I stumbled on this blog entry by an affluent Filipino tourist (from Manila) to Sabah. I say affluent because they can afford ot stay at swanky resorts (Magellan Sutera) and eat at expensive restaurants (Ocean Seafood Restaurant). He/she came here in May 2005, so this entry’s a year too late, but still it’s a good opportunity to find out the impression we’re creating. I could recall 2 points made by them:
- shopping experience is similar to Manila [hence, we need to offer things which are unique to Sabah]
- it’s easy to navigate around [this is a good point which we must strive to keep up]
Tags: travel, sabah, tourism, Philippines
Translation: meet Ronaldinho: Sodikin, 32, a local at Banjaran in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, has a dream: to meet his idol Ronaldinho. Having a striking resemblance to the Brazilian superstar, he calls himself Ronaldikin.
There is surprisingly a lot of discussion on this matter on the Net. Just google “Vedic Past of Pre-Islamic Arabia” and you will see the original work of P.N. Oak and Robert A. Morey in several places. The most interesting places are of course the online forums, where minds and emotions do sabre-fencing.
For the minimalist in me, I prefer themes offered by the guys at plaintxt.org
I came across very difficult analytical puzzles over at folj.com.
Short questions, but very difficult to solve.
The first question in the "very difficult logic puzzle" category is:
You are the ruler of a medieval empire and you are about to have celebration tomorrow. The celebration is the most important party you have ever hosted. You’ve got 1000 bottles of wine you were planning to open for the celebration, but you find out that one of them is poisoned.
The poison exhibits no symptoms until death. Death occurs within ten to twenty hours after consuming even the minutest amount of poison.
You have thousands of prisoners at your disposal and just under 24 hours to determine which single bottle is poisoned.
What is the smallest number of prisoners you must have to drink from the bottles to find the poisoned bottle?
What do you think is the answer? 999? 500? Wrong! The answer is a surprisingly small number.
The questions, hints and answers are nicely laid out.
If there are 5 Rukun Negara, then there are 7 Rukun Aramaiti:
- Kepercayaan kepada tumpung, tajau, botol dan tin;
- Kesetiaan kepada sup, bosou, tuhau dan lada;
- Kedaulatan giliran, biris dan puun;
- Kesopanan dalam kesengsaraan koilob, kogutan, kosobu dan kosirit;
- Keluhuran manahas;
- Kesusilaan magauk dan kalapik;
- Karamaian sanggalas untuk panabas.
Disclaimer: this was originally received via SMS, and is published with the best of intentions.
The Chinese are renowned for eye-watering dishes, as opposed to mouth-watering ones. After seeing skinned dogs displayed at food markets to the kebabbed scorpions sold on street stalls, enter China’s first speciality penis restaurant in Beijing. They offer penises and testicles of horses, yaks, donkeys, oxen, seals, deer, goat and god knows what else. And they are not cheap: I wonder who would pay 220 pounds (more than RM1,000) for the privilege of eating Canadian seal penis. Yummy.
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Interesting article from smh.com.au. I’ll do the summary later.
From Bruneian Nonnie’s blog i got to know that Jerudong Park Theme Park (of course in Brunei) is doing badly, business wise. It seems that Bruneians just couldnt take it that now the rides are not free anymore, and simply refused to come.But is more interesting to me is now I know the cost of those rides. That gave me the idea to set up my own Neverland :-)Here are some examples of the things on sale, more available from the official Jerudong Park and Country Club website.Now I know that to get the circular fella here (more commonly known as a Ferris Wheel), which is 11 years old and in perfect working order, will cost me at least USD160,000. And it’s a bidding system - hence the price could go up higher. Damn, there goes my dream of setting up my own mobile theme park.
And now I know that kiddie stuff like this, made in 1994, and in need of a little bit of refurbishing would set me back USD210,000!
And this so-so looking, 9 yr old, in perfect working order rollercoaster costs USD1.2 million. Yikes!
