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Learning A New Skill / Hobby during COVID-19

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/

Is Kuala Lumpur Water Hard or Soft? Is it safe to drink?

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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 maycause corrosion of pipes result

Phone Scams Alerts!!! 03-27727359

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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 spent it.  I, of

Galaxy Note 5 Marshmallow update is now available in Malaysia ( 29 April 2016)

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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.  

Malaysia Income Tax Query

*   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 NO (TIDAK) and you are all good.

Hassle Free Manga Downloader - DomDomSoft Manga Downloader

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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 clic

Brokerage Calculation for Maybank Value Trade and Hong Leong Power Trade