Parties are always fun and a blast but here in Malaysia, post parties are nothing short of a eye sore! I was at Thailand a few years ago and while my friend and me were watching a parade along the main street in Phuket, we saw something that was new to us. The municipal council was cleaning up right behind the procession to ensure that the infamous tourist destination remained clean.
Now back to home (more…)
Its a brand new year and the national service call up’s begin! A total of 38,000 of 140,000 National Service (NS) trainees selected for this year’s training are joining their camps nationwide today and tomorrow.
Of them, 14,238 trainees from Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Penang, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor, Terengganu, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya were ferried by 355 buses from 102 assembly points to their camps on Saturday.The next batch of 14,570 trainees from Perlis, Labuan and other states will be sent to their camps tomorrow while 9,214 more on Monday.
You can download the listings of the pickup points and schedule below! If you will be attending the national service be safe and have fun while your at it 
You can check out the extremely slow Khidmat Negara website or just grab it below
Download -> PKP-Kump1-Siri7_2010
While i was working with a NGO, i went to Digi for a meeting. So here i was dressed nicely in my formal attire and in my tie waiting for the Digi team to come get us, comes in a gentlemen nicely dressed in jeans, a shirt with sleeves rolled up. I was a tad surprised at the dress code but we went ahead with the meeting and i made friends with the gentlemen who i was talking too.
A few days later, i asked him about the dress code in Digi and he told me… (more…)
I was driving through the Smart Tunnel yesterday and listening to Fly Fm. As i got into the tunnel i had a interuption of some Malay dude speaking. So i thought that i was loosing signal from Fly Fm and some cross to another Malay station. But then i got the frequency back and music was clear again on the radio.
Then i got the interuption again, but since the volume was loud i heard the entire interuption and to my suprise it was a traffic announcement specifically for Smart Tunnel users! This is brilliant! At least you now know what to expect in front and to plan on which exit to take to avoid the traffic jams.
The only thing is the announcements are in Bahasa Malaysia and not in English as well. What if one didnt understand Bahasa Malaysia?
Well done on this service and i think that its very helpful
I subscribe to the streamyx 1MB line and pay RM88(excluding the phone line rental,which i dont use) and this is the kind of speeds that i get. Am i getting ripped off or what?
Streamyx giving you real peace of mind? Maybe the beginners deserve a shot eh!
As of May 2009, the money men/women from Malaysia are :
| Rank | Name | Net Worth ($MIL) | Age |
| 1 | Robert Kuok | 9,000 | 85 |
| 2 | Ananda Krishnan | 7,000 | 71 |
| 3 | Lee Shin Cheng | 3,200 | 70 |
| 4 | Lee Kim Hua | 2,500 | 80 |
| 5 | Teh Hong Piow | 2,400 | 79 |
| 6 | Quek Leng Chan | 2,300 | 68 |
| 7 | Yeoh Tiong Lay | 1,800 | 79 |
| 8 | Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary | 1,100 | 57 |
| 9 | Tiong Hiew King | 1,000 | 74 |
| 10 | Vincent Tan | 750 | 57 |
| 11 | Azman Hashim | 470 | 69 |
| 12 | William H.J. Cheng | 390 | 66 |
| 13 | G. Gnanalingam | 260 | 64 |
| 14 | Lim Kok Thay | 225 | 57 |
| 15 | Anthony Fernandes | 220 | 45 |
| 16 | Mokhzani Mahathir | 215 | 48 |
| 17 | Lee Oi Hian | 210 | 58 |
| 18 | Chan Fong Ann | 209 | 78 |
| 19 | Kamarudin Meranun | 205 | 48 |
| 20 | Chong Chook Yew | 200 | 87 |
| 21 | Chen Lip Keong | 195 | 61 |
| 22 | Lee Swee Eng | 190 | 53 |
| 23 | Jeffrey Cheah | 185 | 64 |
| 24 | Lim Wee Chai | 180 | 51 |
| 25 | Ahmayuddin bin Ahmad | 175 | 52 |
| 26 | Lee Hau Hian | 174 | 55 |
| 27 | Lau Cho Kun | 165 | 73 |
| 28 | Vinod Sekhar | 150 | 41 |
| 29 | Liew Kee Sin | 140 | 50 |
| 30 | Tiah Thee Kian | 135 | 61 |
| 31 | Rozali Ismail | 130 | 53 |
| 32 | Lin Yun Ling | 115 | 54 |
| 33 | Yaw Teck Seng | 113 | 71 |
| 34 | Goh Peng Ooi | 112 | 53 |
| 35 | Eleena Azlan Shah | 110 | 49 |
| 36 | David Law Tien Seng | 105 | NA |
| 37 | Syed Mohd Yusof Tun Syed Nasir | 100 | 61 |
| 38 | Hamdan Mohamad | 98 | 53 |
| 39 | Tan Teong Hean | 95 | 65 |
| 40 | Kua Sian Kooi | 90 | 56 |
Whats interesting to me is Tony Fernandes who sits on the 15th spot and you can sense that he is going to be climbing the list steadily considering how he is diversifying into various businesses besides his baby, Air Asia. Next years list should be a interesting read considering the economic slow down.
Should show who gained and who lost from the turmoil.
Astro has finally launched its brand new HD service today! Its called Astro b.yond . The new service will enable subscribers to enjoy with four channels, namely Astro Supersport HD, HBO HD, National Geographic Channel HD and History HD which will be available at launch date, while ESPN HD will start in January.
As an Astro customer you can exchange your current Astro decoder to experience Astro B.yond for FREE. The above mentioned set-up gives you access to your favourite channels in High-Definition for an additional monthly service fee of only RM20.
What do you get? (more…)
We have read about Astro going HD real soon and there has been debates if you should get a Heady Ready, HD or a Full HD tv if your looking to upgrade. I had to go through the details when i was buying a LCD tv for my home and ultimately decided to go for a Full HD tv simply because, if im upgrading might as well go for best for my dollar value.
Now do you know what HD really is?
HDTV is defined as having higher quality video, audio and a wider image aspect ratio than standard television broadcast signals.
Digital Archive on Malaysia: A project of Malaysiakini, with assistance of Asia Foundation and Friedrich Naumann Foundation
This is a superb project which compiles important historical documents, books, photos, publications and personal memoirs. This resource will be very very helpful as a reference at any time! This is the first of its kind that i have seen covering Malaysian documents and hopefully it stays updated and alive for a long,long time!
You need to register to have access to these documents and it takes less than 2 minutes to get this done!
Check out Digital Library
There was a article on The Star yesterday indicating that Astro will go High Definition real soon! This is definitely good news for everyone as finally the HD Ready, HD and FULL HD tv owners can enjoy the quality they should be getting from the satellite tv provider.
To enjoy the HD experience there will be some upgrading required from the consumers as well in form of the satellite dish and decoder which will have a HDMI connection, composite outputs, Ethernet port, an USB port and even a digital audio output for 5.1-channel surround sound audio.
I have been waiting for this to happen for a while now and hopefully ill get a chance to test it out and update on the quality that is in line. Singapore’s Singtel has HD Tv via mIo so i look forward to compare both soon
Source : The Star
