Getting Alive!

I can't remember when was the last time I update my blog, feel sorry to all my readers. Life is going too fast and I realize if I don't do anything about it now, I will be left far behind.

January 11 - It was an ordinary month, nothing that I can remember.
February 11 - Chinese New Year, ate a lot!
March 11 - Things started to change, I went for an interview in February and I have been told that I've got the job. It is a new environment but I have decided to give it a try, stepping out from comfort zone, something that I learnt during training :) I was preparing for my handover.
April 11 - It is a new chapter of my life! I went to Singapore for my new job and everything was just too new to discover.
May 11 - And it is May already, stepping into June! I am getting there!

The Dog and I

Our little princess "Du Du" has came to us for 3 years, it is a cute little princher and she will be featuring in my blog today!

This is her favourite chair!

Taken with iphone app "LOMO"

Wow Wow!

My First Visit to My House

After signed all the documents and I'm still waiting for the key but today I went to find out the quotation from the contractor, and he got the key for me!

Let's have a picture tour

There is a nice swimming pool at my area.

Fishes swimming in the pool.


Here's the management office.

This is my unit, I'm going to renovate it :)

More updates are coming!

Thanks Everyone who is still visiting!

UNICEF

To all my dearest visitors, thanks a lot! I've been busy with tons of works and I almost forgot about my blog. I'm re-constructing my blog at the moment, and to add something meaningful in our life. I've decided to promote Unicef. I'm a Unicef's friend who is the regular donor. For those who interested in helping our future generation, please visit UNICEF.

For those who think ermm I'm not able to do it now, no worries! Can you see the Ads at the right side? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Each click will contribute to Unicef because I'm going to donate whatever I've received there.

Here is the status:

RM 41.21

8.79 before you get paid!

Another RM 9 to go! Once cash out, I will show you all the proof :)

Thanks for supporting Unicef.

House Hunting

It was a cloudy Saturday and I'm going out to look for my dream house near Puchong area. Together with me were Dinesh and Alan. We first looking for some new development areas in Puchong Putra Permai. However, the price range from 360K to 600K outrun my budjet. Since when it is so hard to own a house??? Damn it!
Nevertheless, I managed to find out 2 affortable areas in Taman Puchong Prima.
Desa Indaman and the condominium nearby.

Here we go, this is Desa Indaman, a five stories resort type apartment:

It was nice and the selling points are the resort feel and the private water theme park.

As you can see it is almost complete. It was too late for us because the price has increased for about 50k in just 6 months! Somemore the lower units are all sold out and the only choice I have is just the fifth floor unit, which I have to climb the staircase everyday to get back.

RM 260k+ after 10% rebate from developer.

Here is the living room.

Another view of living room.

Dining table.

Bedroom

This is the master bedroom, not so big.

Washroom

Kitchen

This is the condominium nearby, RM 200k after 10% rebate, which is ok for my budjet.

The Desa Indaman is just next to a big pond.

Another view.

This is the show unit living room.

Dining table

Master bedroom

Kitchen is slightly bigger than the previous one.

The extension of the kitchen

Year of Tiger

This is a year of tiger

So I like my tiger

to make me into tiger!

but I'm afraid will meet tigress

then later become this tiger

So I better be this tiger

If you are white guy or chicks, just to let you know I'm celebrating Chinese New Year, and this year the lunar calendar, the boss is tiger.

AlphaInventions to boost Your Traffic

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I think this is cool.

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HP - Power to Change

Still remember the tremendous Earth hour where we switch off the light to save the CO2 emission? Well Hewlett-Packard (HP) does more than that. They have launched the Power to Change program for us to continue our efforts in helping the environment.

The goal is to ensure you shut down your machine whenever you are not using them.

Don't let your computer turn on overnight.

HP realised that it is hard for a busy man like anyone of us to remember it, so they have couple of cool stuffs made for you to serve as a reminder: Widgets, Wallpapers, Stickers...

Here's how you can be part of the action: Sign up at www.hp.com/powertochange

Not so Exclusive - Police Pursuit in Pandan Indah (18SG)

This is a translated version taken from Chinese.Cari.Com.My Forum:

VCPP:
"When I was at home this morning suddenly I heard a loud tyre sound at about 8:15am. Out of curiosity I went out to take a look - there was a Proton Iswara overtook a Proton Wira while the wira was turning in from Pandan Indah way. However Proton Wira did not stop and he bang the Iswara at the back then running away. The car was turning out to Pandah Indah way at the opposite site. Those cars were quite shock and they all let the Wira go. Iswara made a U-Turn in front of Ampang Hospital to chase that Wira, following by a Kancil with loud siren.. I heard accident sounds all the way. After about 30s, there were 3 Police Cars joining the pursuit and after a short while, I heard a loud accident sounds at the junction. There were 7 police cars surounded all the cars there and they did not let anyone leaving the scene, and I saw many policeman rushing to the crowds with firearm. I cannot miss it so I took my bike and went there to check around. When I reached the scene, I found a Honda Accord and that Proton Wira involved in a major accident. I believe the suspect failed to escape due to the traffic jam and he was caught by police and sitting inside the policecar. He was at around 30s, and was bleeding. Next to him was a chinese guy with a hammer.. after looking for few minutes, I managed to chat with the owner of the Honda Accord, who is the chinese guy with hammer. According to him, that suspect was a robber and he has tried to get him for quite some times. Suspect tried to escape at the beginning but the Chinese guy is actually a tow truck call man so with his broad network, he managed to get his colleages to join the pursuit. They found some equipments in the suspect's car and believe he was using those gears for crime. After a while Police has started to clear the traffic so I went back and posted this to forum."

Based on the video provided, I saw some gangsters were trying to pull the suspect out from the car, and hit him with hammer at his head. Police are there and they actually "allowed" them to do so. What a shame!

Video by 麦米5622

15Malaysia.com - The Tree

This is the third film released by 15Malaysia. It is a good one but not as funny/sad as the first and second film. Maybe they want something to neutralize our mood before giving us a big one.

15Malaysia - Chocolate

Just watched this short movie by Yasmin Ahmad.

If first movie is funny, then this movie is the other way round.

It is heavy yet it is true.

How good if the chinese boy left her mum's yelling alone,

and hand the chocolate to the Malay girl?

Back to Malaysia

After 10 hours from Houston to Moscow...
After 10 hours from Moscow to Singapore...
After 1 hour from Singapore to KLIA Malaysia...
After 3 hours from KLIA to Ipoh...

I finally came back to Malaysia!
It was a 3 weeks training and learning time which the schedule is absolutely tight.

Stage 1 has completed.
Stage 2 is just about to start!

I will back to office by tomorrow!

15MALAYSIA.COM - We love Our Country

In conjunction with the upcoming Malaysia 52th National Day, there is a contribution from 15 local filmmakers to come out with 15 short films. The topics are not like past years celebration advertisement from Barisan National where only put some self imagination "peace" in their mind, but these topics are considered sensitive to our local community.

Not only this...

There are some well known faces including:

黃明志(namewee), the author of Negarakuku.

廖中莱，Malaysia Minister of Health.

Khairy Jamaluddin, Head of UMNO Youth.

Nik Aziz, PAS spiritual leader.

Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysia Political Film maker who has past away last month.

1st movie has been released on 17th Aug, and they will release 1 after another until 16th September, which nicely covered the National Day and Malaysia Day.

First Movie: Potong Saga

In this movie, the director Ho Yuhang touched the issue which the male Muslims need to cut off the fore skin of their penis. Not only this, there is a scene when Namewee's mum is chopping pork.

Must view by Malaysian, nice break through in publicizing unity in Malaysia!

View the Movie:


The making:


You can go to the website to find out more!

PROTEST: Malaysia examines Internet Filtering?

I just read this news from Reuters. It is quite a big shocking to me as Malaysia Barisan National Government is throwing another big stone to the water of democracy. As a faithful supporter of the opposition I understand the reason why the Government are planning to do so: To block and filter the message from opposition. On last Saturday, Malaysia Royal Police has arrested nearly 600 protesters in the capital city Kuala Lumpur for the rally of banning Internal Security Act (ISA). Will this be the next aggressive step that Barisan National Government is taking? According to the news in Reuters it seems might be true:

"Submissions are to be handed in by July or August. About four groups have tendered for this project," the source said.

This Internet filtering process is similar to the abandoned China "Green Dam" project, and if this happened - it will be the greatest failure to a so called "Democratic" Monarchy Country. Are you trying to follow the policy from a Communist country? This is another careless decision made by the ruling government, again.

Under the name of liberalism, I strictly protest the policy to filter internet content in Malaysia!

Background:
In 8th, March 2008, the greatest failure to the ruling government and its Alliance parties Barisan National where they lost the majority in the parliament and dominant in 5 states. At that time, the opporsition party fully utilized the resources over the Internet to advertise their propaganda to the nation.

Internal Security Act (ISA):
Under Internal Security Act 1960 in Malaysia, A person can be arrested without the need for trial in certain defined circumstances.

I got my US Visa!

Started as an third party contractor in Shell, until I passed the assessment to become a Shell Staff, until Shell outsourced Shell IT to EDS, until EDS has been acquired by HP to become EDS, an HP company, I have never think about the possibility to go oversea for business trip - until I got my US visa. There will be at least 3 weeks in US for this trip - My work is to bring the service back to Malaysia. When my business manager offer this role to me, I have no hesitation to say yes. Not for the sake of having fun in oversea, what I am looking for is the challenge of this role. EDS Request Management - a growing team with a lot of opportunity, is recruiting. Please let me know if you are interested, I am sure you can demonstrate your talent here.

Cheers!

Ops... not yet, haven't tell you guys how I got it. After the Interview in US embassy last week, the officer informed me that I am going to wait for a week. On last Friday, they gave me a call and ask me to hand my passport for the visa. So I went to the embassy again on Monday morning, then went to KL once again to collect my passport. The pickup point is in Wisma MCA, 19th Floor.

My last piece of advice, before you plan anything, go get your visa first!

Visit to US Embassy + How to apply US visa

I will have a business trip all the way to United States on this weekend, but it has been posponed due to I don't know what reason. Let's check out the entire process then you will know how hard it is going to apply an US visa.

Process to apply a non-immigrant visa (For vacation or business visit):
1. Go to any of the Alliance Bank branch and pay RM 532 (non-refundable) for processing fee.
2. Once you got the resit, wait till the next day and go to VFS where you'll need to:
Schedule an appointment with the embassy
Fill up at least 1 form (DS-156) and DS-157 if you are males between age 16 and 45
3. Snap a US Visa standard photo and attached to DS-156
4. You are right to go, with below items:
- Appointment letter
- Passport (carry all your previous expired passports)
- DS-156 / DS-157 form
- Receipt of Alliance bank payment

then it depends on your trip, for mine is a business trip so I have the supporting document from my company, and a payslip indicates that you are working there.

For holiday purpose, make sure your bank statement is there and have shown a good amount of money flowing in consistently, and some others where you'll need to refer to the website given.

My case is straight forward, but the officer told me to wait for a week to have my VISA ready, even it has been approved. According to him, it is pretty routine for such arrangement - so I have to wait for another week and I need to re-schedule my flight.

Lesson? Don't do such thing in last minute, assuming it can be done in a day.

Cheers.

It has been busy!

Hello Everyone!

My apology for not able to update my blog for such a long time, I was really busy for the pass few months and until now - yes I'm still very busy!

Couple of things for the pass 1 month - working, holiday break, sick, hospitalized, back to work!

I will update my blog as frequent as I can :)

Shell Malaysia is Taking Part in Earth Hour

Shell Malaysia has announced that they will take part in this event, Earth Hour in Malaysia on 28th, March this Saturday night. Not only this, Shell IT group: EDS, an HP company, T System and AT&T are all joining this event: non-essential lights, such as neon signages and façade lightings, as well as unnecessary lightings in and around our offices and facilities across Malaysia, and Cyberjaya will be switching off for 1 hour. However, this is again following our HSSE compliance for colleague who working on that day.

Kodus to Shell, and all the suppliers that taking part.

Got my own domain name for just $9.90!

It has been a secondary school dream for me, but human being is very difficult, the ability and desire are always not equal, just like when childhood time I wanted to buy everything in supermarket, till now I have the ability to buy most of them - but my desire has gone.

But this time I want to make it a reality:

wonghawhan.com - I got it for a fair price, is only $9.90 per year - it is my name ;)

You can apply your own domain name here: http://www.godaddy.com/

Cheers!

Selling yourself with a nice looking resume

I have seen many resumes and I would like to say a big NO NO to most of them, some people just generated it from Jobstreet, fill in some simple details and they want to get an interview with this paper, or copy and paste from his colleague/friends with all the requirements from the recruitement company!

I am a person who believe in marketing, especially in today's world where most of us (age below 30) like to see stuff in good packing. Try to ask yourself, 2 same things with different packing - 1 is simple / generic packing and another one with nice looking packing, which one would you like?

The answer is there.

Same goes to your resume.

Before you try to make 1 for you, try to think from the recruiter's perspective. They don't know you, they have no idea who you are. So all the papers on their desk are actually a commercial banner for them to know you.

So sit down and think, how can your resume be different from the others - a good template serve a good start, with your details and info slotted in a 2-3 pages of your advertisement - try not to make your employment history a grandpa story, recruiter have hundreds of resume to look at everyday so your long story will actually make them tired. If you are a fresh grad who got nothing much to say, just be yourself - make it short and simple.

Take a look on this, and compare it with yours - which will attract the recruiters?