AirAsia - The biggest Liar? The only gainer.

AirAsia, so called one of the best low cost airline in Asia. How could they manage to make profit out of their so called 'zero' cost flight ticket? I have heard enough stories from people around me on how poor their service is, the flight delay and so on, but, this time I can tell you a true story of mine with this cheap but costly airline- AirAsia.

It happened during my way to have a nice vacation with my lovely wife in Bali recently. I bought 2 ticket plus accomodation package with AirAsia-go-holiday online. It was all right until the departure date. The departure time from LCCT (Low Cost Carrier Terminal?) was 10:55 am. So, we forwarded to the check-in counter at 9:55am so as to make sure we check ourselve in not later than 45 minutes before the departure time. But we could not find the counter for our flight number! So, I checked with one of the officer and surprisingly, the gentlemen told me that the counter was closed 5 minutes agoand we were late!? According to their rules and regulation, as published on their information board, all passengers have to check-in to their flight 45minutes before the departure, but if I followed my Tissot's time (it should be very close to the international time), they closed the counter 1 hour before that!

So, I was furious and started argueing with the front counter officer. Surprisingly, he was so calm and nice to counteroffer us a replacement ticket for the next flight but it would be 6 hours later. And moreover, he handed us a couple of meal voucher to be spent waiting for the next flight. And finally, it was the only option we have! Well, we have no choice but to accept it.

What is the truth behind? Firstly, why do they close the check-in counter early? Secondly, why AirAsia always depart earlier than scheduled? And finally, why the front counter officers able to issue replacement tickets if truely the passenger is late for checking-in?

Alright, there is only one answer for all. It is because THEY OVERSOLD THEIR TICKETS!! AND IT HAPPENED TO ALL FLIGHT!! This is because in most happened occasion, there won't be 100% passengers turned up for the flight and this is the trick for pick hour flight. How about off peak hour flight like evening and night flight? There is another trick: FLIGHT DELAYED!! So, they can combine both flights to one if low occupancy.

Please let me know, who is the eventual winner?

Royal Domain: Last Chance to have my K.L. view?

I have to put up this video though it's a bit late. The celebration of 2008 new year with fireworks were displayed all over the K.L. area as you could see from the uploaded video(sorry, the video quality is quite blurry). The video was shot at the balcony of my home in Royal Domain, Sri Putramas II where I'm having the beautiful K.L. view as promised and advertised by the salesperson and also the marketing material when I bought my unit (you can review my write-up of Royal Domain here).

But it was sad to realise when I saw the construction signboard recently that there would be another 3 blocks of 30-storey-highrise condominium to be developed right in front of my condominium! So, this year fireworks celebration at K.L. might be my last chance to be able to witness from Royal Domain's balcony!

Good Information on Cancer

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.
12. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
13. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
14. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
15. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply. WHAT CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

• Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal,Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
• Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells are being starved.
• Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
• A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw v egetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
• Avoid coffee, tea,ea and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

Look-See-Look-See Malaysia

We are so excited to introduce to all our readers our brand new blog, LOOK-SEE-LOOK-SEE MALAYSIA , a blog displaying photos from Malaysian's daily activities.

Hope you will enjoy it!

Something Special about Sushi

It was an eating outing on last lazy Sunday where 2 friends of my wife and I went out just to have our 'brunch' at at about 11:30am. These friends just like japanese so much that they have tried most of the japanese restaurant in town. So, my wife suggested this eatery in 1 of the hottest new shopping mall in town, "The Garden", annexed to the wellknown Mid Valley shopping complex. Nothing fancy but it's called "Sushi Zanmai".

This sushi eatery has a very typical japanese interior design with timber doors, table, windows and partition; light colour themed with sufficient lighting brought a bit of relaxing feeling to us and did create a good appetite (maybe we were so hungry).

Nothing really special about the outlook but was the food. Open kitchen (with see-through glass partition) is the current trend and provided customer a hygienic perspective view in the first place. The circulating moving serving tray was full of all variety of sushi for who is too hungry to wait for their mian dishes.

We ordered some rice and ramen with soups and Shashimi. What really impressed us is the freshness of the filling. Umm... either it's salmon, soft shell crab, octopus or even rice, they are all very yummy, crispy, soft, and most importantly, FRESH.

And lastly and important aspect of the whole meal was either we got a reasonable bill, and yes, we got it with a 20% discount voucher for our next visit. It was a satisfactory 'brunch'.

Connie Talbot is over the rainbow

When I first heard it during her recent visit to Taiwan to the One Million Superstar contest on last Friday, Connie Talbot's sound is really impressive especially when I realised that she won the talent contest in UK last year when she was only 6 years old! Although she sang "Over the rainbow" everywhere but that's not all she know. She even sang a song of my favorite, "I will always love you" originally by Whitney Houston! I just couldn't imagine that she is only seven years old currently and you won't able to know just from her voice. Her voice is so big that even the Bodyguards' Kevin Costner would fall in love with her!!

Only one thing I'm just wondering why should she shaking her head repeatedly when singing a song? Is that she is nervous or can't help but trying to create a more sexy, mature way of singing?

China horrible earthquake- How much does our life worth?

After reading the news about what had happened in China's powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake, which levelled whole towns causing untold loss of life on last Monday, 12th May 2008, I really shocked looking at photos with dead students. More than 40,000 people, including young children from 2 blocks of school classrooms, lay dead or buried under rubble and time was running out to save the living.

According to doctors, 72 hours after the tragedy is the critical period of time when survivors could still be rescued from the rumble. Although people can survive up to 15 days, but that is when we are talking about miracles, and miracles do not happen very often.

How much does our life really worth? Seconds after natural disaster we could all die without any indication at all. The more advance our humand is, the more fragile we are. We lost our basic instinct of sensing disaster unlike insects and animals or birds, where they could sense danger and evacuate before even we know it.

So, let's stop relying too much on all those high technological ans advance equipment and starting more our eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands and legs to actually see, hear, smell, taste and touch our naked earth.

Happy 100th Aniversary of Mother's Day

Yesterday was Mother's Day. As usual my brothers sister and I celebrated with our mother by having lunch at one of the famous chinese restaurant at Manjalara, Kepong. It is a very meaningful celebration as our family, although having our own family with kids, having this chance to gather together at least once a year. I have to gratefully thank Ms. Anna Javis for her idea back in 100 years ago.

In 1858, Anna Javis's mother, Anna Reeves Jarvis was the first woman in the United States to hold an official celebration of mothers, when she instituted Mothers' Work Day to raise awareness about local sanitation issues. During the Civil War, she expanded the scope of Mothers' Work Day to include sanitary conditions on both sides of the battlefield. Meanwhile, in 1872, Julia Ward Howe initiated and promoted a Mother's Day for Peace, to be held on June 2, which was celebrated the following year by women in 18 cities across America.

Then in 1905, Anna Reeves Javis passed away and her daughter, Anna Javis, took up her mother's torch. In 1907, Anna launched her campaign by handing out white carnations at her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia. In 1908, the church acquiesced to Anna's request to hold a special Sunday service in honor of mothers - a tradition that spread the very next year to churches in 46 states. In 1909, Anna left her job and dedicated herself to a full-time letter-writing campaign, imploring politicians, clergymen and civic leaders to institute a national day for mothers.

In 1914, the U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution, signed by President Wilson, establishing a national Mother's Day emphasizing the role of women in their families. Ever since, Mother's Day has been celebrated by Americans on the second Sunday in May.

And now, Mother's Day is being celebrated in over 50 countris in this world.

Our Junior Blogger, Tun Dr. Mahathir Muhamad

It's so exciting to announce that from 1st of May 2008, we have a junior blogger with big name in our blogoshere: our ex-Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Muhamad! Just visit his blog at www.chedet.com.

Welcome Tun Dr. Mahathir!

P/s: I hope this is his real blog....

NO: Cancerous Foods/ Products

This is an email I received the other day which I found worth to know it now than later....

• INSTANT NOODLES

Dear instant noodle lovers, Make sure you break for at least 3 days after one session of instant noodles before you eat your next packet! Please read the info shared to me by a doctor. My family stopped eating instant noodles more than 5 years ago after hearing about the wax coating the noodles - the wax is not just in the Styrofoam containers but it coats the noodles. This is why the instant noodles do not stick to each other when cooking. If one were to examine the ordinary Chinese yellow noodles in the market, one will notice that, in their uncooked state the noodles are oily. This layer of oil prevents the noodles from sticking together. Wanton noodles in their uncooked state have been dusted with flour to prevent them sticking together. When the hawker cooks the noodles, notice he cooks them in hot water and then rinses them in cold water before cooking them in hot water again. This process is repeated several times before the noodles are ready to be served. The cooking and rinsing process prevents noodles from sticking together. The hawker then 'lowers the noodles in oil and sauce to prevent the noodles from sticking if they are to be served dry. Cooking instructions for spaghetti require oil or butter to be added in the water when boiling the spaghetti to prevent the pasta from sticking together. Otherwise, one gets a big clump of spaghetti! There was an SBC (now TCS) actor some years ago, who at a busy time of his career had no time to cook, resorted to eating instant noodles everyday. He got cancer later on. His doctor told him about the wax in instant noodles. The doctor told him that our body will need up to 2 days to clear the wax. There was also an SIA steward who after moving out from his mother's house into his own house, did not cook but ate instant noodles almost every meal. He had cancer, and has since died from it. Nowadays the instant noodles are referred as ' cancer noodles '.

• SATAY LOVERS (BARBECUE)

If you all eat Satay, don't ever forget to eat the cucumber, because eating Satay together with carbon after barbequing can cause cancer. But we have a cure for that... Cucumber should be eaten after we eat the Satay because Satay has carcinogen (a cancer causing element) but cucumber is anti-carcinogenic. So don't forget to eat the cucumber the next time you have Satay's.

• PRAWNS (SUGPO) & VIT C

DO NOT eat shrimp / prawn if you have just taken VITAMIN C pills!! This will cause you to DIE in ARSENIC (As) toxication within HOURS!!

• PORK AWARENESS

Try this and see whether the pork you bought has worms. There goes with your 'Bak Kut Teh' for those who love it. Most men love to eat this so watch out before it's too late. If you pours Coke (yes, the soda) on a slab of pork, wait a little while, you will SEE WORMS crawl out of it. A message from the Health Corporation of Singapore about the bad effects of pork consumption. Pig's bodies contain MANY TOXINS, WORM and LATENT DISEASES. Although some of these infestations are harboured in other animals, modern veterinarians say that pigs are far MORE PREDISPOSED to these illnesses than other animals. This could be because PIGS like to SCAVENGE and will eat ANY kind of food, INCLUDING dead insects, worms, rotting carcasses, excreta including their own, garbage, and other pigs. INFLUENZA (flu) is one of the MOST famous illnesses which pigs share with humans. This illness is harboured in the LUNGS of pigs during the summer months and tends to affect pigs and human in the cooler months. Sausage contains bits of pigs' lungs, so those who EAT pork sausage tend to SUFFER MORE during EPIDEMICS of INFLUENZA. Pig meat contains EXCESSIVE quantities of HISTAMINE and IMIDAZOLE compounds, which can lead to ITCHING and INFLAMMATION; GROWTH HORMONE which PROMOTES INFLAMMATION and growth; sulphur containing mesenchymal mucus which leads to SWELLING and deposits of MUCUS in tendons and cartilage, resulting in ATHRITIS, RHEUMATISM, etc. Sulphur helps cause FIRM human tendons and ligaments to be replaced by the pig's soft mesenchymal tissues, and degeneration of human cartilage. Eating pork can also lead to GALLSTONES and OBESITY, probably due to its HIGH CHOLESTEROL and SATURATED FAT content. The pig is the MAIN CARRIER of the TAENIE SOLIUM WORM, which is found in its flesh. These tapeworms are found in human intestines with greater frequency in nations where pigs are eaten. This type of tapeworm can pass through the intestines and affect many other organs, and is incurable once it reaches beyond a certain stage. One in six people in the US and Canada has RICHINOSIS from eating trichina worms, which are found in pork. Many people have NO SYMPTOMS to warm them of this, and when they do, they resemble symptoms of many other illnesses. These worms are NOT noticed during meat inspections.

• SHAMPOO

Cancer-causing substance in shampoos. Go home and check your shampoo. Change before it's too late... Check the ingredients listed on your shampoo bottle, and see they have a substance by the name of Sodium Laureth Sulfate, or simply SLS. This substance is found in most shampoos; manufacturers use it because it produces a lot of foam and it is cheap. BUT the fact is, SLS is used to scrub garage floors, and it is very strong!!! It is also proven that it can cause cancer in the long run, and this is no joke. Shampoos that contains SLS: Vo5, Palmolive, Paul Mitchell, L'Oreal, the new Hemp Shampoo from Body Shop etc. contain this substance. The first ingredient listed (which means it is the single most prevalent ingredient) in Clairol's Herbal Essences is Sodium Laureth Sulfate. Therefore, I called one company, and I told them their product contains a substance that will cause people to have cancer. They said, Yeah we knew about it but there is nothing we can do about it because we need that substance to produce foam. By the way Colgate toothpaste also contains the same substance to produce the 'bubbles'. They said they are going to send me some information. Research has shown that in the 1980s, the chance of getting cancer is 1 out of 8000 and now, in the 1990s, the chances of getting cancer is 1 out of 3, which is very serious. Therefore, I hope that you will take this seriously and pass this on to all the people you know, and hopefully, we can stop 'giving' ourselves cancer-causing agents.

Good Joke: Mom, I'm Pregnant!

An eighteen-year-old girl tells her Mom that she hasmissed her period for two months. Very worried, themother goes to the drugstore and buys a pregnancy kit. The test result shows that the girl is pregnant. Shouting, cursing, crying, the mother says, 'Who wasthe pig that did this to you? I want to know!'

The girl picks up the phone and makes a call. Half an hour later a Ferrari stops in front of their house; a mature and distinguished man with grey hair,impeccably dressed in a very expensive suit, stepsout of the car and enters the house.He sits in the living room with the father, the mother and the girl, and tells them, 'Good morning, your daughter has info rmed me of the problem.However, I can't marry her because of my personal family situation, but I'll take charge.' If a girl is born, I will bequeath her two retail stores,a townhouse, a beach villa and a $2,000,000 bankaccount.If a boy is born, my legacy will be a couple of factories and a $5,000,000 bank account. If it is twins, it will be a factory and $2,000,000each. However, if there is a miscarriage, what doyou suggest I do?'

At this point, the father, who had remained silent, places a hand firmly on the man's shoulder andtells him, 'Then you try again.'

NO: Mother And Daughter Banned For LifeFrom DISNEYLAND

Need we say more?

In our life we are facing so much problems and it's great to have a break and figure out some of these funny tricks around in the world.

They really got the nerve and great idea to introduce Mickey Mouse and Disneyland to our younger generation. They are part of our body! This is another naked truth from N.O.

P/s: And it's always true that daughter must carry bigger toys than their mother.....