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6 months ago
in How You Can Help End the Problem of Blogs With Great Content and No Readers on Chuck Westbrook's Blog
Ooo! I could certainly use more international readers. http://educatedeviate.wordpress.com
9 months ago
in Why Language Classes Don’t Work: How to Cut Classes and Double Your Learning Rate (Plus: Madrid Update) on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
If you're studying Danish the materials will usually be in Danish (as far as I know if you're learning it for migration reasons - I learnt Danish for a little while) so your "never learn books in one language" bit won't work for all situations.
1 year ago
in 6 Reasons to Visit the World’s Happiest Country on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Brian: Denmark doesn't use the Euro.
I'd be skeptical of any study that puts Malaysia in the "happy" category...
I'd be skeptical of any study that puts Malaysia in the "happy" category...
1 year ago
in How to Get George Bush or the CEO of Google on the Phone on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Sports Business Blogger: A friend of mine knows Mark Zuckerberg through extraordinary circumstances. He's planning on bringing him down for a Facebook Developer Conference in Malaysia next year. Drop by ;)
Amar: Funny you mention Channel [V]. I was once a massive fan of the International channel and made a fansite for them. That one website made me [V]'s star girl and I became friends with a lot of the crew. Although the crew has changed and they've relocated, I still managed to score myself a job with them last year (unfortunately by that point I had already fallen out of love with music TV, but it took being in that job to learn that!!). I struck up a penpalship with Asha Gill, who was their flagship host, and now we're as close as sisters. One of my ex-colleagues at [V] also won the Asian Amazing Race and is now world famous, haha.
As for me: I'm trying to apply and fundraise for the KaosPilots at first and I'm pulling out all stops on getting there. I emailed as many KP International Board members as I could find and it's surprising how responsive they are! Most of them replied wishing me luck and giving some suggestions. One (Michael Doneman) was in my university and we've struck up a friendship. Another, Ouafa Rian, was AMAZING - she replied in seconds, gave all sorts of ideas, and even connected me to a whole bunch of other people. Their founder, Uffe Elbaek, was also friendly and approachable. Yay :D
I've written letters to people in Australian parliament too asking about youth issues - in Australia, law states that any letter sent to Government must be replied to, and my replies were actually quite well thought out. I also met the Mayor of Brisbane, Campbell Newman, and he's lovely - when I asked him about making a difference back home under the fear of being arrested, he shook my hand and wished me luck. I was the only one in the whole conference to get a handshake. I also got to meet the Governor of Queensland during a thank-you gathering for volunteers for a festival I worked at. (All this contact with Aussie politicians made my Aussie boyfriend ask "how come you know more in the Government than I do?!" XD)
In Malaysia bumping into politicians and known people isn't too uncommon - the entertainment/arts/activist/blogging scene is highly insular so everyone knows someone or is related to someone. My old university used to be a hotbed for young celeb upstarts (or their siblings) and I had classmates in school that were the daughter of a Crown Prince or a Minister or something. Not always the brightest crayon though...
People I'd Like To Meet In 2008:
1. Darren Hayes - I have been a fan of his for about 10 years now. He's responded to things (via fanclub/[V]) by writing and email, but damnit I want to give him a hug.
2. Richard Branson
3. Oprah Winfrey
4. The current Minister of Youth in Australia now that they restarted the position
5. Anyone in a position to fund my KaosPilots journey, lol
Amar: Funny you mention Channel [V]. I was once a massive fan of the International channel and made a fansite for them. That one website made me [V]'s star girl and I became friends with a lot of the crew. Although the crew has changed and they've relocated, I still managed to score myself a job with them last year (unfortunately by that point I had already fallen out of love with music TV, but it took being in that job to learn that!!). I struck up a penpalship with Asha Gill, who was their flagship host, and now we're as close as sisters. One of my ex-colleagues at [V] also won the Asian Amazing Race and is now world famous, haha.
As for me: I'm trying to apply and fundraise for the KaosPilots at first and I'm pulling out all stops on getting there. I emailed as many KP International Board members as I could find and it's surprising how responsive they are! Most of them replied wishing me luck and giving some suggestions. One (Michael Doneman) was in my university and we've struck up a friendship. Another, Ouafa Rian, was AMAZING - she replied in seconds, gave all sorts of ideas, and even connected me to a whole bunch of other people. Their founder, Uffe Elbaek, was also friendly and approachable. Yay :D
I've written letters to people in Australian parliament too asking about youth issues - in Australia, law states that any letter sent to Government must be replied to, and my replies were actually quite well thought out. I also met the Mayor of Brisbane, Campbell Newman, and he's lovely - when I asked him about making a difference back home under the fear of being arrested, he shook my hand and wished me luck. I was the only one in the whole conference to get a handshake. I also got to meet the Governor of Queensland during a thank-you gathering for volunteers for a festival I worked at. (All this contact with Aussie politicians made my Aussie boyfriend ask "how come you know more in the Government than I do?!" XD)
In Malaysia bumping into politicians and known people isn't too uncommon - the entertainment/arts/activist/blogging scene is highly insular so everyone knows someone or is related to someone. My old university used to be a hotbed for young celeb upstarts (or their siblings) and I had classmates in school that were the daughter of a Crown Prince or a Minister or something. Not always the brightest crayon though...
People I'd Like To Meet In 2008:
1. Darren Hayes - I have been a fan of his for about 10 years now. He's responded to things (via fanclub/[V]) by writing and email, but damnit I want to give him a hug.
2. Richard Branson
3. Oprah Winfrey
4. The current Minister of Youth in Australia now that they restarted the position
5. Anyone in a position to fund my KaosPilots journey, lol
1 year ago
in How to Take Notes Like an Alpha-Geek (Plus: My $2,600 Date + Challenge) on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
$500 is a LOT of money. Here's the context: My boyfriend is Australian, I'm Malaysia. We both go to uni in Australia together but during the holidays we go back to our respective houses.
Here's what I'd do with that money:
* Book a return ticket from the Gold Coast to KL on AirAsia for Mark - that wouldn't even reach $400 I reckon.
* Get Mark here to Malaysia on said flight
* Take him out to enjoy all sorts of Malaysian food. Malaysia has the BEST food in the world HANDS DOWN. You can eat a lot for less than $10 a day. (this is possibly where the rest of the money goes, lol)
* Go to Borders in Berjaya Times Square, which is MASSIVE, and lounge around in the bookstore. Or go to Payless and revel in the masses of cheap secondhand books.
* Eat.
* Take him around the pirated CD shops as a lark. MS Office for $5! If he wants to buy any CDs that's his responsibility...*whistles*
* Bring him down to the Kota Tinggi waterfalls - I grew up going there very often, and while it's not necessarily impressive it's still beautiful and good fun.
* Eat more food!
* Take a ferry to an island (Tioman? Sibu?), rent a chalet, snuggle up together
* Celebrate the next day with MORE FOOD.
Easily doable.
Here's what I'd do with that money:
* Book a return ticket from the Gold Coast to KL on AirAsia for Mark - that wouldn't even reach $400 I reckon.
* Get Mark here to Malaysia on said flight
* Take him out to enjoy all sorts of Malaysian food. Malaysia has the BEST food in the world HANDS DOWN. You can eat a lot for less than $10 a day. (this is possibly where the rest of the money goes, lol)
* Go to Borders in Berjaya Times Square, which is MASSIVE, and lounge around in the bookstore. Or go to Payless and revel in the masses of cheap secondhand books.
* Eat.
* Take him around the pirated CD shops as a lark. MS Office for $5! If he wants to buy any CDs that's his responsibility...*whistles*
* Bring him down to the Kota Tinggi waterfalls - I grew up going there very often, and while it's not necessarily impressive it's still beautiful and good fun.
* Eat more food!
* Take a ferry to an island (Tioman? Sibu?), rent a chalet, snuggle up together
* Celebrate the next day with MORE FOOD.
Easily doable.
2 years ago
in Surprise of the month: Macs crash? on Scobleizer
This is news to anyone? In my old uni almost all the Macs (almost always iMacs) crashed regularly. You couldn't even get anything STARTED; it'll just hang at bootup. The Windows machines weren't as bad. Indeed, this happened so frustratingly often that now any of us who's ever been to that uni has a universal hatred of Macs.
