Tuesday 30 August 2011

Whose Birthdays Fall On Today?

First of all, to all my Malay friends, Selamat Hari Raya to you all.

Well, as my post title, whose birthdays are on today?

I have 2 friends' birthdays are on today.
The famous group buy website, Everyday.com.my's founder, John's birthday is on today as well.

Who else?

Let's see, these people are born on August 30 as well.

1334 – King Peter of Castile
1377 – Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia
1705 – David Hartley, English philosopher
1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer
1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter
1768 – Joseph Dennie, American writer
1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer
1808 – Princess Ludovika of Bavaria
1812 – Agoston Haraszthy Hungarian-born traveler and writer
1813 – Princess Mathilde of Bavaria
1818 – Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts
1821 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian revolutionary and wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi
1839 – Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate
1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia
1848 – Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor
1850 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist and revolutionary
1852 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist, Nobel laureate
1856 – Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist
1860 – Isaac Levitan, Russian artist
1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia
1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born British chemist, Nobel laureate
1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate
1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, British fighter ace
1893 – Huey Long, American politician
1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor
1898 – Shirley Booth, American actress
1901 – Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader
1901 – John Gunther, American writer
1906 – Joan Blondell, American actress
1908 – Fred MacMurray, American actor
1910 – Roger Bushell, South African RAF officer and prisoner of war
1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1912 – Nancy Wake, British war agent
1913 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel laureate
1915 – Robert Strassburg, American composer
1917 – Denis Healey, British politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
1917 – Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke of Russia, pretender to the Russian throne
1918 – Ted Williams, American baseball player
1918 – Billy Johnson, American baseball player
1919 – Kitty Wells, American singer
1919 – Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director
1922 – Lionel Murphy, Australian politician
1922 – Regina Resnik, American mezzo-soprano
1923 – Barbara Ansell, British physician, founder of paediatric rheumatology
1923 – Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist
1923 – Nate Saint, American Evangelical Christian missionary
1923 – Vic Seixas, American tennis player
1924 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer
1924 – Lajos Kisfaludy, Hungarian chemical engineer
1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
1926 – Daryl Gates, American police chief
1928 – Lloyd Casner, American racecar driver and owner
1930 – Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
1930 – Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer
1931 – John Leonard "Jack" Swigert, Jr., American astronaut
1933 – Don Getty, Canadian politician
1934 – Baloo Gupte, Indian cricketer
1935 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas)
1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of McLaren racing team
1939 – John Peel, English radio disc jockey
1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
1941 – Ben L. Jones, American actor, politician and essayist
1942 – Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer
1943 – Tal Brody, American-born Israeli basketball player
1943 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
1943 – Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
1944 – Molly Ivins, American political humorist
1944 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player
1946 – Peggy Lipton, American actress
1946 – Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
1947 – Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
1948 – Lewis Black, American comedian
1948 – Fred Hampton, American Black Panther Party leader
1948 – Donnacha O'Dea, Irish poker player and swimmer
1949 – Peter Maffay, Romania-born German singer-songwriter
1949 – Ted Ammon, American financier
1949 – Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian
1949 – Don Boudria, Canadian politician
1950 – Antony Gormley, English sculptor
1951 – Timothy Bottoms, American actor
1951 – Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer (as Dana) and politician
1953 – Horace Panter, British bassist (The Specials, General Public)
1953 – Robert Parish, American basketball player
1953 – Ron George, American politician
1954 – David Paymer, American actor
1954 – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
1956 – Frank Conniff, American comedian (TV's Frank)
1958 – Martin Jackson, British drummer (Swing out Sister)
1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist
1959 – Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Australian rules footballer and actor
1960 – Gary Gordon, American Medal of Honor recipient
1960 – Guy A. Lepage, Quebec humorist, television host and producer
1962 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian KGB officer
1963 – Michael Chiklis, American actor
1963 – Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
1963 – Oderus Urungus, American vocalist (GWAR)
1964 – Gavin Fisher, British engineer
1966 – Michael Michele, American actress
1967 – Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer
1967 – Frederique van der Wal, Dutch model
1968 – Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
1969 – Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist
1970 – Carlo Checchinato, Italian rugby player and manager
1970 – Michael Wong, Malaysia-born Chinese singer
1971 – Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs)
1972 – Cameron Diaz, American actress
1972 – Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer
1973 – Lisa Ling, American journalist
1974 – Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
1974 – Aaron Barrett, American vocalist and guitarist (Reel Big Fish)
1975 – Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer
1976 – Lillo Brancato Jr., American actor
1976 – Mike Koplove, American baseball player
1976 – Sarah-Jane Potts, English actress
1977 – Shaun Alexander, American football player
1977 – Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
1977 – Elden Henson, American actor
1977 – Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1977 – Jens Ludwig, German guitarist (Edguy)
1978 – Swizz Beatz, American record producer and rapper
1978 – Cliff Lee, American baseball player
1978 – Sinead Kerr, Irish Olympic figure skater and ice dancer
1979 – Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
1979 – Leon Lopez, British actor
1979 – Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress and singer
1979 – Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player
1979 – Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
1980 – Derrick Ward, American football player
1981 – Germán Legarreta, American actor
1981 – Adam Wainwright, American baseball player
1982 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1982 – Will Davison, Australian racing driver
1983 – Simone Pepe, Italian footballer
1983 – Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer
1983 – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
1983 – Marco Vianello, Italian footballer
1984 – Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 – Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
1985 – Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
1985 – Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
1985 – Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
1985 – Éva Risztov, Hungarian swimmer
1985 – Joe Inoue, Japanese American singer
1986 – Ryan Ross, American guitarist (Panic! at the Disco)
1986 – Lelia Masaga, New Zealand All Black rugby player
1988 – Michael Cavanaugh ("StrongSide"), American professional gamer
1988 – Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
1988 – Laura Põldvere, Estonian singer
1989 – Simone Guerra, Italian footballer
1989 – Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer
1991 – Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer
2001 – Emily Bear, American child pianist and composer

Well, do you feel curious why suddenly I post about this today?

Hehe, actually, today is the birthday for a very wonderful person!

Who's that?



My idol, Warren Buffett!

He is 81 years old now.

Happy birthday to Warren Buffett!
May him stay healthy and wonderful!


Monday 29 August 2011

轉念:扭轉逆境的智慧 [李雪峰著]

I read this story today. I found it interesting and meaningful. It's a nice story.
So, I forward this story here.

轉念:扭轉逆境的智慧 李雪峰著

一位棋道高手退下来后被聘为教练。他培训年轻选手的方式十分特别,他不教年轻棋手们怎么样去进攻别人,也不教如何运用谋略,他和徒弟们天天对弈,决出输赢后,让他们记住对弈时的每一步,然后,让徒弟们仔细推敲自己的每一步落子。找出自己的失误,这就是他布置给那些年轻棋手的作业。找出自己失误多的,他就表扬;找出自己失误少的,他就十分严厉的批评。

这样教的时间长了,那些年轻棋手们纷纷有了意见,大家都说他的教棋方式太单调,缺乏令人信服的理论深度,虽说他过去是个棋道高手,但他不适合当教练。别的教练也对他十分不解,怎么能如此教棋呢?不传谋略,不传技巧,只让棋手自察失误,怎么能培训出一流的高手呢?

面对种种疑问,他依旧我行我素,还是认真的让棋手体察自己对弈时的失误。有时,他只给他们一个简单的提醒,更大的失误,都让年轻棋手们去自我发现。刚开始时,每局对弈下来,每个棋手都能找出自己的诸多失误,甚至许多人觉得自己简直是个臭棋篓子。但天长日久,那些棋手的失误越来越少,有的甚至一局对决下来竟没有一次失误。这个时候,选手们开始向他要求说:“给我们传授点理论和技巧吧,对弈,毕竟是要取胜于别人,不是自己和自己决胜负,没有谋略和技巧怎么行呢?”

他冷冷一笑:“棋道,没有什么技巧,也没有什么谋略。一个对弈高手,最大的技巧就是能够发现自己的破绽,最高的谋略就是能够避免自己的失误。”后来,他培训的选手参加大赛,将很多高手击败。那些高手惊讶不已,个个摇着头叹息说:“这些年轻选手太厉害了,虽说他们没有什么技巧和谋略,但我们丝毫找不到他们的破绽和失误,他们赢就赢在没有失误。”

获胜之后,那些年轻选手欣喜若狂地回来向教练报喜,他说:“一个棋手能否赢得别人,技巧和谋略都无关紧要,最重要的是他要赢得自己,杜绝自己的失误。没有失误就没有破绽,任何人都对你束手无策。”

自己的失误,往往就是对手击败自己的机遇。许多时候,我们并不是败于自己的弱小,而是败于自己的失误。

Nice, isn't it?


Wednesday 24 August 2011

CSL 3S Care Center and Northern Hub in Penang



CSL launched its second 3S Care Center at Megamall, Penang last Sunday (21st August 2011).

Want to know more about CSL?

It's a local mobile phone company founded by Dato' Eric Chuah in year 1999.
It's about 11 years old.

Although it's still a young company, it has created fantastic result.
CSL has become leading company for Malaysia's mobile industry.
It has also won a lot of award, including Mobile World Best Malaysian Brand which it has won for year 2008, 2009 and 2010.

CSL is now developing with the concept of 'SWITCH'.
- switching from mobile to mobile internet.
- switching from single Sim to dual Sim.
- switching from unaffordable to affordable.

With the opening of 3S Care Center in Penang, which become the hub of northern area, I believe they could provide a better service to the customers.

Let's see the opening ceremony.























Wow, can you see the queue?

So many people are queuing to purchase the CSL phones.

Let's see the stars!



CSL Mi 350 (Dual-sim)
OS: Android FROYO 2.2
Display: 3.5" HVGA Capacitive Touch Screen (480 x 320)
Camera: 5 Megapixels Camera, Auto Focus
Memory: 512 Mb ROM, 512 Mb RAM



The Swarovski Series (4 models)



Sophie G16

Display: 2.8" QVGA Capacitance screen (240 x 320)
Camera: 3.2 Megapixel
Memory: 1Gb + 512 Mb
Battery: 145 hours (stand by), 421 minutes (talk time)



Princess blueberry 9200
Display: 2.4" TFT QVGA (240 x 320)
Camera: 2.0 Megapixel
Memory: 512 Mb + 256 Mb
Battery: 188 hours (stand by), 454 minutes (talk time)



SHE blueberry 9300
Display: 2.4" TFT QVGA (240 x 320)
Camera: 2.0 Megapixel
Memory: 512 Mb + 256 Mb
Battery: 264 hours (stand by), 353 minutes (talk time)



EMMA DS 900
Display: 2.2" TFT QVGA (240 x 320)
Camera: 2.0 Megapixel
Memory: 512 Mb + 256 Mb
Battery: 248 hours (stand by), 496 minutes (talk time)





After the opening ceremony, we were invited to Life One Cafe.
We, all bloggers continued to socialize with each other as well as CSL staffs.
We were given samples of the phones to be played with.
Well, it was a great moments.

Let's see the foods in Life One Cafe.


Fruit juice (dragon fruit, orange & apple – RM4.30)


Fried Fish Fillet (RM15.80)


Chicken Nuggets (6pcs – RM4.80)


Chicken Piccatta (if with rice – RM18.80)


Chicken Spaghetti Bolognese (RM11.80)


Chicken Nuggets (6pcs – RM4.80)

Saturday 20 August 2011

Logo's Hope Floating Book Fair In Penang

A lot of book fair are held this year.

But, one interesting thing is that, there is one floating book fair coming in to Penang!

Do you know what's floating book fair?
I didn't know about it until my friend told me.
It was a book fair held on the ship, named Logo's Hope.

Yea, on the ship.
Interesting, right?

I plan to go to have a visit! Woohoo!
It will be starting at 12 p.m. on 30th August!

Date: 30th August – 25th September 2011
Venue: Ship Deck, Swettenham Pier
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday : 10.00am- 10.00p.m
Sunday: 1.00pm- 10.00pm
Closed on Mondays

After having the book fair in Penang, it will then sailed to Port Klang (29 September - 23 October), Kuching (28 October - 14 November) and Kota Kinabalu (18 November - 4 December).


Friday 19 August 2011

10 Things About China, How Many Do You Know?

I received a mail entitled "10 Things You Didn't Know About China". I found it interesting, so I post it here.

01. China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world
China carries out almost three times as many executions as the rest of the world put together, according to the most conservative estimate by Amnesty International. In 2008, the group confirmed 1,718 executions through news reports and public documents, but many others are not reported. Some analysts say the figure may be above 6,000. The exact number is a state secret. Many executions are done on the road using vehicles called the death vans designed by Jinguan Motors. The makers of these vans say the vehicles and injections are a civilized alternative to the firing squad, ending the life of the condemned more quickly, clinically and safely. According to them, the switch from gunshots to injections is a sign thatChina "promotes" human rights now.

02. There are already more Christians in China than Italy, and it's on track to become the largest center of Christianity in the world
Due to the extremely rapid expansion of Christianity in China, there are now an estimated 54 million Christians in the country, comprised of about 40 million Protestants and 14 million Catholics. Meanwhile, Italy has just 60 million people in total, of which 79% are Christian these days, which means Italy has 47.4 million Christians, that's 12% less thanChina. (Photo by Robert Reinlund)

03. Over 4000 babies in China were named "Olympic Games" while the country was getting ready for Beijing 2008
The Beijing Olympics was more than just a point of pride for China. It was such an important part of the national consciousness that over 4,000 children have been named for the event. Most of the 4,104 people with the name "Aoyun," meaningOlympics , were born around the year 2000, as Beijing was bidding to host the 2008 Summer Games. The vast majority of people named Aoyun are male. Names related to theOlympics don't just stop with "Olympics ." More than 4,000 Chinese share their names with the Beijing Games mascots, the "Five Friendlies." Chinese have increasingly turned to unique names as a way to express a child's individuality.
In a country with a population of 1.3 billion, 87 percent share the same family names.

04. China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year.
In China, an estimated 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks are used and thrown away annually. This adds up to 1.7 million cubic metres of timber or 25 million fully grown trees every year.

05. 200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day.
Poverty in China refers to people whose income is less than a poverty line of $1.25 per day. The poverty rate in China in 1981 was 64% of the population. Fortunately, this rate declined to 10% in 2004, indicating that about 500 million people have climbed out of poverty during this period.

06 Over 700 million Chinese people drink polluted water
China has 20% of the world's population but only 7% of global water resources. To make matters worse, 90% of cities' groundwater and 75% of rivers and lakes are polluted according to the World Bank. This means that 700 million people drink contaminated water every day.

07. Ice Cream and Pasta may have been created in China.
A frozen mixture of milk and rice was invented in China around 200 BC, giving birth to ice cream. Also, a 4,000-year-old bowl of noodles was discovered at an archaeological site in westernChina, possible demonstrating that China invented pasta before Italy.

08. Over 50% of counterfeit goods in the EU come from China.
In Europe, China was the main source country for intellectual property rights infringing articles with 54% of the total amount.CD/DVD was the top category of articles detained with a total amount of 79 million, which accounted for 44% of the entire amount, followed by cigarettes (23%) and clothing and accessories (10%).

09. China is not free from Europe's medieval plague yet.
In 2009 China ended a quarantine blockade around a remote northwestern town hit by pneumonic plague. The outbreak of the highly infectious disease killed three villagers around Ziketan Town in Qinghai province. But with no new infections reported for over a week, authorities decided to lift the blockade on the remote town of 10,000 in a heavily ethnic Tibetan area.China experiences sporadic outbreaks of the plague, which is typically spread by rodents and fleas and can pass easily between people.

10. By 2025, China will build TEN New York-sized cities.
The scale and pace of China's urbanization promises to continue at an unprecedented rate. If current trends hold, China's urban population will expand from 572 million in 2005 to 926 million in 2025 and hit the one billion mark by 2030. In 20 years,China's cities will have added 350 million people�more than the entire population of the United States today. By 2025, China will have 219 cities with more than one million inhabitants�compared with 35 in Europe today�and 24 cities with more than five million people. Also, 40 billion square meters of floor space will be built - in five million buildings. 50,000 of these buildings could be skyscrapers - the equivalent of ten New York Cities.


Thursday 18 August 2011

What's That Symbol In My Handphone?

Hey hey, saw the symbol of the arrow?



Anyone knows what's actually that symbol means?
It appeared after I changed my Digi sim card to the Maxis sim card.
But, the symbol no longer exist now

However, I still wish to know what's that symbol means.
Anyone know?


Tuesday 16 August 2011

Souvenirs From My Friends

I have quite a lot of friends going foreign in these few months.

Bali...
Singapore...
Taiwan...
Hong Kong...
Thailand...
Macau...

and so on......

Then where did I go?

Haha, just local, Pulau Pangkor.
Don't have money to travel at this moment.

And, I don't have passport yet. I hope I will go apply for passport soon.

Yeah, I have 2 friends bought key chain for me as my souvenir.
Thanks them ya.





Monday 15 August 2011

My Digi Easy Prepaid

Ding dang!

I have new contact number again!
This time, I bought Digi Easy Prepaid.

This package has been introduced quite a period of time already.
I did think to buy the sim pack previously.
But until now, only I bought it.





Hehe. I didn't want to disclose my number yet.
And in fact, it won't be my main line.
My old Digi number remains as my main line and my hotlink remains my second line.






It costs me RM16.80.

For Easy Prepaid, the charges are as follow,

Starter pack: RM16.80 (including RM8 preloaded talktime)
Voice calls: 30 sen per minute (30 seconds charing block)
Video calls: 30 sen per minute (60 seconds charging block)
SMS: 8 sen/SMS
MMS: 25 sen/MMS
Data: 10 sen / 10kb (max RM8 daily)

It sounds not really worth, right?

But there are some other benefits:

- Free calls and SMS to your Buddyz™ between 12:00am to 8:00pm daily

- 10 FREE SMS to all networks with every reload worth RM10
- Micro SIM card conversion for iPhone 4 users

What attract me the most is the first ones.

"Free calls and SMS to your Buddyz™ between 12:00am to 8:00pm daily"
*Buddyz is some sort like friend and family, but it's only 3 numbers.

From 8.01 p.m. to 11.59 p.m., the charges are 12 sen per minute (voice call) and 1 sen per SMS.

Note: Effective 14 September 2011, the time will for free call and SMS will be changed to 12 a.m. to 6 p.m. only.

However we can still extend the time period to whole day with the subscription fee of 99 sen per day.

Is this package nice?
If you always SMS or call certain people (such as family, boy/girl friend or best friend),
perhaps this is a worthy package for you.

For more information, check it from Digi's website: click here.


Sunday 14 August 2011

All About Sugar & Gift (团圆汤圆甜品屋)

Thanks to Applefish, I found this shop.
I visited it yesterday with my friends.

Here is it.





It's a small shop. But, its design is not bad.
If you go with a group of more than 10 people, I guess you will feel the place is not enough you.
As we go in a group of 5 people, we are comfortable with the shop.







Once we sat down, the waiter serve us glasses of water.
They will continue to refill the water for us after drinking it.



Yeah.
Finally our 'Tang Yuan' comes.
There are many types of 'Tang Yuan' sold over there.
And, there are three types of 'soup' for the 'Tang Yuan', which are white sugar, brown sugar and milk.

Let's see the 'Tang Yuan' we ordered.





















Overall, I would say, its worth.
The 'Tang Yuan' soup priced around RM4 to RM6.50.

Do you like 'Tang Yuan'?
Perhaps you should try.

All About Sugar & Gift(团圆汤圆甜品屋)
Address: No. 11, Lorong Susu, 10400 Penang.
Business hour: 11:30am until 10:00pm. (Close on Wednesday)
Contact: 012-5320353


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Thursday 11 August 2011

Real Madrid vs 109 Kids

A normal football match should be 11 players each team, right?
Did you ever see a match with 109 players in a team?

How will it be?

I saw a video in youtube on a match between Real Madrid and 109 kids.
It is quite interesting, isn't it?



Monday 8 August 2011

My First Group Purchase

Do you know what's group purchase?

If you don't know, you may also hear of these name before, aren't you?

Everyday
Groupon
Ezivoucher

Haha, I think a lot of you know what's that already.

But, do you try it?

Today, I finally try it for the first time.
I am on this deal.



I Love Yoo, I ate before. It is nice.
The meal with price of RM7.80 is now selling at RM2.90, it's about 62% discount.
It sound worth.

I believe a lot of people don't trust of such thing, right?
Perhaps, you make take it a try for this? It's only RM2.90.
That's also one of the reason I try.

It's my first time, I feel a little bit excited to wait for the voucher to deliver to me.

Click here for more detail of the deal.


Yeah! Finally, I Am Graduating!

I received this letter today.



It states,

'Hereby certify that Kuay Kean Hooi is UUM's student, session of admission JUL 2007/2008.

He has completed his study on Semester JUL 2010/2011 and has been endorsed by Senate on 07/08/2011. He will be bestowed with Bachelor of Accountancy with Hournours with CGPA X.XX at the UUM 24th Convocation Ceremony scheduled on 1 - 6 October 2011.'

Yeah! I am graduating!
I will be attending the convocation ceremony on October!

My UUM friends, have you check yours?

How to check it?

1. Log in to UUM Portal.



2. Click 'Academic Information System'.



3. Click 'Graduation'.



4. Click 'Graduation Letter'. You may choose either English or Malay version.



5. And you will see the letter.