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The island republic seeks to free itself from possible blackmail by Malaysia

When Singapore’s newest reservoir was opened this weekend, it was billed as the garden city’s latest leisure hub, designed to attract boaters and picnickers keen to escape the hectic pace of urban life.

But the Marina Reservoir, the 15th to be built in Singapore and the first to be located in the city center, has a much more important role to play. It is the latest advance in the city-state’s drive to wean itself away from imported water from Malaysia and its concomitant political entanglements. In the process, Singapore has emerged as an unlikely world leader in water conservation, reclamation and desalination.

Singapore still sources around half of its water from Malaysia and frequent disputes over the water supply have dogged relations between the two neighbors virtually since the two became independent countries. But after billions of dollars of investment into transforming its water supply, Singapore is getting ever closer to the day when it will become totally self-sufficient, finally kicking one of the most poisonous bilateral issues into the long grass.

With no proper rivers of its own and a land area too small to collect enough rain water, Singapore has been dependent on water brought across the Strait of Johor ever since it gained its independence from the British. But despite the two long-term supply deals signed in 1961 and 1962, once Singapore was unceremoniously booted out of the nascent Federation of Malaysia in 1965, the water issue began to drive a wedge between the two.

It wasn’t long before Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia’s first post-independence prime minister, was threatening to turn off the taps if Singapore pursued a foreign policy that was “prejudicial” to Malaysia’s interests. Singapore’s first post-independence leader and current Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew, also said that he would have been prepared to send the troops in, if Malaysia had carried out an “act of madness” like cutting off the water.

As the imposing figures of Lee Kuan Yew and his long-time sparring partner, former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, begun to fade – neither is there yet – the tensions over water have dissipated somewhat. However, with the first water agreement set to expire in 2011 and no replacement deal in sight, the Singaporean government has moved ahead at a fearsome pace with its push to reduce its dependence on imported water.

“Singapore seems to be doing quite well and I think it will be self-sufficient within the next five-10 years,” explained Chan Ngai Weng, a geography professor at Universiti Sains Malaysia who specializes in water supply issues. “If Singapore is able to do this, then there will be no problem between the two countries. Malaysia will lose some money but there will not be any issue any more.”

“I think it’s unlikely that there will be more problems between Malaysia and Singapore over water,” added Kog Yue Choong, a Singaporean engineer and academic who has written on water security in Southeast Asia. “Many of the problems happened when Mahathir was in control but now the game has changed because the additional water sources Singapore has developed will reduce its vulnerability.”
Singapore’s Public Utilities Board has spearheaded the campaign, investing S$4.9bn (US$3.3 billion) over the last five years alone in its four-pronged approach: increasing the area used to catch and store rainwater, recycling sewage to produce ‘NEWater’, building new desalination plants and working to reduce water usage. In 2005, the government opened the biggest desalination plant in Asia, delivering 110,000 cubic meters of desalinated seawater a day, enough to meet 10 percent of the country’s national water demand.

The Marina Reservoir, which was first suggested by then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew back in 1987, is a vital part of the plan. It will supply another 10 percent of Singapore’s water needs and, together with two further reservoirs that are currently being built, it will expand the catchment area used to collect rainwater from half to two-thirds of the island’s land area.

Yet despite the apparent easing of tensions between Malaysia and Singapore over recent years, Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s current prime minister and Lee Kuan Yew’s son, hinted at the importance of continuing to reduce the country’s reliance on Malaysian imports at the opening ceremony of the reservoir last Friday.

“Through the concerted efforts and ingenuity of government agencies, and the full support and cooperation of the population, we have become more self-sufficient in water, and can become completely self-sufficient should we need to,” he said. “We have also turned our vulnerability into a capability.”

While disputes over water have done much to harm Singapore-Malaysia relations over the last 50 years, the silver lining for Singapore at least has been that the tensions have spurred the development of a world-leading water technology industry.

With industrialization, urbanization and climate change all threatening to put ever greater pressure on water supplies in Asia and around the world, Singapore has positioned itself to capitalize on the demand for technological solutions to the growing water shortages.

“More and more countries want to industrialize and the West is exporting pollutive industries to developing countries that don’t have the same capacity to deal with the problem,” noted Dr Kog. “Water supplies are increasingly being polluted and with global warning, it will be a big problem that may develop to an extent that it rivals the issue of oil.”

Australia, where farmers have been hit by severe droughts over recent years, is already looking at Singapore’s NEWater as a possible solution to its woes. More importantly, India and China, which have been developing at a lightning pace, are facing serious water crises in the coming years. The growing water shortages are a massive threat to China, where the World Bank estimates that more than half of the 660 cities are already facing supply issues, but a big opportunity for Singapore. Companies that honed their expertise in water technology while working on Singapore’s own water problems, such as Hyflux and Keppel, have expanded into China, where the World Bank has argued that billions of dollars more must be invested to head off a major water crisis.

But while Singapore has seemingly defused the potential for further disputes over water with Malaysia, it remains to be seen if relations between the two countries will continue to improve. Although the global financial storm ought to push these neighbors closer together, there is the very real danger that a deepening economic slowdown pushes both countries to take a more protectionist and antagonistic approach to each other.

Much will depend on the extent of the economic slowdown and the eventual outcome of Malaysia’s continuing political crisis. But, for the first time in many years, some Singaporeans and Malaysians are starting to believe that their bilateral problems could be water under the bridge.

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Najib should rectify the parliamentary faux pas in not amending the 2009 Budget motion to incorporate the supplementary RM7 billion economic stimulus package so that Government and Parliament will not continue to be laughing-stocks in parliamentary annals

Yesterday, the Speaker, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia made the ruling that Parliament was debating the Abdullah budget presented on August 29, 2008 and not the Najib Budget of an additional RM7 billion economic stimulus package announced during the 2009 Budget winding-up debate on Tuesday, as no changes to the Abdullah Budget had been tabled in the House.

The Speaker is right as MPs could not possibly be debating a revised 2009 Budget incorporating an additional RM7 billion economic stimulus package, when neither the details of the supplementary RM7 billion package have been tabled in the House nor an amendment to the 2009 Budget proposed in Parliament.

The trouble with such an interpretation is that MPs would have to live the fiction of pretending that the RM7 billion economic stimulus package announced by Deputy Prime Minister and the new Finance Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, in his speech winding-up the2009 Budget policy debate had disappeared into thin air within 24 hours and does not exist!

In fact, the nation and Malaysians are being asked to join in his fiction, if Najib persists with this unprecedented solution to the parliamentary faux pax he had committed in failing to follow the correct parliamentary procedure of submitting a proper parliamentary amendment to the 2009 Budget incorporating the new RM7 billion economic stimulus package.

more at : http://press.politickler.com/2008/11/najib-should-rectify-the-parliamentary-faux-pas-in-not-amending-the-2009-budget-motion/

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One of the phrases I hear often but find to be totally self-contradicting is “This is a win-win situation!” That phrase annoys the heck out of me! It’s one of those paradoxes that proves the nonsensical nature of the very message it tries to project. The thing is there can’t be a winner without a loser. [...]

Once in a while you’ll see some programs that you downloaded from the Internet requires .NET Framework installed. When a .NET application is run on a Framework-less machine, the results are unpredictable: the application will either not work, crash, or be frozen as an open window that does nothing. Most of the time you’ll get an error that says “The application failed to initialize properly (0×0000135). Click OK to terminate the application.” So what is .NET Framework?

The Microsoft .NET Framework is a software technology that is available with several Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes a large library of pre-coded solutions to common programming problems and a virtual machine that manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework. The .NET Framework is a key Microsoft offering and is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform.

In short, you need Microsoft .NET Framework in order to run programs that requires .NET Framework. Just like you need to have Java Runtime installed in order to run Java Programs and you need to have Adobe Flash Player in order to view flash animations.

The .NET Framework is included with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. The current version of the framework can also be installed on Windows XP and the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems. Since there are many versions of .NET Framework (1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and the upcoming 4.0), sometimes the user himself doesn’t even know what version of .NET Framework is installed on his own computer.

The manual way of checking whether what version of Microsoft .NET Framework is installed on your computer is through Add or Remove Programs from Control Panel. This is a very basic way to check but could be wrong because the entries that is displayed in Add or Remove Programs can be easily removed from registry.

A better way would be to use this free and portable ASoft .NET Version Detector. It is a lightweight tool that gives information on the different versions of Microsoft .NET that are installed on a machine. If a certain version isn’t on the machine, you can simply follow the link that .NET Version Detector suggests, so it is easier for the novice user to find the runtimes.

Also detailed information is given on where the .NET Frameworks are installed with links to the directories. The details can easily be copied by a user, to paste in a mail. The .NET Version Detector is a handy tool for vendors of .NET applications also. Knowing which versions a user has installed and where they are located on the hard drive.

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Would you call for a general election in the middle of what former Fed Chairman Greenspan called a “once-in-a-century credit tsunami” if you had a choice? Wouldn’t you want to postpone the punishment if your internal polling showed you teetering on the brink of an historic defeat? Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso would too.

Unlike John McCain in the US this week, who went down to decisive defeat, Aso does have some flexibility in setting an election date, so it was hardly surprising when last week he quashed speculation that he would call for an election late this month. His decision came only days after the Tokyo Stock Exchange opened with the lowest index level since before the collapse of the 1980s Bubble Economy, or when the yen reached a 15-year high of 93 to the dollar. Both have moderated somewhat, but the economic outlook remains dire.

That seems to have put paid to the once-bruited scenario whereby the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) brings in a new leader, uses the resulting bounce in party popularity to call a snap general election, limiting inevitable losses and returning to power with at least a governing majority.

Aso himself encouraged this speculation soon after he succeeded former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda last September in comments and in writings for a political journal. “I think my first mission is to seek he people’s verdict as a springboard to rebuild strong politics,” he said.

read further at : http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1523&Itemid=176

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MUCH of leadership takes place increasingly through new media, said ForeignAffairs Minister George Yeo — and its use was an “important reason” for United States President-elect Barack Obama’s victory.

He used this medium to reach segments of Americans “who might otherwise have stayed aloof from the larger mainstream process”, said Mr Yeo yesterday at the awards ceremony for the inaugural George Yeo Blog Competition.

So, would the Singapore Government be looking at how Mr Obama used new media to engage the young?

In response to Today, Mr Yeo said that while Mr Obama’s rival for the Democrat ticket Hillary Clinton did not “discover” this segment of Americans, and Republican opponent John McCain revealed he did not use email, Mr Obama was on his Blackberry “all the time”.

One of Facebook’s founders had even created some sort of intranet for Mr Obama’s supporters, Mr Yeo added, “and that helped energise a younger generation”.

In his speech at the ceremony, Mr Yeo said such efforts to reach out to “groups otherwise not included” has its connections with this competition.

Sharing how he started blogging in 2006, Mr Yeo said he found the Internet to be “less difficult and onerous” than expected: “It became a way of keeping a diary.”

His participation in new media, which includes a Facebook account, “keeps me closer in touch with the younger generation,” said Mr Yeo.

The competition, organised by two bloggers he co-blogs with, Mr Harold Fock (www.beyondsg.typepad.com) andMr Ephraim Loy (www.ephraim.blogspot.com), invited young Singaporeans to share their vision of what Singapore should be when they grow up.

Said Mr Fock: “We were looking for entries that had the audacity to dream boldly yet were grounded in real world constraints and realities. Most importantly, the posting must come from the heart, not some model answer.”

Of the 280 entries, only 20 were from tertiary students — others came under the Primary and Secondary/ITE categories.

Mr Yeo was unsure why there was a lack of interest from tertiary students. Perhaps they were too busy or the prizes were not attractive, he said.

From dreams of Singapore leading environmental conservation, to describing pet shops that sell unicorns, the entries were so impressive that organisers added a “creative award” after the first- and second-place under each category.

First-place winner from the tertiary group Valeria Chia, 18, hopes Singaporeans will be more considerate and that parents look beyond academic achievements. She also hopes employers will hire those with potential, rather than just the “most capable”.

“Singaporeans live like clockwork … If they slow down their pace of life, they could be happier,” said the Singapore Polytechnic student.

source: http://www.todayonline.com/articles/285585.asp

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CHANGE WE CAN, Obama said throughout his campaign.

America, in their lifetime, responded well and put in the first non-White president into the White House -- significantly after trolling for 232 gruelling years since Independence.

Frontpage November 5, 2008, The Bakersfield Californian

It has been a long, gruel race to the White House. Crisis helped Obama. Can Obama help solve crisis?

Having survived eight years of Bushism, are we now seeing a new president, but the same problems?

I hope the euphoria will die down soon.

More than half the world is financing the US economy, and in a way, life-supporting the greenback as countries use the US$ for their forex benchmark and national reserves. Structurally, in finance and economy, this is dicey business of a global scale.

Obama must now manage US economy well so that all US$-reliant economies which are owed trillions in off-balanced trade will not be made the contagion victims of domestic economic turmoil in his homeland.

For Malaysia which eulogises "anyone from a minority group can be a nation’s leader", let's make sure it starts from home.

America has changed. Can we, Malaysia -- even in 232 years?

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) — Malaysia’s ruling party, in government for more than five decades, plans to change the way it elects leaders to end a culture of vote-buying that hands top positions to the highest bidder, the group’s treasurer said.

Bribery has become “blatant” and “scary,” Azim Zabidi, treasurer of the United Malays National Organisation and a member of the party’s leadership committee, said in an interview. “It’s gone down to the fabric of UMNO itself.”

UMNO is considering giving a vote to each of its 3 million members, making it too expensive to bribe them all, Azim said. That would replace a system where candidates seek enough nominations from the heads of 191 regional branches to be eligible for a leadership post. Fewer than 3,000 members then cast votes at party elections.

UMNO, the largest in Malaysia’s ruling coalition, is facing the biggest challenge to power after suffering its worst national election result in March, and risks losing more support unless it roots out bribery.

“The party will have to show they are reforming,” said Ooi Kee Beng, an analyst at Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. “UMNO seems to be consolidating itself around its old culture, which includes vote buying.”

In an interview with Bloomberg Television last month, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak, set to succeed Premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at party elections in March, called for his organization to change or risk losing support. He didn’t specify what reforms are needed.

The National Front coalition, dominated by UMNO, operates a program of benefits for the Malay majority in Malaysia. Najib said in the interview he plans to phase out the policy, which has been criticized by the multi-ethnic opposition.

Hotel Loitering

Corruption is so widespread that some UMNO members voting at party elections tell leadership candidates how much money to pay, said Azim, 49, the party’s treasurer for four years. UMNO funds aren’t used for such purposes, he said in the Nov. 3 interview.

Abdullah last week told candidates’ campaign managers and agents to stop loitering near hotels and other UMNO meeting areas, canvassing party members or buying votes, the New Straits Times reported on Nov. 1. Abdullah’s press secretary, Teoh Ai Hua, said the prime minister is unlikely to comment today because he isn’t scheduled to speak to the media.

A pledge of support from a regional head may cost 3,000 ringgit ($848), while a seat beside Azim on UMNO’s supreme council, the party’s leadership committee, might go for 1.5 million ringgit, he said.

“We need to nip this, I can’t say `in the bud,’ because it’s not a bud anymore,” he said. “It’s a full-grown flower.”

Closing Eyes

A new way of choosing leaders won’t be in place before party elections next March, Azim said. It’s hard to discipline those who offer money or accept bribes because they’re reluctant to give evidence against wrongdoers, he said.

“They realize that it’s corruption, but it’s become a way of doing business,” he said. “They tend to close one eye.”

Azim, who is also chairman of Bank Simpanan Nasional, a Kuala Lumpur-based state savings bank, was suspended from UMNO for three years for a breach of ethics in 2001. During his campaign for a divisional post, Azim held a rally at the bank, breaking a rule banning campaigning. He denied abuse of power.

Opening up voting to all party members would make it prohibitively costly for candidates to rely on payoffs, Azim said.

“By enlarging that pool of voters, it’ll probably cost you 10 million ringgit,” Azim said. “Are you willing to spend that much for a seat on the supreme council? Probably not.”

Cash bribes are typically handed to regional heads or UMNO voters by candidates or their agents, Azim said. One potential party leader once booked dozens of rooms in a Kuala Lumpur hotel during an UMNO election, offering visiting members free accommodation and food in return for votes, he said.

source: bloomberg.com

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 6 - Malaysia’s Finance Minister and soon-to-be prime minister Najib Razak backed the independence of the country’s central bank in an interview late on Wednesday, saying it alone set interest rates.

“The question of interest rate I will leave it to Bank Negara to decide as I want to defend the credibility of Bank Negara in the issue of ascertaining the interest rate,” Najib said, according to the transcript of an interview published by state news agency Bernama.

Malaysia’s central bank has left interest rates unchanged at 3.5 percent since April 2006 through a boom, a recent surge in inflation to near 27-year highs and now amid signs Malaysian growth is slowing.

At its last monetary policy meeting on Oct. 24, it said that it would “take swift monetary policy action to provide support to the economy”.

The government this week cut its 2009 growth forecast to 3.5 percent from 5.4 percent on expectations that exports would be hit by the global economic slowdown.

“Bank Negara as at this point sees no reason to change the interest rate. Therefore it is good that we have specific options that we can exercise should the situation change,” Najib said, according to the transcript, when asked whether there was room for rate cuts due to declining inflation.

Najib, an economist by training, is set to take over the premiership in March next year from Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, whose lacklustre leadership saw the coalition that has ruled Malaysia for 51 years stumble to its worst election result earlier this year.

As well as a tough economic environment, Najib will have to face a resurgent opposition led by Anwar Ibrahim who was deputy prime minister and finance minister until he was sacked during the Asian financial crisis a decade ago.

Najib said that Anwar had shown during the Asian crisis that he had no answers to problems, adding that he had none now.

“I feel the leader of the opposition is still trapped in the era of 1997. Which is the old IMF way of thinking,” Najib said.

Anwar was sacked after he backed tough IMF remedies to help Malaysia recover from the financial crisis.

“The leftovers are still in their thinking today and that is why when in the midst of facing the global crisis where the whole world should be advocating intervention measures in the form of stimulus package or an expansionary budget, the opposition is still putting forward a contractionary budget,” Najib was quoted as saying.

report source: reuters.

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To be among the first to congratulate Obama, Badawi was asked when Malaysia will also have the chance to see a non-Malay prime minister, Abdullah said such situation can happen anywhere as it depends on the people who decide the outcome.

Did Badawi lied again? He knows that the present Malaysia Prime Minister is not elected by the people but by a bunch of umno blood suckers members. Why then did he said that “it depends on the people who decide the outcome”. Anyone, including Obama will assume that it means the people of Malaysia and not just a handful of umno members.

more at : http://blood-suckers.blogspot.com/2008/11/badawi-calls-for-change-in-election.html

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When I think of the American election and the way it was won, I am endlessly struck by the fact that such a great war was won with such small battles. In the most literal, immediate sense, one can see this on any election map of America, with its states dotted here red and there blue. One can zoom further into the map and see that each state, each city, each town, perhaps even each house, is divided up into its own red and blue mosaic patterns, right down to the individual Republican and Democrat. The battle for America, won yesterday by Barack Obama, was won out of individual differences — sometimes a matter of razor thin percentage points — consolidated by majority at the voter’s level, the constituency level, the state level, the national level.

But there were other, perhaps more important battles — a succession of small battles that had been fought out within the battleground of the single individual and his or her place in history. To me, Obama’s presidency — the first black presidency in the history of the United States — was won at this micro level of the individual, generation to generation to the present, battling against his or her very self: against old prejudices, against hardened consensus, against apathy, against history. To me, the victory is symbolic: their small battles and victory from the grassroots reflects the nature of the larger war itself. We can’t be overwhelmed enough by what this victory means historically: one hundred and forty-three years after the end of the American Civil War, and four hundred years of racial hatred, bigotry and injustice since the inception of black slavery in the United States, the American people have said, with their ballots: Enough. We are no longer the people we were.

continue reading at : http://idlethink.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/the-politics-of-grace/

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The House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill that terms ethnic and racial discrimination as serious crimes.

Deputy Speaker Muhaimin Iskandar, who presided over the House’s plenary session to approve the draft law, said Indonesia no longer had any room for any form of racial or ethnic discrimination.

Chairman of the House’s special committee deliberating the bill, Murdaya Poo, said the endorsement of the bill should put an end to the long-standing dichotomy between indigenous and non-indigenous people in the country.

“A man cannot choose to be born as part of a certain race or ethnic group, and therefore discrimination must cease to exist,” said Murdaya, who is Indonesian-Chinese.

He said the House proposed the bill as part of its effort to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination, which has been enacted since 1999.

Under the new law, leaders of public institutions found guilty of adopting discriminatory policies would face jail terms one-third more severe than those stipulated in the Criminal Code.

Citing an example, Murdaya said the governor or government of Aceh could not ban a gathering held by Javanese ethnics in the province.

He said the deliberation process had been delayed by a disagreement on whether imprisonment should be made the minimum punishment.

Jail as a minimum sentence is typically sought for serious crimes, such as corruption, terrorism, money laundering or drug abuse.

“We decided to set prison as the minimum sentence to deter people from committing racial or ethnic discrimination,” said Murdaya, a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

The bill was passed on the same day Indonesia celebrated the 100th anniversary of Youth Pledge, which Murdaya said should encourage Indonesians to uphold the diverse nature of the nation. – JP

source: The Jakarta Port

Post from: The New Politickler

“Mommy，can I plant an apple tree?”双双问。

“How you going to plant an apple tree?”

“First I ask mama cut an apple for me to eat, then I keep the seeds, and plant it in the garden, then after the rain and the sun, the apple tree will grow! then I will have a lot of apple!!!”

“OK, you can try.”

喜喜问：“Can I plant my teeth?”

“Why you want to plant your teeth?”

“Em…then I will grow more teeth.”

“Err…你可以试一试。”

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Yesterday, the Speaker, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia made the ruling that Parliament was debating the Abdullah budget presented on August 29, 2008 and not the Najib Budget of an additional RM7 billion economic stimulus package announced during the 2009 Budget winding-up debate on Tuesday, as no changes to the Abdullah Budget had [...]

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A letter was written to the CEO of Malaysian Airlines yesterday requesting sponsorship of our air tickets to LAX. Someone got me his contact details. See why we need to go there, here.

I wondered at first how best to approach. If everyone calls him up asking for favors, he’d need a way to tell who are these people without seeing them over the phone. Courteous introduction doesn’t help, everyone does it.

So I wrote a Letter to the CEO.

We’re also trying to go through usual protocols. A friend helped me call this guy in-charged of sponsorship, but he never seems to be at his table and no one should disturb anyone in meetings. I wonder if we’d ever get to speak with him.

Another friend also wrote to his contacts in MAS via the marketing department. It was by email, and not just any email, but a very touching email. One showing a friend vouching for another with his professional time and resources that could be spend on better things.This is rare because both friends are not close to begin with.

We have exactly a week until I should be flying off. Pray things will go through!

One of the new features was added to the pre-release version of Firefox 3.1 is Private Browsing. I am looking forward to this great feature in Firefox after I had an experience with Google Chrome’s Incognito. After know this news, I am excited and downloaded the latest Firefox 3.1 beta 2 pre-release version (aka nightly builds) to try which has this feature baked in.

To start your Firefox with Private Browsing always on mode, type “about:config” in the address bar of Firefox, click “I’ll be careful, I promise” button to proceed, type “browser.privatebrowsing.autostart” in the Filter text box, and double click the entry to change the value to “true”. You can change the value to “false” to turn the Private Browsing feature off.

Source: Mozilla Developer News

Saw a interesting report on The Star today :

It is possible for anyone from a minority group to be a nation’s leader, even in Malaysia, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi. “It is up to the people to decide, just as the Americans had done through the democratic process,” he said while extending his congratulations to Senator Barack Obama

So there you have it! If you are wondering it doesn’t matter who you are,what your religious background is…You can be the Prime Minister!

Or was he sleepy when he said what he said and it actually can never happen here??

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Do You Think Leaders In UMNO Can Be So Low As To Be Involved In Abuse Of Power And Money Politics? These Are Leaders Of A Leading Party In Malaysia How Can? Zubli Zainordin is a Blogger specializing in Political Leaders at Blogs he Authors - A Total Blog, and Satu Blog Total. He is also an active article writer at TranungKite OnLine, and a [...]

After the March 8th election its openly known that the opposition states have been deprived out of opportunities to improve their respective states and provide a better state for those living there. Kedah was in the headlines with its intention to log a forest reserve which is vital to water source for the northern states, they we had other states scrambling for ways to bring in income to operate and take their states to new levels.

I have been particularly very impressed with the progress in Selangor and Penang who are leading by example and not waiting and whining about the lack of support from the federal government.These states are taking steps to bring in FDI’s and doing a bloody good job considering they have been in office for a mere 7 months! In the latest development :

“Penang has signed of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Penang Development Corporation (PDC) and a South Korean company to build a RM350mil (US$100 million) golf course in Batu Kawan is the latest state government achievement,” said CM Lim Guan Eng

Now how about that!!

Congratulations to the Penang State government for the hard work and i hope all the other states wake up and smell the coffee.I know its not exactly good times but if you work at it, its very possible!!

You can read other developments on the Jelutong MP, Jeff Ooi’s posting

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Mark your calendars! Tell your friends who are still on the fence! Mac + iPod Discovery Week is coming to Pavilion Kuala Lumpur this 13-16 November 2008. myMacBUZZ will be represented too as a myMUG member so make sure to come visit.

Apple will be showcasing the new MacBook and iPod family, accessories to compliment and other Apple suites. Apple Premium Reseller, EpiCentre will also be setting up a clinic for Apple users to bring in their notebooks for a free check-up.

Tip for guys encouraging their girlfriends to tag along–tell her about the free portrait shoot by Ecaz Studios. She even gets to keep a print!

Other companies who will be there include music equipment distributor Roland, and local BMW dealer Sapura Auto will also be part of the event.

Picture courtesy of jibone

There will be performances by an eclectic line-up of local indie artistes on the 15th and 16th which includes Yuna, Paolo Delfino, Qings & Kueens, Otam, Sei Hon and Couple. For fans of these indies, their showtimes are after the jump.

Sei Hon (Sat, 15 Nov 2008 @ 3.30pm)

Otam (Sat, 15 Nov 2008 @ 4.15pm)

Qings & Kueens (Sat, 15 Nov 2008 @ 5pm)

Paolo Delfino (Sun, 16 Nov 2008 @ 3.30pm)

Yuna (Sun, 16 Nov 2008 @ 4.15pm)

Couple (Sun, 16 Nov 2008 @ 5.00pm)

Forbes recently published its list of most powerful women. Here’s how the financial magazine ranked Asia’s women.

1. Ho Ching, Temasek Holding’s CEO, according to Forbes is Asia’s most powerful woman. The low-profile wife of SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has headed the Singapore investment company since 2002 and is credited with boosting its investment portfolio by investing in Indian and Chinese telecom companies, for instance.

2. The president of INDIA’s National Congress Party Sonia Gandhi - who was then an Italian named Edvige Antonia Albina Maino - married Rajiv Gandhi, the son of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, in 1969. Following the assassination of Rajiv, who was the then Prime Minister, on May 21, 1991, Sonia gradually and grudgingly became involved in politics.

3. INDONESIA’s Sri Mulyani Indrawati is coordinating minister for economic affairs and finance minister.

4. Aung San Suu Kyi is a pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in BURMA. She is also a noted prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolent resistance.  She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship. She is still under detention, with the Burmese junta repeatedly extending her house arrest.

5. PHILIPPINES’ Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is the daughter of a former president. She became the 14th president of the Philippines after the 2001 bloodless uprising. Her rule has been marred with several coups and rocked by scandals involving her husband but she has remained in position, amid rumours that she wants to change the constitution to perpetuate her stay in power.

6. CHINA’s Zhang Xin, is the CEO of SOHO China, a Chinese commercial real estate developer listed in Hong Kong. The company, she set up with her husband Pan Shiyi, has played a leading role in China?s urbanisation, with several of its developments becoming landmark structures in Beijing?s emerging skyline.

7. CHINA’s Yang Mian Mian is the president of Haier, the world’s fourth-largest maker of household appliances, making her one of China’s most powerful businesswomen

8. Lee Myung Hee, SOUTH KOREA’s richest woman, is the chairman of Shinsegae, largest distribution company in South Korea. She is the youngest daughter of Samsung founder Lee Byung Chull.

9. CHINA’s Eva Chang, rose from  a secretary at Amway Hong Kong to become chairman of Amway China.’

10. CHINA’s Jing Ulrich, chairman and managing director of JPMorgan Chase China Equities, is frequently named as “Best China Strategist”.

Post from: The New Politickler

Facebook has now been translated to Bahasa Melayu with the help of many Malaysians.

Users can change the Facebook interface language via language menu at the bottom of the page.

I am not sure how many Malaysians will use the Bahasa Melayu translations. I myself don’t use it. The Bahasa Melayu translation looks weird and confuses me.

Something similar are the Friendster in Malay and Windows XP in Bahasa Melayu.

Do you use Malay interface of the social networking sites?

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Internal sound system quality is getting better nowadays. I still remember that I would need to install a sound card on my computer in order to have sound output. Back on those days, Creative Sound Blaster is my first choice sound card. However, things change now. Internal sound chip can produce the sound that suit normal daily usage like listening MP3, watch movie and gaming too. Not so many users will go for high end sound card like Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series. I am not going for that to keep the cost down. Besides, you need a good speaker to match a good sound card. Else you are wasting its true sound quality. Therefore, I will stick with Realtek ALC889A internal sound chip for the moment.

Realtek ALC889A internal sound chip

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There is a difference trying to target SEO Malaysia or SEO for worldwide searches. You basically view a slightly different set of result even if you are using Google.com but searching in different parts of the world. I guess the question asked would be, “How can we target for one location?”.

My opinion is that including the location like “Malaysia” in your content would place more emphasis that you are trying to target Malaysia traffic. Also getting backlinks from other website in the same geographical location would definitely helps.

Here is how you can check if you are interested to know what US resident are seeing from a certain keyword search at Google.com.

http://www.google.com/search?q=KEYWORD&gl=US

For example, if you are searching for SEO service

http://www.google.com/search?q=SEO&gl=US

http://www.google.com/search?q=SEO&gl=MY

http://www.google.com/search?q=SEO&gl=SG

I used three different location MY=Malaysia, SG=Singapore and US=United States. I could omit the second query with &gl=MY because I would see the same result.

On top of that, you will also get a different result from Google.com.my. And sometimes it is better if you are concentrating in a regional Google. This is how you could check other country search result. If you check Alexa’s Malaysia Top 100 website, you will notice that Google.com.my gets more visitor compare to Google.com. This is because a lot of computer have default on Google.com.my when the first time Google detects IP from Malaysia and people do not change it as long as the searches works.

1. Go to http://www.google.com/adpreview (without the backslash, it will not work)
2. Enter the keyword
3. Enter Google Domain
4. Choose the country of the searches

You will see the result that is different from countries to countries.

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This is a funny toy. I guess that is why the owner decides to put it on youtube.

American’s are now celebrating their new President. Americans now have a leader who will bring CHANGE to the way American’s treat each other, the way American’s treat other countries, the way Americans live and in a nutshell Obama has promised a birth of a New America! Closer to home, Malaysians, Singaporeans, Thai’s, Chinese, Indians are celebrating the victory like it was our own!!

I asked my self today :

Why on earth am i celebrating this historic win!

Why am I so happy that Obama is the new leader of America?

Why is my Muslim,Chinese,Indian and other friends of Malaysia celebrating this?

I could think of only one answer…We all want One thing!

WE WANT CHANGE!

When March 8th happened in Malaysia, it gave hope to Malaysians, we discovered that we as the citizens of this wonderful land have the opportunity to make a difference for the sake of our future. It toke US some 220 year to get the first black President.

In my life i have been blessed to see so many things that only my grandparents would have dreamt of witnessing. I know that our generation have a huge part to play!

If a nation like America can make such a drastic change for the sake of their future, we can too!

Malaysians are a wise bunch, we are often underestimated and treated like we are a bunch of kids in a kindergarten and the leaders were the teachers that tell us things which we are expected to listen too without question. The kids now days question information thrown at them, what else us??

I hope we reach this situation someday in Malaysia where the best person for the job gets it, where every Malaysian is taken care off, Nobody is discriminated and we live in a nation where everyone is respected and where Malaysians can and are proud to be Malaysians.

I have faith that someday we will get there!

As Obama said on the day he declared his candidacy back in Feb 2007 :

“In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.”

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