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NAMECHEAP Coupon Code January 2012

2012-01-13T19:56:00.000-08:00

Ok, this blog post probably a little to late but for those who are looking for NAMECHEAP.COM Coupon Code for January 2012, the coupon code is here.

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Namecheap also have thier regular hosting specials: get 10% off a new VPS this month with coupon code NEWYEARVPS and 10% off shared/reseller/business hosting with coupon code 2012ROX.

Hanoi traveling stories

2011-12-20T19:38:00.000-08:00

This year was pretty busy year for me. So I decided to take 10 days leaves and hide myself somewhere far away from home and work. I think sharing my traveling stories in Hanoi with you is not going to make my traveling less fun. So follow me for 10 days in Hanoi.

Day 1
I left Kota Kinabalu around midnight last night. Landing in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) around 1.00am. Then flew into Hanoi at 6.15am this morning. Arrived in Hanoi International Airport at 8.05am. Now the the real thing has just began. Getting the right taxi is something you got be really careful.

I managed to get the good one and it cost me USD 17 which I think quite reasonable. Actually the lady at the information counter told me that last time the taxi fare from Hanoi International Airport to the city center was USD10, but she said that was many years ago and now the new fare is USD 20. When I ask the staff who coordinate the taxis just outside the airport she told me the fare is USD17 with Vietnam Airlines Taxi. I did not managed to get the taxi fare of Noi Boi Taxis also one of the transport provider from the airport to the city. I heard many people had a bad taxi experience in Hanoi Airport. It took me 30 minutes walking around observing the sltuation before I made my mind jumping into one taxi driver to discuss the cost. Good thing now taxi there are properly regulated by the airport staffs.

I asked the taxi to send me to Lucky Star Hotel. Actually I did not booked with that hotel, just making use of its name as my drop of point as I know there will be many other hotels around the area. But then when I asked Lucky Star Hotel and found out that their room charges is onlt USD25, which I think quite reasonable I took up the room. With big and nice room, hot shower, big TV, king size bed, friendly hotel staffs, internet services and close to the lake, what more you could ask for USD25? I think Lucky Star is one of the best hotel in Hanoi. The hotel staffs was very helpful and accomodative. The hotel is located at a very strategic location in Old Quarter. Everything is just nearby withing walking distance.

Now, Hanoi is pretty busy city. Thousands if not millions of motorbikes on the road. For a newbies in this town, I found it difficult to cross the road but got used to it after several hours negotiating the traffics. Price of foods here are reasonable, mostly those food stalls on the road/street selling all types of local foods.

Night life in Hanoi is not bad, except that there are not so many karaoke, only one that I know of is the one near the railway station. SPA and massage is easy to get but they all charges pretty expensive. So if you are thinking about having a SPA, may be you can do it at the smaller city in Vietnam. Hanoi is so used to tourist that SPA become so expensive now.

One thing I like the most is the beer is so cheap. A big glass (almost the size of water jug) of draught local beers will cost you about RM2 or USD 0.60? Haha.

Tomorrow I am thinking of getting out of Hanoi to Lang Son, a small city located at the northeastern part of Hanoi. From there I will go up to Mau Son Mountian and prpbably will stay there for about 1 night. I intend to enjoy my Christmas Day somewhere at the smaller city in Vietnam instead of Hanoi.

And ahhh..I can't access my facebook here in Hanoi. It seems Facebook is blocked here in the hotel internet or the whole of Hanoi? Let ma find out tomorrow.

Day 2
Traveling to Lang Son

I'm here in Lang Son, Vietnam just arrived this afternoon. The bus to Lang Son was arranged by the hotel staff where I was staying. It cost me USD7 which I think it should be cheaper but well, the hotel takes care everything from sending you to the bus station up to telling the bus driver where you should be droped off. So it was OK to paying some extra Dong for those extra services.

I found a hotel by the name Dong Kinh Hotel, that is quite nice and clean. It cost me 300,000 VND / night. I think it is reasonable. The only problem is there is no internet connection (wifi) here and now I have to look for cyber cafe. I think most of the hotel in Lang Son do not have WiFi services expect those big fancy hotel of which I noticed only one here. Luckily Dong Kinh Hotel is located in a pretty strategic location,close to everything like bus station, internet cafe, ATM machines, restaurant, and market. So I spent the day doing nothing just walking around aimless tyring to feel the pulse of the city. And I had a big dinner at one of the restaurant.

Language problem

I found is difficult to get what I want here in this city. It seems English language useless here. Nobody seems to understand English, not even the ladies at the hotel reception counter. Ordering food is a big problem. They don't understand you, and yet their menu is all in Vietnamese language without translation to English. So make sure you learn some Vietnamese language when you travel to this part of Vietnam. The same problem when you trying to get a Taxi or buying anything in the shop. So your bargaing skills here doesn't works. :P

Day 3

I spent the morning getting a good breakfast at the food stall by the roadside near the hotel. After that I spent the whole morning visiting the two large caves located within walking-distant from Dong Kinh Hotel. I forgot the names of the caves. I will mention them later in the next update.

The caves was pretty big and beautiful but since I'm not so interested in visiting cave so I took me only 1 hour to cover the two caves in Lang Son city.

Traveling to Mau Son Mountian
Right after the caves, I found a motorbikes who agree to send me up on Mau Son Mountian. Mou Son is located at about 1500 meters above sea level on the Chinese-Vietnam boarder. The journey going up the mountian takes about 35 minutes navigating a winding roads. It cost me 200,000 VND for the journey with the motorbike.

The tempreture up there is freezing cold that I need to put on 3 layers of clothes all the time. The cold tempreture coupled with strong wind blowing at such a high speed making the stay up there very torturing. So I spent the afternoon sitting around the fire pit at the open space near the hotel with the local to stay warm. We sat there for hours but I was just listening as I don't understand what was being talked about, and they can't speak English.

Again, language problem is the main big thing there. Check-in to the hotel requires extra energy to talk with the hotel/homestay owner. You will need hand sign/body language plus some drawing skills on the paper to get what you need. The good thing is the people are so friendly and accomodation is also cheap. It cost me only 200,000 VND per night which I think quite cheap for such good room.

Day 4

Now I'm back here in Lang Son, staying at the same hotel. I'm thinking about spending 2 night here. I will attend church services for the Christmas here. I'm still looking around whether or not there is any church here. So after this, I will go out hunting for church for tomorrow Christmas. Good luck to me.

To be continue....

Attention : Gmail Warning To All Member

2011-12-12T06:11:00.000-08:00

I've been receiving this sort of spam email so many times now. If you come across with this email please ignore it. This kind of email was sent by internet scammer with the aim to steal your email's login and password. After which, they will get into your email account and look for any other important login and passwords. Probably your paypal, alertpay, ebay or any other account related to money. After which, they will use the login and password to gain access to those accounts and transfer the money to their account if there is any. They probably will be able to find your credit card information/credit card details and use it to buy items online.

Below is the sample of the email. Please take note that Gmail will never send this kind of email to Gmail account holder.

Gmail Team gmail.googlemail.verification@gawab.com <<----This is not email address from Google or Gmail.

Dear Valued Member,

We regret to inform you that starting from 15th December 2011, Your Account will no longer allow you to send or welcome messages, files and pages due to malicious and spy wares activities detected on our old database system. To avoid this adverse effect on your Account, we want you to keep your Account content active and your data up to date on our new database system by providing us with your account information above correctly for proper confirmation.

Email Address:
Password:
Re-Type Password:
Full Names:
Date of Birth:
Occupation/Profession:
Country:

Beware-: Our verification team are working hard to add new features and make improvements on the Web-based e-mail security system, so we might also ask for your comments and suggestions periodically. Now we want to delete some accounts due to anonymous registration of Accounts. All google users are participating in this verification process.

© Verification & Upgrade Team 2011.

Panda Endpoint Protection (WARNING)

2011-12-08T19:27:00.000-08:00

I've been getting so much notification about Panda Endpoint Protection Warning in my inbox lately. It seems there is trojan viruses running through our server in the office and somehow making my email account sending huge amount of unsolicited commercial email since last week.

No wonder many of my email can't go through or bounced back to me by the mail server. It detected unusual activity in my email account and returning back all of my outgoing emails.

Now this is pretty annoying. I'm using this email for business and the mail server keep on blocking my outgoing important emails.

So many internet scammer trying to hack some email account using Trojan viruses to send those unsolicited commercial emails. And now attacking servers of many big companies or organisation. It is important that you should change your email's password frequently to minimise the possibility of hackers taking over your email account.

This is the email that keep coming back to me.

############################################################################
Panda Endpoint Protection warning:

The file (MY OUTGOING EMAIL) was infected by the W32/Mydoom.N.worm virus and has been deleted.
############################################################################
Dear user (MY EMAIL ADDRESS)

Your account has been used to send a huge amount of unsolicited commercial email during the last week.
Most likely your computer had been infected and now runs a trojaned proxy server.

Please follow the instructions in order to keep your computer safe.

Virtually yours,
The IT team.

Google Gmail Account Verification Code

2011-12-07T18:31:00.000-08:00

Since yesterday, I noticed that Google Gmail email interface has gone through some changes and also introduced Google Gmail account verification code that will be sent direct to your mobile phone. This has improved Gmail loading speed and your email account security.

For those who has not added their mobile phone number to your Gmail email account you should consider doing it now to increase/enhanced your email account security.

With this new features Google will send verification code to your mobile phone when you login into your email account. You will have to key-in the verification code sent to your mobile phone to verify the account before you are allowed to login.

Although this is quite annoying having to key-in verification code to verify your email account every time to check your email but this is necessary since there are millions emails account are hacked everyday by hackers around the world. I'm sure you don't want somebody to hack your email account right?

Thanks Google for this new security features for Google Gmail account.

Vono +2 Android 2.1 Tablet PC - 7.0" 4GB Smartpad

2011-12-05T22:41:00.000-08:00

I guess getting a new gadget for my blogging activity is not a bad idea. I bought a Vono +2 Android 2.1 Tablet PC-7.0" Smartpad today at Megalong Shopping Complex Penampang from Oasis IT Enterprise.

So what is the need of having this gadget? Yes, it is somehow to let me be able to update my blog while on-the-go. I move around pretty much that carrying my laptop around with me sometimes not a good idea due to its size.

Vono +2 Android 2.1 Tablet PC can be use to keep updating my blog wherever there is internet connection. Although it is bit slow doing the typing on a touch screen but it is still a good choice.

Just in case you want to know more about Vono +2 the following are the Vono +2 Android 2.1 Tablet PC specs.

TELECHIP 8906(800MHZ)
256MB DDR2
4 GB Flash Memory
Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g)
7-inch touch screen
Android 2.1 Eclair
Features:

+ TELECHIP 8906(800MHZ)
+ 256MB DDR2
+ 4 GB Flash Memory
+ Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g)
+ 7-inch touch screen
+ Android 2.1 Eclair
+ It comes with the beautiful potch

The Vono +2 Smartpad is a well-valued tablet aimed at the budget conscious mobile warrior. It runs Android 2.1 "Eclair" and is powered by a powerful ARM-11 800MHz chip, on a beautiful 7" resistive touch screen LCD with WiFi capabilities. The Vono +2 is truly a value buy for those who want the ability to surf the net, do basic computing work on-the-go or even watch HD movies without the hassle of carrying a laptop. It is only 12mm thick, thinner even than the iPad, and will surely be a pleasure to use even for long periods.

It cost me RM690 but well it is still within my budget and I bought this item from the income from my blog. It will be a good travel companion.

Apple Logic Pro X in 2012 (UPDATE)

2011-12-05T06:27:00.000-08:00

For those apple user, the latest version of Apple Logic Pro will come out soon. It seems the Apple Logic Pro IX was a success and the industry seems very satisfied with the previous version Apple Logic Pro IX. Now Apple is coming out with Apple Logic Pro X in 2012.

Although Apple has not announced the next new version but it is expected that new updated version of Apple Lojic Pro will be launched sometimes in the year 2012.

It is expected that the next Apple's retail update to the professional audio editing software keeps everything we know and love about it.

The next update will most probably will refine and streamline the UI and some features such as WaveBurner which is the main component of Logic Pro.

With those updates, we believe that the next version will be more powerful.

Looking forward for the Apple Logic Pro X in 2012

How much cost to travel to Sapa Valley

2011-12-04T06:28:00.000-08:00

I spent the whole day today looking for some travel gears for my upcoming holiday to Vietnam. Sapa Valley is one of my must-visit place in Vietnam.

I bought myself a new hiking shoes and a small backpack for the trip. But one more thing I need to find out. It is the total cost for my trip to Sapa Valley. I wrote about ATM facilities in Sapa Valley last time, but up until now nobody reply so I took is as it is confirmed that there is no ATM facilities in Sapa Valley.

If such, I need to prepare enough cash with me for my trip to this part of Vietnam. I don't want to find myself stucked there on the mountain having to beg for a free meal and accommodation and for a train ride back to Hanoi.

So how much is enough for the trip? I did some research and the following is what I found out.

Train fares from Hanoi - Lao Chai: USD 30-USD40 / 4 berths sleeper cabin
Cost for accommodation in Sapa Valley: USD12.00 - USD 45.00

So the total cost for your trip is based on how many days you will be up there in Sapa Valley. Of course you will need to prepare extra cash for shopping, meals and probably for tour guide for your hiking trip around Sapa Valley.

I think the most important things is the cost for the train (return) and accommodation in calculating the total cash you need to prepare for the trip. The rest is optional.

Perodua Tweckbot in Sabah

2011-11-30T21:02:00.000-08:00

Perodua has moved one more level in giving the best costumer services. Now you will just need to send a tweet to Twitter@MYPerodua to request for a full check-up for your Perodua vehicle.

The best thing is you don't need to go to Perodua services center to have a full check-up. Upon receiving your tweet, the nearest Perodua Tweckbot team will come to your place to conduct the full check-up for you.

The Perodua Tweckbot is now in full operation in several areas in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor and expected to expand to other part within Malaysia in the future.

Upon completion of the full check-up the Perodua Tweckbot team will hand you the full checklist and will advice you if there is any problem with your vehicle.

After that, if there is a problem all you have to do is to take your car and the checklist to the nearby Perodua Services center. And you will get 15% discount!

So what you must do it to follow Twitter@MYPerodua or 'Like' www.facebook.com/MYPerodua for an updates of the location of the Perodua Tweckbot team.

I'm not sure if Perodua Tweckbot services is also will be expanded to Sabah. We hope they do. We will update soonest if the services is already available.

This services is available specifically to Perodua Cars only.

Syella Kamaruddin's husband wedding photos

2011-11-30T19:24:00.000-08:00

I notice a huge surge of online search about Syella Kamaruddin husband photos. I was looking around the online community and found out something.

Syella Kamaruddin wedding photo!

I stumbled upon this photo in www.myartis.com, showing Syella Kamaruddin and her husband cutting their wedding cake.

What a huge wedding cake. That must cost a lot for a cake that big.

What surprise me the most is the photograph shows Syella Kamarudin husband looks like our former IGP, but if you looks really carefully it is not him.

Anyway, good luck to Syella Kamaruddin and husband. Semoga perkhawinan berkekalan sehingga ke anak cucu.

Sabah Job Expo 2011

2011-11-30T18:03:00.001-08:00

Good news for those SPM/STPM leavers and graduates who are still looking for job to start their career in Sabah, Sabah Job Expo 2011 will be held in Suria Sabah.

Date: 3rd - 4th December 2011
Time: 9.30am - 3.00pm
Venue: Suria Sabah Shopping Mall, Kota Kinabalu

There will be 55 participiting companies will be there for walk-in interview to recruit staff. Resume writing skills and interview skills workshop will be conducted by KPSKTM and Jabatan Tenaga Rakyat (JTK) respectively.

The Sabah Job Expo 2011 will be launched by Datuk Dr. Yee Moh Chai, Menteri Pembangunan Sumber dan Kemajuan Teknologi Maklumat, Sabah.

Special appearance by Rey Kimara, Ebi Kornelius, Candy, Arnie Joba, Alvin MY, Raphiel Pinus, Jade Sisters, Vin P.O.P, The Ariez, Dayang Noraini, Felix Agus and Alex Raja Lawak on 4th December 2011.

Don't miss this opportunity, see you there.

Motorola Droid 4 FULL Specs

2011-11-26T19:35:00.000-08:00

For all Motorola products lover Motorola Droid 4 was announced to be released on 8 December 2011. At the current speed Motorola updates the DROID 4, it is possible that we will hit DRIOD 100 before the next decade.

Somehow, this is probably the best development for all Motorola products user.

So the following are the Motorola DROID 4 Specs;

Hardware
* 4-inch Super AMOLED Advanced display
* 1.2GHz dual-core processor
* 1GB RAM
* 16GB built-in data storage + microSD slot
* 4G LTE connectivity
* camera w/ 1080p video capture + webcam
* HDMI
* MotoACTV sync
* 5-row illuminated QWERTY keyboard
* non-removable battery
* compatible with LapDock 100 and LapDock 500
* 6.31 ounces

Software
* Google's Android 2.3.5 OS
* Android Market and Amazon AppStore (tons of free and paid apps)
* Full HTML 5 browser w/ Flash support
* Standard Android apps
* Google apps such as Google Maps w/ Street View and Navigation
* Virtual QWERTY keyboard, user replaceable with various aftermarket options
* Virtually all apps and UI elements are user replaceable
* Webtop compatible

So looking at the Motorola DROID 4 full specs, now thinking about switching to Motorola products. :)

Sony NEX7 Product Specs

2011-11-26T06:41:00.000-08:00

Sony NEX-7

Looking for the world smallest interchangeable lense camera? Sony's NEX series of compact, digital cameras are the world's smallest interchangeable lense camera, according to Sony.

And now Sony's upcoming Sony NEX series is SONY NEX-7 that will be release sometime in December 2011, date yet to be announced.

The Sony NEX-7 is Sony's latest product for costumers around the world for high quality photography.

Sony NEX-7 Product Specs

So the followings are the product details of the to be released Sony NEX-7 that going to be launched soon.
* 24.3MP EXMOR sensor
* XGA OLED viewfinder offers 100% frame coverage
* 3-inch TruBlack LCD monitor
* 1080p / 24fps video capture
* Magnesium alloy body
* Integrated flash
* Auto locking hot shoe
* ISO Range 100-16000
* 400+ shots per charged battery
* Facial recognition tech
* Object tracking
* Eye-Fi compatible
* 291g.

Toshiba portege Z830 Ultrabook Released in Malaysia

2011-11-26T06:05:00.000-08:00

So this it the good news for you. Toshiba Portege Z830 Ultrabook was launched few days ago. This model is the world's lightest 13 inch laptop, only 1.12kg and 15.9mm tick. There are more. Toshiba Portege Z830 is an ultrabook with special specs.

This latest model from Toshiba is powered with intel Core i5/i7 processor, coupled with 6GB RAM and 128GB SSD disk space. Everything you need such as WiFi, Gigabit LAN port, 1x USB 2.0 ports, bluetooth, SD card reader, equipped with VGA and HDMI video output, 1.3 MP webcam and fingerprint reader. Toshiba portege 8-cell battery provides longer battery life span that any other in the market.

Retail price tag is RM3999 for Intel Core i5 and RM4799 for Inter Core i7. So grab one one. :P

PROJECT ZIARAH FOR PEACE, MALAYSIA

2011-11-26T02:50:00.000-08:00

I received a phone call from a friend of mine yesterday about her new project. She wants me to take a look at Project Ziarah webpage to see whether there is anything that I can do to improve the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for www.ziarah.org.my.

I took a look at the webpage. Project Ziarah for Peace is an NGO organisation promoting peace in Malaysia. This is a newly established organisation and any supports from all Malaysian are highly sought.

So I was thinking about helping them a little to improve the visibility of their webpage in several major search engine. The keyword is 'Project Ziarah' and 'Project Ziarah for Peace'.

Now, since I don't have any access to the coding source of this webpage I can only do some simple SEO tricks. So I will do the followings for Project Ziarah webpage;

i. To submit www.ziarah.org.my to the search engine so that the url can be indexed. This will takes several weeks up to several months to take effects.
ii. I will write a blog post about 'Project Ziarah' which I'm doing it at the moment
iii. Put the backlinks from my high pageranking webpage to www.ziarah.org.my

I think this is the best I can do to help them since I can't do anything for their webpage coding. I hope my friend the Project Director for this Project Ziarah for Peace don't get mad at me. :)) Seriously, this is the best I can do. I hope the webpage developer for 'Project Ziarah' knows how to insert this keywords into the heading part of the coding source in their webpage.

Hopefully many bloggers and websites owner can give some help by linking back to www.ziarah.org.my from their blog or websites to improve their PageRank and visibility of Project Ziarah webpage. Let us help them. Thanks so much guys for your help.

Why blogger's location is important

2011-11-22T07:24:00.000-08:00

My blog has been around for about a year now. Traffics is improving but I still can't get any product to review for some income from this blog.

It is like waiting for someone to knock on my door and 'hey I got a product for you to review, I will pay you for it'. Yeahh..if that happen how good it is going to be. More income for me right?

Or the next morning I wake up and check my mail box and there is a product review request for me, Ohh..too good to be true.

I was thinking about using this blog to make more money reviewing products. But I don't think that will ever happen.

I was told by other bloggers before this that blogging from Kota Kinabalu is too far from any main events. He said I need to live in Kuala Lumpur, be near to those products manufacturers and main events.

Then the other day, I stumbled upon a blog post from spblogger.com also talking about why blogger's location is important. According to that blogger, one of the PR guys told him that it is too far to send product for him to review. And he live in Sungai Petani Kedah much nearer to Kuala Lumpur. What about I, who live in Kota Kinabalu?

May be now, I should start looking other way how to monetized or to make some income from this blog. Waiting for product to review is not going to hit it. But then again sometime, blogging is not all about money.

Anyway, blogger's location is indeed very important.

Lux Fazura Meet and Greet at Giant

2011-11-22T05:27:00.000-08:00

Fazura with her young fan

Petaling Jaya, 19 November 2011 – Fans of LUX Star Nur Fazura had the opportunity to meet her in person, get an autograph and even add some glamour to their photo albums with a personal shot when she made an appearance at the Giant hypermarket in Kota Damansara today.

Fazura met up with her fans in conjunction with the launch of the One Unilever Fair tie-up with Giant, which featured the entire range of Unilever brands from food and home care right up to personal care products such as LUX, Lifebuoy, Knorr, Lady’s Choice, Lipton, Planta, Breeze, Ekonomi Handalan, Clear, Dove, Fair & Lovely, Pond's, Rexona and Sunsilk.

“LUX has always been associated with the allure and glamour of celebrities, so the presence of a popular beauty such as Fazura at the fair will allow her fans and shoppers at Giant to experience a touch of glamour with her presence,” said LUX’s Brand Manager of Personal Wash, Tanya Teng.

LUX Star Fazura

“Those who purchase LUX products worth a minimum of RM15 at the fair will also be rewarded with instant give-aways at the LUX booth where they can acquire the luxury, allure and sensuality of the LUX body shower range which provides every woman with soft, silky smooth and alluring fragrance that lingers after each shower”, she added.

LUX comes in a range of six variants which are; Soft Touch, Velvet Touch, Magical Spell, Secret Bliss, White Impress and Wake Me Up. The LUX body wash range not only smells divine but also contains a blend of precious silk protein and fruit extracts to draw out the natural beauty and sensuality of every woman by making the skin smooth and radiant.

The secret behind the lovely and alluring scent of the LUX body washes lies in the Fragrance Pearls which have been designed to protectively capture the precious perfume oils and release them as lather.

The LUX body wash ranges are available at all outlets carrying LUX products throughout Malaysia, priced at RM15.90 (for a 700ml bottle) and RM5.90 (for a 220ml bottle). Refill pouches are also available at RM8.90 (for a 600ml pack).

Sunduvan: So thinking about getting full set of LUX product now, a high quality and affordable products.

NORTH BORNEO MEDIA SDN BHD signed MOU with UMS

2011-11-21T23:24:00.000-08:00

I received invitation letter via email from North Borneo Media Sdn Bhd a media company to attend their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) School of Media Studies this coming December 2011.

Personally this is the first time I came across with this name North Borneo Media Sdn Bhd so I believe this is a new media company in Kota Kinabalu.

North Borneo Media is operating from their registered office at Wisma ARZ, Lot 16, 1st Floor, Lorong Likas Plaza, Likas Plaza, Phase 2, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Contact No: 088-383299/199 (tel), 088-383499 (fax) and email inquiry.nbmedia@gmail.com

The North Borneo Media Sdn Bhd will be having thier MOU signing ceremony with UMS at Albatross Hall, Sutera Harbour on 14th December 2011.

The MOU signing ceremony between North Borneo Media Sdn Bhd and University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) will be attended by YB Datuk Seri Salleh Tun Mohd Said Keruak, Speaker Dewan Undangan Negeri Sabah.

ATM machines in Sapa Valley Hanoi

2011-11-20T19:50:00.000-08:00

I'm still preparing myself mentally and financially for my trip to Hanoi this year. There are several things that I need to confirm.

The first thing is ATM Machines facility in Sapa Valley. Sapa Valley in the Northern province of Hanoi is my must visit area. I was looking for much more information about several items such as accommodation, transportation and ATM machines in Sapa Valley.

I managed to get enough information about accommodation and the mode of transportation to get in and out of Sapa Valley but not the ATM Machines. So right until now, I'm still not sure whether there are ATM machines facility in Sapa.

The thing is I don't want to have too much cash with me while on the move due to security reason. I normally only take out cash from ATM when I'm running out of cash. I'm not sure how much cash to prepare for my journey to that mountainous Northern Region of Hanoi.

I was looking for some clue from tripadvisor.com about ATM Machine in Sapa but there was none. So I guess I will need to really calculate the cost for a 3 days stay in Sapa Valley. I don't want to stuck there not being able to pay for transport, rooms and meals. That is going to be a very troublesome moment and I don't wish to experience it.

Now the next question is since there are no ATM machine facility in Sapa, how much cash do I need to prepare for the trip? Good question. May be I should calculate to cost for the train, bus and hotel to get some idea how much the whole trip to Sapa will cost me.

I need some help here. If some of you who read this blog post have some information about ATM machine in Sapa Valley and the approximate cost for a 3 days 2 nights in Sapa Valley please share them here. I seriously need some information about it.

Malaysia Airlines (MAS) promotion fares out of Kota Kinabalu

2011-11-20T04:40:00.000-08:00

I really think that this is one of the best news for frequent travelers so far from Malaysia Airlines. I saw this news items in the local newspaper today in Kota Kinabalu. Malaysia Airlines (MAS) offers attractive fares out of Kota Kinabalu. This news items is worth sharing with you.

Statement from MAS today, Sunday, that they are offering promotional fares to everyone for its business and economy class from today until end of this year.

With this new fares, a return economy class from Kota Kinabalu to Seol Korea is RM994, and RM998 to Haneda/Tokyo and RM1,100 to Perth Australia. I think flight out to Perth is the most attractive one to enjoy the summer in West Australia.

I think this is the best deal so far from MAS for their international flight out of Kota Kinabalu. We hope this promotion will be extended to other international destination soon.

And all fares are inclusives of taxes and surcharges. ohh wow..so flying to Perth this coming December is very cheap. I don't see any reason why this is not attractive. Unfortunetely I already bought my flight ticket to Hanoi Kota Kinabalu, otherwise traveling to Perth would be my best choice for holiday this year. My return flight ticket from Kota Kinabalu to Hanoi was RM954, almost the same cost to Perth Australia (full in-flight services including the food) with MAS a direct flight from Kota Kinabalu.

According to MAS the promotional fares were to encourage travelers to book and pay for thier non-stop flight from Kota Kinabalu and still enjoy full in-flight services at no extra cost during thier travel.

Now this is very interesting. If this promotion continue, I can see now that Airasia is also offering the same services and fares for thier international flight from Kota Kinabalu. Competition is good after all :)

Anyway to cut the story short, Malaysia Airlines operates daily flight to Taipei and Hong Kong, four times weekly to Seol, three times weekly to Haneda/Tokyo and Perth and twice weekly to Osaka from Kota Kinabalu.

Visa requirement to visit Vietnam

2011-11-19T21:14:00.000-08:00

I wrote about my future trip to visit Hanoi, Vietnam for my year-end holiday this coming December 2011. All preparation financially and mentally are being prepared. Just in case you are interested to read about what I wrote previously about Hanoi Vietnam you can do so here and here.

One more thing that I need to find out is the Visa requirement to visit Vietnam for Malaysian. I did some research to find an answer to this very important issue. I type 'Visa requirement to visit Vietnam for Malaysian' and found out that there are actually an agreement between the government of Malaysia and Vietnam about the matter.

According to the agreement, Malaysian does not need to apply for Visa to enter Vietnam for a visit up to 30 days. Social visit such as holiday or attending meeting within 30 days does not need Visa for Malaysian. Actually the permission to enter Vietnam will be given on arrival.

So this is a good news. Having to apply Visa is not something I love to do unless it is extremely necessary. I don't really have much love to go up and down the embassy office just to get a visa. Thanks God visiting Vietnam do not need visa for Malaysian.

OK, so maybe you are still not fully convinced about it. You may read about it further here.

Personal experience with Google Adsense SCAM!

2011-11-19T19:12:00.000-08:00

I hope this confession do not break any Google Adsense rules. I do got regular payments from Adsense and my online earning is not too bad from this blog (www.sunduvan.com). Thinking about improving my Google Adsense earning I did some research to look for more tips.

So I use the search term 'Personal experience Google Adsense' hoping to get some result about basic things one should do to improve their Adsense earning.

And, all I get is people claiming to be making huge amount of money from Google Adsense trying to sell e-book online about revealing Google Adsense secrets. They claimed to be the best in this industry or otherwise known as Google Adsense Guru.

Most of the webpage I found about 'Personal experience with Google Adsense' are all selling e-book. So I gave up. Those are all scammer trying to rake some money from Google Adsense newbies or beginners. Are they scammer? This is a hard question to answer.

Yes, they are all selling Google Adsense e-book to unsuspecting victims. Those e-books are only a compiled documents about some basic skills on making money with Adsense and nothing new. In fact you can get the same information for free from many blogs.

So my advice to you is all the basic things and tips about making money with Google Adsense are available online. All you have to do is take sometime to look for them. Put in mind that making money with Google Adsense is not something you can achieve over night. Real work and efforts are required.

Again traffics from search engine is the king to make money from Google Adsense. So the first thing you should do is to learn some basic Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) tecniques for your blog and writing unique and original contents.

DiGi to offer Gmail SMS

2011-11-19T07:03:00.000-08:00

KUALA LUMPUR: DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (DiGi) has announced a strategic partnership with Google to offer Gmail Short Messaging Services (SMS) effective today.

DiGi is the first telecommunication company (telco) in Malaysia to offer the Gmail SMS service, and the partnership is one of many innovative ways DiGi is leveraging on to deliver its ‘Internet For All’ promise of making it easier for Malaysians to access the power of the Internet.

Praveen Rajan, head of Mobile Internet & Ads for DiGi, said the partnership empowers the company to offer the SMS option to millions of Gmail users in the country.

It would also significantly extend their chat community, through real-time chat via SMS, regardless of any mobile device type, he said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Sajith Sivanandan, Google Malaysia country head, said SMS has long been a common means of mobile communications in Malaysia and many people in the country still rely on their non-smartphones.

Gmail SMS makes instant communication between Gmail and a mobile phone possible via SMS, he said.

Gmail SMS brings the Gmail service to a non-smartphone, as with Google’s Gmail SMS, people can send free text messages directly from their Gmail account and replies and responses would appear as a reply in Chat.

For DiGi customers, the service is free without requiring subscriptions, while chat messages sent via SMS from their mobile phones are billed at RM0.10 per SMS. — Bernama

Google Panda kills millions pro bloggers?

2011-11-17T08:03:00.000-08:00

The story about Google Panda has been around for many months now. Most of the stories are all about the huge blows bloggers received after the Google Panda updates.

Let begin with some short story about Google Panda. In 2011, Google implemented a new search algorithm called Google Panda. It was introduced and first implemented in February 2011.

In the beginning, Google Panda only affects English Google search engine especially in United States (US) only but then eventually rolled out to international Google search engine in April 2011.

The implementation did not went well to many low quality websites. The impact of the implementation varies. Some website rankings improved and some lost, a huge lost. Hubpages and E zine Articles was amongst other received the biggest blows.

From time to time Google releases new Google Panda versions 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 in stages. The question remains, do they help to improve some of the lost traffics blogs or things are getting worst after each updates?

Based on my observation, my site sunduvan.com still not able to recover from the blows it recieved from Google Panda updates. I lost page ranking on many keywords. Still trying to recover and it took me already so many months.

The first thing I did after the punishement from Google Panda was to remove those non-performing ads blocks from my webpage. So as you see, this site now is pretty clean compared to it was before. However, things are still pretty bad

So the next solution I tried was to write original and quality contents. This seems to be a hard job to do but then blogging is my hobby so I will just have to endure it.

Recovering from Google Panda is not easy. Huge tasks awaiting ahead but hopefully things will be better. Now I managed to get back some traffics but it is still not enough.

After the Google Panda updates, I realized that Google wants a websites with useful information and less ads. Having said so, the term of 'content is King' is still the cardinal rules. Quality contents are still the most important.

One thing for sure, after the Google Panda, we noticed that millions of bloggers were nearly killed and now struggling hard to get back on their feet.

Fishing boat charter in Sabah

2011-11-17T05:58:00.000-08:00

Without any doubt that Sabah is well-known as one of the best fishing destination in Malaysia. Very often people asked me some similar questions such as where to go for fishing in Sabah as well as about fishing boat charter in Sabah.

To answer to those questions, I decided to write about it here in my blog so that the next time someone asks me about that question again, I'll just have to tell them to check it out in Sunduvan.com. I think there are also some information about fishing in Kudat on www.gokudat.com which I'm not going to discuss about this time.

To cut the story short, I went around town to look for credible fishing boat charter company in Kota Kinabalu Sabah. The search around town took me several days before I found one which I'm going to share with you here.

The next time you are in Sabah for fishing trip and if you are looking for fishing boat charters be sure to contact 7 Star Fishing Sabah. This company is running fishing boat charters from Kota Kinabalu city and they are willing to send you out on your fishing games anywhere around Sabah.

The person behind 7 Star Fishing Sabah is Steven and Lee. You may contact them to arrange for your fishing boat and fishing equipment through email or by giving them a call.

I was told that they received quite a lot of fishing trip booking. You are advised to contact them weeks prior to your fishing trip.

Fishing games in Sabah is a must do adventure if you love fishing. The water are clear, the beaches are clean and the fishing boat charter company is very professional. They know the exact spots and the best places where to take you out.

Now I can hear you screaming about the contact details of Seven Star Fishing Sabah. Check out there following contact details.

You may contact them trough email: sevenstar_913@yahoo.com or give them a call at +6019 810 3689 (Mr. Steven) or +6019 820 9322 (Mr. Lee) otherwise visit their webpage at www.7starfishingsabah.com.