Saturday, July 19, 2008

Car Donations

Car Donations are easy here!

Be a United States Car Angel! Donate Car, Boat, Plane or RV. You can also Donate A House or Property. Get a Tax Deduction and avoid the hassles of a Private Sale! Through donating your vehicle to Car Angel you can help orphans, widows, single mothers, homeless find jobs, and uplifting material for prisoners.

Through innovative partnerships and vehicle processing, CarAngel Ministries is able to convert your vehicle donation to significant value for charities.

There's great joy in knowing you've helped put a smile on someone's face by providing groceries, educational materials, and motivation for the hopeless. As you give, the old saying is true; it will come back to you!

Friday, July 11, 2008

Penang Bon Odori Carnival 2008

Date: Sat Jul 19 – Sat Jul 19
Venue: Esplanade (Padang Kota Lama)

Bon Odori is Buddhist holiday that originated in Japan to pay tribute to the ancestral spirits. The customs of this festival varies from one region to another but the traditional celebration includes a Bon dance with people dancing to the tune of musicians and singers of the Obon music around a wooden building.

History says that Mokuren, a disciple of Shakyamuni, approached Buddha when he saw his dead mother indulging in low activities in a vision. According to Buddha’s advice, he organized a feast for the dead ancestors and attained happiness after realizing his mother’s acts of kindness in the past. From his dance of joy, Bon Odori or "Bon Dance” evolved. The religious custom soon became popular among all the communities in Japan and became the avenue of celebration in summer.

Features of Bon Odori Festival in Penang

- Organized by the Japanese Expatriate & Immigrant's Society in Malaysia, Bon Odori Festival in Penang, however is observed in a smaller dimension as compared to that in Japan.
- Interestingly enough, this festival today reflects more Japanese culture than the inherent principles of Buddhism.
- You will be able to enjoy hordes of Japanese food, drinks, art and dance in this festival.
- This festival is the Japanese counterpart of the Chinese’s Hungry Ghost Festival..

Some photos in 2007 :

Cute little girl

Cute girl, kawaii !


Ladies wearing yukata (浴衣), a Japanese summer garment. Now you can see it at Penang without going to Japan. The yukata is a casual form of kimono that is also frequently worn after bathing at traditional Japanese inns. Though their use is not limited to after-bath wear, yukata literally means bath(ing) clothes.

Future Cat women, Batman: The Bright Feline

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Life in IMU

Since Wai Kit and Han Ping already wrote a review on our gang, I am also tempted to do the same, so here it goes...

Yen Wei (a.k.a. Sang Lahan)

He likes to dream a lot, some example of the questions he would ask (to start up a conversation in our gang) are:
1)If I am a millionaire I will.... , what about you?
2)Let you choose two or more things, but neither of the options are good, e.g. let you eat shit or eat urine what will you choose?

Pros: You can count on him when doing project, research, things that need PR especially hehe...

Cons: Slow (SANGat perLAHAN), can't count fully on him when you are in a rush, indecisive, imaginary questions are boring, don't know how to swim !


Li Guo (a.k.a. Udangtu)

This guy can make a lot of funny acts, especially his facial expression when he talk about something even not so funny he can make you laugh non stop! One of my matey who accompany me to watch movie every Wednesday at MidValley.

Pros: Helpful, generous

Cons: Snoring, stubborn, let people make use too easily (not me), UDANG di sebalik baTU, need to reduce carbohydrates intake !


Han Ping (a.k.a Bolita)

His ranking of important things:
1=Girlfriend (wanITA)
2=Football (BOLa)
3=Money
n=Friend?

He is a walking MapKing because he knows a lot of places in KL/Selangor that even local people doesn't knows how to go. He also took me around to explore new places and food, that's why I know how to go to those shopping complexes in KL region. The main culprit that causes me obssesion in DoTA game, brought me to ZoneX in study break with Ken in 1st or 2nd year can't remember liao... After so many years he only knows how to use Bone Fletcher to Wind Walk and run away when people is fighting and WW again to KS (Kill Steal) other people's hardwork!

Pros: Financial planning and income is superb, polite, helpful

Cons: Will revenge if you did anything to him, close door very hard when he is angry, throw his legendary unbreakable/immortal Nokia hanphone on people as his weapon, says want to go Bangkok with me but last minute cancel...


Wai Kit

High class people, loud speaker, follow the latest trend in fashion, can consult him if you need to buy new clothing because his taste is very good. Rich guy, got many rich friends too who will give him birthday present that is worth more than RM 1000, so no matter what I am able give him also uncomparable, therefore I decided to give him a strawberry which I had to fight among many others in a buffet lunch to get one, it is more meaningful because this one you got money also cannot get hahaha...anyway he still owe me an abalone + NO meal

Pros: Presentation "diamond" medalist, extraodinary desigining skill and work rate, will share good stuff to other people

Cons: Always threaten to boycott people, willing to spend money to buy something which looks nice/special but not worth the money paid.


Zhi Yang

Have friendssssssssssss all over Malaysia and the world. Your morning is his nightime, rarely saw him in the class attending lecture but he is gifted with the godlike limbic system that can memorized everything he read in the past 24 hours. He is a satellite that can spy on you even he is 100000km away from you, so beware if you are gonna said anything bad about him and then you will received a "death" threat SMS from him...

Pros: Erm...probably drive me to Shangri-La hotel FOC once

Cons: May keep people wating for him because of requring at least 1 hour in shower and another 30 minutes to dress up, style his hair etc...


Chia Whey

Need to sacrify his time just because of a module called Pharmacist as Health Professional, kinda like moral studies in your high school, IMU should have been more linean to him... His outlook is like a "lala chai", especially when he dyed his hair in golden colour, whoa patients in the hospital will not dare to disobey his instructions on taking medicine when he became pharmacist.

Pros: Buddy to discuss about football and games

Cons: Bad breath


Disclaimer : All the post are written as per best effort basis, don't take it too seriously :)

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Latest Vehicles Number Plate

You can get the info on the latest vehicles number plate in all the state/federal territory of Malaysia from this website by Road Transport Department (JPJ).

This may be useful for those who wanted to get their desirable number plate, for me I want to get PHY 1218, which is my name plus my birth date.

Besides, there are also other links, e.g. online license renewal, online road tax renewal, and you can even complain against vehicle and driver which piss you off on the road ! Give it a try !

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Medical Programs for PDA

What is the purpose of spending thousands of ringgit on a small little PDA when you can get a PC with a dam good specifications already? To me, I want to bring along all those medical programs with me so that in the future while I am working in a hospital I can have them to assist me at work. If you consider that when you can installed those medical programs which cost like at least USD 50 each (BNF55 is USD 89.95!) FOC, you can earn back your investment on a PDA easily!

Some of the useful medical programs :

Skyscape:
-ACC CPG (Free)
-5-Minute Clinical Consult
-5 Minute Herb & Dietary Supplement Consult
-5 Minute Infectious Diseases Consult
-5-Minute Pediatric Consult
-The AHA Clinical Cardiac Consult
-BNF 55
-BNF for Children
-Steadman's Medical Dictionary
-Stedman's Abbreviations & Acronyms
-Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary
-Archimedes 360°™ Medical Calculator
-Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy
-Handbook of Drug Allergy
-Physicians' Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual
-Pocket Guide to Chemotherapy Protocols
-DrDrugs®: Drug Guide for Physicians
-A to Z Drug Facts
-iFacts™: Drug Interaction Facts
-Handbook of Applied Therapeutics
-Pharmacotherapy Handbook
-The Johns Hopkins POC-IT ABX Guide
More...

Lexi-Comp:
-Lexi Drugs
-Infectious Diseases
-Med Abbreviation
-Poisoning and Toxicology
-Natural Products
-Paediatric Lexi-Drugs

Micromedex

Sanford Guide 2007

Other useful programs:
Map King
Lexisgoo English Dictionary
Loan Simulator

Total medical programs cost in my PDA is more than USD 1000 ! While I only spend RM 1300 on a nice looking HTC Touch White :)

Monday, June 16, 2008

Autocity Carnival 2008


Nissan Skyline GT-R34


Lotus





Ferrari !


Wide body BMW


Porche


One of my favourite car, Audi R8. It is featured in The Iron Man movie. The front design is awesome and has a futuristic look.


Selling price by Naza : RM 1,388,888. If I got the money I would rather buy a bungalow in Penang first.






It's mine! Don't you touch it !



Cute modded Mini, like the one in Herbie Fully Loaded

All sports and exotics cars that many can only dream for their entire life ! I hope I can owned one of those, but to achieve my dream I had to have a plan for some sort of business to earn enough money to buy one, or even all of those ! Wish me luck :)

Thursday, June 12, 2008

I love McDonald


McDonald is having promotion during this European Cup 2008 competition :

1) Free coke refills during the match and;
2) Free medium french fries coupons with every goal when you go to any 24-hour McD restaurants

I got 4 free medium fries voucher when Spain beat Russia 4-1 in the first match of the group stage. I thought I should have got 5 coupons but then it is fine to me to have 4 free medium french fries ! I like french fries a lot, especially from McD which in my opinion sells the best french fries.

McD is also having a fantasy football game during this festival, I had joined and as always luck seems to play with me... I pick Cristiano Ronaldo as captain in the first match but he only scored 3 points, however in the second game he got 13 points instead I pick David Villa as captain, haiz...

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Practical way to save from pumping petrol


Most of the cars, such as Honda City and Kelisa do not really need to pump in petrol with RON 97 rating. With the rising petrol price, we can save by using RON92 if our vehicle can use it (please read your car's user manual to find out).
The current price of RON 92 is RM 2.62, which is cheaper by RM 0.08 compared to RON97. It may ends up you can save a lot in the long term if you choose RON92 from now on.
Example a person pump in 100L of fuel per month, total savings per month = RM 8, per year = RM 96.
Only problem is that not many petrol stations sell RON92 petrol, I mostly go to Esso at Dato Keramat Road or Mobil at Jalan Masjid Negeri, Penang to pump in RON92 for both my Kelisa and Honda motorbike.

Just change !

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

History of Malaysia petrol price

sebelum 90 - RM 0.89
tahun 1990 - RM 1.10 (kenaikan RM 0.21 )
01/10/2000 - RM 1.20 (kenaikan RM 0.10)
20/10/2001 - RM 1.30 (kenaikan RM 0.10)
01/05/2002 - RM 1.32 (kenaikan RM 0.02)
31/10/2002 - RM 1.33 (kenaikan RM 0.01 )
01/03/2003 - RM 1.35 (kenaikan RM 0.02 )
01/05/2004 - RM 1.37 (kenaikan RM 0.02)
01/10/2004 - RM 1.42 (kenaikan RM 0.05)
05/05/2005 - RM 1.52 (kenaikan RM 0.10)
31/07/2005 - RM 1.62 (kenaikan RM 0.10)
28/02/2006 - RM 1.92 (kenaikan RM 0.30)
05/06/2008 - RM 2.70 (kenaikan RM 0.78)

What is next? RM 4 per liter? "
Pak Lah:"No money to buy BMW then buy BMX la, environment friendly and exercise is good for health"
Since the government had increased the petrol price, can they removed all the car taxes? Especially taxes on hybrid cars such as Honda Civic or Toyota Prius.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Convocation Day - 24 May 2008


I have seen this in my dream and now I see it for real - is my graduation day!

Family photo


Dr.Kang


Yee Ni


Yuen Ni






Graduation dinner at Shangri-La hotel, Putrajaya.



Time for emo video



Wide angle photo, capturing all the ladies that night with my Panasonic TZ-15 camera equipped with wide angle lens.


New Backstreet Boys ???


My IMU gang / friends


Amelia looks so cool...


LG with his cute expression hahaha...


Someone eat too much during the dinner and her car's tire puncture LOL !