Petronas Saya Anak Malaysia contest

Malaysia's national petrol company – Petronas has recently launched a Saya Anak Malaysia
(direct translation: I am Son of Malaysia) contest to celebrate the country's 50^th Independence Day.

The contest is fully on paper, in which a form is given for every 20 bucks spent on petrol. For example, if I pumped RM50 petrol, then I get 2 forms. Like other common contests, we have to provide answers for few questions then a slogan!

The answers for the 5 questions are

C A D E B

and the slogan?

As a Malaysian, I have learned that ….

The answer is limitless ^_^ (depending on which way you think).

Anyway, my main purpose mentioning this is that, they want the contest forms to be posted. You see the problem? Say I have accumulated 30 forms (easily get >RM600 petrol for the 2 month contest durations), you know how much stamps and envelopes we need? And there are easily people who got >100 forms!

Why didn't they have the environmental sense? Isn't it easier if the contest forms can be submitted to the petrol stations? And why not make it a web contest in which you enter the receipt number as unique ID? How many trees were chopped down for this nationwide contest?

As usual, no answers are expected.

Editted:
Shell has recently launched a similar contest, in response to Petronas' campaign. However, they are more environment friendly - they allow people to submit the contest forms via petrol stations! Why didn't Petronas think of that?

Blogging with MS Word 2007 - Reloaded

Sorry folks, it seems that blogger cant really display those wordarts and images..

These screenshot shows what it suppose to upload. So I didn't lie ok.

And this is the Avatar I mentioned before.. so when you see this, you see saukoon ^_^

Blogging with MS Word 2007

Its been a long long time since I last blogged. In my country, now one should not simply said politically incorrect things even on blogs. You'd never know one day the someone will knock your door at middle of night.

Let's back to the politically correct stuffs. I'm glad to find the new MS Word 2007 supports blogging now! From the new Office button > New, we have the "New blog post" option, and from there we can choose the blogsite that we have registered. So I am gonna try out to see how well Word supports blogging, or vice versa (how well blogging site can support pictures)

First, let's see whether it can display my unique avatar. This is used in all my forum IDs, so if you saw someone with this avatar, 99.9% chances that guys Is me

Then now lemme try out the font features, all fonts are 12 points.

Calibri (default in this blog)

Arial

Arial Black

Comic Sans

Courier New

Impact

Times New Roman

Trebuchet MS

Verdana

(Wingdings)

OK.. don't blame me if you see most of the fonts are the same.. what I see now are all different font types ^_^

Then we have the Greek symbols

αβπΩ∑

and WordArts

And some Shapes

Charts

and finally the new Office 2007 features – SmartArt

That's all folks! Disclaimer again, don't blame me if most of the stuff there are either X or cannot be seen.. I can see all during editing J

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What's great about Initial D The Movie?

Initial D - The Movie starts on 23/6. I'm a hardcore D-fans, but Jay Chou as Takumi degraded my expactation on the movie.

After watching the making, I start to gain faith. They use real cars to show the drift stunts, and all other actors look quite alright. Huang QiuSheng is the best as he really looks like Takumi's arrogant father who always half-closes the eyes with a cigratte like day dreaming. Also Chen SiaoChun really similar to the Evo driver KyoIchi with the hair-wrapping style.

My only worries is that the directors (yes, two of them!) putting too much focus on 'pathology'. As Jay is in the show, they might make this movie kind of love story one to suit the fans.

Its show time during the weekends. When I checked the GSC website, to my surprise no news about Initial D. Called my brothers in BP, and shocked to know that no Initial D movies in GSC cinemas. In other words, those small towns that has only GSC cinemas have no chance to show the movie! So do we expect people to goto JB, KL or PG just to watch Initial D??? or better still, get vcd from brodas here!?

Its still fine. I'm in KL. When I went to TGV in OneU, walaueh.. the queue is extremely long. Its like the time people queued for Hello Kitty. There were 8 slots of time showing Initial D, but only one slot 17:40 left. However, there were still hundreds of people in front of me (right, I was also in the Q). Eventually after considering my stomach conditions (aka Hungry) and the reality that I would not get today's ticket, I surrendered.

Until this day (28/06), I still haven't gotten a chance for this film.. Maybe I'm not fated to watch this in cinema? You know what I meant >:)

Singapore trip

Just back from Singapore. It was a 3 days 2 nights DIY trip with my family.

To promote the tourism, Spore government is giving 10 days free entry for foreign (99% malaysian) vehicles, which normally costs SGD20 per day. With this opportunity, I drove there during the school holidays last weekend.

First impression, the woodland checkpoint looks gigantic like a japanese castle. With the mindset that 'Spore is a "fine" city', we are really careful, not to commit any 'crime'. The most torturable one to me is the speed limit. On normal road is only 70kmh while 90 for highways. For me who drives at 140kmh at our national PLUS, its really like turtle crawling. Don't think all Sporean follow the rule, there are still many of them who fly on the road. They know where the speed cameras are.

The impressive one about Spore city is their buildings. Almost everyone has its own uniqueness. Take the Suntec City as example, all 5 of its tower represents the Palm, with a fountain in the middle. Not to forget Sporean are kiasu also, so that fountain of Suntec City claims to be the 'largest fountain' in the world. Same as the man-made waterfall in Jurong Bird Park. The only difference with Malaysia is that we have "Malaysia Boleh" slogan, but they have no "Singapore Can"

Lastly, the implementation of the electronic cash card is very successful in Spore. The people there already used to paying with the cash card. Its very convinient as its really one-card-does-it-all - for MRT, tolls, parking fee to shoppings. The MRT is one great convinience unlike KL which has 4 different operators that use different ticket system and inconvinience interchange.

Conslusion, everything in Spore is well organized, but lack of 'livingness' and happiness. I find people there too constrained like robots, staying in well-planned flats. So even though KL has messy traffics, bad city management, dirty streets, I still prefer to stay in our lovely Kuala Lumpur.

New Proton Savvy

Today the malaysian car manufacturer Proton has launched its 'long-waited' model - "TRM" (Tiara Replacement Model).

Surprise that its name is "Savvy", kinda like "myVi" that was launched by another msian car company last month. Trend to name things ending with "vy/vi"? Anyway, that Savvy sound and spells like "Samy", our 'beloved' minister here.

On the way back just now, all proton showrooms were full of curious people. Of course I won't miss the chance. IMO the car is small but not cute enough. The outlook is merely okay and with a price of RM42k, it would hardly beat its rival myVi, which has an overall better reputation and quality.

Follow this link if you're interested to see what proton offers this time
http://www.proton-edar.com.my/showroom/savvy/savvy_02-exterior.php

My first blog

Greetings! This is my very first blog. Have been listening to this word for a long time, and finally today got a chance to test it out!

So let's start with introduction of myself. My name is Neo Sau Koon. You can call me Neo, which I'm loving it thanks to the Matrix. But on the net, I rather use my given name 'saukoon' as I find it quite a unique id no matter where I go.. So I could still email address like saukoon@gmail.com, saukoon@yahoo.com etc :p

I work as a IBM Lotus Software Developer. My blog name "CN=saukoon/O=Blogger" mimics the NotesName concept in Lotus Notes.. those who use notes email should know rite!

As this is the first ever blog, its better to be short..

thanks for reading and may the force be with you!