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Oh yeah. The ultimate authentic Malaysian food paradise. The atmosphere's perfect at night, the food's absolutely awesome. It's time for mamak.

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Apple's been booming in business since the introduction of iPod. The very presence of iPod has affected the market of mass-media not because of its features or performance, but by its chic and stylish elegance. Apple has solely concentrated on going chic.

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Humans are social creatures. They cannot stand alone doing nothing, that leads to boredom and psychotic problems. They need to socialise. The fact that humans can now get in touch by texting using handphones, emailing and chatting online, the google age has brought in a new thing - social networking sites.

Friendster, Facebook, Imeem, MySpace and many more make up the popularity of these sites. Let's face it: they've been more in-your-face than usual, thanks in large part to Facebook's burgeoning popularity.

As people are increasingly consumed by work and can't have time to socialise, they turn to these sites to relate with friends and family. They can do this anytime while working with a PC, whether at home or in the offices.

However, setbacks are common. Users might get addicted and stray from families. Users might also not be aware of certain security concerns and post too much info on themselves which might lead to abuse. Moreover, building online relationships can frequently blur the line between what's real and what's not.

Facebook's been booming in the world as new users register by the thousands everyday. Dubbed the best social network site, it is no doubt the social site to beat at this moment. Friendster's one stale site that is only popular in the Southeast Asia region. Unfortunately, Friendster's time is up and the sad thing is they haven't realised it yet.

P.S. thanks to PC.com magazine for some phrases I have quoted into this article.

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Just a moment ago, I was staring at my neighbour's home. Their house had a few energetic children running around the garden, shouting and screaming. Looks as if there were close cousins. Then I thought about my own childhood experiences. They were out of the picture.

I was born into an odd position. On my mother's family, I was the youngest among the cousins, and the second youngest one was half a generation away. I felt absolutely left out. And now they are all in other countries, either studying or working, and I'm the only one left here, crawling through the obstacles of secondary school life. When I looked into the photo album of the late 1980's, I felt as if my heart was pulled down by a ton of metal, looking at how much fun my cousins and brother had before me.

On my father's side, it was odder. Same, I was the second youngest among my generation of cousins. But one thing weird is, I was an uncle eight years before I was born. My oldest nephew's eight years older than me! Not to think about the other cousins of my generation, they're old and smell stale. And those who are my nephews and nieces, are half a generation younger than me, besides THAT nephew I mentioned just now. I was caught between generation gaps, damned for life.

Every single one of my friends keep on bragging about how fun they were with their cousins, playing and fooling around. But I don't get it. Why cousins? Are they really that fun? Yes, they are, but I never got to experience them. Never. I could only stare in awe at what they have achieved in their university level courses.

This resulted in some benefits however, that I was forced to socialise with adults. I click well with the grown-ups, learned a lot from their experiences and professions. My mom always branded me very sociable with adults, but never mentioned my cousins. Not even the nephews and nieces. However, I seem to click with babies very well! =)

They were either too old or too young, my relatives.

Sad for my case, left out forever. For age cannot alter throughout our lives.

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Is this what seems to be the future?

Global warming, ozone layer thinning, inflation of food, price of fuel rocketing sky high.
Is this how we should live?

According to what I have experienced while far away in my dreams a couple of days ago, there is a way to rectify all these. As a person who thinks about the world, about GLOBAL CRISES, I had a glance to the future. A peek at what is to come, and utilise that vision for some good use - blogging, as this would spread the word to the world that is the internet.

The future is grave and hazardous to mankind and all the species living on Earth. The sources of petroleum will fall, and within 10 years, 90% of oil will lie in Middle Eastern nations. Don't worry about Americans invading them, by then the price is super high, and no one will dare to purchase them anymore. And within 20 years, petroleum will be wiped off the face of the Earth. But that will not happen, as people will stop buying them.

To combat the need for energy, bio-energy sources should be widely used. These include biomass and biofuel. Biomass, is the use of biological waste products, to provide as a medium for combustion, thus producing energy. Biofuel is the use of cooking oil to generate energy. Biofuel has not been announced usable yet so don't try pouring some of your olive oil into the car. =)

Though biofuel and biomass produce air pollutants, they are still the top choices to replace petroleum oil as the primary source of energy. Products like catalytic converters and electrostatic precipitators can be used to reduce the air pollutants. The main question: why bio-energy? Because, they are plentiful, produce tonnes of energy and are renewable.

If this were to go down to the wire, Malaysia would be grinning. We have a large supply of oil palm biofuel reserves waiting to burst. If Malaysia were to import the precious fuel to the world, this country would be rich. So far, only tropical nations like Malaysia, Indonesia and Brazil can breed this prodigies. That would result in war, just like what is happening to the Middle East now. Too much oil, humans fight. Too little oil, humans fight too.

Biotechnology is the answer to this problem. As you might want to know, biotech plays a big role in maintaining the ecosystems of tomorrow. Biotech is basically playing the role of God, manipulating genes, creating new organisms from scratch. Biotech can possibly alter the genes within the oil palm to allow it to grow in other countries. That will stop war, stop the fight for petrol and solve almost everything mankind is facing at this hour.

Ahh yes, the food crisis. I bet, humans just have to reduce their megalomaniacal thirst of reproduction. Keep the status quo, humans develop less land, consume less food. This would counter the food crisis. If only people were to change their mentality. I guess, there's no other way to stop the inflation of food.

Perhaps, biotech can solve the food crisis. Who knows?

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