Terry Fox Run @ Kuala Lumpur

At the young age of 18, Terry Fox a young Canadian man could have had a bright and promising future ahead of him, but unfortunately he was diagnose with Bone Cancer which causes his right leg to be amputated. While he was being treated in the hospital, he witness all the pain and suffering suffered by Cancer Patients, he had the thought of making a difference in people's life, especially those who are suffering from cancer.

When he was discharged, he decided to run across Canada in a bid to raise awareness and fund for Cancer Research. With his prosthetic leg, he ran across Canada with the hope of collecting a dollar from each Canadian. It was called the Marathon of Hope. Terry was determine to run a marathon everyday for 143 days consecutively, that's 42km a day (the distant of a typical marathon)and a whooping 6006km in total. However, he only manage to complete 5373Km(37.5KM a day) when he discovered that his cancer has spread to his lungs which force him to stop running . Terry Fox pass away at the young age of 22 on 21st June 1981(1month before his 23rd birthday). Though he left us all at a tender age of 22, his legacy lives on till today as millions of people around the globe come together for the Terry Fox Run annually to raised fund for Cancer Research.

This year, the Terry Fox Run KL 2009 will take place on the 1st of November 2009. Details are as per below:

Venue: Jalan Keun Bunga, Taman Tasik Perdana, KL (KL Lake Garden)

Date: 1st November 2009
Time: 8.45am (Participants are advice to be there early and gather at 8.00am. The race starts at 8.45am)

Remarks: There is no participation fees or registration required. If you would like to donate, get yourself a Terry Fox Run KL 2009 T-Shirt for RM25. All proceed goes to the Cancer Research Initiative Foundation (CARIF). There is 2 route, one 3.5KM and the second at 5KM. Everyone is encourage to bring your family, relatives, girlfriend, boyfriend, friends, colleague and neighbour along.

I will be join this race for the first time and have gotten myself a Terry Fox T-Shirt for the race. If are free this Sunday, please feel free to join me for a good cause.

The Beneficiary of the Terry Fox Run KL is CARIF. CARIF can be contacted at: 2nd Floor, Outpatient Centre, Subang Jaya Medical Centre, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor. Contact No: +603-5630 6774.

DiGi 3G Service Experience

The long wait 3G Service by DiGi Telecommunications will finally be over soon when DiGi turn on its 3G Services commercially this Thursday 22nd October 2009. More than 7.2 million customers will be able to see the 3G signal on their phone, surf on the phone as well as make video calls.

Since its not launched yet, let me share some of my experience using the service. Yes, I've used the service as I was one of the lucky user who was chosen as a trial user early June 2009 and I must say I'm pretty impressed with the service thus far. I've try making a video call to one of my friend who was rather surprise to receive a video call considering that I'm on 016(DiGi or some call it DG). And the video quality is above acceptable quality.

Apart from video call, I also enjoy faster data access or some call it broadband surfing on my E71. With this, I was able to check on my facebook more often and also do video streaming on youtube.com. The only setback is that coverage is limited and the service is currently available at Klang Valey, Kota Kinabalu and Pinang.

So DiGi subscriber in the other location, you have got to be more patience while DiGi expand its service your your location. Those who are in the above mentioned location, you should see the 3G signal turning starting from this Thursday onward. As this service will be turn on phase by phase to avoid sudden congestion, please be patience if you don't see the signal in a day or two. You may find out more by calling the helpline at 016-2211800 for general consumer or 016-2298888 for Business Customer.

Please share your experience if you have tried it...

Have you got a POKEN?

A new craze is about to hit the World soon. An it comes in the from of POKEN!!!

When I ask my friends: Have you got a POKEN? Most of them will say excuse me what did you just said ? It's as though I've just utter a vulgar word. Well please allow me to have the please of introducing POKEN, the name for a new electronic gadget that allows you to share all your social network information as well as personal information just by touching your POKEN with your friends POKEN.

It's around the size of a Pendrive (or some call it thumb drive) and it comes in various cute cartoon shape. All the designs come with a big hand with just four finger.

Aren't they cute?

If you still don't understand how it work, let me share with you a step by step guide on how to use it:

1.) Get a POKEN yourself.

2.)When you first purchase it, plug into your computer and then go to http://www.doyoupoken.com/ to register your POKEN.

3.) Create your own profile and you may include the following details:

• Personal Information - Name, Mobile No., Photos, Email, Blog
• Social Networks - Flickr, facebook, Flickr, Hi5, linked in, friendster, myspace, bebo, etc
• Instant Messenger - MSN, GoogleTalk, Skype, ICQ (no YM for now)

4) You can then touch your POKEN’s hand to another POKEN to ‘high four’ (it's call high four because unlike human hand, POKEN only has four fingers) and You will feel a magnetic pull between the hands when they are properly aligned: palm-to-palm. The data communication lasts about one second, so you can pull them apart after 1 or 2 seconds. The POKEN's palms glow green if the connection is successful. If they glow red, then there has been an error. In that case, simply high-four them again for a few seconds. Touch your POKENto as many friends as you'd like to share your online social network profile(s).Even if you've already connected with someone, it's worth high-fouring your friends every time you hang out with them. You'll be able to view all your social interactions in a timeline. The POKEN high-four can become your new greeting. You can then keep track of when and how often you and your friends hang out.

5) Plug the POKEN in your PC/Laptop and it will load the contacts in your POKEN to your POKEN page where you can decide to store or delete your contacts.

Some of the various design available.


This is how it looks like when the hand is remove from the body.


The nicely packed POKEN.

Quick Facts you should know:

1.)Each POKEN can store up to 64 contacts

2.)Each time you successfully POKEN the little palm will glow green.

3.)It will blink red if you did not POKEN successfully, in which case, just wait a few seconds for the glowing to disappear and try again. .

4.)When you have four or less contacts left to store on your POKEN the palm will glow orange after you've POKENed.

5.)Once you exceed 64 contacts, the POKEN palm will glow red each time you POKEN (note: this is different from when it blinks red to let you know that you did not connect successfully).

6.)Each POKEN contact after the 64th will be saved, but it replaces the first contact stored on your POKEN.

I've made some orders last Tuesday and it has reach Malaysia today. According to the latest information from the Courier Company, the custom department has given clearance. Thus I will be expecting to receive it in a day or two.

Since this product is rather new in Malaysia, it is not available at any of the IT store at the moment, thus if you would like to get one, you can message me via Facebook.

Alternatively, if you plan to make bulk purchase directly from POKEN, you may use this promo code to enjoy some discount: PUOAEUD36PWH8LWCCLOO