Since three out of the 13 gazetted public holidays – Prophet Muham­mad’s birthday on Feb 5, Hari Raya Puasa on Aug 19 and Malaysia Day on Sept 16 – fall on Sundays, employees will get another three weekdays off.

State holidays, meanwhile, range from 3 to 6 days, with Penang and Sabah having the highest number of days and Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan having the least.

Employees are expected to use some of their annual leave to take a long stretch off during the coming back-to-back state and national holidays following Chinese New Year, which falls on Jan 23.

These include Federal Territory Day on Feb 1, Prophet Muham­mad’s birthday on Feb 5 and Thaipusam on Feb 7.

Last but not least, happy holiday in 2012 (but not to the employer

News from The Star.

7) Do Not Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
This maxim needs to be remembered constantly. We often tend to take more responsibilities than we are capable of carrying out. This is done to satisfy our ego. Know your limitations. . Why take on additional loads that may create more worries? You cannot gain peace of mind by expanding your external activities. Reduce your material engagements and spend time in prayer, introspection and meditation. This will reduce those thoughts in your mind that make you restless. Uncluttered mind will produce greater peace of mind.

Meditate Regularly
Meditation calms the mind and gets rid of disturbing thoughts. This is the highest state of peace of mind. Try and experience it yourself. If you meditate earnestly for half an hour everyday, your mind will tend to become peaceful during the remaining twenty-three and half-hours. Your mind will not be easily disturbed as it was before. You would benefit by gradually increasing the period of daily meditation. You may think that this will interfere with your daily work. On the contrary, this will increase your efficiency and you will be able to produce better results in less time.

9) Never Leave The Mind Vacant
An empty mind is the devil’s workshop. All evil actions start in the vacant mind. Keep your mind occupied in something positive, something worthwhile. Actively follow a hobby. Do something that holds your interest. You must decide what you value more: money or peace of mind. Your hobby, like social work or religious work, may not always earn you more money, but you will have a sense of fulfillment and achievement. Even when you are resting physically, occupy yourself in healthy reading or mental chanting of God’s name.

10) Do Not Procrastinate And Never Regret
Do not waste time in protracted wondering “should I or shouldn’t I?” Days, weeks, months, and years may be wasted in that futile mental debating. You can never plan enough because you can never anticipate all future happenings. Value your time and do the things that need to be done. It does not matter if you fail the first time. You can learn from your mistakes and succeed the next time. Sitting back and worrying will lead to nothing. Learn from your mistakes, but do not brood over the past. DO NOT REGRET. Whatever happened was destined to happen only that way. Why cry over spilt milk?

Most of us create our own problems by interfering too often in others’ affairs. We do so because somehow we have convinced ourselves that our way is the best way, our logic is the perfect logic and those who do not conform to our thinking must be criticized and steered to the right direction, our direction. This thinking denies the existence of individuality and consequently the existence of God. God has created each one of us in a unique way. No two human beings can think or act in exactly the same way. All men or women act the way they do because God within them prompts them that way. Mind your own business and you will keep your peace.

2) Forgive And Forget
This is the most powerful aid to peace of mind. We often develop ill feelings inside our heart for the person who insults us or harms us. We nurture grievances. This in turn results in loss of sleep, development of stomach ulcers, and high blood pressure. This insult or injury was done once, but nourishing of grievance goes on forever by constantly remembering it. Get over this bad habit. Life is too short to waste in such trifles. Forgive, Forget, and march on. Love flourishes in giving and forgiving.

3) Do Not Crave For Recognition
This world is full of selfish people. They seldom praise anybody without selfish motives. They may praise you today because you are in power, but no sooner than you are powerless, they will forget your achievement and will start finding faults in you. Why do you wish to kill yours in striving for their recognition? Their recognition is not worth the aggravation. Do your duties ethically and sincerely.

4) Do Not Be Jealous
We all have experienced how jealousy can disturb our peace of mind. You know that you work harder than your colleagues in the office, but sometimes they get promotions; you do not. You started a business several years ago, but you are not as successful as your neighbor whose business is only one year old. There are several examples like these in everyday life. Should you be jealous? No. Remember everybody’s life is shaped by his/her destiny, which has now become his/her reality. If you are destined to be rich, nothing in the world can stop you. If you are not so destined, no one can help you either. Nothing will be gained by blaming others for your misfortune. Jealousy will not get you anywhere; it will only take away your peace of mind.

5) Change Yourself According To The Environment
If you try to change the environment single-handedly, the chances are you will fail. Instead, change yourself to suit your environment. As you do this, even the environment, which has been unfriendly to you, will mysteriously change and seem congenial and harmonious.

The first kind-of operator, Groupon (Group Coupon) was launched in November 2008, and the first market for Groupon was in USA, followed soon thereafter by Europe and even in Asia.

This is a simply amazing internet business and also benefits to all the consumers alike. Let’s find out our local group-discount operators in Malaysia where you can enjoy discount with:

> Groupon Malaysia

> Milk A Deal

> Deal Mates

> We Buy and some other 15 overs groupon companies*

Interestingly, there is one of its type offering all Groupon Companies in Malaysia by just browsing a website in one glance! Moreover, you can filter the offers by location, or just show the latest deal from your favourite groupon company.  Check out All Groupon Deals!

*as of Dec 2011.

1) Click on [Insert] button

2) Choose [Object] and select first item ‘Adobe Acrobat Document’ and ‘OK’

3) Choose the PDF files you wanted to insert (see the picture)

4) Now you will see the PDF file is opened (it’s to confirm you want that particular file), last step is

5) Click [File] and select [Exit And Return to Presentation 1] (see the picture)

There you go!

Remark: The powerpoint file with PDF embedded may not view successfully using iPad.

Pageviews vs. Unique Pageviews

A pageview is each time a visitor views a page on your website, regardless of how many hits are generated. Pages are comprised of files. Every image in a page is a separate file. When a visitor looks at a page (a pageview), they may see numerous images, graphics, pictures etc. and generate multiple hits.

A Pageview is defined as a view of a page on your site that is being tracked by the Analytics tracking code. If a visitor hits reload after reaching the page, this will be counted as an additional pageview. If a user navigates to a different page and then returns to the original page, a second pageview will be recorded as well.

The below image clearly show you the different between visits & pageview.

A unique Pageview aggregates pageviews that are generated by the same user during the same session. So now you know why normally advertisers would look into visits rather than Pageview.

Drop shipping is another business method in which the retailer does not keep goods in stock, but instead transfers customer orders to either the manufacturer or a wholesaler, who then ships the goods directly to the customer. As in retail businesses, the majority of retailers make their profit on the difference between the wholesale and retail price but some retailers earn an agreed percentage of the sales in commission, paid by the wholesaler to the retailer.

Didn’t get what I mean? View the picture instead.

Edited from Wikipedia.

Wondering which of the courier service company in Malaysia to choose from? You may thinking of their service, company profile and so on before making any decision. But till end of the day, you will still come back to the price factor if you’re not able find what is the significant different, isn’t it?

Last month we have a packet to send to UK, England. Hence we have check out the market price, for your reference too

1kg to UK, England (charges in Ringgit Malaysia)*
- DHL                 @ 444.46
- OCS                 @ 139.20
- Citylink @ 231.25
- ABX                @ 218.36
- Kangaroo     @ 287.40
- Nationwide @ 281.25
- Pos Laju        @ 65.30

*Prices are accurate as of the date of posting.

Visits & Visitors

A visit happens when someone or something (robot) visits your site. It may consists of one or more page views/ hits. One visitor can make multiple visits to your site.

Visits represent the number of individual sessions initiated by all visitors to your site. If a user is inactive on your site for 30 minutes or more, any future activity will be attributed to a new session. Users that leave your site and return within 30 minutes will be counted as part of the original session.

A session is defined as a series of page requests from the same uniquely identified client with a time of no more than 30 minutes. In other words, a session ends when someone goes to another site, or 30 minutes elapse between pageviews, whichever comes first. A visit ends only after a 30 minute time delay. If someone leaves a site, then returns within 30 minutes, this will count as one visit but two sessions. In practice, most systems ignore sessions and many analysts use both terms for visits. Because time between pageviews is critical to the definition of visits and sessions.

Last but not least, let’s check out Pageviews & Unique Pageviews