Education
Can you still remember being called “idiot or stupid” by your teacher(s) or friend(s) during school days? Worse still, your biological parents labelled you stupid simply because you weren’t among the top students in your class. Of course, most of us accepted the fate as it was, and blamed it on gene or DNA, which […]
... written on Nov 10 2014Good news – women are now allowed to drive (*tongue-in-cheek*). Of course we’re talking about the only country in the world that previously does not allow them to do so – Saudi Arabia. In a surprise move, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has recommended the country’s government lift the long-standing ban on women drivers, but the […]
... written on Nov 08 2014On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Steve Jobs asked Sony’s chairman Akio Morita why everyone in the company’s factories wore uniforms. He told Jobs that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day. Over the years, the uniforms […]
... written on Nov 07 2014President Barack Obama should have realized his Democrat party is toast the moment Kim Kardashian threw her support behind him. Kim who must have thought it would be a freaking good publicity stunt had posted a cartoon image of herself with President Obama. She was instead called a “moron” and “useless bimbo” after she wrote […]
... written on Nov 06 2014Yesterday, we wrote about the happy and sad consequences as a result of US dollar bull run. Americans are cheering a stronger dollar for a simple reason that their purchasing power will be higher. It will cost them lesser for a vacation in Paris or Bangkok, for example. Since Americans don’t believe in saving, they […]
... written on Nov 05 2014Forget about Islamic State militants, tumbling oil prices, China’s weakening economy, Japan’s recession, Germany’s slowing economic data and whatnot. There’s a new problem which will affect every single country on planet Earth. The US dollar has surged to a four-year high against a basket of currencies, breaching key technical resistance. The index – a mix […]
... written on Nov 04 2014After Scotland failed to get its independence, Britain prime minister David Cameron was relieved that his job is secured, at least for now. But his real problem is UKIP – UK Independence Party – the rising star that almost every Briton calls the real patriotic party worth voting for. Basically, the country has gone to […]
... written on Nov 03 2014Sometimes lengthy articles are not the most efficient way to convey a message. It’s especially true during the current age, or to be precise, the social media age. Smartphone, Facebook, Twitter and whatnot make people want more with less – read more and more junks with less and less time available. Most of the young […]
... written on Nov 03 2014Politics is a bitch and it doesn’t discriminate democracy or communism. And if politics can happens in office or among siblings, its tentacles can spread as far as you can imagine. In politics, nothing happens by accident thus as expected, the recent Hong Kong pro-democracy fiasco has invited quite a number of theories, or rather […]
... written on Oct 31 2014Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy Part-2 appeal at the Federal Court which began Tuesday enters its third day today. Anwar’s battalion of 14-lawyers saw a surprising appearance of Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram – a prominent retired federal court judge – as the lead counsel. Anwar claimed it was Gopal Sri Ram who volunteered his legal […]
... written on Oct 30 2014
