The Top 7 Malaysian Brands Taking Over the Region

Whether you realise it or not, Malaysian brands are going from strength to strength. As you know, we are passionate about supporting local companies so we’re pretty excited by the development!

From fashion accessories to fast food outlets, cheesecake to beauty products, the next time you’re travelling in the region, keep an eye out for some of these familiar made-at-home brands…
 

Things Kids Of Today Won’t Understand

Today’s Kid Won’t Understand

Being a kid born prior to the millennium, I’ve had my fair share of VCR tapes, floppy disks and Beverly Hills 90210. Kids today are connected on their smartphones and tablets that they simply don’t understand the struggles of having to call on someone and see if they could come out and play after dinner.

While we were watching Saturday morning cartoons and gobbling down fruit loops, kids are now watching Keeping Up With The Kardasians while shopping online. While every generation has their perks, here are some things that children of today will never understand.

Dial-Up Internet

Waiting for someone to put down the phone so that you could finally dial-up to the Internet was such a home drama. Yelling and arguments broke out so often that mum and dad had to step in. The result: nobody could use the phone at all. The nerve…

Rambut Cik Abang Cepat Gugur? Cuba Rawat Dengan Minum Kopi

Berapa banyakkah manfaat yang boleh didapati seseorang lelaki daripada kafein? Terlalu banyak, kata seorang saintis Jerman.

Hasil kajian yang beliau lakukan dengan kerjasama institut penyelidikan dan klinik Jerman mendapati minuman penyegar tubuh itu juga mampu mencegah keguguran rambut dalam kalangan lelaki.

Dr Adolf Klenk, ketua Bahagian Penyelidikan dan Pembangunan Dr Kurt Wolff, berkata kajian itu menunjukkan bukti bahawa apabila kafein menembusi jauh ke dalam umbi rambut, ia akan melindungi rambut daripada kesan negatif testosteron dan keguguran rambut secara pramatang.

7 Kesilapan Ini Biasa Orang Lakukan Semasa 'Interview'

Tidak semua syarikat di dunia mementingkan resume yang diberikan pemburu kerja semasa temuduga. Penemuduga selalunya mengambil masa kurang 10 minit untuk menyelak resume yang diberi, dan selebihnya bergantung kepada bahasa badan calon temu duga itu sendiri.

Bahasa badan atau 'body language' sering dipandang remeh atau langsung tidak dipedulikan oleh calon temuduga disebabkan mereka terlalu fokus kepada penyampaian resume atau penampilan diri.

Namun sebaliknya, pergerakan badan memainkan peranan penting dalam menyokong resume calon, sekali gus menampilkan calon sebagai individu yang berkeyakinan tinggi atau kreatif.

Berikut adalah tujuh kesilapan besar melibatkan bahasa badan yang dilakukan oleh calon semasa temuduga.

Financial Tips You Should Know For 2016

Top Financial Tips For 2016

Start your year right by ensuring you have plenty of savings set aside for emergencies or to grow your wealth! This might be a tip you often hear but that’s because it will always stay relevant regardless of what year it is. If you don’t have any savings yet, you need to start pronto! If you already have savings, look into trying to increase the amount of your savings and putting the money into investments where you can gain high returns.

Top financial blogger KC Lau’s advice is to

“save at least 30% of your income, and invest for double digit returns.”

Things You Should Never Buy Cheap

Scoring a bargain and being able to save money is great but there are certain areas in life that you should not be skimping on. Check out the list below to find out what are the things you should never buy cheap!

Before we start listing out the items, here are a few of the criteria that we’ve used to help you determine why you should never buy these things for cheap:

• If it is something that you use daily or regularly
• If it is something that you consume
• If it is something that involves your health
• If it is something that you plan to use for a long time

5 Best VPNs for WiFi Hotspots

Over the years, there has been an explosion in the number of public WiFi hotspots. From coffee houses, restaurants, cafes, hospitals, libraries, book stores, hotels, airports, and any other retail outlet, you will find access to free internet via public WiFi hotspots.

According to ABI Research, the number of WiFi hotspots all over the world was 4.3 million in 2013 and this number was expected to reach 7.1 million by the end of 2015. Since these free access points are available openly everywhere, you should know that there are various dangers attached in using public WiFi hotspots.

These WiFi hotspots don’t encrypt your internet traffic, which makes them highly unsafe to use. So how to do you stay safe over WiFi hotspots? The answer – use a VPN for WiFi hotpots.

Best VPNs for WiFi Hotspots

There are various VPN services that you can use to stay protected over open WiFi hotspots. To help you select, we have gathered some of the best WiFi VPNs you can use. They will help to encrypt all your internet traffic and keep you anonymous as you use open WiFi networks.

Benefits of Antioxidants

Antioxidants come up frequently in discussions about good health and preventing diseases. These powerful substances, which mostly come from the fresh fruits and vegetables we eat, prohibit (and in some cases even prevent), the oxidation of other molecules in the body. The benefits of antioxidants are very important to good health, because if free radicals are left unchallenged, they can cause a wide range of illnesses and chronic diseases.

Antioxidants and Free Radicals

The human body naturally produces free radicals and the antioxidants to counteract their damaging effects. However, in most cases, free radicals far outnumber the naturally occurring antioxidants. In order to maintain the balance, a continual supply of external sources of antioxidants is necessary in order to obtain the maximum benefits of antioxidants. Antioxidants benefit the body by neutralizing and removing the free radicals from the bloodstream.

Can The Lower Income Group Afford A Home, Rahman Dahlan Asked

Various measures are in place to address the issue of home ownership by the lower income group, the Urban Well being, Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan shared.

At the recent #TanyaGomen forum on whether the lower income can afford a home, Rahman Dahlan discussed some of the issues that help and hinder home ownership and how the Government is taking proactive measures to address that. 

10 Amalan Menambah Air Mani Lelaki!!!

Dr Ismail Thamby, pakar sakit tuan menulis 10 Kaedah di dalam Harian Metro. air mani ialah campuran cecair dari pundi prostat, pundi seminal, pundi cowpers, pepundi dalam salur kencing, cecair dari pundi epididimis dan sperma dari kilang sperma.

Ada 10 cara yang dapat membantu meningkatkan isi padu air mani, antaranya:

Jaafar Onn Pilih Janda Sebagai Isteri

"Usianya 35 tahun, pernah berkahwin. Agak berisi sedikit orangnya dan menariknya, dia juga asal dari Johor. Kami berjumpa masa saya membuat persembahan di Kulai Jaya. Tanpa disedari, cintaku berputik dan awal 2015, saya sudah melamar dia. Seronok!" demikian kata Jaafar Onn yang memilih seorang janda sebagai peneman hidupnya. 

Jaafar yang hampir 28 tahun hidup bersendirian itu bagaimanapun enggan mendedahkan nama dan wajah wanita yang bakal dikahwini itu kerana mahu memberi kejutan pada hari perkahwinannya nanti pada awal tahun hadapan. 

How To Access Blocked Websites? 6 Easy Ways

Short Bytes: Restrictions and bans over websites are always annoying, and governments are now censoring content more than ever. Check out the 6 easy ways to bypass the censorship to access blocked websites.

Given the current stature of the constitutional “Rights” and “Freedoms” conferred upon the public in most of the democracies, censorship and bans on trivial matters often come as a surprise. And in the era of the Internet, harassing the general public is even easier. Be it the controversial net neutrality, or restriction to access to specific websites.

If you also feel stifled by the blocked websites then here are some ways to access blocked websites:

1. Become Anonymous: Use Proxy Websites

A proxy website becomes a moderator between the user and server site. The proxy website camouflages the blocked site from the ISPs and allows you to access blocked websites. To get a proxy website for any blocked site, just perform the Google search.

Eg: Facebook Proxy Server. In case, Facebook is blocked in your institution, or you can go to

• http://www.spysurfing.com

• http://proxify.us/p/

and more…

 

5 Things Really Successful Learners Do

Most everyone can learn, but some people just absorb and grow at remarkable rates. Here are some of their tricks.

Many people claim to be a "lifetime learners," and with good reason. Scientists have warned that you need to keep your brain active if you want to avoid mental decay. But some people seem to learn easier and faster than others. These smart people often show creativity and innovation, and quickly pick up new skills on their own time.

Learning should be easy to do since we all go through years of schooling training on how to do it. But beyond basic acquisition of knowledge, there is a real art to intensive learning. For deep learning you have to find the time and energy for knowledge and skills building. Really successful learners know the trick is to make the process itself as energizing and efficient as possible. Here's how they do it.

Gadgets Invented By Malaysians

Malaysia, in some ways, at least, is a land of milk and honey—we have a list of achievements to be proud of, including inventions that caught the attention of consumers—both locally and internationally. Being Anak Malaysia and Buatan Malaysia ourselves, we are thrilled to share some of the brilliant inventions of other Anak Malaysia.

Here is a list of five Malaysian-invented gadgets that have changed the world we live.

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