In the near future, maybe my Asimo at home can help me to update my blog or might be even running his own blog. Anyway…. I’ll do the blogging for now first

Asimo is in town today! In fact, he is here since yesterday! For those of you that don’t know what is Asimo, here’s some short details.

ASIMO (アシモ, ashimo^?) is a humanoid robot created by Honda Motor Company. Standing at 130 centimeters (4 feet 3 inches) and weighing 54 kilograms (119 pounds). The robot resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack and can walk or run on two feet at speeds up to 6 km/h (4.3 mph).^[1] ASIMO was created at Honda’s Research & Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan. It is the current model in a line of eleven that began in 1986 with E0.

Got it? Impressed? Want to know more? Head to Queensbay Mall while the event is still on! This is the schedule I got from some forwarded mail. Not sure of its validity though, anyway, here are they… Read the rest of this entry »

Quoted from wikipedia!

Chickenpox is a highly contagious illness caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV). It generally begins with spots appearing in two or three waves, mainly on the body and head rather than the hands and becoming itchy raw pockmarks, small open sores which heal mostly without scarring.

Do you know that there is a vaccine for chickenpox? I just got the shot for the prevention of it few weeks back before visiting my dear Wendy.

Yes, you may say that I’m too coward to get chickenpox at my age now. Ehmmm, maybe I’m just buying myself an insurance for few years before I’m prone to infection again.

Come and think of it, It’s actually good to get infected as we will get (almost) lifelong immunity to the virus. Although there’s still few rare cases where people get infected again after they got infected already.

The shot I got few weeks back is called as Okavax. It’s developed by The Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases of Osaka University (BIKEN).

You can read more about Okavax vaccine in this pdf file. I wish to quote some text from the pdf file. It writes…

Clinical studies have established the safety and efficacy of this vaccine in both healthy persons and high risk patients.3)-23) Seroconversion rate is about 90% and the protection rate in household contacts is about 80% among leukemia children. Seroconvention rate in other recipients is more than 90% and about 10% of recipients are susceptible to chickenpox. The symptoms of the vaccine recipients after infected n0atural chickenpox are generally mild. In leukemia patients under maintenance therapy, it is recommended that immunity against chickenpox be monitored 1 to 3 months after vaccinations and periodically thereafter, and that the vaccine should be re-injected depending on the condition of the patient when decreases in the antibody titer are significant.

So, if I’m interpreting this correctly, there is still some risk of getting infected by chickenpox virus even after the vaccine shot. I think I saw somewhere in the web that we will be better protected if we take two shots of the vaccine. I’ll post it up the source if I come across it again!

Oh yes, just seconds before I hitting the publish button…. read here for more! Highly informative!

Guys, time to get protected!

Photo modified from http://disney-clipart.com/Chicken-Little/Chicken-Little-Clipart.php

Global Warming has becoming an obvious threat to mother earth. Yada yada you know all the facts and news on paper. We can do our part in lessening the burden on this planet. Major corporation like Nokia and Canon also have gone green!

Canon will plant 2500 trees in Padang Kota Damansara.

Nokia will plant thousands of trees in Kalimantan!

Bryan Hoo also welcoming green the earth move!

Let’s go green, you need not to paint your car, phone, wallet, underwear, top, bracelets, necklace or bra in green. You can start by just saving some electric!

Oh ya, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri. Hari Raya is greeny friendly also! Happy Holiday! Weee!

I took 1 hour 36 minutes (via Teluk Kumbar) to get to work today from my usual 40 minutes using Balik Pulau-Relau route. I spent 1 hour 10 minutes to cover a mere 4.6km at crawling speed this morning.

As reported by The Star, the link that I use daily to get to work will be re-opened on Tuesday but from what the local authority claims, it will only be opened on Wednesday.

This is more serious than the landslides happened in 2003. I can still remember I was taking near 2 hours trip to get to my tuition in Paya Terubong when the landslide (or actually rock-slide. LOL) happened around the same time. I’ll post up the photos I took in 2003 soon.

Added On 8 Sept 2008 10pm:

News from The Star : Landslides In Penang being cleared

Update On 9 Sept 2008 745am:

The link, Jalan Tun Sardon has been declared clear and open for traffic. I used back this route to work this morning. There are still many clean up that need to be done still, so please be careful.

PS: I drew the icon for this post. Cantik?

Finally, we have graduated. I spent quite a fortune in my trip to KL to attend my convocation. This is bad, but, the feeling of spending money is just so good! Ahahhaah.. I’m crazy.

Happy Convocation. I think I’m the first one to post up photos online while the rest still “processing”. That’s the usual term you will get when you ask someone for pictures!

Throw yourself to the album

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Posted in the convocation bulletin board

Post Date : 2008-08-05 15:16:41
COLLECTION OF INVITATION CARD/CAR STICKER/ROBE/CONVO ITEM
Dear Graduates,

Please take note of the arrangement of the above events.

a) SMARTCARD ACTIVATION
Date : 4 August 2008 – 8 August 2008
Time : 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Venue : MPH Extension, Cyberjaya Campus

b) COLLECTION OF INVITATION CARD & CAR STICKER *
Date : 7 & 8 August 2008
Time : 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Venue : Mini Exhibition Room (Glass Room) – FIT Building

* Kindly activate your smartcard before you could collect your invitation card.

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Dear Graduates,

During the convocation, an official photography company has already been appointed to take photos of you receiving the scroll from the Chancellor.
Thus, we seek your co-operation to remind your family members who will be attending
the convocation ceremony not to crowd the stage to take pictures as this will disrupt
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In completing your study, we need to go through chain of steps. That’s including responding to the letter below from the university Alumni president.

Students Affairs and Sport Division
Dear Student,
REIMBURSEMENT OF MMU DEPOSIT/DONATION TO MMU FUND
Congratulations on your completion of studies in MMU!
During your stay at MMU, the campus life has been memorable with your participation in the extra-curricular activities, your study time in the lecture halls and rooms, as well as your unforgettable friendship with classmates and MMU Community. In the near future, we believe that MMU would be proud of your achievements and career advancement and would welcome your continuous relationship with the university. For MMU to continue to grow in academic reputation, quality teaching and strong collaborations, and to provide a better environment for your juniors to study in, we appreciate very much for your kind consideration in donating Read the rest of this entry »