An empty mailbox, is a good mailbox (no bills)
My letter box's empty today. The postal service is on strike. The employees of La Poste had decided to go on strike since La Poste ( the postal service and a bank), wanted to reduce it's current number of workers to be able to compete with the other courrier services (ie DHL, UPS, FedEx). I don't see the relation in that, but the people was assured that the postal service will continue as usual tomorrow. But then again, tomorrow, the SNCF employees will go on strike. They've announced it on TV yesterday. I mean, isn't it weird? They wanted to go on strike, and yet they announced it to everyone. So tomorrow there'll be no trains. Almost no trains. That's the beauty of the strikes in France. Like the SNCF's (the train service) strike tomorrow. They announced it to everyone on tele, they'll go on strike, but yet, they'll still have some service go on as usual. Tomorrow, 2 out 3 TGV services would be on strike, 3 out of 4 TER services, and all RER too. And they've also decided not to disturb the Eurostar and Thalys services. I mean, where else can you see a proper-managed-well planned strike to voice out their demands but at the same time, thinks of what might happen to the public if they stop giving-out their service for one day? Only in France i tell you.
Today, Chirac, Schroeder, Blair and the spanish PM got together in Toulouse to 'merasmikan' the new Airbus A380. It carries 550-800 passengers, with the height of an 8 storey building, a length that is equal to the width of a football field, it's the largest civil aircraft on earth. It's the new European pride. But i don't see the need of it. It's more dangerous than a 747 in my opinion. Say, one day it crashes (let's hope it won't), 550 to 800 people would die, compared to a crash of a 747, only 400 would die. When people say it's to overcome the problem of the increasing air traffic, wouldn't it be better to have a normal sized plane, but at a faster speed? If you can transport 800 people from London to Paris in an hour, and another 800 back to London in another hour, why not take 400 people in 30 minutes, another 400 back to London, another 400 to Paris and again another 400 to London? It's still the same. 1600 people, in 2 hours. Of course there's the ground procedures and technical problems, but you risk less lives. Like trains, they don't compete to build bigger or longer trains, but to build faster trains. Not bigger cars (like 5 seats in a row), but faster cars. We'll see what'll happen when he made his maiden flight this spring. I just pray that it won't be another Titanic. (I'm not being a pessimist, but a realist)
The virus alert ended on 15 january, but some of us are still sick. Most still have sore-throats, but Irfan and Dinie are still having the fever. And according to Sylviane, the symptoms that Irfan has might mean that he has a sinus problem. If he doesn't act quickly, he'll need to undergo an operation. I hope everyone will get well before the ski trip. Arrrgh... ski trip. I still need to buy a google and a water-proof pants. It'll cost me a fortune. 150 euros the least. And i think it'll be as catastrophic as my ice-skating. Me and ice? We never get along well.
Can you guess what song is this? It's a famous song. Almost everyone in Malaysia knows this song. I guess.
athkatre btama lesatikaj arnakia
nrukna hutia gahabta mha rath
katreb tamales atika jarnakain
rukn ahut aigahab tamharuja
mnadut asrebpu dihta ykarukhar
aday nhap muthana tukaragen
I pity you if you do not know this song.
Today, Chirac, Schroeder, Blair and the spanish PM got together in Toulouse to 'merasmikan' the new Airbus A380. It carries 550-800 passengers, with the height of an 8 storey building, a length that is equal to the width of a football field, it's the largest civil aircraft on earth. It's the new European pride. But i don't see the need of it. It's more dangerous than a 747 in my opinion. Say, one day it crashes (let's hope it won't), 550 to 800 people would die, compared to a crash of a 747, only 400 would die. When people say it's to overcome the problem of the increasing air traffic, wouldn't it be better to have a normal sized plane, but at a faster speed? If you can transport 800 people from London to Paris in an hour, and another 800 back to London in another hour, why not take 400 people in 30 minutes, another 400 back to London, another 400 to Paris and again another 400 to London? It's still the same. 1600 people, in 2 hours. Of course there's the ground procedures and technical problems, but you risk less lives. Like trains, they don't compete to build bigger or longer trains, but to build faster trains. Not bigger cars (like 5 seats in a row), but faster cars. We'll see what'll happen when he made his maiden flight this spring. I just pray that it won't be another Titanic. (I'm not being a pessimist, but a realist)
The virus alert ended on 15 january, but some of us are still sick. Most still have sore-throats, but Irfan and Dinie are still having the fever. And according to Sylviane, the symptoms that Irfan has might mean that he has a sinus problem. If he doesn't act quickly, he'll need to undergo an operation. I hope everyone will get well before the ski trip. Arrrgh... ski trip. I still need to buy a google and a water-proof pants. It'll cost me a fortune. 150 euros the least. And i think it'll be as catastrophic as my ice-skating. Me and ice? We never get along well.
Can you guess what song is this? It's a famous song. Almost everyone in Malaysia knows this song. I guess.
athkatre btama lesatikaj arnakia
nrukna hutia gahabta mha rath
katreb tamales atika jarnakain
rukn ahut aigahab tamharuja
mnadut asrebpu dihta ykarukhar
aday nhap muthana tukaragen
I pity you if you do not know this song.
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