Asian Tiger

I’ve just bought my Sony PSP. Instead of jumping straight into games, I want to connect my PSP to the Internet. My home WiFi service is heavily fortified with MAC Address filtering. That means, even though you may get connected to my WiFi signal, you will not be able to access my network.

Therefore, in order for my PSP to get connected to my home WiFi and subsequently to the Internet, I needed to add my PSP’s MAC address into the network whitelist. Doing that is simple but getting my PSP’s MAC address was not. I had to search around the Internet for it (and yes, I’m too lazy to read the PSP’s manual)

To get your PSP’s MAC address, go to the home menu, select System Settings and press the circular X button. Select System Information and press the circular X button again.  You will now be able to view your MAC address.

By the way, my PSP is Felicia Blue.

How many times have you wished that you have another 12 hours in your day? For the busy individuals and the busy business people, I am sure you have had uttered those words or something along that line. If you take a quick look at your work schedule for the past few years, you will realize that your office work has crept into your home and your home has started to be your office.

This phenomenon is not because of the way individuals work but rather because of business globalisation. Just as aeroplanes are capable of zipping us around the globe, similarly, technology enables office work to follow us around; e.g. email, blackberry and thin clients. Suddenly, you find that you are poor of time but rich in work. With long hours at work, we stand to lose quality and social life.

How often have you forgotten birthdays? How many times did you miss your child’s grand day?  Well, I have and I’m sure you have too or perhaps you have come very close to that.  If you are in this situation or hard pressed for time, the words concierge service and lifestyle management will become magical terms in your life.  When I first heard these words, I was like “What?”.

Well, I soon learned that these magical words are services that will enrich my life — where quality of life is once again part of me and my family. Believe it or not, there are companies or establishments providing services to make your life easier or rather I would say, to help you prioritize the important things in your life. Anything you need, absolutely anything at all, is serviced by these companies; from purchasing helicopter rides to booking golf tee-times through to pet-sitting.

These godsend companies relieve the hassles of my domestic chores, my business and personal life’s nitty-gritties in exchange for the priceless minutes and hours of my life.

Ever since March 8th 2008, Malaysians realised the power of the Internet and more specifically the power of blogging which essentially is a tool to allow an individual to throw their thoughts and arguments into the wilderness in a bid to reach the public and maybe at the same time, to obtain feedback or counter-arguments.

Blogs have proliferated on the Internet so much so that Malaysian politicians have embarked to spread their news through their personal blogs.  Even the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohd has his own very successful blog (www.chedet.com); hitting 1 million hits in the first month it started online.  That speaks volume about the power of blogging.

If you have your own blog (not using free blogging platforms like blogspot or wordpress) and you intend to be as successful as the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, you have got to get a serious webhost who has the best package and the best uptime.  That’s the easy part; simply look for the best website hosting review for these site(s) have already done all the homework for you.  All you have got to do is choose a webhost.

The difficult part — write contents that continue to amaze your visitors so that they come back to your blog again and again until it becomes a habit for them to check out your blog everytime they come online.  If you are able to do that, you will soon find your blog is ripe for making some money (that’s another blog post for another day).