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Finally installed Windows 7

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:37:25 -0700

It was time to blast my old Windows Vista to smithereens and install Windows 7. I’ve been using Vista without reformat for 1 year and 8 months. That’s pretty good for Windows. It was much better than the other previous windows incarnation where just about every six months I have to blast the whole installation [...]

Google Webmaster Central DNS Verification Method

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:38:24 -0700

Google Webmaster Central DNS verification method is a little tricky to use in comparison with the HTML and META tag version. However there are instances where you would need to use DNS verification in situation where your domain is not using a normal web hosting provider and such you have no way to upload a [...]

When it rains, it pours

Jan.PJ — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:56:00 -0700

When it rains, it pours. It's not too bad at other times as it cools the hot weather in Malaysia. But at rush hour then so sorry-lah! Traffic congestion!Worst! I have to traverse the out dated traffic circle which cannot cope with heavy traffic. Even now I'm sitting in the car listening to some music and still can tap tap on my mobile phone and spill in a nice little blog to kvetch and bemoan

Leow surname history

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:35:29 -0700

I happen to stumble upon this article about the Leow (廖) surname which is my family surname. Don’t know much about it till I read this article. All I know so far was that my ancestor hailed from Hainan somewhere in the Southern China. Anyway, this article shed some interesting light about the history of [...]

Colic in Infants and Colic Cure

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:14:04 -0700

It is certainly distressing when there is colic in infants and there are no perfect colic cure for babies with this condition. Just last night I experience my baby who didn’t want to sleep and tried several various ways to sooth the baby and console him to sleep. It wasn’t easy and for some infants [...]

More baby stuffs

Jan.PJ — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:47:00 -0700

Lena decided to get another baby stroller. She wanted a lighter weight than the one her friend passed to her. Oh, well... She wants to spend if that makes her happy. Shopping provide a good mood coz it releases some happy mood chemicals in the brain.The Combi baby stroller is light weight and has good design. Anyway after a few years the baby will out grow it.Whoops! After buying the Combi

Durians galore direct from orchard

Jan.PJ — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:30:00 -0700

Durians anyone? Definately a hit with my church members. This was to help out with the orang asli mission and now with the durian season on the way there were quite a number of durians from the durian orchard somewhere in Jelebu.There are orang asli people over there and they need a lot of help to alliviate their standing. Aid from government seems to stop whenever the Orang Asli take on the

Baby Night Out

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:06:04 -0700

It’s baby night out! My wife’s mother was celebrating her birthday at Overseas Restaurant so baby was tagging along in the baby carrier. It was an exciting time for baby, a chance to look at new things. Well mostly new lights. He likes lights and the restaurant was full of it. At on to further [...]

My Desktop Computer Becoming Slower, Time to Reformat

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:32:28 -0700

Inevitably, Windows based computer will have this annoyance. After a period of time, the desktop computer will become slower and slower. Slow to boot up, slow to shut down. Eventually it start to behave like a snail rather than the speedy computer system that you once bought or build a short couple of years ago. [...]

Careful about Email Spoofing

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:04:05 -0700

Received this message that supposedly came from Facebook. But turn out the URLs do not point to Facebook at all. If the link were to be clicked it would redirect you to a Pharmacy website selling fake medicine. This is considered spam. Fortunately it wasn’t a phising website. Losing your account would be tantamount to [...]

Jaundice in newborns and Jaundice treatment

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:20:44 -0700

Jaundice in newborns It seems like jaundice in newborns are rather prevalent nowadays. However the jaundice treatment is simple but can be rather costly especially if it drags on. After my baby was born, he had a little jaundice. Normally it should clear by itself but after the third day the paediatrician requested us to [...]

And so it is

Jan.PJ — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:54:00 -0700

And so it is, sleep beckons and the morrow, work awaits.No end to the grind,for the earth does not yield its harvest willinglyToil it shall bewither pleasure befor the rewards that trickles inPray then that fortune comesbut heaven remains silentfor what are webut mere gnats on the earthIt was once said either you love Thee or mammonbut without the flow of coinsInsolvency ensuesThus what are we to

Bread shop don't know how to do business

Jan.PJ — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:15:00 -0700

Sometime you wonder how this people can survive. This morning I didn't have my usual breakfast as the night I was so busy didn't get a chance to buy bread. I thought I could pop over at King's confectionary near my office to get some breaky.Hard luck. The moment I stepped in I saw their bread shelf was empty. I recall my many previous attempts to get last minute breakfast was thwarted by people

Baby is exploring

Jan.PJ — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:26:00 -0700

Baby is about 6 weeks old and he is beginning to like looking at things. According to baby centre this is the time they are more aware of their surrounding. So to stimulate them we need to play with them.I find that he likes to stare at lights and likes to be carried around to explore the house. My mom-in-law has other ideas about carrying the baby around in that it might spoil him.I guess we

Indonesian Massage

Jan.PJ — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:56:00 -0700

My wife found an Indonesian massage. This lady is good and very affordable and was recommended by friend. After my wife delivered she needed to get back into shape and the use of massage to get her tummy flat was one of the methods.Since the Indonesian massage was already here may as well employ her services for some massage for me too. I liked this style over that of Thai massage becausethe

SM Confucian Alumni 104th Anniversary

Jan.PJ — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:43:00 -0700

The 104th Anniversary SM Confucian alumni dinner was a good way to catch up with old friends. Though my memory was a rather fuzzy as some I could recognize their faces but couldn't recall their names. Year of 1986 was some 24 years ago. Faces still looked the same except of course body shape might change, basically still can recognize their faces. Still it was good to meet up again. I guess

Baby 1st day home

Jan.PJ — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:00:00 -0700

Mother and child has been staying at USJ house for the pass 40 days or so. Since we got a temporary maid may as well make use of her services and clean up the house in BU. Mother wants to see what things she will need for baby and well baby will tag along. It will be good to stimulate baby with new sights, sound and smell.It's been many weeks since my last clean up of the house though it was a

Running around trying to get it done

Jan.PJ — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:05:00 -0700

Busy! That's how it goes. Time passes quickly when you have many things to do. All have to be done, no point procrastinating about it. The problem is to find the time to squeeze in the job to be done. I could try to prioritize and make list; done that before but don't quite work as it should. At least it gives a sense of direction on what needs to be done.Hopefully all this running around will

Jhoos dating messenger scam site

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:13:54 -0700

I have been getting Jhoos dating messenger invite from friends. All the while I just ignored it. But this time I got curious and decided to click the “Yes” button. But what I see looks awfully suspicious. Instead of a sign up page it asked you to key in your email address and password! The [...]

Work permit for maid from vietnam

Jan.PJ — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:14:00 -0700

When it comes to government matters sometimes the job is best done by an agent who knows their way around bureacracy. The agent that we employed was rather eccentric but does get the job done. We wanted a maid to help out in the daily household chores and taking care of baby. Then there is the need to send baby over to USJ house for my mom-in-law to look after the child. My felt her mom needed a

Running under the weather

Jan.PJ — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:01:00 -0700

Need to do my weekly exercise but the weather here today was not coorperating. It stopped then started again. And while I was making run around the park it began to drizzle heavier. 15 minutes into my run I have to give up my exercise routine as I was beginning to get soaked. Well better than nothing.

Build a better mouse trap and customers will beat a path to you

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:03:52 -0700

Now tell me which marketing student haven’t learned about this phrase: “Build a better mouse trap and customers will beat a path to you.” And you know what? It doesn’t work that way in real life and many marketing people will tell you that. Unfortunately those who didn’t study marketing or blur about the marketing [...]

Important To Back Up My PC

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:47:35 -0700

It’s important to back up my PC. To the point of paranoia even. We are working in a knowledge base environment. Without business information we can’t make an informed decision. We need data to make our analysis, without it we may end up with paralysis (of course there is the other extreme ending with analysis [...]

Pos Malaysia Postal Rates July 2010

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:25:26 -0700

So Pos Malaysia has revised its postal rates by 100% from 1st July 2010 onwards. They claim their postal usage has been declining and of course they have not revised their rates for the past 18 years. They needed to adjust their rates so that they can revise their pay to the postal workers to [...]

Pivot Blog

Jan Æ — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:32:00 -0700

One thing about script list in the webhosting software section, they have a list of interesting software for content management, blogs, forums, online calendars, and other interesting software. Some of which you never think about searching online for it. So I happen to bump into this Pivot blogging software that don't even use SQL database management! Intriguing. Will install it and have a look

Making website

Jan.PJ — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:34:00 -0700

I guess for newbie when making website may be difficult to grasp certain concept. But if got soem guidance better than none. I may not be expert but having maintain one for 5 years and several others for many years there is indeed a lot of things to learn. Mind you, you can't just learn them overnight. It takes time to understand why some ways are better than others.The most basic concept that I

Weekly family dinner

Jan.PJ — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:16:00 -0700

It is good to have this weekly family dinner to have this family closeness. If one were to follow the empty nest syndrome then all family relation would be lost. Even though parents and sons / daughter may not be living together (for good reasons too like avoiding the usual parental nags) a weekly family gathering is good for fostering good family ties.Seniors need something to look forward apart

Assembling the baby cot

Jan.PJ — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:38:00 -0700

Assembling the baby cot is sure ain't easy. Dismantling it was quite a jiffy. But putting it back together single handedly is really tedious. My brother-in-law has no more need of the baby cot and we could use a hand me down to save some money. At about RM600 is not cheap! Sure it is a bit worn but it saves so no need to complain about it. Baby will outgrow it soon enough and you will wondering

Make website to scout for business

Jan.PJ — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:52:00 -0700

Can't be denied. Make website for yourself is good in that it helps you to secure new inquiries. Then after that it is entirely up to you to follow through to secure the business. If your company is not keen to make a website, it is to their detriment. So what can you do? Of course company policy is to be followed but that's on their side. There is nothing saying that you can't make your own

Heavy Rain! Stucked in office

Jan.PJ — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:30:00 -0700

Must be the tropical monsoon. Well I'm stucked in office. Can't get to my car unless I want to be wet. With this kind of tropical thunderstorm even with an umbrella, you will still get wet!No choice but to wait it out. Such heavy thunderstorm will blow itself out in an hour or so. Just have to sit tight and look for something to do while waiting it out.

What to eat

Jan.PJ — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:39:00 -0700

What to eat... What to eat? Sometime when you are on your own you may end up at a loss on just what to have for a meal. My wife is still my in-laws house for her maternity and it is quite a distance to travel over. I wasn't sure if they prepared anything for me so might be better if I go find my own dinner. Oh well, will just settle for a plate of fried rice with egg.

Black Apricot

Jan Æ — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:42:00 -0700

Decided to get some fruits after dinner. Got this delicious black apricot fruit. Doesn't look like black apricot to me but that's what the sign said at the fruit stall next to Jaya Grocer in Jaya 33. Looks more like plum. Not cheap too going for RM7.50 each! Took it back, chilled it and after peeling it, ate it. Tasted ok, not too sweet, not too sour. Value for money? Not really. Just giving it

Cure for Boils

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:38:36 -0700

I found an interesting cure for boils and have been using it ever since I discovered its effectiveness. Really hate boils especially when it forms in the crevice of your butt or on the surface of your butt where you need to sit (and sleep too if you like me, likes to lie on the [...]

How to switch off Bing background

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:43:23 -0700

The Bing search engine background is nice and beautiful. But sometimes in an office environment where bosses are keeping a hawkish eye on what their employees are doing, the attractive Bing background is like a beacon for boss watchful eye. So it might be prudent to disable and switch off Bing background and keep yourself [...]

After free McD time for car wash

Jan.PJ — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:17:00 -0700

Not bad, not bad. McDonald gave a free Fish-O-Fillet set. I just top up with applepie for a dessert to complete my lunch pack. So that's my lunch meal for the day.While having my munch may as well queue up for a car wash. Weekends is not my preferred date for a car wash as the queue was rather long. But I needed to have my lunch so may well go for it!I haven't washed my car for more than a month,

McDonald Drive Through free burger

Jan.PJ — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:50:00 -0700

Having done a little job now time for some grub. Guess what McDonald is having somekind of drive through promotion. Some free burger. We'll since I haven't got lunch yet and was thinking what to eat may as well give this a try.

Full Moon Baby Shower

Jan.PJ — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:46:00 -0700

Baby Aiden is fast approaching a month old. Hence the full moon baby shower celebration done by us Chinese.Aiden is growing well. A little chubby on the cheeks. Must all the goodness of mother's milk. He kinda active little fella when he's awake. He will look here, look there, crane his neck to see I don't know what is it that spook his curiosity.That's a good sign of healthy growing baby. A baby

Using blogger layout

Jan.PJ — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:38:00 -0700

Using blogger layout system is a little bit more difficult but it has added features the old template style do not have. I finally came around to switch my CH website blog to the new layout system and it took me the better part of a day to get the look and feel similar to the previous template. I could try making it 99% similar looking it would take too much work. I guess an 80% similarity is

Words of Inspiration Quotes on Confidence

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:37:15 -0700

We all need some encouragement now and then. Sometimes these little words of inspiration quotes can actually help you to spur things along. This world is such that the world does not wait for you. The world does not owe you anything. You have to make it work, put in your own effort and create [...]

Always updating stuffs

Jan Æ — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:20:00 -0700

I'm always updating stuffs on my website. Sometimes it is just minor, like correcting a little typo here and there for those more important articles and pages. And other times to create meaningful links between related post so that visitors to your website might want to read further after landing onto one of your pages. Seems like a never ending job. But that's how it goes if you want to make

MPSJ Carnival Run in Subang Jaya

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:07:57 -0700

Running is a good way to keep your health fitness. Ever since I suffered and recovered from plantar fasciitis, I have not participated in any run for several years. My uncle who is an avid runner convince me and several family members to give this MPSJ Carnival Run in Subang Jaya a try. Initially it [...]

French Toast Recipe for breakfast

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:39:48 -0700

I haven’t really tried making French toast so looking around the internet I found some French Toast Recipe to get going. Making French toast isn’t so difficult; if I could whip some pancakes using the premix flour so how hard is cooking up a French toast breakfast? The only problem was that I should have [...]

Can water be affected by our words?

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:52:10 -0700

Can water be affected by our words spoken, emotions, music or even written word for that matter? Received this email message from my cousin, and it was rather intriguing though for most email with outrageous claims or phobias, I would do a quick check to see whether it is an urban legend or is there [...]

What Your Email Address Says About Your Computer Skills

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:33:17 -0700

Oooh…! Just can’t resist this comic post by TheOatmeal.com, what your email address says about your computers skills. It is so funny. Of course don’t take it as a benchmark tools to evaluate your friends and family, but then you would sort of already know whenever your less techie friends and family member will come [...]

Google Reveals Adsense Revenue Share

Wed, 26 May 2010 01:12:50 -0700

Finally the Google gods revealed their Adsense revenue share. It is good to have some idea what is their pay out to us poor publisher who rely Google Adsense to power our websites. This may have something to do with the Italian anti-trust suit brought up against them. Nevertheless the transparency is a welcome information. [...]

Malaysia Download Speed Comparison

Wed, 26 May 2010 00:37:08 -0700

I really can’t take this slow motion internet connection. But what other choice do I have? Just checked Malaysia download speed and guess what I dug out? Found out that Malaysia is ranked #104 at 1.94Mb/s for download and ranked #86 at 0.72Mb/s for upload. Sounds nice? Not if you compare with our nearest neighbours [...]

Playing Around with DNS Zone

Thu, 06 May 2010 21:48:06 -0700

I’ve been tinkering and fiddling with my domain DNS zone. I tweak my website a lot. This is one interesting hobby, making website, experimenting with a feature here and there and trying something new and see whether it will be useful widget or just some red herring. DNS zoning is about NS nameservers, A Records, [...]

Multiposting hits a snag

Thu, 06 May 2010 09:20:46 -0700

I’m trying to create as much exposure as I can by using multiposting services like Twitterfeed which in turns repost to other multipost web apps like HelloTxt and Ping.fm. Unfortunately something broke in Twitterfeed, it couldn’t recognize the API provided by Ping.fm. I could of course shift most of my other social websites to HelloTxt [...]

WD Anywhere Backup post review

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:28:29 -0700

The Memeo Backup WD Anywhere backup that came bundled with WD MyBook was a good set-it-and-forget-it backup software. It came with the WD Anywhere external hard drive that I bought. I have been using for a good pass 18 months and it was almost quite smooth in its back up function. However recently the latest [...]

Too much coffee is not good for you

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:30:48 -0700

I like coffee, and so does many people, but drinking too much coffee do have adverse effect on your health fitness. Despite some research saying that coffee got anti-oxidant so in effect drinking coffee may be good for you too. So in a sense how much coffee is too much? We all like to have [...]

Make, build a free web site

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Make, create and build a free web site using available free web hosting online.

Links and Anchors in your web site

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:00:00 -0700

Creating links and anchors when you make your own web site

Adding images to your web site

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:00:00 -0800

Adding images to your web site will spice up your information content, especially useful if you are running a travel destinations related web site.

More HTML text formatting

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:00:00 -0800

More HTML text formatting, like tag attributes to control and format the HTML codes

Internet Marketing Secrets? What is SEO?

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:25:00 -0800

Internet marketing secret, SEO: How to increase web site traffic when you make your own web site.

Wordpress websites

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:02:00 -0800

Make your own Wordpress websites using Bluehost Fantastico autoinstalls or Simple Scripts

The first web page - the index file

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:02:00 -0800

Your first web page, the index.html file

How I made my web site

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:02:00 -0800

How I got started to make my own web site

Learning HTML text formatting

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:02:00 -0800

Learning the HTML text formatting. What are the essential HTML tags to learn.

Learning HTML video tutorial

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:02:00 -0800

Learning the basics of HTML

Build your web site page by page or use open source software?

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:01:00 -0800

Which way do you want to build your web site? Page by page or use CMS / open source software

Looking around your web hosting account

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:00:00 -0800

After signing up with your web hosting company. Look around and get familirize with your hosting account and get to know its features.

Web Hosting - what to look out for

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:00:00 -0800

No two web hosting company is the same. Each has their own features and pricing. Of course cheap web hosting saves money but not always the best idea.

Getting started to make your own web site

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:30:00 -0800

Getting started to make your own web site. What do you need to create web site? Domain name and web hosting company

Make Your Own Web Site Introduction

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:04:00 -0800

Introduction to make your own web site

Make your own web site

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:00:00 -0800

Make your own web site for fun and profit