05 November, 2008

What About the Fourth Passenger?

According to this report, it has not been decided whether the fourth passenger will be summoned for not wearing rear seat belt since the normal saloon car is only equipped with three seat belts. The normal size of Malaysian family is more than four people including the passenger and they will be more likely wanted to know whether they are allowed to carry all of their family members in one saloon car. What they have to do is upgrade to MPV or van if they can afford it. Otherwise they have to wait for the decision later.

04 November, 2008

How Safe is the Milk Product?

According to an article appeared in the Wall Street Journal, "protein powder" of uncertain origin has been used as a cheap way to fool dairy companies' quality checks. Farmers used the "protein powder" to fool the dairy companies' about the fat contents, protein contents and freshness. The article has listed down all possible ingredients of the "protein powder" and one of the ingredient is of course melamine.

According to the article, the underlying problems remains i.e. flaws in farming methods and relatively lax supervision. Flaws in farming methods is due to lack of capital and know-how to adhere to good dairy-farming practices.

02 November, 2008

Daylight savings

As Malaysian, we are not bothered very much about daylight saving until we visit or stay in the Western Countries. If you happen to visit or stay for example in the United Kingdom or United States during the daylight savings time, you will most likely showing up earlier to an interview or to work. Refer to this article if you wanted to know more about the history of the daylight savings.

01 November, 2008

Melamine Scare

After tainted baby formula milk, now it is eggs tainted through chicken feed. The compound has been detected in eggs sold in Hong Kong and South Korea. It is just a reminder of the widespread use of melamine throughout China's food production.

What will be next?

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Originally uploaded by wanhashim
View of MAS airplane arrived at heathrow Airport. At Heathrow airport the airplane is sprayed with disinfectant for some reason before the passengers are allowed to disembark.