Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a 4-times-yearly test / examination conducted in the USA, Canada & Australia for those wishing to enter law school in those countries.

Basically it rewards skills in logical and verbal reasoning. Well, I suppose other fields also require competence in these 2 things?

Anyway, the exam is divided into 6 parts:
- 4 scored parts
- an “experimental” part
- writing

To take the test in the US, be prepared to fork out USD136. That’s no small dough, so get ready by doing lots of lsat preps.

Potential employers should always be assumed to be constantly googling jobseekers’ names. If they see something about you that puts you in a bad light, it could cost you your present job, or the job you’re after.

Debt collectors is now using social media to track down debtors, if they can’t get you through the usual channels. Example: they can use social media to say: hey, you said you can’t afford to pay back USD100 monthly, then how come that 50″ LCD TV is in your living room?

Scammers would scour social media sites for personal information lying around that they can use to take advantage of unsuspecting victims.

Source
Yahoo Finance, 28 Jan 2010

Probably very few teenagers get that much allowance per month, surely will buy a lot of rack mounts.

Further, in the newsreport, he reportedly donated RM10K towards the Raja Muda of Selangor Foun­dation, leaving him with RM3K for the month.

Source
The Star, 6 Dec 2009

It is usually made by plucking stigmas from the saffron crocus and then drying them into red-coloured threads.

It tastes bitter, smells like hay and has “metallic notes.”

Half of the world’s saffron production comes from Iran. The rest mainly comes from Spain, India and Greece.

It is used for both food and drink, in baked foods, curries, even liquor.

In medicine, saffron has been shown to have potential anti-cancer and anti-aging properties.

It is pricey because of the difficulty in extracting big amounts of the small stigmas, and that large amounts of flowers are needed for this purpose. A mere 0.45kg of dry saffron requires the harvesting of a whopping 50,000 flowers (some say 75,000) – that’s a football field’s area of planting! That works out to be 40 hours of intense manual labour to produce a mere kilogram of the stuff. After harvesting, there are many other processes that need to be completed before the final product is arrived at.

Even the price of bulk low-grade saffron can reach USD500 per pound.

In Western countries the average retail price is around USD1,000 per pound!

That’s even more expensive than gold? I wonder if smuggling of saffron is rampant since probably several hundred dollars’ worth of it can easily fit in a hollowed-out Logo flash drive.

The spice is used sparingly: only a few grams for medicinal use and a few strands in cooking: a pound of saffron has between 70,000 and 200,000 strands.

Source
Wikipedia

The country award recipients were

Y Bhg Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Francis Yeoh, YTL Corporation Berhad (2002)

Y Bhg Dato’ Mohd. Nadzmi Mohd. Salleh, Nadicorp Holdings Sdn Bhd (2003)

Y Bhg Dato’ Sri Dr Lim Wee-Chai, Top Glove Corporation Berhad (2004)

Y Bhg Tan Sri Dato’ Professor Dr Lim Kok Wing, Limkokwing Univeristy College of Creative Technology (2005)

Y Bhg Dato’ Tony Fernandes, AirAsia Berhad (2006)

Y Bhg Dato’ Edmund Santhara, Masterskill Education Group Berhad (2007)

Y Bhg Dato’ AK Nathan, Eversendai Corporation Sdn Bhd (2008)

Whoa, all big names there.

At least 2 of the names there are from the education field – even people dabbling in obscure-sounding areas such as medical coding training courses have a chance!

The award recipient will represent Malaysia and will join other country recipients at the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Event in Monte Carlo.

At first glance, the piece of metal measuring 5 cm in length and weighs less than a kilogram would seem harmless, but when one hits you as you are traveling at 230 km/h, it becomes deadly.

Fortunately he was wearing a Schuberth RF 1.7 bulletproof helmet, which undoubtedly saved his life.

The helmet reportedy cost USD30,000 (about RM100,000).

However, since the projectile hit part of the visor, arguably the weakest component of the helmet he was still hurt:

A video of the incident:

I wonder, do they also ensure Formula 1 car mats are also bulletproof???

Source
memento24.com

RM500 million!!! That would buy countless plasma mounts!

It was filed by a team of 9 lawyers at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.

Apparently Ong will donate the RM500 million to charity and education if he wins.

On Tiong’s part, he said he had a witness to the exchange of cash.

The suit asked Tiong to:
(i) retract his statement
(ii) apologise via all major newspapers in the country.

For this, he was awarded the Hacker of the Year award by Google and O’Reilly with the Hacker of the Year.

He has a BSc in Comp Sc and Business Admin, and moved to the US in November 2005.

The following is a very interesting video on his talk at Startup School regarding the question: how to make money online:

BTW, his skin looks so smooth, I wonder what acne products he uses ;-p

(i) Michael Jackson owed at least USD300million when he died.

(ii) on paper at least, he had assets worth USD1.3 billion, most of them in his 50% ownership of the Beatles’ back catalogue.

(iii) his credit rating was 447 when he died – among the worst 2% when compared to all Americans.

(iv) he had less than USD700,000 in cash. That might be a lot of money to other folk, but for the King of Pop, that’s like spare change!

(v) he was a spendaholic, and someone called him “only a millionaire, but spends money like a billionaire”.

And as we all know, the one thing he did not need are weight loss supplements.

Still, RIP MJ.

The drug names that have been bandied about include narco pain reliever Vicodin, muscle relaxant Soma and the sedative Xanax.

Throw into the mix the antidepressant Zoloft, the anti-anxiety drug Paxil and the heartburn pill Priolosec.

Of course the one drug that he might never have needed was the diet pill Avesil.

But whew, have you even heard of those strange names?