Ok, talk about 2012, first thing first, there is no welcoming post for new year in this blog and my other blogs too. Sorry for that. Beside being too busy during at end of last year, I did spend most of time with my family and friends. Went out, have fun and for sure captured tons of great memory to be remembered by the end of 2011.

However, 2011 means a lot for me. Beside I have completed my study in Bachelor (Hons) Electrical and Electronics Engineering as planned, I got my first job offer from my first interview after less than 4 months graduating from UNITEN. Alhamdulillah, thank you Allah for giving me this and ease my career path. Even though my current job position somehow unrelated with my field of study, I don’t want to be choosy here by rejecting any job offers that is unrelated to my field of study. However, frankly speaking, sometime I did feel that what I’ve struggled for 4 years is kind of waste when I think back what I’m doing in my career now. But, if I look from different perspective and from the angle of positive impact, this unrelated job indirectly gives me some advantages which other engineers may not have chance to get it. Working with one of the big camera manufacture in the world is not easy though, even I’m not directly involve in engineering part, however being an Engineering Supporter in purchasing division is a tough work too. Procedures must be followed, ISO must be complied, everything must be documented; from A to Z. All in all, everything is new for me and I take this as a challenge in my learning curve for my career development.

That’s briefly about my job. Being a working youth (or should I use the word adult here?) also make me looks different in front of others especially to the one who are still studying. You get what I meant right? You’ve gained your own money from your own hands and this make you different. You’ll have new responsibility for yourself, family and other people around you. People will look into you as an independent people and a person who can be relied to. Same goes to me, these are the changes and responsibilities that I need to carry as a working youth. And 2012 is the year for all these changes.

That’s all for now. Until next entry, bye!

Of course there are a lot of issues I want to response, write and comment, but I just don’t have enough time to write it all. I just kept everything inside my head and do more open discussion by face to face with my friends, office-mates, family members and others. Some people said it is better to talk face to face, but you may have limited audience in term of getting response and feedback. Hence, to diverse the audience, you need a more versatile medium where everyone may give response and feedback, and internet is one of the medium. And I miss the moment to get all these feedback and response from the netizen. For that, thank you for those who have given responses, comments and feedback on entries that I’ve written here. Please take everything that I’ve written here as a personal opinion, whereby there is a huge chance that the opinion may change over time.

That’s it for this time, I’ll try to manage back my time to get back on track and keep writing as usual.

p/s: I think university life is more enjoyable compared to working life. Yes, you may earn your own money, but you don’t have time for yourself to enjoy the money you earn. Owh, I’m just thinking of having a vacation and rest for a while.

There is no official announcement from Nuffnang regarding this issue.

Update by Nuffnang Malaysia.

Update: Official community announcement by Nuffnang Malaysia regarding last night security breach.

It seems it takes a long time for Nuffnang ads in this blog to load and this ads loading issue has caused slow page loading for this blog. Hence, I’ve disabled all Nuffnang ads in this blog for a while.

p/s: It is good to know that Gaysec’s objective is not more than just to pointing out the security holes of the websites they have hacked, rather than damaging the system.

1. Best Internet For All Idea : A.F.O Radio
2. Best Internet Good Award : Petfinder.my
3. Blogger of the Year : Anwar Hadi
4. Fave Malaysian Female Online Celebrity : Stacy
5. Fave Malaysian Male Online Celebrity : Nicholas Teo!
6. Fave Person Over 40 : Brandjontan
7. Fave Person Under 15 : Let It Be
8. Fave Tech Head : The Techno Hut
9. Must-Follow Personality : Anwar Hadi
10. Online Shop Of The Year : Karysma Beads and Sequins
11. Online Story Of The Year : Suzuki AFF Cup
12. Picture Of The Year : Beautiful White Orchid
13. Top Kay Poh : Lee Zi Wen
14. Top LOL : BlogSerius
15. Top Makan-Makan Expert : OhMalaysia
16. Video of The Year : Anwar Hadi

Like other competitions or awards, the result are finalized. However, I believe with one thing; an award should be awarded to the one which deliver quality in his/her passion, regardless whether you know him/her or not before or after the competition or award. People can judge whether you’re qualified to get the award or not. Well, online voting doesn’t portray the true result though, hence for those who didn’t win for this year DIGI WWWOW Award, try again next year if you still interested to grab the award.

So, please put aside about who organized this Bersih 2.0 rally, who are the leader, what the leader did in the past and what so ever. Let’s focus on more important issue about the current election system of our so-called democratic country Malaysia, which is what Bersih 2.0 is pointing out.

“I think it’s about time for people to stand up and be counted, (and state) how they feel about (the Bersih 2.0 rally),” – Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia. (Source)

So, dear my Mr. Prime Minister, let me state my standpoints on Bersih 2.0 issue. Personally, I’m against the rally. I say the rally. Not what the Bersih 2.0 is trying to fight regarding the current election system in Malaysia. Yes, different people have different way of accepting the issue on Bersih 2.0 and for me, rally is not my way. However, it doesn’t mean I have to totally push away what Bersih 2.0 is highlighting regarding Malaysia’s election system which needs a major reform for a more clean and transparent election system. Don’t get what I’m saying? Watch the video below.

So, do you get what I meant why we, Malaysian can’t totally reject what Bersih 2.0 is trying to change and highlight? For those who can’t understand the video which is in Malay, let me summarize it for you. Bersih 2.0 demand for:

1. Clean the electoral roll
2. Reform postal ballot
3. Use of indelible ink
4. Minimum 21 days campaign period
5. Free and fair access to media
6. Strengthen public institutions
7. Stop corruption
8. Stop dirty politics

The demands are nothing more than to improve and reform the weaknesses of the current election system and nothing to do with any individuals and political party. The demands if implemented are actually give advantages for all; rakyat, opposition and the ruling party. Again, please see Bersih 2.0 in positive perspective and be fair by not only referring to one channel for information and news. Do consider alternative sources for news and information, so you can do comparison and thinking more wisely and rational. Last but not least, don’t be an ignorant and don’t blinded your eyes from the truth and reality in front of you.

Salam and hello everyone. I think most Malaysian are already aware of this new model of Myvi from Perodua as some pictures are already revealed in TV3 couple of days ago. Well, nothing new can be seen except the exterior looks and some interior modification. This new MyVi still used 1.3L engine which has bring down some people who expect a new 1.5L of engine will be used in this new MyVi. However, Perodua claims this new MyVi has excellent fuel economy, smooth pick-up and acceleration, cleaner gas emissions with minimal vibration noise with the implementation of EFI (Electronic Fuel Injection) engine.

You can proceed to Perodua website here for more photos and pictures of this new 2011 Perodua MyVi, for both standard version and MyVi Elegance version. However, the price of MyVi Elegance version start from RM53,900.00. The Elegance version of MyVi is like the previous version of MyVi S.E (Special Edition) from the exterior, however the interior has been upgraded with centralized multimedia system with touch panel display; a pretty competitive sort of accessories for a compact car I can say.

p/s: So, what do you think? For me, nothing special except the interior of MyVi Elegance.

Whatever it is, I can assure that this price reduction doesn’t bring any effects towards the price hikes of food cost and others cost related with the use of diesel. Well, Mr. Government, thank you but no thank you, really.

As expected, this action is not acceptable by those file sharing websites users and a Facebook page to show their protest is now gaining more and more exposure from both netizens and medias. Most of the fans of the Facebook page shows their unacceptable reaction towards the action by SKMM. The issue becomes more hot when one of the most respected hackers groups, Anonymous has announced their plan to hack Malaysia government website as a sign of support for Malaysia netizen. Anonymous at first plans to hack Malaysia government website (www.malaysia.gov.my) at 7.30pm GMT on Wednesday (3.30am Thursday Malaysian time) and has named it “Operation Malaysia” . The video below shows the response of Anonymous towards SKMM action of blocking those file sharing websites and internet freedom.

Greetings, Malaysia, We have seen the censorship taken by the Malaysian government, blocking sites like The Pirate Bay, and WikiLeaks. Malaysia is one of the world’s strictest governments, even blocking out movies, and television shows. These acts of censorship are inexcusable. You are taking away a basic human right. The internet is here for freedom, without fear of government interference. Do not think that no one else notices. Your structured government has done the talking, and we hear loud and clear. Let this be an announcement to all your people. This is a sign, a warning, and an opportunity to listen to ideas above your own. In a way you are being stubborn. But how will this help anyone or your country. We fear that if you make further decisions to take away human freedom. We are obligated to act fast and have no mercy. For rules were meant to be broken. And corruption was meant to be washed away and forgiven. Now we will wash your corruption away so be prepared. Take this as a favor. We are Anonymous.

However, today through #OpMalaysia IRC Chat channel, it has been told that the operation is called off until further notice. Even Anonymous has called off their plan, a group of Malaysia hackers called RileksCrew/DragonForce Malaysia has started their response and action towards this blocking of file sharing websites. A few of Malaysia websites have been hacked in the last few hours. The following screenshots show the websites that have been hacked by RileksCrew/DragonForce Malaysia.

www.politeknik.gov.my – The website is back online as usual at 1.10AM (15 June 2011)

www.tourmalaysia.com.my

www.sabahtourism.com

Even Anonymous has claimed they are called off their hacking plan towards Malaysia government website, a press release shared via PasteHTML.com has shown Anonymous has started their attack on Malaysia website, not government, but Sabah Tourism official website. The website currently inaccessible.

Update:

More websites have been claimed defaced by Malaysia hackers and Anonymous.

www.cidb.gov.my

I’m not sure if this defacement is done by Malaysia hackers like before or by Anonymous, but it can be seen the title of the website has been changed to “Operation Malaysia | Operation Malaysia [pwn3d by Anonymous]“.

www.moe.edu.my

It seems the website has been taken down and inaccessible right now. Anonymous Malaysia claim [they] have taken down 27 websites/portals of Malaysia government. I’ve no info about all of these websites at the moment.

Update: 12.20am 16th June 2011 (Malaysia Time)

As a prevention against the attack by the hackers, it is claimed by several individuals that Malaysia’s government has taken an action by shutting down several government websites. The websites are:

• http://www.sprm.gov.my/
• http://www.bomba.gov.my/
• http://www.moe.gov.my/
• http://www.cidb.gov.my/
• http://www.malaysia.gov.my/
• http://www.treasury.gov.my/

It is unsure for how long the Government is going to keep shutting down the websites. It is also unsure whether the Government really close or shutting down the website because the inaccessibility of the websites might be caused by sudden high traffic to the websites.

KRU Studios also has taken action by putting their website at KRUSTUDIOS.COM into maintenance mode to avoid the attack at first. However, the website is currently inaccessible and seems has been shutting down.

Update: 12.57am 16th June 2011

www.cidb.gov.my – back online as usual

www.tourmalaysia.com.my – defaced for the 2nd time by Dragon Force Malaysia

Update: 1.03am 16th June 2011

http://jbiotech.gov.my/admin/
http://ezi2care.jkm.gov.my/

Both are defaced by Dragon Force Malaysia

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I’m not sure when all these are going to stop, but the government needs to do something on the issue of blocking these file sharing websites and  SKMM should reconsider their action of blocking those websites. This is the information that I have for now, and I believe more websites are going to be hacked if the government or SKMM didn’t take any wise actions. Well, lets wait and see.