wehavelove - do we have such creativity in malaysia??

a friend of mine in sweden have created a band and compose dance songs. i have checked out their songs, it is pretty good in terms of creativity and quality. 2 thumbs up bethany! :)

you can check it out here

wehavelove

Melamine Tainted Dairy Product from China - how serious is the problem from where you are?

I am sure most of you are aware of the Melamine tainted milk crisis in China that killed many babies.. however the problem looks like it is not just contained to infant formulas.

in Malaysia, the government is recalling many products in the shelves of our hypermarts...first it was some candies, now most of the biscuits that we ate are suspected to be melamine tainted.

since many of china's produce is exported to many parts of the world, i think this issue is slowing building up to be a global famine ?? i think...

just some background to this $h%T that happened, apparently the manufacturer of the infant formula have received complained from consumer that their product make infant sick, they did nothing for approximately 7 months from December 2007 till June 2008 and then all hell brooke loose on the 30th June 2008 when they received reports of 5 infants deaths.

take a look at the chronology of events below..

Source : http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.culture.china/2008-09/msg00478.html

 December 2007: Sanlu Group Co. receives complaints from consumers 

that its infant formula was sickening babies, according to state 

broadcaster China Central Television, citing findings from a State 

Council investigation. 

• June 2008: Sanlu learns its milk powder is contaminated with 

melamine, CCTV says. 

• June 30: China's product quality watchdog receives a complaint that 

five infants at the Hunan province children's hospital have kidney 

stones and were all fed Sanlu brand milk powder, according to data on 

the Web site of China's food safety watchdog that has since been 

removed. 

• July 24: A pediatrician tells the watchdog he has seen nine cases of 

kidney stones in infants, all of whom drank Sanlu formula. The 

unidentified doctor expresses concern over the milk powder, according 

to data on the watchdog Web site that has since been removed. 

• Aug. 2: Sanlu alerts the government of Shijiazhuang, the northern 

Chinese city where the company is based, that its infant formula is 

tainted, according to CCTV. At a Sanlu board meeting, New Zealand 

dairy farmers' group Fonterra, a major investor in the company, learns 

about complaints of sick babies and urges an immediate recall. 

• Aug. 6: Sanlu pulls baby milk powder from distributors, but does not 

do a public recall. 

• Aug. 8: The Beijing Olympics open and run until Aug. 24. 

• Sept. 5: Fonterra informs New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark 

about the issue. Three days later, Clark orders New Zealand officials 

to inform officials in Beijing. 

• Sept. 9: Shijiazhuang city officials inform Hebei provincial 

officials. A day later, Hebei provincial officials contact the central 

government. 

• Sept. 11: Sanlu publicly recalls 700 tons of baby formula. 

Government vows "serious punishment" for those responsible. Xinhua 

reports dozens of babies have kidney stones and one baby has died. 

• Sept. 13: Vice Health Minister Gao Qiang says 432 babies fed Sanlu 

formula have developed kidney stones. Gao blames Sanlu for delays in 

warning the public and launches an inspection of all Chinese formula 

companies. Hebei's vice governor says authorities have seized 2,176 

tons of Sanlu formula and recalled 8,218 tons. 

• Sept. 15: Number of sickened children rises to more than 1,200, with 

two deaths. China's quality watchdog says contamination occurred 

mainly at farms, which sell raw milk to dairy companies. Sanlu's vice 

president apologizes, but does not explain the delay in informing the 

public. 

• Sept. 16: A nationwide inspection of 109 Chinese baby milk powder 

companies uncovers 22 with traces of melamine. Sanlu General Manager 

Tian Wenhua is fired and dismissed from board of directors, state 

media reports. 

• Sept. 17: China's two largest dairies, Mengniu Dairy Co. and Yili 

Industrial Group Co., recall baby formula. Health minister says three 

babies have died and more than 6,200 others have been sickened. China 

deploys 5,000 inspectors to companies producing baby milk. 

• Sept. 18: Authorities arrest 12 more people, bringing total detained 

to 18. Police confiscate 660 pounds of suspected chemicals. 

• Sept. 19: Crisis widens after government tests find melamine in 

liquid milk produced by three of China's leading dairies. 

·    Sept. 21: Health ministry reports the number of sickened children soars to nearly 53,000, with 12,892 hospitalized and 104 in serious condition. The Chinese territory of Hong Kong reports the first known illness outside mainland China, a 3-year-old girl who developed kidney stones after drinking Chinese dairy products. 

• Sept. 22: The head of China's product quality watchdog agency 

resigns.

now this is just baby formulas, which have a direct impact on consumers especially babies. for 7 months between Dec 2007 and June 2008, I believe many raw ingredients for producing other dairy products already been exported out from China to the rest of the world such as raising agent ammonium bicarbonate.

beside faking nutricious value in milk, producer in China can fake almost every single edible product i believe such as faking bamboo shoot from wooden chopstick!!!

I will try to upload some pictures on how wooden chopstick is done made in bamboo shoot.

 

 

Comparative Business Law

To understand law one must not be confined to only the law of the land that you are living in. Due to the nature of the our society and the way the world is being globalised, one will eventually be trading and interacting with cultures, countries and people from different background and the way they are govern.

that is why, there is a need for anyone who is involved in trades and business across the border to understand the legal systems that governs yourself and governs the party that you are interacting with. If it is across international borders.

the purpose for Comparative Business Law study is to understand

- the different cultures and legal systems that exists in any interaction that you might encounter in conducting your business or interactions across international borders.

- to provide an understanding to anyone that is conducting business in this globalised environment on knowledge of different cultures and their legal system that might have an impact in conducting their business transactions.

- to provide an understanding to anyone that is doing cross cultural and cross border business transactions, the choice of law that applies to the nature of their business transaction and to understand the option and impact of these choices that might applies to their business transactions.

- to provide a different perspective of how any problems or issues that arises from our own legal system is addressed and how the same problem that occurs in another culture and legal system will be address and interpreted within the confine of their legal systems.

such nature of comparison exist not just purely in interpreting law of lands but also in our day to day endeavour in addressing business issues. we will constantly seek understanding and perspective of such similar issues that arises in other business and how it can provide a lesson learn in our approach in handling similar cases in our very own environment.

Comparative Law and Business

My first class for the new semester starts with 2 subjects and some new classmates. Well the order for today was a Project Management Class (hmm..same ol same ol subjects that i have to go through for PMP and PRINCE2), that's why i chose to major in Project Management for my MBA endeavour.

the next class was Comparative Law and Business in the afternoon. Man!! what a time to do a class in law after meal and smack right in the middle of a sunday afternoon which is best utilised for being a couch potato or sleeping in late but then somehow my other conscience told me to chose 2 classes for sunday...hmm...wise wise wise..

LAW5504 as what my fellow classmates and myself will address this subject for the next 3 months see the record breaking of almost 150 students for Group B!! and there is Group A,B and C for this subject..phewwww!!!

Wonder if after this semester will there be an in flux of 200 over wannabe lawyers that will flood the market..hahahahah

Folding Spacetime - a Sci-Fi ??

Deja-vu – starring Denzel Washington as ATF Agent Doug Carlin investigating a terrorist attack on Port Algiers in New Orleans, the intriguing part here is that, the joint FBI investigation using the latest technology satellite image that can pan 3D, looking at you from every angle from above. Now as far as I know, most of the time, when the US of A government possess any new hi tech equipment, the way they use to incept the usage of those technology slowly into the public acceptance is by highlighting those technologies in movies, if you remember the movie “Enemy of the States” starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman, it was about using hi tech satellite surveillance technology to monitor the enemy. And trust me..it does exist. Now if they really did developed such enhanced surveillance, imagine this, any government in the world that can monitor u from the sky are able to look at you while you are bathing IN 3D, freaky eh?? Hmm…as far as I know, any satellite deployed above the earth are only able to look down unto the earth 180 Deg vertically, but in 3D mode, I doubt so, if they really are able to developed such tech, it will be damn freaky…

Now here is the interesting part… the Surveillance technologies in this movie, is not surveillance but some sort of a “time machine”, which they use to walkthrough a specific point in time in the past in 3D. this can be achieved by folding spacetime. Travelling from one point to another point through a distance is relative to time, given a constant speed. If we put 2 point on a paper, Point A (past) and Point B (present) and draw a straight line between these 2 point to represent distance. To travel between these 2 point in time, the fastest way is to fold the paper into half and having this 2 point touching each other, thus creating a wormhole.

how can we fold spacetime ? this can be done by putting masses to apply pressure on any part of the universe will eventually push this 2 part of the universe together to create a tunnel between, which is call a wormhole.

My thoughts were broken into 2 options :

1) What if the Satellite technology has advance to such that they can pan in 3D at any point on earth, I will be god damn!, have we realized that bit by bit , day by day, our personal information is being stored into some sort of chip ? our bankard, EMV Visa Master, MyKard and god knows what else is coming, while I am working in IT line, I never do fancy having all my information stored electronically in any chip, at least not all..i wish to retain some independence way of from IT.


2) Now if Time travel do exist, what would I do ? would I travel a thousand years back to the time of the Wallaces? The Henries ?? the Elizabeths? The Qings or the Vikings? Just to see how life is like during that period of time, I always wanted to know what is life like living in those time. Or would I travel to any point in my life in the past to make right what went wrong?


You see, what makes us all beautiful is that We are doomed the day we were born, we can never live the same moment in life twice, so each moment in our life might be the last moment of our life, that is because we were doomed.. a food for thoughts??

The funny thing is that, I wrote this thoughts down last nite, but one wrong press of a button deleted everything..and here I am writing this down again, Dejavu!!!!

Mein Kampf - My struggle

Mein Kampf or "my struggle", a book that the famous Adolf Hitler reportedly "wrote", which unlikely can be bought from any bookstores in malaysia. A book that i have been trying to get my hands on for many years, finally i have the opportunity to read this book , thanks to dan :)

well, dan and i have been debating about the idealogy of this infamous Führer of the 3rd reich of the germans. was he a great leader or a dark legacy that the people of germany is trying to forget ?? well if you talk to many germans in the present days, they will want to forget about the pain and suffering that hitler has brought to the world which so much affected the entire german population. in the book he talked about the supreme race, the Aryan race. what is the Aryan race? according to his book , the aryan race is the human race that has the physical appearance of fair skin, blonde hair and blue eyes and assert as the supreme form of human being or A.K.A "the master race" and he himself is the leader of this race ?? ..hmm..funny...the last time i checked , hitler got dark hair... :)

i am trying very hard to finish this book but i am still on chapter 2 of this book. it is an interesting book and perhaps more debates between myself and dan will help me to finish up this book even faster

what to blog?

hmm...blogging for the first time, am still thinking, how and what to blog about....???