Some interesting sites...

So long. I have not been updating this blog. Wanted to share this website since months ago. Finally, I found the mood to do this now. :P Found this web site from my current company's internal site. I was fascinated by the capability of this site. Of course, it's due to nothing but the list of public holidays. :P You can select the previous year, or current year, or even future year for any country (I didn't go through the list of countries), and get the calendar with public holidays information! I am not sure if it is really accurate, as I just checked out the CNY for 2014, it happened that the first day of CNY falls on 31th Jan, but the second day is 3rd Feb. :P Probably it's the replacement holiday! (Wow! It comes with AI feature?!) Other than that, you can select options, the design of the generated calendar. And it's free! It has not only calendars, but also the time information around the world, time zones, and also weather around the world. You can ge...

I wanted to blog about this site for quite sometimes. It was introduced by my dear friend. She plans to go to Europe or US to further her study. My plan? I don’t have a firm plan. I used to dream of studying in Japan. Alright, I was just dreaming of staying in Japan for a year or two, have a taste of being study abroad, or stay abroad for some times. I am thinking of taking this more "seriously", so I start to look for scholarship. Probably just by doing some observations, not taking any action. I am not that daring to make changes in life, despite I have been changing job for 4 times within 10 years. Starting from the Seed Hunter, then this scholarship listing page, I recall the very first idol I have when I was very young, Madame Curie (居裡夫人). Thanks to 人文與環境 subject. I am not sure because she is a widow continue the research that she and her husband were working on, or was awarded Nobel Prize (I just recently realized that she got 2 of the Nobel Prizes, both from diffe...

Friends said that I have travelled to a lot of places. Frankly, my journey started only last year, to AU/NZ. My friend, ET, was in NZ in holiday making visa. She gave me her phone number, and I would call her, occasionally, to keep in touch with her, or when I am in the right mood. I only know the country code for Malaysia is 60, not sure about other country. So, I tried google to check it out. This is the page where Google landed me to, http://www.countrycodes.com . You can select what is the country calling from, then select the country you would like to calling to. It will show you the number to call before the country code, followed by the country code. You can also select the city, which will give you the area code of the city. Normally you’ll dial a plus sign (+), followed by the country code, then area code, lastly the phone number, if you are using cell phone. I am not sure if line phone does give you the plus sign (+) key on the key pad. I guess this page won’t be used very fr...

Found this website when I was looking for Mr. Children’s lyrics with translation. I read from magazine, there’s a Japanese model love Mr. Children for their poem. She said they inspired her a lot. My Idol also likes them. And I know Mr. Children since I was in uni time, he sang this song : Not found. This is the only song from them I know that I am aware of. :D This site provides not only the lyrics and translation, but also the romaji lyrics and YouTube video clip! So, I can sing along with them! Ha! I also browse the C-Pop category just now. It also has similar features, and auto scrolling for the lyrics! The romaji lyrics happened to be in 漢語拼音 (han yu pin yin) with the 陰陽上去 (the “tone”)! That impressed me a lot. Normally you’ll see the “pin yin” only. I think this would help people who want to learn Mandarin on his own. :) http://www.jpopasia.com/

Couple of months ago, my friend, q.a.d asked me if I can get her a website to check out the weight of one’s birth date. Hence, I googled, and found this. To calculate the weight of your birthday, you need to know, of course your birth date, and also your born time. I remember long long time ago, I tried using 通勝to calculate mine. 通勝 is a book that has a lot of information there. You can check out when is the right time to move, get married and etc. You can also read stories, learn English, and... and etc. :P It is published yearly... haha... I feel like laughing as I describe this book. I love this book very much somehow, probably because of the nice Chinese characters. Well, go and check out your birth date weight and see how it goes. The heavier your birth date is, the better your life is. ;) http://8word.net/bazi.asp

I can’t recall how I found this website, anyway, it was safely kept in my favourite’s folder. I talked about IkeaHacker before, and this is LifeHacker. :) As I browse through this website again, found this article, “What should I do about my virtual life after death?” Anyone else has the same concern? Or most of us have the same concern? I myself never thought of that. However, I started to think about this few days ago, when I saw the friend recommendation on Facebook telling me that I might know this person, my friend, who died early this year. It’s a bit freaking me out because of all recommendations that Facebook made so far, he rarely appear on the list. But this recommendation was “stuck” to my Facebook page few days ago, even though I kept refreshing that page. (In case you don’t know or you are not aware of, this month is the 7th month in Chinese Lunar calendar, some call it Hungry Ghost month.) I am not sure what do I wish to do with my online accounts. I guess it doesn’t real...

I attended a one-week Design Pattern class couple of weeks ago. I remembered boss asked me, “Do you know what design pattern is? Please go and find out before you want to sign up.” Frankly, I didn’t know what Design Pattern is, if you ask me now, I can’t really tell you what it is, still. I briefly read some introductions from Google search result, and told him my justification to sign up for the class. I think it is useful not only for software design, but also hardware design. SystemVerilog does support object oriented, thus it should be applicable in my work related area. I told my some friends about this, people think this is my excuse to go for the class. I hope my boss didn’t, because I really do think it works that way. I think, Design Pattern is an abstract methodology, using object oriented concept, to ... to solve issues, to tell about relationship, how relationship works, in software design, maybe using SystemVerilog in hardware design flow, and in our life. One funny, but s...

I went to a class of The Analects of Confucius. It was very interesting, indeed. I love literatures. I am not sure why. I do think literatures bored me, sometimes. I hesitated to go for the class, because I am afraid I might fall asleep in the class, secondly is because I am unable to fully attend the class due to some planned events. I was glad that I went, and found my new idol, the speaker (傅承得老師). Though he was just sitting there, talking and reading through the book, I rarely fell asleep in the class (except the hour after lunch)! It’s rather sad to see today’s education system, which emphasize on the “technical” or knowledge based, rather than having teaching or helping a student to be a better person. If you try to understand the life of Confucius, how he taught his student, by reading the Analects of Confucius, you’ll know how a great teacher can be. I don’t know how to put these in words, especially in English. In short, he is a great educator, a great philosopher, and a great...

Unicode is a character encoding standards to support multi-language characters, including Braille. As you know, we normally have Big5 for traditional Chinese, and GB2312 for simplify Chinese, of course there are more, or variations for the Chinese characters. It is very inconvenient when you are browsing between web pages in simplify Chinese and also traditional Chinese. I have a lot of this problem last time, when I was active in one of the popular Chinese forums in Malaysia. The text that I entered sometime can be “corrupted” (亂碼), probably due to the browser was set to view in GB2312 encoding, but my input is Big5, or vice versa. Sometimes, I need to set to view in HZ, and then the text only can be readable. I am a traditional Chinese character supporter, though I can’t really write it, at least I can type it. :P So, with Unicode come in place, it eases all these pain. However, probably not all websites are using this encoding, but at least it is a great solution to the web domain, ...

Do you still remember bubble sorting? It’s the simplest sorting algorithm, which can sort a small data quickly. When it comes to a large pool of data, this is not the best algorithm to be applied. So, how do we determine which sorting algorithm is the optimum (there’s no best one I guess) for the scenario that we are looking at? Found this website from Google search result. It has the simulation animation for different sorting methods, and also based on the data distribution. So, if you would like to know more, check this out. Click on the refresh icon on each sorting algorithm to start the simulation to watch the performance on the algorithm on different data distribution, and click on the data distribution refresh icon to view the simulation of different sorting algorithm on that data distribution. By the way, you can even choose the problem size! Enjoy! :) http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/ My comment on this website : light weighted, simple, clean, and precise. :)

I visited this website again today. I use this website look for those unknown file types. The first time when I landed on this website was due to I wanted to do “clean up” on the files in my PC. Some files are OK to delete, while some files are not. I can’t recall what the file extension I was looking for. Today, I am looking for the file extension of wll. We were discussed about dll files. I asked the teacher, what a wll file is, he doesn’t know. So, I search for the information. I have been compiling the program that I supported into wll file, but I have no idea what kind of application type that I am looking for. Finally, here it goes! Rupa-rupanya it’s for Word document add-in. :P Check it out! http://filext.com/

Frankly, I don’t really feel stress. However, the symptoms that appear on my body and my life routine showing I am. I have hair drops problem, sleep problem, irregular meal time, feel like anti-social and don’t feel like talking to strangers at all. I googled “stress” keyword, and found this website. “The body doesn’t distinguish between physical and psychological threats.” My mind doesn’t distinguish between stress or not stress! What do I do? :( I checked out the top ten stressful life events on this page, it seems I am not really in one of the category. So, I am not on the chronic stress. Anyway, if you are a writer, story writer, novel writer, this might be a good reference site for you to get to know about mental health if you are writing something about it. I wanted to, and take part in a novel competition, but... 70K – 120K characters?! Gosh! I used to write “short story” and force myself to make it 1K characters each, I just manage to get less than 20 completed in... I forgot h...

I love Japanese drama, and I still do, despite recently I am crazy over a Korean drama... Found this website as I was looking for the web entry on Night Tenjo (in Zettai Kareshi). I was crazy over fall in love with a robot, and how I wish I’ll have a Naito of my own. If you go to the main page, you’ll see there are directives for Asian dramas, including Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Chinese and Singaporean. I love this website as I can browse through the details of the drama of my interest. Today, as I get this link from my bookmark to introduce here, I browse the information about some drama that plays on my mind, Dream Again, Boys over Flowers, Zettai Kareshi... Of course, besides information about drama, the site is also showing information about Artists, songs, lyrics... Very informative site, I would say. I am bored, I guess, after long day out for work and photo shooting today. Guess I shall stop here. Enjoy~ http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Main_Page

I love Science. This website was brought to me by a video clip that PBS posted on Youtube. It’s a sub-site from PBS, which should be a TV station, or TV programme provider. I am not quite sure but was quite excited to view the clips posted there. Oh ya, I am in the NOVA site. Sometimes, I am not sure if you share the same experience as me, I am not sure if I should believe the facts, that people tell or not. Sometimes, even facts from a book, newspaper, broadcast medium, I find it seems so real, yet so unreal. So, I am not sure if all of the facts or saying from this site is the real truth. I am not saying that I dislike this site; I am just… feel hesitated; like some people never see God, and doubt the existing of God. :P I read this from About NOVA page. It’s the highest rated science series on TV. Hmm… Sounds great, huh! I wish our local public TV station in Malaysia broadcast this as well. Just a side note for those Science lover in Malaysia, TV1 does broadcast Science series! :)...

I went to Australia and New Zealand for the first time, self-sponsor, and back-packing and partly of the trip on my own. Some warned me of the weather and climate in these countries. If it is a rainy day during the tour, it might not be a pleasant trip. Or during storm, monsoon, or any other weather terms that I don’t see in Malaysia... Well, most likely I don’t know them. I have booked my tickets, pay for it. There’s no way I would cancel my trip... Anyway, I googled some weather related websites and found this website. It’s from BBC. Google result brought me to this web page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT003020 . It show the temperature, sunlight hour, rainfall, average precipitation, relative humidity etc information of Melbourne, Australia, This is the URL for the home page for Weather in BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/ Click on the Average Conditions link on the right pane, will bring you to alphabet list. Click on the first alphabet of the...

One of my father's favourite things is animal. He reared several types of animal… My, I can only barely remember dogs and crocodiles. Can you imagine that, he had crocodiles?! It is so cool! We were talking about dogs. I described one type of dogs that I like, and I wish to have. He told me it’s the German Shepherd Dog . Yeah, I think it was years ago. I wished I had a pure white or pure black one. Things change, people change, my wish changed too. :P I did a wiki search, browse through the wiki pages, finally got the one that I am fond of. The Siberian Husky . If only I can have one stay with me. But I doubt I really want it. You know why? If it’s not to be meant to be here, it shouldn’t be brought here. It’s like those “imported” animals in zoo; need to be adapted in a place, which is not their habitat. I have mumbled a lot. The web page that I wanted to share today is something to do with animal. Hahahaha~~ I got to know about these sites when I was reading some weird facts abou...

Malaysia is one of the countries that reside out of the earthquake area. If you ask me to name another, frankly, I don’t know. :P Anyway, for the past few years, especially after Tsunami hit north of penisular Malaysia, things seem to change. Whenever there’s earthquake in our neighboring country (Indonesia, I mean), we sometimes can feel it too. More and more shaking we can feel from the neighboring country, and sometimes cause paranoid among ourselves. I think stay alert is good, anyway. This site that I usually visit if I suspect earthquake happening is from USGS. The content is almost up-to-date. I am not sure if we can find any forecast in this website. But if you would like to confirm if the dizziness you felt is caused by the earthquake, you can do it from this website. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

I decided not to use the URL as my title. It seems much misleading that a reader might think by clicking on the title will bring him to the actual site. And I think is cooler to put the site title (for this case), rather than the URL to catch reader's eyes. :P I am doing study on semiconductor. Guess what I found from Google? This! Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics! This site owner must be a super fan of Britney Spears! The site is rather informational, with some distractions from Britney’s pictures. However, overall it’s pleasant to read the articles together with the distractions. :) http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

I mostly visited the Yahoo China version, to search for information on Chinese culture and celebrations events. 雅虎知識堂 - http://ks.cn.yahoo.com/ It’s a site for you to post any question. If you have answer for the open questions here, you are allowed to answer them. There are ranking system based on your answer with伴读书童 (I don’t know how to translate this, can’t find it from translator either. Basically in the old days, this person would accompany his young master to study), 穷酸秀才 (a scholar), 圣贤 (saint) and etc. These rankings are based on the old time title for Chinese scholar, teacher and etc. I had a quick glance on answers.yahoo.com, but I can’t find something similar there though. Besides, there’s a point system in雅虎知識堂, which you can accumulate the points and redeem gift from Yahoo! Well, it’s meant for those from China, at least for now. I read the terms and conditions, Yahoo China reserve the rights to charge for the service in the future. Hopefully it remains FOC, and open for ...

I guess no one can deny that youtube is one of the most visited sites everyday! I do visit it and search for clips almost everyday! I usually search for some songs, and the entertainment programmes in youtube. I also use the embedded codes from the site to be included in my other sites for sharing purpose. I think these sites and with the embedded code sharing concept is the best idea for sharing your ideas and your talents, sharing among friends for interesting clips, advertising… and tonnes of informative contents can be found from this site! What amazed me most is, I am working on photon and semiconductor interactions report, and tried my luck here, guess what I’ve found??!! Lots of clips on electrons, semiconductor, photon emission, and even lectures on this topic! I thought it has only entertainment related clips! How silly I was! Thanks for those who upload the clips and share for the whole Internet community! http://www.youtube.com