power or dumbass

You just can't believe this huh? A local party committee secretary
was so superstitious that he ordered the road in front of his office
blocked by a sculpture. It was a used old fighter jet. The blocked
road was suppose to be a six-lane bi-directional traffic access. The
road was blocked since 2007. Got exposed this year on the web. And
the dumb a$$ is shown here as well.

He has been stripped of his job. I guess the F eng $hui Master is not
that smart recommending such a thing. Telling this id! oT to put such
a sculpture blocking an important access road so that he can be
promoted and get wealthy. Does it now?

This happened in Henan province in a city called ShiJiaZxxxxxxxxxxx

marriage

These girls were doing a strip T at a subway entrance in Guangzhou
this early March. The reason? They were all trying to get some
attention to have someone to marry them. Hmmm..... Wow.. What a
country this has become.

b'fast

Paul, it's a franchise European bakery chain. Getting more locations
here now. We decided to have b'fast at Paul in Pudong's Thumb Plaza
after the run around the park there. We were surprise at the "ROI".
The cost was RMB 98. It came with: 1) choice of coffee or tea (latte
or regular coffee), 2) a bakery basket with 3 pieces of freshly baked
items, 3) a fruit salad with real salad and half a slice of a warm
baguette and 4) choice of cheese omelette or scramble egg. Wow... A
nice sit-down breakfast that we didn't expect. If we were to go
somewhere else, it would have costed more for less. Not just the
b'fast portion and value for the dollar surprised us. We are a
regular patrons of its regular Walnut bread and olive baguette.

rel-ease-d

The man on the right has just been released from jail. Jailed for 6
1/2 years for no reason except that he attempted heading to the
capital to petition for his mentally disabled neighbour. That was
2003. Just prior to the big O... In accordance to "avoid
embarrassment to the p@rty", he was intercepted by local officials.
Drummed up with fake documents of psychiatric disease, this man was
banished to a psychiatric hospital. His family didn't know what
happened to him. By accident, he was "rediscovered" by a reporter.
This poor man received psychiatric treatments over the years.
Electric shock treatments... you name it, he received it all.

The four officials that drummed up the charges have been released from
their official duties. The web is mad about this. People expect
these officials were to be criminally charged. According to the Law
of the land, these officials were to be criminally charged. Smell a
cover up? One of the prominent C hin es e bloggers has brought up
official charges to these officials. The gov't has 2 weeks to
respond. Let see.....

Good thing that this man is out.

drying

Take a look at this picture; the residents of this little district are
using power lines to dry clothes because there is a shortage of drying
rack. This caused sudden power outages at times. A nearby dry-
cleaning shop also uses the powerlines to dry customer clothes. Funny
huh?

Blogging

From my iPhone at the CX lounge. A reflection came over me while on
ferry heading to HKG. My aunt got me a ferry tix on the premier grand
class. It was a jetfoil suited up to the hill and use fine china to
serve the first class passengers. Wow. Then now I am in the lounge.
Seems I have been in this "bubble" of traveling. Yes, biz class back
to PVG too. Compare to the people I read in SCMP like the mother and
child got rammed by this lorry driver. Baby dead and got disposed of
somewhere on the street. Or the Qinghai earthquake victims still
trying to find shelters from sandstorm, I am in this "exclusive" class
in Asia. Certainly I have a better life.

What I am getting at? There is no such thing as equal. Luck of the
draw for me. 2 weeks from now I am heading to Hayden Colorado for a
course with iron wife. Tending to horses as part of the 3 part series
on dealing eith business trust with clients. We dragged the upcoming
econo flight. Having security makes me a bit "spoiled" while thousands
are still looking for shelters. Guess I should suck it up and be a bit
more tolerable. Ok, maybe for a few hours at the very least.

Sent from my iPhone

ridiculous?

The "Better C!ty B e t ter L! Fe" is here. So it took me over 53
minutes from my apartment to the airport 35K away (door to door).
Normally, 35 minutes. 7 more minutes yesterday, I could have taken a
car with a private driver! The only thing that I saved was RMB
193.00. A private driver costs RMB 250. My public transport route
was RMB 7 for the subway and RMB 50 for the Maglev highspeed train
that only traveled at 301KM/h vs the normal 401 KM/h. Slloooowwww......

When I arrived at the CX counter, I was offered to depart with an
earlier flight. Sure. Why not. The agent was nice enough to "hint"
I should due to Air Travel Control again. Well.... Originally I was
scheduled to leave at 1:30pm, however I arrived the airport early
enough to take the 1pm flight. After I went thru immigration and
security, I discovered my plane wasn't there. Great.... The flight
was delayed to depart. 1:35pm. Ha! I was early but ended up late!
After we got on the flight, the door was not closed. Suspicious. The
pilot came on to say he had no clue when he could leave. Well to the
"Better C!ty B e t ter L! Fe". 20-30 minutes later, snack boxes
arrived! Not a good sign. Lunch was included. But these snack boxes
were extra, just ordered up by the flight crew. Beat that AC! By the
time the door was closed and taxing to the runway, we were an hour and
15 minutes behind schedule. This is the norm now. Stay away until
September! By then, things maybe better.

I landed in HKG at 4:35pm vs 3:30pm. On the train to town by 5pm.
Had a very wonderful sushi dinner at the IFC close to the Ferry
Terminal. Not cheap though, two of us costed HKD 850.00. Well.. nice
warm Sake and all the fresh fish. I can indulge once every 6-7 months
I guess. That was the bright spot!

Strange yesterday going to Macau from HK Ferry Terminal; quiet. The
boat was totally empty! Guess it is the quiet before the storm, the
May 1 festivity!

Muggy time in Macau, already had three showers today. Imagine it is
only 23C with 98% humidity!

Leaving tomorrow, now I have to decide if I shall continue to let my
bank in HK to follow up with its double withdrawal on my CC payment.
I paid up my balance in full last week and was told my autopay will
stop for this period. Nope. The bank double-dipped and charged me
interest. So far, it only cancel the interest charge because it
cleaned out my account and then some! This bank is meant to piss me
off me!

shelter

No home, no school and now dust storm. Since the big earthquake in
QingHai, there has been dust storm almost on a daily basis. Kids were
trying to shelter from the storm with whatever they could find.

Picture clipped from the Chinese official website....

not much

Not much to report on this side of the planet. Everything here is
gearing up for the World Expo. Even the colour scheme on the official
Chinese website has the blue hue. Really. Apparently, the $ spent
so far has exceeded the big O at the capital city by many many miles.
Can use the Star Trek's space travel distance tallying! Wonder who
has made all the $. Security is in heightened alert. Even at Hilton
today, I saw metal detector machines being setup at the entrance. O
yeah, an official special force policewoman was there to supervise the
setup.

All the trial runs of using the W.E. site so far were not promising.
But of course, the c0mM!e newspapers said no problem. Right. This
lady who does facial for iron-wife just said her cousin got stuck in
the subway entrance to the site for 3 hours; couldn't go in and
decided to turne back. He had one of the advance tickets as part of
the trial run participants. The Chine$e pavilion, need to book in
advance to get a ticket for entrance. Every time it started the
offering, 2 minutes later the tickets were gone. There were people
almost in riot because they couldn't get what they wanted.

Today, a trial run of 500K visitors had to dial down to 400K due to
crowd. I would stay away for the first 3 months until all the kinks
are worked out. O yeah, the subway that is suppose to be so
convenient for visitors... Well, that subway stop was skipped the
other day because it wasn't able to coup with the amount of
visitors... There were about 20,000 passengers. The train stopped at
another station and instructed passengers to the site to seek
alternative transportation. Good planning on the infrastructure...
Just like the new HongQiao Terminal 2 Departures... The highway going
into the airport went from 4 lanes to 1 lane. Traffic jam at 7am...
Friend of ours got stuck there for over 20 minutes because of this new
and improved traffic design. He almost missed the flight.

On the way home today, I saw the workers were out hanging "happy face"
plastic flowers on the trees along Nanjing Road. Yes, literally "Happy
Faces"!!!

Strong wind

Yesterday around noon, weather suddenly changed in HKG. In an hour,
temperature dropped over 5C and wind whipped up over 100K+ per hour.
A strange accident at HKG airport. A baggage container got blown
around and smacked right into the fuselage of a 737-800. The plane
was being boarded at the time for a trip to Bali. Needless to say,
the plane was grounded.

!d!ot

What an idiot this guy. His GF dropped a RMB 3,000 sunglasses to the
water in front of the Siberian Tiger cage. He told the zoo crews that
he was to jump into the water to look whether the tigers were locked
up or no. Fearing for this idiot's safety, the crew locked up the
tigers before he jumped into the water. Of course, he didn't find the
sunglasses.

57K ride

Tuesday morning... 830am, after a heathy diet of oatmeal, coffee (yes
coffee) and carrot/beet puree we headed out for a 57K ride thru
northern Singapore. There was no bike lane like in Shanghai. Manual
and gasoline powered vehicles sharing the road way which is about 13%
of the total developed land mass in Singapore. Mask, should have had
one! After a while, my face was covered with little dust and gasoline
engined discharged particles. There went my lungs. In a way, worse
than cycling in Shanghai.

A bit hilly around the area we cycled but that was Singapore, not as
flat as Shanghai. During our cycling we could see Malaysia across the
waterway, Johor Bahru. Cutting south from there, we cycled around the
Military base on the roadway which was planned to be a runway should
the need arise. That was a good stretch of road to cycle on. At
Bukit Timah, we had durians from Thailand; fresh and sweet. Iron-wife
was in heaven consuming the soft yellow creamy pungent smell fruit.

If one needs to cycle in Singapore, definitely start early like 5am
when it is still dark out there. Sky gets light after 645am.

Due to the volcano ash cloud, we couldn't get a hotel room in
Singapore. The only room available was a SGD 3,000 + taxes at St
Regus, YMCA for SGD 200+ and those Super 8 type motel for SGD 80.00 at
not so "proper" locations. We stayed at a friend's place for one
night; the the next night, we just took a red-eye back to Shanghai.
Amazing the entire plan was packed. Seems every flight is like that.
SQ has upgraded the interior of the 777-200/200ER recently. Now we
can "cramp" in a Givenchy designed econo seats. Biz and First Classes
got the 20-inch TV and wide flat bed seat that can fit 2 Asian "wide
asses" into. No, we did not try biz class as the ROI for us would
have been in the negative territory. 4 hours and 20 minutes of flat
bed sleeping for two was a total of SGD 4,000+. We have to charge
more per hour to clients to do that so I stayed up and watched two
movies. Couple nice touches for the "back of the bus" passengers
though, we got tooth brushes and mouthwash in the bathrooms. And each
passenger got a little pouch with socks and toothbrush in it. Beat
that North American airlines! One thing about a red-eye flight:
people are quiet and bathroom is not overflowed with idiots using it.
OK, that's two things.

omg

I just signed on to the Aeroplan site. And voila.... There was a
ticker scrolling across the screen announcing all the members taking
flights today along with the number of seats taken. Wow... I don't
want to be announced. With my first name, on the day I am flying,
people can see that I am flying. I hope there is an option to opt out
while I am booking.........

lightening

That ugly looking futuristic tower in this city finally caught fire
this morning, by severe lightning struck. I slept thru all the
excitement. Bummer. I meant, I slept thru all the lightenings and
loud thunders. Must be very tired.... Yes, still is.

Apparently, the lightening rod installed has not been properly
maintained for the last 15 years. Um.... Welcome to a "BeT TeR c!t
y, be tt Er l! Fe". The tower was opened this morning for tourists
already. You want to go? Weather forecast, rain today, temperature
will drop thru out the day with a hight of only 8C tomorrow.

unbelievable...

This has just in... In order to make this new event a safe and happy
place for everyone, except mobile phone, cameras, and vehicle keys are
banned from the 5.28 sq Kilometers of exhibition area. Banned
equipment include: wireless microphone, wireless audio and video
transmission equipment that exhibitors of pavilions need. Unreal...
O of course, you can apply for a licence in order to make them
"allowable" inside this special area. And prior of issuing a licence,
every single piece of the "banned" equipment must be tested by the
"you know who". Seriously unreal. There was no indication of
"application fee" for a valid licence. I imaging there will be one
attached to the application. Wonder who has dreamt up with this one
to make $. Give your head a shake.

better city

better life... That's the slogan for this year in this big city by
the HuangPu river. And with that, all prices have gone up
respectively with the "better quality of life". The soup at M&S I
bought, went up from RMB 15.00 to RMB 19.00 in two months! So today,
my lunch came to RMB 94.00. That was a lot to pay for a meal. Seems
to me the 100.00 notes here are like the equivalent of 10.00 notes in
Canada.

Here's a picture of this morning rush hour traffic. Don't be scared.
This was a typical intersection in this city. Self inflicted
gridlock. Notice the elevated express way? Heading to downtown
traffic. Not enough lanes. A bit foggy and rainy this morning.

And the last picture with a row of houses with orange sidings. That's
to cover up all the "sore sights" around the city. You know, cannot
let the visitors to see how a real demolition is here in this city; so
cover it up. The wall blocked off the actually condition of a city
block being bulldozed. And no construction is allowed to take place
until after the big event in this city. In the mean time, Ch!nE$E wall.

Yesterday, we went to our market to get some fresh veggies. It was
being renovated for a "better c!Ty, better L!Fe". This would become
an organic market. Right. Extra licences, extra certification and
extra everything. And the price of food would go up by 1000%. Wonder
where those food sellers at the original market had gone. Now, we are
facing with two supermarkets that will cost up 7 or 8 times for the
same piece of item.

plugged

Welcome to $h@ngh@i. People are actually quite selfish and self
absorbing here; thanks to the 1 child policy.... People just don't
give a $h!t (no punt intended with this picture). This was a plugged
toilet at a major subway station with about 10,000-passenger daily
flow. People just threw in coke bottles or newspaper plugging up the
toilets. A cleaning lady had to "unplug" the toilet about 20 times a
day by hand! The toilets were new addition for the convenient of
passengers.

Traveling to Chin@, beware of toilets....

scary

Brushing up my "In"-ter-nET Sec-xx-Urity knowledge. It's a scary
world out there. Thanks to the power of search engine and ease of use
of "canned" software. "Canned" software; that is, after you install
with the "default" configurations you are up and running in no time.
The convenient factor.

Go ahead and open up the G search that are so famous of late. In the
big square box, type in (without quotes) "resume filetype:doc" If you
want to do a more specific search, you can, after "doc" do a space and
then click the + sign and type in your keyword. Now

go ahead

and do you S-
earch

What you see is a list of rEsuMES on servers around the world. Scary
part is, these are WoRd documents you can just download. And once you
have it downloaded, you can edit it just your like your own document.
And since MS is so nice it stores extra information,

One can view the
"metadata" .... aka

additional information about the username of your system and the
company, etc.... from an option called "Properties..." under File.

Nice huh? Nope, Scary!

This is the first step of the latest technique in stealing identity
and h@cking a
target. I did a test this
morning and in 20 minutes,

I know more about a person including his appointment to Sa
$k gov with a 6-digit salary

All there for a person to see

The information is out there and too easy to get to with or without a
person knowing. I pull off a resume form a person who is living in
the M.E.

and he worked for an Indian company
and that Indian company, an IT firm was working under contract
for my former company doing

database upgrade in 2009. This person even wrote down every single
detail of the tools and products used during that period ....

Now, a h@ckER using technical information obtained can attempt access
to a company Ummm......

This contractor, the Indian company guy, even put in his DOB, his
dad's full name, and very private information about himself. Not too
good .... Now a h@ckEr can use the DOB to do something on F@CeB0oK to
start some identify thief activities.

Welcome to the technological age.

Just remember, when filling up an online form for a registration you
do not need to put in real data specially for websites. CC payment on
legit websites, you have to. Do not posting your actual Word
documents of personal info for submission.

book

Just finished a very interesting book. Finally! MY OWN TIME to
immerse myself with a "Geeky" book. It turned out not so geeky. It
was quite an interesting read, recommend to everyone. This book
discussed the most recent Cyber Warfare as well as the techniques and
infrastructure deployed in very plain English. It really touched on,
again in very plan English, the Social Engineering aspects of the
attacks. Facebook, Google Apps, LinkedIN, you named it. I had been
suspecting the ease of att@cks using them and this book had confirmed
it 100%. And Yes, the RBN (Russian Business Network) connections.
The author of this book was in line with what I have been preaching
for the last two years, skip the MS Operating system and get yourself
a Mac. Wipe your old laptop of MS and install Ubuntu Linux (free and
has everything). At least with that, you will decrease your chance of
being a "zombie" in a Botnet, infect with viruses that can steal your
username and password, or blame as an agent to the c0Mm!e land
@tt@cking foreign countries. ;-)

Name: Inside Cyber Warfare by O'Reilly. I purchased the PDF version
and downloaded it this afternoon. Started reading at 2:30pm and now
5:45pm, I am finished (that's including the 10 minutes I spent
retrieving a stuck drain plug in the sink caused by Ayi today). O
yeah, with my free account, I got 40% the listed price. Maybe I can
load it up to my "potential" iPad with a Kindle App. Ha! Not ready
to purchase one yet. Never buy 1st generation of anything. Maybe a
Kindle DX International version.

Next two books on my list: Hacking, The Next Generation (Don't be
confused with "Star Trek, The Next Generation) and Mac OX for Unix
Geeks. Yes, so boring.

fainted

This passenger fainted and fell onto the track yesterday at a subway
station. Good thing there was no incoming train at the time. He was
"retrieved" in less than 3 minutes after the alarm was sounded and
stopped the train from coming into the station.

tax sys

Maybe RC should think about modeling after this c0mMiE t@x reporting
system. Lower the c0rp0r@te t@x but make people pay a premium to buy
these outdated low tech machines (see pictures) as mandatory t@x
tool. (Now the UT group in Toronto can h@ck into C0Mm!e land, maybe
should h@ck this!)

The c0mMiE's old hand written form of the official tax receipts is
phased out. It is now using a highly technologically advanced
equipment comprising of: a huge Lenovo dot-matrix machine the size of
an old 70's IBM typewriter using parallel port and an electronic tax
receipt recording device using RS232 port. How it works? Well....

That printer costs RMB 3,000. The tax receipt recording device costs
RMB 2,000.00. Think about it; this is mandatory for every single
business in China be it multi-nationals or locals; you need these
machines to issue tax receipts. No issuing, no one wants to do
business with you. So..... 13 billion people, give or take about 1
billion people needing the equipment plus all the Westerners coming to
this side of the world setting up shop.... (RMB 3,000+RMB 2,000.00) *
1,000,000,000. Then, of course, you need to buy a local language XP
computer to run the equipments. Optional but "recommended". Thank
you. The tax department can sell that to you too. Heck, it will throw
in McAfee security, a monitor and a Bill Gate$ / $teve Balmer
compliant MS licence for RMB 5,200.00 or so. That's (RMB5,200) *
1,000,000,000. Of course, all these equipments come with one year
onsite service. Next business day apparently. Let see who's making
the $ here. Levnovo for printers, HP for the computers outdated core
2 duo with only 1G of memory, McAfee for better security, Microsoft
for volume licences, tax department for more accurate tax collection
and friends of friends of relatives of some relatives and relatives of
this new tax reform edict (to make parts for the equipment). Ummm.....

Wait, there's more. Operators of these machines need to buy blank
official tax receipts for printing. About RMB 40.00 or so for 20...
And the tax department is so thoughtful that operators can purchase
"practice" tax receipts to practice printing. O what captitali$t
thinking here?

Now that the "system" is all setup for business, every month the
operators MUST use an accompanied USB stick to download all the
transactions from the recorder. Go to the designated tax office of
the local district and then plug the USB stick to the "mother ship"
uploading the records. This exercise is repeated monthly. Wonder
what kind of antivirus the "mother ship" has? Maybe the largest
b0tNet found is because of this type of upload! Ha!

One inconvenient thing if paper jam occurs. Yes, it happens. The
operator needs to use another set of blank Official tax receipts to
"back out a.k.a cancel" the jammed receipt and then reissue another
one. So in total 3 set of prints for one set of good one. Why I said
3 set. Each tax receipt printing has 3 sheets. The top is for tax
reporting, the second is for your client and the 3rd is for the
accountant to verify income.

So there you have it. How convenient huh? Wonder how I can break the
news to iron-wife about the flimsy looking printer and its colour are
going to clash with our home office decor theme.

nice

Nice huh? This was a brand new all for anti-flood along the Huangpu
river in the city. The tiles already cracked and fell off in pieces.
Just like flakes. Wonder what kind of quality it was. The second
picture was after the fix. Maybe I should move to higher ground. But
then again, not sure if the foundation is strong enough.

quiet morning

Wow. Look at this. The most busiest street in Shanghai (our
apartment on) is all quiet this Sunday morning at 8:30am. It's a long
weekend here. The annual grave sweeping day. According to the city
gov't report over 2.5 Million left the city to sweep ancestor's graves
yesterday. Notice the blue sky too?

travel site

Here's the official Expo hotel/travel booking site. It welcomes
International travelers to book in order enjoy discounts. Well,
problem with this is NO English! The website is: www.expotia.com.
What kind of name is this? I would expect something more meaningful.
Umm.....

O yeah, one more edict issued: anyone who purchase Rat Poison must
present ID for registration effectively starting on April 15 for six
months. OK, so all those bad people will wait until April 15 before
buying or will they just start stock piling now? Silly.

What a Saturday

We were running from place to place to get pampered. Yes. We started
at 10:30am to have a back massage for both followed by haircuts. That
took till 1:30pm. We then head over to another district for lunch at
a place called Slice. It was setup by this famous chef called David
Laris. He setup a nice posh restaurant called Laris on the Bund. I
was there two years ago. Food, as Singaporean would say "OK La".
Translation "OK, so so".

The lunch was too expensive today. We each had a sandwich and a beet,
carrot and ginger juice. The total came to RMB 170. When the
sandwich came for us, it was on a cutting board and with two halves of
a sandwich on rye bread for me and panini for iron-wife. We looked,
stared and then commented "That's it"? Not even a small portion of
salad or condiment. Nothing! With the soon forced appreciation of
RMB by the brother South of the 49th parallel, our sandwich costed CAD
12.00 each! For two pieces of bread. This was an expansive lunch. I
never spent that much money so fast for 5 bits per half of a sandwich.

After the lunch we headed toward home direction for facial. Iron-
wife's Saturday idea. We walked thru a park. It was warm and sunny.
Green space and the smell of fresh cut grass. Wow... I really took it
for granted with that smell at Murray and Tor all those years. Here
are some pictures from the park today. Notice, the green grass.
People were forbidden to walk on it. The park had crews out to
supervisor and whistle at trespassers.

4pm facial. We were sound asleep while our faces were worked on.
7pm, we stepped out in the dark. That was the end of a day.

waste

This was an observation tower at H@ik0u, H@iN@n Island where the
latest real estate bubble is occurring. It didn't last more than 11
years and had been demolished to make way for a NEW hotel! Really!
This observation tower opened on Jan 1, 2001. It was a millennium
tower. Also at the time it was in the World Guinness record for the
tallest observation tower. Funny about the name of this tower, 1000-
year tower. Maybe someone got confuse with numbers. Should chop two
zeros off the name. All those raw materials gone to waste. Welcome
to the untamed wild wild west of H@in@N.

edicts

In order to ensure a safe expos for the next six months, the city is
implementing rules to control sale of knives. Yes. Porcelain knives
are banned from stores. Chinese butcher knives, large size cutting
knives can only be purchased at designated areas. And please present
valid gov't issued ID for verification and recording. Wonder if there
are new serial numbers on knives to match ID with a knife. Hardly.....

No large bags entering the expos site.

Banned substances to the expos site are obviously bullets, bombs and
all. However, there are more. They are: lighters, matches, baseball
bat, umbrellas with sharp end, ball (any types of balls except the one
attached), racquets, walkie-talkie (there goes all the US tourists
from Disney), remote control toys as well as water and drinkable
liquids. Now serious, who would bring in a racquet to walk around? A
baseball bat? Really...

O yeah, expect major delays at the two airports here. The air space
will be tight. And have recruited 3 nearby airports for backup.
Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Hefei. Each takes anywhere from 1 to 3 hours
of highspeed train ride.

Yes, one more thing. No dog!

gift

Wow... 22 brand new 5 series for the Expos here. And they are used by
the public security bureau to open roads for dignitaries visiting.
And they are donated by the 5 series maker. I was trying to find the
original article from the "official" online news website. The title
was (paraphrased and translated) "using Expos as an excuse to gift to
gov't". Yes, it's definitely an excuse. Hello. What technology will
this 5 series contribute to open road for dignitaries when everywhere
will be so congested, you can't even move anywhere with that many cars
on the road here. Wait, this is c0mM!e land; so the almighty will
block all the roads for the dignitaries so that there will be no
traffic jam. Right, I've forgotten about that. Yes, now the cars
make sense. They can just zip around on streets totally voided with
vehicles.

Now, why this company not contributing the electric Mini's like its
pilot programs in NYC? It'll be more environmentally friendly. Not
need the high octane 92+ for gas and less pollution to the already
sometimes bad air quality here? Ummm..... Since the Expos is
promoting clean energy by having hydrogen fuel cell buses around the
site, why not these new cars?

mixed

Not sure if anyone has aware that last month, a scientist with the
Food Safety Administration issued his own warning about cooking oil.
He said about 10% sold in the c0Mm!e l@nd is contaminated.
Cont@min@ted by underground manufacturers using oil disposed by
restaurants to the sewage system. Of course, it was such a shock.
This scientist after commenting was immediately "pressured" by higher
authorities to re-can the finding. Too late. The ugly is out.

Here is a picture of someone "capturing" his raw material to make
cooking oil for sale. And believe of not, this happened just around
the corner from our apartment less than 30 meters away. In front of
this manhole, there are 3 cooking stalks running their businesses.

real estate

Buyer's beware. On one side of the river lies all these nice villas
and just across a small river, the "reality". The residents of the
upscale villas complained about the untreated human waste just being
dump directly to the water from the make-shift open door toilets. The
smell is so bad in the Summer, no one opens any windows.