Beware - a new way of carjacking

'WARNING – BEWARE, A PIECE OF PAPER STUCK ON THE BACK WINDOW OF YOUR VEHICLE IS A NEW WAY OF CARJACKINGS' (THIS IS NOT A JOKE)”

You walk across the parking lot, unlock your car and get inside. You start the engine and shift into Reverse. When you look into the rearview mirror to back out of your parking space, you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle of the rear window. So, you shift back into Park, unlock your doors, and jump out of your car to remove that paper (or whatever it is) that is obstructing your view. When you reach the back of your car, that is when the carjackers appear out of nowhere jump into your car and take off. They practically mow you down as they speed off in your car. And guess what, ladies? I bet your purse is still in the car. So now the carjacker has your car, your home address, your money, and your keys. Your home and your whole identity are now compromised!

BEWARE OF THIS NEW SCHEME THAT IS NOW BEING USED.
DON’T FALL INTO THIS TRAP
If you see a piece of paper stuck to your back window, just drive away. Remove the paper later. And be thankful that you read this article. I hope you will forward this to friends and family, especially to women. A purse contains all kinds of; personal information and identification documents, and you certainly do NOT want this to fall into the wrong hands.

Please, keep this circulating... Please keep this going to combact the crime.

Laugh it out!

A good laugh could also be good medicine. Please see the below collection of some real records of Wonderful English from Around the World: -

In a Bangkok temple:
It is forbidden to enter a woman, even a foreigner, if dressed as a man.

Cocktail lounge, Norway:
Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.

Doctors office, Rome:
Specialist in women and other diseases.

Dry cleaners, Bangkok:
Drop your trousers here for the best results.

In a Nairobi restaurant:
Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to see the manager.

On the main road to Mombassa, leaving Nairobi:
Take notice: when this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

On a poster at Kencom:
Are you an adult that cannot read? If so we can help.

In a City restaurant:
Open seven days a week and weekends.

In a cemetery:
Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own graves.

Tokyo hotel's rules and regulations:
Guests are requested not to smoke or do other disgusting behaviours in bed.

On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.

In a Tokyo bar:
Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.

Hotel, Yugoslavia:
The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.

Hotel, Japan:
You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.

In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox monastery:
You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and soviet composers, artists and writers are buried daily except Thursday.

A sign posted in Germany 's Black Forest:
It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance, men and women, live together in one tent unless they are married with each other for this purpose.

Hotel, Zurich:
Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.

Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand:
Would you like to ride on your own ass?

Airline ticket office, Copenhagen:
We take your bags and send them in all directions.

A laundry in Rome:
Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.

Life, as a 97 year-old doctor sees it

At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world's longest-serving physicians and educators. Hinohara's magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke's College of Nursing. After World War II, he envisioned a world-class hospital and college springing from the ruins of Tokyo; thanks to his pioneering spirit and business savvy, the doctor turned these institutions into the nation's top medical facility and nursing school. Today he serves as chairman of the board of trustees at both organizations. Always willing to try new things, he has published around 150 books since his 75th birthday, including one "Living Long, Living Good" that has sold more than 1.2 million copies. As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself.


Doctor Shigeaki Hinohara JUDIT KAWAGUCHIPHOTO


Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot.
We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It's best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime.

All people who live long regardless of nationality, race or gender share one thing in common: None are overweight...
For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat.

Always plan ahead.
My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work. In 2016 I'll have some fun, though: I plan to attend the Tokyo Olympics!

There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65.
The current retirement age was set at 65 half a century ago, when the average life-expectancy in Japan was 68 years and only 125 Japanese were over 100 years old. Today, Japanese women live to be around 86 and men 80, and we have 36,000 centenarians in our country. In 20 years we will have about 50,000 people over the age of 100.

Share what you know.
I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100 elementary-school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.

When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a procedure.
Contrary to popular belief, doctors can't cure everyone. So why cause unnecessary pain with surgery. I think music and animal therapy can help more than most doctors imagine.

To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff.
I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.

My inspiration is Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler."
My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.

Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it.
If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain. Hospitals must cater to the basic need of patients: We all want to have fun. At St. Luke's we have music and animal therapies, and art classes.

Don't be crazy about amassing material things.
Remember: You don't know when your number is up, and you can't take it with you to the next place.

Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors.
We designed St.Luke's so we can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20, 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. We accepted 740 victims and in two hours figured out that it was sarin gas that had hit them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.

Science alone can't cure or help people.
Science lumps us all together, but illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected to their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and visual arts, not just medical ones.

Life is filled with incidents.
On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next four days handcuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.

Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do.
My father went to the United States in 1900 to study at Duke University in North Carolina. He was a pioneer and one of my heroes. Later I found a few more life guides, and when I am stuck, I ask myself how they would deal with the problem.

It's wonderful to live long.
Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one's family and to achieve one's goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.

LIFE'S LESSONS

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about..
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ' In five years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back..
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

'ICE' (In Case of Emergency) Campaign

We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends.

If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn't know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency? Hence this 'ICE' (In Case of Emergency) Campaign

The concept of 'ICE' is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency situations. As cell phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name 'ICE' ( In Case Of Emergency) .

The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn't know which number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose. In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital Staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialing the number you have stored as 'ICE.'

For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc. A great idea that will make a difference!

Let's spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our Mobile phones today! You may want to copy this and email to your relatives, your loved ones and friends.

ICE will speak for you when you are not able to.

'2006 Recipient of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) Special Award for Quality Management Excellence'

MALAYSIAN CARTOONS

MALAYSIAN CARTOONS

Writer who writes not out from his own mind but out from another person's

Sometimes I am wondering. I am wondering whether all writers write and share their views. That is their own views and not other people's view. Of course I am not talking about reporters. Reporters report on events, incidences and quote on politicans' saying. I am talking about journalists, analysts and commentators. The articles published in the newspapers do not seem to carry the views of the writers but of others. They seem to be the soldiers who carry out orders from their superiors. They are the slaves who pen for their masters. Their articles carry the comments and arguements that are skewed, biased and prejudiced. Hardly convicing.

New Life

I have changed the new look of this blog. With the new look and the new name (which is much more appropriate for the topics I have been writing), I am going to write again. See more of this.

Being rich does not bring happiness; one who has a clean conscience has the most peace of mind.

If you have a lot of money and wealth, enough to spend for all you want, you are rich. You can use your money to buy everything except love, respect and happiness. You may be able to buy health, feeding yourself with all the vitamins and when you get sick, you can get a doctor to attend to you. Love, respect and happiness are non tangible things you cannot buy. You have to earn them.

Some people throw money to please people. I believe however, this action only returns love and respect for their money and attracts only evils. And they know it. They are cheating themselves.

To those people who are rich. I would advise you to spend your money wisely, donate generously only to those people who need it, help people who need help and even to the extent of giving your time and physical effort to help the needy. Be sincere in your approach. In this way, you would be able to get the satisfaction of helping people. And in this way, you earn your love and respect.

Be genuine, be honest and be sincere in your investment and earn the honest money. Have a clear conscience and happiness will be with you.

Remember the story of Mr. Scrooge. Take it as a life lesson.

To appreciate others is to respect your-self.

Showing appreciation to others for their works and contribution, irrespect of how small the contribution is, is a respect to that others. In return, they will respect you and appreciate your kind words.

Imaging, one person doing something in his capacity of his job position and you do not think that he or she is doing it with the intention of benefit to anybody at all, and not withstanding, you thank him (or her) for the effort he / she made, would your appreciation change his attitude or behaviour in the future?

A kind word is like perfume; if you spray it on others, a couple of drops will stay on you

Beautiful words. Perfume spraying on others, you are actually getting your fragrance of the perfume. People love those words and people love you. So, get yourself a lot of perfume and don't be stingy. Spray and spread those kind, encouraging, motivating, positive, gentle and good perfume on people you meet.

A person who always makes excuses for himself can never improve

I think this short saying is very wise and true. This kind of people who always make excuses are the same people who put blames on other people when things have gone wrong but, when things are ok and are promising, they always claim they are "the one who did them, and because of us, things are rosy" and proclaim their credits.

When you want to criticize others, be sure to think first whether you are perfect.

Yeh. I heard and I am still hearing friends complaining, criticizing other people. They talk about others as if they are perfect. Sometimes, I wonder whether he also talks about me, criticizes me when having a conversation with other people, at my back of course. And, he definitely gives me no chance to hear about it. Very unfair is it not? Sometimes, I feel like telling him that he is what he is talking about others.

The most obvious occassion in my social circle, an acquaintance (I better do not call him friend) used to say how bad so and so in his karaoke singing. "Out of key..."; "No tempo....."; "Sing like a cow...." and so on. For all that you would like to know, I never saw him going up to the stage, pick up the mic and sing!

Say good words, have good thoughts and do good deeds.

Religion aside. This wise saying is published by the Buddhist Tzu-Chi Merits Society Malaysia.

We tend to get irritated by things that turn out to be out of our expectations, unfavourable to us, incite our displeasure and so on. The more we think about these bad things, the more unhappy we are, and the more we become miserable. Why should we carry the burden of unhappiness on somebody else's wrongdoings, faults and offences. Let us look at the bad things and unfavourable situations from the other point of view. Let us think of the things that can positively contribute to our well being. For example, people critisize you could mean that you are not doing something right and perhaps you can improve what you have done. That would mean you are making an concerted effort to improve yourself. So be thankful and say thank you and further improve yourself.

Carry good words in your mouth always, think of the good things that can happen and do whatever you can to help yourself and other people. Turn all the bad words into good ones, change all the bad thoughts and make them good to motivate yourself to a further heights and instead to making other people unhappy, make them a happy lots. As time goes by, you will find your life is more meaningful and is more interesting.

So you are a genius

I am trying out this blog. Hopefully, I am able to use it to share my thoughts with you.