SARAsearch!

Following Google's launch of Custom Search Engines, I've included all the sites listed on SARA ( > 500 of 'em) in one search engine, so you can search past & present articles easily.

See it here!

Enjoy =)

Super-Scary!!!

Is it me or is this article super-scary:

Asian science is advancing so fast that U.S President George W. Bush warned in this year's State of the Union speech that innovations in Asia could come at America's expense. Even South Korea remains one of the epicenters of stem-cell research, despite a loss of morale (and some funding) following Hwang's downfall. Of the 78 stem-cell lines registered at NIH, six come courtesy of South Korean labs. Lavish spending has helped Seoul's climb up the technology ladder, but Korean researchers also credit good ol' Asian values of hard work, hard work and more hard work.

"People used to say that stem-cell research was on scientists' 'avoid list' because it was labor intensive and demanded long hours," says Chung Hyung Min, head of Cha Biotech in Seoul, which registered one of the Korean stem-cell lines at NIH. Chung's last vacation was five years ago. "At the end of the day," he says, "it's about who is more willing to spend longer hours at the lab!

China, Korea, Singapore, India….and where exactly does Malaysia fit in?

Back from travelling almost halfway thru' M'sia and back!

Well, had a good weekend over the Deeparaya holidays in my kampung and decided to come back today thinking there would be less traffic since it's a 1st day of Hari Raya, but it turned out otherwise!

Anyway, traffic was pretty smooth except for a few short jams caused by accidents. Accidents which sometimes happen on the other direction of the traffic but cause jams in both! I wonder why…lol, are M'sians so curious about accidents and are all slowing down to see what's happening…

Best article I've read so far…and published in theStar!

I quote from this article:

…Puteri Umno treasurer Suraya Yaakob who is from Kedah had heard of him from her Puteri girls in Baling.

“Even the first time we met, he was not shy about telling us how much money he had and he showed us his pistol. He also offered to help sponsor some of my programmes. But I could see he was very energetic and hard-working,” said Suraya.

lol, I was laughing like crazy reading this part…

I'm sure it was *misquoted*

Top 29 things to do when Streamyx is down!

1 Open the curtains to see if anything has changed over the past 2 years.
2 Re-introduce yourself to your immediate family.
3 You mean there's something else to do?
4 Get that kidney transplant you've been putting off.
5 Find a better ISP
6 play single player mode
7 Steal WiFi from your Neighbor
8 Run in circles, screaming hysterically about the end of the world.
9 Slit your wrists with broken pirated CDs/DVDs
10 Write your lists on paper
11 Cry
12 Go through your web cache to see if you missed anything.
13 Masturbate the old fashioned way, with Playboy.
14 Wipe useless stuff off hard disk to make room for new porn when the ISP is back
15 Come up with new List ideas for when it's back up.
16 Kill google! *throws chair*
17 kill yourself
18 Pray to the Dark Gods that it will be fixed
19 take a shower and scrape off mould / fern from body
20 try dialing in every 10 minutes, just in case its back up
21 Buy a cow, and start a farmers life
22 run around in circles muttering "the end is near" and "I'm not crazy"
23 Panic!
24 Two words: sponge bath.
25 Dial 999 immediately.
26 Work.
27 Cry (like a little girl)
28 Get-away-from-computer
29 Threaten them with a lawyer's letter!