Last evening I returned to KDU University College to attend the regular D’Utama Advanced Toastmasters meeting.
I was originally slotted to be one of six Evaluators but Low Yat Seow arranged for me to switch roles with him – and so I ended being the General Evaluator instead.
This club has its own unique challenges and that doesn’t make my job any easier. Anyway, I gave it my best shot, delivered with unabashed honesty. Whenever I am here at this club, of late, I have been wondering where have the good speakers gone to?
Overall, I would give this meeting a score of a 5 out of a 10.
Shahrizat’s son (he's the NFCorp chief executive) Wan Shahinur Izmir released a media statement yesterday insisting that his company who were given RM250 million by the government have the right to use the money as they see fit, based on their 2007 deal with Putrajaya – so long as they repay the two percent interest in full.
So buying condos and spending on other stuff is okay! It’s none of anybody’s business to question it!
Look, I am not a greedy person. I just want to ask for RM1 million. I want to spend it any way I like. And I will repay it at two percent interest. Can or not?
In fact, just thinking about the extortionate excesses of the Shahrizat family makes me imagine a dryft of pigs that is rabidly driven by avaricious gluttony!
And talking about swine, I am reminded of Wednesday's story in UK’s The Sun about this trusting English woman who thought she’d bought a micro pig!
Image credit: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4115069/About-that-micro-pig-you-sold-me.html
Janey Byrne paid £350 for it and then watched porker Meeka balloon into this 17-stone monster! The pet – obviously a ravenous eater – cost the owner around £200 a month to keep it happy and satisfied. That’s at least ten bags of apples and carrots a week.
She found out later that the pig is in fact a Vietnamese pot belly. But too late – she’s grown attached to the pig!
It is pretty common in the UK to be keeping "micro-pigs," pint-sized porkers – see picture below – that can weigh as little as 15 lbs. and make "really loving" pets. There’s this famous Winston Churchill comment: “Cats look down on you, dogs look up to you, but a pig looks at you like an equal".
Image credit:
http://www.peoplepets.com/people/pets/article/0,,20493468,00.html
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