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  • SLAM 2014 – 10 & 11 September 2014

    SLAM 2014 has been held in Penang Malaysia on 10 & 11 September 2014 - it is a satellite event of Interspeech 2014, Singapore. We the committee members would like to thank both the keynote speakers and all the participants who came. We really enjoyed each process of organizing and making this event a successful one, and we really enjoyed touring the participants who came from different corners of the world around! We hope that this will be a sweet memory and that they'll come back again to Penang soon!

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  • Congratulations Badrul!

    A friend of mine, Dr. Badrul Yahya, has been oustandingly successful in his journey towards providing a natural alternative to treat athma.  Badrul and his team developed a honey-based inhaler that is significantly more effective than a conventional athma inhaler. For more info, please visit his site: http://www.amdi.usm.edu.my/badrulyahayagroup/   Proud of you Bad! Mabruk!

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  • FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION by Tun Dr. Mahathir (chedet.cc)

    FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION SEP18 201253 COMMENTSWRITTEN BY CHEDET Addendum to “Freedom of Expression”, updated Sept 19, 20121. Hillary Clinton says the film insulting to Muslims cannot be stopped because of freedom of expression. 2. The French and Italian papers published photos of a naked Duchess of Cambridge. Now a French court has ordered the publishers to surrender all the pictures to the royal couple and to stop publishing them. The Italians are also going to do the same. 3. So freedom of expression is selective, not to be used against a countess but okay for the prophet of the Muslims. 4. I know there are many hypocrites in the West but…

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  • Budget 2013: Be Thankful and Be Proud Malaysians!

    While Spain is struggling with riots because of the budget cuts and extreme hike ups in expenditures, we Malaysians are blessed with the announcement of the generous 2013 Budget today. The education sector received the largest allocation of RM50.02 billion in Budget 2012, and even more for 2013, and is continually the main focus in the allocations for the last decade. So Malaysians, be thankful, be proud and stop complaining (including myself)! http://www.thesundaily.my/news/489991

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  • Las torrijas

    My neighbour Maria Jesus brought us some torrijas this evening. Yummy! We were talking about it during dinner in my house last night and this evening…ta daa! Wiki cut and paste: In Spain, it is called torrijas and is typically made during Lent, out of thick slices of bread soaked in milk or wine (of course Maria Jesus didn’t use wine, nor milk, because alcohol is prohibited in our faith, and my son has milk allergy, so she substituted milk with soya), dipped in egg, fried and then drenched in spiced honey or cinnamon. In Catalonia, they are also known as torradetes de Santa Teresa. The Lent: The traditional purpose…

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