With sites like Coupon Chief around, I can't imagine buying anything at full price without a discount. It's stupid to pay for something full price when it's possible to pay less for it.Anyway, my two favourite things to get online are books and computer peripherals.So naturally Amazon coupons are one of my favourites because I can coupons that entitles me Free Shipping for orders above $25 and discounts on certain products that Amazon sells.Best Buy coupons are also great for things like $50 off the Nikon D40x SLR camera. I could ask my sister to get this when she comes down from San Francisco in a few months time.
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Dato Tan Chin Nam - Mid Valley's big boss and owner of other big businesses platiently playing chess in Cititel Mid Valley during the DATMO blitz competition last month.
Dato Tan is an avid chess player and pretty strong club player at that.
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Chess is so boring. That's what local chess player Cheah Cheok Fung seems to convey in the above picture in the AmBank Chess Challenge that ended recently in Cititel MidValley KL.
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Got up early in the morning to collect my camera that I bought via pos laju.
Apparently they sent it to the house but no one was at home. They didn't even leave the custmorary reminder notice in my letter box to inform me. Luckily the seller gave me a tracking number and I logged in to Pos Laju website and entered the number to find out that it was returned back to headquarters.
I researched on the web and heard horror stories about how Pos Laju just lost stuff after it failed to reach its destination and returned back to Pos Laju headquarters.
So you can imagine how anxious I was when I got to Pos Laju.
The pictures below means that I was lucky that the camera was not lost.
It's a Panasonic Lumix 5 Megapixel with 6x optical zoom. A budget camera at RM 400.
Since it was already lunch time I made my way yo Petaling Street to have a nice hawker style lunch.
Had Lum Mee across Petaling Street at Hotel Lok Ann.
I then walked over to Klang Bus Stand (Pasar Seni) to get my trip back. Paid for the RM2 daily ticket so can reuse it again. That's a big savings. RM2 to and fro KL.
Self portrait of myself in the bus.
Lots of place to sit behind but there's guy who insisted of standing beside the bus driver.
When the bus is moving I find out why. He is one of those who needs to talk to the driver.
Man I hate those type of people. His voice is high pitched for a man and hurts my ears. Not to mention he is distracting the bus driver!! The picture is a 6x zoom. Not bad huh? The camera has anti-shake features so the "head-shot" is pretty clear.
The bus did not crash and I did not die. Reached home safely
My dog MiMi greets me at the gate.
I go in and begin typing this blog article...
Ah it's finished.
That's a typical boring day of a jobless blogger for you. :)
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The Star was one of the first media sites in Malaysia to recognise the bloggers, but that doesn't mean that the relationship has always been smooth. Remember, two high profile bloggers here have been sued for defamation by The New Straits Times. The suit only seems to have united the local blogging community.
Congratulations to FIDE Secretary General Ignatius Leong
of Singapore on his wedding in Singapore last weekend to Celine Dao of
Vietnam. Over 300 guests, including a delegation of 29 from Veitnam and
representatives of ten federations from around Asia and Europe joined
in celebrating their nuptials.
~ read the full article from FIDE website
1st
Club INTCHESS – National Schools Grand Prix 2007
| Categories: | Entry Fees | |
Grand Prix Leg | Grand Prix Finals | |
| U-12 category (Primary only) | RM10 | RM20 |
| U-16 category (Secondary only) | RM15 | RM30 |
| Challengers (Under FIDE rating 2000 & unrated) | RM20 | RM40 |
6)Dates & Venue:
Prix 1 Leg | (Sat) |
Prix 2 Leg | |
Prix 3 Leg | |
| Grand Prix 4th Leg PKSC Cochrane | 24.6.2007 (Sun) |
| Grand Prix Finals | ? |
Grand Prix
(All Legs)
| Registration | 08:30am – 09:30am |
| Round 1 | 10.00am – 11:00am |
| Round 2 | 11:10am – 12:10pm |
| Round 3 | 12:20pm – 01:20pm |
| Lunch Break | 01:20pm – 02:20pm |
| Round 4 | 02:20pm – 03:20pm |
| Round 5 | 03:30pm – 04:30pm |
| Round 6 | 04:40pm – 05:40pm |
| Prize Presentation: | 06:00pm |
Grand Prix Finals
28.7.2007 | | |
| Registration | 08:30am – 09:30am | |
| Round 1 | 10.00am – 12:00am | |
| Lunch Break | 12.00pm – 01.00 pm | |
| Round 2 | 01.00pm – 03.00pm | |
| Round 3 | 03.15pm – 05.15pm | |
| 29.07.2007 | |
| Round 4 | 09.00am – 11.00am |
| Round 5 | 11:10pm – 01:10pm |
| Lunch Break | 01:10pm – 02:10pm |
| Round 6 | 02:10pm – 04:10pm |
| Round 7 | 04:20pm – 06:20pm |
| Prize Presentation | 06:30pm |
Grand
Prix Leg
| Challenger/U-16/U12 Champion(s) | Gold Medal & Certificate |
| Challenger/U-16/U12 Runner – up (s) | Silver Medal & Certificate |
| Challenger/U-16/U12 3rd placing (s) | Bronze Medal & Certificate |
| Special Prizes | |
| Best U–8 | Trophy & Certificate |
| Best U–10 | Trophy & Certificate |
score from each grand prix leg will also be given certificates of achievement.
8th Leg Scores
Combined)
Challenger/U-16/U12 Champion(s) | *Full ACA Scholarship (3 courses) |
| Challenger/U-16/U12 Runner – up (s) | *1 Free ACA Course & 50% off all other ACA courses |
| Challenger/U-16/U12 3rd placing (s) | * 50% off all ACA courses for 1 year |
* The ASEAN Chess Academy
courses awarded as prizes will only be valid for 1 year from the datebof issue and are non-transferable.
* The Grand Prix Final
prizes will be determined at a later stage.
Intchess
(M) Sdn. Bhd.: 03-2300 1680
MSSKL:
1) Cikgu Syam Irza: 019-345 5307
2) Cikgu Yusrinizam: 019-261 7571
3) Cikgu Khairil Helmi: 013-345 5849
4) Cikgu Rahman: 019-252 6121 Or go to www.intchess.com to register online.
12)The organizer reserves
the right to make any necessary changes to the program or rules, before
or during the tournament to ensure the tournament runs smoothly.
Taken from: http://www.intchessasia.com/
On 12th May 2007 Mr Ignatius Leong got married. The
wedding ceremony took place in Vung Tàu (Vietnam). Mr Leong’s spouse is
Vietnamese and thus a Vietnamese traditional ceremony was in order. On
9th June 2007 a much bigger wedding celebration will take place in
Singapore. A number of leading chess people are on the invitation list,
including FIDE President Mr Kirsan Illyumzhinov and the Chairman of
Global Chess BV, Mr Bessel Kok. The Intchess team wishes a happy,
prosperous and long life to the Leong family!
The Wahidduddin sisters – Fadzilah, Khairunnusa and
Nurul Huda – scored identical eight points but were
separated only on count back for the final standing.
In the Under-20 division, Lee Kar Kheng finished ahead
of the competition while Najwa Abdul Jalal from
Terengganu was the winner in the Under-16 and Adeline
Gan took the title for the Under-14.
You can read more from GilaChess report on that event.
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Here's another unverified rumour started by this letter below:-
To: All Company Owned Retail Employees
From: [Name removed]
Subject: iPhone Launch Period
Date: May 4, 2007
As previously announced, Apple and AT&T will soon debut the iPhone,
which combines a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and
breakthrough internet communications into one small and lightweight
handheld device. The new AT&T has a multiyear, exclusive agreement to
provide U.S. service for the iPhone.
To ensure proper staffing during the product launch period, Sales personnel
planning to take approved time off are encouraged to schedule their
vacations before June 15 or after July 15 to participate in the iPhone
launch.
Previously approved vacation will be allowed where voluntary rescheduling
is not feasible
No additional vacation requests will be approved during the launch period
(6/15 – 7/15).
I want to thank you in advance for your understanding as this is likely to
be the biggest selling period we have seen in a few years.
Happy Selling,
[Name removed]
I really can't wait to see an actual iPhone after all the hype it generated.
Then again, my Make$ Money$ got mentioned is an honour already. Just to make it clearer, I have made RM1,400 since nuffnang was launched.Chan Lilian or 5xmom actually makes big bucks from her 10 or more websites (mostly blogs) and she is quite a character. Very outspoken and quite popular judging from her 3000 unique visitors per day on one of her blogs. I can't even get 100 visitors :(
MALAYSIA'S economy probably started the year on
a slower note during the first quarter, mostly due to weaker external
demand, economists say.
They said the robust services sector, mainly
tourism activities, will likely offset the weaker performance recorded
by the manufacturing sector during the year's first four months.
Sam Peterson was arrested under a Michigan law barring access to anyone else's network without authorization; he is being prosecuted for using a cafe's free WiFi from his car. The cafe's WiFi network was reserved for customers – Peterson never came into the Union Street Café – and instead used its free WiFi from the comfort of his car, every single day. A police officer grew suspicious of Peterson and eventually questioned him as to what he was up to. "I knew that the Union Street had WiFi. I just went down and checked my e-mail and didn't see a problem with that," Peterson told a reporter.
Under Michigan's "Fraudulent access to computers, computer systems, and computer networks" law, Peterson's actions could result in a five-year felony and a $10,000 fine. However, prosecutors do not plan to throw the book at him, as they don't believe that Peterson was aware he was even breaking the law. Instead, he will pay a $400 fine and do 40 hours of community service, and the arrest will not go on his record. Coincidentally, the cafe owner that Peterson was leeching WiFi off of didn't even realize that what Peterson was doing was a crime at the time. Neither did the police officer. "I had a feeling a law was being broken, but I didn't know exactly what," said Sparta police chief Andrew Milanowski.
Hey if you are watching Pirates of the Caribbean 3 there may actually be real pirates in the cinema crowd! :)
Night vision used to catch film pirates. 28/05/2007. ABC News Online
Malaysian cinemas have found a powerful new weapon in their fight against movie pirates - military-style night vision goggles.After showing people to their seats, trained ushers strap on the
goggles and scan darkened cinemas around the country to spot anyone
trying to make illegal copies of movies with hand-held video recorders
or mobile phones.The Motion Picture Association, which is training Malaysian ushers
to catch the pirates, say cinemas have caught 17 people in the past two
months, during which Hollywood studios released blockbusters like
Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Wow 17 people already caught! Has anybody seen the ushers wearing those goggles? And in which cinemas? TGV?
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Malaysia's prime minister felt weak and appeared to totter during a public function and had to be held up by officials, raising health concerns about the 67-year-old leader.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi later dismissed rumors that he had fainted while attending the outdoor function in the northern state of Perak, and attributed the incident to heat and lack of sleep.
| A very funny FIAT ad, with Chess as a main subject. The ad slogan "Seize the moment" is applied by a chess player about to be checkmated, in a very surprising and funny way. Anuncio de FIAT con el ajedrez de tema. El eslogan publicitario "Agarra la oportunidad" es aplicado por nu jugador de ajedrez que está apuntito de recibir jaque mate. Muy gracioso y sorprendente. | |
