7.20.2007

Freindster ade Pop-up Virus????

So sesape kene ato tak sengaja kene virus popup nih, jgn delete freindster anda!!!!
kesian member ramai giler kat dalam tu.
So ikut petua nih

First
Pegi "setings"(at friendster page)
Find "Safe Mode" and choose "Yes"
lepas tu "Save".

Second
code virus tu ade kat dlm Fs tu. so mane nak crik???
Pegi Edit Profile go under Who I Want to Meet:

cari natang nih


dah jumpe, Delete Phrase tu.

Third
Pegi "setings"(at friendster page)
Find "Safe Mode" and choose "No"
lepas tu "Save".

Waaalaaaa!!! friendster dah kembali seperti sedia kala!!!

7.17.2007

Tongkat Ali fever spreads

Malaysian traditional herb Tongkat Ali is beginning to draw worldwide attention because of its medicinal value. Malaysian products ranging from pills and beverages made from the herb "Tongkat Ali", which is believed to have high aphrodisiac properties, have in recent years, made significant inroad...

7.16.2007

Raw Video: Yo-yo Champ Shows His Stuff

How does one become a national yo-yo champion? Check out some of the tricks that made Brent Dellinger number one. This Kansas college freshman practices 10 hours a day to perfect his art.

7.15.2007

Reuters QuickCut: Heart-shaped pup

A long-coated male Chihuahua in northern Japan has risen to stardom because of his unique birth mark. The puppy named "Heart-kun" was born with a heart-shaped pattern on his coat.




A puppy born with a heart-shaped pattern on his coat becomes a symbol of luck in northern Japan. The long-coated baby male chihuahua was born in May, one of a litter, to a breeder in Odate, northern Japan. Dog shop owner Emiko Sakurada says it's the first time a puppy with the marks has been...

7.13.2007

Sony Updates Playstation 3

Sony has slashed the price of its current PlayStation 3 by $100, or 16.7 percent, and introduced a high-capacity model in an effort to spur sales of the struggling video game console. (July 9)

Sony Unveils 80GB PLAYSTATION 3 Entertainment

July 2007 (Medialink) -- Gamers and PS3 fans have a lot to celebrate. Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) is announcing a new, 80GB model of its PLAYSTATION3 (PS3). At the same time, the company is reducing the price of the existing 60GB PS3 mode







7.11.2007

Caught on Tape: Dancing Burglar

In Georgia, cameras catch one burglar's exploits: he's dancin

7.05.2007

What Do You Get When You Cross A Horse And A Zebra?

(Philadelphia) Eclyse the "zebroid" who lives in Germany is the product of a wild romance between an Italian pony and a zebra mare.

Meet Eclyse The 'Zorse': A Product Of A Zebra & Horse

(Dallas) Eclyse is the latest attraction at the Holte-Stukenbrock Castle Safari Park. The zebroid is the result of a wild romance between an Italian pony-stallion and a zebra-mare.

7.02.2007

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Raw Video: The Dangers of Fireworks

With the 4th of July just a week away, the U-S Consumer Product Safety Commission is calling attention to the dangers of using legal and illegal fireworks.

What If I Shot My TV?

Have you ever been so upset at your T.V. or Computer that you wanted to shoot it? Watch this HowStuffWorks video and learn what would happen if you shot your television.

Say Cheesecake!

Take a bite out of a two thousand pound cherry chocolate chip cheescake being made in Chicago. Chicago, Illinois pastry chefs are creating the massive cheesecake to celebrate the store's 27th birthday.

6.30.2007

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Meet the zorse - (Zebra kacuk Kuda)

This animal with distinctive markings is a zorse - the off-spring of a female zebra and a male horse. Little Eclyse is the latest addition to a German safari park. Eclyse is also special as zorses, or zebroids as they are also known, are usually born when a horse mare breeds with a zebra stallion.

6.29.2007

Merdeka Special - Esplanade





Heart of the local council


This promenade is where you can go to “take in” the sea breeze.

The photograph above (taken in 1964) has a very interesting view of elegant colonial-style buildings, located across the beautiful Esplanade.

Part of these stately buildings were converted into a college but today it is the seat of local government — the Penang island Municipal Council headquarters.

The picture below captures a closer look of this fine British Palladian architecture, featuring magnificent Corinthian columns and huge windows.

Located near the building is another interesting historical site, Fort Cornwallis.

Merdeka Special - Padang Kota





Walking in the sea breeze


The other place is the Esplanade (also called Padang Kota).

The rather spindly casuarina trees in the top picture — taken in 1967 — have grown sturdier and the road seems wider now.

In fact, Gurney Drive definitely sees a whole lot more traffic now but little else has changed.

This is the place where you go to when you just want to turn your back on the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

You come here to look out to the sea and imagine a whole different life for yourself. And then you are recharged.

Merdeka Special - 3 Religions Street





The street of harmony


But it has also been dubbed the Street of Harmony because you will find the Kuan Yin Teng (Kuan Yin Temple) and the Sri Mahamariamman Temple here. All three major religions are represented in one street.

Masjid Kapitan Keling itself dates back to the 19th century.

Itwas built by IndianMuslim settlers, who named it after their headman, Cauder Mohideen.

And the Kuan Yin Teng, which is just a stone’s throw away, is the oldest Chinese temple on the island.

Looking at the two pictures — one taken in the 1950s and the other just a week ago — you will notice that the street has not undergone any major changes.

Although more shophouses have come up around the original ones, the street’s character remains largely intact.

Merdeka Special - Jalan Sungai Pinang





‘Romance’ of Maqbul mosque


It’s about 150 years old and was said to have been built by Bugis pirates.

Even better, it is believed that prayers or requests are very often fulfilled or maqbul when the faithful pray in the tiny, unpretentious mosque.

Located at a T-junction, Masjid Maqbul remains pretty much unchanged over the years, although its surroundings have changed.

Today, progress in the form of new buildings threatens to swallow up the little mosque.

Local folklore has it that a Japanese soldier stole a big ikan kaloi from the mosque compound (this was during the Japanese Occupation) but his car crashed as he drove away. The fish was then returned to the mosque. Ah, the stuff of legends.

Merdeka Special - Chulia Street





For the best nasi kandar


When you find out that this street was originally the domain of the Indian Muslim community in the 19th century, you understand why it was originally called Malabar Street. The Malabar region refers to the southern part of India’s western coast.

Today, it is named Chulia Street after the Chulias —which was what the Indian Muslim migrants from the Coromandel coast of South India called themselves.

The traditional shophouses are all gone. Note the first picture taken in the 1930s. But it is as bustling as ever today and probably the first place in the city many people head to when they visit Penang. Word has it the best nasi kandar is found here.

Merdeka Special - Bishop Street





Money still flows through here
Apparently, the Europeans settled in Light Street, while the Eurasians from Kedah and Phuket stayed in Bishop Street and Church Street. And the name Bishop Street? It was named after the Right Reverend Thomas Middleton, the Anglican bishop of Calcutta, who consecrated the neighbouring church of St George in 1819.

In the above picture (taken around 1911), you can see business house Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co which had branches in India, the Straits Settlement (thus, its presence in Penang) and Shanghai. Even then the street had a financial gravitas about it.

Today, Bishop Street remains one of the financial arteries of Penang. Here you will find banks, insurance companies and the offices of accountants.

While the buildings on the left may have lost their beautiful facades (the pre-war colonial-style architecture now all covered with signboards and air-conditioning units) and instead of a row of trishaws, we now have cars, the street has not changed much in its purpose.

Merdeka Special - Kapitan Kling Mosque





The first picture was taken in 1958.



The Kapitan Kling Mosque, built in 1801, is one of the oldest mosques in Penang. The then Lt Gov Sir George Leith gave Mus - lims a piece of land for religious purposes and the mosque — named after Cauder Mohhidden, the kapitan of the Indian Muslim settlers —was built on it.

The other old mosque is the Acheen Street Malay Mosque which was built in 1808 by the first Arab traders who came to Penang.

There was a dispute in the old days between the two mosques about when the Ramadan should start. But all that is over now.

Today, the Muslim community in the area has a choice whether to listen to the sermon in Tamil at the Kapitan Kling Mosque or in Malay at the Acheen Street Malay Mosque.

Merdeka Special - Penang Road





‘Sweet’ memories on Penang Road


Penangites fondly remember Boston Bar (building on the right) for its wonderfully decadent ice-cream sundaes. Up till the late 1980s, such ice-cream bars were very popular in Penang.

Today, a spider-like pedestrian crossing dominates the city- scape. Boston Bar is gone but you can still see the curved building where it was located. In the background are high-rises, signifying how much development has come to the island.

Note the mix of old and new buildings in the picture now: It speaks of the uniqueness of Penang.

With one foot very much in the past, the island steps forward confidently into the future. But those ice-cream parlours are sorely missed.

Merdeka Special - Pasar Seni

From wet market to Art Deco building






Built in 1928, it functioned as the city’s largest wet market until the 1980s. The large cavernous interior housed all sorts of stalls selling fish, meat, vegetables and fruits. It was a wet, grimy, noisy and smelly place.

Before that, the site itself was used as an open-air wet market from the 1880s onwards.

It finally closed for business in the 1980s when it was no longer possible for the market to be located in such a busy area of the city.

In 1986, it opened its doors once again to traders. But of a different kind. As an art and culture market, the new Central Market is a huge tourist attraction. But we locals frequent it, too, to buy anything from designer Tshirts to authentic Kelantanese silver jewellery.

Today, the Annexe —just behind the original Central Market —is a creative hotbed. Exhibitions, poetry recitals, book launches, and dance performances; you can always find something happening here.

Merdeka Special - Tasik Negara

Victory Avenue



now in Taman Tasik Negara





Reminder of the price of peace


The granite War Memorial (as it was known then) was first placed at Victory Avenue (now Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin) near the Kuala Lumpur railway station.

It was erected by the British in 1921 to commemorate those who died in World War I.

In the top picture taken in 1957, more than 100 people are assembled under spotlights and a street lamp for a dawn service to commemorate Anzac Day. The dates of the two World Wars are inscribed on it.

Later, the structure was taken apart piece by piece and reassembled in 1966 at Taman Tasik Negara when the Tugu Negara was completed.

Today, it is located in a more serene and stately setting. The date of the Emergency has also been added. It serves as a reminder to us of all those who have fallen so that we can continue to live in peace.

Merdeka Special - Edge Out


From premier Kuala Lumpur cinema to car park



Edged out by modern technology


This million-dollar baby — that was how much it cost to build back in 1958 — was located on one end of bustling Bukit Bintang Road.

Classics like Gone With The Wind, The Sound of Music and in more recent times, Saturday Night Fever and Star Wars played here.

In the 1990s, when more people switched to videotapes to watch movies, many cinemas were forced to close.

In 2000, Cathay was turned into a discotheque. But two years and one fire later, the building was demolished.

Today, it is just a parking lot. One wonders if any of the people who park here remember that this was once a picture house, a place where you could escape the everyday world for the price of a movie ticket.

Merdeka Special - Oldest Road

Jalan Mountbatten



Jalan Tun Perak today





Traffic congestion never left area


IN 1956, Mountbatten Road —one of the oldest roads in Kuala Lumpur —was a busy thoroughfare. Even at a time when there were not many cars on the road, the Mountbatten stretch was often “choked” with traffic.

Fifty years on, a lot has changed but the traffic congestion remains.

The road name itself we n t through three name changes: from Java Street to Mountbatten Road to Jalan Tun Perak.

In the 1950s, it was named Mountbatten Road in honour of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the British Supreme Commander in the Far East.

Today, Jalan Tun Perak is the site of a major LRT interchange; the Star and Putra lines both have stations here.

Note the photograph above which shows Whiteaways, Laidlaw & Co Ltd on the right. This was a popular department store then.

Though the older buildings still remain, the LRT stations and structure obscure much of the view of the buildings.

However, you can walk across the road to check them out.

Merdeka Special - Klang & Gombak rivers

THEN: The confluence of Klang and Gombak rivers



NOW: The confluence with development around it




Masjid Jamek still an oasis


THIS is where it all began for Kuala Lumpur, at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak rivers. In the 1850s, early miners landed at this very spot.

Then, in 1907, Masjid Jamek was built here. Officially opened two years later by the Sultan of Selangor, it is the oldest mosque in Kuala Lumpur.

Designed by architect Arthur Benison Hubbock, an architectural assistant in the Public Works and Survey Department, the mosque cost just RM32,625 and the money came from the people as well as the government of the day.

Hubbock was also responsible for the design of the Kuala Lumpur Railway station and the KTMB headquarters building. All three buildings share similar Mogul design styles.

In the picture above, taken in 1959, Masjid Jamek looks postcard-perfect.

An idyllic scene from a time when life in Kuala Lumpur was less frantic.

Today, the mosque is still in use, hence its other name, the Friday Mosque, as the faithful pack into the compound and flow over into the nearby street every Friday at prayer time.

Of course, the skyline has also changed. Skyscrapers dominate the background but Masjid Jamek remains an oasis of calm in the bustling city.

Merdeka Special - KL Railway

THEN: VICTORY AVENUE



The Kuala Lumpur railway station back in the 1950s.

NOW: JALAN SULTAN HISHAMUDDIN



The prominent Moorish-style buildings still standing 50 years on.


Features of old still standing tall


THE Kuala Lumpur railway station, which opened in 1911, was planned by the British government as a transportation hub for the Federated Malay States.

Even though it stopped operating as a railway station in 2001 when KL Sentral took over, the building with its intricate Moorish-style architecture, remains one of the most loved and photographed in Kuala Lumpur.

As you can see from the picture on the top, taken in the 1950s, life was much more leisurely then. By the way, the name of the road at that time was Victory Avenue.

Fifty years on, the road is now called Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin but two buildings there remain relatively unscathed by time.

The one across from the old railway station still operates as the KTM Berhad headquarters.

6.28.2007

Handbags from old newspapers

A group of Filipino women are transforming used newspapers into usable handbags. Their business is low cost because they're using newspapers from a rubbish dump and their product range is attracting international attention.

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