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Great speech: War should be criminilised
Tun Mahathir has always been my idol. His mental strength, outspokenness, sincerity, creativity and many more qualities should be exemplars to the young and growing… Listen to his talk , though delayed, would open up your senses: There are four parts. Please click on the subsequent ones at the end of every tube.
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Penang in top-ten list of Yahoo! Travels.
Perhaps I am a little slow…but this morning I woke up with a little surprise, after reading a link shared by a friend in facebook. Penang oh Penang…i love Penang…but this article may as well spike the mortgage rates in Penang…it is already terrible as it is! http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-37926474
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Want to be an emotion annotator?
Salam & good day to all. I am now conducting a perceptual test on emotion. It is an interesting process, to annotate emotion you perceive in a series of videos featuring interaction process with a Hifi spoken dialog system, the politeness of the system and many other stuff. Any of you guys who could speak or understand Spanish, could participate. This is your chance to be an emotion annotator! If you’re interested, please contact me (click on Contact Me) with your email addresses. Then I will send an email… with the instructions on how to access the videos and what to do. You are not needed to DOWNLOAD ANYTHING!
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General Strike in Spain, 30th Sept 2010
Yesterday, it was quite a view for me, as usual. There were people shouting out slogans, waving flags, throwing out flyers…to protest against the Spanish government’s plans to cut civil service salaries by five per cent. We were at SOL and GRAN VIA, and there were just too many people. I was told that in Barcelona things went sour. You can see some pics here from Madrid.
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What Not to Say When Pulled Over by a Cop (Market Watch)
"What's going to cause the situation to get worse is for the fear factor to rise in that officer," Koep said. "The officer is more likely to cut you a break as long as you can reduce that fear. …If you're friendly with me, not arguing or denying what happened, that lowers the fear factor and will make me a lot more cooperative with you."
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Science Daily: Perception of emotion is culture-specific
ScienceDaily (Sep. 15, 2010) — Want to know how a Japanese person is feeling? Pay attention to the tone of his voice, not his face. That’s what other Japanese people would do, anyway. A new study examines how Dutch and Japanese people assess others’ emotions and finds that Dutch people pay attention to the facial expression more than Japanese people do. “As humans are social animals, it’s important for humans to understand the emotional state of other people to maintain good relationships,” says Akihiro Tanaka of Waseda Institute for Advanced Study in Japan. “When a man is smiling, probably he is happy, and when he is crying, probably he’s sad.”…
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Eidul Mubarak
To all my Muslim friends, Eidul Mubarak, Selamat Hari Raya and Maaf Zahir batin! Wish you all a blessed Eid and better life. As usual, we will be celebrating Eid here in Madrid. This year would be the worst for me personally as I’ll probably have to work @ the uni – that leaves me no time to prepare no rendang no lemang no kuah kacang …..we’ll be “qadha”-ing all that at the embassador’s house though <Wink>!
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I love skateboarding
My 4 year old Azim skate boarding.
