Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
I read about oral chelation the other day when my friend told me that his doctor has put him on long term medication for hypertension. My parents are hypertensive so I know that once a patient is put on long term medication to control blood pressure, it is like a ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
My friend has this ambition of charting the major landmarks of the country on GPS. I told him that it is crazy to do it alone. Actually, I helped him by identifying places in Ipoh on Google Earth and he comes to get the most accurate reading on his GPS, ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Did you read the news about the Austria man who imprisoned his own daughter in the basement for 24 years? I read that he single-handedly built a basement that included rooms, kitchen and toilet and kept the poor daughter in there, raping her as and when he liked it. And ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Like most girls who just graduated from high school, my cousin wanted to pursue a flight attendant career. However, her parents are very conservative and they would like their daughter to be a “professional” so the only schools that they would put her through are accountancy, medicine, law, architecture, etc. ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
My friend asked me to help him compile a list of centers in my city. He is building an online directory. Actually, this online directory is already in place but he is expanding his online directory beyond Kuala Lumpur.
Well, I only know of one drug treatment center here and ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
The other day, I wrote about trying to find out how much it is to buy a second battery pack for my Fujitsu Esprimo U9200. Well, the technical guys did not get back to me after a month so I decided to give them a call yesterday morning. After all, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
The other day, I was talking to an associate and I told him that I earn a living online. He asked me if I make money being an affiliate and I that although I have registered with a number of affiliate programs, I have not made much money at all ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Last month, when I just bought my Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo Mobile U9200, I called up the technical department in Kuala Lumpur asking them for the model of the second battery or travel battery. Without number or anything, I don't even know what to buy.
Frankly, the staff there had no idea that ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
My friend, Paul, tells me that the economy in the United States has slowed down a lot. But I tell him that the economy moves in a cycle. When it's roaring, we make hay while the sun shines and when it slows down, we take it as a break from ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
A reader left me a comment recently that his credit is automatically from his Celcom balance each time he receives an unsolicited SMS text message. I am taking it that his is a Celcom prepaid subscription.
Last year, I was at the Celcom office here in Ipoh and a man went ...
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