Last post for year 2007

This will be my last post for year 2007 and I am looking out from the window I see LDP is congested because of the accident happen just before the tunnel. I think most of people who stay near by here might know that LDP got one death tunnel… hehehee.. Not to say death tunnel, but accident area. Accident always happen before the tunnel and also sometimes inside the tunnel.

Maybe lots of people are not familiar with LDP, but I already staying here for more than 5 years. I can say that LDP is always congested with the cars and accidents. This is considering normal for me.

My internet connection is slow, and I have to post it too, just because I want to make more post before I off to Bangkok tomorrow morning.

Ok, that's all and see you all next year for more interesting posts.

Happy new Year

Today is last day of 2007, and I would like to wish you all Having a better year for 2008.

I will be off for a week starting from tomorrow, going to have my long holiday until sunday. I cannot post anything during this period. hope you all can enjoy today's moment and wait for the better 2008.

See you all next year !!! Cheers~~ and Happy New Year.

Working in IT

I am working in the IT world for the past 6 years, and I found some interesting things to share about. I think IT work is more challenging than others. But if you're are working for a software house, which produce software in house and selling to the customer, you won’t feel the same like I do.

I am working in a manufacturing environment which will face lots of non-technical people and they simply hate technology in nature. I think I share some interesting part with you all.

Because the core business for the manufacturing company is not IT, they seldom accept your proposal about investment in IT system. PC against worker ratio here is 1 to 4. So, they need to take turns to do the documentation from day to day. They need to come in earlier to "book" the PC and complete their work. Sometimes I do pity them as they really need to queue up to just use the PC to check email.

Interesting feeling sometimes I got into is that I can be in a goat to hero situation and come back to goat again when facing some difficult situations happening in a day. Let's say if I am able to fix something that have been keeping employees from being able to work for the past 10 minutes like network connection down, you will then become their hero just for at least an hour. But you will be their most wanted enemy if they started to face some printing problem because of the network slowdown. Yeah, they will just simply forget about your hero anointment just a few hours later. Then, by the end of the day, you help them to extract some data from the system for help them to prepare some admin meeting presentation material. They will treat you like a hero again.

Another thing is when user makes mistakes on their system or maybe their PC, it will be your fault. Just admit it or keep quiet and solve their problem. One thing is really happen to my area is, when my down line go and change the layout setting for my boss's PC. He will call me and shout at me: "I don't know what she did to the PC, the layout is totally different from the previous one. Like that I cannot work one loo!!! How la!! That's why I said computer is stupid loo!!!!"

Working as IT guy in your company, your colleagues who work together with you will treat you as their personal tech support department for their home PCs and home networks.

I always got it here, they will simply ask for my advice on buying PC, and some even gave me the credit card number and ask me to buy for them. Sigh~~ I become their personal advisor and buyer.

I think it's quite difficult to handle non-IT people sometimes as they not really understand what technology can bring to them. But I kinda enjoy it. Ha!

I love My blogger Template!!

Just wanted to share with you all, I kind of love my new blogger template. When I look at it, I feel excited with my work. It's actually influence by my dear friend Sarah and makes me work hard to change my template.

I live my template by 20 December 2007, and posted New Year new Blogger template to share the excitement. Now, it already 1 week old, and I still progress with some minor enhancement to make it more complete.

Maybe one day I can come out with some template and let you all download and plug to your blog. So, really hope can free some times in future to do that. I am really looking forward for that.

Boxing Day’s soccer matches

Today is Wednesday and also Boxing Day, when is Boxing Day? Boxing Day is actually a public holiday celebrated on 26 December, the day after Christmas day.

It’s normally a long holiday for other league but not English Premier League. Every year during these days, English Premier League will be very busy with the double fixtures. Tonight will have some fixtures for the EPL team as well.

There are 9 matches will be going on tonight, Man Utd, Arsenal and Liverpool will travel away from Home ground to meet Sunderland, Portsmouth and Derby. Chelsea will have a comfort schedule to meet Aston Villa at home Ground.

I still thinking whether want to watch these games or not. But surely I will go for Man Utd match at 11:00 PM Malaysia Time. So, watch up for the match. Don’t miss it.

Why is technology important?

I would like to share this with some technology idiots, just because they live in their own world. They hate technologies; they just simply cannot accept the fact that technology is easing their daily activities. They still think that technologies bring them difficulties in learning new things. Surprisingly, my boss is one of them.

Technologies have been completely integrated into our daily living, such as TV, hand phone, Personal Computer, Projector and etc. All are great innovations that ease our daily routine. Let's focus on Personal Computer only, it's because my boss always say that computer is the most stupid creation in this world and make his life difficult.

Let's start with 20 years ago, when personal computer is not common to have, people were using typewriter to compose proposals and business letters. If there were typo errors, they may need to re-type the letter again or correct it by using some correction fluid. What a mess!! Today, Personal Computer with word processor has even a spelling check function.

Emails also play a part in our lives. Writing an email and sending it to the recipients with just a click and the information is just minutes away. Or back to the old age, writing mail using hands and post it thru postal service and the mail will delivered in days (dependent on the distance of you and your recipient).

Without PC, presentations have to be done in the paper, and that causes wastage of paper. Just imagine if all drafts have to be in the papers as well, how many papers will be consumed in a day?

With internet, people can now buy things online with just a click away. And we can even get information thru internet with search engines like google, yahoo and msn. I think without internet, people have to drag him himself to the libraries or book shops to just get information about some particular things. Users can also book flights online by using personal computer and Internet. With PC and Internet, people are able to pay bills online. We need no to go down to the counter and queue for just paying 1 bill.

I think there are still lots of advantages with technologies in our daily livings, but I only focus on some. I may use the whole day to list out all, but not now.. kakakkaa.

So, Wake Up all technology idiots!! Or you will be left out by this world.

Have Yourself a Merry Drummers Christmas…

Hey.. it is Christmas eve. Any plans in your mind? A family gathering? Candle light dinner with your loved ones? Count down at some decorative shopping malls?

Just make sure you have fun!!

1U might be a good spot for the celebration. I say so just because I simply like the theme so much this year. The drummers!! Just lovely! I think this is the best ever Christmas theme they have in 1U. Oh.. and the drummers, they can move too. The décor and arrangement are just charming.

So, maybe I’ll c u there tonite. :P

Too much of coffee?

I am having 3 cups of coffee and am working on the projects that are given by my boss. Looking at all the coding really makes me headache and extra concentrations have to be paid to finish the task.

Nowadays I am very tired with daily works, blogging, thesis and house moving plan. I am facing my PC for more than 8 Hours a day. So, I always drink 3 cups of coffee daily to keep me awake. I realize that actually I am kinda addicted to coffee. Good or not? I don’t know…

Without coffee, I will definitely lose my focus towards whatever I am doing and causing the result of work to be below expectations. My colleagues advice me not to take too much of coffee, but I can’t help as I need it to make me awake. I told them that I always put less milk or sugar, just to stay healthy and I think it’s healthy. This becomes my famous excuse for that.

I realize another thing that really makes me out of coffee is when I am not working. I am without coffee when I am out of office. I am so stressed up in the office and I need coffee to make me calm. (Excuse again)

I think maybe it’s time to reduce to 2 cups per day. So, I must figure a way out to stay myself awake without coffee, maybe facebook will do.. kkakakakaa… Or maybe some one can tell me that 3 cups of coffee per day is normal and ok to practice that. Please.....

Create free blogs with blogger.com

You are actually looking at my article, yes you. Do you know that FREE blog can gain by just typing in URL http://www.blogger.com/? Then you register yourself and create your own free blogs. Yeah, it’s as easy as 123 and it’s free at this moment.

I think some of you might already know, but I am focusing on newbie who knows nothing about starting up a blog. Blog is actually a good media to share information and current updates of your activities and you can even make some extra money from blogging by registering to some blog advertisers’ web sites.

But I got some friendly warning to you all, you can get addicted to blogging activities like what I am now when you understand the interesting part of blogging. You will crack your head out if you are not able to blog one in a week. And worst still you can even get sleepless if you not able to post one in your blog.

Something good is that you will enjoy exploring new things and share in your blog with your friends. Go traveling if out of idea to blog and get some fresh ideas to blog about.

So, why wait? Claim your free blog from Blogger now.

Best home loan interest rate

I am wondering if I am getting the best home loan interest rate, since I’ve signed the agreement with the banker. Friend of mine said that home loan rate is dropping from day to day. But what I got from the banker is they generally predicted that the BLR for the home loan to be increase in the future.

The rate I got for my home loan is BLR -1.50% through out the loan period, but still some friends of mine said that their friends are getting even better deals. So, I am not sure how true the story from my friend is. But if I were to compare with my brother’s rate, actually I am much better because he is paying BLR + 1.0 %.

So, I think the rate is dropping from year to year, but what about BLR? Will it increase from year to year? Or maybe will it stay stable like now? I think I need to do some research to find out the correct data. And maybe I’ll refinance it if the rate is not good enough.

New Year, New Blogger Template

I finally found a suitable template for myself. This template is originally from B-Themes. Thanks a lots. I take out some features from the template and edited the layout color for myself. I also add footer items for some latest updates of my blog.

I don’t really know this template can bring me some problem in the future or not. But I do backup my previous blog template, in case there is any. After this template I learnt how to create a custom template for blogger. If time allow, I may come out with my personal template in the near future.

Since I found that blogging is really something interesting activities, I might try new thing in blogging in future.

Comments are welcome for my new template. Please drop me some, so that I can really improve my blog. Thanks in advance.
May you all enjoy blogging as well, Cheers~~

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Besides attractive hotel reservations offerings, they have also resorts and motel reservations, vacation rentals, car rentals, flight bookings and vacation packages.

The price they are offering is just too good. If you are planning for your honeymoon, go check out this website, you won’t regret.

Mindtools.com

Found a really interesting website, www.mindtools.com, that shares about Project Planning, Time Management, Leadership skills and many others.

It provides many useful tips, techniques and tools to value-add yourself and facilitate building you a better career paths.

I will share my findings from the website in near future. Hang on!! :)

New Year Planning

End of the year, it’s time for me to plan for my next year again. I am thinking what to do next year in order to improve myself better from year to year. Looking back this year, I’ve achieved nothing much. I started to blog frequently and this is considered one of my greater achievements. I was promoted to dept head from just a programmer, but however, I still act like a programmer.

I have been working at this company for 2 and half years. I think it’s time to move on again. The reason I am leaving this company, is simply because IT is not the core business for the company. They are manufacturer for semi-conductor products, and some of the people are not keen to appreciate IT technology. One of them is my boss, he always tell people that IT is the most stupid course to go for. Although I am listening to his whining everyday, I have no hard feeling about him. In fact, the main reason I am considering leaving this company is the nature of the company. This company has stopped investing on new technology; they are still enjoying old mother hood technology. I am not saying I am good in IT, but whatever proposed to them, they will just reject without even looking into it. Their tag line is: “the cost is high”.

Enhancing my career path is definitely part of my plan for next year, but I’ve been dreaming about jumping out from the daily routine job and do something that is really my passion. Not sure if I can achieve that next year. Another thing to worry about is my master’s degree. I have been struggling with my master’s degree in UM for the last few years. I plan to finish it by next year, around end of May.

January will be a busy month for me to do the arrangement and renovation of my new house. My new house will be ready by then and I am just waiting for the CF and house key to move in. I am busy surveying for contractors and furniture, since I’ve got tight budget to work on with. We shall be moving in to new house after Chinese New Year. New Year, New Home!!

Man Utd got it again at Anfield

Last night was very wonderful night as Man Utd got the winner again at Anfield, thank to Carlos Tevez's 43rd-minute strike. Frankly speaking, last night Liverpool was the better side to win the match. However Man Utd managed to snatch the points out from the stressful Anfield atmospheres.

Van der Sar’s performance was a bit stumbled, but Liverpool’s striker failed to take the advantage from the mistake that make by the Dutchman. After the half time break, Liverpool made a bright start with one goal down. I was about to get heart attack with their continuous attacked.

But Man Utd managed to control the score and the final score is Liverpool 0-1 Man Utd. What a good result for Man Utd fans. Man Utd was back on top of the table after the win, but after a win from Arsenal, they are back to the top again.

We have to really work hard to chase closely with Arsenal. Man Utd Bravo!!

working on new blogger template

I just got to see Sarah Mohd Shukor's blog, updated her new paint for her "house". Title "Rumah Lama, Cat Baru", I am thinking of changing my blog layout style as well.
This current template is with me since I started to blog frequently this year, and I also receive some critics from my friends that my template is actually out of date.. It flag me to change my layout after Sarah changed Hers.

I think I might work out with some template with high tech view, but not too high tech. maybe look like with the Sebolku's blog with 2 columns beside, Maybe Sebolku can share with me your template. so, I can make modification on it.
Now still referring to others template to get a really my own template for this blog.

May you have any suggestion about the new template, can drop me some comment on it.

big four clash tonight

Tonight will be an interesting night for EPL football fans as Big four are going to clash. The big four is Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool. Tonight , the Gunners host the Blues and the Red Devils travel to Anfield.

Now that they have all qualified for the knockout round of the Champions League, English soccer's big four can concentrate on beating each other for the domestic title.


The features is:
Liverpool vs Manchester Utd 16/12 21:30 Malaysia time.
Arsenal vs Chelsea 17/12 00:00 Malaysia time.

I think I will be very busy to see this match tonight, sitting at mamak from 9:30Pm until 2Am tomorrow morning. to just watch football game.

What can be the result tonight? let's watch it tonight.

dental experience

Dental experience can be bad or good. Back to 3 years ago, I had a terrible experience when went for tooth extraction. The clinic is located same row with restaurant Murni. Doctor was a woman who really doesn’t have much skill and energy to be a dentist. After the last terrible tooth extraction, I decided not to go back to the stupid clinic again.

Today I went for my first dentist after 3 years of struggling on searching for a good dentist. I found this dentist good and I would like to recommend to you all. His clinic is located at Plaza Sungei Way, named LIM DENTAL SURGERY.

I switched dentist upon the recommendation from my colleague, I have no confident in dentists after the terrible experience. But this doctor really impresses me and made me realize that there is also some good doctor around.

He explains every possibilities and costs in detail, and asks you to decide yourself about what decision to make. And the interesting part is he actually enjoys his job and share about the technology of the dental services.

If any one got problem with their tooth, I highly recommend this doctor at Sungei way.

Joomla!

If you are a developer and plan to learn up of making some CMS(content management system) for your web site, please go to Joomla website and take a look on their CMS system. Joomla is highly recommended by me.

I been working closely with the CMS system, but not in my company. As part of my interests, I like to explore more in new technology, for those who work closely with CMS system might know Joomla as well.

Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. It developed using PHP & MySQL. One thing that really interesting is it's open source. you can actually explore the coding and also develop some extension to plug and play for your CMS system with Joomla!

by 31October 2007, Packt Publishing announced Joomla! as the winner of "Best PHP Open Source Content Management System" for 2007.

If interested, Please download from this link

Which Cinema?

If you are a movie lover, you might go and watch every movie at cinema. To be frank, I am not that type of person that goes for cinema for every movie. I will pick some good movies to watch at cinema to get some extra excitement from their big screening and digital sound technology.

In Malaysia there are only few brands of cinema can be found, and like most of the people I am very familiar with three of them, which is Golden Screen Cinemas, Tanjong Golden Village and Cathay Cineplexes.

Which one is better? I think I will give my vote to GSC. My house is very near One Utama, automatically I will choose OneUtama as my hang out place if I have to choose one. In One Utama, there are 2 movies theatre, one is TGV and one is GSC. I am just comparing GSC and TGV in one Utama. And this is just my personal opinion and please don’t get mad about that if I've chosen the different one with you. Kekekee

Pending approval from blogitive.com

Making money is my initial plan for this blog, as the result I registered as more blog advertising web sites as I can. Recenlty I realize that I am having difficulty to get approval for my blog with one blog advertising web. blogitive.com.

I registered for blogitive.com since I actively blog, but until now I still pending to get some post oppurtunity from blogitive.com. I am not sure what is the problem I am having with my blog, It been pending for at least 5 months. I still haven't get any confirmation and also notification from the party about the problem of my my blog.

I am thinking of sending some email to the web administrator to get some advise on it.

title race wide open again

By Arsenal crashed to their first Barclays Premier League defeat of the season last night, the title race wide open again with Man Utd only 1 point behind Arsenal.

Liverpool just ended their unbeaten start of the session with a 3-1 defeat at Reading, which means Liverpool might having some difficulty to take back the EPL champion to Anfield. The day after the defeat, Arsenal follow Liverpool footstep and down 1-2 to Middlesbrough.

Think back from the beginning of the session, if Man Utd start better, we should have at the top of the table. but the race will be more interesting with current situation. I hope Man Utd can overcome all the difficulty and finish top by end of the session.

missed PC fair

Because of the heavy workload from my Company I missed PC fair event. Just wonder what is happening with this PC fair.

I think I will just buy my LCD monitor at Digital mall when I am free for that.

It's good to have digital mall at PJ, as it only take me 10 minutes to reach there, I can just free myself maybe tomorrow to get my dream LCD monitor.

I will take advice from Sebolku to look into 16:9 LCD monitor, the advice is recently posted in my comment about PC fair.

No paid post

I am so busy with the work recently and until cannot free my time for the paid post. But one thing I still cannot understand is why I am not getting any paid post oppurtunity from some blog advertising web site like Smorty.
I don't know what is going wrong with my account and I can say I seldom get opportunities from them. or maybe other people also facing the same problem with me, Please let me know if you got updates.

English in my life

I grew up from a small village where everyone speaks Hokkien and Teo Chew commonly. There is only one Chinese primary school. When entering secondary school I hardly find English important, because uncle aunty in my “Kampung” never speak English.

To be frank, most of the Chinese school students are having hard time learning to speak good English in public. Surely I understand this, because I am one of them. Maybe it’s due to lack of exposure to English :)

From my blog posts, u can see that I only manage to write in very common English that really consider as easy to understand and to read. Kekeke.. I am still learning and keep improving in my English’s writing and speaking.

After graduated from form six, I successfully entered to local university (UKM). But unfortunately, their lecturers were teaching us all the subjects in Malay. So, my Malay standard is improving from there. On the other hand, I don’t really feel that English is a must to practice in my life.

I started realize the importance of English after entering working life. I got into an interview that really knocked me up, where the interviewer insulted me with sophisticated English, and even told me that why my English is so lousy after graduated from University. Thank you for that actually, or not I won’t be realizing that I need to improve my English.

In working life, people always communicates in English. I learn to speak proper English, thru out my conversation with my customers, colleagues, and also friends. In PJ, uncle and aunty who selling Char Kuey Tew also speak fluent English. Duhh...

And recently, I am exposed to blogging. Blogging really improves my English writing a lot. Blogging is actually a really good media to practice on your English writing; I can really tell you all that before I learn to blog, articles or essays that I wrote in a year was not more than 50. I wrote just because I need to reply some important emails, I wrote when I need to submit some reports to my manager. Today I looked at my blog, and only this year, I blogged for 128 posts including this one. What an achievement!!!!

I will keep learning and keep moving ahead. Cheers!! For Life!!!

Putting Application Online

As internet technology is growing from day to day, online application is taking over the desktop application ranking in even internal admin system in some cooperation. My company is one of them. I am current converting some in house system to web base application, but one thing I might need to be careful of is security concern of the application.

Why people moving their application to put it online? This is because of the conveniences of the internet and the speed of the broadband been increasing from decade to decade. Online application become famous to all the company nowadays, does this mean that desktop application is no longer use in the future? I am not sure about that, but I can sure that people are keen to make their in house software online.

This can be ease staff work, as they can access the system from home and even work from home. Some of the IT companies are actually implementing working from home concept, and make use of the online application to control the in house application and submit using online system thru just a click from home.

We can see the web site technology also growing from day to day, from static web site to dynamic web site and even lots of web site are building with content management system as their backend system to control the content of their web site.

PC fair

This weekend is going to be a busy day for all computer junkies IN KL area. As they will be heading to KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur for PC fair 2007(III). The event will starts tomorrow, 7th December 2007 and ends on Sunday (9th December 2007).

You can actually shop from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm. So, are you ready for this year's computer shopping? Buying list is already in your mind?

I am thinking of buying a LCD monitor as my old monitor is meeting it age, aside of that I need to buy a display card for my PC as games technology is growing from day to day and my integrated display card is no longer good enough in displaying the graphics. I need to find one in order to let myself relax by playing my favorite game.

PC fair is also good in letting people exploring new technologies, a friend of mine always say that he never miss PC fair ever since he knew about the event. He will take this chance to explore new technologies that were not in the market yet.

Click Here for more detail of the event. If you intend to get more information about the PC fair, please visit http://www.pikom.org.my/ and contact the administrator.

LCD TV monitor?

My house is going to ready soon, I am doing some survey about television. Some of my friend are actually ask me not to buy LCD TV as technology still new, and maybe need sometimes to pick up for stable version of the product.

But, I have some idea in my mind to buy the type of monitor. Just to share it before I buy, maybe just to make me feel that I make a correct choice. :D

It's true that Plasma and CRT Monitor are cheaper than LCD tv and some of my friends claim that LCD got shorter lifespan, and why we should buy something with limited lifespan to calculate. You may sound right in this term, but actually LCD got Lifespan of 60,000 Hours, which equates to at about 40 years of usage if you have the set on for 4 hours a day. 40 Years!!!! I think by that time LCD is no more famous like now.. kekekee... and for your information, plasma TVs have a same life span with LCD TV.

Because the crystals in LCD TV do not produce light, LCD TV consumes less energy compare with Plasma and CRT. Plasma TVs generate more heat than LCDs, due to the need to light of phosphors to create the images. When come to this it consumes more energy.

That's why I am going to buy LCD's TV for my new house. but maybe with small Screen nia la .. kekeke...

I don’t know whether I get the correct information or not, or maybe you got some new Information about TV, just drop me some comments.

Menara Alor Star

As I went back to Kedah for my friend’s wedding, we have some good time and revisit one of the Alor Setar’s wonder. Menara Alor Setar!!! Kekeke…

Don't play-play with this Tower. The Alor Star Tower is the world's 19th tallest telecommunication tower and also the 2nd tallest in Malaysia. It stands at a height of 165.5 meters and involved a construction cost of RM 40 million. I am not sure about the correctness of the data, but I pick it from http://www.menaraalorstar.com.my/. Hope it still up to date. :)

There is some Observation Deck to see some beautiful night scene of Alor Star town. I used to go up and hang up with my friends. Just because we don't have more time for that we just go and walk around and chit chatting below the tower

Menara Alor Star(day)

Menara Alor Star(night)

Sorry for Low quality pictures, as I still keeping money for SLR Digital camera.

I am back

I am back again, been out from the town for few days, last weekend was very busy with friend's wedding again.. I took leave for Thursday and Friday just to attend my friend's wedding which fall on Thursday. But consider a good vacation for me, because I managed to hang up with penang's friend during weekend at Prai. Just because I never stay at their house since they move in last year, I felt like really appreciate the time when we being.

I took this chance to hang up with them, and drink some wine until midnight. Just because they are working on the next morning, we decided to end the session by midnight.

All of my friends are very similar to me, they really committed to work, after Saturday night hang up. They need to work on the next morning (Sunday Morning). Sunday Morning I took bus from Prai to KL, it took me 5 Hours to reach KL.

And today I am back to work, but still tired.. After this, I think need to wait until Chinese New Year for the next gathering.

Flying Kites

What pops onto your mind if your friends were talking about kiting activities? I think some would picture a happy family having great time flying kites out at a park on a bright and sunny day.

But what I can think of is…… traffic jam! I know it doesn’t seem to make sense, but I am telling this from my experience.

Metropolitan Park in Kepong is one of the favorite spots in KL for kite lovers. During weekends, in the evenings, you will see kiters from all ages showing up here at this park. BUT, what is not so good is that some of them actually double or triple park their cars along the highway next to the park. It leads to at least a 500 or 600 meter long traffic queue.

So, People, please be more considerate. Park your cars at the appropriate car park lot before you go on and fly your kites.

Your Dream job

Almost every day jobStreet.com.my will send me some alert about new job post available and suit to my requirement. Today I found this job is really funny.

The title for the job is YOUR DREAM JOB, It actually posted by a recruitment agency company. They intend to attract people attention about their title: Your Dream Job!

Your Dream Job

So, I decided to post it here and share this funny job and let you all witness the wonder of title that use by recruitment agency.

Video conferencing

Today, I help factory manager to setup a video conferencing. They found it the technology is now relatively cheap and prices are falling all the time. That is a interesting move for them, as they started to realize that improvement of the technology ease our daily activities.

However today, It turn up to be a lesson for me to learn out that never ever work for people who don't appreciate technology or maybe can say they never appreciate IT people. They only treat that people like us is here to work for them to solve some problem related to IT.

My Factory manager is not an IT guy. He always says that IT is the most stupid thing in this world. As technologhy moving, he needs to learn up new things. I know this is some sort of factory culture. He even mentioned once that Computer is the stupid course to take for Degree. His theory is after you finish the course, the programming skill that you learn from your class is no longer use in the market. sigh~~

I proposed lots of Idea to help internal system, but if the enhancement needed some investment, they will refuse to look further. but as i know that I cannot just stop at here and let these people influence me from moving forward and learn new things.I will keep moving.. cheer~~~

Sense of design?

I got a staff that really doesn’t have sense of design. Color that using for her web design is totally out from the corporate view. The design is like for bistro or maybe for girl accessories shop like that. I am really pissed off with this girl.

Our corporate color is light blue and white, all system design should include blue and white and make it standard, but she put all the fancy color inside like red, yellow, dark blue, pink.. What the heck!! When I ask her why she put this kind of color, she said to make our company system more pretty. I really almost fainted. But this also become one of the issue when come to deal with this stupid girl, as previously I been mention I got an attitude problem staff, surprise! She is the one. And she even shouted at me and said that I don’t have sense of design???!!!!

What a mess !!! can some body help this girl out from my company. I willing to pay good money for that. :)

Dream job

Dream job!! What a big words, had you ever struggling about find one in your life?
Actually what can be define as a “dream job” for you? I am sure every one has their own one in their mind. So am I.

My “dream job” is almost the same with every individual, like no need to work so hard, but still generate income monthly. The job can allow me travel across the countries, and all the expenses will fully paid by company. What a dream.. yeah right.. As I mentioned just now, this is just a dream job.. kakakakaa…

Seriously I know there are lots of people still thinking the same with me. They are like me, always looking for alternative way and make myself out from my daily routine. Some how every one knows about this concept, but only few can really make it as reality. I always question myself: Am I the one in the list to make myself successful and out from the daily routine?

Recently I am working on the e-business, but unfortunately unable to find a good source to sell it at Ebay. I always think of doing some home business and lead myself to my “dream job” if it were successful.

What is yours actually?

Choosing the Right Mortgage

There are many mortgage packages out there nowadays. The mortgage market has become very competitive, and the commercial corporations are trying very hard to attract and to please their customers. Adverse credit remortgages are also available for those with bad credit history

But do not confuse yourself with the mortgages available in the market. Sometimes, too much of selections just might not do any good. First, you ought to know what your priority in choosing the right mortgage is. Most people will always go for cheap mortgages. But some would weigh the service heavier. It is all about service now, if you do not serve your clientele good enough, you might just lose your business, even though you have the cheapest rate in town. Even if you get the cheapest rate, you might wanna where it is a flat rate throughout the payment years, or it is broken down into tiers (ex: rate x for the first 5 years, rate y for the next 10 years and so on). Better rates at the first few years might help to loose your belt a little.

So, the advice is not to get you yourself into puzzlement. Know what you want before hunting for the right mortgage.

Cheated

Last night, I went to bank for bank in cheque that got from company's claim. Got one china People came to me and told me that He actually got robed by robber and need some money for dinner and stay.

At first I not really care about what he said. When I am about to drove away with my bike, there is a women that came to me and the guy told me that She actually his friend and also victim of the robber. And he told me that He will return the money to me after he got his father by today. So, what in my mind is what if their story is real? So, I decided to give some money to them to just at least and buy things for dinner. The girl is really looking like the one who kena robe like that.

Today I realize that this thing actually happen everyday at KL and My colleague even told me that they are actually making big money from that.
So, I decided to write it here and share with u all. Although I just gave them some small money, I hope you all alert about this and maybe next time they will come with other plan like really robe people.

Hope you all aware about this.

Take Note

Recently, I been packed with lots of tasks on hand. this force me to buy a personal notebook to note down my task pending. Just cannot imagine I have to come into this situation. But I found the personal notebook is very useful for me to take note on what need to be finish in coming week.
I think I need a palm handheld to organize my life better. I need a palm with a reminder that can remind me of task that never finish and get it done on time.

selling at ebay.com

I am learning how to sell goods at Ebay, in case there is a source of me to sell online.
I want to start from that is because I refer to some article, some people really making good profit at ebay. And one of the reason I prefer selling at ebay is because I got Paypal account which stored my Blogging income and I might use it for pay some transaction fee for make it online and sell.

I need to know about how to sell at other country like UK and US as well, this is just a beginning for me to start up a e-business from other's web site, like ebay and amazon.
Any recommendation for other web site ?

Weddings

I just back from My hometown and attended my friends weddings. what a tired weekend.
I have to rush for 3 wedding dinner from the weekend. Friday(bagan Serai, Perak), Saturday(Bidong, Butterwordth) and Sunday(Alor Setar, Kedah). All the way up to the north.. sigh~~~

Very tired now, thinking of really need some rest tomorrow. But thinking of the work pending at office, I have to drag myself to work also tomorrow. Next week is gonna be another busy week, as I need to heading to Kuantan for my friend's wedding as well.

Performance review

It’s end of the year again, and it’s time for you to sit down with your manager to review the performance of the year, and giving rating for your contribution for a year again.

It depend on how you see the thing, I found this performance review is a good thing to have after been busy for year with your daily work. This task is actually can get you inform for your area of improvement for your coming year. This is a great chance for you to go beyond your job description and resume to list what you’re good at, what your struggle with, and what your development plan is. It will allow you to talk with your boss about your view of current situation that you facing, and giving some suggestion to improve your dept and also working environment.

Some said it’s only to determine the amount of the bonus or incentive by the rating you get.

What you think about that ?

How to keep your software up to date

Almost every PC installed with lots of software, but some people never keep track on the version changing and update release from the software site.

It’s important to keep the software on your computer up to date, why? Good question. As many people know that software is upgrade from year to year. Developer tries to enhance their software from day to day to shoot user requirements, new version should be the solution for the concern. And fixing bugs for existing version and release some updates are regularly task for software house, which mean updates are really important for better software run on your computer.

But some people say that depending on the number of programs that you have installed on your computer, which could be a daunting task involving visiting numerous websites and switching windows back and forth while checking version numbers.

Well, I am going to introduce some tools to help you achieve this goal. Which I found it useful for that.


1. filehippo.com Update Checker
filehippo.com Update Checker is a software to check updates, it allow you to run and check on the updates for software on your computer. This tool allow you to check the updates when you are really free, and just run this program and you will get all the updates from the owner's site.


2. Secunia Personal Software Inspector (BETA)
PSI is a tool that continuously monitors your computer and notified you when there is some updates for your software or Version changing. This software will installed some monitoring tool and running on computer's system tray.

3. Updatestar
UpdateStar is the program that lets you stay up-to-date with all of your personal software. Whether it be Freeware, Shareware and commercial software products, UpdateStar covers all of your software. UpdateStar knows more than 80.000 software products and lets you know once an update is available for you. No more wasted time reading hundreds of newsletters or searching websites for newly available updates. You want to stay up-to-date with your software? Use UpdateStar. It's free

For me, I don't really prefer some tool to be run at my system tray. So, I will go for filehippo.com Update Checker. run it when I am free, to minimize memory usage when doing other things.

One cent coin to be demonetized

I just got news from the star that government will implement rounding mechanism for over-the-counter transactions by April 1 next year. That means that all payment totals will either be rounded up or down to the nearest five cents.

This implementation is good for me, I always keep all the one cent coin all around my room. I tried many time to carry together all the coins when gone out to buy something. But it ended up I gave up paying with one cent when come to buying goods like 1.99, just because very hard to take out all the one cents from you pocket when you mix up with keys and all the stuff.

So, 99-sen a popular sales gimmick cannot be implement any more, then maybe Hypermarket need to figure out put like 95-sen to let consumers into believing that the prices of goods were low as a replacement for 99-sen gimmick. What an interesting move.

My laptop

I think my laptop is one of my gadgets I like to bring along nowadays. I upgraded memory to speed up some multitask responses. This laptop is with me quite long time ago, I think should be around 2 years. I bought it after joined this company.

Back to 2 years ago, I think convenience is the word that made me make up my mind to buy this gadget. That time, I used my Credit card to apply for the monthly 0% interest Installment and I only paid for RM300 ++ per month. In fact, I have another desktop at home that is for hardcore application and system to be run for.

This laptop giving me lots of convenience for my work and also study. I enjoy having this gadget when hang up with friends at Starbucks and any place with wireless, when going to library also, I will bring along laptop to get online and catch up with the world’s news and more.

photostat job

The story should start from yesterday. I got 2 books from my lecturer about interface design yesterday. My lecturer gave me the book titlse and asked me to get it from the library. After searching for an hour, the two books that I was searching were actually not available in the library. Not even a close one.

So, I went back to visit my lecturer and try to borrow the books from her to photocopy. She loves her book so much and insisted that wanted me to just photocopy for a few pages or maybe a few chapters that are useful for my thesis, and I need to photocopy at the photostat shop in UM. After waited for an hour, still no sign showing that the shop is openning soon.

So, I decided to go back to her and ask for permission to carry the books back and have them photostated outside. From the conversation, she sounded like not willing to go her books. So, I told her that I will photostat myself as my company has a photostat machine. The agreement dealt as I will do it today.

Interesting part is, today I took these 2 books and photostat it myself. And I learnt something from that. Photostating job is not as easy as you think!! I used up 1 and a half hour to just photocopy 130 pages in total from the books. As you neeed to take care of the sequence of the book and need to photocopy it both side of the paper. It is far more complicated than you think, you may try to figure out yourself. So, do appreciate your clerk who help you to do the photostat work all the while.

Maybe this is what I have to see from part of my life. That’s why I always appreciate what I get today.

A PACT analysis

For my thesis, I need to focus on PACT analysis. What is PACT analysis? PACT analysis is one of the procedures used to determine the utility of an interactive system. It also can refer as a framework for designing interaction systems. This is my first attempt to know about the term after been intro by my lecturer about it.

Here is some little description:

People: relevant user characteristics and skills
Activities: how is the activity currently carried out? Why? What can be improved?
Context: the environment of the activity
Technologies: what tools are used now, and how might new developments be used?

Things to be done

Just refer to the previous post Am I too serious about my work? I got into a sleepless night and think out what things to be done and put it as high priority in my task list.

Since I have been struggling to finish my master for the past few years, I decided to put my master’s degree’s thesis as my 1 priority in my list. I need to really focus on the thesis. Today I went to UM and meet up with my lecturer again. But from what I see is She is really uncertain to help me to work out my thesis, as She also not sure what she can help, some how the meeting was really useless in the sense of She also lost to provide me some Idea. So, I have to really work hardly in order to finish my thesis on my own.

E-business will be my second priority of the list, I need to get out from my daily work to focus more on what I can deliver in the short period of life. I miss so much my home town, because of the daily routine, I not able to go back so frequently to visit my dearest parents who live in Pokok Sena, Kedah.

3rd will be my home, I just bought a house at PJ and going to complete by end of the year. I started to calculate the budget for renovation, and try to ask around some idea for renovation.
Idea or suggestion is welcome from any one. So that I can learn and progress in my life

Black Friday Gifts

“this is a sponsored post”

Scratching your head thinking where to buy your Christmas and Black Friday (which is the day after Thanksgiving) gifts? You must have hate being queued up in a mile-long line just to get your loved ones’ festive presents. Well, of course I enjoy shopping for them, but standing in line at the store at 5am in a whole different story.

To get rid of the hassle, visit BlackFriday.net website today! As you may tell from the site name, it is a site that let people purchase Black Friday items online. They offer a wide range of discount products. For example, Home decoration, toys, books, fashion, furniture, gadgets.

They do offer email alert to notify you when new black friday ads have been posted. It keeps you updated and this should also help planning your holiday shopping.

My favorite is definitely Toys R Us Big Toy Book store. I enjoy shopping for my nieces and nephews very much. It is worthy when you see the smile from all the little angles with their favorite toys on their hands. I’d like to get a construction set for Adam, a Lego set for Daryl (he wanted one for so long), and oh.. not forgetting a Barbie alarm clock for Jenny.

Still a lot more in the list, let find out more from the site!

Am I too serious about my work?

I have been struggling about this question since last few years, I been deliver on time all my projects. Never take MC if not necessary. I even committed to my work and come to work almost every weekend to make sure my department function well.

In fact, I am just a normal staff that taking a small piece of the income of my company. I am really underpaid when compare with my x-classmate. But my personality not allows me to slumber during my work.

Currently I am struggling to handle my staff for let them commit to their job, I also have a small though that “Am I too serious about my work?” My staff even can take MC for 3 days just after a dental extraction, what I can do is just keep quiet just because I don’t have rights to question about that. At the other hand I need to follow up their unfinish tasks and make sure all the things working fine. Is this the right culture for working environment?

Really, sometimes I really though that I am too much when doing my job. Should i relax and don't force myself by think too much for work?

So, do you think I should?

Payment Processors for Online Business

Getting one payment processor that is reliable and trustworthy is important especially if you want to make an online payment transactions. Paypal is widely known by bloggers just because it has been used by some blog advertising portals. But is paypal as good as it is when it comes to processing online business transactions?

I did some research and come out with a list for the online payment processers. This was hard job for me to work on.

List are as below: -

PayPal

Google Checkout - https://checkout.google.com/

WorldPay - http://www.worldpay.com/

2CheckOut.com - http://www.2checkout.com/

Alertpay.com – http://www.alertpay.com/

NoChex - http://www.nochex.com/

PaySimple - http://www.paysimple.com/

BidPay - http://www.bidpay.com/

MoneyBookers - http://www.moneybookers.com/.


Currently, I only have Paypal to work with. Any other good online payment parties for me to review?

e-commerce

The word "e-commerce" has growin remarkably for the past few years. I've been working closely with this term, only web portal I mean. But I still don’t have experience on selling products thru internet.

I am about to create my own e-business soon, many of you might think “what makes me think of starting an online business?” Very simple, as I can see my friends are doing well in this area. So, when you see a real example with your eyes, you might get interested to start one as well. :)

Starting from now, I will start studying the e-business market and also study the trend of the e-business online to get ready when the source is in for me to sell online. What an interesting start for me.

Bloggerwave

I signed up for bloggerwave for few months, but still failed to submit a post from this blog advertising web site. Why I do so, it just because I almost forgot what I registered when start up to earn money from blogging.

Today, I got an alert from bloggerwave about password changed. That alert bring me back to see what I had register. So, I am going to post this about bloggerwave as I see they are trying to attract more blogger to work for them.

bloggerwave is like other blog advertising portal, they provide opportunity to all the blogger from advertiser to earn some money to blog about advertiser's site.
For bloggers who wish to make extra money, you may try out bloggerwave for extra opportunity.

I think bloggerwave can be a good pay out for blogger who wish to earn money online.
Happy blogging for all.

Defect Tracking Tool

My company is looking for a defect tracking tool since there is like piles of bugs raised daily. Therefore, having a defect tracking tool seems to be essential. But besides handling defect tracking, we need also a project management tool. So the tool should be a 2-in-1 thing.

We’ve evaluated quite a number of tools. Names like Jira, AutomatedQA’s AQDevTeam, Seapine’s TestTrackPro and ManageEngine’s ServiceDesk. We think Jira and AQDevTeam are the better ones, but they still haven’t reached our comfortable buying zone. They can meet our defect tracking requirements (the basic ones, but find it hard to generate reports out from all of them), but merely on project management functionality.

So it is still yet to reach buying stage. Any tools that you guys are using and you find it user-friendly and feature-rich? Recommendations are welcome!! :)

Online betting

I was addicted to betting during my school time. But I decided to quit as I was always struggling about payment and betting conveniences.

As internet has been growing from day to day and betting is already put online and users can just bet by simply clicking from an Internet browser without any hassles. This is why technology comes in picture to make people's lives easier.

I fully recommended this site bet365.com for online betting if you are going to explore online betting portal. bet365.com provides a wide range of online betting services through our online casino. On top of that, Bet365.com allows you to play for fun and test the games out before even going to bet for real. This is quite good to have a try before going real, just because you might not really understand how to play the particular game.

Sportsbook betting is one of my all time favorite, especially football betting. Bet365.com also provides live score features for users to keep track on the results live from the site itself. Lots of sports can be found from the portal, you can just choose and enjoy the betting while watching the game at home.

Bet365.com also provides Mobile betting provided your phone can support Java. If not you can just access to their WAP site by pointing to mobile.bet365.com. Registration is easy, just register online to get the userId and password, then you may start betting online from there.

Internet line slow

Internet connection been unstable since last wednesday, already ask all the vendors to check on the line, but they all are failed to get me the problem root cause. Sigh~~

I been scolding by my boss because of the internet access speed, but I cannot do more on it just because this is internet line not internal problem. The other thing is I am a so called system analyst in this company, and now I need to take care of so much of thing. Sigh~~

I don’t know how long I am going to suffer, I hope telecom people can speed up the progress and solve my problem before my boss frustrated with the line again.

SQL Server Data Replication

I am doing research about SQL Server Data Replication since last week. I have a project which requires replicating selected data of selected tables from 1 sql server to another.

The SQL Server that I am using is SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition. And of course it doesn’t come with Replication feature. The Replication feature only comes with Enterprise Edition, but of course the cost of edition upgrade is definitely gonna be pricey.

The other alternative that I came across with is Redgate’s SQL Data Compare software. SQL Data Compare is used for automating data migrations, analyze corrupted data, restoring row-level data from backups and compiling audit trails of missing or changed data. It is very cost effective, as it costs only about 400 – 600 USD per license.

Of course, I will still need to do a comparison for both softwares mentioned above. But I am really tempted with Redgate :)

Or anyone out there has better suggestions? Recommendation is most welcomed here. Cheers!!

Shopping Carts

E-commerce is actively in the market ever since 90s, or even 80s. It is now one of the most popular marketing and purchasing mediums for thousands of entrepreneurs out there.

When we talk about e-commerce or ecommerce software, very often it will relates to shopping cart. Shopping cart is one of the key features in online business. But most shopping cart softwares are either fancy-but-pricey or economical-but-less-eye-catching. Of course there’s no free lunch in this world, but we are always looking for the better ones.

There’s this shopping cart solution provider, Ashop Commerce, who offers complete hosted shopping cart software solution for merchants to sell online. Ashop Commerce with its award winning features that allow merchant to build an easy-to-manage online store. They offer a very competitive monthly fee, which could help you saves up to thousands of dollar. On the other hand, you may request for a 10-day free trial to see the advanced functionality for yourself.

Ashop Commerce shopping carts are hosted on their high spec web servers, with 24x7 monitoring. Besides, all shopping carts are all Search Engine Optimized, meaning they help your website to fight for better or the best ranking. Their shopping carts are integrated with all major banks, gateways, third party processors like PayPal. 128 bit SSL checkout security helps your customer to buy with confidence.

I find this shopping cart solution provider very competent. Check out Ashop Commerce website if you wish to know more about them!

Vista Or XP?

I am currently hacking my head to decide whether want to switch to Vista or still stick with XP.
Just because all the while I been using XP. I found out that XP is actually easy to use. And Vista is not so stable for implement some application, I tried Vista from my Virtual PC. Actually I found out that some of the components that I develop with Windows XP are actually not compatible with Windows Vista.

But from day to day, Microsoft been research and develop more and more application for Vista. That makes me confuse to whether stick with vista or XP.

If you have the same concern with me, please share with me your finding.

Online Casino Reviews

Betting Online becomes a good internet business nowadays, some sites actually give you the feeling just like betting at the casino. For Malaysia, betting is prohibited among Muslims and it is hard to find a place other than genting to gamble.There are lots of betting web sites nowadays.

Which one is the best to see? You have gotta try them all to tell. But I come across this website: pro360.com. This site is doing Online Casino Reviews since 1997. This site provides review on online betting sites, you can actually see the reviews and decide before you register and play with that portal.

The site provides some rating marking from players, base on their experience on the particular online betting site. The points systems are clearly stated base on the game experience on speed, Graphics, sound, and game selection. It also provides some thoughts before you start to gamble online with Online Gambling Tips. So, just go and have a look on this useful site before registering and betting online.

Corporation size you prefer

Friends of mine always talk about this issue. Some really prefer to work for large companies; some however prefer to work for smaller businesses.

Let’s discuss it here. For those who claim large companies to be good to work for is because large corporations have its large amounts of plus points, like health care and multiple arrangements of benefits. Some even provide you education advancement. And the environment provided some how is of course better than small business companies.
My friends who prefer working for larger corporations even highlighted that the disadvantages of working for small companies. They claim that smaller businesses have all to worry about P&L (profit and loss). Keeping the cost low is always the priority than making a good run of Research and Development.

Some would prefer smaller companies because the opportunity to blossom is better. A person can grow if he/she really performs. They even claimed that are more learning opportunities in small companies as they are required to know everything.

As for you, what size of the corporation do you prefer?

Ubuntu 7.10

Just received a notification that Ubuntu 7.10 already released.
According to DesktopLinux:
The Gutsy Gibbon Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Edition includes improvements in advanced plug-and-play printing, enhanced browsing and the option of a smooth new user interface built on top of the new GNOME 2.20 desktop
The distribution also comes with greatly improved and easier-to-maintain security. This comes to Ubuntu thanks to AppArmor. Shuttleworth describes this as the second generation of Linux security.

I just share the finding, for more details, you can check out the Ubuntu 7.10 release notes.
if you want to upgrade from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10, please refer to this Ubuntu web for intruction to do so.

I recently working so close with Ubuntu. In my previous post, I shared my experience about intalling Ubuntu 7.04 using Virtual PC2007. I might upgrade in the near future.
If anything, I will post it again at here. Cheers...

Ubuntu installed on Virtual PC 2007

It's good to try out new thing, I been trying to install Ubuntu at my virtual PC 2007. Finally I got it.

what is Ubuntu? Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more. and Ubuntu is free software.

Actually during my first attempted, the graphic is messing up with return of the error message” your graphics are messed up”. After tried, I googling around for the solution. I got some sites ask me to select the second option to boot into ubuntu.

Immediately, I boot to the first screen again, and selected the 2nd option (safe graphics mode). I can actually boot into the desktop. Unfortunately, the mouse cursor is not working. Then I googling for another time.

This Post is about workaround the mouse issue with enable Ubuntu using keyboard control to move the mouse cursor. That's cool, I keep searching for the permanent solution and finally I got it. I found out this postto enable to the mouse working on the ubuntu.

Thank for some information sharing, I am now enjoying my own ubuntu OS on Virtual PC 2007.

Discount Coupons

"This is a Sponsored Post"

EdealFinder.com, another great site to search for good online coupon deals. EdealFinder.com offers coupons or online discount codes that can save you a bundle.

A lot of categories are covered in EdealFinder.com, namely Automotive, Babies & Kids and Computer & Electronics. Discounted items from big names like Amazon, Dell and Sony are among the hot deals offered.

Dell coupons on notebook deals are very competitive. Money-saving Dell coupon codes are all you have to remember, as you will need it during check out.

Zappos coupons offer many FREE shipping deals on shoes. Gals might wanna find out more with these offers.

"Raya" Mood

Today is the last day before raya and also the last day for fasting month. Tomorrow, we will celebrating Hari Raya's holiday. My mood is changing and showing the "Raya" mood today.

Trafic is not so congested this morning. As usual, all my muslim colleagues started taking their long holiday with the balance of leaves they have as they need to "balik Kampung" and celebrate Raya with their families.

Princess Eileen also started to enjoy the last day of work before Raya by posting the Speed trap info for Malaysia.

Here, for my dear friends, sebolku, a blogger that has been giving me support, Sarah Mohd Shukor, who met angkasawan Sheikh dan Faiz.

"Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri" :)

Share Document with scribd.com

Scribd.com, I describe it as interesting site to share document online.
It features with easy to use function to search and upload files. Fast response content is the main advantage of the site to attract me from using it.

I have been using this site for last few months to search some document for personal use.

I highly recommend this site it’s because it provides free content for everyone from all around the world. And everyone can be publisher and upload their own story as long as never break Scridb’s rules.

Scridb.com allow people to upload Word (.doc), PDF (.pdf), text (.txt), PowerPoint (.ppt), Excel (.xls), Postscript (.ps), or LIT (.lit) file.

As I am writing my own journal now, I hope can publish my own creation soon.

Facebook.com is hot

Facebook.com is a famous social networking website nowadays. I just checked from the Alexa.com. The Ranking of facebook.com is jump to Rank 7 currently behind myspace.com.

For those who never know about Facebook, here is come brief intro for facebook. Facebook is a social networking website, It allows people to keep up with friends, upload various photos, share links and videos, and learn about the people they meet, play some games with friends. The company’s site has active users in various geographic, workrelated, collegiate, and high school networks.

please visit Alexa.com for facebook.com Trafic Detail, interesting Chart showing that the trafic is keep increasing.

The next question is will facebook take over Myspace.com?

CRM Software

CRM could stand for many things, be it in IT industry, banking solutions or even medical area. But, the CRM that we are talking about here is Customer Relationship Management. In brief, Customer Relationship Management is basically a solution that is used by companies to manage their relationship with customers, vendors or partners. If you wish to know more about CRM, just do a search of CRM on Wikipedia.

Having a good CRM tool in any sales organization today is critical. CRM will definitely help organize sales peoples’ conversations and will help with better follow up with leads. A good CRM tool, in other words is also a good lead management system. Studies indicate that most of the leads sent to sales people are never followed up on. This often occurs due to the information or data is not stored in a CRM tool. No sharing on leads might be the bottleneck of your sales pipeline. Thus, getting an appropriate CRM tool is vital.

AIMpromote, an on-demand web-based software application of CRM, might be your solution of all the hassles. Its focus is particularly on handing leads. Taking care of your leads is essential. Treat your prospects like clients, so that when they at some point ready to buy, they will think of you. Let AIMpromote to help you in increasing your sales and improving your business intelligence.

Man Utd finally hit the goal trail

It’s good to see Man Utd back on fire, and back to top of the table. I know some people just think that they will stay for a night, but it doesn’t matter as they are back to scoring goals.

Started with the struggling session, Man Utd is back on track to defending their champions.
Unfortunately, they are now having a injury blow. Having Louis Saha was out with a knee injury during warm up, and Vidic and O’shea out from the match after an injury of the half time.

I think Ferguson needs some new idea, and some new face to form the team and travel to Aston Villa next week, as Aston Villa just won 1-0 against West Ham United.

So, It was a happy night for me, Cheers~~~ all Man Utd’s Fans.

Portable DVD player

As technology is growing from day to day, DVD is becoming a popular optical disc storage media format used for data storage. Now, we can watch DVD just anywhere with portable DVD player.

I come across this portable 10 inch DVD player at Digitalframez.com. It really attracts me with the solid display and nice cover.

There are a a lot of video formats out there these days. but you no need to worry as this player are compatible with MPEG4/DIVX/DVD/CD/MP3/ CD-R/CD-RW/TV.

This portable DVD player includes a rechargeable battery pack enabling 4 hours continuous play time. The Portable DVD player is truly suitable for any situations. You may play nice movies to your passengers while driving as it can plug directly to your car’s cigarette lighter to get the electric and play.It is worth the value to have this little device plugged into your lovely car.

Please make sure that you also have one from Digitalframez.com.

Paypal widthdraw for Malaysian

I think this month is gonna be a month that everyone take about PayPal feature that le, It been a long hot for every blogger in Malaysia.

Now it’s even hot, with paypal launched New Withdrawal & Receiving features this features allowing blogger to transfer funds from your PayPal account to your Visa branded debit card or credit card.

It’s too bad for me, as I don’t have debit card now, as we know that if we withdraw the fund to Credit card, it will be just a credit that you need to spend for buying things. If withdraw, means Bank will treat it like cash advance. There will be some charges for withdraws.
I might apply one soon to transfer fund from Paypal.

If you are not from Malaysia, please go to Paypal web site and check out whether you country is included to allow transfer fund to credit or debit cards.

Cheers all. :)

Festive Shopping

It is again time to do some festive shopping as holiday season is just around the corner. There are many names that pop up in my mind; big bro, lil sis, papa and mama, aunt Jojo, nephew Wee and many others.

Once again, CouponChief.com is here to assist! Jot down the coupon or promo codes, which specify promotions or discounts for a certain online retailer. Continue to the retailer’s website, and key in your promo code at the checkout point.

By checking through their catalogues, I managed to get some ideas here. iPod touch for lil sis from J&R Computer deals should be great. amazon coupons codes can be found to buy some discounted Items from Amazon. Computer accessories also can be the most interesting thing to buy for by using the dell coupons provided. Petco has numerous attractive Petco coupons for pets’ supply, which fit Aunt Jojo, the dog lover the most. Apart from that, a pair of lover watches from World of Watches for papa and mama would be fantastic!

And I’m still thinking what I should get for myself. Any ideas?

advantages of pretty girls?

Today, I found an important topic to talk about, which is, pretty girls are born to be successful in every area simply because of the advantages of their good appearance?

Interesting, I always tell my friends that pretty girls can have lots of advantages when come to some situations. As long as they know how to dress up, they can easily win an interview with their good looks. They can even easily get a customer by their appearance, don’t you think so?
Pretty girls are always welcomed for parties and special celebrations.

But have you ever think of today's safety issues, pretty babes might always be the target for the criminals. I am not trying to threaten you all, sweeties and beauties. Please make sure you are very alert when you are alone, and avoid from being alone walking along the dark areas.

On the other hand, freedom is the main concern of the pretty girls.

Sleepless night

It is 1:18 AM now, I am still awake and facing this PC. Just wonder can wait until 2:30AM for the Champions league game or not.

But too bad, I don't have astro at home and not able to watch it at home. Last session is better as some free TV station got buy the right to show some of the matches. This Session still no news from them. I think they give up on the Champions League matches.

I think I gotta sleep soon, as tomorrow I need to wake up and work again.
Good night all...

Xbox 360 Games

As I am a crazy gamer and like to try new games, recently just addicted with my new xBox. I always look for games selling online. I come across this ecommerce web site, shopping.com, where they sell lots of hot xBox games online.

Shopping.com sell all kind of games like action, shooter, sports, and lots more. You can also compare prices between distributors in shopping.com. this is a new features and can decide after comparing, get the cheaper but need to be good in the quality. Reviews of the distributor also play a main part in shopping.com, as buyer can post review and also refer to the previous review to judge the seller.

I am personally crazy about the sports xBox games like FIFA, NBA, F1, so, I think I can buy some from this ecommerce site as buying online make our life more easier.

Second generation of Zune

Today is the day that Microsoft is going to launch the second generation of the Zune music Player.

According to source, the main part of the announcement is the player will include the first flash memory based. By included the flash memory, the players will measure 3-inches by 1.25-inches and are said to look much like the iPod nano.

The smaller Zunes will be video capable, and are rumored to include Wi-Fi and higher storage than competing products.

However, the new players are expected to be available beginning in November. Will microsoft boost their sell in music player by launching the 2nd generation of Zune?
Please keep on eye on today's news for the New Zune.

Garage Storage

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Traditionally, garage is just part of your house where you park or house you motor vehicles. But in fact garage is more than just that, it is also another space or room (perhaps the largest room) in your house.

Besides storing car-related tools and magazines in my garage storage cabinets, I have many unused or seldom-used items in my garage as well. But I am considering fixing it up a little and making it comfortable for buddies/family entertainment zone.

To improve my garage storage functionality, I need a stylish and sophisticated modular garage storage system to transform my old garage into a functional room.

Notebook upgraded

I just bought 2 pieces of 1G RAM and upgraded my notebook as I am sitting at Starbucks just opposite the digital mall. Having my favorite coffee and writing this post.

This is one of my wish for this year, I bought this Notebook I think 18 months ago with 512MB RAM, decided to upgraded since this notebook giving me some hard time to play some hard core program like Virtual PC.

This upgrade cost me like RM250 as that is RM125 Per piece I bought, I still fell worth it as I am going to focus on my thesis for my master’s degree in UM. I am going to work on this as the course already taking me more than 4 years to worry.
So, now I got 2 pieces of 256MB RAM to sell any one interested? :)

There is another thing need to purchase is graphic card for my Desktop PC.

This is considering a great move for me, Life move on~~

Will Man Utd’s laid hit the goal trail again?

For those who really catch up with EPL recently. You should know that Man Utd is having problem scoring goal with the absence for Rooney, Ronaldo and Saha.

Their absence is the main factor in the relatively low goal tally for Man Utd. Tonight, they are going to play together again vs infamous Birmingham City, but the game will be host at St Andrews Stadium, Birmingham city.

Big question for all the Man Utd’s fans again, will them deliver some interesting goal by tonight’s match. And this is one of the big question marks in my head as well. Birmingham City Fc just got a draw from previous match VS Liverpool last weekend. Will they be able to perform like last week when meet Man Utd tonight ?

Let’s watch the match tonight.

Saturday Again

Today is going to be a Relaxing day for me, as I just come back from my lunch after wake up from my bed.
Last night was in the office for the Inventory count happen for my company. I stayed at office until 4 o’clock in the morning by extracting data for inventory count and optimizing database while waiting.

Later I am going to have a shopping for accessories of my notebook and Desktop PC at digital mall as my notebook having a hard time to run some big Program like virtual PC. I need to upgrade RAM for my lovely PC in order to run some high end program. Need to purchase Graphic cards for my Desktop PC as it came with integrated graphic card. But still have no idea which graphic card to go for.

after that, I might be busy to testing and setting up my PC and notebook for like 1-2 hours and see the outcome of the upgrade. Tonight is going to be a free and easy night after the shopping and setup. Maybe will go for the football match by 12.10AM to catch Man Utd in action again.

Cheers ~~

International Moving Companies

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It is common nowadays to acquire assistance from professional movers when you are moving. It is important to get an honest and reliable moving company to move your belongings.

Topmovingcompanies.com is a moving directory where you can search for either local or long distance movers. They offer assistance in finding moving companies, storage rentals, supplies, rental trucks, and much more. Apart from that, their extensive directory can assist in finding realtors, appraisers, as well as local schools.

The search is simple. Simply by keying in your move date, moving from zip code, moving to state, you are able to get 4 quotes out of it.

Old PC works like a new one

When you got a PC with just low end specs due to "tight" budget, please don't give up on that PC. Try to figure out what can be added pn to make it works like new.
There are some tips to get it done:

1. Regularly delete the temporary files that clutter up your disk. clean up some unused fonts as the PC may load them when start up. try Disk defragmenter every week.
2. Don't keep the internet history for more than 7 days. (by default it set to 20 days, if I am not mistaken)
3. Check the start up program that no longer usefull for yourself by typing "msconfig" at RUN to check and unclick it(better becareful and sure about the program that want to uncheck)
4. Invest some Disk Maintainance software for keep the PC healthy.
5. Or upgrade the RAM by DIV, or maybe faster graphic card, and even upgrade the processor that fit to your motherboard specifications.

Live a Stress-Free Life

I find myself having problems in cooping with stress these days. There are just too much to worry about; not only work, but also your life. You need to take care of your people at work, worry about deadlines, performance and KPI. In life, you need to look after your family members, your loved ones and your friends. Sometimes, life is really miserable. But all and all, you can’t let all these obstacles to beat you down, rite? So I figure out some ways to let myself out, to SET MYSELF FREE!!

First, EXERCISE!! I played futsal whenever I am feeling down or not well. It is so refreshing after exercising and you actually feel good about yourself. It doesn’t have to be futsal, it can be yoga, belly dancing, badminton or others. Exercise is a good way to keep you yourself healthy both physically and mentally.

Secondly, get yourself a HOBBY!! People who are busy would care less about being worried of everything. For me, I enjoy playing PC games, especially football games. Be it strategic or simulation games, I enjoy the moment I try hard to figure out which strategy or pattern fits my team the most. I am like into the game, as if it is more than just a game. Those game-lovers will know exactly how I feel. I am sorry if you don’t have a hobby now, but start exploring now. It doesn’t have to be something new or fancy. It could just probably be something you used to be fond of, but just has been deserted for quite some time.

Next on, VACATION!! I always enjoy vacation. The destination doesn’t have to be luxurious, but preferably exotic. Grab a map, walk around, take a cab, get a bus tour, enjoy the food, and meet the people. Traveling actually widen your view, and helps you to think from different perspective.

These are the 3 things I can think of for now to stress-free myself. And most importantly, they work! Cheers!

Digital Scales

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Weighing scales are very common for either household or business usage these days. A website named ScalesEtc sells many types of MyWeigh digital weighing scales, namely bathroom scales, pocket scales, and shipping scales.

MyWeigh’s bathroom scales are not just merely showing your weight now, they can actually tell your body fat percentage. With this feature, the scales actually help to ensure the efficiency of your diet/exercise program.

There are many attractive offerings on the site. A MyWeight’s digital pocket scale is just selling from $20.49. MyWeight’s pocket scales have great functionality. The discounted prices are fairly affordable. There’s a wide selection range either rechargeable, AA or lithium batteries. Weighs in both grams and ounces too, no conversions needed!

Check out the website to find out more!!

About Me

As some of you may realize that I just updated my profile. I am going to describe further about me.

My hometown is Pokok Sena, lovely village from Kedah. People living there is very friendly. I need to stay far from my hometown, it’s because I am working at PJ for living.

I realize that I always worry about my life, my future, think too much about tasks to finish. Maybe I am a serious person, and I am serious about my life. Why I am so serious and worry about my life?
Ok, question: Ever get the feeling that life is flying by and you can barely catch a breath?
Well, I always feel that, that is why I am so worry about my life. The year is flying past and I feel like I'm needing to 'rewind real slow' to catch my undone things. And after all I am standing still, Finish just a little bit from my important tasks.

I think almost every individual have a same thinking like me, they don’t like to work but enjoy life. Travel is one of my passion, but sad to say that I really married to my daily work and very hard to escape from that, some more commitment that I have nowadays compared with money that I earning, it’s hard for me to let the money gone and go travel. That’s y I always think of doing something can bring me out from the daily work, and start to travel from now on, but still.. I am here working with my keyboard typing and computer with the familiar display. Kekkeee….

Article about Interaction Design

I got this article when studying on User Interface Design from a book called: Interaction Design (beyond human-computer interaction).
It’s interesting to discuss more on this article.

The article: A provocative idea is that computers should apologize when they make a mistake. Reeves and Naas (1996), for example, argue that they should be polite and courteous in the same way as people are to one another. While apologizing is normal social etiquette in human behavior, especially when someone makes a mistake, would you agree that computers should be made to behave in the same way? Would users be as forgiving of computers as they are of one another? For example, what would most users think if, after a system had crashed, it came up with a spoken or written apology such as, “I’m really sorry I crashed. I’ll try not to do it again”? Would they think that the computer was being sincere? would the apology make them forgive the computer in the way they forgive other people, after receiving such an apology? Or would it have no effect at all? Worse still, would users perceive such messages as vacuous statements and regard them simply as condescending, thereby increasing their level of frustration? How else might systems communicate with users when they have commited an error?

This article really stunned me for a while, as I slowly digest the article and found out an interesting part of the article. (After a system had crashed, it came up with a spoken or written apology such as, “I’m really sorry I crashed. I’ll try not to do it again”) that’s really funny.

Let try some response about this, What if when windows crashed, the Error Message will come out with polite way like: Sorry, Windows Crashed again, kindly press any key to continue or Press alt + Ctrl + Delete to Restart the PC. I’ll not try to crash again.

Do user feel better when see this message?