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BMW will soon be introducing a new concept 4 door coupe. This is BMW’s response to the Merc CLS. However, what is different with the new CS coupe concept is that this is a car which is bigger than the 7-series and hints at styling cues that could make their way to future BMW designs.
The full report is in Car Online magazine.
Some video clips:
BMW’s Adrian van Hooydonk, Director Design describes the concept.
The car’s interior:
The car itself:
This is a most awesome video clip of Nordschleife specialist, Sabine Schmitz (yeah the gal who drove the stripped down Ford Transit in Top Gear) racing the E39 BMW M5 round the circuit. The video clip is in car from the front seat of a Porsche 911 GT. I am still practically shaking just from watching. Pure adrenaline man…
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Recently BMW Malaysia concluded the “BMW Shorties” competition gaining 74 entries. The initiative was perhaps a welcome injection into the local film making & creative industry.
It is great to see a platform that allows the many local talents to unleash their creativity. After all, we knew that the creativity existed but there was very seldom any platform to allow this creativity to flourish – given the regulated nature of many things in the country as well as the constant pandering to commercial tastes.
Thanks to BMW Malaysia, a rather unlikely quarter admittedly, this is no longer so. Hopefully, many local firms would follow suit with similar initiatives.
Are we truly bad when it comes to toilet cleanliness?
Regardless this, it would appear that some quarters believe that we need to have special courses to ensure that we understand how to keep toilets clean. An article from chron.com highlights this amusing… and rather embarassing i must say article.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — It’s never too late for toilet training. Some Malaysian colleges may soon offer courses on how to keep public restrooms clean, the national news agency reported Thursday.
The effort is meant to help Malaysia’s public lavatories become as hygienic as those in countries such as Britain and Singapore, Deputy Housing and Local Government Minister Robert Lau was quoted as saying by Bernama news agency.
“Clean toilets cannot merely be judged by the eyes,” Lau was quoted as saying. “This matter also involves the use of cleaning equipment, soap, fragrances and proper tissues.”
Courses would involve managing washrooms by the highest standards in design and sanitation technology, said Lau.
Malaysia’s government recently said it wanted to start a “toilet revolution” in a country where public restrooms have long nauseated citizens and tourists with their lack of basic items such as toilet paper, soap and sometimes even toilet seats.
Lau said his ministry plans to soon introduce a system for the public to lodge complaints about filthy toilets via cell phone text messages.
Other recent measures have included setting up modern self-cleaning toilets in popular shopping districts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s largest city, and scrapping the business licenses of restaurants found to have foul lavatories.
Now, self cleaning toilets. A bit of overkill huh?
A friend of mine shared the following link.
http://www.netevents.tv/docuplayer.asp?docid=75
It is an interesting coverage of the one laptop per child project entitled “No lap un-topped – the bottom up revolution that could re-define global IT culture“. The presentation was made by Nicholas Negroponte, who is a Motorola Director and Chairman Emeritus MIT Labs & Chairman One Laptop per Child. The presentation was dated 2 December 2006. More on Nicholas.
I found the whole idea and concept very interesting. This is the kind of catalyst that could possibly change the way we deliver education around the world. Making the laptops affordable (not more than USD100.00) and ubiquitous is the key factor here. Other interesting ideas for the laptop is using human (as opposed to battery or AC/DC power) and Wi-Fi mesh networking to allow networking in the remotest of locations.
Any thoughts of this bridging the digital divide in Malaysia?