Linda and me, we both woke up early and went downstairs to get our morning treat of latte. Linda and me having our lattes Later, as planned yesterday, we went to visit the Vatican City. We walked to the Roma Termini (Bus & Train Terminal) and took bus No. 40 to the Vatican City. We bought our [...]

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Nokia 5800 - Ovi Store by Nokia and Free E Books Apps

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All Ovi review here.

If I am not mistaken Nokia open Ovi Store, a place where you can get some apps, some free, some you pay for, as an answer to Apple Iphone Store. Frankly while it registered in my brain, I did not pay any attention to it till this year where Nokia announce free life time turn by turn navigation.

Early this year I drop by at the Ovi Store and downloaded some ring tones for the Nokia N82, that the time I got interested in Ovi Store.

Ovi Store is where you can go to, to find Apps, Games, Themes, Ring tones, Video Trailers, as add on to your Nokia Phone, for non wifi phone like my wife X3, you indicate your interest in a certain apps which will result in a SMS send to your phone and you have to call/sms back to get the apps, which mean you will incurs telecommunication costs. For Wifi Phone like the N82, and Nokia 5800 you can down loan direct to your phone.

While the Themes, Apps, Games, ring tones are limited in choice, You should have no problem installing these Themes, Apps, Games etc and such software should be virus free, unlike those from other websites which may be problematic.

Having Browse through the Ovi Store, I found a number of E Books as well as Graphic Novel, which are available for Free for the Nokia 5800, and as such have downloaded around 15 of them for lite reading and to while away the time (for waiting purpose)

The Nokia 5800 is suitable for Graphic Novel, due to the long screen, Have downloaded Atomic Dreams Part 1 and Part 2, while the Part 3 to 7 seem to have disappear from Ovi Store. Interesting Story line about Red Indians and the Atomic Bomb. You turn the page by tapping the side, but there is no page number, and it you exit you will have to page through all of it again.

E Book, As a avid reader, E Books definitely interest me, and have downloaded a bunch, all of them Classic (out of copyright), Alice in Wonderland, 20000 Leagues under the sea, A whole lot of Shylock Homes books (6), Pride and Prejudice, Wizard of Oz, Around the World in 80 days, A Christmas Carols, and so on.

Having read 20000 Leagues under the sea, before, I there for selected this e book as my first read. One you have open the apps, tapping on the book will open the first page, where all the chapter is listed. You turn the page by swiping toward right or left on the touch screen, and right at the bottom there is a line where you can advance by chapter. If you exit the book, the next time you reopen the apps, you will be brought to the last page you were at. A good feature.

As for the 20000 Leagues under the sea E Book, It’s was just like what I read before on hardcover. An enjoyable story.

Next I will be taking a look at the Games found in Ovi which can be downloaded free.

Further comments:

Please note, Ovi refresh it offering from time to time, so some apps mention here may disappear and new apps will come in from time to time, further it may not be applicable for your particular phone.

One other thing the ring tone that I downloaded for my Nokia N82, cannot work for my Nokia 5800, it seems to be lock to a specific phone.

Two days ago, I had one of my wisdom teeth removed. Right after the procedure, I asked the stupidest question that ever came out of my mouth.

“Do I need painkillers?”

The bleeding was bad enough. I discovered the hard way that the worst part of it all was not the procedure itself, it was the pain that emerged after the local anesthetics wore off. It was the first time I ever longed for an injection.

Eating became hard, as every swallow brought pain. Even today when the pain decreased, eating is still an ordeal because I can only chew on one side.

So remember kids: take care of your teeth so that your dentist won’t have to.

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Demi laba politik, kerajaan Datuk Seri Najib Razak menyimpang dari matlamat membantu negeri-negeri miskin di pantai timur melalui hasil khazanah petroleum seperti yang dirancang oleh bapanya Perdana Menteri Kedua, Tun Abdul Razak.

Hakikat ini didedahkan dalam Forum Royalti Minyak Hak Perlembagaan? hari ini oleh Pengasas Petronas, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah yang membentangkan bagaimana Tun Abdul Razak mahu Petronas dituibuhkan demi membangunkan Pantai Timur.

“Tun Razak berkata, walau apapun, kita perlu wang minyak itu untuk Pantai Timur. Jadi saya pun cuba lakukan apa yang dianggap mustahil dan saya siapkan draf (undang-undang Petronas) dan menhantarnya ke Jabatan Perdana Menteri untuk dinilai,” katanya.

Beliau menerangkan konsep asas perjanjian minyak antara Petronas dan kerajaan negeri ialah pemberian royalti 5 % kepada kerajaan negeri kerana menyerahkan hak pengurusan hasil minyak kepada Petronas.

Malah Akta Pembangungan Petroleum 1974 ditulis sebegitu rupa untuk memberikan lebih peluang kepada anak-anak negeri di pantai timur mendapat manfaat hasil bumi negeri mereka.

Tengku Razaleigh berkata, pada semangatnya amalan pengagihan hasil petroleum di Terengganu sebelum ini tidak menghadapi sebarang masalah ketika di bawah pentadbiran Umno-BN.

“Akhirnya semua negeri bersetuju memberi hak petroleum kepada kita tetapi sebagai ganti mereka dapat 5% atas hak untuk petroleum di luar pantai yang mereka beri kepada Petronas . Mudah. Saya tak faham kontroversi ini kerana berdasarkan keadaan ini, Terengganu dibayar berbillion dollar. Tetapi bila tahun 99, PAS menang, bayaran dihentikan. Kerajaan Negeri diberi wang ehsan duit itu disalurkan pada agensi kerajaan. Saya pelik kerana tiada apa dalam peruntukkan undang-undang ini yang megatakan kerajaan Persekutuan boleh campur isu negeri,” jelas beliau.

Cubaan Kerajaan Umno BN ini dilihat sebagai tindakan menghalang usaha pembangunan kerajaan Negeri yang tidak ‘sehaluan politik’ dengan mereka.

Tengku Razaleigh juga mempertikaikan mekanisme kewangan yang cuba digunapakai di Kelantan berhubung isu royalti petroleum kerana ketelusan dan keberkesanannya seperti apa yang berlaku dalam amalan ‘wang ehsan’ di Terengganu.

“Tapi kita lihat apa yang berlaku di Terengganu, penyalahgunaan, korupsi, kerana ia tidak bertanggungjawab. Hampir 20 bilion dibelanjakan dalam wang ehsan. Kerajaan Negeri Terengganu walau telah disambung pemberian wang ehsan tidak bersetuju memerima baki royallti kerana tidak mahu bertanggungjawab dengan penyalahgunaan wang ehsan selama 5 tahun ini. Buat stadium, runtuh, bus stop, runtuh, swimming pool, bocor,” katanya.

Seorang lagi ahii Panel, Tommy Thomas, yang juga peguam dalam kes royalti minyak Terengganu mendedahkan bahawa perkara ini hanyalah penderaan politik oleh kerajaan Barisan Nasional dengan memberi contoh pengalaman Terengganu.

“Nov 99, selepas pilihanraya umum, Pas telah menang di Terengganu tapi selepas Mac 2000, tiada bayaran royalti diberikan. Kita boleh pergi kepada September 2000. Tiada asas undang-undang untuk hentikan bayaran tetapi ia keputusan politikal yang dibuat oleh Mahathir sebelum itu untuk halang PAS dari dapat bayaran,” jelasnya.

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Prove Press Freedom By Taking Action Against Utusan Malaysia For Its Lies Against Pakatan Rakyat Leaders Preaching Racial Hatred And Dominance.

DAP urges Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to prove that there is press freedom in Malaysia by taking action against Utusan Malaysia for its lies against Pakatan Rakyat leaders, preaching racial hatred and dominance. China Press had reported correctly that the Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hasan was leaving but they got the dates wrong by stating May when it was September this year. This difference of only a few months should not warrant such a harsh action of suspending their editor-in-chief Teoh Yong Khoon for two weeks especially when China Press had already apologized publicly.

Datuk Seri Najib had said during National Press Club (NPC) – Naza Awards two days ago that freedom without responsibility is no freedom at all. And that as long as the reports do not run foul of our existing laws, the press is free to report on pretty much anything. The actions taken against China Press shows this is not true. Just as the detention under ISA of a Sin Chew reporter Ms Tan Hoon Cheng for being a threat to public security, not for what she wrote but merely reporting the racist remarks of an UMNO leader(who did not apologise and was not arrested at all)

The adverse impact of China Press wrong reporting by a few months of the IGP’s leaving is minimal as there was no disturbances. However the false and irresponsible reporting of Utusan Malaysia preaching racial and religious hatred such as Penang cancelling the Maulidur Rasul procession, that Seputeh MP Teresa Kok detained under ISA for Utusan Malaysia’s false report that she removed speakers from suraus as the azan was too loud and that DAP was anti-Islam and anti-Malay was not acted upon.

Instead the authorities appear to encourage Utusan Malaysia to publish news reports and columns that humiliated the non-Malays as second class citizens and tried to stoke fear amongst Malays that they were being bullied. No wonder the Prime Minister’s private secretary described Indians who came to Malaysia as beggars and Chinese women who came here sold their bodies.

The actions against China Press shows that if there is any press freedom in Malaysia, it is limited to UMNO-controlled newspapers like Utusan Malaysia which enjoys complete freedom to lie without any responsibility contrary to truth, justice and morality.

The failure to repeal the ISA and Printing Presses & Publications Act shows that 1Malaysia is like a beautiful ice carving. It is nice to look at in a tropical climate Malaysia but will slowly but surely melt away, bringing about no changes.

Karpet yang cantik neh kaler cream ngan merah
Kalau karpet kaler cream mmg akan naik seri dia, mcm ada glow org kata hehe
Riban2 gak la harga karpet neh ok
Aku malas nak beli sekarang
Ni temankan msians beli adjer. Hehe

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Coming to the end of Najib’s first year as Prime Minister, the country is bogged down with many unresolved questions and issues, including: the two missing jet engines disappearing all the way to Uruguay; the multi-billion ringgit submarine that cannot dive; the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal still awaiting the prosecution of “big fishes”; who killed [...]

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After a year of premiership, national and international confidence in the key national institutions and the system of governance in Malaysia have deepened instead of being improved. Although there is a lot of talk about achievements in the NKRA for combating crime, in particular street crime, the fact is that as far as the man-in-the-street is [...]

When Datuk Seri Najib Razak became Prime Minister last April, he announced that the government would introduce a new economic model for the country to ensure that Malaysia makes a quantum leap to escape the middle-income trap to become a high-income country through greater emphasis on innovation, creativity and competitiveness. In May last year, the Second [...]

It’s 21st March and it’s my birthday! ahahahhahaha

I gave out blog headers on my birthday last time…

Now I am giving out something exclusive all the way from Japan!

Whoever who join this pOpday Giveaway, please email me at smashpop[@]gmail[dot]com to let me know that you have put up this graphic so u r eligible to get selected!

Here’s a real life photo of the Kido Daruma.

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(omg the yellow one damn cute! look at the mouth! ahahhaha)

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ni adalah sambungan entry pasal pakistan travelogue series

hehe enjoy!

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No 31/40 –Bunga Putih Pokok Epal Hijau & Awan Yang Membiru Di Bumi Islamabad

ini adalah pengalaman pertama menyaksikan bunga2 epal berkembang mekar di bumi islamabad. memang cantik ok. memang cukop menarik. kau memang da bomb la bunga! haha. lepas ni aku plan nak shoot gambar bunga pokok plum, walnut, apricot plak la. tapi kena singgah ke northern pakistan la dulu kan. hehe anyway lepas ni plak mmg x sabar2 la nak menunggu bunga2 neh jadi epal hijau plak kan. surelah akan manis buahnya.

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No 32/40 –Pakora Sayur, Telur Rebus & Samosa di Murree Hills

pemandangan biasa di mana2 di pakistan. samosa dan pakora adalah hidangan wajib di sini. memang menarik dan garing. tambah2 plak kalau baru digoreng. tak perlu tanya digoreng dengan minyak apa ya. hehe. janji selepas makan tidak sakit perut sudah. tapi serius memang sedap la pakora sayur tuh. kena plak dengan telur rebus tuh kan. memang terkentut2 la lepas tuh. haha

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No 33/40 –Penjual Dried Fruits Yang Memuncung di Raja Bazaar Rawalpindi

giler masam je pakcik neh masa aku nak beli dried fruits. mandom ke hapa. hehe lepas aku dah beli terus manis muka dia ok. mungkin dia x dapat buang air besar kot pagi tadi kan. ni adalah salah satu daripada keistimewaan di pakistan. dried fruits neh ada di mana2. kalau tak silap aku dried fruits neh berasal dari province balochistan. semua memang best dried fruits neh. sedap dowh. aku selalu gak la bawak balik msia nak kasi makan kat orang malaysian hehe

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No 34/40 –Kesibukan Di Tengah Bandar di Mall Road, Murree Hills

ini adalah suasana di tengah2 bandar murree di murree hills. terletak di jalan yang dipanggil mall road. takde shopping mall pun hanya kedai2 biasa dua tingkat yang menjual pelbagai barangan. di tengah2 bandar ada pejabat pos, bangunan dengan signboard merah seperti di atas. banyak pelancong datang  ke murree ni masa musim panas nanti. semua nak lari daripada suasana terik mentarik masa musim panas ke murree hills yang sejuk nyaman adjer. ala2 cameron highlands gitu

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No 35/40 –Popcorn Masin Yang Dimasak Dengan Sea Salt

aku perasan ramai sangat penjual jagung dengan popcorn di raja bazaar rawalpindi. terus aku singgah kat salah satu gerai ni dan tanya driver aku whether ok ke idak kalau aku nak makan ni. dia cakap ok je. aku bukannya nak makan sangat pun, just nak tengok mcm mana la dia buat popcorn ni. sekali dia pakai sea salt siot. memang dah pakai garam mestilah end product nya rasa masin kan. 1st time siot aku makan popcorn yang rasa masin. dulu2 selalu makan yang manis adjer sebelum nak masuk wayang kan. hehe apa2 pun lepas makan tuh takdelah plak rasa sakit perut. alhamdulillah. hehe

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No 36/40 –Musim Luruh Di Depan Mata, Di Halaman Rumah di Islamabad

apa perasan anda apabila dapat menikmati ciptaan Ilahi betul2 di depan mata seperti di atas. bagi sesetengah orang nampak macam biasa saja bukan. tapi bagi aku ini sesuatu yang perlu disyukuri. sebab pokok di betul2 berada di depan rumah aku. memang cantik la suasana musim luruh dengan warna2 pokok yang mula bertukar warna kan. sungguh indah sekali dowh. x perlu pergi jauh nak menikmati keindahan alam. kadang2 cukup dengan memerhatikan suasana keindahan alam di depan rumah sahaja. hehe

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No 37/40 –Menyaksikan Mentari Pagi Menampakkan Diri di PC Bhurban

penat aku tunggu sunrise neh ok. selepas suboh je terus la terkedek2 nak cari angle yang cun nak snap gambar neh. since aku pakai digicam cap ayam je so kenalah main dengan angle dengan composition sket kan. kalau pakai dslr snap2 gitu je dah rasa gambar surela akan cun gilos. tapi memang best la dapat menyaksikan mentari pagi naik pada pagi di pc bhurban ni. memang indah. tambah plak dengan snow cap mountains di  pergunungan azad kashmir depan mata anda kan. hehe

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No 38/40 –Menaiki Chairlift Yang Merbahaya di Patriata, New Murree Hills

ni suasana semasa menaiki chairlift kat patriata new murree hills dulu. memang merbahaya sebab chairlift neh tak akan berhenti masa hang nak naik dan hang nak turun. hang ready je la bontot, terus kerusi tuh sapu bontot hang terus naik. open space je bawah kaki tuh. hehe kalau jatuh mmg sungguh la horror kan. yang gayat memang takleh la nak naik neh ok hehe

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No 39/40 –Pakora Sayur, Pakora Lempeng di Patriata New Murree Hills

pakora lagi, tapi kali neh ada style pakota sayur yang dimasak ala2 lempeng gitu. sedap dowh. makan tengah hari aku dengan pakora neh la masa singgah naik chairlift kat patriata dulu. memang sedap. hehe garing giler. healthy ke idak belakang kira. haha. ada kobis, ada kentang ada la broccoli gak. healthy ke eh ? hehe

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No 40/40 –Rohtas Fort Yang Tersergam Indah, Kubu Kuat Sultan Sher Shah Suri

ini adalah antara fort yang pertama yang aku singgah. memang besaq giler fort rohtas ni. dok kat tengah2 hutan nun. sekarang tengah hutan la kan. dulu2 surelah tengah bandar. memang sungguh strategik kedudukan fort neh sebab susah nak serang fort neh ok. no wonder sultan shah suri arahkan buat fort neh, dah la sebelah sungai so bekalan air senang la kan. anyway memang penat woooo kalau pergi jalan2 kat fort neh. mujurlah aku singgah masa winter, kalau pergi masa summer mestilah lencun baju aku dengan peluh2 semua bagai kan. hehe

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ok sekian sahaja series gambar2 pakistan yang sempat aku amik selama lebih kurang 4 bulan di sini

lepas ni mungkin akan ada banyak lagi gambar

tengok la keadaan kan. janji safety ok, aku akan berjalan lagi

kalau idak just jalan2 kat depan rumah adjer la. hehe

recap semua series kat bawah ni ok

• Top 40 Pictures of Pakistan Travels – My Own Travelog Series (Part I of IV)
• Top 40 Pictures of Pakistan Travels – My Own Travelog Series (Part II of IV)
• Top 40 Pictures of Pakistan Travels – My Own Travelog Series (Part III of IV)
• Top 40 Pictures of Pakistan Travels – My Own Travelog Series (Part IV of IV)

Garmin XT Review on the Nokia 5800 Part 1 – Test drive and Navigation Screen Touch buttons

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I install a Touch Enable Garmin XT apps on the Nokia 5800, this time around I ask the Phone Shop to do it for me, instead of trying to do it on my own as I did with the Nokia N82. Having use the Garmin on the Nokia N82 before make things easier this time around. But with touch screen controls thing are easier and harder at the same time as there are new controls

Today, 4 days after installing the Garmin XT, is my first chance to really test this Apps out, the Map that come with it and the Nokia 5800 battery as I am taking a day off and have a few things to do running around. Now Garmin XT is the Apps, the OS so to speak, what equally important is the Software the Map that the Garmin XT will display on the device, install with the Garmin XT is the Map from Malsingmaps (if I am not mistaken)

Basically in this test, I will have is to drive from my house to the Juru Auto City, (to a bank) then onwards to Pulau Tikus for my Breakfast, onwards the Botanical Gardens to visit the Penang Orchid Show, then to Sunshine Square, Bayan Baru for some shopping, Back to Pulau Tikus One Stop Mall to collect some items, and then Back to my house. All this will be done from point to point ie with out using the route feature.

According to the Garmin, this took 3.5 hrs driving time.

Operation wise, Garmin XT perform flawlessly, with turn by turn instructions just like with the Garmin in the Nokia N82, of course the setting of the Garmin (Factory Default - set on faster time) use the main roads while being familiar with Penang, I have a tendency to use the back roads. Overall I do agree with the Garmin Choice of Road especially for those not familiar with the area.

Map wise, Malsingmaps, and its POI works well, with some tiny hiccups with road names, got one of the road names of my housing estate wrong. The POI is extensive, and list out quite a number of place and restaurant that I do not know off.

Nokia 5800 Battery, manage to last out the 3.5 hours of GPS usage without any problems and without having to recharge till I reach home. (Much better than the Nokia N82 which can only last around one hour at the most)

Now a bit on the touch controls in the Navigation Screen.

Garmin XT (touch) works by using a combination of touch screen buttons especially for scrolling up down list of buttons and touching on the Map itself, For this review I will touch on the touch screen control of the Navigating Screen (ie once you have set the location where you want to go to)

Difference : In this version of the Garmin XT you cannot scroll the map in this mode.

In this screen you have 5 buttons, a curve arrow, which can be on the right or bottom depending on how you hold your phone, the Speed Button (show the speed you are traveling at), the Arrival Time button, and the Road Name Button

By Touching on the curve arrow button, you will go back to the start screen where you can do what ever you want, set where you want to go to, settings etc that will be describe in a later part.

By Touching Speed you will get a Dash Board, which will display Your Current Speed, Total KM, Reset Km, Total Time, Overall Avg Speed, Driving Speed, Driving Average Speed, Stopped Time, Max Speed. At the Bottom Back and Reset controls for Max Speed, Odometer, etc

By Touching the Arrival Time Button , Your current location will be displayed, then you have buttons for the closest Hospital, Police Station and Fuel stations , the Save Location button, and Back button at the bottom

By Touching The Top, where the Name of the road is display you will get Route Details Screen, where you can also edit, The edit button and the back button is at the bottom

By Touching The top right hand, were it shows the upcoming turn, will kick you out of the Garmin XT apps, Must check with the phone shop guy why is that.

Above are the basic controls you will need to use the Garmin XT.

Next Garmin Post will be a bit on the Garmin XT settings as well as it menu.

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The Sabah State Assembly, when it meets next month, should pass a special resolution supporting the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry on how the dreams and aspirations of Sabahans and Sarawakians in forming Malaysia had been fulfilled or betrayed in the past five decades. However, even before the Sabah State Assembly meets starting on [...]

Last month, together with DAP MPs Hiew King Cheu (Kota Kinabalu), Teo Nie Ching (Serdang) and Lim Lip Eng (Segambut), I visited Kota Belud and Tuaran, which left us with one abiding impression – how the dreams of Sabahans in forming Malaysia had been betrayed in the past five decades. In Kota Belud, 800 students and [...]

Unfortunately, we do not have efficient, independent and professional national institutions whether the Attorney-General’s Chambers, the Police, the Judiciary or the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to fairly and fearlessly uphold what is right and true as they all have bent themselves to serve the political dictates of their political masters although they vary from the [...]

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Pakatan Rakyat menegaskan pendaftaran pengundi automatik perlu dipraktik segera walaupun tiada jaminan pengundi muda memihak calon Pakatan Rakyat pada pilihan raya akan datang.

Pada masa ini, lebih 4.38 juta daripada 15.4 juta rakyat Malaysia berusia 21 tahun ke atas belum mendaftar dan fakta ini diakui Pengerusi Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR), Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusuf.

Sebaliknya, Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz menolak cadangan yang dibawa Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim supaya SPR membuat pendaftaran automatik kepada rakyat berusia 21 tahun.

Mengulas hal itu, Ahli Parlimen Rasah, Anthony Loke menyifatkan kenyataan Nazri itu semata-mata berasaskan kebimbangan kerajaan Umno Barisan Nasional (BN) terhadap ‘kuasa’ pengundi muda.

“Tetapi nampaknya, ini tidak diingini oleh BN dan kita tahu bahawa mereka bimbang kalau pengundi muda terlalu ramai, maka ini akan menggugat kedudukan politik mereka,” katanya.

Beliau menyatakan pengundi muda masa kini memiliki lebih maklumat berbanding pengundi lain berikutan pendedahan mereka lebih luas dan kecenderungan politik mereka sukar dijangka.

“Saya mengambil pendirian, kita jangan terlalu confident (yakin). Yang kita pasti ialah pengundi muda lebih kritikal dan boleh membuat analisis sebab saluran maklumatnya lebih menyeluruh,” katanya.

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Penyelaras Pakatan Rakyat Datuk Zaid Ibrahim mencabar kerajaan mempamerkan perjanjian royalti minyak antara Petronas dan kerajaan-kerajaan negeri kepada umum supaya rakyat dapat menilainya sendiri.

“Tuan-tuan pernah lihat perjanjian tersebut? Kenapa perjanjian tiga mukasurat itu tidak boleh dipamerkan kepada umum? Kenapa? Kerana mereka hendak tipu,” katanya.

Isu pemberian royalti minyak kepada Kelantan hangat kembali baru-baru ini apabila dua gabungan NGO daripada Kelantan dan Terengganu mahu menyerahkan memorandum tuntutan mereka kepada Yang di-Pertuan Agung hari ini.

Bagaimanapun, perhimpunan yang dijangka menghimpun ribuan rakyat daripada kedua-dua negeri di lapangan terbang Kuala Terengganu pagi ini terpaksa dibatalkan atas arahan polis.

Bercakap dalam seminar kepimpinan anak muda anjuran kerajaan Selangor di Petaling Jaya, Zaid berkata perjanjian royalti minyak antara kerajaan negeri dan Petronas jelas menggariskan pembahagian yang berhak diterima pihak masing-masing.

“Ia tidak ada sebut tentang jarak berapa batu nautika (yang dipertikaikan kerajaan persekutuan). Ia kata, aku dapat seringgit, engkau (kerajaan negeri) dapat lima sen,” katanya dengan analogi menarik.

‘PERKASA, Siapa hendak rampas hak Melayu’

Sementara itu, ketika mengulas isu kepimpinan pada abad ini, Zaid mengambil peluang mengkritik Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia (PERKASA) yang didakwanya sengaja menakut-nakutkan orang Melayu.

Beliau mempersoalkan kepada NGO pimpinan ahli parlimen Pasir Mas Ibrahim Ali itu berulang kali menyebut kebimbangan terhadap hak-hak keistimewaan orang Melayu seperti yang diperuntukan dalam Perkara 153 Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

“Dalam wawancara Ibrahim dengan Malaysiakini, beliau berkata kita mesti pertahankan hak-hak dalam Perkara 153. Saya pun Melayu. Siapa yang hendak ambil hak kita yang dia cakap sangat itu,” katanya.

Sehubungan itu, beliau menggesa kira-kira 900 peserta perhimpunan kongres tersebut – kesemuanya berumur bawah 35 tahun – supaya tidak terikut-ikut dengan “ketakutan yang sengaja direka oleh orang politik”.

“Di Malaysia ini bumiputera (jumlahnya) besar. Di Sabah dan Sarawak, Iban sahaja sudah 60 peratus. Itu belum campur Melanau. Mustahil hak kita akan diambil oleh sesiapun,” katanya kepada peserta yang kebanyakannya berbangsa Melayu.

I used to be an overweight adolescent. Without much clue about the different food categories, I would eat anything that could satisfy my appetite. That includes fast food, burgers, fried chicken, hot dogs, chicken rice, Taiwainese sausages and the list continued. My parents have never been health conscious either so I pretty much ate whatever they did.

My dad, his eldest sister and her children are overweight. So I was told that I had obesity in my genes. Mom always said it while those in her family are lean.

That changed in 2006 after my fourth surgery to remove a brain tumor called Acoustic Neuroma and implantation of the Auditory Brainstem Implant. During this surgery, Dr. Friedman also de-bulked my Jugular Foramen Meningioma.

After that surgery, my sensation of taste was temporarily distorted so that I didn’t eat much in the following months. Mom and I rode the bus from St. Vincent Medical Center to a nearby street mall called The Grove where I bought a sausage wrapped in a unique layer of bread. But it tasted strange and rubbery to me so I fed the dustbin with it. My cravings for the novelty of food and eating reduced.

I lost a lot of weight upon my return to Malaysia so much so that Yeeu Jen asked if I had liposuction done too. Excited to be lean again, I resolute to maintain this weight by watching my diet. Dad had said before that we once gain weight, it is hard to lose.

Since then, I started preparing my own food – whether cooked or bought – and started saying no to mom’s cooking whenever it doesn’t suit my diet. Eventually, mom accepted that I no longer eat like her and stopped insisting me to gobble down whatever she cooked.

But I faced an issue while cooking for myself. A single person’s portion is small especially mine, so when I wanted to include carbohydrate, lipid, protein and fiber, it would become big since I also didn’t think it was good to keep unfinished cooked food overnight. To solve this issue, I tried sharing my meals with Dad. But he did not like vegetables while tofu was too bland for him. He looked sad eating what I did.

Whenever someone from church organized an open house or party, I’d be calculating the amount of calories from each food category I ate that day at the buffet line. Pastor Ramayah’s extended family is made up by Indians and Chinese so it’s standard to serve food with oil and curry.

But when I tried too hard to monitor my food intake, I risk not consuming enough essential vitamins and minerals that are important for cell growth and metabolism. Since I frequently require surgery to treat NF tumors, it is important to maintain my overall wellbeing too just as plants no matter the breed need nutritious soil to thrive. I found a solution to this issue with Nutrilite’s Double X multivitamins, multiminerals and plant concentrate.

Nutrilite obtains vitamins and minerals from plants grown in it’s own W.H.O. certified organic farms. They are then made into pill form in facilities located within the farm itself. Double X also contains a third kinf of pill – plant concentrates which provides us with fiber.

So these days, I would take Double X once after breakfast and again after dinner. Thus, I don’t have to worry about eating enough. My regular food intake can provide me with energy and help to absorb nutrients from Double X.

Having said that, we still need to watch what we eat for weight maintenance. Since I have little cravings for novelty, my food preferences are very simple. Wholegrain bread, bakeries and pastries, diary produce, and some sweet indulgence occasionally are all I would want.

Yo!

Ladies and gentlemen, what lies in front of you is the best instant noodle mankind has ever created. It cooks within minutes in the microwave and does NOT taste like instant noodle at all. It’s from Szechuan and therefore I’ve come to the conclusion that anything from Szechuan is effing amazing

Korean instant noodles, although not from Szechuan, are just as amazing. So amazing that one night at 1 am, I acted on impulse and bought 20 packets online. Die lah confirm fat.

Just to show you that I can still look girlish with my short hair

So I went to Boston over the Spring Break cause we’re too broke to go anywhere else T__T But at least we have each other ^_^

This is me with my weapon of mass destruction wtf

No lah kidding it’s actually Barry’s

This is me with my new boots from a thrift second-hand store! Happy!!!!

I look like I need to pee but I’m just trying to squeeze into the small mirror wtf. The toilet looks ugly cause we stayed at YMCA wtf what to do cheap ma!

#1 - too hungry to type much so short captions start now. With Dominic and Lali at Harvard Square when it was 20 CELCIUS OUT WOOHOOOO

#2 Such amazing companies =D Btw damn muhibbah got chinese indian dan lain lain WTF HAHAHHAHA

#3 Random artsy picture on the bridge by the Charles River

#4 Harvard dorms by the river

#5 Berryline froyo is the shiznit!

#6 Went to visit Pooh my old friend

#7 but he wasn’t home (remember the song? ke ren lai, kan ma ma, ma ma bu zai jia, wo qing ke ren qing zuo xia blabla forgot wtf. so it’s pooh bu zai jia )

#8 Trying to be taller than Lali but failed

#9 Moho girls roxxx wtf

#10 I love Harvard Square ♥

#11 Random family chalking up the sidewalk

#12 We’re all Malaysian at heart

#13 eat curry mee must put tissue as bib!

#14 Nick Choo’s ice cream collection :O :O :O

#15 Guitar Hero to end the night!

#16 Heart-shaped aviators! ♥

#17 last picture of my girlfriend and i wtf

Now I’m back in my college with mountains of assignments =___= I can’t wait for this semester to end so I can go back to Malaysia and goyang kaki!!!

Speaking of Malaysia, VERY important news for Malaysians in the US.

I’ve probably mentioned this a million times but here goes again. Malaysia Forum this year will be at Noo Yawk Citeh!!! If you want to see me (cheh wah wtf) and eat Malaysian food and meet all the fawesome Malaysians and indulge in intellectual discussions on anything Malaysian, PLEASE COME!!!

More info here: http://www.malaysiaforum.org/nmf/

I’ve been to the past two MFs and they were great cause I always left with so much hope and optimism for our country. I think despite all that political turmoil and dramama happening, we always need that little bit of harapan to keep going.

So if you’re a passionate Malaysian hoping to make a change, or someone who just wants to come for the food and company, or someone who doesn’t give a rat ass about our country but just wants to come to kepoh, do sign up ASAP cause registration closes in a week! Need more convincing? Email me.

安静的周末

咆哮的灰尘

拥挤的衣服

忙碌的地面

等待的承诺

期待的美丽

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旅居纽西兰的Youlgo有天SMS来问，小朋友们对邮票有兴趣没。
我说兴趣不大。
Youlgo想着给小朋友们寄些特别的邮票，SMS中说，尤其有款邮票竟然是以香肠当主角。
这倒让我好奇了。
德国把香肠放在邮票上我能理解，可纽西兰，我想来想去也不会想到香肠。

昨天收到了Youlgo寄来的邮票——

信封里是俩首日封，连着一片厚纸皮一起来，估计不让首日封扭曲了。

这就是让我们纳闷的好味道邮票。
香肠邮票——

鱼片薯条——

估计马来西亚也应该放沙爹上邮票。
既然榴莲可以上邮票，为啥沙爹不能？

还有，注意噢，邮票上都没有价格。怎么卖呢？

另外，纽西兰为华人新年特特有的老虎邮票，漂亮吧？
1 Malaysia学着点吧。

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谢谢Youlgo，这邮票真令人大开眼界，虽然不解，但是确实很逗。

It was a secret she kept for a long time, though by some miraculous twist of fate, I found out what it was. It felt petty for me to be angry at the fact she never told me despite the times we have spent talking to one another, catching up on old times, but for what its worth, I understand why she told no one and in the same position, I would have done the same. Who's to say I'm not doing the same now anyway?

It is something to be in awe of. The things you hardly expect from the past to happen. Even if you left that life a long time ago, there were always certain expectations that you could always abide to, expectations that to someone of my unique…upbringing, hold true even now. Jocks will always be stay close to home. Geeks will always be find a way to be successful in their own right. Rebels will always be outspoken to the inhumanity of humanity. And old crushes that were the archetype for you falling in love with every ice queen there was will ways be that archetype.

I suppose in many ways, this is exactly the kind of thing that I should have expected from someone like her. A life beyond the norm that I expect everyone else from my past to live. There was a time when I fell in love with her because I felt that she could understand the burdens people like me strapped over our shoulders. She carried her own cross and so did I, even if it was remarkably different in how we dealt with it over the years, misery loves company. As we parted ways, my feelings unrequited, I still never forgot her and what she meant to me. She knew how I felt, but she also knew I was wise enough to not let it affect a friendship. Of all the people from my past, she is the only I still talk to with any measure of fondness.

Now of course, everything has changed, the world has past us by and we're all grown up in more ways than one. In my mind she's still the archetype of all that I cherish in the one I now love. This news changes everything and surprisingly, nothing at a the same time. She is a new person as she is the same one I had a crush on so many years ago. The way I see it, she is as practical, selfish and emotionally pragmatic as I knew her in high school. She will survive whatever hardship that comes her way and through that, give a better life for the people she would be willing to endure it for. That much I have faith in her.

So here is to a new life and a new future for the one person in that part of my past that still meant something to me. You certainly jumped the gun on this one and there aren't many events that can cause my mind to literally implode like that but coming from you, how can I hold it against you?

After all, I know you'll make a great mother and I wish the very best for you.

I always have.

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Come join the conversation to shape Penang and Malaysia’s future!

The Penang Socio-Economic & Environmental Research Institute (SERI) will be launching its latest publication “Pilot Studies for a New Penang”. YBM Senator Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim will grace the launch to be held as follow:

Date: 20 March 2010
Time: 11.30am – 1 pm
Venue: SERI (Map attached)

After the launch, Tunku will give a table-talk titled “The Future of Malaysia: What’s In For You and Me?” at 1pm at the same venue. Tea will be served, the table talk is hosted by YB Liew Chin Tong, Executive Director of SERI.

You are invited for both the launch and the table talk!

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This is a flashback to February 15th. The 2nd day of Chinese New Year. The photos I took that day were the last ones I took before my original camera, the Panasonic LX-3 had its untimely death.

I had just brought the camera to the Panasonic Service Center in Akihabara for repairs, and had been forced to convert to using DSLR since then. (In case you hadn't noticed, the production photos of THE TIGER FACTORY, and the ones of my dad's birthday dinner, those were taken with my new Canon 7D).

But back to February 15th. Long-time followers of my blog might have seen my annual postings about my Chinese New Year trips to my grandmother's house in Ipoh.



That's my grandma, with my sister.



Mom, along with my two cousins, Carmen (in green) and Pui Kuan (in purple, she now calls herself "Wince", I don't know whether it is pronounced as how it is spelt, or whether it's a more exotic-sounding "Vin-chee" or "Vin-say"), I dare not ask.



Thanks to her fat face, my sister had always been my grandma's favourite, even though during my childhood, it had pained me to admit it.



Here's mom, giving her mom an ang pow.






My grandmother is 78 this year. She suffers from Alzheimer's. In December 2007, I mentioned how she had a bad fall after being attacked by snatch thieves. She ended up in a coma, we feared the worst, but in the end she recovered. However, the fall quickened the effects of her Alzheimer's.

I once had a melancholic view on her ailment. In 2008, I thought returning to Ipoh was a bittersweet experience. But since then, I've accepted things as they are. She now lives in a world conjured probably by fragments of her own memories, where past and present had merged into one. The world in her mind, with such a fantastical foundation, I hope, is more interesting than reality.

Whenever I go into my monologues and tirades about my dissatisfaction with people and how people live their lives, my friend Peng Shien would always say "why the hell do you want to care so much? As long as they're happy, what else matters?"

Which is true. As long as she's happy, what's there to worry about? Although it was a little discomforting to notice that not once throughout my time in Ipoh this year, my grandma had ever uttered my name. Yet she could remember my dad's name perfectly. How unfair!









My grandmother has 8 children. 4 are daughters. My mom is the second eldest among the four. (and fifth among the eight) Sitting next to grandma is Big Auntie (or Auntie Soon Mui), and standing beside mom are her younger sisters: 3rd Auntie (I call her Yee Yee Mondo, as in "Auntie Mondo", because she was the one who kept calling me "Mondo"), and 4th Auntie (in white)



Then, here's 3rd Uncle, joining in.




My grandmother has a total of 21 grandchildren. Which means that I have 19 cousins on my mom's side. Usually more than half of them come to her house for new year, and they usually play video games in the living room. While the older generations are there as well, hanging out, chit-chatting.



After I took the photo above. My camera stopped working.

That night in Ipoh, I met up with Ming Jin (whose hometown is also in Ipoh) to hammer out the screenplay for THE TIGER FACTORY.

Then the next day, I went home.

Civet’s Odyssey – Flash Games Download – Overview Play the role of a civet in this Civet’s Odyssey point and click adventure flash game. A cap and a handkerchief of the civet’s friend has gone missing due to strong winds and the civet is out on a quest to retrieve those lost items. Help the civet get past various obstacles and get back those items.

Download Civet’s Odyssey (File Size ~ 6.67 MB)
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Civet’s Odyssey – Title Menu

A simple title menu with an ad box which will load ads if you have an active internet connection. Since most flash games are free they must rely on ads to make a living.

Civet’s Odyssey – Action!

A crocodile! Is the bridge safe for crossing? Only one way to find out. Just cross it yo!

Civet’s Odyssey – Butterfly!

A huge butterfly that is even larger than the civet! Perhaps the civet can ride on it.

Deimos’s Thoughts
Nice and cute graphics with equally cute animals in it. Simple controls and game play. A simple point and click adventure flash games with cute little animals in it.

Deimos Asks
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This Sunday is my birthday and a few people will walk away with something! Woot! Check back on 21st March to find out k?

Now back to December 2009.. Nokia organised a year end party and invited members of the media/social media to gather and have fun.

It was held at The Daily Grind @ Bangsar Village.

I was there with Adrian…

… and Bryan

As usual there is always food at Nokia events.. this time around it was buffet and I especially love the burgers there..

Laptops were set up with OviStore loaded so everyone can download stuff from there whenever they have the time.

MORE PHOTOS SOON!

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I recently attended the Google Analytics Master Class Kuala Lumpur (GAMC in general, or GAMCKL) held yesterday on Thursday 11th March 2010 at Hilton KL Sentral. I heard about the event on Twitter.

Wow what a packed event. The schedule was tight with 12 sessions in less than 5 hours. Plus we started 1 hour late. The amount of participants was also astounding. There were at least 500 people who registered, and possibly more turned up. The room was packed. Google had only booked one of the partitions in the ballroom, and Hilton staff had to bring in more chairs. It was filled from wall to wall. During the breaks and after sessions, the lounge area was similarly packed. I was surprised by the number of attendees.

From Vinoaj Vijeyakumaar, Customer Solutions Engineer, Google Southeast Asia (@vinoaj). One of the speakers:

#GAMC SG & KL over. Amazing turnout - over 850 web analytics enthusiasts showed up across both events. Hope you got a lot out of it!

Looks like there are a lot of people in the region interested in web analytics. Plus Google is looking for their first Malaysian Google Analytics Authorized Consultant. Singapore has 3 alone who were present during the event. Are you interested?

There was a lot to take in during the time, as most sessions were either 10-15 minutes, and thankfully I learned a lot from it. Learned more about the features of Google Analytics. Thought the class was really beneficial.

The next lesson I learned was on how to sell data, and data analytics. Now that wasn't the purpose of the Google Analytics Master Class, but that is what they were essentially conducting.

We were told that all presentation slides would be uploaded after the event. Sadly I haven't received anything yet. I'll probably upload my notes later.

In the mean time they have put together a Google Analytics Checklist:

1. Set Up Goals and Funnels
2. Link Your AdWords and Analytics Accounts
3. Implement Ecommerce Tracking
4. Enable Site Search Reports
5. Compare and Contrast Advanced Segments
6. Check Your Intelligence Alerts Daily
7. Set up Scheduled Email Reports
8. Experiment with your site design and content using Website Optimiser
9. Play with Google's other Data-Driven Insights Tools
10. Subscribe to Google's Blogs
11. Develop Your Google Analytics Expertise
12. Work with a Google Analytics Authorised Consultant

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星期三到邮政局办事，封好了快邮的邮件回头要交给柜台。
当时柜台有人嘛，我就排后头了。
后来又来了三个，排我后头，有两个也拿着快邮邮件。

正排着，旁边忽然挤进一年轻妈妈，手上拿着快邮邮件就往柜台里递过去。
我说你老人家要插队也别再自己孩子面前做啊。
啊不，她就在孩子面前做。
孩子还一直问她：“可以咩？这样可以咩？”
她让孩子一边玩儿去，别吵。

柜台里的服务员也忙着啊，没理睬她。
我肯定服务员眼角知道有个这样的人物候在哪儿，没看见人也看见那A3 size的邮件吧。
就愣是不理她。

年轻妈妈也真能耐，你不理我我继续，把邮件更往柜台里递。
服务员心想：就你有能耐啊？我就是假装看不见。
年轻妈妈又把邮件往前递。
眼看那邮件都要丢进柜台了，那服务员还是给她一个‘看无’。

我后面的人‘啧’了一声。
我心想：你也有能耐，有能耐你出声啊，啧啥啊？

后来我前面这位办好了事，年轻妈妈瞅准了就把邮件往里送。
服务员也真目不斜视，看也不看她。
我忍不住就说：“你好意思没有？个个都在排着呢。”

那妈妈讪讪的往后排了。

才过两天，发觉不吃葱的人还真多。

今天在佳世客，到喂奶间给鱼宝宝喂奶。
因为没穿喂奶衣，所以一定要找间喂奶间，要不然我是可以在其他隐蔽一点的地方将就。
结果俩喂奶间里都有人。
第一间，敲门没声音，想蹲下窥窥，一来不好意思，二来没有礼貌，三来抱着鱼宝宝蹲不下。
没有声音就推门而入呗。
咦？有人。背对着门不知道她在里面做什么，就是回头瞪我一眼，我赶快“锁你，锁你”就退了出来。

第二间，敲门。
门开了，有俩女人，一小孩。
没在喂奶，不知在里面干嘛，也没有出来的意思。
我就问：“呃，可以share share吗？”
反正我喂奶不尴尬，你既然能躲在喂奶间也没什么好尴尬的。
结果她们听见我要share share，就说：“哦，你要喂奶啊？啊，OK，OK。”就离开了。

好嘛，我就给鱼宝宝喂奶了。
喂着的时候，来了一个女人推门而入：“咦？有人。”
然后又问：“你在用？”废话。
我说：“我在喂奶……不过你有需要（喂奶），我们可以share房间。”

她：“哦，OK。”然后走了。
很快，她回来了，和另外一名女人，伸头往外叫：“来啦。”
又来一个小孩，大概四五岁。
她对小孩说：“哪，这里有得睡，你要睡就睡这里。”指着婴儿床。

原来是来投宿的。

鱼宝宝听见有人说话，鸡婆得丢下吃食东张西望。

我看看，只好整理衣裳，站起来出去。

人家有逼切要开房，我们不能阻止。

如果不是Garden离得远，也不会想用佳世客的喂奶间。
所以有时我宁弃佳世客的喂奶间，花一点前钱咖啡馆给孩子喂奶。
喂双喜的时候是这样，喂鱼宝宝还是这样。
以后一定要穿喂奶衣。

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Few week back, I need to fetch mum and dad back to mum’s home town, sungai petani, kedah. I have nothing much to do there, so I decide to pay a visit to Gunung Jerai with few of my friend.

After putting my mum and dad at sungai petani, 5 of us, NC, David, Chan, Hooi Hooi and me heading to Gunung with my darling.

The path to Gunung Jerai is really steep and narrow, while nearly the corner, the road sign advice every car to make a “hon” before cross the steep corner.

Time to be rich people for 2 hour… Lets order some luxury coffee and enjoy to be a rich people (Quote by Hooi Hooi)

Wash room also have a very nice design, and feel very comfortable… I guess this is so-call real “comfort room”

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I did not discover the power of Google Analytics, until the Google Analytics Master Class.

Previously, I use Google Analytics to tell me how many visitors I have, where are visitors came from, what are the traffic sources, what search engine keywords lead to my site…

Google Analytics is much powerful than that! From the Google Analytics Master Class, I learned some cool tips which would benefits me, as a blogger.

1. Set your GOAL

Do NOT check your site’s pageview or unique visitors! The 1st thing you wanna do is — “set a goal”!

Ask yourself about “what do you want to achieve with your site?” Is it more orders (ecommerce), more readers (blog), or anything else?

The site traffic data is meaningless if you don’t have a “GOAL”.

2. Track your visitors

Your every site visitor is unique. Use Google Analytics “segments” and “funnels” to track, compare and understand your visitors. Learn their behavior on your site against your GOAL.

3. Testing.. testing.. testing..

Use Google Optimizer to test your web designs to find out which design is the best for your GOAL. You can use a simple A/B test or the more complex Multivariate Experiment.

Here are example of Advanced Segments you can apply.

When picking a test page, pick the one has high traffic. Be bold to test different designs. Test big things that really make a different. Small changes are not worth to test at 1st stage.

4. The Google trend search tools

Find out what is the current hot topics related to your business using Google. All tools are free!

From the Google search, you can click “show options” to get the “Timeline” and “Wonder wheel” related to your searched keywords. Timeline, shows the “hotness” of the keyword. Wonder wheel, shows the related keywords.

For research, you can then use YouTube Insight (your own videos only) to find out the video statistics. (I never know that!)

Use Google Trends for Website to find out a website’s traffic and keywords. Google Insights, in the other hand, to dig further information about the keywords.

My two cents

After the Google Analytics Master Class, I learned that I could use GA and other Google tools to:

• monitor & improve ads clicks
• optimize blog design
• research for blog topicsx

Google Analytics Master Class is indeed the most meaningful event I attended!

P.S. Google Analytics Master Class slides are available here or you can direct download the all the slides here (thanks, @icednyior!)

So after waiting forever, our holiday to Bali finally came. Yes, yes, I know, everyone else has been to Bali except me…

But anyway. Most of you can see the larger set of photos posted on facebook, but here’s my post with a little more description. We left KL early in the morning, and this was our first sight of the Island of the Gods.

We booked our hotel through AirAsia, for an el cheapo RM100 per night. This was our hotel.

The hotel is ok, located some 200m from the famous Kuta beach. It’s very low density with rather small rooms. Quite a lot of mosquitoes if you leave the door open tho. First time i’ve slept on a four poster bed.

Our driver Ketut picked us up for our tour and we enjoyed taking in the sights, sounds and smells around us. One thing about Bali that most people know is the many thousands of temples. Even other buildings like schools and offices tend to look like temples. Even this church looks like one.

Anyways first stop was Pura Taman Ayun in Mengwi. We didn’t think we’d have time to visit here, but our fantastic driver managed to squeeze in time for us.

Our guide told us Taman Ayun used to be a burial ground for the Mengwi kings before Hinduism came to Bali. Later the meru (layered towers) were built on top of their graves and became a temple.

Sitting on the steps to the inner court of this beautiful temple.

Erm, how DO they check for it…?

After that we travelled to the west to Tanah Lot. Since it was the day before a holiday, almost every village temple had procession and ceremony going on.

All the ladies in their ‘uniform’.

The men were sitting down on the road facing the temple. ON THE BURNING HOT ASPHALT ROAD. IN THE MIDDLE OF A BUSY JUNCTION!

Reached Pura Tanah Lot at about 5 plus. The path leading up to the temple is lined with hundreds of stalls and shops. I’ve no idea why posh shops like Ralph Lauren open here when there are dozens of their outlets elsewhere?

The oft-photographed temple at sunset. As beautiful as it is, the beach and tide is very dirty, littered with rubbish. I really wished they had kept it cleaner to make a good impression.

A shot of the cliff to the north of the temple.

Sunset at Tanah Lot.

For the first dinner, we drove an hour plus up to Naughty Nuri’s in Ubud.

I can safely say this was the best meal i had during my stay there. The pork ribs were juicy and well marinated, and tender it slid off the bone.

So that was our tiring first day. Next: Northwards to Batur and Kintamani…

YouTube Post Type allows you to easily add YouTube videos as post into your WordPress installation via the introduction of register_post_types in WordPress v2.9. This will make YouTube a first class citizen in your WordPress.

Why would you want to do this? If you want a post to represent a YouTube video.

You add YouTube videos by specifying the URL or the YouTube id.

Your YouTube thumbnails are also downloaded and pulled into the system so you can use them. Your YouTube also gets associated to the first thumbnail found.

Changes

• Fixed bug to catch up with WordPress 3 development where a post type has new features for: title, editor, thumbnail, and excerpt

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Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Warren Buffet

The other day, I have a request to make a site that inspired by http://www.HumanGrowthHormone.net by using a CMS, so I chosed WordPress (duh!). While I get a lot of WordPress design, usually my quotation is set on the overall design, complexity and time spent, which means I don’t include the back-end (read: theme options / theme setup, whatever you name it)

While some design that needs a lot of “easy adjustment“, I will put them all in the Theme Options. However, some may have exceed a whole page of 1600px and more. That is when my question kicks in!

Do I leave what it is like, or do I apply something else into it for their user experience? I can, of course, dump the time spending on beautify it with JQuery or CSS. After all, it’s the WordPress engine that should be dealing with it.

Somehow, while I was working to finish it, my mind thought about the initial agreement and the time it spend on it… It’s just making my life harder to choose.

giler ah kat balochistan alone dekat 11 mati sebab kes target killing nih

dulu masa aku sampai lslamabad, ada kes target killing pada brigedier jeneral lagi beb

mmg seram woooooo

lagi seram kalau tengok lama2 jelingan manja pak guard kat bawah ni kan

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QUETTA: Two persons were killed and two others injured when militants opened fire on a vehicle of the Cadet College in Mastung on Friday.

The attackers who were on motorcycles escaped from the spot after the incident.

Police officials reached the spot and started an investigation into the incident.

The injured were rushed to Quetta for medical treatment.

Eleven people have been killed in different incidents of target killing in the past three days in Balochistan. — DawnNews

perghhh dah main letup2 kan sekolah la plak kat peshawar ni kan

takde benda yang mustahil la kat sini

semua benda nak dibomnya haha

masa aku sampai last year terus iiu kena bom. aku sampai kena pindah hotel ok

seb baik kali neh takde casualties kan

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PESHAWAR: Two government schools were blown up in different parts of Bajaur Agency on Friday, increasing the number of schools attacked in the restive tribal agency to at least 70.

Official sources confirmed that the militants planted explosives in a government primary school in Mandal and blew it up.

Similarly, militants also planted explosives at another government primary school in Ghundai in Nawagai Tehsil.

No casualties were reported but the buildings have been seriously damaged.

Gembira gila rasa di hati bila semalam Abang Nara berjaya sampai ke Astro untuk melihat dengan mata kepala sendiri macam mana penyampai-penyampai radio Era beraksi di konti. Selama nie terbayang-bayang macam mana penyampai-penyampai nie buat kerja, akhirnya semalam penyampai-penyampai gila-gila Era iaitu Reza dan AdiFashla menunjukkan kepada Abang Nara cara mereka buat kerja. Agak culture shock [...]

Why the thumbnails aren’t showing in IE9?

I get a quick awkward email this morning when a client emailed me and told me something wrong with… IE9? So I went on and download IE9 preview to check out if I need to… Debug again.

It turned out to be the bug in IE9 Preview, or probably I should say it is just a beta (?). I find it lack on speed (very usual IE) and still bugging too.

However, good thing is, IE9 support some commonly used CSS3 properties, but not as much as I thought it will. Simple things like text-shadow should be in the list!!!

The built-in Developer Tools is definitely an added point to IE. Of all the Developer Tools in browsers (Safari and Chrome) I find IE9 has the simplest user interface, and it is useful too. Like how FireBug did, I can edit the code as I wish.

Just so you might lost, like I did. To enter an address you need to go to “File” -> “Open” and place in the address. IE9 Preview has the most simplest interface of all browsers, actually that was what I’m aftering, see how Google Chrome did it

But anyhow, it seems like IE9 Preview is mostly for offline testing eh?

The IE team is definitely heading the right direction!

P/S: By the way, what is with the font rendering doing in IE9?!

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