Archive for the 'Society' Category

Subtle Flirt?

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Yeah, those sly mysterious smiles always gets me. ;-) Ewok says:
I found out I’m a subtle flirt. How I become one, I have no idea. I don’t even know decent pick-up lines and now I know how to flirt? Get out of here!
Links:

What Type of Flirt Are You? - Tickle’s 16 questions quiz gave me […]

Earthquake Tremors in Klang

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

The tremors tonight at about 12.35 local time for about 5 minutes, was similar to the one I felt as the 26 Dec 05 one that triggered the tsunami. Just a slight shaking of the bed, and swinging of hanging objects. I hope this wasn’t as disastrous. :-/

Magnitude 8.2 - NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA, 2005 March […]

Malaysia Directories

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

Directories of web sites are more common than wikis. So I next thought of searching for those directories with Malaysia specific contents. What I found, are sorted below, according to total number of sites listed:

Malaysia CARI - maintained by CARI Internet Sdn Bhd, has about 36,000 sites in 14 main categories.
Malaysia Central - maintained by […]

Perlis Petroleum?

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

First I heard about this “Perlis Petroleum”. Must be the papers that I read. ;-) Perhaps it’s natural gas not petroleum crude oil.

Shin wrote:
… these are “Islamic” and “Hadhari” ? …
Transporting crude oil found in Kelate portion of the Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area through pipelines to Perlis via Patani, and pay the pertroleum royalty to […]

Dealing with a Difficult Boss

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

It seems that successfully managing a difficult boss is a challenge but often feasible. Some ways to deal with difficult bosses are:

Understand the problem. - Recognize that, unless your boss is a bully, their behavior is probably due to ignorance.
Manage your own negative emotions. - Do not engage in self-defeating behavior such as stonewalling, […]

Rolling Tyres

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

My personal experience with (an almost) rolling tyre incident was back in early 80s in my student days using an old Nissan hatch back. While driving in the middle of Nottingham city, suddenly the Nissan sprung a regular clunking sound from the front left wheel. As it gets louder, I stopped by the road side. […]

Armed with a Digicam

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

Mycuppa found his digital SLR to be a useful defence weapon to keep an illegal parking caretaker at bay. I have yet to do the same with my pdaphone cam or my ultra compact digicam that is usually with me.
Since I always ARMED with my D70, so I take a few “live scene” which […]

Nusantara Cracker-fest

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Jeff Ooi wrote about the escalating Nusantara cracker fest this weekend. I hope this spate of websites defacement will not be as bad as feared, and cool heads prevail.
Updated: 13 Mar 2005 1735h

JKR homepage displaced by nude picture - Jeff Ooi, Sun 13 Mar 2005 1650h. Defacement to www.jkr.gov.my.
Restraint, appeals Budi Rahardjo, IdCERT - […]