To all my muslim friends,
Have a wonderful Eid Ul Adha. Eat responsibly and be safe.
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Salleh Slaps PKR ?? !!! Count me out!!!
Count me out
by Samuel Aubrey. Posted on November 15, 2010, Monday
Salleh Jafaruddin says he is too old to consider becoming active in politics again
Datuk Salleh Jafaruddin
KUCHING: Former political heavyweight Datuk Salleh Jafaruddin, 67, said he has no plans to contest in the state election which is due in July next year.
“Old man like me can’t be active in politics anymore,” he said when met by reporters after a public forum organised by Movement for Change, Sarawak (MoCS) yesterday.
Rumours have been rife in recent weeks that Salleh, who is a former Deputy Education Minister and a close relative of Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud and former Head of State Tun Datuk Patinggi Abdul Rahman Yakub, might contest in the state election.
His re-appearance, after being absent from active politics for decades, has prompted many political observers to wonder if he was indeed eyeing a comeback.
Salleh described all talks about him returning to state politics as “just rumours” and that the elections should be left to “younger candidates”.
“There’s no truth in the rumours…you have to ask the rumour mongers themselves,” he said.
Salleh also claimed that he had not been approached by any party to contest in the election.
“At the moment, none (approach me),” he said, adding that he has been staying in Kuala Lumpur for some 30 years now and planned to write books.
On being a speaker at the MoCS forum, Salleh explained that his presence was merely as a concerned citizen about the affairs in the state.
“We just contribute what we can while we are still alive,” he said, stressing that he was not a member of MoCS.
MoCS, which brands itself as a social reform movement, is led by veteran journalist Francis Siah, who also spoke at the forum which was chaired by legal advisor See Chee How. See is Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Sarawak’s information chief.
Salleh has stayed away from the political scene for some 20 years now. He first entered politics in the 1970s as state assemblyman for Balingian, under the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) ticket.
In 1977, he was appointed a senator and later made the deputy education minister.
A year later, he won the Mukah parliamentary seat. In 1983, he stood in Oya and won the seat uncontested.
But three years later, he stood as an Independent in the Mukah parliamentary seat and lost to (now Dato Sri) Dr Muhammad Leo Toyad of BN-PBB during the general election.
As one of the leaders of the now-defunct Persatuan Malaysia Sarawak (Permas) during the ‘Ming Court’ days, he managed to win the Subis seat but it was not enough to help the party form the state government.
In the 1990 general election, he contested under a Permas ticket but lost by a wafer thin majority of 287 votes to then Sarawak National Party (SNAP) president Datuk Amar James Wong inBintulu. His last attempt was in 1991 in Belawai.
Salleh, who again contested under Permas ticket, lost by 349 votes to (now Datuk) Hamden Ahmad of BN-PBB in a straight fight.
Monday, 15 November 2010
Cyber Warfare Expected to Influence the Sarawak Coming State Election
BERNAMA
Sunday, November 14th, 2010 21:01:00
KUCHING: Sarawak's 10th election, expected to be held next year, will see an unprecedented cyber war between the ruling and opposition parties in the state.
Umno Youth New Media Unit chairman Tun Faisal Ismail Aziz said the party, together with the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera (PBB) Youth New Media Unit, would work closely to come up with an aggressive strategy to counter baseless allegations which might be posted over the internet.
"Specifically, we will coordinate any information with the PBB Youth New Media Unit so that any national issue that has bearing with Sarawak could be handled and explained very quickly ," he told reporters after a meeting chaired by PBB Youth Media Unit chief Abdul Aziz Tan Sri Adenan here Sunday.
"For us, at national level, we must explain the real issue and disseminate it very quickly so that the people will not be easily influenced by baseless allegations," he said, adding that apart from national issues, Umno would assist in disseminating information on issues affecting Sarawak, such as that of the Penan.
He said the March 2008 general election had given the Barisan Nasional component party a valueable lesson on the need to effectively tackle the cyber war campaign.
Abdul Aziz, who is also PBB Youth Information chief, said one of the strategies being adopted would involve answering or explaining any issue without resorting to personal attacks.
Later, the PBB Youth New Media Unit handed over 900 'baju kurung' and 'baju Melayu' for the Kedah flood victims as part of their social responsibility.
Later Cloud Surfer
Thursday, 11 November 2010
PS3 Titanium Blue Gran Turismo 5 Racing Pack Release Date???
Sony PS3 now available in special Gran Turismo 5 limited edition. Its a package edition, the Playstation 3 will appears in Titanium Blue color give you not only the GT5 but also Audi R10 TDI, Honda NSX GT500, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, Nissan GT-R GT500 including the McLaren F1. You could get the detail information at SCEI but you will get this Titanium Blue PS3 - Gran Turismo 5 Bundle this November.
Release date is Dec 23rd 2010 just before Christmas. Hold on to your dime and hit the store when the date arrives.
Retailer Lists New Gran Turismo 5 Date
Delayed racer may just make it out by Christmas.
Posted Oct 30, 2010
For those hoping to get Gran Turismo 5 as a Christmas or New Years present, online retailer DMM.com has some potentially good news today. The retailer's listing for the game now shows a December 23 release date.
The listing has the game priced at ¥7,980. The first print run will include a 308 page booklet and a download product code for five cars.
While a December 23 date may seem a bit late for the release of a major game, it's actually common practice in Japan. As an example, Final Fantasy XIII was released on December 17 of last year.
The DMM.com date isn't an official announcement from Sony, and may very well be an error. We'll have to wait for word from Sony to be sure.
If you're saying to yourself "But I thought GT5 was coming out on November 3," you should check the headlines from a few weeks back when the game was delayed for undisclosed reasons.
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Enter Samsung Galaxy Tabs World
Buy today’s tablet, or avoid sorrows and buy tomorrow’s?
By Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Thursday, 11 November 2010 00:15
As Samsung’s Galaxy Tab launched yesterday in India, Samsung was launching a 7-inch AMOLED screen and a 10.1-inch prototype tablet at the Flat Panel Displays (FPD) 2010 expo in Japan, giving users a glimpse into Galaxy Tab versions circa 2011!
The old perennial question of when to buy rears its ugly head when it comes to the topic of tablets.
From a gazillion articles talking up iPad competitors, the only a very few have proven noteworthy in this early stage of the tablet game, especially with Apple already having sold over 7m of its “magical and revolutionary” iPads, with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab one of that handful of standouts.
Although Samsung has come to take as many bites of the tablet cherry as it can, as early as it can, Samsung has more customers to please than just the CEO, unlike Apple.
Samsung also showcases its future technologies at trade shows, thus giving us a pretty good guesstiglimpse into the likely future.
Yes, I just guesstimated up a new word there, but hey, it’s all in a day’s work.
Anyway. Samsung’s first tablet effort, the Galaxy Tab, is a polished competitor, exhibiting some of the flair and finesse Apple applies to its products while coming in a much smaller form factor.
Already 7-inch apps have arrived for the device, with more promised to come, but now some are wondering how soon it will be before an AMOLED equipped 7-inch Galaxy Tab successor appears on the marketplace, whether it will cost any more, how Samsung’s 10-inch Galaxy Tab might perform and what it might look like.
The thing is, we knew they were coming as Samsung had already said so, and we all know now that a product’s successor is already being planned once the first version hits store shelves.
The question is how much a particular item can help to improve your life now, and where you are in the cycle of expected product updates, so you aren’t feeling like a chump having bought “the latest” model only to have it totally superseded by the brand-new, expensive and naturally must-have new model only two months later.
In theory, Australians won’t be able to buy any new iPad until anytime between March and July next year. Any new Samsung Tab is unlikely to come out any earlier, and might come out even later, although a lot likely depends on how quickly Google gets Android 2.3 and 3.0 out the door.
After all, Galaxy Tabs only launched into the global marketplace over the last couple of weeks, but if you thought mobile phone evolution was hot, tablet evolution is getting set to run even hotter.
If you can see that a tablet will improve your life in a meaningful way above and beyond a netbook, notebook or MacBook Air, then by all means investigate them, and if one appeals and it’s in your budget, then buy one, whichever model it is you have chosen.
Alternatively, satisfying your need for mobility may be better served with a netbook, notebook or MacBook Air, or waiting for a better tablet tomorrow.
But if you choose to wait for tomorrow, or go with watch closely and choose wisely from new the technologies on offer as unveiled, to best avoid buyer’s remorse and any sorrow!
Friday, 5 November 2010
Taib: Don't Deter State's Quest for Greater Progress
Taib comes to Sarawak moguls’ defence
November 05, 2010
themalaysianinsider.com
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| Taib said Sarawak would not have experienced the progress it has without the aid of corporate leaders. — file pic |
MIRI, Nov 5 — Sarawakians must reject politicians who perpetrate “anti-rich people” sentiments as this will only deter the state’s quest for greater progress, Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said.
He said that certain politicians were now trying to inject such ideas and were vocal in criticising successful enterprises in Sarawak in their attempts to win the support of the people.
“There is no such thing as a very thriving economy without businessmen and entrepreneurs,” he said prior performing a ground-breaking ceremony for a four-lane road project linking Taman Tunku and Taman Jelita residential areas, about 12km from here, today.
He said the progress enjoyed by the state would not have come without the support of responsible corporate leaders who were willing to invest in projects with slow returns.
Taib said these businessmen and entrepreneurs had successfully diversified Sarawak’s economy which was once dependent solely on natural resources such as timber, and oil and gas.
The chief minister said big business enterprises had ventured into new range of industries like wide-scale plantations and the service industry, thus spurring the growth of employment and other business opportunities.
He said the Sarawak government’s policy of guiding and encouraging entrepreneurship had always been in tandem with that of the federal government.
The 10th Malaysia Plan and the New Economic Model unveiled by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak emphasised on greater involvement of the private sector in the nation’s economy, he added.
“The aim of the government that I lead, like the government that is led by the prime minister, is to always try to develop, to give a better living for the people,” he added.
SC - There is a saying that you have to give up something to gain something! What have you given up today to promise your success tomorrow?
