Cheaper Fares on MAS

Love to travel and travel cheaper? Then, make your booking early. From Monday, MAS will implement its new fare structure which will let us see cheaper air tickets.

A return economy air ticket to London during the low season could be as cheap as RM2,640 under the new structure while the present fare is RM3,685 (see graphic below).


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Good Audio Visual Presentations

Have you been to a group presentation where you could hardly hear, let alone see what's going on in front? I have. I once went to a sales pitch gathering and ended up not getting enough information to make out what the whole thing was all about. That certainly was a total waste of time. Needless to say, I didn't sign up for the programme even though I was earlier on told how good that was and what kind of returns I would be expected to reap. My loss? Oh well...

These days, before I go to such activities, I would be sure to make inquiries to ensure that they at least have a decent AV system. Many people underestimate the power of Audio Visual Presentations and sadly they lose many good opportunities. If you are looking into installing or revamping your AV system, www.reflex.co.uk is a great place to start. Reflex are a specialist audio visual company and provide high quality audio visual solutions to end-user organisations in the public and private sectors.

The Trouble Tree

Good morning! Here's another tree story but this one is a little different. It tells about not taking your work troubles home with you but instead keep them away from the home and hang them at the Trouble Tree outside your home. It makes sense to me because most of us (me included) tend to bring our problems from work home and that could spoil the joy of the home environment. Read on.

I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job, a flat tire made him lose an hour of work & his electric drill quit, his ancient one ton truck refused to start. As I drove him home, he sat in stony silence.

On arriving he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands. Upon opening the door he had undergone an amazing transformation. His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.

Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do at the little tree.

"Oh, that's my trouble tree," he replied. "I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing's for sure, those troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children. So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home and ask God to take care of them. Then in the morning I pick them up again." Funny thing is," he smiled, "when I come out in the morning to pick them up, there aren't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before."

Source unknown

Family Tree

Nowadays, the family unit is becoming more and more interesting and complex. Since time immemorial, man has been travelling and crossing state boundaries and settling in a land different from where he was born. These days with emigration, inter-marriages, re-marriages, adoption and what not, family members are now scattered all over the world.

Wouldn't it be nice if we can have a big picture of our entire family, from current family members to generations back? Actually, now it's possible. There's this site, ZOOOF, The Family Network, that has a system that allows you to build your family tree or network, write your biography, share the birth of a child, learn about your family's history and who knows you might find someone famous in your family somewhere along the line. There are all kinds of modules to share family stories, pictures, and there is even a treasury box to hide family secrets!

This beta version will run until February 14, so if you are interested to give it a try, send them an email with your name, email address, gender, country to: invite@zooof.com, and you will receive a personal invitation link. The program comes in 35 languages.

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Were there really weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Do we have an answer to this question? All I know is that many people died during the war and many too were killed before it. Audio recordings have been recovered and were played 10 days after Saddam's hanging. He was heard justifying the use of chemical weapons against the Iraqi Kurds in the late '80s, predicting they would kill thousands and that he alone among Iraq's leaders had the authority to order chemical attacks.

Read story in The NY Times

Car Classifieds

That's right! List your auto for free - 100% free Used Car Classifieds. This awesome car classifieds site allows you to list your auto until it is sold. You can put in 10 pictures and unlimited text and best of all, no credit card is ever needed. So, if you have a car either used or new you want advertised, send in your submission to lemonfree.com

And if you are looking for a car to purchase, you can go in and search for the car you need. You just need to fill in the Make, Model, the Year range, the Country and Province or State. You can even do an Advanced search to include the Price range and Mileage range. That's how easy it is to look for a vehicle on this site.

A lot of us are not familiar with cars so the Car reviews they here are very useful. There is a wide range of car makes that are being reviewed. You can get a review of the car make before you decide to go out and get one. Interested in a Chevy Silverado or even a Chevy Camaro? You can read the review here. Or if you'd prefer one from the Honda range, you can read about a Honda Accord or a Honda Civic here too.

Besides car reviews, articles on cars are also available such as on Automart.com, buying and selling cars, EbayMotors, Used BMW and lots more interesting articles with useful information.

You won't go wrong. List your auto here at
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A Butterfly

I have received this several times and just got it today again so I thought I'd post it. Perhaps you've read it earlier too. Anyway, it'll serve as a good reminder that the things we do which we meant well may not turn out so well for others. Sometimes, it's better to let things take its course.

A man found a cocoon for a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through the little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly.

He took a pair of scissors and snipped the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. Something was strange. The butterfly had a swollen body and shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and deformed wings. It was never able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand, was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the small opening of the cocoon are God`s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life.

If God allowed us to go throughall our life without any obstacles, that would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Not only that, we could never fly.

The Fridge

As usual, I had to do some email clean-up as the Inbox had exceeded its quota and refused to let me move emails. This is frustrating. Deleting emails is tedious and one task I dislike doing but there's no easier way out. The plus side however is, sometimes, I come across a rare find - a joke that missed storage. The one below is one such. Enjoy.

At a doctors surgery one morning a patient arrives complaining of serious backache. The doctor examines him and asks him, "What the hell did you do to your back?"

The patient replies, "You know that I work for a local night club? This morning I got home to my apartment early and heard a noise in my bedroom. On entering I knew someone had been sleeping with my wife and the balcony door was open. I rushed out the balcony door and did not find anyone. As I looked down from the balcony I saw a man running out and he was dressing himself. I grabbed the fridge and threw it at him,That's how I strained my back"

The 2nd patient arrives looking as if he has been in a car wreck. The doctor says, "My previous looked bad, but you look terrible.What the hell happened to you?"

He replies, "You know I have been unemployed for a while now .Today was the first day at my new job. I forgot to set my alarm and was running late. I was running out of the building, getting dressed at the same time, and you won't believe it but I was hit by a fridge."

The 3rd patient arrives; he looks even worse than the other two patients do. The doctor is shocked. Again asks, "What the hell happened to you?"

"Well I was sitting in a fridge and someone threw it from the 3rd floor."