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Happy Father’s Day!

izzat ruslan — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:11:13 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. This is just a quick entry and just to wish my dad (if my dad knows about my blog, but I don’t think so) “Happy Father’s Day!”. Owh, forgot to mention other fathers from all over the world and me as future father, Happy Father’s Day. Hahaha! I know, I know. The time will come and just wait for it ya! *Calon isteri pun takde! ^_^*

Okay, that’s all for this time. Until next entry, bye!

p/s: While writing this entry, I’m typing a sms to my dad (I know my dad is a kind of busy person, even during weekend, I think sms will help). “Happy Father’s Day, abah! Thanks for everything and love you.” – send.
p/p/s: Industrial training is going to end this Friday. Hoho, can’t wait to go back to my hometown.

A Month of No Update: Blogging vs. Busy Life

izzat ruslan — Sun, 16 May 2010 02:06:04 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. First of all, I’m still alive! Well, I’m really sorry since there was no update about a month from this blog and even the messages in the shoutbox also were not replied. I’m sorry again. The reason behind this is only one, TIME. In the last few weeks, I don’t have enough time for me to sit in front of my laptop, tapping my fingers on the keyboard, wording out what is in my head and even having a great hours of rest. As I have mentioned in my previous entry which is about a month ago, I’m currently undergoing industrial training until 25 June 2010 as part of my degree program and this industrial training which at first I was expecting a kind of relaxing period of studying time is totally wrong. Working from 8.30 am to 6.00 pm on weekdays and sometimes need to do overtime work until 11.00 pm is what I have went through in the past few weeks. Last Friday is my latest overtime work until 10.00 pm at KLCC and working for 11 hours was really tiring, but that is what I have to go through as a service engineer trainee. Clients only want the job done, and we as service engineer is the one that need to think, analyse, troubleshoot and solve the problems and get the job done in the given period of time.

Maintaining an industrial training blog also is part of my industrial training course and this industrial training blog also is not updated to the latest date. Weekend is the only time for me to have a proper rest time and updating this blog, but I have also need to write and submit a weekly job report to my host supervisor, who also an assistant manager of Service and Maintenance department. Now, priority is coming. I need to prioritize what is more important and put aside anything which is less important.

So, for those who are asking me why I’m not updating this blog and where I’m going, I hope your questions are answered. I know there are several entries that I should already be posted here, but because of this, I have to postpone it until unknown date. Well, I hope you understand. Anyway, if you have Twitter account, you can follow me via Twitter for my latest updates. Even I’m not updating Twitter as frequent as before, but I’ll be there sometimes. For those who have left comments here, I’m sorry if I unable to reply those comments now and I promise will reply it once I have my free time.

So, that is all for now. Until next entry. Thank you for visiting my blog and bye for now.

p/s: Happy Teacher’s Day!

April and A Beginning to New Challenge

izzat ruslan — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:57:02 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. Sorry, I still not able to reply all of your comments. But, I’m facing something weird with this blog currently. Starting from 1st April 2010, this blog traffic going down drastically from hundreds uniques visitors daily to less than 20 uniques visitors daily. I don’t know what is happening. I’ve checked hosting server status, it is running without any down time since 1st April 2010. It is ridiculous the traffic is going down like that in less than a day. More weird is that, it is starting from 1st April until today. Seriously, it make me crazy to think about it. Don’t tell me this is a kind of April Fool jokes. Huhu. See the screenshot for details.

Seriously, this is really weird for me. Looks like my blog main source of traffic, which is most of it from search engine; is gone. Do you have any ideas how this thing could happen? If before this I have not updated this blog about weeks, but still, the traffic still okay, around 30-40 uniques visitors daily, but this time, I can’t figure out what’s the problem. Either the problem is from this blog or really from the visitors itself. You think?

I have compared this blog’s traffic with several others traffic analytic tools, such as Nuffnang and Awstats. The result is quiet the same. These results drive me crazy to think how this could happen.

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Anyway, put aside about this blog traffic. April is coming, and this mean I have to be ready for my new upcoming challenge. Starting this upcoming 5th April 2010, I’m going to undergo industrial training as a requirement for my degree program. Check out my official industrial training online diary at doit.izzatruslan.com for details and daily or weekly updates during my industrial training period. Owh, forgot to mention, my industrial training is starting from 5th April 2010 until 25th June 2010, which is about 12 weeks. Some may say it is too short. Yes, it is. Three months is considered too short if compared to other universities, such as UTP which their industrial training is about 8 months. Anyway, three months is the minimum period of time for industrial training required by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia and UNITEN has decided to go with this minimum period of time for industrial training. Well, nothing much to say, just do it!

Okay, that’s all for now. If you have any ideas what is the reason behind this drastic drop of traffic to this blog, please let me know.

UNITEN Open Day 2010 – 20 March 2010 and All the Best to All Unitenians for Upcoming Final Exams

izzat ruslan — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:07:17 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. This is just a quick-less-than-5-minutes-update’s entry. Finally, with GOD wills, I have finished all of my assignments, projects and projects presentation yesterday and now, have to focus more on my upcoming final exams which are going to start this Monday. My final exams schedule are as shown in the screenshot below.

Well, I just want to share one of the events currently organizing by University Tenaga Nasional, which is UNITEN Open Day 2010. You may proceed to this link here for more details about the event. Owh, before I forget, this event is held at Uniten Putrajaya’s campus. Hence, if you are formers form 5 student who just received your SPM result and stay around here, why not come to this event and have some exposures and information regarding what are UNITEN is offering, how is the campus life etc. Ok, proceed here for details if you are interested.

To all Unitenians, all the best with your upcoming final exams. Do your best and if you have any hints for final exams, share it, okay? Hehe Ok, until next entry, bye!

p/s: Some visitors of this blog are currently looking for photos of 2nd Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2010 and I have not update any of these photos yet. Anyway, do come back later or subscribe to my blog via RSS or email, maybe after all of my final exams are done, I’ll post an entry to share some pictures from 2nd Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2010.
p/p/s: I’m currently still looking for industrial training placement at any electrical & electronics engineering related companies, let me know if you’ve any information regarding any practical or internship offer by any engineering companies around KL, Selangor or Kemaman, Terengganu.

Want to Win A DSLR Up To RM2500 or Tissot Chronograph Watch Worth RM2150?

izzat ruslan — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:22 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. As I have promised before in my previous entry, I’ll tell you about on how you’ll be able to get yourself a DSLR up to RM2500! Or maybe a Tissot Chronograph watch worth RM2150? Which one you want, you choose. I’m only going to tell you what you should do to get one of these 2 fabulous prizes.

So, what you have to do is to take part in this Revven Photoblog Competition and you’ll have a chance to get any of those 2 prizes based on what category you are going to participate.

Okay, before you decided to join this competition, let me gives some brief information about this competition to you. First, this competition is open to anyone who is residing WITHIN Malaysia only. Second, there are 2 categories in this competition, compact camera category and DSLR category which has different theme of photos you need to submit.

For compact camera category, the theme is “Travelogue” whereas for DSLR category, the theme is “Just don’t forget to shoot“. Both categories come with different theme, hence the prizes also different. For compact camera, the main prize is any DSLRs of your choice up to RM2500 and the main prize for DSLR category is a Tissot Chronograph watch worth RM2150. So, you choose which category you want to join. You only can choose and join in one category only.

So, how to participate? Here are 3 steps you need to do to participate.

Step 1: Based on the theme of the category that you are going to choose, post a blog post contains maximum 3 photos with description of 100 words to express your creativity about the photos. If you don’t have a blog, you can create one using free blog services like Blogspot or WordPress.com.

Step 2: Put organizer banner on the sidebar of your blog. Details of doing so, please proceed here.

Step 3: Emails the following details to revven@me.com after the first 2 steps has been completed:

Blog link of your submission post.
Name (as per IC).
Mobile phone number.
Copies of uploaded photos with EXIF data intact. Resize your photos to 800×600 pixels maximum.
Soft copy of any model release forms (if a model is used in or in other situations where this applicable).

The dateline is 31st January 2010. So, you still have about 2 months to find, captures and snaps any suitable photos you want to submit for this competition. Other details like terms and conditions, judging criteria etc, please proceed here. So, all the best to you!

p/s: Wanna try my luck la.. compact camera category probably? Hmmm..

End of Final Exam and Nuffnang’s Cheque

izzat ruslan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:07:42 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. Finally, after 2 weeks, my final exam now ends. I feel a bit relief right now and I’m just thinking of getting a great rest for this limited 3 weeks of holiday. Well, I’m still planning what to do in this holiday period.

My final exam ends on last Thursday and luckily, I got my first Nuffnang cheque into my mailbox one day before. Haha! What a great timing! If you ask about the amount, actually not too much. Hehe. But, plus minus, it is equivalently with two times of cash out. So, you may guest how much it is.

Ok, not much of things I want to write right now and above is the picture of Nuffnang’s cheque that I got. Well, for those who didn’t reach the minimum amount to cash out, don’t give up. Keep working on increasing your blog traffic and please, don’t ever ask your blog visitors and readers to click on your Nuffnang ads. It is such unethical to force others to click the ads that they are not interested. I’m saying this because I have seen several blogs do this, so please stop. Because it does not give you much. You better keep your blog traffic up and get those CPM and MCPM ads for more earning.

Ok, till next entry. Bye!

Did Twitter Kills Your Blogging Passion?

izzat ruslan — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:14:43 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. Hope you guys in a great mood and health because it is weekend now. So, cheer up! By the way, title for this entry might tell the reason, why there are lack of updates recently at this blog. Okay, it is not all about Twitter actually even though I have to admit, I’m getting addicted to Twitter now. One of the reasons because I can simply write quick updates easily there just to tell my followers, what I’m doing now? What I’m thinking and reading now? That kind of simple questions somehow do not need me to write a proper entry for it. Agree with me?

Anyway, this entry is the second entry related to Twitter and the purposed is simply need some responses from fellow Twitterers, what do you think about Twitter? Did Twitter kills your blogging passion?

In addition, not all Twitterers are bloggers, some of them are just ordinary people who like to be connected with each other with simplicity of Twitter. Like you use Facebook and Friendster.

After using Twitter about a month, I found out that Twitter is more than just getting connected with each other. You can get more information regarding your interest by following people that suit your interest and maybe from that you can get the idea what to blog. Isn’t it useful?

So, what do you think about Twitter then? Did it kill your blogging passion? Leave your response using the comment form below and for those who yet join Twitter, why not join it today and don’t forget to follow me on Twitter for more “quick updates”.

Are You Twittering? Follow Me On Twitter!

izzat ruslan — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:18:12 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. Do you know Twitter? Do you have account on Twitter? If you know and have account already, maybe you already know what’s Twitter is all about. But for you who is yet know what on earth is Twitter, let me brief you with some information about Twitter.

Twitter is a free social-networking site like Facebook and Friendster and also a micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read updates from other users which known as tweets. Tweets is text-based posts which limit up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the users profiles and this tweets also visible to other users who have subscribed/followed them which known as followers.

Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

I know many bloggers out there already join Twitter and for those who is yet join Twitter, why not you join this social network? It may help you to boost your blogs traffic indirectly and get loyal readers from your followers. Anyway, before you get misunderstood, Twitter is not only for bloggers. Anyone can join and use Twitter, like they use Facebook or Friendster. So, join Twitter now!

I’m considered a new Twitter user and from my own opinion, Twitter is a great social-networking. So, I recommend you join it today and start twittering. If you are already on Twitter, you can follow me on Twitter to get latest updates from me. Ok, see you there!

p/s: Follow me on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/izzatruslan

Quick Updates

izzat ruslan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:21:18 +0000

Salam and hello all. Sorry about no frequent updates from this blog about more than a week. Actually, I’m a bit busy with some stuffs plus lot of things happened recently, so I need to solve it one by one. My Malay’s blog also have not updated since my last entry that I’ve posted about last week I think. Sorry again.

There are several entries that I’ve postponed since last week, but anyway, I’ll try to publish it as soon as possible. Oh, for those who had tag me, I’ll try to reply the tag. hehe.. Anyway, just a short entry for this time. Will be back soon. Bye!

p/s: thinking and planning to hire someone to write for OH!Malaysiaku…hmm..

Now Everything Paid Off – (Another Version of Quick Updates)

izzat ruslan — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:57:00 +0000

Salam and hello. Long time with no update, huh? I noticed my last post for this blog is about more than one week ago. Sorry to all my dear visitors and readers of this blog, I’m currently working on my new Bahasa Melayu blog at OH!MalaysiaKU. Its another blog by me but the different is, it is delivered in Bahasa Melayu as the main language and the blog is more to current issues, information in IT, entertainment and etc. Anyway, I’ll try to manage both blogs altogether. You can give my new blog a visit and if interested, do leave some of your words there. Ok that’s ends here.

Next, my final exam result already came out and I’ll be in new semester soon, 2nd semester of the 2nd year; and I’m very grateful to know that my target for this semester and one of my resolutions for this year fulfilled. Alhamdulillah. Well, new semester will begin soon and of course promises more challenging things that I need to face. Anyway, I’ll try to face it and get through it. Before I forgot, thanks to those of my friends and blog readers who wished me during my “hibernation” period last time; here and here too. You all have motivated me. Thanks. *Unitenians now can check your result online at our university website.*

So, today I’m going back to KL since my new semester will begin this Monday. And next week will be the week for add and drop session for the new semester; semester 2 2008/2009. My timetable seems a bit messy like my last semester timetable. See screenshot below for my current timetable for this new semester. Haha, what do you think?

Anyway, that are all for now. Till next post ya, bye!

p/s: 1 more domain still don’t have idea what to do. Hmmm..
p/s/s: if you’re interested to buy cheap domain name from GoDaddy, check out OH!MalaysiaKU for more details. I already post there an entry on how to get cheap domain name from GoDaddy which is USD1.19 equivalent to RM4! Get the promotion coupon code there and bear in mind, this promotion price will ends in anytime. So, act fast and grab your dream domain now.
p/s/s/s: 1 more month to go for the new year 2009!