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Malaysia School Academic Calendar 2025/2026 (Kumpulan B) - Google Calendar

As I am not able to find any Google Calendar out there, I am creating my own and make available public.

MOE original release for academic calendar session 2025/2026

Looking Back at My 2021

It's the time of the year to look back at 2021.

Been thinking about it for a few days now and I have no memory of what had happened this year except for the past few weeks where there was a flood in where I live.

Today I remembered that I have almost everything on Google Calendar and sometimes I do update on Facebook. So I am able to note down a list of 2021 events with the help of technologies.

It's generally a quiet and boring year for myself, and lucky not to be hit by the virus (touch wood!), job loss, salary cut, and the flood. Which I am thankful about it. There's no major development on anything in my life this year, supposedly my first property, yet it was delivered with 100 defects unsolved after 3 months now and counting.

In fact, 2021 sucks.

Flash Flood Aftermath in Bukit Rimau - 18 Dec 2021

18 December 2021 - Flash floods in Klang and Shah Alam

The last social media post I read before sleep was a friend sharing that it's 22-hours of non-stop downpour already.

Wake up in the morning to find out that we may be blocked from getting out of our apartment due to the flash floods.

Cancelled the dentist appointment in the afternoon, knowing that roads around the area would be bad. Then realize that it's grocery day, so our fridge is quite empty.

Have to get out for lunch takeaway, guessing that food delivery is most likely not available, and didn't want to endanger delivery rider for a pack of lunch.

Met the security guard downstairs and asked about the road condition outside the gate but didn't get any good info. No one seems to know what to do, what can we do. If the road is totally flooded, there will be no way for me to get any food for the day.

As a Malaysian, I am not equipped with sufficient knowledge in case of emergency. We are only be educated about fire drill and building evacuation plan, not natural disasters.

Cars broke down in the middle of the flood, people standing by roadside not dare to proceed further to drive over the flood waters, they looked beaten up, puzzled, the rain has yet to stop, what could happen next?

What if the worst is yet to come?

What can we do to get prepared?

What should we do to prevent this from happening again?

Unbox and Assemble - DXRacer AIR Mesh Gaming Chair D7200

Started my work-from-home life on 1 April 2021 without a home office.

Tried the sofa, the bed, the sofa bed, high table-top by the kitchen both on the high chair and standing on my feet, and of course the dining table, but still don't find a spot at home that I can work productively.

So I started to transform one half of my store room into a home office, started by deploying my long-forgotten budget study table and borrowed a low-back office chair from my sister for the setup.

Things work almost perfectly until I broke the chair arm while adjusting my sitting position after 6 months, and broke the back of the chair in the middle of back stretching, almost fell on the floor with back of my head landed first few weeks after the first incident.

No other choice, I started to look for a new chair for my home office. La-z-boy has always been my dream chair but it just won't work as working equipment, so looked into the range of gaming chair and found that gaming chairs are made of either leather, faux leather or fabric.

Avoid fabrics at all cost is one of the rules I set for myself ever since I get to decide what furniture to buy, experience with those kind of bulky headphones is a reminder not to get faux leather, and the last option, and I know genuine leather is either hard to find or will cost me RM20,000+ for an office chair.

So I dragged for a month doing more and more research on different brand and range of gaming chairs and ergonomic office chairs, I even watched through the guides on how to choose an office chair as well as the difference between gaming chair and office chair on https://www.youtube.com/user/btodTV.

I was so close to made up my mind to settle on a middle-low price mesh high back ergonomic office chair, then I discovered DXRacer AIR Mesh Gaming Chair -- A gaming chair, with mesh material. Of course the price range is within my budget.

I searched online for the brand and model to find that they have 2 Malaysian distributors, and they don't sell the color I wants on Shopee or Lazada. I might need to call them up or visit their showroom to find out more.

Of course a procrastinator like me will not take action immediately, so I start dragging again. One day, I had a long video conference sitting on my sofa bed and when I stand to walk, I kneeled on the floor as like I received some sort of message from the top (of course it's actually just numb leg due to the bad sitting position for long hour) and I know I must get out and get that chair!

So I made a quick call to one of the disti, happened that they have one last unit of white & cyan that I wanted, take a quick break from work to get to the showroom to bring back this beauty in a huge box.

The instruction manual is really brief, it's not too complicated to put everything together, but I can't help having a feeling that I might have did something wrong with the installation.

Sitting on the chair, it is as comfortable as it is promised, just that my super short work-from-home pants which I also wear to bed exposed part of my thighs to the mesh surface and the touch is not so welcomed. I'll have to start wearing proper pants working from home on this chair.

I like to cross my legs on the chair, I believe that's how I broke the last chair. When I cross my legs on this chair and lower the back to sleeping position, I fell with the chair again. No injuries because the back of the chair is really high, and the materials is proven firm because I don't see a scratch to the back of the chair that fell on the floor with my weight on it.

Anyway, that's improper use of the chair that caused the incident. If I wanted to switch to sleeping position, I need to make sure that I have my feet on the floor to balance the chair. I won't complaint that this is a design flaws, there's no design that can go against physics.

In overall, it's a 4/5 star for this chair, everything is great except that I need to wear a longer pants to sit comfortably.

What to do if your MAMP mysql Server Won't Start

Open your MAMP folder in your computer
Look for the 'mysql' folder inside 'db' folder
Select the files with filename starts with 'mysql.bin'
Delete all of them

Java and Flash Content Not Working or Theme Issue on Google Chrome

Has Your Google Chrome Been Acting Strange Lately?

That is probably because your Google Chrome auto-update failed to update automatically. In my case, it happens to the Google Chrome update for Version 57.0.2987 to Version 58.0.3029.96 for Windows and Mac OS on 2017-04-19.

Here's a tutorial on how to manually trigger the Google Chrome auto-update:

For iOS and Android version, you may refer to the official Google Help site.

And here's the Google Chrome version history if you are interested.

There are good advertisement and bad advertisement

Choice of word matters in advertisement.

There are many principles to follow as guideline when you are writing a message, especially for advertising purposes like maximum 7 words for billboard and more, that made copywriting a profession.

As a mass communication graduate, I have the habit of analysing marketing messages around myself and sometimes just can't help catching bad examples. One good bad examples is the new Samsung phone ads that appear everywhere, that read "Open Your iPhone".

Below are more bad examples I've seen in the past, and I will try to collect more in the future to store under this post for reference purposes.

What did you read at first glance?

I read 'for FREE (not really)'

What did you read?

I read 'Hell Summer Sales'

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