Entries from November 2008

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

The Legend Of The Chinese Zodiac

In legend the Chinese zodiac consisted of twelve animals called by Buddha during his death rite. Buddha invited all of the animal kingdom, but only twelve of the animals arrived to wish Buddha a peaceful death. Buddha recognized the twelve as the ones to denote the Chinese zodiac. The twelve were challenged to run across [...]

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Learning The Japanese Aphabet And Correct Pronounciation

The Japanese Alphabet is an elegant system of writing that consists of two main scripts known as the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets.It’s these two writing scripts that comprise the some 100 kana characters that are used to write and pronounce every sound in the Japanese language. Learning the alphabet has always been a difficult task [...]

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

If you have to sock Salleh Abas, sock it straight in his face and sock it fast - NST
In his twilight years, Tun Salleh Abas remains a disputatious figure, just as disputatious as a certain ex-Prime Minister who was perceived, rightly or wrongly, to have been instrumental in the ex-Lord Presidents sensational 1988 impeachment..
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