Left 4 dead

no, am not talking about this Left 4 dead

am talking about the video release by US police on how people been walking pass a man dying on the street path without doing anything. Check out the news from Yahoo! 7 and they even give u an explanation from psychology that called Bystander effect... which kinda explain why the man in Clayton was ignored when so many people was on the spot when it happen... as for the video, that women who get mugged, shame on her, people get stab from helping and she did nothing for her saver?

This is hard... should we help people or should we be one of the bystander when we r in that situation. When talking i bet everyone of us here would like me, said how disgusting it is for just look at it happen and do nothing, how if we r in that position, imagine other did this to us too yada yada but truly how many of us really would have help....

Ps: there's a women body found in springvale the other day, yale yale so many bodies in my surrounding suburb... but anyway that's not the point lah, am just thinking ang mo really respect people privacy ah... they report on incident like this for maybe one or two days, just briefly,and that's it, no further follow up report on who's the person, interview with the victim family, police investigation etc

If it's Asian newspaper, cincai lah, a news on a unknown body found floating on river ah, for that whole week the newspaper sure got a page of news, full coverage on it, enclose with picture of the victim of all size. (if identity is known edi then prob the person passport pic will be on too) Picture from the scene to picture of the victim family cry to death all will be on.... the news also cover the person bibliography, like how many family member, what he do etc

If we r the victim or the family position we also don't like that much publicity lah but for reader point of view.... our newspaper r much more 'excited?' to read~

Alien?

This is truly one unique headline~ Mankind should avoid Aliens - Hawking

Had to say i agree with this guy, dunno why are they really pouring $ trying to find alien boh when they can't even save the earth and what do they expect alien would do when they actually show up? help them save the earth ah? human are an arrogant being that subconsciously they still think that the world revolve around us~

What interesting me in the news is this line "In 2008, American space agency NASA beamed the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space to send a message of peace to any alien that happens to be in the region of Polaris -- also known as the North Star -- in 2439." seriously apa tu? Macross? am very positive US people and NASA been watching too many anime....

So, they been doing stuff like this since 1970's ah~

Man stabbed to death at Clayton Railway Station

Now, that's one of the news that more related to my life and this add another reason why i don't really like Clayton station and seldom go there. The place is around 5 minutes drive from my place~ not that near and not very far away too~

For the news click on the link.

Who said walk alone in dark or in big crowded place very dangerous , walk in broad day light in semi-crowded area also dangerous, i wouldn't blame people for not doing anything when he's lying there since given the same situation (where you probably didn't saw the whole thing happen) and your peak hour train is coming and sure u will running toward the rain rather than stand there and see why the man lied there (cos who know he might be intoxicated just like how that guy in the news said) but i do agreed it's disgusting for those who stand there watching the whole time, looking at him dying and do nothing, yuck! what are those people thinking?

Another 'Aussie' experience ah?

Btw, the news also said big storm, lighting, hail swipe southeast suburb last night, i live in southeast alright but only see few drops of rain + very flashy lighting only~ thanks god for that, i already feel depress and meh~ for having to go out in dark to sit a mid term test from 8pm - 9.30pm, flashy lighting is not helping~ good thing we don't stay at places like peninsula, pretty kampung place yesh but seems like have pretty bad luck with flood~ Melbourne suburb after the sun goes down is like a death city. All the house seems dark as if everyone slept as soon as the sun go down, the street is dark and empty, rarely got a car went pass, good thing i stay off the one of the main big road, at least it's bright and cars and bus drove pass in regular basic.

Datuk Robert Lau passed away~ RIP...

We really ARE getting old, people we used to know and always seen on the news or TV are one by one passing away for various reasons.... 岁月不留人~

For BE: No he's not my relative or sth, but every Sibu people (as long as they r not v.young or ignorance know this person). He was our Sibu Municipal Council president for very long period (1999-2004) i think, kinda like my whole student life when i start read newspaper he was there, newspaper used to be nice to read since he's on it everyday, i later used to complain nowadays nothing nice to read ah since he went in parliament... later he went in the parliament and represent our state/division in the parliament or sth. (correct me if am wrong)

Besides that, the audit firm that i work last holiday, well it's partly owned by him, all the finalize i had done is for Lau Hoi Chew and Co, aka him~ except a few for my boss, Lau & Ling. Anyway back to this man, the Sibu we now have, all the changes esp the road and trees in the middle of the road, are caused of him, that's how much influence he had on my town nah~ a VIP in our place~ oh and he passed away from cancer. He had family histories of cancer (according to my mum) as few of his sibling die from cancer too.

Not feeling sad or anything, just sighing~ on how things had changes, 以前那么的理所当然的事都变得如此难得不可求的~ things will continue to changes even if we don't like it... grandparents (mother side one) that are closed to me already passed away, father side (my grandma still there) but cos am not closed to her i don't really feel much but i wonder how it is for those of u who still have your grandparents around, and are closed to u feel whenever u see people dying cos of age or illness or when u went home and see how old/weak they had gotten?

When my mother side grandparents passed away, i don't feel particular sad somehow. Dunno is is cos am still primary student or i was more optimism back then thinking at least they did not die in great pain and can now rest in peace in Fathers place. Feeling lonely sometime without them or unable to talk to them of cos but i wonder how's thing will be different if it happen now? esp am so much sentimental this days, easily getting depress or sad on very small things even if am telling myself stop crying over small things or without any particular reasons. (and they r really small things hahaha u will all shake head if you heard the reason of the most recent incident of me dropping tears in public, me also embarrassed but just can't help it hahaha family are the only persons i can easily be a crybaby in the world). I know most of you never saw me crying before even if you been my classmate or live with me for long time or what, the only tears you ever saw are the one 'laugh till tears come out' type.

Source: Malaysiakini

Small earthquake?

hmm... so am not imagine things~ i thought i feel + heard trembling sound (which then again could be the house since u know how lousy house here are compare to our's back in our country) but yeah there's a little earthquake (3.0 only) on port Philip last night, wonder why i never felt it when in city or the first year i move in this house? or have the underground activities become more active recently as 2012 approach? (Vanya been talking about 2012 after she watch national geography documentary about it the others day) I guess Aus still very lucky since the plane movement is not damaging and strong. Most of the time we didn't even realize about it unless we happen to have a moment of silence in a quite room (esp if it's not ground floor) to feel it.

The 2012 topic, geez.. no matter how the documentary said it's true and showing evidence of different tribe, other than Maya's prophecy about it, if only somebody can tell me it's 100% can happen, i will throw out the books now. Who care about degree or not when the world is ending. Should start building huge Ark like the one in the movie now hahaha

Source:http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/7003891/tremor-hits-melbournes-bayside-suburbs/

Ricky Martin is a gay !?

Don't tell me you dunno or ever heard about Ricky Martin ah (you either really don't listen to English song at all or you don't have a life). According to Yahoo!, Ricky Martin, singer to the famous Livin' la Vida Loca (even now i still listen to it) had admitted that he's a gay.

Am not looking down or been bias with homo, am fine with homo as long as they don't hug/kiss or do all sort of X18 thing in front of me, well same goes with the normal couple, u don't really need to show that much affection toward each other in the public esp in uni for god sake, we r there to study not looking at some X rate drama/movie but oh well what can i say, people in love~ me just still having culture shock when live action was on out of blue; keluar topic!!

It's all Vanya fault, with her recent suspicious that everyone in Clayton campus is gay or act like gay (day day sms me about bumping into gay) make me sigh when seeing this news, singer i like is gay also... ai~ why lenzai all taken or become gay deh??

Chemical dangers in sunscreen?

Now these caused concerned. We are applying sunscreen to help lower the risk of skin cancer here so what's the point of doing that if the cream itself is going to give us cancer!!

This article began with stating that Australian's workship the sun.... seriously i can never understand ang mo... what's the fun of been BBQ/Grill/roasted by that burning sun that literally give u sunburn if u stay under sun unprotected for half an hour or more (by this i mean u stay stationary and get cooked there) Sunbath under UV level that can go above 8-10 is suicidal! (these few days the UV level in melb at 9am-5pm is around 12, rated as extreme edi, can't go out without applying sun cream, i still prefer to remain in my current skin color thank you~

Anyhow, the article ask us to look out for these chemical in our sun cream:
Benzolalcohol, BHA {Butylatedhydroxyanisole}, Butyl {methoxydibenzoylemethane}, Diazolodinyl Urea, Dimethicone, Diasodium edta, Ethanol, Homosalate, hydroxybenzoates {parabens}, Methylisothiazolinone, 4-Methylbenzylidene Camphor, Octorcrylene, Octyl Methoxycinnamate, Octyl Salicylate, Oxybenzone, Phenoxyethanol, Polysorbate 20, Titanium Dioxide, Triethanolamine.

I browse through my Banana Boat ingredient, so far so good, no traces of the chemical listed above inside, safe~

Source: Yahoo

Are you a Facebook Addict?

Okie, i think this article is related to pretty much all of us who have the facebook account + edi somewhat an internet + PC addict, with almost not a single day have been live without them :D edi~ It's even worst when our study need our precious PC~

Hence this is where this new kind of addiction - Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD), which is classified under the more broad "internet addiction disorder" come in. "Psychologist Dr. Michael Fenichel, who has published numerous writings on FAD online, describes it as a situation in which Facebook usage "overtakes" daily activities like waking up, getting dressed, using the telephone, or checking e-mail."

Hmm... okie, based on the definition above, me still okay bah, there's no way for a mere Facebook to overtake my daily activities just yet~ my own laziness still dominating, dedicate all the opportunity + time i have to my dearest dreamworld and my own LA-La land~ I love wasting time on nothing in aus fufufu~ Email and phone are still important part of my life~

Here some symptom for the FAD, you are a Facebook addict if...

1. You lose sleep over Facebook. When using Facebook becomes a compulsion and you spend entire nights logged on to the site, causing you to become tired the next day.

2. You spend more than an hour a day on Facebook. Lipari said it is difficult to define how much is too much when it comes to Facebook usage, but that an average person need only spend half an hour on the site.

3. You become obsessed with old loves or exes you reconnect with on Facebook.

4. You ignore work in favor of Facebook. This means you do not do your job in order to sneak time on Facebook.

5. The thought of getting off Facebook leaves you in cold sweat. If you try going a day without Facebook and it causes you stress and anxiety, this means you need help.

ALAMAK! No 2 and 4 description fit me eh!! I spend more than an hour in fb almost everyday! All those application + quiz!! And first thing i do when i open Mozilla fox is clicked on the Facebook bookmark~ hahaha :P I have a cafe', restaurant, fishining, mouse trap, ghost trap, zoo, theme part, farm etc to manage eh, very busy~

No 4 well i don't bring laptop to uni and i don't have much computer lab classes so it does not apply when me go to 'school' but at home, when doing assignment/homework/study for test and exam, Facebook is like a great place to be~ Even though in the end the "if i don't start doing the work i will die" dominate me and eventually do get the work done but that also happen after nothing to do on Fb or very 'sien' with Fb edi~ but this is not limit to Fb lah, me is equally addict with youtube and manga site as well, i love waste time on those site too :D so i guess my symptom no 4 fit better for internet addiction rather than just Facebook.

As for No 1 well the part when it said " using FB become a compulsion and spend entire nights logged on to the site" well that's kinda happen to me too but ME NEVER GIVE UP SLEEP FOR A MERE FB!! i can be obsessed with a novel or manga till no need sleep just for the sake or reading and if possible finish them but not FB, i sleep whenever i want with FB~ Which is why i seldom cook or plant or do anything on those game that have harvest/finish cook in 2-4 hrs time because it's jst hardly ever work for me, i would sleep or do sth else till i forgot and when i went back they edi turn black or rotten or angry hahaha~

Anyhow, it's kinda impossible to stop using internet nowadays, we all somewhat an internet addict, don't said u r not cos am pretty sure u all get a bit frustrated + desperate when the line suck, when we finish up the quota, when we don't have access to it for a period of time etc since it edi become such a big part of our life. Without internet we can't even study or work since our lecture note, tutorial solution or even contact with lecture/tutor/friend/client rely heavily on the internet. There's always a point when u will scream "AHHH i need internet to do this and that". Moreover, every international student in NZ and AUS have a bank account that can only be access via phone and internet, go bank also no use deh, can't touch that $$ without that 2 method AND that's the account we put most of our $$ in as it's the only account that can earn interest~ no internet = kena chop off from access of the $$ = no life.

Personal opinion: i think as long as we don't have symptom no 5, we are still doing good. As long as we still in touch with the real world and still have a life that interact with real human being within the touchable distance (ie not withdrawn into the virtual world of internet), we r still good. Ironic eh, FB suppose to be a facebook network that keep people in touched yet some people get hooked on it to the point of social dysfunction....

Source: Yahoo!

New poll finding

This is random stuff~ a news on yahoo showing a poll conduct on American and this sentence really catch me "the best way to fight obesity among patrons of fast-food chains is to equip each restaurant with scales for them to weigh themselves" hahaha~ interesting idea but i wonder if people would bother to go weighted themselves there or not? Obesity people know they are obess, they also realise how bad the fast food to them (and so are we) yet, we still step in those shop and buy the meal, don't think that scale would do any good there hahaha, WE knew all along how much we weighted (even if it's not the actual, we still know the approximate, well occasionally we got a shock as well lah after some happy shiawase time) even before we step in that fast food restaurant~

Westpac NZ

Man this bank seriously need new management system!! how often u get a bank make a million dollar mistake because of simple typing error?? too bad they always discover it, otherwise we should all go open an account there and make a withdraw to see if they even make a mistake and accidentally make us millionaire.

Last month they make a mistake and transfer $10M to the man and the couple run away with the $ to HK. So far still got $3M not recover and the man is still on the run. (This man... even if he can run but he can't spend the $ freely cos he has to hide away, what is the use of those $$)

This time they transfer $4.3M to a company account when it should have been $43K and the manager said "We were hopeful, almost had our tickets booked to fly out to Hong Kong,"

Dangerous bank... never know when ur money will be accidentally transfer to someone else account! Am sure their big boss in Aus will all be jumping with anger at the moment.

For the news: http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5684418/westpac-nz-makes-new-3m-account-blunder/

World Airport Awards 2009

One of the random piece of news i stumble across when i was checking out my balance credit on my 3 mobiles and go use my free unlimited news package (rugi if i don't use it, and now internet for peak hour is slow -_- though not as terrible as what i experience last year).

Anyway KLIA still maintain as one of the top world best airport. This year winner is Seoul Incheon though follow by the unbeatable Hong Kong and Singapore Changi. I wanna see Changi airport!! haven't been there leh!! (go singapore go via Johor these day.... cheaper mah and i haven't go singapore for years... no purpose to go there)

If you look at the winner by category Singapore still the best overall, been listed as one of the top 3 in most category. As for KLIA of all the thing, it get rank no 1 for immigration service -_-|| Wonder by immigration they refer to that passport check section only or including the quarantine. If quarantine we r indeed very nice, jst some scanning not like SOME country here, can literally took u almost 1 and a half hour to clear immigrant. (and we don't have dog running around sniffing u as well) KLIA also get nominated as best staff service. Staff include the luggage handling?? if so this so not true!! I have heard N incident of luggage got 'broke' into. Lucky we all experience traveller and is wise enough not to put anything worth stealing in there. My own experience my luggage go happy on KLIA luggage belt while i went to my transit flight to Sibu. -_-|| ever since the incident i make sure i check with transit counter that my luggage is coming with me not happy at KL when i went back to Sibu edi.

For best airport by region in Pacific, Auckland rank 1 follow by brisbane and then melbourne, so sydney and perth airport even worst than Melbourne O_O!! that's a surprise~ Melbourne airport is very ordinary. As for Auckland one well it is better than Melbourne lah, bigger but that's this one thing i don't like about it and now they get smarter and change it edi. In Nz there is such thing as departure fee, after u finish check in you don't go joy joy shop around or sit around daydream at ur flight gate just yet, u have to go line up to pay if no mistake $25 departure fee. Last year they change this for Auckland, now all flight fly from Auckland the departure fee is include in the ticket edi. Every airport charge some sort of fee but have to go pay purposely is mafan eh!! (But really this departure fee thing is ridiculous, why would u wanna charge people to leave ur country, imagine u go watch cinema and after u finish at the exit they ask you to pay to get out -_-, people sure come out with weird idea to tax people ah~)

Anyway if you are interested or too boring got nothing better to do you can check out the site, the source where all these info in this article from: http://www.worldairportawards.com/

Man pushes would-be China suicide off bridge

This news caught my eye when i was checking on the news on Yahoo7, something i rarely do when i was in Aus.... not interest to subscribe the newspaper since local paper are usually very self center and focus on their own country news just like our Sing chiew lah and me not really motivated to read them, it'll be a waste of $ but it's not very good to be ignorance and not knowing what's going on around you too.

Anyway ~ back to the topic, well this may sound cruel and it's a sinful thought but, i have to agree with that man, people like Chen choose that particular spot for his pretentious act just to draw some 'sympathy' for his pathetic failure life deserve the 'help'. This deliver a very clear message to all those fake jumper "you wanna die just die, nobody gonna stop you! just don't get in our way" That ah pek is really a hero in some ways. He did what many other would wanna do to that fake jumper. (check out how he climb out there, even i can't do that, lihai~)

If he really wanna die he wouldn't choose that method, am sure china got many other tall building, can simply choose one to jump if he want. Who did he think he is and what make him so deserve to be help just because he is in debt due to his own misjudgment in investment. This financial crisis has caused many people to bankrupt, loss job, in debt, imagine if of them threaten to die just to get some authority to help them settle their pathetic failure outcome. People like him is just selfish, even if he did nothing is gonna be resolve. His family will be the one carry his debt. It's just how this world work, you owe people money, you pay for it. If he just die it would only mean there's one human less to produce Co2, rubbish, used up our resources. His death will just do us good, one less competitor to get in our way, and there he is clearly don't dare to die but still wanna waste other people 5 hrs there.