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Had no intention to blog today, but the thoughts of me seeing someone recognizing plagiarizing my work made me furious and infuriated. I am going to disclose one of the most shameful acts done by one blogger Jolene. See, I am not going to recognize her work as it was mine afterall, I am not going to have her blog url pinned here.

If you could still recall my merdeka post, written on a faithful Friday, I featured a picture with flag and fireworks plus modifying a quote from Gandhi. The flag was enhanced with the firework background as I thought it better resonance the Merdeka mood. The quote from Gandhi which I modified was given all credit to the great man.

A silly and non-standard copy cat blogger, so shall I refer to as copy blogger, stole my work! I am darn pissed off now. I am not sure if this is a blessing in disguise or what. I try to comfort myself saying “Oh Daniel, people plagiarized your work because they recognized you”. But heck, wouldn’t it be better if that copy blogger would trackback or even mentioned me is she chose to use my work?

To prevent this series of unfortunate event from happening, I have decided to put watermark to good use. From now on all my photos which I took or images which were enhanced by me shall bear my watermark. Phrase which I quoted and most pictures (if not all) which I grabbed from the Internet has always found its source to the owner. This is the proper way to give credit to the original owner.

It is a very bad habit to just ripped off someone’s works. Not only you give others the impression that you have no credibility but also brainless. No credibility in the sense that you take and you don’t give, this world is about give and take, not just taking and receiving. Brainless in the sense that you are running out of creativity juice and you do not think of the consequence that the original author may stumbled upon your blog just to find out you copied his work, in the case of copy blogger Jolene.

Jolene, if you are reading this post, I hope you repent and promised not to do this again. You should read #5 of the Top 5 Mistakes Done by New Bloggers.

Sorry guys, if I made you suffer with me on this beautiful morning. Although I watermarked my picture, should you need the original one you can just send me a message and I am willing to share with you at your request.

PS: Robin always did that when I requested the original pictures from him. He’s such a kind guy.

PS: Jolene has sent me an email to express her regret for what she has done. I know I shouldn’t be that harsh but I was harsh because this is about integrity. Nonetheless, I have accepted her words and hopefully both parties can put this matter to rest. Interestingly, we both have something to learn!

I just want to say, remember to watch Wall-E! This is one of the best movie this year! Blending messages of environmental and human touch in a light-hearted animation movie. Just in case you do not know who Wall-E is, he is a Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class who is programmed to clean up the polluted planet, one trash cube at a time.

After 700 years of doing what he was built for, he discovered he was meant for.

I have got some goodies for you to download, for those Sony Ericsson mobile phone users you can download your very own Wall-E theme.

Did you think that your feet had been bound
By what gravity brings to the ground?
Did you feel you were tricked
By the future you picked?
Well come on down

All these rules don’t apply
When you’re high in the sky
So come on down
Come on down

We’re coming down to the ground
There’s no better place to go
We’ve got snow upon the mountains
We’ve got rivers down below
We’re coming down to the ground
To hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
(Come) send the seeds out in (the deep?)

Did you think you’d escaped from routine
By changing the script and the scene?
Despite all you made of it
you’re always afraid of the change

You’ve got a lot on your chest
Well you can come as my guest
So come on down
Come on down

We’re coming down to the ground
There’s no better place to go
We’ve got snow upon the mountains
We’ve got rivers down below
We’re coming down to the ground
We’ll hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
(Come?) send the seeds out in (the deep?)

Like the fish in the ocean
We felt at home in the sea
We learned to live off the good land
We learned to climb up a tree
then we got up on two legs
But we wanted to fly
When we messed up our homeland
and set sail for the sky

We’re coming down to the ground
There’s no better place to go
We’ve got snow upon the mountains
We got rivers down below
We’re coming down to the ground
We’ll hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
send the seeds out in th

We’re coming down
Comin’ down to earth
Like babies at birth
Comin’ down to earth

Redefine your priorities
These are extraordinary qualities

We’re coming down to the ground
There’s no better place to go
We’ve got snow upon the mountains
We’ve got rivers down below
We’re coming down to the ground
We’ll hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
We’ll send the seeds out in the breeze

We’re coming down to the ground
There’s no better place to go
We’ve got snow upon the mountains
We’ve got rivers down below
We’re coming down to the ground
We’ll hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
(Come) send the seeds out in (the deep?)

Two weeks ago, I bought my first U Mobile prepaid starter pack for FREE. Free it was. Do catch U Mobile’s creative advertisement. Cool eh..

Ocassionally I may use this 018 to give my friends a call, so please don’t be surprised. Heading to the laboratory now, to give a 15 minutes briefing on how to conduct the experiments. Cheers!

The rates for 018 to all networks are:
Voice & Video Calls: 0.8sen/sec (48sen/min)
SMS: 8sen/SMS
MMS: 25sen/MMS
20% Bonus For Every Top-Up!

Why not join me as well?

Reload Once and Stay Connected for One Year, hails DiGi! This is the latest counter attack from DiGi against Maxis’s Hotlink 365. I did a brief study on the both plans offered by DiGi and Hotlink. Just before I start feeding you with the facts, I want to have my conclusion mentioned here - go for DiGi, it’s worth it! As I go along with the numbers you will know why I concluded that DiGi is the winner. Just believe me will you? I don’t know why I just love to criticize Hotlink and Celcom while favouring DiGi. Being an independent observer, here’s my thoughts.

Let’s talk about Hotlink 365:

You need to perform a reload of RM33 to keep your line activated annually. The RM33 is an annual fee, meaning you won’t be able to have this fee included as your top-up value, it’s a fee! Furthermore, one has to accumulate top up of RM30 or more in the first six months to enjoy the 365 validity days. Say, if you did not fulfill the condition by Day 180, your Hotlink 365 subscription (and the remaining 180 validity days) will expire immediately.

Forget about Hotlink, let’s see what DiGi Prepaid has to offer:

You reload RM100 on your DiGi Prepaid and stay active for 1 year (equivalent to 365 days’ validity). The RM100 which you top-up is not a fee, hence you can use the RM100 which you actually reloaded. No subscription is required. You just need to reload RM100 to enjoy the 1 year validity. Of course there’s a time frame for its customers to reload, but still that’s fair right? DiGi gives its customers a period one month to perform this reload so that they won’t miss this opportunity.

The promotion starts from 23rd July till 31st August 2008. Wait no more!

I am expecting that this promotion would undoubtedly attract users who ordinarily use less than RM30 per month. I am even expecting more prepaid subscribers switching to DiGi once Mobile Number Portability is introduced. Let’s say bye bye.

“This is the first and only offer (to-date) to prepaid users in Malaysia for a one-year validity without having to pay an outright access fee. Currently, operators require the equivalent of a RM1/day top-up for users to keep their remaining balance (versus DiGi’s implied equivalent of a 27sen/day top-up).”
-Aseambankers Research (Source: TheStar)

For postpaid subscribers, don’t feel neglected, we still have the new postpaid plans introduced earlier this month. Let’s say hello to the yellow fella.