Peace education

Nobel laureates and international personalities will be in the country to hold talks, workshops and dialogues over the next six months to help promote peace.

Nicol shows touch of glass to get into semis

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s world number one squash player Nicol David loves to strut her stuff in a glass court.

And she did it again in fending off a strong challenge from Alison Waters of England to reach the semi-finals of the Qatar Classic in Doha with a 11-4, 14-12, 11-9 win yesterday.

All the matches from the quarter-finals are played in glass courts.

After a slow start, Waters gave Nicol a hard time but the Malaysian showed that she was more than determined to get her hands on her third Qatar Classic title and wrapped up the match in 34 minutes.

The three-time world champion will take on fourth seed and former world number one Natalie Grainger of the United States today for a place in the final.

Nicol told the squashsite.co.uk that her game was improving by the day and looked forward to continue playing in the glass court.

“Playing in the glass courts suits my style of game and it gives me a feeling that I am in a competition,” she said.

A real competition is indeed in store for Nicol when she takes on Grainger, who is bent on making up for her disappointment of crashing out early in the recent world championships in Manchester.

The other semi-final is between Holland’s Natalie Grinham and Australian Rachael Grinham.

Fall in oil prices, gov't should revise budget

The government will have to revise its 2009 budget, since the projected oil revenue is likely to be adversely affected by the fall in global prices, say economists.

Petrol, diesel prices reduced from Saturday

Here's some cheery news. The price of petrol and diesel at the pump will be reduced from Sat, Aug 23.

The price of RON97 petrol will be reduced by 15 sen to RM2.55 a litre from RM2.70, while RON92 will be 22 sen less at RM2.40, from RM2.62.

The premium Shell V-Power Racing will cost 10 sen less per litre, at RM3.05 from RM3.15.

The retail price of diesel will be eight sen less at RM2.50 a litre.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced the new prices in a statement after Friday's Cabinet meeting.

He said the prices were determined by taking into account the actual price from Aug 1 to 21 and the 30 sen per litre subsidy borne by the government, while the subsidy for diesel, based on the new price, was 50 sen a litre.

~pr3m~

! ! ! F.R.I.E.N.D.S ! ! !

A friend is a person that I know and like and who likes me...
A friend is a person who will stay together in which ever situation in my life...
A friend is a person who realy care about me and understand my feelings and will give and take advice...

Important Characteristic

* caring
* kind
* understanding
* friendly
* good behavior
* clean
* helpful

Rational

I choose some of the above important characteristic because that is my own characteristic....


A true friend...

Someone I can talk to
Someone I can trust.
Someone who will be there
When my relationships rust.

Someone who will save me,
When everything goes wrong.
Someone who will comfort me
And help me to be strong.

Someone who listens
At any time of day.
Someone who will brighten
Any sky that’s gray.

Someone who will always
Want to be my friend.
Someone who will fight for me,
Until the bitter end.

Someone who will cry with me
Whenever I am sad.
Someone who will laugh with me
Whenever I am glad.

Someone who will understand
My every weird emotion.
Someone who will always be
At my side with their devotion.

Someone who will always think
Of me before themselves.
Someone who will care for me
And put their own worries onto shelves.

Someone who will always let
Me act like the true me.
Someone who will always be
Just like I want to be

Someone who will always remain
Incredibly beautiful and true-
Someone who is my best friend.
Someone just like you.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PR3M ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

life is dramatic....

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

~pr3m~