Archive for December, 2007

Welcome to Paris, Ille Du France. Center of the French Republic. Notorious for Moulin Rouge. Liberty, Fraternity, Equality. The core aspects of the French Revolution.

I had traveled to France often, particularly to Paris, to hang out, dry out, chill out for the weekend or if I get dull with the English weather. Well, even at 130Km/H speed limit, I won’t even touch that, let alone give the Gendarmerie or even the PAF (Police Aux Frontiers aka French Border Police) the chance to nick me with a 2000Fr on the spot fine on my dodgy old banger,which happens to be ..a Proton Saga. Yeah, the French toll do kill me at times,thus why I love the Belgian or German AutoBahns where there is no toll,unless you are a HGV.

I love to chill out at Disneyland Paris, particularly at the Food Village, specifically Planet Hollywood.The food is great and if I feel tired, the hotel at Disneyland Paris or even any Parisien Hotel are affordable. Formula One is one place I like, mainly it’s cheap and no frills. The Budget Motel / Hotel in Paris. Don’t be fooled by the slang of París Hoteles or even Paris Hôtels which is in FRENCH (Francais) of the travel blogsites, promoting specific hotels.

Doing business in Paris is quite straight forward. With the emergence of the European Markets, the French are one of the LEAST bureaucratic places to do business with loads of funding and grant from the EU Business Chambers. Illegal working is ..well, severely punished BUT getting the paperwork done is plain straight forward. Opening back accounts is also another simple trick, an ID card and a proof of address from the Municipal Office / CEDEX .And off to the local bank to sort the approval out with Banque de France. I have a CIC Account with Banque Scalbert Du Pont, in Calais Cedex. It’s also CLEAN. Paris is…even in the suburbs. I traveled round alot in Paris and even in the RER Zone 4 , things go alive after 10pm,with the cleaners and all out sweeping the roads and taking out the rubbish.

One thing though, if you don’t speak French, don’t try to speak English with them, as they are proud people. Try speaking Chinese or even Malay…and they will try accomodate you by speaking broken English.

And to top it off, here is me being a little bit patriotic to the French cause, for giving me a sound education in Paris.

Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie,
L’étendard sanglant est levé. {Rep}
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans nos bras
Égorger nos fils, nos compagnes !

Those who wanna know more, read about La Marseillaise.

PS: The French still hate their tyrants, the English….but there’s no issue if you are Irish,Scottish or Welsh (Celtic).
Listen to the French National anthem

Well these UNIKL students are going to a camping trip up in Kedah and well, they sure look sorry because they have to take the unregistered,unsecured lorry as a shuttle to their campsite / chalet near Penang.

Surely,someone in the management did not do a proper reconnaissance (RECCE) because they forgot that their bus cannot go up and got stuck at the base of the K-Road. It’s a major road..but no lorries or buses allowed up,due to the steep slope and corners.

I’m pretty sure these students are sorry they took the big bus instead of the mini-bus which they could have chartered from Rapid Penang. And the boy wearing the towel sarban was shying away from us because we spotted their secret : a colorful blue pillow…..DURGH!

So, UniKL…next time..plan your logistics properly. Or, go hire a police lorry to go camping.
Thee Hee Hee..and imagine…no cellphone coverage…or phones. A recipe for disaster.

Well,some of you wanted the info….
Here is the Basic information:

Grabmyads.
A/5, Jalan Cengkal Jalan Datuk Kumbar
Alor Setar, Kedah, MY 05300
P: +604.7326381

I have the other details which I will share if…mainly because of the Privacy Act…
Well,ask for it.

(I did my research using the Internal Security Dept)

Funny thing was, the address look dodgy enough because I ply about that area too often…
I’ll snap a pic if I got the time…or anyone in ALOR STAR who willing to do so….

PS: I can’t seem to find their company existing in Malaysia…

To start off, I did a whois check of Nufflets.

About Nufflets
1) It’s owned by a person called NABIL & ZAKI MUBAH STUDYING in University of Bradford, which is shown on another entity’s WHOIS:

Mubah, Zaki
7 Airedale College Terrace
Bradford, BD3 0JS
GB

I have their phone number based on the 192 reverse check.It’s in GIRLINGTON, WEST YORKS, which houses 5 other persons registered on that address.

2) I dig out the company CARA COM MY Media in Malaysia as a business under REG NO 01563864-U CARA COM MY MEDIA
Owned by NABIL FEISAL BAMADHAJ and WAN KASIM BIN WAN KADIR of SETIAWANGSA and GOMBAK respectively.

Registered on 24-07-2006

No business details filed under the LHDN records.

There is no Entity in the United Kingdom for the Business Owners, National Insurance or otherwise. This information was passed on by NCIS to deter fraud.Sorry, I have to check.

3) I’m always giving the fellow Malaysian a chance to prove themselves, but a bunch of Teenagers as a boss… I will see before I call it another flag off,as the name is infringing the namesake of Nuffnang and Advertlets which are..trade and servicemarks.

So, guys… prove yourself please.And I don’t think $50 is easy to earn…unless you are top dogs.

Any other info?? Lets see…
Those who wants the SSM report, please contact me…

PS: I removed the codes because of error in NUFFLETS

Well, like I said, it was 5.15pm on Eve of Hari Raya….and well, with kinda bad reception, so I might have heard it incorrectly, as my contact in Google analyzed the stats, and there was less than 4% of error in tracking, citing Caching issues or so. Mainly due to the fact that it loaded ShockWave or Flash applications within the ads, it may be the cause that the Singapore Proxy Servers and Malaysia ones loaded them inside, and not requiring the user to load the script and ping it again.

The issue was nn_id which was encoded into the javascript, but that was apparently inherent to US users using IE or AOL users which was IE addon. This was the respond from my friends in Google, Adbrite and Blogsvertise whom I had the privilege to be acquainted with, and helped me to see if I was showing issues,as if there was issues with mine, then there will be issues with them, and they get not paid.

// JavaScript Document
var nn_server = ‘http://synad2.nuffnang.com.my’;
var nn_home = ‘http://www.nuffnang.com.my’;
var w = 728;
var ad_type = ‘leaderboard’;
var nn_id = ‘nn_’ + ad_type;
var h = nuffnang_bid;
if( !document.getElementById( nn_id ) ){

nn_html = " < div style='width: " + w + "px;margin:0 auto;border:none !important;text-align:center;' > \ n” + ” < div style='display:block' id='" + nn_id + "' >< /div > \n” + ” < table id='nnadsfoot' width='100%' border='0' style='border:none !important' height='15px' > ” + ” < tr > < td align='right' valign='top' >” + ” < a href='" + nn_home + "' target='_blank' title='Nuffnang Ads' >< img border='0' src='" + nn_server + "/img/nuffnang_footer.gif' alt='Nuffnang Ads' / >< /a > ”
+ ” < /td >< /tr >< /table >” + “< /div >“;< /code >
document.write( nn_html );
visit = ‘visit’;

var script = nn_server + “/nn_frame.php?bid=” + h + “&ad_type=” + ad_type + “&ref=”
+ document.referrer.replace(/&/g,”||”) + “&sid=” + (new Date). getTime() + “&visit=” + visit + “&l=” + location . href;
document . write(”< scr" + "ipt type='text/javascript' language='javascript' src='" + script + "'>< /scr" + "ipt >“);
}