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This is the box of the fireworks… each box contain 8 grenades… 3 boxes all together 😉

The warning label… they miss one, it should add another instruction ‘to burry the launching cylinder’. Imagine what would happen if suddenly the cylinder falls down towards the house after the fuse ignited!!!

The explosions sample… but they don’t guarantee it will turn out like that 🙁

Gosh… why is this advertlets can’t pay their domain?… it’s only like USD$10 what…

Anyway, for those sites who are being hijacked by the advertlets, just remove the scripts from your site and your site will be back as usual… 😀

Five days into 2008… or the fist week of 2008 is over… although works are still piling at the office for closing accounts, etc… at least got time to edit and post some pictures today.

The first series is about the preparations for fireworks ‘gala’ at home 😀 … the fireworks launching test!

 
This is the launching cylinder made of hard paper or card-board. It is slightly more than one and a half feet tall and three inches in diameter. For safety, although it has the base for it to stand, it is better to bury the base… firm! From previous year’s experience, leaving it free standing is not a good idea. The thing which looks like a grenade with a tail is the explosive… the fireworks. Put it inside the cylinder… never put the ‘grenade’ upside-down or ‘terbalik’… else you will see heaven on earth 😀 The tail is the fuse… I think it is not long enough for those ‘kurang semangat’ LOL

 
This is how it looks like after burring some 2 inches of the launching cylinder. And the ‘take off moment’… lucky I manage to capture that… the results?… Waaaait… we need commercial breaks for now 😀

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Happy New Year 2008
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May all your wishes come true and let’s wish for a better and peaceful world.

When I open the two local news papers this morning… I was surprised that there was front page news about the delay in completing the Karamunsing Fly-Over. Incidentally I posted the story about the Wawasan Fly-Over and the Karamunsing Fly-Over earlier. It supposed to be completed early this year. But up until now, only half of the fly-over is completed… 50% behind schedule!!!

When I check my photo collections, I do have some shots of the Karamusnign Fly-Over… here how it looks like on the 11th December 2007 from Tang Dynasty Hotel.

Karamunsing Fly-Over at the background… taken around 6.15pm

With longer exposure with Canon  S5… 0.5 second 

12x zoomed with 0.5 second exposure… traffic diversion before the fly-over.

Taken this photos from 10th floor of Tang Dynasty Hotel, Kota Kinabalu. Wawasan Fly-Over is the third fly-over in Kota Kinabalu. The first, Bukit Nenas Fly-Over (I hope this is correct) has been completed. The 2nd, Karamunsing Fly-Over is still under construction. It is at the left side of the photos… I can’t get a clear sight of it from my room.

Night… around 12.30am, 11th December 2007

Morning… around 7.20am, 12th December 2007

Night & raining… around 12.00am, 13th December 2007

I’m going to write something away from my normal blogging… Benazir Bhutto the ex-prime minister of Pakistan was assassinated less then half hour ago!

This is horrible… we don’t want this to happen anywhere else…

…The attacker struck just minutes after Bhutto addressed a rally of thousands of supporters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, 8 miles south of Islamabad. She was shot in the neck and chest by the attacker, who then blew himself up… Yahoo News

Every business needs customers. Without customer there will be no business. Business and customers goes hand in had. But how do businesses target their customers? In detective term that will be profiling the customer or customer profiling. If you are thinking or scratching your head now, yes you guess it right, it does sound like Hollywood detective series.

There are many types of customers and every customer goes to a specific business to buy or get the goods or services they want or need. Businesses have to buy advertisements or conduct road shows to reach their customers. Without doing all these, customers will not be able to know what is the business all about. But business can not simply conduct all these. They have to be specific to reach their target customers.

This is where customer profiling comes in. Previously we heard about Customer Relationships Management or CRM. CRM is a process or methodology used to learn more about customers’ needs and behaviors in order to develop stronger relationships with them. It is a process that will help bring together lots of pieces of information about customers, sales, marketing effectiveness, responsiveness and market trends. Confused? Well, these are all about company-wide business strategy designed to reduce costs and increase profitability. Profitability is the main key here. Business is conducted to gain profit else it is charity.

But today, we have another type of process or methodology to reach customers in much more effective manner. It is called Marketing 2.0 for Business. Juice Media Worldwide at http://www.juicemetriqs.com is the global leader in delivering this new technology. They are delivering this new technology to accelerate marketing effectiveness and productivity. Effectiveness is by partnering with web producers, blog users, and content drivers to provide a more useful collaborative experience for customers, partners and vendors. It is by converging and integrating multiple data points, including social media that will leverage customer interactions.

Juice Media Worldwide, LLC, a leading provider of on‐demand Marketing 2.0 software services and solutions has moved to new San Diego headquarters at 591 Camino de la Reina on the 11th floor of the prominent Valley Corporate Center building.

Located just 10 minutes from downtown San Diego, the nearly 4,000 square foot state‐of‐the‐art offices are double the size of the previous headquarters. The new office equips Juice Media with enough space for the company to grow its software development and client management staff by an additional 50 percent in 2008.

“Managing rapid growth is always a challenge for successful start‐ups. We evaluated several options for new offices to accommodate our growth and Valley Corporate Center was an ideal location for us,” said Rick Enrico, CEO, Juice Media Worldwide, LLC. ”The office tower’s expansive features and centralized location made it a great solution for our needs as we expand our staff and client roster.”

Juice Media employees have access to a number of benefits with the move including an on‐site deli, gym, ocean view offices, and a park next door. The additional meeting space also enables Juice Media to develop even stronger relationships with its clients with more frequent and productive onsite meetings.

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Wishing everyone a joyous Christmas…

Merry Christmas
Selamat Hari Natal (malaysia)
Kotobian Tadau Do Krimas (kadazan)
Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan (mandarin)
Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon (tagalog)
Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal (tamil)
Kia orana e kia manuia rava i teia Kiritimeti e te Mataiti Ou (maouri)
Nadolig LLawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda (welsh)
Shubh Naya Baras (hindi)
Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto (japanese)
Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année! (french)

Christmas tree at home… 😀