I can’t remember who sent it to me but i’m glad that i have this opportunity to watch this video. It simply reinforce my belief that although we can’t reach for the stars, but then we must not stop trying. Afterall, we only live once, so why not die trying instead of doing nothing at all? Here, i would like to share Thomas Alva Edison’s quote, which i remembered throughout these years: I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Enjoy the video:

Somehow, i don’t like the fact that it’s quite troublesome for us to get back our money from EPF. I have never experienced it myself but based on the emails flying around for the past few years, it seems that there is a lot of process to do in order to make sure that your own personal information is up to date so that your money won’t be channeled to some EPF fund in case you pass away. I mean, this is our money, and yet we have issues like nomination names disappear from database, and now if someone that we nominate passed away, then the money will be channeled to some EPF fund. Hey, it’s our money, can’t we just have a standard rule like by default, pass the money to wife, else to parents, else to children and so on? Why do EPF have to make it so hard to make sure that our family members will get our money? Afterall, it’s our own hard earned money and not their money? Pfffffftttthhhh !!! Reminds me again on another issue that EPF suggest that they pay out our money every month instead of giving us our money in one lump sump upon our retirement…. prrrrrfffftttthhh !!!!! Hello, IT’S OUR MONEY !!!

Info Sharing…

If ONE (1) of our Nominee in the EPF Nominees list deceased, automatically the whole arrangement (EPF Nominees list) is VOID. Meaning if, you only put in One (1) name &  unfortunately he/she dies before you – automatically EPF will channel your EPF money to trustee of AMANAH RAYA upon your death.

Thou if, you DO have few names in the EPF Nominees list still – the whole arrangement is VOID & none of the individual balance name in the EPF Nominees list will get their potion & automatically EPF will channel your EPF money to trustee of AMANAH RAYA upon your death.

Piece of advice – if any of the your Nominee in the EPF Nominees list decease, please do immediately approach the nearest EPF counter & present the Death Certificate of the individual & re-instate you NEW / LATEST Nominee in the EPF Nominees list + NEW / LATEST percentage.

If, you & the other party (maybe spouse) involved in the same misfortune (accident / illness) that caused death to both yourself / spouse please, please, please alert your siblings / relatives / parents to immediately approach the nearest EPF counter & share the information within 3 days to AVOID all EPF money to be surrender to trustee of AMANAH RAYA.

Upon surrender to trustee of AMANAH RAYA, your children will have to battle the money thru 3 channels;

Majlis Agama

Pejabat Tanah

Mahkamah

The normal period via above 3 channels usually takes 2-3 years (except if you have inside/tip top connection) at Amanah Raya.

Hello Bee and Prime, care to visit Malaysia?

Ok. I can now confirmed that those rotten tomatoes rating of around 21% is indeed true. Well, the movie is not bad at all but it just lack something to make it an enjoyable movie. Everything seems a bit messed up and again, for non-transformers fans, i think they can only recognize Prime and Bee and that’s it. The rest of the robots, i bet they don’t know shit about it. Arcee? Sideswipe or sidesweep? You see, i don’t even get a proper introduction to the characters at all. They just appear out of no where and then just join in the battles. Somehow, i really feel Transformers first movie is way much better than this one. Sure, you get lots and lots of awesome battle scenes but that’s it. I hate it when they just show bits and pieces of most of the robots. What about Constructicons?

*warning, spoiler potentially ahead*

What about Constructicons? Suddenly they just appear towards the end of the movie…sucking sands here and there and boom! they’re gone. And the Fallen is suppose to be one of the prime as well, and i think he only appear and died too fast towards the end as well. And what about Sam’s roommate? What’s the point of them putting that guy in the movie? He’s a computer freak, search for aliens, meet them and then can’t remember what happen to him, so what’s the point of having this character?

Overall, it’s still worth paying RM9 for this movie because of the special effects and some of the awesome fight scenes. But again, i will definitely have to agree that Transformers 2 is way below expectation this time. I hope they will make transformers 3 a good one.

boy oh boy… i guess poison really runs deep and i’m re-kicking off my ICE hobby again… and it starts with this…

Pioneer P800PRS or fondly known as P80RS2 in Malaysia... yummy...

The main reason i bought this HU was for the EQ. This baby has independent L/R 16 bands of EQ and that should be sufficient for me. And it supports active setup as well but my only complain is for HPF, you can’t go anything below 2kHz so that means I can’t play semi-active if i would like to go for front 3-way setup. Initially i thought of using passive setup for my midrange and tweeter but i guess for now, i’ll need to stick with 2-way front. Will try to provide a formal review once i get my baby this November.

Goodye Nakamichi, Hello Pioneer! Ahh…

LOL, i find it funny when someone actually wrote to the Star and complain that it took them 6hrs to register at university. I guess that certain someone must not be a real Malaysian. Dude, i tried just to submit a one page acceptance page and it took me 1hr to do that! I have not even registered yet. And i know what went wrong for my case. You see, when i went over to the counter, i was asked to get a number. At the machine, there’s 3 options to choose from:

1. New student (research mode)
2. Thesis submission
3. New registration (something like that)

So i am not going for research mode and i’m not submitting my thesis as well, so option 3 is obviously the choice. So i press option 3 and slowly wait la. And then i start to notice that the waiting number only changes for option 1 and the number sequence for option 3 didn’t move at all. After 45 mins waiting and after asking the desk 2-3 times (which they coolly replied back to me, asking me to get a number…duh), i walked to the number machine and i tekan option 1 this time. And voila, after just 10 mins, it was my turn and i just submit the form and get a receipt. The actual process is very simple and fast. But you see, they didn’t really follow the process and i end up have to wait 1 hr for this. But i’m not complaining. Afterall, it’s an Apex status university. hehehe…

Original STAR report below:

Six hours to register at varsity

MY family and I had to wait for almost six hours when we took my sister to register at the campus of a university in Kuala Lumpur last Sunday.

We expected nothing more than one to two hours to do the registration.

When half the day had gone by only did the university announce that they had some technical problems, which had caused the massive delay.

Many parents had to wait to get their children registered and d get settled in their given dormitory.

They apologised and we accepted their apology.

But surely things could have been done faster and more efficiently. Even then, they did not give specific instructions as to where the dormitories are located. The lack of signboards made it difficult for us to find them. It took me 10 minutes to walk around the campus just to find the toilet.

I urge universities to revamp their registration system to avoid wasting a whole day just to get the children enrolled.

ALEXIS K,

Kuala Lumpur.

i don’t know what happened but it seems that all my postings appeared to be shifted slightly to the right and then causing my sidebar to block some parts of my posting texts. Well, seriously, i don’t know what happened, tried deleting some of my recent posts but still the same problem. I guess i’ll just wait for reply from wordpress support.

p/s: apparently, it only happens when viewing through IE, i use chrome and the page showed up perfectly…

Ok ok, i admit. i don’t do this every month so maybe i should put it as artiste of the year or something like that. But i enjoy listening to new songs from new artistes and if they are those jazzy type of singer, or lounge or soul or swing type, i love it even more. hate pops for now so any britney alike type of singers will go straight to the dumps. Anyway, lets all give it up for Zee Avi. And i do specifically want to mention here that this young lass comes from our very own bolehland. Yup, she was born in Miri, Sarawak. More information available at wikipedia here. At the mean time, here’s her first single entitled ‘Bitter Heart’, enjoy! One thing is for sure now, i’m gonna get her album.

p/s: check out her original song ‘Just You and Me’. Personally i feel the original version is much better than the studio version. I simply love the slower pace as well as the simplicity of the song, just Zee and her ukulele…

Well well well, i thought for once, Barisan Nasional or maybe UMNO did the right thing by not contesting at the recently concluded Penanti by-election. Why did i say that? Well, i was watching TV news yesterday and i saw Najib giving his 2 cents on the Penanti by-election.

And guess what he was saying? Total voters turnout was less than 50%, so that means Pakatan Rakyat only obtained less than half of people’s votes in Penanti. So indirectly, that means Barisan is still popular, because if the other more than 50% people are not voting for Pakatan, we assume that they are voting for Barisan!

Next, the total votes obtained by Pakatan Rakyat this time around is roughly 1000+ votes less than what they got in the previous election. I can’t remember the actual numbers but it’s somewhere around the region of 1000 plus votes. That means, less people are supporting Pakatan Rakyat now compared to last year.

Fuuyoh, ain’t this a masterstroke from Barisan Nasional this time around? Technically, they did not lose at all in this by-election because in the first place, they did not compete. Amazing, truly a brilliant strategy. Although some of us might not be fooled by this, but i am confident that some might buy into the idea that BN indeed still holds the majority support of people.

So for once, hats off to Barisan for this strategy. And i will definitely learn from this as well, if I think i can’t win, then just don’t compete! So i won’t lose! Hehehehe…

One of today’s interesting news from the Star newspaper is the result of a pizza eating contest, which was eventually won by Kobayashi. Now this guy’s name sounds very familiar to me, and when i searched Youtube, i found the answer. He is a four time former champion of hot dog eating contest. And I really couldn’t believe it when i saw the stats. It’s somewhere around the region of 60 to 66 hot dogs in 10 minutes. What !?!? That means this chap chumped down around 6 hot dogs in a minute! And he ain’t big size at all… Check out the video, which was captured in the year 2007, the year Kobayashi lost his title to his only true rival, Chestnut.

And if you’re still in awe, wondering how the hell those two guys just whack 60 dogs in 10 minutes, what about this fella from Japan as well. Just check out how fast this guy can drink a 1.5L of water.

This is for all the guys out there, never knew that we can say this in such a polite manner… hehehe… read on to know what i’m talking about…

During one of her classes, a teacher trying to teach good manners, asked her students the following question:

‘Kaizad, if you were on a date having dinner with a nice young lady, how would you tell her that you have to go to the bathroom?’

Kaizad said, ‘Just a minute I have to go pee.’

The teacher responded by saying, ‘That would be rude and impolite.

What about you Sarosh, how would you say it?’

Sarosh said, ‘I am sorry, but I really need to go to the bathroom. I’ll be right back.’

‘That’s better, but it’s still not very nice to say the word bathroom at the dinner table.

And you, Rohinton, can you use your brains for once, and show us any good manners that you may have?’

Rohinton:- ‘I would say: Darling, please may I be excused for a moment? I have to shake hands with a very close friend of mine from down under, whom I hope to introduce to you, after dinner.’

Teacher promptly fainted.