Archive for April, 2008
After much hopeful anticipations, I’m finally going for a vacation! Gosh it has been like 2 years or more since the last time I had a real vacation. I’m so looking forward to this. Not quite sure what to tell you all at the moment, here’s a funny email I wrote to my friends who are joining this vacation so as to confirm my participation.
To preserve the email in it’s entirety, I’ve decided to just copy and paste it without editing the language, grammar, typos or anything like that, except for my bank account details for privacy and security issues. Also, some of the contents are written in the Malay language (Bahasa Malaysia)
Here it goes…
All right everyone,
After much delay, everything is finally crystal clear.
I, Mr Leong Kuan Yew, anak lelaki kepada ayah serta ibuku (Mr & Mrs Leong), IC No: 820417075475, berat badan 75kg, ketinggian 172 cm atau 5′ feet 7, hereby confirm my participation to join one of the world’s greatest vacation at the BuBu Long Beach Resort, Pulau Perhentian Kecil from 25th to 28th June 2008.
I understand that by joining the above mentioned vacation, I willingly submit myself to the activities below:
Having lots and lots of fun
Having too much to laugh about
Having too much to drink
Watching one of the most beautiful sunset on an island
Snorkelling at one of the best snorkelling destinations in Malaysia
Bla bla bla, bla bla bla…..Most importantly, I understand that I will be spending 4 days and 3 nights of ABSOLUTE FUN with a bunch of dear friends who knows what it means to relax and have fun.
By “absolute fun”, I understand that during the vacation, the slightest mention of the word “work” or any other terms that relate to the word “work” is absolutely forbidden. Anyone who violates this policy shall be severely dealt with.
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As the Finance Ah Head of this vacation, I hereby share my acc numb for your further action
(Bank Name) - (Account Number)
My full name: Leong Kuan YewKindly transfer RM 870.00 per person OR RM 1,740.00 per couple to my account by Wednesday. Once you’ve done so, please send an SMS notification so that I know who has paid, when and how much you’ve paid.
By making the payment, you understand that you commit yourselves to have ABSOLUTE FUN and that no refund will be entertained. Thank you very much.
(if you have questions regarding refund, please speak to me in private, there are certain terms and conditions, no 100% refund)
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OK, end of my announcement, to answer Jackie’s enquiry, the flight is at 7.30am, AirAsia, so need to be at LCCT (near KLIA) at 5.30 / 6.00 am.
To reach LCCT, we can take SkyBus from KL Sentral for only RM 9.00 Here’s my plan, go to KL sentral at about 4 plus am, take the SkyBus and reach LCCT bout 5 plus, then find things to entertain ourselves till we fly. Once reach Kota Bharu Airport, find taxi to Kuala Besut Jetty and hopefully meet up with the rest of the gang at 10.00 and take the ferry together.
If I fail to be there at 10.00, then I shall take the 1.00 ferry and meet the gang at Bubu Island.
Oh, I shall take the flight home too, will be finalizing the flight time and other minor arrangements here and there soon.
Based on your feedback that you can only be back to KL by 11.00, I think it’s best that you take the AirAsia route together with me, kekekkekekeke
Your choice, let me know, if you’re asking questions in specific to this particular subject, perhaps you can un-cc the rest of the group, just a thought hehe
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Whoaaaaaa, syioknye, a vacation, finally!!! Kenot tahan liau, I’ll be applying leave first thing in the morning when I reach office, muahahhahahahah
Cheers!
Kuan Yew
PS - For those wondering about the title Sex On The Beach, well, it’s just a captivating title as inspired by a friend who used the same title for his Messenger status, perhaps some hopeful anticipation as well lol…
Don’t start asking me about whether it happened or not or anything like that, too much details are strictly prohibited hahaha 
Wish me great fun, cheers!
The hottest affiliate marketing network is finally opened to Malaysians! This is a superb piece of news to the Malaysian online community as ClickBank is one of the easiest paths to creating and selling your own or other publishers’ digital products. I’m sure a lot of online-savvy Malaysians would be delighted to hear this piece of news.
I confess, I’m one of them delighted Malaysians as well and I’m already ‘re-heating’ some long overdue plans which I could not put together in the past due to the in-availability of ClickBank for Malaysians. Soon my friends, soon, I’ll be announcing these plans of mine with the rest of the world. For now, start visiting ClickBank.com and discover the potentials for yourselves!
Cheers!
Here’s an interesting article I read from www.clickz.com
What’s so interesting about it?
Well, if you belong to the digital marketing line, you’d know what I mean. More and more advertisers are turning to the online channel to better reach their target audience. That means more work and more business for everyone in the digital marketing industry 
If you don’t belong to this industry, hmmmm, perhaps it’s time to play some catch up…
Internet Ad Spend Grows in 2007 as U.S. Lags Overall
By Douglas Quenqua, The ClickZ Network, Apr 1, 2008
Marketers continued to aggressively move their advertising dollars online in 2007, according to preliminary numbers released Monday by The Nielsen Company.Among all media categories, Internet spending showed by far the largest increase: a jump of 18.9 percent over the previous year.
Overall spending for the year grew just 0.6 percent. The softening economy may have played a role, as the U.S. lagged other countries in overall spending. Asia-Pacific reported a 12.1 percent increase, while the EMEA went up nearly 5 percent.
Other U.S. categories that showed an increase in 2007 were national magazines (7.6 percent), national Sunday supplements (4.9 percent) and outdoor (7.2 percent), which continued its five year climb. Newspapers continued their steady decline in the U.S., despite increasing in all other countries measured by Nielsen.
“Clearly advertisers are looking at alternative ways to reach their target audiences,” said Jeff King, senior vice president and managing director at Nielsen Monitor Plus. “As a result, new media outlets like the Internet are seeing significant growth at the expense of hard-copy newspapers.”
King added that there is likely incremental newspaper ad revenue within the Internet numbers representing online access to print publications.
The findings come in the wake of a dismal newspaper industry ad revenue estimate for full-year 2007. According to the report, combined print and online revenues declined nearly 8 percent in 2007 compared to 2006.
Last month, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PriceWaterhouseCoopers estimated that digital advertising expenditures passed $21 billion in 2007. Similarly, TNS last week declared that interactive advertising increased nearly 16 percent in 2007, while spending across all media went up a mere 0.2 percent.