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My faithful feeling since i reached KL

2010-08-19T02:32:00.003+08:00

Sorry for not writing any since i come to KL for my advanced diploma studies in KL campus. I've to say that the study life in KL was a very big different compare to Kampar. First of the few weeks in KL campus was a big challenge for me since the size of campus is 3 times bigger compare to previous. Without a campus map will really lost in the campus.

Students here i can see a lot of them are really concentrating and hardworking after i observed for the past fourteen weeks. *haha* I've to admit that i am not really adapt myself fully yet in this new environment as well as the course =( Seriously i met a very torturing situation which is keep being taken as a student who knows everything and treated as "GOD" in the class by some "nice" classmates. I really hope to erase my past and start over again in Advanced diploma. I just wish to have my studies here just exactly the same in diploma as i do not under pressure in everything (studies,mid-terms and assignments). Is that guarantee that i will get good result just because of previous diploma achievement? The answer is definitely no and I wish to yell at you all that i am god damn pressure with the acts of you guys. PLEASE I AM JUST SAME AS YOU , DONT TAKE ME LIKE AN ALIEN !

Now i'm in so called study week but actually not because there is still one presentation in this week. Without good assignment teammates my grades for coursework have dropped dramatically. I wish to switch tutorial class so that i can do better and what i want but all these are too late as my desired teammate has form a group with my perak branch campus coursemates already =( Hard to believe that advanced diploma is so busy until you really can't take a deep breath and now only i believe what seniors said how hard advanced diploma was before that. Hope i can overcome all obstacles and pass all the bloody final that approaching in 1 week time.

The new environment of my hostel was not so good for me to study because my study table was in the living room and the opening/closing door sound, roommate's movie/song made me unable to fully concentrate on my revisions. *aiks* no choice because our room was only a place for us to sleep but not others. I am worry for my legal issues paper a.k.a law , i know nothing about this subject and how i am gonna sit for the final exam ? Fail in the midterm and terrible feedback from tutor really killing me and i can foresee that failure in my life. Scholarships will be stopped automatically once i fail one subject during advanced diploma. I do not wish to lost it, i hope that god will sympathize me and bless me for the final exam.

I've to stop writing since is 3a.m. in the midnight and tomorrow is a good day *perhaps*

Voice of the angel - 林育群

2010-04-13T23:24:00.005+08:00

Although he is fat , but dont judge the book with its cover ! He became famous throughout the internet just after the show . The song he sang in the show was Whitney Houston's I will always love you . After i listen to the Whitney version i realize that is this dummy fat boy is better than :D . Incredible and unforgettable voice , enjoy the video .

A busy final semester :x

2010-03-13T12:22:00.002+08:00

Finally i have reached the final destination of my entire diploma life , although it just a 7 weeks short semester , i am not staying there *shaking my legs* and wait it passed . All of us were assigned a mini project about developing an E-learning system for teacher and student use.

I had take a lot of time in preparing the documentation and drafts of this system and i hope can develop a bugless and efficient system smoothly. Looked like i am not gonna go back hometown after this week because it's very time consuming in coding part.

I'm planning to buy a camera so that i can capture and upload related photo to blog so that it won't looked so dull .. haha

Yet not impossible ?

2010-02-25T03:08:00.002+08:00

Yesterday i received a great news from my lecturer - Mr Tham . He told me that he get know of my result during the meeting of examination board . I was totally shocked when he told me i get 4A and 1B .. and even my cgpa was shown ..

But all this need to be verified on monday 1 March .. haha hope Mr Tham is not entertaining me but is real :D

Effort that i put in during my diploma studies will be awarded equally ?

Kuala Lumpur Trip

2010-02-08T19:42:00.011+08:00

I've been looking forward for the KL trip for a long time before the examinations started . But it's worth for the long waiting because the trip is fun and unforgettable . This was a class trip , almost all my classmate participated except few that were expected will not attend .

We depart from Kampar at 6 p.m. and arrived at Kepong sentral around 10p.m. due to the delay of train . However , this does not spoil our extreme holiday mood . After a night at friend's house , we went to Sunway Pyramid . I've to admit travel in KL is very convenience because the public transport enabled you to go anywhere you want in anytime but is time-consuming xD , from KL Sentral to Subang Jaya and reach Sunway Pyramid by mini bus .

*Most common transport we use in the entire trip - KTM

*Waiting for train , no idea why i so happy

*Sunway Pyramid here i come xD

*We were lost and seeking for help in kiosk .. haha

*Main entrance of sunway lagoon

* Water park

*Water park

*Lets have a photo first

*Before going in sunway lagoon

**Speechless** 18sx

*Kfc drumstick getting smaller and smaller ... sob

Mission impossible

2010-01-30T14:19:00.004+08:00

It's not related to any synopsis of the movie , but the target or goal of my studies. However , it might achievable before yesterday but now it might become a mission impossible. I promised myself to enjoy my holiday with extreme holiday mood before the i get know of the result. Rushing back to hometown after last paper , i am too home sick already until can't stay longer to go back home.

Hope that the trip of Sunway Lagoon will be a fun and exciting trip for my fellow course mates.

My feelings in the last long semester

2010-01-13T03:52:00.002+08:00

I'm glad that having my last long semester in TARC , final is around the corner. Don't know why this semester i am not confident as before in handling examinations. In other words, I felt fatique easily and unable to concentrate on my revisions. I hope the schedule planned can be proceed accordingly so that it won't ruined my timetable.

Arghh .. i swear to play hard after this bloody tension exams. Maybe it is a crucial period for me to get my grade among distinction and merit. I felt extra worry and anxious. Finish grudging and is the time for me to continue my studies in lonely hostel.

Thousand Of Tears From My Heart

2009-12-06T05:23:00.003+08:00

My grandma is getting weaker and weaker , she was unable to walk and getting sick . My heart was totally broken when saw the moment she was torturing in sick . She was 86 years old this year and stay with us since i was born . She take care of me at my entire childhood and never grudging for that . I really hope the god will show mercy to my grandma so that she will recovered from sick , I really not willing to see my grandma in suffer , but what can i do ?

Aging can be very fast and horrible , now only i discovered when my grandma getting older obviously after i left my hometown to Kampar for my studies. Treat your elder as sincerely as you can before it's too late , then only you will never regret when they are not around anymore .. I love you , ah ma !

Voice of ALL malaysian !

2009-11-01T18:33:00.002+08:00

I found this video posted by Namewee a.k.a 黄明志 , he was a really brave and dare to speak out his unsatisfactory toward TNB (Tenaga National Berhad) .

There're alot of touching videos

2009-10-17T02:05:00.005+08:00

I just came back from Kampar and went to bed after having dinner , this one hour journey was really torturing . The moment i was in a deep sleep , indians were celebrating Deepavali . Fireworks and firecrackers sounds seemed endless , i've beared with these for half hour and finally i woke up for a bath .

I found this video while fooling around in facebook , this video telling the importance of XIAO “孝" in chinese culture through a scenario .

My mum did ask me will i raise her when i grew up and working in the future , after watching video i feel panic , i must fullfill the promises in the near future ! Please don't ever treat your parents who take of you since you was baby !

Second Last Semester Started

2009-10-14T21:59:00.004+08:00

Finally new semester started , it was my second last semester in Kampar, Perak . The results of my examination has been released , i'm quite satisfied and happy with the results. However , the curse of getting B in maths subjects still exist :( Overall our class did quite well compared to previous semester , my dota teammates all passed ! We're really crazy enough to go cyber cafe for dotA even in exam period , but we did study after relaxing in cyber cafe ! We go for sushi king bonanza after class , all sushi are in RM2 / plate .

DIT dotA team .. going to apply for WCG soon ..

The Bill .

The empty plates .

New semester i gonna learn the new programming language called C# (Pronounced as C sharp) and a funny mathematics called discrete mathematic structures , there are no numbers in this mathematics but only True/False and P,Q,R only . The biggest satisfaction of this sememster is Alex Lee is not gonna teaching us anymore , horray for that . I've to study harder to do well in the final and of course play harder ! :D:D

Awaiting For New Semester

2009-09-27T13:27:00.003+08:00

"Arghh...", i was yelling for the torturing holiday i'm having now . When i was in exam period i was always awaiting for holiday but when the holiday is arrived i will hope for school days .. Nevertheless, this was the behaviour of human ...

During the semester break i went for a movie called 《吓到笑》Where Got Ghost with my coursemates . I rate this movie 7/10 because the movie doesn't really that scary but is quite funny . As usual comedy produced by Jack Neo wouldn't dissapoint me =) but he has to work hard for the scary part ..

I'm waiting for the result of my previous semester which i've put alot of efforts into it , hope i can score well in the exam . By right it will be released on 2 weeks after new semester . The time are flying as i'm enrolling to year 2 of my diploma life , one more long sem and short sem then i can leave kampar this boring place +_+ ..

Depressed Semester

2009-08-17T06:06:00.005+08:00

Really hard to take a deep breath until now , week 12 of the semester . I truly believe that year 2 is alot tougher than year 1 since all subjects are mainly core subjects , but couldn't imagine that tired . 2 more weeks the final is coming and i know that i am not fully equiped to sit for the exam . Below are the 5 subjects that i am going to sit at next 2 weeks =(

AACS2033 Fundamental of Computer Network

AACS2164 Database Development and Applications

AACS2184 Analysis and Design of Information Systems

AACS3174 Windows Application Programming

AAMS2614 Probability and Statistics

I am satisfied with all the lecturer quality except Mr Alex Lee who teach database. Why i say so and i don't feel like to tell again since i am dissapointed with this lecturer . WAP lecturer at the beginning just know to carry on with the lecture notes but not giving us some demonstration on coding to enhance the progress . But at the end he has improved and prepare some codes and distribute to us before the lecture goes on . However , i am still prefer Mr Kelvin Hew's teaching style ( my year 1 first,second,third semester lecturer) . He unable to teach us on this sem since he is holding many classes now .

My worst estimation is database will be fallen , i must aim for WAP,ADIS, Statistics in order to maintain my cgpa . This sem my assignment group members included 2 top students in my class , and they are good to be assignment partners since they have done everything =) I choose to be silent this semester to avoid unneccesary misunderstanding again . Whenever who ask about assignment progress , i will refer them to my assignment members and anything please ask them =) Silence is gold ... peace .. Tomorrow i will be wearing respirator to college since H1N1 virus are spreading everywhere in Kampar since UTAR has certified 2 H1N1 cases . I also worry am i infected since i am having fever and coughing since yesterday ..

Gambateh to all DIT coursemates ! Hope all of us can do well in exam and graduate together ~

Warcraft 1.24 and Beyond

2009-05-26T09:15:00.004+08:00

In the near future there will be important updates to the Warcraft 3 engine. I know there are various communities around the world that still use the 1.20 patch. However, it is important to the development of DotA for players to have the latest Blizzard patches (http://www.blizzard.com/us/patches/). There will always be new security features as well as map development functionality in future patches to provide a better experience for everyone and the game needs to be able to utilize them. This is mainly directed towards the net cafes that have automatic software that prevents changes from being done. Only the net cafes' owners (through the requests of users) can update the locked systems they have in place that prevents new software from being installed. So please make an effort to tell your local net cafes about this so they can be ready.

On a different note; here is a preview of the new recipe shop layout based on the emails I got. The goals are both to make room for the recently added items and more importantly to organize them in a manner that makes correctly guessing where an item is an easy task for both existing and new players alike.

I know none of us like to relearn item layouts, but this is a good thing to do for the long run. Take some time to review it and give me your feedback. Thanks for everyone that has already emailed me their ideas on this.

Touching articles

2009-05-25T19:21:00.005+08:00

1st lie
While childhood, a boy is born in a poverty family. Only little rice will be served during dinner and the boy always in starve . Mother will share her rice with her sons and telling him : son , eat faster and i am not hungry !
2nd lie
Boys are growing up rapidly during growth , Mother will use free time during weekend to go to the river and catch up some fish for her sons to replenish calcium capture . The fish is delicious and the soup is tasty . When the sons are enjoying the fish , Mother will sit beside bite the fish bones . The sons are not willing to see their mother biting the fish bone therefore want to share with their Mother . But Mother will refuse and says " Sons , I dislike to eat fish .
3rd lie
When son is promote to secondary , Mother will go ask for the vacancies of filling matchbox in order to pay the school fees. On fine winter , the boy is awake at night and saw his mother is filling up the matchbox under candle . Therefore the boy ask his Mother to sleep earlier because tomorrow you still have to work early at the morning . Mother smiling and says : Son , go sleep earlier and i am not tired yet .
4th lie
When go to university , Mother is apply for holidays and stand infront at the gate of university to give support to her son . Mother never feel tired although is in summer and storm to the front once the bell rang just to pass the tea that she had prepared at the morning . The son want to share the tea with his mother when saw his mother is sweating and looked thirsty . But his Mother refuse and says : Son , i am not thirsty .
5th lie
Mother is having the responsibilities of father after he pass away . Mother's life is really terrible and working for 20 hours a day to support her sons to go university . The neighbourhood saw and ask why dont you marry a man to share the hardwork with you ? But Mother still sturborn and refuse to marry another man and telling them : I dislike !
6th lie
When son and his brothers sisters are working after graduate , Mother who is retired is earn her life by selling stuff at market . Her sons sends her money but she refuse and reject back the money . The Mother is telling them : I got money ! You save it .
7th lie
After two years the son is working at oversea , he manage to get himself a master degree and work at oversea and the income is great . He want to invite his mother to come over and stay with him but his mother refuse because she is not suitable stay at oversea .
8th lie
At the later years of mother , she is sick badly and stay in the hospital . Her sons who are at oversea want to come back visit her after an operation . The mother is old and being torturing by cancer , the sons are sad and cry loudly . But the Mother is console her sons not to cry because she is not in pain !

Its your pleasure to treat your mother better because you will regret once she is not here .

Malaysia abortion rate is moderate

2009-05-24T23:21:00.005+08:00

According to Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance Malaysia (RRAAM) president saying that every 5 babies there is one abortion baby . But compare to Vietnam , Malaysia abortion rate is much lower because every 3 babies there is one abortion baby case occured . Meanwhile , 46 millions babies worldwide are aborted anually , equilvalent to 1 baby being aborted every 2 seconds .

Countries nearby included Singapore and Vietnam are providing abortion surgery in their country but why Malaysia not ? Because of Malaysia is a Islamic country , abortion is go against Islam belief ? According to research , I just know that there are few government hostipal providing abortion surgery for those victims who has been raped with police report lodged .

Even though there are hospitals providing abortion surgery but they are costly to middle-low income family . They have no choice but only give birth the baby . Baby thrown away cases has been increased day by day in Malaysia . Government should fully enforce the campaign of conception control and include them in the education syallabus .

Hospital should provide abortion surgery with affordable price so that people can choose to undergo abortion incase conception control failed . Many social problems and criminals happen due to parents unable to provide education for their children and let them step into the society without any knowledge breeding .

The storm of 2 Menteri Besar in Perak

2009-05-24T10:52:00.009+08:00

Nizar was the official Menteri Besar in Perak elected through election on 2008 by winning the majority votes over represent of Barisan National . However , 3 members of Opposition have withdrawn respectively and joining Government (Barisan National) . Therefore storm of who is the real Menteri Besar has launched without hesitation . Opponent keep denying Zambry is the new Menteri Besar while Governemnt (BN) saying the opposite .

What Malaysian seen is the fight between Opposition and Government

But behind is all under our Prime Minister and Anwar control , the real war was at behind !

Stay tune and at the big winner is either Opposition or Government but not the people in Perak . Do you think investor will invest in such unstable politics condition ? Then where are the chances of employment ? What will going the next ? Perhaps are criminal , remonstrate or rebellion.

American Idol 2009 winner is cheating ?

2009-05-23T22:23:00.004+08:00

Adam Lambert and Allen was the finalist of American Idol 2009 and the winner is Allen. But according to trusted news leaked saying that Allen is cheating in the competition via voting system. Many internet users are discussing the probability of Allen cheating in the competition . This is because the difference amount of vote between Allen and Adam Lambert during semi-final was 100 million votes. But the gap has been increased to 2 billion at the grand final . The state of Allen's hometown has the population of 3 million while hometown has the population of 40,000 . On the other hand , each Allen hometown friends are voting few hundred or even 1000 times .

You might consider Allen singing skills has melt their heart or Allen is trying to 'buy' votes for himself ? Who knows ? The competition is over while Allen has been announced as the winner of American Idol 2009 .

You RICH You can be ace in your class !

2009-05-22T22:13:00.005+08:00

Have you ever think of paying someone over the internet to help you out with the assignment , coursework or articles ? Student of Fortune are able to provide you such service . Student who are fortune ( rich ) can go for gaming right after the lesson and no need worry about assignments . Just visit this website and write out the question you wanna ask and offer the price you willing to pay for who able to answer your question . StudentOfFortune.com comes with the option of due date of assignment and category of question .. *speechless betul ...

I think this helping student website just want to earn the money of those lazy bump indeed . I don't think so for those student who ask for help in this website by paying will be able to do well in the examination . Perhaps they hire experts from this website to impersonate them in the exam hall ? =x The world is changing now ! The work is sick badly ... How can offer such service to student especially in college/university ? Even they successfully graduate , i don't think they able to solve the problem in their career .. how pathetic a university student unable to compete with others in the future .. I don't suggest student seek help from this website , but for those who wanna earn some partime , you may sign up as tutor . haha .. you can earn some by helping in asnwering question asked by student who visit this website .

Student of Fortune website : http://studentoffortune.com

All about road traffic =p

2009-05-21T18:48:00.002+08:00

A traffic police stopped a girl who is driving kancil and request for her driving license.

Girl : Good afternoon sir, what matter is going on ?
Police : You have violated traffic rules .
Girl : Who told you ?
Police : My eyes told me , show me your driving license please , I am waiting for it .
Girl : You think i am driving without license ?
Police : No, i din't saying that .
Girl : But , how can i show my license to someone i don't know ?
Police : I am traffic police and i deserve to do so.
Girl : But how i know you are traffic police ?
Police : You can't see that i am wearing uniform ?
Girl : This can't prove you that are traffic police. Somemore uniform can be custom made and 10 years ago my friend Lily was involved ... (10 minutes story telling..)
Police : Please stop bullshiting in front of me and i am still waiting for you license .
Girl : I am not try make story here but is fact ! I just want to clarify that uniform can be custom made.
Police : Okay , i can show you my police ID.
Girl : That's great . Ok , so you called Ali bin Mohamad ?
Police : Alib bin Mohamad .
Girl : What ?! Your 'b' is almost can't be seen clearly . Ok , i assume you called Alib bin Mohamad.But you wasn't looked as in the picture of your ID.
Police : I don't know . Perhaps i am wearing a cap now.
Girl : Really ? Take off your cap and let me see see ! And .. stand straight and take off your spectacles . Now looked abit alike , this picture taken long time ago ?
Police : 7 years ago.
Girl : Hmm, you looked quite smart on this picture .
Police : Enough, return my ID please.
Girl : Why you looked so worried ? As long as the ID is genuine , then everything is alright .
Police : But i am busy ! I am on duty !
Girl : Do you thinking that i am damn free ? I need to go market , visit my relative who is sick and fetch my son from school !
Police : Please .. ! Return the ID back to me . You have blocked the traffic behind us !
Girl : Are you grudging on me ?! I am not the person who blocked the traffic but is you !
Police : Okay .. okay ! Assume that i am wrong and please return my ID and drive away your car
Girl : Here is your ID , don't try to make traffic jam again next time !

haha .. 1 word for the girl in that joke : incredible ! Don't know whether this trick work on Malaysia JPJ staff ? Can give a try :D

Kampar (金宝) status has been upgraded to Daerah (县)

2009-05-20T17:32:00.004+08:00

My college was located in Kampar and today Kampar status upgraded to 'Daerah'. Kampar is 123 years old since 1886. Kampar is equiped with university , college, shopping center, government department , shoplots and infrastructures . The ceremony will be held on 21th May by Perak Sultan Azlan Shah. So, kampar is no longer kampung ok .. ? :)

And crazy so called 'mat rempit' today officially change to 'samseng jalanan'. This nick is given by police and fully enforced to catch them up ! So, there is no more 'mat rempit' but only 'samseng jalanan'. haha...life of malaysan....

First Malaysian being placed on the homepage on YOUTUBE !

2009-05-20T13:43:00.008+08:00

Zee Avi is the first malaysian who step to the international top video broadcasting website - Youtube™.
Its not easy to be the bulletin on youtube , and yet Zee Avi has achieved it ! Cheer up malaysian and say to national wide that we are proud to be malaysian !
Zee Avi - Live from and above the Solar Powered Plastic Plant

Proud to be a queen ant !

2009-05-19T20:16:00.003+08:00

After reading some articles about queen ant and i come up with some idea to write a review about queen ant . Queen ant is a female and having the ability of reproducing ant in the colony (world) of ants . She can be said is the mother of all ants in the ant colony . But i tell you something you might find it was funny . Queen ant doesnt really need to mate in order to reproducing offspring but go through asexual . Due to this all of the offspring are female .

Why i am saying as in the title , proud to be queen ant ?
As the founder of ant , in honor of the completion of task of mating after landing from the air to the ground , its four wings are broken and landing on the ground, after that ant will digging a 10mm depth tunnel and reach until underground. Its mission is to build an house for itself and its offspring . To build the kingdom of ant , queen ant has to endure the danger and loneliness. At that moment , its energy is totally come from four wings muscle that broken.Its weight will decrease day by day and laid between the junction of death and reborn.

life is like brief candle .. therefore we must happy everyday =)

2009-05-18T19:43:00.003+08:00

I bet majority of you have been watched "Ip Man" or known as 《叶问》. Aint he was a good fighther ? He earned the most repspect from the local villagers in china and used to be the most famous kung fu master in china . According to the history , Bruce Lee was his follower . However , after you take a look of the picture below you will strongly disagree .. haha XD

Master Yip was telling the japanense general that he want to challenge 10 people according to the "IP man" . But ..

Model snapshot picture with DSLR

2009-05-18T12:27:00.005+08:00

Below are some picture i view on the internet and thinking of sharing in my blog . All these picture are taken by using DSLR camera . Enjoy yourself .

H1N1's FAQ - Know More About H1N1

2009-05-17T19:44:00.008+08:00

猪流感QA 吃猪肉有无关系？

Ｑ：什么是猪流感？
Ａ：猪流感是猪只常见的疾病，近期发现的猪流感主要为H1N1。猪只染禽流感、人流感和猪流感后，病毒株发生基因变异成为新的病毒。

Ｑ：猪流感跟一般流感的差异？
Ａ：单从症状难以分辨，两者都有发烧、咳嗽、喉咙痛、全身酸痛等症状，但猪流感的消化道症状比较明显，会有腹泻症状。

Ｑ：猪流感会不会人传人？
Ａ：会。感染途径与人类流感相同，主要透过咳嗽、打喷嚏飞沫传染。

Ｑ：不接触疑似流感症状患者，就不会染猪流感？
Ａ：是的，但因猪流感患者在发病前一天到发病后七天都有传染力，旁人可能在无症状下遭感染。

Ｑ：如何预防猪流感感染？
Ａ：加强手部及呼吸道卫生，避免接触疑似病患；自美、墨返国旅客，若有发烧、咳嗽、喉咙痛、全身酸痛及腹泻等症状，要尽早就医，并告知旅游史。

Ｑ：防猪流感，打现有流感疫苗有用吗？
Ａ：因病毒株已突变，保护力极有限，提升免疫力、加强手部及呼吸道卫生更重要。

Ｑ：猪流感有没有药可医？
Ａ：猪流感对旧的抗病毒药物已有抗药性，但因对新抗病毒药物（克流感跟瑞乐沙）尚未出现抗药性，目前毋须担心没药可医。

Ｑ：猪流感大规模流行的风险有多高？
Ａ：猪流感病毒有可能与人类流感病毒结合并突变，变成能够轻易在人类间流传的病毒，世界卫生组织声明，猪流感可能爆发全球性传染。

Ｑ：吃猪肉有没有关系？
Ａ：世界卫生组织表示，以摄氏七十度以上温度烹煮猪肉，就能杀死猪流感病毒。

【2009-04-27/联合新闻网】

猪流感与一般流感比较

如何确定猪流感病例？

卫生署在今天将猪流感列为第一类法定传染病，疾病管制局将于下午公布猪流感疾病定义，依据病患的临床症状、流行病学、检验工具以判定病患是否为猪流感病患。

依世界卫生组织最新公布的数据，经疾管局邀集专家讨论后确定猪流感疾病定义：

1.调查病例

当病患出现≧38℃高烧，以及出现急性呼吸道症状(从最轻微的呼吸道症状到最严重的肺炎)，若是病患曾经赴有猪流感的国家旅行，或是曾经与猪流感病患 (或极可能病患)接触，则属于「调查病例」。

2.极可能病例

若病患有A型流感的阳性反应，只要排除是其它的类流感，就属于「极可能病例」。

3.确定病例

只要使用real timePC-PCR血清学检查、病毒培养、病毒抗体检验，发现猪流感

【2009/04/27 联合晚报】

变异病毒 猪流感小档案

猪流感病毒是由H1N1（三倍重组病毒）衍生变异病毒，美国检出的A/H1N1猪流感病毒，是由北美猪流感、北美禽流感、人类流感及欧亚猪流感病毒四个基因片断组成。

H1N1最早在1976年被发现，时间虽比2005年的爆发禽流感H5N1疫情更慢，却比H5N1更早演化为人传人病毒。目前各项药物中，仅对克流感（Tamiflu ）及乐瑞沙（Relenza）两项药物不具抗药性。

6.59d Collided map download - 'bug map'

2009-05-17T19:21:00.004+08:00

Are you recently meet some freaking unbelievable condition when playing dotA ? For example , sand king one stun or phantom assassin dagger then you die ? Don't be shocked , its not 6.59d got bugs ~~ Indeed they're using collided map . Collided map is edited from IceFrog official version by some china players initially .

Commands
When game started , just press [enter] and key in "-haha" (remove the quotation)

I list down those heroes who are 1 hit KO
-sand king (1st skill and ulti)
-kunkka (1st skill)
-doom (1 devour can obtain 20k gold)
-phantom assassin (1st skill)
-lion (1st skill)

and many more .. just discover by yourself .. have fun!

Here you go
http://www.xun6.com/file/53b813b73/DotA+Allstars+v6.59d.w3x.html

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桌球天王 - The King of Snooker

2009-05-17T19:00:00.003+08:00

* Title: 桌球天王
* English title: The King of Snooker
* Broadcast Period: March 2009 to April 2009
* Episode Length: Approximately 45 minutes
* Episodes: 20
* Genre: Modern
* Official Site: TVB.com (Chinese)

Info/節目資料
桌球界戰無不勝的游一橋突然無故隱退，令一心想繼承父親衣缽的女兒游加勤失望之餘也大感不惑，因為她眼看父親表面上扮作不在乎桌球這回事，在自己經營的餐廳內卻設下一席桌球「難局」，等待有心人前來解破。直至一天，一橋遇上對桌球有獨特天份的靳子謙後，即破例收他為徒，並打算將畢生的球技傳授給他，加勤央求父親一視同仁，因此也成了子謙的師姐。

子謙對加勤襄王有夢，但加勤的芳心卻似乎另有所繫，那人正是視其父親為天敵的雷建衝，他為人奸險，求奪標，不但以感情引誘子謙的姨媽兼經理人錢滔滔令子謙與一橋反目成仇，最後更把兩師徒逼上戰檯以一桿定天下..

The all-conquering snooker player Yau Yat Kiu takes everyone by surprise when he suddenly retires from the snooker world. This comes as a huge disappointed to her daughter Yau Ka Kan, who has always wanted to follow in his footsteps. She feels bewildered too, for although Kiu pretends he does not care about the snooker any more, he has set up an extremely difficult game in his restaurant. His purpose cannot be more obvious: he is waiting for someone to solve the game. Kiu comes to know Kan Tsz Him by chance. Noticing his flair for the snooker, Kiu decides to make an exception for Him and teaches him all he knows about the game. Later, Kan manages to persuade her father into taking her in as well.

Him fancies Kan, but she is fond of Lui Kin Chung, Kiu's bitter foe. Chung is a crafty person. In order to win the game, he fools around with Him's aunt Chin To To, who is also Him's manager. Him falls out with Kiu because of Chung. Both master and disciple come to settle their scores on a snooker-table in the end.

Cast/演員
Adam Cheng (鄭少秋)
Niki Chow (周麗淇)
Patrick Tang (鄧健泓)
Joyce Tang (滕麗名)
Derek Kok (郭政鴻)
Benz Hui (許紹雄)
Halina Tam (譚小環)
Ken Wong (王凱韋)
Wilson Tsui (艾威)
Catherine Chau (周家怡)
Suet Nei (雪妮)
Chun Wong (秦煌)
Li Sing Cheung (李成昌)
Oscar Chan (陳坤)
Francois Huynh (黃長發)
Benjamin Yuen (袁偉豪)
Chan Wing Chun (陳榮峻)
Mandy Wong (黃智雯)
Koo Ming Wa (古明華)
Simon Lo (魯文傑)
Peter Pang (彭冠中)
Eric Chung (鍾志光)
Lam Shuk Man (林淑敏)
Micheal Miu (苗僑偉)
Micheal Tao (陶大宇)
Andy Hui (許志安)
http://rapidshare.com/files/233706895/_HDzone_The_King_of_Snooker.torrent.html

[Album][專輯] By2 - Twins (2009年4月10日) VBR/53MB

2009-05-17T18:51:00.002+08:00

專輯名稱：Twins
歌手姓名：By2
製作發行：海蝶
發行日期：2009年04月10日
專輯語言：國語

專輯介紹：

樂壇新焦點青春最無敵
國民美少女 17歲雙胞胎
By2舞動DNA

2 個女孩，同一個星座，相「距」一分鐘，未成年少女團體By2成為新一代的宅男殺手，憑著青澀氣質與實力，大受宅男族喜愛，新專輯尚未發行，網友們已經在網路上自行發起專輯團購活動，創造唱片業的另類宅經濟。
舞動主打歌「DNA」

為了表現出這首相當具爆發力的舞曲，By2特別加強舞蹈的訓練，呈現出「Stomp」舞步的呈現，隨著成長的因素，意外發現By2的舞蹈肢體的表現中，慢慢開始流露出一些性感的曲線！

抒情主打歌「我知道」（電視劇「比賽開始」片尾曲 / LG冰淇淋手機代言曲）
我知道MV特別邀請電視劇「比賽開始」男主角跨刀演出，17歲少女的校園純愛故事情節，By2的姊姊Miko單挑大樑演出，一場真情流露的感情戲，惹人憐惜！

雙語主打「Don’t go away」
白鴿飛翔、陽光折射、少女的祈禱、成長的記憶，「Don’t go away」是By2告別16微笑17首次發表的創作單曲，分別以「國語」及「英語」歌詞分別詮釋不同的情緒，配合By2精湛的芭蕾舞蹈的演出，「Don’t go away」青澀、唯美、少女情懷的氛圍無微不至。
專輯曲目：

01. DNA
02. 我想要
03. 新少女祈禱
04. 我知道
05. 無解呦
06. 無敵帥
07. 什麼什麼
08. 勇敢
09. BYE BYE BYE
10. 快閃
11. Don`t Go Away

http://www.mediafire.com/?hddwtnq3j2q

Stephen Chow - Legend of the comedy

2009-05-17T14:04:00.009+08:00

Stephen Chow Sing-Chi周星馳, born 22 June 1962, is a Hong Kong actor, comedian, screenwriter, film director and producer.

Chow is a well-known, top-tier comedian and superstar of Hong Kong entertainment. This image is epitomized by his nickname 星爺 (Sing Yeh, lit. Grandmaster Sing). However, his brand of mo lei tau comedy, which includes puns, double entendre and jokes at the expense of unique aspects of Chinese culture, meant that few of his earlier films could exercise much impact in the West until his later films, Shaolin Soccer (2001) and Kung Fu Hustle (2004).

Stephen Chow began as a temporary actor for TVB.[1] [2] He entered TVB in early 1980s, and was trained there, although he had few opportunities to appear in films.[1] In 1988 he was invited by director Danny Lee Sau-Yin to appear in a film, for which he won the Golden Horse award for best supporting actor award. After that, TVB gave Stephen Chow an opportunity to act in few TV dramas.

Chow later began to focus his efforts on Hong Kong films. In 1990 he acted in the film All for the Winner, which grossed over 40 million HK dollars. Two years later, Chow acted in all of the five top-grossing films of 1992, including All's Well, Ends Well, Justice, My Foot!, Royal Tramp, Royal Tramp II, and King of Beggars.

In 1999 Chow began directing films, with King of Comedy, a parody of his own early career.In 2001 his film "Shaolin Soccer" (Siu lam juk kau) grossed over 60 million HK dollars [3], the film won Best picture, and Chow won Best Actor and Best Director at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards, receiving a total of seven wins from 2001–2003, including Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Language Film & Golden Bauhinia Best Picture and Best Director.[4] In 2004 he also directed the film Kung Fu Hustle (Kung Fu), which grossed over 60 million HK dollars., winning 18 awards including BAFTA Best Film not in the English Language, five Golden Horse Awards and six Hong Kong Film Awards.[5] These two films were his first works to enjoy widespread success among mainstream Western audiences.

Chow's film CJ7, which began filming in July 2006 in the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo,[6] was rumored to have the biggest budget ever for a Chinese film at the time, costing over 100 million Chinese yuan (US$14 million; €9.5 million).In August 2007 the film was given the title CJ7 ((长江七号)Chang Jiang qi hao), a play on China's successful Shenzhou manned space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6.[7]

On 19 September 2008, it was announced that he will co-star in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's The Green Hornet.[8]

Filmography

bit torrent download speed slow ? try this and will exceed 100kb/s

2009-05-17T12:19:00.000+08:00

** Your eyes doesnt tell lies , i am using 1mb line ! But my speed exceed 100kb/s and reached almost 400kb/s

Xunlei / Thunder 5.8.13.699 No Ads Installer Edition

Summary

Xunlei / Thunder is a feature packed download manager with support for HTTP, FTP, MMS, RTSP, BT, and EMULE. It has multiple resources for Hyper-Threading technology which significantly improve the download speed. Besides, it’s Intelligent Disk Cache technology effectively prolong your Hard Disk’s lifespan from crashing due to the high speed download. Xunlei / Thunder is well known for it’s fake header for HTTP to download torrents via port 80. Therefore, it bypass ISP throttle and maximize the download speed.

Second H5N1 case in PENANG again !!!

2009-05-17T11:17:00.000+08:00

A型流感来袭这回：槟城第2宗

（槟城16日讯）A型（H1N1）流感侵袭槟城！

昨日下午时分，一名女子身体不适，入院抽取样本检验，今早被证实为我国第二名A型流感患者。

目前，除了一名A型流感女患者外，还有1男1女流感疑患，也在医院隔离病房留医。

该女郎目前身在槟城医院接受隔离治疗，情况稳定；她与首个病患属朋友关系，当时一起共乘马航MH091班机回国。

槟城医院保安严谨

记者早上前往医院跟进新闻时，发现槟城医院如临大敌，全面展开严密戒备，安全保安措施非常严谨。

所有在流感隔离病楼各楼层站岗的保安员，都受指示需戴着口罩值班，其他普通病楼的保安则没如此严格。

院方已将B座病楼3楼层的C16病房，用作A型流感的隔离病房。据悉，该处保安措施比其他病房更严密，除了隔离病房大门外有保安驻守，连该楼层升降机处也特别增加保安员，防止探病者不小心走错病房，进入A型流感隔离病房而受到传染。

据知，院方也将紧急急症室旁其中一道平时较少人出入的走廊，暂用作A型流感的隔离通道。

任何流感疑患及病患，都会被安排在该走廊上到隔离病房，避免与其他公众接触，全面戒备。

容易白手起家的前五名星座

2009-05-16T23:44:00.000+08:00

第5名　巨蟹座

　　巨蟹座是一個很喜歡經營，很喜歡想要過好日子的星座，通常會白手起家的原因就是家裏環境太差，在這種情況下，把家中環境提升，就成為巨蟹座往上衝刺的目標，如果是一個家中很富裕的巨蟹座，他就會成為一個生活家，他會繼承家業，但不一定會把家業發揚光大。

第4名　魔羯座

　　魔羯座的人天生就是愛做事，閒不下來，凡事都要自己親力親為，喜歡把東西從無到有的建立起來，把所有的人都照顧的很好，這是魔羯座的願望。

第3名　天秤座
　
　天秤座的人是天生的野心家，很多上升或者是太陽天秤的人好還要更好，例如從中產階級升級到上流社會，只要他認為自己還矮人一截，他就有向上的動力，他永遠都會有一個假想敵，在這種情況下，他白手起家的動力就非常強。

第2名　雙子座

　雙子座的人很容易白手起家，因為雙子座很多都是屬於無依無靠的，沒有人可以靠，凡事都要靠自己，所會在這種情況下他會培養出自己吸收資訊、觀察別人的能力，再加上他天生愛挑戰，平淡無味的生活對他來說一點意義沒有，反而在艱難的環境中挑戰對他來說比較有趣。

第1名　牡羊座

　牡羊座的人屬於夢想型，而且非常的勇敢，什麼都沒有他都敢往前衝，創業所需要的傻勁牡羊座絕對有，而且他不會困在舊有的格局裏，他一定要自己開創新局，他很喜歡從無到有一手建立自己的事業王國。

小弟刚好是双子座，看来我是天生白手起家的了～呵呵=D

Joke of the day =)

2009-05-15T20:28:00.002+08:00

Nuffnang can make you earn money by blogging !

2009-05-15T13:00:00.004+08:00

What advantages do you offer ME, the blogger?

Firstly, there are the monetary gains! We’ll do all the groundwork looking for advertisers and link you in with them. Once an ad is served on your blog, you start making income!
It is our sincere belief that Blogs should be credible and rich sources of information. Correspondingly, we will do our utmost best to ensure the ads served on your Blog match your content and readership as closely as possible. What this means is that your readers will be up to speed with the best deals in the market place!
We are also seeking affiliations with strategic partners like web hosting companies to bring you additional benefits. Stay tuned!
Nuffnang.com has a dedicated “Featured Blogger” column, which will throw the spotlight on a number of Bloggers every month. Will the spotlight be on you next?
Nuffnang as the first Asia Pacific’s blog advertising community always organize fun and exciting events for our bloggers to attend and most of the time, it is entirely free of charge!

How much do I earn?

For CPM campaigns

What you earn depends on the number of Average Unique visitors you received in the week that the ad campaign is built.
You will then be arranged into specific “Blogger bands” that directly correspond to your number of Average Unique visitors.
For each campaign, you will be paid a fixed amount for every ad unit. The amount depends on what your Blogger band is. The higher your Blogger band (i.e. more unique visitors), the higher your earnings.
All information on your blogger band and your earnings can be viewed within your CMS Earnings Page. All information will be updated within 3 working days after the ad campaign is completed.

For CPC campaigns

You earn by the number of unique clicks generated by your unique visitors on the ad unit that is running the CPC campaign.
Your earnings will be credited 3 days after the CPC campaign ends. A CPC campaign ends when it reaches its maximum number of clicks.
Should your blog display a CPC ad but not generate any clicks on the ad unit, no earnings will be accumulated and updated.

For MCPM (Metered CPM) campaigns

Advertisers buy a set of unique visitors from your blog that will be able to see their ads on your blog for a certain number of weeks.
The earnings for your mCPM campaign will be held in Buffered Earnings while the campaign is running till your blog finish serving the number of uniques the advertisers bought from your blog. Once your blog finish serving the number of uniques, the earnings will be credited to your Current Earnings.

When do the ads start running?

Our marketing team is always out on the ground scouring for related advertisers. We are interested not only in making you money but finding you the best match possible!
Before your blog is assigned any CPM ads from advertisers, it will show non paying ads or to minimize ad unit which you’ve selected as your Ads Preference in your Blog Manager with the exception of Show Global CPC Ads where you get paid for the number of clicks by your visitors.

What do the different types of Ads Preference mean and do?

Ads Preference refers to how will you want your Nuffnang ad units to look like before you’re assigned a paid campaign by our advertisers. There are a few options such as Minimize Ads, Show Charity Ads, Show Default Ads, Show Global CPC Ads.
Minimize Ads will minimize your ad units to only show a Nuffnang logo or caption to reduce load time in your blog and our server while waiting for paid campaigns.
Show Charity Ads will enable your ad unit to show non paying ads that seek to promote various humanitarian causes such as adopt a puppy, blood donation or any community project that Nuffnang is working on for that period of time.
Show Default Ads will enable your ad units to show non paying ads that seek to promote the awareness of Nuffnang as the first Asia Pacific’s blog advertising community.
Show Global CPC Ads will enable your ad units to show CPC ads for CPC campaigns that is running by our advertisers’ request. This will enable you to earn while waiting for CPM campaigns by our advertisers. If there are not CPC campaigns ongoing for a particular ad unit, it will be minimized to reduce load time of your blog and our server.

How do I get my money out into my a/c?

As soon as you have earned RM 50, you will be given an option on your earnings page to cash out!
Nuffnang pays its Glitterati bloggers 30 days after their cash out request date every end of the month (60 days for Ordinary). Upon that, the cheque will be sent to the bank for processing and mailed to your registered address. The processing and delivery from the bank’s side will take no longer than 3 weeks.
To minimize wait time to receive your cheques, cashing out at the end of the month would be wise.
Note: Do ensure that mailing address and payee name provided in the registration form is accurate.

What does the code do?

It allows us to serve on a REAL TIME basis, advertisements onto your Blog.
It allows us and yourself to track vital visitor statistics of your Blog.
We have a very strict privacy policy which ensures your privacy is maintained as far as reasonably possible.

How do I place the code?

You may refer to our dedicated tutorial (Which you can find in the “Add Ads” page within the CMS) for advice on how to place the code. Do not fret!
If any doubts remain, do not hesitate to contact us through our Help Desk support!

My Statcounter is not counting! Help!

First thing you need to do is to check whether you have placed the code correctly. Please refer to the dedicated tutorial within the “Add Ads” page for guidance.
Useful tip: Default ads should be visible on your Blog if your code has been placed correctly.
If there is no problem with your ad unit’s code placement, please ensure that your registered blog URL is correct. You may go to your Blog Manager page to refer to your list of registered blogs.
If all is well, and your stats still do not count, kindly contact us via our Help Desk support and our team member will respond to you as soon as possible.

How do I change the URL of my blog?

Login to your account and head to the Blog Manager page.
Under your list of registered blog(s), click on the “Edit” link beside it and you shall be redirected to the Edit Blog page. Type in your new blog address and you may also optionally provide us a reason for the update.
Click on the “Save” button and we’ll do the rest!

How do I remove/add Nuffnang Ads from my blog?

Removing ads:

You can’t. Once you join us you’re with us forever! Ok we’re just kidding.
Just remove the ads from your blog but before you do so, please notify us first at http://www.nuffnang.com.my/help just in case we may have some advertisements due for display on that particular ad unit.
Tell us which ad unit on which blog you are planning to remove and give us 48 hours to respond to your e-mail.
Once you have removed your Nuffnang ad unit codes from your blog, please remove the blog’s address from Blog Manager as well. This is very important to ensure that our system no longer tracks the blog which may affect your Glitterati status.

Adding Nuffnang ad unit:

Step 1: Go to the “Blog Manager” page to register your new blog.
Step 2: Go to the “Add Ads” page, choose the ad unit(s) you wished to place in your new blog and add in the respective ad unit’s code into your blog template.

Will Nuffnang Ads and Google AdSense work together?

Nuffnang Ads do not look like Google Ads, are not contextual and is not formatted in any way to look like Google Ads or search boxes so you should not have a problem with putting on Nuffnang Ads on the same page as Google Adsense. Do refer to the Google Adsense Program Policies for further details.

Do I get paid in RM or USD?

You will get paid in RM. This reduces the trouble of you having to bank-in USD cheques and wait for weeks before you eventually get your money. It also means that the bank won’t have to take a further commission on your ad payments since there is no foreign currency involved.

I have joined Nuffnang for quite some time but have no earnings

Bloggers get paid when they serve paid ads from our advertisers.
There are 2 types of general paid ads from our advertisers, CPC (Cost Per Click) Campaigns and CPM (Cost Per Impression) Campaigns. The MCPM (Metered CPM) is a branch of CPM campaigns.
CPC Campaigns
Launched on advertisers’ request. It will show on all blogs under Nuffnang network which have ‘Show Global CPC Ads’ selected under their Blog Preferences in Blog Manager. CPC Campaigns will only be shown on blogs which are not serving any CPM campaigns at the moment. Bloggers are payed based on the number of unique clicks by their blog’s unique visitors. A CPC Campaign will ceased once it reaches its maximum clicks and commences update to all bloggers’ account whose blogs generated genuine clicks during the campaign. If a blog has served the CPC Campaign ads but did not generate any clicks towards the campaign, no earnings will be updated to the blog owner’s account.
CPM Campaigns
Our Advertisers will choose which blogs they want to advertise on as they pay much higher compared to CPC-type campaign. Their decisions may rely on several factors such as the demographics of your blog readers, the desirability of ad units, membership exclusivity and the availability of ad units. If you’re chosen for one, you’ll either receive an email notification regarding the campaign or find it in your “Buffered Earnings” section under the “Earnings” page.
- As the Advertisers always have a target audience for their campaigns to address to, they will choose blogs with suitable blog readers as their target audience. Should your blog readers fall into that category, rest assure that you’re very likely to be picked by them.
- Desirability of ad placement is crucial in the advertising industry. Our Advertisers have spent a lot of money to design an ad and buy ad space. They want to get their message across to their target audience as effectively as they could. This being said, they will always buy ad spaces which are optimized and desirably placed. Just ensure that your ad units are at their intended place and this factor would be satisfied in the eyes of the advertisers. A Skyscraper ad unit is supposed to be the first element of the sidebar and not anywhere else. The same goes for Leaderboard as the first visible element upon visitor’s entry to the site and Large Rectangle right after your first blog post. Should your blog’s ad units are not located at these placements, it would severely affect the Advertisers’ decision to choose your blog and they might choose other blogs under our network instead with a more subtle ad placement.
- In addition, availability of ad units play important role for our Bloggers to be chosen for campaigns as well. All our Advertisers split their budget evenly across all our 3 ad units, Leaderboard, Skyscraper and Large Rectangle whenever they advertise with us. That being said, the budget would be limited and might not be able to cover that many blogs for a particular ad unit. If your blog have all 3 ad units in it, your chances of being selected for campaigns would be fully maximized.
- Membership exclusivity plays a part in advertisement campaigns as our Advertisers tend to advertise more on Glitterati blogs as it is part of our reward program to our most loyal Bloggers in the region. Ordinary members will still be selected for campaigns but in a lower number compared to Glitterati’s.

I have not been able to paste the Nuffnang codes into my Wordpress/Xanga/Multiply/Livejournal blog.

Free versions of Wordpress.com do not allow the use of Javascripts nor the editing of their template’s HTML. However, hosting your blog by using Wordpress.org’s files on your own domain will allow you to do so if you are able to set the file permission settings through your FTP.

At the moment, Xanga Themes does not support the use of javascript as it prevents the “<>” tag to be inserted when placing a HTML code into their widgets. Only the old “Look & Feel” page allows the user to insert javascript. You may find the Xanga support forum thread about this here
http://help.xanga.com/themes/Default.aspx?g=posts&m=6375

Multiply and Livejournal do not allow 3_rd party advertisements nor the editing of their blog HTML. From our knowledge so far, the blogs that allow you to do this are blogger platforms such as www.blogger.com, the old ‘look and feel’ version of Xanga, full paid versions of Wordpress, Tabulas.com and Diaryland.com.

I am running an ad campaign on my blog, but have no earnings.

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I just received an email that I have been selected for an ad campaign; what do I need to do?

The email that we sent to you is just a notification to inform you that you have been selected for an advertisement campaign. All you need to do is to ensure that our Nuffnang codes in placed in prominent locations on your blog and wait for the campaign to run on the date stated in the email. If your blog has a bad ad placement as is found to drive a very low CTR, advertisers may withdraw the ad from your blog.

5xmom.com has made RM21k from nuffnang and its pay is never delay !

So, do you think you can make money through your blog with Nuffnang? Well, it depends on the quality of your blog, the target audience and traffic. Advertisers in Malaysia are now shifting to blog advertising because the word ‘blog’ is on everyone’s lips. The politicians talk about it, the Government talk about it, every Tom, Dick and Khairy talk about blog. The radio DJs boast they have a blog. The celebrities keep a blog.

So, start working on your blog.
The above is the screenshot of my Nuffnang income. I have made RM21K so far. Remember to declare your Nuffnang income in your income tax. If you are not making any regular income and your Nuffnang income is below RM3K per month, you do not have to bother, I think. But if you already have a regular job and pay income tax every year, you have to declare every sen. Anyway, best you refer to Nuffnang to clarify. I am only depending on what my hubby told me.

So, I have money to go Chinese New Year shopping lor.

Another great drama from TVB 《巾幗梟雄》

2009-05-02T18:22:00.001+08:00

劇名：巾幗梟雄
英名：Rosy Business
前名：妻妾成群、紅粉商人
類型：清裝劇情
片長：25集
演員：鄧萃雯、黎耀祥、吳卓羲、岳華、商天娥、謝雪心、惠英紅、胡定欣、敖嘉年、梁證嘉、徐淑敏

Recently I am chasing this drama , 鄧萃雯 in the movie having the characteristic of smart , beware and well planner . Her acting skills are unbeatable in the series and I am expecting 黎耀祥 performance later in the drama..haha 商天娥 just a plain selfish woman in this series unfortunately Y_Y perhaps is the arrangement of director .. can't wait to finish this drama before i go back kampar

永遠懷念阿叔(林尚義)我地會永遠記得你

2009-04-27T18:33:00.000+08:00

著名足球評述員林尚義逝世，享年 74 歲。

人稱「阿叔」的林尚義，是前香港足球員， 16 歲時，加入香港甲組足球隊東方， 1948 年開始效力傑志，曾奪得聯賽及銀牌賽冠軍。

1960 年他參加過奧運，年輕時有重炮等稱號。

林尚義在球員時代已經兼職擔任足球評述員，掛靴後，先後在港台、商台、亞視以及無綫，擔任足球評述員超過 30 年，球評風格深入民心。

林尚義的太太在 05 年病逝後，他曾決定在同年退休，及後被挽留，林尚義最後在 06 年德國世界盃，主持決賽評述後，宣佈退出電視及電影圈。

林尚義在 95 至 01 年間，亦曾客串多部電影，參演電影數目，多達 90 多部，其中在一部電影中，飾演風趣牧師一角，最為人津津樂道。

张家辉 - 演绎人生的艺人 ( 第26届香港金像奖最佳男主角得主)

2009-04-27T08:24:00.000+08:00

第28届香港电影金像奖昨晚在香港文化中心举行颁奖典礼，张家辉凭借《证人》获得影帝称号，首度称帝的他激动地与妻子关咏荷深情拥吻。

張家輝（1967年12月2日－），祖籍廣東番禺，香港著名藝人。

張家輝在17歲時考入警隊當軍裝警察，5年後想轉做便裝警察，但因一些內部問題，即使年資足夠卻仍被拒絕申請，於是決定離開警隊。兩年後，他在舊同學介紹下加入李修賢的電影公司做幕後的工作。1989年，張家輝在李修賢電影《壯志雄心》演出，開始其演員生涯。

出道以來在超過80套電影及電視劇集的演出中，無論是硬漢、好男人、奸角或是幽默角色，都是張家輝的拿手好戲。張家輝在1994年的電視電影《重案實錄驚天械劫案》中所飾演的狂徒角色時，就向觀眾展示了他的演藝才華。其後，張家輝影、視領域同時發展，拍攝了不少有口皆碑的劇集和電影。擔綱主演劇集《天地豪情》、《妙手仁心》、《金裝四大才子》令張家輝人氣急升，並步入其演藝事業的巔峰，亦令張家輝成為非常受觀眾歡迎的藝員。

張家輝在影壇亦有不俗的成就，在擔綱主演的《賭俠1999》、《賭聖3無名小子》、《賭俠2002》、《中華賭俠》及《賭俠之人定勝天》等一系列電影中，充分展露了其出色的演藝天份，其後的《大事件》、《黑社會》、《黑社會以和為貴》、《黑白道》及《放．逐》，以至近年的《出埃及記》、《保持通話》及《証人》更進一步肯定其精湛的演技。

此外，張家輝在樂壇方面亦有過不俗的成績，於早期曾參與歌唱比賽唱出張學友經典歌曲，亦曾奪得《2000年叱吒樂壇生力軍男歌手金獎》等多個獎項。

張家輝曾多次獲得香港電影金像獎及金紫荊獎頒獎典禮提名，在2006年憑《新醉打金枝》獲得《2006南方盛典最受歡迎粵語喜劇明星》一獎，2007年亦憑《天涯俠醫》獲得《Astro華麗台電視劇大獎2006我的至愛角色》一獎，2009年更憑《証人》裡面精湛的演技榮獲《2008年度香港電影評論學會大獎最佳男演員》以及香港電影金像獎最佳男主角等獎項。

張家輝與同是演員的妻子關詠荷於2003年12月8日在澳洲註冊結婚，女兒Brittany於2006年1月24日出生。

個人資料

姓名：張家輝 Cheung Ka Fai, Nick
語言：粵語、英語、普通話
嗜好：跑步，打拳，睡覺
最喜愛動物：金毛尋回犬，雪撬犬
最喜愛食物：中、日、韓美食
最喜愛顏色：除了紫色外任何顏色
最喜愛季節：秋天
最喜愛音樂：R&B
最喜愛歌手：Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston
最喜歡演員：Gary Oldman, Al Pacino, Christian Slater, Robert De Niro

獎項及提名

2009

《第二十八屆香港電影金像獎》「最佳男主角」

電影：《証人》角色：洪荊

《2008年度香港電影評論學會大獎最佳男演員》

電影：《証人》角色：洪荊

2008

《第八屆華語電影傳媒大獎》「最佳男配角」提名

電影：《出埃及記》角色：關炳文

《第二十七屆香港電影金像獎》「最佳男配角」提名

電影：《出埃及記》角色：關炳文

2007

《明報周刊演藝動力大獎2007》「最突出男演員」提名

電影：《放．逐》角色：和

《第十二屆金紫荊獎頒獎典禮》「最佳男配角」提名

電影：《出埃及記》角色：關炳文

《第二十六屆香港電影金像獎》「最佳男配角」提名

電影：《黑社會以和為貴》角色：飛機

《Astro華麗台電視劇大獎2006我的至愛角色》

劇集：《天涯俠醫》角色：王甫芬

《2006年度第十三屆香港電影評論學會大獎》「最佳男演員」提名

電影：《黑白道》角色：單海生

2006

《2006南方盛典最受歡迎粵語喜劇明星》

劇集：《新醉打金枝》角色：郭曖

《第十一屆金紫荊獎頒獎典禮》「最佳男配角」提名

電影：《黑社會以和為貴》角色：飛機

2001

《第六屆金紫荊獎頒獎典禮》「最佳男配角」提名

電影：《救薑刑警》角色：輝

2000

《壹傳媒2000壹電視大獎第十位》
《2000年第二十三屆十大中文金曲最有前途新人獎銅獎》
《2000年度十大勁歌金曲最度歡迎男新人銅獎》
《2000年叱吒樂壇生力軍男歌手金獎》
《TVB萬千星輝賀台慶2000本年度我最喜愛的電視角色》

劇集：《金裝四大才子》角色：唐伯虎

1999

《香港電台影迷至愛大賞十大影迷至愛》
《壹傳媒2000壹電視大獎第四位》
《TVB周刊十大至愛封面人物》
《快周刊千禧快上位之星》
《香港電台最合襯情侶亞軍》
《第十八屆香港電影金像獎》「最佳男配角」提名

電影：《賭俠1999》角色：化骨龍

《商業電台1999人氣高星預選》
《第十屆Cash流行曲創作比賽季軍》

演唱：《過去現在與將來》

1998

《商業電台1998人氣高星預選》
《TVB萬千星輝賀台慶1998熒幕大躍進獎（戲劇組）》
《壹傳媒1998壹電視大獎第二位》

张家辉's blog : http://blog.sina.com.cn/zhangjiahui

Achievement of 7 weeks holiday in kampar

2009-04-20T18:53:00.000+08:00

yeah .. sem 3 ends here ..
lets me summarize what i did in the previous 7 weeks in kampar :
1- dota ladder in gg level 19 win 190+ lose 40+ dc 10+ yeah hahaha
2- used to know how to make a simple pirated kfc website ( credit to ah huat =x)

i also wish to add something in .. but i couldn't find anything that worth to write arghh

incoming 5 weeks holiday in ipoh again .. walao life is so meaningless and dull

time is passing as eye blinking .. 1 year in kampar already =.= all happened just like on yesterday
cant believe how i was able struggling during the boring time after class .. but its good .. it significance that i will leave peaceful kampar soon

bye year 1 .. year 2 here i come

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Key

2009-04-18T11:15:00.003+08:00

23 May 2009 updated

MD5: 1545BA5F75442FBE33856FC536827EFA

I'll update this post whenever the key is blacklisted .. leave your footstep if you feel this key is useable thx

Arghh .. short sem kills me

2009-03-08T07:28:00.000+08:00

Now only i found that short semester isn't funny and intersting .. it was boring , nothing can expected to gain from short sem .. everyday only go average 2-3 hours class only while staying at hostel for the rest of time .. only can play dota in garena to fullfill my time

haha .. nowadays i always ask my coursemates to come out for left 4 dead or dota .. is damn 'challenging ' play with some 'wanted' players in cyber cafe .. the feeling is just like playing roller coaster without wearing the safety belt .. haha abit over describing but really no much difference =x Enjoying myself playing dota with them haha .. full of joy of course ~

Really don't know what to do in hostel so i ran back to hometown and have a small stay at hometown when weekend .. perhaps incoming assignments will cure the boringness of all sem 3 students ..

Suddenly flash back the moment i come tar college .. it was just like yesterday .. time flies away as eye blinking .. from strangers we become good buddies who can yumcha and dota together .. still can't forget the moment i still without new friends in college .. i go to lab to play those mini game or surfing internet while waiting for the next class .. without friends life is really dull .. but fiends will never accompany beside you forever and you've to independent and not rely on them so much ya ^^

Announcement of result and Genting photos

2009-03-04T03:17:00.000+08:00

hehe .. college semester 3 just started yesterday .. this sem i only need to take 2 subjects
my college result released and i satisfied with it ~ just reliased that i am damn serious when exam period from the conversation of housemates .. hahax

Upload some genting photos as promised in previous post ..

Examination result will be released soon .. ~!

2009-02-26T22:26:00.001+08:00

omg .. result will be released 1 day right after the 3rd semester starts ..
haha .. hope this time can pass with moderate result then i am satisfied ..

but pahang branch and others branch is much earlier than perak branch .. they 24th Feb already get know about their result .. but mine need to wait until 3 march ... sob sob

at here i wishing all coursemates pass their s

★ blink *

★☆★☆★學警狙擊★☆★☆★

2009-02-26T21:56:00.000+08:00

[劇名]:學警狙擊E.U. (Emergency Unit)
[類型]:時裝警匪劇
[集數]: 30集t

[主演]:苗僑偉、周海媚、吳卓羲、陳鍵鋒、謝天華、江若琳、梁嘉琪、林嘉華

Hereby sharing the latest TVB movie with you all , 《學警狙擊》 is after 《学警雄心》and《学警出更》.. all policemen in the series now are being sent to different departments .. they are graduated !!

All TVB fans who like this series can purchase the Astro On Demand package for only RM39.90 .. haha

How To Make Money by Blogging ?

2009-02-17T13:55:00.001+08:00

StevePavlina.com was launched on Oct 1st, 2004. By April 2005 it was averaging $4.12/day in income. Now it brings in over ~~$200/day~~ $1000/day (updated as of 10/29/06). I didn’t spend a dime on marketing or promotion. In fact, I started this site with just $9 to register the domain name, and everything was bootstrapped from there. Would you like to know how I did it?

This article is seriously long (over 7300 words), but you’re sure to get your money’s worth (hehehe). I’ll even share some specifics. If you don’t have time to read it now, feel free to bookmark it or print it out for later.

Do you actually want to monetize your blog?

Some people have strong personal feelings with respect to making money from their blogs. If you think commercializing your blog is evil, immoral, unethical, uncool, lame, greedy, obnoxious, or anything along those lines, then don’t commercialize it.

If you have mixed feelings about monetizing your blog, then sort out those feelings first. If you think monetizing your site is wonderful, fine. If you think it’s evil, fine. But make up your mind before you seriously consider starting down this path. If you want to succeed, you must be congruent. Generating income from your blog is challenging enough — you don’t want to be dealing with self-sabotage at the same time. It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog — you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it. If, however, you find yourself full of doubts over whether this is the right path for you, you might find this article helpful: How Selfish Are You? It’s about balancing your needs with the needs of others.

If you do decide to generate income from your blog, then don’t be shy about it. If you’re going to put up ads, then really put up ads. Don’t just stick a puny little ad square in a remote corner somewhere. If you’re going to request donations, then really request donations. Don’t put up a barely visible “Donate” link and pray for the best. If you’re going to sell products, then really sell them. Create or acquire the best quality products you can, and give your visitors compelling reasons to buy. If you’re going to do this, then fully commit to it. Don’t take a half-assed approach. Either be full-assed or no-assed.

You can reasonably expect that when you begin commercializing a free site, some people will complain, depending on how you do it. I launched this site in October 2004, and I began putting Google Adsense ads on the site in February 2005. There were some complaints, but I expected that — it was really no big deal. Less than 1 in 5,000 visitors actually sent me negative feedback. Most people who sent feedback were surprisingly supportive. Most of the complaints died off within a few weeks, and the site began generating income almost immediately, although it was pretty low — a whopping $53 the first month. If you’d like to see some month-by-month specifics, I posted my 2005 Adsense revenue figures earlier this year. Adsense is still my single best source of revenue for this site, although it’s certainly not my only source. More on that later…

Can you make a decent income online?

Yes, absolutely. At the very least, a high five-figure annual income is certainly an attainable goal for an individual working full-time from home. I’m making a healthy income from StevePavlina.com, and the site is only 19 months old… barely a toddler. If you have a day job, it will take longer to generate a livable income, but it can still be done part-time if you’re willing to devote a lot of your spare time to it. I’ve always done it full-time.

Can most people do it?

No, they can’t. I hope it doesn’t shock you to see a personal development web site use the dreaded C-word. But I happen to agree with those who say that 99% of people who try to generate serious income from their blogs will fail. The tagline for this site is “Personal Development for Smart People.” And unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your outlook), smart people are a minority on this planet. So while most people can’t make a living this way, I would say that most smart people can. How do you know whether or not you qualify as smart? Here’s a good rule of thumb: If you have to ask the question, you aren’t.

If that last paragraph doesn’t flood my inbox with flames, I don’t know what will. OK, actually I do.

This kind of 99-1 ratio isn’t unique to blogging though. You’ll see it in any field with relatively low barriers to entry. What percentage of wannabe actors, musicians, or athletes ever make enough money from their passions to support themselves? It doesn’t take much effort to start a blog these days — almost anyone can do it. Talent counts for something, and the talent that matters in blogging is intelligence. But that just gets you in the door. You need to specifically apply your intelligence to one particular talent. And the best words I can think of to describe that particular talent are: web savvy.

If you are very web savvy, or if you can learn to become very web savvy, then you have an excellent shot of making enough money from your blog to cover all your living expenses… and then some. But if becoming truly web savvy is more than your gray matter can handle, then I’ll offer this advice: Don’t quit your day job.

Web savvy

What do I mean by web savvy? You don’t need to be a programmer, but you need a decent functional understanding of a variety of web technologies. What technologies are “key” will depend on the nature of your blog and your means of monetization. But generally speaking I’d list these elements as significant:

blog publishing software
HTML/CSS
blog comments (and comment spam)
RSS/syndication
feed aggregators
pings
trackbacks
full vs. partial feeds
blog carnivals (for kick-starting your blog’s traffic)
search engines
search engine optimization (SEO)
page rank
social bookmarking
tagging
contextual advertising
affiliate programs
traffic statistics
email

Optional: podcasting, instant messaging, PHP or other web scripting languages.

I’m sure I missed a few due to familiarity blindness. If scanning such a list makes your head spin, I wouldn’t recommend trying to make a full-time living from blogging just yet. Certainly you can still blog, but you’ll be at a serious disadvantage compared to someone who’s more web savvy, so don’t expect to achieve stellar results until you expand your knowledge base.

If you want to sell downloadable products such as ebooks, then you can add e-commerce, SSL, digital delivery, fraud prevention, and online databases to the list. Again, you don’t need to be a programmer; you just need a basic understanding of these technologies. Even if you hire someone else to handle the low-level implementation, it’s important to know what you’re getting into. You need to be able to trust your strategic decisions, and you won’t be able to do that if you’re a General who doesn’t know what a gun is.

A lack of understanding is a major cause of failure in the realm of online income generation. For example, if you’re clueless about search engine optimization (SEO), you’ll probably cripple your search engine rankings compared to someone who understands SEO well. But you can’t consider each technology in isolation. You need to understand the connections and trade-offs between them. Monetizing a blog is a balancing act. You may need to balance the needs of yourself, your visitors, search engines, those who link to you, social bookmarking sites, advertisers, affiliate programs, and others. Seemingly minor decisions like what to title a web page are significant. In coming up with the title of this article, I have to take all of these potential viewers into consideration. I want a title that is attractive to human visitors, drives reasonable search engine traffic, yields relevant contextual ads, fits the theme of the site, and encourages linking and social bookmarking. And most importantly I want each article to provide genuine value to my visitors. I do my best to create titles for my articles that balance these various needs. Often that means abandoning cutesy or clever titles in favor of direct and comprehensible ones. It’s little skills like these that help drive sustainable traffic growth month after month. Missing out on just this one skill is enough to cripple your traffic. And there are dozens of these types of skills that require web savvy to understand, respect, and apply.

This sort of knowledge is what separates the 1% from the 99%. Both groups may work just as hard, but the 1% is getting much better results for their efforts. It normally doesn’t take me more than 60 seconds to title an article, but a lot of experience goes into those 60 seconds. You really just have to learn these ideas once; after that you can apply them routinely.

Whenever you come across a significant web technology you don’t understand, look it up on Google or Wikipedia, and dive into it long enough to acquire a basic understanding of it. To make money from blogging it’s important to be something of a jack of all trades. Maybe you’ve heard the expression, “A jack of all trades is a master of none.” That may be true, but you don’t need to master any of these technologies — you just have to be good enough to use them. It’s the difference between being able to drive a car vs. becoming an auto mechanic. Strive to achieve functional knowledge, and then move on to something else. Even though I’m an experienced programmer, I don’t know how many web technologies actually work. I don’t really care. I can still use them to generate results. In the time it would take me to fully understand one new technology, I can achieve sufficient functional knowledge to apply several of them.

Thriving on change

Your greatest risk isn’t that you’ll make mistakes that will cost you. Your greatest risk is that you’ll miss opportunities. You need an entrepreneurial mindset, not an employee mindset. Don’t be too concerned with the risk of loss — be more concerned with the risk of missed gains. It’s what you don’t know and what you don’t do that will hurt you the worst. Blogging is cheap. Your expenses and financial risk should be minimal. Your real concern should be missing opportunities that would have made you money very easily. You need to develop antennae that can listen out for new opportunities. I highly recommend subscribing to Darren Rowse’s Problogger blog — Darren is great at uncovering new income-generating opportunities for bloggers.

The blogosphere changes rapidly, and change creates opportunity. It takes some brains to decipher these opportunities and to take advantage of them before they disappear. If you hesitate to capitalize on something new and exciting, you may simply miss out. Many opportunities are temporary. And every day you don’t implement them, you’re losing money you could have earned. And you’re also missing opportunities to build traffic, grow your audience, and benefit more people.

I used to get annoyed by the rapid rate of change of web technologies. It’s even more rapid than what I saw when I worked in the computer gaming industry. And the rate of change is accelerating. Almost every week now I learn about some fascinating new web service or idea that could potentially lead to big changes down the road. Making sense of them is a full-time job in itself. But I learned to love this insane pace. If I’m confused then everyone else is probably confused too. And people who only do this part-time will be very confused. If they aren’t confused, then they aren’t keeping up. So if I can be just a little bit faster and understand these technologies just a little bit sooner, then I can capitalize on some serious opportunities before the barriers to entry become too high. Even though confusion is uncomfortable, it’s really a good thing for a web entrepreneur. This is what creates the space for a college student to earn $1,000,000 online in just a few months with a clever idea. Remember this isn’t a zero-sum game. Don’t let someone else’s success make you feel diminished or jealous. Let it inspire you instead.

What’s your overall income-generation strategy?

I don’t want to insult anyone, but most people are utterly clueless when it comes to generating income from their blogs. They slap things together haphazardly with no rhyme or reason and hope to generate lots of money. While I’m a strong advocate of the ready-fire-aim approach, that strategy does require that you eventually aim. Ready-fire-fire-fire-fire will just create a mess.

Take a moment to articulate a basic income-generating strategy for your site. If you aren’t good at strategy, then just come up with a general philosophy for how you’re going to generate income. You don’t need a full business plan, just a description of how you plan to get from $0 per month to whatever your income goal is. An initial target goal I used when I first started this site was $3000 per month. It’s a somewhat arbitrary figure, but I knew if I could reach $3000 per month, I could certainly push it higher, and $3000 is enough income that it’s going to make a meaningful difference in my finances. I reached that level 15 months after launching the site (in December 2005). And since then it’s continued to increase nicely. Blogging income is actually quite easy to maintain. It’s a lot more secure than a regular job. No one can fire me, and if one source of income dries up, I can always add new ones. We’ll address multiple streams of income soon…

Are you going to generate income from advertising, affiliate commissions, product sales, donations, or something else? Maybe you want a combination of these things. However you decide to generate income, put your basic strategy down in writing. I took 15 minutes to create a half-page summary of my monetization strategy. I only update it about once a year and review it once a month. This isn’t difficult, but it helps me stay focused on where I’m headed. It also allows me to say no to opportunities that are inconsistent with my plan.

Refer to your monetization strategy (or philosophy) when you need to make design decisions for your web site. Although you may have multiple streams of income, decide which type of income will be your primary source, and design your site around that. Do you need to funnel people towards an order form, or will you place ads all over the site? Different monetization strategies suggest different design approaches. Think about what specific action you want your visitors to eventually take that will generate income for you, and design your site accordingly.

When devising your income strategy, feel free to cheat. Don’t re-invent the wheel. Copy someone else’s strategy that you’re convinced would work for you too. Do NOT copy anyone’s content or site layout (that’s copyright infringement), but take note of how they’re making money. I decided to monetize this site with advertising and affiliate income after researching how various successful bloggers generated income. Later I added donations as well. This is an effective combo.

Traffic, traffic, traffic

Assuming you feel qualified to take on the challenge of generating income from blogging (and I haven’t scared you away yet), the three most important things you need to monetize your blog are traffic, traffic, and traffic.

Just to throw out some figures, last month (April 2006), this site received over 1.1 million visitors and over 2.4 million page views. That’s almost triple what it was just six months ago.

Why is traffic so important? Because for most methods of online income generation, your income is a function of traffic. If you double your traffic, you’ll probably double your income (assuming your visitor demographics remain fairly consistent). You can screw almost everything else up, but if you can generate serious traffic, it’s really hard to fail. With sufficient traffic the realistic worst case is that you’ll eventually be able to monetize your web site via trial and error (as long as you keep those visitors coming).

When I first launched this blog, I knew that traffic building was going to be my biggest challenge. All of my plans hinged on my ability to build traffic. If I couldn’t build traffic, it was going to be very difficult to succeed. So I didn’t even try to monetize my site for the first several months. I just focused on traffic building. Even after 19 months, traffic building is still the most important part of my monetization plan. For my current traffic levels, I know I’m undermonetizing my site, but that’s OK. Right now it’s more important to me to keep growing the site, and I’m optimizing the income generation as I go along.

Traffic is the primary fuel of online income generation. More visitors means more ad clicks, more product sales, more affiliate sales, more donations, more consulting leads, and more of whatever else that generates income for you. And it also means you’re helping more and more people.

With respect to traffic, you should know that in many respects, the rich do get richer. High traffic leads to even more traffic-building opportunities that just aren’t accessible for low-traffic sites. On average at least 20 bloggers add new links to my site every day, my articles can easily surge to the top of social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, and I’m getting more frequent requests for radio interviews. Earlier this year I was featured in USA Today and in Self Magazine, which collectively have millions of readers. Journalists are finding me by doing Google searches on topics I’ve written about. These opportunities were not available to me when I was first starting out. Popular sites have a serious advantage. The more traffic you have, the more you can attract.

If you’re intelligent and web savvy, you should also be able to eventually build a high-traffic web site. And you’ll be able to leverage that traffic to build even more traffic.

How to build traffic

Now if traffic is so crucial, how do you build it up to significant levels if you’re starting from rock bottom?

I’ve already written a lengthy article on this topic, so I’ll refer you there: How to Build a High Traffic Web Site (or Blog). If you don’t have time to read it now, feel free to bookmark it or print it out for later. That article covers my general philosophy of traffic-building, which centers on creating content that provides genuine value to your visitors. No games or gimmicks.

There is one other important traffic-building tip I’ll provide here though.

Blog Carnivals. Take full advantage of blog carnivals when you’re just starting out (click the previous link and read the FAQ there to learn what carnivals are if you don’t already know). Periodically submit your best blog posts to the appropriate carnivals for your niche. Carnivals are easy ways to get links and traffic, and best of all, they’re free. Submitting only takes minutes if you use a multi-carnvival submission form. Do NOT spam the carnivals with irrelevant material — only submit to the carnivals that are a match for your content.

In my early traffic-building days, I’d do carnivals submissions once a week, and it helped a great deal in going from nothing to about 50,000 visitors per month. You still have to produce great content, but carnivals give you a free shot at marketing your unknown blog. Free marketing is precisely the kind of opportunity you don’t want to miss. Carnivals are like an open-mic night at a comedy club — they give amateurs a chance to show off their stuff. I still submit to certain carnivals every once in a while, but now my traffic is so high that relatively speaking, they don’t make much difference anymore. Just to increase my traffic by 1% in a month, I need 11,000 new visitors, and even the best carnivals don’t push that much traffic. But you can pick up dozens or even hundreds of new subscribers from each round of carnival submissions, so it’s a great place to start. Plus it’s very easy.

If your traffic isn’t growing month after month, does it mean you’re doing something wrong? Most likely you aren’t doing enough things right. Again, making mistakes is not the issue. Missing opportunities is.

Will putting ads on your site hurt your traffic?

Here’s a common fear I hear from people who are considering monetizing their web sites:

Putting ads on my site will cripple my traffic. The ads will drive people away, and they’ll never come back.

Well, in my experience this is absolutely, positively, and otherwise completely and totally… FALSE. It’s just not true. Guess what happened to my traffic when I put ads on my site. Nothing. Guess what happened to my traffic when I put up more ads and donation links. Nothing. I could detect no net effect on my traffic whatsoever. Traffic continued increasing at the same rate it did before there were ads on my site. In fact, it might have even helped me a little, since some bloggers actually linked to my site just to point out that they didn’t like my ad layout. I’ll leave it up to you to form your own theories about this. It’s probably because there’s so much advertising online already that even though some people will complain when a free site puts up ads, if they value the content, they’ll still come back, regardless of what they say publicly.

Most mature people understand it’s reasonable for a blogger to earn income from his/her work. I think I’m lucky in that my audience tends to be very mature — immature people generally aren’t interested in personal development. To create an article like this takes serious effort, not to mention the hard-earned experience that’s required to write it. This article alone took me over 15 hours of writing and editing. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to earn an income from such work. If you get no value from it, you don’t pay anything. What could be more fair than that? The more income this blog generates, the more I can put into it. For example, I used some of the income to buy podcasting equipment and added a podcast to the site. I’ve recorded 13 episodes so far. The podcasts are all ad-free. I’m also planning to add some additional services to this site in the years ahead. More income = better service.

At the time of this writing, my site is very ad-heavy. Some people point this out to me as if I’m not aware of it: “You know, Steve. Your web site seems to contain an awful lot of ads.” Of course I’m aware of it. I’m the one who put the ads there. There’s a reason I have this configuration of ads. They’re effective! People keep clicking on them. If they weren’t effective, I’d remove them right away and try something else.

I do avoid putting up ads that I personally find annoying when I see them on other sites, including pop-ups and interstitials (stuff that flies across your screen). Even though they’d make me more money, in my opinion they degrade the visitor experience too much.

I also provide two ad-free outlets, so if you really don’t like ads, you can actually read my content without ads. First, I provide a full-text RSS feed, and at least for now it’s ad-free. I do, however, include a donation request in the bottom of my feeds.

If you want to see some actual traffic data, take a look at the 2005 traffic growth chart. I first put ads on the site in February 2005, and although the chart doesn’t cover pre-February traffic growth, the growth rate was very similar before then. For an independent source, you can also look at my traffic chart on Alexa. You can select different Range options to go further back in time.

Multiple streams of income

You don’t need to put all your eggs in one basket. Think multiple streams of income. On this site I actually have six different streams of income. Can you count them all? Here’s a list:

Google Adsense ads (pay per click and pay per impression advertising)
Donations (via PayPal or snail mail — yes, some people do mail a check)
Text Link Ads (sold for a fixed amount per month)
Chitika eMiniMalls ads (pay per click)
Affiliate programs like Amazon and LinkShare (commission on products sold, mostly books)
Advertising sold to individual advertisers (three-month campaigns or longer)

Note: If you’re reading this article a while after its original publication date, then this list is likely to change. I frequently experiment with different streams.

Adsense is my biggest single source of income, but some of the others do pretty well too. Every stream generates more than $100/month.

My second biggest income stream is actually donations. My average donation is about $10, and I’ve received a number of $100 donations too. It only took me about an hour to set this up via PayPal. So even if your content is free like mine, give your visitors a means to voluntarily contribute if they wish. It’s win-win. I’m very grateful for the visitor support. It’s a nice form of feedback too, since I notice that certain articles produced a surge in donations — this tells me I’m hitting the mark and giving people genuine value.

These aren’t my only streams of income though. I’ve been earning income online since 1995. With my computer games business, I have direct sales, royalty income, some advertising income, affiliate income, and donations (from the free articles). And if you throw in my wife’s streams of income, it gets really ridiculous: advertising, direct book sales, book sales through distributors, web consulting, affiliate income, more Adsense income, and probably a few sources I forgot. Suffice it to say we receive a lot of paychecks. Some of them are small, but they add up. It’s also extremely low risk — if one source of income dries up, we just expand existing sources or create new ones. I encourage you to think of your blog as a potential outlet for multiple streams of income too.

Automated income

With the exception of #6, all of these income sources are fully automated. I don’t have to do anything to maintain them except deposit checks, and in most cases I don’t even have to do that because the money is automatically deposited to my bank account.

I love automated income. With this blog I currently have no sales, no employees, no products, no inventory, no credit card processing, no fraud, and no customers. And yet I’m still able to generate a reasonable (and growing) income.

Why get a regular job and trade your time for money when you can let technology do all that work for you? Imagine how it would feel to wake up each morning, go to your computer, and check how much money you made while you were sleeping. It’s a really nice situation to be in.

Blogging software and hardware

I use WordPress for this blog, and I highly recommend it. Wordpress has lots of features and a solid interface. And you can’t beat its price — free.

The rest of this site is custom-coded HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL. I’m a programmer, so I coded it all myself. I could have just as easily used an existing template, but I wanted a simple straightforward design for this site, and I wanted the look of the blog to match the rest of the site. Plus I use PHP and MySQL to do some creative things outside the blog, like the Million Dollar Experiment.

I don’t recommend using a hosted service like Blogger if you want to seriously monetize your blog. You don’t get enough control. If you don’t have your own URL, you’re tying yourself to a service you don’t own and building up someone else’s asset. You want to build page rank and links for your own URL, not someone else’s. Plus you want sufficient control over the layout and design of your site, so you can jump on any opportunities that require low-level changes. If you use a hosted blog, you’re at the mercy of the hosting service, and that puts the future of any income streams you create with them at risk. It’s a bit more work up front to self-host, but it’s less risky in the long run.

Web hosting is cheap, and there are plenty of good hosts to choose from. I recommend Pair.com for a starter hosting account. They aren’t the cheapest, but they’re very reliable and have decent support. I know many online businesses that host with them, and my wife refers most of her clients there.

As your traffic grows you may need to upgrade to a dedicated server or a virtual private server (VPS). This web site is hosted by ServInt. I’ve hosted this site with them since day one, and they’ve been a truly awesome host. What I like most about them is that they have a smooth upgrade path as my traffic keeps growing. I’ve gone through several upgrades with them already, and all have been seamless. The nice thing about having your own server is that you can put as many sites on it as the server can handle. I have several sites running on my server, and it doesn’t cost me any additional hosting fees to add another site.

Comments or no comments

When I began this blog, I started out with comments enabled. As traffic grew, so did the level of commenting. Some days there were more than 100 comments. I noticed I was spending more and more time managing comments, and I began to question whether it was worth the effort. It became clear that with continued traffic growth, I was going to have to change my approach or die in comment hell. The personal development topics I write about can easily generate lots of questions and discussion. Just imagine how many follow-up questions an article like this could generate. With tens of thousands of readers, it would be insane. Also, nuking comment spam was chewing up more and more of my time as well.

But after looking through my stats, I soon realized that only a tiny fraction of visitors ever look at comments at all, and an even smaller fraction ever post a comment (well below 1% of total visitors). That made my decision a lot easier, and in October 2005, I turned blog comments off. In retrospect that was one of my best decisions. I wish I had done it sooner.

If you’d like to read the full details of how I came to this decision, I’ve written about it previously: Blog Comments and More on Blog Comments.

Do you need comments to build traffic? Obviously not. Just like when I put up ads, I saw no decline in traffic when I turned off comments. In fact, I think it actually helped me. Although I turned off comments, I kept trackbacks enabled, so I started getting more trackbacks. If people wanted to publicly comment on something I’d written, they had to do so on their own blogs and post a link. So turning off comments didn’t kill the discussion — it just took it off site. The volume of trackbacks is far more reasonable, and I can easily keep up with it. I even pop onto other people’s sites and post comments now and then, but I don’t feel obligated to participate because the discussion isn’t on my own site.

I realize people have very strong feelings about blog comments and community building. Many people hold the opinion that a blog without comments just isn’t a blog. Personally I think that’s utter nonsense — the data just doesn’t support it. The vast majority of blog readers neither read nor post comments. Only a very tiny and very vocal group even care about comments. Some bloggers say that having comments helps build traffic, but I saw no evidence of that. In fact, I think it’s just the opposite. Managing comments detracts from writing new posts, and it’s far better to get a trackback and a link from someone else’s blog vs. a comment on your own blog. As long-term readers of my blog know, when faced with ambiguity, my preference is to try both alternatives and compare real results with real results. After doing that my conclusion is this: No comment.

Now if you want to support comments for non-traffic-building reasons like socializing or making new contacts, I say go for it. Just don’t assume that comments are necessary or even helpful in building traffic unless you directly test this assumption yourself.

Build a complete web site, not just a blog

Don’t limit your web site to just a blog. Feel free to build it out. Although most of my traffic goes straight to this blog, there’s a whole site built around it. For example, the home page of this site presents an overview of all the sections of the site, including the blog, article section, audio content, etc. A lot of people still don’t know what a blog is, so if your whole site is your blog, those people may be a little confused.

Testing and optimization

In the beginning you won’t know which potential streams of income will work best for you. So try everything that’s reasonable for you. If you learn about a new potential income stream, test it for a month or two, and measure the results for yourself. Feel free to cut streams that just aren’t working for you, and put more effort into optimizing those streams that show real promise.

A few months ago, I signed up for an account with Text Link Ads. It took about 20 minutes. They sell small text ads on my site, split the revenue with me 50-50, and deposit my earnings directly into my PayPal account. This month I’ll make around $600 from them, possibly more if they sell some new ads during the month. And it’s totally passive. If I never tried this, I’d miss out on this easy extra income.

For many months I’ve been tweaking the Adsense ads on this site. I tried different colors, sizes, layouts, etc. I continue to experiment now and then, but I have a hard time beating the current layout. It works very well for me. Adsense doesn’t allow publishers to reveal specific CPM and CTR data, but mine are definitely above par. They started out in the gutter though. You can easily double or triple your Adsense revenue by converting a poor layout into a better one. This is the main reason why during my first year of income, my traffic grew at 20% per month, but my income grew at 50% per month. Frequent testing and optimization had a major positive impact. Many of my tests failed, and some even made my income go down, but I’m glad I did all that testing. If I didn’t then my Adsense income would only be a fraction of what it is now.

It’s cheap to experiment. Every new advertising or affiliate service I’ve tried so far has been free to sign up. Often I can add a new income stream in less than an hour and then wait a month to see how it does. If it flops then at least I learned something. If it does well, wonderful. As a blogger who wants to generate income, you should always be experimenting with new income streams. If you haven’t tried anything new in six months, you’re almost certainly missing some golden opportunities. Every blog is different, so you need to test things for yourself to see what works for you. Failure is impossible here — you either succeed, or you learn something.

Pick your niche, but make sure it isn’t too small

Pick a niche for your blog where you have some significant expertise, but make sure it’s a big enough niche that you can build significant traffic. My wife runs a popular vegan web site. She does pretty well within her niche, but it’s just not a very big niche. On the other hand, my topic of personal development has much broader appeal. Potentially anyone can be interested in improving themselves, and I have the flexibility to write about topics like productivity, self-discipline, relationships, spirituality, health, and more. It’s all relevant to personal development.

Pick a niche that you’re passionate about. I’ve written 400+ articles so far, and I still feel like I’m just getting started. I’m not feeling burnt out at all. I chose to build a personal development site because I’m very knowledgeable, experienced, and passionate about this subject. I couldn’t imagine a better topic for me to write about.

Don’t pick a niche just because you think it will make you money. I see many bloggers try to do that, and it’s almost invariably a recipe for failure. Think about what you love most, and then find a way to make your topic appealing to a massive global audience. Consider what will provide genuine value to your visitors. It’s all about what you can give.

A broad enough topic creates more potential advertising partners. If I keep writing on the same subtopic over and over, I may exhaust the supply of advertisers and hit an income ceiling. But by writing on many different topics under the same umbrella, I widen the field of potential advertisers. And I expand the appeal of my site at the same time.

Make it clear to your visitors what your blog/site is about. Often I visit a blog with a clever title and tagline that reveals nothing about the site’s contents. In that case I generally assume it’s just a personal journal and move on. I love to be clever too, but I’ve found that clarity yields better results than cleverness.

Posting frequency and length

Bloggers have different opinions about the right posting length and frequency. Some bloggers say it’s best to write short (250-750 word) entries and post 20x per week or more. I’ve seen that strategy work for some, but I decided to do pretty much the opposite. I usually aim for about 3-5 posts per week, but my posts are much longer (typically 1000-2000 words, sometimes longer than 5000 words, including the monster you’re reading right now). That’s because rather than throwing out lots of short tips, I prefer to write more exhaustive, in-depth articles. I find that deeper articles are better at generating links and referrals and building traffic. It’s true that fewer people will take the time to read them, but those that do will enjoy some serious take-away value. I don’t believe in creating disposable content just to increase page views and ad impressions. If I’m not truly helping my visitors, I’m wasting their time.

Expenses

Blogging is dirt cheap.

I don’t spend money on advertising or promotion, so my marketing expenses are nil. Essentially my content is my marketing. If you like this article, you’ll probably find many more gems in the archives.

My only real expenses for this site are the hosting (I currently pay $149/month for the web server and bandwidth) and the domain name renewal ($9/year). Nearly all of the income this site generates is profit. This trickles down to my personal income, so of course it’s subject to income tax. But the actual business expenses are minimal.

The reason I pay so much for hosting is simply due to my traffic. If my traffic were much lower, I could run this site on a cheap shared hosting account. A database-driven blog can be a real resource hog at high traffic levels. The same goes for online forums. As traffic continues to increase, my hosting bill will go up too, but it will still be a tiny fraction of total income.

Perks

Depending on the nature of your blog, you may be able to enjoy some nice perks as your traffic grows. Almost every week I get free personal development books in the mail (for potential review on this site). Sometimes the author will send it directly; other times the publisher will ship me a batch of books. I also receive CDs, DVDs, and other personal development products. It’s hard to keep up sometimes (I have a queue of about two dozen books right now), but I am a voracious consumer of such products, so I do plow through them as fast as I can. When something strikes me as worthy of mention, I do indeed write up a review to share it with my visitors. I have very high standards though, so I review less than 10% of what I receive. I’ve read over 700 books in this field and listened to dozens of audio programs, so I’m pretty good at filtering out the fluff. As I’m sure you can imagine, there’s a great deal of self-help fluff out there.

My criteria for reviewing a product on this site is that it has to be original, compelling, and profound. If it doesn’t meet these criteria, I don’t review it, even if there’s a generous affiliate program. I’m not going to risk abusing my relationship with my visitors just to make a quick buck. Making money is not my main motivation for running this site. My main motivation is to grow and to help others grow, so that always comes first.

Your blog can also gain you access to certain events. A high-traffic blog becomes a potential media outlet, so you can actually think of yourself as a member of the press, which indeed you are. In a few days, my wife and I will be attending a three-day seminar via a free press pass. The regular price for these tickets is $500 per person. I’ll be posting a full review of the seminar next week. I’ve been to this particular seminar in 2004, so I already have high expectations for it. Dr. Wayne Dyer will be the keynote speaker.

I’m also using the popularity of this blog to set up interviews with people I’ve always wanted to learn more about. This is beautifully win-win because it creates value for me, my audience, and the person being interviewed. Recently I posted an exclusive interview with multi-millionaire Marc Allen as well as a review of his latest book, and I’m lining up other interviews as well. It isn’t hard to convince someone to do an interview in exchange for so much free exposure.

Motivation

I don’t think you’ll get very far if money is your #1 motivation for blogging. You have to be driven by something much deeper. Money is just frosting. It’s the cake underneath that matters. My cake is that I absolutely love personal development – not the phony “fast and easy” junk you see on infomercials, but real growth that makes us better human beings. That’s my passion. Pouring money on top of it just adds more fuel to the fire, but the fire is still there with or without the money.

What’s your passion? What would you blog about if you were already set for life?

Blogging lifestyle

Perhaps the best part of generating income from blogging is the freedom it brings. I work from home and set my own hours. I write whenever I’m inspired to write (which for me is quite often). Plus I get to spend my time doing what I love most — working on personal growth and helping others do the same. There’s nothing I’d rather do than this.

Perhaps it’s true that 99 out of 100 people can’t make a decent living from blogging yet. But maybe you’re among the 1 in 100 who can.

On the other hand, I can offer you a good alternative to recommend if you don’t have the technical skills to build a high-traffic, income-generating blog. Check out Build Your Own Successful Online Business for details.

Source : http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/

2nd semester was over .. BORING holidays

2009-02-11T02:45:00.000+08:00

Time flies and 2nd semester was over .. Hardly to believe two semester which equivalent 9 months had passed .. luckily manage to finish all my papers before chinese new year as scheduled and can said that i have total 5 weeks holiday right after the exam ... arghh really dont know what i gonna do in the holiday .. 5 days before the chinese new year ends .. i go to genting with my DIT classmates and have a boringness but wonderful genting trip .. will upload picture when 3rd semester starts ..

The nature of human .. when i was in college i was hopping for holidays but when holidays come i wasn't happy indeed as i expected .. Wanna find some part time jobs to fullfill my time and earn some pocket money but ended with no vacancies .. fine nevermind i thought i will be able struggling with the boringness by playing dotA and watching TV or perhaps hang out with friends ..

Still have 3 weeks left before 3rd semester starts .. wish March will coming soon so that i can meet with my dota and yumcha kaki again .. (^^)atcually is one gang only .. and also my beloved housemates .. miss them very much .. Really beh tahan with my life now .. go to bed at 4-5am and wake up at noon .. really like nothing can do .. daily route : sleep .. wake up .. brush teeth .. eat .. dota / watch TVB .. bath .. eat .. take a nap perhaps .. dota / TVB .. sleep .. even dint watch television at all ..

AS i know 3rd semester is a short sem which only 7 weeks .. 2 subjects but only 1 examination subject which is english for science .. not worry about this .. but what i worry indeed is my 2nd semester examination result .. hope 'talak' fail lo .. and wish all buddies good luck for their results .. don't wanna to see anyone fail ..

finish bullshitting .. nothing left .. arghh

Lecturer of y2 sem1

2008-10-20T19:43:00.000+08:00

Today after lecture class , my friend told me that his friends who are in DIT y2 had failed 2 subjects which are data communication and one unknown subject .. this really make me worry because 2 of them never fail one subject before .. but now their fail "virgin" flies away ... this significance that i hard to escape from the fate ...

many peoples failed this data com because the noob lecturer ! If it was teached by Miss.Leong then everything will be fine ... but now teach by a fat guy who don't even know how to teach ! I knew this because this fat guy is teaching me web-based multimedia .. his teaching style really made me speechless ...

Result

2008-10-18T23:28:00.001+08:00

My first result in college had been released ^o^ . Really have to thanks to god because i din't fail even a subject XD . Really glad and happy .

After i finished all of my papers , i predicted that i'll fail 2 subjects which are PCD and Hubungan Etnik . The most excited moment is i successfully login intranet , when i click the examination results , all the things come out very fast , but the result is excluded ... WTF !! My heartbeat rates are pumped to the sky during the 10 seconds waiting the image to be loaded .. I was abit shocked and happy when all grade are A and B .. Sem 2 subjects will be going into advanced especially PCD II and Web-based multimedia is quite strange to me ^^ . I hope can bring none of the subjects to year 2 .. have to stop at here because need to go back to kampar liao =D