Today’s post is different with my other writings, I dedicated this slot to somebody that I recently parted with, hope you’re happy and have a better life over there..
The new Malaysian Minister Cabinet Line-up
Usually I don’t care to put this stuff on my blog, but I’ve made an exception today as this information might be useful for someone doing research or just merely wants to know the changes on the new Malaysian Cabinet Line-up after the reshuffle
Prime Minister / Minister of Finance / Minister of Internal Security
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Deputy Prime Minister / Minister of Defence
Najib Abdul Razak
Minister of Housing and Local Government
Ong Ka Ting
Minister of Works
S Samy Vellu
Minister of Energy, Water and Communications
Dr Lim Keng Yaik
Ministers in the Prime Minister’s Department
Bernard Dompok
Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz
Dr Maximus Ongkili
New: Effendi Norwawi
Transferred: Radzi Sheikh Ahmad to Home Affairs Minister
Minister of International Trade and Industry
Rafidah Aziz
Minister of Foreign Affrairs
Syed Hamid Albar
Minister of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry
Muhyiddin Yasin
Minister of Information
Zainuddin Maidin
Out: Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir
Minister of Human Resources
Dr Fong Chan Onn
Minister of Home Affairs
Radzi Sheikh Ahmad
Transferred: Azmi Khalid to Natural Resources and Environment Minister
Minister of Education
Hishammuddin Hussein
Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage
Dr Rais Yatim
Minister of Women, Family and Community Development
Shahrizat Abdul Jalil
Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation
Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis
Minister of Transport
Chan Kong Choy
Minister of Health
Dr Chua Soi Lek
Minister of Finance II
Nor Mohamed Yakcop
*Minister of Tourism
Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor
Out: Dr Leo Michael Toyad
Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities
Peter Chin
Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs
Mohd Shafie Apdal
Minister of Higher Education
Mustapa Mohamed
Out: Dr Shafie Salleh
Minister of Rural and Regional Development
Abdul Aziz Shamsudin
Minister of Entrepreneur and Co-Operative Development
Mohamed Khaled Nordin
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment
Azmi Khalid
Out: Adenan Satem
Minister of Youth and Sports
Azalina Othman Said
I got this list from Jeff Ooi’s blog, you can read his original post and commentary here OK, it’s a cabinet reshuffle
Valentine’s Day, cards and flowers
Uh oh, It’s the second month of the year (February) and Valentine’s day is around the corner! It is a day which lovers in let each other know about their love, commonly by sending Valentine’s cards, flowers, candy, chocolates and other stuffs that would show their love.
Why do people celebrates Valentine’s day? Well don’t ask me about it, to me it’s another propaganda set by businesses in order to shoot the sales of the above-mentioned items, especially greeting cards and flowers. Celebrating valentine’s day is no more than wasting my time and energy by flushing my hard-earned money down the toilet drain.
I even read in Wikipedia that it is estimated approximately one billion valentine cards are sent each year world wide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association also estimates that women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines.
While in my believe that Valentine’s day is just another commercial propaganda, the origin of Valentine’s Day is somewhat vague at best with several stories on why people celebrate the day in the middle of February. Several sources includes : 1,2,3.
Personally, I think Valentine’s day is overrated and just another great ploy to get us to fork our money out unnecessarily for cards and candy, you don’t need a specific day to show your love to your lover, because if you do, then something is awfully wrong with you.
p/s: I only learned that Valentine’s day is celebrated on 14th of February about a couple of hours ago, yeah sounds unimportant isn’t it?
Today is 29th Jan, Oh yeah Happy Chinese New Year.
Happy Lunar New Year!!
Happy Chinese New Year dan Selamat Menyambut Tahun Baru Hijrah (1427)
Hope the new year will bring peace and prosperity for all of us.
Translate Mypapit blog in 9 different languages
Thanks to Jibone post and tips, I manage to install Simple Thoughts? WordPress translator plugin, which enables language translation in my blog to 9 different languages. The translation itself is done by Google Language tools and the translation can be expected to be a bit way off.
You just need to click at any of the flag icon to translate this website to your desired language, for example, clicking the French flag will translate this blog into french, and so on. Happy perusing!
Using Scanners in GNU/Linux
I’m sure that some of you will be planning to buy scanners that could work in the operating system of your choice. The easiest way to get your scanner working under GNU/Linux is by using SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend, which is supported by the GIMP project.
Personally, I use the budget Canon LiDE-20 model, which I use for scanning documents and photos for my collections. Here’s is the list of scanners supported under GNU/Linux : Scanners supported by SANE
The article listed below discussed about how to get scanners work with your GNU/Linux operating system : Getting scanners to work with Linux
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