Nineteen research houses say Bursa shares unattractive

By DANNY YAP


PETALING JAYA: The Bursa Malaysia stock has turned unattractive based on reports by 19 research houses (local and foreign), which mostly have a “sell” or “neutral” call on the counter, while a few had “in line” or “hold” recommendations.

According to Bloomberg, the stock has a target price of as low as RM3.40 and a high of RM8.35, with RM3.76 being the overall average target price.

The 19 research houses’ reports were dated from July to August.

An analyst with Citi Investment Research, who has a “sell” call, said Bursa Malaysia had ranked poorly and was grouped together with other stocks in the Asia-Pacific region, such as AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd (Australia) and top South Korean Internet gaming company NHN Corp (Korea) based on Citi’s Radar Model.

The Radar Model divides companies into four quadrants and tries to explain how the market perception may change over time and how this often affects valuations and stock prices.

According to the model, the top sectors in the Asia-Pacific that have managed to beat the global economic downturn were metals and mining, motor vehicle, energy and banking, while hotel and retailing have overtaken insurance as the least attractive to invest in this month.

Corporations in the region that had performed well (termed Asian idols) included the China National Offshore Oil Corp, Link Real Estate Investment Trust of Hong Kong, and Tata Steel Ltd, a unit controlled by India’s Tata Group.

The analyst said the Asian idols were among the quandrant stars that also had a high “buy” rating.

Another local analyst said Malaysian companies, including Bursa Malaysia, were “weighed down” by political uncertainties affecting investor confidence as well as the global economic downturn.

“The double-whammy effect has taken a toll on most stocks and Bursa Malaysia is no exception, especially since it’s the local stock exchange for listing.”

He said market sentiment remained low and that even company listings had dwindled significatly this year compared with 2007.

“But we choose to remain optimistic that things will change for the better for the economy as well as Bursa Malaysia in the longer term,” he said.

IBM Websphere Application Server (WAS) V6.1 Network Deployment Certification 253

Preparation for this examination (253) was kinda harsh. I only managed to cram 2.5 of the related IBM Red Books and struggled to get the other questions right using my project experiences.

Study Materials:

WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Planning and Design (SG24-7305-00)
WebSphere Application Server 6.1 System Management and Configuration (SG24-7304-00)
WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Security Handbook (SG24-7304) - Part 1

I really want to read up another one about Performance, Scalability and HA but my schedule was extremely tight, well, maybe will do the reading if going for the advanced certification.

Score: 89%

When will be the return of my Glory days?

I went for a sport session, i.e. bowling session alone. Not really astonishing result.

Bank Negara Malaysia all out for Private Loan Business?

I saw this poster and many of such business advertisement that carries with them the logo of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). Location: Klang Utama, Selangor.

These are so called loan sharks luring for foods misused our prestige central bank logo, what a marketing strategy huh?

IBM bumps Microsoft from second place on brand-value list

IBM has moved past Microsoft to claim the title of second most valuable brand in the world, according to the annual Global Brand List.

Interbrand, a global brand management firm, reported Thursday that IBM’s brand value has increased 3 percent, to $59.03 billion, in 2008. That was enough to push it above Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), which was assigned a brand value of $59 billion and fell to No. 3.

Coca-Cola, with a brand value of $66.67 billion, claimed the top spot on the list for the eighth year in a row.

In addition to IBM, which has 11,000 employees in Research Triangle Park, several other businesses with significant presences in the Raleigh-Durham area made the list, including: Hewlett-Packard (No. 12, $23.5 billion), Cisco (No. 17, $21.3 billion), Sony (No. 25, $13.6 billion), Caterpillar (No. 66, $5.3 billion) and Johnson & Johnson (No. 90, $3.6 billion).

Changes in the global economy have had a major impact over the years, Jez Frampton, Interbrand’s CEO, said in a statement.

Merrill Lynch, for example, fell from 22nd in 2007 to 34th this year, and AIG fell from 47th to 54th. Bank of America, which has agreed to buy Merrill Lynch for $50 billion, was not among the 100 companies listed. The U.S. government agreed this week to an $85 billion bailout of AIG.

Portfolio B @ 18-September-2008

Eddy said: Everybody is panicking. Hefty losses in my portfolio B. LOL, maybe it's time to create portfolio C.

Eddy said again: KZEN and IZZINET pulled off by SC. KZEN plumbed into deep. No material impact on IPOWER yet as long as the market value of 25% holding in IZZINET doesn't mark to market.

Eddy said more stuffs: Tabung Haji increases their stake in PELIKAN significantly. It is possible that they are trying to absorb abandonned goods from foreign funds or something fishy?



Transaction Costs are excluded.

1400 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 2.55, Market Price = RM2.18, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM518)

14000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.195, Market Price = RM0.18, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM210)

Notes:
Previously bought 300 unit Pelikan @ 2.35.
Today bought another 100 unit Pelikan @ 2.15.


Realized Profit/(Loss)
1. Uchitec (RM340)

Malaysians prefer savings account to stock investing

Eddy said: No offense, but some if not most Malaysian don't even know the existence of PIDM, don't even realize the regulator only promise to insure 60K of their savings. Geez, safer medium?

Speaking of life insurance with savings elements, the policy holders are not even sensitive about the happenings! AIA Singapore made a clarification in their corporate web site the same day when AIG hitted a major bumper. Why? Coz couple of hundreds of policyholders rushed to AIA building and threathen to terminate their policy (or maybe they really do want to terminate).

Typical Malaysians? "Nothing will happen la" spirit....

Education is still the way to go "la"




MOST Malaysians are cautious when it comes to investing their money, opting for safer mediums such as savings account rather than stocks or other investment vehicles, according to the results of Aviva's Consumers Attitudes to Savings 2008.

Of the 1,000 respondents surveyed, 94 per cent has a savings account, 35 per cent has life insurance with savings element, while the remaining 23 per cent has unit trust.

However, more than half of the respondents indicated that they are ill-prepared to cope with the unexpected, reflecting a worrying trend in Malaysians' financial preparedness.

Some 63 per cent of the people polled realised that saving and investing regularly are key to a comfortable retirement, but only a mere 14 per cent were confident they will have enough funds to retire.



Despite up to 64 per cent expressing concern that they would not have enough money when they retire, the majority saw extending their working life as a better solution to be more financially secure.

To ensure an adequate lifestyle when they really have to retire, 53 per cent of them even acknowledged that they might have to work beyond their retirement date.

"The survey clearly reveals the gap between acknowledging the need for saving versus the action of actually saving. Malaysians choose to continue working full time and part time to fund their much-deserved retirement instead of shifting their mindset to investing their income into other mediums that could potentially provide higher returns," said CIMB Aviva Malaysia marketing director Andi McLennan.

He said continuous education and awareness about ways to benefit from financial growth, while benefiting from the certainty of capital and life protection, are critical for the Malaysian market.

To this end, CIMB Aviva recently launched CIMB Islamic Market Select, a syariah-compliant capital-protected fund that invests in 17 countries from developed and emerging markets around the globe.

Investors also benefit from takaful coverage, which pays surviving nominees a maximum of 125 per cent of their single investment if they pass away before the investment matures.

Investors can gain access to a diversified portfolio of global investments from RM25,000 with their capital intact when the product matures.

When applied to historical data, CIMB Islamic Market Select's dynamic investment allocation strategy gives average annual returns of 16.5 per cent and 23.6 per cent for its three-year and five-year plan which means potentially higher returns than a conventional fixed deposit account.

CIMB Islamic Market Select is available at all CIMB Islamic branches until Friday.

Flashback on the days in BrainBench

I like BrainBench. To be precise I like the FREE tests from BrainBench. It's free and everyone loves free stuffs. So I decided to log into the system and review what I had done during the past with BrainBench.

Some logos I'm allowed to use from BrainBench.











Some nice spots I'm still holding in BrainBench. Cool huh.

Little Nerd(s)..... Soon?

Wow, Mrs. Nerdy brought back with her a box of DVD titled "Pregnancy for Dummies" that she borrowed from her colleague for "contents evaluation". Suspicious huh?








Anyway, she should get instead "Pregnancy for Nerds", LOL

Little nerd(s) running around Mr. and Mrs. Nerdy Eddy... What a View! I like it.

Warning: 30 airlines will go bust this year

By David Prosser, Deputy Business Editor, and Martin Hickman

Up to 30 more airlines will go bankrupt before Christmas, the chief executive of British Airways warned yesterday, as the biggest rescue of stranded passengers in travel industry history began.


Willie Walsh said the scenes of chaos in which 85,000 passengers have been stranded at locations around the world after the collapse of XL, Britain's third largest holiday company, would become a familiar sight as the travel industry struggled with soaring fuel costs and the effects of a global economic downturn.

"We are in the worst trading environment the industry has ever seen", said Mr Walsh. "We have already seen 30 or so airlines go bust this year and it would be fair to expect a similar number of casualties worldwide over the next three to four months."

Mr Walsh also announced up to 1,400 redundancies at his own airline yesterday.

Travel industry experts said smaller airlines and tour operators were most at risk and warned passengers to book in a way that ensured they got their money back if an airline went bankrupt.

Joseph Thomas, a travel and leisure analyst at Investec, the City stockbroker, said: "XL will not be the last: there have been a number of similar issues recently of smaller tour operators hitting financial difficulties."

John Strickland, an aviation consultant with JLS Consulting, added: "There are carriers in the UK that are not cash-rich like BA or Ryanair and who have not been able to hedge their oil costs. I think there will be other failures in coming months."

The travel sector is particularly vulnerable at this time of year because operators have to begin paying suppliers, such as hoteliers just as the number of bookings begins to dwindle.

This year, however, is especially difficult because the UK's economic slowdown has begun to damage sales. At the same time, the costs of airlines and other travel companies remain high, primarily because of the hugely inflated price of jet fuel, which has doubled in a year.

Britain's biggest tour operators, TUI Travel and Thomas Cook, have already announced they are cutting by about 8 per cent the number of holidays on offer next summer to avoid being caught out by falling demand. Most leading airlines, including national carriers such as BA and budget airlines such as Ryanair, have also announced reductions in capacity, particularly during the winter months. But smaller players may have insufficient resources to survive. XL is understood to have had large borrowings, which left it especially vulnerable to a rise in costs.

Kenny Ezard, of Airline Business magazine, said she was sure other airlines would go bust, following Zoom, Silverjet and XL. "It's an ever-growing list," she said. "It will be the ones that don't have strong balance sheets, probably the start-ups. There will also be a lot more consolidation, which is already happening in Europe."

Some bookmakers are now taking bets on which airline or tour operator will be the next to go bankrupt, though transport analysts are reluctant publicly to name those considered most vulnerable for fear of sparking a panic that would seal their fate.

Gert Zonneveld, a transport analystm, said: "Companies that have gone under in the UK have tended to be younger, smaller companies; the larger companies have a lot more cash and are well established and it takes a long time to achieve that."

Alitalia, the Italian national airline, could be the next high-profile victim of the downturn, having been given one more day by the Italian government yesterday to come to an agreement with trades unions. Ministers said that if the unions did not sign up to a rescue plan for the ailing airline its assets would be liquidated.

British Airways said its programme of redundancies, which are – for now – voluntary rather than compulsory, was the final stage of a restructuring plan launched in 2005. A spokesman for BA said it had intended to complete the restructuring by next March but was now bringing forward the final phase.

Staff have been told that anyone who applies for redundancy will be offered a severance package, though the airline has not set a formal target for the number of people it wants to shed.

"The airline industry faces exceptionally difficult circumstances," BA's spokesman said. "We'll see what response we get from these managers."

The airline has already unveiled a series of measures designed to counter a crippling rise in its jet fuel bills, which are expected to total £3bn this year, 50 per cent more than in 2007.

Last month, it revealed profits during the first three months of the year were 88 per cent lower than in the same period last year and warned price increases and cuts to capacity were inevitable.

Analysis: Malaysia Has First Class Infrastructure But Third World Salaries

Eddy said: You're damn right!

By G. Gnanalingam

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 (Bernama) -- After 50 years of development, we can say that we have one of the world's best infrastructures in terms of roads, airports, ports and even the Multimedia Super Corridor.

We only realise this until we travel overseas or to neighbouring countries or when we get visitors from the United States or Europe.

As visitors leave the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, travel on the highway, visit KLCC or the surrounding shopping complexes, they can immediately access the Internet. They all say we are better than the developed countries.

The government has done a lot in that we have a roof for every head, a desk for every school-going child, a bed for the sick and even jobs for 2.5 million foreign workers!

Lately, the government has been taking strides to improve the salaries of the government servants while businessmen have had to increase the cost of food items at groceries or restaurants.

Whilst we have first class infrastructure, we still have third world salaries.

While the economy has grown in the last 50 years -- at 6.0 to 8.0 percent annually, salaries have not matched these types of growth. As such, most of the private sector companies still pay third world salaries.

We cannot afford to measure ourselves against the McDonald's index in terms of how many people can afford to buy McDs. We can't even say we can use the Astro index in terms of how many people can afford an Astro at home, which I believe is less than 10 percent.

It becomes worse when we say how many percent of our population can afford to buy computers for their homes.

We can ask for first class infrastructure but can the population afford to use it?

The key question is: can the population afford handphones, highway tolls, computers and high taxes on cars?

As such, to keep astride with our economic growth and our super infrastructures, private sector salaries need to be increased.

It is sad that after 50 years, we still don't have a minimum salary structure and we bring in foreign workers whom we are happy to pay below RM600.

On top of this, we have 950,000 Malaysians working overseas, including 150,000 professionals, because the salary scales abroad are better.

Maybe we have to compare not only taxation in other countries, and ask the government to reduce income tax and corporate tax.

The government has done well to increase the salaries of civil servants by 35 percent.

The private sector complains bitterly that petrol prices have gone up by 100 percent, steel prices up by 100 percent and food prices by 50 percent. However, they try to contain salary increases between 6.0 and 10 percent.

We need to have a minimum wage urgently because even at RM600, who can afford to live in Malaysia?

Just look at cost of rentals for homes and the cost of a loaf of bread for breakfast, lunch and dinner. This is even before we add the cost of transportation, amenities at home and the cost of educating our children.

In the last 50 years, salaries in Singapore have gone up by 7.5 times that of Malaysia.

Fifty years ago, our salaries and currencies were the same. Today, salaries are three times higher and the currency is 2.5 times higher across the Causeway.

Comparatively, the Hong Kong people are earning more than the Singaporeans and the Japanese are earning more than the Hong Kong people.

The government is responsible for first class infrastructure and as well as the hefty 35 percent increase in government salaries.

Who is responsible for third class salaries in Malaysia? Who is driving away the more than a million Malaysians who work overseas? Don't we need that human capital at home?

-- BERNAMA

50 nerdy pick-up lines

1. You’re like an exothermic reaction, you spread your hotness everywhere!

2. I wish I was your derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves.

3. You’re like a dictionary, you add meaning to my life!

4. If I was an enzyme, I’d be helicase so I could unzip your genes.

5. I’m attracted to you so strongly, scientists will have to develop a fifth fundamental force.

6. Baby, you overclock my processor.

7. Be my queen and mate me with your knight moves.

8. Baby, you make my floppy disk turn into a hard drive

9. You make me want to calibrate my joystick without the latest drivers.

10.You defragment my life.

11. Do you think we can make it a step more serious and disable network sharing?

12. You must be auxin, cause you are causing me to have rapid stem elongation.

13. Baby, let me find your nth term.

14. I don’t have a library card, but do you mind if I check you out?

15. Baby I’ll treat you like my homework — I’ll slam you on the table and do you all night long

16. Hey baby, can I see what’s under your radical?

17. If I were an integral, I’d fill you up.

18. I’m a fermata… hold me

19. I think my heart just lagged.

20. I wish I were your second derivative so I could fill your concavities.

21. Did you just combust?? Because you’re HOT!

22. By looking at you I can tell you’re 36-25-36, which by the way are all perfect squares.

23. It doesn’t take a genius to see how gorgeous you are, but if it did, I would be overqualified.

24. Baby, if you were words on a page, you’d be what they call FINE PRINT!

25. What do you say we go back to my room and do some math: Add a bed, subtract our clothes, divide your legs, and multiply

26. Baby, you’re a 9.999999999…but you’d be a 10 if you were with me.

27. Baby, every time I see you, my cardiovascular system gets all worked up

28. I wish I were adenine because then I could get paired with U.

29. What’s your sine? It must be pi/2 because you’re the 1

30. If my right leg was Christmas and my left was Easter, would you like to spend some time between the holidays?

31. You have nicer legs than an Isosceles right triangle.

32. You’re so cute you make my zygomaticus muscles contract. (Muscles that make you smile)

33. When you and me get together it’s like superposition of 2 waves in phase.

34. Want to meet up so I can excite your natural frequency?

35. If I was sin^2 and you were cos^2 together we would be 1

36. You know.. it’s not the length of the vector that counts… it’s how you apply the force

37. If I move my lips half the distance to yours… and then half again… and again… etc…. would they ever meet? no? Well in this specific case I am going to disprove your assumption.

38. Your name is Leslie? Look, I can spell your name on my calculator!

39. If I was an endoplasmic reticulum, how would you want me: smooth or rough?

40. I wish I was an Ion so I could form an exothermic bond with you.

41. If my right leg is the cell wall and my left the membrane, do you want to be the cytoplasm?

42. Our love is like dividing by zero…. you cannot define it

43. Let’s meet somewhere… you bring your beaker and I’ll bring my stirring rod

44. Baby let me be your integral so I can be the area under your curves

45. Hey baby, what’s your tanx cosx?

46. Let’s get together and test the spring potential of my mattress

47. Let’s discover our coefficient of friction

48. Baby, you’re so gneiss I’ll never take you for granite.

49. I less than three you….. (i < 3 you)

50. I heard you’re sin because you’re always on top when we make tangent

My Productivity

I'm a workalholic, everybody knows that. I'm a nerd, everybody knows that too.

But do you really know how productive (work related, not biologically. But the measure can be applied too when your job description involves productivity in biological sense) Nerdy Eddy really is? Most probably you wouldn't know the details, unless you are one of my colleagues or you might want to offer me a job.

Check out the picture below showing a point in time at my workplace.



Isn't it cool?

Usually the common configuration will be one screen for Internet channel based research, one screen for reading up official references or electronic books and finally the last one for development, testing or production related works. In the least productive scenarios, i.e. in the picture, 1 for media based entertainment, 1 for games and the other for static reading.

Now you know why I can't play (or don't flavour) real time multiplayer games, because most probably I ended up being killed by not paying enough attention to the games.

Web Services Protocol Stack

Adopted from IBM red book: Websphere Application Server V6.1 Planning and Design (pg 254).

Peter Higgs launches attack against Nobel rival Stephen Hawking

By Mike Wade







Eddy said: Arguments between wise brains are usually productive, intrigued and inspiring. I like to debate with facts, varying rationales, unique mind sets or maybe just plain fundamentally sounds statement. Vulgar words? Simply show how uncivilized and illiterate a barbarian is. Nerds rule.

A row between two of the world’s most famous scientists yesterday threatened to overshadow the celebrations as the world’s greatest scientific experiment got under way.

Professor Peter Higgs, the scientist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, the particle at the centre of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment, launched a withering attack on Professor Stephen Hawking, saying his work was “not good enough”.

Professor Higgs dismissed the views on the £2.6 billion project of the man generally considered to be the greatest physicist of his time, and said that no other particle physicist would view his approach as “correct”.

Both men are contenders for the Nobel prize — depending on the outcome of the experiment — and their spat is likely to send shockwaves through the scientific Establishment.

Times Archive, 1974: Black holes may be explosive
The young Cambridge astronomer Steve Hawking has suggested that these cosmic objects may occasionally destroy themselves in violent explosions

Professor Higgs, who faced a press conference in Edinburgh yesterday, was reacting to an interview in which Professor Hawking jokingly suggested that it would be “more exciting” if the experiment at CERN on the Franco-Swiss border did not find the “God particle” it has been set up to identify.

“That will show something is wrong,” he said, “and we will need to think again.”

Professor Hawking once placed a $100 bet that the particle does not exist and continues to argue that there are more interesting outcomes to be drawn from the LHC than the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Professor Higgs, who first postulated the existence of the particle 44 years ago, reacted with visible irritation. “I have to confess I haven’t read the paper in which Stephen Hawking makes this claim,” he said. “But I have read one he wrote, which I think is the basis for the kind of calculation he does. And frankly I don’t think the way he does it is good enough.

“My understanding is he puts together theories in particle physics with gravity . . . in a way which no theoretical particle physicist would believe is the correct theory.

“From a particle physics, quantum theory point of view, you have to put a lot more than just gravity into the theory to have a consistent theory and I don’t think Stephen has done that. I am very doubtful about his calculations.” Other members of the panel moved swiftly to cut off the discussion, suggesting that he had taken Professor Hawking’s views out of context.

But it was clear that Professor Higgs did not rate his rival’s view that the LHC would be more likely to reveal a number of “partner” particles than the boson. Earlier Professor Higgs had recalled the day when he first conceived the idea that would evolve, 44 years later, into the most expensive experiment in the history of science.

It was Thursday, July 16, 1964, and he was sitting in the departmental library at the University of Edinburgh, reading an article with which he profoundly disagreed.

It contained a theory that challenged his own work head-on. An idea “began to evolve,” and by the following Monday morning, as he walked to his university office, he had perfected in his own mind the theory of how particles acquire mass.

In the course of the next fortnight, he would write the two papers that have become the foundation of modern particle physics.

“I solved that theoretical problem to show how it could be done, and could see what the consequence was,” he said. “I discovered how to turn something which was like a massless particle into a massive particle. That was slightly surprising, but it was important,” said Professor Higgs.

In the days that followed Professor Higgs wrote a short mathematical proof of his theory, describing what would become known as the Higgs boson particle. Then, after an abortive camping holiday, he returned to Edinburgh to dash off his second article, “which became known as the theory”.

In the summer of 1964, his paper was rejected by the editor of the European Journal of Physics Letters, who, ironically, was based at CERN.

Professor Higgs was annoyed: “I hadn’t said enough to convince anybody that this was really important physics. So I added on some extra paragraphs.” The revised article – still less than two sides of A4 paper — was accepted by an American journal, the Physical Review Letters at the end of August.

Higgs boson would become part of the Standard Model, the framework of theoretical physics that for nearly four decades has described how fundamental particles interact.

Since he retired nearly 20 years ago, Professor Higgs, 79, has gradually detached himself from his academic world, preferring to read novels and play with his two grandchildren. He has, however, stayed in touch closely enough to pour scorn on the views of Professor Hawking and on scientists who predicted that the LHC might bring the end of the world.

“Some of the people who have tried to get injunctions to stop the LHC should really know better,” he said. Although it could still take up to three years for the LHC to prove him right, Prof Higgs has a bottle of champagne ready. “I will be very surprised and disappointed if it turns out not to be so. But I’m pretty confident,” he said.

My New Graphics Card

Can't live a day without my workstation. So when I passed by a small timer computer hardware shop near my place, I couldn't resist the temptation and bought a Gigabyte 8500GT 512MB DDR2. Don't ask me why I choose this card. Frankly speaking, it was simply an impulsive purchase without detailed investigation into the manufacturer, device or technology. The cool thing is I get my workstation to function again. That's what important right?

It costs me RM235. I think the price is slightly expensive because my area is kinda remote and that shop monopolizes the business around here.





My previous card lie peacely in the "coffin".

My Damaged FORSA Graphics Card

Out of the sudden, i'm haunted with dreaded blue screens of death (BSOD) and frequent short lived blackout and distorted displays on my monitor. It freaked me out and I thought that the third installment of disaster on my BENQ LCD is going to fall on me. Good news and bad news.

What's comforting is my monitor survived. Yeah. And on the other side, my FORSA 128bit 128MB GeForce6600LE that serves me locally over the past 3 years is officially declared dead. Let's do some post mortem.


Some of the normal capacitors on the card.




The pictures below showing the damaged capacitors. One interesting fact is all of the spoiled capacitors are located near the metal ring. Design flaws maybe?

Saujana Resort, Subang

I went to my cousin's wedding dinner at The Saujana, Subang. Well, the ambience was alright, the settings were well arranged and emm... foods were apparently under-supplied. Anyway let's check out the menu for that night.






The dinner started at 7pm sharp and and ended around 9:45pm. This is one of the fastest wedding dinner I ever attended which I kinda like because it saves my precious time for other matters.

The foods are halal and red wines were served. Sources said that price per table was RM2200.00. *Sweat* *Sweat*. They explained that the normal day price is only RM1100.00 but due to the fact the that day was 0808 in lunar calendar (An auspicious date), the restaurant "blackmailed" double the normal price. Take or leave kind. Crap, since when a restaurant that do only halal food cares about chinese lunar calendar thingy. It's all plain money minded.

A little souvenir designed by the bride and grown themselves. Handmade soup imported from Australia. Cool.





Lastly, wish them happily ever after, yea.

Dr M: Why must Malay leaders say sorry?

Eddy said: Given that UMNO is still the largest political party in the nation and which is still in power, how the heck you compared the influential of the words coming out from the mouth of its leader and some daring song from a youngster and
some stupidity acts from a group of fanatic people. Not Apple to Apple, dude. It's like durian to langsat comparison.

And on top of that, Najib doing quite well in being a role model (or he just try to cover his own as*es) and demonstrated that leaders do apologized (Well, although most of them did and that seems like the only thing they are very good at).

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PETALING JAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has questioned why Malay leaders were apologising over a remark deemed as racist by an Umno leader.

He said non-Malay leaders never apologised when similar racist remarks were made by members of their community.

The former prime minister said in his blog (www.chedet.com) the Malays were so scared of being labelled racist that they even wrote in Malay papers that the Malays were not racists.

He was referring to the apology by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak made on behalf of Umno over a racist statement by Bukit Bendera Umno division chief Datuk Ahmad Ismail.

He cited the case of the Hindu Right Action Front, he said so many allegations including Islamist extremism and ethnic cleansing were hurled against the Malays.

However, no one demanded apologies from leaders of the non-Malay community.

He also cited the case of Wee Meng Chee who made parody of the Negaraku and poking fun at the call for prayers but there was no apology from leaders of the community over Wee’s actions.

梅兰竹菊 - 四君子

傲梅：山骨苍寒石径斜，舒装淡腊待时开
幽兰：素手拈寒香自远，玉床拥翠梦犹初
淡菊：抱香枯隐朱松外，瘦马秋风自奋蹄
坚竹：无言独抱凌云志，有节空怀抱国心


I like these 4 knitted decorative paints. Bought them @RM150. They currently occupied my TV cabinet acting as static visuals which are kinda cost effective compared to subscribing to the pricey Astro pay tv.

Portfolio B @ 04-September-2008

Transaction Costs are excluded.

1000 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 2.64, Market Price = RM2.60, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM190)

14000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.195, Market Price = RM0.20, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = RM70

Sold 1000 unit of Uchitec
Avg Buy Price = RM1.69, Sold Market Price = RM1.35, Realized Gains/(Losses) = (RM340)


Decided to sell my 1000 unit of Uchitec due to lack of confidence about the company outlook and more importantly I didn't really do much analysis when I bought it few weeks back. It's time to quit my gambling habit :p. 20% realized loss of bought capital for that mistake.