Hmmmm .... random stuff, stuff i found, cool stuff, funny stuff, lame stuff, stuff lah! ... boing boing boing!Friday, December 22, 2006
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Its Liam on a Reindeer (Yahoo Mail Beta)
Ha ha .. this is so cute & funny.
Liam is sitting on a Reindeer and galloping away!
Thanks to Victor who alerted me this morning on this new GIF!
Liam Reindeer
Monday, December 18, 2006
Ministry of Domestic Trade WEBSITE DOWN - Blooper
This is quite funny.
If you go to the main website of the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, you won't find their webpage. But instead you will find the Directory listing of the backbone of their website set up.
Click on their Main Page : http://www.kpdnhep.gov.my/
And this is what you will see.
I think someone from their systems administrator renamed their index file.
See this Link with the Index File renamed to TEST
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Errant Indon Maid Agencies May Find Licences Revoked
PUTRAJAYA: Maid agencies still charging the old and expensive rates for supplying Indonesian domestic help will have their operating licence revoked, said Deputy Home Minister Datuk Tan Chai Ho.
He urged the victims to lodge complaints with the Immigration Department.
“We will investigate and act against the maid agencies involved, including revoking their operating licence,” he said.
He said the ministry had received many complaints that agencies here were charging three times more than the prescribed RM2,415 for Indonesian domestic help.
Many had complained of being charged more than RM6,000 for a maid.
He said some employers claimed that the agencies charged RM2,400 for miscellaneous fees such as levy, medical check-up and local agency fee, and a further RM1,400 as fee for the Indonesian agency.
They would also have to pay RM2,450 described as the “maid’s loan from the Indonesian agency”.
“We will call for a dialogue session with the maid agencies soon to ask why they have not complied,” Tan told reporters after the National Registration Department monthly gathering here yesterday.
The ruling to cap the fees came about after the minister Datuk Seri Radzi Sheikh Ahmad signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with his Indonesian counterpart in Jakarta.
Among other things, the MoU stated that maids would have to pay their agents RM1,300, a sum the employers have to pay in advance and then deduct from the maids’ monthly wages.
Asked about the Philippines government setting the minimum monthly salary of RM1,430 for their maids, Tan said the ministry “had a few proposals” in mind but declined to elaborate.
BY SIM LEOI LEOI
Source : STAR
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He urged the victims to lodge complaints with the Immigration Department.
“We will investigate and act against the maid agencies involved, including revoking their operating licence,” he said.
He said the ministry had received many complaints that agencies here were charging three times more than the prescribed RM2,415 for Indonesian domestic help.
Many had complained of being charged more than RM6,000 for a maid.
He said some employers claimed that the agencies charged RM2,400 for miscellaneous fees such as levy, medical check-up and local agency fee, and a further RM1,400 as fee for the Indonesian agency.
They would also have to pay RM2,450 described as the “maid’s loan from the Indonesian agency”.
“We will call for a dialogue session with the maid agencies soon to ask why they have not complied,” Tan told reporters after the National Registration Department monthly gathering here yesterday.
The ruling to cap the fees came about after the minister Datuk Seri Radzi Sheikh Ahmad signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with his Indonesian counterpart in Jakarta.
Among other things, the MoU stated that maids would have to pay their agents RM1,300, a sum the employers have to pay in advance and then deduct from the maids’ monthly wages.
Asked about the Philippines government setting the minimum monthly salary of RM1,430 for their maids, Tan said the ministry “had a few proposals” in mind but declined to elaborate.
BY SIM LEOI LEOI
Source : STAR
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Liam is now Playing FIFA Football
Liam is now playing FIFA Football. :)
Check him out
Liam - Fifa Football
Original Link : http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/pim/dclient/d/img/liam_fifa.gif
Related Links
- Liam is now Shadow Boxing
- Have u met Liam from Yahoo?
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Public Urged to Lodge Complaints Against Overcharging Maid Agencies
PUTRAJAYA: Lodge complaints with the Immigration Department if maid agencies continue to charge the old and expensive rates for supplying Indonesians domestic help.
“We will investigate and act against the maid agencies involved, including revoking their operating licence,” Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Tan Chai Ho said.
He said the ministry had received a flood of complaints that agencies here were charging three times more than the allowed RM2,415 for Indonesian domestic help.
Many had complained of being charged more than RM6,000 for a maid.
He said some employers claimed that the agencies charged RM2,400 for miscellaneous fees such as levy, medical check-up and local agency fee, and a further RM1,400 as fee for the Indonesian agency.
On top of this, they would also have to pay RM2,450 described as the “maid’s loan from the Indonesian agency". "By right, maid agencies should have stopped charging the old fee following the introduction of the new guideline,” Tan told reporters after the National Registration Department monthly gathering here Tuesday.
“The minister (Datuk Seri Radzi Sheikh Ahmad) has already made an announcement and every agency should comply with it because the new rate was decided after much discussion with the Indonesian authorities.
“If they don’t, their operating licences can be revoked. We will call for a dialogue session with the maid agencies as soon as possible to ask why they have not been following it.”
Those wanting to complain, added Tan, must produce evidence, such as receipts, they were charged the old fees.
The ruling to cap the fees came about after Radzi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with his Indonesian counterpart in Jakarta.
Among other things, the MoU stated that maids would have to pay their agents around RM1,300 to come here, , which employers might be expected to pay in advance and then have this sum deduct from the maids’ monthly wages.
On the Filipino government setting a minimum monthly salary of RM1,430 starting Friday for their maids, Tan said at present, most household help were from Indonesia.
Asked if the Government planned to negotiate with the Filipino government for a lower monthly salary, he said the ministry “had a few proposals” in mind but declined to elaborate.
Source : STAR
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“We will investigate and act against the maid agencies involved, including revoking their operating licence,” Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Tan Chai Ho said.
He said the ministry had received a flood of complaints that agencies here were charging three times more than the allowed RM2,415 for Indonesian domestic help.
Many had complained of being charged more than RM6,000 for a maid.
He said some employers claimed that the agencies charged RM2,400 for miscellaneous fees such as levy, medical check-up and local agency fee, and a further RM1,400 as fee for the Indonesian agency.
On top of this, they would also have to pay RM2,450 described as the “maid’s loan from the Indonesian agency". "By right, maid agencies should have stopped charging the old fee following the introduction of the new guideline,” Tan told reporters after the National Registration Department monthly gathering here Tuesday.
“The minister (Datuk Seri Radzi Sheikh Ahmad) has already made an announcement and every agency should comply with it because the new rate was decided after much discussion with the Indonesian authorities.
“If they don’t, their operating licences can be revoked. We will call for a dialogue session with the maid agencies as soon as possible to ask why they have not been following it.”
Those wanting to complain, added Tan, must produce evidence, such as receipts, they were charged the old fees.
The ruling to cap the fees came about after Radzi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with his Indonesian counterpart in Jakarta.
Among other things, the MoU stated that maids would have to pay their agents around RM1,300 to come here, , which employers might be expected to pay in advance and then have this sum deduct from the maids’ monthly wages.
On the Filipino government setting a minimum monthly salary of RM1,430 starting Friday for their maids, Tan said at present, most household help were from Indonesia.
Asked if the Government planned to negotiate with the Filipino government for a lower monthly salary, he said the ministry “had a few proposals” in mind but declined to elaborate.
Source : STAR
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Liam is now Shadow Boxing
In my fascination in collecting Liam (the Yahoo Guide), just realized that Yahoo realeased a new animation of Liam.
Liam the Shadow Boxer. I think its just a cute animation!
I wonder how many Yahoo will create?
Related Link
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Liam the Shadow Boxer. I think its just a cute animation!
I wonder how many Yahoo will create?
Liam - Shadow Boxing
Original Link - http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/pim/dclient/d/img/liam_shadowboxer_scaled.gif
Related Link
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Sunday, December 10, 2006
Filipino Maids to Cost Double
KUALA LUMPUR: Starting Friday, any employer who hires a Filipino maid may have to pay her a minimum monthly salary of RM1,430 – double the old wage and almost three times that of an Indonesian maid.
The minimum monthly salary set by the Philippines Overseas Labour Office (Polo) takes effect on Dec 15. The minimum age set for the maids is 25 years.
However, this has drawn flak from Malaysian employment agencies. They say the current minimum wage for a Filipino maid is US$200 (RM715).
“The 100% increase is too high and unrealistic,” they added.
There are an estimated 20,000 Filipino maids in Malaysia and about 30 employment agencies are involved in the recruitment of these maids.
Josephus B. Jimenez, the Philippine Embassy labour attaché here, said in a letter to all domestic maid agencies that Filipino household workers now had to attend and complete an orientation course on work policies and their responsibilities.
The letter also stated that the domestic workers should be treated humanely while under the custody of their employers.
A leading maid agency owner, Mona Lee, said most agencies were upset over the high increase in the minimum salary.
“Any increase should be based on the performance of the maid. They (Polo) just cannot arbitrarily fix a rate and expect every employer to follow it,” argued Lee, a former president of the Association for Filipino Domestic Maids Agencies.
“Most maid agencies are rejecting the increase and employers have expressed their objections as well.
“Some employers are not even paying the current US$200 salary stipulated by Polo.”
She added that the unnecessary increase would encourage more maids from the Philippines to enter the country without proper documents.
Another agent who had been bringing in Filipino maids for the past 20 years felt the increase was too high and unrealistic.
“This may encourage Filipino women to come into the country as tourists and be employed as maids at a lower salary,” he added.
BY M. KRISHNAMOORTHY
Source : STAR
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The minimum monthly salary set by the Philippines Overseas Labour Office (Polo) takes effect on Dec 15. The minimum age set for the maids is 25 years.
However, this has drawn flak from Malaysian employment agencies. They say the current minimum wage for a Filipino maid is US$200 (RM715).
“The 100% increase is too high and unrealistic,” they added.
There are an estimated 20,000 Filipino maids in Malaysia and about 30 employment agencies are involved in the recruitment of these maids.
Josephus B. Jimenez, the Philippine Embassy labour attaché here, said in a letter to all domestic maid agencies that Filipino household workers now had to attend and complete an orientation course on work policies and their responsibilities.
The letter also stated that the domestic workers should be treated humanely while under the custody of their employers.
A leading maid agency owner, Mona Lee, said most agencies were upset over the high increase in the minimum salary.
“Any increase should be based on the performance of the maid. They (Polo) just cannot arbitrarily fix a rate and expect every employer to follow it,” argued Lee, a former president of the Association for Filipino Domestic Maids Agencies.
“Most maid agencies are rejecting the increase and employers have expressed their objections as well.
“Some employers are not even paying the current US$200 salary stipulated by Polo.”
She added that the unnecessary increase would encourage more maids from the Philippines to enter the country without proper documents.
Another agent who had been bringing in Filipino maids for the past 20 years felt the increase was too high and unrealistic.
“This may encourage Filipino women to come into the country as tourists and be employed as maids at a lower salary,” he added.
BY M. KRISHNAMOORTHY
Source : STAR
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Friday, December 08, 2006
Two Milestones for SNS
We are really delighted to see ShoppingNSales (SNS) grow at such a good and steady pace.
We achieved Two Milestones yesterday and today.
1. Yesterday SNS had its highest hits ever - 2,400 hits in one day
2. Today, in total, SNS has now a total hits of - 40,805 hits since we started! YAY! We've just crossed the 40,000 mark!!!
We started SNS back in early September, and we really pleased with its growth.
Continue to help inform SNS to your friends
If you have not seen SNS, check it out at http://shoppingNsales.blogspot.com
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We achieved Two Milestones yesterday and today.
1. Yesterday SNS had its highest hits ever - 2,400 hits in one day
2. Today, in total, SNS has now a total hits of - 40,805 hits since we started! YAY! We've just crossed the 40,000 mark!!!
We started SNS back in early September, and we really pleased with its growth.
Continue to help inform SNS to your friends
If you have not seen SNS, check it out at http://shoppingNsales.blogspot.com
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Thursday, December 07, 2006
SNS listed on FJ Benjamin Finance Section
This is WAY COOL!
I am so curious on HOW it happened? I guess it is interesting how Google works!
If you go to FJ Benjamin's Financial page on Google
- http://finance.google.com/finance?cid=671324
If you scroll down and look at the Bottom Right Corner.
There's a Section called BLOG POSTS!
ShoppingNSales is listed as the First Blog!
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I am so curious on HOW it happened? I guess it is interesting how Google works!
If you go to FJ Benjamin's Financial page on Google
- http://finance.google.com/finance?cid=671324
If you scroll down and look at the Bottom Right Corner.
There's a Section called BLOG POSTS!
ShoppingNSales is listed as the First Blog!
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Passenger Farted And Flight Was Grounded
Hahaha .. this is so ridiculously funny! And it took me a while to realize that when the news reported Flatulence .. what it means in our local language is FART .. or Kentut!! heheh.
Read on ......
What is Flatulence? Click here
Flatulent passenger grounds flight
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec 6 (Reuters Life!) - It may be one problem airline security officials never envisioned -- a passenger lighting matches in flight to mask odors from her flatulence.
The woman's actions resulted in an emergency landing on Monday in Nashville of an American Airlines flight bound for Dallas from Washington, D.C., said Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for Nashville's airport.
Other passengers reported the odor of burned matches, but the woman was not forthcoming when asked about it, Lowrance said on Wednesday.
"Of course, she was scared and embarrassed but all the passengers had to disembark, all the luggage had to be searched, a canine team was brought in, and about three hours were consumed in sorting out the situation," she said.
The woman was not allowed back on the flight and barred from flying on American Airlines, Lowrance said.
"Since there was no malice involved and the incident was accidental, she was not charged with anything," she said.
Passengers are permitted four books of paper safety matches on a plane but cannot light them during flight, Lowrance said.
"I've had calls from people all over the country about this," she said. "And I don't have the answer to this problem."
Source : Reuters
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Read on ......
What is Flatulence? Click here
Flatulent passenger grounds flight
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec 6 (Reuters Life!) - It may be one problem airline security officials never envisioned -- a passenger lighting matches in flight to mask odors from her flatulence.
The woman's actions resulted in an emergency landing on Monday in Nashville of an American Airlines flight bound for Dallas from Washington, D.C., said Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for Nashville's airport.
Other passengers reported the odor of burned matches, but the woman was not forthcoming when asked about it, Lowrance said on Wednesday.
"Of course, she was scared and embarrassed but all the passengers had to disembark, all the luggage had to be searched, a canine team was brought in, and about three hours were consumed in sorting out the situation," she said.
The woman was not allowed back on the flight and barred from flying on American Airlines, Lowrance said.
"Since there was no malice involved and the incident was accidental, she was not charged with anything," she said.
Passengers are permitted four books of paper safety matches on a plane but cannot light them during flight, Lowrance said.
"I've had calls from people all over the country about this," she said. "And I don't have the answer to this problem."
Source : Reuters
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Finally SNS is on Google's Search Results
WOW!! It took ages, i think more than 1 1/2 months for the spiders to crawl! It must be some pretty old spiders.
We submited shoppingNsales to Google and we've been waiting sicne to see it being listed in the "Malaysia Warehouse Sale" search result.
We're glad that its there Ranked No.2 and we hope that it will stay there for a bit, so that it will help surfers find the best warehouse sales information put up online. :) hehe
Give it a go .... go to www.google.com and type Malaysia Warehouse Sale. (or click the link below)
http://www.google.com.my/search?hl=en&q=malaysia+warehouse+sale&meta=
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We submited shoppingNsales to Google and we've been waiting sicne to see it being listed in the "Malaysia Warehouse Sale" search result.
We're glad that its there Ranked No.2 and we hope that it will stay there for a bit, so that it will help surfers find the best warehouse sales information put up online. :) hehe
Give it a go .... go to www.google.com and type Malaysia Warehouse Sale. (or click the link below)
http://www.google.com.my/search?hl=en&q=malaysia+warehouse+sale&meta=
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Friday, December 01, 2006
Average 1000 Hits Daily for SNS
It is just so unbelievable. SNS (ShoppingNSales) is averaging 1000+ hits a day!
I mean i know Warehouse Sales and Promotions are one thing most Malaysians hunt for, but its amazing to see that there are just so many people interested to read about sales sales sales :)
And of course its amazing to see the whole Malaysia go On Sale. This is one first time witnessing so so so so so so so many Warehouse Sales events on at one time.
Check out the Warehouse Sales, Annual Clearance, Year End Sales, that SNS picked up around PJ, KL, Cheras, Subang and Shah Alam. So scarry wan! And these do not include the other areas (ie like Department Stores, Fashion Houses and more which are currently on sale!
? Any suggestions to how we can improve SNS to get better results?
Why would anyone wanna kill a baby?
This is so so sick! Why would anyone wanna kill a baby?
Worst yet, why make it so dramatic and terribbly sick by throwing it down a flat, just like how people would throw rubbish out a window. This is just so sad!
Sad to see these sort of things happening in this day and age, where most people are educated and would respect LIFE! Sad to see it happening in our city, Cheras ... mind u... not some ulu town somewhere where its unheard of.
Sigh! There's More to LIFE than this and I pray that the person responsible would embrace it.
Baby Thrown Down From Flat
Worst yet, why make it so dramatic and terribbly sick by throwing it down a flat, just like how people would throw rubbish out a window. This is just so sad!
Sad to see these sort of things happening in this day and age, where most people are educated and would respect LIFE! Sad to see it happening in our city, Cheras ... mind u... not some ulu town somewhere where its unheard of.
Sigh! There's More to LIFE than this and I pray that the person responsible would embrace it.
Baby Thrown Down From Flat
KUALA LUMPUR: The newborn baby may have been still alive when it was placed in a rotting mess of kitchen refuse and hurled down an apartment block in Jalan Pudu Ulu, Cheras, yesterday.
When a sweeper found the infant with its umbilical cord still attached at 7.15am, it had been dead for two to three hours.The back of the baby’s head had been crushed, most probably from the impact of the fall.
Police are trying to determine the unit from which the baby was thrown.
A Cheras police spokesman said although the baby was fair-skinned, its race had not been determined.
Roshayati Tambi Ahmad, 44, stumbled upon the garbage bag as she was cleaning the area around Block B."I noticed a stench from a garbage bag on the ground and found it filled with chicken and fish parts. As I picked it up, the body slipped through a hole at the bottom of the bag," she said.She alerted the management office, which called in the police.
The body was sent to the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Hospital for a post- mortem.
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