Headache is the bane of my life now. Started after having fever last Tuesday. Have been having headache almost everyday since then. Not all the time but often enough to make me go crazy. >< AAAAaaahhhhhhh. Mmm. Other than that, nothing much of interest going on with my life. Still working. Still alive. My phone died. Change a new phone. That's all I guess. =P
Haven't been blogging for a long long time? Just a short update. Finished my thesis (thanks to my supervisor for all the advise n help), passed all my final semester exam. So that means that i would be able to graduate on time. ^^. Hmm.. currently working as a software engineer? Or C developer. In a small telco solution company.
Having fun here. Still learning the in and out of the source code. Nice co-workers (all guys though). This would be ending my 2nd week working here. Still think that it's more fun than studying? Maybe cause it's still new, or maybe I'm finally doing something I like. No more memorizing subjects? ^^
Let's see, what else. Finally finish packing my stuff last weekend and left Skudai forever! I guess most people still on holiday? ^^ Have fun ppl. Missing all my makan, playing, movie-ing kaki. You know who you are. Try to meet up during weekends ya? (Lucky me, most ended up in KL area. ^^)
Uni life is going to end soon for me. Just left my thesis report and finals. These 5 years here had been fun! A lot of up and downs. Should be happy that I'm graduating, but yet.. I'm actually sad. After leaving uni, how many of my close friends would I ever meet again? People come from all over the country, so naturally, when they leave, would go back to all over the country. Most of them would end up in Penang though. My guess is Penang would be like Tmn U again for them.
Sometimes I really wonder if I would ever meet most of those people I know from uni again. Maybe some of my close friends I would try to make the initiative to find them. But how long would it last? From experience, my high school friends only meet up once a year or the most, twice a year. Now that everyone is going to start working, those chances are even lesser now. That's also we are all from the same area, but now... All over the country..
I think I'm rambling and not making any sense. Even to myself. =.="
I joined MICE (Microelectronics and Computer Engineering) Exhibition on the 4th and 5th April. Very tiring (as in rushing to finish my project before the start of the exhibition). I stayed in lab on the 3rd from 12.30pm - 3.30pm. Went out to buy some stuff, have a meal. Then went back to lab at 5pm. Stayed there until 6.30am. Went back home to change my clothes, bathe then went back to lab at 7.30am until 5.30pm. To think that I have to present so many times with the tired look and the tired face. It's amazing that I still could go out for fries and fried chicken with AL. HAHA.
Let's see, on the 1st day, the scariest thing was when Mr. Z brought the TNC over to my booth and ask me to explain. I was like. Oh SHIT! Never expected to present in the morning. Was still very blur. I just crapped out some stuff. Lucky Mr. Z explained further. Damn pai seh. Then later that day is my presentation for my final year project and also for the exhibition itself.
I was actually quite lucky, I guess that the panel don't really know about my project or what the heck is HTTP Client or web application framework cause they didn't ask any deep technical questions. But the questions almost gave me heart attack. What do you mean by low cost? I was like, OMG! Where your product is most suitable for? Luckily that even though I was so tired but my brain is still somewhat working. I just crap something out, while looking at my supervisor. He was there as well, looking at my presentation. Scary man. =P
2nd day was a bit more relaxing. just need to explain my project to visitors. I was beginning to hate my long long title by the end of the second day. Imagine repeating "Building security and access system using web application framework and Low Cost Network Appliance" for God knows how many times. Then the time for closing ceremony is here. It was delayed for about 30 minutes. ZZzzzzz. Well, to end it all, I got some souvenirs from Intel (a book, pen and a stapler), a participation certificate and a piece of plastic which states that someone got the 2nd prize in the Software Category. That's all I guess. Time to do my thesis report!
Congrats to Eugene for winning the 1st prize in Embedded/Networking Category, James for winning the 3rd prize in Embedded/Networking Category. Hmm. I should write about some of the more interesting projects in the exhibition. Those which I became the white mice of course. Fun stuff. One is about heart sound and ECG, the other is about EEG.
I'm hyper now. ^^. The result of sleeping for 20 hours. Hyper + headache. Hey! I'm not lazy for sleeping 20 hours k. It's more like, 1st day - 5 hours, 2nd day 5 hours, 3rd day no sleep, 4th day KO for 20 hours. Now have to get back to work. ASAP.
Just a note, thanks to AL for the great lunch yesterday. ^^ 3 different type of cakes.. slurrrpp.. chicken.. slurrrppp... ^^
Didn't blog for quite some time now. Lazy. =) Some things happen lately. Friend got admitted to the hospital for dengue fever. LI project deadline next Monday. I'm so dead. =) Need to gambatte.
Basic framework must be up by today. Or before class later today. Complete framework by tomorrow. Saturday, get the Intel Hex code generation done! GAMBATTE! One last note, get well soon AL. Your body need to gambatte in producing platelet liao. Discharge by SUNDAY!!! Hahaha. Hyper now. Overdose of coffee. ^^. Going to bed for 2 hours. Hopefully I would be able to wake up to do my project. Blek.
I went to Titiwangsa Lake with AL on Friday. It was worth all the effort going there. The firework display was awesome. (Even though I don't know how did I manage to get home that night. =P) Too bad I don't know where did I chuck my tripod. Never bring with me. So pictures didn't really turn out well. =(
Anyway, Happy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Chai! Let me share with you a photo of the firework display. (Don't play too much fireworks)
Fireworks at Lake Titiwangsa.My camera died. After I used it in the rain. Stupid of me I know but I didn't know that the camera is so sensitive to the rain or water. Sending it to repair center tomorrow. So sad. Don't know if it could be repaired. Time for a new camera? Shit. Less than 1 year. Haihz.
A bit late, but better late than never right? I went over to Singapore on New Year's eve. Not for countdown, but to find a friend of mine who transit at Changi Airport. =) I have a grand tour of Changi Airport. Hehe. From terminal 1 to terminal 2. End to end. It was fun finally getting to meet CL. After more than 4 years. Hope to see you soon. (Time to get a hp don't you think? It's not like you are going to read my blog. =P)
Just to share some photo I took in Singapore. Not very impressive, but this is the best of the whole lot. This was taken near Esplanade in Singapore. There was tons of people there at 8pm. The fireworks display must be great! Hehe. Too bad I was in Changi that time.
One of the last photo I took in year 2006TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP): A strong earthquake off Taiwan's southern coast damaged undersea cables, cutting off phone and Internet service Wednesday to parts of China, South Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and the United States, companies said. The temblor killed two people.Source: The Star
Repairing the cables harmed by Tuesday's 6.7-magnitude quake could take three weeks but "quality will improve day by day,'' said Lin Jen-hung, vice general manager of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan's largest phone company.
The company said damage to a cable off Taiwan's southern coast has interrupted 98 percent of Taiwan's communications capacity with Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong.
The damaged lines knocked out Internet service for some Hong Kong customers, who were unable to access Web sites in parts of Asia and the U.S.
Hong Kong telephone company PCCW Ltd., which also provides Internet service, said several undersea data cables were damaged in the quake.
"Data traffic to Taiwan, Korea, Japan and the United States are affected,'' PCCW said in a statement.
The company also warned customers that they may experience congestion for several days on the Internet because of an upsurge in use as people surf the Web for more information about the quake.
Financial traders in Hong Kong -- one of Asia's biggest business capitals -- complained they lost their connection to Bloomberg LP, a key provider of news and data about stock markets. Bloomberg declined to immediately comment on the outage.
Internet access has been cut or has become extremely slow in Beijing, said an official from China Netcom, China's No. 2 phone company.
The official, who would not give his name, said the cause was thought to be the earthquake, but he had not further details. Businesses in various parts of the city also said they were experiencing Internet access problems.
CCTV, the state-run television network, said the earthquake had damaged undersea communications cables from China to the United States and from Asia to Europe.
It said China Telecom Corp., China's biggest phone company, was contacting counterparts in the United States and Europe about using satellites to make up for the shortfall.
The quake, which hit offshore from the town of Hengchun near Taiwan's southern tip, came on the second anniversary of the tsunami that killed more than 200,000 lives in southern Asia.
Japan's Meteorological Bureau said Tuesday a one-meter (3.3-foot) tsunami might be headed toward the eastern coast of the Philippines, but officials later lifted the warning.
In Taiwan, two members of one family were killed Tuesday in Hengchun when their four-story home collapsed. Six other members of the family were rescued from under the rubble early Wednesday, the National Fire Agency said in a statement.
The quake injured 42 people, three homes collapsed and 12 fires broke out, the fire agency said.
Tuesday's quake was felt throughout Taiwan. It shook buildings and knocked objects off the shelves in the capital, Taipei, in the northern part of the island.
Several high-rise hotels swayed violently in the southern city of Kaohsiung, CTI Cable News reported.
Liao Ching-ling, a manager at the city's Ambassador Hotel, said the quake was the strongest she had ever felt.
"The building swayed so badly that many guests panicked and ran out of their rooms and into the streets,'' she said.
Quakes frequently shake Taiwan, which is part of the Pacific's "Ring of Fire,'' an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. Most are minor and cause little or no damage. However, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in central Taiwan in September 1999 killed more than 2,300 people.
After not installing ICQ on my computer for years, I finally installed ICQ on my computer. Then suddenly, a lot of people saying hie to me. Part of one conversation went like this.
alex: u hv bf?
[-cHiA-]: nop
alex: u still here
alex: u want continum chating
[-cHiA-]: still here..
[-cHiA-]: i said no bf..
alex: oic
alex: can tell me your hp no?
[-cHiA-]: haha.. y?
alex: if free i can call n sms to u
alex: my hp no 016-6686225
[-cHiA-]: oO
alex: how?
[-cHiA-]: haha.. sorry.. i dont give my hp num one..
[-cHiA-]: :)
alex: ok, i very busy now
[-cHiA-]: bb.. take care.. :)
alex: who r u?
[-cHiA-]: huh? ai lin here..
alex: fuck u
[-cHiA-]: =.="
alex: just because i dont wanna give my hp num?
alex: dont distrub me
[-cHiA-]: haihz.. now i know y i dont on icq anymore.. thanks for reminding me.
alex: u better go to die
[-cHiA-]: haha.. yeah.. i will.. one day.. :P
alex: fuck u
[-cHiA-]: heh.. so childish.
alex: u 2
[-cHiA-]: thanks. i know i am..
Merry Christmas everyone. Thanks to everyone for all the wishes. Thanks to AL for the cute bear (Would try to see if i could take some picture that will do the bear justice). Thanks to ET for the cake n coffee. Class starting tomorrow (8am class. grrr). Gambatte everyone. New Year coming soon, New Year resolution anyone? =P Hehe.
Just came back to Skudai on Sunday (yesterday). Sien. So many years never celebrate my bday at home. So where should I go this year? Went to Singapore last year with juniors. A lot of humans. Sprays. Tiring but fun.
Don't know what should I do this year. Maybe I should just drive to Desaru again. To enjoy the sea breeze. (I tried that one year, but I took a wrong turn and ended up in Mersing. Nice breeze, but no nice beach. Maybe I just don't know where. Sien. Should be sleeping, but not at home. Haha. So decided to post a crappy blog post.
Oh yeah, SJ ppl, don't put my name for any more free trials for gym (you know who you are). They actually called me. You guys said they won't. Kacau saja. Not like I'm ever going to a gym where you have to pay for membership. I only went gym twice. The gym in UTM which is FOC! Not that I'm anti-gym or what (no offence to u wp), but I feel that if you wanna exercise, no need to pay so much just for a gym membership, just go for a walk, jog, cycling or something.
Okay, better go, brain is shutting down. One last thing, when is considered early december? Early december is definately over right? Hmmmm...
Finals for semester 1 are finally over. Went out to eat Japanese Sushi buffet directly after exam with my two leng lui coursemate. Hehe. It's amazing how much girls can eat you know. Although no fight with guys la. Confirm.
After that went for a movie. Casino Royale. That would make it two movie in one week. (Ade, when's the next one? 
) I think they change a lot from the book. I was just starting reading the book yesterday. A bit boring. Continue another day. DeathNote on the other hand, I know the story from head to tail. That's why it's a little draggy for me. But I like the shinigami. Ryuk look so darn cute. Hahahaha. Don't you agree?
Mic, would write up the tutorial tonight when I get back. Still quite lazy to write. Hehehe. Happy holidays people.
I found out what's in that registered post. It's a package from Fine Writers' Club containing my membership card and a key chain. I bought a few parker pen for my friends a few months ago for their convocation and I joined this club. It's suppose to give me discount or something like that. Totally forgotten about it. Haha. So it's not traffic summons after all.
To check if you have traffic summons from PDRM using sms,
Type "POLIS SAMAN (car plate no. or IC no.) and send to 32728Source: PDRM website
Just got to know yesterday that my cousin joined Digital Crown Holdings (DCHL). She tried to get me to borrow her RM2k. She didn't mention what she was going to use the money for, just saying that it's an emergency.
I remember hearing my dad said that she tried to borrow money from my dad last time for some MLM stuff, so I persisted in asking her why she need the money. She just kept delaying until I just asked her, which company. When I got to know that it's DCHL, I just exploded. 
I mean, of all the money sucking MLM companies around, why did she have to choose the MOST money sucking one?
Who have not heard of the SCAM involving Lampe Berger? It has been hot topics in forums for a very long time. Newspaper came out with stories of students asking money from their parents to invest in this so called company (without publishing the company's name). Most people know that it's a scam. Why can't my cousin see it also? She's not that young, just one year younger than me.
There's no easy money in this world. I do believe that joining this DCHL company you can make money. A very unethical way of making money at the expense of your downline. You join, you pay the money, get more people to join, you get a part of their "joining fees". Isn't that a sign of pyramid scheme?
I'm just hoping that she lied to me about earning 5 digit income and has over 50 downline under her. Cause she tried again today with my dad, asking him to borrow her RM33k. Saying that she will pay him back next month. Her loan (from where?) had been approved. If she needs RM33k, then I sure hope that she's not in yet, cause RM33k is the amount needed for you to get "Count" level (or so I heard). But she did say that she's trying for "Marquis" level. Darn. Just hope that she will wake up soon.
Enough with the rants, what exactly is Lampe Berger?
The Lampe Berger story begins at the close of the nineteenth century. Sometimes considered as a disinfecting home appliance, sometimes as a decorative item, the Lampe Berger comes across the century, resisting both fashion and an increasing competition, while earning the patronage of such distinguished artists as Coco Chanel and Jean Cocteau.Source : Lampe Berger
A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, usually without any product or service being delivered.Source: Wikipedia
Most pyramid schemes take advantage of confusion between genuine businesses and complicated but convincing moneymaking scams. The essential idea behind each scam is that the individual makes only one payment, but are promised to somehow receive exponential benefits from other people as a reward. A common example might be an offer that, for a fee, allows the victim to sell the same offer to other people. Each sale includes a fee to the original seller.
Clearly, the fundamental flaw is that there is no end benefit; the money simply travels up the chain, and only the originator (or at best a very few) wins in swindling his followers. Of course, the people in the worst situation are the ones at the bottom of the pyramid: those who subscribed to the plan, but were not able to recruit any followers themselves. To embellish the act, most such scams will have fake referrals, testimonials, and information.
Although pyramid schemes have been declared illegal in many countries, they still persist in various forms, nowadays usually by having a cover business, a product or service.
Source: The__earthincFranchiseeSource: DCHL
Has personally used the product and achieved an initial personal sales of 18,750PV or RM2,345.
BaronSource: DCHL
1. Has developed and direct sponsored 5 Franchisee within his/her downline group.
2. Has accumulated a personal sales of 90,000PV (RM11,250), but excluding the initial personal sales of 18,750PV or RM2,345
Count
1. Has developed 3 direct-sponsored Barons within his/her group.
MarquisSource: DCHL
1. Has developed 5 direct-sponsored Counts, and has lodged a Challenge for Marquis with the Company. The challenge takes effect the following month.
2. Has accumulated a total group sales of 3,750,000PV or RM468,750 in 3 months
DukeSource: DCHL
1. Has developed five 1st generation sponsored Marquis, and has lodged a Challenge for Duke with the company. The Challenge takes effect the following month.
2. Has accumulated a total group sales of 40,000,000PV or RM5,000,000 in 3 consecutive months
Arch Duke
1. Has developed five 1st generation sponsored Dukes, and has lodged a Challenge for Arch Duke with the company. The Challenge takes effect the following month
2. Has accumulated a total group sales of 400,000,000PV or RM50,000,000 in 3 consecutive months
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LEGITIMATE DIRECT SELLING COMPANIES COMPANIES AND PYRAMID SCHEMESSource: Direct Selling Association of Malaysia
Legitimate Direct Selling Companies
Pyramid Schemes
1.
The start-up fee for all ethical multi-level selling companies is generally low, primarily to cover training materials, sales aids or demonstration kits.
Pyramid schemes often disguise high entry fees as part of the price charged for required purchases of training, product inventory etc. Pyramid schemes make virtually all their profits from recruiting.
2.
Such companies sell a wide range of quality products to the general public. The bulk of the sales are on repeat sales form satisfied customers. This is only possible because these companies spend millions on research and development to develop quality products.
Pyramid schemes are frequently disguised to appear as legitimate direct selling companies. Such schemes are not interested in marketing these products which are of dubious value. Instead, money is made in typical pyramid fashion, from recruiting, with new distributors being pushed to purchase high cost/large inventory when they sign up.
3.
Many companies have a 100 percent money-back guarantee. Dissatisfied users (and there are relatively few) could exchange the products back for money or for an equivalent amount in other products.
Pyramid schemes will not buy back unsold inventory. Such schemes will collapse very quickly if there is this condition for re-purchase of goods.
4.
These companies are interested in long-term business. In every country that they operate, this criterion is important because the companies have an obligation to their distributors who are small businessmen in their own rights.
Pyramid schemes are get-rich quick schemes. The nature of the pyramids, in which large numbers of people at the bottom of the pyramid pay money to a few people at the top, clearly explains why the scheme cannot sustain itself for long.
5.
Recognition of achievement is based on efforts. This means that a distributor's income is commensurate with the efforts he/she puts into the business.
Position could be purchased.
6.
Established companies depend on selling to customers quality products which offer value for money in order to establish a market.
Pyramid schemes are not concerned with repeat sales to users of the products. Profits are made on volume sales to new recruits who buy the products not because they are useful or attractively priced, but because they must buy them to participate in the scheme. As a result, new participants are stuck with products that are way below the market value in relation to the high entry fees paid by them. Should the pyramid scheme collapse, there is no way for the participants to recover their "investments".
7.
These companies build up networks of independent distributors to sell products.
Promoters of a pyramid scheme are engaging in fraud, knowingly deceiving participants in the schemes.
8.
They have strict Rules of Conduct which, among other things, forbids its distributors to load up on inventory.
Participants in a pyramid scheme have no choice but indulge in inventory loading/high fees to participate.
9.
Distributors sell products and or services.
Participation is essentially based on recruiting, not necessarily on the sale of products or services.
10.
Direct selling is a popular method of retailing which is recognised as a lawful and legitimate business in many countries including the U.S.
Pyramid schemes have been outlawed throughout the United States and many countries many countries around the world.
Troubled by greedy daughterSource: The Star
A GET-RICH-QUICK scheme that lured a 20-year-old girl to invest an initial RM2,000 has got her mother worried, China Press reported.
Known only as Tan, the woman told the daily that her daughter, a college student in Kuala Lumpur, paid the money to join a direct sales company as a member.
She said her daughter was then told by company agents that if she invested another RM30,000, she could easily get RM60,000 in six months.
“My daughter asked me for RM15,000 and said her boyfriend would help raise the other RM15,000,” she told the daily.
She refused to give the money and her nightmare began when her daughter vowed to borrow it from friends.
Her daughter, added Tan, had slackened in her studies after listening to “success stories” of direct sales agents earning large sums.
'Cash scam' worry for dadSource: Newspaper clipping
Yesterday was Father's Day but there was no joy for Ho Ka Choon.
In fact, the 45-year-old kereta sapu (unlicensed taxi) driver from Johor Baru has been loosing sleep ever since his undergraduate son started dabbling in get-rich-quick direct selling some time ago.
What worries Ho most is the dubious nature of the direct-selling scheme and that his son has been lying to him and borrowing money from friends and relatives to raise RM30,000 needed to purchase certain products that enable him to recruit more members and get commission from the scheme.
Ho told China Press his 21-year-old son, a second-year student, of Universiti Malaysia Sabah, was an honest and filial son until he was coerced into paying RM2,000 to join the scheme.
Now he is a sweet-talking salesman only dreaming of making it big, he said.
"My son told me that if he recruits five members, he can get 10% of the new recruits' joining fee as commission, and if he then pays up RM30,000 (for products), he will become a senior executive and enjoy up to 50& in commission," said Ho.
"My son wanted to borrow RM10,000 from me to advance his 'career' but I have a feeling that (the direct-selling) is a trap."
He said the scheme sounded too good to be true and believed it could be a scam.
Ho said after he rejected his son's request for RM10,000 and the title of family land to borrow money from a bank, his son turned to relatives and friends for help.
Apart from warning relatives and friends against lending his son money, Ho urged the government to enact a law to bar university students from taking up direct-selling.
Beware of "missed call" mobile phone scamThe next time you receive a "missed call" alert from a China number starting with +86 on your mobile phone, think twice before rushing to return it - unless you know the caller.
Or you may literally play into the hands of a racket, believed to be operating out of China. And end up having to pay a very high charge, as the call is redirected to a premium rate telephone service.
On returning the number, the caller is then told he has won a prize and stands to win a higher chance by calling a second number. If the caller falls for this, he will be charged a premium rate for the second call too.
The victim ends up facing a hefty phone bill for the calls.
For example, callers from Australia who have been dubed were charged A$2.97 a minute for returned calls.
Some mobile phone users told AsiaOne that they had recently received such "missed call" alerts from a number in China (+86). They did not fall for it because they said they were aware of this scam.
When contacted, SingTel, Starhub and M1 said that they had alerted their customers to such scams and advised them to ignore the "missed call" alert.
But IDA said it had not received any complaints from members of the public falling prey to this scam.
Responding to queries from AsiaOne, an IDA spokesperson said: "Since this involves an overseas number, which is obviously a roaming number, it is difficult for us to track, and is out of our jurisdiction". IDA advises users to be "prudent" when responding to such calls.
Source : Digital @ AsiaOne
I have been receiving overseas call from +86 number as well, they call at weird times (like 3am) and always hang up whenever I picked up the call. I never called back (poor student), now I know that it's a scam, I will never call back. 
Guess that this doesn't only affect Singaporeans but affects Malaysians as well. So be careful people. I wonder why there has not been any warning from Malaysian telco company like Maxis, Digi or Celcom.
The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up.http://kevan.org/johari?name=ailinchia
Don't ever call for Nasi Goreng Tom Yam in Aliff Pulai. It's not quite what I expected. I mean, common sense would tell you that, it's a plate of fried rice which is tomyam flavoured. But, you know what I get? Something which is not fried at all! 
Imagine this, take a plate of white rice, a bowl of tomyam soup. Then, take that plate of white rice, and dump it inside the bowl of soup. Is that the new style of "nasi goreng tomyam"? It should instead be called, tomyam porridge! I'm never going to call any fried rice in Aliff again!
