HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010.

Comments from pYzam.com

IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF 12 HOURS FROM NOW (1200 HRS/NOON) AND 2009 WILL BE GONE AND WE WILL BE USHERING IN THE NEW YEAR 2010.

THIS YEAR AND AS WAS LAST YEAR, NO MORE OF THOSE NEW YEAR EVE BEACH PARTIES FOR ME. THE BEACHES AROUND KOTA KINABALU ARE GETTING TOO CROWDED NOW AND ANYWAY THE JAM IS TOO MUCH.

I STILL HAD FOND MEMORIES OF THOSE YEARS THOUGH, WHEN WE ALL SCRAMBLED LIKE MAD TO THE SEA AS SOON AS THE CLOCK STRIKES MIDNIGHT AND DEPENDING ON YOUR MOOD ON THAT PARTICULAR NIGHT, YOU WILL THROW YOUR UNDERWEAR WHICH YOU WILL SOON REGRET. :P

YEP, ANOTHER YEAR HAD GONE BY AND SO FAST TOO. HOW WISE DID WE SPEND OUR TIME THIS YEAR AND HOW MANY OF THE THINGS WE HAD SET OUT TO DO THAT HAD YET TO BE ACCOMPLISHED? A LOT I PRESUMED.

HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE THAT THE THINGS MATTERED TO US MOST HAD ALL AND BEEN SUCCESSFULLY ACCOMPLISHED. STILL, THERE WILL BE SOME OF THOSE THAT WE HAD NOT BEEN TOO SUCCESSFUL WITH. NO MATTER, WE CAN ALWAYS TRY AGAIN.

ANYWAY, I WOULD LIKE TO WISH EVERYONE AND TO THE READERS AND VISITORS TO THIS BLOG OF MINE A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010. MAY THE NEW YEAR BE A GOOD AND PROSPEROUS ONE.

MANY THANKS TO MIKE LING (WE'LL HAVE THAT TEA BREAK SOME DAY, THAT'S A PROMISE), AMDE SIDEK, HASBULLAH PIT, JED YOONG, KIAMBANG, MRSM Kalae Chepo 66/73, KUJIE, PENARIK BECA, KERABU BERSUARA AND OTHERS WHO HAD COMMENTED ON THIS BLOGS OR LINKS WITH THIS BLOG, THANKS AGAIN.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND ONCE AGAIN HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

Researchers Crack GSM Cell Phone Security

Hackers could soon be listening to your cellphone call. That's the word from the Chaos Communication Conference in Berlin, an annual get-together for hackers.

Cryptographers at the conference say they've been able to crack a code that, on a normal day, prevents the interception of mobile phone calls by forcing those phones to consistently change frequencies across a list of about eighty channels.

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Source: www.infopackets.com

Dr. Jeffrey As PKR Liaison Chief?

Dr Jeffrey expected to be appointed PKR liaison chief

KOTA KINABALU: De facto Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim appears determined to crack Sabah PKR’s conundrum.In what is seen as a move to salvage the political future of the party in the state, Anwar is expected to appoint Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, who resigned as vice-president of PKR last October, the party’s liaison chief for Sabah and Sarawak.

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Source : The Borneo Post Online

Ahh.. Malaysian political scene. Never fail to amuse me. Please also read this article here. Me hopeful for the much anticipated "fireworks display" soon. The coming Christmas celebration without the availability of sugar would not be so bad after all.

Hairan.

Tindakan tegas terhadap pihak terbabit kehilangan enjin pesawat: Ahmad Zahid

BALIK PULAU: Menteri Pertahanan, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, berkata kementeriannya tidak akan berkompromi dengan mana-mana pihak yang terbabit dalam kes kehilangan enjin pesawat F-5E milik Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia (TUDM).

Sambil memberi jaminan akan bekerjasama dengan polis, beliau menegaskan pihak yang terbabit akan dikenakan tindakan tegas.

Beliau berkata demikian selepas melancarkan kompeni askar wataniah kawasan Pulau Pinang dan Kedah selatan di sini, sebentar tadi.

Sumber: Berita Harian Online

Kalau enjin trak atau kereta biasalah kita dengar. Ini enjin untuk jet pejuang, alahai ...

Gula.

Masuk hari ini, sudah genap dua hari bandar KK kehabisan stok gula. Hampir kesemua kedai runcit, pasaraya, pasar borong dan gerai kampung telah saya pergi tapi gagal juga. Semua telah lama kehabisan stok.

PM Tidak Terkejut.

KUALA LUMPUR 15 Dis. - Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak tidak terkejut dengan kenyataan Menteri Besar Kelantan, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat yang menyifatkan beliau sebagai pemimpin Islam yang berani kerana melakukan lawatan ke selatan Thailand baru-baru ini.

Beliau berkata, kenyataan Mursyidul Am Pas itu seolah-olah seperti pendulum.

"Kita pelik macam mana dalam tempoh beberapa minggu beliau (Nik Abdul Aziz) telah berubah fikiran dan mengganggap saya sebagai seorang pemimpin dan pejuang Islam yang berani," katanya sambil tersenyum.

Teruskan membaca ...

Sumber: Utusan Malaysia Online.

Mungkin juga Tok Guru perlu ada seorang "press aide" bersama beliau selalu lebih-lebih lagi ketika bersemuka dengan pihak media.

Assets Of Loan Shark Frozen.

RM49mil assets of loan shark Datuk frozen

By ANDREW SAGAYAM

KUALA LUMPUR: Over RM49mil worth of assets belonging to a group of loan sharks have been frozen following the arrests of six men, including a Datuk.

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Source : The Star Online


Ahh.. Loan sharks or ceti haram or just Ah Long as they are more commonly known. RM49 mil? Only the tip of the iceberg if you asked me. I mean, just go to any of the ATM machines in town areas during early of the month and you will certain individuals making withdrawal upon withdrawal while putting the cash inside assigned envelopes. Tell me what these people are doing and who they belong to. Mind you that this is in Kota Kinabalu alone. What about the other districts or town all over the country?

SESB TO BUCK UP.

KINARUT: The Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd (SESB) has been challenged by the Prime Minister to reduce the System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) by 700 minutes by the end of 2010 in Sabah.

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Source :New Sabah Times

Hmmphh! We shall see. Only last week alone the Likas/Kota Kinabalu areas had experienced about 5 hours of power interruption. That would sum up to a total of 300 minutes. Just wondering here whether SESB can really meet this challenge.

The irony of this posting - should have been yesterday but in the midst of typing it down, there was a power breakdown. Only posted it today.

Trulli, Kovalainen and Fairuz Are Lotus F1 Drivers

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Team Lotus F1 has named Italian Jarno Trulli and Finland’s Heikki Kovalainen as its drivers for its debut in Formula One next year.

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Source: The Star Online

Honestly, do we really need to go this far to promote Malaysia? Can we really afford to this in the long run? Wouldn't it be much better to channel the available fund for other useful projects for the rakyat.

Protester Breaks Italian PM's Nose.

Module body

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was rushed to hospital covered in blood with a broken nose and teeth after a man with mental problems hurled a statuette at him at a rally, officials said on Sunday.

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Source : ca.news.yahoo.com

Mama-mia! Hopefully a similar kind of incident would never happened here. Mr. Berlusconi's security detail must have been sleeping to let someone to get so close up to him.

KJ

Maybe we should just give him a chance to prove himself. After all, BN is really in a dire need to exude some freshness and reinvent itself to remain relevant and maybe just maybe, would still be the Government of the day after the next GE.

Just because he was born to be the person he is and to have all that privileges to rise up into prominence so fast at quite a young age, but with that air of "cockiness" and impatience about him that we have to prejudge him negatively?

Personally, I think it was because of that certain people and also his political adversaries found him threatening. And there is always the claim that he's dirty but so far he's still out there a free man.

Now I am not a die hard KJ fan but I would still prefer him over Datuk Ahamd Ismail or that pictures stomping opposition leaders.

Read an article about KJ here.

Short Note.

I realized now that over the past few years, those who remembered my birthday without fail were my wife, my younger sister and my cellphone service provider.

Shameful!

KOTA BAHARU, Dec 5 Malaysian Anti- Corruption Commission (MACC) officers will be stationed at functions held to hand over aid to flood victims in Kelantan, said state National Security Council director Mohd Roslee Mamat.

"We are taking this step to ensure everything is above board and that aid provided reaches only those who are eligible.

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Source: Bernama.com

Wow! This is something. Bantuan untuk orang susah pun hendak di cekau. Shameful act indeed!

Hopefully it's not only in Kelantan that MACC will be monitoring the distribution of aid to flood victims. All the States affected by the flood should be monitored too or this is just another attempt to discredit the beleaguered Kelantan State Government.

For The Swisscash Victims.

How many of you out there still remember or had been 'bitten' by the notorious Swisscash scam? For those who have lost their hard earned cash after investing in this scam, all is not lost yet so it seem. They might just be able to get their money back.

According to this article here and here, the Security Commission of Malaysia (SC) following a consent judgment, will be giving restitution to eligible victims of the scam. Which means you are only entitled to claim for the principal amount that you have invested, provided of course, you are able to provide sufficient documentary proof. The SC will be appointing an administrator soon to process and manage claims from victims of this scam.

This would also mean for victims that who have lost, or to those in a moment of frustration, tore up all their documents to proof of their investments, will not be eligible to claim. In essence, not everyone would be able to have their money back.

So folks, be careful next time if a too good to be true offer or scheme that might come your way.


Footnote: I wrote this article as some of my pals still in the dark about this. Wonder where they have been to all this while.

DPM Praises Sabah CM.

SANDAKAN: Sabah finances are strong and stable under the leadership of Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman.

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin praised Musa, saying his ability in managing state finances has enabled Sabah to undergo rapid development.

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Source: New Sabah Times

Praises or parting words? Or a much needed moral support as speculation are rife in the local circle that Musa's days as CM are numbered. Hmm...

Sugar Subsidy To End Soon?

Malaysia may end sugar subsidy to curb sweet tooth.

AFP
02 December 2009

Malaysia may scrap a costly sugar subsidy in a move to promote a healthy lifestyle and discourage its citizens from indulging their sweet tooth, a minister said Wednesday.

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Source:asiaonenews

Note : Wonder if the intention behind this move was really to promote healthy living to all Malaysians by way of cutting sugar intake. Either that or the Government is really feeling the pinch and needs to do away with this subsidy which really is large chunk of fund that can be channeled elsewhere for other beneficial uses. Or the Government had other reasons and are not telling us.

Granted that sugar if consumed in large quantity over long period may be detrimental to health but a good self-discipline and restrain may be exercise to keep oneself in the pink side of health. I guessed the regular campaign by the authorities to promote healthy living by consuming less sugar had fallen on deaf ears thus had opted for this drastic measure instead.

Anyway, being not a sugar lover this news doesn't affect me much. It's high time we get ourselves out from being a subsidized society. I imagined there will be more cuts coming out from the woodwork soon.

However, I still dread to contemplate the 'fall-out effects' this move will had on other things and how deep I have to dig in my pocket next time for my regular doses of kopi-o.

Only 20 Sticks Per Pack Soon.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 (Bernama) The sale of cigarettes in packets of less than 20 sticks will be prohibited effective June 1 next year.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that in line with the decision, cigarette companies had been given seven months from now until May 31 next year to dispose off its stocks of cigarettes in packets of less than 20 sticks in the market.

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Source: Bernama.com

Note : Fully support the Government on this. A former chain smoker myself, all that I can say about smoking - it's bad for your health. (Always had this chest pain last time when I was still actively smoking but not anymore.)

This smoking habit also burn large holes in your pockets. Not advisable during this economic crunch time. In short, you're definitely better-off financially and health-wise by not smoking.

Still, for the ban to be fully effective, serious efforts to eradicate the sales of smuggled cigarettes must taken by the relevant authorities.