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It is the beginning of the month. It is time to review and reduce the petrol price again. The reduction has been constant at 15 cents each time the price was reviewed. If this trend continues, the new petrol price will be at RM1.85 per liter — lower than it was before the 78 cents hike a few months back.

I am expecting an announcement on the petrol price reduction tomorrow. The new price (whatever the amount) should come into effect on Tuesday. Any delays should not be more than one or two days. Anything longer than that may be an indication that there will not be another price reduction anytime soon.

The next question is whether the government will peg the petrol price and not allow it to drop any further. I have no problem with that. In fact, I agree that this move can help put aside some funds for 2009 where some say the economy will be worse.

However, after reading and seeing so much, I wonder how much from what is saved will be left at the end of it.

I was checking out some videos on Ustream.tv and stumbled upon one that caught my attention.

iSam.

It was quite interesting at first until the host “unboxed” the iSam — his newborn. The video was recorded with the help of his wife. I am sure the both of them are very excited.

At first, I thought the purpose of the video was to share their excitement with their followers. I could have been wrong. I do not want to sound like “I am holier than thou” but the rest of the video made me felt a little sick in the stomach.

Once you have watched past the 4:30 mark until the end, you will realize that the main purpose of the video was to promote her baby clothing. Much effort was taken just to show the printed words “iSam” on the front of the baby’s shirt.

Where do we set the limit? Has the limit been breached?

It doesn’t matter what some politicians are saying, the people are feeling the impact of the economy slowdown nowadays. From what I hear, things will be much worse come next year.

I am feeling the impact of the economy slowdown too. So much that I have to resort to stealing. I stole RM8 from some foreign workers today. Yup, you read that correctly. RM8. They say if you want to steal, steal big. I guess I am not such a good listener.

I know stealing is wrong. I did not want to steal either but I was left with no other choices. The prices of food and other necessities have raised so much in the past months.

They said the global oil price was high that is why they had to raise the price of petrol. It was a 78 cents raise, mind you. Then, they raised the electricity tariffs claiming that petrol was needed to generate electricity. Either that or I read wrongly.

Now that the global oil price has dropped so much — even much less than one year ago — all these people could do is to tell you they will stop subsidizing the petrol. I am fine with that but these people are taking us as if we are a bunch of idiots.

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If you Google for Why Do We Dream?, you’ll get a long list of results. Many questioned why we dream. Is there any effect to someone’s body when that person dreams? Is there any side effect when someone dreams?

According to this article on top dream theories, some researches suggest that dreams have no purpose at all. On the other hand, some believe that dreaming is essential to the mental, emotional and physical well-being of a person.

Some even believe that dreams have a meaning to it. All you need is just a guide to interpret dreams. A quick search brought me to this online guide to dream interpretation website. I say that it is quite a good read if you are interested or curious about dreams.

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One thing I find fascinating about dreams is the ability or inability for us to control it. Most of the time, I am just a passenger in my dream and don’t even know I was dreaming. However, there were a few occasions where I knew I was dreaming and was able to somewhat control it. They call it lucid dream.

I was not able to fully control the progress of my dream on the very first try though. In fact, I never did manage to have total control, only partial. The first couple of times, I woke up immediately after I realized that I was dreaming. After a few more “practices”, I was able to play “director” in my own dream. It felt pretty cool I must say.

Some dreams can be so intense and real to the point that I wake up feeling confused. At times, the negative feeling caused by a dream can lasts for hours before it ends.

Have you ever experienced anything like that in the past? Have you ever wondered if it is possible that two (or more) people “meet” in a dream?

Note: Names of mentioned individuals are changed to protect their identity.

My friend, Paula is in her mid-twenties. She is a victim of two snatch thieves. Both this events happened in a period of only 6 months.

The first time when Paula encountered a snatch thief, only her handbag was snatched away. She saw the person fled in a motorbike. Apart from losing her handbag and the things in it, she was not hurt.

We know too well how some snatch thief victims end up with cuts, bruises and even deaths. In a sense, she was lucky.

Unfortunately, her luck ran out last Friday morning. She encountered her second snatch thief incident. Whoever said lightning does not strike twice? In her case, it did. In fact, the second strike was much worse than the first.

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