Thank You Mr. Zan

14 weeks, approximately 4 months of studying and learning about information and tech in your class, and most importantly learning and get to know the famous independent movie film maker, and for sure none other than you Mr. Zan. I hope this passage can be considered as a blog. Haha .. anyway thanks for staying with this bunch of lazy bumps for almost 14 weeks in ADP.

Thanks for giving us an opportunity to have a briefly understand and knowledge about how the film and broadcast industry are working, and how they earn due from the audience watch.

One thing that your class is interesting is because of your experience in media industry and the way you present your class by sharing your experience with us. This is what that really impressed me, by presenting your class without and handout, but just base on your wonderful and full experience, and most importantly your comment and opinion about the media and government. Haha something like (Jeff Oii la…)

Still remembered the 1^st time you showed us a photo that u took picture with our former Prime Minister Mr Mahathir. Fuuuuuuuuuu Yoh…….. (Digi’s advertisement) it really impress me that you are not a simple guy.. haha… and somemore one of my friend who works in NTV 7 even heard about you as well. So is no doubt that why HELP employ you as our part time yet knowledgeable guy as out media lecturer. Thanks again Mr. Zan.

Last but not least, hope you understand that this is not a praising speech or either a praising blog, just a simple and appreciation words that comes from my heart to say thank you very much Zan. As I hope this short appreciation blog can lead me to end this assignment. And for sure would like to apologize for all the classes that I missed and sorry for the all late passes assignments.

Thanks again Zan, I’d learn much from you, and you’re really an interesting lecturer that I’d ever seen in HELP, seriously. Take care and good luck in your career in the future. Thanks.

Cops Set For Pay Rise

Lately, there was a news regarding the government will increase the salary of the policeman in our country.

According to our beloved Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the public service department had already drafted a proposal for a salary increase for the police force and it was preparing for a initial study to be presented to the government.

In the news, I’d found that our Prime Minister admitted the current salary scheme for the 95,000- strong force was “not high” and could be “the cause of other problems, including the related to bribery and corruption.”

In my opinion, I don’t think that even though the government increased the salary of the blue man and blue girl, while this will not really stop the bribery and corruption of our police in this country.

As for Malaysia, bribe can be considered as one of our culture. Every corner around this world, as long as there is money exist, and the one who owned it can make their things and stuff goes more smoother, so as well as in our country.

I’d one experience before about this. One unlucky night, I was talking on the phone while driving, and eventually get caught by a police car, while as usual they were both in it. When I scrolled down my car window, as usual the need my I/C, and my driving license to check my status. Due to I’m in a rush to my friend’s, when one of the policeman asked me why did I against the rules, I just stopped him by saying “ cepat bagi saya saman.”

I could guarantee that both of them were shocked of my reaction, and the one who heard my “offered” was blur standing there didn’t know what to do. So the other police man approached me, and told me “ Adik, saman mesti melebihi Rm 200 punya, are u sure u mau?” what a typical Manglish.

So I asked them “bang, boleh settle tak?” and for sure you guys will know what happened next, and eventually I just lost RM 10 instead of RM 200.

So, it is obvious that even though if the government doesn’t increase the salary of the blue mans and the blue girls, their salary will be very “high” because of the “commission” that they get from us.

As in conclusion, if I had an opportunity to meet pak Lah, I would tell him why doesn’t the government just increase the innocent publics’ salary in order to make our life more better, especially contributing some “commission” to our “friends”.

Here Comes The Shark Loan!

The differences between Shark Loans and Bank Loans are The Shark will hurt the borrowers, but the Bank won’t. Does it Make Sense? Or I can say that one of the differences between the legal “AH LONG” and the Illegal “AH LONG” is the procedure and the interest of the loan. Bank needs more procedure and documentation to confirm and assure when comes to loan, thus private Banker will only need the people’s Photostat I/c, and for sure the interest will be more higher, but most importantly, people can get the MONEY in a easier and faster way.

Lately in the Star newspaper, there was this news about Ah Long menace has reached a worrying stage, says the Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk Fu Ah Kiow. “The Ah Long menace has reached a worrying stage and they have become a public nuisance. They have been causing hardship and misery to borrowers. We have to come down hard on them because it is getting out of hand,” he said.

He said the committee had agreed to freeze the issuance of new money-lending licences, pending police vetting, as more than 3,000 licences had been issued to date.

Fu said the committee had also agreed to strictly monitor legal moneylenders to ensure they comply with the rules and regulations. These include charging only the permitted interest rates, having an office, not renting out their licences and not appointing runners or third parties to solicit business.

“The Internal Security Ministry has also written to the media not to accept advertisements from moneylenders without advertising permits,” he said.

The Finance Ministry has been asked to look into providing micro-credit loans to prevent the public from turning to loan sharks.

“Additional police officers have also been seconded to the Housing and Local Government Ministry’s monitoring and enforcement division to fight loan sharks,” Fu said.

Police would also track down Ah Long who had been distributing flyers, stickers and call cards. The Housing and Local Government Ministry has been requested to put up anti-Ah Long messages and slogans on billboards.

As we know that the government is trying their best to stop the growing of the Shark Loan, as in conclusion, those who needs money please go to the BANK!!!!

This year's Matta Fair, Tourism Industry RockZ!!!

KUALA LUMPUR: The Matta Fair is back — and this time round, in line with Visit Malaysia 2007, visitors who buy domestic packages have a chance to win a Proton Gen2 car. Organizing committee deputy chairman Joseph Xavier said that for the first time, those who spend a minimum of RM200 on domestic packages could enter the Buyers Contest in the domestic category. Those who spend a minimum of RM500 instead, stand to win the other grand prize of a Proton Waja 1.6 Campro. [quote: theStar March 15]

Even though our country in known as an almost corrupt country, but one thing that I still feel proud of our country is it’s tourism industry, especially this year. Other than building many beautiful and elegant Mosque in our land, this year, the Malaysian government had built a wonderful and gorgeous ferris wheel which name “Eye On Malaysia”. This make me feels that 2007 is a wonderful year, because it will be full of tourist coming in to visit out country, and the most important, the economy of Malaysia will grow.

Come back to 23^rd Matta fair, about 80,000 visitors are expected for the three-day event held at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC). There will be over 230 exhibitors and sponsors occupying 915 booths in Halls 1, 2 and 3. About 41% of the booths taken up are to promote domestic tourism.

"The projected sales turnover is RM85mil,"said Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (Matta) president Ngiam Foon , adding that local and international travel agents, carriers and National Tourism Organisations were taking part in the fair.

The fair will be opened on Friday by Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Andan Tengku Mansor. Ngiam also said that to better facilitate communications between Matta and the public, they have set up a Matta Complaints Bureau to handle complaints throughout the year. "Previously, unsatisfied customers have written letters to us, or to different parties.

"This bureau is to streamline the complaints and channel them to the right person," he said, adding they were looking into the possibility of having a dedicated hotline for this purpose. He added: "For now, the public can call the general line and to be directed to the bureau."

In a press statement, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) commercial director Datuk Abdul Rashid Khan said in line with the Matta Fair, MAS would be "marketing 23 packages to spur domestic tourism, and another 53 packages to 48 international destinations".

The 3 days/2 nights domestic packages range between RM411 and RM855 and are discounted between 11% and 25% off the normal prices.

For international travel, the offer ranges from 3 days/2 nights to 6 days/4 nights 'Free and Easy' packages between RM435 and RM4,952.

Global Warming Approaching!

15 days before Chinese New Year, the weather of KL has become warmer. Some people said that it is because of the spring arrival, that’s why it caused the entire land become warm and comfortable. But eventually, everyone in the town felt like the warming sunshine, is slowly increasing the heat to an abnormal and uncomfortable situation. And strangely the first day of Chinese New Year, it end up with a heavy morning rain. If compare to the past 10 years, this is a strange case. Is this the GOD’s sign of something gonna happened? Or the sign of Global Warming is approaching?

1. [PETALING JAYA: Temperatures in Malaysia’s highland areas including the three major hill resorts – Cameron Highlands, Genting Highlands and Fraser’s Hill – are rising and over-development has been blamed for this.]

2. [IPOH: Birdwatchers at Cameron Highlands are noticing lowland birds that have never been seen in the highlands area “moving in” while indigenous birds have flown elsewhere, presumably to colder climates. This is a clear sign that the area was warming up, according to Regional Environmental Awareness Cameron Highlands (Reach) president R. Ramakrishnan]

3. [IT IS goodbye to chilly offices with sweater-clad workers, and hello to hi-tech air-conditioning, waterless urinals and solar power – as Singapore's buildings gear up to “go green.” From next year, all new public buildings and those undergoing major retrofitting have to earn the environment-friendly “Green Mark” – proof that they are energy- and water-efficient, with good indoor environments.]

4. [PUTRAJAYA: Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor Baru and the administrative capital of the nation, Putrajaya, are 5 °C hotter than other cities in the country. Rapid development and the lack of trees are turning these cities into urban heat islands (UHI) that are hot even at night.]

Above are the Environmental News of the past several weeks. It obviously shows that the climate, weather and the temperature of the country is changing, and global warming is starting or we can say that it is started. But sadly we Malaysian or the other nation around the world are not giving a damn concern about the incident and case, except the Naturalists who are the one who worried about the lifetime of this polluted world.

Yesterday while I was driving back from college to my house, what a sick when I saw those low educated people and I think they are the only one who likes to burn their rubbish, standing in front of their house and starting their “BBQ”. Isn’t that the government had given warning to the nation that burning rubbish is a crime? How come this people still don’t know how to obey the rules? And the worst part is, the police car that passed by never even stopped down and arrested those Burner, whereas just pretend like never saw anything!!! Seriously I really hope can suggest them to watch “An Inconvenient Truth”.

Last but not least, if the nation still don’t know how to take care of our mother earth, we will eventually make the End Of The World happened more earlier than we expect Dude!!!

Bored CNY

The first day of CNY everything was going well, I went back to my mom’s hometown in Pahang, Bentong. Everything was nice and filled with happiness and joy. Took some ANG PAO, ate some delicious dishes that normal days cant get to eat, and talk with some relatives that normal days cant get to meet…. That was the first day….

The Second day till the fifth day of CNY, I was acting a home alone series in my house. Supposed to follow my parents for a trip to Pulau Pangkor and Cameron Highland, but can’t manage to follow, due to work and Classes in HELP. I was wondering why HELP started those classes that early this year?

During the Home Alone period, other than working and studying, i went to my friends’ house for gathering and had a couple of “Lou Sang” section in their house, and somemore grabbed some ANG PAO from their parents. Besides that, “Fatt Coi” (Gamble) also one of the important section of those days. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough luck for that.

But overall, things went quite well, in this CNY. For every Chinese, CNY is a time for them to meet their far relatives, and is a good opportunity for them to have a family gathering, enjoying the delicious YU SHANG together, and it is kinda warm as well.

I think is enough for this week, and HEY, who has mood for work in CNY? Haha…

Ops Sikap XII Helps?

12 more killed in road accidents!!!

KUALA LUMPUR: Twelve people died in 1,161 road accidents on Thursday, the fifth day of Ops Sikap XII. This brings the total number of deaths since the launch of the operations on Feb 11 to 76.Of the 1,161 accidents, 535 occurred on municipal roads, federal roads (243), state roads (205), highways (131) and other roads (47). Four of the deaths were recorded on federal roads, state roads (four), highways (two) and one each on municipal and other roads.

A total of 12,291 summonses were issued.

Lately in Malaysia, due to make the nation in Malaysia have a better concern and caution about driving on the road, and plus Chinese new year is approaching, they come up again with the Ops SikapXII campaign. This is to give a sense and warning to the careless driver on the road to make themselves caution and realize that life is important for you, and your family. But unfortunately, even though the campaign had started for almost 1 week, but there is still 12 more unlucky killed in the accident. Is this the drivers’ wrong? Or his faith had arrived? Or the Death GOD wants their life already?

Everyday around the world, many people died because of road accident, because of their carelessly and rudeness during driving. They not even danger themselves, but somehow cause injured to the other people. Government often act as our parents, often advise us and encourage us to drive carefully on the road, they even taught us how to drive carefully on the Tv, and showed us what will be happened if we drive carelessly and impatiently, and they even comes out with Ops Sikap XII.

Take things for granted…..almost all the Malaysian, including me likes to behave like that. If we think that the campaign can really help us without us, ourselves take more caution during driving on the road, I’m sure that they will be 24 more killed or 36 more killed on the road the next day, or in the future. Why don’t we just co-operate with the government (this issue only), to avoid more and more accident happened everyday? Don’t we think life is precious? How bout the other peoples’ life? When we are driving carelessly on the road, don’t we think about our parents, family?

We are lucky in Malaysia (sometimes), because government will organize many campaign awareness about accident to the public every year, to reduce the amount of accident and the amount of dead in the accident. Since the government had treat us so good, why don’t we thank them, by driving carefully on the road, and don’t against the rules? Right?

Ok then, I’m done here for today. Is time to Balik Kampung…. Ciaoz

What Woman Really Want For Valentine’s ?

Feb 14^th is still a couple hours more to go. All the couples around the world are waiting for this special and romantic day, in order to spend all their precious time, every minute, every second with their love one. During this special day, “Couples Day”, the road will be no place for a bunch of friends, but lovely couples will be everywhere, every corner, enjoying this once a year special event--- Valentine’s day.

On this very special day, how could a lovely and surprising valentine’s gift missing between couples? No doubt, gift and present is a MUST during valentine’s day among couples, because it realistically shows how much you love him or her.

Whether it's your first Valentine's Day together or your fourth, the gift can become a source of anxiety for you and your girlfriend unless you know exactly how to present it.

Instructions

• STEP 1: Determine your girlfriend's expectations for a gift, especially if this is your first Valentine's Day together. If she's the kind of person who likes the works (Champagne, dinner, flowers and a gift), knowing this ahead of time will pre-empt disappointment on her part and embarrassment on yours if your gift wasn't quite up to par.
• STEP 2: Plan a special evening to celebrate your love so that the gift itself doesn't become the sole display of your affection.
• STEP 3: Ask her what she'd like for Valentine's Day (so she knows you're planning something), but consider giving her a personalized gift - a framed photograph you took, a poem you wrote, a piece of jewelry you had custom-made for her. And speaking of jewelry ...
• STEP 4: Wrap your present in a box that won't give your gift away or lead to disappointment if, say, you've been dating for several years now and still aren't ready to step up to the plate. In other words, if it's not a diamond, don't dare put your gift in a little square box.
• STEP 5: Offer your present before or after dinner, making sure to tell her that you love her when she is opening the present.
  

GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN

Twenty-seven percent of women say travel is number one on their list of gifts they'd most like to receive. And, a majority of those (67%) say they would be willing to buy it for themselves. However, a majority of those respondents made it clear that a trip to a spa, sailing on a cruise, or even going on a no-fuss packaged tour are the three most favored options among their top choices for travel.

(Hint: spare them the planning and organizing, guys - and just arrange for a quick getaway. Local spas have gift certificates that include enough pampering for any Mom.)

Most women (64%) define fun as freedom and socializing, but admit that household responsibilities (51%), work (26%), and just being too tired (33%) were the major obstacles to having fun. It is not surprising then, that travel - with its promise of no housework, the thrill of something new, and being with friends and family - comes in number one with most women.

A close second was jewelry. Among those respondents almost half say they would like to find a ring among their gifts, twenty percent prefer earrings, and sixteen percent say a necklace or chain would be the perfect gift.

(Hint: A big hit with moms and grandmothers is a ring or bracelets with children's... or grandchildren's birthstones. Watch out for earrings - make sure you know whether your fair lady has pierced ears, not everyone does!)

SURPRISE

Technology and electronic equipment rank third overall with the women in the study. Most of the women in this group want a new computer (30%) or a digital camera (25%).

However, rather than wanting to boast about their latest high-tech gadget, the study suggests that women rather look at the end result of technology - that is, staying in touch with loved ones - whether through e-mails and instant messages or sharing photographs online. And as evidence of women's comfort level with electronic equipment, a whopping 82 percent of those surveyed say they would buy these items for themselves.

WHAT WOMEN REALLY REALLY DON'T WANT

No big surprises here. According to the survey, the gifts that women least want are sports and outdoor equipment, bar and entertaining accessories (e.g., specialty glasses) and equipment for the car (e.g., car stereo, car cleaning kit).

The old favorite - flowers - is still a good standby.

The bottom line? Showing your appreciation with the gift of your time is one gift that will never go out of style.