Wish all Chinese reader a Happy Chinese New Year 2008 with a fortune mouse year and others a happy holidays.

For those who driving back to home town, drive carefully and have a great time together with families member. For e those who celebrate in K, enjoy the time where you don’t have to stuck in jams .

Mythology

According to legend, in ancient China, the Nián (年) was a man-eating beast from the mountains (in other versions from under the sea), which came out every 12 months somewhere close to winter to prey on humans. The people later believed that the Nian was sensitive to loud noises and the colour red, so they scared it away with explosions, fireworks and the liberal use of the colour red. These customs led to the first New Year celebrations. Guò nián (simplified Chinese: 过年; traditional Chinese: 過年), which means to celebrate the new year, literally means the passover of the Nian.

Source : Wikipedia

Hooray….! At last we have holiday for Thaipusam, this is what our Prime Minister announce. Thanks Prime Minister.

PRIME Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has announced that the Government has declared Thaipusam a public holiday for Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya. This year’s Thaipusam falls on Wednesday (Jan 23).

Currently, Thaipusam is a public holiday in Negri Sembilan, Perak, Penang, Johor and Selangor.

Source : NST Online

This is my first post of year 2008, and when i just log in to the site admin it ask for version upgrade after sometimes didn’t update my blog as too busy with my relative wedding. So I just updated my blog to version 2.3.2 where there is some security issue on the current version.

WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations. Get 2.3.2 now to protect your blog from these disclosures.

As a little bonus, 2.3.2 allows you to define a custom DB error page. Place your custom template at wp-content/db-error.php. If WP has a problem connecting to your database, this page will displayed rather than the default error message.

For more detail on what’s new in 2.3.2, view the list of fixed bugs and see the changes between 2.3.1 and 2.3.2.

Special thanks to Alex Concha for his help on this release.

Source : WordPress

I just get to know XMGimage.com have changed to 72photos.com when i update my blog and upload some photo to XMGimage.com.

As our public beta is coming to an end (official release slated for January 14th, 2008) XMGImage.com has been renamed 72photos.com as of Monday, December 10th, 2007. 72photos remains a subsidary of XMG Networks, Inc. and has not been sold, aquired or merged. We intend this transition to be as smooth as possible and assure you that no account information has been altered or deleted. The list below details the changes that have taken place.

Source : 72photos.com | XMGimage.com

To all that concern about the young lady girl being kidnapped yesterday at Glenmarie, she is fine now and resting at home. I just get to know from my customer email to me said

Dora is safe without injured & at home now. The kidnapper released Dora after taking few thousand money.

 Its all about the money….

I was shocked received an email from our customer mentioned her colleague been kidnapped in office open parking, this is very serious as this happen in the morning. Below is the email I received

DEAR ALL,

THIS IS NOT A SCAM! PLS HELP US TO CIRCULATE THIS MAIL TO ANY OF YOUR FRIENDS, COLLEAGES & ETC AROUND THE KLANG VALLEY.

OUR COLLEAGUE, DORA GOH WAS KIDNAPPED THIS MORNING AT OUR OFFICE OPEN PARKING LOT IN GLENMARIE. PLS SEE ATTACHMENT FOR HER PICTURE.

ACCORDING TO AN EYE WITNESS, SHE WAS GRABBED BY 2 CHINESE GUYS (ONE IS FAT, ONE IS THIN AND TALL) ANOTHER CHINESE GUY IS DRIVING. THE ONLY THING THAT WERE ABLE TO RETRIEVE IN THIS SUDDEN INCIDENT WAS THEY WERE DRIVING A SILVER COLOUR TOYOTA CAMRY WITH LAST PLATE NO 7641.

OUR FRIEND’S LIFE MAY BE AT STAKE. PLS HELP US TO HELP HER.

IF ANY OF YOU SHOULD HAPPEN TO HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THIS MATTER, PLS CONTACT THE NEAREST POLICE STATION.

THANK YOU.
MAWAR

Hopefully our malaysian policeman can find her and save her fast enough. Another Cherwith blog have more details on her particular.

Source : Email | Cherwith

We did not want to miss all the nice food and historical building in Melaka, so we drove to Melaka town from A`Famosa resort and takes about 45 min drive. First night we drove to Jonker street where at night the street is closed for night market and you will saw a lot of hand crafted souvenirs. We had tried the fried oyster along the Jonker Street but not a good as not manage to get a nice one to eat..too bad.

Next morning after we checkout from A`Famosa, we back to Jonker Street again for photography and lots of foods..for sure. We snap few photo of the Red Building just to compare those photo taken during our “pak to” time in Melaka also. Do alot of different compare to few years back..haha..getting fatter.

Then we just shop around at Jonker Street, where we found 1 shop called “Jonker Dessert” and most of the people there enjoying cendol but we didn’t wanna try it in the first place where we have spotted the Nyonya Laksa that interest us both. We don’t want to get our stomach full so fast just get 1 bowl of the nyonya laksa to taste. The taste is perfect, combination of spicy and sour with nyonya spices makes you can’t resist another bowl.

This coffee shop decorated with a lot of ancient/antic item where you can enjoy looking at it while tasting the delicious food. We left the shop after finish our laksa and a cup of coffee (hainan coffee) in tea bag. We continue walk down to the end of the street and you really can find all sort of antic item there, first time in my life I saw this shop making bounding shoe or some call it foot binding where the shoe is very small binding to the feet and force the feet not to grow big.

I really amaze to see the size of the shoe, can you imagine how the girl stand on the feet so small? The guy in the photo is the shop owner and this shoe is made by his ancestor. I really enjoy travel to Melaka and I’m going to visit again to shot more nice photo.

Source : Melaka |  Wikipedia

This morning, I go to Bkt Jalil with my mum to get Bright Red “Fai Chun” where the wording is written by the former Hong Kong female artist cum singer “Chelsia Chan Chau Ha“. All the money collected will be funded to the Taiwan Buddist Tzu Chi Foundation Charity as the events is held by them.

This is a terrific story from the show Britain’s Got Talent. The audience has little expectation for this cell phone salesman, Paul Potts, until he brings them to their feet with an amazing performance of an extremely difficult opera song – Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma”.  Within two minutes he shows more emotion than all the contestants combined.  I’m not into opera but even I had to watch this video a number of times and really amaze of his talent.

Here is the video

Source : Maniac World | Wikipedia | Paul Potts

The founder of Kuala Lumpur-based Genting Berhad, Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong passed away at 11.20am Tuesday at the Subang Jaya Medical Centre. He died peacefully after a short illness. He was 90. He was renowned for building a successful hilltop casino in Malaysia. This is the only licensed casino in Malaysia. He is survived by wife Puan Sri Lee Kim Hua, and their six children and 19 grandchildren.

“As a mark of respect, the Casino, Theme Park and all entertainment outlets will be closed on Monday, 29th October 2007 from 6.00am to 6.00pm.”

You can write a condolence message in Genting website.

Source : wingloon.com | Wikipedia | The Strait Times | The Star