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The End of the Boringest Blogspot!

2006-02-13T10:44:00.000Z

Hey guys, In case you're wondering why this blog hardly gets updated, it's because I don't really have the time to write in 2 blogs, manage SARA, Blogasian, BLORC and also KOREKK!!! Plus, do my projects. So, here's an official announcement that I'll stop writing in this blog and just concentrate on my other blog: BORINGEST - MOOLAH!!!
Also, if you're looking for cheap hosting - check us out! With prices starting from US$2/year, there's a plan which will suit everyone. And if you want to read more about what we offer - see this! And, if you're willing to be part of a forum and post at least 15 useful posts a month, check us out at BLORC! This will be more limited than our paid hosting, but you'll have much greater freedom, space and bandwidth than most free bloghosting providers out there.

Code within the Da Vince Code trailer?

2005-12-15T23:09:00.000Z

Just watched the Da Vince Code trailer - looks like it's gonna be a good movie! Anyway, noticed something weird about the trailer --> near the end where the credits for the actors were shown they had some alphabets intentionally 'bolded' & 'goldened' (got such word?...=P). The letters are:

THSECDEO

Thinking that the trailer might contain clues to a 'secret', I tried to decipher the code by rearranging the letters around & this the only configuration i can figure out:

THE CODES

lol...don't think it is the clue to the secret! Any other ideas? Update: Seems that I've missed out another flashing letter some scenes before the screenshot above and it says 'SEEK'. So the puzzle's 'Seek The Codes' and you can goto this website:

http://www.seekthecodes.com

At first glance, it looks like it's somebody's personal blog but I've checked the whois and the contacts are as follows: Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (NIC-14369782) SPDE Domain Names Inc. 10202 W. Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232 US So I guess that's it. Read more in the website. Also, there's more things found in another website - Link

Stress?

2005-12-01T09:02:00.000Z

Super stressful week for me this time: 1. One assessment centre today which ended quite weird (will expand when I have more time) 2. A case interview tomorrow with my dream firm. 3. CFD program due on Monday + writeup! 4. another CFD project - tougher one coming up! 5. and also another Wing Design project...sighz... But some surprises this week too: 1. Successful in my affiliate application for my own mobilephone shop! - Link (for more details on the free phone + free line rental offer, see post before this!) 2. Idea of creating a one-stop university trading forum used by another group of ppl from the same college! 3. Parents are here to see me! 4. RepliGo's amazing! - finally a way to squeeze pdfs into my phone to read on the Tube ride back from college. Anyway, since I'm still on the topic of stress here...I'll just share a link for some funny pics - Link Feel free to add more! =)

Here's how to get a FREE phone + FREE line rental!

2005-11-30T23:29:00.000Z

Hi guys, Here to share good stuff again...Mobileshop together with me as an affiliate are here to present to you this crazy new offer:

A FREE Nokia 6030
12 months FREE line rental on an O2 12 month contract.
200 X-network minutes (400 minutes in 1st 3 months!)
100 texts (200 in 1st 3 months!)
FREE delivery as well!
FREE insurance for 1st 3 months

This is how to do it:

Goto this website - Link
Click the big 'Buy Now' button
Now when you filled up your details, you'll see a part where they'll ask you if you would like to sign up for additional text bundles --> the default has one of the options checked and all you have to do is uncheck it (you'll still get your 100 texts free + the extra 100 in your 1st 3 months) otherwise you'd have to pay an extra GBP5 per month unless you really need it!
That's it - once your credit check goes well, you'll get a FREE phone and also FREE line rental!

Note that this offer is only for UK residents

P.S. If you want a different phone e.g. V3, N70 etc on my site...contact me and not only will you get the good deal on my affiliate site but you'll stand to gain some extra cash =)

The fishy post!

2005-11-10T21:40:00.000Z

Finally, I have found something which Internet Explorer can do but not Firefox or Opera! Just follow these easy steps: 1. Reluctantly open Internet Explorer - it's the blue 'e' if you have forgotten. 2. On your keyboard, hold down the 'Ctrl' key 3. Press 'A' 4. Voila! Cool huh? From Humour.com (no, I can't read French)

My BE* experience!

2005-11-10T20:13:00.000Z

Hi guys, Back from a long hiatus and it seems that lots have been happening recently - minishorts dissing centerpide, the Xiaxue vs Malaysian bloggers TOILET fiasco, news of Malaysians making love in TOILETS and loving it, the Dawn Yang admiration...did I miss anything else? Anyway, the reason I was MIA's b'cos of my internet connection! I signed up about 1.5 months ago for the BE* 24Mbps ADSL2+ pilot programme and only just got it like 1.5 weeks ago. Was really excited when I first got the modem/router (which was provided free) but once I plugged my phone line to the modem/router, I was terribly disappointed with speeds of only about 1.7-1.9Mbps! But it felt significantly faster than my old 1Mbps connection. So upon finding out more about ADSL2+, I found that the speed depends on how far you are from the telephone exchange, where they have all the equipment! Basically, this graph stolen from yesyes who then stole from Internode shows that there's a drastic drop in speed once you're more than 2km away from the exchange!

So, using this service from samknows, I was able to find the straight line distance from the local exchange to my home and it turned out to be 2.23km! So shouldn't the speed be around 15Mbps? Anyway, common sense tells you that phone lines are never laid straight to each house but goes thru' twists and turns b4 finally reaching one's house. So, how do I check out how far am I from the exchange in terms of phone line distance? Luckily, this guy from yesyes somehow managed to come out with this graph which shows the line attenuation (a stat which can be found in the modem provided/if you have some equipment to measure it but some liken it to 'noise' in the lines) and can roughly tell you how far you are from the exchange: As one of the unlucky ones, my line turns out to have an attenuation of about 52dB and as you can see my max speed in theory could be about 5.5Mbps. But in reality, London copper wires are so old and they differ in quality so much, you would be lucky to get 3/4 of that speed! So like any Malaysian would do, I complained and in less than 2 hours I got a reply saying that they'll look into it and that was on Saturday! Another 4-5 hours later, I got another email from their customer service guy telling me to switch on my modem and leave it on (at about 1 or 2am in the morning). And on Sunday, I suddenly saw the modem rebooting by itself and voila - it's 2.6Mbps (not quite the 24Mbps advertised but I'm pretty contented now after not having internet access for more than a month)! Download speeds without download accelerators are about 170-260kBps using Opera, bittorrent reached a max of 220kBps using utorrent and so hopefully my speed will go up some more.

Drawing conclusions from a forum where there's lotsa ppl with BE* connections comparing connections, it seems that speeds range from 2-22Mbps! So, if you are less than 1km away from the exchange, it's really a good deal to get this since it's only £20/month with a free modem/router (Speedtouch 716WL) that comes with built-in wireless-g capability and also 4 Ethernet/LAN ports and best thing is there's no contract involved (except that you have to notify them 3 months before you decide to call it quits) - perfect for students!

So, in summary:

Pros:

Pretty good customer service (they even work on weekends!),
friendly management who even visits forums and updates customers on the progress of the pilot programme
decent speed for the price (£24) even when you're as far away from the exchange as me.
free modem/router (saves you about £99)
no contract
'unlimited' downloads (though they say somewhere in the TOS that if you exceed 500GB, they might have to do something about it)
1 month free line rental if you sign up through me

Cons:

Speed greatly differs depending on how far away you're from the local exchange so check the graphs and websites b4 making a decision!
It's a pilot programme, so there's no guarantees on reliability (although it seems to be improving)

P.S. Anyway, if anyone actually decided to choose this service, send me an email at boringest_at_gmail.com so that you and me can enjoy 1 month free rental. =)

Friend, get a FREE domain!

2005-11-10T17:25:00.000Z

Hi fellow bloggers, Here to share good FREE stuff with you guys again. There's this new program out there called ezyrewards which gives out free domains just by signing up for websites, etc and the best thing is:

The domain given will be in your name i.e. it's transferrable & you're the only owner. Nobody else!
Full functioned domains, you can even set your own nameservers to use it.
Domains available can have the following extensions: .com, .net, org, .info, .biz, .us, .name worth US$8.20!
No advertising required at all!

So if you want a FREE domain just sign up using my referral link below:

I've been asmallworld-ed!

2005-10-26T17:58:00.000+01:00

Have been getting lotsa hits on my greed band post all b'cos of this website:

www.asmallworld.net a.k.a. "snobster"

But I have to say I'm quite impressed with the concept of it i.e. a super-exclusive social networking website which requires a superpremium member to invite you (apparently if you wanna bypass this, you need at least 100 invites from normal members) and you need to be somebody...and I really mean somebody. Examples of the high-profile members include Paris Hilton, Quentin Tarantino, Ivanka Trump (Donald Trump's daughter) and Tiger Woods. Come to think of it, I think Friendster, MySpace, etc...just doesn't cut it anymore as a social networking site with so many members trying to link to as many ppl as possible and you sometimes get ppl who don't know you linking you 'cos you're pretty/handsome, etc. Maybe it's time for me to launch another Snobster soon - any takers? More about asmallworld by a member.

Check your Google Page Rank here!

2005-10-26T12:28:00.000+01:00

New function in SARA to check your PR - ad-free (except on this page)!

Here's the code for the form above which you can cut-and-paste to your blog:


<form action="http://www.sarawho.com/googlerank.php" method="get">
eg. www.sarawho.com
<br>
<input name="url" type="text" id="url" size="50">
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Would appreciate it if you can link back to me or SARA if you use this code though =)

In the spirit of sharing, also check out me and Andrew's new initiative to give out FREE (ad-free of course) full-featured Wordpress hosting with upgradeable space and bandwidth! - Link

iPod mini. iPod nano. SARA mini.

2005-10-22T01:49:00.000+01:00

Decided to remove some chunks of code from the original SARA, and now SARA mini is born =) Still more to do...so do expect SARA nano soon...hehe =) Please visit and feel free to leave comments!

Get free blog hosting with BLORC!

2005-10-17T22:52:00.000+01:00

BLORC is a free blog hosting service for bloggers who would like to have a taste of how professional blog hosting differs from other free services like Blogger, Blogsome, LiveJournal, etc. This is the hosting package we offer:

20MB space
200MB bandwidth
1 MySQL database
cPanel & Fantastico
FTP
Support Wordpress, Nucleus, b2evolution, etc
No ads!
You are allowed to put up your own ads in your website!
We can host your domain too/you can use our subdomain: username.blorc.com

All you have to do to get the FREE hosting is to post in our forums! The more posts you get the more upgrades (bandwidth/space/MySQL databases) you can get! So what are you waiting for? Come and join us now! - Link For more information, here are the links:

Alternatively, if you don't want to post in the forums, we have a paid option which starts at only $2/year! - Link

SARA's back up again.

2005-10-13T23:10:00.000+01:00

Sorry for the false alarm...probably should have called it a maintenance downtime instead. Anyway, enjoy visiting SARA. Thanks.

SARA is down at the moment. =(

2005-10-13T21:50:00.000+01:00

Dear readers, SARA is down at the moment but I think it should be back up by tomorrow night if I have enough time in my hands to do it tomorrow/today. Funnily, it coincided with the partial reopening of PPS. So head down there and I'll ping PPS when SARA's back up again. Apologies for the inconvenience. P.S. But if you are curious at the progress and wish to see if it'll load again, try this link.

Get HIV in the cinemas!

2005-10-11T19:37:00.000+01:00

I don't normally post spam/forward them around but this one sounds quite serious when my department lecturer started forwarding it to the General Office with a concerned note asking the secretary to forward it to students:

Subject: FW: Urgent message received from LST Could you please cascade as quickly as possible as this came through our NHS web page. For your information, a couple of weeks ago, in the odeon cinema, Festival Park, a person sat on something sharp in one of the seats. When she stood up to see what it was, a needle was found poking through the seat with an attached note saying, "you have been infected with HIV". The Centres for Disease Control in Birmingham, reports similar events Have taken place in several other cities recently. ALL of the needles tested HAVE been found positive for HIV. The CDC also reports that needles have been found in the coin return areas of pay phones and coke machines. Everyone is asked to use extreme caution when confronted with these types of situations. All public chairs should be thoroughly but safely inspected prior to any use. A thorough visual inspection is considered the bare minimum. Further more, they ask that everyone notify their family members and friends of the potential dangers, as well. The previous information was sent from hanley police station to all of the local councils in the Staffs area and was interdepartmentally dispersed.

We were all asked to pass this to as many people as possible.

Paul McCarrick District Health and Safety Officer Greater Manchester East Middleton DO

Anyway, being the skeptical me, I searched Google and found this:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/pinprick.asp

and this:

http://www.cdc.gov/doc.do/id/0900f3ec80226b9c

So, it's up to you if you wanna believe it or not, but I'll definitely check my seat before sitting down next time =)

HELP! Need advice with obsolete computer!

2005-10-10T17:42:00.000+01:00

Hi guys, I have a very old computer which I just took out from the store and here are the specs: Pentium III 650 MHz 96MB RAM 8GB HDD 16MB ATI Rage 128 GL Hercules Fortissimo II Gamesurround Soundcard Originally, I intended to turn it into a Tivo-like media centre using Ubuntu & MythTV + a TV Tuner card, but I think my specs might not make it. So now I'm thinking of turning it into a webserver =) Anybody has any experience in this? Any ideas on which Linux distro I should use for such a low-spec machine?

Taking down the 59K Banner =(

2005-10-09T22:06:00.000+01:00

Due to the extreme lack of response, I am taking down the 59K Banner. My apologies to Jimmy and Andrew who are the only ones who participated in this thing =P Anyone who wants the code can just email me for it =)

Who wants to be linked to the 59K banner?

2005-10-03T21:08:00.000+01:00

Looks like the 60K pixel banner wasn't very popular among bloggers with only 1 request so far from Jimmy! So I've made a minor change due to a complaint by red that the banner is too big to fit properly in Firefox =P I've removed 1 line from the banner and it's now measuring 100x590 = 59,000 pixels. Requests to upload your 10x10 pixel image is even easier now, just send me an email (boringest_at_gmail.com) with a 10x10 pixel picture and the co-ordinates of where you want your picture to be on the banner. Linking back to this blog or SARAwho.com is optional. If you don't understand what I'm saying see the illustrated instructions below: Click on the image above for a larger version. More detailed instructions here. *P.S.: More info about Blogasian hosting (as shown in illustrated instructions) here - Link.

60,000 pixel banner!

2005-09-27T11:11:00.000+01:00

Hi guys, Sorry for the long absence, my internet connection is still not installed yet! (yeah, it's already been 3 weeks but it's gonna be 24Mbps, so I hope it's worth the wait!) Anyway, let's get back to the topic: Inspired by the Million Dollar Homepage, I present to you the 60,000 pixel floating banner on your left! What this banner does is to display a 10x10 (pixels = 100 pixels square block) logo/image on any part of the 10x60 grid. There's only 5 spaces taken currentlyby me/friends, and that leaves 595 more spaces to be taken up! So, am I gonna charge for displaying it? Kind of actually but it's not gonna cost you much =) Here's the FAQs: What do you need to do to get a 10x10 space on the banner (just 1 of them will be sufficient)?

Do a good deed, post it up on your blog with pictures or witnesses. I'll be the judge to see if it can be considered a good deed OR
Link to SARA - with the code here: <a href="http://www.sarawho.com/"> <img src="http://www.sarawho.com/images/sarawho.png" border="0" alt="SARA"> </a> OR
Contribute to SARA by writing scripts to enhance its functionality (worth up to 20,000 pixels) OR
Pay me US$1 for a single 10x10 space OR
Buy a hosting plan from me/Andrew.

What are the benefits for you to own a space on the banner?

Floating banner - combining unobstrusive advertising with a very high visual impact through the use of a script which glides along with the page when scrolled.
Dual display at my blog and SARA. Double the impression for one good deed done!
Script works on all 3 major web browsers - Opera, Firefox and IE.
Increase visibility for your own blog/website and more...

What next after I've fulfilled one of the criteria listed above?

Send an email with the subject header '60,000 pixel banner - yourname' to me at :
Attach a 10 pixel by 10 pixel logo/image to the email
State the co-ordinates where you wish to put your logo (top left hand corner of image) e.g. the '$' sign logo has a co-ordinate of (50, 300)
State the title for the logo/image e.g. 'The best blog in the world'. No vulgarities allowed.
Wait for reply.

How long does it take for you to post the logo/image? It depends but I aim to do so within 48hours.

Fireangel?

2005-09-26T11:35:00.000+01:00

Looks like I'm too new to the blogging scene to know who 'Fireangel' is. Read all the related blogs but can't find a link to her own blog! Can anyone pls educate the noobs? *Update: Thanks to a tip from Din, I think I've found her blog. Seems that she has stopped blogging recently. Anyway, for those who are still curious and would like to see if she can really swear, here's the link: fireangel.tblog.com Anyway, just to join in the fun and make this post less boring, here's a very happy FA day to FireAngel. =) Previous Post

Introducing SARAwho.com!

2005-09-03T20:44:00.000+01:00

Hi guys, SARA has her own domain now and it's called:

www.SARAwho.com

Please update your links/bookmarks if possible. Otherwise the old links should still work for a couple of months still I think. So, what is SARA? It's a blog aggregator for the public and currently it consist of blogs from Malaysia and some from Singapore. What does it do/How SARA works? Basically, it collects excerpts of your most recent posts and send them to our servers and we'll show them on our main webpage, whereby readers can just click on the title of your post if they are interested and they can read excerpts of it. If they are interested to read more, they just have to click on the blog's name and they'll be transported to your blog. How much does it cost? It's totally FREE! How do I submit my blog feed?

Goto www.sarawho.com/help
Fill up the details there,
Click on 'Submit' and you're done!

After that, do I have to go back and submit my feed again after I've done a new blog post? No! Once you submitted your feed, you'll never have to tell us about a new post again. SARA uses your RSS/ATOM/RDF feeds to tell our webservers if your blog is updated or not. Once you submit a new post, SARA webservers will be able to detect it within 10-15 minutes and it'll automatically appear on the main webpage. Do I have to be Malaysian/Singaporean to join this? As long as you're a citizen/resident from Southeast Asia, we will accept your feed. However, your blog needs to be in English if you're not from Malaysia/Singapore. What happens if I wish to remove my feed from SARA? SARA respects your privacy and once you tell us that you wish to remove your feed from us, all your previous posts will disappear altogether from our data. To submit a ticket to remove your feed, follow these steps:

Goto www.sarawho.com/help
Fill up the details there,
Click on 'Submit' and you're done!

If I encounter any problems, who should I contact? Please contact me at boringest_at_gmail_com. I am a programmer/designer and I wish to contribute to this project. What are your future plans for SARA? Who do I contact? Future plans include:

A blog portal showing the best written posts of the day.
An AJAX based blog post ranking system like Digg.com.
A forum to discuss/organise future events/trade/contribute to SARA.

We need help for the above to become a reality. So please volunteer if you think you can. Contact boringest_at_gmail_com.

Borrowing stuff online?

2005-09-01T18:36:00.000+01:00

Ever wished for a website like Ebay where you can borrow things for free? This coming 15th of September, there'll be one and it's called Borrowme.com. So, how does this work? In order to create a web of trust, you have to lend something first to gain a credit point and you can use this credit to borrow something in return. What if somebody breaks my stuff while borrowing it? Well, like Ebay there's a rating system. So, if you're the type that breaks other ppl's stuff while you are borrowing it, expect a bad rating and nobody will lend stuff to you anymore. It's an experimental idea but if it works out it's gonna be great 'cos you don't always have to buy DVDs anymore and can just borrow them off somebody who's done with it. Or you can borrow stuff that you don't always use e.g. wheelbarrows, cangkuk, hammer, screwdriver, etc so you'll never have to buy again...lol =) Anyway, if you wanna have a look at how the system will look like on the 15th of September see the pictures that follow:

Save calling card PIN on your mobile

2005-08-30T21:30:00.000+01:00

This is useful for international students who uses calling cards to call back home to Malaysia and also for local Malaysians who use international calling cards like iTalk: Do you find it a trouble to remember the long PIN numbers? No worries now. You can actually save the PIN in your phone with these easy steps:

Type the access number. (e.g. 02071241210)
Press and hold # until a word 'w' appears
Now type the PIN number.
Once again press and hold # until another 'w' appears
Type in your home phone number.
Save as a contact which you can easily call later or even save it as a speedial.

*Note that when you call the number, you'll get a dialog box asking if you want to send ringtones. Choose YES and your phone will send your PIN. After this, you'll once again have the same dialog box with your home phone number. Once again choose YES and you'll hear the recorded message of "XXX minutes left". Tested only on Motorolas. Tell me if it works on Nokias/Samsungs/etc...

Kenapa banyak sangat tiru-dan-lekat belog?

2005-08-30T18:34:00.000+01:00

Excuse my lousy BM, but one of our Malaysian bloggers have uncovered the biggest shocker in Malaysian history!

Negaraku is pirated!!!

No wonder we have so many copy-and-paste blogs in Malaysia...mine included =P lol. *Oops...my bad, it seems that it was already reported in today's copy of The Star! Anyway, for those who wants some intellectual work to do while enjoying the Merdeka holiday, please have a go at the Merdeka Crossword Puzzle - this one is original punya, spent hours making it! You might learn a bit or two about our country =) Link - Pirated Negaraku Link - Merdeka Crossword Puzzle

Merdeka Crossword Puzzle =)

2005-08-30T01:15:00.000+01:00

Dear fellow Malaysians, I've created a Merdeka crossword puzzle for those who needs a bit of a challenge. Have fun!!! For a clearer picture, please download from here - Link. Answers can be found by reading the following excellent websites:

If you want complete answers, please visit SARA for more info. Link

New/Old?

2005-08-29T22:59:00.000+01:00

OMG...I'm addicted to Drop Kick the Faint!!! And my hair's getting so long now so I decided to redesign my blog to make it more boring...I need less colours!!! The old one: The new one: And yes...I need a hair cut soon...probably wait till the day b4 my gf comes back =)

Drop Kick the Faint

2005-08-29T14:46:00.000+01:00

This is a promotional flash game by the band "The Faint". What you get to do is to drop kick each of the 5 band members of The Faint off the stage and see how far you can land each band member. How cool is that? Turn up your volume too! If you like their music, you can download some of the songs at their website. Warning: very addictive! Link

Craigslist funnies....

2005-08-29T00:06:00.000+01:00

Something forwarded by a friend...guaranteed a laugh or at least a smirk. Crazy posts from ppl over at craigslist.org. Check these out: 1. I come with a $1 million guarantee - m4w - 35

That's right, unlike the competition, I have a solid-gold, firmer than firm, $1 million guarantee: You give me $1 million, and we can do it any way you want. Like the reverse cowgirl? Just call me Trigger. Traditional missionary? I will spread your gospel. Want it from behind while I pull your hair and shout "Wasmyname, be-atch?" I'm your own abusive rap star. Sideways, up the ass, between your boobs, any which way from Sunday - I. Will. Do. It. You want to fly to Brazil and do it upside down in the airplane bathroom while making chimpanzee noises? I'll take some of that. I'll even do you bent over the stewardesses drink cart. Straddle me while we do 80 m.p.h. down I-95 at three in the morning? All over it. What I'm all about here, is 100 percent customer satisfaction. I guarantee you that your $1 million will get you exactly what you ask for. Think about that. You think you can get a house built for a mil, and get it done the way you've asked? Hell no. Builders fuck you. Think you can buy a small business and have all your employees do everything you tell them to do? You've obviously never owned a business. In a world of declining expectations, I stand, pecker in hand, as a monument to a time when $1 million could get you what you goddamn well asked for. That's my commitment to quality. Also willing to fuck for a good pizza.

2. STOP fake jogging around my block just to bump into me

To the fat, sweaty man with the curl in his hair and the impossible dream in his probably hypertrophied heart: You are obviously the type who would pour all of his hope and loneliness into a missed connection ad, so I figured I would beat you to the punch and save you some time, some anxious waiting, and many miles of pretend jogging. For several days in a row now you have taken great pains (I can hear you wheezing old boy, you should look into an inhaler) to orchestrate a series of "coincidences" between you and me. I open the door, I unlock the security gate, and there you are without fail right next to my stairs, smiling up at me, suddenly stopping to mop your glistening brow and bending over for a breather, exhaling triumphantly as if you've just broken that untouchable record you set for Georgetown track and field so many years ago. Yes, I know you bleed Hoya blue. So I have a few questions for you, running man. First off, who do you think you're fooling? Do you expect me to believe that the Fates want so badly for us to unite our energies that our lives are running on synchronized, parallel courses that allow you to be "jogging" up to my steps at the exact moment I happen to be leaving for work everyday? Bitch, please. I mean, I'm a young lady of considerable imaginative capabilities, but this is more far fetched than the plot of "Encino Man". I know you are a fake jogger and a real creep because sometimes I leave at 9 am, and sometimes I leave well after 10. You clearly don't run for 2 hours every morning, as your heaving beer belly is the first sweet inch of your physique I see when you approach. I have good reason to believe you wait in that car that is always at the corner for the sound of my door opening, and I know that you look at my ass everytime I pass you. My last question to you is, what kind of game do you think you're going to run on me? You clearly don't have a job if you have all this free time to take to the streets, you are pasty and dull, and you look way too old for that iPod. I am a precocious, nubile, 18-year-old scientist with more achievements to her credit than you could shake your jowls at. So, old boy, I advise you to find a new route for your fake jogging, or just something else to do with your time. Lifetime is now showing the follow up series to Golden Girls -- The Golden Palace. It's pretty funny, and Don Cheadle is on it. Yeah, I know, I don't get it either, but you should watch it, because here's what: it wouldn't take more than a pack of cigarettes to coerce that junkie with the push cart full of Tidy Cat and trash bags to punch you in your fat neck if you don't watch it. Fondly, Girl in the White Brick House

3. RE: Get Real (Only Size Matters..) - 33 - 99

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Belog = blog in Malay?

2005-08-28T18:31:00.000+01:00

Abit puzzled recently seeing so many ppl writing blog as 'belog' in Malay. Is this the correct term to be used? Anyway, I searched the term in Google and guess what:

'belog' = stupid in Balinese

Source Maybe we should find another word.

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2005-08-28T16:52:00.000+01:00

Well, if you have Google Talk - right-click on the small Google Talk icon next to your clock: Click on About, and you'll see this: Notice the numbers highlighted, crack it by replacing the numbers with alphabets i.e. 1 = A, 26 = Z, etc. And you'll get: . . . . wumpus.game Add this to your contact list and you'll get an old IRC game to play =)

Opera Mini review...

2005-08-26T00:07:00.000+01:00

Despite it being only available in Norway, I finally got my hands on the Opera Mini! Although my A1000 already runs on Opera Mobile Browser, I decided to try it out and my initial response was Wow! So what's so good about it?

It's fast, same speed as Opera Mobile Browser
Clean interface
text/image rendering is good - which can be set to your liking as well depending on your phone specs
full-screen capability
auto fit-to-width of webpages
shortcuts using keypad (though I don't really have one on my A1000)

So what can it not do:

View pages that runs on flash/java.

First, let me show you Opera Mobile Browser first, where it features tab-browsing, full-screen browsing and fit-to-width capability. Also, apparently Opera Mini doesn't process the info on your phone but on Opera's servers but Opera Mobile Browser does it on your phone: Anyway, shall not bore you guys with more words, so here are the screenshots of Opera Mini on my phone: The Menu for Opera Mini: Apparently, it also allows the use of your keypad to navigate. To know more read here. To download a copy for yourself, check it out here.

KLIA - best for ontime arrival!

2005-08-25T12:56:00.000+01:00

Read this from Forbes: Link Haha can you believe it, while Changi gets 5th Worst for on-time arrival with a score of 68%!

Nintendogs poker

2005-08-24T19:50:00.000+01:00

When it first launched, I thought this game was doomed to fail since it would only appeal to female gamers which are still a minority currently but guess what, it's a big hit now! Seems that Nintendo is putting quite alot of effort in marketing Nintendogs that even some guys are playing it. Anyway, here's a promotional poster for Nintendogs which I thought was quite funny. The original: Nintendogs: =)

Semi-automatic cut-and-paste Blog

2005-08-24T18:18:00.000+01:00

This is for all those blog reviewers, wannabe cut-and-paste bloggers or anyone who's interested in this piece of technology powered by a combination of PHP, MySQL and AJAX. Now there's an easier way to show another blog's post in your blog and that's through reBlog. First, aggregate all the RSS feeds of sites you frequent using reFeed & start deciding whether to publish to the public or not while reading the post itself. Note the Publish button that's circled - press that and you are one step closer to displaying it in your blog. The "revoke" button here is for you to cancel the publishing process. Finally login to your Wordpress/MT dashboard and click on the Fetch reBlog button and all those articles that you have decided to Publish earlier will be displayed on your blog like a normal article. So, there you go - an easier way for you to cut-and-paste articles! For blog reviewers, there's an option for you to edit the article in question, and add in your own comments. So, go download it and try it now!

Of Bums, Bras and Bikinis...

2005-08-24T12:48:00.000+01:00

Was surfing through the web and found a new type of advertising: BUM-vertising! Well, it's basically about using the homeless ppl in the streets to advertise for a webpage. Link On another hand, here's something from Evian (yes, the water company) to help cool the ladies...especially in a hot country like Malaysia: So, what's so special about these bras/bikinis? Well there are pockets which can be filled up with mineral water to keep yourself cool. Probably in Malaysia, it's a good idea to chill those bottles of mineral water in the fridge before hand. So what do you think?

WAT-ER BRA-VELLOUS IDEA!

Or another NAIVE product from EVIAN? Link

Outsourcing to......Prisons?

2005-08-24T12:10:00.000+01:00

We have all heard about the west complaining about companies outsourcing to Asian developing countries like India, China, etc and guess what Singapore's doing: From a UAE online newspaper, Khaleej Times:

SINGAPORE - Female inmates at a Singapore prison are working 12-hour shifts as telephone call-center operators and telemarketers in a state campaign to rehabilitate lawbreakers, an official said on Wednesday. “It’s pretty much the same as a commercial call center, except it’s behind bars,” said Vincent Chan, a senior manager at the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises. . . . “I was a workaholic before, and not having anything to do in jail made me feel down,” Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper quoted a 32-year-old operator, who identified herself as Aris, as saying. “Being in this program helped me to be myself once again because I feel useful.”

If this were to happen in Malaysia, imagine what will happen if you reject the sales call from a gangster! Worse still, they have your contact details + your address!

Suprnova.org back in business?

2005-08-21T13:05:00.000+01:00

After being forced to shut down by the RIAA/MPAA due to the hosting of a directory containing Bittorrent files late last year, Suprnova.org is kinda back online! From the website:

Anyway, in hopes to keep the SuprNova.org spirit and name alive, we are preparing a site that should launch at the end of this month (hopefuly :)). This site will not have anything to do with torrents or any similar things so do not get too excited :) But it will be fun reading it everyday. So keep checking for the update on the site! You will not be sorry :) - Sloncek

Since it's not gonna be about torrents I wonder what it'll be? I'm guessing it could be a blog/tech news portal. What do you think? Or possibly something to do with eXeem.

Malaysian Chinese or Chinese Malaysian?

2005-08-18T20:33:00.000+01:00

Following Howsy's post "Oh...you're from Malaysia...so you're a Malay then?" and through the comments, we somehow reach the topic of the definition of Chinese in Malaysia:

Are we Malaysian Chinese or Chinese Malaysian?

This question has been in my head since I left Malaysia when I was 13 years old. Looking at overseas Chinese all around the world, there seem to be a tendency for most people to say their nationality first before their ethnicity. For example:

American-born Chinese (ABC)
British-born Chinese (BBC)
Singaporean Chinese
Indonesian Chinese
Filipino Chinese
Overseas Chinese, etc

Why must nationality come before ethnicity when questioned? Most people do so because that's the way they are taught since young. And some want to emphasise their nationality before their ethnicity when around other ethnic Chinese of different nationalities. But how many of us actually say it because we are proud of our country and so would emphasise the word Malaysian before our ethnicity? What about the usage of Chinese Malaysian? With China currently being a major economic force in the world and everyone wanting a piece of the action, there's a trend going round nowadays with naming your ethnicity before nationality e.g. Chinese American, Chinese Canadian, etc. Some people do it as well because they are proud to be Chinese but are we the "overseas" Chinese recognised by mainland Chinese as "Chinese"? Please leave your comments. Thanks!

Online Malaysian Youth Projects

2005-08-16T13:51:00.000+01:00

After reading Jeff Ooi's post about 2 new youth projects by Malaysians (here and here), I wonder if there's more out there which is still undiscovered? So please add to this list if you can:

any more you guys know off?

How to use SARA

2005-08-14T21:23:00.000+01:00

After getting some feedback, I guess SARA's not a straightforward piece of software to use. Anyway, I'll hereby attempt to write a simple tutorial for it: To sign up and post your blog RSS feeds, go to http://www.sarawho.com/help

And that's it - I'll email you back when it's done.After that, you'll never ever need to go back to ping again but you can read it now. Now to show off some of the cool features of SARA: Please note that if you click on the links, it will expand & show an excerpt of the post w/o pics.

Note that under Headlines|[category name]

those are all links to the categories: (from left to right) 1. all = all categories 2. 18SX = Sex and drugs 3. auto = cars, motorbikes, trucks, etc 4. current affairs = current affairs, news, education, politics 5. general = uncategorised 6. humour = anything funny/amusing 7. life = about life in general - food, kids, etc 8. literature = about books, poems, etc 9. pop culture = about the music industry, movies, fashion, etc 10. ramblings = for blogs with lotsa ramblings about themselves, normally peppered with swear words 11. rojak = touch every single subject in the world, tech, humour, etc... 12. tech = technology - PC, science, etc... 13. 3h = posts in the last 3 hours 14. 8h = posts in the last 8 hours 15. 24h = posts in the last 24 hours 16. 72h = posts in the last 72 hours 17. all = all the posts 18. sources = links to all the blogs that have their feeds on SARA 19. opml = a file whereby you can download for your own feed reader. (right click -> Save as) You guys can also click the 'add to del.icio.us' where a pop-up will appear to add to your own del.icio.us tags.

SARA who?

2005-08-14T18:29:00.000+01:00

Hi all, Help me test SARA out for robustness - will be using it on another website unless it proves popular.

http://boringest.frihost.net

So what is SARA? SARA is a new-generation community RSS aggregator which functions pretty much the same as other blogtals but with 1 major difference: It uses RSS/XML/RDF feeds to display your latest blog posts. So this means that you'll never have to ping again after providing your RSS link! What other features does SARA offer?

displays articles up to 72hours old
offers categorisation of blogs
downloadable opml files for your own use
favicon display

Is it free? Yes, it's totally free! How do I submit my blog RSS feed? You can submit it here: http://boringest.frihost.net/help/ Is there a shorter link to SARA? Yes, it's http://www.SARAwho.tk Have you added any blogs already? Yes, I have added the blogs listed below without permission. If you would like to remove your blog, please contact me by submiting a ticket here:

http://boringest.frihost.net/help/

Hope you guys will like it. Please post any feedback here. Many thanks!

Premarital sex and Pregnancies

2005-08-12T21:58:00.000+01:00

After reading this and this from across the border, I wonder if sex before marriage is really ok? I'm sure it's fun but what if things go wrong? With condoms and contraceptive pills being only about 99% safe, what happens if the 1% probability actually became reality? I need your comments. Not trying to be kay-poh or acting as if I'm getting any but here are some hypothetical situations that could happen even when you have protection as a reminder to myself: (*Note that these views are all from a guy's point of view) 1. The girl gets pregnant For a student, this is a really complex situation since he definitely can't afford to take care of the girl nor the child. Will definitely affect both parties' studies & social life! Worst of all, might be branded by society as irresponsible ppl. *Logical action: Abort the child before things get out of hand. 2. The girl gets pregnant and refuses an abortion Putting myself in a girl's shoes, I think it would be difficult to just decide to kill the living thing within you. It's like killing/hurting part of yourself! So, what should the guy do?

Marry her and start a family or
Leave her and let her be a single mum

I have no idea as well... 3. The girl gets pregnant, refuses an abortion and you do not really love her This is getting more difficult! Again, I'm stuck as to what to do. Do you think the guy should be responsible and marry the girl? Or just dump her and pledge to pay for the child's upbringing? Anyway, if I offended anyone by this post, I'm truly sorry but dear readers, especially the more experienced ones, please comment on the best form of action.

Designer Haze Masks

2005-08-12T20:41:00.000+01:00

Excuse my earlier post about stopping bloggers from writing about the haze. =P Now that everyone in Malaysia's forced to wear a mask, I'm sure some of us would like to differentiate ourselves by wearing something different. For the environmentalist: Not only will it save you from breathing in the nasty burnt bits in the air, it'll make you look like you are supporting the conservation of orang-utans in Sepilok. More designs here, just choose which animal you would like to support: For jokers: The ultimate joker face mask! Ppl will instantly recognise you in the streets even among the thick haze and might even lead to the occasional chuckle =) Anyway, enough of the haze joke, this is actually a special artwork from Samira Boon, a Japanese girl who ended up in Holland. Link.

Of Cats and Kittens

2005-08-12T20:05:00.000+01:00

This is for the ladies! Something to make the haze feels less bad =) Anyway, if you still can't get enough of it, check out Kitten War! Pit your kitten against other kittens and see who's cuter? Currently the winning kitten is Iraiza: So what are you waiting for send in your kittens to the battle! Link

Ads in Games!

2005-08-11T13:55:00.000+01:00

The newest initiative from the advertising industry - ads are creeping into nerd territory - GAMES!

A few gamers who just updated their version of SWAT 4 found this. Worse still, it's completely legal to do so since it was written in the updated EULA.

However, gamers aren't stupid, with just a few changes in some lines of codes, you can block the ads or prevent it from appearing.

To learn more, click here.

Stop blogging about the haze!

2005-08-11T12:54:00.000+01:00

At this time, I think 90% of blogs pinging PPS is about the haze or has some relation to the haze. Since more ppl will be staying at home b'cos of the haze, give us something to read! Thanks fellow bloggers! =) *Update: On the other hand, just received an email from my 12-year old sis and she said that it was raining ice in KL yesterday! According to her, some ppl even ate the ice believing that it might change their luck!!! Anyway, to any ice-eating blogger/reader, I recommend that you stop eating the 'ice' =)

Family IQ Test

2005-08-10T18:53:00.000+01:00

Apparently, this is a puzzle that was given to Japanese bankers for job interviews and now some guy from China made it into a flash game. You can check it out here. In case, you can't read Chinese/your Chinese is very poor like me - here are the rules of the game:

Everybody has to cross the river.
Only 2 persons on the raft at a time.
The father can not stay with any of the daughters without their mother's presence.
The mother can not stay with any of the sons without their father's presence.
The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family member if the Policeman is not there.
Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft.
To start the game click on the big blue circle on the right.
To move the people across the river click on them; to move the raft click on the pole on the opposite side of the river.

Enjoy! Link

Read before flying!

2005-08-09T23:10:00.000+01:00

Always kena stopped at the airport because of my belt. Anyway, copy-and-pasted from here for easy reference for myself: Before the Airport

Do not pack or bring Prohibited Items to the airport. Read the Permitted and Prohibited Items list.
Place valuables such as jewelry, cash and laptop computers in carry-on baggage only. Tape your business card to the bottom of your laptop.
Avoid wearing clothing, jewelry and accessories that contain metal. Metal items may set off the alarm on the metal detector.
Avoid wearing shoes that contain metal or have thick soles or heels. Many types of footwear will require additional screening even if the metal detector does not alarm.
Put all undeveloped film and cameras with film in your carry-on baggage. Checked baggage screening equipment will damage undeveloped film.
Declare firearms & ammunition to your airline and place them in your checked baggage.
If you wish to lock your baggage, use a TSA-recognized lock.
Do not bring lighters or prohibited matches to the airport.
Do not pack wrapped gifts and do not bring wrapped gifts to the checkpoint. Wrap on arrival or ship your gifts prior to your departure. TSA may have to unwrap packages for security reasons.

At the Airport Each adult traveler needs to keep available his/her airline boarding pass and government-issued photo ID until exiting the security checkpoint. Due to different airport configurations, at many airports you will be required to display these documents more than once. Place the following items IN your carry-on baggage or in a plastic bag prior to entering the screening checkpoint:

Mobile phones
Keys
Loose change
Money clips
PDA's (personal data assistants)
Large amounts of jewelry
Metal hair decorations
Large belt buckles
Take your laptop and video cameras with cassettes OUT of their cases and place them in a bin provided at the checkpoint.
Take OFF all outer coats, suit coats, jackets and blazers.

Bootable Windows CD/DVD

2005-08-09T23:01:00.000+01:00

I'm sure some of you have heard of Knoppix, the software that allows you to run Linux without installing it in your hard disk but runs thru' your CD/DVD drive. Now, you can have the same function with BartPE:

Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on. This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!

This is very useful when your computer kena a virus or something.

My pic =)

2005-08-09T22:54:00.000+01:00

Have fun converting pics to text here. In this case, it's all made of up of the words 'boringest :|' =)


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Make money with free SIM cards!

2005-08-09T22:42:00.000+01:00

To all UK readers, if you ever come across those free O2 sim card giveaways, apply for a few and once you get them I'll buy them from you at £1 each including delivery. Payment will be through online banking account. UK only. To start go here: http://ucaspromo.o2.co.uk/form.php And to continue in the business, sign up for the free sim mailing list here. NOTE: Offer no longer available due to price crash of O2 sims. =(

Selling stuff on Amazon!

2005-08-09T22:38:00.000+01:00

Just sold my first book online through Amazon, bought it for RM15 and sold it for £6 =) Haha...still much cheaper than a new one though in UK! Also, just received payment from gozing! for a survey I've done - US$3.60 for 10 minutes of my time, not too bad for a student. Recommended for students who need extra cash in US/UK/Australia/Europe/Singapore. Not available in Malaysia yet though.

Hacker's Diet!

2005-08-09T22:35:00.000+01:00

Damn, I'm getting fatter after not exercising for 3 years and yes, some guys actually mind being fat! Being the cheap-skate me, finally there's a free serious book about losing weight:

The Hacker's Diet, notwithstanding its silly subtitle, is a serious book about how to lose weight and permanently maintain whatever weight you desire. It treats dieting and weight control from an engineering and management standpoint, and provides the tools and an understanding of why they work and how to use them that permit the reader to gain control of their own weight. The book is intended primarily for busy, successful engineers, programmers, and managers who have struggled unsuccessfully in the past to lose weight and avoid re-gaining it. Computer-based tools and experiments in Microsoft Excel or the Palm Computing Platform are available, but a computer is not necessary to use the techniques described in the book; paper and pencil alternatives are provided.

Get Amazon refund if price drops!

2005-08-09T21:58:00.000+01:00

Interesting tip from another blog which found out that you can actually get a refund for the price difference when the price of an item you bought drops within 30 days! It's a secret though since it's not listed in their Help section:

Did you know that if the price on something you buy drops, within 30 days of your purchase date, Amazon.com will credit you the difference if you ask for it? It’s a not-advertised price drop policy that most people don’t know about and it’s saved me tons of money over the last few years. I didn’t know it was “secret” until I brought up recently and no one knew what I was talking about, so I thought I’d write a post all about how to take advantage of it. One of the great things about the drop policy is that it still works for orders where a coupon is involved or a “Buy Both and Save” deal is utilized. They only consider the individual item prices (based on the invoice) and not the final price after discounts!

To know how to take advantage of this fact, please visit the blog here...

Episode III: Backstroke of the West?

2005-08-09T16:55:00.000+01:00

This might be old news but it is still worth a laugh. The following subs are from DVDs sold in China & they were literally translated to English from the Chinese script. Backstroke of the West is the Chinese translation of Revenge of the Sith =)

For more screencaps, go have a look here.

Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori

2005-08-08T16:58:00.000+01:00

Guess I'm a bit late for this but to mark the anniversary of the Hiroshima incident, I'm sharing my favourite war poem written by Wilfred Owen: DULCE ET DECORUM EST

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs

And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots

But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;

Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,

And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .

Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace

Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est

Pro patria mori.

The last sentence 'Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori' means: It is sweet and glorius to die for one's country.

Malaysian blog-litics

2005-08-06T14:41:00.000+01:00

Everywhere I go, Malaysian politics never fail to rear their ugly heads. It seems to me that once there's a congregation of Malaysians around, there'll definitely be conflicts and misunderstandings. For example, signs of immaturity has definitely emerged after a recent hooha about commercial blogs and advertisements in general. Bloggers who have received large amounts of revenue from Google's Adsense program were targeted as being money-minded, with money as the motivation to write while bloggers who like to pepper their blog with foul language seems to be well-loved and even encouraged! Is this the kind of blogs that we want to see in the near future? Maybe it's because of our government, where absolutely absurd things such as air stewardess uniforms were discussed in the parliament instead of more urgent things like providing help for the Orang Asli, improving the university standards, etc. So come on Malaysian bloggers show us what you can do!

Naruto torrent targeted by GNAA!

2005-08-05T00:08:00.000+01:00

Targetting the bittorrent users who download the popular anime Naruto, succesful downloaders would have found something rather different. A short movie "Gayniggers from Outer Space" was in the file instead and this show is the inspiration for GNAA's name: "Gay Niggers Association of America". A successful hacking/trolling group and quite widely known due to the incident in Slashdot, this is what the group has described themselves as on Wikipedia:

The Gay Nigger Association of America, also known as the GNAA, is a self-aggrandizing Internet troll organization that primarily targets Internet communities in an effort to disrupt their normal activities and annoy their users. The name itself, which was taken from a movie title, has been designed to shock and offend and appears to have been chosen because homosexuality is still an uncomfortable subject for some, and the term "nigger" is generally considered a racial slur against black people. The term "Association of America" is somewhat misleading because the organization has participants from countries other than the United States. Members have flooded weblogs, produced shock sites, prank-called technical support telephone lines, and flooded, mass-invited, and trolled IRC chat rooms. As a consequence, the communities that are attacked treat GNAA members as nuisances and frequently respond with technological and social anti-trolling measures (such as comment moderation) to limit future disruption caused by trolling. While their main motivations are not known, they have targeted websites and blogs that promote "anti Gaynigger and pro-Zionist propaganda.

Anyway, actually watched the movie and here are some screenshots. Well this movie is set to shock you and covers quite a few major topics such as homosexuality, racism and even sexism! Truly eye-opening. Anyway, some of the remarks from IMDB:

Even though this movie is only about 23 minutes long, it was great. 5 "gayniggers" who come from the planet Anus come to earth to eliminate the women population and create an all male, gay society. With names like D. Ildo and Sargeant Shaven Balls and classic stereotypes, this hard to find sci fi spoof is worth the time to watch even though it is near impossible to find. Good luck!

So, if you are open-minded enough and not angry for downloading a fake Naruto episode, go watch it.

H=(L+5)/2

2005-08-04T21:21:00.000+01:00

Chanced upon a few Russian sites which has loads of funny/interesting stuff. This was actually the content available on the Interesting News channel for my 3G network! Examples include:

Russian researchers have found the shoes-penis dependence: H=(L+5)/2.Where L = length in centimeters, H = length of manhood. (Link)

I have made a table here for easy reference =)

Choosing a boyfriend based on his belly button. (Link)

Comma-shaped belly button:Owner is gentle and easygoing. He gets along with people quite well that's why he wouldn't climb up the career ladder over the heads of his colleagues. Patient and modest, your beloved will rarely quarrel with you as well as with his future mother-in-law. He's thrilled with endearing words and caresses in bed. But you'll be the one to play the first fiddle in sex.

Boy from Mars which has interesting insights on the Lemurians. (Link

Is this boy saying the truth:Sphinx has an opening mechanism somewhere behind his ear (but he does not remember where exactly). The boy also talks with great passion and enthusiasm about the Mayan civilization. According to him, we know very little about this great civilization and its people.

Kim Jong Il's wonderful abilities (Link, Direct Link)

Propaganda or is it for real? The leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea explained to amazed members of the meeting that he was training his memory every morning and was able to remember several hundreds of numbers and names.Anyway, hope you'll enjoy the funny read, try not to click on those links to Kournikova, Sharapova, Olympic athletes, etc - not work safe =)

*Warning! Do not read beyond this point if you are against advertising in blogs. If you need $2/year hosting, don't hesitate to contact me. Only a couple more spaces left to fill before we can finally take off.

Racism

2005-08-03T19:15:00.000+01:00

Having stayed in Malaysia , Singapore (6.5 years) and now in London (3 years), I've never experienced any direct form of racism till early this year when I visited a friend in Bristol. A group of us, mostly Chinese were just walking around near the riverside, when this group of people (I think about 23-30 years old), started surrounding us and danced to the tune of:

"Chink cheeky chink cheeky chink"

and then ran off. The next morning while I was browsing around in a shop, this guy walked passed me, said "Fucking Asians" and then ran off. Is it my face/skin that invites this kinda racism? What have I done wrong? Enough about myself. This might not be very relevant but let me share a story one of my wardens told us while I was in boarding school which I still remember till today: There was once this school somewhere in America during the early 50s/60s, where coloured kids (i.e. non-white) and white kids have their own assigned toilets. The white kids enjoy a toilet with a toilet bowl, sink, etc while the coloured kids have a dirty hut with a hole as the place to relieve themselves. One morning the cleaner found the 4 toilet doors of the white boys toilet with the letters F, U, C and K. Naturally, the headmaster called for a meeting with all the coloured kids in the school and demanded to know who did it. So, one brave boy raised his hand and walked up to the stage. The headmaster at this time was really angry and really wanted to spank him but he first asked him if he knows what the word means. Guess what he said?

For Us Coloured Kids

You like it? Anyway, if you follow the UK news you would have heard about this black teenager who got murdered just because he's dating a white girl, and now in Singapore, there's this racist blog going around. What's wrong with people man? Why can't we all co-exist and not look down on other people? Do you think this kinda hate-crime will happen in Malaysia? What would you do if your friend's a racist? Are racist jokes ok? Give it a good thought and if you're guilty of giving people derogatory names before, STOP! It's still not too late to change! Put this in your blog's sidebar to support this worthy cause: My design might not be too good but the colors represent the Malaysian flag with Red, Blue and Yellow (the words). Feel free to change it if you want but just spread the message across.

Awesome Wonder-briefs!

2005-08-03T16:23:00.000+01:00

Guys, Ever wanted to have some extra lift "down there"? Well, here comes "Wonder-briefs", a term coined from the famous "Wonderbras" used by our female counterparts. It apparently builds a man's confidence and Newsweek recently got some people to check them out and here are some of the comments:

"Like wearing your mother's underwear."
"Too tight. I don't think I could wear them for more than an hour."
"Damn sexy." Still, "it could use some instructions."
"These did fill [me] out more—and they're still fairly comfortable."

Would you wear one? Source.

I bet this post will be more popular than my $2/year hosting offer.

$2/year Hosting Offer!

2005-08-02T22:42:00.000+01:00

Hi guys, Me and pandaboy are looking for new hosting and we chanced upon this host that's 4-years old and has very good comments from its subscribers. However, it's a bit expensive and we are hoping that we can sell some of the extra space and bandwidth that we have to fellow bloggers. We know we are kinda defying the law of economics in not bundling our products here, but we are not aiming to make huge profits or what and we believe that money is not easy to come by. So, we decided to do a 'modular' type of pricing. The specs for our basic module is as follows:

40MB space
400MB bandwidth/month
1 MySQL database
5 E-mail accounts
PHP 4.3.11, Frontpage Extensions, CGI Bin (Perl 5.6.1), Custom Error Pages, Server Side Includes (SSI/.shtml) supported
cPanel/Fantastico
Ability to host your domain with us at no additional charge/use a subdomain under our main domain.

All these for only US$2/year = US$0.17/month ~ RM7.60/year! So, what we mean by modular is that if you want 200MB space/2GB bandwidth, just get 5 of the basic module and you only pay US$10/year ~ RM38/year! The more space/bandwidth you want, just add on more modules. We are currently looking to sell a minimum of 80 modules (~20 people) before making a full commitment, so hurry before we are pressured to close down! Email me if you are interested. Now comes the F.A.Q.s: 1. How fast is the connection to your server and where is it located? Our servers are located at DimeNOC, Orlando, Florida in the US. The connection to the servers are from TimeWarner Gig-E (~1000Mbps) and UUNET OC-12 (~621Mbps) and by the end of this year, another from Level 3 Gig-E (~1000Mbps). 2. How do we know we can trust you/pandaboy? Well, once we get people who has agreed to buy 80 of the modules, we will show you the invoice of the bill that we have paid for the hosting for the whole year and you can contact the company in question to verify it. So, you are guaranteed at least 1 full year of service. 3. Will you/pandaboy help us install wordpress/nucleus/b2evolution/mambo? Yes, we can help you if you want, otherwise we'll just let you have the fun of tweaking it yourself. 4. I am the boss of a hosting company. Why are you spoiling the market? We expect to get spam mail for this, but other service providers shouldn't be angry 'cos there are only limited accounts available! So, don't worry, the market won't be 'spoiled' =) 5. Can I host porn/promote terrorism/store illegal files/send spam from your server? No, we do not support piracy/spammers. We're allowed to store porn actually but we rather not. Also, we do not support IRC or IRC bots. 6. Can I put up ads on my account? Yes, do anything you want as long as it's not illegal or clashes with FAQ5. 7. What's the catch? You pay US$2/year for 1 module, we happy. We however need to IMterview you 1st before you'll be accepted. (if you know us personally then there’s no need for the interview, we just want to prevent hackers/spammers from signing up). We accept payment by PayPal only at the moment. 8. Is this a joke? No, me and pandaboy are serious. We will only start if we have firm commitments for 80 modules. Thank you for your time and if you're interested, mail me. UPDATE: If you were to pay by Credit Card instead of Paypal, the price would be US$2.40 per module due to bank transaction costs.

Greed Band

2005-08-02T22:22:00.000+01:00

Further to an earlier post about the Greed Band, I finally got the picture to show it to you guys: It says'Greed is Good'. Would you wear one?

Do not put this in the PPS title!

2005-07-30T10:46:00.000+01:00

Hi, just pinged my most recent post and to my horror, it has no title! It was supposed to be "< RM15 Domains". I didn't mean to do that but I think I know what's the reason:

The signs ">" and "<" are not accepted in the title field.

Hopefully this can be written somewhere, so other users can avoid the mistake I made. Alternatively, the PPS developers can write a script to check it and BlogsMalaysia too! *Update: The ">" and "<" also screws up the "Excerpt" field too. Anyway, found a temporary solution to this, instead of using the ">" and "<" on the keyboard use the ASCII characters:

">" = &#62
"<" = &#60

RM15 Domain?

2005-07-30T10:06:00.000+01:00

Was trying to buy a domain last night and tried searching around for one. My normal choice is GoDaddy but this time I decided to shop online for a cheaper one and guess what I found:

$3.95 domains!

I know the exchange rate has changed recently but let's put it at the old USD1.00=RM3.80, and it turned out to be:

RM15.01

That's only like a week's supply of Chicken Rice (RM3 each). So, I bought it and decided to share this with you. After buying I realised that the reason why they can charge so cheap is because they do not offer domain forwarding/masking for free. So, if you have your own hosting and do not need to forward it somewhere else, this is the value for money buy! So, to summarise:

Pros: Cheap, almost half the price of any other domain providers. Perfect for people with their own hosting. Friendly 24/7support staff.
Cons: URL Forwarding is not free.

Anyway, if you guys want 1 yourself, go get it here (it's advertised at $5.95 in the banner but there's an offer now at $3.95, so hurry if you want a cheap domain):

P.S. This is an affiliate banner, it will not cause you anything extra if you buy from this banner. So, if you hate this kinda advertising, please comment below.

More on IE7...

2005-07-29T22:31:00.000+01:00

Well...was playing again with IE7 today and since I was so used to Opera, I entered this in the address bar:

g where can i find the boringest blog

This in Opera would mean that you would like to search "where can i find the boringest blog" in Google. Guess what happened in IE7 -> it went to the MSN Search site searching "g where can i find the boringest blog"!

So, now after learning that you can actually set other search engine as your default, I tried using Google, Yahoo! Search, Ask Jeeves and AOL Search and they all work!

Then, I tried figuring out how to make IE7 not to search "g" instead but just the search term itself and I found 2 commands that allow you to do so:

go where can i find the boringest blog

and

search where can i find the boringest blog

So, there you go - a new function for IE7 - address bar searching. Also say if you type in a domain that nobody has e.g. ilovetheboringestblog.com, normally you'll arrive in a page that says "Could not locate remote server" but IE7 will goto your default search engine instead, quite smart i think.

Also, finally IE7 supports transparent PNGs as you can see on my "XML Feed Me" button on the sidebar, where some greyish-white tip will appear at the edges of the button in IE6. Finally, after reading the official technical overview, it seems that the features in IE7 are not complete yet and there'll definitely be improvements in the CSS department.

7E7 vs 787

2005-07-28T23:21:00.000+01:00

I might be a bit late with this piece of news but Boeing has just finalised the exterior look of the 787. From my limited experience with aircraft design, this is a crucial step as it would allow the component designers, especially the structural engineers to optimise and finalise their calculations. Now, let's see what has changed from the super-sexy 7E7 to the current not-so-sexy-but-still-pretty-sleek 787. The picture on the top is the original 7E7 and the one below it is the final design of the 787. The most obvious changes are:

the vertical stabiliser/fin which changed from aggressive-looking, shark-fin-like to a more upright, traditional-looking one
and the nose which has become more rounded and blunt

So, why has it changed so much? Well, the easy explanation is that designers and engineers are different. Designers value aesthetics and engineers, practicality. Anyway, Boeing is making a plane which airline companies can make greater profits with lower fuel consumption and higher efficiency. So, practicality wins in the end! What use is a plane which looks nice but can't fly? Anyway, a few more pictures for you showing the latest 787: Note the wings which are deflecting so much. Engines are huge! The winglet design (stuff at the wing tip) seems to have changed as well. Main difference between 787 and other planes would be the sweep angle of the wing, which is quite high. The nose seems sharper from the bottom view and the wings seem to be quite narrow, but could be due to the bigger sweep angle.

Boringest IE7 Preview

2005-07-28T22:20:00.000+01:00

IE Sucks? Let's see what Microsoft has in store for us. It's a 10MB installation file which is quite big compared to Firefox (4.8MB)/Opera (3.8MB) but once installed everything seems to run quite smoothly and it seems faster too (not too sure about this, but could be b'cos I haven't used IE for so long after meeting Opera). Immediately, you'll be able to see a few new features - most notably the:

Anti-phishing tool (see below)
Tabbed browsing
New button layout - 2 distinct buttons - back/forward, address bar's all the way to the top!
RSS reader (only RSS 0.9-2.0 supported, ATOM not supported) which can be added to "Favourites"
MSN Search box on the top right

I think the main issue Microsoft is trying to tackle here is 'phishing' and security, where secure websites are marked with a blue padlock icon as follows: and non-certified websites like this: So, in order to see how far they have gone in the Beta version, I went through my collection of spam mail and tested a phishing email as shown below: And it works! A yellow icon that says "Suspicious Website" will pop up next to the address bar: Not too sure about the numerous security holes but all in all, the beta version of IE7 looks promising, but more work has to be done, especially to allow support for ATOM feeds, a new button for "New Tab" should be included as well (see top picture) and an option to remove one of the toolbars, leaving just the address bar and tabs to allow more viewing space would be good as well. On the other hand, a quick look in MSN Sandbox shows a few interesting developments, notably "Start" - a personalised homepage very similar to Google's which I think could be the new Start page for IE7. Looks pretty cool though and it uses AJAX.

Dust Mask!

2005-07-28T11:24:00.000+01:00

Only less than 5 visits to see my 'Greed is Good?' article! Guess I shouldn't write anymore financial stuff...anyway, I'll give you guys something more boring - my summer job in the lab: Further to my post on Mesothelioma, I finally got the chance to work with somewhat dangerous substance now in my lab -> carbon-fibre/glass-fibre composites. The material itself is not dangerous but the dust produced when cutting/machining it is so fine and turns out needle-like, once it gets into your lungs, you might lose a few alveolis/which might eventually lead to Mesothelioma perhaps! So, being a newbie at this, I had to attend a lecture yesterday by one of the workshop technicians on how to operate the machines properly and since I have to wait now while they have their tea-break (which happens 2x a day, for about 45 mins each, not including lunch) and work on some of the contract stuff, I'll be blogging about this =P Didn't take any pictures 'cos I'm not sure if I have the right clearance to do so but here goes: I was supposed to be using one of the wet saws with diamond-tipped blades to cut the materials which would then make it safer for me since dust won't be flying around but gets washed away by the coolant. But somehow after the technician demonstrated the thing to me and asked me to try, the machine broke down! As a result I had to resort to using the dry saw, which is diamond-tipped as well + it's not automated (which means I have to use my hands to push the material into the blade hence risking one/more of my fingers if I wasn't careful) + the dust will be flying around. So, the technician asked me to wear a dust mask and at first I thought, it would look like the ones ppl wear during SARS:

and then he said no, then I thought it was the ones used during a chemical attack: then he said it's similar and finally took it out to show me (the one in my lab looks way cooler, but can't find the pic of it): Cool huh? Maybe I'm jakun but this is the 1st time I see something like this. There's a small motor that sucks in air from outside through a filter as well and when you wear it you feel a nice vibration around your whole head. Anyway, searched it online and here's a picture to show you how it works: Come to think of it, the helmet in my lab looks something like this when the visor's pulled up...hehe:

Greed is Good?

2005-07-27T17:42:00.000+01:00

Missed writing about the market at the beginning of the week. Nevertheless, I'll start from mid-week. My trades are predominantly based on the USD, so I'll only be writing about the GBP/USD and the EUR/USD pairs. I tend to use a mix of fundamentals and technicals in my trades (rojak =P)! Mid-week USD outlook: Bullish A further tightening of the US monetary policy is expected. Greenspan's clear announcement last week that the tightening rate will continue (i.e. increasing interest rates thus giving the USD a firm tone, reinforcing the USD's yield advantage), underpinned by waves of bullish data this month (e.g. today's Durable Goods data was stronger than expected) has made traders to be in favour of the USD. Also news that IBM is planning to repatriate about USD$9B usd in foreign earnings, taking advantage of the temporary repatriation incentive from the American Jobs Creation Act is holding the USD up. Today's US Federal Reserve's Beige Book is expected to paint a rosy picture of economic conditions across the country, and to cement expectations of further interest rate hikes to come. Watch out for this Friday's Real GDP figures though! Now to the currency pairs, outlook for this mid-week onwards: GBP/USD - Bearish! Recent terrorist attacks, expectation of an interest rate cut in August, slowdowns in UK spending, stagnating housing market prices, cooling in the labour market and contracting manufacturing sector - things don't look too good for the mighty British economy! Analysts have expected the rate to go under 1.70 in Auguest if this conditions continue. Technicals seem to suggest the same sentiment as well. EUR/USD - Neutral The pair was fighting it out at the 1.20 level yesterday and even with a strong German IFO business sentiment survey (which suggested that the worst may be over for the EU economy) which causes a sharp hike for a moment resulted in a drop down again to the 1.20 zone. Also somewhat in an odd way, the ECB reported a substantial forex reserves decline of EUR$1.2B without any explanations - huh? Could be the summer effect, traders get a bit disoriented during this harsh period =) Hard to pinpoint any direction from technicals/fundamentals, so I'll have to say it's neutral. On the Ringgit issue, read this well-written article: Link Finally to end on a funny note, with the Yellow/White/Pink/Purple bands you see around to promote something, check the Greed Band out! Yes - like Gordon Gecko said "Greed is Good"! DISCLAIMER: All this are only boringest's views/opinions and do not qualify as investment advice/recommendations. It is not a production of my employer, and is unaffiliated with any FX broker/dealer. The information on this site is provided for discussion purposes only, and are not investing recommendations. Under no circumstances does this information represent a recommendation for FX trading.

Have you got ICE in your phone?

2005-07-26T18:09:00.000+01:00

Basically I.C.E. = In Case of Emergency Read about this in London where the UK paramedics are encouraging handphone owners to store the emergency contact details as ICE in your handphone contact list, so that in case you fainted/unconscious/delusional, etc, the hospital staff would still know who to contact provided your handphone's still with you. Thought it's a pretty simple concept which should be implemented in Malaysia as well. If you have more than 1 ICE contact, just put ICE1, ICE2, etc... Link *Just read at another site which uses the same title as mine..coincidence I guess, anyway, I think I should link there as well just in case...

Opera!

2005-07-23T00:56:00.000+01:00

Been looking at the stats of my websites and I've been wondering why so few use Opera as their browser of choice! This is honestly the best browser that's available on the planet right out of the box! Why? 1. Speed - Time is money, so why not choose a browser that'll save you time! Here are some comparisons made on the same computer with no tweaks made on both browsers: A Javascript test from 24fun: Opera: 5.77 seconds Firefox: 9.95 seconds ~1.7x faster than Firefox on the same computer! Next, Opera has a smart rendering system (a combination of deliberate FOUC rendering) which gives higher priority to the loading of text and hence readable content will appear faster. See the next set of pictures to see how big the difference is: 15ms on Opera vs 5782ms on Firefox! 384.5 x faster! You can test your browser here. 2. Mouse Gestures - the feature that convinced me that Opera's the one for me. This feature has been available on Opera browsers since 2001 in version 5 and furthermore it's configurable! What this does is it allows you to 'draw' an imaginary diagram on the screen using the mouse while holding down the right mouse button and it activates a command: Frequently used Mouse Gestures by me:

If you do an L on the screen, it'll close the tab.
Move it to the right & it'll go forward/fast forward (e.g. in Google Search result you can just move your mouse instead of scrolling down and then press next)
Move it to the left & it'll go back to the previous page
Move it downwards on a link and it opens on a new tab
Move it downwards & then upwards again, and it opens the same content on a new tab
Move it upwards & then downwards again, and it reloads the page.

So effectively this means you'll never need buttons anymore (you can remove/add them very easily in Opera) and you can surf Full-Screen! *I understand that this feature is available on Firefox which some programmer has copied but only through an extension which means you have to go search for it and then download to your computer and there's no guarantee that it'll not cause bugs/problems. 3. Configurable Bookmarks - what this means is that you can give a nickname to the bookmark group. E.g. You have multiple email accounts on Yahoo, GMail, Hotmail, etc and you group them under 'Emails' in your Bookmarks. Give them a nickname, say 'Email'. So, the next time you wanna open up your emails, you don't have to manually open them up 1 by 1, but just type in 'Email' in your address bar and voila! - all the websites that are within the group will open up in separate tabs! 4. Embeded Mail and RSS program - no need to download additional programs/extensions, once you see an orange XML/RSS button, just click on it, a textbox will appear to confirm if you want to subscribe to the feed and there you go once you press Yes. The email program is also integrated and it fully supports IMAP, POP, etc. 5. Tiny program - space efficient! Only 5.2MB total when installed and it includes an integrated RSS/Email reader! (+Bittorrent for the latest version) 6. Undo - ever experienced accidentaly closing a window, but want it back on again? You can undo this just by pressing Ctrl-Z and the previously visited website opens in a new tab. A history for the session is also available, so let's say you have visited 100 pages and you wanna go back to page 1 you visited an hour ago, you still can by clicking the 'Trashcan' icon. 7. Page-Zoom - this allows you to zoom the whole page - not just the text and the graphics are smoothed while zooming which makes it great for pictures which are too small to be seen. For advanced users: 8. UserJS - what this does is that you can customise the use of Javascript on a website to customise to your needs e.g. removing the Google Image frame when loading a picture, highlighting the words that you searched for in Google in the destination webpage, add Google Suggest to your address bar or even to allow the use of Greasemonkey scripts from Firefox! 9. UserCSS - some websites are still designed for IE so it'll appear different in Firefox/Opera which can make it unreadable sometimes. This allows you to change the website according to what you like everytime you visit the page. 10. Ultimate Customising options - almost everything can be changed on Opera, from adding new panels to adding new buttons - it all can be done on Opera! So are you convinced yet? Why not try it out yourself and decide for yourself:

Unpegging the Ringgit

2005-07-22T15:32:00.000+01:00

Source: China Revaluation A lot has happen in the past 24 hours - China revaluates the yuan and announcing plans to move into a basket of currencies, bombings again in London, largest fall in US jobless claims and Malaysia follows suit with China by unpegging the Ringgit! Wow! So what does this mean to us plain folks? While others are worried about their reduced Adsense earnings, the Bank Negara stepping in to prevent a rapid appreciation, this is what I gather after reading the reports. Of course, there's no right or wrong to this, since we can't see the future: 1. Oil prices will go down - Why? China is one of the largest importer of oil, so naturally when the yuan strengthens, China exports get more expensive and ppl think this will slow down the economy. This should happen in the medium term as things will go back to its previous state considering China's rapid economy growth. However, there's a countering argument since oil is priced in US dollars, crude oil will be realtively cheaper for Chinese importers. Thus, they'll buy more now and drive oil prices up. 2. +1 to China diplomatic relations - By revaluing the yuan, this gives a clear signal that China's a cooperative trade partner and shows a growing maturity of the Chinese economy. 3. Malaysia made the right choice in unpegging the Ringgit - With total exports of about $123.5 billion and $26.25 billion in that to China (~21%) makes our economy quite reliant on China. If we have stayed on the 1USD = RM3.8 peg, we would have make huge losses in trade, while unpegging it and making sure that it stays within a certain trading band comparable to China makes perfect sense to me. 4. Expect Chinese corporations to venture out of China now - with reports of China trying to gain favour to get approval for deals such as Unocal (an American oil company), this might eventually be true. As I speak/write, the USD is rising against the major currencies - GBP, EUR, JPY.

Most analyst expects China's trading bands to widen soon. I personally do not think so, since everyone's been speculating the yuan revaluation since 2002, and it has only happened now. Although there are signs of Chinese economy overheating, I believe the Chinese goverment would like to sit-and-observe the situation of the current revaluation first before anything else happens.

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2005-07-22T11:33:00.000+01:00

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The 14 Fallacies

2005-07-21T23:11:00.000+01:00

We're often tricked by the news/fundamentals when trading FX. Thus, I have tried to note down the 14 major fallacies that we meet everyday. This is from Jack Schwager's "A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets". 1. Viewing Fundamentals in a Vacuum 2. Viewing Old Information as New 3. One Year Comparisons 4. Using Fundamentals for Timing 5. Lack of Perspective 6. Ignoring Relevant Time Considerations 7. Assuming that Price Cannot Decline Significantly Below the Cost of Production 8. Improper Inferences 9. Comparing Nominal Price Levels 10. Ignoring Expectations 11. Ignoring Seasonal Considerations 12. Expecting Prices to Conform to Target Levels in World Trade Agreements 13. Drawing Conclusions on the Basis of Insufficient Data 14. Confusing the Concepts of Demand & Consumption

Trackback added =)

2005-07-21T13:21:00.000+01:00

I'm all new to this blogging thing. Anyway, this is my 2nd time adding the Haloscan trackback system and the previous time I deleted this default post, the trackback controls were deleted as well. So I'll leave this here then =) Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.