What a Winederful World This Is!

Yes, wine, the essence of fermented grapes.

That tipsy feeling generator.

Here are some world wisdom about it.

Enjoy!

The Human Parrot

Parrot Poise

Drapped in artistic parrot colours, is a human being in parrot stance.

Do you see it?

People Will Think We Are in Love

True Cowboy Romance

For those who adore the film version of the musical Oklahoma, you will definitely appreciate the romantic fervor of this song sung by Gordon McRae and Shirley Jones.

Absolutely precise in terms of indicator actions and feelings of a blooming romance.

Enjoy these lyrics.

Go to You-tube to enjoy the song.

LAUREY ( Shirley)

Why do they think up stories that link my name with yours? 

CURLY (Gordon)

Why do the neighbors chatter all day, behind their doors? 

LAUREY

I know a way to prove what they say is quite untrue. 
Here is the gist, a practical list of "don'ts" for you. 
Don't throw bouquets at me 
Don't please my folks too much 
Don't laugh at my jokes too much 
People will say we're in love! 

Don't sigh and gaze at me 
Your sighs are so like mine 
Your eyes mustn't glow like mine 
People will say we're in love! 

Don't start collecting things 
Give me my rose and my glove. 
Sweetheart they're suspecting things 
People will say we're in love. 

CURLY

Some people claim that you are to blame as much as I.
Why do y' take the trouble to bake my favorite pie?
Grantin' your wish, I carved our initials on that tree.
Jist keep a slice of all the advice you give so free.

Don't praise my charm too much 
Don't look so vain with me 
Don't stand in the rain with me 
People will say we're in love! 

Don't take my arm too much 
Don't keep your hand in mine 
Your hand feels so grand in mine 
People will say we're in love! 

Don't dance all night with me 
Till the stars fade from above. 
They'll see it's alright with me 
People will say we're in love.

The Compassion of Rosmah

To emphatise with the unfortunate next of kin

Everyone needs to do their bit, no matter how small, how matter how insignificant it may be to make the next of kin of the missing MH 370 passengers and crew m at ease while they await news of the SAR efforts for the missing plane.

Here, we can see the compassion of the Prime Minister's wife as she consoled the next of kin.

Bootstrap Living for New Job Entrants in Malaysia

Ultra competitive job market with Insufficient Pay

The runaway inflation unleashed by the simultaneous removal of oil and sugar subsidies and the increase in power tariffs and minimum wages in late 2013; and the the beginning of 2014 is indeed killing new entrants into the job market.

The latest study by on-line recruitment company, Jobstreet.com revealed the plight of these new entrants wandering into the job market.

Earning a meager starting pay of an average of RM 2,500, graduates in the job market are struggling to make ends meet, so revealed this poll.

Some 2,062 of the new workforce in various industries participated in this poll. They were asked about their income and expenditure.

Jobstreet reported that 77% of the respondents did not have any savings after spending on essentials. Essentials here would include car loans and mandatory payback on study loans as the major commitments.

Because of higher fuel prices, transportation costs were among the top expenses. Some RM 1,500 of their salary go towards essentials.

Fortunately, some of these graduates had the safety net of their parents to rely upon. The study found that 50% of these graduates lived with their parents while 30% co-rented out houses with friends and colleagues. The balance had to live on their own.

For 87% of them, they have only one job and salary source. As such, do not be surprised when fresh graduate interviewees brazenly asked for above market rates from RM 3,500 to RM 6,500 for their start-up jobs.

However, sadly most employers were only prepared to offer fresh graduates salaries from RM 2,500 to RM 2,800 monthly. As such, its no wonder that fresh graduates, trying to cope with increasing living costs,are always on the look-out for better paying jobs, causing high turnovers in some industries, reported some 66% of of employers interviewed.

So, for those joining the job market soon, be ready to face the bleakness of working life--high inflation rates,lower standards of living, possibly more debts and utter depression as your lunch and dinner budgets continue shrinking.

Come next April 2014, it could be certainly be worse with the implementation of GST.

So do not hesitate to cry, won't you?

A Night at the Museum

Excitement at the Penang Museum

Remembered the Ben Stiller movie, "The Night at the Museum" and all those things can came alive after the doors closed from the public at night?

Incidentally, for me, I am teaching Note Expansion for Std 5 and Std 6 pupils and one of the topic I intend to teach was exactly this topic.

So, when I read today's online STAR about the event they approved for the public to stay overnight at the Penang Museum, I just had to blog on this one.

The event was dubbed, A Night at 57, Macalister which is the street address of the museum. Anyone can apply to join the first ever hair-raising slumber party of the museum premise. Forty people join this firs-ever sleep over at the museum.

Before going to bed, they will be shown a host of horror movies, be given a ghost story telling session as well as a sketch on a childbirth in progress enacted by the museum staff.

Why the childbirth enactment, you may ask? That is because the museum was the former King Edward V11 Maternity Hospital where nearly 60,000 babies were delivered. Then the Japanese used it as a naval hospital during their occupation of Malaya. Subsequently, when the British came back, they used it as military barracks before turning it back again into a hospital. In 1955, it ceased being a hospital once more.

The St. John Ambulance and the Red Cross Society then moved in; followed by the Center for Penang NGOs. Then it was left vacant for two years before being turned into the Penang Museum.

This 99-year old museum is replete with all types of ghostly tales. CCTV footage has shown closing doors, shifting chairs, strange flying lights and sounds of heavy breathing at the mortuary.

The participants arrived with sleeping bags,torch lights and other personal essentials. They were served a buffet dinner using hospital-type trays.

When darkness fell, the group were split into smaller groups and given a tour of the various parts of the museum including the mortuary and post-mortem facility. Incidentally both these facilities were gutted in a mysterious fire two months before this overnight stay event.

The next morning, the participants were woken up to take part in a treasure hunt. One of the participants apparently felt someone touching her shoulder when she was given a tour of the pantry last night.

Due to the success of this pilot overnight stay, more of such events will be organised in the future.

Interestingly, all the participants were given practical advice before participating in the overnight museum stay.

Here are some of them.

When you need to go to the toilet, bring along a friend. Otherwise you risk bringing back 'two phantom friends'.

When you take a shower,always keep one piece of clothing on.

Watch what you say and no brave claims of gung-ho bravery

Carina-Beauty with Brains

Carina Tyrell is no ordinary beauty queen. On the face of it, with her towering heels, skirt slit to the thigh and a plunging neck-line, the new 24 year old Miss Cambridgeshire is every inch the stereotypical beauty queen. However, truth be told, she is a fifth year medical student at Cambridge University.

Her father was a top-notch physicist  who helped build the Large Hadron Collider, while her mother was  an executive with the World Health Organisation. Carina has been predicted to get a first-class honours degree in her finals this year.