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Still remember the fun when you first played Monopoly? Buying a lot of lands, building houses and hotels, changing your friend hell lot of money until they go backrupt… They were almost my everything when I was young. There was a time when I asked my friends why I can’t find any Malaysian cities in the map. We argued a lot and ended up fighting. LOL, being nostalgic, now we can actually create the new Monopoly World Edition Map with capital of Malaysia on the board!!! Sounds exciting isn’t it? =)

This is the message from Mr. Monopoly:

Have your say in the world’s first global Monopoly!

I’m creating the world’s first global Monopoly so I want to know what your favourite cities are!

I’ve pre-selected 68 great cities for you to choose from but you can nominate any other city you want – these are known as Wildcard cities.

Vote for your top 10 cities… and keep voting every day!

The 20 pre-selected cities with the highest worldwide votes on February 29 2008 will make it onto the board. Plus, you will have from March 1 to March 9 2008 to vote on the most nominated Wildcard cities. Only the top two will make it on the board!

Well people from Malaysia, this is a great time to showcase our country to the world. Currently Kuala Lumpur is ranked at 49 (0.7%). Tonnes of voting are required to push KL to the top 20 cities ranking where at the moment Paris being the top (4.1%) while Shanghai at the 20th place (1.9%). Only 29 days left for voting so hurry up, make yourself useful by voting. After all, Malaysia Boleh right?

Anyway, you can also nominate for the 20 wildcard cities. I’ve voted for Penang but apparently the vote gap is so great that Penang is still not in the top 20 wildcard ranking. Well then, guys and girls, spread the vote and keep on voting ya!!! =)

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This will be my last post before departing to Putra World Trade Center in KL. I’ve delayed this post for 2 days so I think I need to complete it before the end of this week. =)

Many of us dreamed of becoming scientist, engineer or doctor when we were young. We dreamed of contributing new technology to the community, curing a rare disease, discover new energy and material but as time flies, some of us will leave our initial dreams behind and pursue a new one. Most of all have vast interest in almost everything but the fact is that we can only choose one or maybe two and leave the rest behind. Well, like me, now you can actually relive your childhood dreams or fantasies. How? Very simple. It’s so simple that you and I can make it in just a few minutes.

With the power of World Wide Web, and the popularity of high speed broadband connection, the concept of network computing is receiving much attention ever than before. Instead of using a series of supercomputers in a lab, we can actually harness the processing power of millions of computers worldwide to support scientific projects in areas as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics.

Well, now I can be part of many ongoing projects thanks to Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC). There are many modules for you to choose, depending on what your interest is.

For me, everything started with the 1997 movie “Contact”. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis with Jodie Foster as Dr. Ellie Arroway and the movie gave me a profound impact, changing my view on the possibilities of the existence of other civilization forever. Since then I become part of SETI@home project. Recent discoveries regarding relationship between 3D protein molecular structure and possible disease prevention put me into action in participation of the Rosetta@home and POEM@home projects. I’m a fan of Einstein’s theory about interaction of gravitational fields by stellar objects with massive density in the space-time continuum therefore I’m now in the Einstein@home project. The movie “The Day After Tomorrow” tossed me into wild imagination o f what our climate would become, hence I’m in the climateprediction.net project. And for general humanity issues, I put myself into World Community Grid. It may sound crazy to you but the very participation of such projects satisfy my imagination as astrophysicist, molecular biology scientist and climatologist. =p

Well, enough of my crap here. Experience it now. Maybe you might be lucky enough to discover something that could change the destiny of human civilization forever.

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I don’t know since when our primary school children have been so intelligent to solve problem like this…



From what I’ve heard, the teacher just simply asked the student to do the questions as homework without further elaboration. Are the kids nowadays really that smart? Or the authors are playing “smart” with those young minds?

I may be stupid so I took almost 5 minutes to find the missing digits. Anyway, I seriously doubt the intelligence of the teacher, particularly those in Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan since their books are already filled with answers. It must be easy work for the teacher to just write out the answers on the blackboard without explaining to them how to obtain the figures. Since this textbook is published by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP), I assume this books is being used nationwide. OMG, nationwide…

Forget about the teachers, we should really proud of the authors for designing such a genius question. I wonder how did they perform in their mathematic paper when they were in year 6. What’s on their mind? I don’t know. What’s on the ministry of education’s agenda? I also don’t know. Maybe this is something in their mind:

We’re really advancing, aren’t we? Look, our questions is up to standard (what crappy standard?) and our kids are clever enough to solve the problems easily. This shows that our nation is developing fast. Hurray…

Are we advancing? Or are we making fun of our kids? I feel terribly sad for the kids nowadays…

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