'Oh No!, my cell won't work'

For security reasons, all cellular phone signals have been jammed around the venue summit. However, State Minister for Development of Eastern Indonesia Manuel Kaisiepo did not realize it, thinking that his cellular phone must have been on the blink. So he did what most of the world's cellular phone technicians are apparently trained to do -- he shook it violently.

After attending a ministerial meeting between Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines on Monday, the minister tried to make a phone call from his phone and found that it still would not work.

He moved around from one spot to another shaking it as he went only to find the "no signal" sign on his cell phone. After trying for a few minutes, he decided to put the phone back in his pocket.

"The minister should be informed by about the security measures. He looks so confused," said one snickering conference official. --JP