Honda Insight 3rd stage trophy

At last, after more than 3 months using the Insight, i got the last trophy when i clocked at 6111km.

So, what next after this stage? Will try to keep the trophy level which indicate good driving habits & good fuel economy.

After getting the 3rd stage, its kinda hard to keep the green light on the meter. Is it will behave like this? I still dont know.

My 3rd stage thropy

KL Gangster - “Lu abang long ka, ayahanda ka, gua punya wang, KL ini gua pegang.”

What i can say about this movie is "Congrats". Shamsul had made a good movie, full of action and not boring to watch.

This movie is about a tale of two brothers who get involved in the world of gangsterism. The older brother Malek (Aaron Aziz) was imprisoned for five years after being betrayed by his own gang which was started by Shark (Syamsul), the step brother of the most influential gangster in Kuala Lumpur, King (Ridzuan Hashim). Malek who leads a normal life after being released, is pulled back into the world he left behind after all those years. Especially since his younger brother Jai (Adyputra) is influenced by the gangsters and decides to work for Shark bringing everything down in chaos.



The storyline and the plot of the movie was well arranged. Although the movie is about gangsterism, good values being shown in this movie eg: "Friendship" and "Uphold Family Value" Those values were well communicated throughout this movie which make the movie meaningful. The action style which was look alike "A copy of Hong Kong movie style" was well adapted into the movie.

According to some sources, PEKIDA want to sue Shamsul because some of the plot, using word like "Abang Long" and "Ayahanda" which related to the group. Although there was an issue with it, it does't stop people from watching the movie and making it some kind of "Promotion" to the movie itself. Just 4 days, the movie had gain RM6.2 million which put KL Gangster as one of the top local movies.

Malaysia Government blocks File Sharing websites

You read the title right, it is the most stupid and DUMB thing that those old folks at SKMM do. What a narrow minded people they are.

During the past year, SKMM have been working very hard to block websites with adult content and phishing site that steal user’s information. That’s a good thing and i support their efforts to this.

But Blocking File Sharing? @(#&(*@^$(@#(. According to memo circulated by the SKMM to the Malaysian ISPs, file sharing websites are in violation of Section 41 of the Copyright Act of 1987. The SKMM is, therefore, ordering the ISPs to block access to those websites under Section 263 (1) and 263 (2) of the Communication and Multimedia Act of 1998.

10 file sharing sited that had been blocked.
1.) http://www.warez-bb.org
2.) http://thepiratebay.org
3.) http://www.movie2k.to
4.) http://www.megavideo.com
5.) http://www.putlocker.com
6.) http://www.depositfiles.com
7.) http://www.duckload.com
8.) http://www.fileserve.com
9.) http://www.filestube.com
10.) http://www.megaupload.com
























File Sharing is not only about sharing those related illegal contents. But File Sharing also had suit for other purposes. For me, the file sharing is a good things to had. With it, i had utilized it to:

• Send large file to other people/company where my company email cannot send files more than 2MB.
• I am relying on file sharing to sync project document between my peers. It easy to have an online file sharing where all my project mates can access and update online.
• I also used as a backup repository on all my documents, in case if something happens on my laptop.

Are the issue of piracy and Copyright that they want to address until they had TO block all these services? Is it a right way to do it? I don't think so. Why they did't just come up with an idea, block and stop all ISP from operating by not providing any access to broadband or internet services. The real concept of internet is about sharing without limit of boundaries. Do they understand this? Or someone had to teach them?

If they are concern of Copyright, here are some idea they had to consider :

• Block Youtube because it encourage video streaming & sharing which consist videos, movies, songs etc.
• They also need to block online pdf books because it violating the Copyright of the author although government encourage their "rakyat" to read
• SKMM also can come out with an act to install sniffing tools to monitor every internet activity of every citizen just like parent monitoring their children to behave in a good manners.
• Scan every single of email traffics so that it does not violated any Copyright and did not contains illegal contents.
• Block P2P and Torrents as it is a type of file sharing.
• Block and censored all wording "Share". "Sharing" with "TooTT" on every internet contents as they only understand that Sharing is not good.

Piracy and privacy issue is not only on the internet. It is all around us. How they can resolve the issue online if the existing streets piracy is still there? The problem is not because of the internet, it is because on the existing environment itself. Piracy happens because there is demand.

Blocking this few sharing sites won't stop or resolve the issue. There is a lot of sites and new file sharing services will be born. New technology will be available that will violate the privacy. How would SKMM resolve this?

If you are being FORCE not to use file sharing, will you follow it? People will tends to find a way to bypass the rules because "Rules are made to be BROKEN". Now also there is a way to bypass that restriction by the ISP. So? Does the move to block it a wise decision?

It is a disappointment.

HTC Flip Flop on Gingerbread for HTC Desire?

Last year HTC had announce that Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread will be available to the Original HTC Desire. I am glad that this phone OS will be upgradeable.

Recently HTC announce that the Original Desire will not be upgrade to Gingerbread due to hardware limitation. A filp?

Checkout the news in gsmarena.com as below. It is quite sad to know that they intend to ditched the Original Desire without an upgrade on the new OS and felt cheated by HTC. I am one of the owner of the model and i am looking forward for this upgrade since last year after HTC had announce and promise an upgrade to Android 2.3 will be available for Original Desire. According to the source HTC Desire did not had enough memory for the upgrade but lower specification phone like the Wildfire S able to upgrade to the new OS? What is this nonsense by HTC?

But short after the announcement of the bad new on HTC Desire, a day later in the HTC UK Facebook, they post the following statement in the Wall. Another flop for HTC? If this statement is true then it will be a big relief for me, else i will curse HTC and won't trust on their product or any of their statement in future. Time will tell if they had lied or not. For Asia we had to wait until the latest announcement from HTC

A last word as a conclusion, HTC Please Make this HAPPEN.

Facebook Face Recogniztion

Though it announced last December on this, it wasn't widely available until recently. I also didn't know about this new function as i seldom explore facebook features. Now it seem that this new functionality had been debated on privacy.

Facebook seems to be forever pushing the boundaries of what "online privacy" means.

So, what is this Face Recognition. Facebook has now enabled "tag suggestions" to many more of its users around the world, which means your friends will get an alert if someone uploads a photo that Facebook thinks contains your image.They'll be invited to tag it, and then your ID's associated with that image. Sounds neat in some ways, and there are a few privacy nods thrown in. You might notice this and just use the function but probably you don't know what it is behind the technology.

This function is actually turned on by default. Here's how to turn it off

Here are the step to disable the function.

1. Go to Account*Privacy Settings.
2. Click "Customize settings."
3. Scroll down to "Suggest photos of me to friends" and click the Edit Settings button.
4. Click the box where it says "Enabled" and select "Disabled."
5. Click "Okay" and return to your previously scheduled activities, already in progress.

Select the Disabled in the dropdown.

Bank Balance Transfer

Balance Transfer war between bank is like often now. I doubt that you never heard of it. I also had done it. It quite easy and fast.
Balance Transfer infact there are probably some in the advertising on this web site right now. Most of these offers include some gimmick or promotion to entice you to sign up for these offers.
By having this commitment you will need to stick to the bank and maybe this is the purpose of bank offering this type of promotion, they want the market share in the business.

Who required Balance Transfer?

If you having outstanding balance with your credit card and the monthly interest is killing you, then you need to do balance transfer. You could reduce the interest payments that being charge to you. The interest of 13.5-18% is high and in the end of the day you will realize that you had paid a lot.

Current Available Plan offered by Malaysia Banks
Here I only covering some major banks that had 0% balance transfer.

CIMB Balance Transfer (till 30 June 2011)

Option A - 1% interest for 12 months balance transfer
The Cardmember may elect to apply to transfer their Outstanding Balance to their CIMB Bank Credit Card Account subject to 1% interest per annum
(0.0833% per month) for a period of 12 months. The application under Option A is subject to a minimum of RM2,000 per application and a minimum
of RM1,000 per financial institution; and

Option B - 0% interest for 6 months balance transfer
The Cardmember may elect to apply to transfer their Outstanding Balance to their CIMB Bank Credit Card Account subject to 0% interest per annum
for a period of 6 months. The application under Option B is subject to a minimum of RM1,000 per application per financial institution.

CIMB Balance Transfer Application Form


Maybank Balance Transfer (till 31 December 2011)

a) 0.5% per month (minimum RM1,000) for 6 months

b) 0.75% per month (minimum RM1,000) for 9 months

c) 0 % per month (minimum RM1,000) for 12 months

d) 0.375% per month (minimum RM2,000) for 24 months

e) 0.413% per month (minimum RM2,000) for 36 months

Maybankard Credit Card Balance Transfer application form

Maybank Islamic Ikhwan Card Balance Transfer application form.


Public Bank

Plan A : No interest will be chargeable on the Approved Transfer Amount, 0% for 6-month instalment plan.

Plan B & C : A ONE-TIME interest charge of 1.5% for 12-month instalment plan and 5% for 24-month instalment plan on the Approved Transfer Amount will be charged upfront upon the posting date of approved balance transaction.

Click here for Application Form.

Click here for Terms & Conditions.