World Cup 2010 Betting

After a long waiting for 4 years, it's time for World Cup this month, folks. I'm too excited about it, even though my country is not part of the participants. Anyway, I just worry and wonder about the physical security of the matches held in South Africa. Hope everything will be fine.

When we talk about World Cup, a lot of people, especially men are betting money on it. I don't know why, some of them said that they can make money while enjoying the match, some of them are just betting to increase the excitement of the match watching. To me, I refrain from betting World Cup. This is because I'm too lazy to do homework and I just have no luck. I suffered huge loss from the previous World Cup games. I guess I need to put a stop on it this time.

I believe it is boring if I just watch it for nothing. Okay, if you are the same like me, perhaps we can do something about it. We can try to join some online competition, and we still can bet the matches to win some prizes for ourselves. AsianBookie.com, as usual, is offering it's World Cup competition through it's web site, by allowing us to bet all the matches, with handicap and over/under bet. The winner will gets USD300 from Ladbrokes, following by the other 24 winners with some consolation USDs. You may check out the prize yourself. 

If you really want to bet online, perhaps you can try bet365.com, it is giving away bonus up to USD200 for new customer who deposit USD25 and above. Please take note that Bet365.com did not pay me to advertise this, but I was bet365.com customer before and I'm very satisfied with their services.

I have joined and playing this game since 2002, but as I said, I've no luck to be the winner yet. Let's see what's my luck this year. I've placed my bet for today's 2 matches, as follows:

So what you waiting for? Have fun betting and good luck!

Raping In The House, By Taxi Driver

If a man managed to have sex with many pretty women like Edison Chan, perhaps you will recognized his outstanding 'communication' skills. But, if a man managed to rape many girls and continue to threaten them for continuous sex supply, we would definitely look down on him. He just utilized his wisdom to commit crimes and threaten the rest of others' life.

Yes, this crown is belong to a 54 year old taxi driver. 6 secondary school students became his sex slaves for almost a year after he raped them, filmed the act and threatened to make the videos public if they told anyone about it. The victims are just aged between 15 and 17, were passengers of him took to his house instead of their destination and raped. 

He would later call the girls whenever he wanted sexual favours and use the recording to threaten them. Three students who were unable to bear the torment mustered enough courage to report the matter to the police. Police are still looking for the other three victims. The first victim, who revealed her ordeal to a close friend who had asked her why she took the same taxi every time, lodged the first report.

Based on the video recordings on the cabbie’s phone, police believe there were six victims in total. According to police, the recordings showed the victims screaming, crying and pleading with the taxi driver to release them. This monster is still single and living alone, he has been remanded for 7 days by police now.

From the look at this lesson, we really have to educate and train our children on how to handle this kind of incident when they are alone, to prevent such tragedy happen. I don't think we want them to meet such incident. But somehow, this is out of our control most of the time. Our children might really need to take cab one day?

So how to educate? Good question, but I don't know yet. Perhaps you can try to post this question in your Facebook and seek for opinions. Have a nice weekend, folks!

Foxconn Employees Tragedy

You should be paying attention to a giant manufacturer employees tragedy. Foxconn Technology Group, one of the largest motherboard manufacturers in the world, has up to 12 staffs suicided in China factory due to unknown recently. The initial suspect is the employees are overloaded with the works and pressure from the superiors due to high volume of stock orders, as well as unable to communicate properly with others. 

Some reporters attempted to investigate the truth of Foxconn employee suicide incident. Unfortunately, Foxconn is yet to announce to them anything for the time being. According to the interview with some of the Foxconn's staffs, they admitted they are overloaded with works and pressure, and some of them admitted they have no friends to talk to. The reporters also slipped in to the working environment, but the outcome is good. Foxconn is providing employees a good facility and working environment, such as library, sports complex, canteen, etc.

Do you know iphone components are also made by Foxconn manufacturer?

To counter measure the problem, Foxconn has taken some actions such as rising the staff wages for 20%, hire consultant to alleviate the pressures and communicate with the existing employees. 

Anyway, such incident does not affecting the job applicants. There are thousands of them queuing to work with Foxconn.When the reporter interviewed with some job applicants, they said those employees who suicided were stupid, they would seek for other channels to solve this problem. Well, from my opinion, these people should not say so, as they only say that when the incident has occurred. At least they should respect the people who pass away.

A lot of Chinese complained about this incident. So what's next?

We all know the competition between IT manufacturers are getting competitive, and high cost with lower margin. But the bottom line is we are still human, we have limitation. So Foxconn cannot just think from the profit point of view from the beginning. No matter what it is, damage has been made and we hope the price is not too heavy for Foxconn. Let's see what's next for her.