Can u spot the missing info?

Although im in a far-far-away land, i still folow the current affairs of our bolehland. Spotted an interesting article from the star about a malaysian born new ausie minister; Interestingly the article had i think intentionally deleted somethg about her. Erm, i do understand why. its like we all malaysian can be proud about her being a minister but it wont go well if the deleted info is undeleted. can u spot the missing info?

From The Star

Sabah dad proud of new Aussie minister
By Muguntan Vanar
KOTA KINABALU: Pride and joy was all over the face of the father of Malaysian-born Penny Wong Ying Yen who has been appointed as a cabinet minister in Australia.
“I am very happy. I hope her appointment will be a blessing for Australia,” said Penny’s father Francis Wong Yit Shing, 66, an architect here.
The 39-year-old Penny, who was born in Sabah but grew up in Australia from the age of eight with her mother, was named Climate Change and Water Minister Thursday by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd whose Labour party won the recent elections.
Francis, who described his daughter as a go-getter, said that the portfolio given to his daughter was very “current and important” not only for Australians but for the people around the world who are concerned about global warming and climate change.
“I know she is a very responsible person and she will work hard to achieve her objectives,” said the father, who keeps in touch with his daughter through SMS.
Describing his daughter as a person with strong personality, he said that he never expected Penny to become a politician.
“I wanted her to be a doctor and she enrolled for it but a year later she switched to law after she went on a student exchange programme to Brazil where she saw the need to help people,” said Francis.
On completing her studies, she got involved in unions and industrial court cases in Australia and “I believe that the Labour Party spotted her capability and urged her join them.”
Penny became the first Asian-born woman Senator when she won a seat in South Australia in 2002 and last week’s Australian elections saw her winning a second term with her party toppling John Howard’s government.
Asked if he had ever given his daughter any political advice, Francis said that the politics that he knew about was only that of South East Asia and that “Australian politics (is) totally different.”
“ We mostly talk family matters ... not much on politics though I always follow developments of her career,” he said, adding that Penny is an outdoor person who has among others, scaled Mount Kinabalu several times and dived in Sipadan.
Francis said Penny and her mother left Sabah for Australia in 1977 for Penny’s education while he remained in the state. Over time, he and his wife separated with Penny taking up her mother’s Australian citizenship.
source http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/11/29/nation/20071129153509&sec=nation

From Wikipedia

Penny Wong
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Penelope Ying-yen "Penny" Wong (Chinese; pinyin: Huáng Yīngxián, born November 5, 1968), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since 2002, representing South Australia. On 29 November 2007 she was appointed to be the first Australian Minister for Climate Change. She is the first openly gay [1] and the first Asian member of the Australian Cabinet.
PersonalWong was born in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia to a Chinese Malaysian father and an Australian mother.[2][3] She moved to Australia at the age of eight with her mother and brother, after her parents separated. After spending a year on exchange in Brazil, Wong studied Arts/Law at the University of Adelaide. While at university, she worked part time for the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.
CareerShe also became involved in political activism at university, winning a position on the National Executive of the National Union of Students. In 1988, Wong joined the Australian Labor Party, winning a position as a delegate to the party's state convention the following year. She has been a delegate each year since, with the exception of 1995.
Wong graduated from university in 1992, and continued on with the CFMEU, working as an industrial officer, gaining admission to the bar in 1993. During 1995 and 1996, she acted as an advisor to the New South Wales state government, specialising in the area of forest policy. On returning to Adelaide, she began practising law, won a position on the ALP's state executive, and also took on work as a legal officer with the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union.
Wong ran for pre-selection for the Senate in 2001, and was selected for the top spot on the party's South Australian ticket, as a result of affirmative action policies and factional changes. Wong is a member of EMILY's List Australia, the support network for Labor women, and currently sits on a number of Senate committees, primarily those related to economics.
She has been a vocal critic of Prime Minister John Howard's ban on same-sex marriages, despite the ban also having the support of her own party.
In June 2005 Wong was appointed Shadow Minister for Employment and Workforce Participation and Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance and Responsibility. Following the reshuffle in December 2006, she became responsible for the portfolios of Public Administration & Accountability, Corporate Governance & Responsibility, and Workforce Participation.
In November 2007, in the wake of the Labor Party victory in the 2007 election, Wong was appointed Minister for Climate Change and Water. Her appointment as the first Australian from an Asian background to hold a cabinet position was quickly greeted by ethnic groups. She will accompany Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to Bali for the international climate change talks.source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Wong

Firefly's 4th Model

In the past post bout firefly [Firefly can now Fly High], I was wondering where the hell is the 4th model in the Firefly's official web, promoting the 2000 free seats.

Erm, supposed there are six of them, since these jpegs are numbered from 1 to 6 with number 4 missing.
When u login to firefly, let me know if you found the 4th model Mayb (s)he got banned, bcos his/her pic doesnt pass the 'level of shock' firefly required. Hehe

Finally, I found the 4th person, and he is in real shock. Too shock, it doesn't pass to appear on the web (pls don't take this seriously, Dear reader :P)







Update on Firefly: Firefly will take over FAX

WARNING: TRAVELING BY PLANE CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL WARMING
this should be printed on plane tickets in the future, like the warning of harmful health effect of smoking on cigarette box

Indah Water, a Cleaner or a Polluter?

From The Star (Nation) Wednesday April 25, 2007

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid:
Indah Water Konsortium (IWK) the biggest polluter

Sewage management company Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd (IWK) is the main polluter of rivers in Peninsular Malaysia...Describing the situation as “very bad,” Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid said that IWK had not done its job anywhere it operated...“Ninety one percent of pollution of rivers in the country is from inadequately-treated sewage,” he said...There are some 17 rivers in the country that have been classified as critically polluted, of which three are in Johor – the Sungai Seget, Sungai Skudai and Sungai Tebrau......“To be very blunt, IWK has failed to do complete treatment of the sewage and they are the main culprits,” Abdul Ghani added...When reached, an IWK spokesman declined to comment.

[Full article]

Erm, I am puzzled, we pay IWK to pollute our rivers? Who is actually IWK? So I check their official web

Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd, a national sewerage company, wholly-owned by the Minister of Finance Incorporated, is responsible for providing sewerage services, operating and maintaining over 9,100 public sewage treatment plants, 16,000km networks of sewerage pipelines and providing scheduled desludging services to over 350,000 individual septic tanks in Malaysia since April 1994.

There are mainly two types of sewerage systems/services in Malaysia. The premises' sewerage systems are either connected to a public sewage treatment plant or have an individual septic tank.
IWK is mainly responsible for operating and maintaining the public sewage treatment plants and network of underground sewerage pipelines as well as providing desludging services to individual septic tanks.
The services are rendered through the company's 17 Unit Offices/Customer Service Centres located throughout the country, except Johor Bahru, Kelantan, Sabah and Sarawak.

OK, IWK is a gov related body responsible to clean our waste water, but they fail to do so.
As a Malaysian citizen, I wonder what is happening, something fishy perhaps.

The April 22 Earth Day

Earth Day is a perfect time to reflect about what you are doing to help protect the environment. There are many ways that you can celebrate alone and with others.

[Earth Day in Wikipedia]
[How to celebrate Earth Day]

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Positive effect of global warming?

A survey of 315 fungi species conducted by Alan Gange at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK found that within just 50 years, many fungi have doubled the length of their breeding season from 33 days on average to 74 (according to Species). Fungi now reproduce twice a year, "Now the fungi grow, and with the rain in March they fruit and appear in April or May," he says.

In many respects, this dramatic change may have positive ecological effects, says Gange. "Mushrooms provide a huge food resource for insects, which themselves are food for birds," he says. Fungi also accelerate decomposition of wood and leaf matter, providing more soil nutrients for plants.



Journal Abstract
GANGE, A. C., GANGE, E. G., SPARKS, T. H. & BODDY, L. (2007) Rapid and Recent Changes in Fungal Fruiting Patterns. Science, 316, 71-.

News extracted from NewScientist Enviroment
Warming climate creates mountains of mushrooms

Erm, at least we can eat mushrooms when the global warming worsen. I love mushrooms!

My homemade mushroom pizza 10/5/2007


I know, its doesnt look that appetizing, :D, I learned the basics of western cooking from Jamie's, my cooking guru besides my M, his chop and throw technique is so cool, thats the reason my pizza doesn't look pretty, but I can assure you that it taste fantastic :D Hehe puji diri sendiri, but my D said so Hah

Observe the topping hv plenty of mushrooms, thx to the global warming. :P

It’s the Celebration of Lightbulb Invention

Kelantan is celebrating the success of Thomas Edison inventing light bulb.
Haha. Not really.
If you don’t know exactly whats happening here, check out the Chinese Calendar or 'Kalendar Kuda'
Here are some of the current pics of the main road in Kota Bharu during the night.







Its beautiful, thousands of colorful lightbulb, but do we know that conventional lightbulb (using electricity generated from coal) contribute loads to global warming?

Fact 1: source link
Regular incandescent light bulb vs compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL)
CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb, this simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

Fact 2: source link
How much CO2 is emitted as a result of my using specific electrical appliances?
For this answer, we refer you to an excellent article, "Your Contribution to Global Warming," by George Barnwell, which appeared on p. 53 of the February-March 1990 issue of National Wildlife, the magazine of the National Wildlife Federation. The article, assuming that your electricity comes from coal, calculates CO2 emissions corresponding to the use of various electrical appliances. For example, one hour's use of a color television produces 0.64 pounds (lb) of CO2, and each use of a toaster produces 0.12 lbCO2, whereas a day's use of a waterbed heater produces 24 lb CO2.
In general, the coefficient is about 2.3 lb CO2 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity. You can calculate the kWh of electricity by multiplying the number of watts (W) the appliance uses times the number of hours (h) it is used, then dividing by 1000. For example a 60-W light bulb operated for 24 h uses
(60 W) x (24 h) / (1000) = 1.44 kWh.
This use of electricity would produce an emission of
(1.44 kWh) x (2.3 lb CO2 per kWh) = 3.3 lb CO2
if the electricity is derived from the combustion of coal.

In a lay man language: source link
• 90 per cent of the energy goes into generating heat.
• If every American home switched their five most-used light fittings to energy-saving bulbs, they would save $6bn (£3.2bn) and reduce greenhouse gases by nearly half a million tons.
Thats really a lot!

And the ironic part is…

"I want to remind the state government that uncontrolled logging meant to clear rubber and oil palm estates, among others, could lead to erosion and global warming," Tuanku Ismail Petra said in his 57th birthday address.
Full text from NST
Ths also appear on the front page of Utusan Malaysia (Full text)

Yes very true, but I don’t think this only happens exclusively in Kelantan but also applies throughout Malaysia. Check the Google earth and see the green distribution of Malaysia.

(pls click for larger image)
Observe! Is it greener on the other side?

We all know that trees are the major and the most important natural defense against carbon emission (PDF file that elaborate this). Its true that saving our trees is important, but its also important for us to take part in reducing the green gases for example by using the electricity wisely.

Its not that I wanna insult any entity, but it’s the truth. Its not purely anybody fault either, I guess we as Malaysian don’t really have enough exposure in this issue, bcos we don’t really feel the current impact being felt by majority of ppl globally. I heard lots of my friend in the UK complaining bout the extreme cold even after winter, sudden temperature change etc. The news also broadcast frequent occurrence of natural disaster like hurricane and flood that happens all over the world. Alhamdulillah Malaysia is saved from all this except the flood which happens only once in a while, and we should also be thankful, although the sun sometimes feel too bright and painful.
But this doest mean Malaysian should close their eyes and ears to these, eventually everyone will be exposed to the affect, as the earth we share is just a tiny bit.
Steps should be taken at all level from organization to personal to keep our earth clean. For example Australia had taken a step ahead by banning the traditional light bulbs. (full article on Australia banning the light bulb).

If you're still skeptical, you can watch this 6.5mins VDO campaign below and read this informative post by Nasyrah

please watch till the end, the closure is real funny :)