Live Update: 10 Aug ’10, 12.44pm PKT PST | From: Nokia E71, Nokia N97 or iPhone 3Gs | Author: KNizam

lawa la plak selendang ni semua bila dah susun mcm ni
mmg nampak meriah je kan hehe. belum ada pembeli
dalam keadaan berkabus pun depa masih gigih
malas la aku nak berhenti, kepala tgh pening plak tu
tapi kalau boleh close up best gak ni kot hehe

All organisations in Penang should become “water-friendly” organisations in support of Penang’s drive to promote wise water usage and cultivate a water saving society.

Chief Minister Y.A.B. Lim Guan Eng said Penang needed more water-friendly organisations because its water consumption was increasing too rapidly for a state that was highly dependent on a “shared” raw water resource – the Muda River. Both Penang and Kedah draw water from this river daily.

The total water consumption in Penang had increased by 38% since 1999. Penangites used 286 liters of water per person per day at home; as compared to 155 liters in Singapore and 165 liters as recommended by the United Nations.

Lim added, higher consumption of water would also lead to a higher discharge of wastewater that would adversely affect rivers, seas and the living environment.

Lim, who also serves as the non-executive chairman of Perbadanan Bekalan Air Pulau Pinang Sdn Bhd (PBAPP), noted that trade consumption, which covers business, commercial and industrial water usage, accounted for 39% of the State’s total consumption of 269.7 billion liters in 2009.

“As we continue to progress, water consumption will continue to rise. If it continues to shoot up too rapidly, we will have no choice but to invest billions of ringgit to develop new raw water resources and build additional infrastructure such as dams, treatment plants and pumping stations. These investments will inevitably lead to higher water tariffs,” he said.

Lim said there was a better way. “It is cheaper, more rational and more environment-friendly for us to use water more wisely. If you can manage your consumption effectively, we can delay and pace out additional infrastructure investments over a longer timeline. In this way, we can ensure sufficient supply for all while moderating tariff reviews for everyone’s benefit,” he said.

He was speaking at the logo launching ceremony of the “PBAPP Aquasave” sustainable water management programme today. Initiated by PBAPP in collaboration with the Penang State Government, this programme promotes wise water usage amongst Penang-based organisations and rewards them for effective water saving initiatives. PBAPP hosted a workshop for the state’s top 100 trade water consumers on 25 June 2010.

The programme rewards “water-friendly” organisations with a “green” award and a certificate that they may use to promote themselves. Organisations that receive the award for three consecutive years will qualify for an additional special incentive. Participation is open to all businesses, industrial companies, hotels, education institutions, government departments and non-government organisations. Interested parties may download an application form from the pba.com.my website.

“Sustainability in any endeavour requires us to use resources, especially limited resources, effectively. Water is an indispensable resource for life and all social and economic activities. Due to increasing populations, global warming and climate change, some countries and societies are already facing water crises.

“Until today, we are fortunate to enjoy good water supply in Penang. However, if we fail to do the right thing now, we may land ourselves in trouble soon. Please understand that what you do today determines the availability and price of a valuable resource in our future,” Lim said.

Saya ingin berdoakan agar keberkatan dan kesucian bulan Ramadhan Al-Mubarak pada tahun 1431 Hijrah ini dapat dihalusi dan dinikmati semua berdasarkan perkongsian, pengorbanan dan sumbangan kepada masyarakat.

Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Pulau Pinang akan terus berusaha mendirikan kerajaan berjiwa rakyat dengan berteraskan prinsip 3P – Perkayakan Rakyat, Perkuasakan Rakyat dan Perkasakan Rakyat- dan urus tadbir kerajaan Cekap, Telus dan Akauntabel (CAT). Prinsip integriti dan kebenaran adalah penting dalam pentadbiran negara.

Kerajaan yang baik dan bersih akan dapat jimatkan wang untuk dikongsi bersama rakyat. Ini boleh dilihat buat pertama kalinya semua warga emas yang melebihi 60 tahun telahpun menerima RM 100 setiap tahun dan waris akan menerima buat pertama kalinya RM1,000 untuk urusan jenazah. Di samping itu, Pulau Pinang merupakan negeri pertama di Malaysia yang berjaya basmikan miskin tegar pada 2009.

Sebagai Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, saya memberi jaminan bahawa amalan CAT akan dilaksanakan tanpa pilih kasih bagi memastikan pentadbiran Kerajaan Negeri diteruskan dengan tiga teras pembangunan ekonomi yang digariskan iaitu merancakkan pertumbuhan ekonomi (pro-growth), mewujudkan peluang pekerjaan (pro-jobs) dan menjamin keadilan sosio-ekonomi (pro-poor).

Di bulan yang mulia ini juga, saya mengambil semangat Ramadhan Al-Mubarak yang penuh keberkatan ini untuk menyeru rakyat negeri Pulau Pinang agar mengelakkan fitnah walaupun mempunyai ideologi politik yang berbeza. Tindakan aibkan orang atau meniup sentimen perkauman berdasarkan pembohongan dan berita palsu memang kelaziman tidak sihat yang masih dimainkan. Contohnya dakwaan Perarakan Maulud diharamkan diulang-ulangi sungguhpun berjalan seperti dulu kala dan dengan lebih meriah. Ataupun demonstrasi ke atas dakwaan palsu Bazar Ramadan di Komtar diharamkan oleh sipenganjur yang telah kutip wang sewa daripada peniaga tetapi tidak serahkannya kepada Perbadanan Pembangunan Pulau Pinang(PDC).

Kerajaan negeri sedia menerima cabaran ini dengan tabah hati dan keyakinan serta anggapnya sebagai suatu ujian daripada Tuhan untuk melawan kemungkaran dan fithnah. Ini adalah kerana kerajaan negeri yakin orang Islam, dapat bezakan di antara benar dan salah, hak dan batil, antara maaruf dan mungkar.

Akhirnya, marilah kita menjauhi segala laranganNya bagi mendapatkan puasa yang sempurna sejajar sabda Rasulullah SAW bersabda: “Barangsiapa yang berpuasa kerana iman dan mengharap pahala, maka diampuni dosa-dosanya yang telah lalu”.

Selamat menyambut Ramadan Al-Mubarak, bulan rahmat yang penuh keberkatan.

Amal Makhruf Nahi Mungkar.

I met Audiologist Steve Otto at the House Clinic to hook up my Auditory Brainstem Implant’s Freedom processor this morning.

After all the deliberations over which color to pick last year, I decided to get a black one after all. I would really love to wear a pink BTE processor while I’m still young but it can be hard to match clothes and occasions, and I would rather not have to regret after spending so much.

The self-pay price of the Freedom processor was USD7,850. But I traded-in my Sprint processor and received a USD3,000 rebate. That means I paid USD4,850 for this tiny Freedom processor that fits behind my ear.

Bye-bye bulky Sprint!

You served me well.

Now, I may wear dresses with no worries. There’s no more need to clip the bulky Sprint processor somewhere, no more long electrical cords to hide. I have the freedom to be girly!

Because every function of the bulky Sprint processor is now squeezed into this tiny Freedom BTE. Some are new functions such as background noise reduction and a directional microphone. The audiologist who tunes our ABI usually would save two different programs so we can choose and switch them to suit different environments. With the freedom, swtching between programs involve tapping a small on/off button, hearing one beep for Program No. 1 and two beeps for Program No. 2.

One of mine is with noise reduction and directional microphone. The other without.

The Freedom BTE can be used with two kinds of batteries. There is the cubic rechargeabke batteries that fit inside the controller. Alternatively, Cochlear has the tiny batteries similar to ones we use in watches, produced specially for Cochlear Nucleus hearing implants.

Our voices sound more human to me now.

Thanks everyone who helped raise funds last year so I could upgrade to the Freedom processor and reclaim my freedom!

I'm really thankful that Paul has taken to eating solids relatively well, err, actually, extremely well.

Generally Paul takes solids twice a day. In the mornings at around 9 am, Paul takes about 3-4 tablespoonfuls of rice cereal (Heinz, usually, and Nestle Cerelac sometimes just to give him a treat), to this I add 3-4 ounces of expressed and warmed breast milk and he usually downs the whole bowl in 10 minutes.

And then usually for a late lunch or early dinner, Paul gets his very Asian porridge! I boil pre-soaked ikan bilis (dried anchovies) for the stock, and add in either: potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, spinach, asparagus, broccolli (this list is growing, of course). And Paul eats a lot of it, he can finish a full adult's rice bowl of porridge at very hungry times!

Anyway, took this video of Eric feeding the kid last Saturday and here it is for your viewing pleasure.

A little while later, the kid fell asleep in the middle of his feed! AWESOMENESS! I have never seen such a thing in my life, and we were left chuckling till the end!

Still so amazed at how time flies and how quickly Paul grows. Suddenly, he's already on solids, he's sitting unsupported and learning how to crawl. It also means that both Eric and I are growing older, and that time's quickly running out. So many things to do, so little time to do them all.

Froam Malaysiakini

‘The floodgates are now open for the judiciary to have relations with the prosecution, defence or even witnesses in the future.’

Court dismisses application to call Saiful, Farah

Md Imraz Ikhbal: Under the law, for anyone to be convicted of an alleged crime, he/she must be proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt, and that is categorically distinct from the concept of balance of probability. It follows, therefore, that the prosecution of Anwar Ibrahim in this case has to be, beyond reasonable doubt, lawful and accurate both in material facts and prosecuting procedures.

The very fact that there is now an undefended allegation that the DDP had an affair with the star witness leaves the lawfulness of the entire prosecution in tatters. The only options available to the prosecution now is to either deny Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan’s romantic involvement with Farah Azaina Latif or prove beyond reasonable doubt that Farah was not privy to crucial information on the case.

Opting for the former is far too risky. This leaves solicitor-general II Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden with only one other option, which is to try his best on the latter and hope that the judge buys it. All this is assuming that the court is not yet corrupted lest the possibilities in favour of the prosecution is endless.

Cala: To a layman on the street, the moment you find a plaintiff is working hand in glove with the prosecution, he will conclude that justice is something hard to come by to the accused. Surely he cannot be faulted to imagine that there is a grand plan to discredit the accused. Where then is fairness?

P Dev Anand Pillai: I would not be surprised if the court asks: so what if the prosecutor had sex with the main witness? The floodgates will open for the judiciary to have sexual liaisons with the prosecution, defence or even the witnesses in the future. Who knows, with this new precedent set, the next time the syndicates will just provide a lovely girl or a macho guy for the prosecution or the judiciary and the whole case can then be “settled”.

Once a upon a time, it used to be hard cash. But now it looks like they have enough, they would now like to be bribed in flesh instead. Again, it is up to the younger generation of Malays – if they say enough to this nonsense which indirectly ridicules their society, then it will stop. But will they rise to the call?

Change agent: This is the great irony – the prosecution in their affidavit-in-reply denied knowing the affair between Saiful and Farah even though it probably happened, but are so adamant that sodomy took place between Saiful and Anwar even though it did not happen.

Swipenter: In this scandalous and mockery of a trial, at every step of the way, the defendant Anwar is denied fair play. But truth has a funny way of revealing itself. It may come from an unexpected source, just like the way the alleged Saiful-Farah affair was exposed.

The attorney-general must be sitting at the edge of his chair pulling at his hairs just thinking whether someone out there has evidence of their alleged affair.

Fido Dido: This is an important international trial. The relationship between Saiful and DPP Farah has to be defined at the stand. By just removing Farah out from taking notes itself indicates a guilty content. Come on, let Saiful and Farah take the witness stand and clear all doubts. Let the arm of the judiciary live once more with full trust and dignity.

Rubystar: It is a done deal that both of them are innocent. Saiful will again swear on the Holy Book that he does not even know Farah on a personal level, and Farah will swear on the Holy Book that she does not know Saiful on a personal level. The courts have already decided that it must be the truth. And the authorities will prosecute those who bring up the matter again, not these two lovey-dovey birds.

Wira: The implication of an affair does not necessarily mean a compromise of information detrimental to the defence. Remember in Sodomy 1, Azizan Abu Bakar told the court four times under cross-examination that he was not sodomised by Anwar? The judge chose to believe his police report, not his testimony in court.

Albert: “The prosecution in its affidavit-in-reply had rejected claims that Farah and Saiful were privy to investigation papers”.

How sure is the prosecution? In the heat of passion, anything goes. Don’t they know the meaning of reasonable doubt. And what about the alleged affair? Are Saiful and Farah going to be investigated?

Lover Boy: Umno wants Anuar to be convicted and he must go into the slammer by October. According to my crystal ball, the appeals will be done super-fast and he will be incarcerated latest by early January, latest by February. Look at the crowd that attends Anwar’s ceramahs – a crowd of 5,000 to 10,000 is common. Don’t you think BN is not in a panic mode?

Habib RAK: “Even if she were in love with (Saiful), she cannot leak evidence and she doesn’t question witnesses. So, how would any relationship with him affect our independence?”

Obviously, solicitor-general Mohd Yusof does not understand what a woman can do and will do when she believes that he loves her. Hasn’t Mohd Yusof heard of the phrase “Love conquers all”?

Sarawakian: Everything happened on cue as expected. The script had been written well before hand so no surprise there. The rest is for the actors to follow. Justice my foot.

This Blog

I have been neglecting this blog for quite some time now due to a few issuers namely as followers however I will be continuing this lifestye blog, but in a different manner.

• The Rising Cost of Living in General

From the time I started blogging, the general rising cost of living have been hitting us here in malaysia, harder and harder, with efforts to cut costs in our daily life, potential visits to restaurants and even kopitiams, have to be put off, what more visits to touristic place or even stays in Hotel. As such Food Blogging have been reduced, Holiday Tourist Blogging have to be curtail, it is time to reexamine the direction of my blogging.

• Retirement

At 46, I do have to make plans for retirement. I have all this while been working in the Service (Hospitality) Industry specializing in Food and Beverage, While it has been rewarding, I manage to earn a living for me & my family, It have not reward me in terms of wealthy especially for my retirement.

Sadly this is true with most worker in this industry, as we start with a very small basic, and depend on points (derive as the 10% service tax and does not have a retirement epf deduction) to make it up to a living wage. Our entire salary (inclusive points and tips) is taxable, but only the basic have a EPF deduction that both the employee and the employer have to pay.

Oh I am luckier then most as I manage to work my way up to management position where I only get a better basic pay but no points nor tips, but even then with close to 35 years working, by 55 I will only have around 300K in my Epf, I hardly able to sustain myself and my wife for 15 more years (say I knock off at 70) that is without further emergencies.

It look like I have to continue working till 60 or even 65, if some one still wants me or try to open a small business, in order to sustain my self. Which is what me and my wife is trying to figure out, and to see if my blogging can be adjusted to assist in my retirement.

• Car Problems

For the past few month car repairs have been taking priority,

My Car for the past 10 years seems to have a black hole in the engine consuming engine oil. After Service Any Engine oil will start disappearing after 1000k to 2000k, or one month. Esso / Mobile Engine oil will last for around 2 months. No Smoke from the Exhaust either, From Newspaper Advice to Mechanic Advice, I have change my engine valve seals (twice) and the piston rings (trice) but no mechanic is able to work out this problems. My last Mechanic advice me to change the engine (but no guarantees).

From the beginning of the year, my car have been testing my patience as well as my wallet, First, the mid engine gasket started leaking, then then fuel line ruptured, then it was the gear oil next, the breaks and shock absorbers (all4) have to be replace. Then came the tires. Well it all done now, hopefully and touch wood that it will last for some time before some thing else come. The good news is finally with this new Car Dr, the black oil problem have been fix and he some how manage to make my car more economical on top of it. A Tankful now last me up to 500km, instead of my usual 420km....... Could it be the Amoil engine oil he recommended or some of the extra gadget (relay) he plug in to my aircon?

• Work Issuers

I wont be discussing that here

• New Net Book

I just purchase a New Net Book a Branded one, more on this later

• New Credit Card

With all the rising cost, A Credit Card may not be a good idea, but then the need to have a emergency cash/money/payment method has overriding priority.

• Camera

My Fuji Pine Pix S700 flash cannot pop up any more, a visit to the camera shop say go to fuji for repairs and a e mail to fuji tech center in malaysia got no reply even after 2 weeks. Sad.

As Mention above, I will still be blogging, but in a different manner, this blog will be more on the technical, my rants, my outlook in life, movies and show I watch, software, apps and gadgets I use with Penang Food and Penang Tourism posting will take a step back and publish in New Blogs (to be decided later)

This is a guest post by John Burnside. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

When people are first creating their website usually there is very little consideration given to how your website should look or be laid out to make it perfect for SEO so here are a few quick tips to help set you off on your way. Firstly I am going start off on the SEO side of things because I believe this is the most important because if you don get the traffic you don get get paid.

I am going to assume for the purposes of this article that you have done some previous keyword research for your site and have decided which keywords you are going to target. To begin with you want to mention these keywords on your home page as much as possible without it looking silly. So usually I would recommend trying to make about 5% of the words on your page your targeted keywords. Also make these keywords emboldened, this may seem like a strange thing to do but it does slightly increase their weight in the search engines. This next point is one for both usability and SEO and that is that readers and google search spiders generally view a website in a Z pattern starting at the top left and ending towards the bottom right. It might be an idea to place your targeted keywords at these locations.

That’s all really for the layout but a couple of other onsite SEO techniques like changing your tag line at the top of the web browsers and choosing the right domain name will also help your cause.

How To Make Your Site Friendly User

Ok now a few general points on how to make your site easy to use for your visitors. This isn’t needed for all websites but I would recommend it for most and that is a google search engine widget or tool on your page. People are all about the easiest and best ways to search around the internet and if you give them the option to search from your site it just means that they stay there for a little longer at least.

When you are placing adverts on your website this can create a bit of a conflict between the usability of your site and the best placements for your adverts. To solve this problem I would recommend that you do a 50/50 split i.e use the premium space half for adverts and half for options which allow the user to navigate your website better. This of course can depend on how many visitors you are getting. The usual places where adverts make the most money are the 125×125 placement banners at the top of the first page so this place should have an ad. You could however sacrifice a placement on the right or left hand side for something like your most recent product/post/service etc.

The most important things to remember throughout this whole process is that it is an ongoing process. Once you have set up a site that you like the look of and think is SEO friendly, create another one and run a side by side campaign so that you can see which one performs better in terms of earnings. You should use analytics to see where people are going on your site and what adverts they are clicking on. There are a lot of things to keep track of but just keep in mind that this is an ongoing process and you have to target it to your customers not yourself.

About Author :
My name is John Burnside and I am in the online money making opportunities market. If you would like to learn more on this topic or other ways to make money online please visit my blog at http://www.moneyin15minutes.co.uk.

Dari TV Selangor
Oleh Mohd Ezli Mashut

Ahli Parlimen Shah Alam, Khalid Samad melabel Timbalan Perdana Menteri,Muhyiddin Yasin sebagai ‘batu api’ kerana cuba melaga-lagakan parti gabungan Pakatan Rakyat khususnya DAP dan PAS dengan memanipulasi isu pemansuhan diskaun pembelian hartanah mewah.

Isu itu mendapat tempat dan ruang besar dalam media kawalan Umno Barisan Nasional hingga menimbulkan polemik berpanjang berikutan Umno memutar belit fakta dengan menuduh Pakatan Rakyat mahu memansuhkan hak keistimewaan bumiputera.

Hakikatnya, pemansuhan diskaun itu hanya melihatkan hartanah mewah manakala diskaun terhadap premis kos sederhana dan rendah terus kekal.

Cadangan pemansuhan diskaun berkenaan dibawa Ahli Parlimen Petaling Jaya Utara, Tony Pua tetapi faktanya dimanipulasi dengan gambaran kononnya semua diskaun pembelian hartanah bumiputera, dimansuh.

Pada sidang media, Khalid Samad menegaskan golongan Bumiputera yang kaya tidak wajar memperoleh diskaun kerana ia hanya akan melebarkan lagi jurang dengan golongan berpendapatan rendah

“Memang pada dasarnya, kita ada satu Timbalan Perdana Menteri yang suka nak jadi batu api. Dia cuba laga-lagakan antara kenyataan Tony Pua dan Datuk Seri Guru Abdul Hadi sedangkan prinsip yang mahu dikemukakan ialah satu prinsip yang wajar untuk kita fikirkan bersama.

“Kita beri diskaun kepada orang Melayu, jurang antara Melayu yang kaya dan miskin tetapi akhirnya memberikan kelebihan kepada Melayu yang kaya kerana Melayu yang miskin,” katanya.

Beliau juga mencadangkan supaya pendekatan baru dirangka dalam menangani isu diskaun pembelian hartanah mewah supaya ia memberi manfaat secara langsung kepada bumiputera berpendapatan rendah.

“Saya mencadangkan pendekatan yang mengadunkan kedua-duanya apabila isu yang ditimbulkan Tony Pua ialah diskaun sepatutnya tidak diberi kerana mereka sudah kaya.

“Pada dasarnya, saya setuju,Datuk Seri Presiden menimbulkan persoalan istimewa orang Melayu dan keperluan untuk membantu masyarakat orang Melayu yang lagi ketinggalan dari segi ekonomi dan sebagainya,” katanya.

Khalid Samad mencadangkan supaya diskaun pembelian hartanah mewah disalur kepada pembelian rumah kos rendah dan sederhana.

“Apa yang nak dicadangkan ialah supaya diskaun yang dinafikan kepada orang kaya itu digunakan untuk memberikan diskaun yang lebih tinggi kepada rumah yang bawah RM500,000 dan bangunan komersil yang di bawah RM2 juta.

“Maknanya diskaun itu tidak ada tetapi digunakan untuk memungkinkan orang yang tak sekaya membeli rumah yang RM100,000, RM200,000 dan sebagainya tujuh diskaun,kita boleh cover diskaun rumah yang murah itu 10 peratus diskaun,” katanya.

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Dari Merdeka Review

Ketua Umum PKR Anwar Ibrahim yang dihujani tuduhan “pengkhianat bangsa” oleh parti musuh, mencabar UMNO dan Barisan Nasional agar mempertahankan hak untuk Melayu yang miskin dan terpinggir, dan bukan mempertahankan Melayu yang kaya raya di sebaliknya.

“Seringkali mereka menguar-uarkan mahu mempertahankan hak orang Melayu. Tetapi Melayu yang seperti mana mereka pertahankan? Kita tidak mahu mereka mempertahankan Melayu yang kaya raya. Kita mahu mereka memperjuangkan nasib dan mempertahankan Melayu yang miskin dan terpinggir!”

Ketua Pembangkang Parlimen (gambar kiri) ini berkata, “Jika benar mereka mahu laksanakan pembasmian kemiskinan, maka ianya harus dilakukan secara adil kepada semua golongan masyarakat tanpa mengira fahaman dan ideologi politik mereka. Jangan yang menyokong mereka sahaja dibantu sedangkan yang tidak mendokong mereka diabaikan dan dibiarkan.”

Anwar membidas kerajaan pimpinan UMNO-BN kerana mempermainkan sentimen perkauman, malah tidak adil dalam menangani masalah yang membebani rakyat, khususnya yang miskin dan melarat. Beliau berkata sedemikian dalam Majlis Ceramah sempena Jamuan Rakyat anjuran PKR Cabang Bayan Baru di tapak pesta, Sungai Nibong, semalam.

Majlis jamuan ini menarik kehadirian kira-kira 350 orang, yang kebanyakannya keturunan Cina. Hujah-hujah disambut dengan tepukan apabila penceramah menyentuh isu rasuah dan sebagainya.

Belum menikmati kemerdekaan sepenuhnya

Ahli Parlimen Permatang Pauh ini berkata, walaupun negara sudah mencapai kemerdekaan selama 53 tahun, tetapi rakyat negara ini masih lagi belum menikmati kemerdekaan sepenuhnya.

“Amalan Kerajaan UMNO-BN yang tidak memberi kebebasan bersuara kepada rakyat adalah bukti yang nyata bahawa kemerdekaan belum sempurna dalam negara ini. Kita dibenarkan bersuara untuk sementara, tetapi selepas itu ditahan dan disekat kerana bersuara menentang demokrasi yang mereka amalkan,” tambahnya lagi.

Sementara itu, bekas Menteri Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Zaid Ibrahim (gambar kanan) yang turut hadir sebagai penceramah pula menggariskan matlamat untuk Pakatan Rakyat (PR), agar tiga tunggak penting yang menjadi amalan harus diperjuangkan supaya ia menjadi realiti.

“PR memperjuangkan agar demokrasi secara telus diamalkan. Pemimpin yang bertanggungjawab adalah aspirasi kita untuk mencapainya, serta rakyat yang bersatu padu adalah antara asas dan perkara pokok yang harus dijadikan teras utama.”

“Dengan adanya tiga penyatuan ini, saya optimis PR mampu untuk merubah lanskap politik negara dan membawa satu politik baru bagi memajukan negara dan menyatupadukan rakyat,” katanya.

Zaid juga menuduh bahawa dasar pecah dan perintah yang diamalkan oleh UMNO-BN adalah antara punca kepada berlakunya perpecahan dalam masyarakat.

“Melalui sistem pecah dan perintah ini ia tidak akan bertahan lama apabila penyatuan untuk menyatukan semua rakyat tidak menjadi realiti. Ekoran daripada itu, negara tidak akan mampu untuk mencapai kejayaan yang mutlak apabila berlakunya kronisme dan pengagihan kekayaan mengikut sistem yang sedia ada diamalkan oleh BN.

Turut hadir dalam majlis ceramah sempena jamuan rakyat anjuran PKR Cabang Bayan Baru di tapak pesta, Sungai Nibong semalam ialah Timbalan Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Mansor Othman, ADUN Pantai Jerejak Sim Tze Tzin dan Ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan, Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin.

*Nazar Hashim ialah penulis khas untuk MerdekaReview.

Among all the places Ive been to in HK this time around, I think Stanley Street was the most remarkable one. Probably cos of the nice view at waterfront (which will be revealed next).

Yes we spent like 10 years at the sign board taking photos of ourselves lol

As we walk down the street, we could see shops and cafes.. and people chillin with their dogs.

To those interested, here’s a close up of ze husky.

What else was there? Shops selling souvenirs, clothes and antiques.

It’s also a well known tourist spot.

Many of them brought their pets along… so nice.

Next up: STANLEY WATERFRONT!

I have organize a kedah trip month ago, and visit Lye huat garden, this garden located at Jitra, approximate 20 minute from alor setar city.

Lye Huat Garden openning hour at 9am to 7.30pm every day exclude monday. Entrance fees will be RM10/person. You can get a group discount from them if you manage to bring a bus of 30 to 40 people.

What special in this garder? Actually this garden is a pretty good place for photography, and a lot of animals there, can consider a mini zoo too.

You will have a over view of the garden infront of the entance there, but no worry, you will get a small broucher or so call mini map with some introduction during you enter.

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Lye Huat Garden do display some fake terra Cotta, althought is a fake terra cotta, but at least you can have some feel how how this terra cotta was.

A lot of fishie on the Man make lake, you are allow to feed the fish there.

In Lye Huat Garden, also have a lot of mini garden between, here is another mini garden we enter

Art Gallery available at Lye Huat Garden, unfortunately, that time was close, we did not enter

Aquarium available, and a lot of different fishes, and some are famous and expensive one

The fish look at us like not really happy

Pity fishie die in the aquarium

Friend come to visit him. The lye huat garden keeper never find doctor for the fishie

I have too much photo on lye huat garden, I will post more on the animal on the next post.

Dari Harakah
Abdul Aziz Mustafa

Naib Presiden PAS, Datuk Mahfuz Omar membidas pengampu-pengampu pemimpin Umno yang hanya memperjuangkan diskaun untuk pembelian rumah mewah kepada Bumiputera tetapi berdiam diri terhadap pemotongan subsidi.

“Sikap mereka yang membisu seribu bahasa terhadap pemotongan subsidi yang ternyata membebankan rakyat terutama menjelang musim perayaan ini membuktikan sikap mereka yang bukan sahaja tidak prihatin malah tidak peduli sama sekali terhadap penderitaan rakyat terutama yang berpendapatan rendah,” katanya.

Malah, katanya lagi, mereka bersekongkol dengan tindakan kerajaan yang hanya berani merampas subsidi dari rakyat dan mengumumkan kenaikan harga barang sebaik sahaja sesi Parlimen selesai bersidang.

Beliau mendedahkan, tidak ada sebarang pandangan diminta mahupun perbicangan secara khusus dibuat bersama-sama Ahli Parlimen sepanjang Parlimen diadakan.

“Selepas tamat sesi Parlimen, kerajaan terus umum kenaikan harga barang tanpa berunding dengan rakyat. Masa bila kerajaan berunding dengan rakyat?” Ahli Parlimen Pokok Sena itu mempersoalkan.

Pengampu-pengampu pemimpin Umno yang membuat bising menentang pemotongan diskaun rumah mewah itu juga lansung tidak peduli terhadap nasib hampir 34 peratus daripada kira-kira 1.3 juta pekerja di negara ini yang memperolehi pendapatan bulanan bawah RM700, katanya.

“Bila harga minyak dan harga barang makanan dinaikkan oleh kerajaan Umno Barisan Nasional (BN) pimpinan (Datuk Seri) Najib (Tun Razak), bukan harga barangan tersebut sahaja yang naik harganya tetapi, seperti yang berlaku sebelum ini, ia akan mengakibatkan kesan berganda dan barangan lain juga naik harga.

“Kenaikan harga minyak akan mengakibatkan kenaikan kos pengangkutan dan dengan sendirinya harga begitu banyak barangan lain akan naik harga.

“Kenaikan harga gula pula akan mengakibatkan kenaikan harga makanan dan minuman lain. Beberapa hari lagi kita akan menyambut Ramadhan, pergilah ke pasar-pasar Ramadhan dan lihat sendiri adakah pelbagai juadah yang menggunakan gula sebagai bahan akan tetap sama harga?

“Kalau tidak dinaikkan harga pun, biasanya para peniaga terpaksa mengurang kuantiti atau mengecilkan saiz,” kata Mahfuz.

Tetapi, katanya, para pemimpin Umno dan pengampu-pengampu mereka tidak peduli penderitaan rakyat akibat kenaikan harga barang itu.

“Saya yakin, sebahagian besar dari 34 peratus daripada kira-kira 1.3 juta pekerja di negara ini yang memperolehi pendapatan bulanan bawah RM700 itu adalah adalah orang-orang Melayu Islam yang akan menyambut Ramadhan kali ini dengan penderitaan akibat kenaikan harga barang.

“Malang bagi mereka kerana orang-orang Umno hanya sibuk dengan memperjuangkan diskaun untuk pembelian rumah mewah kepada Bumiputera.

“Maklumlah, mereka yang hendak beli rumah-rumah itu kerana pekerja yang berpendapatan bawah RM700 sebulan tentu tidak mampu membeli rumah-rumah mewah itu,” kata Mahfuz.

From AFP

The young man who has accused Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy was spared Monday from having to take the stand to answer claims he had an affair with a trial prosecutor.

Anwar last week applied to have the sodomy charges against him struck out, saying that 25-year-old Saiful Bukhari Azlan, who once worked as an aide in his office, could have been passed confidential information by the female lawyer.

The former deputy prime minister, who was sacked and jailed on separate sex and corruption counts a decade ago, has said the case is a political conspiracy and that the alleged relationship is more proof the trial is biased.

Lawyers for Anwar on Monday asked the High Court to force Saiful, as well as the young prosecutor Farah Azlina Latif, to testify over the allegations.

But Judge Mohamad Zabidin Diah refused the request, saying it was “not relevant to this case or this proceeding”.

Defence counsel Karpal Singh had asked the court to strike out the “frivolous” charge against Anwar, saying that the extraordinary allegations undermined the entire case.

“Never before in history… has such a motion been filed to strike out the charge on the basis of an affair between the prosecutor and the star witness,” he said.

“This is putting the judicial system on trial. The court itself is on trial.”

The prosecution argued against the request for Saiful and Farah to take the stand, saying that it was a “fishing expedition” by the defence.

The claims of an affair first surfaced in a political blog last month, and shortly afterwards Farah was removed from the case.

No evidence has been offered, but neither the prosecution nor the pair involved have denied the allegations.

Saiful has accused Anwar — a 62-year-old father of six — of sodomising him at an upmarket Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008. If convicted, Anwar could face up to 20 years in prison.

Sodomy, even among consenting adults, is illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia.

Anwar has said he is the victim of a plot to prevent him from taking power after the opposition made huge strides in 2008 elections, stunning the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, which has been in power for half a century.

Dari Malaysiakini
Oleh Darwish Zainal

Seramai 766 peneroka Felda memfailkan saman berjumlah RM200 juta di Mahkamah Tinggi Seremban terhadap agensi kerajaan itu atas dakwaan terlibat dalam penipuan dan pecah amanah dalam jual beli hasil kelapa sawit.

Tuntutan itu difailkan oleh peguam Sivarasa Rasiah bagi pihak peneroka daripada Felda Serting dan Gugusan Raja Alias, berdekatan Jempol, Negeri Sembilan.

NONEMereka menamakan Felda dan Felda Palm Sdn Bhd masing-masing sebagai defenden pertama dan kedua.

Dalam tuntutanya itu, mereka mendakwa “wujud penipuan dan/atau konspirasi untuk melakukan penipuan dalam urusan jual beli dan hasil buah sawit” selama 15 tahun.

Menurut Sivarasa, dalam pembayaran kadar perahan gred kelapa sawit Felda didakwa menggunapakai 18.9 peratus sedangkan nilai sebenar didakwa antara 24 hingga 25 peratus – seperti kajian Lembaga Kelapa Sawit Malaysia.

Katanya, pihaknya mempunyai dokumen bagi membuktikan bahawa pada tahun 2008 sahaja, setiap peneroka kerugian RM20,000 ekoran kadar itu.

NONE”Ini bermakna selama 15 tahun, Felda menyebabkan kesemua 766 peneroka ini kerugian sebanyak RM200 juta,” kata Sivarasa.

Sehubungan itu, Sivarasa yang juga naib presiden PKR memberitahu, kesemua plaintif menuntut ganti rugi am dan teladan, bersama faedah untuk penipuan dan pecah amanah yang berlaku.

Sementara itu, sejak jam 9.30 pagi tadi, kira-kira 300 peneroka Felda mula berkumpul dan memenuhi mahkamah tinggi tersebut bagi menunjukkan sokongan mereka.

Kedengaran mereka bersorak kuat berulang kali tanda sokongan ketika ahli parlimen Subang itu membacakan kenyataaan medianya kepada pemberita selepas memfailkan tuntutan itu.

Dua lagi peguam peneroka tersebut Latheefa Koya dan T Kumar turut hadir.

Sometimes when I accidentally let my guard down, I still think of you. I unwittingly think of your smile on cold rainy days, of your warmth on my way to work, of your gaze while I pretend to listen to conversations around me. At moments like that I feel utterly helpless and scared, because I thought I knew what I really wanted.

But what do I really want?

Truth is, I do know what I want. I recite it to sleep everyday in hopes that I will never forget why my life has changed so drastically the past few months. If I lose sight of it, I lose sight of my very essence and being in life. But reinforcing something in your mind so very often does not make it any easier to adhere to.

So I do know what I want. But what’s next? How do I achieve them? Where do I go from here? Nobody has ever told me how to deal with life, am I supposed to go through all this on my own? Am I supposed to hurt myself and learn from all my gashes and wounds?

But all that is trivial because most importantly, no one has ever told me the truth. The truth that governs all human behaviors and decisions people make in life. No one has ever told me that to be happy in life, you always have to be selfish. You always have to make painful decisions that will ultimately decide between hurting someone you love, or hurting yourself.

Or so I thought.

I finally realized something recently, that nothing is ever either/or. I was selfish and I chose to hurt everyone but myself, only realizing that my decisions have all backfired at the end of the day.

But alas, we learn. We live, and we learn.

Dari Malaysiakini

Peguam Karpal Singh menegaskan bahawa kenyataan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dalam affidavit terhadap pengadu Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan dan DPP Farah Azlina Latif – bahawa mereka berdua mempunyai hubungan intim dan maklumat penting telah bertukar tangan – bukanlah satu tuduhan semata-mata, tetapi merupakan fakta.

Katanya, Anwar telah memperolehi maklumat tersebut (mengenai hubungan intim tersebut dan kebocoran dokumen dan maklumat) dari sumber yang boleh dipercayai.

Oleh itu, tegasnya lagi, kenyataan dalam afidavit tersebut adalah kenyataan fakta.

Ianya bukannya hanya cakap-cakap tetapi satu fakta yang belum dibantah dalam dua afidavit balas, tegas Karpal.

Kedua-dua afidavit tersebut, yang dikemukakan oleh DPP Mohd Hanafiah Zakaria dan pegawai menyiasat Jude Blacious Pereira, menyangkal sebarang pengetahuan mengenai hubungan intim Saiful dan Farah dan juga menafikan dakwaan bahawa Farah dan Saiful tahu mengenai kertas siasatan dan dokumen-dokumen lain.

Karpal memohon kepada mahkamah dan hakim Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah untuk menggunakan kuasanya memanggil Saiful dan Farah sebagai saksi.

Oleh itu, beliau memohon hakim mendapatkan kebenaran bagi mencapaikan keputusan yang adil.

Dan ianya, sambung Karpal lagi, hanya boleh diperolehi dengan memanggil Farah dan Saiful sebagai saksi untuk mengetahui kebenarannya.

Oleh itu, tegas Karpal, bagaimanakah kebenaran boleh diketahui sekiranya kedua-dua mereka tidak dipanggil sebagai saksi.

KENYATAAN PENANG DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION(PDC) PADA 9 OGOS 2010 KE ATAS LAPORAN PALSU UTUSAN MALAYSIA BERKENAAN 27 PENIAGA BAZAAR RAMADAN DIHALANG BERNIAGA DI BAZAR RAMADAN, KOMTAR.

Sekiranya Komtar Merchant Association(KMA) Tidak Bayar Sewa Yang Dikutip Daripada 27 Peniaga Melayu Kepada PDC Dan Mematuhi Peraturan Yang Ditetapkan Maka PDC Akan Berurusan Terus Dengan Peniaga Secara Individu.

Merujuk kepada kenyataan akhbar seperti di atas, pihak PDC ingin memaklumkan bahawa kenyataan yang dilaporkan bahawa 27 peniaga Melayu dihalang berniaga di Bazar Ramada di Komtar adalah tidak benar. Adalah tidak bertanggungjawab untuk memainkan sentimen perkauman bahawa ada penindasan peniaga Melayu hanya untuk menutup kegagalan Komtar Merchant Association(KMA) membayar sewa kepada PDC dan kegagalan menguruskan Bazar Ramadan mengikut peraturan yang telahpun ditetapkan.

Sebenarnya permohonan KOMTAR Merchant Association (KMA) untuk menganjurkan Bazaar Ramadhan di ruang legar, konkos paras 3, KOMTAR untuk 27 peniaga telah dibincang di dalam Jawatankuasa Induk Pemulihan KOMTAR pada 5 Ogos 2010 bersama-sama dengan wakil KMA. Pada mesyuarat itu, telahpun dibangkitkan perlunya menghadkan jumlah bilangan peniaga Ramadan demi mengatasi masalah kesesakan ekoran terlalu banyak gerai ditempatkan di pusat pentadbiran kerajaan negeri. Masalah kesesakan ini tahun lepas telahpun menyebabkan kesesakan dan kesulitan orang ramai keluar masuk ke Pusat Pentadbiran Negeri Konkos Paras 3.

Mengambil kira kewujudan 20 gerai yang sedia ada di kawasan yang dipohon dan untuk mengelakkan daripada kesesakan di kawasan tersebut yang merupakan juga pintu masuk utama ke Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Negeri di KOMTAR, maka PDC telah memutuskan untuk hanya membenarkan penyewaan bagi 10 gerai sahaja beroperasi di situ dengan pengenaan sewaan RM50.00 sehari untuk setiap gerai, iaitu harga sama yang dibayar oleh 20 gerai sedia ada. Surat kelulusan tentang penyewaan ini dikeluarkan oleh PDC pada petang 6 Ogos 2010 kepada KMA.

KMA telah pun mendirikan gerai di kawasan tersebut sebelum sebarang kelulusan diterima daripada PDC dan tanpa membayar sewa. Di samping itu didapti bukan sahaja KMA mendirikan 10 gerai seperti yang diluluskan tetapi telah mendirikan 27 gerai.

Daripada penjelasan di atas dapat dilihat bahawa PDC bukannya menghalang tetapi hanya ingin mempastikan penggunaan ruang di ruang legar konkos , paras 3, KOMTAR dibayar sewa oleh KMA dan dibuat mengikut prosidur dan syarat yang dikenakan oleh PDC bagi menjamin suasana dan keselesaan di kawasan tersebut. Adalah tidak patut PDC dipersalahkan bila KMA mengutip sewa daripada 27 peniaga tetapi tidak pun diberikan kepada PDC.

PDC juga ingin memaklumkan bahawa KMA telah bertindak tanpa pengetahuan PDC dengan berurusan terus dengan 27 peniaga terlibat dan mengutip wang sewaan . Sepatutnya KMA hanya boleh berbuat demikian apabila memperolehi kelulusan dan persetujuan PDC berkenaan penyewaan ruang legar tersebut. Tindakan KMA ini telah menjadikan 27 peniaga tersebut sebagai mangsa yang kemudiannya menuduh PDC sebagai pihak yang bersalah dalam hal ini. Adalah tidak adil PDC dipersalahkan untuk kesalahan yang dilakukan oleh KMA.

Dengan surat kelulusan yang PDC keluarkan bertarikh 6 Ogos 2010, pihak KMA boleh meneruskan dengan pemasangan kemudahan gerai yang dirancang tertakluk kepada syarat tidak melebihi 10 gerai dan membayar sewa yang dikutip daripada peniaga. Disamping itu KMA juga perlu memenuhi syarat-syarat yang PDC telah letakkan di dalam surat kelulusan tersebut.

Kini perkara ini telah menjadi satu isu. Sebagai jalan penyelesaian, Pengurus Besar PDC Dato Rosli bersetuju untuk ruang legar konkos paras 3, KOMTAR akan ditambah daripada 10 gerai kepada 17 gerai dengan penggenaan sewaan RM50.00 sehari bagi setiap gerai. Ini adalah untuk mengelak kesesakan, ketidak keselesaan pengunjung serta keselamatan di kawasan tersebut. Sebagai alternatif, baki 10 peniaga lagi dibenarkan untuk ditempatkan di konkos Paras 4, KOMTAR Untuk membantu pihak KMA, 10 peniaga terlibat hanya akan dikenakan sewaan RM25.00 sehari untuk setiap gerai (iaitu selepas diskaun sebanyak 50%).

Surat kelulusan yang baru berkenaan perkara di atas telahpun dikeluarkan oleh PDC pada 9 Ogos 2010. Sekiranya setelah usaha penyelesaian ini dibuat dan KMA gagal mematuhinya, maka PDC dengan kerjasama agensi penguatkuasa yang berkaitan akan mengambil tindakan yang sewajarnya.

Pengurus Besar PDC Dato Rosli Jafar telahpun mengarahkan sekiranya KMA tidak mahu membayar sewa yang dikutip daripada peniaga kepada PDC dan mematuhi peraturan yang ditetapkan maka PDC akan terus berurusan dengan 27 peniaga secara individu.

Adalah jelas di sini bahawa PDC tidak pernah sekali-kali menghalang peniaga untuk berniaga di situ tetapi apa yang perlu ialah segala urusan hendaklah dibuat dengan mengikut prosidur, pembayaran sewa dan syarat-syarat yang telah ditetapkan demi menjamin keselesaan, keselamatan para peniaga dan para pengunjung kelak.

MOHD BAZID ABDUL KAHAR
PENGURUS KANAN HARTANAH PDC

Recently, I've taken a shift in viewing how I should position myself as an employee and a professional person. In the past, I've clearly placed virtual barriers in terms of communicating about the nature of my work, the place and people I work for and the results I produce for my employers. Personally I have stated my stand on the matter, that this blog is a personal blog only and it communicates to my friends and family the general ongoings in my life, and it allows returning readers a small peek into my personality and the kind of choices that affects my daily happenings.

While that's all well, I've also come to the realization that it has been rather impossible to be absolute in all matters, and as much as I like to be a very private person, owning a blog and writing about my life on a blog turns that desire into an oxymoronic situation. So recently, I've sort of 'come clean', and in my gmail-sent emails, I've added a social media 'sign off'. These days you get to 'find-me' on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

The good thing about this is, I realize, I really have nothing to hide anyway.

…

Here's to Monday, and another fresh start to the week.

TVSelangor

Senator Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim membidas pemimpin Umno kerana mengkritik Ahli Parlimen Petaling Jaya Utara, Tony Pua yang mencadangkan pemansuhan tujuh peratus diskaun bumiputera untuk pembelian hartanah mewah.

Tunku Aziz berkata dia terkejut melihat reaksi Pemuda Umno yang membuat laporan polis berhubung cadangannya itu, manakala Presiden Umno Datuk Seri Najib Razak tidak terkecuali mengeluarkan kenyataan keras.

Semasa sesi dialog belanjawan kerajaan negeri Selangor pada Julai lalu, Pua menyarankan diskaun bumiputera harus hanya disalurkan kepada hartanah murah dan sederhana bagi membantu bumiputera berpendapatan rendah.

Pua berkata diskaun tidak perlu diberikan untuk hartanah mewah bagi memacu pelaburan dan persaingan antarabangsa, selain kerana golongan kaya mampu memilikinya tanpa potongan harga.

Bahkan diskaun berkenaan hanya menyaksikan pembeli rumah bumiputera menjadi orang tengah kepada pembeli bukan bumiputera yang mengambil kesempatan ke atas diskaun tujuh peratus untuk membeli hartanah mewah.

“Yang pasti, Perlembagaan Persekutuan tidak memperuntukkan bahawa Melayu berhak mendapatkan diskaun untuk membeli hartanah mewah yang bernilai jutaan ringgit,” kata Tunku Aziz.

Pemuda Umno mendakwa cadangan Pua itu berbaur hasutan dan mencabuli Perlembagaan Persekutuan serta kontrak sosial.

Sementara, Najib pula menuduh Ahli Parlimen Petaling Jaya Utara itu mencetuskan rasa marah di kalangan orang Melayu serta mengancam keamanan awam.

Tunku Aziz meragui motif Umno mempertahankan diskaun diberikan kepada hartawan kaya-raya walhal ia sepatutnya digunakan untuk golongan marhaen.

“Kita mahu memastikan 40 peratus daripada bumiputera yang berpendapatan rendah mendapat manfaat dari dasar afirmatif. Diskaun pembelian hartanah mewah adalah antara perkara utama yang disalah-gunakan di bawah Dasar Ekonomi Baru,” jelas Tunku Aziz.

Pusat Khidmat Rakyat ADUN Seri Setia, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad sudah berpindah ke premis baru bermula Ogos 2010.

Alamat premis barunya ialah E-1-02 Jalan SS 6/20A Dataran Glomac, Kelana Jaya, 47301 Petaling Jaya.

Premis ini adalah di belakang premis lama.

Nombor telefon dan nombor faks masih tidak bertukar iaitu nombor telefon 03-78063660 dan nombor faks 03-78046521.

Beliau juga boleh dihubungi melalui e-melnya niknazmi@niknazmi.com

Live Update: 9 Aug ’10, 7.46am PKT PST | From: Nokia E71, Nokia N97 or iPhone 3Gs | Author: KNizam

tu dia punyalah banyak karpet yang dijual kat tepi2 jalan
aku rasa karpet ni mesti dalam kebasahan ni ok
dah la area ni tengah berkabus teruk, dengan hujan lagi
malabg betul la kalau terbeli karpet ni surelah kena jemur
aku budget karpet ni dalam 3 ribu rupees ni. design dia cun
hehe terasa nak beli karpet la balik islamabad nanti
karpet sempena raya kan. shopping sakan la kita yer

Live Update: 9 Aug ’10, 7.11am PKT PST | From: Nokia E71, Nokia N97 or iPhone 3Gs | Author: KNizam

best plak tengok pesta warna warni payung kat sini
now tengah hujan lebat kadang2 rintik2 plak semalam
mesti akan laku kalau buat bisnes payubg kat sini kan
tak nampakk ke penjual payung tengah khushuk berdoa tu

Live Update: 9 Aug ’10, 7.09am PKT PST | From: Nokia E71, Nokia N97 or iPhone 3Gs | Author: KNizam

aku perasan pakcik ni masa beratur nak balik
ni kat puncak ayubia sebenarnya. mcm xde perasaan je
hehe kalau aku beli surelah tetiba dia ada perasaan plak
xde mende pun naik kat atas puncak ayubia ni hehe

Live Update: 9 Aug ’10, 7.04am PKT PST | From: Nokia E71, Nokia N97 or iPhone 3Gs | Author: KNizam

berkabus je sepanjang perjalanan from ayubia ke murree
bahaya gak memandu mcm ni sebenarnya tau
kalau kat selekoh confirm la kena bunyikan hon
aku tak leh imagine la masa winter nanti wooooo

Live Update: 9 Aug ’10, 7.03am PKT PST | From: Nokia E71, Nokia N97 or iPhone 3Gs | Author: KNizam

tu dia aku hengatkan amendalah depa buat ni kan
rupanya tengah beli jagung bakar dengan garam pasir
aku ingat nak beli jagung mentah tapi cancel la
dah nak balik kl ni kan, karang rosak je jagung tuh nanti
takpe nanti balik masa bulan puasa kita akan rebus jagung

Live Update: 9 Aug ’10, 6.51am PKT PST | From: Nokia E71, Nokia N97 or iPhone 3Gs | Author: KNizam

tu dia berlambak la plak shawls dari kashmir ni kan
rambang mata gua nak pilih beb, bukan gua nyer forte la
shawls ni semua nama dia kashmiri shawls
dibuat dengan tangan oleh surirumah di srinagar
satu shawls berbulan2 nak siapnyer ok
ada shawls yang diperbuat drpd janggut kambing ibex
yabg tuh mahal giler dan lembug giler ah
harga dalam rs.80,000 mmg mahal giler kan
mana la nak dapat kambing ibex kalau x kat gunung2 kan
yg tuh kalau aku beli harus framekan cun2 letam dinding la

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How many of you here have ever heard about Bum Marketing? Honestly, I have never heard about such a marketing strategy – not until 6 months ago when I purchased Ewen Chia’s 24 Hour Internet Business.

If you have been following closely to the post and articles I have written, you would notice that one of my major marketing strategies comes from article submission itself. I started out as an affiliate marketer with no website and inevitably, I did not spend a single cent on anything. In contrary to what many must be thinking now – that it is quite impossible to make a sustainable income online with just article marketing, I managed to do so. And not just any petty sum, I made quite decent money online by majoring just on article submissions as my main marketing strategy.

All thanks to what I have learnt from Ewen Chia’s 24 Hour Internet Business, I was exposed on towards the most anticipated article marketing strategy that gave me my first fortune online – Bum marketing.

Bum marketing is based on the premise that you focus each article you write on a specific set of keywords, which you will rank well within Google. I have come to realize that Ezine Articles is highly respected by the search engines, and it is possible to write an optimized article and have it ranking high in search engines in as little as a day.

Generally, Bum marketing is based on the principle of finding keywords that receive both a decent amount of traffic, and a little competition.

Some of my most recent examples I can include here from my articles using Bum Marketing methods are derived from these keywords. You may Google them yourself and you will notice my article title as given within it.

“Say no to distractions”
Say No to Distractions – 5 Ways to Concentrate Better When Writing Article Contents

“Google Adsense Ruling”
Google AdSense Ruling – Make Money Online Playing by the Rules Or Be Banned

“Writing an effective press release”
11 Tips to Writing an Effective Press Release to Increase Your Sales

“How to write an effective sales page”
How To Write An Effective Sales Page That Sells Like Mad

“Beginners Tips to Setting Up an Online Business”
Beginners Tips to Setting Up an Online Business Effectively

How Can You Make Money Online With This?

You need to find dominating phrases

You would need to find phrases you can dominate quickly. It is quite similar to how keyword research works. Basically, you start out by aiming on a product that you think might be a ‘HOT subject.

Start out with a broad term and narrow it down to what you will find people most interested in that subject.

Take for example:

The subject of “PSP” and how music relates well with its distinctive growth at current. Instead of opting in for just “PSP music” as we know that it will surely lead to countless numbers of competitors, we narrow our keyword to a much more anticipated phrase that has an appropriate number of searches but less in competitors.

Now here’s a little secret. The more words the phrase has, as a general rule the less optimized results that phrase will have and people typing that phrase in the search engine are more likely to buy. Therefore, instead of using “PSP music”, you may consider “how to download music to PSP” or “How to put music on PSP”.

Do a search query on Google itself and determine for yourself just how many search results are shown. The lesser the number it is, the lesser your competitors are and the better your chance of ranking your articles on the first page of the search engine when such ‘keyword phrases’ are typed in.

Important Submission Consideration

When it comes to profiting from Bum marketing, it is essentially important that you know what kind of article directories you need to submit your articles in. You can have the most anticipated keyword phrase, the most keyword optimize article written but if you fail to submit on to an optimized article directory itself, your articles will eventually not make it to a promising state. Therefore, I would highly recommend that you put an emphasis to submit your articles to these 3 big articles directories.

Ezine Articles – We all know that Ezine Article is the most powerful article directory of them all with a PR6 or PR7. Ezine Articles will surely ensure that your Bummed articles reaches the first few spots of the major search engines with up to 10,000 competing results. However, some of the drawbacks are that you really need to provide quality articles as they are monitored and approved by real person. Affiliate links are not allowed too but you can overcome this by redirecting your traffic to your free blog such as WordPress or Blogger before leading them into your affiliate links.

GoArticles – This site has great PR and is perfect for a new person to internet marketing that does not have a website because GoArticles allows you to link directly to the merchant website.

Coming Up With An Article

Learning to come up with your own article is fairly easy. There are many methods to go about writing articles. Hiring Ghost writers as well as re-writing from PLR articles is great way to generate your share of articles for submitting.

You do not have to write big long essay style articles. Simply write a short article of about 200-500 words in length, and use one of the following simply article formats to attract readers.

Tips – people love tips. You can start out your article title with such a headline like 7 tips to…, 3 easy tips to…, 8 sure-fire tips to…. and so on.

FAQ – Find out the top 3 to 5 questions people have on a particular topic and answer them. People love these types of articles…and minimum research is required even for more complicated topics!

Review articles – Have you bought a book, movie, software or other item that you really liked? Write a little review on that product. People love good honest reviews.

Bum marketing is essentially a very powerful marketing strategy and if so that it works quite similarly with article marketing, the key here is to work on keyword phrases that has a level of searches per month but with low competitors alike so you can easily rank high with it. Evidently, this was how I was able to make money online from my affiliate product links and distinctively, I believe you can do it too. It doesn’t take one to be a genius to benefit from this marketing strategy but I have come to notice that not many know about such a strategy.

Yes, we have heard about how needy it is to include keyword rich words into your articles submission, but not every keyword will get you rank high on search engines. Bum marketing will and I hope you see the opportunity that lies within it.

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In it, you will learn from the Internet Guru himself about the best ways to go about creating the best article marketing strategy for your internet business. Issues such as “submitting your articles the most profitable way”, “learn how to monitor your articles and grow from them”, “finding the best killer keywords to profit from article marketing” and much more will be exposed inside.

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Febap Liew is the owner of BlogXic. She shares everything that you would need to know on how to make money online on the world wide web.

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aku terjumpa kat blog obefiend tadi. hehe

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rileks je kalau dapat layan lagu ni sambil jalan2 kat pantai irama kan. hehe

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OK back to HONGKONG! lol

On the 3rd day in Hongkong, we went breakfast again at Delifrance.. ahhaha their breakfast was just too good… omg everyday eat also can. I ordered this. One of the best breakfast Ive had there. Yummy.

Cousin ordered this. Im not a fan or macaroni. hmm

After breakfast, we walked back to the hotel to shower n stuff… but on the way.. we spotted a hemsem guy… hmm wonder who was that.. maybe he was some Hongkong TVB actor.. hmmm

Our activity that day was to visit “Chek Chue” aka Stanley Street. Heard it’s a place to buy souvenirs n stuff so we went to see see look look.

The van ‘zai’ ride was awesome. Took us around places we’ve never been to. This Stanley street is on the hills near ocean park.

OK TIME TO SHOPPPPPPPP!

Oh btw.. just in case if you are interested to have a look at the hemsemguy again… here you go.

Hahahah. kidding ok.. not very hemsem lah… hmm.. a bit oni.