Car car car

I have finally decided to buy one of the national car: kancil.
After mulling over the costs, etc.....finally my sister-in-law said she might need to drive my car during weekend, and she doesn't know how to drive manual car....ohh.
So it is a used Perodua Kancil 850 (A), 5 years old.
;-(

What car??

I need another car for my own now... got to work out the budget.
It's headache time again. My favourite car or economic car????
Sigh!

Project SMART

This is the link to the SMART. The authority's official site for this RM 2.1 billions giant project.
Rather than back to basic, they believe KL flood foes will be solved once and for all. I do not think it is going to improve the situation. Go and take a look at the number of clogged drains first.

With 500,000 new vehicles go down the street every year (and this figure just keep increasing), you can think just to what extent this project is going to ease the KL traffic congestion.

Damages caused by the project?? Here.
Photos coming up next.

Who is 大丈夫?????

You all know these people in the pictures? Is he 大丈夫 ??? Shit! What that fatty old man did was something really sordid! Read this.
他自己爆出一句话：‘大丈夫做事，敢做敢当，陆庭谕调职的事，是我做的..........'

In my opinion, the real 大丈夫 is the man on the left.

Some Free ebooks on e-daden

Glad to see Daden has put up some free ebooks of Master Lu on their website.
Feel free to drop by Daden Culture web site.

I am happy to see Oriental Daily to start publishing Master Lu's articles!

Happy moment

I just hate all these projects!!!

Want to know how many multi-millions/billions projects currently running in this area??

1. SMART Project -- major underground tunnel digging
-- gigantic control stations
The main purpose is to resolve the flash flood nightmare

2. New KL-Putrajaya Highway construction work

3. Jalan Loke Yew - major expansion along some 10 km road

4. Sungai Kerayong (Kerayong River) river bed deepening work

You can really imagine what happened to the landscape here in 2 year times. This area is already highly congested with houses, apartment and cars, you can imagine the quality of life we have now!!

I will put up photos of all these projects.......

Drug Addicts

There is about 1 millions of them in the country, this is the figure revealed by MYC President Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo. And this is just a conservative number. Breakdown by race, 68% is bumi, 10% Indian and 16% Chinese.
Our population?? 27 millions.

Spiritual Consolation to David Wee

His father passed away yesterday 13/6/06, while he is still on a business trip in Houston.
It's really time to read Ksitigarbha.

Quintuplet

Let's pray for her!

Give me a break

I found that many friends have wrongly used this idiom. They take it literally.
Here's the definition from thefreedictionary.com:

give me a break

it is difficult to believe this is true or real. This guy is going around saying he's from another planet and getting paid for it — I mean, give me a break! You're going to run in tomorrow's marathon? Give me a break!

NS??

公正黨：3年6學員死亡, 國民服務應終止

（吉隆坡訊）人民公正黨全國副主席西華拉沙說，國民服務計劃自推行短短3年內，發生6宗學員死亡案件，首相阿都拉必須馬上終止該計劃，以向所有痛失孩子的父母交代。

6 NS trainees died in the camp in 3 years...........

I really would like to compare the fatality rate with that of Singapore NS Service.

Jacqueline Ann Surin

Jacqueline Ann Surin, the assistant editor from The Sun who wrote an Open Letter to the PM, my salute to her.


The following conversation took place at one mamak stall near Jalan Ceylon when i was having teh tarik several days ago:

Uncle Samy: You reading this article huhh??
Uncle Tan: Yes. She very brave.
Uncle Samy: Not many people dare to do this nowadays.
Uncle Tan: The Sun also very brave huh, dare to publish.
...........

Golden 4d Number

2800, 3142, 0013
Go and bet RM1000 big. Guess why the trio?
;-)

No Permission to Enter!

After reading today's NST Editorial Column http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Tuesday/Columns/20060613080704/Article/index_html
, what would you feel and think about our Imigration Department??

The whole problem lies in just one department, you know just how 'powerful' this department is!!
Imagine gigantic IT companies the size of Infosys and Dell still facing such bureaucratic issues, you can jugde yourself the level of responsiveness or services provided to smaller IT companies.

Those poor IT guys in Malaysia

Well, we are not really that poor. We only poor in terms of knowledge, when compared to IT force work in countries like US and EU.

About three years ago, I purchased an Oreilly's "SSH: The Secure Shell The Definitive Guide" by Daniel J. Barrett, Ph. D., Richard E. Silverman. It costs me 132 Ringgit. Well this is about 3 times more expensive the US version. We all know that too well, the ringgit pegging thing. IT guys need to pay 1/3 of the price to gain the same knowledge, whereas people like us who is already earning lower than our counterpart in US, got to pay 3 times higher. Make sense?
So you think what quality of life do i have?

It is sad thing we IT people (in fact all knowledge workers) who need constant upgrade got to pay the price for policies like this. People (friends from India) told me books are priced reasonably there. Books from China?? I know well, they are not expensive either. What difficulty is there for the authority to provide some concessions to publishers? Government has been subsidied large amout of petrol and diesel years, what so difficulty about subsiding people technical books that we knowledge workers much needed? Fair??

Cyberjaya Street Mall

This place needs to have 2 things in place:
1. ATM
2. Cyber cafe

Unbelievable huh?? No ATM there? Yes, this is what i experienced today. The nearest ATM is located at the Maybank office, which is a few hundreds meter away from Street Mall, it is about 40 minutes to and fro, yes still walking distance huh!

Oh yes, i need to logon to some sites which is not convenient to do in office (do not ask me what sites), arrr, where is the cyber cafe?? Do not ask me. It is another disappointment!

Someone told me there is more street post in Cyberjaya than the whole of Dengkil. Not surprising, considering it is an intelligent city. The surprising thing is the population density in Cyberjaya is almost 0, compared to Dengkil.

528 Nanyang Bustle - an eyewithness version

《528南洋报变大揭秘-我在南洋133天》



Well this is the book i want to buy for some times. It details how timber tycoon Tiong Hiew King plotted his media 'consolidation' operations.
Ever since i know his ambitious plan, i started buying 東方日報.

Oh yes, our Mr.Tiong is not going to call it monopoly.

More info here : http://mybook.com.my/home/

Guang Zhao Association

Another morning walk .

SETI

In my life, I have never known there is such an organization exist for such propose. But i only known it too late after doing study in other area. They are looking for a senior unix administrator now in their website, but i am not ready fully qualified for it. Alas!

The successful candidate will have 5 to 10 years of increasing responsibility administering Un*x, OS X and Windows systems. In addition, the candidate should have most of the following skills:

• Scripting experience (Perl, tcsh, bash, tcl/tsh, awk/sed, PHP, Python)
  
• Very strong network skills (Layer 2/3 switching, ACLs, security)
  
• Performance tuning of Solaris/Linux
  
• nis , ldap, dns, sendmail/procmail, dhcp, ntp, sql,ssh
  
• Experience in securing the network environment, using IPSEC, firewalls, IDS, and log monitoring.
  
• Incident response
  
• RFI and ESD experience a big plus
• System imaging
  
• Backup and recovery
  

This is going to be the list i will work on and study from onward. Yes
Anyway i don't think it is too late to join them one day. We will see.

Something from Bodhisattva for the poor memory

Ksitigarbha bodhisattva offers something FOC and invaluable.............for people like....me
;-)

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Some people may resolve to read the sutra texts Hoping to help those confused to reach the other shore. Although the vows they make are quite remarkable, Try as they may, they cannot remember what they read.

Because of their karmic obstructions and delusions, Those people cannot memorize the Mahayana sutras. But they can offer scents and flowers to Earth Store. They can give him clothing, food, and other things they like.

They can place pure water on an altar to the Bodhisattva, And leave it there a day and night before they drink it. With diligent intent they should abstain from pungent plants, Alcohol, meat, improper sex and false speech.

For three weeks they should not kill or harm any creature, While being mindful of the name of that Great Being. Then suddenly in a dream their vision may become boundless. Awakening, they may discover that they now have keen hearing.

From then on, once they hear the teachings of the sutras, They will never forget them throughout thousands of lives. How inconceivable this Bodhisattva is In helping people like that gain such wisdom!
.....................................................................................................................................................................

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is something that i find hard to remember. Earth Store Bodhisattva?? Yes, this direct translation name has a better meaning to me.

60 tonnes of rubbish..........

Well, those rubbish all go into our Klang River..........everyday!!! This is from DID Director General. When it rains, it goes up to 80 tonnes.
D-G: "We should have a system whereby people can help to monitor rivers......."
When are they really getting serious about setting one such system...wait until 500 tonnes i think.

I made a decision

Well, the decision been made. I really hope it's a wise one. What else do i need to do? Well, pray hard and do some serious study on unix stuff!

Lorong Rubbish

I had early morning walk along Jalan Alor, it is just so much rubbish dumping around the back street. Roadside littering is just so common, sad.
Just so disappointed, this is one of the most bustling area right in the center of KL.

A busy day

Today is a day of significance meaning to me. Thanks to my friend Jang. Well, he knows what i meant.

Sun??

I called myself a Sun bigot, but ........... what the hell am i spending so much time on linux??

Da Jie 大杰

Hi, I am 4 months old.

Tua Cha's Wedding

Congrats to my old fren Chong Kok Leong aka "Tua Cha" 大只 (it means big size in Hokkien) on his wedding today. He has found the love of his life.

Da Wei 大为

The cake is 1/3 of my weight.

Let's get started!

My first post. It was a sunny Saturday here at Cyberjaya that i decided to start writing something for myself. Sort of personal diary as i am not good in keeping stuff.
ok. That's so much for the day.