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My Experience with E-Filing at LHDN/Hasil PJ

So it’s tax season as most of you well know, everyone is scrambling to get their Borang BE and get it filled in or trying out the new E-filing system (which works surprisingly well). Earlier today I headed to LHDN PJ (Just off the LDP opposite side of Giant near to MBPJ Stadium), conveniently it’s […]

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Apology From Malay Mail For Publishing Without Permission

Ok so last week my article about PR and bloggers together with David’s article was published in the Malay Mail without permission. I wrote a fairly strongly worded e-mail to the Malay Mail to question their behavior and asked what they planned to do about the copyright infringement. Surprisingly they replied quickly, politely and professionally […]

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Getting Serious About Backup – Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition 2TB

I’ve been thinking about backup for quite a while, I’ve been considering online – but I have too much data (photographs in RAW format are BIG) and it’s still too slow (we don’t have fibre to the home like Korea). Up until now I’ve been using a normal 2.5″ external HDD to backup all the […]

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Earth Hour Malaysia and Obama Magic in KL!

Just a couple of short mentions of 2 things I think look interesting and are good uses of time. First up is Earth Hour Malaysia! At 8.30pm on 28 March 2009, cities and towns across the world will turn off their lights for one hour — Earth Hour — sending a powerful global message that […]

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5 Years in Malaysia – Come and Gone

As of February 11th 2009 I’ve been living in Malaysia for 5 years, that’s quite some time. Although due to my accent people tend to think I’ve been here much longer. Yes I never had a Hugh Grant accent in the first place, actually only a minority of English people actually have what we call […]

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More Woes….Water This Time

After having a filling fall out I thought I should be ok for a while in terms of bad fortune, but it seems not! Oddly when I got back from the UK the water was fine, but perhaps it was just running out what was in the tank and the pipes…anyway now I have no […]

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Dentists, Fillings and Teeth in Malaysia

So a while back….I had a photoshoot lined up for a Sunday morning 3-4 models, make-up artist, location was set and everything was ready to go.. I was pretty tired from the previous day of shooting (10+ hours straight) but I crawled out of bed, ready to rock again. I felt something in my mouth, […]

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Expensive Expensive? Fuel Price up to RM2.70 Per Litre!

So the petrol price has gone up by 78cents, approximately 40%…that’s a pretty hefty hike. I’m sure everyone knows about it by now. Most people feel like this. Judging by the horrific jams last night near every petrol station (3-4km tailbacks according to radio traffic reports) it seems like most of the country had heard […]

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World Lupus Day & Anything Butterfly Contest and Exhibition

So May 10th came faster than expected and everything seemed to come together just in time, World Lupus Day was here! The first part was getting the Anything Butterfly Photography Competition running, which we got going with the help of the large member base on Shutter Asia, fellow bloggers giving it a mention and adverts […]

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Year of Clashing

It seems like this year is going to be the year of clashes…Things just keep happening on the same day, or the same weekend. Starting with this week and a company dinner or Hannah Tan’s gig at Somo on Thursday night. Shortly followed by a Sailing Trip (7-9th), Tiesto (9 & 10th) and World Lupus […]

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