My Longkang

Does money fall from heaven? No, it doesn’t ! But it does fall from a lorry. Marko Hilgert’s lorry, to be precise.

He had pledged to give away 75 000 euro away and he did it. Incredulous?

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I was at a coffee-shop. A man came over neatly dressed aged about 30 years old. He spoke with a China accent.

May I sit with you? I looked over and there were umpteen empty tables around. I suppose I had a puzzled air? Who is this guy I asked myself? Is he someone I have forgotten? Read more »

It happened this morning. The moment I got into the office, I noticed my colleague moving furtively. As a man , my first thought omg..how embarrassing..did I forget to do up my zip? I checked and Read more »

What a day I had…I think my pockets are quite empty nowadays with all the monthly bills to be paid and unexpected expenses and with the Chinese New Year coming.

However that didn’t stop a guy from trying to sell me a MP3 FM modulator. I asked him what it was. It was like a personal radio transmitting station to be plugged into the car and it would play on the car’s radio. The advantage is that unlike normal CD players, it uses a pen drive so the number of songs in the library is much bigger.

The price? A cool RM130.00. However I was assured by the suave salesman it was the best on the market

A guy who happened to be there when he saw that I didn’t buy the MP3 FM modulator tried to sell the Nokia 6630 to me..I hope I got the number right. Same pitch..best on the market for the price. A cool RM1000 but negotiable.

With my budget I best buy a plastic hand phone from the night market for RM3.00 and give it to Benghui to play

As Johor braces for possibly a third round of floods, their neighbours in Sarawak are getting prepared..just in case.

It is very hard nowadays for the meteorological department to make predictions as the weather patterns doesn’t seem to follow the usual pattern.

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The girl dubbed the mystery girl is attempting to reach out to people. She speaks but no one understands her. The lone psychologist who is attending to her is quoted as saying, she is open and showed some response to mental stimulus.

However there are some who are beginning to doubt the whole story. A visitor to the village is quoted as seeing her watching television with her mother ( The Borneo Post )

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Shark survivor tells of his ordeal and how he survived. He said half of his body was already in the shark, namely the head, shoulders and one arm. It was a very difficult time and he speaks of it as a battle. He speculates that the shark mistook him for a seal and when it realized he was not a seal, spat him out.

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This is the first among a series that highlights snippets of other people’s lives :

Conversations picked up in a coffeeshop

Gender : Female Age : 40
Dress code : sexily, well dressed

Aduh, I am so tired. They charged RM500+ per table for 5o tables for the wedding dinner at what has been hailed as the best restaurant ( not named for obvious reasons ) in town. The dinner was no better than one prepared by any coffee shop in town, the portions were meager and the ingredients were cheap and common.

All we got was service, lots of it. There were so many staff in attendance and the 8 course meal stretched to 3 hours. Many guests left well before the final item arrived. sigh sigh.

Comment : Good food need not always be found in fancy and expensive places. Most dinner outlets in Sibu charge RM250 upwards per table. To pay more than RM500 in Sibu is to pay a fortune.

A Spanish psychologist, Mr Rifa, of Spain’s Oviedo University, who has been working with Cambodia’s hill tribes on issues of health promotion for the last four years, is travelling to Cambodia’s remote north-east jungles to see a woman who some people claim has been lost and living exiled from human kind for 19 years. Read more »

Ever fancied being a shark’s dinner? I guess no body thought they would ever escape from a shark’s jaw alive. Australian Eric Nerhus had his head bitten by a Great White Shark and lived to tell the tale. Read it here.