Cyza Sector

Well, I’m not really an expert in Wordpress, but I’m trying very hard to learn and apply them. There are some plugins that I wanted to use in my previous blog but failed or could not fix them. But now, I have some level of determination . I’ve taken the trouble to explore, learn, install and fix some of those “wanted” wordpress plugins. Of course I faced some problems, but then I’ll refer to some trusty reliable blogger friends who are always there to give a hand. You know who you are… Thanks…

For those of you who are not familiar with wordpress, you can definitely benefit from this entry by learning about wordpress plugin… OK, enough about those musings. Here are some of the lists of plugins that I’m presently using for the new cyza.us:

1) Contact Form

Contact Form is vital to ensure you are always contactable by your visitors and fans. It come in as a drop-in form that allows site visitors to contact you. It can be implemented easily (via QuickTags) within any post or page. This version is *specifically* for WordPress 2.x only. Grab the plugin Contact Form HERE.

2) Show Top Commentators

Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on our Wordpress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one). To download, visit Show Top Commentators site.

3) Subscribe to Comments

Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess. Go and get the plugin > Subscribe To Comments.

4) Wordpress Related Posts

This plugin generate a related posts list via tags of Wordpress. But here, it is set to be “Some other posts that you might be interested to…”. With this plugin, you are enticing your reader to visit some of your other posts, hence letting them spending some quality time there. Cool… In case you haven’t had this, get it from Here.

5) Wordpress Threaded Comment

I wanted this plugin for such a long time and now I successfully installed them. Wordpress thread comment allow user can reply comment and same comment On display, can choose ajax or not. To download, check out Wordpress Thread Comment.

To learn and explore more wordpress plugins, check out Wordpress Plugin Directory.

What? Anwar Ibrahim accused of sodomy again? Am I hearing this correctly? Honestly, I’m not really a fan of him but to accused him twice after the first accusation 10 years ago seems like a bad political strategy. I don’t know whether it is true or not, but please, not this issue again. Yes, he was an old boy from “Koleq”, MCKK, but please don’t simply associate that with that ill behaviour. After all, do we want our kids to ask what is “liwat“? How do you plan to answer that?

Our country has seen enough of sexual related issue related to higher political profile such as Chua Soi Lek and others… the others are more towards negative rumors… So, let’s not make a big fuss about this issue. Let’s stop all this nonsense bickering.

Following is the story borrowed from Malaysiakini. Check it out (incase you haven’t read the story)…

Ketua Umum PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkata laporan polis yang dibuat terhadapnya yang mendakwa beliau telah meliwat seorang kakitanganya, adalah satu rekaan semata-mata.

Dalam satu kenyataannya awal pagi ini, Anwar percayai ia adalah ulangan daripada apa yang berlaku pada 1998 di mana dakwaan yang sama dilemparkan terhadapnya secara paksaan.

Katanya, ia jelas merupakan satu percubaan terdesak regim Barisan Nasional (BN) untuk menyekat pergerakan rakyat Malayaia ke arah kebebasan, demokrasi dan keadilan.

Laporan tersebut dibuat oleh mangsa yang berusia 23 tahun di balai polis Jalan Travers jam 6 petang tadi. Ketua Polis Kuala Lumpur, Datuk Muhammad Sabtu Osman mengesahkan laporan tersebut dibuat.

PKR telah menghantar SMS mengatakan bahawa polis telah menahan pembantu Anwar, Saiful Bahari petang semalam dan memaksanya membuat laporan polis yang dia diliwat oleh Anwar.

Ia menambah, polis dijangka menangkap Anwar tidak lama lagi.

Menurut kenyataan itu lagi, Anwar berkata laporan tersebut diatur oleh pihak-pihak yang berkepentingan untuk “menyerangnya” sebagai tindak balas terhadap bukti yang diperolehinya, yang membabitkan Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Musa Hassan dan Peguam Negara, Tan Sri Gani Patail berhubung salahlaku,termasuk mereka bukti dalam kes-kes terhadapnya pada 1998-1999.

Bagaimanapun, tegas Anwar, perbuatan tersebut tidak akan menghalang beliau daripada mendedahkan perkara itu kepada orang ramai.
Tegakkan keadilan

Sehubungan itu, beliau menggesa rakyat Malaysia menentang kuasa tekanan dari pihak kerajaan dalam tempoh beberapa hari dan minggu-minggu yang akan datang.

Anwar berkata, pihaknya menjangka pihak media, badan kehakiman dan pasukan polis akan dikawal oleh pihak eksekutif.

Sebagai susulan kepada pilihanraya umum 8 Mac lalu, Anwar menegaskan bahawa rakyat mesti meningkatkan kekuatan dan kesungguhan ke arah mencapai kebebasan dan keadilan untuk semua rakyat.

Sementara itu, semakin ramai penyokong Anwar kini berkumpul di Hotel Quality Shah Alam awal pagi ini ekoran satu laporan polis oleh seorang kakitangannya yang mendakwa dilihat oleh Ketua Umum PKR itu.

Anwar, bekas timbalan perdana menteri dan menteri kewangan, dipecat dari kerajaan pada 1997 kerana didakwa menyalahguna kuasa atau terbabit dalam perbuatan liwat.

Pada 1999, beliau dijatuhkan hukuman penjara enam tahun atas tuduhan salahguna kuasa dan pada tahun 2000, dijatuhkan hukuman sembilan tahun penjara atas tuduhan liwat.

Bagaimanapun, pada 2004, Mahkamah Persekutuan telah membatalkan sabitan hukuman tersebut dan membebaskan Anwar.

Anwar mendakwa tuduhan terhadapnya itu merupakan satu konspirasi politik terhadapnya, tetapi kerajaan menafikannya.

Sumber : Malaysiakini

Now that the content from the previous blog has been safely transfered, I’m presently working on understanding the new theme and wordpress 2.5.1. I just installed the 160×600 adsense, myblogloh, alexa rank script and did a little bit tweaking here and there. Yep, need to familiarize myself with the entire system. So far, frankly, I’m not yet comfortable using wordpress 2.5.1. I don’t know whether it is just me not used to it or the latest wordpress version is not friendly enough!

After checking the Alexa ranking and Google PR, cyza.us at this moment, cyza.us has register no Alexa data and zero PR. I’m going to study on how to get my previous PR and other rank from my previous blog to continue with this blog. Any idea? Then, in a few months time, I need to review the overall blog performance. Need to set up a few goals and a distinct clear cut direction as where the blog should be in the near future. Haven’t really thought about that yet.

Allright, I guess that’s it for tonight. Need to spend some quality time with the family and check on some TV program or DVDs. Besides, I don’t want to strain my eye balls… Ok Adios…

Welcome aboard to my new domain, new blog, new dimension. I’m leaving my old domain for some personal reasons which I cannot avoid. Hence, I’m going to continue my musing freely in this blog. I would like to thanks my good buddy, Arm for helping me to move all the contents from my previous blog to this new blog.

Why Cyza.us? I want it to be simple and generic. I have checked other domains but all the domain names that I wanted have been taken. After a few weeks figuring out the name, I finally settled with this name and I’m very pleased with it. Cy will represent cyber while za represents part of my name. Then, after setting up the wordpress blog, the name Cyza Sector came out of no where.

I want to further develop this blog and bring it to the highest level as humanly possible. I want to improve the rank. I’m not yet sure what rank will this blog have now, I haven’t check yet, but my previous blog had a Google Page Rank of 4. So, I need to make Cyza.us equal or better than that as soon as possible.

I welcome anybody who want to so some link exchange with me. I welcome anybody any pay per post in this blog. OK, that’s it for now. It’s a nice warm sun shiny Saturday, and I’m going to bring my family out in a 5 minutes. Have a nice weekend to all of you…

Let me be honest… I just upgraded this Wordpress from 2.3 to version 2.5.1. I have been delaying this upgrade since 1978! After chatting with my colleague in the control room earlier this afternoon, he told me the upgrade was very simple and can be made via CPanel. I have bought Zul Smartusaha video on how to upgrade our wordpress but I haven’t had the time to go through it. Now, this blog has been upgraded and I am going to explore the new wordpress 2.5.1 dashboard….

Other news…My Chemical Engineering Forum has been hacked!

Yes, it was hacked. I created the forum last August using SMF platform. 2 days ago while visiting my own forum, I discovered that somebody crazy and stupid had hacked my forum. I have contacted the hosting company and he has provided me with steps on recovering it. I haven’t done it yet. Maybe tonight or tomorrow….

As I watched the news, I found out something really interesting… Celcom competion 100 Toyota Camry in 100 days are stopped? Don’t really know why, but a group of religious and experts council had a meeting and decided to stop the competition for further investigation.

Personally, I liked Toyota Camry, but I have not entered the contest. But, it’s OK. I don’t have any respond about the issue. However, it’s very lucky for the 8 winners so far who managed to snatched the wonder car…

Check out the explanation from Ustaz Zaharuddin.

I’m planing to move the content of this blog to a new domain. I have my own reasons for doing it and it is imperative for my future and career.  The Google PR will remain with this domain. However, the problem is I haven’t found a good domain name! I’m planning to purchase the new domain name as soon as I found one that I like.

I wonder whether you guys can suggest or propose a domain name for me. It should be something generic. I really don’t mine if it is weird or strange… The most important thing is that I like it and I can use it comfortably. I don’t want my name to be associated with it.

The new domain + new blog will contain all the contents from zakiyamani.com. There will be no niche restriction for my new blog. I can just blog about anything as long as it is good and I can share stuffs with all of you…

What will happen to zakiyamani.com? I’ll still own the domain and I’ll be using it for something else. If you want to know, you can check it out later when it is ready (honestly, I don’t know when it will be ready…presumably somewhere end of the year…or if i have the time, it shall be earlier…).

So, i hope to see some domain name ideas… Feel free to leave them in the comment area…. Thanks adios

Ooooo I love this car… And when the pearl white colour version was release, the Toyota Camry look even better and better. The original Toyota Aerokit fits gorgeously on it…. I wonder when will I own this piece of engineering beauty? Maybe soon…

Photos adopted from http://juliansi.blogspot.com.

The opening game presented us with the matches from Group A. The first game (Swiss versus Czech) was quite disappointing… the game was not really exciting. However, the second game of the night (Portugal versus Turkey) was pulsating and really entertaining. Check out the first two matches of Euro 2008. So, now both Czech Republic and Portugal lead Group A with 3 points each.

1st Day Results:

Switzerland 0 – 1 Czech Republic > “Full report”
Portugal 2 – 0 Turkey > “Full Report”

Vaclav Sverkos (Czech Republic) fires home the winner…

Pepe (Portugal) celebrating after scoring a fantastic one-two goal…

The petrol and diesel price has been increased few days ago. So, what’s going to happen? What can we do?

What’s going to happen?

Definitely all the basic consumer products and utility price will increase… gas, electricity, food, cooking oil, flour, rice etc… In fact, just one day after the fuel price increase, the canteen at my work place start controlling the amount of rice on our plates. Not only that… the same day, I ate Nasi Beryani which used to be RM5 but at that day it was RM6. While this is more related to rice, but we can expect other price of goods to rise as well… Next month the electricity price will increase as well. What about the others. Some bus company has already increase their fairs as well… I just can’t imagine what else are going to happen…

Are we earning enough to live in this country? When I compare to UK for instance, the starting salary for an engineer is 2,000 pounds sterling / month whereas in our country it is about RM 2,000 / month. When this new graduated engineers want to buy a car to go to work, in UK they can buy a brand new car from 8,000 pounds sterling (or a decent second hand car at just a mere 500 pound sterling)  whereas in Malaysia a new graduate engineer must pay RM35,000 to own a new Proton Saga  (or something around RM15,000- 20,000 to get a second hand car). After buying a car, they want to fuel the car… So, in UK, this guy will pay 1.19 pounds sterling per liter, whereas now, in Malaysia, the new engineer have to pay RM2.70 per liter. What about the food? The number is just the same but the currency is not. A portion of rice (can be bought at India Muslim restaurant/stall) is about 4 pounds sterling, but in Malaysia it is RM 4-5 per serving. Yogurt cost just 15 pence per cup but in Malaysia it cost more than RM1.50 per cup.

I don’t need to say much, you can just see from the simple comparison I made above and think for yourself. Is the income versus cost of products/goods appropriate? The small case study above is for an engineer, what about those who earn less than an engineer? What family who earn RM700 per month?

What can we do? I have concluded my findings below. For me conclusions can be categorized as below:

The Government:

1. Need to spend wisely and intelligently. Should think more about the citizens especially those who earn less. Very poor/unfortunate citizens may be forced to do the unexpected negative activities if they are really desperate and we don’t want that to happen. Government must think and take action to help them. We don’t want this brutal price increase lead to more poverty > more crime!!!

2. If the foreign vehicles still pump petrol/diesel in Malaysia, then that’s fine BUT with one condition. The governments must charge them when they enter the country at the immigrations center/border. Charge them some appropriate amount of cash (RM) so that the government can compensate with the lost (of subsidies in petrol/diesel) when they fuel their vehicles. Some of my colleagues say charging them RM30-50 upfront will be fair enough as soon as they enter our country. Maybe we can charge more… ?

3. Compare the cost of fuel with the oil producer country and not the oil importer countries.

UAE: RM1.19/litre
Egypt: RM1.03/litre
Bahrain: RM0.87/litre
Qatar: RM0.68/litre
Kuwait: RM0.67/litre
Saudi Arabia: RM0.38/litre
Iran: RM0.35/litre
Nigeria: RM0.32/litre
Turkmenistan: RM0.25/litre
Venezuela: RM0.16/litre
MALAYSIA: RM2.70/litre

4. Please improve the public transport efficiency. Throughout Malaysia, our Public transport (bus/trains/taxi) are very poor compared to other countries. Even Indonesia has a good “Angkot” (Angkotan Kota) which uses vans and cars like Toyota Unser to carry passengers from one point to another point. If the public transport is efficient, people would have no problem traveling using public transport.  The LRT and komuter in Klang valley is not enough. More need to be done. Improve the public transport. Improve the punctuality. Improve the fairs.

5. Anything else….?

The citizens:

1. Need to be more organized in handling the house hold and personal expenditures such as groceries and other needs. Plan your budget and strictly stick to it. Just spend within your salary. Warning – Don’t easily use credit card as if you wrongly use them, you may doom yourself to bankruptcy.

2. Need to work harder – get some extra job if you can afford to have it. Extra job will provide extra money and may help your family economy. That’s important for the family survival.

3. Work on alternative fuel. Use Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV). Or use fuel saver as well. There are also technologies where we can use water + petrol to run engine. Check this out.

4. Anything else to add…..