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The Star is, once again, doing its part as the paper that cares; this time to aid victims of Cyclone Nargis.
We're collecting funds, and it will be used to help Mercy Malaysia in its relief efforts in Myanmar, where items such as water purification sachets, medicine, tarpaulins and plastic sheets for temporary shelter are urgently needed.
Here's how you can help:
1) Donate: Cheques must be made payable to Mercy Malaysia. Write Myanmar Relief Fund on the back of the cheques as well as your name and address so that receipts can be issued.
Because of the urgency of the matter, the collection exercise will only run for two weeks - so you have until May 21. You could come personally to our office at Menara Star (address below) to drop off your cheques at the collection box situated at the lobby.
Or you could send your cheques to:
Myanmar Relief Fund Star Publications (M) Bhd Menara Star 15, Jalan 16/11 Petaling Jaya 46350 Selangor.
For inquiries, call: 03-79671388 ext 1121.
Alternatively, you can forward your donations to the Foreign Ministry as it has activated the Tabung Bencana Kementerian Luar Negeri. Send your cheques to:
Mohammed Zamberi Othman Ketua Akauntan Kementerian Luar Negeri No.1 Jalan Wisma Putra 62602 Putrajaya
2) Blog: As a blogger you could inform your readers on how they could help. Find out if there are other relief efforts and blog about it (Just make sure it's legitimate). Or copy & paste/link to this post.
I've never seen a white lion in my life and I would bet my White Lion CD and Kimba the White Lion Ultra DVD Boxset that the majority of you haven’t either.
So, what if I told you that I have tickets to a show that not only features a white lion doing its thing as the show-stopper, but a white tiger as well, and you can win these tickets by doing what you're doing right now as a blogger. Interested?
The show, called Dreamz, and brought to you by Genting - City of Entertainment, actually has a storyline (of sorts), and is all colourful and magical and loud and busy, featuring lots of people in body-hugging suits and tights, jumping around, doing magic, performing death-defying stunts and acrobatics, and er, getting their heads separated from their bodies, among other things.
If you don't believe me you could check out stills from the show here, and/or watch the 10sec clip below.
Stunning eh?
Of course, the big white cats are the real stars of this extravaganza and they, along with their human counterparts, will be in Genting until Aug 31, 2008, after which they'll be emancipated from body-hugging couture, leashes and the like and leave our shores.
Which gives you about four months (contest ends on Aug 1, 2008) to complete the ridiculously simple tasks we've set up for you so that you can be in contention to take home one of the 80 double passes (worth RM260 each) we have on offer.
And what are these tasks? Well, details can be found on our Contests page.
I watched the YTL-sponsored screening of The 11th Hour last Sunday at KLPac, and found it to be very informative, if a little unimaginative in its approach.
It shares the same objective with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, that is, to make you realise that we, ourselves have become the main threat to our continued survival as a species, and that we have to act - and act fast - if we want to ensure this planet remains habitable in the future.
The documentary, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, essentially features talking heads giving you the lowdown on what's happening to Mother Nature (she's got a temperature and is a little out of sorts - haven't you noticed?), and what we can expect to happen, if we go on the way we do now.
The fascinating commentary, provided by respectable figures such as Stephen Hawking and Mikhail Gorbachev, are intercut with a variety of images, both tender and alarming.
What I really liked about The 11th Hour is that while it paints a grim picture, it is also optimistic; it provides the viewer with possible solutions, on ways to move forward.
Also, it makes a clarion call for change, asking you - yes, you! - to make a few adjustments in your lifestyle for the green cause. Find out more at the movie's official site http://11thhouraction.com/.
One of the things you could do is join the BYOB (Bring your Own Bag) campaign by signing the pledge to rid plastic bags out of your life at http://www.leonardodicaprio.org/pledge/, and more importantly, keep to it.
I was the 2481st person to do exactly that, but I must confess, keeping to the pledge isn't such a stretch for me since I've been carrying my own bag(s) to buy groceries for quite some time now. Heh.
...brings interesting news, not least of which is the entry of our former PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad into the blogging ring. You can read more about it here, or you can go straight to his blog www.chedet.com. All I'm going to say is, expect jabs, hooks and uppercuts, now that the political heavyweight has put on his online gloves.
As for AMBP updates, well, we've got pictures now, and soon if everything moves smoothly, we'll have videos too. But I'm sure it'll take some time to set that up, 'cos, truth be told, we're a little shorthanded now. **ssshhh, don't tell anybody I told you, kay?**
So, while waiting for the young and restless (read: jobless) to respond to our "Wanted" ads, our techies have fixed the bug - the pesky one that didn't allow me to embed videos - that was here, prior to the first of May.
Or at least, I think they fixed the bug, so I'm testing it out now, by embedding a Youtube vid:
There you go. Now, let's all learn a lesson from these two kids.
Update: If you're wondering what Tan Hong Ming and Ummi Qazrina have been up to, check out filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad's blog.
