Switch Off For Earth Hour 2009

Dear Citizens of the EARTH,

Come this Saturday, 28th of March 2009, 2030 Hrs - 2130 Hrs (Local Time). Thousands of towns and cities across 81 countries around the world have committed to support the vote for action on CLIMATE CHANGE by Voting Earth for EARTH HOUR 2009, as part of the worlds first global election between Earth and Global Warming.

EARTH HOUR was started in Sydney by WWF in 2007 where 2.2 Million homes & businesses turned off their lights for an hour. Following the success that year, EARTH HOUR went global, many countries gave their support for the event in 2008.

This historic event will involve millions of people gather in parks, streets and homes around the world to witness the lights going out on iconic landmarks & city skylines.

Governments, Companies and Organisations also show their support by switching off unessential lights of their buildings and power-plants. This event has been advertised across mass media to create awareness among the public on this historical event and urges people to support the act to FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE.

The objective is to get 1 Billion votes to be brought up to the world leaders during Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 which will determine official government policies to take action against Global Warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol

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This is the first time for Malaysia to join this global initiative.
WWF Malaysia is targeting 5 million sign-ups for this historic event.

Many local celebrities gave their support by spreading the message in mass media advertisements. Over 300 companies, schools, universities and organisations had pleged to contribute to this event by switching off lights in their buildings and offices.

TV and Radio Station Companies such as Media Prima, RTM & ASTRO also do their bit by donating their advertisement spaces for EARTH HOUR to promote public awareness on climate change.
Fly FM, Hot FM, One FM & 8TV will cut off their boardcasting duing that hour in support for this event.

The KL City Hall (DBKL) will shut off lights in Dataran Merdeka and also a few of thier buildings and offices on that hour.

Huge companies such as Genting Berhad, Sunway Berhad & YTL Corporation (Which owns a super long list of properties including hotels, malls & buildings) will go dark in support of the cause.

Even Petronas Twin Towers, KL Tower, Penang Bridge, KL Central & Sunway Integrate Resort (Sunway Pyramid, Sunway Lagoon, Sunway University College, etc.) also join EARTH HOUR by switching off all non-essential lights on the hour.

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SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

SIGN UP for EARTH HOUR at http://earthhour.org.my/ or at http://www.earthhour.org/signup/

Remember, Global Warming is caused by human and it is our responsibility to solve it.


All we need to do is by just turning off all switches for ONE HOUR regardless where you live during EARTH HOUR - 8.30pm - 9.30pm (Local Time), Saturday, March 28 2009.

Do inform your family and friends about this global initiative to fight global warming. =)


ps. I know just the perfect place to witness this event in Kuala Lumpur. =)

My Take On The UM Student Council Election

My Uni's Student Council Election is around the corner.

Many brainwashing activities, emotional remarks, back-stabbing & threats has been going on over this 2 weeks.

Wastage of funds, kidnapping, protesting, flag burning & fighting are common towards the candidate-naming as well as the election day.

But what is the real purpose behind all this?
-- Power-Hungry bastards trying to manipulate other people's thoughts in order to achieve their own desire, even though it does not have anything to do with the development of the university?
Or people trying to gain other's trust by simply making allegations?

Think for yourself, are you voting for a particular person plainly because he/she:
- is your friend?
- is your course mate?
- is of your own race?
- is your hostel mates?
- looked more reliable?
- looked more charming?
- is the person whom the others influences/asks/forces/threatens you to vote for?

- ...(you simply do not have a choice, you vote because you're required to do so)

For which ever reasons, do not ever let your emotions conquer your rationality.
Do not blindly follow the others' footsteps.
USE YOUR BRAIN!!! NOT YOUR HEART!!!


I'm not here to ask you not to vote,
but Vote Smart, Vote with Confidence & most important you Vote Rationally.

And if you still could not decide who to vote for on the very moment you're standing in front of the ballot box, vote for Nobody. Remember, it's not a necessity to vote & it is definitely not a sin if you don't vote! You will not get yourself into any trouble if you do not vote!

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Pause, and ask yourself, who are you? Are you really a University student? Or you're just another nobody out there who didn't get a chance to study, currently working like hell trying to earn for a living?
Then why are you not working towards your initial intentions when you first received your acceptance letter into the university?
Why waste most of your time participating in activities, playing games, skipping classes, not paying attention during classes and neglecting your studies?

At the end of the day, end up not getting to graduate?
And become the next hostel administrator?

Please do not waste that seat you're taking up in the Uni whereas there is someone else out there who deserves more than you do, dying to get a place in Uni but did not manage to get it.
SHAME ON YOU!!!

Conclusion is... Please, USE YOUR GOD DAMN BRAIN!!!

And so some of you might think... Who the hell am I to say this to you?

I’m not representing any of the competing ideological parties/bodies/organizations because I do not side any.

I'm just a student... who is fed up with those morons out there.

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And if you can read Malay, read on (source: Friendster's Bulletin Board posted by Afif- 2nd-Year student in UM)

Apati Pelajar Tahun Satu

Pilihan Raya Kampus (PRK) kini berbunga kembali… Mahasiswa Universiti yang dipilih menjadi Calon sama ada Pro-Mahasiswa mahupun Pro-Aspirasi kini masing-masing mempertaruhkan manifesto-manifesto mereka…kononnya demi kebajikan dan kepentingan Mahasiswa. Tetapi ada segelintir calon sahaja yang melunaskan janji-janji manis mereka dan selebihnya hanya menjadi “Pak Turut” kepada pihak yang mencaturkan sistem ini. Inilah yang sering berlaku acapkali sehingga ianya menjadi klise menjelangnya musim PRK.

Dalam hal ini, Mahasiswa perlu sedar bahawa apa yang pentingnya disini ialah, anda mempunyai hak dan kebebasan dalam memilih calon yang mempunyai kredibiliti dan memperjuangkan kebajikan Mahasiswa pada hari ini. Bukannya calon yang bijak mempersetan dan beromong kosong dalam meraih undi simpati terutamanya dari pelajar tahun satu…cukup sadis dengan tindakan mereka ini. Apa yang perlu ialah calon yang dipilih itu bukan calon yang dicaturkan oleh sistem atau golongan elit yang bermatlamat tertentu tetapi seorang calon yang dipilih oleh mahasiswa demi mahasiswa itu sendiri. Akhirnya, wujudlah simtom yang dinamakan “mengkhinzir buta” oleh golongan mahasiswa tanpa mindanya dijana oleh mahasiswa itu sendiri… Adakah Mahasiswa kita pada hari ini hanyalah seperti layang-layang? Iaitu kebebasan layang-layang itu dikawal oleh penariknya. Maka ini hanyalah menjadikan Mahasiswa itu seperti ”serumpun lalang” yang tidak mempunyai platform dan pendirian yang tetap mahupun kritis.

Universiti adalah tempat dimana Mahasiswa berkeupayaan untuk berfikir secara kritikal bukannya yang direncanakan untuk menjadi robot atau Mahasiswa Boneka. Tindak-tanduk Mahasiswa sebenarnya ditentukan oleh Mahasiswa sendiri dan bukannya oleh pihak berkepentingan individualistik. Keadilan sosial dan hak Mahasiswa adalah pencetus kepada keseimbangan Negara dalam era marcapada kini. Jangan menjadi seperti burung merpati, mata terlepas badan terkurung… gahnya bergelar sebagai MAHASISWA UNIVERSITI tetapi tidak seGah peranannya sebagai Mahasiswa yang berintelektual. Pada hakikatnya masa kini, kita dapat melihat bahawa Mahasiswa tahun satu lebih cenderung menjadi apati iaitu tidak mengambil tahu tentang kesan yang bakal mereka peroleh apabila tersilap merencanakan calon mereka. Apati dalam konteks ini ialah Mahasiswa mengambil tindakan kalut dengan mengikut apa yang telah dipaksa dan dicaturkan oleh “gagak” itu…kenapa? Mahasiswa ini telah diugut dengan pelbagai ancaman tsunami kotor dan kolot mereka dalam mengekalkan pengaruh mereka yang begitu menjijikkan itu…inilah karenah birokrasi kita pada hari ini yang menggunakan prinsip matlamat menghalalkan cara...aku untung, poket kembung…

Wahai Mahasiswa Tahun Satu…ingatlah bahawa, mangkin kepada perubahan dan kebaikan Mahasiswa itu bukannya datang daripada gagak-gagak ini tetapi ianya lahir daripada Mahasiswa itu sendiri… akibatnya, apa yang kita takuti dan turuti itu menyebabkan kita bagaikan “melepaskan anjing yang tersepit” akhirnya ianya akan mengigit kita semula…

Pilihlah calon anda dengan telus dan tepat tanpa sebarang provokasi yang songsang supaya anda tidak dihegemonikan dengan ancaman mahupun ugutan merewang daripada pihak yang tidak berintelktualistik ini. Hak anda perlu diketengahkan dan jadikan ugutan mereka sebagai daun-daun kering yang berguguran tanpa sedikit pun mendatangkan faedah kepada kita…

KEGAGALAN LEPAS ADALAH MANGKIN KEPADA KEJAYAAN KITA PADA HARI INI.

BERSATU UNTUK BERUBAH….UNDIAN ANDA PERJUANGAN KAMI.

Project Gift A Kid!

This Christmas season, help us make a difference in a child’s life.

What is it?

“Gift a Kid” is a project by the Rotaract Club of Kuala Lumpur (RACKL), supported by the AllMalaysian Bloggers Project (AMBP). Its aim is to enrich the educational experience of 100 underprivileged children in the Klang Valley.

We hope to achieve this by:

·         Providing back-to-school material - books, stationery, uniforms etc - for the 2009 school year, to 100 underprivileged kids, aged between six and 15 years.

·         Encouraging leadership and confidence by conducting interactive sessions and educational trips.

·         Allowing kids to be kids by organising “fun” trips. The first of these is a movie outing (possibly on Dec 19), the tickets to which are sponsored by United International Pictures.

Who benefits? 

Why, children of course, but to be more specific, children from the following organisations:

·         Rumah WAKE 1: A home for HIV+ children and their affected siblings under the Pertubuhan Wanita dan Kesihatan Kuala Lumpur)

·         Underprivileged children from Sekolah Rendah Jenis (Tamil) Cheras: Many of the children from this school come from the surrounding low-cost flats and squatter areas. Most of them can’t afford school uniforms, let alone school fees.

What Can I Do To Help?

·         Simple! You can choose to sponsor a kid from as little as RM10 to the full pack of RM150. A small step from you goes a long way in empowering these kids’ futures.

·         Let your family, friends and colleagues know about this project and encourage them to sponsor a kid. Alternatively, you could pool your resources together too!

·         This season of giving, why not sponsor a kid on behalf of your loved one (sure beats having to think of a material gift!). We’ll give you a gift card which comes nicely packed with an inspirational quote and ribbon that you can pass to them. That way you’re giving two people a gift at once!

How do I go about sponsoring a kid?

Here’s what you’ll have to do:

1.     Print out the Sponsorship Form, then fill in your details.

2.     Together with the sponsored sum, return the form(s) to us at the following address:

The Rotaract Club of Kuala Lumpur
c/o Star Publications (M) Bhd
New Media Department, Level 7
Menara Star
Phileo Damansara II
15 Jalan 16/11
46350, Petaling Jaya Attn: Michael A. Fredericks

For enquiries, or to get a form (if you can't find a printer), you can get in touch with Michael A. Fredericks (019-2184 307) from the AMBP, or Kavita (016-259 3818), Anu (016-254 6995) or Sumitra (012-246 9109) from the Rotaract Club KL (email: rotaract_kl@yahoo.com.sg).

All payments can be made via cash or cheque written to “ROTARACT CLUB OF KUALA LUMPUR”, and handed to the people listed above.

Closing date for sponsorships is December 25, 2008.

 

Sponsorship Form

(Click on the picture for a larger version)

 

Do Something Meaningful, Help A Child.

 

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ATTACK OF THE RUBELLAS

In just a few weeks, a number of students have been infected by the Rubella virus a.k.a. German Measles. A virus stereotyped by most Malaysians as a virus that only be harmful to female especially when they are pregnant. Due to the fact that most female students have already received their vaccine during their schooling days, and the Heath Ministry has not taken any initiative to provide the males with the vaccine injection over the years, I would proudly inform that most of the infected students were males. They simply have not develop any resistance whatsoever towards the virus.

Do read up this site from NPHS for Wales to get to know more about this virus. Who knows, you might be able to spot the infected person and prevent yourself from getting infected.

So, what did the U do to help to solve that problem? Of course, they order their nurses to sting everyone with the vaccine.....It wasn't so bad actually.
They had scheduled sessions for the students and staff from every faculty and residential college to get the vaccination.


Coincidentally I wasn't there on the day they come to my hostel, so I had take the trouble to stay back for a day (as most of my friends has already gone back to their home on the previous day) and travel on my own to the Uni's Student Health Clinic to get my vaccination. Luckily it did not take long and the injection was painless... haha. I would also thank the bus driver who did not take leave to go back to his hometown, or else I'll have to walk like hell to that place...


So, if you ever meet someone with measles-like infection, quickly inform the authorities.

This is only one of the symptoms..
Take care.

-Z'ian-

The New Guy In Town

It's not a guy actually,
What I'm talking about is the new browser from Google
- the Google Chrome (Beta).


Google claims that its product is much faster and more capable at handling the increasingly larger web programs that run in browsers nowadays, which would help boost surfing speed, and it has lots of revolutionary functions which is not available in other browsers eg. Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Safari.... (lets not talk about IE shall we - you know how much it sucks) and they have improvised on the functions which are currently available on its counterparts.

I won't be reviewing the application yet, just wanna share this new product with everyone.



It can be downloaded from the site: http://www.google.com/chrome

And this is the interesting thing that I have just dug from the web:
A 38-page comic book explaining its features by Google,drawn by Scott McCloudat at:
http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome



Below are some of the functions available on Google Chrome.

First off,

Chrome offers tabbed browsing — nothing new to Firefox and Internet Explorer users. But with Google’s browser, each tab functions independently; meaning that if a fatal error occurs in one tab, for example, only that tab needs to be closed.

With the other browsers, such an error would result in the user having to close all the tabs and restart the browser.

Google has also gone back to the drawingboard with Chrome. It is introducing its own Javascript virtual machine developed by a company called V8, from Denmark.

As for the other functions... read the comic or download and try it yourself.

And most of all, it's FREE! So, no harm trying, right?

-Z'ian-