可怜片中无辜的小女孩被变态女佣虐待至内伤累累。我惟有默默地为这个可怜的小女孩祈祷。希望她早日脱离苦海！
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印度于29号在拉贾斯坦邦的基地成功发射“布拉莫斯”超音速巡航导弹。
当时美国、日本和韩国并没有发表任何异议。
朝鲜此前宣布将在4月4日至8日发射"光明星2号"试验通信卫星。
但美日韩官员却“认为”朝鲜发射的可能是"大浦洞"2型洲际弹道导弹，与日本和韩国试图要把朝鲜发射卫星问题提交联合国安理会处理。更谠言要把朝鲜的火箭半道摘下。
从以上的两个事件，足以意识到美国、日本和韩国在这方面不但持有双重标准和偏见，而且还抱着狗眼看人低的姿态，务必要把朝鲜给贬下去。
发射和平的卫星本来是主权国家的合法权利，也是为国家和民族繁荣以及人类进步做出的贡献。迄今为止，世界上多个国家发射了数千颗卫星，联合国安理会从来没有处理过任何国家，也没有把发射卫星视为问题。
印度能坦然试射导弹，朝鲜却不能够发射试验通信卫星。哪“公平”的道理到底去了那里？
是不是因为印度的"布拉莫斯"超音速巡航导弹是与俄罗斯联合研发的，所以美国、日本和韩国不敢有所异议表态？
是不是一有一个大国假定能在朝鲜的背后撑腰，哪那些国家就不会那末地嚣张？
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I told a friend that I had a frugal meal of "Chinese sharkfin" (a figurative expression refers to fried rice vermicelli "meehoon" by Penangists) last night. He immediately japed at me for being too frugal to torture my stomach and teased forwardly that monies couldn't be carried away at a time when our both legs have had strengthened into straight set.
I smiled and retorted that money is indispensable to life, especially during this financial hard time; wasteful acts will make you die first; thrifty acts will make me survive longer. Blithely, both of us had laughed out loudly for our amusing caricatures before our farewell ta-ta.
Yes, neither none of us is wrong nor correct. It's a circumstantial matter of the timing to save or to spend. But I think most of the Chinese are more conservative than Americans of large number who are abundant in living for deficit spending. That's how different culture of spending made different world within countries.
From the economic perspective, nearly 70 percent of activity is derived from consumers. If everyone saves during a slack period, economic activity will decrease, thus making everyone poorer. Deflation as well as the devaluation of liquidity will follow suits, thus making the market into a dead-lock situation just like the marketplace status quo.
On the other hand, if everyone spends and continues to put his money into investments, economy will grow, GDP will surge, development will be boon, thus making everyone richer. The burble game will be back to its spindle. Then you'll see everybody is busying making his job and be able to spend happily.
Recently, economists are reasoning over a point of whether the series of government's financial stimulus would re-instill confidence into the minds of the masses. And when will the market be alive again. Every suggestion does have its own justification and all are really ambiguous.
Despite the w00t & w00t of cash handouts by various governments. My contention is that eventually the market will be back to its normal life as soon as people have forgotten fear, the fear of economy plunging. Usually people tend to forget bad time in short time!
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In Hokkien, this phase literally means "not having work". It has recently been accustomed to answer with self-sarcasm on most compliments for courtesy when greeted. With the impact of rough economy, I'm now frequently dangling my cuckoo clock.
The global financial storm sweeping the world is inflicting heavy casualties on developed and developing countries alike. Malaysia, in particular, has been hit hard by the back-down of foreign investments and political wrangling.
Thus my saving interest yield has shrunk almost to half; my dividends in terms of shares investments have been acidic; my EPF dividend has also diminished. On top of that, principals in saving have inevitably thinning in value against sharp inflation.
I have however taken my stand on most abstinence - forgo expensive vacations, costly dinners, shopping mall splurges and even less (less adrenaline and pall on it) blogging. I'm therefore opting instead for the quiet simplicity of "dangling my cuckoo clock" at home. Just hoping that my dangling is impermanent!
