Freedom Tower is the centerpiece building of the new World Trade Center complex currently planned for Lower Manhattan. Construction began on April 27 2006. It is projected to be completed by year 2012, some six years away from now.
More about the tower is commented in this other post.
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Thursday, June 29, 2006
Freedom Tower Gets Go-Ahead
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
St Joseph Miri school girl bullying incident
Someone posted the video of the incident on youtube, but it has been removed dunno since when. But you can still watch it here. It was a video taken using a cellphone, close range and clear. It was rumored that the victim is from the nearby St Co, and those bullies are from St Joe. But it has already been reported in the Chinese newspapers (Sin Chew and China Press, both online) I saw the video when someone told me about it. Both made it to the front page of the websites.
http://www.sinchew.com.my/content.phtml?sec=1&artid=200606281568
http://www.chinapress.com.my/content_new.asp?dt=2006-06-29&sec=malaysia&art=0629mb30.txt
http://uchukeling.com/weblog
It's such a shame that this kinda thing happened, in Miri. It's a total shame to the community.
The poor sudent who got bullied in the video was slapped repeatedly, hit, hit with a belt and they were some guy students who were just standing around. It all took place somewhere in Tanjung Lobang. The video on youtube got a lot of comments, many of them hate comments, swearing with obscene languages at the wrongful actions of the girls. 99% of the comments are aimed at the pihak bersalah. And there was one which caught my attention, one that would stop adding fuel to fire.
"To the girls who did it:
It's such a shame that this kinda thing happened, in Miri. It's a total shame to the community.
The poor sudent who got bullied in the video was slapped repeatedly, hit, hit with a belt and they were some guy students who were just standing around. It all took place somewhere in Tanjung Lobang. The video on youtube got a lot of comments, many of them hate comments, swearing with obscene languages at the wrongful actions of the girls. 99% of the comments are aimed at the pihak bersalah. And there was one which caught my attention, one that would stop adding fuel to fire.
"To the girls who did it:
after watching the movie, no doubt anybody will feel angry. I just wish that you can see the reaction from the public after watching this clip. It's really sick and stupid but teenagers are teenagers, i really hope you can really put yourselves in that situation where you are alone, outnumbered, bashed up, bullied as if you had made a mistake that is so serious to deserve that.
How will you feel being slapped and slapped and slapped because ppl accuse you of saying bad things about another person? Wahlau eh, when you grow up and be an adult, you wished you had never did that in your past. You will live to regret it forever, but its never too late to apologise and change yourself to better. I pray that your parents will not have a chance to see that clip as well, because you are not a failure, they are. God bless them."
This story ended up on front page of The Star paper edition, as seen from the pic on the website.
Monday, June 26, 2006
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Malaysian bloggers. Liewcf , SixthSeal
Liewcf.com: A personal tech site on latest technology news, free stuff, make money online, tech gadgets, product reviews, computing tips and tricks, and other interesting stuff.
Started off with plenty of interesting stuffs. Now expanded to several sub-blogs, thus maybe redistributed the info around. Lots of ads on the main frontpage. Featured in magazines about money making through blogging advertising. Still, the posts remain good and solid.
Sixthseal.com: Malaysian blog about food and drugs by a Sibu born blogger with daily posts and photos taken using a digicam. My fellow Sarawakian. He won some best blog award one year. (I can't remember what and when) Featured in national papers for some drug information after being written in by some religious guy. Very good posts with a good command of English (I don't know why I said that)
Saturday, June 17, 2006
A true friend
A true friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
That was the fortune cookie slip from yesterday.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Will Self Destruct.com
http://www.willselfdestruct.com/
This site enables you to create a one-time secure web page for a recipient.
You can create a secure anonymous email message to a friend or colleague by entering their e-mail address and the message, i.e. sending a password or other sensitive information that you don't want other people to see.
The recipient will receive an e-mail with a link to a one-time secure web page which they will be able to view once and only once. Once the url has been accessed the message is deleted. You may enter your email address or just simply your name if you wish. If you do not enter an email address or name your identity will be anonymous to the message recipient.
No messages or e-mail addresses are stored after the message has been viewed. We also do not log your IP address or any information about you, your message, or the recipient. Once sent, all data disappears forever.
Fortune Cookie Charm 06/16
Today I ordered Asian food, hence, I have a fortune cookie charm. It reads: Smile, it makes your day brighter as well as the days of those around you.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Hit on the head with pennies, but not me
A while back, a bunch of friends and I were walking back to Yip's my friend's place after getting a DVD rental from Blockbuster on State Street. Then a car drove past us as we were walking by the pathway next to the apartment, and some guy just threw a stack of pennies towards us and some of the pennies hit poor Steve's one of my friend's forehead. Initially I thought someone stepped onto some broken-yesterday-drunk-leftover-glass. Nope, it was some pennies. They might be worth little, but they sure hurt ya on the head!
Monday, June 12, 2006
Tech: UW-Madison Nanotech Conference
COE Students,
The College of Engineering is collaboration with the Food Research Institute at UW-Madison has a conference this week on nanotech applications in food, as described in the attachment. College of Engineering students, undergraduate and graduate, are invited to attend and hear the presentations.There will be a student registration table outside of 1800 Engineering Hall Tuesday morning. Any College of Engineering student may sign in and receive complimentary admission to hear the talks. However, this complimentary registration DOES NOT INCLUDE FOOD AND MATERIALS, which are for the paid registrants.This is an excellent opportunity to hear from leaders in nanotechnology and its applications to food and food packaging.
Summary Word file is available:
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/lingwong/web/2006_FRI_Nano_Program.doc
Friday, June 09, 2006
Sports: FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany
The world cup is kicking off! Get your money ready and roll your luck!I made another blog just for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
http://www.pialadunia2006.tk/
Tech: Windows Vista Beta 2 is ready!
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Please check back later for availability. We apologize for any inconvenience."
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Summary Post (Midwest Games 2006, Sick, Admin, Minneapolis Weekend, Class)
The Midwest Games 2006 edition was held at Madison, Wisconsin over the Memorial Day weekend (05/26 - 05/28)
http://shahstudio.fotopages.com (My friend's fotopage with some photos of the event taken with his Digital SLR)
http://www.midwestgames2006.com (The official website of Midwest Games 2006)
It was an exciting event boasting some 800+ Malaysian students from all over the US taking part in the annual event. I didn't really get the most out of it because I was too busy taking care of the men's basketball thingy. Still, managed to stay smiley and all friendly to mask out the endless shortcomings and blunders by the organizing people. All were friendly and shit. Just here to have fun.
Due to the amount of work and the lack of sleeping hours plus the violation of drink-a-lot-of-water-everyday rule, I was down with some sore throat and flu which would later lead to fever and cough. Nope, MSD is not reimbursing neither of the poor non-committee workers who had to work their asses off and live by their unnoticed contributions. I missed 2 weeks of my part time job because I was really sick.
At the same time, I had to go to the College of Engineering offices to sort out some admin stuffs, which could turn into some serious problems if not taken care of asap.
Then I somehow got "left out" of the list of people to the Minneapolis trip. Other than spendrift, fun and camaraderie, procrastination might very well be the final word to describe the trip. Left Madison at 10pm instead of 7.30pm. Arrived in Minneapolis probably around 2.30am when the 1st group who arrived on Thursday had already come back from the much anticipated drinking session. The next morning, those staying in Minneapolis woke up early and got themselves ready to go, but the other group in Eagan wasn't quite ready yet. We were supposed to go for the Mandarin Kitchen (Super fabulously delicious dim sum) early, but we sill made it by noon. Then it was decided that we would all go to the Aberville Prime Outlet malls and shop our money away. There weren't that many things to buy actually, but there were so many shops that I ended up buying some unnecessary stuffs and burned a huge hole in my pocket, which was really unnecessary as well.
I got myself a Puma Ferrari shirt which I would proudly showcase for the US GrandPrix in Indianapolis in a month's time. Then there's this pair of Climacool socks by Adidas, this Dockers fall jacket, this Nike soccer guard stays. Then later in the night, we set out for some Go Kart activity at Pro Kart Indoor Racing in Burnesville, MN. On Sunday, we would then drag our lazy asses to Mall of America in Bloomington, MN. Spent some few hours there, had dinner at Hooters before making our way back to Madison.
My 4-week summer class (Marriage and Family) had already started. Hammered with all the stacks of articles everyday really kills.
Friday, June 02, 2006
Summer 2006 Targets
1. get a 4.0 for 10 credits
2. Buy Sony T-30 to replace my T-7
3. Win some money with World Cup 2006
4. Clearout my place by selling my extra stuffs
5. Be a good boy
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Wonders of America Stamp Sheet (New, 2006)
Click to open it to view the full size with details of each different stamp.
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