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MY SHORT WAVE RECEIVER |
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Kepala QRP Communication Can Government Be 100% Responsive ? Nizar Must Play Fair Personal Grooming 9M2 Short Cut Ancient Defense Against Mosquito Thank you for sharing your knowledge Ham and CB should Combine Cyber Conning My Favorite TV Shows I Went To Penang Hill The Concept Of Accountability Being A Leader The Phony Degree Preparing Before I Die Zahid Hamidi and the Communist 5 to 7 Amanah Saham Kedah Land Acquisition Act The Purpose Of A Test The way things go Erase Scholarships English or Bahasa Revisited Trengganu's Stadium Nuclear vs Star War Arsenal |
I purchased the receiver, ICF-5900W Snny, in 1970's at the price of about RM200. It was a very fantastic short wave receiver. It was small, light and very sensitive. When I got my ham license I put it somewhere else. It dropped and collected dust. Today I am using it again though it has some physical defects. The need to use the radio is to know the prayer time when I am at work. The local station will broadcast the prayer time when it comes and news information on what's going on in the world. From time to time I would put the band switch to SW1, SW2 and SW3 and scanned around. I can hear not only the broadcast stations like the VOA and BBC but also signals from various services. The ship to shore CW are still active and coming very strong. I also would stop and decode the Morse codes for about 20 to 30 minutes before moving on to the other frequencies. The activity is called Short Wave Listening. The short form is SWL. I have been SWL since I was a kid. Only in the 70's I started to keep a logbook. The logbook contained information on the station heard, frequency, time, date and signal strength. SWLing enriched our knowledge in many aspects and categories from the normal daily event to the progress of technologies. If we tune on to amateur radio stations we can learn how people communicate and the terms they used. SWLing has declined because of the incoming of computers. Younger generations are exposed to the Hitech stuffs at the younger age. Moreover most of the radio in the shop today are restricted to FM only. The Sony ICF 900W seems to be still in production. Even if I find the new one, I will not buy it anymore. This is enough for my short wave listening. |
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PUSING KEPALA |
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Ada seorang Guru Besar sekolah rendah bergaduh dengan tukang kebun. Tukang kebun itu membawa parang dan mengejar Guru Besar tersebut. Itulah akibatnya dari pergaduhan dengan seorang tukang kebun. Orang yang bergaduh dengan tukang kebun dan orang bawahan atau orang yang tidak mengaji tinggi adalah sama dengan orang yang dia berkelahi. Kalau dia berkelulusan tinggi atau mempunyai sikap yang positif dan sentiasa membaiki diri dia tidaklah menjadi buruh atau tukang kebun. Banyak sekolah mempunyai masalah dengan staf bawahan yang bukan graduate. Tapi bukan semua bukan graduate yang tidak mahu berusaha dan malas kerja. Yang malas tu memang langsung tidak berguna, asyik memberi helah satu persatu sampai semua orang pening kepala. Kalau tak larang atau tegur orang lain kata boss lemah. Kalau tegur timbul pelbagai masalah. Banyak orang kata kita jangan peduli dengan orang bermasalah. Kalau dia gila seorang diri biarkan dia sahaja. Tetapi kalau dia gila menganggui semua orang lain memang semua orang akan pusing kepala. Orang yang mahu sesuatu tetapi tidak berkeupayaan mendapatnya tetap masih mahu benda itu. Kalau tak dapat juga maka akan rasa kecewalah dia dan bertempil-tempillah dia seperti orang gila. Juga terdapat ramai orang yang hatinya dengki apabila orang lain lebih pandai dari dia, umpama cerita Singapura Dilanggar Todak. Di dalam alam pekerjaan memang terdapat orang sebegini yang sanggup melakkan apa sahaja untuk menindas dan memburukkan orang lain yang lebih pandai. Orang bodoh mahu menyembunyikan kebodohannya dengan menggunakan suara yang besar atau banyak mencaci orang lain yang lebih pandai. Dengan demikian hatinya akan berasa puas. Dia akan mencari orang-orang lain untuk memperdayakan mereka supaya mendengar cakapnya. Dia akan berasa puas dan pandai apabila orang lain tunduk kepadanya. Orang cerdik bukanlah sekadar bekelulusan tinggi. Orang cerdik termasuk juga orang yang tidak berkelulusan tinggi tetapi sentiasa berusaha memperbaiki dirinya, rajin dan tidak pernah berputus asa. Dia tidak meletakkan kesalahan terhadap orang lain. Akhirnya dia berjaya. Ramai orang yang tidak berkelulusan tinggi yang akhirnya masuk ke universiti dan memegang profession yan lebih baik. Pusing kepala kalau kita melayan orang yang bermasalah. Kita sudah jumpa puluhan orang seperti ini. Apa dihairan-hairankan. Sila rujuk balik kepada latar belakangnya dan dengar cara dia bercakap. Salah satu cara mengenali seseorang ialah dengan mendengar apa yang dia becakap tentang orang lain. Janganlah kita dekati dengan orang-orang ini. Satu hari nanti kita akan ditipu dan dibohongi olehnya. Sifat dan sikap Iri hati, busuk hati dan busuk perut membuat seseorang itu sentiasa sakit. Dia bodoh dia mahu orang lain juga bodoh. Dia tidak boleh dia mahu orang lain mengikutnya. Jika orang lain tidak mahu mengikutnya dia akan mencerca orang lain. Tidakkah anda menjumpai orang-orang seperti ini ? Jangan peduli tentang mereka. Jangan pusing kepala. Jika ramai orang-orang yang busuk hati dan busuk perut di dalam satu-satu organisasi, maka busuknya akan merebak. Bukan semua orang boleh tahan dengan bau busuknya. Apa lagi kalau ada khinzir di dalamnya. Baunya lebih busuk lagi. Pening kepala dibuatnya. Jika anda berniaga mee atau pisang goreng dan perniagaan anda amat maju sehingga anda jadi jutawan, ada orang menasihati supaya anda jangan pakai BMW dan meletakkannya di tepi gerai anda. Kata mereka orang mungkin tidak akan ke gerai anda lagi kerana kata mereka ," Dia kaya kerana kita." Kita tidak perlu cemburu kerana kekayaan, kepandaian dan kebolehan orang. Jika kita mahu ikut kaya dan pandai, kita harus berusaha dengan penuh tekun. Kita belajar dari mereka bukan asyik hendak menjatuhkan mereka. |
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QRP Communication |
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What I will be talking may be very strange to many of you. But I will try to make the explanation is simple as possible. I am sure you know what a hand phone is. Today camera, video, internet , phone and a few others are incorporated in one. It is a tool for communication. Before you can use it, you have to pay for the line. A line is a channel used over the air. As you speak your credit will be deducted. Then you have to do the toping up. There is another gadget which you can use like a hand phone but you don't have to pay to talk. Some look like a hand phone too. Usually you have to press a button to talk and release the button to hear the reply. The machine is called a radio transceiver. It is about between RM200 - RM400 for each unit. You can find these in many shops. One category of the transceiver unit uses very low power, light, and small. It has a special name for it. It is called QRP. The QRP has a distant limitation if we use voice to communicate but it can go thousands of miles if a carrier mode is used. The carrier mode deployed a Morse codes or called CW. Only a handful of people knows Morse code. The truckers also communicate using the radio stuffs. Because they used a certain given frequency it called a CB or Citizen Band radio. CB can also be used for international communication. Most of these radios need special antenna. The owner of the radio usually find ways to use power beyond the legal value and put up very high tower for the aerial. Te smaller radio like a hand phone use repeater to talk throughout Malaysia. a repeater is something that will transfer message for long distant communication. CW mode is used not because people want to send codes to hide messages. But because it can travel thru noise and far. Short forms can be used to send information. In abnormal condition and situation CW is desired as compared to other digital modes of communications. In emergency situations QRP rig is desirable. Please read more on QRP radio from the internet. |
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CAN GOVERNMENT BE 100% RESPONSIVE ? |
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Human needs are satiable. Everybody wants comfort and wealthy living. We all want everything if we cold get them. We also want free and cheap if possible. The list has no ending. When a government says it will be responsive to all, it is something impossible. It is not only the problem of resources but also it can slow down economic activity. People's preference are too many. Employees want more pay. Wealthy people want to pay less income tax or no tax at all. Poor people want free house. Responding to every citizen's request would be a chaos. Therefore the citizen must be reasonable as well when demanding from the government. It is reasonable if we ask for lower or no hike in toll fee, cheaper cost for utilities, provide roads and utilities, peace and security in daily life and for efficient services. But people are never reasonable. You give them an inch they want a foot. They want all. Citizens must be educate to think reasonably. Responsible government will see to it that the welfare of the people should come first not suppressing them by imposing higher utility bills, services, tolls and other taxes or chasing them out of the houses if they can't afford to pay the quit rent. If we hear ten people making a choice they will not be the same. It will be complicated when the demands are in conflict with each other ; half request for all exams to be abolished and the other half don't want it then you can't meet everybody's need. All the 'stupid' people may want to do away with examinations and all the smart people may want them. At time the government can't even think of majority. In the country of meritocracy only the most smart and clever people makes decision. Majority can bring disaster and chaos. Ask who want free utilities the big majority would vote for it. Majority don't want to pay taxes. That's the reason why government cannot be responsive to all demand and request. Assume that we have an absolute responsive government, that does not necessarily means it is an effective government. The word efficient itself means the ratio of the output to the input. Productions with zero cost input is the most efficient. An effective government is actually the measure of it's achievement with the optimum input. Many a time you can achieve your target but you spend too much time, energy and money. A 40 million dollar government project will finally costs 100 million at the time of completion. It is not efficient and not effective. Being responsive costs have to be put aside. Because of limited resources and multiplicity of demands, the government cannot be responsive to all. Some concepts are only rhetoric and political people like to use it to buy popularity. |
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NIZAR MUST PLAY FAIR |
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Good, High Court decision is for Nizar. But Nizar has to play fair. There is no reason for Nizar to dissolve the assembly. Of course we all know that BN will win back the state with no vote of confidence since it has the majority of 3 or even 1. Nizar has to win back the BN members to join BA to maintain the status quo. Of course the way BN had wrested the state was very shameful. It should follow the step by step process, instead Najib was too rushy and had shown the lack of professionalism. There is a Malay proverb 'Gunung dikejar tak kan lari'. If the state belongs to BN by the candidate's majority then BN should have put to the vote in the assembly and won the state amicably. The philosophers and the law makers should start thinking about people who jump party. The jumpers do not represent the people. It is not about who gain and who lose if a new law on jumping party is enacted. It is about the people. We do not run our country base on meritocracy. Now that the number of BN and BA is parliament is almost equal it is wise for the debate to go on for quite some time. Do not fix he time or rush over vital issue. The lawmakers should all think wisely and reasonably. It is for the sake of the nation and the welfare of the citizen. To Nizar I only have just this to say. Be fair. Play fair. BN has been playing dirty and madealot of people detest the party. Do not make people change their mind on BA. |
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PERSONAL GROOMING |
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Government agencies are engaging consultants to give talks on personal grooming. Participants commented positively on the one day course. My purpose is not to talk on the howness and whatness but to say something about my observations. I would give As to almost all political leaders. The top on the list is Dr. Mahatir Mohammed. Of course I don't favor his policy. But looking at his personal appearance you have to agree with me. His hair is neatly combed and he dressed very well and tidy. Lim Kit Siang too looks very smart and tidy with his attire. Member of parliaments do not have to walk like ladies in the fashion show. The worst dressed people were the big towkeys. I saw several with only T-shirt walked tons of money into a bank. One wealthy towkey shown in TV likes to wear a cowboy hat but never wear shoes or sleepers wherever he went. I don't have manners in dress and eating. I find forks are difficult to use. Eating with hand would be easier if I want to go for crabs or big prawns. They say hands are dirty but I think spoons can be dirtier and may contain dangerous germs especially when you eat in mamak shop. The Westerners put on proper attire even at home. On the other hand I never wear shirt when except when there are visitors. Sarong pull up to the knee is very cooling and convenient. Basically women take longer time to dress. This is true in Asia. I will let my wife dress first and waited for her to complete before I start to get ready. But most people going for dates, men or women, would make sure they look presentable and smart. You never see world leaders laugh aloud like we do. Imagine how we laugh at a joke that really tickles us. Remember of a movie My Fair Lady ? A noble man picked up a street girl and groomed her to be a woman of high class. He fell in love with her but the woman like someone else. There was a song which touched on personal grooming. You may not like to dress smart but at places you have no choice. It is better to dress well when you go to pray, funeral and feast. We don't wear T-Shirt to attend a funeral and talk aloud or laughing our stomach out at the place. May be we all should be given a course too. |
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9m2 short cut |
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I laugh my head off when I received e-mail about short cut to 9M2. I have said it out many time about this. I talked about reciprocal license and the concept. I would like to repeat it briefly here. There is no double reciprocal. When you go to China and got a reciprocal license ,it is something like an honor to respect Malaysia. When you leave China you leave the reciprocal there. You give back to the Chinese. You come back here with your old call sign. Then I also talked of political behavior in Amateur Radio. Now you hear many more funny stories coming in but not the big one yet. The big one yet to come. The MCMC will get scared if I were to mention what they are. With the present trend they are not something you can shrug off. In a simple way I would just say get those guys and boil them in hot water. The screening of the person to be given license should be done, and do it very strictly. Persons to sign for recommendations must be called in by the MCMC and provide all the information and rules of recommendation. Of course there are more detail discussions can be made about it. I am very happy to hear that the MCMC has decline to prolong the 9M2/V8. It is fare to all other 9W2s who are fighting hard to learn Morse code. And of course I commend these people. They are building their innate interest and their guts to face hardship. Applying in any other situation they are training themselves for survival. I am glad that many other 9Ws are opening their eyes now. Keep it up. You are building up the 'kedaulatan' of ham radio. One day Malaysia will make themselves heard in CW worldwide contests. People will say 'Wow! ' and do not think that we live on trees and hat we are moron. You know what ? At one time very long tme ago, I was at a hamfest at Athen Ohio, I played around with Morse codes, the people there clapped their hands. In Bloomington Indiana I was invited to give a talk on ham radio in Malaysia. I used the slides belonging to Rusli for the talk. We are not talking about Morse as compared to internet communication or other radio service, we are talking about selling the country and our ability. We are not jungle people. We really know all. |
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Ancient Defense Against Mosquito |
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More than 60 years ago e use ancient weapon to defend ourselves against mosquitoes. The small insect that feed on human blood can be a killer. When I was young at 7.30 pm I started to hang the net. The 3 sides of it which were tied to strings were again tied on the 4 nails on the wall. The old wooden house was easy to nail then. Immediately after hanging I would go in and started looking for any mosquito in it and would kill one by one with both palms clapping the trapped insect. Only later on I went to sleep. Today people buy aerosol to spray the mosquitoes. We spend much money because the price has gone up to almost RM20.000 a pair. If we were to buy the next it will last us for many years. And this old weapon is a very effective shield against the small enemy. One con man was hawkering a magic stuff which he said would gurantee safety against the mosquitoes. He put the stuff in a seal small box which he said it must be opened before the night fall. Te stuffs were sold like a hot cake. When the buyers opened the box as instructed they found a small piece of foldered paper. They opened it and found this "BUY A MOSQUITO NET". |
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THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE |
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I need to have a password for several pages of my asp. I don't know how to use the asp global variable because I don't learn it. Almost all of my web application software like message board, forums, comments and feedback are using simple asp codes which I gathered from the internet written by people who want to share their knowledge with other people like me. My latest project is to allow the form teachers from my old school to key in student's data from anywhere else at their own leisure time so that they would not feel any pressure of work. Simple codings of the password has been done. So are the other modules. But how to link the password to all the modules. I was dumb for a few days. Finally I decided to try the web search again. I type multiple value variables on response.redirect. Hoorah !!! There were plenty of them. Who provide these knowledge ? A big majority comes from the American citizens who are not thrifty enough to let others learn. Hence a little knowledge of English helps. I just feel sad for those who are anti English language and anti west. I would like to thank you to those who shae your knowledge with others.
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Masukkan nama pengguna dan kata laluan yang diberi. Tekan butang Sila Klk. Paparan seperti di bawah akan muncul.
Mengklik Pindaan, Buang Data dan Lihat Data akan memaparkan muka surat seperti di bawah. Anda kena masuk Kad Pengenalan pelajar berkenaan. Pindaan akan digunakan selalu kerana anda akan membuat tambahan pada data setiap murid apabila mendapat maklumat lanjut pelajar.
Buat pindaan. Sila skrol sehingga sampai pada penghujung. Klik Rekod Pindaan bila selesai. Bagi butang Tambah Data Baru paparannya adalah seperti di bawah. Anda isikan borang kosong ini sehingga selesai. Bila anda menekan rekod, borang kosong ini akan muncul semula. Buat sementara waktu inilah yang anda akan gunakan. Masuklah data sedikit demi sedikit dlam 4 atau 5 orang sehari di mana-mana sahaja anda berada. Kita tidak akan menerangkan butang-buang lain kerana ia tidak perlu. Penggunaannya mudah sahaja. Misalnya apabila anda sudah buang anda hendak melihatnya semula sama ada sudah dibuang atau tidak, gunakan lihat sahaja ataupun pindaan dan masukkan kad pengenalan pelajar yang sudah dibuang tadi. SELAMAT MAJU JAYA. |
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HAM AND CB SHOULD COMBINE |
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It is a high time when amateur and CB radio is joined together. IARU should do this. This equal opportunity will get rid of Morse code and Radio Amateur Examinations and the CB share identical frequencies as the normal ham radio. The truckers should be encourage to use the frequencies they are using now and the rest can choose any frequency. Identical regulations should be imposed on to the new radio group. The usage of profane language must be banned. I don't see why there must be CB and HAM and why the Radio Amateur Examination which is very irrelevant in the modern world. The IARU should do it fast and quickly. The ham radio manufacturers cold expect a higher sales without having to lobby as what they had done before. |
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CYBER CONNING |
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Everyday you receive e-mails that are conning you, fro winning a lottery ticket to the more real life like senders. Banks,Maybank2U, and even your friends. They are not banks or financial institutions that you are involve in. They are not your friends that you know of. While banks would ask you to change your account, you friends will be asking you to help him in sending money where he lost it in a certain country he takes a trip. Your friends are at home and know nothing about it. Now they go on to the chat boxes, preying for people. They use proxy servers, put people's picture and create a character. They talked to you nicely. You think they are nice people from the country they mentioned. They are not from there. May be they are from Nigeria where there are a lot of cheaters or any other African nations. They will be telling you about their families or kids. Then they will tell you about their misfortunes. They finally would ask for your financial assistance. Con man and cheaters abroad or locally, using cyber or otherwise, are immoral people. They do not have shame nor they would feel guilty of their doings. Something in their minds made them that way. Kind people usually fell prey. Even in your workplace or one of your friends can be a con man. A single con person like a young lady can be very successful. She gets what she conned. She does have to divide the share and she would be safer. In Malaysia Cyber conning prey on victims they know would fall on their tricks. Be careful even of a woman who might say she is poor and in love with you. You might end up marrying a married lady. |
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MY FAVORITE TV SHOWS |
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When I was involved with HAM Radio I seldom watched TV programs. My time then was monitoring while doing computer work. Occasionally I would tune to American Idol. But TV time was short. But things are different now. When tired with computers I would go in front of the TV set. My eyes are glued to it for hours, mostly switching channels one after another. Channels I would press the numbers on remote control are 800, 700, 556 and 708. I know it does not go to the number I pressed. 800 could take me to sports. 556 to Animal Planet. 700 to AXN and 708 to TV 8. From there I would increment or decrement by the factor of one. Shows I like to watch is the Oprah, soccer and on animals. However if there is a good movie on any channel I would sty foot on the channel. These few days TV2 is showing very interesting stories. Programs I would not stop and watch are Malay drama or movies except for P.Ramlee, any kind of talent time or singing competition held by the Malaysians for the reasons I do not like the themes of the drama, the content and the songs. If somehow I come across Siti Nurhaliza I would listen and watched her singing. I like Siti because of her voice. Chinese classical with sub titles are also my favorite, especially the classical comedies. The Indian channel called VAAN would also be my choice when they have something like a singing competition. I lie to hear the voice of the Indian village ladies singing with their fantastic voice and the sound of the beating tabla tempo. The VAAN channel also have the dancing competition by the the Indian Indians and the Malaysian Indians. My present taste shift a great deal from my younger days. Old replayed comedy shows does not interest me anymore. I don't go for the comedy series anymore even the Phua Chu Kang. Once I like the dancing show very much but now I only watched the International dancing competition. I tend to stay away from TV1, TV3 and all channels that talked about UMNO politics. I may not even watch even if PAS or DAP has a channel. During the election campaign TV1 and TV3 were out of bound. I did not watch them at all instead I went to channel 556 or 802. Soccer would be my first choice. One of the channels I used to watch has now been banned by my mind. It is Astro Awani. Today the people there were saying "Only UMNO can deliver to the people..." Yes only UMNO can change the status of the Malay Reserve to Free Hold by giving to the greedy people like giving away Bukit Botak to kids. TV can be entertaining but it is a media which can subvert people's mind. |
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I WENT TO PENANG HILL |