Missing pictures!

Hi readers!

It seems that you'll notice some of my post have missing pictures in it and that is due to some accidental deletions from my 'Photos' app. Yes, it seems that Google has integrated the 'Photos' app to Google Drive therefore while cleaning it up, I've deleted the pictures which I thought was a duplication of my blogging photo. I was wrong. Oh boy.

I might be taking off the picture section and leaving it with the text post if I can't find the original photos that I've posted before. Anyway, apologies on that!

Slow and Steady wins the race. Yep.

Hi there Readers!

It has been a good start for 2015. One of the good news was that when I was checking the remaining balance for my PTPTN loan, it showed I have only a few more payments to be done and I'm all finished! Alhamdulillah. Here's my current statement on January 2015.

Current outstanding amount for my PTPTN loan.
Paid 3x more than my normal RM200 as I have some extra cash.

I have it all thanks to my dad. Even before I did have a job, he insisted me to start paying out of my pocket money even RM50 for a start. It doesn't seem much or even change much on the loan but then it had kept me going. Hard at first but setting my priorities right, I've managed to get used to it. After that, he had advised me when I have a job, to pay RM200 each month till the very end but if I could pay more, I should do it. That is what I've been practicing all these years.

So for more than 8 years I've been paying which I've never missed a month in paying my education loan. (well there are times I've skipped it but I'll have to pay more to compensate my lost time so it has been considered covered?). At times, if I have an extra cash I would put more into it. Yea, Maggi could solve the trick when you need to tie up that food expenses although it is not recommended as a main diet!

I know debts are a pain in the butt but then, debts are still debts. The moment you've accepted the agreement, you have to do your part of the agreement as they've done theirs. I believe that's not rocket science. Which whining and getting all worked up won't get it solved. Get it paid will solve it.

Another thing is that I have also kept an excel file with formulas to ensure that the payment and calculations that was done on the statements are correct and tallied. Just in case there might be discrepancies. Not to forget to always keep a copy of receipt for each payment that has been made (a softcopy in PDF if you're paying online). I would advise everyone to do the same.

Anyway, for those who are still paying, don't get too frustrated about it. Just pay what you could and pay more if you have the opportunity. Simple! Without realizing, it could be finished before you could even realize it!

Cheers.

5 million Gmail Usernames and Password Leaked!

Yeah, the title says it all. 5 million of them have been leaked according to LifeHacker (you can read the article here) to a Russian Bitcoin forum. Although it was said that Gmail itself was not hacked so probably they got it from somewhere else. Nevertheless it's better to be safe than sorry. Change your password now and even better enable the 2-step verification. I know it can be tedious and much of a hassle but better than losing everything.

So why should you activate 2-step verification? The following picture should help you to understand the importance of it and what happens after you have enabled it.

Why should you enable 2-step verification? Here's why.

Take note people after you've activate the 2-step verification

Other than that, you need to download the Google Authenticator app. It can be found on the App Store and the Google Play too. It's like a token for you to access your Gmail after you've entered your password. Links below.

There you have it. I've enabled mine already as a precaution as well changed my password. You never know you might be in one of those list. Never take things for granted just because everything is alright so far. Be safe people!

Street View in Kuching? Awesome!

Hey there everyone.

A friend has sent to me a photo where she has spotted a Street View car and it seems that they are mapping the Kuching city. This awesome as would really helped users locally and international to navigate around the city. Hopefully that it will also be done around the Sarawak state. Looking forward to see the result.

Street View car spotted using a Chevrolet model in the parking lot

Final Match Tweets!

I know, I know that the match is already over so why bother blogging about it already? Well this is not about the match itself but more to a statistical data during the match. Don't you wonder how was the Twitter timeline during the match and the first goal by Germany? Well the data map below could give you an idea. FYI, red is Germany and blue is Argentina. If it's white, well it's too dense for both colours that it turned white. It's like a tweet war I might say.

P.S: Try to see the escalation of the tweet during the 1st goal by Germany! Whoa!

Maroon 5 & Palestine?

Hey there Readers.

Suddenly something came up on FB about Maroon 5 acknowledges Palestine based on the following shared post by my sister from another FB page.

Post by Aliēnātus: the truth is out there.

Not that I don't support the movement but this is a little misleading. I've found the original tweet by the musician Adam Levine as shown below and the date shows it was dated back at 2011.

Dear Fox News, don't play our music on your evil fucking channel ever again. Thank you.
— Adam Levine (@adamlevine) October 19, 2011

After that doing some research for the cause of the tweet, several results popped up. One of it was from the Daily News (click here for the article) which describes some tweet war between Fox News and Adam Levine. So I'm not sure the cause or why he wrote that but obviously that he's pretty pissed off and I don't see the relations about it to supporting/acknowledging the Palestinians based on that one tweet. I don't mind that we are helping those who are in need but spreading false facts are wrong. Get the source right and let it be trustworthy.

Hope it helps.

Me and my Dad

A comic strip about me and my dad. He just can't help to photobomb in this photo so I decided to make the 'possible' captions about it. LOL.

Please... Please?

I've just wanna share something that I've found on the internet that might have been an old picture or it has been shared before somewhere but the point is that this photo really teaches a lot about what it means to be a human being.

It needs nothing but to be cared and loved.

All I can see here is that, animals are Allah's creation which have the right to live but

They can't fend for themselves (against us)
They are at our mercy.
They will have to change, adapt or follow.
We are all they have.
We are their only saviour.
Hear they plea for they are begging just to survive.

Crap. This picture is just painful to watch because it just brought me to tears inside. May Allah bless all His wonderful creations. Amin.

Ramadhan Kareem!

Assalamualaikum dear muslim readers...

Picture courtesy of Rizviarts

Alhamdulillah ya Allah!

That's all I can say to express my feelings for the month of Ramadhan. I've started to fast and I've completed my first day of fasting. It was an exciting feeling because Ramadhan happens only once a year. Although I have to bear in performing my fast oversea away from my loved ones but I'll make it through (ain't easy with plenty of challenges!). I've been performing my fast at oversea since the last 2-3 years. The only special thing about this year is that I'll be celebrating my Eid together with my family. Yea! Why? I've not celebrated Eid with my family like for years if I've recalled correctly. So this year it is something to look forward to. InsyaAllah.

Anyway, I wish the best of luck to all my readers in performing your prayers and obligations on the month of Ramadhan. May we obtain countless blessings from Allah.

Amin ya Allah.

The Day has Ended

It has been a busy day today but my just wanders off back to my room. The day is getting shorter and the weather is getting colder (pretty late compare to the previous years) as the days goes by. I've taken a snap shot of a view on the evening just before I left for home. I don't know. I guess it was just a spur of the moment.

Yep. Oh boy, what a day...

The transition between day and night

Time is Short

Vast riches like the sea,
Far away land as the eyes can see,
Tower reaches up to the sky,
Money kept like mountains so high.

Time is short to consume all this,
Time is short deep in the abyss,
Nevertheless we always need more,
Even though for what we are not sure.

Don’t stop now on the path you lead,
With all those lust, power and greed,
Work like you will live forever,
Immortality comes next and after.

Realise this before it’s too late,
Realise this others can wait,
What you have is just so small,
From what that is seen it’s nothing at all.

This short life will come to an end,
Not the question of how but it is when,
All your riches that made you a slave,
None can be brought into your grave.

Warnings and advices have been told,
You didn’t listen treating it cold,
When it has been sealed for your fate,
You will see that it’s already way too late…

- Ry4nTr3

For more interesting contents, visit my artwork at ry4ntr3.tumblr.com!

Blog feature upgrade?

I've been thinking for days now about my blog where I've been receiving comments and some of the comments are from 'Anonymous'. Okay, it's not wrong to use that ID if you don't want to be known but then it kinda makes me feel like I'm not reaching out to you guys or another sense of replying to you. Why? Because if you've used a unique ID then you will know that I'm really replying to you but when most are using the same Anonymous ID, I'm like replying to all at once because I'll put 'Dear Anonymous...' or maybe I have to write 'Dear Anonymous 1' to at least differentiate it which is still very confusing to you, the reader and even me!

So I'm thinking about either closing the 'Anonymous' feature and enable either only registered ID or perhaps the popular Facebook comment feature. Now hold on. I do realise the pros and cons about using the Facebook comments feature like 'Not everyone is using Facebook...' is one of the cons but mostly nowadays people are on Facebook. That's why I'm still giving some thoughts before upgrading my blog to use those features.

I have no other intention to use the Facebook comment but only to enhance the user experience in my blog and getting to know my readers better. What do you think?

HALO Reach (Deliver Hope) Fan Made Movie!

Out of boredom I’ve created a fan made movie for the first time! Watch it in HD! Enjoy.

- Always a fan of HALO movies. This song inspires me and coincidentally it’s just sync with the movie (with a little tweak!).

Video Editor: iMovie
Video: Halo Reach-Deliver Hope (Extended Cut)
Music: Transformation by David Travis Edwards

I don’t own the video and music. All credits goes to the owner of the property.

Do give your feedback guys! Thanks!

Brazil's advancement to Round 16! (Second Stage)

Hey there!

It's a good day today because Brazil has won against Cameroon and they've advanced towards the second stage for round 16 against Chile. Since I'm working today, I can't follow the live action from TV but I just followed the progress through Twitter or FIFA app for iPad. Anyway another step closer to the final!

Final whistle! It's official that #bra 4 - #cmr 1. Good game! 👏 ☺️
— Ryonall (@ry4ntr3) June 23, 2014

Back to normal

Well I've checked the Twitter account for Maxis and it seems that they've deleted the spams because as you can see from the picture below, there was a skip on the dates from 21.06.2014 to today's date (24.06.2014). The spam occurred on the 22.06.2014. I hope they've taken actions in preventing this from happening again.

Well no thank you for me to inform them about it. Kinda ironic because I thought 'MaxisListens'? *smirk* Just kidding! Helping them is good enough for me. Anyway to everyone out there out there who's very active in the digital world, please be careful about your account. Never take advantage by saying everything will be a-okay. Never.

Tips: If it doesn't seems right, then perhaps it is.

Be safe!

Maxis is spamming?

A weird sight that I've seen on my tweet. I don't know either this post was unintentional due to the account has been hijacked or Maxis has gone into a business that they need to spam. Either way, they have been notified on FB and Twitter. I hope they'll act fast on clearing this up.

hey @MaxisListens, why are you spamming? Have your account been hijacked? the site that is being shown is a bogus too pic.twitter.com/UJmfjtXArx
— Ryonall (@ry4ntr3) June 22, 2014

Wait. What is with this stat?

I just activated back my blogging activities today and I've gotten the following stats.

I didn't expect this numbers in a day for my blog but if it continues, well that's a +1 motivation for me to keep on blogging. Heh. Not bad to start the day for my return in blogging. 😊

*pat myself at the back*

I was wrong! Sorry!

Alright. I've to admit it that I was wrong here. On 20th March 2011 I've posted that my FB has been deleted. Yes, I was so frustrated at that time which I couldn't deleted friends in masses (I have too much friends for the sake of gaming!) or organise my photos that well too. So instead of deactivating it, I've just delete it completely. How wrong I was to think that I was free but the giant social network has lured me back again. Being proud to say that I've deleted it completely, in the end I've ended up with another new one. What I've learned here? If you wanna do something, just shut up and do it. Don't go telling around that you're gonna do it and in the end, it's like going to spit you back in the face again.

By now you should realise that I'm still on FB because I still have my FB links there as well as my Twitter 'follow' button too. Yes, I'm on Twitter as well...and Path. So if you're interested to add me up, look for me and add me in your social network. (...and on Instagram. Oh lord.)

Oh one more thing, just because you can search for me and add me up, doesn't mean I'll accept it freely. Yes you spammers and scammers out there! Stay away!

How to make your YM status appear on your blog? (Ryo-Zean Interactive blog)

So you want the world to know that you have YM and you want them to know when you're online from your blog? How? Relax, it's not as hard as you think! You can put it easily on Blogger aka Blogspot, Wordpress, Blogsome or anywhere that supports HTML coding but for this one, I'm going to do it for Blogger (obviously!). If you ever blog, you may be familiar with putting widget in yout blog. If you did, so that won't be so hard! I'll come teach you how.

Step 1:
Grab a cup of coffee. (Who knows you might be sleepy with codes?)

Step 2:
Go to Dashboard > Layout > Page Elements > Add a Gadget

Step 3:
When the 'Add a gadget' window pops out, select 'HTML/Javascript' gadget.

Step 4:
You copy and paste the following codes to your gadget.

<a href=”ymsgr:sendIM?YOURYAHOOID“><br /> <img border=0 src=http://opi.yahoo.com/online? u=YOURYAHOOID&m=g&t=1 /></a>

like this

Step 5:
Don't forget to change the username 'YOURYAHOOID' to your own username. For example, if your username is 'John', therefore your replace it from the original

<a href=”ymsgr:sendIM?YOURYAHOOID“><br /> <img border=0 src=http://opi.yahoo.com/online? u=YOURYAHOOID&m=g&t=1 /></a>

The original code

to this one

<a href=”ymsgr:sendIM?JOHN“><br /> <img border=0 src=http://opi.yahoo.com/online? u=JOHN&m=g&t=8 /></a>

The code after replacement

if all goes well, you should see something like this on your blog.

So now you know how to put your YM status on your blog, you can also customize the appearances by tweaking a value. You only need to replace the 't' value. For example in the sample code above, it uses the value of 8. When you change it, to another number from 1-24, you will get a different styles. Here are the full lists. Enjoy!

t=1	t=2
t=3	t=4     t=5
t=6	t=7
t=8	t=9
t=10	t=11
t=12	t=13
t=14	t=15
t=16	t=17
t=18	t=19
t=20	t=21
t=22	t=23
t=24

Goodbye Ryo-Zean Interactive!

It's time for me to stay goodbye to my other blog (Ryo-Zean Interactive). It seems that I couldn't maintain it as it's just too much things for me to do (too much social network to maintain too!). The other blog was intentionally created to share the knowledge of IT to those who're looking for answers. Although mostly people come here instead and looking for ways to pay their PTPTN back. Not that it's wrong but it's kinda imbalance. So that's why I've decided to delete the other blog and focus on only one.

Anyway, I'll copy in my blog here some of the interesting post (I think?) that I've shared before on the other blog. Hope you'll find it meaningful.