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Robbery Suspects on Google’s Street View

Eversince Google started sending its camera-mounted cars onto the streets, there have been embarrassing moments for some people.  It is said that Google’s street view services have unwittingly caught people visiting adult shops or in company of call girls. 
The military too are wary of Google’s street view.  Last year the Pentagon decided enough is enough, and [...]

Hit by a Meteorite

What is the probability of someone on earth being hit by a meteorite?  Well, I don’t know, but it was reported to be one in a million chances.  An impossible possibility?
Consider this.  A 14 year old teenager called Gerrit Blank actually survived such an incident.  That one in a million chances did strike and find its [...]

A Week To Remember

I have been away for less than a week, but what a week this has been.  It is certainly a week to remember!
First off, two celebrities died during this week.  Michael Jackson’s sudden death made headline news everywhere – on TV, Cable, in newspaper, magazines, etc.  I do not want to go into details of [...]

Live Coverage

It was a long, long time since I attended a live sport event.  Back in the days of Malaysia Cup soccer competition and the Kallang Wave, I was there at the stadium to cheer the Singapore national team.
Nowadays I prefer to watch from live TV coverage.  I get to see players at close range, view [...]

Bank Failures

Did you catch the headline the other day?  It says so far this year there are 40 bank failures in the United States. That’s an average of approximately 7 bank failures every month.
How does this compare with 2008?  For the whole of 2008 there were 25 such bank failures.
Let’s look at it another way.  How [...]

Is There A Doctor Onboard?

One of the most distressful inflight announcements broadcast to the passenger cabins of an aircraft in flight must be this: “Is there a doctor onboard?”
This means that there is a medical emergency onboard.  Perhaps a passenger is ill and needed medical attention beyond what the flight crew could give.  Perhaps the aircraft has to be [...]

Organ Transplant

Medical science has improved considerably so much so that nowadays organ transplant don’t really make the news.  Everyday throughout the world, many patients undergo organ transplant of the liver, heart, kidney, etc. It is said that in the United States, on an average day, 77 people undergo organ transplants. while the waiting list for an [...]

F1 Breaking Up

So F1 is in the news again.  But for the wrong reason.  It is in danger of breaking up.
Formula One Team Association (FOTA) which consists of 8 members (Ferrari, BMW Sauber, McLaren, Toyota, Red Bull Racing, Renault and Scuderia Toro Rosso – is threatening to pull out of F1 (Formula One) racing.  The dispute is [...]

Medical Quarantine

H1N1 Pandemic
So the World Health Organization has now declared a pandemic situation for the H1N1 virus.  Leading pharmaceutical companies are in a race to produce a vaccine to counter this virus. But what do health authorities do when innocent people come into close contact with infected persons?  They quarantine them. It’s called medical quarantine.
Medical quarantine [...]

Father’s day message

The father slumber is a serious message for the father
A father took his little child out into the field on Sunday and, it being a hot day, he lay down under a beautiful shady tree. The little child ran about gathering wild flowers and little blades of grass, and coming to his father and saying, [...]