Crappy Journalism, Who Is Thamrin Zaini?

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If Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his wife think they have resolved the discontent in Sabah PKR they are in for a bigger surprise.This time they really have upset the applecart. Sidelining the restive and overly ambitious Jeffery Kitingan and the equally ambitious Ansari Abdullah will take PKR on a bigger roller coaster ride with high probability of the whole train come tumbling down to the ground. The general feeling in Sabah PKR is that one of the two would be appointed to the post.

Now, there are three tigers waiting to eat Anwar Ibrahim and one of them is his closest aide and loyalist. 

Azmin Ali was shocked when asked about his removal as Sabah PKR's chief.Apparently, Anwar and wife Wan Azizah didn't see it fits to inform Azmin of his sacking as Sabah PKR's chief. Malaysian Insider reported here.

In a report here and the blind mice here and a blind landing here Thamrin Zaini the new Sabah PKR's chief is reported as being Libaran assemblyman. PKR has no state seat in the Sabah state assembly. There is no Libaran state seat.Libaran is a parliamentary seat currently held by UMNO's Y.B Juslie Ajirol.

This is what happened when you have lazy and half-baked reporter.

The appointment of Thamrin Zaini means Jeffery and Ansari are no more trusted to lead PKR in Sabah.

Thamrin Zaini has no grassroots support in Sabah.Jeffery will make sure he wrecks Sabah PKR first before he says 'sayonara' and Anwar can forget about getting KDM support for PKR now or in the future.

Good-bye democracy, long live 'Anwarcracy'.

More hot news coming soon.

When Your Pilots Fall Asleep.

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Have you ever wondered what those guys in the cockpit up front are up to? Your life is in their hands and you depended on them bringing you back safely to the ground.

Over the years the airline industry have discovered pilots breaking fundamental rules of their profession, from being caught with high level of alcohol in their blood, falling asleep on the job, to emotional breakdown during flight, endangering the lives of their passengers.Small wonder most air crashes were due to human errors.

Some years ago when I was a frequent flyer (as a passenger)I get acquainted with people from the airlines.One day, at Bangkok airport I happened to bump into a friend who was a co-pilot with an airline (I will not name the airline) had coffee with him and the story he told me was quite shocking and one of many horror stories that we passengers wouldn't get to know because the airline usually hushed up such story, bad publicity for the airline.

He told me his aircraft has to turn back to Bangkok airport after 20 minutes flight due to technical problem reported by the captain and the technical problem was not with the aircraft, it was with the guy. He just had a big fight with his wife when she discovered he was screwing one of the stewardesses and situation became even more unbearable for him because the girl he was screwing was on the same flight with him and the wife apparently knew it. Luckily, for the passengers, rather than taking a flyer, he had the sense to sense his disturbed state of mind that could interfere with his ability to fly the aircraft safely.

Read the article below on the subject of pilots falling asleep during flight.

Northwest's Wayward Flight: Did the Pilots Fall Asleep?

In typical, understated aviation lingo, the pilots of Northwest Airlines Flight 188 suffered a "loss of situational awareness" on Oct. 21 when their plane shot past its destination, Minneapolis, and continued flying for another 150 miles. After the flight from San Diego with 149 people aboard spent some 78 minutes out of contact with air-traffic control — a period that reportedly ended only when a concerned flight attendant contacted the pilots by intercom — the plane turned around over Wisconsin and landed safely. The pilots told authorities they were discussing "airline policy" during their odd detour, though many observers believe a more plausible explanation is that they simply fell asleep at the controls. An analysis of the plane's cockpit recorder should reveal what was happening up front, but if the speculation is right, it wouldn't be the first time a pair of pilots have dozed off.
(See TIME's airline covers.)

In February 2008, a Go! Airlines flight from Honolulu overshot the airport in Hilo, Hawaii, and continued for some 30 miles over the Pacific Ocean before circling back. The captain originally said they had entered the wrong air-traffic-control frequency, but both pilots later admitted they had fallen asleep. A contributing factor to the incident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), was the captain's undiagnosed sleep apnea, which authorities call a growing cause of transportation accidents.

A respiratory condition that interrupts breathing at night, sleep apnea can lead people to be fatigued even after a full night's sleep. "They feel tired and sleepy when they wake up in the morning," says Dr. Vahid Mohsenin, director of the Yale Center for Sleep Medicine at Yale University. "I've seen a lot of patients that had several car crashes before they were diagnosed. They were related to sleepiness at the wheel." Sleep apnea is linked to age and obesity; as the population grows older and puts on pounds, the incidence of sleep apnea rises, Mohsenin says. According to one report, sleep apnea diagnoses have increased twelvefold since the 1990s.
(Read "E.U. Pilots Fight for Shorter Shifts.") Read more here..

Expert Advice: A Lesson In Chinklish

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Looks like those CCTV9 guys are rare breeds among the nucleus of spunky Chinese businessmen taking on the world's markets with their cheap and nasty.

The padlock cost me RM4.60 and the bicycle lock RM7.60. I must admit I am a cheapskate when it comes to these kind of things. I have already twisted the key to the lock., but no pain, at RM4.60, should I complain?

For your reading pleasure:(click to enlarge).








Though, badly written, it's well understood.It certainly carries the intended message.

Will the Chinese creolise the English language? We have Singlish and Manglish, why can't we have Chinklish?

Singlish and Manglish were not creolisation of the language in the true sense. It was bastardised by Singaporeans and Malaysians poor vocabulary.

Will Chinese language or Mandarin be a lingua franca one day. Some people believe China will be the next super power , both in military and economic terms.At the rate they are going, that may not be too far-fetched.

Behind the headlines

By Pein Lee

PADANG, Oct 20 — The occurrence of any prominent natural disaster often prompts the almost immediate rush to provide images of devastation, carnage, anguish, and grief.

These are the most obvious responses, and sought-after records of such events. The recent major earthquake in West Sumatra was no different.

The human condition, however, clearly extends beyond a morbid fascination with death and injury and destruction of livelihoods and homes. Hope for renewal, and an in-built optimism form crucial parts of the human coping mechanism, and as these intangibles manifest in a multitude of forms, so too do their catalysts and results.

In Padang Pariaman, a regency north of the epicentre of the September 30 earthquake, scores of kampungs (korong in the local language) were flattened either partially or completely.

While the attention of the world has been focused on Padang, the city closest to the epicentre, the people of the rice fields and coconut plantations at the foothills of twin volcanoes continue to conduct their lives, starting to rebuild and revitalise while their city cousins await the delivery of heavy machinery to clear their debris. Children continue to play, and parents carry on working. The family stays intact, except for when claimed by death.

These images were made possible through the involvement of Mercy Malaysia, who were responsible for the deployment of an emergency medical and relief team barely two days after the earthquakes.

From the Pariaman district hospital as their base and where Mercy Malaysia conducted emergency medical operations, mobile clinics were despatched to affected “kecematan” (sub-districts) and hygiene packs distributed. Read more...