Lucia Lai

german’s joseph ratzinger had been elected as the new pope. he had chosen the name benedict XVI. via catholic online. picture from catholic online.

first we heard that taxi and bus fares will be increased come 1st of may. now we hear that ferry service fares (plying between penang island and mainland) will be increased 100% come 1st of may. why don’t they increase the penang bridge toll? cannot take taxi as expensive, take …

so! finally! it’s done! it’s happened! the bus terminal for express buses had moved to a new site – next to the pesta pulau pinang site in sg. nibong. why sg. nibong? why so far away from city centre? i understand the concern of the authorities that earlier the buses …

UPDATED: 4/21/2005 01:50:15 AM – interesting comments from the star’s columnist, vk chin. it’s true… people talk so much about congestion on the bridge… but only on certain period, not all the time! he mentioned traffic snarls only occurs during office hours, weekends, public holidays and surprise, surprise… and when …

oh gosh! what an idiot i was! i choose a non existent place for our mini bloggers birthday meet. honestly speaking, i haven’t been to KFC in prangin mall at all but i figure to myself all shopping complexes sure must have KFC. i had came across macD though in …

…on a special day – my birthday! yep. this saturday is my birthday, and this time i want to make it special by celebrating it with bloggers, so am calling for a mini gathering. it’s a spur of the moment kind of thing and being private. well on occasion of …

sherry make a comeback! here: http://www.haloscan.com/comments/sweetyll/111262909288830542/#181650 sherry, all along, i knew you are the one who used several different handles to comment like, last time, long ago, ‘richard’ and ‘omar’. now i see you are at it again. you now use ‘oncle’, comments here: http://www.haloscan.com/comments/sweetyll/108204983888987928/#181893 yes, you can’t run away. …

… that is ‘happy new year’ in tamil. picture from greetings123 that’s right. today is tamil new year. many people mistaken ‘deepavali’ as tamil new year. deepavali in fact is a religious festival and not a new year for the tamil as many believed. it seems that many of my …

heard of this? a muslim parent was sentenced to 10 months jail for giving up his son for adoption to a non muslim woman. the father said he had to give up his son for adoption as he was in ‘dire states’ and the adoption was done legally. so what’s …

from jeff ooi’s blog, came across this article by rebecca on how to blog safely. interesting read.