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Introduction to Kiva

It must be dragged for too long due to procrastination. Learn how to overcome it here…

However, this is to introduce to friends about this online community where target to help overcome poverty in many third world countries. The community partners with various microfinance institutions in order to reach the outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities worldwide. The microfinance partners professionally choose and upload their entrepreneur profiles directly to the site, and you as a community member can review and decide to lend some fund to them to start their entrepreneur adventure. Your are in control of where your money goes to. Normally it only requires you to come out with a relatively small amount of money for helping them, and due to the power of community, multiple small amount can be accumulate to become a big pool of fund to help more people in need.

The system do keep track the loans and repayments. When you get your loan money back, you can relend to other person in need. What we see here is a group setup fro Malaysians. Join the group and show to the world that we are people that concern. We have been too selfish and ignorance, it’s time to change. Despite of concerning what is in the country, we need to tell the world that we Malaysian are global thinking. We love human beings as a whole, regardless of race, country of origin, religion and skin color, what ever…  Yes, you start to ask, where to go? Here it is: http://www.kiva.org/.

Phishing Online – Don’t Reply.

I did have a few post earlier with the intention to remind fellow friends not to believe in Phishing Emails requesting you to login to any internet banking facility. If you interested to read more, click here, and here.

Same as this one. I had just saw this email in my mailbox.

Even though it “look like Hotmail, write like Hotmail, but I am certain that it is not from Hotmail”. Why say so? For security reason, all the internet services won’t seek for users to send their information, especially those sensitive one like username, password, DOB and so on over un-encrypted channel, of course not a simply email. If they were to do so, they won’t attach a link to ask you login via the link also. They will need to request you to key in the very original service URL, for this example, you should be asked to visit http://www.hotmail.com/ and login to your account, then from there VERIFY your account. Please never never reply to such email. Maybe you can consider reporting the fraud to hotmail and get confirmation from them, if you feel uncomfortable leave it alone. However as what I said earlier, in terms of security, it worth redundant work. Please let your friends know also to beware about it.

Register to Get Bill Free

First of all, this is a follow up to the post “E-Statement…”. The major motivation for introducing to you this feature contributed by TM is to save more trees and petrol. So do you have your latest TM bill on hand? This is because you need to key in some information from the bill in order to get access.

So first step, logon to http://www.tmonline.com.my/, then find the REGISTER link shown below:

Then, you will be on the registration page. Just fill in all the required fields, and choose to either fill or not to fill the optional fields. In the form you will need to fill in your bill account number, date of bill and amount outstanding for any of your latest 3 months bill.

Then you are ready to go. Remember that you need to set the bill delivery setting to as below:

And, once you set the receive paper bill to NO, you need will only be able to change the setting 3 months after that. However, that does not matter because you could just want the setting to be forever. Why receive paper bills? Ya, the setting is reachable at profile>bill delivery once you login to the account successfully.

So, you then get bill free from TM. Anyway, you are not paying less, just remember (I hope TM could give a bit of incentive for users done so). Yet you are helping as human being to be more friendly to the environment.

Not Just Buy Longgan and Rambutan…

Do you travel along Old Klang Road? When you are near to the OUG Plaza junction, do you notice there is a pedestrian overbridge with the yellow advertisement board? Of course, I am not to promoting the yellow company. What I mean to highlight here is, just near the stair case of the overpass, is a small truck selling longan and rambutan, maybe some other local fruit. The stall keeper is an Indian old man.

This evening I passed by the truck. I did not mean to buy anything but when I saw the old man with few children around, I change my mind. I asked him how much he can make a day? He said is around RM 20, because he is renting the truck from the boss and he only earn some little commission from what he manage to sell. The more he able to sell, the more he can make. I kiddingly ask him whether can give discount if I buy longan from him. He said can but then he will be no profit to make. Of course, I don’t know whether that’s true. But the children around is real. And the weakness of the old man is true.

He even told me that after he close down the business, he need to go for another job which is security guard from 11 to 7 o’clock. Only with that he could have “enough” income for his family. I wonder, with 1K plus how he can raise his few kids? All very small, kind of primary school only.

Next time if you pass by the area around 6-9 o’clock, wish that you can just go by and buy some fruit for your family. Of course, what I want to say here is, try to be more concern and sensitive about what’s happening around you. I read an article today, what made me very worry is, Malaysian seems too ignorance about things around them. When we don’t care and don’t help people in need, who is going to care and help us when we need? Even if you are extremely SELFISH type of mentality, you have to remind yourself that “what goes around, comes around”  ~one of my friend always say that.

Are We All Right??

Guess what? This 2 pictures make me worry. What is that? Children that is only 7 – 8 years old and playing games in gaming centre. You should visit the original post by clicking here.

I am not sure where the photo has been taken from. But I am sure that those kids not the only few primary school children that always lingering around gaming centers. Isn’t it cyber cafes could only allow adult more than 18 years old? Isn’t that worrying us?

A friend of mine told me, he himself was a gamer. However he felt the bad of being addicted to games. He set up a Facebook network, with the intention to gather fellow gamers and with proper organization of activities, guiding youngsters to be controlled gamer. It is alright to play games, but what it takes is to be well guided and controlled. If you are interested to know more about the network, just search for Malaysian Gamers’ Network on the Facebook.