In the spirit of the Season 2 premiere on StarWorld last Tuesday, I would love to share with you a little something most Malaysian viewers don’t know, or at least my circle of friends. It was said that prior to any episode release of Heroes, or every Tuesday, (maybe this is only applicable during the Writer Guild strike) NBC releases a short comic as supplement information about the series. Some calls this Graphic Novels, I just think fans will run away when they hear the word novel. I think most of the series explain more on the character building of each hero/villain.

The best compiled list of the comics can be found on a wiki page, here and here. The list might not be up-to-date, (1 or 2 days) but the list is more organized if you want to download all at the same time (say FlashGet). Otherwise you can look for them in NBC’s official website, here. Note that the comics for season 1 starts from 1 to 51, while season 2 starts from 52. Currently they (NBC) are still publishing the comics, latest addition was number 69.

Enjoy the comics!

p/s:  watch out for the new Knight Rider this February on NBC!

You guys remember when we were forced to change notes or articles on our classroom notice board every week or so? It’s been almost 2 months since the last post! hahaha! Come on, guys!

Don’t you just love using GMail? I first got my invitation from ‘Pembunuh‘ (thanks bro!), thinking that it’s on ‘invitation only’ basis, I accepted and completely forgot about it. Not until I realized the ‘group-by-subject’ feature eased the pain of going through ‘thread-like’ discussions, in conventional email inbox, that I thought of moving on to GMail. The rest is history.

There are lots of neat features embedded in GMail, but they are useless if we do not make use of them. I’m not getting into all of the features, but I’ll start with the not so common ones I usually use. These will also work with your @mckk9296.com email account (provided you use the webmail version).

1. Your GMail account alias
The alias (or call it what ever you want) I’m talking about here is like an alternative email address for your original profile. No, it is not like you create another email, because it will go to the same inbox. For example, abc123@gmail.com is the Abu’s email address, I can send an email to abc123+cikun@gmail.com and the email will still be sent to Abu. (Note the bold +cikun after the abc123)

What the f@#k is this feature helping me? There are many helpful ways you can benefit from this. One of them is tracking your source of spam. For instance, if you register in Friendster, you put abc123+friendster@gmail.com as your email address, you can easily apply a filter (and automatically assign the filter to label Friendster) without the hassle of identifying the source of email – because you know the email sent to abc123+friendster@gmail.com will always be from Friendster.

So what does this got to do with spam management? GMail has a good spam filtering, yes, but this way you can identify the culprits giving away your email addresses.

2. Search function
On the top left of the screen, just beside the GMail logo, there is a textbox for search. The common search will give you messages that contain whatever it is that you put there. However, you could also add advanced operands to minimize the scope of your search.

is operator
I don’t really know the full function of this operand, but I always use this to view unread messages. Available commands, is: unread, is: read and is: starred

from operator
This will return the message sender. For example, from: pembunuh

label operator
Only applicable if you have labels added to your inbox. Will return every message in that particular label. For example, label: mckk9296

The rest of other search operators are list here. You’ll get the idea how it will benefit you.

Congratulations to Zen and Shariza for their newborn baby girl, on the 8th of Oct 2007.

Congratulations to Shahman and Farah for their newborn baby girl, on the 27th of Oct 2007.

C

Assalamualaikum,

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri kepada semua. Saya dengan besar hati ingin menjemput rakan-rakan sekalian ke majlis perkahwinan saya yang diadakan tidak lama lagi. Butiran majlis tersebut adalah seperti berikut:

Tarikh : 18 November 2007 (Ahad)

Masa :  11.00 pagi hingga 4.00 petang

Alamat : Kampung Tanjung Balai, Melekek, 78000 Alor Gajah, Melaka.

Kad undangan serta peta lokasi ada dilampirkan bersama. Semoga dengan kehadiran rakan-rakan semua dapat menyerikan lagi majlis ini dan diberkati Allah S.W.T hendaknya.

History lesson time;

Taken from MCOBA-Malaysia Yahoo! Group (without asking for permission, of course);

Email 1 (Dah difilter dari thread yang panjang lebar, dan yang sebenarnya discuss benda lain)

Bro.,

Its OVERFLOW,bukan OVERFLOOR! Dunno how this term has been corrupted over the years!.Salam

Email 2

Bebudak ni juga menukarkan perkataan Kolet kepada Koleq.

Kolet adalah cara/gaya sebenar org KK tradisional menyebut College.

Koleq pula adalah tiruan cara/gaya Tongkat Warrant fikir College patut disebut.

Tongkat Warrant dll Malay-educated perlikan MCKK dgn ungkapan dgn rangkaikata

Bungkek Kek Kek > bongkak (snobs/conceits) !

Email 3

Aslkm,

OVERFLOW it is and should have always been. That section of the building was to accomodate the “overflow” of students from the two attached wings, which have been accordingly and ordinarily assigned to the respective houses (Idris, Ahmad, Mohd Shah & Sulaiman). During my time, it was also meant for the “overflow” of students from Prep School and Sixth Formers stayed there before Sixth Form Pavilion was completed. I remember having to be transferred from Prep School to the “overflow” in the third term of 1961 (when I was a jambu in Form 1) and to stay in the same dormitory with Wan Hanafi, the terror & President of the disbanded Tarinaga. Remember the folklore “Beauty And The Beast”? Right!

OVERFLOOR is not in the “Oxford English Dictionary”, has never been and can never be. The more appropriate word, in bringing out the same meaning as what has been generally meant for “overfloor”, is either OVERHEAD or simply FIRSTFLOOR. Thank you.

Email 4

Former juniors who now have begun saying correctly Overflow instead of Overfloor, please try to say Kolet Kolet Kolet instead of not Koleq !

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So, rupa2nya building kat tengah2 Big School tu asalnya dipanggil Overflow, sebagai reference kepada status pada waktu tu – sebagai dorm untuk students yang overflowed dari East/West Wings dan Prep School.

Camana boleh corrupted sampai jadi Overfloor? cuba consider scene ni;

Mana? Depan Overfloor/flow

Sapa? Gedebe dengan F1

Bila? Masa Gedebe kat Koleq (duh) – minggu orientasi budak2 F1

Scene:

Gbe: Pade’ (padang) depan ni guno maing bola, ragbi denge kriket. Pokok hok besar tu ore’ panggey Bi’ Tri (Big Tree)

F1: Building yang besar ni cikgu?

Gbe: Bangune’ ni namo dio Overflow

Malam tu budak2 F1 tu decipher balik semua perbualan masa guided tour siang tadi. Habis semua ayat2 Gedebe di”de-kelatenized”, termasuk la Overflow yang akhirnya ditukar jadi Overfloor dek kerana salah faham accent Kelate milik Gedebe.

As Email 3 correctly pointed out, Overfloor is not listed in any dictionary of any language. Even my Firefox spellchecker puts a red line under the said word (I would like to also point out that it’s underlining the word spellchecker as well, hahaha). BUT… BUT… neither is kolet (as Email 4 tried to point out as the only pronunciation for MCKK’s pet name). What I’m trying to say is, if you want to stop using the word Overfloor because it’s not in the dictionary, please treat the koleq/kolet issue the same way too.

As for me, this is a non-issue. Small matter lah. Languages do evolve, apa lagi bahasa2 slanga ni. Overfloor ke, Overflow ke, it still refers to that same building. And not like we would mistaken Overflow for another building – we can always assume the speaker hails from Kelantan, kan?

If you are talking about marketing/branding, I’d say go with Overfloor. Why? Well, try to Google for Overfloor and then Overflow. Compare the two and you’ll see what I mean. Or you can also try with Google Images (Overfloor/Overflow) and the standard-bearer for “what is” questions, Wikipedia (Overfloor/Overflow).

Not to mention Overfloor sounds a hell more elegant than Overflow. What’s your first impression when you hear the word Overflow? Plumbing? Or toilets? Or that huge white building in Kuala Kangsar?

Exactly.

PS. I meant no offense to Orang Kelantan. Hanya sebagai contoh sahaja. (Kalau korang boleh tolong finetune dialog kat atas tu lagi cun)

PPS. I also meant no offense to all distinguished senior old boys out there. All 3 posters (yup, 4 emails from 3 different posters) are very, very prominent figures

PPPS. Yup, aku dah try search for Koleq/Kolet. On Google (Koleq/Kolet), Google Images (Koleq/Kolet) dan juga Wikipedia (Koleq/Kolet)