Why do I write less about paid post?

April 13th, 2008 at 12:13 · Filed Under Blogging · 1 Comment 

It has been a couple of months since my last article on paid post. One absolute reason is the quality of assignments. There has been lacking of interesting topics to write about and most of the assignments are about loans, gambling and insurance. Most of the time, I ran out of ideas writing the almost identical assignments.

Today, I checked PayPerPost again to see if there is any interesting assignments to write about and I found some. I begin to monetize my blog again! :P

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Hypertropin – The fountain of youth

April 13th, 2008 at 12:05 · Filed Under Blogging, Health, Marketing · Comment 

All living things suffer the process of aging. The aging process begins when our body produces less hormone. Human Growth Hormone or HGH is a natural hormone produced by the pituitary gland. In children, this hormone is a messenger protein to make a child grows larger and stronger. Without this hormone, the child can never grow larger. In adults, this hormone regulates body metabolism and maintain good body composition. HGH promotes muscle development, regulates fat usage and converts fat into energy. HGH also regulates body’s ratio of good and bad cholesterol, bone density and rejuvenates the body.

When a body has HGH deficiency, symptoms of weak bones, poor muscle development, increase waist size and body’s fat ratio, unusual body’s ratio of good and bad cholesterol, depression and isolation will develop. Some people do not naturally produce enough HGH.

Hypertropin, an rdna origin and injectable delivery, is a way to supplement the natural human growth hormone for people who may be deficient in this hormone. Hypertropin made by secretion technology, is identical to the natural human growth hormone that is produced by the pituitary gland. It is safely synthesized. It is almost safe if it is used as directed although some side-effects are possible. Hypertropin rejuvenate your body and let you feel younger and more energetic. It helps you to lead a youthful life. Consult your doctor before use.

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The Olympic Spirit

April 13th, 2008 at 10:54 · Filed Under Blogging, Critiques, Politics, Sports · Comment 

The 2008 Olympic games in Beijing is approaching. The Olympic torch relay has began its journey. Anyhow, the torch relay is very eventful with protesters protesting China regarding Tibet’s issues. This is rather very disheartening. Have these people forgotten the spirit of Olympic?

The five rings in the Olympic flag signifies the people from five continents, united together to persevere in sports for humanity. The Olympic game is a way to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war.

So, stop sabotaging the Chinese Olympic for the good course of humanity. Let the politic dissolves on alternate track.

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Open Source and School Works

April 12th, 2008 at 22:34 · Filed Under Computing, Humanity, Philosophy, Social, Software Development, Technology · 3 Comments 

The increasing buzz about the omnipotence of Google and Open Source projects has left us wondering, what do students do with their research and course assignments today?

The Internet has become a huge reservoir of knowledge since the past two decades. The use of this knowledge has widen the gap in students thinking about traditional working environment, processes and ethics as well as their awareness of copyright laws and humanistic behavior and obligation. Unfortunately, many youngsters studying in local colleges and universities are not well aware of the pitfalls of using such information and open source projects.

With many years of software development (in both closed- and open- source) and research experience, I am able to quickly identify a genuine work or an adaptation of works from other people. I have seen many copy-and-paste work by students and even received copy-and-paste (exact copy-and-paste and adaptation) works by students applying for internship.

During a FYP judging 3 days ago, I had encountered a project which a student had adapted someone’s work as his own. With two simple questions, I established a firm “confidence” of plagiarism. The abridged story goes:

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FYP judging at UTAR

April 9th, 2008 at 23:23 · Filed Under Blogging, Conferences, General, Software Development · Comment 

I was invited by FICT of UTAR to be a judge for the FYP (Final Year Projects) 2008. Three judges and six finalist projects. I saw some little improvement this time compared to the other two I attended previously. I stopped visiting universities, especially UTAR, after the incident of my eye. More here.

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Learn to use your muscles

April 8th, 2008 at 17:28 · Filed Under Martial Arts, Medical, Sports · 4 Comments 

The main basic goal of any martial art training is to learn the fundamental method of using our muscle effectively. During training, it is important to concentrate in the movement of every muscles and to feel exactly which muscles are moving.

By controlling the proper contraction of each muscles, one will gradually learn to use the muscles efficiently and to achieve motion economy. Many people neglects this part of training. A few of them learn to use their muscle without knowing it. If you start your training by learning to use your muscle, you will achieve better result much sooner than the others who don’t.

But how? I remembered my uncle used to talk about some training movement in Taijiquan when I was starting to learn karate. I felt boring listening to his stories. A couple of months ago, my interest sparked again. I talked to him regarding training and learn some secrets from him. Not because I don’t trust him, I reconfirm with dragon to make sure I have a more precise understanding of my uncle’s explanation. He used to brag a lot unnecessarily. :)

I will write a series of posts here for the methods to develop muscle, especially the waist, which is the most powerful and every martial artists rely so much.

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Tunnel X from Gutsy to Leopard

April 4th, 2008 at 22:08 · Filed Under Computing, Linux, Mac OS X · 5 Comments 

I have been tunneling X from Linux to Tiger for almost two years without any problems and happy with it. After upgrading to Leopard, a disaster struck me. I was unable to access my Linux applications on my Ubuntu box. I used to do it with Tiger without any problems. When I ssh tunnel X from Gutsy to Leopard, I had keyboard problem. When I pressed some keys on the keyboard, I got numbers and some weird characters like close windows and minimize windows.

The problem lies within Apple’s new X11 in Leopard. The keyboard is not properly mapped after establishing the X tunnel. After searching the web and Ubuntu forum, I found a solution:


% ssh -X username@gutsy
% xmodmap -pke > ~/.keymap
% gnome-panel 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null & xmodmap ~/.keymap

Just do xmodmap map once will do. After that, ssh into Ubuntu and invoke gnome-panel.

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Dead twice!

April 4th, 2008 at 13:00 · Filed Under At Home, Blogging, Critiques, Days in My Life, Family, Food, WTF · 5 Comments 

Our Princess bread maker came back yesterday from Pensonic service center after almost 4 weeks of warranty claim. Read about the first warranty claim here. According to the service center, they had baked a cake to test if it was working. So, I went home with the bread maker happily. But when I was coaching half way through, LA called to let me know that it was not working. The kneading blades were not turning at all. Another waste of ingredients.

This morning I switched on the bread maker without any ingredients in it. It was not working. I left it turned on for almost an hour and it was not working. So I called the Pensonic service center and one of the lady told me immediately that their headquarters called them to get the unit back to have the circuit board replaced. They offered to collect from my house. Hmm… otherwise I would have the chance to shoot them.

Anyway, Pensonic service vehicle came to collect after noon. Next time when it comes back, it better works. Otherwise, I am going to take this to consumer court and have them to reimburse the material wasted.

If you are planning to buy a bread maker, don’t buy Princess bread maker! I hope Princess will be reading this blog. Beef up your quality, Princess!

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The true meaning of martial arts training

April 1st, 2008 at 18:31 · Filed Under Karate, Martial Arts, Training Journal · Comment 

Whilst many people engage in martial arts training, many of them neglect or not knowing the true meaning of training. It is very difficult to teach younger children about the philosophy of training but the older people tends to refuse or ignore the importance of training philosophy.

As a karate instructor for more than a decade of coaching and teaching experience, I have observed many different human behaviors in children, adolescent and even adults. I have very hard working students and also very ignorant and “lazy” students. Lazy not in terms of physically lazy but in mentally and attitude wise. Lazy in terms of seeking short cuts to achieve black belts as their peers do. I had students who trained with me and at the same time trained in other martial arts. With me, they had only achieved 1 grade higher then white belt for one year of training but they had achieved junior black belts in the other. They started their trainings in karate and other martial arts almost the same time. Black belts they are but yet can they kick or punch like black belts.

Two factors influenced the younger students.

  1. Parents attitude in transferring their responsibilities to 3rd party in their children’s physical and mental education.
  2. Ignorant parents and their egoism to see their children achieving some standards, in this case, black belt as their peers or neighbors’ children do.

I have parents who are very concerning about their children’s progress. But none of them consistent enough to stay concerned throughout entire year. They become concerned when grading test is approaching. This attitude reflects onto their children subconsciously.

While older children and older adults are easier to train (but not much easier then the younger children), I have formulated some training-playing methodology to help my younger students to train. I called it cognitive training. I will let them play a simple game of jumping, for instance, to help them develop muscles on their legs and hips. They usually enjoy the games very much.

As to older students, especially adults, explanation of bio-mechanism is crucial but always not taken seriously by most adult students. Only a few will absorb my explanation and apply into their training.

I wrote a similar but not identical article here. It is about learning to use the muscles.

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