ROJAK and POTBELLY OF NEWS

Rojak and Potbelly of News for breakfast?

NO. I won't recommend that because if you get diarrhoea Desi can't be the doctor responsible for that mMC to justify your MIA at work! It’s Desis’ rojak supper at Haridas’ last night after watching the second part of “Mother Teresa” starring OLIVIA HUSSEY and mGf Mr Coww and I had second thoughts whether we should have a second dinner at 10PM.

First thought says YES. Second thought says YES for Desi but a reluctant NO from Coww because eralier in the day he had read this (since not digested...)NEWS HEADLINE:

Three die in crash with cows, lorry

Sorry I'm not serving details because this post is not about those COWS, but about Desi and his potporri of news. Ah, that's the WORD, not potbelly as stated in the title. Ne'er mine, also can-wat, I 'ear the Coww moo-ing/mourning about expanding sidelines.

Further digressing, PM stands for post-meridien for I.Cowws' lnowledge benefit here, which means the rest of the day after NOON. I’m clarifying this because many of the adults, including TV presenters/announcers (also mix-ing up Deadline and dateline...is this digression or aggression?) despite all the hi-fi education they are getting in schools nowadays, often state midnight as 12PM.

Hey, there’s no such thing as 12PM! The minute after 11.59PM on Sunday is midnight Sunday. If one states it as 12PM Sunday it’s NOT VALID because if if tell your gF/bF to meet you at 12PM, he/she might wait in te bloody hot sun on Sunday at about lunchtime, or worse, in the dark of night Monday midnight. If I spend almost thee last 10minutes Xplaining this issue of PM and AM and you still don’t get it, blame it on this Desi being hit by PUBERTY, ONCE MORE! Context?


You want Contest? Here goes:

From the Sunday Star Sci-Tech page 35 yesterday, Desi reproduces the item in FULL, to do justice to his growling stomach, first time, reprising in fool that 'DUMBER' item, not the growlin':

Teenagers do get ‘dumber’ at time of puberty


""**The surly secrets of Kevin the teenager have been laid bare by scientists who have found that we lose the ability to detect expressions of anger and sadness around the time of puberty.

The discovery, which surprised scientists conducting a pioneering study of the ability to read expressions, could reveal why 13- and 14-year-olds suffer the same exasperating inability to understand their parents as the Harry Enfield character.

Parents who react to the antics of a Kevin with anger or sadness are wasting their time, because pubescent children are oblivious to these emotions. "Teenagers really do get 'dumber' in their social intelligence around the time of puberty," Prof David Skuse of the Institute of Child Health, London, told the British Association's festival in Dublin. "This may go some way to explaining the 'Kevin' phenomenon, described so perceptively by Harry Enfield.

"One wonders sometimes if they understand anything you are saying. It would appear that this is a function of their brain at that time."

The social ineptness is as true for boys as for girls but, by the age of 16 or 17, teenagers reach an adult level of competence in reading social cues, although girls held an advantage for some emotions.

Prof Skuse made the discovery after investigating the ability of male and female brains to read faces. He hopes to shed light on the cause of autism, which undermines empathy and the ability to distinguish expressions, and is 10 times more common in males than females.

Some researchers believe that "males are a little more autistic than most females" and autism sufferers have an "extreme male brain".

An investigation by Prof Skuse and colleagues of "social cognition" in 600 children aged six to 16 was expected to reveal striking sex differences but they turned out to be more subtle.

The "rather surprising findings" when the subjects were shown faces with six emotions - happiness, sadness, disgust, anger, fear and surprise - are to be published with Dr Angie Wade of the Institute of Child Health in the Journal of Applied Statistics.

"For some emotions, such as anger, we see a dip in the ability to perform these tasks around puberty," said Prof Skuse. "It looks as though the brain reorganises, or rewires. It gets worse at recognising facial expressions.

"Does this explain the Kevin phenomenon? It might be behind the social ineptitude of early adolescents, the seeming inability to understand the two expressions that have this dip most strikingly - sadness and anger."

A pilot had shown that, below the age of six, children could not reliably understand concepts such as surprise and disgust. But at the age of six he found "a substantial difference between boys and girls".

About 70 per cent of six-year-old boys were below the mean ability of girls. "It means a lot of boys are very poor at school entry at differentiating other people's emotions from their facial expressions."

Teachers need to appreciate that young boys who are unresponsive are unable to read subtle expressions of disapproval.

But by the age of 16, the difference between the sexes has faded.

"The theory that autism is the extreme of the male brain is not strongly supported by these data," said Prof Skuse. -- Telegraph Group Ltd**""



DESIDERATA:

So now you parents please DON'T GO SHOUTING at thy teenage son/daughter when he/she's acting up. It's the hormones in his bloodstream which is primarily inherted from the BOTH of you equally (? ... sometimes I think the FE-mail genes dominate the mail! Ah, the luxury of digressing on Blues Monday morn; I did not go for Primeday today for after enjoying Mother Teresa, another prime cut would be 110% Capitalist Indulgence, and that won't do because Desi might just be justified in stopping this Blog:( and I.Cowws steal need a lot of education.

Now that we have warned parents about the potential SUICIDE signs to watch out for in yesterday's THE BEFRIENDERS reach out to YOU! Have you returned their reach, dear EsteemedReaders?, this morning's update is another EYE-OPENER. Had I known about this KEVIN phenomenon earlier, I would have made quick bucks giving advice to Teenagers on How to Xplain themselves when caught in a tight situation. I'm saying this in jest, OK? That's another rhetorical question, in anticipation that some partry might not take kindly to Desi jesting on such an Important Subject;)

Ah, ne'er mine I told myself, It's alight to be different, as I spied young Christopher writing in his Mum's blog over the weekend ("http://yancorner.blogspot.com).

Any wit-taker at Desi's Place over the witsends, dear YoungOnes at http://IgnorantCows.blogspot.com ?

The Potporri continues later as I sort out the Rojak ingredients, Patience, OK! This angry Pig (You don't know the scientific fact: A hungry man is in deed an angry man!)has to adjourn for his non-CON (Can't be CON-ning every weakday, can I?)




At 12.14PM, Desi went to see his doc after having contracted from various sources,:

Potbellyache 1:
MPs demand an explanation

While Barisan Nasional and opposition MPs are angry over International Trade and Industry Minister Raffidah Aziz’s absence in Parliament to personally anwer questions on approved permits (APs), one person begs to disagree.
The Barisan Nasional Backbencherss’ Club chairman Shahrir Abdul Samad is not concerned whether Rafidah was present or not as long as the ministry gave complete and quality answers.

DESI: I’m also damned bloody angry that none of the MPs gave me am answer why no one protesteth and rejecteth the 10% payrise when they ear;ier protesteth to the PM Pak Lah that THEY DID NOT ASK FOR IT!


Potbellyache 2:
New drugs to control high blood pressure


Kuala Lumpur, Sat. – First the bad news: one in three Malaysians suffers from high blood pressure and less than a third are aware of their illness.
Now the good news: A recent study showed that lives can be saved and heart attacks and strokes prevented by using a combination of new drugs.

DESI: Many are disciples of Desi – practicing Ignorance is Bliss; hey, thou I. Cowws, I didn’t say Do as I do, I said Do as I say!

Potbellyache 3:
Fergie: Devils in trouble now

SIR ALEX FERGUSON admitted his Manchester United side face a daunting task to make up the 10-point gap on English Premiership leaders Chelsea.
United slumped 2-1 at home to Blackburn Rovers on Saturday, leaving MU in fifth placeafter teir first defeat.

DESI: Feeling patriotic and alONE as Malaysian Idol 2 fled for his own celeb, I was waiting last night for the Malaysian A-team to appear, then realized I was at the wrong stadium – I thought when Mr Coww asked me to meet him at the Old Stadium, he meant the OLD TRAFFORD, not that Merdeka Stadium! Getting’ into second Puberty Period;(





Bellyache 5:
S’pore’s charities wary after kidney foundation scandal

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s charities have agreed to make their operations more transparent in the wake of a scandalover the city-state’s largest fund-raising institution, a report said yesterday.
But some 300 charity chiefs, following a meeting with top government officials, said the issue of whether to reveal the salaries of their CEOs should be left to individual organizations, according to The Sunday Times.
Th scandal involving the National Lidney Foundation revolved around its CEO T.T. Durai having been paid S$600,000 a year, as well as given first-class air travel and upkeep for his Mercedes car.

DESI: Now you can Appreciate that without an AP, a journalist like ME is disMISS’d as a ppu-uuu-r church mouse. RAT-tionale, also-can-lah!:(

Potbellyache 6:
SUBRA DUMPED!
SAMY VELLU NAMES PALANI HIS RUNNING MATE

The New Straits Times today,(must name the source1, otherwise Desi runs the risk of being suited for RM100million) page 1, lead item reads:

KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. – The country’s worst kept secret is out. MIC president S. Samy Vellu has endorsed G. Palanivel as the party’s number two – a ove that will put his relationship with his current deputy, S. Subramaniam, at a point of no return.
The long-time MIC chief announced his running mate ina POEM to division leaders from Subang and Puchong.

DESI: Although SUMtimes Desi ghost-writes, esp when the SUM is in S’X-figure, he must clearly and unambiguously and unashamedly disavow being anyway remotely or cyberishly connected with ‘that’ POEM!
BN leaders don’t heed my advice to say often the matra from that British TV series from where I learnt some cockney and X-English “Yes, Mr Minister!” – so exit Chua Jui Meng, Kerk Chooo Ting and Musa Hitam, Razaleigh Hamzah and Anwar Ibrahim.

Potbellyache SE7EN:

Noticed that in today’s references till now, I left out all the confusing PreFixes. See if yiu 4 the connection in the last bellyache I suffered this mornin’ after last nite’s Rojak (Maaf ia, Hari Hari does It, cannot-lah!):(

CHONG: ‘Some Datuks disappeared after borrowing more than RM500,000’

From The Star, 26 September 2005 page 23:

“Major Chinese dailies reported that even Datuks and Justices of the Peace (JPs) were seeking the services of ah longs (loan sharks), borrowing sums that totaled millions of ringgit.
The dailies quoted MCA Public Service and Complaints Department head Datuk Michael Chong (alright, Xception here because some of my I. Cowws think Desi is promoting himself, NO-lah, call me just YL, Chong, or Teh-Si or Daisy will do, btter steal Socialist also-can!, bBut no close’ reference, OK!:( as saying that to date, the department has received 176 complaints from loan sharks regarding outstanding debts owed by Datuks and JPs.
Chong said some Datuks disappeared after borrowing more than RM500,000.

DESI: I sent applications to ALL the banks in the country asking for RM20million to buy OUR I-LAND ( remember, ‘is steal September you kNOw, and the theme is TRY TO REMEMBER …) with spiritedestination comprising VVIPs as citizens as COLLATERAL. But these bankers asked ME if I had a father for a Min’ster, or a son-who=is=a=billionaire=at=27, 28 or 30-also=can. I said NO, but I kNOw mGF who is that Minister at …… Church where I dwell, ppuuuuuu=r as a church mouse remember? They did NOT Approve my loan application, so I’m thinking of one named “CY...long”. Lols, a long bellyache! So long, 4ya! If I don’t pay up that RM20 by tonite, I won’t be able to seeya tomorrow monr, which is another TUESDAY with SORRIES.:( Now I truly understand what is Collateral Damage in Deed.


Bellytache Gone in 60 seconds!
Sucking-good melody with S’pore lollipops

SINGAPORE: A musical lollipop invented here goes on sale in the next two months, a news report said yesterday.
David Yeo, 45, a sales representative for American industrial control products, was keen on creating his own product to satisfy yearnings for both sweets and music, the Straits Times reported.
He and a partner invented the lollipops that come in four flavours – apple, lemon, strawberry and raspberry –via a modus operandus that works on vacuum technology. A thin, hollow rod in the middle of the candy connects to musical and lighting mechanisms, which are activated wehen the lollipop is sucked.

DESI: has a yen for sweetz, music, wits-taker Choc, and Strawberry Fields Forever!