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March 2005

earthquake resistence foundation

as a run-up to my post below about high-rise buildings, the sun reported that the town and country planing department is “planning guidelines for building structures to take into consideration foundations that can withstand earthquakes.” and regarding the mention of evacuation from high-rise buidlings, the department was heard to say …

fear of high rise buildings?

this if food for thought (to do with the recent earthquake). from SCuM discussion group, a mr magoo wrote: “I just wondering whether the tremor felt over here will have any short term or long term impact on the property value of the residential high unit in Malaysia. Since I …

earthquake again?

at about 12.10am today, as i was sitting in front of my computer, i suddenly felt the chair and the whole floor (i’m at 5th floor of my flat) shaking. at first i thought nothing of it, then as it began to shake again, i looked at my sister and …

wash your friends’ feet

“Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.” (from the bible, gospel of john, chapter 13, verse 14 & 15) ok allow me to …

have a good good friday

  the crucifixion by grunewald, taken from a blog. today will be one of the two days in a year that many lapsed catholics goes to church. or we call them a twice-a-year catholic since they goes to church twice a year only. what are the two days? christmas and …

why non malays don’t like national school

in yesterday’s dewan rakyat sitting, an MP calls for study why national schools fail to draw non-malays. and he, datuk rosli mat hassan (BN-dungun)asked: “is it because national schools are perceived as malay schools? this should not have happened as the schools should reflect a national image suitable for all …

to all fathers with daughters

Some thoughtful information for those who are daughters, were daughters, have daughters, intend to have daughters, or intend to date a daughter. 10 RULES TO DATE MY DAUGHTER Rule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk you’d better be delivering a package, because you’re sure not picking anything …

google adsense

  hmm… this is strange. with alert from lcf and later adam, telling me they can’t see see the ads as i mentioned in my post below (on right column). but as i responded in comments, i did see the ads when i click on ‘preview’ after i inserted the …

add ad-sense to add RM

ahh… i finally jump in the bandwagon of many others bloggers to include google’s ad-sense in my blog. a girl gotta earn some money, esp. at this time when i feel so broke. 🙁 i notice that a few bloggers who uses ad-sense have started earning money already, so i …