This blog had some problems with the hosting company in KL some days ago and I could not get it resolved immediately. I could not publish a single post at all, hence the delay and no updates recently until now. I have been hosting with the same company since 2002 and the hosting fees are not cheap either! Which is why I decided not to continue with another blog that has expired as it does not generate any revenue for me. This blog has been around for so many years already and is quite established. When the problem started, I was considering migrating to another hosting company in Penang that is quite dynamic and reliable. Well, when the time comes, I will consider whether to take this action or not as it will require a lot of efforts and time. A reliable hosting company should guarantee 99.9% uptime and working condition of the blogs but with the present company, I don’t see this happening.
Archive for ◊ July, 2010 ◊
Good news for all students who had completed SPM in 2009.
It is announced that all students who get 9A+ in SPM will receive JPA Scholarships for local or international universities. Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak confirmed this news during his opening speech at the 64th MIC annual general meeting.
JPA Scholarship is part of an effort to help the citizens by the government. Students of all races will receive JPA Scholarships as long as they obtain 9A+ in SPM. By offering JPA Scholarships for top scorers, hopefully it will encourage more students to study hard and study smart.
So far more than 2,000 Indian students are placed in public universities and over 4,000 students have applied to enter public universities.
JPA Scholarship also shows that Malaysia is truly practicing the 1 Malaysia spirit. Everyone gets a chance to further their studies.
So, if you obtain 9A+, what are you waiting for?
Time to change your life.
Check out http://www.jpa.gov.my/ or call 03-8885 3049 for more information on the JPA Scholarships.
I am thinking of investing in shares but with a full time job, I just don’t have the time to keep track of the share market movements or check out blogs and news daily on events that might affect the prices. Professional stock investors analyse the volume spread, technical analysis, fundamental analysis, Elliot Wave, etc. To have a good peace of mind, I decided to buy government bonds and investing in gold by opening a Gold Investment Account (GIA) through Public Bank. I may earn less, but at least I don’t have the headache to keep track of the stock movements every moment of my life.
My wealthy uncle in Singapore also buy gold coins and give out to us during festive occasions like Chinese New Year. Now I have a small collection of gold jewellery and a gold coin – all collected since I was small. Gold is a good hedge against inflation which is about 4% per year. And for the last 10 years, the price of gold has been increasing steadily from only RM20 a gram in 1970s to over RM120 a gram now. So for those who have invested in gold, would have made a handsome profit now.
Twitter decides the tweets for this World Cup page by hash (#) tags. There are 32 teams playing in this tournament and twitter decides tweets based on the “three letters abbreviation” for countries participating in this game. Here is the list of three letter abbreviation for countries,
#arg #aus #bra #chi #civ #cmr #den #eng #esp #fra #ger #gre #hon #ita #jpn #kor #mex #ned #nga #par #por #prk #rsa #srb #usa
Another hash tag is #worldcup which is also appearing on this dedicated page for FIFA World Cup. Right now you can see lot many people have already started spamming these hash (#) tags and their tweets are appearing on the page. But if you are looking for tweets related to ongoing world cup then you can checkout this dedicated page created by Twitter.
You can always watch ongoing FIFA 2010 World Cup matches Live Streaming on your computer but if you want to see real time tweets then this Twitter page is definitely a good place for the same.
ESPN3 is broadcasting every match of world cup live online. If you are not able to watch the match over there as there are some restriction based on ISP on ESPN3. You can watch the match online on UStream and JustinTv. Both are broadcasting the match live online and you can visit them to see the live streaming of the game.
We have already shared official and unofficial sites to watch the FIFA World Cup 2010 online. As the game is now in the interesting phase where quarter finals are starting where final 8 teams are Brazil, Netherlands, Uruguay, Ghana, Spain, Paraguay, Argentina and Germany. Quarter finals are starting from 2’nd July and the first game is between Brazil and Netherlands.
Argentina vs Germany match is scheduled for 3’rd July. Probably that will be the most interesting game of quarter finals of FIFA World Cup 2010.
