“Quote” of the day… 26.12.2007

Normally, if someone ordinary eat a €22 (£16) lobster meal, there is nothing unusual about it… but when it comes to this lady and her story of lobster, her quote caught my eyes…

A clearly embarrassed Wagenknecht – who was brought up on the works of Marx and Engels, joined the East German communists in 1989, and allegedly mourned the fall of the Berlin Wall – has admitted both to eating the lobster, and erasing the pictures.
But she defended her actions.
“I don’t do anything that I say others shouldn’t do,” she told the daily TAZ. “On the contrary, I’m fighting for a society in which everyone can afford to eat lobster.
As to why she erased the pictures? “I didn’t like them,” she said.

Malaysia: HIV and AIDS Cases 1990 – 2005

Total HIV cases reported from year 1990 to 2005 in Malaysia:
Year – Total
1990 – 778
1991 – 1794
1992 – 2512
1993 – 2507
1994 – 3393
1995 – 4198
1996 – 4597
1997 – 3924
1998 – 4624
1999 – 4692
2000 – 5107
2001 – 5938
2002 – 6978
2003 – 6756
2004 – 6427
2005 – 6120

And according to gender:
a) Male HIV cases

b) Female HIV cases

Source:
1. Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat – Statistic

Picture: Giant Carving and Me!

Cambodia 13.11.2007 – Angkor Thom, originally uploaded by micpohling.

I was not looking that small exactly, as compared to the carving behind me…