Malaysian whose working in Singapore will definitely miss the number of public holidays received in Malaysia.
Yes, I am Malaysian and I miss Malaysia :-(
I enjoy working there because on average, each months you will have 1 or 2 days public holiday, which you cannot ask in Singapore.
Sultan birthday, Awal Muharram, Federal Day, Chinese new year, Hari Raya and so on and so forth will be declares as a holiday. Let's compare the number here.
Singapore Public Holidays - 11 Days
Malaysia Public Holidays - 26 Days
In 2008, Singapore only have 11 and Malaysia have 17 (exclude regional holidays) days of holidays.
I envy Malaysian workers. Lazy bum like me shouldn't go to Singapore and should remain in Malaysia instead.
Source: http://www.qppstudio.net/bankholidays2008/malaysia.htm
Want to go back Malaysia without any hassle? Want to reach Malaysia in Shortest time? Want to save travel cost?
Taking Flight will never come into the consideration when you are looking for a cost effective way to travel. But now, Airasia Offers 51000 free seats flying from KL to SG and SG to KL, all you have to do is to pay for the tax and admin fee. It's really a bargain. for those who's travel alot should understand the pain sitting and waiting on the bus for 4 to 5 hours, causing so much discomfort to our ass and back.
So, book your ticket now before it's too late.
Source: http://airasia.com/site/my/en/home.jsp
Due to Lehman Brothers Holdings declare bankruptcy causing the upheaval on Wall Street and less damage from the hurrican lke to the oil and gas infrastructure. The oil price pullback accelerated and went down to less than $100 per barrel.
The global oil price drop significantly from records high $147 per barrel drop until less than $100 per barrel? But why are we still paying RM2.55 per litre?
Malaysia government has promised their people's they will reduce the price when the global oil price dropped and maintain around $120 - $130 per barrel. Now, the price has dropped even more than expected, so we definitely should enjoy cheaper oil price.
Hope they will keep their promise and revise the price soon.
Source: http://www.forbes.com/topstories/feeds/ap/2008/09/15/ap5427103.html
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Wikimapia is like a web based google earth + wiki. You may only use it to search the maps that have been already marked with place name and description, or you may add your own description to the unmark place in the map.
To add a place, just follow carefully the step by step guide from Matt Jones Blog.
The steps are pretty simple, just plot your location, add title, description & category and wait for the approval. That's it, as long as you didn't add any silly info, they will approve your request.
For all my friends who wanted to pay me a visit, I have added the place I stay in wikimapia, so it will be easier for you guys to find me :-)
How to use Wikimapia to find ME:
Steps
1.) Browse to www.wikimapia.org and enter "chenhow" in the search box located at the top right corner.
2.) And you will be able to see "Block 405, Tampines Street 41. Chen How home" from the search result. Click on it.
3.) Tada! Here is where I'm currently staying. Click on the marked area to see the full address of my place.
Feel free to come and find me yum cha k.
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ePetrol is a new service for Malaysian to buy fuel using their MyKad. The objective is to used this as a pilot project to test the rebate system for petrol subsidy program in the future.
How it works?
It will work like a debit card, consumer will have to open a saving/current account with EOB bank, the only bank provide transaction payment through MyKad at the moment, and deposit some amount to it.
How to use this service?
Consumer need to register at ePetrol Kiosk by paying RM6 for the registration. Active the service and then can start using it.
The service will be available nationwide at all BHP, Caltex and three Shell-branded stations owned by Dialog Group Bhd.
To find out more about ePetrol, you may visit their website http://www.epetrol.com.my/newsroom.html
Source: http://thestar.com.my
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If you feel that your website is taking ages to load, you can go to http://tools.pingdom.com/ to find out the total loading time for each objects like css, scripts, images and etc. Base on that, you can find out which object actually causing the long loading time.
The following is the test result of google.com
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMaHWdO1BP8
"噢！ 你们的电话一直响，吵到我，我怎么死。"..
LOL, this is funny shit. Didn't know that act as a corpse was so difficult... HAHA
I really admire that short guy, he might not born with a handsome face, but he has very strong sense of humor, anything come out from his mouth also sounds funny.
U HAVE MY SUPPORT!!
Must go to watch this movie and give a good laugh during this weekend.
"If I Walk With You" is a song that composed by my friend, Peter.
2 years ago, he sent me this song and now I wanted to share with you guys.
Personally, I think this is a good song, well written and I like the lyrics.
Hope you guys will like it too, do send me your comments, i think he would also like to know what people's think about his song.
Yesterday, I have share with you on how to make a shorter URL. And today I'm going to show you how to expand the shortened URL.
To expand the short URL, you can goto http://longurl.org/
LongURL will help to expands all the short URLs that have been shortened by services like 0rz.tw, TinyURL, Ping.fm, is.gd, and etc.
Just enter the short URL and press 'Expand', and you will get the long url like the following.
Few weeks back I saw my friend put his website url as his messenger title. And what really attracted my attention was his URL.
Is a very, very shot URL starting with http://0rz.tw/..
COOL isn't it
So I surf through the net and finally found how he did it. Now I have mine shorter URL pointing to my blog as well http://0rz.tw/324MI
To create 1 for your site, just go to this website http://0rz.tw/ , put the long URL and click on the "Make Shorter" button. Then it will make a shorter URL for you starting with http://0rz.tw/..
If you want password protect for the shorter URL, you can do that as well by putting the long URL + password and then click the "Make Shoter with Password Protected" button.
Feel free visit my blog using shorter url http://0rz.tw/324MI
Recently, 2 of my best friends just losses someone they love and enter into grieving.
~ No one die la
Just they have broke up with their GF's.
Is Understandable when losing someone means so much to you, the pain can be fatal.
They cried, trying to use their tears to denial the loss is real.
They fought, fighting for the eternity of love.
They got drunk, trying to paralyze their wounded soul.
They regretted and blamed themselves for their incapable to ask her to stay.
Sigh..
The reasons for this break up, is their GF's has lost their patience in the relationship and the love has faded away, moreover, they have someone else in their mind. Even my friend don't mind and trying to ask for the second chance but being rejected.
Come on ....
After so many years together, how can they be so cruel and give up the relationship so easily.
Anyway, she's is gone my friend and life still goes on. Cheer up and you have to believe, the endings are beginnings Of beautiful things.
It will be a great event for all the F1 fevers in Singapore, to be able to participates the first F1 Grand Prix in Singapore and the World's first F1 night race. The F1 teams will travel to Singapore and the race will begins at 26 Sept 2008 held in the Marina Bay area.
To be honest, I'm not a great fans of F1, but I would love to take part in this historical moment. Therefore, I went to their offical website http://www.singaporegp.sg/index.php to check out the ticket price.
As expected, the ticket doesn't come cheap. The cheapest you can get is S$248 at bay grandstand section and the highest price is S$2588 at Esplanade Premier section as the ticket price vary by section. Check out the following map for seating plan.
If the price is acceptable to you, you can purchase the ticket via their website http://www.singaporegp.sg/ticket/index.php..
In Singapore, every year they have Great Singapore Sale (GSS), and now Malaysia also have Malaysia Savers Sale (MSS).
I can't help but to think that they really don't have any creativity. People got GSS and now we got MSS. Anyway, MSS will be held from Nov 29 to Jan 4, 2009.
If there is any goods you want to buy, be patient and wait for another month, then you will get it with cheaper price. While the petrol price are flying high causing inflation, most Malaysian are struggle to cope with recession, so is good to spend wisely.
Like what my friend once told me, "Every penny saved is every penny earned". Therefore, earn as much as you can while spending. Haha
Yeah, I'm actually part of the Guiness World Records. For those who downloaded Firefox 3 on June 17th to help set the Guiness Book of World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours, who help achieved 8,002,530 dowload in 24 hours .
You can generate the Guiness World Records Certificate from http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/certificate_form
Recently, Google Chrome steal all the headlines from the media, making the internet browser challenge hike, you can actually see all the related article everywhere. Review, tips & tricks and vulnerabilities of google chrome have been strongly discuss.
Now, I will sum up everything about Google chrome here. And let you guys to have the final say whether google chrome is good or bad. I will not discuss details here as alot of people's have already done that, hence, I'll provides short point and links, you may refer to the link if you would like to find out more.
Here we go.
Features:
- Support multiple processes, instead of single or multi-thread, each tab has it own memory and global data structures.
- processes rendering in seperate tab
- Inspect element (Similar to firebug)
- Built-in Java Virtual Machine
- Incognito mode aka steath mode via http://www.google.com/support/
Tips:
- Increase Omnibox Popup via http://www.howtogeek.com/
- Chrome Easter egg/about page via http://news.cnet.com / http://lifehacker.com/
- General tips via http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/
- Chrome shortcut key & tweak via http://lifehacker.com/
Vulnerabilities (Version 0.2.149.27):
- Buffer overflow
- Description: Problem caused due to a boundary error when handling the "SaveAs" Function. On saving a malicious page with an overly long title ( tag in HTML), the program causes a stack-based overflow and makes it possible for attackers to execute arbitrary code."
- To know more, visit http://www.itwire.com/
Problem fixed:
- URLs containing ":%" which could cause Chrome to crash.
Pros:
- Opensource
- Better stability by running multi process architecture. 1 tab goes down will not affect the whole browser
- Better memory allocation as each tab has it own memory. Any tab goes memory fat, we can just eliminate it
- Built in Java virtual machine
- Built-in DOM inspector
- Compiled javascript
- Incognito mode
- Excellent introduction and explanation you can find from a comic book added by google.
Cons:
- It's still in beta test, you can expect alot of bugs and vulnerabities
- no supporting plugin like firefox at the moment
- Chrome offers only day-by-day history.
- no linux support, YET!
Overall, I think Google chrome is a decent browser with high performance and stability. It's worth the try. So, what's your say about Google chrome?
Yes, a new web browser from google. Information from google blog, beta version of Google Chrome will be lauching tomorrow.
To find out more about this new open source browser, Google Chrome, google has added a comic book explaining Google Chrome.
Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
My Top 5 IT jokes
1) sudo joke
2) Software Development Lifecycle / Project Management (Eventhough is just a joke, yet it is so true! Even big company surfer from bad management or finding difficulty to understand the client needs)
3) Right/Write click
Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop."
Customer: "Ok."
Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No."
Tech Support: "Ok. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"
Customer "No."
Tech Support: "Ok, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"
Customer: "Sure, you told me to write 'click' and I wrote 'click'."
4) IT Geeks
Two IT guys were chatting in a pub after work.
Alpha: "Guess what, mate," says the first IT guy, "yesterday, I met this gorgeous blonde girl in a bar."
Beta: "What did you do?" says the other IT guy.
Alpha: "Well, I invited her over to my place, we had a couple of drinks, we got into the mood and then she suddenly asked me to make her feel special"
Beta: "You're kidding me!" says the second IT guy.
Alpha: "I then I lifted her and put her on my desk next to my new laptop."
Beta: "Really? You got a new laptop? What configuration?"
Alpha: "It's a 1 GB RAM and mobile internet connectivity card and 180GB HARDDISK..Wi-Fi...."
............ x!@xZ
5) ID ten T error
I was having trouble with my computer. So I called Richard , the 11 year old next door, whose bedroom looks like Mission Control, to come over. Richard clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem.
As he was walking away, I called after him, "So, what was wrong?"
"It was an ID ten T error," he replied.
I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired, "An, ID ten T error? What's that ... uh ... in case I need to fix it again?"
Richard grinned ... "Haven't you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?"
"No," I replied.
"Write it down," he said, "and I think you'll figure it out."
So I wrote down: I D 1 0 T .....
I used to like Richard.
For more webcomic jokes, http://xkcd.com
A long awaited successor to the Nikon D80 (one of the most successful DSLRs), the Nikon D90 has finally released on September 2008.
We have been hearing alot of rumours about the D90 specs before the D90 actually launch. Now, we can find the actual specs from their official website http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/digitalcamera/slr/d90/index.htm
Those who own the Nikon D80, may want to compare the specs and features from http://www.dpreview.com/previews/nikond90/ to see the differences. to see the differences between D80 and D90 .
To learn more about D90 and accessories, http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d90.htm
:-) Another gadget added to my shopping list.
source: http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/digitalcamera/slr/d90/
If you are my loyal reader's, you should noticed I have just added a favicon to my blog. You can see a favicon beside your browser's URL box, tab and bookmark when browsing my blog.
Ok wait, what is favicon?
Favicon is a small icon associated with a website. Here's a screenshot of my blog favicon (aka favorites icon).
[red circle area are the favicon]
Favicon in browser url box
Favicon in tab
To create your own favicon:
Steps
1) Find a favicon creator like:
- http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
- http://www.favicon.co.uk/
Simply upload your image and it will generate favicon for you.
2) Once you have generate the favicon.ico, upload favicon.ico to your webroot (http://www.example.com)
3) Paste the following code inside your website html header.
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
</head>
4) Now, open your page. The new icon should be displayed in your browser's URL box and/or tab.
5) To test the favicon after updating your web page, the Favicon Validator can check the favicon files and tags on your website.
http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/validator/
6) Done
To create a favicon in wordpress, you can refer the following link
http://codex.wordpress.org/favicon.ico