ANOTHER TRAINING (updated)

Today is another paintball pracrice sesion at ASTAKA in PJ. This is in line with our preparation for My NPL Curcuit 4 to be held in Malacca from 1-2 August 2009. Played with Infidelz who are preparing for the same competition. This is my souvenir. Normal la for paintballerz.

This picture below (edited) is the same shot mark as the above picture from another player. I edited this to record the anatomy of the injury from day one. My mode of treatment is using a cold cream (sorry I am not advertising the brand). Contact me if you want to know which cream. Definitely it is not Durex or KY Jelly. LOL.

Blood clot forming and the mark gets darker. This picture was taken after I apply the cream. I will update this posting to show the healing process.

NO!! I don't mean to scare prospective paintball players but this kind of injury is normal for paintballerz. This is just a pre game mental set of what to expect if one want to play paintball.

PEN DRIVE - A MALAYSIAN INVENTION

So the idea of a pen drive was invented by a Malaysian? That was reported in AllMalaysia.info.
Name: Pua Khein Seng
Age: 31
Hometown: Sekinchan, Selangor
Education: SJKC Yeok Kuan, Sekinchan; Pin Hwa Independent school, Klang; Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Occupation: Engineer/ president of Phison Electonics Corp
Current base: Taipei, Taiwan
Years abroad: 12

Read what S.Indramalar reported after speaking to the creator of the Pen Drive.

WIFE IS A MAN

clipped from www.mmail.com.my Sex-change 'Wife' causes stir in court Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 18:57:00 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 (Bernama) -- The "wife" of a man charged with committing robberies caused a major stir in the Sessions Court here today when "she" turned out to be a he. This prompted him to ask the "woman", who was dressed in a brown saree and matching blouse if they were indeed married, to which "she" just smiled and nodded her head Rajandren told the judge they had a traditional marriage but had yet to register the marriage with the authorities because his sex status had not been changed with the National Registration Department (NRD). The issue arose when P. Ramesh, 40, pleaded not guilty to the charges and his "wife" wanted to post bail for him.Judge Zainal Abidin Kamarudin on checking the "wife"'s identity card (MyKad) went pale when he discovered "her" name to be Rajandren a/l Nagarajan.

MICHEAL JACKSON, FARAH FAWCETT DIES

This has been the talk of the morning. My usual friends at the office cafe also talked about it. The world had lost two popular celebrities.

CONDOLENCE TO FAMILIES OF BOTH STARS

Read Micheal Jackson HERE and Farah Fawcett HERE.

RELAY FOR LIFE 09

This year I make my presence at the Relay For Life more than last year. Since I have no appointments during the weekends, I attended the charity event even though not as official participants. Stayed from evening till late at night but went home for sleep before coming again the next morning.

The event organised by the National Cancer Soceity of Malaysia is part of the worldwide awareness campaign for prevention of cancer and in support of cancer victims. Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society signature activity giving opportunity to everyone in the community to participate in the fight against cancer.

The tagline for the campaign Giving Hope Celebrating Life.

Honorary Adviser Dato' Zuraidah Atan mingling with participants and making her presence felt. I think she and other member of the society is instrumental in making this campaign a success.

Waiting to be flagged off on the evening of 29th May 2009. Dato' Zuraidah flagged the relay. The survivors making their round after the flag off.

Even foreigners help make the event a joyous one. French and Nigerian flags can be seen. Who else will carry flagsof their own country. Philippines make their present felt too besides the US Embassy. This was the highlight of the night. Drag Queen was crowned. It really convert the atmosphere into a hot entertainment. Did not expect these women (read is as guys) do pull the attraction towards the stage. In the end Isis Natasya was the hot favourite of the crowd and walk away with the "crown"

Exercise, exercise and exercise. Participants were never bored taking part voluntarily to the music and presentation on stage by various groups and entertainers.

Whats for breakfast? Free cereals, of course. However it does not fill up with just one small cup (psstt!I took two) and not enough calories to walk lor. Unlike what you can get in your home on the breakfast table. Cereals with milk and then a small cup of Milo.

Its nice to take a walk in the morning. Morning sun is one of the source of Vitamin D for our body. Vitamin D plays an important role in the maintenance of organ systems.

Smokers die young. In one of my slide presentation during Sports Science courses I list out one of the advantages of smoking. Tidak sempat menikmati usia tua (Might not experience old age). Why? Smokers might die young. There is also arguments that my grandfather is a heavy smoker and he lived up to nearly 90 years old. My friend use to answer this, "That is your grandfather. Other peoples grandfather died younger." Whatever it is, smoking contributes to dying young for some people.

View from the grandstand.

Line dancing being one of the "exercise" regime for those present on the morning 0f 31 May 2009

Doing the MacarenaThe second day of the event was in conjunction with No Tobacco Day. Tobacco is one of the contributing factor to cancer.

On the second day, I join in the walk to show my support and while making the round I decided to find out how many participant who prepare luminaires in remembrance of their loved ones who succumbed to cancer remembers Allah. I only found this one after walking the whole 400 metres of the track.

Well, I might missed some of the others but I think I am sure this is the only one seen. As a Muslim I felt

SEX TOO NOT SPARED

Sex is basic needs for humans and the animal kingdom. What is sex? I don't know. Hahahaha...... Read HERE. Yea la, I need sex too and don't you think it is normal.

What prompeted me to write this post is This Headline. Lecturer demanded sex and money from a student in order to get good grades. Is this an isolated case? I don't think so. But however can be classified isolated because not all victims lodge reports and maybe to MACC this might be a first report. Personally I give due respect to the victim for her bravery to take such action. Most victims especially females see it as a disgrace to expose such behaviour because we look at sex as something taboo. When we think of sex it might always be as a man and a women having intercourse. Aaaahh....maybe porn did infiltrate our mind.

So, do you agree that sex sells?

Jackie Chan's

I was having breakfast with some friends at our office cafe sometimes last week and one of them brought out the topic of Jackie Chan's house in Hong Kong. He said Jackie's house has tunnels leading to shopping complexes in Hong Kong. He said that it was shown on National Geographic but I was quite skeptical. Knowing the landscape of Hong Kong (have been there lor!) I think it is quite difficult to dig tunnels. After I saw the pictures on Nicole Kiss blog, the degree of my skeptic increases. I copied this picture from her blog and can you imagine how to cut tunnels from his house on top of that mountain (hill?) to shopping complexes which might be situated kilometres away. Maybe you might have seen the feature on National Geographic.

There is an interview about his top secret hideout and posted on You Tube and also was posted on Nicole's blog. As a credit go and read her blog HERE.

What's On The Menu?

Just a light moment. Look at the pic and its your interpretation. No!, they don't serve that. Just a coincidence in the name.

UPDATED.

Shabu is one of the new drug introduced especially to the lower income addicts. When Isaw this signboard at a shopping complex in Petaling Jaya, my mind veered straight to the drug. Well, I am ignorant about Japanese cuisine. What I know is sushi and that also was made popular (to me) by the cartoon series Sin Chan.

Tonight I read a blog and there is a mention about shabu shabu that prompt me to make a Wiki search. Now I know that shabu-shabu is a Japanese variant of hot pot. Read HERE.

I Wuz At Bloggers "K"arnival PJ Challenge 09

It was a full day of knowledge hunting for me concentrating on blogging, when I attended the PJ Challenge Blogger "K"arnival 09 at Jaya 33, Section 13, Petaling Jaya.

This event is to coincide with the anniversary of Petaling Jaya being granted a city status and using bloggers to spread the news is a wise move for the organisers. In the time where mainstream newspaper is getting less popular by day, the newmedia is going to be the main information source of reference for the future. The power and influence of the new media came into light after the May 8th 2008 General election Tsunami in Malaysia.

I signed up for the Kaspersky K-Klub (above) and receive this First Day Cover (below) and a T shirt.

Above: Guests during the opening ceremony

Above: Colouring contest for kids.

Above: The line dancing group(Chinese ladies) performing a dance from a Malay number during the opening ceremony. A performance of promoting Malaysian Malaysia?

One of the activites of the day is Learning how to blog. This session is open to wannabe bloggers who were giuded hot to set up blogs on blogger.com. There were two concurrent sessions of Blog 101. First class is open to blogger wannabe from the general public and the other is the special class which was attended by mostly the elder net enthusiast and VIP. The session for the special class was guided by Kenny Sia while another class by Euweng.

Blog 101 (Special) conducted by Kenny Sia

Above: Blog 101 sessions for new wannabe bloggers. Conducted by Euweng.

Above: MCs cum speakers for the session Amanda and Josh

Above: Speakers for the Blog 411 session. From Left: Amanda Choe, Josh, Datuk Wong (VIP) Ms Sook Ling (Organiser), Kenny Sia, Nikki Cheong, Jason Goh, Rames, Ellie and Soon Wei.

Above: The attraction during Blog 411 session. No not you Amanda. Its the 11 years old Gloson during the Knock out quiz to take home a Acer Aspire Timeline. He did won.

Above: A momento picture with Kenny Sia.

I was one of the five blogger presented with this Kaspersky Internet Security pack and a "I Love Kaspersky" T shirt for my pre event post.

Above: Thats me after receiving the KIS. In the middle is Datuk Wong Sai Ho, President of Association of Backpacker's Malaysia and on left is another winner Dragoncall.

NB: I am already a licensed user for this antivirus software and to date, it was a worth buy and reliable. So now what am I going to do with this pack. Definitley it will be unfair to Kaspersky for me to sell the Not For Resale pack. Ooo, maybe I'll have to buy a desktop. LOL.

FYI : Tech Lane after sales service is good considering I had a problem with the online updating of KIS and the technicians kept contacting me relating to my problem until it was solved. Thanks tech's at Tech Lane.

At the of Blog 411 session, I receive this as a momento.

It's Datuk Sudirman

The late Sudirman Hj Arshad who was popular in the 70s and 80s was conferred the Darjah Sultan Ahmad Shah Pahang (DSAP) carrying the tittle Datuk on the 78th birthday Anniversary of the Sultan of Pahang on 24th October 2008.

The award was received by his eldest sister Datin Rodziah Arshad at Istana Abu Bakar. Sudirman passed away on 22nd February 1992.

Photo credit: mStar.

P1 Wimax Is Giving Me Shit

It is in my second month of using P1 Broadband service. The first month was all smooth surfing but things turn ugly after I paid my first bill. Ever since I couldn't get the service I expected anymore as claimed by P1, even though my house is covered by two base station. Which ever direction I face the front of my modem (as directed by the coverage map), the signal is just shit. The red light blinks all the time and if it jumps to amber it will just be for a few seconds only and will revert back to red instead of going green. This is really shit.

I found that other subscriber too experience the unstability in the first month. Read the comments HERE too.

Now I see that P1 Wimax is not going to be better that Maxis Broadband or the lousy Streamyx. And Wimax have the gut to remind me the due date of the second bill.

I am using (read it as forced to steal) my neighbour's signal to post this piece.

UPDATED : I found this article from The Star online. From hare speed to tortoise pace. It is worth reading if you want to have an overview of what is happening to our supposedly ambituous Multimedia Super Corridor. I like what I read from the article verbatim;

The best I could come out with was to ask them to be patient as the Government had initiated the National Broadband Project and that in a few years the whole of the Klang Valley would be wired up.

Pierre and Johann both gave me that “you got to be kidding” look. The Swiss pointed out that all towns in his home country had put in fibre optics years ago.

“They just dug and dug and wired everyone up. What are you all waiting for?” he asked.

He was “very impressed” when he first came to Malaysia 10 years ago.

“You all then had ADSL lines when we in France were still using dial-ups,” he recalled.

“But what happened? We are now surfing at real broadband speed and not the ‘best service possible’ practice as you have here in Malaysia.

“Johann, if you get 50% of the promised speed in Malaysia, consider yourself lucky.”

Of course this is Malaysia Boleh.

You Have Nothing To Do?

Kill the flies. HERE.

Amazing Picture From Plane Before Crash

UPDATED 24 Jun 2009: Today I decided to update this blog to clarify that the pictures are a hoax. A reader posted the comment with the link to prove that these pictures are hoax. I am not pulling out this posting because it will be information to future readers about the status of the picture.

Thank you Caranthir for the information.

I subscribed to one Yahoo Groups and this article below was sent to my email.

Yesterday the world saw the disappearance of an A330 Air France during a trans Atlantic flight between Rio to Paris. Very ironic that a day before got a mail of the photos taken by a passenger on a flight mins after a mid air collision, and minutes before the crash of the said aircraft.

Two shots taken inside the plane before it crashed. Unbelievable! Photos taken inside the GOL B 737 aircraft that was involved in a mid air collision and crashed.......

AB737 had a mid air collision with the Embraer Legacy while cruising at 35,000 feet over South America. The Embraer Legacy, though seriously damaged with the winglet ripped off, managed to make a landing at a nearby airstrip in the midstof the Amazon jungle. The crew and passengers of the Embraer Legacy had no ideawhat they had hit. The B737 however crashed, kiling all crew and passengers on board.

The two photos attached were apparently taken by one of the passengers in the B737, just after the collision and before the aircraft crashed. The photos were retrieved from the camera's memory stick. You will never get to see photos like these. In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tail plane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo, one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole.

These photos were found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the remains in Serra do Cachimbo. Although the camera was destroyed, the memory stick was recovered. Investigating the serial number of the camera, the owner was identified as Paulo G. Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in the outskirts of Porto Alegre. It can be imagined that he wasstanding during the impact with the Embraer Legacy and during the turbulence, he managed to take these photos, just seconds after the tail loss the aircraft plunged. So the camera was found near the cockpit. The structural stress probably ripped the engines away, diminishing the falling speed, protecting the electronic equipment but not unfortunately the victims. Paolo Muller leaves behind two daughters, Bruna and Beatriz.

FREE Car Sticker

Do you love stickers on your car? It can be some sort of decoration for your car or maybe a sunshade to replace the not so legal tinted on your windshields. I found this one blog informing of this sticker below.

It is an innovative idea from a The Business Station, BFM 89.9. I already requested for the sticker to be mailed to me and you too can ask for one. Visit BFM website HERE and request for one. Let us all do our bit to help the campaign for a good cause.

You might also want to visit THIS website to see about Malaysia in the eyes of the world.

Bloggers@RWMF 09

Besides the PJ Challenge 09 for bloggers at Petaling Jaya on 2oth Jun 2009, there will also be another bloggers gathering in Sarawak. This gathering is to coincide with the Rainforest World Music Festival 09. What is Bloggers@RWMF09? Get more details HERE.

Rainforest World MusicFestival is a unique festival celebrating a diversity of world music where musicians from all over the world The annual event is making itself felt and the Sarawak Tourism Board is working very hard to ensure this years event is as successful as ever if not more.

Any good samaritans want to sponsor my trip to the festival?

A Weekend Of Paintball

This weekend will be paintbal filled. First it was my team,Yakuza, training in the morning at Astaka in Petaling Jaya. I am not sure how many times I attended training with my fellow teammates since we took part in the first My-NPL tournament on Valentine's Day this year. I was quite late for todays training due to a little fatigue. I arrived home at about 4.30 a.m after driving through the night from Alor Setar. A little nap(what nap? 1hr 30 minutes is a nap?) at Slim River Rest area (trunk road) did not help much to help me refresh.

It was our usual training in preparation for our next participation in My NPL event 4 at Malacca. We are skipping next week's Kuantan tournament. This week we have a new Yakuza and the sixth member of the team. So if the figure sticks then we can have some access to rest during tournaments. In the last tournament all five of us have to play all the games and we do not have any space for injuries or the team will be a depleted one.

I knew I was not fully ready for the training due to lack of rest. However on the positive side, I did not sustain any body injuries compared to seven during the last training. Out of the seven, three was on the same spot. Eventhough the game was a bit tough due to playing with opponents using e-markers compared to us (me) using manual markers. This was not our first playing with opponents using e-markers and it is an advantage for us. The only setback today, we did not play as one team, so the element of teamwork for Yakuza today is nil.

Heavy rain towards noon, forced our training to stop. My evaluation for today's training is 6 out of 10.

In the afternoon, I witness the Malaysian Paintball Official Circuit at Xtion Paintball in Bukit Jalil. To me, I consider that as part of my training too. I watch and learn how experienced players move during the game. It was a good lesson watching, Raskals, Macdev Ronin and Nemesis Legion playing. In sports, the fastest way to improve performance is to watch the best play and play with the best.

Link Within

How many post are there in your blog? Do you browse back and read what you have posted sometimes back. And did your visitor too read what you have posted last year? Definitely the answer is 'I don't know'. So your old posts is in the cyber rubbish dump?

Recently I stumble upon a website that link your post to other (might be) related stories that visitors and maybe you yourself like to read again. At least once in a while your old posting might help you create new posting.

Just browse through my blog and you will see what I mean.

PJ Challenge '09 Bloggers 'K'arnival

There will be some activity for bloggers this month of June. Its the Bloggers 'K'arnival PJ Challenge 09 to be held at Jaya 33 in Petaling Jaya. Go HERE for more information and registration form.

The 'K'arnival will gather bloggers, new and experienced and it will be a good starting point for newbie bloggers. There will be sessions for those who want to learn how to start blogging (Blog 101) and those old timers (Blog 411) to improve their blogs.

Children are not spared too because the event will be family friendly, so bloggers can bring along their family to make the function more exciting.

Among other attractions are:

Giving away of Limited Edition Kaspersky First DayCover to commemorate thevisit of Kaspersky Lab founder, Eugene Kaspersky.

• Celebrity bloggers is expected to make their appearance to - Kenny Sia, Amanda Choe, Ellie Chee, NikiCheong, Josh Lim etc.

• Registration for K-Klub memberships.

• Colouring contest for kids and lots more.

lI have registered and confirmed by the Admin.

4th May 2006

That's my birthday. No, not my own birthday but this blog's birthday and I forgot to celebrate it. It has been more than a month now and only today remeber it. Oh! what an absent minded guy I am.

This is what I wrote in my first posting to this blog.

I started blogging after reading Screenshots by Jeff Ooi. Back then I found posting about the Tsunami that hit many parts of South East Asia in 2004 such as Aceh(worst hit), Tanjung Bungah, Kuala Muda, Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Maldives etc. killing 225,000 people. Since then I did not stop blogging and reinvent my passion for writing.

I gain the writing passion back in 1974 when I was a teacher trainee at Maktab Perguruan Gaya (now Institut Pendidikan Guru Kampus Gaya) in Kota Kinabalu. What planted the desire to write after learning that a senior colleague of the college published a Malay novel. I started writing sajak and fictions. Some of my writing was aired over RTM Sabah and published in the local dailies.

When I was posted to Kota Marudu in the northern part of the state, I kept my love of writing adding news reporting to my list. I was a freelance non registered stringer writing to Borneo Post, Daily Express and Sabah Times. My short stories found a place in the dailies too besides still sending sajak to RTM Sabah.

However when I was transfered back to Semenanjung Malaysia, my serious involvement in sports had me put aside my writing effort until I start blogging.

Who Actually Commit A Crime?

Watch video HERE

I just don't know what to say after looking at the video clip. Can hear conversation that the guys says they are the police but I don't think they are policemen. The uniform show that they are just security guards and this too do not happen at a police station. Eventhough this type of treatment can happen in a police interrogation room (just ask those suspects who had experience being interrogated).

These guys are taking things into their own hands. Do security guards have the authority to interrogate to such an extend? What if the victim dies while being bashed by everybody present at the moment?

Nobody support crime activities, me incusive but after watching the video clip, I turn pity on the victim. I see that the security guards has gone beyond their power and are actually committing a crime in the clip.

Did the victim really rape a housewife as being accused? Can't make it because did not see what happen before this picture was taken?

Read the source where I got this news.

Daulat Tuanku

Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Wathiqu Billah Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah

D.K.M., D.K.T., D.K.R., D.M.N., S.U.M.Z., S.S.M.T., S.P.M.T., D.K. (Perlis), D.K. (Johor), D.K.M.B. (Brunei), D.K. (Perak), D.K. (Negeri Sembilan), D.K. (Kedah), D.K. (Kelantan), D.K. (Selangor), S.P.M.J., Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur (France)

Sempena Hari Ulang Tahun Keputeraan Baginda Yang Ke 47
Semoga Tuhan Melanjutkan Usia DYMM Tuanku

Internet Con - The Other Version

Internet com comes in many version. A Rule of Thumb: Do Not Response if you are doubtful. Better loose a new prospective foreign friend than loosing your hard earned money and knock your head against the wall (not on your pc/laptop screen, pls) after that. 

I received this email that was sent from MyBlogLog and forwarded to me. See how popular I am on the internet that many people wanted to establish a relationship with me "based on truth and trust" with me. 

This is the content of the email. 

Hello,
My name is helyn, i saw your  profile  here  today  at (mybloglog),and became intrested in you, i will also like to know you the more and estabilish a relationship that is bassed on truth and trust with you, i will  give  you  my  picture for you  to  know  whom  im  when  i get  your  reply,
pls i have something  very  very important  i  will like to tell you. I believe we can start from here!
Remeber the  distance  does not matter but love  matters  alot in life, thanks.

See, I highlighted the catch sentence that will make one fall into their trap. The something very important is that the sender has inherited some money that amount to millions and has to be transfered into someones account before it can be withdrawn. So after this I will have to deposit a few thousand RM as processing fee which will in the end vanish into thin air. Read this example. 

Just Plain Greedy

I just can't believe it after reading this report on Star online. Teacher loses RM138,000.............

After all those highlight in the media, there are still greedy people who fall into conmen traps. This time a teacher and OMG, a 39 years old teacher has such amount of money? 

The morale is Greed Never Pays. 

Along!!

Photo credit : Berita Harian Online
Selangor police released pictures of four notorious along in Selangor. These are belived to be in the top management of K-9 Crystal Gems Enterprise gruop.