================================================= Expat Worlds Bi-Monthly Digest ================================================= 2 May, 2006 Vol. 8, Issue 04 .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ==== THE STORY =================== -=No self-respecting PT would be without a MD=- ==== OTHER EZINES ================ ==== EW SPECIAL ================== -=MD-Getting started=- ==== HUMOR, TRIVIA, NEWS AND MORE... == -=Trivia=- -=News Story=- -=Jokes=- ==== THE RESOURCE TIP ============= -=InstantLock=- ==== INSIDE THE CURRENT EXPAT WORLD == -=Table of Content=- ==== THE STORY ================================== NO SELF-RESPECTING PT WOULD BE WITHOUT A MD (MailDrop) No self-respecting PT (Perpetual Tourist, Privacy Tycoon, Past Taxpayer, Prepared Thoroughly) individual would ever think of gliding through life while beating the bureaucracy without a MD (maildrop). We here at Expat World have just recently established a relationship with what we believe is one of the world's most secretive maildrop providers. This new MD is located in an off-the-radar country in Central America, but not hampered by the manana culture found in this area. WHY? Because the mail is controlled by a Canadian authority who has a governmental contract to take the mail system up to first world quality and efficiency. Before EW goes any further into this specific MD let's view what you should be looking for in a MD, whether you are a PT, frequent flyer,"publicity shy individual", own an internet business, investor, "financier", offshore corporation owner, divorcee, on the lamb, or just those wishing to establish an international presence from their back porch. * Your maildrop should be low-profile, located in a place that few would bother looking towards. Unfortunately, many of the MD's of today are registered on Big Brother's list and can be compromised. * The MD should guarantee your personal details are securely protected and they will not divulge any details or information to any individual, business, or government agency without an official court order at the least. * The MD should have an address for you that appears to be a residence address rather than appearing as a PO Box address. * A code should be provided (or the availability to choose on) that identifies you as the real owner of the account so that the MD personal can follows any specific orders or changes to your account. * It should be able to provide fax, telephone and other "very specific services" to you on a one-on-one basis at rates negotiable for the specific services provided. THE NEW GUATEMALA MD FOR LESS THAN A GLASS OF BEER A DAY IN YOUR LOCAL Guatemala Maildrop First, let EW say that the Guatemala MD has all the qualities we previously talked about being necessary. Plus they have some very specific services that can't be found elsewhere and are very flexible, BUT don't take this to mean they will do anything that is illegal or fraudulent. This is not the case. So if you into kiddy porn, scams, spamming or the like, don't think of becoming a Guatemala MD client. They'll shut you down quicker than fart disappears in a wind storm. HOW IT WORKS After forwarding the payment of US $260 setup and service fee and 12 X $20 ($240) for the postage account deposit, (full total $500), your account will be set up. This $500 is the cost for the first year. From the second year onward the fees are $100 service fees and $240 for the postage account. For additional special services, the cost will differ depending on the nature of the service. Along with the payment we will need the name you want to use for the account. You can have two names associated with the account, BUT one must be a personal name and the other a business name. Along with the name(s) for the account, the forwarding address you want to use for the mail received. (you may ask the MD to hold it up till one year if you don't want it forwarded. You can also choose a code word for your account. Any code word of up to 10 letters or letter/digit combos. Choose this code word, or let the MD give you one, carefully for it must be incorporated in the address of the MD drop address so the people doing the sorting know whose letters are whose so they can forward the mail to the correct address. A simple, but effective type code word would be like "Dept BIZ -222. You will be given by the MD staff in Guatemala the address where you have your mail sent. It will be an "apartados" which is abbreviated apt. on all letter addresses! And of course to all English observers and first-worlders that assumes it's an apartment. So naturally one appears to be living or doing business in an apartment complex down Guatemala way. All mail will have a double cut out by you using the method of having the envelopes address to a Latin American Company (provided in the address theMD will give you for sending mail to, with the name you chose and code word . Whether the client uses a fake or real or no RETURN ADDRESS on the outside of the mail or mail package is up to him except its suspicious in the US to not use one at all -- so the G MD suggest something be used.. When mail is received either in package form or individually, the code word and name is correlated to the correct forwarding address and then sent via airmail post. Letters included with no code word or instructions to "forward to code word" such and such, will be opened by the MD people and assumed to be new instructions for delivery or account info., etc. To get started see below. ==== OTHER EZINES & BOOKS ======================== ASIAN TIMES ONLINE Asia most trusted source for news, business,commentary and analysis from throughout Asia and our world. (www.atimes.com). ----- SURVIVAL BOOKS Go to and check it out! ----- japan-guide.com Extensive, up to date online guide on Japan living and travel related information. http://www.japan-guide.com/ ==== EW SPECIAL ================================= MAILDROP TO GET STARTED IT'S REALLY EASY Fill in the simple application form below, email it to: office@expatworld.net with G-MD in the subject heading. When payment is received we will have the MD set up within 72 hours normally. Payment can be done on line at www.expatworld.net at our secure pay-on-line facility OR you can wire transfer the funds -ask for the banking details OR you can send cash, US $ check or money order payable to Expat World VIA REGISTERED AIRMAIL to: Expat World, Attn. Max, Box 1341 Raffles City, Singapore 911745 OR you can transfer e-gold payment. ask for our account number. APPLICATION: Name for the MD _______________ Company name for the MD (optional) ______________________________ Address to forward the mail to: ____ ______________________________ ______________________________ _____________________________ Codeword wanted, up to 10 letters/numbers combo ________________ or check here____if you want the MD to assign you a code word. Email application to: office@expatworld.net or post it to Expat World, Attn. Max, Box 1341 Raffles City, Singapore 911745 via registered airmail. Make payment by one of the options given earlier. ==== HUMOR, TRIVIA, NEWS AND MORE... ================ NEWS STORIES Couple, 33 and 104, reportedly marry KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A 33-year-old man in northern Malaysia has married a 104-year-old woman, saying mutual respect and friendship had turned to love, a news report said Tuesday. It was Muhamad Noor Che Musa's first marriage and his wife's 21st, according to The Star newspaper which cited a report in the Malay-language Harian Metro tabloid. Muhamad, an ex-army serviceman said he found peace and a sense of belonging after meeting Wook Kundor, whom he said he initially sympathized with because she was childless, old and alone, the report said. "I am not after her money, as she is poor," Muhamad reportedly said. "Before meeting Wook, I never stayed in one place for long." He said he hoped to help his new bride to master Roman script while she taught him Islamic religious knowledge. The report did not say if any of Wook's previous 20 husbands are still alive. Malaysian Muslim men are allowed by their religion to take up to four wives at a time, but reports of women who marry more than once are rare. Muslim women do not practice polygamy. Malaysia's 26 million population comprises about 60% Muslims, almost all ethnic Malays. Large ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities are Buddhists, Hindus or Christians. --- London car wash costs $11,500 FIRST the cost of petrol went through the roof - now a bloke is charging £4800 ($11,500) to wash a single car. British man Paul Dalton imports microfibre towels from Australia and special wax from Brazil to perform his 61-stage "Pinnacle Wash" on the luxury cars of wealthy clients. The process takes two weeks per car, and includes four rinses with filtered water and three generous coats of a wax which costs £7000 a tube. Mr Dalton heats the water to exactly 30C, and applies a secret clay mixture to help remove grime. He uses a gadget to measure the thickness of the paintwork within a thousandth of a millimetre to ensure a mirror finish. Rock star Rod Stewart's £700,000 Ferrari Enzo reportedly got the special treatment before the singer took delivery of it. But for those put off by the cost, Mr Dalton offers an introductory 21-stage wash for the bargain price of £370. "For many, the thought of spending (so much) to detail a car seems faintly ridiculous," Mr Dalton said. --- Judge puts verdict in code Ruling ... "I don't see why a judgment should not be a matter of fun" THE judge who presided over the Da Vinci Code trial has put a code of his own into his judgment and said yesterday he would "probably" confirm it to the person who broke it. Since judge Peter Smith delivered his judgment in the case on April 7, lawyers in London and New York began noticing odd italicised letters in the 71-page document. In the following weeks, would-be code-breakers got to work on deciphering the judge's code. "I can't discuss the judgment," Judge Smith said in a brief conversation with the Associated Press, "but I don't see why a judgment should not be a matter of fun." Italics are placed in strange spots: the first is found in paragraph one of the 360-paragraph document. The letter 'S' in the word claimants is italicised. In the next paragraph, 'M' is italicised in claimant, and so on. The italicised letters in the first seven paragraphs spell out "Smithy code", playing on the judge's name. Lawyer Dan Tench, with the London firm Olswang, said he noticed the code when he spotted the striking italicised script in an online copy of the judgment. "To encrypt a message in this manner, in a High Court judgment no less? It's out there," Mr Tench said. "I think he was getting into the spirit of the thing. It doesn't take away from the validity of the judgment. He was just having a bit of fun." Judge Smith was arguably the highlight of the trial, with his acerbic questions and witty observations making the sometimes dry testimony more lively. Though yesterday he refused to discuss the judgment or acknowledge outright that he'd inserted a secret code in its pages, he said: "They don't look like typos, do they?" When asked if someone would break the code, Judge Smith said: "I don't know. It's not a difficult thing to do." And when asked if he would confirm a correct guess to an aspiring code-breaker, the High Court judge said, "probably". Mr Tench said the judge teasingly remarked that the code was a mixture of the italicised font code found in the book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, whose authors were suing Dan Brown's publisher, Random House, for copyright infringement, and the code found in Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had sued Random House, claiming Brown's best-selling novel "appropriated the architecture" of their 1982 non-fiction book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Both books explore theories that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, the couple had a child and the bloodline survives, ideas dismissed by most historians and theologians. The Da Vinci Code has sold more than 40 million copies since its release in March 2003. Since the judgment was handed down three weeks ago, Mr Tench said it took several weeks, and several watchful eyes, to spot the code. Now, London and New York lawyers are scrambling to decode the judgment. "I think it has caught the particular imagination of Americans," Mr Tench said. "To have a British, staid High Court judge encrypt a judgment in this manner, it's jolly fun." "I'm definitely going to try to break the code," said lawyer Mark Stephens, when learning of its existence. "Judges have been known to write very sophisticated and amusing judgments," Mr Stephens said. "This trend started long ago ... one did a judgment in rhyme. Another in couplets. There has been precedent for this. "It adds a bit of fun to what might have been a dusty text," he said. CONCEALED in the early pages of the 71-page judgment are at least 39 single letters printed in bold italics. One page contains a total of eight single bold italics. The only upper-case letter is a 'J' The italicised letters include: Page 5 s m i t h y c o d e J Page 6 a e i e x Page 7 t o s t Page 8 p s a Page 9 c g r e a Page 10 m q w f Page 11 k a Page 12 d p m q Page 13 z --- Oxymoron: growing small ----- "Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty." -- George Bernard Shaw ----- AMNESIA: Condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again. ----- What do you call a woodpecker without a beak? A headbanger ----- A guy was driving down the road in his Yugo during a thunder storm, when his windshield wiper broke. He drives until he comes to an auto body shop. He goes into the shop, walks up to the counter and says, "Excuse me, but could you give me a windshield wiper for my Yugo?" The clerk leans against the counter and thinks for a while. Finally he says, "Sure...that sounds like a fair trade." ----- A man was feeling very depressed and walked into a bar and ordered a triple scotch whiskey. As the bartender poured him the drink he remarked, "That's quite a heavy drink. What's wrong?" After quickly downing his drink, the man replied, "I got home and found my wife having sex with my best friend." "Wow," exclaimed the bartender, as he poured the man a second triple scotch. "No wonder you needed a stiff drink. The second triple is on the house." As the man downed his second triple scotch, the bartender asked him, "What did you do?" "I walked over to my wife," the man replied, "looked her straight in the eye and told her that we were through and to pack her stuff and to get the hell out." "That makes sense," said the bartender, "but what about your friend?" The man replied, "I walked over to him, looked him right in the eye and said, 'BAD DOG!'" ==== THE RESOURCE TIP ============================ InstantLock With this exceptional folder lock software, totally protect, lock and hide folders from other users and programs. Multi user, password feature. Works with Windows 95 98 NT 2000 XP Vista. Locks GBs of data or thousands of files in a second! Just drag and drop your files. Now your files can not be renamed, deleted, or seen by others. Only you can reach them with your password. Download it at . ==== INSIDE THE CURRENT EXPAT WORLD =============== EXPAT WORLD NEWSLETTER (VOL.18 ISSUE 04) Table of Content: - NO SELF-RESPECTING PT WOULD BE WITHOUT A MD (MAILDROP) - BITS AND PIECES - AMERICAN CAPITALISM - BEER FLOWS FROM KITCHEN TAPS - BUBBA AND JUNIOR - GOOGLE REACHES FOR THE STARS - AROUND THE OFFSHORE WORLD - PANAMA IS MORE THAN JUST A CANAL - THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE - EXPAT WORLD'S PRIVACY WORLD - IN THE NAME OF PRIVACY -- AMERICA'S LEAST WANTED - BYE, BYE, BIG BROTHER - 1984 REVISITED: HOW GOVERNMENT MANIPULATES THE MASSES - SCAMS, SCAMS, SCAMS,EXPAT WORLD'S WORLD OF SCAMS - FOREIGN THEFT SERVICES .COM - EXPAT WORLD'S WORLD OF TRAVEL - TRAVEL AND THE CONGRESSMEN - EXPAT RADIO - DEMOCRACY??? SAUDI STYLE - INTERNATIONAL SNIPS & CLIPS - LETTERS FROM AMERICA - MORE LIES AND HYPOCRISY COMING OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE PRESIDENT - CURRENT US ADMINISTRATION SPENDING -- THE MEANING OF A BILLION - RANTS AND RAVES - CRAPPER RAPPER - THE RABBIT AND THE BLONDE - TIS THE SEASON YOU MISSING SO MUCH Each week the EXPAT WORLD DIGEST gives you just a smattering of what you can find in the EXPAT WORLD newsletter that we produce once a month. Why not get the whole story and subscribe now to our electronic version for just US $30 per year. Go to our website: www.expatworld.net to sign up. ********************************************************************* EXPAT WORLD - the newsletter of international living URL - http://www.expatworld.net Email - office@expatworld.net ---------- End of Expat World Digest --------------------------------