My Petaling Street
This blog is about Petaling Street and everything interesting that goes on there.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Online gambling legal in malaysia ?
After I reviewed some casino websites I am now curious if I can register and gamble online. I leave the comment open to everybody even for anonymous. Throwing the question out here..
Can anybody tell me if you have tried out online casinos and whether it's legal here in Malaysia?
Labels: Question
Sandy at 8:41 PM
PM acknowledges the power of blogs
Malaysia's premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Tuesday his "biggest mistake" in disastrous elections was to ignore cyber-campaigning on the Internet which was seized by the opposition.
The powerful Barisan Nasional coalition suffered its worst-ever results in March 8 polls that left five states and a third of parliamentary seats in opposition hands.
"We thought that the newspapers, the print media, the television was supposed to be important, but the young people were looking at SMS and blogs."
I too now acknowledge how powerful blogs can be in disseminating information as well as letting people know what you think. Glad to see that the Government is picking this up too.
Would the results have been that different if BN actually went and campaign hard on the internet ?? Hmmm.. I wonder.
Labels: Blogging Power
Sandy at 3:57 PM
4.12pm at petaling street
That's the exact time when Petaling Street is closed to cars. That's the time stamp on my camera anyway. Quite early considering they are preparing for the night market. I don't quite like to walk in the shops at night. It's just too narrow and getting from one end to the other is so slow, and you don't really get to see much.
Hey what are you looking at?
Don't know why these people need to set up the roof cover. I thought the big roof built by the city council was good enough for cover.
Labels: Petaling Street
Sandy at 2:35 PM
Friday, March 21, 2008
My Dream Phone
Yes I know I'm late to know about this and my friends tell me I must be living on Mars for not having heard about the iPhone.
Anyway, my first encounter with this phone when I was going shopping in Sungai Wang Plaza (NOT Petaling Street la..). There were many shops selling the iPhone locked and unlocked. Prices are still around RM 1800-2000. I spent some time playing around with the phone and I am in love with it.
It works on facebook too!!
Labels: iPhone
Sandy at 10:25 AM
Attractive CAsino sites
I'm still flirting with playing some casino games online. I think I will do this when I can have several of my friends together so we sign up and try it out together on our notebooks. It's more fun that way.
Here's another online casino site I've been looking at: http://www.joylandcasino.com
As with all other online casinos sites, the overall look is attractive and simple. Downloading their client software is placed prominently on the first page. Their FAQs section pretty much anticipates all the questions a newbie like me may ask about casino games. Overall a good site design and easy to navigate site. At least it will pull in beginners. Perhaps what the site needs now is good marketing.
Labels: Online Games
Sandy at 9:40 AM
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Microsoft Live Writer + Picasa+ Blogger = HEAVEN !!
So when a friend installed Microsoft Live Writer and showed me how easy it was to use, I was amazed.
Inserting images is one of the thing I'm very happy about using this Live Writer. It's so easy and the images I saved is uploaded automatically to Picasa and then linked into my blog. To me that's like magic. No more manually clicking on blogger's "insert image" icon and wait for the dumb spinning thing to complete uploading.
Also viewing my edited post in real life together with the page layout (see picture below) is amazing. My friend tells me that this is an incredible feat integrating pictures from Picasa with Microsoft Live Writer because Picasa a product of Microsoft's corporate enemy - Google. Imagine creating a software tool that seamlessly work with your competitors tool.
Anyway, I'm glad these two are working hand in hand to make my blogging experience better :)
I'm definitely not going to log in and blog from the old blogger editor anymore now that I have Live Writer.
Labels: Blogging Tools
Sandy at 11:25 PM
Petaling street domains not about petaling street
Why oh why do you register the domain name Petaling Street when your website is clearly NOT about Petaling Street.
Here's PetalingStreet.com
This site is about GaryTay.com - Digital Agent of change whatever that means. But one thing is for sure. It has nothing to do with Petaling Street.
PetalingStreet.net is a squatter page.
PetalingStreet.org is a 'blogtal' of Malaysian so called interesting posts. I don't mean to be a cyber police or anything but I seriously like Petaling Street and I'm hoping other domain names using the word "Petaling Street" IS about Petaling Street. Don't you?
And to answer the latest comments. Yeah la.. I understand the Kopitiam analogy but Kopitiam is a general place which can mean any kopitiam in any place. But when you say Petaling Street - it is SOOOOO specific, right ?
Oh, I chose mypetalingstreet..blogspot.com because petalingstreet.blogspot.com was already taken - also by someone who just made one and only post on July 2007 (another wasted URL). Take MY = Malaysia la... not My Petaling street :)
Sandy at 11:01 PM
List of online casinos
I love going to Genting but I am such a gambling junkie that I lose all my money when I go into the casino. But I'm not a big gambler and I like to play on the smaller electronic poker or blackjack machines instead of sitting on a high stakes table.
So it's only natural for me to be attracted to playing the same games on the computer screen. There are online casinos where you can get the same 'kick' of a real casino. You can bet real money and lose it too :)
Here's another site that reviews the online casino sites so that you more or less get the idea which sites are popular, good, or/and credible.
I like the fact that the site has both editor votes as well as players votes for the best online casinos. Also, there is also an unbelievable thing that online casinos do to attract membership. There give out sign up bonuses. But be aware of the term and conditions as it is usually harder to withdraw the bonus money than to use to gamble. Still it's a fun thing to start gambling with "start up" money and not your own in the beginning. Just be aware of the addicting dangers and don't become a chronic gambler. :)
Oh the website also lists the casinos offering the best sign up bonuses. There are some sites offering up to USD 1000 in bonus!
Sandy at 10:44 PM
