FMUTM CUTE

I just came back from CUTE - Computerized Unit Trust Examination. The question was quite easy if compared to any of my final examination papers. I had to read only one powerpoint slide which the hard copy provided by public mutual during the CUTE revision class held last 7 & 8 June. It's like studying one chapter for final examination. Moreover, the questions were all objective (same like cisco online examination). The result was instantly release which i got passed (without knowing what's the actual mark). Ok... If any of u interested to invest in unit trust or probably have no idea what unit trust is, you may contact me at johan_e1@yahoo.com or you can ym at Y! johan_e1. I'm going for a CFP (certified financial planner) course if sponsored by the company (of course after sales up to a certain amount). I think it is good to educate people about financial planning to make sure financial freedom in the future.

On my way back, I saw an accident just freshly occured at the new road behind melaka central. The van was terbalik and I saw the driver (or probably one of the passenger) were seriously injured (or probably dead) where there are blood all over his face. It was a tragic event and straightly remind me to drive safely and pray to God the almighty to protect me wherever I am. Na'uzubillahi min zalik.

Ok, I have to go to work - afternoon shift at 3.15pm sharp. now already 2.27. I want to mandi2 first before work. Melaka panas beb... Wish you all have a nice day!

Already got a job

Ok. The other day, Mdm Nor Azlina Md Shah, the senior engineer MNQA department called me to help her out as a technian at the cubic factory. Mdm Nor Azlina or i called her kak ina (sometimes we use mak ina among us since her age is almost my mum's age) who was also my ex-supervisor during industrial training offered me a job as a QA technician also to help her out in daily job. I don't think it is a very good offer since to qualify as a technician, STPM or sijil would be enough. But as a fresh graduate, i need not to be very choosy to find my job for this attitude can lead me to another job... planting the grape (or in malay we called it tanam anggur). Last Monday I went for an interview and just now they confirmed everything and I may start my duty next Monday. Yeah.. they don't pay me alot. The basic is less than RM1k, but i think in Melaka, with that amount of money i still can survive without much hassle. I am not yet received my final result (as i sat for a supp paper yesterday), and they use that reason to cut a-bit the amount that I demanded. (I was called up, so I can demand a bit la... Hahaha..) But still, the amount offered could be after 2 years increment for a fresh dip graduate to work there i guess or probably more. But, to be frank, i don't really care about the amount of money as I go for the experience first. If I want to make money, I won't find a job; or to be exact I won't work for people. This is the first lesson by Robert Kiyosaki's Best Seller book - Rich Dad, Poor Dad. As for me, making money and gaining experience is two different things. Probably after i gained enough experience, I will try to make some money pulak...

Brazil won world cup???

Hey... this is a good one. I received from one of my friend a few days ago. I'm not sure about the fact. Too lazy to check. But it sound kinda interesting.

Brazil won the world cup in 1994. Before that, he had won this title for the last time in 1970.
If you add up: 1970 + 1994 = 3964
Argentina won the world cup for the last time in 1986. Before that only in 1978.
And 1978 + 1986 = 3964
Germany, though, won the world cup in 1990. Before that, Germany won in 1974.
Look: 1990 + 1974 = 3964
This could lead us to guess the winner of the World Cup in 2002, since it should be the winner of the 1962 World Cup (In fact 3964 - 2002 = 1962).
And Brazil won the world cup in 1962! (And, in fact, Brazil won the 2002 WC)
This numerology seems to work...
And now, who would be the winner of the 2006 world cup?
Let's see, 3964 - 2006 = 1958
And who won in 1958?....
Oh, Brazil did!!!

Condolence to my neighbour

Today I woke up abit late, as usual and I have to go to Cubic to hand in some document that they asked me the other day. So, around 3 I opened my front door and i was quite suprise when I saw a bunch of peoples were outside my house. What happened??? With a thousand questions in mind I just went out to the factory since i was a lilbit late. I straight went to my lecturer's room to ask something (actually to bodek2 la) for tomorrow will be my paper since i didn't sit for my final paper last trimester. Then i went back home and afew peoples were sitting infront of my house and I have to parked my car quite far, in addition there is pasar malam infront of my house today (wednesday). I joined the pakcik that we're sitting infront of my house and we have a lilbit chit chat. I still never knew what happened (I also very shy to ask) until one of a random guy came to us and asked one of the pakcik "Bila jenazah nak kebumikan?" The other pakcik replied "entahlah, katanya nak tunggu anak dia balik dari sarawak. 15 minit lagi dia baru sampai KLIA." Owwhh.. somebody passed away... Innalillahi wa inna ilaihir raaji'un... We came from Allah, and to Allah we shall return. Suppose they shouldn't wait for their son to arrive, cause Prophet Muhammad PBUH told us, there are 3 things we shouldn't delay, and one of it was to settle down the jenazah.

Then came one of my neighbour joining our group. And later on he invited me to drink some coffee at his house. It's a normal thing, when people become old, they will talk something about the religion and perhaps something about akhirat. It was a good thing actually, but some of his points i really don't agree at all. I don't want to eloborate further, but to me, when we want to talk something about the religion, we should have enough knowledge about what we gonna deliver or else, if that thing went wrong then who gonna responsible with all those things? I am not that good in this religion kinda stuff, but I got some of my points to debate, but i choose to keep quite since old people usually wont listen to younger people. I tried before but it just wont work. Ok, the moral of the story:
1. Jangan taklid buta.
2. Don't look at who's talking, but listen to what s/he's talking.
3. Wake up early, and try to look what happened around you.

Lagi FWD msg... but this is a funny one...

Suzanna: lilyminako (6/21/2006 8:12:49 AM): terminal1983 is using a different version of Yahoo! Messenger. Certain features may be unavailable. terminal1983: seseorang dengan nama mailto:ongbak_5608@yahoo.com hendak menambahkan anda di YM..jangan diterima, itu adalah virus yg paling power. beritahu semua orang yang ada dalam list YM Anda, sebab jika mereka menambahkan maka anda juga akan mendapat virus tsb. Beritahu semua orang dalam list YM Anda untuk tidak membuka kiriman apapun dari cikoi_sons, ha5rul dan frenzck2. Nama2 itu merupakan virus yang berfungsi untu membunuh hard drive. Sampaikan surat ini ke setiap orang dalam list YM Anda. Klik kanan pada daftar group name dan klik Send Message to All

Ok... I woke up this morning and received this fwd msg. As usual, i said "OMG... ada lagi ke orang pecaya benda2 macam ni???" if there's a powerful virus and it's really2 powerful, sure they'll announce it on CNN or buletin utama or something or at least MMU bulletin board. Then i read through the whole msg and i found up my friend's ID. cikoi_sons??? Hey, i know this ID. Then i fwd the msg to my friend and ask him, why his ID is inside this msg. At first I thought his friend probably nak pedajal him or something. Then he explained, "Tu aku yang buat!". I told him my fren from sabah forward this to me. He said this particular message already reached Arab. And he added, the other day got people call him asking for job. And he said, he'd made something similar like this, and people keep on forwarding until one user call him. Ok... moral of the story.... Don't believe in fwd msg... unless:
1. They provide link to a web-page about the details
2. They atleast put on date
3. It can be logically explain without any proof
4. It's a joke or something
I think this is fun... why not i try to create a chain msg and see how far can it goes.

Black Holes and Revelations

Last week I downloaded Muse new album - Black Holes and Revelations. Overall, the album they still maintain the concept where if u listen to one of their song and if u familiar with muse, u can tell that this is Muse's song. And they added a lil bit of maturity in their new albums. In terms of sound, definitely they recorded their album in a high-quality studio and they fully utilize every room in each songs where you can hear not only guitar, bass, drum, and piano, but quite a few instruments as well. And i do believe they will use the sequencer when they performing live. Yes, they are professional musician. Here are some suggested songs if you wish to download:
1. Starlight - uhh... i like this song. Best siottt!!!
2. Invicible - macam lagu pemberi semangat
3. Solder's Poem - if u searching for a slow and feel song, this will do

Starlight
Far away
The ship is taking me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die

Starlight
I will be chasing your starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore

And hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms

My life
You electrify my life
Lets conspire to re-ignite
All the souls that would die just to feel alive

But I'll never let you go
If you promised not to fade away
Never fade away

Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations

Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms

Far away
The ship is taking me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die

I'll never let you go
If you promised not to fade away
Never fade away

Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Yeah
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations

Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms

I just wanted to hold

i haven't graduated yet

While other people is enjoying their final moments in MMU, I still have to sit down and study some of the syllybus. All this happened because I didn't attend my final exam paper last month and they gave me and I status which means incomplete. Hopefully I can finish my degree after I sat for this paper. After checking the list of supplementary, i found out that i am the only one who is gonna sit for this paper; other cancidates passed. Congratulations for all graduating students and hope to see you guys at cyberjaya this coming August!

The Opening of "Kelab P. Ramlee Melaka"

TYT and wife
Originally uploaded by it's a secret....

Yesterday i received a call from pakcik salleh, asking me to go to taman budaya. There's a grand opening of kelab p ramlee for melaka district. Being a leader, TYT Melaka, Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob was very sporting. He sang some p. ramlee's song with his beloved wife there. Prior to that, after giving the opening speech, he played the double bass and some of his assistant holding musical instrument as a gimmick for opening, which i think he's quite sporting and supportive. I didn't snap any photo while that thing happened instead of taking video. I think picture can be more valuable than video coz after i took the video, pakcik salleh asked me to print him a copy of that picture, but i can't do that with that low resolution video. Some more, I can't share the picture here. What a sad person I am...

But nevermind, overall i enjoyed the show. With some live orchestra, they played a few p ramlee's songs and a theather based on p ramlee movies which is quite fun... Yeah... hopefully they'll organize more events like this as what they promised last night...

PAM yang berkualiti

For some of you staying outside Melaka, you probably don't have any idea what PAM is all about. Ok.. PAM is Perbadanan Air Melaka - the water works company for melaka state. According to their motto that they keep on printing on every water bills "Perkhidmatan Berkualiti Cabaran Kami", they kept their promise very well...

Ok, i give you some proof. From the picture above, you may see how the water looks like. Besides supplying a crystal clear water, you can never found any of the water work companies around Malaysia or probably around the world that can supply 'milk' through the pipe of your house. This is what they meant by "Pekhidmatan Berkualiti" I guess. Yeahh... thanks alot PAM! You really make my day...

Whut happen to my Marshall?

It's about a week or more i din't play my electric guitar. Last 2 days i went to briged seni, lepak2 there and i asked tapa, the briged bassist for some metallica jam. tapa used to play metallica before he joined the briged and play all those malay song and lagu2 asli. Tapa said ok! Today, i think i need to warm-up and set some tune on my GT-8. I haven't set any metal kinda sound. I just use my previous sound with a bit overdrive and try to play around with the equalizer on the build-in pre-amp. Probably i didn't turn on my Marshall stack MG-10 for sometime, and the amplifier starting to merajuk. Sometimes there's a sound, sometimes there's no sound. After turn the volume louder it produces sound. Anybody know how to fix this problem? hurmmm... what??? buy new amp? hey, if i got rm2k cash right now, probably i will find a new one. The only problem is the fullus... Ok... If anybody can help me with this problem, please leave down in the comment. Thanks in advance...

Sorry... It's not my birthday!

Yeah.. people feel bored when they have nothing to do. After the final exams, i really2 feel bored. I can't go back home since i joined the public mutual unit trust and probably becoming an agent after i finish the exam. I just finish my class for the past 2 days (7 and 8) and i have to attend the orientation on the 14th and 15th. Ok... when i have nothing better to do, there where people come out with some bangang idea. Nak dijadikan cerita, one day, i browsed my frenster page and i found out i haven't updated my profile for years. I edited some of the words there and when I saw the birthday drop out box, i purposely change my DOB (hoping somebody will give me some present for my faked birthday). After editing those, I just leave it there and totally forgot what i have done with the date until one day, a pop-up windows from my yahoo messenger appear, a girl wishing me a happy birthday... I get blurred for 2 seconds before my mind refreshed and recall back what i have done with my frenster the other day. Ok... I directly opened up my frenster account and there are 3 peoples wishing me birthday, and the next day the number increased to 5 people. I just can't believe it, there's one of my internet frens whom i know her since i finished my SPM, who posted a testimonial for me twice for my birthday this year - on my original birthday last march and on my fake birthday 5/6 or 6/6 i can't remember. hurrmm..

This is the screenshot of my frenster testimonial. Should I approve or should i not?

Keyboard

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Originally uploaded by johan_e1.

I think most of you know i play the guitar and kinda extreme with that instrument. Being a greedy musician, i tried to play all instrument that i could. I tried to play drum, bass, recorder, seruling, piano and keyboard. As i tried, i think i never get any better if i just play for fun or once in a while. I have to be serious on playing any instrument, as i play the guitar from day till dawn, i'll stick with that axe. Err... since i bought this keyboard, i guess less than 5 song i could play with this instrument and i need a further guidance from a professional or probably intermediate player. I know some guys out there, and probably they'll ask for some fees. Probably for beginner is around MYR50/month. Ok... nemind, i'll open my firefox browser and search for free lesson on the net.

PRIMAX 3

Just now, while i came back from my friend's place, my car ran out of petrol. I went to petronas near my taman to feed my hungry car with some fresh orange juice and i saw an advertisment. It was the new petronas product PRIMAX 3. After i reached home and put of my butt infront of my PC, i opened up my firefox browser. There's a news about the launching of their new product of PRIMAX 3... Owhh... baru launching kaaa??? Today they gonna start on selling it at price RM1.92 per liter. Hurmm... Personally i prefer Shell fuel and i think it is true that "Lebih kilometer dengan Shell", the slogan they keep on spreading. I did feel the difference since i ride my bike last time. Hopefully Petronas also can make it with their new product as what they said on the advertisment.

Ermmm... and hey... this is a good one. I read it on the NST site.
Being greatly affected by the fuel price hike and stressed out by the traffic jams that are becoming a definitive mark of a world-class city like KL, I am planning to cycle to work - from Petaling Jaya to Ampang.

The idea is to use it in tandem with the LRT systems in the early parts of the morning and the later parts of the night, when the trains are generally free.

After consulting the LRT customer service officers, I was surprised to find out that bicycles are not allowed on the LRT, even if one were to carry it in as opposed to ride it in. Bicycles offer in return a cleaner, safer and healthier city. In many super cities like New York, Chicago, Boston and London, to name a few, the use of bicycles has been celebrated as way to reduce cost of travel and increase mobility within the city. Trains and subways in these cities do not forbid carrying of bicycles onto trains and subways, except during peak hours. Why has it been forbidden in KL? Our LRT systems only covers areas proximate to the 2 lines, both of which fail to pass near to high-density, populated areas. This problem can be easily solved by a quick bike ride from the nearest LRT to the said areas. Walking, except to close distances, is an act many Malaysians despise. The heat, the pollution and the terrain make it such a drag.

I like the point there. One of the biggest problem staying in KL is transportation. Government should do something to solve this problem. "Subsidi kurang, pembangunan lebih" where's the lebih part???

QUEEN

Yesterday, I was quite bored and deicided to called up pakcik salleh to hang around. We went minum outside and have some conversation. As usual, music will be our main topic. I played the Queen CD using my CD player and on the way back pakcik noticed the songs and started to talk about it. I said it was Queen and after reached his home, he asked me to burn another CD for him and i just gave him the copy inside my CD player...
Lately i've been listening Queen's track quite alot as you probably notice on your right hand side, Queen hits the 2nd place on the overall chart. Yeah, it's a great british rock band with freddy mercury as their frontman and Brian May touched up the songs with some brilliant guitar works. They really produced a quality songs. If you guys haven't listened up to their songs, just download some of their song. I would recommend Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy little thing called love and Don't stop me now.

The Pirate Bay Is Back Online

 

ok... Last Wednesday day the pirate bay was rushed by a bunch of retarded swedish policeman and causing the site to be temporarily shut-down. They promised to fix everything within a few days and now the site is upped again. They did keep their promise. They shift down to netherlands and continue its operation there as usual. The pirate bay is one of my favourite torrent site and I am glad to hear them up again.

Some people said that TPB is totally legal since it does not create all those file. Other people did and they just act as the tracker and server. The concept is more or less like google. Sometimes people search, it does lead to some copyrighted materials, but nobody blame google and said it infringe the copyright law. Hurm.. i guess this makes sense. So, for the torrent users out there, let us download whatever we wish to!

Paranormal

It`s the world`s first ghost detector with built-in USB memory.

Whenever a paranormal event occurs, it is said that there`s a slight variation in the magnetic field. The GhostRadar USB drive detects these physical changes, so that ghosts (unknown bodies of energy) can be detected. In order to boost the accuracy of detection, a bio-clock is built-in with criterion for time elements for repetitive paranormal activity such as the witching hour, new moon and full moon. When a ghost is detected, sounds will play plus patterns from a 16 light LED display will flash. There`s also an attachable protective amulet when for the magnetic field
sensor.

The GhostRadar comes in two colors, black and white. There are three sizes of built-in memory: 128MB, 256MB and 512MB.

*This is a toy for amusement only. This product does not actually detect ghosts.*

Ermmm... Ghost detector??? Check it out more here. Talking about this paranormal and ghost thing, i remembered i watched a talkshow - 'Tanya Linda' episode "hantu". There's a paranormal researcher Syed Abdullah Al-Attas or his nickname - uncle. It was an interesting episode where uncle like firing the other two panel, Dato' Dr. Fadzilah Kamsah and Lionel Tey. In the end, uncle was fired back by this two panel. Below is the clip of the series but the full version will be more interesting.

ZEN AURVANA

Ehh.. this is not an MP3 player??? Ok... This is the new earphone by Creative, AURVANA. For more info visit here. Looks nice. I like it, but unfortunately my birthday already past. I can't 'paw' anybody for it using birthday present as the reason. In-Ear Earphone. Means that cannot share la, unless if you don't mind sharing all the taik telinga.

Hurm... today, I went to submit a CD to Mr. Pau Kiu Nai, went to Cubic to submit my resume, (i thaught there's a walk-in interview, but the guy there ask me to go back and wait for the phone call if my name were shortlisted. Dorang ni macam keling la... Nemind la.. penat jek aku cuak2) and then i straight away went to Public Mutual to register as unit trust agent, unfortunately i forgot to bring my photostate of Maybank account, and i have no sijil SPM. They don't accept SPM slip. Haiya... If Mr Bali (my x-school principal) just post to me the other day, I wont have this kind of trouble. Well, thanks alot!

Hurm... I've uploaded some pictures to my flickr. flickr is better than fotopages (to me) i guess. In terms of speed flicker is faster, fotopages like thousands of people using it. Some more I don't really like uploading all pictures at once, like fotopages (got album n stuff) instead i like to upload whenever i like randomly (not sure if you guys get my point or not - Gomenasai!). Flickr is just perfect for me. Will update more often. Hurmm... And i'll add it on the link beside, right after this ok?