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Happy earth day 2008

Do you know that today is Earth Day? Every year at 22th April, Earth Day which was founded by John McConnell in 1969 celebrated by many countries including Malaysia. There is not much publicity of this event in Malaysia, and of course there is no holiday. This is also the first year I’m aware about this Earth Day, when the company that I working at, are having events such recycle day, plant tree and short video about earth.

320px Earth flag PD Happy earth day 2008


It’s still not too late for you to participate on this event. In fact it is everyone responsible to keep our earth greener. Not only for us, but for our next generation. As a blogger, show your support by blogging and spreading about this day.


What else can you do to participate?


  • Save energy
  • Use less water and electricity
  • Reduce/reuse/recycle
  • Handle toxic properly 
  • Play games and do puzzles, avoid video/computer/PS2/Nintendo games
  • Car pool to the office
  • Stop Blogging for 5 minutes (just kidding)… and many more

 

Looking for more information? Read more at Wikipedia, earthday.net and regeneration.org

  


Admin 22 April 2008 Event 9 Comments

PC fair 2008 is coming to town


It is PC fair time again. Though I wont’ be attend any PC Fair this year (until Luqman has reduced his crying tempo and rate) , I still have interest browsing for the best deal on the net. As usual, Dell slashing their price for certain model up until MYR2000. HP, Lenovo, Acer and Toshiba done the same I believe,  but since their bulk sales coming from their retail or channel partners, it is hardly to find any detail or promotion on their local website.

In Kuala Lumpur, as usual , the fair would be held at KLCC convention centre. I don’t even know that Manjung, one of the nearest town at my home town (Teluk Intan) now has their own PC Fair. I wonder when Teluk Intan will have one. PC Fair’s event and place detail can be found on their website.

2008 PC Fair first round schedule

4-6 April 2008 Johor Bahru, Taiping, Sandakan, Tawau & Kuching
11-13 April 2008 Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Kuantan, Kepala Batas & Muar
18-20 April 2008 Penang, Melaka, Sibu, Miri & Manjung


Best Deal

dell1525 PC fair 2008 is coming to town
Normal price: 2,399

Inspiron530s PC fair 2008 is coming to town
Normal price: 2,299

XPSM1330 PC fair 2008 is coming to town
Normal price: 3,599

DSC00697 PC fair 2008 is coming to town
Normal price (Tesco) : 1,899



PC fair vs ICTS Computer Fair

I remember sometime back, there is an attempt to have another PC fair which known more as ICTS Computer Fair by PIKOM’s members who dissatisfied with how PC fair was organized.  However, it seems that it only runs for 2 years, 2004 and 2005 if I’m not mistaken. In fact, their domain name, icts.org.my and their website (and even the cache version) no longer available in WHOIS . Having single major PC Fair is better (and more crowded), since all IT players can be gathered in one place which will ensure that fair is bigger and attractive enough to bring more international brands joining the fair. And at the end, end user like us is the real winner here. There are more choices available, and be able to spend without any hesitation knowing there is no other fair that could offer similar things

PC Fair’s price cheaper than computer shop such as lowyat??

Of course there is no definitive answer for this questions. PC Fair has been in most states in Malaysia including small towns. In order to attract the shoppers, the price could goes down pretty significant compared to the local shop,  especially if the booth operated by big companies from KL or Penang or which has wide range of distribution. Local computer shop also, usually sell their stuff with more discount and more free gift (sometime useless) to win the competition with the bigger competitor from outside

But the situation is different in big cities like Kuala Lumpur or Penang where PC Fair’s price is almost similar with what offered in shops at Lowyat or Digital Mall but with one exception. Big and renown brand or distributor such as Dell, Canon, Apple and HP will normally open their own both and offering discount you can’t get else where on the their product. Taking example like Dell above, you can’t get this price(discount up to RM200) except during PC Fair or festival (the discount not at this best). Similarly with HP, such as when ZakiY bought a new printer and get a lot of goodies. I also agree with the fact that, sometime, it is not the price that matters, but it is the goodies that matter most(from ZakiY’s comment). You might want to have a look discussion about this on Lowyat.net at here and here


PC Fair VS CES VS CeBIT

CES and CeBIT are arguably among the largest PC and electronic fair in the world. Back in Asia, we have Computex Taipei, the larget IT shows in Asia. It is matters of time and the right strategies before PC Fair will level with all these bigger and well known fairs who has more exhibitor from around the world showcasing the latest product.  It might not happen on short period of time, but I’m hopeful that PIKOM together with the Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications (MEWC) can do something to further enhance the visibility of this fair on IT’s world map.

On related development, I’m fully supportive of PIKOM’s proposal to have new ministry especially for ICT to spearhead Malaysia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry. Why?? I feel that the current ministry has too many portfolios, energy, water and communication,  thus less efficient to tackle on each portfolio effectively. Just my 2 cent



Admin 13 April 2008 Event 17 Comments

I’m going to Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search Awards Ceremony

Going to Youth Malaysia

I’m going to Youth Seach event this morning. I’ll be going by car, there’s no public
transport available except buses. Hopefully the traffic is not bad, so I can reach
there on time. I would like to see how the
events are going on and who’s the contest winners. Even though their image was a little bit
tarnished by SPAM email accident a few days ago, I don’t
think it will have an impact to the event itself.

I would like to meet local pro
bloggers such as Paul Tan and LiewCF if they happen to be there and if there’s not many
people asking their signatures. Ok guys, see you there!!

I applaud their effort to gather local bloggers in such event.


Event: The Malaysian Dotcom
Youth Search Awards Ceremony
Date: 18th January 2008

Time: 11.00 am – 12.00 pm

Venue: Main Stage, Hall 4, Putra World Trade Centre

10.30am – Registration (Outside Hall 4)

11.00am – Arrival of Guest of Honour YB Dato’ Kong Cho Ha

11.05am – Opening Remarks by Master of Ceremony

11.10am – Welcoming address by Mr. Joel Neoh Eu-Jin

(Organizing Chairman of YOUTH’08 cum Project Director of YouthMalaysia.com)

11.15am – Keynote by YB Dato’ Kong Cho Ha
(Deputy Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation cum

MCA New Technology & Innovation Bureau Chairman)

11.35am – Presentation of The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search Award 2008

11.40am – Souvenir Presentation

11.45am – Lunch

Admin 18 January 2008 Event 5 Comments

Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search 2008 spamming my email (indirectly)

If you’re one of the Dotcom Youth participants, by now, I believe you should have received emails and sms from them notifying about their upcoming event. But Dotcom Youth as a dot com organizer has done 1 big mistake. They’re putting participants emails’ on the ‘to’ recipient field, thus inviting a lot of spamming from spammers who are also some of the participants.

It seems that they are not aware of the consequences.

What I suggest next time.
1. Use mailing list/auto responder system, which will only list one email address on the ‘to’ recipient field
2. Use distribution list
3. Put recipient emails on BCC field

Further action.
1. Organizer must remove participants who do spamming
2. Other participants to mark that email as spam, to give them a lesson
3. Don’t visit their website – this looks like a small matter to some of you, but this is important for them to discontinue their spamming.

By the time I’m writing this blog, Joel Neoh the Project Director has sent an apology email about this mistake. But the damage has been done, our email has been under the hands of ‘spammer’s, its already too late.

Btw, I just bought new web hosting for my another project. If you need web hosting, and are looking for a good web hosting company, there are a few good web hosting companies online that support Ecommerce websites and use a dedicated server.

Admin 16 January 2008 Event 10 Comments

Google AdWords Seminar in KL Malaysia

This must be good news for internet marketer especially those living in KL. I wish I could attend too, but due to the time constraint, it’s kind of hard to get half day off from my boss.

I’ve read about it somewhere else before, but I only got the email from them yesterday.
Looking at how Google Adword used widely now, this is golden opportunity to listen about it directly from someone appointed by Google it self

Seminar details:

Date: Monday, 3 December 2007

Time: 1:30 pm registration. Seminar : 2pm – 4:30pm

Venue: Seminar Hall, Level 12, Wisma MCA, 163 Jalan Ampang, KL.

Admission: Registration fee RM20. However, it’s FREE for Exabytes’ customers! [Please provide your Exabytes’ Customer ID number upon registration]

Speaker: Mr Hanson Toh, Malaysia Country Consultant, appointed by Google, Inc.

Read more from webmastermalaysia forum

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