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OK, I was missing for a while… but yea, I’m still around 😀

Well, I was down with some weird flu last Friday… not the Black Friday or the recent Friday but the last Friday Friday…

After a meeting last Friday Friday, I started sneezing. As usual, I treat it as normal kind of sneezing flu… which normally I counter with vitamin C and consuming loads of Ribena.

Unfortunately, it was quite bad during the night. Not only my nose blocked, but my left ear was blocked too… and it made me so worry coz it never happen before. The next day, Saturday, I went to my usual clinic. The doctor gave me antibiotic, flu medicine and pain killer for my ear which cost me $45 all together. The flu medicine supposed to be the drowsy type… so I was thinking, I will get better fast with it. But it looks like it doesn’t give me any drowsy effect… and I was still down on Sunday… and coughing started attacking me!!! So I went to buy a cough syrup… not from the clinic but from the supermarket.

And on Monday I have to continue with my Journey Around Sabah… this time to Kudat Region. So, I was overdosing myself with Vitamin C but I was still very weak on Monday but continue with the journey anyway (will talk about it next time).

While I was down with the weird flu, my mind was racing coz I have to settle a few things… I really need to clear them since I will be away for a week. Some of the things I need to settle are my bills, loans and credit cards. I don’t want to be handicap while I’m outstation… I don’t want to encounter another incident of credit card cannot use coz it hit the limit or mobile broadband suspended coz bill not settled!!! With all my might, I manage to settle all these before my journey… and even manage to spare some time to read the “jd power credit cards” survey news 😀

And till now, I’m still coughing but OK… and it looks like there are so many people having flu and cough these two weeks… must be the rainy season.

No time?… This one is for sure going to boost the tourism industries for the whole of Malaysia… yeah right!!!

Shah Rukh Khan has no time for us lah… This Bollywood star got no time at all to attend the ‘state government’ official function to receive his Datukship on 29 November 2008… He is too busy with his schedule taking Fentraphen… The ‘state officials’ (the poor victims?… including the TYT?… and the people?) are now trying their best to arrange for an alternative date… for ‘him’ at the people’s expenses.

According to the news, the whole idea to confer this guy with ‘datukship’ came from two guys. The idea was mooted by former Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin and with the Melaka’s Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam defending the idea. These two guys said ‘this will help boost tourism in Malaysia’… are you sure for ‘Malaysia’?… nope, I don’t think so… you watched and likes too much bollywood movies…

When the idea become news recently, it drew criticism from the public, including NGOs… some said ‘datukship’ is getting ‘low class’ nowadays… one reason not to respect or look up at ‘datuk’. And nobody listen to the people’s at that time… and now this what happened… so how lah? Maybe it’s true, more tourists will come…

HURRY… HURRY… it’s your chance to have Zone Alarm Pro for FREE today!!! It’s Zone Alarm birthday today!!! Sweet 15…

The offer is valid from 6am 18 November 2008 to 6am 19 November 2008 PST.

I’ve tried downloading, but since the demand is so overwhelming, I only manage to register and they will contact me back within 48 hours… hopefully they will… and hopefully it’s not a scam… it’s not April Fool right? It can’t be…

OK go to… Zone Alarm downloads area

It is almost at the end of the year, and I’m sure for some it is time to renew their webhosting… and for those who do not have any website yet, it is time to seriously to window shop around for a good webhosting provider and hopefully be able to launch your new website when the new year comes.

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Yoga is bad!!! Yoga is evil!!! Yoga is not good for you!!! You must not exercise with yoga!!! You must not do your slimming with yoga but you must use diet pills!!!.. HUH? That is so bloody funny… bloody funny isn’t it 😆 Nobody said that… it’s from me, I said it 😆

But yes, recently there was a big fuss about yoga!!! It blows everyone’s mind… It’s very hard to swallow… it took me sometime to swallow and understand why… and I think I found the answer… yes the only answer you ever need… and I found it myself while inside the ‘thinking room’… it’s probably because yoga is against the nature’s order… yes yoga is against the nature’s order… you don’t believe me?… you think I’m kidding?… heck no… it’s because yoga can make someone, a four or five footer twist, bend curl or whatever to their body and enter a 2 by 2 aquarium… that is so unreal :O

I was a Reader’s Digest subscriber for more than a year. My subscription expired in August or September this year, meaning I’m not supposed to receive any more of their book after August or September.

But funny, I keep on receiving their book although I did not reply that I want to continue with my subscription with them when I received their reminder in August or September. Then I received an invoice from them last month asking me to pay the yearly subscription. I said, hack with you… I did not ask you to continue my subscription and throw away the invoice.

Then this week, I received another of their book together with the invoice. Crap… I don’t want this book… although I did read it 😀

So today, angrily I called their billing section in Kuala Lumpur. First, their automated answering machine is wasting my money coz it was talking craps so long… Hello… cut the craps please. Then I got disconnected after like almost 3 minutes listening to their craps.

I called back, and this time I manage to get a real human on the other end. I told her that I received their invoice although I don’t remember that I’ve instruct them to continue with my subscription. She asks for my account number… the invoice account number. I gave it and she quoted my name and she said she will cancel the bill immediately. Just like that?… Cool… but I asked her what am I going to do with the books… should I return it to them? She said I can keep it… as complementary… Cool…

Yes, that’s cool… I got 3 free books for free. But that is not the right thing to do… you should not bill me in the first place since you did not receive any instruction from me… from me OK… errr… But they are being polite also for not stopping my subscription, who knows my instruction came late right?… emm… right… ok lah, they WIN… after all I got three free books… but it did make me angry when I received their invoice. Thank you lah Reader’s Digest for the free books… I should have waited until next year before informing you 😀

The wait is finally over! In a STAR WORLD exclusive, the all-new season of Heroes blasts off on Thu 6 Nov at 10pm. In this much-anticipated third season, the stakes are higher, the villains are tougher and the threat of an impending apocalypse has never been greater!In the brand-new chapter, titled ´Volume 3: Villains´, a group of highly developed super villains escape from prison and unleash their evil on an unsuspecting world. Meanwhile serial killer Sylar (Zachary Quinto) returns with enhanced powers and Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) begins a new journey to understand his powers. Elsewhere, Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) is forced to take sides, Matt (Greg Grunberg) learns new ways to use his ability and Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy) begins a dangerous transformation.

As for fan favorite Hiro (Masi Oka), he chases down a superfast villain named Daphne (Brea Grant) who outraces him at every turn. “This season we are not really introducing any new characters,” explains Heroes´ writer-creator Tim Kring. “We are concentrating very much on the core characters that we´ve had for two seasons.” While fans expect the super-strong baddies to perform evil deeds, Kring hints that some of the good guys will also venture over to the dark side this season. “These are ordinary people,” explains Kring, “and they make decisions based on who they are and the circumstances they find themselves in.

It was always built into the premise that our core group of people would be tempted by the circumstances they were in [to use their powers for evil].” As Kring points out, though, newcomers to the show will be able to pick up the plot. “We didn´t want to feel like you had to have watched two years of Heroes to catch up,” he says. “We wanted to answer things really quickly so viewers could move forward and have a clean path in front of them.” – ASTRO

OK, economic is not good at the moment but that doesn’t mean you can’t maintain a good health. Sure some will start reducing food intake… good that they will become slimmer, just hope they don’t go to the level of starving themselves and left with skin and bones only.

Talking about reducing weight, there is one type of fatty acid supplement called Tonalin CLA. CLA stand for Conjugated Linoleic Acid. CLA can be found in beef or diary products and composed of 13 different isomers of linoleic acid. It can be found as health supplement for reducing weight. What so special about CLA? Well, CLA helps balance between body fat and lean muscle. Meaning if you diet by supplementing yourself with Tonalin CLA, your body will have less fat but with enough lean muscle. When you are slim, you are slim in good condition… still with enough lean muscle to be healthy and not skinny with bones only 😀 Lately, I always feel hungry… it must be the weather… no space for dieting then…

4 November 2008, Barak Obama captures historic White House win and said ‘Change has come to America’. As we all know Obama is from the minority group, black. His father, Barack Hussein OBAMA Sr. is black from Kenya and his mother, Stanley Ann DUNHAM is white from Kansas.

It shows that American thinking is not as everyone think. America is a place where all things are possible. Can we still question the power of democracy in America after this?… their democracy has spoken!!!… since its independence day…

Obama was born in Hawaii. He has blood relation to Kenya, Africa and of course America. He also indirectly related to Indonesia since his mother married to an Indonesian after divorcing his father. And there is also news where a Chinese family in Kudat Sabah also related to Obama. Obama will be taking office as the 44th President of the United States in January 20, 2009.

Today, majority doesn’t spell rule… but it has to be talent and quality… and democracy and freedom. So how is Malaysia going to look at this?… Time for CHANGE?.. I’m sure everyone has their own answer… for me, Time for CHANGE… for talent, quality, freedom and democracy 😀

After going through the scorching hot sun at yesterday’s golf tournament, having a bottle of Carlsberg straight from the chiller will be very cooling, don’t you think so? 😀

I still can feel the burning inside my face, neck, body, arm… and I want to leave it behind for a while to enjoy football game on web.tv streamed by Carlsberg web-tv called Partofthegame.tv which was launched by Carlsberg Brewery recently at www.partofthegame.tv… phew… that’s a very long sentence 😆

Carlsberg Web-TV has 5 channels showing all aspects about football from the classic football matches to life as a fan. If you are a football fan, which I believe so, you don’t want to miss the video clips about football funnies and rituals from one of the five channels, the Football Magic channel.

And you can share your football moments too… you can upload your football moments and share it with the rest of the world… go goal… 😀