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I'm a 25 year old web monkey living in Malaysia. I write about web design, IT, programming, Linux, Open Source, Wildlife, Politics and much more.
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Only One Man Stands Up To TNB - Namewee
His name is Namewee - http://namewee.blogspot.com/ / http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=namewee Warning - this video contains adult language that some people might find offensive (in three different languages!)… It would be great if Namewee ...
Spin2u Dimiliki Oleh HYGEN
Spin2u menyediakan produk terbaik dan plan perniagaan hebat buat anda mencapai kejayaaan. Sertai kami untuk membebaskan diri anda dari beban kewangan. Selain daripada web dagang Spin2u beliau juga merupakan pangasas minyak angin 7G dan pembesih wanit...
Google Wave Puts Pressure On Microsoft By Dropping Support For IE
Finally more and more tech companies and developers are dropping support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. Latest to stab the knife in is Google’s Wave. According to Google: Google Wave runs in most browsers, with the not...
Attack Of The Killer King Cobra Near Alor Setar
The Star newspaper today reported on a King Cobra attack near Malaysia’s Northern city of Alor Setar. Although the report did not identify the snake it is obvious from the photo that it is a King Cobra! The King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) i...
New Variation Of The Facebook “Immigration Scam”
You may of recently heard of a series of serious scams causing havoc with Facebook and other social networking site users. The gist of it is that “hackers” can get into your friends or relatives Facebook accounts - most likely by expl...
A Beyonce Present For PAS Youth
Apparently PAS youth vice-chief Sabki Yusof said “We are not against entertainment as long as it’s within the framework of our culture and our religion” and “We are against Western sexy performances. We don’t think our p...
Esther Chik Still Wants Her Shih Tzus Back
A strange but true story appeared on the front page of Malaysia’s Star newspaper today instead of more news worthy headlines (no change there then). Esther Chik - a lawyer in her 30’s was a victim of a burglary over two months ago and h...
Malaysia: Protesters Against Temples Location To Be Anounced Winners?
Shocked to read today that the racist protesters who resorted to insulting their fellow countrymen’s religious beliefs by parading a severed cows head in Shah Alam may have got what they wanted. Highlighted below is the shocking paragraph as ...
Arapaima Fish Hunt In Tasik Kenyir, Malaysia. Win RM10,000!
Arapaima are very large freshwater fish and can reach lengths of more than 2 m (6.6 ft), in some exceptional cases even more than 2.5 m (8.2 ft) and over 100 kg (220 lbs). The often cited maximum length of 4.5 m (14.8 ft) comes from a single second-h...
Didier Drogba Ban A F****** Disgrace
The Chelsea hero is not out of the dog house yet. Chelsea are likely to appeal after being handed a €100,000 fine (£85,000) by Uefa and longer than expected bans for Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa for the fracas at the end of the club’s C...
Malaysias Modern Day Slave Trade Under Review
Fraser’s Hill Tarantulas In Decline
Malaysia: One abortion for every five pregnancies, says survey
According to this article in the Star: There is one abortion for every five pregnancies in the country, according to a random survey by several private clinics. Sin Chew Daily quoted the Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance Malaysia chairman Dr Choo...
Wake Up YB. Dato’ Sri Dr Ng Yen Yen - Leave Frasers Hill Alone
For a woman who, according to her blog is qualified in Medicine (Bachelor of Medicine, Surgery from the University of Malaya and a Diploma in Reproductive Medicine from the John Hopkins University, U.S.A) you might wonder what expertise YB. DatoR...
Japanese Super GT Championship 2009 Malaysia Ticket Prices
A unique event combining mean machines and gorgeous GT queens; bringing a truly Japanese carnival-like atmosphere and motor racing fiesta to the circuit; Malaysia will host Round 4 of the 2009 championship, which will also feature some of the best re...
EzyAsian: E-Business Services And Online Shopping
Check out http://ezyasian.com for some new business services and online business forums targeted at Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. The forums should be quite happening after a while. Also if you have products to sell, you could add them to the onl...
Two Headed Skink Found In Langkawi, Malaysia
According to this story published by the New Straits Times in Malaysia: Dahalan Ahmad said: “I was reading the newspapers when I saw something crawling on the floor. I picked it up and was surprised to find a 6-centimetre long salamander with t...
Didier Drogba Shouts At Camera And Referee
Didier Drogba called referee a “f***** disgrace!” on live TV after losing to Barcelona. Video of the incident below…...
Yes I Would Like To Help Save Save The Children! Donate To BUDIMAS Today!
Who Are BUDIMAS? Currently, Budimas is supporting more than 500 orphaned and underprivileged children in 10 charitable homes in the country. These homes include Asrama Damai Rumah Anak-Anak Yatim in Kuang, Bethesda Children’s Mission Home in Cheras...
Jobs Available In Kuala Lumpur April 2009
Kerja Kosong / Jawatan Kosong Di Kuala Lumpur April 2009. Job Position 1: IT assistant: Data entry Manage web content and component development (Images, audio, flash files, databases, etc Job Position 2: Graphic Designer: Produce artwork Manip...
EcoMalaysia - Green Lifestyle In Malaysia
Welcome to EcoMalaysia.org and the inaugural copy of Malaysia’s first environmentally friendly, green lifestyle magazine. EcoMalaysia.org is the first of its’ kind: a non profit making, online magazine that focuses entirely on environme...
Jenson Button Wins Malaysian F1 Grand Prix At Sepang
Sepang circuit became sungai Sepang (Sepang river) and Jenson Button won the Malaysian F1 grand prix by using his car as a boat cum submarine in the later stages of the race that was later abandoned after about an hour and ten minutes. A few other c...
New Malaysian Phishing / Money Laundering Scam - Warehouse Equipment Ltd
I just got an email detailing a new scam targeting Malaysian bank account holders. The email was sent from alert@equipment-policy2.com (Warehouse Equipment Ltd) with the subject “Job Offer - Malaysia ($3,000)“. Do not communicate at a...
I’m (not) a Musicon Celebrity thanks to Maxis Broadband
I’m a Musicon Celebrity thanks to Maxis Broadband! Details of the upcoming Nuffnang Music Bash 2009 as follows; Date : 4th of April 2009 (Saturday)Time : 6pm till 10pmVenue : Maison, Jalan Yap Ah Shak, KLDress Code : Musician Celebrities In co...
Malaysia FOREX Workshop: Make Money like Millionaire FX Traders!
“Would you want to learn 3 extremely profitable step by step Forex systems that Guarantees you collecting pip after pip from the market every day?” Equipped with this powerful knowledge, you don’t have to worry if the world is in Re...
Attention All Women! Watch Out For The Malaysian Highway Pirates
Watch out Malaysians. It’s not enough that the Malaysian police setup blocks and pull over cars to ask for coffee money now things are getting even worse. Here is a true story that took place just yesterday near Jalan Kucing / Jalan Duta in...
New Search Engine On The Block - Cuil.com
It’s relativly easy and free to promote a website or service these days. All you have to do - at least in the case of Cuil - is pump out tons of press releases saying that you are bigger and better than Google, but of course far far poorer. Cu...
Road Trip From Kuala Lumpur To Betong, Yala, Pattani And Hat Yai - Thailand
Bored with the usual border crossing at Bukit Kayu Hitam, Malaysia and Sadao, Thailand and with the crossing at Padang Besar (Padang Basar to Thais) I decided to go for a more adventurous route! There are a few main border crossing points betwen Mala...
CSI Malaysia - Foreign Investment Pulling Out
A brilliant story by William Pesek can be read over at Bloomberg. This post is on the dull side, meaning you have to be into economics / politics otherwise risk being bored to death… William makes some very well written comments including: &#...
14 Mercedes E200 Kompressors For Malaysian Government Officials
Hot news lately here in Malaysia about the purchasing of 14 Mercedes E200 Kompressors by the state government in Terengganu. According to The Star: The state government has defended the purchase of 14 Mercedes E200 Kompressor cars at RM3.43mil for t...
