On Thursday, I attended the MAS Cempaka Toastmasters meeting and this time around, I was the evaluator for Kathryn Wong – she did her CC speech # 4: How to Say It. I must admit that Toastmasters meetings at MAS are always enjoyable. Actually, it is a joint-meeting among 3 MAS clubs, i.e. Cempaka, Mawar and Melor, and predictably, there were the usual coterie of non-MAS Toastmasters who would come: Foong, Bernard, Stephen amongst others.
And a day earlier, Portugal – after a year-long struggle – finally capitulated to reality to follow Greece and Ireland in formally seeking an €80 billion bailout from her eurozone partners and the IMF to save her from default on unsustainably high foreign debts. The Portuguese prime minister, Jose Socrates said a bailout was "the last resort".
Shortwave radios seems to be enjoying brisk sales in Sibu and Sarikei – at least according to Malaysia Today. Ibans are tuned to London-based Radio Free Sarawak (RFS) – read my blog posting on February 25, 2011 – because the interviews and talk shows are in the Iban language, providing them with alternative news. And Sibu and Sarikei have a 98.21% and 84.09% of Iban population respectively. It is not incorrect to refer to RFS as a clandestine station.
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