PARTY WITHOUT PANTIES PLANNED

Cheap Sale !!! Only RM 250.00

KUALA TERENGGANU: Under-wear off – that is one of the conditions for guys who want to attend a mega sex party on New Year’s Eve that is scheduled to be held in Johor Baru.

The second condition is that girls must wear only G-string panties and be prepared to take them off after midnight to usher in the new year.

It is learnt that invitations enclosed in New Year greeting cards are being distributed here. Upon opening the greeting card, there is a note with this statement: “Are you below 40? If you are, then browse this web address and you won’t regret it.”

On the website are three handphone numbers for those who want to attend the sex party to contact. The Star managed to get in touch with one of the contact persons and the woman who answered the call identified herself as Ida.

She claimed to be the organiser of the sex party and she expected 350 revellers to attend the event.

Ida then demanded a deposit of RM250 as entrance fee for each participant and the amount had to be banked into her account number.

“Are you a male? Don’t worry, we have 200-over women there for you, including those from Batam (Indonesia) but you must be prepared to go naked, you know,” she said. Ida said there were also several female students from colleges in Kuala Lumpur and Malacca who had confirmed their attendance.

“We need more males for the party. We are short of men. Don’t worry about partners, there will be plenty of them on that night,” she said. When asked about the venue of the party, Ida replied, “You bank in RM100 first, we will send all the details. The balance must be deposited before we confirm your name.

“We will prepare the liquor and accommodation but you have to pay separately for these, but they will cost only a nominal sum,” she said.

Ida also divulged that the party would be held at a secluded area fronting the beach and gave an assurance that there would be scouts stationed at all entry points to the venue to alert the revellers in case there is a raid.

“The party will go on all night long, and you are free to do whatever you wish to do,” she said. Ida also recommended that guys should bring along condoms.

“With HIV on the increase, the organiser can’t guarantee it will be AIDS-free, so it’s better to be safe,” she laughed. However, Ida suspected something amiss when more questions were posed to her.

“Are you from Special Branch?” she asked, before ending the call.

Attempts to contact the other numbers were futile.

In JOHOR BARU, Johor CID chief Senior Asst Comm (II) Amer Awal urged the public not to be involved in the party and said the organisers could be con men.

“Why would they demand money before they reveal the location? In the end, they will probably just run away with the money.

“We will be investigating the matter. The police will also inform the state religious department and the local council to be on the watch-out for any suspicious activities,” he said. He said those with information could contact the nearest police station or the police hotline at 07-221 2999.


Adapted from: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/12/29/nation/2907043&sec=nation

STRANDED ON SINGAPORE FLYER

The largest and the tallest (for now) observation wheel or better known as the Singapore Flyer was stopped temporary on 23rd December due to some "technical" failures. 23 out of 28 capsules, there was a total of 173 passengers at that time.

Time occured: Aproximately 4.15 p.m.
Time rescued: At 10.30 p.m.
Total time stranded: Approximately 6 hours, 15 minutes

Since the Flyer became operational in February this year, this is the third time it has encountered problems.

The last time a technical glitch occured was just three weeks ago, on December 4. The wheel was stuck for nearly five hours due to extreme weather conditions and some 70 people were affected.

In July, the Flyer stopped due to a minor fault in the braking system.

Tropicana City Mall, Petaling Jaya

The backdrop of Tropicana City Mall

As there were too many shopping malls located in the heart of Petaling Jaya itself, on 18th December (as well as the following day), I have decided to pay a visit to Tropicana City Mall located at Damansara Intan (exactly at the curve towards SS2 along the LDP).

Tropicana City is a signature location created by Dijaya Corporation Bhd, setting the stage to shape a new identity for the Petaling Jaya skyline. It is strategically located at the crossroads of the LDP Highway and Sprint Damansara. This excellent location is well supported by a network of roads making it easily accessible from anywhere in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya.

The center court of Tropicana City Mall (Christmas decos - 18th Dec 2008)

Tropicana City includes Casa Damansara Condominiums 1, 2 and 3 and together are more than 1.1 million square ft of mixed commercial development spread across prime P.J. property. Tropicana City has all the makings of becoming the latest modern business, retail and entertainment hub bustling with vitality. It is set to revitalize and redefine modern suburban living.

The friendly Concierge on their first day

This development is expected to take up to 4 years to be fully completed and will showcase Tropicana Mall as its centrepiece.

Starbucks Coffee located at the main entrance. I know the Store Manager. Call me to get his number for discounts . . .

Amongst the tenants that are set or have already set their foot in Tropicana City Mall includes: Starbucks Coffee, Kenny Rogers, Borders Bookstore, Wendy's Burger (all of which owns by Berjaya Corporation), Hang Ten, E Print, Esprit, ShopaLot, Samsonite, San Francisco Steakhouse, Subway, Sushi Tei (from Singapore) and many more others. For more information on its tenants, please click here. Carrefour, the highly successful and leading international hypermarket chain is the main anchor tenant, occupying 125,000 sq ft on the Lower Ground Floor of the Mall.

The mall is set to complete and have its Opening Ceremony after Chinese New Year in 2009.

P/S. Please note that 18th December 2008 is only the soft-launch of the mall. For other enquiries or media enquiries, please divert it to Ms. Serena Lim of Dijaya Corporation

ANTICIPATING LEGOLAND MALAYSIA ???

IT'S SET !!! LEGOLAND COMING TO MALAYSIA IN YEAR 2013

Johor Bahru, 13 December 2008 – Iskandar Investment Berhad (”IIB”) today signed a landmark agreement with Merlin Entertainments (”Merlin”), the world’s second largest visitor attraction operator, to build East Asia’s first LEGOLAND Park in Iskandar Malaysia.

This exciting RM750m joint venture - LEGOLAND Malaysia – is expected to be opened to the public in 2013 – and will be located in the northeast corner of Medini Iskandar Malaysia (”Medini”), a 2,300 acre international mixed-use development in the heart of Nusajaya, on land being developed by Global Capital and Development Sdn Bhd. Merlin Entertainments will design and operate the Park, and will become a 20% shareholder, whilst a consortium led by IIB will own the balance. The LEGOLAND Park will be the centrepiece of a 145 acre integrated complex, with a Gross Floor Area (GFA) of 5.5m square feet that will include a unique lifestyle retail centre, offices, hotels, serviced apartments and residential units. This integrated complex, which will be substantially complete by 2013, will have a Gross Development Value of over RM3.5bn.

LEGOLAND Malaysia will be similar to the company’s four other hugely popular and successful LEGOLAND Parks - LEGOLAND Billund, LEGOLAND Windsor, LEGOLAND Deutschland, and LEGOLAND California.

Targeted at families with children between the ages of 2 to 12 years, LEGOLAND Parks are based on the universally popular LEGO® construction toy range. They offer families the opportunity to let their imaginations run free, and be immersed in LEGO® experiences with a unique mix of kid-powered rides, building challenges, spectacular LEGO® models, interactive attractions, family-friendly coasters and shows that pull the audience into the action. LEGOLAND Malaysia will feature more than 40 interactive rides, shows and attractions on the day it opens.

“IIB selected LEGOLAND as the partner for its first international theme park in Iskandar after many months of discussions and engagements with various operators and potential brand partners,” said IIB’s Managing Director Arlida Ariff.
“Given the significant increase in the number of themed tourism offerings expected in the Asia Pacific region over the next 20 year period, IIB felt that the product offering in Iskandar Malaysia had to be unique and focused.”
“Based on this rationale, IIB chose Merlin Entertainments/LEGOLAND because it provides educational entertainment that will attract families with young children to Iskandar Malaysia as a vacation destination,” said Arlida, adding that families with young children were a fast growing demographic group in South East Asia.

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, commenting for KIRKBI Invest A/S – owners of the LEGO® toy company, and shareholders in Merlin Entertainments - said, “LEGOLAND is the ultimate experience of LEGO® values and potential. We therefore welcome this cooperation between Merlin Entertainments and Iskandar Investment Berhad to bring the LEGOLAND experience to East Asia, and we are confident that LEGOLAND Malaysia will be extremely successful.”

IIB believes that Iskandar Malaysia will benefit strongly from the presence of several key tourism catalysts into the area. Theme parks have a proven record of attracting a large volume of new visitors, as well as increasing the length of stay and expenditure by regular visitors - thus creating a strong multiplier for the local economy. Theme parks also create a vast number of jobs both during the construction phase, and once they open. Current estimates are that almost 5,000 jobs would be required, both directly and indirectly, during the various phases of the project.

The LEGO® brand is well recognised among Asian families, the very group that Iskandar Malaysia is targeting as its core tourist base. LEGO® is a strong brand in Malaysia and this is why IIB expects a strong following for LEGOLAND Malaysia from local Malaysian and Johor families.

“The Comprehensive Development Plan for Iskandar Malaysia identified the Tourism sector as one of the nine key economic pillars of the Region,” said Tan Sri Dato’ Azman Mokhtar, Chairman of IIB and Managing Director of Khazanah Nasional Berhad.

“At the end of 2006, we commenced a study to evaluate the feasibility of establishing an International Destination Resort anchored by a theme park in Iskandar Malaysia to further develop and deepen the Tourism sector.”

“We are pleased that such efforts have borne fruit and culminated in this signing of an agreement between Merlin and IIB, that will attract more tourists from neighbouring countries and the Asia-Pacific region into Iskandar. This is a significant first step in developing Iskandar Malaysia as an international tourist destination. We expect further visitor attractions to be developed in the coming years,” he said.

John Jakobsen, Managing Director of LEGOLAND Parks, said that he was looking forward to the rollout of East Asia’s first LEGOLAND Park, saying, “We love the location of Iskandar Malaysia and are delighted by our partnership with IIB. The LEGOLAND Malaysia Park will build upon the success of our other internationally recognised LEGOLAND Parks in Europe and North America, and we have no doubt that once open it will become the ultimate destination in the region for families with young children.”

Concluding, Merlin Entertainments’ Chief Executive, Nick Varney said: “We are very excited by this development which underlines our continued confidence in the market despite the current global economic situation. Our strong belief is that while not recession proof, quality branded attractions such as ours are recession resilient. Even when times are hard people will choose to get away from the ‘gloom’, and have fun together with family and friends. However they will choose destinations which offer real value for money and which they know will not disappoint. LEGOLAND Parks offer just that sort of reassurance and quality.”

Adapted from: http://www.lifthill.com/news/legoland-malaysia-announced-for-2013/

Nuffnang Singapore New Office

It was an unprecedented visit to the Nuffnang's Singapore new office located in Kinta Road @ Farrer Park. When Malaysian blogger met Singaporean blogger at White Sand Shopping Center over lunch, the thought suddenly came up of why not we pay a visit since I'm there.

WHAT ??? We were greeted by this "machine" when we arrived at the doorstep of the building. Not too bad for Nuffnang SG huh?

Historical buildings at Kinta Rd

A mini apartment studio smacked in the middle of historical shop lots were visible if you pay a visit to Kinta Rd. You can't missed the building as Nuffnang's Office is in the super ultra modern office-cum-apartment.

You wouldn't even believed it that you have an equipped kitchenette awaiting you as you enter the "apartment" office. I was amazed of how equipped this office is.

Tired of working, the signboard shows you to your Refreshment Center. The team was pretty busy. Hong Peng, Aric and I were just sitting in the boardroom facing the four walls chit-chatting. Nevertheless, Brand Essence and obscene cups filled with sky juice accompanied us throughout the conversation.

The office has been well-stocked with Brand Essence, one of Nuffie SG's clientele

Hong Peng (the SG blogger) and myself (MY blogger) in the boardroom

Well, there are more to come when I'm back in KL tomorrow. I'll post more pictures soon. So stay tune...

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE CREATOR DIES

From New York Times
By FRED A. BERNSTEIN

Jorn Utzon, an architect who designed one of the world’s most recognizable buildings — the Sydney Opera House — but never saw it finished, died in Copenhagen on Saturday. He was 90.

He died of heart failure in his sleep, according to his son Kim.

Mr. Utzon left Australia amid controversy seven years before the Opera House was completed. He lived out most of his final decades on the Spanish island of Majorca while his gull-roofed building came to symbolize Australia, 10,000 miles away.

As a young architect Mr. Utzon worked for Gunnar Asplund in Sweden and Alvar Aalto in Finland before establishing his own practice in Copenhagen in 1950. In 1956 he read about the Sydney Opera House competition in a Swedish architecture magazine. He spent six months designing a building with sail-like roofs, their geometry, he said, derived from the sections of an orange. Mr. Utzon’s plan was championed by Eero Saarinen, the Finnish architect who was one of the judges in the competition.

In 1957, Mr. Utzon — who until then was hardly known outside his native country — was declared the winner, and for the next five years he worked on the project from his office in Denmark. In 1962, he moved with his wife, Lis, sons Jan and Kim, and daughter, Lin, to Sydney.

When only the shell of the opera house was complete, the architect found himself at odds with Davis Hughes, the New South Wales minister for public works, over cost overruns and delays. When Mr. Hughes stopped payments to Mr. Utzon in 1966, the architect packed up his family and left the country.

Supporters of Mr. Utzon said that an unreasonably low construction estimate made it seem as though costs had escalated far more than they had, and that Mr. Utzon had been treated unfairly.

Writing in Harvard Design Magazine in 2005, Bent Flyvbjerg, a professor of planning at Aalborg University in Denmark, argued that “the real loss in the Sydney Opera House project is not the huge cost overrun in itself. It is that the overrun and the controversy it created kept Utzon from building more masterpieces.”

In recent years, Australian organizations tried to heal the breach. In 2002, Mr. Utzon was commissioned to design interior renovations that would bring the building closer to his original vision; his son Jan, who is also an architect, traveled to Australia to carry out the work. And in 2003, Mr. Utzon received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sydney. (Jan took his place at the ceremony.)

The same year, Mr. Utzon won the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture’s highest honor. Frank Gehry, who was a Pritzker juror at the time, said that Mr. Utzon “made a building well ahead of its time, far ahead of available technology, and he persevered through extraordinary malicious publicity and negative criticism to build a building that changed the image of an entire country.”

Jorn Utzon, the son of a naval architect, was born in Aalborg, Denmark, on April 9, 1918. He studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. After leaving Australia, he worked in Hawaii, Switzerland and Spain before settling in Majorca in the mid-1970s. In addition to the Sydney Opera House, he designed the National Assembly of Kuwait, a church at Bagsvaerd, Denmark, and many private homes, including two in Majorca for himself and his wife. He chose the spot for the first house, he said, because it reminded him of the Australian beachfront he had hurriedly departed.

Though he suffered from failing eyesight in his final years, he continued to discuss architecture and could visualize plans the way a chess player can visualize a board, Jan Utzon said.

He is survived by his wife, three children — Jan, of Hellebaek, Denmark; Kim, of Copenhagen; and Lin, of Majorca — five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

When he was accepting the honorary doctorate in 2003, Jan Utzon said the fact that his father had never visited the opera house did not mean he had not experienced the building. “As its creator, he just has to close his eyes to see it,” he said.