Thristhan

I’m about a week late in writing this blog. It’s about the top 24 who made it to the Americal Idol. The photographs below were taken from AmericanIdol.com’s facebook page and all copyrights belong to americanidol.com. That week, my favourite was Andrew Garcia, and I mentioned to bet all my stakes on him after his “Paula Abdul - Straight Up” performance. But he has been performing very bad the weeks after. I hope he does something to step it up.

After the top 24 week, my favourite girl singer is Crystal Bowersox. She has an amazing story and a cute little baby and she is very motivated to perform week after week. Crystal Bowersox takes criticism and learns from them, infact Simon Cowell mentioned that one of her performance was very “Subway” singing style. It was funny because she did actually perform in a subway before to make-ends meet.

My favouride dude would be Lee Dewyze. His performance last week was superb, and that made him go up to the Top 16. He his very humble and even without performing experience, Lee Dewyze is very capable in nailing this competition. Girl fans are already on his side.

So now we are left with the American Idol Top 16 this week. They will be performing tommorow on the official American Idol channel in Malaysia which is the Starworld at channel 711.

Below are the photographs taken by American Idol, copyrights remain with them for the top 24 performance.

Today was quite a boring day at office. I had quite a number of things to do, managed to tackle the important once. Eventhough a boring day, today went by so fast. It’s now nearly time to go home. So before I leave today, below are some comics to entertain your week that I grabbed from Google Image search. This relates to computer, which was my field of study.

Malaysia being a very closed country in terms of explicit content tends to censor everything that has sexual content. Including movies in the Cinema, movies on our Cable TV, namely ASTRO and so on. I strongly believe that since we’re paying for this private channels, we should be able to gain full view of the content, in other words, there should not be any censorship involved. For those with children below a certain age that parents dont want them to watch such contents, should be able to activate a child lock that wont allow them to this content.

In the similar field, the Internet Providers in Malaysia are also banning alot of website with such content. There are many ways to overcome this, one way is to use a proxy server website that can redirect your IP to an international one. Google for proxy server and you should get a list of them. Two Internet Providers, namely Maxis and Streamyx are currently banning certain websites.

One famous website that is banned, infact I realised this a few weeks ago is RedTube and GutterUncensored.

I do appreciate that the government along with the service providers are doing their part in order to filter certain contents, but that defeats the purpose of the internet, which is to obtain unconditional knowledge. Everyone may have their own views, this is mine.

Today suddenly out of no where while sitting at my desk in office, I decided to change the Tag that I created for thristhan.com to “Since 1982″ (which is the year that I was born). The previous tag that I used was “Not Just A Blog”. I guess I was already tired of this and needed a change. I hope the new one is much more simple and meaningful. Would like to hear some suggestion if you think you can come up with a better tag for Thristhan.com.

I was watching the telly yesterday and I happen to flip to 8TV and there were playing some music videos. A new version of the We Are The World amazed me. It was a modified version from the original featuring all latest artist. Mostly were RnB and Hip Hop artist. The video was really touching, frankly I felt like being in tears, but machoness had me control it. They remade this song for the victims of the Haiti earthquake on January 12, 2010.

We Are The World 25 for Haiti

Some of the artist that I remember being in that video are Will.I.Am who seemed to have a big part in this video, he must have produced it or something (Later found out that Wyclef John was the producer of this song), then there were Akon, Wyclef John, Kanye West, Busta Rhymes, Miley Cyrus, Jamie Foxx, Janet Jackson, T-Pain, LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, Fergie, Pink, Usher, Barbra Streisand, Michael Buble, Jason Mraz, Rob Thomas, Celine Dion, A.R. Rahman and many more.

“We Are the World” is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and co-produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World. The song was recorded in fourteen hours by over eighty artists on February 1, and was released on February 12, 2010, during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics. “We Are the World 25 for Haiti” was released as a CD single and a music download.

A few singers couldn’t make it for the recording because of the timing or they had other things to do. One of them was Taylor Swift who was on going to tour in Australia.

Check out their official video on Youtube:

Something I received from my email today. Not that funny, but I found the little mouse cute.

Caller: Hi, our printer is not working.
Customer Service: What is wrong with it?
Caller: Mouse is jammed.
Customer Service: Mouse? Printers don’t have a mouse you fool!
Caller: Mmmmm??.. Oh really?… I will send a picture.

We had a long weekend last week, so a bunch of school mates and a few new mates decided to check out this new place that was located at Ijok, Kuala Selangor. One of our friends have been there before and he recommended that we tried this place.

My friend, Jimmy picked me up from my place at 6pm, we were to gather at Kapar at 6.30pm and cruise together to Ijok’s New Begger’s Delicious Restaurant. This place is actually located just before the Kuala Selangor Town if you’re heading from Kapar. It’s about 50kms from Klang. There is an inner road that we have to take to reach this restaurant, it’s quite deep is so it would be a good idea to contact them for the directions.

This place a special cause they use a different technique to prepare the dishes. They wrap the food with foils and cook them underground. Or at least that’s what were told, we did not have a change to view the cooking area.

We went as a group of 10 people, so we decided to try the set meal, which cost nearly RM400. Along with this set was a Chicken dish, Duck dish, Pork Dish, Glutinous Rice, Vegetable dish, 2 types of fish, Prawn dish, Pig Stomach soup, and Fruit dish. My favourite was one of the fish dish that was made in Sour Thai style, it was spicy too. The glutinous rice was good too, it contained salted egg yolk. To me the entire experience was more of a gathering with friends instead of enjoying the food. It was good, but not up to expectation.

This restaurant is only open on selected days and it would be a good idea to make a reservation before going there as they are always full. To my Muslim friends, this place is non-halal.

Check out the photos below.

Finally I decided to register the plugin with Akismet. This is an application that can be used for your blogs that will reduce the number of spam comments. Last week alone I received roughly 400 spam comments. And it can be very irritating deleting them one by one.

Akismet basically stands for Automattic Kisme, is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.

Below is some statistic as of NOW, 11.38am, 24th February 2010

14,615,802,134 spams caught so far

1,701,289 so far today

83% of all comments are spam

The signing up process is quite simple and straight-forward. You will need to register to receive an API, which is free for personal use. The API key will be emailed to you after you register. If you have multiple blogs, like myself, you can use the same API for all of them, so multiple registration is not required. All my blogs are currently running under WordPress and Akismet is working perfectly fine in blocking all spam comments.

I’ve been trying these past few weeks to be feature on one of nuffnang innit most popular blogs. But as you would already know, not many would actually NANG you unless you come up with an interesting title. I’m going to experiment a few catchy titles and will update this blog later on what sells the best.

Most if the top list seems to be talking about boring topics such as their college life, comparison about women and men, comparing things like mobile phone service provider and so on. Most probably these people already have a great list of reader database that NANGs them so often.

Anyway, since you’re already reading this blog, do go and read the other interesting articles that is made available for free.

Finally I managed to get the 100 followers target. I will be now registering for sponsoredtweet which is a program that allows sponsors to advertise on your tweet and gain you some cash. You will be allocating a price for your tweets, and based on what you tweet about, the sponsors will send you a request. If you accept and they like what you’re going to tweet about the, you will receive the allocated or agreed amount.

I’m currently using the link that My friend sent for registering the sponsoredtweet. After clicking the “SignUp Now” link, you will see the following screen for your confirmation in allowing to connect with the application.

Sponsored Tweet

After allowing the application to access your tweeter account, you will then need to select whether you’re a tweeter or an advertiser. After that you will need to allocate the charge per tweet that you are interested in, at the moment the minimum is set at USD1. You will also need to fill up some details as in the photo below. You may also insert the person’s ID who recommended you to this application. Don’t forget to read the clause at the bottom which states that you can only register for this application only if your tweeter account is at least 2 months old and that you currently have at least 100 followers.

Sponsoret Tweet Registration

Your sponsored tweet will also be retweeted if:

If your tweet does not reach a $1.50 CPC, it will be re-tweeted 48 hours later. You will be paid for this tweet as soon as it reaches a $1.50 CPC, or 2 hours after it is tweeted 3 times. You will still be paid the initial offer amount for all offers, but with this option enabled, you will be much more attractive to advertisers.

My tags that I’m using at the moment are as follows:

business, marketing, technology, gadgets, phone, affiliate, information technology

Now it’s time for you to start trying out this new money making scheme. Below is the banner that you can click and start earning. Good Luck.