Next Friday, my beloved country Malaysia will celebrate it 50th Independence Day. It’s been 50 years since 1957 where the late Tunku Abd Rahman and his delegation successfully negotiate our independence from British Colonial back then. Every 31st August we’ll celebrate independence day or called by most of Malaysian as Hari Kemerdekaan .
Last month, I have posted the same thing about independence, but it was for the US (where some of my colleagues were) where it was known there as Memorial Day . On my brief observation on several local blog, I can see that there is spirit of celebrating this big event. Lets grab some of what I have here in local blog sphere.
- LiewCF has posted about Microsoft Malaysia has created special page in accordance of Malaysia 50th Independence Day. LiewCF posted some logo as well which I have it on my right sidebar. The logo will bring you to VirtualMalaysia, the side dedicated for Malaysia 50th Independence day.The original logo is here if you’re interested with the PNG file
- Nice poster from mob1900. It is a palm wrapped/painted with Malaysian flag. It has interesting and hot topic inside
- If you’re photographer or you have a good skills in photography, Jeff Ooi posted about the photography contest called Malaysia@50, to capture snapshots of “A Day in the Life of Malaysiaâ€Â. It’s been going on since last year.
- There is a contest as well for our Merdeka day and the prize is not that bad. Exabytes is offering mobile phone and keyboards to the winner of their contest which is very simple. Register yourself , put their logo on your websites, get spotted by them and win their price. I have joined it as well on one of my websites
I’m purposely posting this earlier as during week days, I have limited time to do blogging stuff. At my company where I’m working at, we have few competitions such as merdeka related online quiz, traditional dressing code competition, and some treasure hunt contest.
So what you have planned on that day?? Watching television/movie, dating, go shopping or even sleeping whole day long?? Heh, thats not right man. Btw, I have my plan in my head… WORKING!!
It’s been a week since my last post. I know I shouldn’t leave my blog unattended since search engines bot is occasionally coming to look for fresh contents, but unfortunately it’s not there. I’m sorry bot, you won’t be disappointed today.
There is a few interesting events that had happened last week. Last week and early week, I spent most of the time building few websites using the new domain that I bought previously, link them together with free blogs that I have before to create new mini network interconnected between them. I was inspired to get it done after reading this video . It is 42 minute video that is worth your attention.
Then, there is Dell 24†Wide Screen LCD that I mentioned before. I have tested (with some movie and video only) it, I’m very much satisfied with the performance, the display is good as well as other additional ports that it has, such as S-Video, card reader and others. I tried to snap better pictures, but unfortunately the quality is not that good, maybe due to my 0 photography skills.
My wife has resigned from her 8.30 – 5.30 job and joins me managing my websites and blog networks. Welcome my dear. Part of my time also spent teaching her some basic web terminology, techniques, and tools as well as introduce her with my blogs and websites that she has not really taken care before. It’s good to work on this together with my wife. She’ll do some postings soon after she had managed to catch up on higher priority tasks that I am assigning to her (Do I look bossy here, hehe)
We also grab Acer Aspire 4520 last week, it is entry level notebook powered by AMD Turion X2. Not a high end notebook, but I never have tasted the power of AMD processor chip so far. It’s quite good, in terms of performance; it’s almost the same level with Centrino Duo. With 1.5 GB memory, it is able to run Vista Premium well. First experience with Vista as well, nice graphics and more functions available, but I’m still not yet an expert on it.
Well, that’s all for now. Hopefully, you’ll never see this blog in ‘hibernate’ mode again in future. Cheers!!
While traveling to KL last weekend, I was able to free my self and visit Malaysian computer ‘heaven’, Plaza Low Yat which famous with hundreds of shops selling telecommunications, gadget and computer stuff with the prize that you can get anywhere else (legally in Malaysia)
I’m not a computer geek, but this time, I tried to build new system from scratch based on advice from my friends and some tips from lowyat.net forum. I end up buying motherboard, graphic card, switch and etc that I capture some of them below, but without my Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz that I bought in Penang earlier. Added to this family would be Dell 24″ wide screen LCD that will be received probably by end of this week.
I’m displaying also my old but gold systems, that are loyal to me, give me less troublesome and service me well since my earlier day on Internet entrepreneurship (my notebook) and old P3 (2nd hand) with 19″ Dell LCD that has accompanied me since 3 years ago.
Building you own system from scratch will definitely give you satisfaction in terms of performance. On the other side, you will spend more since you’re using quite high end parts that do not necessarily important if you’re use it solely for blogging purpose. The solutions, grab more games, or buy more gadgets to fully utilized it (don’t listen to this advice)
Btw, I’ll test this rig with the podcasting set that I win from createbusinessgrowth blog couple of weeks ago. I have no idea how it works, but I’ll definitely give it a try before deciding if it worth to keep it.
Old system, on my workstation
New system, in progress..
Something interesting to share about Friday.
- The 13th day of a month is more likely to fall on a Friday than on any other day. In each 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar, 170 years have one Friday the 13th, 171 have two, and 59 have three.
- It is impossible to have a year with no Friday the 13th or a year with four or more Fridays the 13th.
- When there are three Fridays the 13th in a year, they occur in February, March and November except in leap years. In leap years, they occur in January, April and July.
- When there is only one Friday the 13th in a year, it falls either in May, June, August or October.
source: newsletter
Wednesday (July 4th) would be non busy day for me. You want to know why? That is holiday time. Not for me, but for my office HQ in US. They’re celebrating Independence Day. What that means to me? Since my job scope are focus mostly to US, on that day means, less task, less assignment and less meeting. But that doesn’t mean that I can relax in office. Btw, don’t let my boss know ok.
I would like to take opportunity to wish Independence Day and happy holiday to all Americans. Please drive carefully (do they have same behavior while driving likes us??) Malaysia, my lovely homeland, do have it’s own Independence Day which is celebrated on Aug 31st. The celebration this year is very special since its mark the 50th this country’s independence from British. Happy Independence Day to everyone!!
