RED FM Foreplay or Fourplay?

Whatever it is, it's a exceptional marketing gimmick to boost their listener numbers and at the same time get people to pay towards the prizes.

RED FM RM50,000 UP FOR GRABS SMS TO WIN

It's a brilliant strategy. Besides increasing the number of listeners to this station (RED FM 104.9 in Klang Valley), the time spent listening is dragged longer as well.

For a small fee that goes to the sms provider that provides the sms info number 32733, RED FM collects the rest of the RM0.50 for each sms sent in. It's a no-brainer that with so many people vying for the maximum payout of RM2,500, the numbers add up to pay for the prizes as well.

People who send in multiple sms ARE not guaranteed a win. Terms of entry although simple do not explain or inform of the method of selection. Instead more sms is encouraged from many single individual. At the end of it, RED FM may even stand to profit with extra money. Fortunately it ends this week.

Mending the Current Ailing World Economy

Everything that we know of has a cycle. The only good news that we can all look forward to is that good times are coming but as to when and how no one knows. And, unfortunately by that time many would have lost their means and status financially. Job layoffs, corporate restructuring, bloated cost of essentials, climbing cost of production and the like of such will be a norm.

In such times, the World needs to come together effectively to combat and overcome the difficulties of the economic meltdown so that the effects and negative backspin can be shortened. As in all situations there are positive and negative aspects in such troubled times. The weak shall perish whereas opportunists will prosper. A global action to pump reserved resources into the ailing economy is required. The world if united can share its wealth; without it will only prolong the torture.

Everything we can make sure of must be done so that this severe recession we are all facing does not worsen further. Only a handful of individuals will see this truth and unless global action is taken together, not the individual actions of separate nations, the world economy is doomed to collapse further. Like history repeats itself, people are selfish and narrow minded seeing only within the confines of their puny kingdom - some worse than others and shall only further line their own coffers for their immediate wealth.

An inflated cost or price must see a reduction so that the crisis is regulated and drained of its impetus. The world lacks a leader that is able to unite it for the common good.

It is time for the world to act as one.

Looking Bad Can Ruin Your Career

Yes it does. Yes it will. Yes, it can. There are many studies that have found a direct influence on people between physical appearance and income. Hence, better take this clue and shape up. Hai-Hui, an executive coach in Guangxi, China, has this to say, "More often than not it is a person's physical appearance that determines whether he succeeds in the corporate world and climb the so-called corporate ladder quickly. Clothes and appearances really maketh a person". Her solution is overwhelming and effective. It's a total re-make of the person from head to toe. It also involves getting a total new wardrobe that is suitable to the type of career, or in her words - "the position that is desired and so targeted. Dress and look the position. An immediate outcome is that her clients immediately feel more confident as well.

Of Lotteries in Malaysia

Given the national religion is Islam and the fact that under its teachings the act of gambling (speculation bets in the hope of winning, more commonly money), the following can never take place in Malaysia.

Of the many gaming options (except Genting Highlands Casino Resort Royale), the Pan Malaysian Pools (Da Ma Cai) and Berjaya Sports Toto (Duo Duo) also offer lottery draws with prizes amounting to millions of Malaysian Ringgit - the difference is in the latter two which does not allow public screening of the draw taking place; or at least that is what the general public as in I and the rest of the Malaysian population know.

In other countries such as Canada, good ol' USA and even Hong Kong allow public airing of the draws in their respective states. As such there can be less afterthought to whether any rigging or delayed payout was actually done. At these gaming venues we can see Malaysians from all walks of life and culture coming together to partake in this periodic ritual of betting, all hoping that they will be the Lucky One (...or is it the Chosen One?)