Half Century at the Great Wall

Just celebrated my 50th birthday
at the Great Wall of China
and survived!
My lover
(Beijingers call their wives Ai-Ren)
and I chose an adventurous 10 km hike
at the not so touristy part
of the Great wall.
It is not the easy sight-seeing option,
but it was simply fantastic.




The reward
for the
challenging
5-hour hike
was a Beijing Duck dinner in Beijing
at the end
of the day!










50 years comes only once in a lifetime, afterall ... :D

Overall Beijing is a nice place for a visit. Food is good,
price is reasonable and affordable for Malaysians,
and shopping can be a bargain if you know how.

For more detail click wife's blog

Laughter means less medical insurance premium cost

It's official! A private health insurance firm has named the top ten comedy programmes that will prevent viewers from having to use its policies.

But this list of comedies are for old folks! Young people have no idea what those programmes are! Check it out!

Another Disaster

Suddenly the number of disasters seem to have increased. Tsunami, typhoon and now an 7.8 scale tremor earthquake.

4 millions made homeless and death estimated from 20,000 to 40,000 ! Can we get immuned to sufferings and get sympathy fatigue from too much TV and news report?

Pray not! Help in whatever way we can be it a prayer or make a donation to red cross or worldvision. or christian-aid.

Death of a Comedian

Ronnie Barker died yesterday in the UK . More reports here, here and here : He gave us such Laugh lines....


* 'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'

* PISMRONUNCIATION: 'So you see how dickyfelt it is. But help is at hand. A new society has been formed by our mumblers to help each other in times of excream ices. It is balled Pismronouncers Unanimous, and anyone can ball them up on the smellyphone any time of the day or note, twenty four flowers a spray, seven stays a creek, and they will come round and get drunk with you'

RIP Ronnie

Sub-$US 100 laptop?

Is a US$100 laptop too good to be true? What's more, it does not need batteries!

Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Labs, has been outlining designs for a sub-$100 PC. Here is the news.

This is indeed good news for many 3rd world countries (Malaysia included) as most people are still outside the information revolution due to lack of access to computers and the internet.

Prohibitive cost is the main reason for many Malaysians not to be able to tap in. At aroun RM380, it may still be outside the affordability of many still, especially those in the lower income group and in the rural districts.

Lets hope this breakthrough will be soon.