The Days Before CNY's Eve

Sigh~~~so careless, I left my digiter camera in Miri, while the charger and other camera accessories are with me, so photo taken & uploaded in my post... Will ask Fern bring it to me when she comes over on 1/2. Between, my LG handphone, don't what gone wrong, the battery can't be recharged since I reached Kch. : (
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I do nothing meaningful since I back to Kuching last 3 days (22 Jan 09), most time stay at home, either online (check mails, search job, play with friendster/facebook, download movies...etc) or watching TV. quite boring actually!
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Yesterday (24/1) was more wonderful...I went out with my eldest brother & 5 years old niece in the noon to had our lunch in "老行家", a franchise at Song Road. We later went for a spin around the Samarahan District. My old home was here during my childhood (8th Miles, Muara Tuang), anyway I can't recognize this place anymore, as it was recently crowded with housing areas, with well developed infrastructures (road); which last time here still covered by wide forest with bad rocky lane!
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I visited my old school (primary school, SRB Chung Hua Sungai Jernang), well not much changed, just been expended with a new building only, and looked cleaner. We looked around in the new campus of UNIMAS too. Wow it was really huge & magnificent compound! I heard that the old campus has been abandoned and not in use.
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I went out again at night with my eldest brother & brother-in-law, we went to yamcha in "The Best Corner" (第一品), a cafe at unknown location :p... we then went to have one hour of leg massage in Ruby Health Recovery S/B (红宝石养身休闲中心) at Setia Raja Road, before had the supper at Pasar Besar Petanak. We reached home almost at 1:30A.M.
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Going Home for CNY Celebration

Wow, time flies like a rocket...just another 5 days, Lunar New Year comes! Yeah......err......don't misunderstand, ok? CNY not really make me excited, I'm "Yeah" for is time to go home, "Yeah"!!! So what?

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Hmm...I'm going back to hometown (Kuching) for CNY celebration this evening at around 6P.M . by AirAsia. I think this time would be my longest CNY break in Kch (almost 2 weeks; 22 Jan - 5 Feb 09) since year 2001, as I was either studied in Kelantan (USM) or worked outstation in Miri in the past 8 years.
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Actually I have bought the air tickets (dated 22 Jan 09 & 29 Jan 09) earlier, before I made the decision to quit from the previous company. But later have changed the return flight schedule from 29 Jan to 5 Feb.

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Some mind curious why am I not manage to go home earlier (before 22/1/09) and why still back to Miri while I'm not working in Miri anymore? Well, firstly, you should know that my GF, Fern is in Miri mah... I'll surely miss her very much without her beside me; Oop, NO! should be Fern mind miss me like crazy the day(s) without me...... :p
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Secondly, I don't have Internet connection at home (Kuching), so it is certainly not that convenience for me to seeking for a new job. A good news is, I received a SMS from my eldest brother on 15/1, said that an Internet line (Streamyx) has just been installed at home! Anyway is too late, not going to change the flight schedule anymore......jobless eh, don't have extra money to waste liao... :)
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That all for this post, wish you have a prosperous & Happy Chinese New (牛) Year! @_<
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My Resignation

I have to leave my recent company which I have worked with for almost 4 years & 8 months (April 04 - Dec 08) due to some unavoidable reasons. This being my first permanent career since graduated in year 05. I'm the branch manager, deal more on managing & marketing activities.

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Well, this was really a hard decision to make, as lots of things need to be taken into account:

1. Cash Flow Issue: daily expenditure, car loan, PTPTN loan, credit card debts & etc

2. Economy Crisis : during global economy down time, most companies are recently practicing 3C [ cut cost, cut salary, cut staff (redundancy) ] to minimize the money invest in the business in order to maximize the profits. So it would be quite difficult to find a better career during this period.
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But have no choice, I have to resign earlier than planned because of:
1. Totally lost interest & confident to the company quite a long time ago.
2. The company is began to cut cost now, and expect to practice the other 2C (cut salary & cut staff) very soon. Since Nov 08, the management tends to simply transfer staffs from one outlet to another outlet without a good reason (all these while, this is company's ploy to force staffs to resign at their own, so needless to pay 3 months salaries for firing you)
3. Stress & tension! Since the price increment of 50-100% in the lab services, majority GP clinics have slowly switched to other lab service providers which offer better rate. So since June 08 til Dec 08 (1/2 year period), the outlet under my supervision experienced almost 50% decrement in the sales. I have to bear the responsibility for the bad sales although is not my faulth, the management themselve made a wrong (to be more precise, is innocent) business strategy.
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After a long consideration & hesitation, I tendered my resignation letter (one month notice) to the HR Department on 10 Nov 08. My last day work was on 28 Dec 08 (after clear all my replacement & annual leave; official last day should be on 9 Jan 09).
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Now I still jobless & trying to seek new career via the newspapers & online sources (e.g. findjobs, monster, jobstreet & etc. Anyway still failed to find a job which match to my qualification (Health Science in Biomedicine), or in other word, difficult to find a job which related to my study field (e.g. medical laboratory technologist, scientist, medical / sale representative, research officer...etc). If let say really can't find a new or better permanent job in short period, then will try other alternatives like doing part time job, running own business or ......
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Credit Card Fraud

Credit card fraud is not a new term or new issue to most of us; we have read or heard the news e.regarding the credit card crime on various kind of media (newspaper, radio, TV and etc) so often , almost at any time & anywhere.
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However seem still lots of people (even the credit card holders) are not aware of this crime and take less attention on this alert...they are just too ignorant & stubborn. Just like the scam of "刮刮乐" (the scam of scratch-and-win), not a new case and has been broad casted in the newspapers for so many time, anyway still got quite number of greedy idiots get themselves into the frauds' trap!
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Now a day there is no necessary for a credit card fraud to theft your hard copy of credit card for credit card misappropriation purpose, what they need to do is just try to achieve some useful particulars from the credit card, as listed below:

1. Name of credit card holder
2. Credit card account number
3. Credit card expiring date
4. 3 digits Verification or CVV code
5. Type of credit card (Master, VISA or etc)

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Unfortunately, the above information can be easily obtained, for an example from a credit card payment receipt, as shown below. As what we can see, all credit card's details include the type of credit card, credit card number, expiring date & name of card holder are printed on the receipt of merchant copy. So each time those credit card fraud will only need to turn over the credit card to read and remember the 3 digits of CVV (Verification) code will do.
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(Remark: Some finance & banking system still allow all 16 digits of credit card numbers to be printed on the receipt of the merchant copy. The below is a special case by which 4 digits have been replaced with XXXX )
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Among the 5 particulars, the CVV code is the main key to get the payment through credit card to be approved by the finance and banking system. That why all credit card holders are advised and warned not to reveal their CVV code to anyone. If the CVV code is confidential, then WTH all finance & banking bodies still produce the credit cards with CVV code at the back side?

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How to reduce the risk or chance that your credit card been misappropriated by credit card fraud?
1. When you make payment at the counter, make sure the cashier swipe card at a corner that is visible to you. And make sure the cashier return the right credit card to you.
2. Contact the credit card's issuer(s) immediately once you found you credit card(s) is or are lost, so that the issuer can ban any transaction made through this credit card account in time.
3. Don't reveal any credit card details to other people, especially the CVV code, as it is confidential,
4. Scratch off the CVV code at the back of the credit card (before you do this, please make sure you remember the CVV code). As normally the CVV code is not in need, unless your credit card is without the smart chip, or you are making payment through a credit machine with no chip reader or via the online purchase systems.
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Missing Blogger, Please Help!

Your attention please!
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A blogger named "amei79" has reported disappeared from the blog sphere (the exact location is at www.amei79.blogspot.com) 2 months ago! Yes, he is missing exactly 2 months up to date (from 17 Aug 08 - 17 Oct 08). For his incomplete personal details, please refer to the poster which is adhered on a brick-wooden wall.
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According to an unknown stranger, there is a film and strong evidence (with photo provided) shown that due to certain unknown reason, amei79 is trying his best to make himself invisible to all people who knew him by hidden in the public crowd.

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I appreciate if all readers & bloggers (who know amei79) in the blog sphere can help me to search him out of the people crowd (from the photo above). The first 5 readers or bloggers who success to "allocate" amei79 will be rewarded with a piece of bookmark (my limited edition of fine hand-made bookmark).
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Rules:
1. Please inform me, amei79's exact location through "I want to make a report", with simple explanation why you are so sure that the person you mentioned is amei79 or etc?
2. At the same time, you may copy & edit the photo (make a circle on amei79's head), and send the edited photo to a_mei_79@yahoo.com
3. Please do provide a link to your blog (if you are a blogger) or email address when you make a report, in order for me to contact you, in case you are the first 5 persons who found amei79.
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5. Open to readers & bloggers within Malaysia only... :)
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