Apple iPad

Apple iPad was revealed yesterday and the initial reactions seem to have split the market. There are those that were awed and drolled over the beautiful slimline pictures of it, and there are those that are disappointed and disenchanted very quickly.

So, do you want an Apple iPad? Are you wondering where to get an Apple iPad? When is Apple iPad going to be released? Before that, have a look at the good things and bad things about it.

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You see them all the time, and you can’t help but wonder where do the birds flock by night.

If you happen to live in Wellington (NZ), Stuff.co.nz has the answer.

I find it fascinating, especially for the little sparrows.

Important child education tip: don’t make your kids clean toilets. It may be illegal in New Zealand!

In the Stuff.co.nz today:

Boy made to clean toilet as punishment

A five-year-old boy was made to clean toilets by a caregiver as punishment at a Child, Youth and Family-funded after-school care programme in Rotorua.

Now his mother is seeking legal advice on the punishment – dished out after the boy supposedly hit a girl in the face with a ball.

Oriwa Pehi-Livapulu said her son Noble could have become sick after the incident at the Chipmunks Centre last week.

He was only five and did not even clean the toilet at home, she said.

“My mana has been taken away from me. Noble’s spirit has been trampled on”, she told The New Zealand Herald.

She has complained to CYF, which funded the programme.

While I won’t be going around forcing kids to clean toilet, what the mother said was quite a jewel :)

No, seriously, in my childhood days having a 2-week period of twice-a-day cleaning the school toilet was a normal punishment for bad “school crimes”. Yes we did it, we were little kids with little hands on our big toilet brushes and mops, and we grew up healthy and well-behaved. I’ve never been an interest of CYF, I’ve never been sick from cleaning toilet, and I am now working successfully, owns a house of my own, a car, and a $25k motorcycle.

On the other hand, if the toilets had not been cleaned I might have contracted swine flu long time ago and dead by now.

Added 17/06/2009:

If this Stuff article is a barometer on New Zealand parental attitude, we really have to be worried.

Here’s the most important tip for buying an investment property, especially a rental property to guarantee you get a good cashflow and stable bank balance:

Unique Selling Proposition

For common case, this would be “location, location, location”. But it is not necesarily true for all. Why? Read on…

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If your business is stuck in a recession rut, you definitely need to do something drastic to get out before the road ends!

The primal instinct (especially if you come from accountancy) is to cut cost. But nothing could be worse than this. Why?

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One advice on getting your country out of recession: Spend!

Why Spend? Why not save? Income is scarce, jobs are being cut, we need to batten down the hatch and survive the storm! Really?

Let us examine first why the economy is in doom and gloom…

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NZ Shops and Supermarket are to charge for plastic bags. This has been done by Pak’n'Save since about 10 years ago although they never said anything about saving the planet. I was always under the assumption that they are only trying to help pushing the prices down.

Now suddenly all other supermarkets (FoodStuff ones) and The Warehouse decided to charge 10c per plastic bag, with the loud gong sound of “saving the planet”. Would you believe that?

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I don’t normally watch Korean TV drama, or any TV drama for that matter. And I particularly hate soap operas that go on for years without any ending. But this particular one caught my attention.

Love in Heaven (or Dear Heaven, 하늘이시여 / Ha-neul-i-si-yeo) is an 85 1-hour episode Korean SBS TV drama broadcast between September 2005 to July 2006.

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Okay, I’ve been too lazy to post anything here and I deserve a kick in the head. Will try to do better from today. My apology.