December 2005 « MageP’s Lab

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Sexual Education: New milestone or hiccup?

It has been two years for the Ministry of Education, Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, and Health Ministry together with the help of non-governmental organisations, to come out with the sexual education guidelines.

Education Minister Hishammuddin Hussien said the National Sexuality Education Guideline would be presented to Cabinet at the latest by the first week [...]

Dong Zhi (Winter Solstic Festival)

It’s Dong Zhi (Winter Solstic Festival) today, the second most important festival of the Chinese calendar.

Celebrated on the longest night of the year, Dong Zhi is the day when sunshine is weakest and daylight shortest. The coming of winter is celebrated by families and is traditionally the time when farmers and fishermen gather food in [...]

Kedah new MB: A bless in disguise?

Maxis SMS alert at 5.36pm.
Kedah MB Syed Razak Syed Zain will quit post tomorrow, Acting MB Mahadzir Khalid to take over leadership of state.

Coincidentally, Bernama plays the music in favor of Mahadzir.

A bless in disguise for him?

MAS spending issue: A tough question to Idris Jala

[UPDATED VERSION] On allegations of extravagance spending in Malaysia Airlines (MAS), Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi chose to pass the baton to the newly appointed managing director Idris Jala.
"If there is any information about the matter, it would be good to pass it on to Idris Jala."

For more context, read here.

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Via Utusan Melayu:
Pembelian [...]

Why Malaysia football in dire state?

Azam Aris of TheEdgeDaily confesses that he is always a big fan to the deceased of Manchester United legend George Best.

His excellent skills, natural gifted play on the field, moreover his hard work and and dedication and constant practice to turn natural talent into match-winning ability furthermore convince that Best will remain as his only [...]

Gmail Manager & Gmail Mobile

I really love Google, you know, the 2.5GB and still growing mailbox.

2 things about Gmail that I feel compelled to share with readers if you’ve missed any of them:

Via blogger LiewCF:

If you own more than one Gmail account, you may like to install the Gmail Manager, a Firefox extension that allows you to [...]

Money factor: From studying into prostituition

Money factor can be evil, great enough to lure one’s into prostitution.

Instead of concentrating on studying, some students at a university indulge themselves into being call girl and earn around RM4000 per month.
The report said what lured her into the "profession" was seeing her friends wearing branded clothes, driving cars, having mobile phones and always [...]

Recognition for blogging community

Bloggers for Perdana Global Peace Forum 2005 were interviewed by Malay Mail yesterday. MackZul has this to say on former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad.
He said the bloggers’ inclusion in the forum also reflected well on former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

"He has been described by the foreign media as someone who is not [...]