Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Taiwan Trip - Day 1

Date: 3/10/2007
Places: Taoyuan C.K.S. Airport & Taipei Hwah Si Night Market

Yeah... After long awaited moments, the day finally arrived. Today will be the day we travel to Taiwan for vacations! =)

Our flight to Taipei departs at 2PM by China Airlines. We arrived at the Penang International airport around 12PM and checked in. Hehe.. Can't wait to on board the flight to Taiwan. Dinner was provided on board. We had the chicken rice with duno what sauce. The taste is not bad. =)


Reached Taoyuan Aiport at 630PM... Waiting for luggage...

Then we were picked up by My & Mrs Quah to transfer to Kilin Hotel (Room 301). Thanks to this friendly couple for showing us the way to Hwah Si Night Market. He inform us that we need to wake up at 6am tomorrow and our tour guide will meet us at 7.15am.

From hotel to Hwah Si Night Market is around 5-10 minutes walk.


We tasted the "Ba Bao Bing" (dessert with many different things inside) - TWD50.


Next, we bought mai ya tang (a sweet with cartoon character's face) - TWD50,


tasted "Chang Yu Sao" (octopus) - TWD35


and also O'Chien (fried oyster) - TWD50. The fried oyster is quite different from the one sold in Penang...


We also saw that there are many kids and parents playing the game to catch the prosperous tortoise...

Around 9.40pm, we walked back to hotel and get ready for next day's itinerary.

**Additional Info:
Kilin Hotel
103, Kang-Ding Rd, Taipei
Tel: (02) 2314-9222, 2314-7070
Fax: (02) 2331-8133
Email: kilin.hotel@msa.hinet.net

More photos here: http://sherlynchew.multiply.com/photos/album/104

Friday, October 26, 2007

My Birthday~!

Yay... Today's my birthday...

Why am I so happy? Ermm.. I also don't know. Just feel like blogging about it on my birthday.

Today, I would like to thank my mum and dad for all the loves, cares and everything good they have showered to me for all these years. I love you, mum and dad!

Receive birthday wishes from friends, families, colleagues, internet friends, etc...

Thanks to all the birthday wishes, nice presents and thanks for celebrating with me.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

ALERT!! Please beware..

Got this email from a friend. Anyone receive the same one?
MSN Hacker.. Don't transfer money to anyone.. even your friends ask you. It might be a hacker using their msn account.

Read below…



Guys! please beware of MSN fraud! Read on:

It happened around 1125am on 19th October 2007. When i was busy with work, a friend suddenly 'IM'ed me using MSN messenger. She used to be my roomate and i am very close with her. So, she asked if i could log in to maybank2u account because she couldn't. As I’ve tried, i could log in. She asked me for a favor saying that she owed a friend money and been delaying him very long and its kind of urgent to return the money and asked if i could help her to transfer money to her friend first and saying that she'll definitely bank in the money back to me after work that day. The amount she asked was initially RM800, but since i got not that much money in that bank account, she told me to wait as she will ask her friend if its okay paying him RM400 first. So, sensing some kind of emergency here, i without any hesitation (this friend once asked me to lend money to her the same way), I’ve banked in the amount to the bank account she gave me. The account no. is 1111-1428-6194 and the owner's name is KEW MIN TECK. Well, at the end of the day, after working hour, i still yet to receive any call from my friend regarding the money. So, i smsed her regarding the money. She was shocked about it and asked if she still owe me money. (We stayed together for the past few months, so, sometimes she owes me money for bills...)So, with the thought that she forgot bout it, i mentioned to her that she asked for my help to transfer RM400 to her friend first. With that, she's even more surprised and gave me a call. When i told her about it, she said it must be her email account being hacked already. (FYI - MSN uses email account to login) because she received a SMS from an unknown number saying that he's matthew and he hacked her email and asked her if she wants him to restore for her. This guy's number is 012-2141405 which is a prepaid number. I was so shocked with the news and immediately went to Maybank to see if the transfer could be stopped. It was already 720pm at that time, offices already closed down. I've called the maybank hotline and they asked me to make a police report and bring back to Maybank tomorrow. So, i quickly went to the nearest police station and make a report believing that with the guy's bank account number and name, police force could at least track him down or get evidence on him for the crime he's committing. I told my friend to do the same thing and tell her to sms all her friends regarding her account being hacked. At the police station, there's this policewoman at the counter. She asked me where did i do the transaction and i told her at my office. she told me that i must go to another police station to make the report as that is not under their district. I was like 'huh?' However, i managed to make a police report. That policewoman did not even listen properly to the incident i was telling and she started to type on her own. Since she did not attentively listen to what i was saying, she got things wrong and asked us to write the story down. I was lucky that i got a friend to accompany me to the police station. (i don't even know where's the police station is... i'm a KL ppl in Penang now). Even though I’ve made a police report, the case wasn't open. To no avail, nothing has been done. The policewoman then called another officer (it seems that this officer has the higher rank) and he talked to me. I was asked by him 'why do i need the police report’, the reason of getting a police report? (is that suppose to be a question? i wouldn't have trouble myself to lodge a report if i find it not necessary)By telling him that at least could get details on the guy from the bank, he told me to go to Maybank and get the guy's particulars and hopefully i could talk to that guy and it'll be good if he returns the money else, i'll need to treat it as a wrong investment. (wrong investment!!???) So, particularly, nothing has been done.

The next amusement thing about this is that, i went to Maybank as told by the officer the next day along with the police report and hope that i could get details on that guy. And the only thing that i found out is that they need an officer/personel to come along only authorised to view the details! (omg! how come no one told me bout it at the police station?) The guy in maybank was very helpful. He managed to help me check (i got a peep on it) about that hacker's bank account. To my surprise, there are alot of transcation to this guy account! Besides mine at 11.25am, at 11.30am there's another transaction (RM620) transfered to his account. There are several more. And at that moment, his account only left RM146! Doesn't it obvious that this guy is vigorously cheating others by hacking into other people's account? Since, nothing can be done without an officer/personel, with much despair i decided to go home. Just on the way back, i received a call from a friend from KL stating that the hacker the friend's email account to online again and now talking to him. That hacker uses the same tactic to him asking for help to transfer money using maybank2u. I asked my friend to entertain him to see if it is the same guy,same bank account number. So, when i reached home. I tried to talk to that guy again. He's using the same conversation again! (omg! doesn't he remember that he has already conned me?) by making it sounds like i'm talking to my friend, i talked to him again. So, as predicted. He asked the same question again and the whole lot conversations were the same. And without any surprise, the name and the bank account number is the same! So, i called the police station where i make a report yesterday to tell them about it. The policeman who picked up the phone was so rude. Then, i told him bout the incident and my report number and told him that this guy is in action again. And yet, another disappointment. The policeman said that there's nothing he could do as he can't get out of the police station and he then gave me a hp number to call. I called that officer who's responsible for this kind of cases but only got 'i'm busy at the moment. i'm taking some statement here' as the answer. My KL friend who got the whole conversation which of course, the same account number and the same name - went to make a police report and requested to open up a case for this. After waiting for 4 hours at the police station and listening to the policemen saying that there's nothing they can do, there's no evidence and a more ridiculous question thrown to my friend is "Berapa Ribu kau hilang?" (how many thousands you have lost?)

Isn't it the police’s responsibility to track this fella down? And why am i the one suppose to get the particulars from Maybank? Doesn't he knows that we're not authorise to do any checking on people's particulars unless there's an officer/personel together with the police report only could do that? Why am i not told about it when i'm at the police station lodging the report? And isn't it the job of the police to get evidences on this guy who is doing the crime? It doesn't matter on how much we got cheated, it is still our money and furthermore, what if that i'm not the only person being conned here? Imagine, each person he conned RM400, so if he managed to con 10 people, that would make it RM 4000 per day! I am seriuosly being dissappointed with the act of the police force. It's as if they are imaginary since they claimed that they could do nothing about it. And these kind of crimes will continue and it'll be even worse as there's no action being take and these culprits will happily commit these crimes without being afraid of getting caught.

So, people! What you can do now is be more extra careful when you're dealing with your money. Always verify with the people you're sending money to, no matter how close he/she to you. And don't assume that your friend's/family's eamil account is not being hacked!

p/s: this is part of the conversation I got (the day after when he’s trying to con me again) And I got to know from maybank that he’s account is from kuching, Sarawak.

=jOcElYn= says (12:36 PM):
hey

çhof??? says (12:36 PM):
eh

=jOcElYn= says (12:36 PM):
how are you??

çhof??? says (12:36 PM):
fine lo

çhof??? says (12:36 PM):
how about u?

=jOcElYn= says (12:36 PM):
not very good not very bad

=jOcElYn= says (12:36 PM):
haha

=jOcElYn= says (12:36 PM):
just fine like u

=jOcElYn= says (12:36 PM):
you getting prettier!

çhof??? says (12:36 PM):
:P

çhof??? says (12:37 PM):
no la

=jOcElYn= says (12:37 PM):
no need shy le

çhof??? says (12:37 PM):
u're prettier

=jOcElYn= says (12:37 PM):
haha, no la

=jOcElYn= says (12:37 PM):
i ugly one

=jOcElYn= says (12:37 PM):
eh, do you have maybank2u acc?

çhof??? says (12:38 PM):
why?

=jOcElYn= says (12:38 PM):
dunno why i can't login to the site since yesterday

=jOcElYn= says (12:38 PM):
u manage to login?

çhof??? says (12:39 PM):
erm.. ya

=jOcElYn= says (12:39 PM):
i think my pc got virus already

=jOcElYn= says (12:40 PM):
the page cannot finish load

çhof??? says (12:42 PM):
oh! really?

çhof??? says (12:42 PM):
u din install antivirus meh?

=jOcElYn= says (12:43 PM):
got scan but took very long time so i always press cancel..haha

=jOcElYn= says (12:43 PM):
can u do me a favor?

çhof??? says (12:43 PM):
aiyoo

çhof??? says (12:43 PM):
u better scan it properly la

çhof??? says (12:43 PM):
else ur data all gone lagi teruk

=jOcElYn= says (12:43 PM):
i need to transfer money to my fren and been delaying hin since yesterday...u help me to bank in can? i bank in back to u this evening when i go out

çhof??? says (12:46 PM):
ooo

çhof??? says (12:46 PM):
why so urgent geh?

=jOcElYn= says (12:46 PM):
cause delayin him very long already. i feel so bad

=jOcElYn= says (12:46 PM):
can u help me?

çhof??? says (12:47 PM):
ohhh

çhof??? says (12:47 PM):
who is that?

=jOcElYn= says (12:47 PM):
my fren, i asked him help me buy some stuff and he already send to item and yet i still havent paid him

çhof??? says (12:49 PM):
eh, u din go back hometown ar?

=jOcElYn= says (12:49 PM):
nolar

=jOcElYn= says (12:49 PM):
can u help me or not?

çhof??? says (12:49 PM):
wait wait

çhof??? says (12:49 PM):
i'm loading the page

çhof??? says (12:49 PM):
also vry slow lo

çhof??? says (12:50 PM):
my connection very slow

çhof??? says (12:50 PM):
sooo sorry

=jOcElYn= says (12:50 PM):
u using dial up?

=jOcElYn= says (12:50 PM):
or streamyx?

=jOcElYn= just sent you a nudge.

=jOcElYn= says (12:54 PM):

çhof??? says (1:17 PM):
y not i send cheque to u or pass cash to u?

çhof??? says (1:19 PM):
ok ma?

=jOcElYn= says (1:19 PM):
i need to transfer the money to him now

=jOcElYn= says (1:19 PM):
pass me cash also no use

=jOcElYn= says (1:19 PM):
he's in malacca

=jOcElYn= says (1:19 PM):
i got money in my maybank2u just can't log in!

çhof??? says (1:20 PM):
oh

çhof??? says (1:20 PM):
u give me ur fren's acc then

çhof??? says (1:20 PM):
so i can transfer when the page loaded finish

=jOcElYn= says (1:20 PM):
u manage to log on now?

=jOcElYn= says (1:21 PM):
1111-1428-6194 kew min teck

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Old Parents - Story of the day

An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window.

The Father asked his Son, "What is this?"

The Son replied "It is a crow".

After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, "What is this?"

The Son said "Father, I have just now told you "It's a crow".

After a little while, the old Father again asked his Son the 3rd time,

What is this?"

At this time some expression of irritation was felt in the Son's tone when he said to his Father with a rebuff. "It's a crow, a crow, a crow".

A little after, the Father again asked his Son the 4th time, "What is this?"

This time the Son shouted at his Father, "Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times 'IT IS A CROW'. Are you not able to understand this?"

A little later the Father went to his room and came back with an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son was born. On opening a page, he asked his Son to read that page. When the son read it, the following words were written in the diary :-
"Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window. My Son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied to him all 23 times that it was a Crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel irritated I rather felt affection for my innocent child".

While the little child asked him 23 times "What is this", the Father had felt no irritation in replying to the same question all 23 times and when today the Father asked his Son the same question just 4 times, the Son felt irritated and annoyed.

So..

If your parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at them as a burden, but speak to them a gracious word, be cool, obedient, humble and kind to them. Be considerate to your parents. From today say this aloud, "I want to see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child. They have always showered their selfless love on me.

They crossed all mountains and valleys without seeing the storm and heat to make me a person presentable in the society today".

Say a prayer to God, "I will serve my old parents in the BEST way. I will say all good and kind words to my dear parents, no matter how they behave."

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Winning Anything? Nope.. It's a Scam!!

Checked my mails today and found two emails which notify me that I won some money.. Wow.. If that's true, then I would be very rich. Haha.
But nope, all these are scams.
Don't ever believe in something which you didn't even participate or heard of.

Below are the mail content from these so called "companies":
First email from: MSN/HOTMAIL PROMOTION (mail444@netbay.com.au)
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MSN/HOTMAIL PROMOTION
PATRONAGE BONANZA
(Thanks for contributing to our Financial Success)
Dear Esteemed Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the MSN/HOTMAIL Mid-Year
Patronage Bonanza 2007. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number
883734657492-5319 with serial number 7263-267, batch number
8254297137,lottery ref number 7336065782 and drew lucky numbers
14-22-28-37-40-44 which consequently won in the 1st category, you have
therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £850,000.00 (i.e Eight
Hundred and Fifty Thousand United Kingdom Pounds).

The reason this lottery was organized is to thank the numerous public
including users and non-users of MSN/HOTMAIL for the financial
benefits to the up-growing of our company. THE MSN/HOTMAIL CORPORATION is
using this as a Patronage to all their customers this Financial Year.

To file for your claims, please contact our Administrative/Remmitance
Director:
Claims Agent: Mr Graham Betts West
Email: admgbwest2@hotmail.com
Tel: (+44) 703 5901 879

For processing and remmitance of your winnings, you are required to
contact our designated claims agent Mr. Graham Betts West with the
following underlisted informations:

FULL NAMES:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
COUNTRY:
SEX:
AGE:
MARITAL STATUS:
OCCUPATION:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:

Congratulations From our members of Staffs of MSN/HOTMAIL Groups Of
Company.
Mrs. Foster .Avant
Online Coordinator
MSN/HOTMAIL Promotions

Second email from: slain@cox.net
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Batch No:0460037/07

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today
26th September, 2007 of winners of the Gladwin Sweepstakes
International Promo Incorporated held on 15th september 2007.

Ticket number:910-153-00-234,
Serial number:22290-10
Lucky numbers:36-09-20-37-99-2007,
Ref: GSLI /101/231/0460037/07
Amount: GBP 1,000,000.00 (one million pounds)

contact claims release officer
Mr. Allen Kelvin
E-mail:gladwinkelvin1313g@myway.com

You are advised to contact your claims agent with the following details
to avoid unnecessary delays and complications.
Full Name:.............................................
Residential Address:................................
E-mail Address:......................................
Direct Phone Number:.............................
Fax Number:..........................................
Nationality...........................................
Occupation............................................
Age:.................. Sex.............................
Ticket Number:......................................
Serial Number:.......................................
Batch Number:.......................................
Lucky Number:.......................................
Lottery Ref Number:................................
As indicated in this winning Notification.

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Link to email lottery scam:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/euro-star-lottery.html

Housewife loses RM360,000 in lucky draw scam
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/9/21/nation/18950557&sec=nation

First online scam case

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/9/26/courts/18992131&sec=courts

Friday, September 7, 2007

A Thousand Marbles

The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable. A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the garage with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell you about it: I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap net. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice. You know the kind; he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling whom-ever he was talking with something about "a thousand marbles." I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say. "Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy with your job. I'm sure they pay you well, but it's a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much.

Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. It's too bad you missed your daughter's dance recital", he continued. "Let me tell you something that has helped me keep my own priorities." And that's when he began to explain his theory of a "thousand marbles." "You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years. "Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900, which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now, stick with me, Tom, I'm getting to the important part. It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail", he went on, "and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays." "I got to thinking that if lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round up 1000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside a large, clear plastic container right here in the shack next to my gear.

"Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight. "Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure that if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a gift of a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time. "It was nice to meet you Tom, I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band. This is a 75-Year-old Man, K9NZQ, clear and going QRT. Good morning!"

You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter. Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. "C'mon honey, I'm taking you and the kids to breakfast." "What brought this on?", she asked with a smile. "Oh, nothing special, it's just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. And hey,can we stop at a toy store while we're out? I need to buy some marbles." A friend sent this to me, so I sent it to you, my friend. And so, as one smart bear once said..."If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - Winnie the Pooh.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Getting to Know Linda Chung

In the mist of searching for drama information, I came across an interesting site: http://www.virtuesofharmony.net/main.html. In contains a lot of information about Virtues of Harmony, updates, personal thoughts on TVB, forums, downloads, and many more which fascinates me. And one thing I notice is the owner is a big fan of Linda Chung. I watch the MV Swear by Linda Chung and instantly got attracted by her cute and pretty character.



And below are some of the videos about her:

Linda Chung - Swear MV



Linda Chung's Slideshow



Linda Chung & Mom



Raymond Lam & Linda Chung



Linda Chung - Interview on Totally In Love (十分愛)