YOG Food Criticism Again and Again

YOG Food Criticism Again and Again, someone even call it "dog" food.
Sign :(

>> Live maggot found in athlete’s food at Youth Olympic Village
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/08/20/live-maggot-found-in-athletes-food-at-youth-olympic-village/

>> YOG volunteer: Not much improvement in quality of food
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/08/21/yog-volunteer-not-much-improvement-in-quality-of-food/

>>> Hmm, from the picture, looks ok to me :) Just wonder how much is spent on each pack of food here.

Just my thought, volunteer as it's call "voluntEER". There are volunteers that go to 3rd world countries helping people there without any "incentive". They paid for all the cost occurred during the trip helping other.

I am not bother about how the food taste (Ha ha, remind me about the time when I am in the army, serving with "dog" food when serving the nation :P Those are the time when mum's food taste so nice and even maggie mee taste wonder.), but food poisoning case should not happen at the first place.

BTW, is there any follow up on the YOG food poisoning issue?

YOG Food Poisoning

Wow, what a news - More than 20 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) volunteers were reported to have suffered from food poisoning, having diarrhoea and abdominal pain after consuming their meals in the morning of August 15.

You can read more about YOG food poisoning incident at
http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/08/18/nea-moh-probe-food-poisoning-at-yog/


http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1075888/1/.html

Watch Akeelah and the Bee

Yesterday night, I feel like relaxing myself. So end up watching this movie: Akeelah and the Bee

This is an old moive, but a very nice one. Very Inspiring. I intend to ask my little girl to watch it as well.

Akeelah: [quoting Marianne Williamson] Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Dr. Larabee: Does that mean anything to you?

Akeelah: I don't know.

Dr. Larabee: It's written in plain English. What does it mean?

Akeelah: That I'm not supposed to be afraid?

Dr. Larabee: Afraid of what?

Akeelah: Afraid of... me?

You can learn more about Akeelah and the Bee
at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437800/ ... Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer) is an 11-year-old girl in south Los Angeles, with a love for words. Spelling words was a way for her to connect to her father who was killed when she was six. Akeelah is a bright student, but she has been skipping class and is barely passing. Akeelah's principal is about to put her in detention when he persuades her to enter the Crenshaw school's spelling bee...

Interesting tablet - Boogie Board Tablet

While surfing around the web, found this interesting tablet - Boogie Board Tablet

It allows you to write on it (so no need paper and pen liao). But I just wonder why, they never include a SAVE feature in the device???

Don't seem to see this in Singapore :( So if interested, you will have to order at Amazon lor.

You can learn more about this at http://myboogieboard.com

pennyauction.com.my and pennyauction.com.sg

I beleive I come across pennyauction.com.sg site from facebook. Out of curiorsity I check out the site. And also doing some research on related sites as well. I found pennyauction.com.my
So one from Singapore and the other from Malaysia (based on the domain name).

But the interesting thing is, the same products and bidders appear on the 2 sites. I am just wondering, does this mean that we are bidding against 2 countries. Maybe more, who know :P

I further search around and discover that this type of sites are quite popular now (or maybe much earlier).
They are call penny auction. Basically as a bidder, you need to spend some money (say $1) to bid. For every bid, the bid price will increase by a penny (or cent or whatever you wanna call it). Bidders will continue until no one is bidding. And the winner will then have to pay for the bid price + shipping fee.

Frankly, the whole model look great to me, not as a bidder but a site owner :P

Say you list up a popular product that retail price is at $2
(so assume that, typically people will stop biding at around $1)

Bid# - Bid $ Spend - Bid at $
------------------
1 - $1 - $0.01
2 - $2 - $0.02
3 - $2 - $0.03
10 - $10 - $0.10
....
100 - $100 - $1.00

Do you see the trend? For a $2 dollar product, and if the winning bid is $1, the site owner will profit about $100 - $2 + $1 = $99.
That's is a lot of profit margin for 1 sale, earn $99 from a $2 product !!!
Even if the winning bid is at $0.10, the profit is already $10 - $2 + $1 = $9.00
Now imagine that this is a $1000 product.

Of course, you might be saying, still have supporting cost to run the business. Or course it will, which busines does not? But will they get should a high profit margin?

Personally, base of the research that I have found and digested, you might get "lucky" when not many people are bidding. Which will be quite unlikely if the site is popular. Beside, I wonder if the whole process is monitored. It is quite easy to trick in these type of sytem/software. By the way, I am not saying that all these sites are tricking. What I am trying to say it that, from technically stand point, if the whole process is not transparent, who know if the winner bidder is "real"?

Personally, I will not bid on these type of sites. But is up to you. Who know, you might be lucky :P
If I have a choice, I would rather start up a site for you to bid :) Supporter need :P

You can learn more about penny auction at:
http://www.pennyauctionwatch.com/

I play with iPad today :)

Today, I have a chance to play with the iPad that my relative just bought from US.
Looks to me like a big iTouch. The screen is clear. And playing game on it is cool.
What I don't like is the weight, after holding it for sometimes when reading ebook, can start to feel that it is getting heavier (ha ha, maybe my hand is geeting weaker when age catch up)

Looking for iPad alternative? I have foudn these pages offering some. Look cools.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/02/seven-more-ipad-alternatives/

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/12/seven-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipad/

Just wonder, will they be available in Singapore :?

I missed the replay for the recent Table Tennis Won Over China

So sad, missed the replay for the recent Table Tennis Won Over China in the TV. Anyone aware of any re-show again?

Anyway, congrates to our Table Tennis team Singapore for winning the championship!

MOSCOW: Singapore's trio Feng Tianwei, Wang Yuegu and Sun Bei Bei rocked the sports world in Moscow when they beat reigning champions and world No 1 China 3-1 in the World Team Table Tennis Championships... read more ...

Table Tennis: Singapore women's team upset China to become world champs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1059954/1/.html

Singapore Team Manager Eddy Tay ...
"So I think that makes a lot of difference, because suddenly, they felt that, hey, the past doesn't count, that although we have lost so many, many matches, it's like a fresh start."