† Don't Drink & Drive: How To Deliver The Message †

It doesn't matter whether you're an acute or a chronic drinker, alcoholism will affect the health of the consumers without fail. Being drunk is one of the immediate effects of drinking alcohol and is one of the top killers that causes motor-vehicle accidents. So how are the alcohol companies going to deliver the message of 'please drink responsibly'?




This is definitely a smart way of delivering the message by printing a graphic on the bottle cap of the alcohol drinks. When the bottle is opened, the graphic of the car appears to be distorted and it kinda remind the drinkers that car accident may happen if they drink and drive.

† Kizuna By Orange Range †

Orange Range was first introduced to me in year 2007 by my friend Alvin who is a full time Jap culture fan. Orange Range (オレンジレンジ, pronounce as Orenji Renji) is a 5 member Japanese alternative rock back originated from Okinawa. Most of their band members are childhood friends and the members consist of Hokama Hiroki (mid vocal), Miyamori Ryo (low vocal), Ganeko Yamato (high vocal), Hiroyama Naoto (guitarist), Miyamori Yoh (bassist) and Kitao Kazuhito (drummer).


Although Orange Range is not a band consist of a group handsome or muscular tall guys and in fact some of the comments that I've found in the YouTube videos criticized that they are a bunch of ugly dudes, but there's no doubt that their music is good.


If you're a fan of Bleach the animation, I bet you're familiar with Orange Range because the intro song of the first season was sang by Orange Range, titled 'Asterisk'.


Song recommendation as usual? Yea, here's a song that I would like to recommend. My all time favorite song of Orange Range is always gonna be 'Kizuna' (listen and download here). Their songs are mostly hip hop and rock, but this particular song is so different from the others. If your ears are sensitive enough, you'll realize that there's 'er-hu' being used in this song and I think that's very creative and lovely. Most of you might laugh when Ganeko the high vocal sings because he looks pretty funny in the music video.


Never judge a band by their look. Their quality is determined by the music they produced and Orange Range is the best example.

† Two Years Of Progress & Anniversaries †

I started off my blog in year 2008 when I was working in Hospital Pekan and this is the 2nd year anniversary of my blog. Hurray!

Thanks to Nuffnang that I am able to analyze how many viewers who visited my blog for the pass few weeks. I know there are many blogs with over 2000 views a day but I'm still glad that I am able to hit almost 1000 views a week recently.

I'm quite surprise that most of my viewers are from United States and follows by Malaysia. However, readers are still readers I welcome anyone to drop by at my blog. Thus I would like to thank all the readers including my friends and strangers for your supports and views!

† Why Use Mozilla Firefox †

There are so many internet browsers available out there and many people only know about Internet Explorer (IE). I've been using Mozilla Firefox for 5 years and personally I think it is so far the most suitable browser for me. Google Chrome and Opera are considered not bad but still, I think something's missing somewhere. So why do I use Mozilla Firefox?


1. It is easily located from your browser, easily downloaded and installed. After you've downloaded the installer, simply double click the installer (firefox.exe) and click 'next' all the way until 'finished'.


2. Customization of add-ons is the fun thing about Mozilla Firefox. Users can choose many types of useful and fancy add-ons (fasterfox, adblock, noscript... ) from the Mozilla homepage, making your their Firefox personalized. However, the only drawback about this add-ons idea is that it may confuse many new users of Firefox.


3. Mozilla Firefox is safer than many other browsers because of its ability to block the background running scripts and ads. The two important add-ons that I'm using for almost 5 years are NoScript and AdBlockPlus. As you can see from the image above, there are so many scripts being blocked from being downloaded into your computer, making your websites safe to visit. Note that when you're using NoScript, you need to 'allow' or 'temporary allow' certain important script of a website in order for the site to function properly.

• FaceBook: fbcdn.net and facebook.com
• Blogspot: blogger.com and blogspot.com
• YouTube: ytmg.com and youtube.com
  

4. Faster loading time for a page is the most important thing to me. Sometimes it can be very annoying if you couldn't get into the page you wanted to visit. However with the use of Fasterfox, one of the famous add-ons, the loading time for a page has become faster than I thought.


5. An enhanced download manager is one of the features of Mozilla Firefox. DownThemAll is so far the best download manager I've ever found in Mozilla Firefox. Very interestingly, DownThemAll allows you to download multiple files from a website at once and these files will be neatly categorized according to their extension such as exe, jpeg, avi or mpeg. Most importantly, DownThemAll can boost your download speed so much that it can reach up to 50% higher than you expected. For example, my download speed is usually 42kb/s and it reaches 67kb/s after using DownThemAll.


6. As for this point, most bloggers or advanced html users will be happy about it because Mozilla Firefox enables users to view the detailed page source of the website and most importantly it would allow the users to view the html codes of the page.


7. Neat and tidy is one of the factors that made me choose to use Mozilla Firefox. The good thing about Mozilla Firefox is that all the links will be opened in different compartments known as 'tabs' located one single window box. Unlike the old version of IE, each pop up links will be opened in different windows, making your window taskbar looks so messy. There are a few important hotkeys that you should know when you're using Mozilla Firefox.

• CTRL + T to open a new tab
• CTRL + Tab to switch between tabs
  

8. Tired of retyping your usernames and passwords? I think Mozilla Firefox gives a good service in remembering passwords thus reducing the typing workload of the users. The only drawback about this service is that people tend not to remember their password.

† Stereotype Packaging †

Unhealthy diet among human beings is one of the leading causes to human diseases. Perhaps design can help to change the idea of "healthy food = lousy food" among the people? Thanks to Daizi Zheng's concept in designing the stereotype packaging in order to promote healthy food.

Something that look familiar? According to WHO, 29% of the human population are smokers. If a healthy food is to be projected via the package of cigarette pack, I guess its going to be a good sell.

I'm not sure how many Earthlings love fast food, but I can assure you that I'm one of the kind that love it to the max. Maybe I'll grow to love vegetable fibers if they come in such lovely package.

† Flugufrelsarinn By Sigur Ros †

This is an interesting song performed by Sigur Ros, an Icelandic band well known for its ethereal music. Thanks Chris for introducing me to this song but the unofficial music video seems a little bit creepy and disturbing.

The music video is a project made by a student of Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design Jerusalem. I would say its a well done for this ainimated video even though it really freaks me out. I still couldn't figure out what's the video is trying to say. Perhaps its about being born but stripped away from any visual reality to prevent the world from seeing the truth?

† Places To Visit In Monaco †

Monaco is such a tiny place that it can be covered completely in a day, no joke. Usually, the reason people visit Monaco are not for its scenery or food but its reputation that has been amplified by the very famous Casino de Monte Carlo, and the famous annual Grand Prix F1 race.

Monaco is the second smallest independent state in the world after Vatican City. The city is located and being surrounded by mountains and hills, which makes it look very gorgeous.

This is another shot taken by me: a modern shopping street along with a magnificently huge mountain behind the city. It makes a great view of scenery.

With two major harbors filled with huge yachts and surrounded by many sophisticated shopping malls and multiple-stars hotels, Monaco can be said to be a rich man playground.


Although I'm not so crazy over such open displays of wealth and high class lifestyle, but it was still entertaining to spend a day walking around looking at all the luxurious cars parked around the town and women walking around with their fashionable dresses.

Most sceneries and things that you can enjoy seeing are mostly modern objects such as fancy buildings as shown above.

The architecture and design of the city is something that we should appreciate as well. Making roads across the rocks and hills seem to be a difficult task after all. However, the photo above shows how well organized the city can be.

Enough of introduction and here comes the most important part of this blog post. There are a few places worth visiting at least once if you're planning to visit Monaco.

MONACO PALACE & MONACO CATHEDRAL

First of all, Cathedral de Monaco: a magnificent cathedral, built in 1875, is the final resting place of Princess Grace of Monaco. The cathedral is located just next to the Monaco palace on top of the hill.

This is the magnificent view that you can see from the top of the hill of Monaco palace, showing one of the main harbors and the very compacted city.

GRAND CASINO DE MONACO

Just like Las Vegas, Grand Casino de Monaco is the main entertainment and the center of attraction of Monaco. In addition to the Casino, you will also see the elegant and internationally renowned Hotel de Paris just next to the casino building.

From the left, we have Wai Hong, Alvin, Kiat Seng, Me, Eric, Chee Wai, Yue Loong, Chris and Bobby. Were we getting ready to gamble off our Euros? Of course not!

OCEANOGRAPHIQUE MUSEUM & AQUARIUM

Another of the famous places to visit in Monaco, is the Oceanographic Museum and Aquarium. In the museum you will find interesting world of marine lives and plants. Specimens of a variety of sea-creatures are also found on display such as all kinds of skeletons and most interestingly, the world first ever invented submarine.

JARDIN EXOTIQUE

This is a plant market very near to Jardin Exotique. Jardin Exotique is a beautiful tropical gardens surrounding the Observatory Cave, featuring weird rock formations. Other than weird rocks, you can see all kind of roses and cactus as well. Perhaps thats the reason it is known as the 'Exotic Garden'.

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