Gambar Lutfi
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
600 or 700?
what is 700 vs 600? it 'bout my friend and my prediction on KLSE CI (Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange composite index). Currently the KLSE CI is about 850++. For me, my firend prediction of 700 is moderate or may be optimist. But for me 600++ is more reasonable... Who will win? I pray and hope that my prediction is wrong..... I love Malaysia.... and hope she will survive in this economic turmoil
Monday, December 15, 2008
Throw shoes incident taken from cnn
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/15/shoe.reporter.profile/index.html
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The brother of the journalist now famous for hurling his shoes at President Bush said his sibling's actions were "spontaneous" and represented millions of Iraqis who want to "humiliate the tyrant."
TV reporter Muntadhar al-Zaidi, in a file photo, was jailed after throwing his shoes at President Bush.
Dhirgham al-Zaidi, who sometimes worked as his brother's cameraman, described the reporter's hatred for the "material American occupation" and the "moral Iranian occupation."
Muntadhar al-Zaidi's feelings were influenced by watching the agony suffered by everyday Iraqis. Most of the reporter's stories focused on Iraqi widows, orphans, and children, said the brother.
Sometimes the 29-year-old journalist would cry. Moved by the tales he reported of poor families, he sometimes asked his colleagues to give money to them. On most nights, he returned to his home in central Baghdad -- one of the country's most violent slums and the epicenter of several of the war's pitched battles.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi's reporting for Egypt-based independent television Al-Baghdadia was "against the occupation," his brother said. The journalist would occasionally sign off his stories "from occupied Baghdad."
Yet Dhirgham al-Zaidi said he was "shocked" when he saw his brother hurling his shoes at President Bush at a Sunday news conference after a surprise visit by Bush to Baghdad. Watch Muntadhar al-Zaidi throw his shoes at Bush »
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TV station urges release of shoe-throwing journalist
TIME.com: Worst foot forward
Bush swiftly ducked the flying footwear and later told reporters aboard Air Force One that the "bizarre" incident was not a sign of popular opinion in Iraq.
"These journalists here were very apologetic," Bush said. "They ... said this doesn't represent the Iraqi people, but that's what happens in free societies where people try to draw attention to themselves."
The reporter called his shoe-throwing -- a traditional insult in Arab culture -- a "farewell kiss" to a "dog" who launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Watch how people in Baghdad are reacting »
Dhirgham al-Zaidi said Iraqi journalists told him after the incident that U.S. security stopped Iraqis from hitting the reporter.
The journalist was hustled out of the room and arrested. He remains in jail and has been tested for for alcohol and drugs to determine his state of mind, said a government official, who requested anonymity.
The al-Zaidi family plans to retain Egyptian lawyers to defend Muntadhar al-Zaidi. The reporter's brother said the family has not been contacted by the Iraqi government.
Dhirgham al-Zaidi said he is "proud" of his brother whose act, while rash, was a statement of behalf of "millions" of other Iraqis. Dhirgham said the shoe throwing was "Iraq's reaction" to the war and years of U.S. sanctions against Iraq before the conflict began. The reporter was not motivated for personal reasons, or because he has "anything against the American people," he said.
Dhirgham al-Zaidi says his brother started working for al-Baghdadia in 2005 as one of its founding staff members.
Al-Baghdadia is devoting round-the-clock coverage to the incident and calling for the immediate release of the reporter whose co-workers describe him as usually "calm and polite."
In a statement read on the air, Al-Baghdadia said al-Zaidi should be freed "in accordance with democracy and freedom of expression Iraqis were promised by the new era and American authorities."
The channel also ran the reporter's image with what it said were messages of support from viewers in a crawl at the bottom of the screen and called on Arabs, Muslims and Iraqis to support "your brother."
Dhirgham al-Zaidi, who worked with his brother but is now employed by another channel, said his brother was kidnapped in November 2007 as he was heading to work. The kidnappers tied his hands and covered his head, feeding him just two meals in three days. He was released after three days, "in very bad shape," he said.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The brother of the journalist now famous for hurling his shoes at President Bush said his sibling's actions were "spontaneous" and represented millions of Iraqis who want to "humiliate the tyrant."
TV reporter Muntadhar al-Zaidi, in a file photo, was jailed after throwing his shoes at President Bush.
Dhirgham al-Zaidi, who sometimes worked as his brother's cameraman, described the reporter's hatred for the "material American occupation" and the "moral Iranian occupation."
Muntadhar al-Zaidi's feelings were influenced by watching the agony suffered by everyday Iraqis. Most of the reporter's stories focused on Iraqi widows, orphans, and children, said the brother.
Sometimes the 29-year-old journalist would cry. Moved by the tales he reported of poor families, he sometimes asked his colleagues to give money to them. On most nights, he returned to his home in central Baghdad -- one of the country's most violent slums and the epicenter of several of the war's pitched battles.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi's reporting for Egypt-based independent television Al-Baghdadia was "against the occupation," his brother said. The journalist would occasionally sign off his stories "from occupied Baghdad."
Yet Dhirgham al-Zaidi said he was "shocked" when he saw his brother hurling his shoes at President Bush at a Sunday news conference after a surprise visit by Bush to Baghdad. Watch Muntadhar al-Zaidi throw his shoes at Bush »
Don't Miss
TV station urges release of shoe-throwing journalist
TIME.com: Worst foot forward
Bush swiftly ducked the flying footwear and later told reporters aboard Air Force One that the "bizarre" incident was not a sign of popular opinion in Iraq.
"These journalists here were very apologetic," Bush said. "They ... said this doesn't represent the Iraqi people, but that's what happens in free societies where people try to draw attention to themselves."
The reporter called his shoe-throwing -- a traditional insult in Arab culture -- a "farewell kiss" to a "dog" who launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Watch how people in Baghdad are reacting »
Dhirgham al-Zaidi said Iraqi journalists told him after the incident that U.S. security stopped Iraqis from hitting the reporter.
The journalist was hustled out of the room and arrested. He remains in jail and has been tested for for alcohol and drugs to determine his state of mind, said a government official, who requested anonymity.
The al-Zaidi family plans to retain Egyptian lawyers to defend Muntadhar al-Zaidi. The reporter's brother said the family has not been contacted by the Iraqi government.
Dhirgham al-Zaidi said he is "proud" of his brother whose act, while rash, was a statement of behalf of "millions" of other Iraqis. Dhirgham said the shoe throwing was "Iraq's reaction" to the war and years of U.S. sanctions against Iraq before the conflict began. The reporter was not motivated for personal reasons, or because he has "anything against the American people," he said.
Dhirgham al-Zaidi says his brother started working for al-Baghdadia in 2005 as one of its founding staff members.
Al-Baghdadia is devoting round-the-clock coverage to the incident and calling for the immediate release of the reporter whose co-workers describe him as usually "calm and polite."
In a statement read on the air, Al-Baghdadia said al-Zaidi should be freed "in accordance with democracy and freedom of expression Iraqis were promised by the new era and American authorities."
The channel also ran the reporter's image with what it said were messages of support from viewers in a crawl at the bottom of the screen and called on Arabs, Muslims and Iraqis to support "your brother."
Dhirgham al-Zaidi, who worked with his brother but is now employed by another channel, said his brother was kidnapped in November 2007 as he was heading to work. The kidnappers tied his hands and covered his head, feeding him just two meals in three days. He was released after three days, "in very bad shape," he said.
throw shoes incident (Bush)
I read comments from various website discussing this topic. Some see as humiliation acts, funny things bla bla bla. and so on. To sum it up, some see that whatever george Bush did during his tenure, he deserve respect and treated as the leader of the greatest nation on earth, however, for some, they see this as a way to treat a person who make his decision base on loose and false information causing pain to many iraqis, american and other parts of the world. Thousands dead unjustly (for the cause of freedom ?, is it really a freedom?). Thousand of billions (may reach trillion as forecast by stiglitz) spent and will be spend on Iraq war. At the end? ..................
Make peace no war..... hehhehehehe
Make peace no war..... hehhehehehe
Friday, December 12, 2008
Hi again
Ah it's almost five weeks since my last post. I hope i will active again.
see you in next posting.
see you in next posting.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Horrror news
cited from Malaysian insider
First full-year slump since 1940s, says IMF
LONDON, Nov 7 - In its bleakest assessment yet of rapidly worsening global prospects, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that industrial economies as a whole will shrink through next year by 0.3 per cent, in the worst such slump of the postwar era.
The IMF said that the toll imposed by the downturn across the West would sap the strength of the world economy and cut global growth next year to an anaemic 2.2 per cent. That is down 0.8 points from its last forecast, made only a month ago, and is below the 2.5 per cent threshold at which the world economy is judged to be in the grip of global recession.
Shares plunged on Wall Street, in London and across Europe as the IMF's grim prognosis fuelled alarm among investors about the economic peril now confronting the world.
In London, the FTSE 100 index plunged by another 258.33 points, or 5.7 per cent, to 4.272.41, leaving it down by more than a third so far this year. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average of leading US blue chips sank by nearly 5 per cent, and the broader-based S&P 500 index fell by a similar percentage.
In Europe, Germany's Dax index sank 6.8 per cent, while France's CAC 40 closed down 6.4 per cent.
As leaders, finance ministers and central bank governors of the world's key Western and emerging market economies prepare for two weekends of crisis talks — with “G20” meetings in São Paolo this weekend and in
Washington next Saturday — the IMF urged governments to ramp up tax and spending measures to shore up global economic activity.
“There is a clear need for additional policy stimulus relative to what has been announced so far,” the fund said. “Room to ease monetary policy should be exploited.”
It said: “Financial stress is likely to be deeper and more protracted than envisaged in October.”
The fund's call for still more far-reaching measures to boost global growth came as it drastically cut its already dire forecasts for all of the world's big economies. It now predicts that the US economy will shrink by 0.7 per cent next year, compared with its October forecast of meagre 0.1 per cent growth. In the eurozone, GDP is expected to drop by 0.5 per cent, down from the fund's October expectation of a 0.2 per cent expansion. Germany's economy is expected to shrink by 0.8 per cent.
Britain is now forecast to bear the brunt of the global slump, with its GDP plunging by 1.3 per cent in what would be the worst year for the UK since the economy shrank by 1.4 per cent in 1991.
In emerging and developing countries, the IMF now expects growth next year of 5.1 per cent — down a full percentage point from its October view as the knock-on impact of the West's plight ripples around the world. Even China, the powerhouse of Asia, has had its forecast growth reduced to 8.5 per cent, from 9.3 per cent.
Olivier Blanchard, the IMF's chief economist, said that although action by the world's governments and financial authorities to stem the crisis had been aggressive and comprehensive, further flare-ups in the economic crisis were likely. “We can't be sure that there are no landmines left in the field,” he said.
Blanchard added that the spectre of Japanese-style deflation also loomed over the developed economies of the West, although he so far believed that the probability of such a trend, with prices generally falling on a sustained basis, was still small.
Blanchard cautioned that in some countries, such as the United States, where official interest rates now stand at 1 per cent, there was only limited room left to shore up activity with cuts in interest rates, so that governments would have to resort to using fiscal policy through tax cuts or public spending increases. “When you get to zero, you are done in terms of using interest rates,” he said. - Times of London
First full-year slump since 1940s, says IMF
LONDON, Nov 7 - In its bleakest assessment yet of rapidly worsening global prospects, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that industrial economies as a whole will shrink through next year by 0.3 per cent, in the worst such slump of the postwar era.
The IMF said that the toll imposed by the downturn across the West would sap the strength of the world economy and cut global growth next year to an anaemic 2.2 per cent. That is down 0.8 points from its last forecast, made only a month ago, and is below the 2.5 per cent threshold at which the world economy is judged to be in the grip of global recession.
Shares plunged on Wall Street, in London and across Europe as the IMF's grim prognosis fuelled alarm among investors about the economic peril now confronting the world.
In London, the FTSE 100 index plunged by another 258.33 points, or 5.7 per cent, to 4.272.41, leaving it down by more than a third so far this year. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average of leading US blue chips sank by nearly 5 per cent, and the broader-based S&P 500 index fell by a similar percentage.
In Europe, Germany's Dax index sank 6.8 per cent, while France's CAC 40 closed down 6.4 per cent.
As leaders, finance ministers and central bank governors of the world's key Western and emerging market economies prepare for two weekends of crisis talks — with “G20” meetings in São Paolo this weekend and in
Washington next Saturday — the IMF urged governments to ramp up tax and spending measures to shore up global economic activity.
“There is a clear need for additional policy stimulus relative to what has been announced so far,” the fund said. “Room to ease monetary policy should be exploited.”
It said: “Financial stress is likely to be deeper and more protracted than envisaged in October.”
The fund's call for still more far-reaching measures to boost global growth came as it drastically cut its already dire forecasts for all of the world's big economies. It now predicts that the US economy will shrink by 0.7 per cent next year, compared with its October forecast of meagre 0.1 per cent growth. In the eurozone, GDP is expected to drop by 0.5 per cent, down from the fund's October expectation of a 0.2 per cent expansion. Germany's economy is expected to shrink by 0.8 per cent.
Britain is now forecast to bear the brunt of the global slump, with its GDP plunging by 1.3 per cent in what would be the worst year for the UK since the economy shrank by 1.4 per cent in 1991.
In emerging and developing countries, the IMF now expects growth next year of 5.1 per cent — down a full percentage point from its October view as the knock-on impact of the West's plight ripples around the world. Even China, the powerhouse of Asia, has had its forecast growth reduced to 8.5 per cent, from 9.3 per cent.
Olivier Blanchard, the IMF's chief economist, said that although action by the world's governments and financial authorities to stem the crisis had been aggressive and comprehensive, further flare-ups in the economic crisis were likely. “We can't be sure that there are no landmines left in the field,” he said.
Blanchard added that the spectre of Japanese-style deflation also loomed over the developed economies of the West, although he so far believed that the probability of such a trend, with prices generally falling on a sustained basis, was still small.
Blanchard cautioned that in some countries, such as the United States, where official interest rates now stand at 1 per cent, there was only limited room left to shore up activity with cuts in interest rates, so that governments would have to resort to using fiscal policy through tax cuts or public spending increases. “When you get to zero, you are done in terms of using interest rates,” he said. - Times of London
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Wow I found a brilliant movie website
I Just watch The mummy three which pass to me by a friend. It was brilliant. At the screen it appears that it was taken from http://www.iwannadownload.com/ . I thinks i wanna apply for membership. so if you guys wanna see free movies, this website provide the right media for you.
Friday, October 31, 2008
No budget
Yesterday I try to surf to find any conference related to real estate call for papers. I found two , which most interested. One in US organised by two prominent bodies in Real estate, America and Asia Real estate society. On top of that, presenter might have a chance to present his/her paper at University of California Berkeley. Another one is Organize by European Real Estate, which will be held at Stockholm.
For me, both conferences are A+ conference in Real Estate. At first, I think I wanna send them my paper. But.... looking at the flight ticket, pheeww.... I don't think my financial situation permit it. As a PhD student in UPM, I will get sponsorship to present in International Conference but the budget they give just RM 3000. What can I do with RM 3000? It won't even able to cover flights expenses... So, I think I've to be reasonable and ..... just forget it......argggghhhhh.
For me, both conferences are A+ conference in Real Estate. At first, I think I wanna send them my paper. But.... looking at the flight ticket, pheeww.... I don't think my financial situation permit it. As a PhD student in UPM, I will get sponsorship to present in International Conference but the budget they give just RM 3000. What can I do with RM 3000? It won't even able to cover flights expenses... So, I think I've to be reasonable and ..... just forget it......argggghhhhh.
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