Archive for May, 2005

Akademi Fantasia 3 - Konsert Prelude

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

Now in its third season, Akademi Fantasia has started its daily show again. Out of the 20 students in the Konsert Prelude Akademi on 21 May 2005, 12 have been selected to continue for the next 3 months.

Standing: Mawi, Azlif, Haider, Felix, Yazer, Kefli
Squatting: Reza, Aidil, Isa
Sitting: Fuad

Standing: Diana, Amy, Akma, Marsha, Rina, Elliza
Squatting: Shiha, […]

Pradonet’s multicard ticketing system

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

Leong She-Li on 22 May 2005 reported in The Star regarding Pradonet “Going places with ticketing system”. It’s an interesting look at this small company that implemented the common ticketing system for Touch’nGo (TnG) at ERL, KTM and Monorail. Though the system has yet to run operationally, pending commercial issues between Rangkaian Segar (TnG operator) […]

Eclipse, Visual Studio, NetBeans and WebSphere

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

One of my colleagues, an experienced Visual Studio developer, recently had a look at IBM’s Websphere development environment and was enamoured by it. I think he would be interested in what the industry is saying about Eclipse (and NetBeans for that matter). I wasn’t wrong, in pointing him towards Eclipse, was I? ;-)

IBM Websphere and […]

Opanda’s IExif plugins for IE and Firefox

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

Phoenix just posted in EXIF - Plugin for IE and Firefox thread on MPC forum regarding Opanda’s IExif plugin.
Opanda IExif is a professional Exif viewer in Windows / IE / Firefox, From a photographer’s eye, It displays the image taken from digital camera and every item of EXIF data in the image from […]

CardExAsia 2005 - News Reports

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

Following up on my earlier blog, I notices this news in the local papers about the CardExAsia 2005 event. “Don’t procrastinate, says NRD”, NST 18 May 2005 reports …
   Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today. That is the message the National Registration Department (NRD) has for the three million Malaysians who […]

CardExAsia 2005

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Today I managed to squeeze some time to visit PWTC for the annual Smartcard Exhibition running on 17-19 May 2005. My impression is that this year’s is smaller than last, or it could just be my memory. Anyway, I did find a few interesting exhibits, as well as finally applying for MyKad ;-)

MyKad: The […]

Mampujaya Engineers?

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

This advertisement in The Star 17 May 2005 StarTwo pullout caught my eyes. These “engineers” seems to be very proud of their ability to design factories to be built at a very competitive price ranging from RM66 psf to RM105 psf. Though they seems to be a bit more reticent regarding their website, company name, […]

Nadzmi giving Park May a New Lease of Life

Monday, May 16th, 2005

Malaysian Business issue 1-15 May 2005 has Datuk Mohd Nadzmi Mohd Salleh, Executive Chairman Nadicorp Holdings Sdn Bhd, on its front cover. “Nadzmi’s New Route - Giving Park May a New Lease of Life”, it says and goes on to have the following 3 cover stories …

On The Express Route - “With 2,000 buses plying […]

A better Nokia clam-shell than 7200?

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

My significant other decided to be generous, and left her Nokia 7200 on the back seat of a taxi. Needless to say, we couldn’t get it back. So now, I’m on the market for another Nokia clamshell with the following specs …

Clamshell - she really likes to physically close the phone, though a slide cover […]

Persiaran Raja Muda Musa, Klang-Port Klang, will be six-lanes

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

Construction works have been going on Persiaran Raja Muda Musa since February 2005. Currently, most of the palm trees, shrubs and lamp posts in the center median have been removed. I understand the first work will be to move the utilities from the center median. This earlier article by Elan Perumal in The Star 29 […]