I'm going to start my new job next week and I suppose there's no escape on medical check-up. So I went to Medijaya clinic SS21 for the checks. They took a urine sample, there was an eye sight test, hearing test, and I think it was a blood pressure test? When they wrap that thing around your arm and start pumping it...feels good ^^

So when it comes to blood test, creeps me out. The doc told me to look away if I'm afraid of needles and I did. Is not that I'm afraid of pain, is just that I hate to see those needles stuck in my skin...ouch

Medical checks on the following:
1)Height
2)Weight
3)Eyesight (including colour blindness)
4)Chest Xray
5)Take urine sample for drug test.
6)Take blood sample test for hepatitis b and HIV.


Wow, I did my own BMI test ... and it seems that I almost overweight ...
A BMI of 24.3 is exactly within the recommended range of 18.5 to 24.9. This range is considered to be that most conducive to good health. Try to keep your weight in this range and get plenty of exercise, eat a nutritious diet and get adequate sleep to maintain your health.

Foxmarks is gradually rebranding as Xmarks, but what we really like about Fox/Xmarks remains the same as the last time it claimed the Must-Have crown: It's nearly seamless at keeping your bookmarks and passwords synchronized between browsers on any platform, and stores them on a site you can visit from any browser where you can't install an extension. If you're not down with the cloud, you can even tell this extension to store your stuff on your own server. Foxmarks is also available on IE and Safari, and you can separate your work bookmarking from ooh-cool life stuff with selective bookmark profiles. It's the tool that lets you keep fleeting thoughts, IM links, and other ephemeral web stuff all together, so of course we dig on it. The transition to Xmarks adds a few semi-nifty, social-y features to your searching and bookmarking, but if you're not keen on those changes, you can easily disable them in the Xmarks preferences.

Xmarks is a superset of Foxmarks. With the new Xmarks versions, you’ll still enjoy bookmark sync, backup, and all the features you love about Foxmarks. In addition, you’ll have access to Smarter Search, a new discovery feature that helps you learn more about top sites when you search on Google, Yahoo or Microsoft Live Search. IE and Safari don’t include the Site Info feature yet, but will soon.

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C'mon guys, let's celebrate the Earth Day as the Day that every human will work together in order to be able to tell the future generations that we did some thing in our time to save the mother Earth.

Celebrate Earth Day
1.Plant trees.
2.Make nature crafts at school or home.
3.Learn more about the environment.
4.Reduce, reuse and recycle all day long.
5.Get children to recycle their old toys and games.
6.Rid litter.
7.Sing or listen to "Earth" songs.
8.Hold an Earth Day fair.
9.Teach others about the environment.
10.Wear green and/or brown.
11.Engage others in conversations about your environmental concerns.
12.Cook a special Earth Day meal.
Remember: Every day is Earth Day.

Salary Reduction Letter - Consent Required Addendum to the Employment Contract Malaysia

Your boss might calls you into his/her office and asks you whether you’d consider taking a pay cut in order to keep your job. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. As the worldwide recession deepens, more and more companies are adopting this strategy in an effort to reduce labor costs while avoiding major layoffs. Whether you, as an employee, should accept the offer depends on your specific needs, both in terms of your career and personal finances. I was given a choice to respond to the salary cut with the statement below.

With your agreement, your base salary will be reduced by 5% with effect from June 1, 2009, and a corresponding reduction in any salary-related benefits, including EPF contribution, Personal Accident Insurance, Term Life Insurance, Annual Wage Supplement, SOP, Vacation Leave encashment (earned unused upon termination) and Overtime, if eligible.

As the economy worsens, and the economic slump deepens and broadens, many of us are faced with difficult choices about how to survive. A lots of company searching for ways to trim costs. Many are turning to layoffs or salary cuts, or both. Tough times require tough measures, and I suspect things are going to get worse before they get better.

Pro: You get to keep your job.
Pro: The company will owe you.
Pro: You’re helping your colleagues stay employed.

Con: The offer may not match your financial needs.
Con: It decreases your professional standing.
Con: You may never reach the same pay grade again.

Whether or not you decide taking a salary cut is right for you, it’s important you behave with integrity. Don’t let your reduced pay affect the quality of your work or make you bitter. Otherwise, you’d be wasting all the goodwill you garnered when you accepted the offer. By the same token, if you choose to quit your job instead, make sure not to burn any bridges. Leaving a company for a higher remuneration is perfectly understandable; doing so in a disrespectful manner is not. Remember that your professional reputation is more important than any salary.

Most folks never realize how cute microbes can be when expanded 1,000,000 times and then fashioned into cuddly plush. Until now, that is. Keep one on your desktop to remind yourself that there is an "invisible" universe out there filled with very small things that can do incredible damage to much bigger things. Then go and wash your hands. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Each 5-7 inch plush microbe comes with a instructional card that includes an actual picture of the microbe along with information about the microbe in its natural environment.

These will sell like crazy if they're available in Malaysia ^^

I have resigned from my current job and 5 more days to go before I'm leaving. Backing up my files and documents are quite a tedious job for me. Feeling excited and nervous all at the same time, but mostly I can't believed that I've moving forward towards my careers.

My team lead asked me whether everything is going well or not. I suppose everything is on schedule except for one stupid project(task) which I haven't get any details and confirmation on it. Can I really leave without any worries? ^^ hehe... One of my colleague has been away on leave for about 2 days. I haven't done any knowledge tranfers to her yet. Things might get ugly at the end of my last day in this company.

If there's anything we have learned about our readers lately, it is how much you love weird little cars that happen to be very good on gas. With this in mind, we bring you the latest bailout buggy from GM, produced in collaboration with Segway.

Called PUMA (which sounds aggressive enough until you realize it stands for Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), the prototype is powered by a lithium-ion battery and can scoot along at up to 35 miles per hour.

It is expected to cost significantly less that current subcompacts.

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