TOM YUM Soup for the Soul

It's been months since I got into the blogsphere. Guess I gotta blame facebook for taking my attention away. hahahahaha... That is internet applications for you. Anyway, just some updates about myself:

To begin the year, had a couple of major things that took place in my life.

Family

First my whole house doing a complete revamp and renovations and till now still in the process of it. Now with this kind of experience, then i realised why married couples have so much to think about. My grandmother also passed away during this period and was quite caught up with the funeral and after-matters. I am amazed that I managed to stay strong and became a pillar of support for my family.



Work

This year's work focus took on a more specialised focus for myself and I am thrilled to see what comes out of it this year. I'm really enjoying myself at work and the work I do brings great satisfaction. However, there were some sideline moments that open new experiences for myself. here's a little teaser and those who still read my blog can anticipate and keep a lookout for more updates about it.

As the title reads....

What is "CYBERBULLIED"???

When my video gets posted up on the net for all to view and comment.

To find out, click here

The world of binary codes of 1 and 0, 0 and 1 has drawn such fascination from people that it has even became a channel for crime for personal pleasure and gain. It was uncanny when just yesterday I was at a sec school in the East about hacking and cracking; of how it has evolved to a crime that is more then just targeting the device but one that targets the person; that the papers published a true story of the US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin becoming the victim of an online prankster. Her email was hacked and some of her private information got leaked out to public.

Snippets of the articles:

"The 44-year-old Alaskan governor's personal Yahoo e-mail address was hacked on
Wednesday by the online pranksters, who are well-known in cyberspace by their group
name, Anonymous."

The hackers posted several screenshots of Yahoo e-mail messages, Mrs Palin's contact list
and some family photos to Wikileaks.com, a website which hosts leaked government
documents. The screenshots showed Mrs Palinmay have used her Yahoo e-mail
account for official business as Alaska's governor.

The McCain campaign reacted strongly to the hacking, saying in a statement: 'This is a shocking
invasion of the governor's privacy and a violation of law."

To read the whole story, please click here http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,177294,00.html??

Precaution

Online security expert Aloysius Cheang told The New Paper that there are precautions that
users of web-based e-mail programs like Yahoo and Gmail can take to prevent their accounts
from being hacked.

He said: 'Users should change their passwords regularly, and make sure their passwords
contain a combination of numbers and letters.

'They should also try not to log into the e-mail accounts on shared computers, or computers
they aren't familiar with.'

He added that it is especially risky to log into web-based e-mail accounts on public computer
terminals, such as those provided for passengers in transit at airports.

'These computers may have been installed with malicious software which log passwords,
then send them to the hacker,' he said.

Looks like we better be on guard with our emails. Even though we may not be the vice president but you never know when someone will do something just for fun at your expense. (",)

Was browsing some websites that a friend forwarded to me and found this very interesting article that narrated about the true story of a game addict who found cobwebs literally growing on his chairs. Of course that is a case of negligence and self-righteous thinking that over-gaming actually happens to someone who can't control themselves.

It's interesting to note that many people do say things like that:

"Oh I have full control over my gaming."

"I think I know when to stop.'

"Don't worry, I'm not a kid anymore"

"It's just a game, what harm can it do?"

Yet when we really come down to the game itself, we would say 10 more mintues to our parents, or maybe I don't want to go out today, just feel like staying home to play games and slack.

Typical language exchanges among the gamers these days.

Never say "never". You really don't know what may just happen when you play for that extra 15 minutes more.