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I was baffled by the way TM treated an OKU recently.

My friend, Peter has his OKU application filed at TM Point. The TM Point near his place was not OKU friendly and there is no provision of access for OKU! Needless to say those useless bastards who park their cars at OKU designated parking lot, and some of those lame premises who block OKU designated parking by inconvenienced them with getting someone to unlock the barricade to the parking lot.

Much to my dismay, OKU application which supposed to be given a priority was not acted upon. And worst of all, TM Lost the applicant’s documents. They have asked the OKU to go back to their TM Point to resubmit the application again! Poor Pete.

The Corporate Social Responsibility claims of TM on OKU offers are not only OKU friendly! Their first condition has shown that they are not serious in helping the OKU. Making Pete going back twice and maybe the third time is the proof that they are totally oblivion on handling OKU and their special needs.

awhile ago I wrote http://bit.ly/90nTcQ and commented about the numbers of hit on the site. After spending much needed money from the people for the launching, the site is now gone. It seems that the site has come under scrutiny from DPM’s boss and probably the fate of DPM could be questioned following the media release couple of days ago. Let’s see whether the

Dear Salleh of StarbucksMY,

This is the different in Mocha from Singapore and from Malaysia.

1. SGP – when you sip, you can taste a good mix of the coffee and chocolate. MY – You have coffee and chocolate taste almost separate in layers.
2. SGP – Mocha doesn’t have powdery sensation on the tongue. MY – Mocha seems to be powdery or at least the last bit of the chocolate at the bottom.
3. SGP – Sugar level seems to be moderate. MY – Overdose of sweetness kind of kill the enjoyment of the Mocha
4. SGP – Don’t feel thirsty after finishing the drink. MY – Always need to ask Carol for a cup of plain water when I finishes off my Mocha.

Even tough Ipoh Town Cafe uses Milo as their chocolate, The blend of their coffee and the chocolate seems to be better and surprisingly, you can see the powdery Milo but you don’t have the powdery sensation. As for Bing! coffee, Their Mocha has a better blended mix between the Chocolate and Coffee though their coffee was not as aromatic as Starbucks and most of the time, they are too heavy on their sugar which I usually ask to half the sugar level at Bing!

The art of Mocha is in the blend and mix. If it is done right, It will taste right.

I am sure it was not Carol’s fault. she is my fav baritas of all. I have also taken Starbucks Mocha from other branch in Kuching and in JB and KL, all of Malaysian Starbucks’ mocha are alike and differs from Singapore. Your consistency seems to be in place but not the blend.

The other thing is about the price even though I am not really complaining. At Starbucks, the Mocha will set me back RM 15.20, while in Ipoh Town Cafe, its RM 3.20 and in Bing! its RM 8.10 after membership discount. I don’t mind paying RM 15.20 for a cup of Mocha. However, if it is inferior to a RM 3.20 cup from somewhere else, I would think for options. Would be good if Starbucks can give out loyalty discount of sort to regular customers.

I used to have several of the tumblers but was all stolen when my house was buglarised in Dec 2009. Kinda miss them which was brought back from Australia and USA. Tumbler here seems more expensive and lesser of quality as compared to what I used to have. I miss my Starbucks New York tumbler.

Cheers,

http://bernama.com/bernama/v5/news_lite.php?id=472643

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 (Bernama) — Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s official website ‘My-Malaysia-Muhyiddin Yassin untuk Malaysia,’ launched on Saturday, has received over 7,000 visitors as of 11pm Monday.

According to the website, this showed that the people were willing to interact, give views and receive feedback from Muhyiddin who is also Education Minister.

The website which contained social activities, video gallery, speeches and links to major government websites can be accessed via www.my-malaysia.com.my.

– BERNAMA

7000 Visitors? Registered with their info? 7000 hits? 7000 page impression? I have myown blog and my daily hits and page impression exceeded 10k.

What sort of interaction that the Bernama News claimed to have on the site? Maklumbalas? banci? that’s all? What about user commentary? Whoever did this for him does not understand the word “interaction” at all. There is no live chat, there is no responds from the respondant and there is sure enough no Interactiveness on the site.

Speaking as a Web 2.0 Advocate, I do not concur with the media claims of the so called “success” of the web site.

**Disclaimer: This blog is personal comment on personal merit of the writer as Web 2.0 Advocate and is not political in nature. Reader discretion is advised.

I have been taking in Mocha like mad lately. Love them all. Of all the places I went to, I love the mocha from Starbucks the most. The one from Singapore is much better than the syrup from Malaysia. It is supposed to be delicious as what I would reckon. My second choice would be from the local Bing! coffee. However, Today I tried one of the worst Mocha in my life from a Hotelier called Four Points Sheraton in Kuching. This is the first time I tasted the coffee with powdery chocolates. quite a put off. Going to try some other outfit soon.

What started as a show of mixed role he played as the minister for both culture and communications turns out to be a PR nightmare for the Information minister.

For the very start, It is utterly uncomprehensible to have a minister in charge of information and communications to give that kind of comment.

as sighted on wikipedia this morning,

“On 17 January 2010, as Minister of Information, he warned Malaysians to be wary of the Internet as it was introduced by the West, saying “We are not saying they cannot use Facebook or Twitter, but when using such facilities, they must upkeep the values taught by Islam, Buddhism or Christianity to maintain our culture”. Unlike the mainstream media which is tightly controlled by the Malaysian government, the internet and blogosphere has allowed a wide range of criticism against it. ^[4]

In retaliation, Twitter users launched a flurry of tweets marked with a #yorais hashtag ^[5] (a parody of Yo Mamma jokes), pushing the topic at one point into the top three trending topics on Twitter.”

The anti-western comment make him the joke of the day(s). It doesn’t take a PhD to figure out that Twitter is just a communication tools cum website to deliver messages out, that is essentially the revolution of Internet itself whereby twitter and facebook allows the sharing of ideas and knowledge in a duplex way as compare to the simplicity of Web, thereby been dubbed as web 2.0.

Web 1.0 is a tools that the BN took years to adopt, falling behind all the context element of web 2.0 While in web 1.0, information is meant for publication only, the simplex flow of information is what the propagandist would Love to use. However, evolution of technology has caught up with these trend, came the six years old web 2.0 which by now is a matured and proper platform for information disseminations, which sharing of one thoughts has been the trend of the world globally.

I would questioned the assimilation ability of our Information minister, in whether he would understand the evolution of web from simple html page to web 1.0, now web 2.0 and moving forward to Semantic Web. As a minister himself, I would asked him to go back to his old days of dissertations when information disseminations is crucial in determining the content to be added to the dissertations. Being the minister of information himself, he would have better know or be in the know of this web evolutions. Academically, his comment on the value of major religion in Malaysia against the evolution of the web has shown that he is not capable of discerning the irrelevancy of the two thereby asserting the two in contrast in his speech.

As a fellow scholars in fellowship, and an associate professor in fellowship in methodology and change, I would seriously consider the publicity of such act whereby he stepped out of his realm of knowledge. Implicate & diminicise an element of evolution of web in information and communications has shown the lack of understanding in the subject matters, the evolution as we can see it happened all the time.

For example, we are not in the time where a car has 5 wheels a speedometer and a rotary fan, cars now has all sort of gadgetries such as Air-conditioner, DVD Player, LCD TV, powered windows and tinted glass display. To the note of that, there are more than what our eyes can see, if you are using a Kompressor engine, the evolution of the combustion engine brought in by technology advancement, making it more powerful, fuel economical, and still able to work even if you put an armour piercing bullet through it. The evolution of motor oil itself is enough to wow some people. Latest fully synthetic motor oil can be drained totally and still work. The metal bonding and ionising bond technology is what keeping the motor working even if there is total drained of the motor oil.

These information can be obtained form the internet through the web. Most of the latest information are from web 2.0 platform.

It is the same as to the evolution of web. When web started it was only “world wide web” in CERN’s lab. the evolution path from that page until Rais Yatim’s Wikipedia page is a journey of many scholars, technologist, users and the conglomerate of all the knowledge of these peoples including the creator of the article and the users updating it.

*** Disclaimer: This article is an expression of personal opinions and thoughts, Reader discretion is advised.

the news headline sparks off the search and blame on the lost of not one but two jet engines has caused me to think, how can the military/air force be so careless as to misplace and got it stolen two jet engines. These engines are not something that ordinary people would buy. Where has these two engines gone to? was it sold to militants cum terrorist who is gonna use it for some no good reason? or was it merely scrapped into pieces for a few thousand of ringgits in some junk yard or smelter?

Now that our right honourable PM has asked for no cover up, I was wondering who is the eventual scapegoats that will be blamed for the lost of the engine?

I’m building another computer soon right after I can get some $$$ from somewhere. It will have 32 GB RAM (I hoped) and 4 TB Raid array with DVD Backup array (If i can afford another one) don’t remind me the cost of this PC. I will try to make it as cheap as possible. Only problem now is the power pack. I don’t think there is a 3200W power pack available in the market right now.

I hoped it doesn’t kill my wallet with the electricity bill then.

That’s just a dream for now. I still need to recuperate and maybe find a good sponsor for that kind of spec first.

The intended target of this blog is the fellow “saints” of the church.

Many things has happened to me lately. Giving me a new experience of Christ this year. Yes, I still love the Lord. Yes, I still believed in him. However, I have lost faith in the church which my grand-uncle has founded. I have seven misfortunes this year.

1. Flood at my house,
2. Mother was cheated by a con-man
3. Problem at job
4. Problem with Banks
5. Fire which almost made me homeless
6. Hospitalised in ICU
7. Lost all of my important Computer things over night when my house was broken into!

Of all the 7 mishaps, all or most were known by the fellow “saints” in the church. It seems that no one from the church even care about what had happened to me. It seems as if the church has lost its love towards its fellow members. No one pay me a visit, or even close to concern about things here. Not even a single phone call! I was utterly disappointed with the way the “saints” is treating others. To me, now, most of the people from the church is not fit to be called “saints” any more. I felt like this church is mimicking the church in Laodicea without the love of the “saints”. I felt the lukewarmness of the “saints” everywhere doing their parts of being lukewarm. Even an ex-classmate of mine whom I have not met for 18 years cares more than the members of the church.

Even when I was hospitalised for almost a week, no one from the church visited me. I mean if you don’t like me personally, but for Christ sake, don’t you think you should show some of your love towards your fellow brother? Seven mishaps, almost zero care. Even when I was inside the ICU, I heard the news of a fellow church member who has passed away, I was surprised that most if not all of the “saints”, including one who was asked by that fellow member to be her will executor couldn’t even remember her name. Has the church really gone that cold? With all the high peak truth, the church has forego the brotherly love!

Of all these mishaps, I could only thank one brother from the church who extend his help to me recently fixing my windows’ grill on a day notice. The rest of the thanks of mine is towards those “gentile” friends who in this case, is more caring and more loving than the so-called “saints”. Also to David, Terence, Chris, Frankie, Rodger and LiHung, Thanks for caring, brothers and sister. I still care for the church but not to the lukewarmness of the church.

Unless the Lord has lead otherwise, I got the sign from God loud and clear that this church that I was born into is no longer the church of brotherly love. It is now the church of lukewarmness. This is the teaching of the Bible which asked the church of Laodicea to go back to the first love of God. Therefore, I shall not linger and will search beyond the limit of the boundary of this foundry for my Lord’s love and hoped that I can find his blessing soon.

Oh the joy of having nothing, being nothing, seeing nothing.