region/237/8314.html
a simple search "UN to abolish traditional chinese" reveal these results:http://www.google.com/search?q=UN+abolish+traditional+chinese&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GFRD

There are sentiments among chinese worldwide as both traditional and simplified chinese are used as standards in various countries, much like spanish and french in the americas and europe.

The hope of this enquiry is to clarify the issue.

Thanks,
YWC.03/06/07

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remember to keep up the pressure (one can only do so much):

go to http://webapps01.un.org/common/isu/contactUs.do?toCode=72 to push them (or pester them) for a quicker response.

Religion

is there a god, if there is, it'll be a god that regrets inherently that he made himself known to us.

if there is no god, some of us will realise that life is easier;

"imagine a world without heaven"

education helps us all, if god is there, he'll agree that we learn philosophy and science.

if civilisation has progressed, then what we have now is an improvement to what is in the past.

however progress will never saturate the entire human race.

for those beings that are advanced mentally they learn philosphy; those lagging simply believe in religion.

if there is a heaven we will be baffled see not only mother theresa and buddha, but also its crowded with everyone--because there's onlyy one heaven, but each religion believe in a different one. assuming all is correct, then a composed (of all religion) heaven will have good people, great leaders, and murderers and rapists that repent their sin before they die, we might see the entire aztec clan there that practise canable-ism. Towards the centre arena we could well glimpse entire nations of celtic heroes fighting and feasting. buddha will be there to remind you that reincarnation department is 2 miles due south.

For all Football Manager 2007 Fans

Somehow i think there's a conspiracy against my team for the next match.

I'm Back!

Deserting a blog seems to be my speciality.

I guess its sort of a reflection. Me and my old classmates from sec. school still have yahoo! group emailing, in which i always blasts with 4-5 long emails sporadically when i'm bored or being weighed down by emotions.

I guess this blog reflects it as well, i'm now just plain old bored.
My beloved girlfriend came to visit me last month, and now she's back again, will meet again in a few months time. Yup, long distance relation, its hard but its easy.

reading blogs just a moment ago, "blog" actually (just one, lazy). no no, got nothing to add or to say, really.

Work? yeah its been great, i mean it, (not just becoz my boss might read this blog). I'm slowly bt steadily recovering my love for engineering that dimmed while in uni (typcically). My hunger for precision charts and metric conversion tables are at an all time high.