Baby for sale in ebay!

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police are investigating a couple after they offered their eight-month-old son for sale on internet auction site eBay.

Renee Beck, a police spokesman in the Bavarian town of Krumbach west of Munich, said on Saturday the 23-year-old woman told them it was only a joke.

But he said police were nevertheless continuing their investigation and the baby was put in state custody.

"She says it was a joke," he said. "That's not yet clear. Detectives are investigating on suspicion of child trafficking."

A number of people called authorities across Germany after seeing the offer on eBay that read: "Baby -- collection only. Offer my nearly new baby for sale because it cries too much. Male, 70 cm long."

The opening bid was 1 euro ($1.57). There were no bidders during the two hours before the offer was removed, police said.

The mother was quoted in Bild newspaper saying: "It was only a joke. I just wanted to see if someone would make an offer. They've taken my son to hospital and I've got to take psychiatric tests next week."

(Reporting by Erik Kirschbaum; Editing by Alison Williams)

source : yahoo news

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What a stupid joke!

Girl stoned till death!

(The audio in the video above already edited, scroll down and click the link to watch the original video clip)

Finally, after doing few couples of minutes researching to one video clip that said was captured in Indonesia or Malaysia finally I found the real source. The video content violent action where one girl was killed using a concrete block that threw to her head!

The video clip hit Brunei couples months ago (the actual date of the video was last year, 2007!) and a lots of rumors about the video could be heard from different individual. Some said, the girl was killed after stealing some money and other said his boyfriend asked a gangster to kill the girl because of jealousy.

But the actual fact is that:(Iraq, 2007) the girl-Du'a was killed due to her parents(Yezidis* believer-non muslim) disagree with the girl choice to marry a muslim boy.


*Yezidi beliefs are a complicated mixture of Islamic and Zoroastrian beliefs, with Gnostic, Jewish, and Shamanistic elements, There is no specific Yezidi Holy text, but important information about Yezidi practices is contained in the Mes'haf i Resh, or "black book".

"It is believed Du’a met her Sunni boyfriend - whose name is not known - several months ago. They had grown up in an environment where hatred against rival factions is the norm.

The Yezidis - a Gnostic sect which combines Islamic teachings with Persian religions - despise the Sunnis; the Sunnis loathe the Yezidis.

Du’a and her boyfriend would have been all too aware that theirs was a forbidden love. But like so many teenagers before them, right back to the illicit love of Romeo and Juliet, they couldn’t help themselves.

For a while, they met in secret. It was during one such highly charged meeting that they came up with a plan to run away together.

It is not clear whether this desperate measure was a result of their having sought and been refused permission to marry, or if they decided to do it knowing that such permission would never be obtained. "

"The subjugation of its women, however, has been largely ignored. Yet according to cultural observers, the number of so-called ‘honour killings’ has increased in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein."

"The filming of Du’a’s death was just one more macabre element of her killing, but it has achieved something those bloodthirsty amateur filmmakers could not have predicted: it has brought such practices into the open and exposed them to the wider world."

"“This young girl’s murder is truly abhorrent and her killers must be brought to justice,” says Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK Director.

“Unless the authorities respond vigorously to this and other reports of crimes in the name of “honour”, we must fear for the future of the women in Iraq.”

For the sake of 17-year-old Du’a, an innocent girl who simply fell in love with the wrong man, it is all too little, too late. "

(source) Read more and watch the original video at : http://ballyblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/iraqis-stone-girl-to-death/

Crude oil catalyst biofuel technology

Intro

• Black gold or crude oil is formed under the Earth by the decomposition of marine organism.
• The process began many millions of years ago with the development of abundant life.
• The sediments grow thicker and sink into the seafloor under their own weight.
• The mud and sand harden into shale and sandstone;
• carbonate precipitates and skeletal shells harden into limestone;
• and the remains of the dead organisms are transformed into crude oil and natural gas.
• Firstly used in 1556 by German Mineralogist-Georg Bauer and at that time he called this crude oil as “rock oil”
• Composition of oil vary depends on types of oil, where it was found etc but in avearge containing:-
  83-87% of Carbon
  10-14% of Hyrogen
  0.1-1.5% of Oxygen
  0.5-6.0% Sulphur
  <1000 ppm =" particle">

So it is not surprisingly to see black smoke or smog comes out from burning of oil, due to its composition (mostly of carbon) but our technology that improved the quality of the burning of this fuel that finally produces more efficient burning with less smog produces.

Today’s world


The price for oil in one barrel now already reach USD137. In February it just cost USD100 per barrel an even in year 2002 oil price only at USD30 to 40 per barrel

What causes the oil price to rise in that sharp ?

Some said due to OPEC. OPEC control the oil production (reducing) so they can earns more profit

Some said due to loss of customer confidence to oil stock due to report, announcement etc and/or

Some believe due to our worries on oil stocks caused the oil to rise in price.

Rise in oil price

But we as a Bruneian are so lucky to live in this country as the rise in oil price TOTALLY doesn’t affect our oil price!, if not, we will suffer like in the rest of the world. Just look at our neighbour country, Indonesia. Day after day, more and more protest that finally turns to violent protest because their government are planning to rise the oil price in order to stabilise the country’s economy. The unheard voice of Indonesian people getting louder day after day asking the government to stop from rising another more time of the oil price.
Some blame the government and rest of them blame the major oil production company in the country, Pertamina that was believed reducing the oil production as well as delaying sending stock to the dealer.

But Petamina said

“ We have produce enough oil for this country and there is no point for us to rise the price. Actually it’s not because of oil stock that caused the oil price to rise but our worries that make it happened and to happen again”

Actually this situation are already forecasted years ago.
The sign now getting clear and clear and
the rise in oil price actually really unpredictable as it is very vigorous when active.
Just imagine more than USD25 increase in less than 2months.

Biofuel


So starting few years ago, competition among competitors getting harder in producing biofuel to replace crude oil in the industry.
More and more biofuel and biofuel related materials/machines are produces that are popular with term “green world” such as
Car that use USED vegetable oil in kitchen as fuel(few times broadcasted in Discovery channel)
The popular biofuel is produced in Brazil, they turned sugarcane juice to ethanol that finally become fuel for their car.
Even though this machine successfully produced but up to now, the price of the biofuel are expensive and furthermore less efficient compare to crude oil and the availability of this fuel become the main reason why people still prefer to use vehicle that running on crude oil.
This new technique that what our generation hope to be future fuel indirectly affect the foods price as more and more plant are converted into biofuel leaving insufficient foods to our rising world population.
There is also other machines made to replace the fuel instead of crude oil into other fuel that are maybe renewable, cheaper, easy to get such as hydrogen fuel, water fuel!, battery, solar, etc. But how success it s depending on their technology and brilliant thinker.


Our biofuel technology in the future

If biofuel are success and can alter and reduce the demand on crude oil, it’s believe that oil price will be reduced in price but than a new problem of environment will be appeared after that and soon the demands on oil will not become a top news that hits the world but it is believe insufficient fertilizer soon will hit the top news everywhere, insufficient of foods will getting worse and algae will increase rapidly in quantity (effect from fertilizer washing down the stream and lake etc ) that finally caused unpredictable damage to our environment. Although this is just a prediction but there is possibility for them to happen. Remember even today, we already have insufficient foods to feeds everyone in the world and food price also getting worse so if biofuel are produced, more foods will be use to make biofuel leaving insufficient food supply and this will create more worse problem than the demand on oil.

Conclusion
The best way to help the world is by reducing the quantity of fuels use everyday..Actually all of us can do it but we are not so concern about it since oil price still cheap for some of us. To stop from using machine running on oil is not a good action since almost impossible for us to do it. But it is also good to have a backup to have biofuel in worries that our crude oil will finish soon....

So are you waiting for it to happen first then make an action, our you start to make an action first before it happened? The world depends on your decision.

(Reference : Micrososft Encarta)
(images sourceshttp://www.gm-volt.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/pic_oil_barrel.jpg, https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWaRm7qzxLYkHC-io6cuurY4WHt9mTQDkvMfZTDfPBOUZI62dfC98VaCsaQcuOeHGifUFUPp0-s72vlk9gK_mzAjmRGOjEsuObZf1-6Hj_ZFIZRVYyTGIOpLUIjedCVqJIRDTK-a_YOcUl/s320/BiofuelCar.jpg, http://bookstore.teriin.org/images/books/Biofuel-Cover.jpg, http://news.softpedia.com/images/news2/Oil-Price-Tends-to-Go-Up-1.jpg)

My new blog(forwarded mail)

Just to let you all know that Today I have created another blog which is know as Xtraordinary Forwarded Mail blog.

It's all about forwarded email that I received in my mail inbox....many more will be added soon....

please go to : http://xomail.blogspot.com/ (xo=XtraOrdinary) to visit another blog by Xtraordinary blogger!!

The Most Destructive Weapon used in 1st WW.

(The white cloud in the photos above are not smoke , but these are fumes from chemical weapons used in 1st WW.)

The most Mass Destructive weapon in 1^st WW.

During the 1st World War, it was the first time human used chemical weapon in fighting against the enemy. Back to the year 1915, Germany changed their fighting technique instead of using gun, , rifle knife etc they introduced new, cheap but success technique to kill enemy; by using CHEMICAL WEAPON.

On the afternoon, April 22, 1915 around 5 pm, German troops opened the cap of cylinder full of greenish-yellow colored gas that known as Chlorine in a warzone. The wind that blew to the unprepared French and Belgian troops forcing the panic, confuse choking troops to leave the place for life and thousands of them were Succumbed by the chemical weapon. This is the beginnig of new warfare.

But this weapon was not so flexible since could only be used when the wind blew to the enemy .It ever happened that, the chlorine gas blew by the wind was reversing the direction in the middle of operation that caused the Germany to use safety gas valve as well as killed some of German troops.

This chemical weapon initially introduced by German’ Chemist – Fritz Haber. After his first successed, he once again breaking the news by introducing new chemical weapons known as phosgene and Mustard gas – more dangerous than chlorine gas.

(Above:Death and non fatal statistics from chemical weapons used in 1st WW)

FACTS

Phosgene

• Produced by mixing together Carbon, Oxygen and Chlorine at a correct portion.
• Will build up very dangerous excess of water in the lungs within few hours after inhaled, finally brings to death.

Mustard gas

• produced from the mixture of : Hydrogen, Chlorine, Carbon and either Sulphur or Nitrogen gas.
• When contact with skin, produced very swelling painful on the skin,
• And even your cloth will worn out when contact with this mustard gas!.
• Very reactive to any damp area such as armpit, eyes, skin, mouth, lungs, all internal organ.(remember in a war, everybody produced more sweat.)

Special about mustard gas

• It can be in solid, liquid or gas(when sprayed with aerosol)- Easy to use
• Although allied troops could covered their mouth and nose from inhaled this gas, but this mustard gas will still react with any damp area of the armies' bodies. So chance to survive from mustard gas are very low!
• More stable than chlorine and phosgene and could contaminated the area for days after being released.

This success war technique finally made this chemical weapon to receive a title “Weapon of Mass destruction”

So how allied troops handle this?

Before going to war zone, they were supplied with cotton mask soaked in urine!

Why urine?

• Because urine is alakline and will neutralize the acidic mustard gas.
• Everyone can produce it at anytime. (During war time, it is not easy to get emergency things on time, so need to think other method!)

Later after that, Ointment anti gas were supplied to treat skin that contacted with the mustard gas in the warzone.

(I believe urine was used to treat patients's skin that contacted with the mustard skin at the warzone)

Siren(photo at the right side) to announce about the present of mustard gas also introduced to alert allied troops about the present of mustard gas.

The effect brought from using this chemical weapon as warfare brought very destructive effect to human being such as blindness, permanent irritation, infections etc and finally in the year 1925, Geneva protocol bans poison gas as a mean of warfare.

(Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_gas_in_World_War_I, Microsot Encarta, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWmustard.htm, http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-weapons/gas.htm)

( Pics source : http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-weapons/gas.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_gas_in_World_War_I )

(Recommended reading : http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-weapons/gas.htm)

Aliens world! between fake and reality

World of Aliens

I was in form 2 when the aliens movie-ROSWELL was started to broadcast in TV2 Malaysia, actually I m not very fanatic about that movie but my friend –Alina always asked and told me about this movie, until finally she success brought me to her Aliens world !. What a funny thing, hehe :)

I remembered she ever asked me,

“Randy, do you believe in Aliens?” She asked me during a class.
Randy is not my actual name.

“What?” I asked her.

“ No, I just want to ask you either you believe or not that aliens are exist in this world “ She said

“Hmm.. I don’t know, but I don’t think aliens exist in this world, why you ask me about that?. You must watched too much alien movie, don’t you?” I said again.

Our story stopped there as our teacher entered the class.

I don’t believe aliens are exist in this world, if it does, show me the evidence. But magazine in Malaysia ever published that UFO landed in Malaysia! (If I''m not mistaken in year 2004).

I’m not sure how to believe this but everyone have their own reasons to believe or not to believe that aliens are exist in this world.


There are a lots of speculation about the existing of Aliens. Some said the story of Aliens are real but the evidence are hide from public.


One of the famous Aliens speculation is that Alien’s aircraft did accidentally landing In US i.e area 51.

But the story was hide from public, to prevent people from feeling unsafe, some claimed there were true photo Aliens captured from one incident in Roswell in 1947 - where the Aliens airship was fall.


It was believed that, one of 3 Aliens in the fell airship was alive. Then American army combed the area, not to leave any evidence behind and brought all the bodies to a secret place.


Some aliens investigator in website said, there is one hidden place in US that placed all the captured aliens. The scientist will examine the body of Aliens as well as studied their technology that used in producing their pan shape looked aircraft.

Some said, it was Aliens Technology that brought all the Modern high Tech Weapons, aircraft etc in America.


Anyway it is just a speculation. Since we are born in educated world we shouldn't’t believe this old kind of story. How come we can believe in aliens?

What ever the evidence that showed by people who believe in aliens, most probably, it is not true.

Maybe aliens believer can show photo that showed UFO captured accidentally in photo . But if you watched in either National Geographic or Discovery Channel, they can show you how to make our own UFO to be captured by camera, it is so simple....


but Aliens believer also have their own reasons to believe the existing of Aliens in this world.


(The photos above are believed captured during the roswell incident in 1947, do you believe it?)


CROP CIRCLE

Is it true that aliens made the crop circles? i have no idea about it but there are a lots of weird and unexplainable panorama happened and soon be discovered in this world. To answer it easily, we can say,aliens made it! Actually we can figure out how it happened actually just a matter of time and interested....

(pics source:http://ufos.about.com/, http://www.cropcirclequest.com/reddeer01/reddeer_report.html, http://www.cropcircleconnector.com)

(read more about roswell incident at http://ufo.whipnet.org/roswell/)

(see more crop circle at : http://www.cropcircleconnector.com)

woman hugged by lion! very amazing video

This is a very amazing video that i watched more than 5 times because I cannot trust my eyes when watched the video. It's really amazing video, that make me inspire the woman...

"Read this before watching the video,

This woman in the video found this seriously injured lion, she took the lion with her and nursed the lion until the lion gain her fitness back then the woman made arrangement with a zoo to take the lion and give it a new and happy home.

This video was taken when the woman visit the lion to see how he was doing.

Watch the lions reaction when he sees her!"

Even animals appreciate people who helped them during their difficult times, why can't us?

$100 new laptop - one laptop per child

Do you want to own $100 laptop? yea I'm not lying it just cost $100. Unfortunately this laptop only suitable for children.

The laptop that develop by the OLPC(One laptop per child)- Social Welfare Organisation are develop special for children who live n developing country especially. The main reason for this project is to provide children with access to knowledge.

In order to change and to improve welfare in the developing country we need to start from the beginning. To change and improving current situation in developing country especially, is not an easy task and should be start somewhere. That why this OLPC introduced.

We need to help the children in the developing country to change their country. We shouldn't change their country by our own hands (like what happen in Iraq) but we can teach them how to change their country by themselves as they are the one who are expert about their country and culture.

Aid organisation cannot provide aid help forever so the current situation in developing country especially famine and diseases need to be reduce and improved.

Remember you can help them by providing/donating foods, drinks and even money but please think for how long? for how many person? and is it forever?

You and me know the answer, we cannot feed them forever. We need to teach them a technique or skill so that they can live forever.

"you can give a person a fish and he can survive for a day but if you teach him how to fish, he can survive for a lifetime'

But how?

It's really simple. EDUCATION

power of Education can change person's mind

, even can change country and world.

So by providing laptop, children can access world beyond thew control in a cheaper way.. This cheaper laptop are provided with Internet access ability through wireless. So children can learns education anywhere, anytime any topic and free.

Education is not a privilege but for everyone.

To make a change money are require

We can't change the term above but we can make it success by thinking a proper, cheaper but a success plan.

We know in order to make a change, we need to introduce something but usually to make a change, a lots of money will be involve. This is the reason why only small changes of improvement are success in the developing country. Only few family can change their standard way of living by taking risk of borrowing money so their children can study further.

Everybody knows how powerful is the power of Education. But to have education, money are required, that why, a lots of parents in developing country doesn't really support their children to have Education, they don't want to take risk to invest in education that only give return after long times. At the end, we see once again , the children that suppose to be at school are seen in the field or sea, helping their parents.

We need to start from the children itself The new generation should be expose to borderless world of Education. we should give them portable laptop so they can have education and they can sharp their skill in free of charge of worldwide Education network.

However, this project will not success if there is no support. This free, unpaid Organisation require people to donate in order to see a success story of this program.

By the way , currently this organisation still trying to success their mission of $100 laptop as the price of this cheap laptop still above $100.

So if you want to donate please go to http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/

feel free to open this website (http://laptopfoundation.org/) to know further about aim and mission of OLPC and to realize a $100 laptop.

Your contribution are really appreciate and your donation will help children in developing country to change their country.

Special about this $100 laptop (known as XO-1)

• 5 inch, 1200×900 pixel, TFT screen and self-refreshing display with higher resolution (200 DPI) than 95 percent of the laptops on the market today.
• Each machine is a full-time wireless router.
• Approximate dimensions: 242mm×228mm×32mm;
  Approximate weight: 1.45KG with LiFeP battery; 1.58KG with NiMH battery;

Read more :

http://dev.laptop.org/

http://laptopfoundation.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1

pics source : http://www.omni-ts.com/newsroom/images/suse-linux-africa-1.jpg, and http://laptopfoundation.org/)

@10.24, 13th May 2008

Who say ALL living thing need sun for life?

Wrong Science fact that is still ‘acceptable’

Science, one of Subject that all students are required to study since Primary School until completing form 5. Teaching technique always changes in order to produce Interactive class that will be able to produce students with strong, good understanding of Science knowledge as well as to attract students to love Science subject.

I remembered some of the topics that I learned since Primary School such as electricity, types of energy, living things etc. The topic that I learned in primary school once again teaches during the Secondary school but in more details and specific. The level of learning getting harder and harder and sometimes caused us to say ‘WOW’ when the teacher told very interesting facts in that Science class. Physics, Chemistry or Biology, Everyone now knows how to differentiate them.

I still remember this one Science theory

‘All living things start from Sun’

We learned that fact since primary school.

But in actual world, that fact is no longer assumed to be correct. Sun is not the primary source of living things! Some living thing still can survive without the presence of Sun.

But students are still requiring accepting that fact or he/she scores nothing on that question.
It is unbelievable, wrong fact was taught since the first time we learned about Science at school. A school is a place that we believe a place to learn true fact not a wrong or no longer acceptable fact.



Sun is not a source of living thing

Before I watched one expedition video travelling to below of the sea, I was thinking Sun is the source of all living thing in this world. I can’t imagine what will happen to this world without Sun. I accept a theory or fact that I learned in primary and secondary school that said

” no Sun, no living thing”

After watching the video, now I know that, some living things still can survive without the presence of Sun. This reflects from the journey to under the sea video, where there are still some livings things survive and live under the Sea, a place without sunlight.

Sunlight cannot reach that deepness, then no photosynthesis process occurs on that deep, but how come there are still some Shrimps, crabs as well as fish can survive and live there in peace? From where they got their oxygen? how about their food cycle? How come they can live in a place where pressure exerts can kill us human!

This is what surprised me, that living things generate their own oxygen (if I’m not mistaken). They use bacteria that live in their body to convert some chemical compound that available in excess there into oxygen.

If we can be as intelligent as them, maybe we can start living in Mars now…. Maybe we can convert the dry land of Mars into something that can benefit us that enable us to grow our own foods there. Or maybe we can introduce some unique bacteria in Mars that will convert the dry land of Mars to become sea of water. It seems Impossible but who knows maybe one day people who said it is impossible previously have to swallow back his words….. And it is not wrong to say living without oxygen wills not only a daydream in the future.

Even in the Oceanic Volcano, there are still living things that can live in those very acidic conditions. Sulphur produce by the eruption of volcano which smells like rotting eggs are so poisonous but it is unimaginable that there are still animals live in this type of condition.

You may want to read : http://archives.pireport.org/archive/2006/May/05-26-ft.htm , http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06fire/logs/april30/april30.html)

(pic source : http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06fire/background/biology/biology.html )
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@10.06pm-12/05/08

Mathematics- A subject that only talking about numbers forever

Do you realize how funny the equation above side? if not better revise your Maths back!


Mathematics- A subject that only talking about numbers forever

Hmm.. Mathematics is a very interesting subject to learn. Once you are there, you can’t resist your self to enjoy it. Yea involving numbers and numbers and most of the times we study numbers in Mathematics. Some people who don’t like numbers will says

”I hate Mathematics because it’s mathematics!”

(got what it mean?. The person doesn’t like Mathematics because it’s Mathematics (subject full with numbers))

It’s true that sometimes Mathematics questions are really tricky and can fade our interested to understand, to master this subject but believe it, this is the reason why people such as me like this subject. It is so funny to use another alternative way to get the same result same as the short way .

But I really disagreed with one of my friend who introduced a shortcut formula(memorising formula instead of understand the subject) in an exam, so that it is easy to pass the exam paper. Maybe for some people it’s ok because people willing to do anything in exam just to achieve what they want to score.

But why we study them if we only use our memory instead of our understanding in an Exam?.
In an exam , it is not our memories that are being tested but our understanding in the subject,concept as well as the theory that are being tested.

But I cannot blame people who think this memorising mthod is the best method to pass the Exam because they said

“I take this subject because my previous Exam results didn’t allow me to take another subject I like but this subject”

“ I took this subject because to achieve the scholarship, I need to atleast pass this Subject”

“I took this subject because my parents ask me to take it although they know I don’t like this subject’

And even

“I took this subject because my boyfriend/girlfriend takes this subject”

These are some of the dramas that every years repeating to happen. So for these students , memorising the formula that will finally able them to answers the exam results is the best way they can do.

But atleast they put some effort to score for the exam. Like what my teacher said during Physics class,

“yea, you guys already put some efforts on the assessement i gave to you by changing few words or adding and deleting some points from your friends works, but you put your effort in a wrong way although It’s good that you didn’t copy 100% of your friends work and you don’t hand in paper with name only.”

Got what I mean?Lol....miss the school times.

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Anyway, Mathematics is a very Important subject that need to be study. Using Mathematics we can solve everything not only numbers!. Like finding the size of atom, to predict how chemical reaction happen and etc.

Even Mathematics are use to know the date for Muslims to start fasting(1st day of Ramadhan) and to predict when the 1st day of Eid Ui Fitr can be celebrate. And Mathematics are very common use in Software maker and producer such as Macromedia Flash to produce animation.
So NOT TO STUDY MATHEMATICS IS NOT A GOOD OPTION FOR YOU. Although sometimes what we study the subject in advance during our School times doesn’t required in most working field.

Some funny Mathematics Equations: Enjoy it: haha.. I can't stop m self from laughing....khkhkh

(Pics source: www.geckoandfly.com/.../maths-will-make-you-mad/)

What a weird fish!

Have you ever seen this fish?

How long do you think the longest fish can reach up to? 5m? 10m? no, actually it can reach up to 17m, longer than the long of single Badminton court.... and its weight can reach up to 275kg
Oarfish is believe to be the longest fish that still exist today.... is found in all world’s ocean of depth between 20m to 1000m (1km in depth).

The first time i saw the photo of this fish was (if I’m not mistaken), 10 years ago where it was stated that, the fish was weird due to its size and believe the only one that still exist.
This is the picture that I saw 10 years ago.

But I was surprised to find out, this fish still exist today especially in Mexican ocean and Australian ocean. Few of the death body of this fish found washed up on beach.
The fish rarely seen on the surface of water unless the fish is sick or dying and always said to be sea serpent when seen. Oar fish is not dangerous to human and its fillet is not healthy to be consume.

However few years ago one woman accidently catched this fish while fishing for Cod fish and she cut the fish into pieces and put it in her freezer. It was weird the fish interested to the woman bait which was squid. Scientist feel frust on the woman action since the Oarfish she catched could be a good sample(due to its freshness) to understand further the behaviour of this Oarfish as well as the physical of this rare fish.

and another case was, the Oarfish was killed as it was thinked to attack the visitor in one shallow island. Read more about it at http://lencole.home.sprynet.com/oarfish.htm )

The behaviour of Oarfish is so weird, which finally caused them to be killed or dead by their own action.





Special about this fish

• Its size(can reach up to 17m)
• Moves vertically in the water (common fish move horizontally)
• When feed on plankton, its body is in vertical position.
• This fish has no teeth! And feed on plankton exclusively.
• Has bright red ribbon on his head.
  
  Here are some photos scene about Oar fish, the action of this Oarfish finally brought her life to the end.
  
  
  
  
  

(Sources: wikipedia, http://rps.uvi.edu/VIMAS/oarfish_facts.htm, http://www.seasky.org/deep-sea/oarfish.html)

(video : type oarfish in youtube.com to watch the video about Oarfish)

This is our beach!

This is what we call beach?

Recently, i went to some beaches in one day. Hmm... the first beach i went to was Hutan simpanan Berakas beach The Place was very peaceful and i enjoyed all the background sounds of waves as well as sound of birds singing welcoming visitors to the Peaceful countryside beach. It was sunny and I arrived there in the mid day. (hmm.. sound little bit boring ah..)

After 30 minutes, I drove to another beach, located at Serasa, of course you can guess, which beach I went to. When arriving there,I asked myself either I went to a beach or to a place to dump a rubbish. I captured few photos along the beach...
(click the picture to view in details)

Wow is this a place that we can call as a beach? A place that floating bottles,napkins, plastic bags, logs errr..too much to mention, floating along the Serasa beach. But what I noticed, it was logs that floating and washed to the beach at most. Where did the logs come from? It must be from somewhere.

If the logs came from dead trees along the beach, it was sign, a sign of destructive activity happened at the beach. It could be destructive waves hitting the beach and washed away the trees slowly or uncontrolled or illegal activity was done there...

But when we examined the logs, do you think it came from that area nearby? Or maybe it was just a floating rubbish that washed towards the beach.

What ever the reasons, i hope one day, I can see a clean and peaceful place that can be call as a beach....so all of us have to do something about it, just do a smart an simple way, you don’t have to left anythings behind but your footprint. If you manage to do it, you just change the world!congratulation.


Photo below was were taken at Muara beach

(currently, Muara beach is under renovation)

Cyclone in Burma

Tropical Cyclone Nargis pummeled Yangon for more than 10 hours from Friday night into Saturday, with 20 inches of rain and winds above 240 k/hr.

While I was playing game on my laptop on Friday night, people in Myanmmar were in frighten due to Cyclone that hitted the country. The tropical Nargis pummeled Yangon-city of Myanmmar for more than 10 hours starting Friday nigh into Saturday with 20 inchies of rain and winds above 240km/hr.
Wind speed reached 240km/hr. Do you know what that number means? It was a very energetic cyclone. Just imagine if someone hitted by a car at a speed of 100km/hr , that person will have very low chance to survive, can you imagine if a car driven in 240km/hr hit a person? Maybe no chance to survive anymore.
When the winds moved in 240km/hr, even unsharped pencil can even kill us!. So imagine how low the chance for people in Myanmmar to survive that night. But from the news I read, it was not the cyclone itself killed most of the people at the night, it was the effect brought by the cyclone killed most of the people. The tidal wave formed by the cyclone reached up to 12 feets and swept everthing away.

As you can see on the picture, Borneo Bulletin said on Monday only 350 people were killed in the accident. But today’s BB said the death toll reached 10,000 but the number keep on rising and currently the death toll already reached 15,000 and keep rising

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(one news agency said the death toll already reached 50,000 people!)

Satellite image before and after the cyclone hitted Burma. Very destructive.




(sources : Borneo Bulletin and http://myamarnews.blogspot.com)

Broadband

Hmm, as per requested by my friends who also supporter to my blog, today’s blog is about the new service offers by DST which is known as GO!broadband....

Firstly, lets me introduce the history of telecommunication in small details. The first telecommunication technology that firstly invented and used was made in United State in the year 1837 by Samuel F. B. Morse. It was known as Morse telegraph

Definition of Telegraph- long distance communication through wires.
Definition of Morse – signaling of dots and dashes.


Meaning to say the first technology that lets people in 2 places to communicate was using wires which transmitted signal that have to use wire in the transmitting data proccess. The telegraph machine woud print dots and dash on the moving tape paper.(use google to find more information about it).

There after, more and more telecommunication technology invented including, UHF, VHF, GSM, GPRS and including this new technology BROADBAND.

Broadband is a service that can be used to transmit data(lots of data) in high speed without using wires. Actually broadband is a wireless service. The only different of wireless in your house/shop/office compare to broadband is that, the area covered. Broadband can transmit data in large area whereas the wireless(which familiarly known as wifi, hotspot) can transmit data in small area only.

Maybe you think Bmobile is the first service provider who offered broadband service to Brunei user, this is not true since before the launching of BMobile Broadband which is popular with the name of ZOOM!broadband, Telbru take the first action to provide this broadband service to Brunei user which known as WAVE. But their large advertisment that can be seen especially in Gadong and Kiulap area doesn’t really captured our attention. This is due to our lack knowledege of broadband. Furthermore, it is quite expensive.... If I am not mistaken , the $5.00 prepaid card will finish in just about 70mins! That is too expensive right? And the main reason why it is not so popular is due to limited area covered. The Broadbands introduce by Telbru- WAVE only available in certain area. The ‘certain area’ covered are only in busy area such as Gadong, Kiarong, Kiulap as well as Serusop. So we only can access to the broadband if we bring along our laptop to this area, remember it is not free, so we need to purchase card first before we can use this broadband service to access the internet. Why we need this WAVE broadband service if we still can go to other place such as mamih or Kern Cafe which provide totally free of charge internet access.....

Then in last March, Bmobile starts to launch their broadband service. The ZOOM! Broadband launched in the Mall, attracted a lots of people who were interested to have this broadband service. Unfortunately, this broadband service only available if you subscribe to them in the minimum time of 2 years where you need to bought the dell laptop (they said, the laptop is free, which is not). So people like me who only need the Broadband USB so that we can access the internet through broadband only wasted our time coming there.

The ZOOM!broadband introduced 2 months ago frighten espeed provider. At the same time or later after the launching of ZOOM!broadband, espeed monthly charges was revised. One espeed plan which was BND98.00 at first now reduced to BND68.00 per month. Which can be said as cheap but actually not when comparing to the ISP(internet service provider) in our neighbour country.

So people starts to make comparision either to subscribe to Zoom!Broadband or espeed. But unfortunately both service provider is not as good as their advertisment, one service charged $0.50 per MB after free usage, the other provider has a lots of complaint about their service.

For your information, Bmobile state on their advertisment that after free 2GB data(bnd45.00 plan per month), a charge of $0.50 per MB will be charge up to maximum charge of BND40 for unlimited usage (the cheapest plan for the unlimited cost BND85.00(BND45 +BND40 =BND85.00) . Customer who didn’t understand or didn’t read the T&C will be suprised to check their bill which can reach up to BND85.00 one month alone)

Then on 1st Mei 2008, DST introduced their own broadband service which is known as GO!Broadband. The thing I hate about DSTD is that, DST took very very long time to introduce new service to customer. For your information , DST already planned to have 3G service in June 2006! But they delayed it because they want to introduce 3.5G directly and planned to introduce it again in December 2006. But ir was delay again. And only May of this year (after 2 years delay from first planned date) their plan success.

But I can forgive it for their good service provider. As long as they can provide a better service, why can’t we wait....

Wah my blog already long, actually I want to write little only... hmmm
Ok I continue again to finish this special edition for Zal and Nina... jgn kmvang because Isaid your name. hehe

After few weeks advertising about their upcoming product, on 1st May 2008, DST launching their GO!Broadband and customer can starts to subscribe to their 3.5G broadband service starting 2nd Mei 2008 which was last Friday. I can’t wait to subscribe to this 3.5G and on the 1st day that customer can start to subscribe to the GO!Broadband I went to the DST-Giant Branhc because this is the only DST Branch which open until night time.... after waiting for MORE THAN 3 hours to be served, my old simcards was taken and replaced by the new simcard which can be used to connect to the 3.5G.

Yea I waited for more than 3 hours because I want to be among th first to have 3.5G DST internet service. It was very slow proccess in that DST Branch due to insufficient staff (only 2 cusotmer services can work at one time due to limited space) but the staff who were working at that night shift still can put smile on their face although they could see hundred more waiting to be served.... congrate for that.

Actually the staff there asked me to use my sim card only after 24 hours but I couldnt wait for that long. After 8 hours given a new free of charge simcard, i switched on my phone and topup through *107# . then I try to use my phone to browse the internet. WOW it’ working.... I can see 3.5G text appears on the network signal. And then I try to broadcast youtube through my phone ( http://m.youtube.com/). Wow the speed is so amazing, I can watch the video in youtube without having to wait like when using laptop using espeed. The video run smoothly. And believe it, DST still charge 5cents per MB. It is quite cheap. (Bmobile charges $0.20 per MB). That why I still prefer DST compare to BMOBILE altough sometimes I hate it too....

(actually DST also has broadband plan more or less the same as what Bmobile offered, but I cannot cover it in thiss blog.....tired.)

9:36pm@05th april 2008

(pics source, telbru,BMobile, DST and http://www.telesindo.com/broadband.htm)