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[WTS] iPhone 14 Pro Max 256GB Black

-Teddy- — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:19:25 +0800

Item(s): iPhone 14 Pro Max 256GB Black

Package includes:Phone + original USB-C to Lightning cable + box + free unused Caudabee case

Price: RM3280
Warranty: none

Dealing method: COD

Location: KL / Selangor

Contact method/details: PM

Item(s) conditions: Used but in perfect condition. Screen protector and case on since day one. Battery health 86%.

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Reason for sale: Upgrade

[WTS] Redmi 9T - 64GB - Sunrise Orange

-Teddy- — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 23:43:49 +0800

Item(s): Redmi 9T - 64GB - Sunrise Orange

Package includes: Full set in box

Price: RM510

Warranty: 1 year

Dealing method: COD

Location: Klang Valley

Contact method/details: PM
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Item(s) conditions: Brand new and sealed

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Reason for sale: Extra phone, wrong purchase

Third Party Agent and Introducer Fee

-Teddy- — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 22:26:38 +0800

I recently booked an under construction property through a third party agent. She told me if I put an introducer as my referral then she won't get any commission from the developer?

Is this common among developers in Malaysia?

[SOLD] Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Black Onyx

-Teddy- — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:28:20 +0800

Item(s):Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Black Onyx

Package includes: Everything in box, except for earphones due hygiene reasons. Comes with Samsung Smart Care Screen Protection, so you only have to pay RM100 to replace the screen if you ever crack it (instead of the ridiculous RM1200). Free phone case.

Price: SOLD

Warranty: 1 year from 23rd September 2016

Dealing method: COD only

Location of seller: Kuala Lumpur

Contact method/details: PM

Age of item: 1 month

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Item(s) conditions: Like new

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Reason for sale:Bought iPhone 7 Plus

[SOLD] VIP Tickets to BIGBANG 2016 KUALA LUMPUR

-Teddy- — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 23:14:13 +0800

Item(s): 1x VIP Tickets to BIGBANG 2016 MADE [V.I.P] TOUR IN KUALA LUMPUR

Details: VIP Block L, row 11, seat 18.

Price: SOLD

Dealing method: COD

Location: Anywhere in KL

PM to deal, thanks.

[WTS] Sony Xperia Z3 Compact

-Teddy- — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 21:28:03 +0800

Item(s): Sony Xperia Z3 Compact (Black), original unit from Sony Center

Package includes: Everything in box + one magnetic charger and one magnetic dock

Price: RM1,450

Warranty: Original Sony warranty

Dealing method: COD only

Location of seller: KL

Contact method/details: PM

Age of item: 5 months

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Item(s) conditions: Like new

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Reason for sale: Switched back to iPhone

[WTS] iPad 3 32GB Wi-Fi

-Teddy- — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:13:02 +0800

Item(s): iPad 3 32GB Wi-Fi, black

Package includes: Device + cheapo smart cover (no box, charger, cable)

Price: RM 650

Warranty: Expired

Dealing method: COD only

Location of seller: KL

Contact method/details: PM

Age of item: Launch device in 2012

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Item(s) conditions: iPad works fine. I'm still amazed by its battery life to this day. Wear and tear wise, one nick over the top left corner caused by the zipper of one of the case I've used. On the side there's a faint line, which is actually dye from a cheap pasar malam smart cover. See the last two pictures.

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Reason for sale: Upgraded.

PayPal App Mobile PIN Login

-Teddy- — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:18:01 +0800

Anyone using the iOS PayPal app? It appears that I'm not able to login using my phone number and mobile PIN unless I change my phone region to Malaysia (which will change my clock from 24-hour format to PG (pagi). Any workaround so that I can retain my phone regional format to UK or US and still use the PayPal app? Thanks.

Modify C Variable According to If Else Condition

-Teddy- — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:18:45 +0800

Hi all, this is what I'm trying to do:

If score > 80, performance = good.
If score < 80, performance = fair.

This is my sample code:

CODE

int score;
char performance[10];

if(score > 80)
{
performance = "Good";
}

CODE

int score;
char performance[10];
char p1[5] = good;

if(score > 80)
{
performance = p1;
}

Both wouldn't work. It says that performance must be a modifiable value. If I use a single character grade, like "A" and "B", instead of good and fair, everything runs well. Any idea how can I insert the value of a string based on an if else condition? I don't want to print it directly, as I want the performance to display elsewhere in the code that's already dense, I don't wanna squeeze more codes there.

Thanks!

Peninsular Malaysia North Expedition

-Teddy- — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:43:28 +0800

I'm planning a solo road trip to places north of KL, and would appreciate inputs from you guys.

My preliminary itinerary:

Pangkor

Drive from Kuala Lumpur to Lumut, and take a ferry to Pangkor. Have been to Pangkor once, but I think it's one of the cheapest decent beach in Malaysia. Stay for a night or two. Back to Lumut.

Ipoh

Drive from Lumut to Ipoh. Food hunting. Gua Tempurong. Stay for a day.

Taiping

Drive from Ipoh to Taiping. Various POIs (http://www.cameron-highland-destination.com/taiping-sights-attractions.html). Not intending to stay.

Penang

Drive from Taiping to Penang. Food hunting. National park. Hang around Love Lane and Chulia Street with other travelers.

Kuala Lumpur

Drive all the way back home from Penang.

Planning to go in off-peak season, probably after CNY, so that I can travel at my own pace without having to book anything in advance and restrict myself. Staying in cheap hostels mostly, more flexible to extend my stay without hurting my wallet too much and can probably meet more people that way.

Any comments on my route? Any places along the way that I should visit? Perhaps I can take a ferry to Langkawi from Penang, but not sure if I should since I've already been to beaches in Pangkor. Also, I'm not sure how safe it is to park my car in Penang unattended for days.

Saga BLM M-line vs. Persona B-line

-Teddy- — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:15:48 +0800

Hi guys, I need your recommendations here. I'm getting my first car, and I'm eyeing on a Saga BLM 2010 M-line and a Persona 2008 B-line. Both are manual, and their prices are similar. The Saga still has one year of warranty though.

While Persona is obviously bigger, and I suppose better, it doesn't come with stuff like ABS, airbag etc. I'm not sure how important those are to a new driver. Also, I suppose the FC is lower on the Saga?What say you?

Windows Error Recovery on Startup

-Teddy- — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:45:28 +0800

I see the following error when trying to boot my laptop (Windows 7 Home Premium):

QUOTE

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.

[...]

Launch Startup Repair (recommended)
Start Windows Normally

Starting Windows normally will restart the laptop after an attempt to load, returning to the screen above. In startup repair, it can't detect my OS installation. I can't see Drive C, and I suppose the startup repair is located at Drive X: Boot.

I don't have any Windows 7 CD, and my laptop doesn't come with any CD drive.

It was working all fine until I did some changes in my partitions. Since then, the laptop will still work, but would hang once or twice a day.

Any ideas?

Ugly Malaysian Government Websites

-Teddy- — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:02:17 +0800

Which Malaysian Government websites do you think is ugly and unprofessional?

I'll start with:

http://apps2.moe.gov.my/ - logo font looks dated from 1998. Lame visitor counter at bottom of page. Yellow text on light blue background is simply unreadable. And lastly something you would probably find on websites in the 90s, browser and resolution suggestions:

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Laman ini sesuai dengan Mozilla dan hampir kesemua web browser. Walau bagaimanapun, IE8 mungkin agak sedikit bermasalah dengan laman ini.
Sila pastikan komputer anda mempunyai aplikasi java serta paparan beresolusi 1024x 768 ke atas bagi paparan yang memuaskan. Harap maklum.

http://www.dca.gov.my/ - just see for yourself.

Twitter Updates No Longer Published on Facebook

-Teddy- — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:39:19 +0800

For some reason my Twitter updates are not appearing on Facebook anymore, unlike before. The Twitter app on Facebook is still showing that both the accounts are connected. Is it just me?

A mother is 21 years older than her son.

-Teddy- — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 01:28:46 +0800

A mother is 21 years older than her son. In 6 years she will be 5 times as old as her son. Where is the father?

Google Donates When You Use Google Chrome

-Teddy- — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:04:06 +0800

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cause

QUOTE

Install the Chrome for a Cause extension and your web browsing will drive donations made to charities around the world. Between December 15 - 19, every tab you open will support a good cause.

Happy Sunday

-Teddy- — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:43:19 +0800

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kthxbye

Whistleblower found dead with bag tied around head

-Teddy- — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:02:47 +0800

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A former employee of Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud's family business empire was found dead last Sunday in a Los Angeles hotel room with a bag tied around his head.

Ross J Boyert, 60, was former chief operating officer of Sakti International - the United States-based property company belonging to Taib's family.

"It is speculated that he may have taken his own life, but the coroner is withholding judgement pending further investigations," said anti-Taib website Sarawak Report, which has recently published a series of explosive revelations on Sarawak's 'first family'.

According to Sarawak Report, Boyert had for 12 years served as the sole manager of a number of the office blocks and residences owned by the Taib family in San Francisco and Seattle.

Sakti International owns an estimated US$80 million (RM258 million) in properties. Among them is the 14-storey Abraham Lincoln Building - a maximum security building which houses the Seattle division of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and counter-terrorism unit, the Washington Fusion Centre.

It was Boyert who helped Sakti International sealed the deal with the FBI in 1998.

Apart from the Abraham Lincoln Building, Sakti's other top property includes 260 California Street, San Francisco, the tenants of which include Citibank (left).

Boyert took charge of an ailing Sakti International in 1994 when it was under the management of Taib's son Sulaiman Taib - then a student in California.

Sulaiman, who is now a parliamentarian in his father's former seat of Kota Samaharan, quit late last year as deputy tourism minister citing personal reasons. It is rumoured that he is in ill-health.

Falling out with family members

Sarawak Report said that Boyert left Sakti International in 2006 after falling foul of rivalries among Taib family members.

"Details of what happened to him are publicly laid out in lawsuits and counter-lawsuits lodged in the records of the California Superior Court. These records provided some of the information behind Sarawak Report's original exposes of Taib's US property interests," added the website.

Taib, who has ruled Sarawak since 1981, is speculated to be among Malaysia's richest, with business interests in a variety of industries locally and abroad.

azlanMost prominent of the Taib family companies is conglomerate Cahaya Mata Sarawak Bhd, which constructed much of the state's infrastructure.

According to the lawsuits filed by Boyert, Sulaiman had promised him 50 percent of the profits in Sakti International in return for rescuing the company.

However, an inept Sulaiman was later replaced as the company sole director by Taib's Canadian son-in-law Sean Murray - the husband of Sulaiman's sister Jamilah.

After securing control of the company, Murray subsequently sacked Boyert without any compensation. Boyert retaliated by going to court claiming unfair dismissal and demanded the promised share of the profits.

By bringing the case against Sakti, and thus revealing the Taib family's business interest, Boyert claimed his own family faced "a relentless, well-funded campaign to undermine their reputation and to destroy them financially".

"We thought it was a plain vanilla employment dispute and they would eventually give us some money to go away," Boyert told Sarawak Report. "Instead they unleashed the forces of hell on us.

"I was incredibly naive. I should have realised that by showing all that I knew about Taib's involvement in the company, I would present a threat in his eyes and invoke his revenge.

"We never realised that Taib's wealth was illegitimate, we didn't have Google in those days. We just assumed that, as the FBI had checked out the company and rented a maximum security facility from the Taibs, everything must be above board."

In deep desperation

Boyert alleged numerous incidents of tyre slashing, the destruction of burglar alarm and CCTV surveillance systems and a series of break-ins into their multi-million dollar home.

Unable to find work and having lost their home, a deeply depressed Boyert made an attempt to kill himself three months ago by crashing his car into a tree.

Boyert had met with investigators from Sarawak Report several times and provided some of the key information which form part of its series of expose on Taib family's business empire.

Boyert also contacted Malaysiakini soon after he heard that Taib was suing the news portal for defamation over its 2007 report on alleged kickbacks paid by Japanese shippers to a company linked to the chief minister's family.

Following the death of Taib's wife in 2009, Boyert told Malaysiakini in an email:

"It is with neither joy nor sorrow that I greet the news of the death of Laila Taib (far right), but rather with a profound sense of disappointment. Having suffered mightily for our stand against the injustices perpetrated by this family, I cannot help but feel cheated by this death.

The pained look on my wife's face as we now confront the prospect of the loss of our home resulting from the destructive slander of my reputation is almost too much to bear.

"We remain committed to the cause of justice, believe that all ill begotten gains be repatriated, and that the Taib's better start compensating now all those whom they have so ruthlessly harmed, or be prepared to suffer their own final judgment."

Boyert leaves behind a wife and daughter.

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/145351

If you were to convince non-iPhone users

-Teddy- — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:18:13 +0800

Dear iPhone users,

If you're required to convince a user to buy an iPhone among all other smartphones (Android most notably), how would you convince him?

Maxis's iPhone 4's price is out and I think it's quite affordable (compared to 3GS's time especially), but yet find it not so convincing now that Android has improve so much. Tell me how you find iPhone awesome.

Best Plan for Data with Minimal Call/Text

-Teddy- — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:16:36 +0800

What is the cheapest/most viable plan for people who uses data pretty often but with minimal call and text? The current postpaid plan require at least RM30 per month, whether or not you call, and for data, you have to top up extra fees. It won't make any sense for me to pay for calls I don't make.

For prepaid, DiGi is the cheapest with RM15 per week, RM60 per month. But coverage is limited, with 3G only in a few major cities. And coming to think about it, they are all very expensive compared to their wireless broadband plans. Same data quota (3GB) but Hotlink charges RM98 per month, while Maxis Broadband only RM68.

Why are they doing this? What plan do you recommend for such case?