The happiest day in 2008

January 31st, 2008 at 23:55 · Filed Under Blogging, Days in My Life · Comment 

Perhaps, today is my happiest day in 2008. The accomplishment of the past few days has been astonishing and satisfactory. Although there has been ups and downs and some scums are trying to make my days miserable, they have not succeeded. So, make my day, scum heads. I am very optimistic about 2008 and the new Rat year.

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GPS data uploaded

January 31st, 2008 at 23:44 · Filed Under At Work, Blogging, Business, GPS, Technology · Comment 

Finally, I have had the time to upload the GPS data I collected from yesterday’s delivery. The data is now all in the Windows box. It is too late to remove some unwanted data (data from other trips e.g. Zakimi on Okinawa and etc.). So I just make another copy of all the data and probably will edit them during this CNY.

I am kind of thirsty for more GPS data from delivery or trips to alien places. Anymore delivery? It is kinda fun. It is like treasure hunting, or tracking down a location. It is really exciting and fun!

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Shopping for CNY

January 31st, 2008 at 23:35 · Filed Under Blogging, Shopping · Comment 

This morning I took everyone to Jusco for some browsing. I seldom buy new clothing for CNY simply because I don’t find the clothing around this time is cheap and of good quality and nice. We went there for the sake of browsing hopefully could pick up some interesting items. We did not find anything interesting for the kids. By this weekend and next week, all shopping malls will be jam-packed with people. I hate to navigate through crowds and queuing up to pay.

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6th anniversary

January 31st, 2008 at 23:33 · Filed Under Blogging · Comment 

Tomorrow will be the 6th anniversary for AdrianHoe.com. Time really flies. On the last day of 2007, my site has reached 1,000,000 visitors. 6 years for 1 million visitors. It is not really high hits. But, since I made my site to a blog since May 2006, my site has received more hits in 2007.  I believe 2008 will draw more traffics to my site with my own SEO and tags analysis.

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Dinos are down with flu

January 31st, 2008 at 21:55 · Filed Under At Home, Blogging, Dietrich, Dmitry, Dominik, Family · 2 Comments 

Oh dear! Three dinos are down with flu again. CNY is just around the corner. This is what LA and I fear about. I took them to the clinic nearby to get some flu medicine then took them for a spin at downtown. In the car while waiting for the light to turn green, I taught Richie the word “downtown” and “uptown”.

We went to the town to see some CNY decoration. The decoration is not as beautiful as 20 years ago. Partly the reason is lack of sponsorship. Shops are not willing to sponsor as the local government does not care to participate in the CNY decoration.

I hope I will have some time this weekend to go downtown for photo shooting. I always wanted to do it but did not find time for it. I hope this year I can find some time for it.

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GPS Guided Delivery

January 30th, 2008 at 23:23 · Filed Under Business, Call Me a Geek, GPS, Technology · 3 Comments 

Delivery all done! A dozen hampers at 4 locations in Selangor/Kuala Lumpur. 3 out of 4 locations were alien places to me because I had never been there. Drop #1 in Sungai Long, Drop #2 was in Sungai Besi, Drop #3 in PJ and Drop #4 in Selayang. 1, 2 and 4 were places I was not familiar with and had never been there.

I arrived at Kajang toll at 1130 hours and started to use my GPS device to guide me. Found the place easily by following the GPS guidance. It took some times to navigate through some messy traffics and finding the block and the unit. But I managed to drop off and proceed to Drop #2 at 1215 hours.

Drop #2 and #4 needed some communication with the clients as their address were without street name. They used lot number as they were in industrial park. That complicated the process a little. By 1507 hours, all goods delivered.

On the night before, I researched on the GPS map and found Drop #1 and marked it. Easy job. I had to defer Drop #2 and #4 until morning so that I could call up the clients for some direction. I called them this morning and could roughly know the locations and marked them.

What made this mission interesting was an ironic demarcation which a traditional delivery versus technology-assisted delivery. While heading to Sungai Long after exiting Kajang toll, I saw a cab driver with a full load of hampers in his cab. He was on a hamper delivery mission too. The difference was that he was looking at his hand drawn map on the steering wheel. In great contrast, I was guided by GPS.

The mission had helped me to build a Clientele GIS.

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Orders All Done!

January 29th, 2008 at 13:45 · Filed Under At Home, At Work, Business · Comment 

We received an order of 11 hampers from KL last Saturday. After 3 days of sleepless night, finally we had all the orders done up and ready for delivery tomorrow. LA, especially, has 3 sleepless nights. She did not sleep at all last night. I just done helping her to get the last two hampers up so that she can wrap them up in the afternoon and go to bed early tonight. I will go to bed early tonight. It will be a busy and hard day tomorrow to delivery to various locations around KL. I will be traveling alone tomorrow as the car will be a load full of hampers.

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Hampers for Chinese New Year

January 29th, 2008 at 13:02 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Gifts, Holidays, Shopping · Comment 

The year of the golden rat is around the corner. This coming Chinese New Year falls on February 7 and 8. It is once in a year time again to shop for CNY stocks and gifts. LoveAficionado.com has a wide range of hampers to offer. LoveAficionado’s hampers are great gifts to share with your families and friends.

All LoveAficionado’s hampers are bundled with high quality goodies. LoveAficionada ensures all products bundled in the hampers have long expiry date. They offer excellent quality products and good service. So, you can enjoy giving without worrying about the quality.

CNY Hampers

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Family Delivery Team

January 27th, 2008 at 18:18 · Filed Under Autos, Blogging, Business, Days in My Life, Family · 1 Comment 

We all went to Subang Jaya to deliver hampers order yesterday. Our plan was to go to 1U for shopping after the delivery. But the car AC and the front brake were giving problem. When we arrived at Subang Jaya, the AC began to blow hot air instead of nice cool air. After the delivery, the AC wasn’t functioning properly yet and the front brake started making some noises. According to my driving experience, I decided to take the car in for a examination by my brother-in-law’s friend. His workshop was in Damansara Utama.

It was a long way from USJ1 to DU and the roads were quite jam packed. When we finally arrived at the workshop, poor R and N were sweating. They had rosy cheeks and sweat wet shirts! What a mobile sauna.

I changed the brake pad mid last year and it was finished in less than a year. So much of the Honda’s spare parts quality!

And the AC, the magnetic clutch of the compressor became faulty and needed to be replaced. The repair would take about 2 hours so we took 3 dinos to Starbucks to cool down with ice blended drinks while waiting for my sister-in-law’s husband to come to take them to her house.

The car was ready around 6PM and I went to my SIL’s house to meet them. We proceeded to 1U in the evening for a quick shopping. LA did not find any shoes she likes. We went to FCUK and nothing eye catching except the price tags. We had dinner at 1U and hang around until almost 10:30PM.

We arrived home around 1AM. When we arrived, we suddenly realized we forgot to attend our neighbor’s grandchild full moon party. The next morning, our neighbor came to our house to deliver some cakes and red eggs and we apologized to her for not attending. What a day!

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Tiger

January 25th, 2008 at 20:20 · Filed Under Animals, Blogging · 1 Comment 

TigerPreviously, I wrote an article about a story of keeping tiger. Tiger is among the big ferocious cats I like. The tiger’s face is the main attraction, especially its captivating eyes.

Due to its beautiful fur, tiger has become an endangered species. Poachers hunt tigers for their beautiful fur. In some places, development activities have invaded tigers’ natural habitat forcing tigers to hunt for food near human settlement. Not all tigers hunt human. Most man hunters are old tigers which can no longer hunt like a young tiger and turn their hunting target to human. Many species have already extinct, like, the Javanese and Balinese tigers.

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Free Web Polls

January 25th, 2008 at 20:15 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Computing, Marketing, Web · Comment 

Alright. You need to get an idea what your visitors think of an issue. You need a web poll which is easy to setup and most importantly it is free and does not take up additional disk space or database. There is a free web poll which provides myspace polls. It takes less than 2 minutes to sign up and get your poll up and running. Everything is stored and calculated on their server. Everything they offer is completely free and no pop-up advertisement or banners.

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I am a buddhist

January 25th, 2008 at 20:10 · Filed Under Buddhism · Comment 

I am a buddhist. And my family are buddhists. Although I regard buddhism as a philosophy and education system, my family and I are true buddhists. The beauty of buddhism is that it is a peaceful religion and away from politics.

I am very comfortable with the buddhism I am following now and there is no need to change my religion. And I will never change to other religion.

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Green Shoes

January 25th, 2008 at 20:00 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Environment, Fashion, Marketing, Shopping · Comment 


Po-Zu has introduced “green shoes“, the environmentally different foot wears with wide collection of shoes, boots and slippers. All Po-Zu foot wears are manufactured from natural ingredients without harmful chemical and components. Leather is organically tanned with plant origin substances from Mimosa and Quebracho trees. Wools are made of 100% natural fleece, unbleached and un-dyed. The manufacturing process avoids the use of toxic glue and solvents. All foot wears are stitched together making them breathable, durable, repairable and recyclable. Po-Zu shoes are organic shoes. And the shoe cream is edible!

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Sun announces agreement to acquire MySQL

January 25th, 2008 at 10:11 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Computing, Technology · Comment 

On January 16, 2008 Sun entered a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL, developer of the world largest Open Source database. The move reaffirms Sun as a leading provider of hardware and software platforms for the web economy.

The news is really exciting and as expected. Sun has been involved in open source development and released great products like Solaris 10, OpenOffice and now MySQL is going to be under Sun’s flagship. With the involvement of Sun in MySQL development and the funding, Sun will be able to leverage MySQL further from its current position.

More exciting news and features from MySQL and Sun will be expected to breakout very soon.

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Discount on office furniture, supplies and computers

January 25th, 2008 at 10:10 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Marketing · Comment 

Are you looking for office furniture? Whether you are startup or already having a business, OfficeDeals is a great place to look for office furniture, office supplies, computers and even printing business cards and stationeries.

OfficeDeals updates the site daily to bring you latest products and discount coupons. Buy your office equipment, furniture, computers, software, computer accessories, stationeries online in the comfort of your office or home. Enjoy great savings with discount coupons. For example, Vistaprint Coupons offers great savings up to 75% on all your business printing needs from business cards, customer stamps to address labels. And enjoy up to 70% discount on OfficeFurniture.com.

If you are setting up your home business, you can learn about the benefits of a home business and tips on working from home at OfficeDeals website. Good articles to read.

Starting a new business venture requires some funding regardless of the size or type of business you are getting into. You may get into some financial problems if you do not already have plentiful of fund. You need to stir away and to circumvent this problem with some financial tools and yet giving you peace of mind. The site also provides you information about small business credit card. This helps you to establish good business credit record and to alleviate your business financial strain and personal finances.

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Goods sold are not returnable

January 25th, 2008 at 4:20 · Filed Under Business, Shopping, Social · Comment 

Do you know your rights as a consumer? Read on. Benji sent me this information yesterday. I think it is good to share this information to exercise consumers’ rights to shape a better community.

Legal Issue on Contract Law in Malaysia – Good for us to know

Do you notice that most of the time, the receipt / invoice you received from the merchant carries this exclusion clause or similarly worded statement: “Goods sold are not returnable” or “No refund once sold”.

Please remember that : “As long as your goods is purchased for home use and not for business ( i.e. to be resold), the above exclusion clause is void.

That means, as long as the good is defective, regardless of what is worded, you can get back all your money spent . You do not have to accept a repair on the good or an exchange. You can ask for a refund. And you are legally right and entitled to!

And most of the time the merchant will refuse to return you your money.

You may threaten the merchant with four words: “See you in court!”

The court here refers to the Small Claims Tribunal Court. Any goods which is worth RM25,000 and below can apply to this Court.

However, you don’t have to tell them what court! All you have to pay is RM10 admin fee and the loser (the merchant) will have to refund you the money plus the admin fee!

I have seen that most educated people are cowed by such unfair wordings (which includes a few of my friends).

Please try not to let the merchant fleece you the next time you have defective goods.

You can file this On the 16th floor of Putra Place (The Mall opposite Putra World Trade Centre) . The form cost RM5.00 . The Tribunal will settle within 2 months period.

Tribunal Tuntutan Pengguna Malaysia,
Tingkat 16, Putra Place,
100, Jalan Putra,
50622 KUALA LUMPUR
Tel: 03 – 40492300 / 40424181 Fax: 03 – 40424259

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A tiring day

January 24th, 2008 at 22:16 · Filed Under Blogging, Days in My Life, Karate · Comment 

Whew! After about two months of not coaching at schools, it is certainly tiring to coach two classes. Tonight, one student took the grading test. He missed the December grading and he missed last week test too. I thought more would come for the test as some little tigers from Jasin missed their test last week. Only one student turned up for grading.

Not too tiring giving grading test though. But it was really weary to correct his mistakes. I think I will go to bed early tonight. I don’t feel like carry on with some of my work.

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First day at school

January 24th, 2008 at 18:08 · Filed Under Blogging, Karate · 2 Comments 

Today is the first training day at school after the long year-end school holidays. All schools re-opened on January 3 but co-curriculum activities only begin this week. Many old members dropped out already. Today has 90+ students came to enroll themselves into the school karate club. What a big crowd! But again, they are interim. According to my teaching experience in school, by the next two weeks, the number will drop drastically to less than half. By another 2 to 3 weeks, the number will reduce half again. It’s fine for me and it is a healthy sign as the the filtering process will filter out casual members. I hope to spot one or two (or maybe a few) potential butterflies like Ong.

The process of registering their name with the school karate club committee was quite a mess as this was the first time for these 14-year-old teenagers to handle such a big crowd. Off course, I helped out by showing them what to do. At least I was able to train the other old members. Unlike last year, I alone handled more than 100+ head counts.

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Haircut United!

January 23rd, 2008 at 9:27 · Filed Under Blogging, Days in My Life, Social · Comment 

Last evening, I went for my hair cut at a Malay stall at Jalan Laksamana Cheng Ho. I have had my haircut there for a couple of times. Yesterday, I met a long loss family friend there. He is the pakcik who gave me haircut when I was a little boy at the age of Dmitry. His barber shop was at the MARA shops at the riverside not far away from my dad’s place. My dad used to take me there for haircuts. I can remember I was crying during the haircut until primary school. I had my haircut there until mid secondary school. After that, like all other teens, I had my haircut at fashion salons.

His shop has been pulverized for tourist spot development three years ago. Before it was demolished, I met him there a few times a couple years ago and I brought Dmitry there for a haircut once. I didn’t know his whereabout after the demolition.

It was fated to meet him again last evening. I somehow felt something was going to happen yesterday morning. It was really nice to meet him again. He was working there as a partner with his ex-employee/partner. So, he gave me a handsome haircut and we made a picture together. Hope to see him again the next trip.

After the haircut, I went home happily, washed my hair, took a quick shower and a quick snack then out I went to doukoukai for my training.

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Military Clothing

January 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 · Filed Under Business, Fashion, Marketing, Security, Shopping · Comment 

If you are a military or law enforcement personnel, perhaps you would like to look for some military clothing to add to your standard issued wardrobe. BDU.com is the largest supplier of uniforms to the U.S. D.o.D. (Department of Defense). All BDU’s apparels are manufactured according to highest military standards. All jacket, shirts and pants are sewn to highest military standard MIL-C-43455J for durable wear. Many of the BDU’s military uniforms are treated with a special near infrared coating to minimize detection from night vision equipment. The tactical jackets, shirts and pants are coated with DuPont Teflon to repel liquids and stains. BDU also provides great discounts on selected items.

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