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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Book Fair

Times Book Store is having a Book Fair at USJ19 Digital Mall.
Great bargains withn discounts ranging from 30% to 90%. Go grab your favourite titles.

Carrefour for Education Ministry

As if to answer my call for prices of books to be reduced, lo and behold, there was a promotion at Carrefour Subang Jaya last Saturday. Hard covers and paperbacks were going at RM5 per book. What is even more surprising is you could find some current titles in this promotion. I got myself 9 [...]

Reduce the prices of books!

Malaysians are not reading enough? Ask me why, Mr. Minister. That’s because books are so bloody expensive in Malaysia. When I was in Manila two months back, I bought a copy of Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Sanction for only RM23. The same book retails at RM35 in Malaysia. Now that you know the reason, please [...]

Close encounter

ADUN Subang Jaya Hannah Yeoh had a close encounter with a suspected criminal in USJ11 on 14 April 2009.
SJ Echo has the story here.
Thank God no harm befell her.

Eli stays

Elizabeth Wong has accepted the Selangor state’s offer to remain in office and will remain as both executive councillor as well as Bukit Lanjan assemblyperson. Good for her.
In an immediate response, this is what a worm crawled out of the gutter.
“Thank you (Selangor government) for the decision… we will exploit this issue,” Khir Toyo told Malaysiakini.
The [...]

1Malaysia

1Malaysia? That would be after 1Melayu! What has Najib got to say on this frontpage?

Will you blame us for doubting you? Cukuplah, you say one thing and your mouthpieces say another!

Double parking

One salute for this driver.

And a double salute for this one!

Seeing

They look but they do not see and this quotation which landed in my Inbox this morning is for them.
“Most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing.”
 - Joe Navarro, former FBE agent & expert on nonverbal language. -

True Colours

They lost and now they lay blame and show their true colours. We cannot expect leopards to change their spots because they never will.
By calling the Chinese voters ungrateful in voting for Pakatan Rakyat and deceiving the Barisan Nasional (BN) in the recent by-elections, the DPM has just reduced the PM’s One Malaysia to another syiok sendiri slogan.
Muyhiddin [...]

Health Ministry bans Etumax medicinal products

 
The Malaysian Insider, 13 April 2009
Health Ministry bans Etumax medicinal products
KUALA LUMPUR, April 13 — The Health Ministry has banned the sale, distribution and consumption of traditional medicine manufactured by Etumax Corporation Sdn Bhd as they were found to contain sibutramine dan sildenafil, which are prohibited items for medicine classed as traditional medicine
Its [...]