5 Dont Series (Part 1)

DON'T SLEEP WITH A (DIGITAL) WATCH

Watches can emit a certain level radioactivity. Though small, but if you wear your watch to bed for a long time, it might have adverse effect on your health.

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I dont claim ownership of the post above and I have not verify the facts above, it was taken from an e-mail forwarded to me from a friend which I find it interesting and funny.

Joshua

Narita International Airport- Tokyo

I took this picture (with passenger aircrafts queing up for take off) when I was transiting at Tokyo-Narita International Airport (Narita Airport) enrouting to Washington D.C. The flight from Singapore took an hour and half circling above the coast of South-eastern Japan due to heavy air traffic before the flight received a green light for landing at Narita Airport. Believe it or not, it was on a one fine day.

Narita Airport is the second busiest passenger airport and the busiest air-freight airport in Japan and it is the 8th busiest air-freight airport in the world! The airport serves Tokyo and it is about 50-60 km away from Tokyo City Centre.

Looking at the planes touching down or taking off at almost every 5 minutes or probably even shorter, one could only wonder the magnitude of effort and coordination that all around has to played to ensure smooth running of an airport, especially one of the busiest airport in the world!

Every flight involves engineers to pilots, air traffic controllers to airport officers, ground traffic controllers to weather station, air marshalls/security to air traffic pattern...and at least another several dozens of skills and professionals are involved.

Two-thumbs up for all who works in the aviation industries ensuring safe and smooth air-travelling for hundreds of millions of people every year and of course at any time, millions of people are up in the air (off ground). Amazing!

Joshua

A minor dissection on Pakatan Rakyat's 2nd crisis of confidence.

Pakatan Rakyat, an alliance formed by Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Democratic Action Party (DAP) and Pan-Malaysia Islamic Party (PAS) on April 2008, after Malaysian voters handed the opposition parties a landslide one-third of the parliamentary seats in the national level and mandated Pakatan Rakyat to govern 5 states as the State Governments through the 12th General Election.

DAP Parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang has described the latest Kedah state DAP pull out from Pakatan Rakyat state coalition governing the state led-by PAS as Pakatan Rakyat second's crisis of confidence after a much-reported and heated crisis of confidence involving PAS's "Unity Talk" idea with UMNO, the governing party since Malaysia got its independence 52 years ago.

While DAP leaders at national level play down the displeasure displayed by Kedah State DAP's media announcement of quitting the state government coalition led-by PAS, Pakatan Rakyat as a viable and capable political force to govern Malaysia at the national level is under another round of "Bush-fire".

DAP is one of the longest and most consistent political party in the country that has almost no experience as a public governing body unlike PAS who have experiences governing states like Kelantan, Terengganu and PKR which has a considerable amount of governing experiences and leaders in previous administration whether at federal or state-level.

While DAP Kedah-state has remained steadfast and principled in defending what it right according to their intepretation, their media annoucement of pulling out from Kedah-state Pakatan Rakyat coalition even before consulting with DAP leaders at national level is unacceptable to many ordinary right thinking Malaysians who hope for a new Federal Government in the next general election under Pakatan Rakyat.

This sudden and uninformed act does not contribute to the adminstrative stability as a indispensable foundation of being a democratically-elected government. It is time for all members/ supporters/ leaders of DAP, including that from PAS and PKR to send a strong-signal to the Malaysian public that the Pakatan Rakyat alliance is a capable and viable alternative to govern Malaysia . Any complaints must be addressed through proper channels rather directly to the media/press. DAP at all level must start distinguishing between being on the opposition bench or goverment bench.

Being on the government bench, one must not play typical opposition tantrum OR it will lose all credibility. Being on the opposition bench, one must act as viable alternative to the sitting government OR remain on the opposition bench forever!

If Pakatan Rakyat wants to come into power at national level in the next general election. Speeches and public forums are not enough, Pakatan must prove to the people through stable and progressive state administrations / governments in Selangor, Kelantan, Penang, Kedah and "Perak".

Change we can believe in... Just change...do we really have the option to change? Let's see until the next General Election on 2012 0r 2013...

Joshua