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I wont be continuing here but it will be moved to soblur.com - thank you for your continued support but hope to see you at soblur.com

Yew Jin

Its funny how everyone looks forward to the new year while the new year or rather 2009 is just another day for me. It has always been another day - sometimes it can be a rather busy day for me either with work or running errands.

It is pointless for me to look back at 2008 but the thing that I do is to learn from mistakes made in my previous years and hopefully we dont repeat them again in the new year - Moving forward to 2009 a better person - hopefully wiser as well. Happy New Year everyone.

It was fine for most parts of the morning but clouds are starting to show. A storm is coming? *sigh*

Number One Plus, a water-based lubricant produced by health organisation Population Services International (PSI), is an excellent cure for acne, 29-year-old vendor Tep Kemyoeurn told AFP. — PHOTO: AFP

 PHNOM PENH - A CONDOM lubricant designed for sex workers and gay men has become a popular acne cure among female Cambodians, women in the capital and local media said on Thursday.

Number One Plus, a water-based lubricant produced by health organisation Population Services International (PSI), is an excellent cure for acne, 29-year-old vendor Tep Kemyoeurn told AFP.

‘After I used it for three days, all of my acne dried up and went away,’ she said. ‘Many people believe in it,’ she added.

Khen Vanny, 29, from Phnom Penh, told AFP that women of all ages have taken to using the lubricant to get rid of spots.

‘It is very effective. Some people don’t believe in it but people who do really get a good result,’ she said, adding: ‘My youngest sister and my aunt use it too.’

Another woman told Khmer-language Kampuchea Thmey newspaper that she had used many kinds of medicine to treat acne but none had worked.

‘After that my friends, who work at garment factories in Phnom Penh, advised me to apply the lubricant from Number One Plus condoms on my face every night,’ she told the paper.

‘And just within three to four nights, the acne on my face gradually and then totally disappeared,’ she added.

A vendor near a factory in the coastal city of Sihanoukville told the newspaper that she sold packets of Number One Plus lubricant for 500 riels (17 Singapore cents) to many women every day.

The paper urged experts to conduct research about the phenomenon.

PSI were not immediately available for comment on the apparent cosmetic benefits of their product. — AFP

Now why are all the women and some men out there wasting money on facials and cosmetic surgeries - just get a condom and spread those lubricants on to your face or affected area… yuck! some people would just do anything to make up a story but if this is true, then a lot of beauty shops would go bankrupt.

what does the word “Merdeka” mean? Merdeka to me is just a word - born in the mid 1970s, frankly I never knew the true meaning of Malaysia’s Independence. Yes every year on the 31st August there is a holiday (which I look forward to) and a parade and it is shown live on tv everytime (I dont even watch it) but does everyone born in my time or later know the true meaning? are they that patriotic - shouting Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka! or are they just saying it because everyone is saying it as well. Would anyone in this century put themselves ahead of their country - sacrificing their lives for independence like what we read in our history books? hmmm…I dont think anyone would do so… if our political leaders wont do it, my guess no one will.