Thursday, August 30, 2007

Gold for Golden Age

Personally I don't like to put on any accessories unless it is necessary. But many peoples like to decorate themselves especially with the gold. The usability of gold are widely accepted because it can be transformed into anything as long as there is demand for it. Well I agreed it is fashion, trendy and representing status. But while they look at gold as style, I see gold as money. Indeed is more than money because it helps me to make more money.

As my age getting older I am very concern of saving money for my retirement. However by relying on current salary I can assure you that I will have to work for another 30 years. However there are always alternative like investing in gold. From the market research the value of gold has been always increasing or at least maintaining. Although it is expensive in investing gold but the rewards and confidences are there. It might be too high expectation but I believe it should not be problem for you and me to retire 10 years earlier if we are lucky enough.

Temp Solution

After a quick glance at the google help, and quick advise from CP. We identified the problem may due to the blogspot users.

Blogspot will automatically add a slash - '/' at the end of the url hyperlink and this causes the content detector from BGT blocked the post. However, no matter how and what I try to omit the slash it will still auto prompt.

At the end, I set the blogspot setting for not using wysiwyg mode and BINGO. It works, even with the '/' at the end of the link. Weird...

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Time is Running Out

Not sure what is going on but I have problem in submitting the post to BGT. I have taken about 6 posts from there and even worte/published in my blog. Somehow when I try to submit the post, BGT prompted me the advertiser link is not valid.

There are only few more hours left before expiry and I am so freaky tight up with the office work, yet still need to find the solution. Time is running out and I am very the impatient now!!

Catch Bug

Although I have been working in IT fields for many years but trust me until today I still got no idea how to clean up a PC if got infected by virus. I still remembered during my time as the Technical Support I hated to receive viruses’ tickets the most. My solution? --> Escalated to the onsite engineer.

Well I believe many peoples will agree with me that virus will be the most difficult case. Especially the more advanced of technology, the more strange case you will encountered. For me it will be best to have the “one-product-protects-all” so the users can enjoy a secure OS, while the support save all the hassle install different tools to fix the bug.

Good news for all the engineers now because NOD32 is the Security Solutions that safe their time catching viruses. Perhaps I should recommend it to my former company first.

Visit Malaysia

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Malaysia is not only well known of the twin buildings, KL towers and the concrete city but also have a good name of beautiful sandy beaches and perfect tropical sunbath spots. The islands are strategically designed by the nature and it is just the perfect spots to enjoy a stress-free
beach holidays irregardless with your friends, lover, family or even just yourself alone.

As a Malaysian I am proud to say I am living in such a heavenly countries but on another hands also ashamed that I have never been to any famous islands in Malaysia. In fact currently we are having the year of visiting Malaysia. I can see tons of foreigners walking down the streets with their large shopping bags. This makes me have the idea of asking my friends from UK to visit me instead of the other way round. Furthermore, flying from UK to Malaysia will be 5 times cheaper because of the currency.

Although there are plenty of touring services over the web but I will recommend my friend to check out Dialaflight.com. Dialaflight provides great Holiday Offers and Cheap Flights around the globe. Most importantly the website is full of useful travel information where my friend can immediately start book his beach resort holidays. Last but not least, with the Holiday Offers and visiting Malaysia year, I believe my UK mate will like the idea since foreigner all loves exotic beach holidays.

New Opportunity

Recently I just had a lunch with a friend who is working in local headhunter company. I knew her from my previous company and basically they are my HR. I got to know from her that coming few months we, in Malaysia will have more opportunities because few multinational company going to setup/expand here.

In fact on top of looking the opportunities in local, I am indeed looking out oversea. Bingo and she have few vacancies in Dubai. Honestly I have never been there and basically I know nothing but just a developing country. Perhaps I should take the chance and try my luck there.

Blair Witch Project

Have you ever seen the movie called the 'Blair Witch Project'? Well I watched it last year alone at home. The show is talking about 3 youngsters trying to complete their year-end project and therefore search for the real witch. The film shows in black and white and was self-recorded.

As much as I amazed by this 'documentary' but I almost ended up vomiting in front of toilet bowl. No, it is not because of the gore or violent scenes but the shake of the screen and spinning causes my nausea. Nevertheless this was really one of the best show I have ever watched. Although at the end all of the students either went missing or death. But I still wondering how they made this movie, until I understand it was actually edited with the help from the stock footage video.

Interested in watching? Well my advice to you is - be prepared for a paper bag and rest your eyes after each 15 minutes.

Hot Apple-pie

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Recently I am crazy almost everything about
Apple. Especially right after the launched of iPhone, I started to explore more about the products. I told my friends that I would soon buy a Mac, especially the Mac Mini. It just amazed me.

The newly launch OS-X Tiger and Leopard, Apple brings the PC users closer to Mac (or I should said more and more PC users is moving on to Mac). with the integration help of iLife'08, iWork and the ability to convert/read Microsoft Office files. Mac is no longer the machine designed for graphic designer only. Most importantly, if you are the iPod or iPhone user, Mac is just the best partner you would never miss. I am fascinated by the tour guide given by the official website about how fully automated when comes to synchronization.

Best of all, now I can use the online coupons to buy this amazing products, and comes with many hot deals and freebies.

Summon the Summonses

Malaysia is a very nice country with several generous and kind cultures. This is not only restricted to the locals but also the policy in government also.

We have the special sales day for the summonses. The nation will get to pay their summonses with special rate. This has happened few years before but was stop for a while. However due to our 50 years independence celebration, the great bargain is back again. Honestly if you happened to follow my blog, my intention of starting this is because I need to earn extra to pay my 4 golden bills.

Well here is my golden chance. How wonderful is it especially when I am living in this country.

Dream Wedding

My team member just got married few weeks ago and she had her wonderful ceremony held at Bali. I believe this is the dream of all the ladies for having a magical and fantastic wedding night. We are all so envy especially when she show us the pictures and video that she took during the pre-wedding and ceremony.

Having such dream wedding is not easy because it will easily cost you a bomb. (Well she did spend a lot). Therefore I guess that her husband must be earning sky-high income. (YES! Bingo I am correct!) Her husband is in fact working as a medical physician where he is providing a very special medical equipment to scan women's ovary. This machine is not only scan but also help to diagnose, prevent and cure the cancer. Very niche skills and therefore we are now understood why he can afford this luxury wedding.

However, there isn't always a perfect man. Thanks to the specialty of his job skill, he is required to fly around the globe to give medical training for months or more. Pity my colleague who gotta sit home on her newly wedding night...

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Time for Vacation

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It has been a long time since my last long vacation. In fact not really that long but at least it was a relaxing trip that helped me in releasing stress and escape from my ever-ending work. But due to the current job constraint I can't simply take annual leave anymore for holiday. However I am planning my next trip now for the coming Chinese New Year. This time my priority set on Japan. I always wanted to visit Japan and I even picking up the Japanese language now to prepare myself in case I lost in translation...

Well my first stop will be Tokyo. Tokyo is well known of Sakura and the best season to see this amazingly beautiful natural fine art will be April. It is a super easy job in getting an air ticket but since this is the peak season, selecting a hotel seems to be a mission impossible. (Especially people like me who intend to travel free and easy only. NO TOUR!.) Despite all the obstacles I am able to surf smoothly for hotels in Tokyo thanks to the super convenient and easy to use website: Hotel Reservations.

Hotel Reservations basically have all the things I need. Say for example I want to look for a destination, the intelligent search features will return me all the hotels, availability, prices and most importantly - hot deals and special value, yummy... Personally I prefer the traditional Minshuku and you know what? Surprise surprise surprise! The website even returned few well known Minshuku and it proves how powerful the search function is. Moreover, there are pictures displayed so the stingy and calculative customer like me can always have the first glance on the hotels. Sorry to point this out but it will be perfect if there is comment from the customer. Then at least it projected a more reality and confidence towards the readers.

Anyhow with the details information provided likes map, info, on-line booking etc. I think it is good enough for me to choose my Minshuku and pack my bag now…

Monday, August 27, 2007

打工日记

这是一编写了许久但因懒散而无法完成的作品。失败的我到最后(整整的一个月)才草草的写完最后几句。希望大家别在意。

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早上的一场倾盆大雨就像屏风布一样的打开了周一清晨的序幕。虽然是重复着每周日所需要做的第一件事,但原本已因睡眠不足的双眼更加像加了20公斤的重量而打不开了。万般不愿意的但还是拖着疲累又重重的身体完成了早上该做的事。

调低了司机位的窗口呼吸着清新的空气, 又要开始即熟识又漫长的上班路线了。行程还不到5分钟路上就开始堵车起来。 当然,对于在出生在这城市已有一段蛮长的时间的我来说,这一场因长命雨而造成的塞车龙已见怪不怪了。

麻木的我为了不让自己睡着而顺手就把收音机的声音调大。不知是否已习惯了,开着开着觉得很快就到达了办公室。看看手表,早上10.30。妈的我又迟到了半个小时。虽然已不是什么新鲜事但是心里还是有一丝的内疚。算了吧,反正老板都不在乎,我又何必耿耿于怀呢?经过一大堆的自我安慰之后最终还是大大方方的走进自己的桌位。然后再编了个故事骗同事和怪罪于雨天堵车来掩饰我的错,我真他妈的无药可救了。

其实真的不知道为何而上班。坐了整个早上还是无所事事,再加上没有会议,工作的定义就变得更加没有意思。原本可以在家上班,但是总觉得已经没事做了,如果还呆在家里睡觉那就实在对不起自己的良心。再者这样我也不好意思拿工资。

中午约了个朋友吃午饭,谈开了就顺口道出我的近况。谁知朋友也觉得这样下去并不是办法,还劝告我找份比较有冲刺的工比较适合。说我毕竟还年轻,难道真的就搁在这公司和这职位一辈子吗?午饭后自我思考了许久,觉得朋友说得还满对。毕竟现在才三十不到。换作别人,他们正为生活,为前途和为将来打拼的火热而活的精彩。而我呢?难不成真的要坐到退休,然后再坐个20年等待我的百年归老吗?蛮没舍大志的吧。

但是,想归于想。我都想找一份可以每天出差到不同国家的工。如果可以长期驻在国外的那就更加好的无话可说。要做的实际行动已做了,但是众老板们始终都不高抬贵手招我过档。要怪就怪自己资格不够,运气也不够别人好吧。想到底现在这份工作还真不错。做了大概半年,虽一开始已知道这公司即将卖给别的公司。但还是接下了这份工作。 原因嘛当然十分明确,当然是为了钱咯。除此之外,这半年内虽然不算是太长, 但也认识了一些还蛮不错的同事。当然也少不了我那十分要好的外籍老板。算是这样了吧。打工始终求开心,而我也差不多达到我现在的要求。钱嘛,足够就好。一来是已没有了当初的冲劲,再者是人长大了思想也成熟了。明白贪心无望,而且也必须知道自己无资格拿高薪的现实。

所以嘛还是乖乖留下吧。况且说不定有不错的机会等着我呢。就让我继续发我的春秋大梦吧,哈哈。

Job Talk

Last week I had a drink with one of my ex-colleague. It was a coincident where both of us also desperate in looking a new job but currently there are really too many channel for us. Therefore we were joking about how nice if we can consolidate everything in one source. So the job seeker can have a single point of job search yet return from multiple sources.

As a sympathy to our situation, this friend of mine even have this brilliant idea of helping he others to look for jobs. He wanted to put on a free and interactive website to publish all the jobs available from different sources. Well obviously this can be done by why we need to do so when there is already a very successful executive search firm? I came across this website and found it is very suitable for the job seekers like me. The search firm is not only providing variety of selections but also the professional service from the trained consultant.

Therefore basically it met all of our requirements and I better recommend this to my friend also during the next coming meet up.

A Nature Trip - SA

Mom is asking me to go travel with her on next coming Chinese New Year. She wanted to visit Japan but from what I know the weather there by then is only around 3 degree. My mom had a very bad experience at Korea during the winter time because she couldn't even walk on the street. Therefore we changed our plan and I think South Africa will be our alternative choice.

So far I have did some research about the Hotels in Cape Town. The rate is consider reasonable especially Cape Town is the capital for South Africa. Comparing with the Hotels in Johannesburg or Hotels in Sandton cost higher than the capital. Perhaps is due to the tourist spots and thus the rate is higher.

However, if we really travel there then I may opt for driving. There are many similarity between the road regulation in South Africa and Malaysia. Like no alcohol, compulsory uses of hands free and safety belt etc. But one thing surely different, not only from us but to other countries also. Which is, we gotta watch out for animals in rural areas. Because the driver might ran over the animals like dogs, chickens, sheep and even large antelope, horses or cows on the road. Interesting.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Watch Me

Let me see, sad to say that I have never buy myself a watch before, since the day I born… All my watches are either given by peoples or as birthday present, anniversary etc.

Currently I have two watches, Casio G-Shock Watches for leisure and Tissot for working/formal occasion purposes. Well basically these two watches doesn't bought by me. Casio is the souvenir from my brother during his trip to Japan and Tissot is the Long Service Award by the former company. I still like them but sometimes I think two is insufficient like outdoor, adventurous, diving or beaches.

Therefore I am thinking to buy a Seiko for myself during my birthday coming yearend. It was so great to come across this web site: Redbird.com. This website displayed the quality eyewear for most of the major brand in the market such as Nixon, Seiko, Timex, Casio. Personally I preferred Seiko and I am craze about their Kinectic series. Last time I even asked my friend who traveled Japan to buy me a pair of it but failing to do so since she only have limited timing there. However this website even have the discounted retailer price to attract the web surfer in shopping online.

I think this is great idea as without asking further, I will grab the opportunity to spend wisely yet worthwhile for a new watch.

Facial Treatment

After being suffered from the acne skin problem for about a year, I am quite 'knowledgeable' with the facial products and the usage. Until today although my skin has improved better but some scars are still remains obvious. Some times even have minor outbreak but manageable.

Thanks to the lesson learned I am very precautious with the products and most importantly choosing the correct skin solution center. I have try New York skin care before to run the treatment. I prefer this skincare because all of the beauticians has went through the cosmetology schools. Most important they are certified by the New York Center to apply the products and provide the professional services.

As a conclusion, I think I will continue to use their products.

I'm Still Alive

After taking a long break since my last update, I am feeling a bit guilty for not taking the initiative in continuing the blog.

Not to say I am very busy cause no matter how busy we can still afford to take some time. Just that I am no longer have the urge (ummmh) in doing that. Looking at the friends around opening the new blog one after another makes me even wonder where is my motivation, especially the daily work is getting heavier.

Anyhow, I am taking it easy comparing with first started. I think this suits me better..