I saw her on this Sunday morning BBC1 programme. Her voice is classic and fantastic. When I checked with internet, I learnt that this 1980 year born, Katherine Jenkins is from Wales like, Charlotte Church. She is an award winning mezzo-soprano. Lately, she signed £5.8m record deal, which is a the biggest in classical music history.
One-stop-shop=Myanmar Cupid?
Obviously it is not true. But when I read about the fact the One-stop-shop is a forum for invitation user only, this made me remember Myanmar cupid forum which is also for an invitation user only. The well-known reason is that web site was not able to cope with the traffic demand. Some people said it is to prevent spammers.
Myanmar cupid was launched in early 2006. Well known founders are nick names Bagyi Toke and Love Mg Mg, now already retired. It used to be sexually orientated web site with many pornographic images and video links. The number of members had been ever rising with many on-line users 24 hour round. It also acts as one of the main information centres with many up-to-date secret news about Burma from celebrities’ gossip to military general’s affair with actress.
In 2007, web site’s policy was changed. Pornography was restricted. No longer for new members. Later, it was absolutely changed to a social net work. But until now, many web users beleive that Myanmar cupid is porno site and it is for indecent people, which is not true. Up-to date and reliable news are available on Myanmar Cupid but it is now only for invitation members only.
Obviously, One-stop-shop is for fraudsters. On the other hand, Myanmar Cupid is for genuine news hunters. Not equal despite the same at the nature of access.
The web traffic on Alexa.com shows a downward trend in 2008
This is the news about online fruasters
A secret international website described as a “one-stop shop” for online fraudsters buying and selling stolen credit card details has been shut down after a series of raids around the globe, police said yesterday.
Nearly 60 people, including 11 in Britain, have been arrested in connection with the DarkMarket forum, which operated for almost three years selling personal data such as online banking details, as well as allowing criminals to exchange information about how to commit fraud.
The site, which could only be accessed by invitation, sold passwords to social networking and online email sites and electronic hardware. It was closed down on Thursday night after undercover FBI officers infiltrated it and spent nearly two years identifying the key users. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), which led the UK arm of the operation, called DarkMarket “one of the most pernicious online criminal forums in the world”. Source
This picture attracted me. What Daniel Craig was doing on someone? When I checked properly, it is from Quantum of Solace which is the 22nd James Bond film due for release in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2008 and in North America on 14 November.
In the real world, I think the British MI6 is what I rarely heard , compared with CIA. But Bond’s films are still acceptable among film lovers in the world.
This is the preview on youtube.
A few years ago, the researcher claimed that a long hour mobile phone use could cause nerve and brain damage. Now again, that device will harm the skin in the form of allergy when it contacts with skin.
Mobile phones ’cause skin rash’
Mobile phones users are developing rashes on their faces and ears caused by an allergic reaction to the nickel on handsets, skin experts warn.
The British Association of Dermatologists said the phenomenon is being seen in people who spend long periods of time on the phone.
Nickel is often found in the handset casing or buttons.
The BAD said women who reacted to nickel in jewellery were at a higher risk of a rash from their phones.
According to the news, Britain has been planning to cut immigration as the jobless number is rising. So we has a plan to come and work in the UK, it is good idea to come. It would be the last minute.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain plans to reduce immigration in the face of a weakening economy and rising unemployment, the Times newspaper quoted Immigration Minister Phil Woolas as saying Saturday. “If people are being made unemployed, the question of immigration becomes extremely thorny … It’s been too easy to get into this country in the past and it’s going to get harder,” Woolas told the paper in an interview.
You may know this week I am on holidays, that means free from seeing dying people. I am in London. Nice weather outside just before chilly and gloomy winter coming, so I went out with my friend yesterday late afternoon. Our destination was uncertain until we were on Jubilee line.
Later we decided to go to Harrods where we had so called “the best soup in London”, costing us £16.20 total. It reminds me 21st street rice porridge from Yangon China town. Interestingly, the taste was more or less the same.
Chicken soup £8.20
The Harrods looks like a museum for me, rather than a super store, crowded with European tourists who were taking photos and doing window shopping. Basically many items are for super rich people, despite a full range of consumer products available, ranging from vegetables, perfumes, designer’s clothes to electronics and furnitures. I also saw the Harrods financial service.
Harrods at Knight bridge, London
A shoulder bag with price tag £1750
Dodi and Diana memorial on the lower ground floor (You may be aware that Harrods’ owner’s son Dodi was a lover of Diana. They are killed in fatal car crash in France. It’s a tragedy)
Some vegetables available in Harrods. Ma Mi will like it.
From there, we took the tube to the Bond street, going to Dabenham store, the place where I normally buy Thomas Nash shirts. Nice ones with reasonable price. A few year back, I found out that that brand is good for me. Other brands I buy are Maine and Redherring. Fortunately, from blue cross, size 16 Thomas Nash shirts were for only £5 . Their original price was £22. £30 Redherring was only £10. I just took the opportunity.
After that, we walked along the busy Oxford street where we felt hungry. So we popped into a sushi bar at off Oxford street . Sushi pots were on conveyor belt. We also ordered a bottle of Chardonnay. Bill showed £44 at the end. My friend expressed that I was thinking again and again to buy a shirt, chasing a final discount, but for food, I spend too much with ease. I have no idea. It just happens.
Moving Sushi
It is regrettable that in our Myanmar, a group of people killed our monks. This kind of event happened in British colonial era. Now it came back again while Burma is governed by own people. In fact, the state man is 100% pure Burmese and he is a Buddhist as well. Definitely something went wrong in Myanmar. For me, I would suicide instead of beating and killing monks.
The following is the related article on Irishtimes.com
One year on in Burma
Thu, Oct 02, 2008
INTERNATIONAL commemorations marking last year’s brutal suppression of the popular revolt against Burma’s generals in recent days have had to acknowledge the disappointing progress made since then in putting pressure on them to relax their military rule. Precious little has been achieved through United Nations and regional diplomacy or by economic sanctions. The regime remains firmly in control of Burma and has even been given some political leeway by certain external powers.
Last year’s events were the most important eruption of street protests against the regime since the ill-fated democracy uprising of 1988. They were originally provoked in mid-August by sudden increases in government-controlled prices of diesel fuel and compressed natural gas. At the beginning of September members of the security forces attacked a demonstration involving Buddhist monks, provoking a much broader nationwide protest movement over the following three weeks, in which the clergy took a leading part. As it developed calls were made for political and economic reform, culminating in demands that the regime be overthrown and democracy restored. Huge demonstrations raised such hopes.
It was not to be. On September 26th soldiers and police opened fire on a large demonstration in Rangoon and went on to raid monasteries, arrest demonstrators and put down public protests with tear gas, baton charges and lethal force. At least 31 people died and over 3,000 were arrested, most of whom are still in jail. Within a few days the population was cowed and in fearful retreat. This rapid collapse of this popular movement shows it was more spontaneous than centrally directed. Unfortunately there was not time to develop a more long-lasting and organised leadership, and it looks as though the military is fully back in control.
Four strands of external pressure have been applied to Burma since then. United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy Ibrahim Gambari has visited the country a number of times, but has made little progress on political prisoners or human rights, including release of the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Neighbouring Asian states initially held out the promise of engaging the regime in political dialogue, but have not followed it up. Economic sanctions from the US and the EU are ineffective. This policy vacuum has given India, Russia and China – all with special interests in Burma’s energy resources – an opening to encourage the regime’s highly disputed plans to hold controlled elections in 2010. It is a bleak and depressing picture.
© 2008 The Irish Times
