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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">School days have started and the morning drive to work finally got super busy again. I kinda missed those half empty roads at 7 in the morning. But after seeing all those school children so excited to start their first day at school, I think it was not that bad. The road congestion [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rights Of Passage To Manhood.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, I have this habit of observing others especially while trapped in a jam. It is very interesting for me to see how many things a people can do while seating in their car during the jam. Some may be seen sending text from their hi-tech mobile phone. Some even try to catch up loss time by taking breakfast in their car. Most will just sit tight and listen to their music or doing some reading. Most would probably be smoking in their car as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Talking about smoking in the car, I did noticed one car with 2 children and a lady whom I guess is their mother. A normal sight of parents sending their kids to school. However, something was really wrong after I saw smokes coming out of the car. Being such nosy dude, I made a closer look and to my surprised the lady was smoking, while the 2 kids are in the car! Such an unthinkable action by the lady made me decided to write this post.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What was she thinking? To make things worst, I begun to spot more adults who simply light up in their car while having children in as well. Again, what in the world were they thinking? I myself is a smoker but smoking while having children around especially in a confined space like car is totally wrong! Maybe they want the children to follow their smoking habit at a very tender age. Maybe they only have less than quarter of their brain working. Maybe the brain doesn&#8217;t work at all. Some even spotted smoking while holding their babies in their arms! How outrageous.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I don&#8217;t think there is need to explain about how smoking affects children as we all know that already. I just want to know are these smoking adults realize how their actions may effect on the children. Or are they just being ignorant. Guys, send me a comment or two about this issue or anything you wish to share with me.</p>

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Ending uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">School days have started and the morning drive to work finally got super busy again. I kinda missed those half empty roads at 7 in the morning. But after seeing all those school children so excited to start their first day at school, I think it was not that bad. The road congestion of course can be avoided with strong will power to wake up and start moving literally earlier than usual. I am just thankful that I don&#8217;t normally have to rush to work due to the flexibility of being a freelance dive instructor.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, I have this habit of observing others especially while trapped in a jam. It is very interesting for me to see how many things a people can do while seating in their car during the jam. Some may be seen sending text from their hi-tech mobile phone. Some even try to catch up loss time by taking breakfast in their car. Most will just sit tight and listen to their music or doing some reading. Most would probably be smoking in their car as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Talking about smoking in the car, I did noticed one car with 2 children and a lady whom I guess is their mother. A normal sight of parents sending their kids to school. However, something was really wrong after I saw smokes coming out of the car. Being such nosy dude, I made a closer look and to my surprised the lady was smoking, while the 2 kids are in the car! Such an unthinkable action by the lady made me decided to write this post.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What was she thinking? To make things worst, I begun to spot more adults who simply light up in their car while having children in as well. Again, what in the world were they thinking? I myself is a smoker but smoking while having children around especially in a confined space like car is totally wrong! Maybe they want the children to follow their smoking habit at a very tender age. Maybe they only have less than quarter of their brain working. Maybe the brain doesn&#8217;t work at all. Some even spotted smoking while holding their babies in their arms! How outrageous.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I don&#8217;t think there is need to explain about how smoking affects children as we all know that already. I just want to know are these smoking adults realize how their actions may effect on the children. Or are they just being ignorant. Guys, send me a comment or two about this issue or anything you wish to share with me.</p>

Start uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">On December 2009, just after Christmas, I went to a cinema in one of the shopping mall in Kota Kinabalu. Me and my friends were planning to watch the biggest movie of the year &#8216; Avatar&#8217;. As expected, it was crowded and we were lucky not to get the neck bending seat right at the front. We managed to get seats that were okay even though I thought it was a bit too close to the screen which made everything moved so fast.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The movie was after all not disappointing and worth our time watching it. Only a few glitch of course especially when they suddenly changed the Na&#8217;vi subtitles into Malay which was a bit confusing and funny. It was also annoying as they put some words into short term as if I was reading a confusing short text message.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To make things worst, right in front of us was a family of 4, the parents and a pair of twins babies which could have been less than a year old. At the other side, another couple with a probably 2 or 3 years old child screaming and whining around. Lucky for us that the audio was loud enough to compensate the extra sound effect around us.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">However, what were these parents thinking guys? Don&#8217;t they ever realized they should not bring along kids let alone infants into the cinema? They must have no idea on how such loud noises can affect their children. They must have never think about the flashing lights that can damage the babies sight. I bet they want the kids to grow up with eye problem or even worst, hearing problems. I thought it was really inappropriate to take such a young kids to the cinema. Don&#8217;t you think so too? Maybe they were so desperate to go out and enjoy a movie but there is no harm being reasonable right. Grown up kids I don&#8217;t mind, they can enjoy the movie at least. But these a toddlers! How are they supposed to understand the movie let alone watch it?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">They should at least leave their kids to someone to babysit them while they can go out and watch any movies they want. Or they could have just waited until the home DVD is out so they can watch together at home without disturbing others or damaging their kids senses.</p>

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Ending uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">On December 2009, just after Christmas, I went to a cinema in one of the shopping mall in Kota Kinabalu. Me and my friends were planning to watch the biggest movie of the year &#8216; Avatar&#8217;. As expected, it was crowded and we were lucky not to get the neck bending seat right at the front. We managed to get seats that were okay even though I thought it was a bit too close to the screen which made everything moved so fast.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The movie was after all not disappointing and worth our time watching it. Only a few glitch of course especially when they suddenly changed the Na&#8217;vi subtitles into Malay which was a bit confusing and funny. It was also annoying as they put some words into short term as if I was reading a confusing short text message.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To make things worst, right in front of us was a family of 4, the parents and a pair of twins babies which could have been less than a year old. At the other side, another couple with a probably 2 or 3 years old child screaming and whining around. Lucky for us that the audio was loud enough to compensate the extra sound effect around us.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">However, what were these parents thinking guys? Don&#8217;t they ever realized they should not bring along kids let alone infants into the cinema? They must have no idea on how such loud noises can affect their children. They must have never think about the flashing lights that can damage the babies sight. I bet they want the kids to grow up with eye problem or even worst, hearing problems. I thought it was really inappropriate to take such a young kids to the cinema. Don&#8217;t you think so too? Maybe they were so desperate to go out and enjoy a movie but there is no harm being reasonable right. Grown up kids I don&#8217;t mind, they can enjoy the movie at least. But these a toddlers! How are they supposed to understand the movie let alone watch it?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">They should at least leave their kids to someone to babysit them while they can go out and watch any movies they want. Or they could have just waited until the home DVD is out so they can watch together at home without disturbing others or damaging their kids senses.</p>

Start uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">This post was based from my very personal experience with a computer accessories store recently. The experience instantly triggered an idea for me to post some idea on how you can actually <strong>keep your customer away and shut down your business. </strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The worth a bargain item</span>.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My girlfriend purchased a set of computer speaker system to fulfill her quest to enjoy movies she loves. The price was around RM150 which for me is quite cheap for a decent quality speakers system. This was a year ago and she got a <strong>1 year warranty</strong> for the system. I thought it was a great bargain since the system came from a distinguished brand. And yes we did enjoy couples of movies both DVD and downloaded. For about 7 months, it was working so well until it started making problems. Then the story begins.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The inexperienced and deceitful staff.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We went back to the shop to get the speakers for servicing and what they told us was surprisingly different from what they had promised her before. It was so amazing how they came up with so many ridiculous excuses. The first sales guy we met was told us that any the warranty for the speakers only valid for a short 6 months. We had a little arguments about that of course. Embarrassingly for the company, this poor inexperienced sales guy had no idea what he was talking about. He even asked who which salesman sold us the set which has nothing to do with it since we already have a proof of purchase. He kept on saying the warranty only valid for 6 months. He went up to his colleague showed him the the receipt only to come back with an even more ridiculous answer. He explained to us the name of the shop had been change so he can&#8217;t do anything. By then, my girlfriend had lost her patient and decided to leave. And so we left. It was a wrong move we made but I was not satisfied with how they treated as customers and my girlfriend had started yelling. Who wouldn&#8217;t?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The failure in keeping customers&#8217; complaints and contacts detail.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When I came back to the store few weeks later, this time alone with the speakers. I went straight to one of their staff and showed him the receipt with a question &#8220;Is this receipt belongs to this company?&#8221;. He explained to me that the company name had been changed but they are still the same company who issued the receipt. I checked with him about the warranty and I got the same crappy &#8220;valid for 6 months only&#8221;. The truth was I have inspected the set and found a decal stating that the warranty validity is 1 year. As soon as he saw the decal he startled and I was already looking for the manager. I showed her the decal and she straight away instructed the staff to check on the set. That was great to finally get a proper response. So we checked the set and he agreed there was problem. There was however one more problem, there were out of stock. He offered me to leave the set there until they get a new stock and he will contact me when they have a replacement. I was asked to leave my contact info for them so they could inform me in 2 weeks time. This is where they started to give me doubts over their customer services. I was given only a <strong>piece of small blank paper and a pen to write in my name and my contacts</strong>. That was it, I asked them whether they have any  proper forms which I could fill-in. And they said they don&#8217;t have any. I had a feeling that paper just going to end up in a dustbin. So I waited.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The no such customer here, bad excuses, bad customer retaining effort. </span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After 2 weeks of silence, my girlfriend asked me to give them a call instead. So I called and I was received nicely which is a great thing about Malaysian. I introduced myself, told them I came few weeks ago, and asked them about the speakers. So as I mentioned before, with only a piece of paper I wasn&#8217;t surprised if they had lost my details. They lady actually asked for my details <strong>AGAIN!</strong> Imagine that. As if I was experiencing deja vu they asked me which staff I checked the speakers with. Another thing was they told me they&#8217;ve been receiving a lot of defected items recently(<strong>are you telling me you are selling junks?</strong>) I was very frustrated with how they handle their customers. I&#8217;m going to see them for the last time next week for a last chance. I am hoping not to get the same crap or the manager will get a great review from me.</p>
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Ending uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">This post was based from my very personal experience with a computer accessories store recently. The experience instantly triggered an idea for me to post some idea on how you can actually <strong>keep your customer away and shut down your business. </strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The worth a bargain item</span>.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My girlfriend purchased a set of computer speaker system to fulfill her quest to enjoy movies she loves. The price was around RM150 which for me is quite cheap for a decent quality speakers system. This was a year ago and she got a <strong>1 year warranty</strong> for the system. I thought it was a great bargain since the system came from a distinguished brand. And yes we did enjoy couples of movies both DVD and downloaded. For about 7 months, it was working so well until it started making problems. Then the story begins.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The inexperienced and deceitful staff.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We went back to the shop to get the speakers for servicing and what they told us was surprisingly different from what they had promised her before. It was so amazing how they came up with so many ridiculous excuses. The first sales guy we met was told us that any the warranty for the speakers only valid for a short 6 months. We had a little arguments about that of course. Embarrassingly for the company, this poor inexperienced sales guy had no idea what he was talking about. He even asked who which salesman sold us the set which has nothing to do with it since we already have a proof of purchase. He kept on saying the warranty only valid for 6 months. He went up to his colleague showed him the the receipt only to come back with an even more ridiculous answer. He explained to us the name of the shop had been change so he can&#8217;t do anything. By then, my girlfriend had lost her patient and decided to leave. And so we left. It was a wrong move we made but I was not satisfied with how they treated as customers and my girlfriend had started yelling. Who wouldn&#8217;t?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The failure in keeping customers&#8217; complaints and contacts detail.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When I came back to the store few weeks later, this time alone with the speakers. I went straight to one of their staff and showed him the receipt with a question &#8220;Is this receipt belongs to this company?&#8221;. He explained to me that the company name had been changed but they are still the same company who issued the receipt. I checked with him about the warranty and I got the same crappy &#8220;valid for 6 months only&#8221;. The truth was I have inspected the set and found a decal stating that the warranty validity is 1 year. As soon as he saw the decal he startled and I was already looking for the manager. I showed her the decal and she straight away instructed the staff to check on the set. That was great to finally get a proper response. So we checked the set and he agreed there was problem. There was however one more problem, there were out of stock. He offered me to leave the set there until they get a new stock and he will contact me when they have a replacement. I was asked to leave my contact info for them so they could inform me in 2 weeks time. This is where they started to give me doubts over their customer services. I was given only a <strong>piece of small blank paper and a pen to write in my name and my contacts</strong>. That was it, I asked them whether they have any  proper forms which I could fill-in. And they said they don&#8217;t have any. I had a feeling that paper just going to end up in a dustbin. So I waited.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The no such customer here, bad excuses, bad customer retaining effort. </span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After 2 weeks of silence, my girlfriend asked me to give them a call instead. So I called and I was received nicely which is a great thing about Malaysian. I introduced myself, told them I came few weeks ago, and asked them about the speakers. So as I mentioned before, with only a piece of paper I wasn&#8217;t surprised if they had lost my details. They lady actually asked for my details <strong>AGAIN!</strong> Imagine that. As if I was experiencing deja vu they asked me which staff I checked the speakers with. Another thing was they told me they&#8217;ve been receiving a lot of defected items recently(<strong>are you telling me you are selling junks?</strong>) I was very frustrated with how they handle their customers. I&#8217;m going to see them for the last time next week for a last chance. I am hoping not to get the same crap or the manager will get a great review from me.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">

Start uga_filter: <h3>The Rights Of Passage To Manhood.</h3>
<p>The existence of the rights of passage among male species has so many variations around the globe. It all however turn into one conclusion, a prove of manhood. To gain the respect, trust, and place in the &#8216;elite&#8217; society. In this modern age, most of the rituals had lost their attraction, most society no longer practice them. To most of our modern thinking youth, they look at the rituals as ancient, no longer practical and maybe humiliating for some.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On this post, I&#8217;m gonna write about an ancient ritual still practiced in Dantesque, Faeroe Island. Faeroe Island are islands group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. It belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">What seems to be acceptable in the past however is now viewed as a cruelty globally. The 10th century aged of practice involves killing of whale or dolphin to initiate into adulthood. <strong>This is a mandatory!</strong> So anyone reaching their adolescence has to go through it. Nearly 1,000 pilot whales and calderon dolphins are killed annually in the “<strong>grindadráp</strong>” — whale hunt — during summer months.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p>On a different point of view, the death of the dolphins and whales have been part in the life of the Faeroe and the animals themselves. They look at this as a custom, a way to tell the stories of their ancestral to the younger generation. They took the meat for consumption as well. However, the way it is done gave me an uneasy feeling. The <strong>animals were trapped, brought to the shallow just to be stabbed and left to bleed to death</strong>. Hunting is probably much more acceptable terms it it applies here. As a <strong>rights of passage</strong>, it will not be acceptable by the world. <strong>It is far beyond basic needs. It is far from nutrient needs and is done in a very inhumane way</strong>, long painful death instead of painlessness. It is beyond justification of killing for survival.  A prove of bravery against a weak and helpless animals does not fit into its purpose. The biggest problem I have was with the <strong>display of enjoyment the people show during the ritual watching young people torture animals in the name of bravery.
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<p>The truths are even worst, if the Faeroe are labeled as cruel, think about the killing of polar bears in Alaska for the sake of a trophy and a picture, think about thousands of bulls in Spain killed for human entertainment. Think about the Japanese method of killing dolphins.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Japanese Fishermen often injure a few captives by spear thrust or knife slash to retain the group since dolphins never abandon injured family members. The water turns red and the air is filled with their agonising screams. They are then dragged to the slaughter place and their throats slashed and left to die. Dolphin meat are later marketed and often disguised as whale meat.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Their government right now are receiving enormous pressure to stop these. We need to keep pressing these people so they would eventually ceased to stop. You can start by signing on this petition to stop Faeroe rights of passage:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/395494117" target="_self">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/395494117</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You should also check on the video and pictures to see it for yourself.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2009/10/11/denmarks-gruesome-festival-mass-killing-of-whales-and-dolphins-to-prove-adulthood/ " target="_self">http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2009/10/11/denmarks-gruesome-festival-mass-killing-of-whales-and-dolphins-to-prove-adulthood/</a></p>
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<p>The existence of the rights of passage among male species has so many variations around the globe. It all however turn into one conclusion, a prove of manhood. To gain the respect, trust, and place in the &#8216;elite&#8217; society. In this modern age, most of the rituals had lost their attraction, most society no longer practice them. To most of our modern thinking youth, they look at the rituals as ancient, no longer practical and maybe humiliating for some.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On this post, I&#8217;m gonna write about an ancient ritual still practiced in Dantesque, Faeroe Island. Faeroe Island are islands group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. It belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">What seems to be acceptable in the past however is now viewed as a cruelty globally. The 10th century aged of practice involves killing of whale or dolphin to initiate into adulthood. <strong>This is a mandatory!</strong> So anyone reaching their adolescence has to go through it. Nearly 1,000 pilot whales and calderon dolphins are killed annually in the “<strong>grindadráp</strong>” — whale hunt — during summer months.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p>On a different point of view, the death of the dolphins and whales have been part in the life of the Faeroe and the animals themselves. They look at this as a custom, a way to tell the stories of their ancestral to the younger generation. They took the meat for consumption as well. However, the way it is done gave me an uneasy feeling. The <strong>animals were trapped, brought to the shallow just to be stabbed and left to bleed to death</strong>. Hunting is probably much more acceptable terms it it applies here. As a <strong>rights of passage</strong>, it will not be acceptable by the world. <strong>It is far beyond basic needs. It is far from nutrient needs and is done in a very inhumane way</strong>, long painful death instead of painlessness. It is beyond justification of killing for survival.  A prove of bravery against a weak and helpless animals does not fit into its purpose. The biggest problem I have was with the <strong>display of enjoyment the people show during the ritual watching young people torture animals in the name of bravery.
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<p></strong></p>
<p><strong><br />
</strong></p>
<p>The truths are even worst, if the Faeroe are labeled as cruel, think about the killing of polar bears in Alaska for the sake of a trophy and a picture, think about thousands of bulls in Spain killed for human entertainment. Think about the Japanese method of killing dolphins.</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Japanese Fishermen often injure a few captives by spear thrust or knife slash to retain the group since dolphins never abandon injured family members. The water turns red and the air is filled with their agonising screams. They are then dragged to the slaughter place and their throats slashed and left to die. Dolphin meat are later marketed and often disguised as whale meat.&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Their government right now are receiving enormous pressure to stop these. We need to keep pressing these people so they would eventually ceased to stop. You can start by signing on this petition to stop Faeroe rights of passage:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/395494117" target="_self">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/395494117</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You should also check on the video and pictures to see it for yourself.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2009/10/11/denmarks-gruesome-festival-mass-killing-of-whales-and-dolphins-to-prove-adulthood/ " target="_self">http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2009/10/11/denmarks-gruesome-festival-mass-killing-of-whales-and-dolphins-to-prove-adulthood/</a></p>
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