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If you are looking to learn something new, a skill, a hobby, upgrade yourself or just simply want to fill in the time, here are a some of the sites that aggregate courses that available for free during COVID-19 period. https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/coronavirus/free-online-classes-for-adults-to-take-up-during-social-distancing https://petapixel.com/2020/03/21/ppas-1100-online-photo-classes-are-currently-free https://www.npr.org/2020/03/20/818670715/getting-bored-heres-a-list-of-free-things-that-werent-free-before-coronavirus https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ivy-league-free-online-courses-a0d7ae675869/ Pick one and spend 20 hours over the next 1-2 weeks on them. Because it only take 20 hours to learn something new and be good at it. -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY Detail steps from the video ( Watch the video first ) :  http://sourcesofinsight.com/learn-anything-20-hours/

What is the hardness level of Malaysia water source?  According to Wikipedia, water is classify as soft water when the hardness is below 60 mg/L, below 60 ppm or below 3.5gpg ( grain per gallon) .  ( Hard/ Soft Calssification Table, Source:  Wikipedia - Hard Water  ) * Parts per million (ppm) is usually defined as 1 mg/L CaCO3. It is equivalent to mg/L One recently study on Kuala Lumpur Tap Water in 2007 has shown that most populated areas in Kuala Lumpur are soft water. (source:  A Survey Of Tap Water Quality in Kuala Lumpur - March 2007  )  Also commentary of the study has confirmed that piece of finding. "As shown in figure 3, the hardness of tap water in these20 selected areas ranged from 48 mg CaCO3/L to 92 mgCaCO3/L with an average of 65 mg CaCO3/L. The tapwater in all these areas is considered soft as the hardnesslevel is below 100 mg CaCO3/L. Although there is nohealth-based guideline value, soft water and low pH mayca...

TLDR;  A call pretended as bank (AEON) representative called me saying that my credit card was abused and then ask me to call BNM through 03-27727359. It is a scam. Please call the bank yourself, google and ask your friend before doing anything. The Story This morning I received a call from AEON transaction department via 03- 27199999 which is the official Aeon Credit Service Number. T he customer service agent, Joanne Lee  requested me to verified a RM 4999 transaction from KLIA Machines. Being a tech-guy myself I know its a MAC Book Air 13' with 1.6GHz Processor  256 GB Storage. Of course I denied that transaction as it didn't happen.  She acted surprise and double check the card info with me. She  informed me that the card (4563-0602-2236-4579) was registered in AEON Ipoh Station 18 on 04-July-2016 using my name, IC and a Ipoh Jaya address. At this moment, it seems to be clear that someone has used my ID to register a credit card and spen...

Finally, Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Marshmallow update for Malaysia dual sim model is now available.  If you have yet to receive the OTA notification that the update is ready, you may manually check through  the device's settings menu > About device submenu, find the Software Update section and tap the update now button. Alternatively, you can upgrade through PC via Samsung's Smart Switch software.  

*   Telah melupuskan syer dalam syarikat harta tanah dan/atau harta tanah di bawah Akta Cukai Keuntungan Harta Tanah 1976     YA   TIDAK    Telah melaporkan pelupusan tersebut kepada LHDNM?     YA   TIDAK    for 2016 Income Tax the wording changed to  " Melupuskan aset di bawah Akta Cukai Keuntungan Harta Tanah 1976  " Basically this means, If you have sold your house in 2015 from January to December then you will need to declare as YES (YA). If you have declared YES(YA), have you reported to LHDNM? If you have done so then select YES(YA) or else NO(TIDAK).  I believe this allow the tax office to determine whether they need to locate you to collect the RPGT fees for last year. For more detail you can refer to  Pindaan Peruntukan ACKHT 1976 Perintah Cukai Keuntungan Harta Tanah (Pengecualian) (No.2) 2009 [P.U. (A) 486] For those didn't perform house selling transaction last year, simply select N...

I had tried to find some classic manga in English such as Detective Conan and Dragon Ball to store in my Kindle Paper White however there was no easy way to do it. You had to either go to Manga Sites to download them page by page, or prayed if someone had compiled them and put them on torrent sites. However these hassles is gone with the following software: DomDomSoft Manga Downloader. It is by far the most promising manga downloader after trying few alternatives available. According to their website: DomDomSoft Manga Downloader Some manga viewer sites are very good websites to read manga online. But they don’t have a download section. Some people would prefer downloading from such sites because of reasons such as having low-speed internet or wanting to store manga. DomDomSoft Manga Downloader is just the software that helps you do it. The software is intuitive and easy to use as shown in screenshot below: If you are interested, get it from to their official page  (or ...

According to Mi official website, Mi Power Bank 10400mAh 10400mAh should charge within 12 hours for a standard 1A charger. I have a 10400 Mi Power Bank but it take >24 hours to charge. I contacted Xiao Mi Support and indeed this is not normal. They suggested to Reboot the power bank. To do that: Press the Power Button for more than 15 secs.  After that drain the power bank and charge again. The power bank should fully charge about 12 hours or in some case 13 hours is fine.  The support person also suggested if the unit still behaves the same, we should bring it to the nearest service center for checking. http://www.mi.com/my/service/repair/

The process of purchase a house is not end at the moment we get the house key. We need to inform various authorities regarding the change of ownership. There are 5 of them. Cukai Taksiran/ Pintu Cukai Tanah ( Don't not get confuse with cukai taksiran)  Electricity - Tenaga Nasional Berhad Water Supply - Syabas Indah Water Konsortium It take me a lot of time to understand and research the whole process hence I'm writing down my own experience, hopefully this will help some of you out-there. The example below is specific to Selangor hence it will be different for other state. When in doubt, always call your Municipal Council for more information.  Tips: You will always need IC and S&P, make at least 4-5 copies of them.  Cukai Taksiran Cukai Taksiran need to be done at municipal council, aka local Majlis Perbandaran. In my case, I did it in MPSJ (Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya), which located in USJ 5, Subang Jaya ( click here for google maps ). To tran...

Have you been into a situation where you say "It is impossible to...". There is an old saying in chinese - "Nothing is impossible" How many of us actually believe this and how many people have doubt about this ? Especially when  facing difficulties such as: * Having a very difficult customer / client that make it impossible to change their mind. * In a company that doesn't promote team work but finger pointing? * Cannot achieve something you don't have the tools. ( must be an oven for baking ? ) How is that possible to make such changes to improve this kind of situation ? Is that not possible or is it because we haven't tried to make a change? Well, don't draw the conclusion until you watch the video below: or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU4oA3kkAWU Now, would you confidence enough to say " it is impossible to change.../do.../for me to..." now? I don't. Do you you believe Nothing is impossible?

I was confused between Efficiency and Effectiveness and Productivity so I go ahead and do some research about it. Below are my finding which clear my thought. In Manufacturing,  Productivity is an average measure of the efficiency of production. Productivity is a ratio of production output to what is required to produce it. The measure of productivity is defined as a total output per one unit of a total input.   Effective refer to the capabilities to producing a desired product/ result.  Efficiency refer to produce product in the most optimum way - Fastest and least expensive way. It is being measure by the amount of time, money and energy.  What is Productivity efficiency : Productive efficiency occurs when the economy is utilizing all of its resources efficiently. The concept is illustrated on a production possibility frontier where all points on the curve are points of maximum productive efficiency (i.e. the maximum throughput)....

从八月的南洋商报看到一篇关于加强谷歌邮箱功能的贴士。一些功能还满强和有意思的。 长话短说，看图。

When Select the Auto Dividend Feature in Jstock. It is based on the Ex-Date of the share bought. What is Ex-date?  The ex-dividend date is the day on which all shares bought and sold no longer come attached with the right to be paid the most recently declared dividend. This is an important date for any company that has many stockholders, including those that trade on exchanges, as it makes reconciliation of who is to be paid the dividend easier. It is just as important for investors, however, since you must own a stock before the ex-dividend date in order to receive the next scheduled dividend.   -  taken from http://www.dividend.com/dividend-stock-library/dividend_date.php

Today I received a sms from +78090501303 with the text below: hello we have important voice message for you call this number now to hear it 0078090501303  For a moment I almost press the number to call however I recall if its a voicemail it should go through my telco with the number 121. This look like a scam for me. I did the search online apparently i'm not the only one receive message from this number. More detail can be obtain via http://callerr.com/0078090501303#yourreport. I didn't call back so I don't know this is a scam but there is a high chance it is.

你是这样的大学生吗？？？ 刚开始新的学期：杀气鹏鹏！！这次一定要四点零。 过了一个星期：迷迷糊糊一个星期了。。不知道做么。。 在第二个星期:YEAH...轻轻松松。。自由自在。。。。。 在 mid-term test之前:CEH。。。。mid sem 而已嘛。。。小case。。 在考mid-term test:哭哭～～～～不会做。。。 mid-term test后:yeah。。。潇潇洒洒。。。。 final exam前:没什么大不了的啦。。。 在知道final exam 时间表后:哇！）@×@&……@……@%%@%@……@&！×！！！ final exam前七天:睡先才说。。 final exam前六天:听听音乐再说。。还早。。。 final exam前五天:没有心情读书。。。。 final exam前四天啊～～！～～～！～不知道要做么。。没有心情啊。。。 final exam前三天:惨啦。。。惨了。。。还剩三日。。。 final exam前两天:要撞墙了。。。还没读完。。不会。。 final exam前一天:死定了。。。。。。。 final exam前一晚:ZZZzzzzzz......... final exam前一小时:啊～～～～～！！！！！抓狂了！！ 当final exam的时候。。:完蛋了。。。。。。。。。 一走出考场。。。:情绪超级低落。。。 一考完试。。。放假了。。:yeah。。。。潇洒走一回。。。。 考试成绩一出: 选择A) 考试成绩一出，竟然是个A！！！！ 选择B)情绪低落。。。 哈哈哈！！你是不是也这样呢？？（本文源自佳礼论坛）

LogMeIn is a Remote Access Tool that let you Access, manage and support computers remotely. I have been using LogMeIn Free version for years to occasionally access to my home machine or help friends to troubleshoot their windows problem. Today I receive an update from LogMeIn with the following email: Yes, you read it right. Today is 21 January and they are terminating their free option immediately. It is actually fine for me as I only occasionally using it and its not hard for me to make the decision  say no to the 49USD/year subscription and start looking for alternative like TeamViewer. What need to highlighted is actually how bad ( yes, I mean bad) their marketing is and also how they treat their customers. The email basically say nothing but "Pay me or get off", if you search around the internet you will find comments like below or in their  Community Page : This is a shame. As I receive an email notification today announcing the end of the service today...

tl;dr   Uncheck everything throug Qvod player by right click > Options (选项）> others (其他）> Uncheck Everything. After installed Qvod 5 last week ( January 2014), all my browsers such as IE, Firefox and Chrome has been kidnaped by an adware hao123.com. hao123 is actually a website provided by baidu as a comprehensive website listing however it become very annoying especially it injected to your browser start page without your approval. Hao123 main page I didn't pay a lot of attention when I installed Qvod hence it installed "快玩" and other unwanted adwares to my pc. The first lesson: ALWAYS pay attention to software that you are going to install. You will never know what additional application it will "recommend" to you. I spend some time to remove all of them however the problem still persist - hao123 still showing all around. For IE, it is pretty straight forward. I manage to restore it via default home page preference. Baidu were try...

Today I shouldn't get holding by the market trend and buy share blindly , aka follow my Impulse. This happened during IOI Properties (5249 ) IPO listing date where the price shoot up from listed price 2.51 -> 3.0 -> 3.2 -> 3.4 -> 3.6 within few minutes when the market open.  I initially bid at RM2.86 but the pre-open market bidding make me feel that I'm too low for my price as majority of them bit > RM 3. The pace of the price increase went up after market open convinced me about that feeling and believe that the price will eventually push to higher price ( even to RM5) and hence during that time, my mind was only having the mind of " Buy ! Buy ! Buy !" before its too late.  During that moment, NTA ( which 3.2 at the moment) , PE , DPS were totally out of my mind. I just don't want to lost the chance of being an early bird to buy the share. I decided to place my bet after the share slow down a little bit and by putting bit on 3.4, while i...

I have a Cannon Wireless MG3170 All-in-one printer and I use it on my "Memory On Cloud Project". The project is to scan all my childhood pictures ( before Digital Camera was even born) into cloud storage to share with all my siblings and relatives. There is a scan Feature in MG3170 which allow you to quick scan a file into computer without operating through Computer. This is extremely helpful when you do them in bulk. When I press it, it does nothing but shows green code with E31. I know this might be due to some configuration issue and a little bit of research apparently this scan button only works in wired connection, aka usb connection.  Below are all the others ERROR Code that I find them usefull when come in handy. Hence this blog. Cause and Solution ( From : http://support-sg.canon-asia.com/contents/SG/EN/8201156800.html#25 )  E, 0, 2 The machine is out of paper./Paper does not feed. E, 0, 3  Paper jam. E, 0, 4  The FINE ...