Tulips for Mother's Day

Source: The Star
It's springtime in Paris where tulips and primroses are in full bloom in front of the Eiffel Tower as pictured above. Remember there is a Tulip Sale for Charity at the concourse of Sungei Wang Plaza today from 11am onwards. Surprise your mom with tulips this year. Buy her a pretty bunch of tulips flown in by KLM all the way from the Netherlands.

To All Mothers, Happy Mother's Day,  May your day be filled with love and happiness.

Of breweries and pubs, stainless steel & aluminium fabrications

Amediate Engineering is a specialist engineering company that provides Aluminium Fabrication, stainless steel and steel metal fabrication for commercial and industrial products. If you or your company is looking for specialist fabrication work, you've come to the right place.

Amediate Engineering is based in Auckland, New Zealand, and provides specialist fabrication  services from design to product installation for a wide range of commercial and industrial applications.

They include breweries and bar pourers; telecommunication installations (including installation of frame with high lift crane over 4 x funnels with 20mm total clearance); civil and ground works in which their house team is able to provide and manage a large variety of concrete works including those hard to access areas; platforms and walkways to facilitate routine service work on roof, for instance; truck trailers; boilers; custom signal masts; production line systems; building and fencing; installation of solar panels and wind vane; signboards manufacture and installation; crane and lift works; ladders and mounts as well as site specialist fabrication fit-outs and a host of many other custom fabrication and installation works. Making an enquiry is easy on their website.

Some of Amediate Engineering's fabrication work and clientele include larger fabrication, machining and installation work of up to 10 tonnes for companies including Portacom, Westinghouse Rail Systems Australia, Invensys Rail, DB Breweries, Lion Breweries, Thermosash, Arrow International, Rayglass Boats, Vodafone, Ullrich Aluminium, The NZ Fire Service, Telecom, Transfield, NZ Communications, 2 Degrees Mobile, Sky Communications, Infratel, and Compac Sorting Equipment.

Amediate Engineering is also specialist Stainless Steel Fabricators for breweries and pubs which entails bar construction from design stage to fabrication and fit-out of brass beer taps and stainless steel systems.

Their brewery and bar systems are built in their Auckland factory and their experienced staff (with over 250 years combined experience) then install them on location, for instance at Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and even Tahiti. They custom-design and manufacture bar pourers, drip trays and other accessories needed in modern bars, clubs and pubs.

Some of their recent projects include for Cock & Bull English Pubs, R’toto Pub & Café, The Loaded Hog - Akl & Levin, Sales St Brasserie, Yellow Cross Brewery - Christchurch & Temperance Bar - Wellington.

Other custom fabrication projects include shop fitting design, manufacture and installation for Snipps Hair Design, North Beach Surf & Skate as well as many other smaller retail outlets.

Amediate Engineering has been in business since 1992 founded by Ken & Tania Brown-Bayliss.

Ken is a qualified fitter and turner and over the last 20 years has built Amediate Engineering Ltd with a reputation of designing and producing superior quality engineering products, getting them completed on time, on budget, every time.

How would we know if a company is good enough to do business with. Amediate Engineering's list of clients speaks volumes and further reinforced by their customer testimonials. Don't just take my word for it, you have to check them out to appreciate the exemplary work and the highest quality of products and services provided.

With the kind of engineering projects they undertake, safety is also a priority at Amediate Engineering alongside ensuring timely delivery of quality products and services. Safety can cover from eye protection to hearing protection to foot protection and so forth.  For foot protection, there are various types of Safety Boots that serve different purposes.  At Amediate Engineering, safety is emphasised at all times.  A safe place is a happy place to work and with that superior quality of products produced.  Ultimately, it is the customer who reaps the reward of a positive company culture.

Friday Frolics - How Should You Change The World?

This week's quiz is about how best you could change the world based on your personality. Take the quiz to find out how.

Happy Friday, everyone!

You Should Change the World By Helping Others

You can truly be there for another person. When you care, you are incredibly giving and compassionate. You're incredibly thoughtful and able to give people what they need most. Generosity simply makes you feel good. You are willing to be a voice for those who don't have one. You always speak up to defend others' rights. You believe in helping on a community level. You are happy to feed the hungry and cloth the homeless.

How Should You Change The World?

Take a Quiz. Annoy Your Friends.

Last Week's Quiz: What's Your Motivational Phrase?

Celebrity Fashion - What were they thinking?

What they were thinking? It can happen to the best of us..

Kim Kardashian

Source: http://omg.yahoo.com
Adrienne Maloof

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Ciara

Source: http://omg.yahoo.com
Ivana Trump

Source: http://omg.yahoo.com
Jade Jagger

Source: http://omg.yahoo.com
Katie Price

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There's more where these came from - at Expressogossip

Cargo ship slams into tower in Genoa, Italy

Ugly! Just read about this cargo ship that slammed into a tower in Genoa, Italy. Genoa is the capital of Liguria and the sixth largest city in Italy.

ROME, Italy: Three people died and several others were missing in the water in the port of Genoa on Wednesday, after a container ship smashed into a control tower in a night-time accident which revived painful memories in Italy of a deadly cruise ship disaster last year.

Part of the tower in which about 14 people were present at the time of the accident crashed into the water.

Rescue workers dived into the inky waters around the port - one of the busiest in Italy - in a frantic night-time search to find around 10 people believed to be missing.

Six others were reported seriously injured.

An employee of the Messina Line company based in Genoa which owns the vessel confirmed that "there was an accident when the ship was leaving the port. It ran into the tower, but we don't know why at this point, nor how many people are hurt."

The accident, which took place at around half past midnight (2230 GMT Tuesday), spooked Italians still reeling from the Costa Concordia night-time shipwreck off Giglio island in January 2012 which left 32 people dead.

More..Three dead, several missing in Italy shipping accident

Source: Wikipedia

Philippines volcano spews rocks killing 5 people

One of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines rumbled to life yesterday, spewing rocks ‘as big as a living room’ according to one guide. 30 climbers were caught surprised. Five people (including three Germans and their guide) have been killed and many others injured. The injured are all foreigners.

The 2,460m mountain, about 340km south-east of Manila, has erupted about 40 times during the last 400 years.

Read more: Today..Philippine volcano spews rocks, kills 5 climbers

Blue skies not Haze in Kuala Lumpur

Check out Haze update for June 2013

No, there's no haze here in Kuala Lumpur currently, the weather kind, that is. This post is in response to a number of searches the past few days enquiring about haze in Kuala Lumpur 2013. Or was it this haze they meant.

From observation all these years, May is not a month for haze (although we did have some haze for a few days in March of this year). Come back to check in Aug/Sep and you'd be reading about the smog that usually envelopes the west coast of the peninsula - mostly due to open field burning in Sumatra (Indonesia) as the people there get ready for the planting season. Malaysia is separated from the main island of Indonesia by the narrow Straits of Malacca.  There are passenger boats plying the straits facilitating travel between the two countries. 

A check on Google shows that I have talked about hazy days a number of times over the years. I thought I'd put together a montage of images from those posts to give you an idea of what it was like during those foggy days in Kuala Lumpur and in other parts of the country.

In case you may be wondering, most days Kuala Lumpur has blue skies and bright sunshine and the iconic Petronas Twin Towers resplendent in all their glory just like in these shots which were taken on a trip to the KL City Centre and the city one fine weekend morning.

Come visit Kuala Lumpur, a city that's listed at No. 4 on CNN's The world's 10 best shopping cities in Nov 2012 (Hong Kong at No. 6); and No. 2 best shopping city in Asia Pacific behind Hong Kong according the latest Globe Shopper Index in Oct 2012. And the food.. definitely a treat for the tastebuds!

Malaysia General Election results

Yahoo! news..
4am: Final tally: Barisan Nasional holds 133 seats, Pakatan Rakyat gets 89 seats (PKR, 30; PAS, 21; and DAP, 38).

This means that the National Front (the Barisan nasional coalition) extends its rule of the country which they have been doing the past 56 years!

For the state assembly seats, Barisan won 275 seats; PR 230 seats (DAP, 95; PAS, 86; and PKR, 49).

The Opposition is not taking the results lying down as they have cited fraud (no secret actually) and the Opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, says the EC must explain the electoral fraud that happened during polling session.

I was seated next to a guy at the mamak stall the other day and we started talking about the forthcoming election and he said something interesting when we touched on the subject about enrolling foreigners to vote.  He said that Malaysia could be the only country in the world that is doing that.  The young (Malay) man was shaking his head.   This is just one malpractice engaged to ensure victory at the polls and at all costs.  There are more dirty tricks (read seditious activities).  I'm embarrassed to even write about them.  The end justifies the means - never more true!   Disgusting is all I can say!

The Opposition is not accepting the decision - Pakatan rejects GE13 results, cries fraud

Pakatan Rakyat should not concede defeat!

Australia's ABC.net..
Malaysia's polls close amid fraud claims

Anwar seeks ‘national consensus’ to reject BN rule. A mass gathering will be held at the Kelana Jaya Stadium at 8:30pm this Wednesday where he will address Malaysians for the first time after the polls.


This afternoon, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak took his oath of office as Prime Minister at the Palace.

Earlier, Najib thanked voters for their support of the coalition to continue to lead the country.

The Barisan chairman reaffirmed that all pledges in the Barisan manifesto would be fulfilled.


The Malaysian Composite Index surged to an all-time high of 1,826 points early today, while the ringgit advanced to the highest since 1997 against the US dollar.