Blog Day 31 August

I receive an email once in a while from Nuffnang and this one is about 6th Blog Day that Nuffnang will be celebrating. Thanks for the email and now I knew that there is such a day dedicated to Blog.
As requested
1. BLUE LADYBLOG
I came to know about this blog and blogger when I attended the  Blogfest Asia 2010 in Penang organised by Bloggercon. The blogger behind this is Kounila Keo, a Cambodian Lady and she’s a AFP Reporter,  who had the opportunity travelling in performing her job. Being a Cambodian and as we knew how English were spoken, I found out that this lady speaks English quite fluently. That goes also to her writings. Being a journalist in Cambodia, a once war torn nation, she speaks out her mind, “ Cambodia seems much worse, and as I said among them all, Cambodian media are only into politics and stuff. Not a day goes by without journalists writing up political pieces just to satisfy a certain politician”.
This blog’s tagline is “It’s not just another Cambodian blog and if you want to read about Cambodian Politics, lifestyle and mind of a Cambodian women, don’t miss this blog. Being a journalist, her posts were written in a journalistic style.

This blogger with Kounila and an Indonesian blogger at Blogfest Asia 2010

2. THE WORLD IS WONDERFUL
This blog is managed by a blogger from France by the name of Alexandre from Aix en Provence, South of France.He changed his life from a network engineer and parted with all his belongings to travel around the world. This blog is written from his perspective. He is also a photographer and that helps him a lot in making his postings more understandable. If you likes travelling, this blog can be one of the thousands of travel blog that can give you ideas and inspirations.
3. VERNON GO
This is a blog from the Philippines moderated by Vernon Joseph Go an Industrial Engineer, Blogger, Content Marketer, Social Media Specialist, and Frustrated Entrepreneur exploring both the business and internet world with big plans and great enthusiasm. Freelance web consultant and software engieer.Being involded in social development and youth programs for nation building, he actively promote the use of the nee media for community-building in Mindanao. Hence, Vernon go is geared towards that objectives.
In this blog readers can read about food, travel, social media, events, financial journey etc. If you wan to read something away from Manila, visit Vernon Go.
4. AETHEN
This blog is from The Philippines. He was also one of the participants at Blogfest Asia 2010.The blogger is Mark Aethen Agana. If Vernon Go writes from the Island of Cebu, Mark is stationed in Metro Manila.Aethen is a testimony of his daily experience and views.

 

5. HEATHER ON HER TRAVEL
This is travel blog written by a lady, Heather who record her travel experience. Her blog description “Travel inspiration and destination information with travel tales, photos, videos and podcasts from around the world”. made me choose to post it here is that it contains different medium of presentation: writings, photography, video and podcasting. She blended all the different medium under one blog and visitor can experience all these just under ‘one roof’. At the time of writing this post, this blog is ranked 35th under Top 150 General Travel Blogs at blogranks. 1,292,772 unique monthly visitors.
6. LIFECRUISER
This is again another travel blog that is in the Top 150 General Travel Blogs at blogranks. Eventhough it is ranked 65th, this blog has 1,456,384 unique visitors monthly just three ranks above Kyspeaks, a Malaysian blogger.  This blog is about a Swedish couple who is passionate about travelling, writing and photography.They share their experience travelling to more than 20 countries in Europe, North and South America.Their posts are accompanied with beautiful photos and wonderful information worth reading if you are just an armchair travelogue or looking for ideas to go and see those places yourself.

Laylatul Qadr and its significance

Laylatul Qadr and its significance:

'via Blog this'

We have indeed revealed this (Message) in the Night of Power:

And what will explain to thee what the night of power is?The Night of Power is better than a thousand months.Therein come down the angels and the Spirit by Allah's permission, on every errand:Peace!...This until the rise of morn!(Qur'an, 97:1-5)


The Night of Power is better than a thousand months. This indicates that acts of worship such as prayer, charity, and recitation done on this night are better in reward than the same act done on other nights. The rewards (thawab) are being multiplied several-fold.


Click the link above to read the full article. 

STUPID DRIVERS WHO THINK THEY ARE SMART DUMBASS ON OUR ROADS

Maybe I because I seldom watch News broadcasted over TV. I don’t read the mainstream newspapers except those online and alternative medias. Is there Ops Sikap this festive season? Every year when there is Ops Sikap, many people like to keep track on the statistics piously just like keeping tab on the medal tally in major sporting events. Whether it will be a new record or the ‘performance’ drops. Like it or not we have to swallow those stats.

I bring out this issue because I want to voice out my disappointment plus anger plus stress driving in Malaysia. Reason: STUPID DRIVERS WHO THINK THEY ARE SMART ASS ON THE ROAD.

Who are those STUPID DRIVERS WHO THINK THEY ARE SMART ASS behaving like wild boars driving on our roads? Wild boars don’t have any rule and when they come out on the road, they don’t have any rules to observe. This is my observation.

Q BEATERS : Once I saw this car sticker sometimes ago; OVERTAKERS WILL BE TAKEN CARE BY UNDERTAKERS. These Q beaters are people who create unnecessary jams. They are just selfish dumbass who think only of themselves. They usually bypass the law, taking wrong lanes just beat the Q and sometimes create unnecessary problem for other road users.

ROAD HOGGERS: If you want to makan angin, the road and highways is not the place for you. It is already a rule of thumb that fast lanes are for those people who drives like F1 drivers. People who are rushing to find the nearest toilet to pee. People who think that his car is powered by the latest Pratt & Whitney jet engines. If you want to hog, talk over the phone Be considerate and take the hogging left lanes la u.

BUSY DRIVERS : Those busy drivers who have to rely on their mobilephone to make calls or send SMS while driving. You watch this.

or this

REMPITEERS : These are not those Mat Rempits who race out their heart in the middle of the night and think that they are invincible and will not die racing. These are two wheelers who speeds and weaving in and out  between lines of crawling cars stuck in jams.

BATTERY SAVERS : These are drivers who saves their battery by not giving signals when turning. How many times do we experience, stopping and wait for the oncoming car to clear at junctions and suddenly the driver turns into the junction without giving any signals. Don’t you think this is just plain stupid of the driver. He definitely sees you stops to give him/her way and suddenly just ‘make donno’ and turn. These people think by not giving signals can save their battery life for another decade.

1 2 PANGSAI DRIVERS : They will use the emergency lane on highways when other obedient drivers crawling in the heavy traffic. It is breaking the traffic law in broad daylight and the authority is not there to book them.

HORN TESTER :  They are fond of honking drivers in front of them, usually at traffic lights when the the right or left arrow is still red and there is no Give Way signage.

LANE IGNORANT DRIVERS : How many times you face drivers who stop on the wrong lane, usually on left or right (usually left) at traffic light, when it is green and the straight ahead light is red, just to be in front. They think the traffic light belongs to their grandfather.  

THE GRANDFATHER OWN THE ROAD DRIVERS:  All the above.

You can add in the comments if you think there are other type of drivers on our road that can be labelled.

DRIVE SAFELY. OTHER USER PAY ROAD TAX AND INSURANCE TOO.

MAS A380 PLANE IS IN THE BUILDING PROCESS

This video was posted in You Tube but I got the lead from Malaysia Asia website.  According to the website, the picture was taken at Airbus factory in Toulouse, France. It will be the first Malaysian Airlines A380 unit.

This is the first of the six planes that the airline has ordered is due for delivery around April or May in 2012 and the inaugural flight for the A380 will most likely be on the Kuala Lumpur-London route. Read the full article HERE and view more pictures and details. 

Just for some excitement watch this video

WEBSITE SAFETY

In today's virus attack age of the internet, it is good to have some tools to check the safety of your website. Besides your antivirus software installed in your C, we might need something else to boost our confidence of visiting certain website besides letting your visitor know that your website is safe.  

I found a website that helps check the safety of any website and as far as I have used it, its FREE. It is 

and the URL IS

It is an online project in helping keeping the World Wide Web as a safe place for Internet users. The site helps to check websites for malware, phishing, privacy concerns, overall trust and reliability levels, famili-friendliness, and several other important factors and come up with a summary. It's easy to use for you just fill in the URL of the website and SURF SAFELY will do the rest for you. As a test, I tried a porn URL and the results shows "family-friendly content percentage is LOW, which means NOT suitable for minors and even adults. "wink" The higher the percentage the better for the site. However some sites I tried return a "restricted summary" and I don't know why. 

I tried with one of my blog and this is the summary displayed.

MyRAPIDKL and HONEST PEOPLE

There are still honest people around as I have experienced. Especially when one find something considered precious he/she can still prevent his/her greed and honestly return it to the owner. I am relating my experience when I accidently left my handphone on the seat in a MyRapidKL train.

It was 22nd August and I and my family were returning from Kuala Lumpur City centre after the Hari Raya shopping spree. It was quite a day when we left home after the Zohor prayer and reached home at about 1.30 a.m. Of course moving around during the fasting period is quite tiresome.

As usual most of the time I will not drive my car into the city whether alone or with my family to avoid the stress of driving, getting stuck in the jam and running around looking for parking. So my best alternative is using the LRT.

On our way home, we took the 10.20 train from Bandaraya station towards Seri Petaling, the last station on Ampang/Seri Petaling Line at Seri Petaling. After the Bukit Jalil station, there were us and another lady who seems to look confused. When the train stops at the Seri Petaling station, she came and asked us that this train do not go to Ampang? I explain to her that she has to change train at Chan Sow Lim for the train to Ampang. Since that train will make a return trip, I ask her to stay on the train and return but inform the driver of her mistake so as not to be caught to have a free ride. We left the train.

I took my family for dinner, since during breaking of fast we just had a pack of drinks only bought at Sogo. Then while waiting for our food, my daughter received a phone call and my name was mentioned and also the name Plaza Rakyat in the conversation. Then only she told me that someone had found the phone and send it to the Plaza Rakyat LRT station. Then I remember that in the train I place the phone on the seat between my crotch and forgot about it since I slept on the last half of the journey. It was a careless mistake on my part.

Back to the story, while thanking Allah for still letting me stay on with my phone, I tried to recreate the theory and what struck my mind is the lady saw the phone, took it and surrendered it to the train driver. Then the train driver surrendered it to the Plaza Rakyat LRT station Supervisor. However along the line all the individual involves are honest people. The lady who was alone on the train when we left, the guy who send the phone to Plaza Rakyat Station, and maybe a few more are people without self interest. Or else an item such as a mobile phone, if lost can be considered as gone case. To make the story short, I claim my phone at Plaza Rakyat LRT Station the first thing in the morning.

There was a note on the package where they kept my phone and was signed by one name Helmi. There is no contact number on the note and I hope the person involved can get in touch with me. I want to commend him for his honesty and if he works with MyRapidKL, the company should list him as one of their honest employee who should be used as an example. If I have his photo and the lady inside the train, I will post them on my blog to tell the world that these are some of the honest people that is still around. Only Allah can reward these people for their attitude.

If Helmi and the lady happens to read this posting, hope they can contact me.

Morale of the Incident: Never take people’s belonging and Allah will take care of your belongings.  

IS ACER NOT COMPATIBLE WITH ME?

What compatibality am I talking about?

Computer of course. I bought my first desktop in 1984 and it was a 386. The price then was nearly RM4k. However it was not a branded set and I know nuts about computer then. Since the salesman was my former student, he did impress me to buy what he suggested. However nothing wrong with that set. It works just fine and I did some community service with that set in the area of sports.

In 1995, I bought my first laptop for RM5,500.00 at a PC Fair in Penang and it was a Acer Travelmate. I bought that too because the salesman…..er…salesgirl did convince me with the set.

During its terms of warranty twice the hinge broke and I have to send it to the service centre to get it replaced. Luckily it all happens during the warranty period and I do not have to pay anything for it.Use it until it I bought a new laptop, a Benq in 2001. Since then I lost trust in Acer. I have no problem with BENQ hardwares but with the softwares.

I switched to a FTEC netbook when I have a power supply connection problem which turn out the be the motherboard on my BENQ.

Earlier this year  bought a Aspire AX3950 and last June I have to take it back to the service centre after I got this message:  DISK READ ERROR. It was a HDD defective sectors. The Hardisk was replaced and OS recovered.

Then during this Ramadhan I experience another problem with my Aspire. This was displayed on my monitor screen. The PC hangs.

I have no choice but to force shut and restart the PC. The same effect occurs forcing me to force shut down again.

When I restart this message appeared on the screen

So I think I can just let the PC repairs itself by clicking Restore

While in the process of restoring, the problem appears again and the process stalled. I have to go back to square 1 to post this blog and I am not sure when the problem will bug me again.

 

Did the same process the second time and then this message appears.

 

Now I have to carry my PC back to Low Yatt.

So, I am wondering…………Is Acer not compatible with me?

SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB 10.1

Open redmummy’s blog and found out that her latest posting is about the latest Galaxy Tab 2. This is her video shot posted on You tube.

Now I also found the comparison between Galaxy Tab and iPad 2. Just sit back and listen to the comparison.

I have been using the Tab since January and of course it is very convenient in that I can carry the 7 inches Tab even in my pants pocket or inside pocket of my jacket. Now with the introduction of the new Tab, I am just tempted to own one.

Should I buy one? 

REPLACING PETROL WITH THORIUM?

This is an article I received in my email from Business Opportunities Weblog. I copy and paste in full.


You may find yourself spending a lot of money on gas for your car today, but the car of the future may only require 8 grams of thorium.

Thorium is abundant and radioactive, but much safer to use than an element such as uranium. When thorium is heated it becomes extremely hot and causes heat surges allowing it to be coupled with mini turbines producing steam that can then be used to generate electricity. It also helps that it has a very large liquid range between melting and boiling point.

Combining a laser, radioactive material, and mini-turbines might sound like a complicated alternative solution to filling your gas tank, but there’s one feature that sells it as a great alternative solution. Stevens has worked out you’d require a 227kg, 250MW thorium engine in order to power a typical road car. Within that system 1 gram of thorium produces the equivalent of 7,500 gallons of gasoline. So if you fit the Thorium engine with 8 grams of Thorium, it will run the vehicle for its entire lifetime without needing to be refueled while all the time not producing any emissions. The engine lasts so long in fact, that it could be taken from one vehicle and used in another as and when they wear out.The issues to overcome are the radioactivity and the mining of thorium to make this engine possible. Stevens says the radioactivity can easily be contained with aluminium foil. As for the mining, the reserves are there, with 440,000 tons alone in the U.S., we just need the mining facilities to extract it in large enough quantities. With the potential benefits that is sure to happen.

Photo by futureatlas.com
Watch video HERE about energy from Thorium
Thorium powered cars could become reality.

However it will take many years to come before we can test it, I suppose. 

HOW LARGE IS YOUR TWITTER TIMELINE?

What is your Twitter statistics if it were to be tabled in graphic form? I came across this site after reading a tweet from

I clicked the link and was sent here

The Print Effect is a small app that spits out big numbers. Simply enter your Twitter username (no password required), and you will see the effects of printing your entire Twitter timeline. This includes all of your Twitter friends – those who you follow and who follow you back. The stats are presented in a nifty little personalized infographic that you can share on your website or tweet out to your followers.

This is my result

Developed by Cartridge Save, specialists in toner cartridges

Give it a try but don’t take it serious because the result was published on http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk. You guess

HOW TO CHECK YOUR COMPANY’S BANK ACCOUNT BALANCE

Some people might think this is just a stupid posting and I am trying to teach a duck how to swim. However as the name of this blog implies, Xperience of life, I post what I experience and maybe just to share with some other people who are just as stupid as I am. Of course everybody is stupid until he/she learn something new and erase the stupidity status for that particular matter.

This is a follow up of my previous posting I Registered A Sole Ownership Company and Establishing The Company’s Bank Account. Well I was waiting for one party to bank in some money for a project when it crossed my mind how to know that the money is already in my Company’s account. That is when I asked the bank and was told to apply for an ATM Card.

Today I went to the bank again, fill up a simple form, the same application form for the Savings Account ATM card application. The only different is, instead of the Account Holder’s name and MyKad, in its place is the Company’s Name and SSM’s Registration Number. Applicant must bring along the SSM Registration Certificate with a photocopy of it and the Company’s official Rubber Stamp. Of course the MyKad. The rest of procedure is just a breeze. Wait for the officer to process and I got my Company’s ATM Card within half an hour.  .

MORTUARY ON FACEBOOK?

I was driving behind a taxi and on the boot there is an advertisement for an online obituary and mortuary service. At the same time I remembered when my brother passed away, his son asked one of his close ex student who is good at hacking to delete his account. The idea did not come into my mind at that moment because sadness over rule all imagination and ideas.

Now after reading the advertisement, it crossed into my mind that the idea of deleting his Facebook account might not be the right move. Maybe the account can be used as his mortuary in cyberspace so that friends who were are unaware about his death might come across his FB account and learn that he had passed away. Maybe a JPEG tombstone placed on his profile to let others know that the account holder has left us forever in this world.

Maybe Facebook can go another step by creating a obituary and mortuary in cyberspace so that the dead can be remembered by families and friends until time ends wherever they are. Well, maybe my idea sucks.   

ESTABLISHING THE COMPANY’S BANK ACCOUNT

A business can’t run without money. So when you decided to start a business, you must have some savings to be turned into your capital. Savings alone is not proper if there is no transactions being done.

After you have registered your company with the Registrar of Companies, your next step is to open a bank account. For companies, clubs, organisations etc. the owner or person responsible can open an account with the bank of your choice. A word of advice is to choose your favourite bank or bank near to you since it would be easy to manage. I am writing this post as a newbie and relating my experience going through all those steps of running a business.

I open an account with CIMB Bank at one of the bank’s branch in Kuala Lumpur. Oops…… but before you can open an account, make sure your newly set up company has the official rubber stamp or cop. Ordering one is not difficult and can be ready within a few days. The rubber stamp will be your company’s identity to be used on any dealing with your bank account. It is usually rounded. I ordered mine for RM10.00.

Get the respective Forms from the bank and as with my account it is the CIMB Islamic. I was told that it is much better to open an Islamic Current Account because there is Mudharabah (profit sharing) s compared to interest in conventional account.

For the purpose of application, get ready a photostat copy of your MyKad, Company Registration Certificate and Company Chop. Of course la the money. For my account I have to deposit RM1k and that will be my start up capital. If the account is to be signed too, by your partner, he/she has to be present with the photostat copy of the MyKad to deliver his/her signature specimen.

After the bank approved your application to open an account, deposit RM1k (not sure of other banks, but I think that is standard) and I was told to come back after three days to collect my cheque book.   

I REGISTERED A SOLE OWNERSHIP COMPANY

I have always dreamed of setting up my own company when I was still with the civil service. However, since I was in service, I was not allowed to get involved in business because it’s against the condition of service.

Now that I have retired all the opportunities is open and I manage to set up my own company. I start from scratch by registering a sole ownership company legally with the Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM).

The Kuala Lumpur SSM office is located at Level 16 of The Mall Shopping Complex in Jalan Putra, Kuala Lumpur. Its opposite the PWTC. Registering process is very simple and from my experience is quite a breeze. I spent just one morning and left the Commission’s office with a certificate to run a business legally according to Malaysian Law.

Application is required to fill in Form PNA.42 (Permohonan Kelulusan Nama Perniagaan) which can be obtained for FREE at the SSM’s office. This form is for Application of Company name. Three names can be applied but only one will be chosen. The choice of three names is for easy processing because if the first choice has been registered by someone’s else, the the next choice will be used.

Together with this, you will be given also Borang A (Kaedah-kaedah Pendaftaran Perniagaan 1957 [Kaedah 31] and this is the official business registration form.

After filling all the required particulars, applicants have to attach a photostat copy of MyKad and if shared, the partners. Take your number and take a seat. Your number will be called and submit the application form. Besides the photostat copy of MyKad, get ready RM70.00 as registration Fee for one address. If you are registering for a branch(es) then another RM5.00 for each branch. Company registration is actually RM 60.00 and RM10.00 for item 5 (i) as in the photo below.  

When your number is called to the respective counter, hand in your application form and the clerk manning the counter will first check the availability of your company’s name. If it is available, then you have to pay the registration fee. After all the  vetting has been done, checked and endorsed, sit down and wait for your Business Registration Certificate. Its all done and you can run your business right away, legally. 

Well, this is just a Business Registration according to Akta Pendaftaran Perniagaan 1956. The company has still to apply for other required licence to operate, run or sell specified item according to its law. For example licence from the Local Authorities to set up a shop.