Positive Motivation: Throw Yourself a Freakin’ Bone

“The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, ‘I wish someone would come by and turn me on.’ What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life.”

- Jim Rohn

Everyone likes a pat on the back every once in a while. And there’s no better time to get one than when you’re out of your comfort zone, challenging yourself to improve, anxious about whether you can succeed.

Most individuals approach changing their bad habits from a position of “pain”. They constantly nag themselves, berate themselves and expect nothing but perfection, no matter how much progress is made. Tools of the trade are guilt, doubt, shame and self-flogging.

Instead of celebrating the twenty pounds they’ve lost, they see the ten they still haven’t lost. Sound familiar? To people used to beating themselves up, it may seem like the best way to get motivated.

But consider this: if you attempted to motivate another person like that, how long do you think they’d stick around? How successful would they be?

Do It Differently This Time

Try to approach your goals from a position of “possibilities” instead. Find ways to use regular rewards to pat yourself on the back and give a word of encouragement.

Rather than focusing on what you do wrong, try paying more attention to what you do right. While straight talk and brutal honesty are often good for getting your butt moving, for sustained motivation, the positive approach will keep you from burning out.

Rewards create a feeling of doing something you want to do, not just what you’re forcing yourself to do. Even the smallest of rewards can work wonders as you travel from milestone to milestone, pound to pound, and mile to mile.

Here’s how to set up a good rewards system:

THE STEPS

Choose some benchmarks and reward levels. You can also reward yourself for levels of consistency.

Make the reward meaningful to you. As a reward, a new pair of shoes may not hold as much motivation as a simple night alone with a book. Then again, it might.

Do it! Choose two or three options from the Reward Roster below or come up with a few reward options of your own. It doesn’t take much. Sometimes, the best rewards are those you can’t buy.

Small is the new big. A lot of small rewards, used for meeting smaller goals, are more effective than relying solely on the bigger rewards that require more work and more time.

Don’t use food as a reward. Even good food. It’s just too much of a slippery slope. Don’t even mess with it.

Plan to celebrate. Figure out now how you’re going to celebrate reaching your health, fitness or nutrition goal. Involve other people, tell them about it. Create a celebration that you can anticipate and then keep it within sight all the time.

Be honest with yourself. Fudging the numbers mentally, or “borrowing” against the next reward hurts the cause of building a lifetime habit. Remember to keep your focus on building a habit, not just figuring out how to get the reward.

Here are some ideas for you. Choose your favorites and use them liberally.

REWARD ROSTER

Compliment yourself. Write down what you would say to anyone else who accomplished what you did.

Create a Trophy Scrapbook, where you keep mementos from your accomplishments.

Create an actual plaque or trophy.

Give yourself badges of honor for different levels of accomplishment.

Take a vacation or weekend getaway.

Take a day off from any goal activities.

Put $1 in a jar every time you meet a goal. When it gets to $50, treat yourself.

See a good movie.

Go for a spa treatment or massage.

Buy yourself a gift certificate.

Subscribe to a magazine you always wanted.

Go canoeing or do something outdoorsy.

Watch your favorite TV show.

Buy something for your hobby.

Read a funny book.

Make a grab bag of little prizes. When you reach a significant goal, reach in and get your reward!

Celebrate “100% Days”. If you reach 100% of your goals that day, choose two rewards.

Find some time to be by yourself.

Pay someone to do the yardwork or house cleaning this week.

To break a bad habit, you need positive motivation. Give yourself a little reward each day for moving off the couch and accomplishing something.

Have some of your own methods of rewarding yourself for all your hard work? Share in the comments.

Nokia 888...The future mobile phone

Now, you're not going to see this in stores any time soon. But if you'd like to get an idea of what Nokia thinks the future of communications will look like, take a look at the Nokia 888 communicator, a concept design that recently won Nokia's Benelux design contest. The bracelet-like 888 is envisioned to use a liquid battery, feature speech recognition, a flexible touch screen, and a touch sensitive body cover. A video showing off the device's potential features shows off close to a dozen functions, including an alarm clock, PDA, GPS, phone, push email receiver, digital wallet and, of course, jewelry. And, other than the "liquid battery," we can actually see this in the not-too-distant future. Just give us some full-color E-ink, flexible OLED displays and inkjet-printed circuit boards, and we're almost there.

for more information and pictures, click here

Push Pocket???

We all heard around the "pick pocket". Now there's a new trend called "push pocket".

A few days ago a new type of crime has surfaced in town. It goes something like this:- Somebody slips a hand-phone into your pocket,
sometimes it could be just a wallet with an identity card and a few ringgits.

A few minutes later, the ' owner ' comes up and confronts you, the ' thief ' . He makes a big commotion that you stole his stuff.

You, caught unaware, are then pulled aside by the ' owner ' for a settlement you are intimidated and threatened that if you do not pay
up the police will be brought in. If you pay up, this ' owner ' lets you go. If not, the police are brought in.

Another strange thing is that there always seems to be a ' witness ' to your ' theft ' .

I am told this often happens to foreigners at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) or even at LRT trains. Given that you ' re ' guilty until proven innocent ' as far as the Malaysian police are concerned, I understand some poor people are in jail for these ' offences ' .

At the KLIA, the ' owner ' throws his hand-phone and wallet with the few ringgit notes into the luggage trolley of a just arrived passenger. The drama unfolds a few minutes later. The real culprit has easily convinced our Malaysian police to arrest the real victim (if he has not paid up the ' settlement ' demand). This is a very serious matter.

This is another form of extortionists operating in broad daylight. They are disgusting criminals who will do anything to rob and steal. The sickening part of the whole scenario is that unless you pay the "quoted settlement" money, they will put you in real trouble by calling the police.
The real culprit gets back his hand-phone and wallet but the real victim ( i.e. could be any one of us) is thrown into the police lock up and charged in court.

So do be very careful, otherwise you may end up as a "thief" as you have no way to prove your innocence.

Pass it on..... let more people be aware of such things around them.

A tips about pick pocket

Becoming Self-Taught

source: http://lifehack.org

Most of the skills I use to make a living are skills I’ve learned on my own: Web design,desktop publishing, marketing, personal productivity skills, even teaching! And most of what I know about science, politics, computers, art, guitar-playing, world history, writing, and a dozen other topics I’ve picked up outside of any formal education.

This is not to toot my own horn at all; if you stop to think about it, much of what you know how to do you’ve picked up on your own. But we rarely think about the process of becoming self-taught. This is too bad, because often we shy away from things we don’t know how to do without stopping to think about how we might learn it — in many cases, fairly easily.

The way you approach the world around you dictates to a great degree whether you will find learning something new easy or hard. Learning comes easily to people who have developed:

• Curiosity: Being curious means you look forward to learning new things and are troubled by gaps in your understanding of the world. New words and ideas are received as challenges and the work of understanding them is embraced. People who lack curiosity see learning new things as a chore — or worse, as beyond their capacities.
• Patience: Depending on the complexity of a topic, learning something new can take a long time. And it’s bound to be frustrating as you grapple with new terminologies, new models, and apparently irrelevant information. When you are learning something by yourself, there is nobody to control the flow of information, to make sure you move from basic knowledge to intermediate and finally advanced concepts. Patience with your topic, and more importantly with yourself is crucial — there’s no field of knowledge that someone in the world hasn’t managed to learn, starting from exactly where you are.
• A feeling for connectedness: This is the hardest talent to cultivate, and is where most people flounder when approaching a new topic. A new body of knowledge is always easiest to learn if you can figure out the way it connects to what you already know. For years I struggled with calculus in college until one day, my chemistry prof. demonstrated how to do half-life calculations using integrals. From then on, calculus came much easier, because I had made a connection between a concept I understood well (the chemistry of half-lifes) and a field I had always struggled in (higher maths). The more you look for and pay attention to the connections between different fields, the more readily your mind will be able to latch onto new concepts.

With a learning attitude in place, working your way into a new topic is simply a matter of research, practice, networking, and scheduling.

• Research: Of course, the most important step in learning something new is actually finding out stuff about it. I tend to go through three distinct phases when I’m teaching myself a new topic:
  1. Learning the basics: Start as all things start today: Google it! Somehow people managed to learn before Google ( I learned HTML when Altavista was the best we got!) but nowadays a well-formed search on Google will get you a wealth of information on any topic in seconds. Surfing Wikipedia articles is a great way to get a basic grounding in a new field, too — and usually the Wikipedia entry for your search term will be on the first page of your Google search.

     What I look for is basic information and then the work of experts — blogs by researchers in a field, forums about a topic, organizational websites, magazines. I subscribe to a bunch of RSS feeds to keep up with new material as it’s posted, I print out articles to read in-depth later, and I look for the names of top authors or top books in the field.

  2. Hitting the books:Once I have a good outline of a field of knowledge, I hit the library. I look up the key names and titles I came across online, and then scan the shelves around those titles for other books that look interesting. Then I go to the children’s section of the library and look up the same call numbers — a good overview for teens is probably going to be clearer, more concise, and more geared towards learning than many adult books.
  3. Long-term reference:While I’m reading my stack of books from the library, I start keeping my eyes out for books I will want to give a permanent place on my shelves. I check online and brick-and-mortar bookstores, but also search thrift stores, used bookstores, library book sales, garage sales, wherever I happen to find myself in the presence of books. My goal is a collection of reference manuals and top books that I will come back to either to answer thorny questions or to refresh my knowledge as I put new skills into practice. And to do this cheaply and quickly.
• Practice: Putting new knowledges into practice helps us develop better understandings now and remember more later. Although a lot of books offer exercises and self-tests, I prefer to jump right in and build something: a website, an essay, a desk, whatever. A great way to put any new body of knowledge into action is to start a blog on it — put it out there for the world to see and comment on. Just don’t lock your learning up in your head where a) nobody ever sees how much you know about something, and b) you never see how much you still don’t know.
• Network: One of the most powerful sources of knowledge and understanding in my life have been the social networks I have become embedded in over the years — the websites I write on, the listservs I belong to, the people I talk with and present alongside at conferences, my colleagues in the department where I studied and the department where I now teach, and so on. These networks are crucial to extending my knowledge in areas I am already involved, and for referring me to contacts in areas where I have no prior experience. Joining an email list, emailing someone working in the field, asking colleagues for recommendations, all are useful ways of getting a foothold in a new field. Networking also allows you to test your newly-acquired knowledge against others’ understandings, giving you a chance to grow and further develop.
• Schedule: For anything more complex than a simple overview, it pays to schedule time to commit to learning. Having the books on the shelf, the top websites bookmarked, and a string of contacts does no good if you don’t give yourself time to focus on reading, digesting, and implementing your knowledge. Give yourself a deadline, even if there is no externally imposed time limit, and work out a schedule to reach that deadline.

In a sense, even formal education is a form of self-guided learning — in the end, a teacher can only suggest and encourage a path to learning, at best cutting out some of the work of finding reliable sources to learn from. If you’re already working, or have a range of interests beside the purely academic, formal instruction may be too inconvenient or too expensive to undertake. That doesn’t men you have to set aside the possibility of learning, though; history is full of self-taught successes. At its best, even a formal education is meant to prepare you for a life of self-guided learning; with the power of the Internet and the mass media at our disposal, there’s really no reason not to follow your muse wherever it may lead.

11 Great Ways to Start Your Day

“Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”

- Elbert Hubbard

Mornings… ugh… is there actually anyone who enjoys them? You may have heard that your mum’s friend’s neighbor’s sister is said to be a morning person, but do you actually know any of these mythical beasts in the flesh?

Some days it’s just really hard to get out of bed. There are the times when your head feels like lead and you just want to pull the covers over it and hide away.

But the way you spend your morning can add a certain flavor to the rest of your day. So, if the sound of the alarm clock is akin to fingernails on the blackboard then follow these steps. You’ll find your day gets off to a much better start so you don’t spend most of the morning battling through a fog.

AWAKEN YOUR BODY

1. Wake up at the same time

You’ll be amazed at how much easier it is to face the morning if your body automatically wakes itself up. If you’re alarm clock dependent then you need to make sure you’re getting enough sleep. Get into a routine of going to bed and waking up at the same time — your body will thank you for it! Also try setting your stereo as an alarm you can lull yourself awake with your favorite tunes.

2. Take a shower

Most of you probably already do this, but if you normally shower at night consider a switch to the am. That blast of water is sure to wake you up, but don’t up the temperature too high or it’ll put you back to sleep!

3. Put on some music

Music therapy has been shown to reduce stress and have a positive effect on health. But you don’t need a therapist to enjoy some of the benefits music has to offer. Listening to music as you get ready and start your day will create positive energy and a soothing sense of peace (or a sense of fun, if you play party music).

Music can compliment other healthy lifestyle habits, adding a sense of peace to a yoga workout, putting a spring in your step on a morning walk, or stimulating your mind as you write in your journal.

4. Exercise

I know that when you’re trying to open your eyes exercise is probably the furthest thing from your mind, but if you get into the habit of exercising first thing you’ll be amazed at how alert you will feel, not just for the morning but the whole day. You don’t need to become a gym junkie either, drag your boy or flatmate out of bed and head out for a quick jog.

5. Stretch

A simple five minute, full-body stretch will give you a natural jumpstart, gently raising your heart rate so that your body feels awake and ready to handle the day’s challenges. In addition, unlike coffee, stretching improves the strength and flexibility of your muscles so that you’ll be more energetic hours, days, and even months down the road.

Start by tensing and relaxing the muscles in your feet, then gently rotate each ankle, circling three or four times clockwise and then counter-clockwise to explore your full range of motion. Slowly work your way all the up from your feet to the top of your head, tensing each muscle group for a count of five and then releasing it, and giving every joint a few soft rotations. This should take you about five to seven minutes.

When you’re done your whole body will be humming with endorphins, the naturally mood-elevating hormones that your system uses to reward itself for exercising, so you’ll feel great as you head into the next part of your morning routine!

JOURNALING FOR YOUR MIND

6. Journaling

Now that you’re body is ready to face any challenges your day throws at you, it’s time to rev up your brain. Recent scientific research has shown that writing on a regular increases happiness, relaxation and feelings of positivity, so try making this fun and easy practice a part of your morning routine.

Here are a few examples of the kinds of journaling topics that might make a great addition to your morning routine. Try writing about one of your favorite moments of achievement, recalling as many details as possible. Be vivid not only about how good it felt to reach a goal, but note the sounds, sights, even the smells of that moment! This kind of intense recall of a triumph will help you remember that success is in your grasp.

You can also write about things that don’t make you feel successful at all. If there’s an issue in your life that you’re upset about or is bothering you, try writing about it. Get yourself to write down any positive aspects about it: if you can discover something you’ve learned in the struggle, you’ll feel more upbeat and hopeful about finding a solution to your problem.

Of course, these are just the tip of the iceberg for journaling topics: when it comes to what to write about, the sky’s the limit. Taking just ten or fifteen minutes to write about anything in the morning will help you wake up your brain by pumping it full of upbeat energy, so just have fun with it!

FUEL FOR ENERGY

7. Eat a balanced breakfast

I can’t say this enough, having a nice light breakfast in the morning is the best way to increase energy levels and hasten the body and it’s burning of fat cells. Instead of focusing on toast and jam, why not try the healthier option of grapes and plain acidophilus yogurt. Grapes have amazing antioxidant properties and the live bacteria (don’t freak out — it’s a good thing) in the yogurt supports the digestive system.

8. Drink green tea or some coffee

Sipping a warm cup of tea is a soothing activity that will help you prepare for the day ahead and feel nurtured. Green tea is loaded with antioxidants, so it’s a delicious and healthy lifestyle choice. Now about coffee, ok, so you’re not supposed to be dependent on caffeine to get you through the morning, but never have I read that a cup a day is bad for you! If you’re having a bad morning, then that magic mug of java may just give your brain that extra kick it needs.

9. Try to drink 2 glasses of water before you leave

During the day, if you can, try to drink a few bottles of water, and at the end of the day drink another 2-4 glasses with dinner, etc. This may seem like a lot at first, but your body actually does need 8-10 glasses of water to stay correctly hydrated. You may have to use the restroom more than usual when you first start. This is only temporary! As your body gets used to having all the water it needs, it will absorb into your system and your restroom visits will return to normal.

ENJOY YOUR MORNINGS

10. Think of it as extra social time

Embrace the period before you start work as extra time you have to yourself so don’t waste it staying in bed to the last possible minute! Meet up with your best friend for breakfast at a local cafe, sit at the dining room table and enjoy breakfast with your partner or read a chapter or two of your book.

11. Take a different route to work/uni/school

A change is as good as a holiday and even a small change like taking a different route can make you feel refreshed. By going an alternative way than your normal route you take away some of the monotony you associate with the journey. Even better, try a different mode of transport whether it be bus, walking, cycling or catching a ride with someone else.

Everyone has a morning routine, and whether it’s a leisurely soak in the tub or a frenzied dash for the bus, the way you spend your first half hour sets the tone for the rest of the day. With that in mind, get things started right with this simple morning routine. Try one or several steps, and experiment until you find what suits you.

Breaking News:Accident @ Bt. Beruang

This morning as early as 7am when i was passing by the Bukit Beruang traffic light, there's an accident happen which involve a van and a Proton Waja. The accident cause a heavy traffic jam which it was the busiest time for the Bukit Beruang residents to go to work and schooling.It seems like the accident didn't cause any injuries for the drivers. So drive safely...

G.ho.st ???an online Operating System

G.ho.st is both a URL and an abbreviation for Global Hosted Operating System. It’s a registration-needed Flash web application that emulates a traditional operating system, with file viewers, browsers, clocks & calendars, email programs, RSS-reading capabilities and more. It’s an impressive programming feat but unfortunately, it was running in slow-motion here as the video shows [WMV], which made it almost unusable. I don’t know if it’s a CPU, or a bandwidth issue, or something else entirely... it’s slightly faster when I’m not recording a screencast but it’s slow even then. If you have a fast machine and want to give this a try, please share your impression in the comments.

Source :Google Blogoscoped

Is this what you did when your computer hangs?

Is this what you did when your computer hangs??hehehe....a good way to have good air flow for your pc too...

Don't worry, you can eat this cake

They really spend a lot of time to make this 'big' cake.Yummie...

Save your time to surfing net

You may have noticed that Google Reader recently parted ways with Google Labs. If you're not familiar with Reader, it's Google's feed aggregator. Think of it as your inbox for the web: just subscribe to the news sites, blogs, or videos you want to follow. You can read all the updates in one place -- there's no need to visit 20 different sites to get all this stuff. To see how it works, try subscribing to this blog by clicking on the "Site Feed" link in the on the right-hand side. You'll find similar links on most blogs, and many news sites too. For further explanation about why feed readers are so great, watch RSS in Plain English: - GOOGLE SOURCE


A very nice and short presentation from Google Lab.


how Gmail messages "really" travels around the world.

200 Visitors Today.....

Today my blog site has just reach to 200 visitors. I bet all of them also are my friends. Thanks guys for giving me support although my blog isn't that interesting.Hehe.... I'll look for more ideas and things to blog soon after my final exam on this coming Wednesday. Anyhow, it's still worthwhile for me to have a tiny little celebration. Share you a funny video which it always remind me to cheer up to every little good thing in life. All the best in the final exam, Happy Holiday and Selamat Hari Raya.

To Every Little Good Thing In Life......Cheers!!!!

No idea to blog recently (Genting Highlands)

No idea to write any blog recently and here i post up some of the photos that i took at Genting Highlands. Normally, everyone is going there to spend most of the time inside the theme park or at the casino. But since I'm frequently went up to Genting Highlands, I'm quite boring with all these things already and I used to walk around the whole Genting. To my surprise, i found out a lot of the 'hidden' stuffs outside there.

Somewhere at the garden (behind Theme Park Hotel)
Nice flower

Kangaroo found at Skyway Station. (Wild Animal Exhibition)

Can you find this old telephone post?

Old lantern at Japanese Garden

A lot of 'bird cage' at Ming Ren Restaurant
I'm sitting on the luckiest chair in the world
Enjoying the FLY magical show (Genting give me free for these)

Eat at Hou Mei Restaurant. Yummie.....

Brought my laptop along to online at Starbucks (First World Hotel)

Genting , City of Entertainment

Little Taipei Teacafe

Now you are no need to take a flight to Taipei to enjoy the chinese taipei food but Malacca itself also have a cafe named 'Little Taipei Teacafe' which situated at Jalan Ong Kim Wee, that is the same road with the 'Wan Li Xiang' Satay Celup restaurant. I heard from my friends long ago regrading it's famous 'water dumpling' and I just went there to give it a try. The design of the cafe is quite simple and there are several small stage for customer to sit on. Various kind of food and deserts are available and the price is reasonable if compare with those cafes at Melaka Raya. The 'water dumpling' is really tasty with the soup. Too bad that i can't taste the other kind of foods.

Little Taipei Teacafe

Business Hour : Daily 11.30am - 12.00am (Sunday Off)

Blogger Tools - Blog Editor

I was quite frustrated every time when I was having a slow Internet connection while writing for my blogs. Since after that I had look through all over the Internet to find any blog editor available which I can write my blogs during offline time and upload it later. Blog editor is a very famous tool that used by most of the bloggers especially those full time/ professional bloggers since it's very easy and handy to use when writing a blog instead of wasting the time to load up the posting blog page from Internet. Thanks to the Problogger.net's 'Blog Tools' to list out some of the best blog tools available in this world. After testing for each of the blog editor tools, I'd found out the top 3 softwares which are free, easy to use and support quite a lot type of blog services. Now it's much more easy for me to write a blog wherever I go with my laptop and save it up if I can't manage to complete in time.

1. Qumana

• The interface is more cool and easy to use
• The software hides on the system tray and it's easy to access whenever you feel want to write a blog
• Contains a lot of features including spelling checking
• Cons - No font colour changing, limited font editing, the font settings might changed when post up for some blog site
• I tested it with my own blog site and all the settings of the font are changed
  

2. Zoundry Blog Writer

• The interface is simple but looks a bit outdated style
• Honestly, i don't quite like with it's look
  

3. Scribefire (Firefox's add-ons)-I'm using it right now

• Add into the Firefox web browser
• Only suits if you are using Firefox
• Very simple to use
  

*I'll post up the screenshot for each of them soon.

Study for Exam in Feng Shui way

Feng shui also can help your studies and excel in the exams. Some of you might think that using feng shui might required you to buy some expensive stuffs like those feng shui master said. I found some tips from the famous Lilian Too's '16 Tried and Tested Tips To Scholastic Brilliance'. Here i copied some of the very basic feng shui tips from the article that i always applied without any extra cost.Good luck in your exams!!

1. Engage the yang chi- make notes as you study
Effective studying requires the use of the input-output method all the time every time. So get into the habit of taking and making notes. Merely reading textbooks without making notes creates study frustration, as it is a yin activity. When you only read, you are only performing input, not output. So come exam time you will find it harder to output. This results in very frustrating feelings.

You know that you know what is being asked, but you simply cannot show that you know! You cannot output what you know and this is because you are engaging only yin energy when you study. When your hand moves across the pages of a notebook making notes, you are engaging yang energy, and then study becomes auspicious and far more successful.

2. Allow time for the mind to warm up

If you have too many things on your mind, you cannot make the most of any single thing. To learn something really well, you must focus. The best way to achieve focus is to allocate enough time for each subject, and when you are working on that subject, stick with it for at least several hours. Your brain needs to warm up to the job when you’re trying to learn something, and scheduling one hour learning periods for each subject is definitely not enough.

Budget to spend at least a half hour for warming up before getting into the nitty gritty of the subject. Allow at least one hour to learn, and do not go beyond an hour and forty minutes. Then allow a half-hour to wind down.

3. Wake up surrounding chi

Another technique that came in useful while at University cracking my head over what to write for my dissertation during my third year Economics Finals was simply to move the Chi in my room around. Sometimes, when you are lacking good ideas, stuck in a rut or have “writer’s block”, the best way to shake yourself out of that stagnant state is simply to rearrange your furniture. It almost doesn’t matter how you change your room arrangement, as long as you move things about. You do not even need to change the layout – just move your desk, bed and cabinets out, clean the hidden corners of dirt then move them back in. This moves the chi.

4. Turning night into day?

So many young people turn night into day and day into night, getting their inner signals all mixed up. Nocturnal creatures somehow find the nighttime hours excellent for study. Daytime distractions interrupt their thought processes. The problem with this is that exams are almost always held during daytime hours. It is the old concepts of yin and yang kicking in.

Unless your body and mind follows the natural rhythms of the Universe, you will find yourself being dominated by unbalanced chi energy. You are certain then to perform below par. When you suffer form lack of sleep, your brainwaves slow down, and your clarity of thought gets compromised. Then no matter how much you have learned, you will never be able to produce a first-class exam paper with a tired mind. So, try to be in bed before the hour of the Rat (11pm) if you want to be a straight “A” student.

5. Reduce notes to single key words

When you make notes, or copy the textbook from cover to cover, you are teaching your mind to input and output what you learn. Now it’s time to go further. With your set of notes, the night before the exam, make yet more notes. Make your notes increasingly more succinct as you get nearer exam date, until just single keywords are left. Make sure you have a light nearby, as this will enhance the yang energy you need. Your key words become your trigger words, opening up an entire mountain of knowledge for you to tap into.

6. Learn to mug

Every person can be a straight “A” student. There is no such thing as being born clever. I have met geniuses with high MENSA scores who disappoint in their exams, while students touted merely average rise up to shine and score. Why? Because they got the method right. In school, when you need to take a host of subjects, it is unlikely you will have a natural aptitude for every single one.

For the subjects you are weakest in, learn how to mug. Revise, revise and revise until you make yourself good at it. Put in the time. For languages, learn vocabulary. For Maths, practise doing variations of the same sums using past exam papers and activity books. For English, read as much as you can. You can become good at anything you want to excel in, if only for the exam. After the exam is over, who cares if you can remember those lines in Shakespeare or how algebra works. You’ve got the grades you need, and that is what counts.

7. Energizing the Study Area
Having a messy and dirty study area will store more negative chi in the surrounding and will makes you more frustrated during studies. Try to rearrange and clean up the your study desk. Make sure your study desk is under a proper lightning. Study under low light or too bright condition will effect your concentration on studies. Only allow the study materials such as notes,textbooks and stationaries to be placed on the desk. Too much extra stuffs like mobile phone and computer on the desk will easily distract the concentration.

8. Mind-mapping

I used to develop plenty of mind maps in my time. I want to recommend it as a powerful study tool. Developed by Tony Buzan in the late 1960’s, this is a powerful graphic technique that unlocks the potential of the brain. I used this very effectively in my college years to refresh my memory just before stepping into each exam. Essentially, you create a map using colours, images and symbols to unlock pockets of knowledge in your mind.

Only make a mind map once you have made notes in the conventional long-form format. When you have a good overview of your subject, start mind mapping. Begin at the middle of the page and branch out like a spider to the outer edges of the page, using a different leg for each theme. Each leg of your spider can in turn have more legs as you move into sub-themes. What I always did was to make one mind map for each topic within my subjects and paste them around the room to look at while changing, brushing teeth and so forth. Before going into an exam, I would bring along the relevant mind maps and have a last read just before sitting the exam. They work!

Have a video wallpaper on you desktop

Feeling boring with the same and static wallpaper on your desktop? Turn your desktop to be more lively with your favorite cool videos.Here's the guide for you.

1. Download & install the latest version of VLC Player here.
2. Open your video file with VLC Player, right-hand click and choose 'wallpaper'.
3. If you didn't see the wallpaper option then proceed to
   Settings > Preferences > Video > Output Modules > Direct X.
   Once you get here, check the Advanced Options box in the bottom right hand corner.
   The advanced options will appear. Check Enable Wallpaper Mode. Now when you right click on your videos, you should be able to see a Wallpaper option.
   
   You obviously do not want to see the player in your taskbar since you will be running it for a long time. To get rid of its appearance in the taskbar:
4. Proceed to Settings > Preferences > Interface > Main Interfaces > wxWidgets
5. Then uncheck the box beside Taskbar
   

   If you want to reach VLC, you can only get there by using Alt+Tab or Vista’s Flip3D. You can also choose to check the box beside systray so a VLC icon appears in your system tray.
   
   

6. Finally, you really wouldn’t want your background to disappear after a couple of seconds so we’d have to loop it. To do so, just click on Playlist in the navigation menu, and a list of settings will be provided.
   
   VLC works on many other operating systems
   

The tutorial didn’t work for you?

Make sure you have the most updated version of everything: VLC, DirectX, and your Video Card Drivers. Most people can’t have the wallpaper displayed because of this.

100 Visitors!!!

Today my blog has reached to a total of 100 visitors within 6 days!!!Thanks guys for supporting me. Your support will always inspire me to post more blogs.

Transformer Cellphone

I'd found something cool for you all. After the movie transformer had released, a lot of people are being inspired by the cool auto robot and some crazy guy out there is able to create the robot from the cellphone.Wish to have one too.hehehe...

The folks at Parkoz Hardware must be smoking some pretty strong stuff to come up with this Transformer-inspired cellphone, changing from your average clamshell handset into a bi-pedal mini weapon of mass destruction which looks like the ED-209 of Robocop fame.

A pair of miniguns are more than enough to shred away anything in its path though, and could work great when it comes to threatening your boss for a pay raise. I wonder what the battery life is on this thing, and what do the miniguns actually use as bullets? Broken pieces of plastic?

Source : Buddy Blogs

Intel Research Grant Award 2007 Ceremony

Just went up to Cyberjaya campus last tuesday (25/9/2007) to attend the Intel Research Grant Award 2007 Ceremony since I'm one of the Research Officer(RO) under the Intel research project this year.There's a mock cheque presentation to all the Intel research projects in MMU by Mr. William A. Swope,Vice President of Intel, United States @ the seminar room of the new Administration Building. My project leader aka supervisor aka senior lecturer, Dr Loo was receiving the mock cheque which worth more than RM60k. Here are some photos i'd taken using my handphone, waiting to get more of the photos from the event photographer.

The new MMU Cyberjaya Adminstration Building

Inside the seminar room

The mock cheque....alot $$$...too bad it's not mine....haih

Bubbles over Melaka's Waterfall

New Straits Times - Bubbles were flying all over the place at the Bukit Sebukor waterfall yesterday.

Vandals had poured shampoo into the man-made waterfall, which is part of efforts to turn Malacca into a garden city. This resulted in large bubbles flying around as early as 8am - and even obstructing the view of motorists nearby. City council workers took about three hours to clean the waterfall, a task they had to do when vandals struck for the first time in February.
They found a bottle of shampoo in the pool with its cap open and there was some liquid left in the bottle.

Full moon on 27th September??

Sin Chew Press - According to Singapore Science Center, the exact full moon is fall on the 27th September which is 17th of August in Chinese Calender but not on the 25th September (15th of August-Chinese Calender). They had stated that the complete full moon will be appeared at 3.45am of 27th September.But don't worry guys, we still can enjoy the Mid-autumn festival on this tuesday (25/9/2007) with the view of the full moon. Happy Mid-autumn festival!!

Moon cake - Yummie....


Tanglung tanglung....long time didn't play since childhood time


Show you some photos from Penang Internation Lantern Festival 2007 - Hello Kitty

Tired of 24-hours McD?? Try 24-hours KFC!!

Bored with just having McD @ midnight??Now it's good to be finger licking good also during midnight. Now there's 24-hours KFC available at Batu Berendam,Melaka.

It's finger lickin' good!

KFC @ Batu Berendam, Melaka

Diner Plate set for my dinner & supper = 'DinSup'..haha

New!!! Alaskan Fish Burger

Satay Celup @Melaka

Staying in Melaka for more than five years is quite boring...but it's nice if you "celup" the satay in once in awhile time. There are few restorant which is quite famous for satay celup like Capitol Satay Celup & 'Wan Li Xiang' @ Melaka town. Hmm...Yummie yummie....hot hot...

Watch Movies,Dramas & Anime online through Crunchyroll

Tired of downloading tons of megabytes of dramas , anime & movies?Now you can watch tons of movies and drama online through Crunchyroll which is quite similar to Youtube site. Unlike the youtube where most of the them are short clips but the Crunchyroll is offering the full content of the movies or dramas. Most of the movies and dramas are in Japanese, Koreans, & Chinese. The loading of the video is very fast if you are using streamyx or other broadband connection but the quality of the video & audio is poorer. But it's sufficient enough for us to enjoy it. Inside there you can find alot of old times movies. Hehehehe...enjoy it yourself..

Crunchyroll main site

Watching it in small screen!!!

Preview in larger screen, you have to pay it if you want to watch in full screen

Euro Fun Park @ Melaka Raya!!!

There's a Euro Fun Park now arrived @ Melaka Raya from 10/9/2007 - 10/10/2007. I'd just went there last week to release some stress from my work and studies. There's a lot of fun over there as there are many stuffs for you to play around. Most of them are quite similar to those games in Genting Highland Theme Park. The atmosphere is almost the same but just you feel hot over here. The entrance fees for adult is RM3 but you have to pay for each of the games. It's quite expensive to play all the games as each Token is RM2 and most of the games required more than 2 tokens. So guys, be prepared a lot of cash if you wish to play all of them. There's also alot of dolls can be win through those funfair games. Guys, it's time for you to show off your skills to win some gals. Try the Throw Darts games as it's more easy to win. Don't ever get cheated by the lucky draw for those big big teddy bears, you'll never get it. So enjoy it.

We also got "Eye on Melaka" now!!!!

The Entrance