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Day /Date : Sabtu-Minggu/ 5-6 March 2011

Time : 10.00 (pagi) – 16.00 (petang)

Place : Padang Kelab Sultan Sulaiman

Kampung Baru Kuala lumpur  

mari datang ramai2 jumpa d cuppies crews!

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Today Muslims all over the world celebrate Maulidur Rasul. Maulidur Rasul refers to the observance of the birthday of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. who was born on 12 Rabiul Awal, Tahun Gajah (23 April 571) and this year 12 Rabiul Awal falls on 15 February 2011.

Among the significance of the celebration are about reminding the Muslims of the Prophet’s way of life and the true teaching of Allah as per the Al-Quran, which is for the good of all mankind. It is also about renewing and strengthening our faith and kinship of the Muslims in our religion as well as to foster greater friendship (“ukhwah“) with everyone regardless of race and religion.

May Allah bless us all and have a great Maulidur Rasul.

Text of the Selawat Nabi

*Text from Ensiklopedia Muslim.

P/s:
From the previous years… Maulidur Rasul concert? Seriously? Unable to compute… Change to Playhouse Disney Channel…

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Out of curiosity, I wanted to compare how the Zeitgeist 2010 results from Asean countries compared to each other. Since we live close by and share many of the same cultures and way of life, it would be interesting to see if there are any similarities in terms of what we searched for on Google. Since not all Asean countries are in the list, here are the results of the listed countries only.

Malaysia’s Fastest Rising Queries
proton inspira, ipad, benci bilang cinta, world cup 2010, justin bieber, fb, utusan online terkini, mudah.com.my selangor, didi games and fifa.

Singapore’s Fastest Rising Queries
xinmsn, ipad, inception, world cup 2010, iphone 4g, universal studios singapore, justin bieber, glee, yog and resort world sentosa.

Philippines’s Fastest Rising Queries
jejemon, ipad, pyramid lyrics, facebook emoticons, justin bieber, plants vs zombies, glee, tumblr, crossfire and google chrome download.

Thailand’s Fastest Rising Queries
????????????, ipad, iphone 4, the star 6, ???????????, facebook, ????????, ?????, photoscape and ????????.

Based on the results, the Apple iPad is top in the list appearing in all the 4 countries. I have played with iPad before and I can say that it is an awesome device. Pasha loves it as well. Only the price is keeping us from getting one.

Justin Bieber and Facebook are next highest, listed in 3 countries. Looks like the boy idol have lots of fans in this region… Not mine though… I will just stick with Facebook. I am one of those who would open it at least once a day… That’s a confession there…

World Cup 2010, a world event where I managed to watch only 1 live game and now could not even remember which one and Glee the musical comedy-drama television series are next. Between the World Cup and Glee, I go for the music and laughters… That’s me.

There you go! The internet has successfully made the world smaller where people all over the world are talking pretty much about the same thing… See the US results below and you will see:

USA’s Fastest Rising Queries
ipad , chatroulette, iphone 4, world cup, justin bieber, myxer, facebook, grooveshark, glee and mocospace

See the similarities there?

P/S:
????? that appear in the Thailand list are due to my blog editor is not equipped with any Thai font…

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It was supposed to end in February 2010 but it did not…

Then they committed to end it by the end of March 2010… That would not happen either…

That’s one of my current project… Project DeeElPee.

Project for people who are full of gas and oily stuffs…

Last time they were always talking about granularity…

The Italian talked about it. The Honkee or are they called Hong Konger? Anyway, they talked about it too.

The Singaporeans talked about it… and the Indians as well…

Soon enough, the Malaysians like it too…

Granularity.

Then things got so mixed up. Mixed up to a point where we were having meeting of minutes…

So, someone took minutes in the meeting of minutes… Strange but true…

Recently, it was a lot about false positive…

You look positive. False…

Are things positive?

Things look like they are getting worse when we started trying to send emails via attachments…

So now we use an attachment to send an email with attachments…

But looks can be deceiving…

Things are getting better.

It might not make sense.

To you.

What a surprised! I didn’t even now that there was such an income tax form called CP500. Macam macam la dorang ni nak ambil duit kita… After google-ing it, I found out that CP500 is more applicable to those with side incomes.. Incomes that came from selling insurance policies, multilevel marketing and anything of that sort…

I was asked to pay RM380.oo in 6 installments… Sesuka hati mak bapak dorang je…

So, I called up the Customer Service Center at 1-300-88-3010 to seek some clarification. The first question that the person asked was whether I do have any side income or not… I do not consider blogging as a source of side income and therefore I said no…

He then as me to wait for him to check something and after a while he came back and said that my CP500 form has been cancelled…

Hmm…

So, if you are also one of the lucky Malaysians who received CP500 form and you do not have any side income, make sure you call them to verify it’s status…

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At Home – Locked Out

It was a typical Monday morning. Lots of goodbye waves and flying kisses from my wife and son. I was on the phone while driving to meet a client in KL. Once I got off the phone and reach my destination at the same time, there was a message from an unknown number. The number was unfamiliar but the message was written in a very familiar style. I called back the number and the person who answered passed it on to my wife. Guess what? My son closed the door  when they were on the way out and the faulty lock kept them out. She got hold of the neighbour and the repair man and now we have a new lock. Awesome!

At Work – Planning Ahead

My idea of planning ahead is always what I have been used to and that is to plan for something that would take months or years to complete such as a multi million ringgit project. Now, I have to submit a weekly plan. What I did this week and what I plan to do next week… This is going to be tough…

The Client – To Ask Around Is Good!

This guy that I work with at my client has this strange problem of doing things, which are not really familiar to him, his way without asking those who know better and in the end, I had to do things twice, trice, etc… duh…

Traffic – Going To KL

It would be the end of the world if there was no jam…

Lunch

An extremely salty fried noodles… Yucks!

Dinner

Pizza from Pizza Hut. RM 28 for two regular pizza! Not a bad deal at all!

It has been a very long time since my last update. My bad! The last time I was busy trying to get a job and did not update for a long time. This time, I was busy with work and I do not have much time left for me to update as frequently as I used to be. Nevertheless, this blog will not be left to die and that is a promise. I just need to add some extra motivation to my life so that I would be able to write more often… We will see whether that would actually happen or not… haha!

Anyway, maybe I will let you all know what is going on at work and why I did not have time to update aka the excuse of not updating…

The thing is that I was taking care of 6 projects. I said was since a few days ago, I got to transfer two of my projects to another project manager and that leaves me with just 4 and may be then, I would have some time to just pop in here and write a word or two ha…

My first project is to manage the development of a portal for the agency that takes care of all the wild animals in West Malaysia. This is an agency where animals go to lodge complaints against the human… just kidding but really, they do take care of the animals welfare…

My second project is to attend monitoring meetings for a digital library project for the ministry of defence. Nothing much to do but lots of time taken to travel to the meeting sites. The previous meetings were held in Lumut, Port Dickson, Johor Bahru and Alor Star. The next meeting would be held in Port Dickson again.

My third project is to manage some hardware and software subscription and maintenance services for one of the local universities. The fourth (given to another PM recently) was about the same thing but for the agency that takes care of the Prime Minister… Lucky guy for having a whole agency making sure that he is okay…

The fifth (also given to another PM) was another digital library project and this time it is for the agency that take cares of the lawyers… No wonder they are so…. err… choose your own descriptions to describe them… heh heh!

The last and the latest and the one that has been taking most of my time is a data leakage prevention project for one of the oil and gas giants in Malaysia… Lots of meetings just to complete the scope of work… Guess what? It is not complete yet…

So, there you go! Those are the things that have been keeping me busy! Till then, see you later and take care!

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Do You Want Fries With That?

That would be one of the most asked questions at some fast food restaurants but that would not be the case if you are buying something to eat at the Machap rest area. Over there, the question would be: “Do you want flies with that?”

If you are travelling between Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru on the NSE, you would not miss a rest area called the Machap R&R. Last week, while driving back from Johor Bahru to Shah Alam, we had the “luxury” of stopping over for a short break at this rest area . From the car, everything looked great as the rest area was recently renovated by PLUS.

They Are Everywhere!

However, once I stepped out of the car and went to one of the stalls there, I was greeted by hundreds of flies. While the few hundred of them were doing the welcome to rest area Machap song, there were few thousands other flies were busy “promoting” the food and goods for sale to travellers… What a sight!

I went to the upper portion of the rest area. The automatic escalator was impressive and once I reached the top floor, I saw the whole eating place was sealed by glass walls. I thought that was a noble idea to ensure that the flies stay out while people are eating inside…

Let’s Do Some Maths

Well, it did not really 100% work as there were thousands of flies queueing up on the glass walls and doors waiting to enter the area. Imagine this:

1000 flies waiting to enter the eating area. If one person open the glass door to enter, and1% of the flies would take the opportunity to sneak in. There would be 10 flies per person. If 100 people went in, there would be about 1000 flies and each person that goes in must come out and that would mean at least 2000 flies in there…

They Can See You

With that, you can imagine that whatever you order in there, flies are complimentary… Not bad for a free source of protein ha! At the same time, you would get to experience a scenario that is normally common in some sci-fi movies and in this case, you would be trapped in a glass enclosure surrounded by thousands of flies staring with their compound eyes… Would you still eat there? Some people did but no way for me…

Blame It On The Chickens

I talked to one of the sellers there and I was told that there are some chicken farms nearby and things would get extremely bad during the rainy seasons and there was no way to get rid of the flies…

Luckily my son was asleep and therefore, he stayed in the car with my wife… If not he would have a freaking time chasing after the flies and my wife would have been having a busy time wiping his hands and feet shoes…

So, the next time when you drive on the NSE, look out for Machap rest area and stop to look at the wonder of the flies.

P/S:

There was a fly in our car a day after we came back and looking at the size, it must have followed us back from Machap…

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Blogging is sweet when other bloggers acknowledge us. Blogging is sweet when we received some awards. Blogging is sweet when we have tags assigned to us. So, for those sweet bloggers who made this blog sweeter than ever, I am now answering tags and accepting the awards that you have given.

Cautions! Long post ahead!

A Special Post

Terima Kasih Untuk Kisah Beruang: This is a thank you post from KongsiBlog.com. A blog that goes around with a “Aku Bukan Seorang Artis Malaysia” (I am not a Malaysian artist) tagline. A very catchy tagline indeed.

Anyway., that’s his way of saying thank you for my visits and my help (I honestly could not remember how have I helped him). So, for that sweet effort, I am mentioning his post here as an honor that was well given and received. Thank you!

Award # 1

The Friendship Flower Award: This award is given by Windmill On The Hill. It comes with:

And lovely are the blossoms
That are tended with great care,
By those who work unselfishly
To make the place more fair.
And, like the garden blossoms,
Friendship’s flower grows more sweet
When watched and tended carefully
By those we know and meet.
And, if the seed of friendship
Is planted deep and true
And watched with understanding,
Friendship’s flower will bloom for you.

And I have to pass this to 7 blogging friends. So, I am going to give it to 10 latest commenter on my blog and they are:

1. ArZeq.com 2. Tekkaus 3. snv~ 4. The Temple Of Irreverance 5. Unlimited Bonoriau Weblog 6. Teens Make Money Online 7. Blog Zool Ligakampung 8. Taukey.com 9. BioTeck.NET 10. The Kaki Bangku

The rules for accepting this award are:

1. Copy the badge and put it on your blog.  2.  Link back who passed you this tag.  3. Spread this tag to at least 7 or more bloggers who you think you are friend with.

Thank you!

Award # 2

Cuties Award: This award is received from Stories in Life. I am going to pass this to the next 10 recent commnter on this blog but before that I have to give 10 facts about me. 1. They call me Papa Bear.  2. I love Mama Diah, my wife.  3. I love Pasha, my son.  4. I love my blog.  5. I love to doze off in a meeting.  6. I love to doze off while driving.  7. I love to eat  8. I hate doing tags.  9. I hate diet.  10. I am trying to exercise. See how easy it is to list 10 facts about me.

Now this award goes to:

1. Life is Simple! 2. Sawanila.com 3. lankapo.com 4. SufianPC 5. Aku dan Duniaku 6. my life 4 hire 7. Sweet Thinker 8. KNizam Artwerk 9.  Hot Shit Form Here 10. Geek’s Corner

The rules for accepting this award are:

1. Copy the badge and put it on your blog.  2. Link back who passed you this tag.  3. Each blogger starts with ten random facts/habits about themselves.  4. Bloggers that are tagged need to write ten facts about themselves.  5. You need to choose ten people to tag and list their names.  6. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’ve been tagged and also to read your blog.

Thank you!

Award # 3

Spread The Love Award: This award is given by ~Thoughts For Women~. Now this love is going over to (randomly selected):

1. The Arts of Fight 2. My Tramping View 3. I’m Richie 4. Adsense Alternative 5. azwanhadzree 6.  The Fitness Diva 7. Cashmere 8. Callister’s Little World 9. Ch@l!Zone 10. Hidup Biar Sedap

The rules are simple:

1. Copy the badge and put it on your blog.  2.  Link back who passed you this tag.  3. Spread this tag to at least 10 or more bloggers.

Thank you!

Note:

To others who frequent this blog but did not receive any of the award above, do not feel bad as it would be impossible for me to choose all of you and it would be impossible for me to select according to any criteria. Random selection is the best and those are the blogs that came up during the selection. That’s why I hate to give award…

Anyway, in other words, all of you are special as well!

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Hey didle didle… It’s Friday again and it’s time to write about the beautiful Malaysia again. I left my wallet at home today and luckily I managed to find enough coins in my car to pay the toll to the office. If not, I had to do that cat face, the one that the cat with the big eyes in Shrek…, and get away without paying the toll… one more time…

This post is neither about me forgetting to bring my wallet nor will it be about the toll that I have to pay but it will be more than just that.

How many months have passed since the historical victory of the opposition parties in the last general election? Many months is the answer. Not an exact answer but should be good enough. What has changed besides the people and parties leading some of the states?

From where I am standing sitting typing, I do not see that anything has really changed. Where are the pre-election promises made? Now you know… When the so called pro government mainstream media talked about the bad sides and the failures of the newly elected Pakatan Rakyat government, they and their die hard supporters screamed about how unfair the news are lately. Have they ever stepped back and looked at how such opportunities are given to the media?

That’s the beauty of politics. Good politicians would look for sensitive issues to politicize and for as long as there are gullible people out there, these schemes would work wonderfully. All they need is to work on the emotional aspects of these people and they would get truck loads of fanatic supporters who would miserably fail to see beyond the reality of promises made.

For example, you live at some places where you know that once you drive out of your house, you have to pay toll and when you do that, the image of Samy Vellu will be popping up automatically… So when somebody promised that if they are elected, you would not have to pay toll anymore, some of you got really elated!

You voted and a new government was formed. Even a stuttering Chief Minister would not bother you as you were so confident that the changes were finally here. After a few months, that was the only change that you would ever get.

Well, don’t blame them. You are the one who have failed to see that to do something such as getting rid of tolls on our road is not as simple as the promises made There are legal implications, contractual details and many others have to be taken care of before it can be done. In the end promises were promises and you will be waiting for the cow to jump over the moon….

So, when the new government could not deliver the promises, what do they do? Don’t ask me. Anyway, I like to touch a bit on the die hard, fanatical supporters of a political party. These are the people who thought that they are always making the right choices and would not listen to anything else…

For example, what benefits would you get when a political party that you support wanted to change how the street signs should be written? Would it give you better income or your child would be smarter by doing that? Is this something that really needs to be looked at rather than the failing global economy?

For all I know if that is approved, some politicians would be laughing all the way to the bank after securing some contracts to replace the street signs, one way or another. And you will get brand new street signs and throw a party, at your own expenses, to  celebrate the victory… That’s pathetic!

As for me, it does not matter who rules this country but what matters is whether the government can bring the changes that the people wanted and walk the talk by delivering the promises made. The promises made should be realistic and not just for the sake of winning votes by taking advantage of lots of politically blind people out there.

As for those who would do anything for your beloved political party, make sure that you know the difference between “will try to do” or “will do” and “have done that” as it is very easy to use “will do” than “have done” when saying something…

So, hey didle didle, when will I stop paying toll? When will I get free water? Is there any new hope in the new year? New Year… New What?

Are we doing things for us, our children, our future generations, our country or just for some charismatic politicians?

I need to go home and get my wallet.

By the way, this post came right out of my head without any draft and therefore, I should stop before I give you some headaches…

Ps:
Will somebody please fix all the pot holes in Shah Alam before somebody got seriously injured or died or should we wait for the next general election for that to happen?

Pss:
It is too early to wish happy New Year, so I will do that later…

Psss:
I am not an UMNO, PAS, DAP or PKR member…