AirAsia To Fly Guilin

No thats not just a screen saver image, its the city of Guilin in China. This city is one of the best-known tourist destinations in China. There are many scenic places within short traveling distance of Guilin. These include Longshang with its famous Longji rice terraces; The Li jiang river, a scene of which is printed on the back of ¥20 bank notes; Yangshuo, a small city downstream form Guilin; and much more. This makes Guilin an excellent base for exploring the northern end of Guangxi region. Guilin is a beautiful city. The town center is surrounded by two rivers and four lakes and studded with shear sided karst mountains. Outside the city center, the buildings are less well kept. The main industry in the city is tourism.

Guess what, AirAsia will be flying to Guilin starting the 3rd of September 2008.This town will be its 7th destination to China. There will be four weekly flights between the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal in Sepang and Liangjiang Airport in Guilin.

AirAsia is offering a special launch fare starting at RM88 for the booking period until Sunday. Log on to AirAsia and book those tickets!! I have not been to China yet but this one looks pretty nice, first i need the money :S !!

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Gantry system to be tested

Good news!! Very soon you wont need to slow down then your approaching your toll booths. The current system allows you to pay by cash,touch”n go or smart tag. Even with the smart tag you need to slow down to a certain speed to ensure the readers detect the smart tag and the barrier opens up.

The brand newtoll gantry system will undergo testing at the Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong’s Sungai Penchala Toll Plaza from November 2008 onwards.

Highway Authority director-general Datuk Mohamad Razali Othman says the new toll gantry system is more efficient compared to the existing infrared-based SmartTag system as there are no boom gates that force motorists to slow down.

The new microwave-based onboard-unit that is claimed to be able to detect motorists passing through the toll gantry even at speeds of up to 180km/h. There is one big big problem that is brewing, since there are no boom gates, motorists without the SmartTag system or the new microwave-based unit can just drive through without paying. Datuk Mohamad Razali says they are still figuring out how to go after such cases. Oh no, how do you solve this problem. Now Datuk…lets take a peak across the cosway and lets see what our friendly neighbours are doing to resolve that problem.

Ugly looking device that ALL vehicles in Singapore have

Have you seen one of these on a Singapore car,bike,taxi,trucks and any vehicle on wheels?? In Singapore they call it a ERP Unit(Electronic Road Pricing). This unit will enable the users to drive by their versions of toll booths without taking up the space and saving on manpower collecting money from the users.

"Singaporean Version of a Toll Booth"

This is how their “toll booths” look like, vehicles using the areas simply need to place their Cash Cards into the units.When they drive by these “tol booths” the unit automatically deducts the cost off the card. You do not need to slow down or stop to pay for using the road. Traffic jams at toll booths will surely be a thing of the past, don’t you think so?

Ok now lets ponder about the hard question that the authorities have. How do you enforce it to ensure people don’t simply drive by without having any money to be deducted?! I spoke to my 13 year old brother who gave me this idea…

- Doesn’t our my cards(identification cards) have touch n go?

- Don’t you have to place your touch n go into your smart tag to actually use it?

- Isn’t your my card unique to a individual?

Do the math !

Now..think of the kind of savings that you can have if this system is implemented properly

1) Cost of maintaining the toll booths

2) Cost of the manpower hired to collect the money

3) The electricity cost consumer by the air conditioning for the each toll booths

4) The fuel cost when you get stuck at a jam when you reach the tol booth

5) The security guard/cctv monitoring the booths(if any) cost

6) No risk of human error as human enforcement is not required

These are just a few of the many which I’m sure the real experts can come up with. Come on guys! If your not as creative, there is absolutely nothing wrong in learning from those who know how its done!

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Soccer Heroes - Soh Chin Aun

Soh Chin Aun is another member of the legendary Malaysian team that made every opponent that toke on the Malaysian team back in the 70’s worried. The Malacca born defender was a regular in the national setup which incluced the likes of Mokhtar Dahari,R Arumugam, defenders Santokh Singh, midfielders Reduan Abadullah ,Shukor Salleh and Isa Bakar.

Winning on of his many Malaysia Cup tittle's

Tauke was born at Alor Gajah, Malacca on the 28th of July 1950. He is married to Datin Patricia Lee Chwee Siang and has 2 children Bee Hin and Chuan Tye. Something you didn’t know about tauke is the actual spelling of his name is Soh Chin Ann. He started his carrier representing Selangor from 1970-1980 and subsequently went on to represent his home state of Malacca from 1981till1983. He wore the national colours throughout his carrier from 1970 till 1983 earning him 200 caps.

Tauke was part of all the glory years when Malaysia used to come on field with pride and honour and win games for the nation at any cost. He was also known as ‘god of war’ because of his commanding presence in the centre of defence and that also earned him the captain’s armband for the qualifying team to the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.

2008 China Olympics torch run

These days tauke is the the chairman of the referees’ committee on 13 March 2007 and is actively involved with the Football Association of Malaysia(FAM). He was featured as one of the many 2008 China Olympics torch bearers run for Malaysia. I personally feel that tauke should simply teach all national players what the legendary team believed in, what made them so special. Malaysian national players should try to emulate Soh Chin Aun and his colleagues not the John Terry’s and Christiano Ronaldo’s.

Hopefully one day i get a chance to meet him and shake his hand because that is what a true national sports man is all about!

Wikipedia and Selangor FC

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Maxis to distribute iPhone

Its finally coming to Malaysia! The iPhone has been the talk of the town from the time it was first launched and it never made its way to our shores. Every time someone showed off their brand new iPhone with the fancy finger maneuvers it was from either America or Hong Kong or UK. The phones had to be cracked because it wouldn’t work with our local network. A friend told me that he couldn’t plug it onto his computer while it was online because it apparently would lock the phone again.

That pretty much explains why Malaysia wasnt a favourite destination for Apple to bring the iphone too. Then they launched the iphone 3G! This one got me excited, its half the price and twice as fast!! Now that’s something i would consider!! In the latest news, Maxis will be introducing the iPhone 3G for below RM1,000.

Maxis could not comment on when the iPhone will be available yet as Apple does not have a Asian distribution policy yet. It be interesting to see the price point and how it is going to bundled with the maxis packages before being offered to the consumer! Thank god im a maxis user

Source & The Edge

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Soccer Heroes - Mokhtar Dahari

The current Malaysian football scene is nothing short of rubbish, were sitting something like 160th position in the FIFA world ranking(there are about 190 seeded countries) . The nation would claim that football is our no 1 sport despite the lousy condition of the national team. This is probably because its our most watched sport(English Premier League’s,EURO,World Cups etc) . Take a walk at the streets, you’ll see more Everton shirts than a Malaysian national team shirt(don’t get me started on the Man U’s and Liverpool’s) .What do we watch since we have a team that suffer to beat countries like India which playing the marbles is above football in their favorite sports list.

It never has been always this bad, at one point Malaysia was considered to be a Asian powerhouse. At that time there weren’t any professional players. The players all had full time jobs and played football simply because they loved it and every time they put on the national shirt, it was a matter of pride!!

One of the stars of yesterday was Mokthar Dahari .He made his national debut at the age of 19 and represented Selangor for most of his career where he went on to win the Malaysia cup 10 times.

SuperMokth as he was famously known was part of a powerful Malaysian team which was also represented by goalkeeper R Arumugam, defenders Santokh Singh and Soh Chin Aun, midfielders Reduan Abadullah and Shukor Salleh and Mokhtar’s partner upfront Isa Bakar.

During the 70’s Malaysia team beat Arsenal & England team where he scored a spectacular goal,dribbling it from the middle to score at the other end.

He was blessed with such skills but at the age of 37,Supermokth passed away of muscular dystrophy on 11 July 1991. Tt here have been all sorts of rumors about how he passed on but fact was that he was sick.

Since then Malaysia have never had a team which came close to the passion, drive and hunger to emulate the success of the 70’s national team. We have a bunch of spoil professionals with access to such high tech training methods and programs to ensure they are on top of their game but for some reason, they prefer the nasi lemak and night life.

I hope someday, something happens and our local football take a drastic change for the sake of the nation..I hope i get the opportunity someday to shake the hands of these stars who made us proud!

Vote on the poll on the sidebar to choose why our football has become so poor.

Watch another video of the good ol days

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Why does news need to be so dramatic?

Do we really need to get so dramatic with our news?

NST wrote quite a bit in regards to Balasubramaniam’s dogs not being attended to. Feces and the stench of urine further worsen the situation but all NST could do was watch as they didn’t have authority to break in.

Balasubramaniam’s dogs are being left un-attended in his home since he left with his family recently. Someone’s been feeding them but they need more. I know you have bigger things in life to take care of now but your dogs are innocent don’t let them suffer for you.

Doesn’t SPCA have the right to break the locks and rescue the dogs. I’m quite sure animals have rights too.

Source: NST

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Miss Malaysia 2008

Miss Malaysia 2008 is the event that determines who will be representing Malaysia to the Miss Universe and Miss World pageant every year. We have had our fair share of beauties and not so beautiful women representing us to these events. Looks is always important in such events but also those representing the nation should come with some brains at least!! This years Ms Malaysia is Levy Li Su Lin and im not too sure she has either.Why?? Watch the video below

Do you honestly think that she is going to make us proud? I hope this video was taken when she was high or something because she speaks like she is addressing a bunch of kids and with a fake accent.

These are some of the previous names that she has got to live up too :

Miss Malaysia/World Past Winners
1983 - Michelle Yeoh
1991 - Samantha Schubert
1992 - Fazira Wan Chek
1994 - Rahima Orchient Yayah
1997 - Arianna Teoh
1998 - Lina Teoh
2007 - Deborah Priya Henry

Miss Malaysia/Universe Past Winners
1978 - Yasmin Yussuf
1982 - Siti Binte Ali
1983 - Puspa Mohamed
1984 - Latifah Abdul Hamid
1995 - Suziela Bt Azrai
2003 - Elaine Daly

Big big shoes to fill isn’t it, some of them have gone on to do achieve great things and making Malaysia proud of their achievements. We have made the Semi-Finals a few times and i sure hope this time around we go past the 1st round! Please don’t make us look bad Levy, if you not sure..Please keep quiet :S

Watch this video in tribute to past Ms Malaysia’s

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Nuffnang Down?

Looks like the Nuffnang is down?! I tried to get in to check on my traffic for the day,14th July 2008 at 8.20pm ,this is what i got ->

Error establishing a database connection

Did you get the same thing?

PS - Nuffnang is back up

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Fly FM Free Car

Im a regular listener of Fly FM for a while now, my radio preset has been stuck on Fly since it started back in 30th June 2005. In my view its a breath of fresh with the usual suspects from AMP of Hitz,Mix and Light & Easy stealing most of the airtime.

The shows i regularly listen too are  Fly FM’s Pagi Show with Phat Fabes, Ben and Nadia as well as the Fly FM’s Night Flight with Hunny and Hafiz. How do you gauge your interest towards stations?

For me its pretty forward, the jocks need to be lively, creative and original!! Some of the more famous radio stations believe it or not are not that creative after all, if you are exposed to radio stations out of the country, you’ll notice many segments are copy cats of things that have been done before.

Want to know how you can win a Car on Fly Fm? Read the rest of this entry »

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Malaysiakini needs your help to expand

Malaysiakini has been busy. 500,000 visitors, 2.5 million page views and 30,000 videos download a day. Their infrastructure is not handling the new surge of traffic nicely and is screaming out for help.

Malaysiakini needs your help to improve their infrastructure. Donate if you can to help a good cause. After all, they have been giving you news that our local papers and TV stayed away from.

Source: Malaysiakini

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