Nice fish photo collection

This are the pictures I took at the fish exhibition just next to my house. They are quite big and uniquely looking. Some look very scary but couldn't manage to take a good pictures...

Book I've Just REad

A nice story with an empty handed man looking for his fortune in Africa and found the biggest conglomerate in the world. Followed by his daughter , stubborn and brilliant, she wants everything but at the end lost everything because of all her successors are not interested in the business.

World Tallest Woman Dead

WASHINGTON: An American believed to be the world's tallest woman has died, nursing home staff told AFP on Thursday. 

Sandy Allen, 53, who grew to be more than seven feet, seven inches tall died on Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville, Indiana. 

A spokeswoman for the Heritage House Convalescent Centre in Shelbyville said Allen "had been in failing health in recent years and died of natural causes". 

She had been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest woman. By the time she was 10, Allen already stood six foot three. By 16, she was over seven feet tall, the Indianapolis Star daily said. 

It's believed that a tumour on her pituitary gland caused her abnormal growth. It was removed when Allen was in her 20s, but she continued to be affected by a variety of health issues related to her height, including poor circulation and weak leg muscles that kept her confined to a wheelchair in her later years. 

While her height brought her and the town of Shelbyville fame, it also led to personal despair, especially in her late teens when she spoke about her height being an impediment to relationships. 

The newspaper quoted a letter Allen is said to have written to Guinness in 1974 in which she said: "I would like to get to know someone that is approximately my height. It is needless to say my social life is practically nil and perhaps the publicity from your book may brighten my life." 


- AFP/so 

Cambodian Team at Beijing Olympic

Cambodia has sent a total of 6 athletes and swimmer together with other 9 delegates to join the Beijing Olympic Game 2008. The delegates are including with King Sihamoni and Thong Kon , minister of tourism and Kol Pheng , minister of education. With just only 6 people I guess we don’t expect much from it. The most interesting fact I wana share here is that according to Xinhua news, the Cambodian team candidates were receiving only 30 USD per month form our National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC) while training for the competition. I wonder how can they survive with such a little stipend if they really invest their heart and soul into the game and I wonder how much will NOCC has been putting to support our Cambodian team.

Funny kid

Japan female born last year will live the longest

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Japanese girls born last year can expect to live until they are 86 years old, which would make them the longest survivors in the world, a report from the country's health ministry showed.

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Boys born in 2007 can expect to live to the age of 79.2, ranking third after Iceland and Hong Kong, the report said.

Japan's females have topped the world's longevity ranks for 23 years, something researchers have attributed to their healthy diet and tight social ties, among other reasons.

The report is the latest sign thatJapan is ageing quicker than any other country, with government data showing a tenth of the population aged 75 years or older.

The proportion of those 65 years or older is also seen doubling to 40 percent by mid-century.

"People are in different social environments and are influenced by various factors and eating habits, so it's hard to answer the question of why people live long," a ministry spokesman said.

"But we can say that the improvement of medical technologies helps," the spokesman added. Japan has improved treatments for the ageing population's three biggest killers -- cancer, heart disease and stroke.

Japan also has one of the world's lowest birth-rates, leaving the government with the challenge of how to fund its pension requirements, take care of its elderly and maintain productivity.

(Reporting by Yoko Kubota, editing by Miral Fahmy)

Attributes of Leadership

Today I came a cross this interesting 11 attributes of leadership, which I find it very practical. Just want to share with you all. Here you are

1. Build your self confident
2. Control yourself first before you can control others
3. Equip yourself with sense of justice
4. Be decisive
5. Plan the work and work out the plan
6. Equip with the habit of doing more than paid for
7. Be tidy and careful
8. Be sympathy and understanding to your followers
9. Be detail oriented
10. Be ready to take full responsibility when needed
11. Treat followers as partner

Kuwait will help Cambodia to be the agricultural super power

It's good news to hear that Cambodia is claiming it's destiny back through recent economic potentials. In the recent meeting between Kuwait Premier Prince Shaykh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah and Priminister Hun Sen, Kuwait has pledged to help Cambodia to modernise it's agricultural industry and especially to supply its agricultural products to Kuwait market. Cambodia is expected to export rice at least 9 million tons per year after undertaking the investment while world largest rice exporter Thailand could export only 8 million tons per year and Vietnam only 5 millon tons. Currently , Cambodia only supplies 1.6 millon tons to international market and most of which to Thailand and Vietnam. I couldn't wait to see this happen very soon.

Time to Return

Another 2 months has just gone.

Back to the last 2 months , I was heading to Camobodia to see my solar film business, a jointed venture with my many other Singaporean friends. It's called S-COOL if it sounds familiar to you . It is now in the market for 6 months and we are doing very aggressive marketing to capture the entire market of solar film business in Cambodia. You can easily see the ads by reading magazine , newspaper , going to car wash shop and even sport center.

At first I thought of just foucusing on it and did nothing else. However, my experience was just more than what I could expect. It was a turning point of my life that I manage get something that I was wishing for years and that I was always hopeless for it. It was just a present from god or what we call " faith". Through the journey I've received alot of fun , warm and love.

Preah Vihear - Let's Celebrate Your World Heritage Status

Money

There was a man who worked all of his life and saved all of his money. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I wanna take my money to the afterlife."

So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.

Well, one day he died. He was stretched out in the casket, the wife was sitting there in black next to her closest friend. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said "Wait just a minute!"

She had a shoe box with her, she came over with the box and placed it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away. Her friend said, "I hope you weren't crazy enough to put all that money in the casket."

"Yes," the wife said, "I promised. I'm a good Christian, I can't lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him."

"You mean to tell me you put every cent of his money in the casket with him?"

"I sure did. I got it all together, put it into my account and I wrote him a check."

My favorite love song - That's Why You Go Away

Baby want you tell me why there is sadness in your eyes
I don't wanna say goodbye to you
Love is one big illusion I should try to forget
But there is something left in my head

You're the one who set it up
Now you're the one to make it stop
I'm the one who's feeling lost right now
Now you want me to forget every little thing you said
But there is something left in my head

* CHORUS : I won't forget the way you're kissing
The feelings so strong were lasting for so long
But I'm not the man your heart is missing
That's why you go away I know

You were never satisfied no matter how I tried
Now you wanna say goodbye to me
Love is one big illusion I should try to forget
But there is something left in my head

* REPEAT CHORUS

Sitting here all alone in the middle of nowhere
Don't know which way to go
There is so much to say now between us
There ain't so much for you
There ain't so much for me anymore

Nvoel I am Raeindg

Inside Your Heart

By David Mccaine

All long time I've wait for you
With my heart and my soul
Wishing for you and me
Together we stay happy
Just last week you gave me hope
But now you just said nope
You said we haven't started
Yet I always thought we already committed
Inside your mind I'm no longer needed
For a week time you judged me
Saying I'm not any good
To you I may no longer so suit

Thanks for the precious gift on my BD

I couldn't believe you have given me a suprise gift and a lovely wallet for my birthday. Thanks for giving me a chance. You will never be regret for this.LoVE yOU !!

Again , I'm on the magazine

To my suprise , I'm on the magazine page again. I can't believe now I am becoming the icon for Preah Vihear topic. Always this picture will pop-up in the magazine or newspaper eveytime the editor discusses about Preah Vihear. I should sue the eidtor for posting my picture without my approval and get some compensation hahaha..... If I am not wrong I've been freely used for more than a couple of times already =)

Anyway, just want to share with you , everything was fabulous. The weather was pretty cool up there and scenery was terrific. The stone was incredibly heavy and bigger size than any other temple's I've ever seen.I bet you will enjoy it !!

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Kien Svay - You will never wish to go again

Today my friend Alex , Eugene ,Meiju and I were heading to Kien Svay . My last visit was probably 5 years ago and I didn't really like the place . I thought maybe there were some improvement after such along time. Kien Svay is the place where price cheating is such a damn notorious place .I have heard many people complaining about this but now it's my turn. We were expecting to kill our sunday time with the feeling of relax but it turned out to be the most horrible experience I've ever met.

When we arrived at that place , . a guy ran toward us by trying to lure us to rent a hut for 0.5 USD. I thought : " wow, that's pretty cheap. It can't be this cheap. This guy must be cheating me " . But , also I wanted to know how he was going to cheat me . I confirmed the price with him a few times before following him to the hut. After parking my car, while following him I saw many people shouting as if they were trying to fight for something but I didn't bother to listen to them. However, it gave the impression of unfriendliness of the people there. Looking at the other side , the market was crowded with people passing by and the foods were on the display with the dust flying everywhere. I thought " such a dirty place , why on earth people would consider it as a resort". Along the walkway toward the hut, garbage was everywhere on both sides and the lake is filled with a messy water plants scattering everywhere. Until I reached the hut, I could see another number of huts built in the middle of the lake so I checked the price with him and it was the same price. We took the boat to the other hut side. After that I ordered some dishes for lunch. I was on full alert in making the order by checking every single price very carefully. I ordered tomyam, fried and chicken and other miscellaneous like rice , ice , dried beef and squib. All the things that I did not clearly talk of pricing , I didn't dare to use. Even with a box of tissue, we didn't dare to open since we didn't ask the pricing. I have asked the sale lady on per dish basis to be 15000R but her arguement at the end was that the she replied to me with each price of chicken and she needs to use 7 small chickens for every dish. Plus with all the miscellaneous, it totals more than 500000 R . The moment I saw the bill , my eyes were almost drop off. What da fu*k !! you such a cheating bitch. We were arguing and screaming at each other for a very long time. I felt that if I were someone powerful, nobody would want to play such a game with me. If I had a gun with me , they wouldn't dare to cheat me like this. What I needed was just to pull out my gun and show them. I wish I had such a power to turn them away. But, I was stuck in the middle of the lake and could not walk away from them. Then , I tried to negociate to 200000 R. I felt that was a pretty high offer already I would not pay more than that. They still didn't want to take until they heard me seeking my friend's help to call police then they became soft a bit . I could see their behavior started to change when I was seeking third party's help , then I began to feel reluctant in giving them 200000 R but since I already talked to them I at the end decided to pay off and leave the place. Just a short while later , I received a phone call from my friend telling me that those who cheat customers have been caught many times to the police station.What a pity! I should have received the abit earlier than this.

I still felt very bad while driving back home. On one hand, I felt I need more power to stop people from bullying me. On the other hand, I felt why this thing is happening in Cambodia. Why were they so cunning yet brainless?. They would slowly kill their own business. Someone must step in to intervene this before it further spead down.

This is my last time in life to visit such a place unless a substantial improvement has been taken place. I will boycott from visiting that place and would be very happy to see it closed down someday.

We closed the page by going for a massage to relax ourselves after a very long tiring day =) It was good though

Very Funny Poem

I can't stop admiring this poem by Dave Feinberg

"I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three
The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality
When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three
As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed".

Copyright from my friend blog "http://www.harryman007.blogspot.com/"

Sidney Shieldon - my favorite author

I don't actually like to read book. I always feel very sleepy once I touch the book and read for about 10-20mn. Usually, I read book in the evening just to make myself feel sleepy then enjoy the harmony of my sleep. However, with Sidney's book , I love it. I couldn't wait to see what is going to happen in the next page every time I read his book. This is the book I have just finished reading.

It's about a girl fighting for her dream through real estate & development business after living in a sorrow and carefree childhood. She is the perfectionist and she can do everything just to get the thing done.Her zenith was when she almost finished her world tallest building project then problems started to happen. She is too greedy and because of her enemy, she fails.

I give Sideney a thumb up!!!

Chinese New Year Pictures

Chinese New Year Holiday

2 day trip to Kompong Som during this year Chinese New Year has gone and left me and my friends a fun and awful memory.

We couldn’t wait to go to Kompong Som in the early morning and the journey began with joy and laugh from all of us. It was not until I carelessly pump the water in the car water’s tank and forgot to tape back the cap. After driving 150km away , I realized something was wrong with the car and I glanced at the attention table and saw the temperature was at the highest level. I quickly drove to the side and checked out the problem. I found it – water tank’s cap was missing. Oh shit!! The smell was very strong from the engine and water was vaporized. That was the beginning of the horrible story. We were working together to fill in the water inside the car. We stopped for awhile and on the engine. After many repeating off and on the engine, ultimately the engine started running and we moved forward. However, we couldn’t go far because the temperature kept on rising. Until we found a car mechanic workshop, we can keep the water tank cap closed. I thought that was the end of the story but I was totally wrong. God wanted to play around with me. After that we moved on around 10 km , the same problem happened . We kept on doing the same work again and again and again until I was so fed up but no choice I had to do.

At 1:30pm , we reached Kompong Som after almost 8 hours drive from Phnom Penh. My friend’s friend brought me to a car mechanic shop and got the car repaired. While I was waiting hungrily, my friend went down to find hotel. Price was rocket and all hotels and guesthouses were full house and left only 1 room which cost 40 USD per day stay. 7 of us had no choice but got to squeeze together in that room. In the evening , the car was fixed and we were very happy and enjoyed our dinner at the beach. People from every corner of the country and oversea made a big crowd and the beach very happening. It was my first time seeing such a big crowd at the beach in the evening. Lighting, decorating and the laugh and smile of the people made the place such a pleasant tourist location. Many people fired the firework and created a “boom, boom “sound everywhere. We sang , we screamed , we played game. We had so much fun.

Tomorrow morning, we went to visit Koh Pos Island. I must give it a wow. It was such a beautiful, calm, and attractive nature. The scenery was amazing. I love it. We built sand castle , we played games and relaxed at the beach.

Until afternoon , we had our lunch and ready to go back home. I thought the car problem was fixed and we wouldn’t have that problem again. Who know? God still wanted play around with us. I drove for 50km , the temperature meter again move to the high level. Damn it!!! It was so irritating. I was so disappointed and felt no appetite to give a word. I knew, some of my friends felt very sick of it also. We went to see a car mechanic shop nearby and asked them to do check up. The mechanic said ‘ the problem is most likely because of the choking of the water tank and it requires an hour more to clean up , otherwise you need to fill the water in every time the temperature jump to high level” I decided not to get it fixed because of the timing is inappropriate. Then , we moved forward with a very slow speed. After 10km drive , temperature jumped high again. I felt so bad. After filling the water , we moved forward again. This time I could smile again because I can drive 23km before the temperature jumped high. We kept on moving until Yeay Mao then stopped to ask for a safe trip going home. Magically, temperature was at the normal level until we get back to Phnom Penh.

This trip was full of fun and troubles. Though many troubles we were experiencing but I felt happy because I could understand more about my friends and to some I felt less distant for friendship.