The Edge Malaysia Top Property Developers Awards 2009

The Edge Malaysia Top Property Developers Award ranks the best property players in the country, from the consumer’s perspective for both their quantitative and qualitative attributes.

The quantitative elements were the companies’ shareholders’ funds, revenue, pre-tax profit, gearing, and cash and cash equivalents for the fiscal year ended 2008.

The qualitative attributes include the quality of the product, innovation and creativity, value creation for buyers, image and expertise.

And the Top 30 ranking is:

• Sime Darby Property Bhd
• SP Setia Bhd
• Sunway City Bhd
• IGB Corp Bhd
• Island & Peninsular Sdn Bhd
• IOI Properties Bhd
• Bandar Raya Developments Bhd
• Eastern & Oriental Bhd
• Sunrise Bhd
• Bandar Utama City Corp Sdn Bhd
• Gamuda Bhd - Prop Div
• IJM Land Bhd
• YTL Land & Devt Bhd
• Paramount Corp Bhd
• Selangor Dredging Bhd
• Mah Sing Group Bhd
• Naza TTDI Sdn Bhd
• Selangor Properties Bhd
• Dijaya Corporation Bhd
• UEM Land Holdings Bhd
• PJ Devt Holdings Bhd
• WCT Land Sdn Bhd
• Metro Kajang Holdings Bhd
• Penitude Bhd
• Naim Holdings Bhd
• Malton Bhd
• United Malayan Land Bhd
• Hunza Properties Bhd
• Segajuta (S) Sdn Bhd
• Bolton Bhd

Is your house's developer among one of the Top 30 above?

For more information, please refer to the City & Country pullout of The Edge Weekly dated 12-Oct-2009.

The last lecture of late Dr. Randy Pausch about childhood dreams

I just learned about this last lecture of late Dr. Randy Pausch by chance, read through his amazing presentation slides and video on Youtube, and would like to share with you about his great talk delivered on 18 September 2007 in a lecture hall of Carnegie Mellon University.

Randy Pausch was a computer science professor and alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University. He got pancreatic cancer which took away his life at the age of 47 on 25 July 2008, 10 months after he delivered this last lecture.

The talk has been uploaded into the Internet and viewed by millions of people. A best-selling book titled "The Last Lecture" based on the lecture has also been published and translated in thirty over languages.

To date, his Last Lecture titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" is still giving great impacts to people around the world.
 
His talk was about his childhood dreams, how he overcome the barriers to realise his dreams (or at least getting close to it). He also talked about enabling the dreams of others, and some lessons learned.



He mentioned several times that "the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. Brick walls let us show our dedication."
 
Some of his important advice:

• Be good at something: it makes you valuable
• Work hard … “what’s your secret?”
• Find the best in everybody; no matter how you have to wait for them to show it
• Be prepared: “luck” is where preparation meets opportunity
  

He ended the talk by saying,"It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you."
 
Click here to download the presentation slide of The Last Lecture by Dr. Randy Pausch.

Click here to download the transcript of The Last Lecture by Dr. Randy Pausch.

My ACM card wallet with money clip

Do you realize that nowadays we have to carry so many cards with us -- ATM cards, credit cards, member cards, petrol cards, discount cards, Touch 'n Go card, medical card, ... you name it.

I have been wondering is there a stylish and nice looking card wallet for me to keep my cards in my pocket, without cramping them into my money wallet, and I've found the patented ACM card wallet with money clip from the internet.

This Auto Card Manager (ACM) card wallet has a special compartment that can store up to 6 cards in a well organized manner. There is another model which can store up to 12 cards, but could be too bulky to carry in pant's pocket.

The cards can easily be slotted into the wallet. There is spacing between each of the cards, a feature said to be able to prevent card demagnetization, scratching and premature magnetic strip failure.

This is how it looks like with all the cards slotted in completely. Once slotted in, the cards are held firmly in the wallet and will not slide out by themselves. The cards are easily retrievable by pushing the button corresponding to their slot.

There is a money clip at the back of the ACM card wallet, which can be used to clip bank notes, receipts, name cards, etc.

And the money clip is easily detachable.

This ACM card wallet comes with 18 interchangeable button icons pads and a leather pouch. Its casing is made of metal meterial, which is pretty durable. Despite that, it only weighs about 90g with 6 cards installed.