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Monday, February 26, 2007

Chieftain PC



Just to share my PC in year 2003. Now there are some changes and modification but yet to take picture. Will update once is ready. This PC is for gaming purposes, and there is another dual-core PC for working purpose which is in red color.

You are welcomed to send your PC pic to me so I can post it accordingly.

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Stock Street Car Race



Colt MR, Suzuki Swift, Honda Fit and Daihatsu

Friday, February 23, 2007

Q1 2007 Clan Objective

Quarterly objective will be set for Clan Bala, to allow the members stay in-line with the clan direction and all in the same page in facing future and 3rd party challenges.

Together we can make the clan a better place !

Quarter 1 2007 Objective:-
All members shall have a minimum level 3 in standard games.

Ferry At Penang Island


Ferry In Memory
Still can remember that I used to take ferry everyday to travel from Penang to Butterworth visiting my dad hardware shop. I enjoy the day which no traffic jam and I enjoy the moment my dad buying ice cream for me on ferry.


Clan Bala CNY Reunion


Chinese New Year Reunion, all come back and celebrate CNY, but no Ang Pow !

Chieftain is Back!

After long long time stop playing standard game, (at least 2-3 years), I am finally back in action. Challenge myself with the ladder rank and level.




Saturday, February 10, 2007

Sealand - World Smallest Country




The Principality of Sealand is a micronation (a self-declared but unrecognised state-like entity) that claims as its territory Roughs Tower, a former Maunsell Sea Fort located in the North Sea 10 km (six miles) off the coast of Suffolk, England, at 51°53′40″N, 1°28′57″E, as well as territorial waters in a twelve-nautical-mile radius. Sealand is occupied by the family and associates of Paddy Roy Bates. The population of the facility rarely exceeds ten, and its inhabitable area is 550 m² (5920 sq. ft).

Since 1967, the installation has been occupied by the associates and family members of Paddy Roy Bates, a former radio broadcaster and former British Army Major, who claims it is a sovereign and independent state.[1] Critics, as well as court rulings in the United States and in Germany, have claimed that Roughs Tower has always remained the property of the United Kingdom, a view that is disputed by the Bates family.
Sealand's claims to sovereignty and legitimacy are not recognised by any country, yet it is sometimes cited[1] in debates as an interesting case study of how various principles of international law can be applied to a territorial dispute.

In 1942, during World War II, HM Fort Roughs was constructed by the UK as one of the Maunsell Sea Forts. It comprised a floating pontoon base with a superstructure of two hollow towers joined by a deck upon which other structures could be added. The fort was towed to a position above Rough Sands sandbar where its base was intentionally flooded so that it sank to a resting place on the sandbar. The location chosen was in international waters, approximately six miles from the coast of Suffolk, outside the then three-mile territorial water claim of the United Kingdom.

The facility (termed Roughs Tower) was occupied by 150–300 Royal Navy personnel throughout World War II; post war it was not until 1956 that the last full-time personnel were taken off HM Fort Roughs and marking of its position as a shipping hazard was left to Trinity House. On September 2, 1967, the fort was occupied by Major Paddy Roy Bates, a British subject and pirate radio broadcaster, who ejected a competing group of pirate broadcasters and claimed sovereignty on the basis of his interpretation of international law (see Legal status).

In 1967–8 Britain's Royal Navy tried to remove Bates. As they entered territorial waters, Bates tried to scare them off by firing warning shots from the former fort. As Bates was a British citizen at the time, he was summoned to court in England following the incident. The court ruled in Bates' favour that Sealand was outside British jurisdiction as it was beyond the three-mile limit of the country's waters.[citation needed] In 1975, Roy of Sealand introduced a constitution, followed by a flag, a national anthem, a currency and passports.

In 1978, while Bates was away, the Prime Minister of Sealand, Alexander G. Achenbach, and several German and Dutch citizens staged a forcible takeover of Roughs Tower, holding Bates' son Michael captive, before releasing him several days later in the Netherlands.
Bates thereupon enlisted armed assistance and, in a helicopter assault, retook the fortress. He then held the invaders captive, claiming them as prisoners of war. Most participants in the invasion were repatriated at the cessation of the "war", but Gernot Pütz, a German lawyer who held a Sealand passport, was charged with treason against Sealand and was held unless he paid DM 75,000 (more than £18,000). The governments of the Netherlands and Germany petitioned the British government for his release, but the United Kingdom disavowed all responsibility, citing the 1968 court decision. Germany then sent a diplomat from its London embassy to Roughs Tower to negotiate for Pütz's release, and after several weeks Roy Bates relented, subsequently claiming that the diplomat's visit constituted de facto recognition of Sealand by Germany, though Germany has not commented on this interpretation.
Following his repatriation, Achenbach established an "exile government" in Germany, in opposition to Roy Bates, assuming the name "Chairman of the Privy Council". Upon Achenbach's resignation for health reasons in August 1989, the rebel government's "Minister for Economic Co-operation", Johannes Seiger, assumed control, with the position of "Prime Minister and Chairman of the Privy Council". Seiger continues to claim that he is Sealand's legitimate ruling authority.

Sealand claims the waters surrounding Roughs Tower to the extent of twelve nautical miles,[2] and it has claimed to have physically defended this claim on at least one occasion: in an incident in 1990, the Royal Maritime Auxiliary vessel Golden Eye was fired upon from Sealand.
For a period, Sealand passports were mass-manufactured and sold widely (mostly to Eastern Europeans) by a Spanish-based group believed to be associated with the exile government under Seiger. These passports, which were not authorised by the Bates family, were linked to several high-profile crimes, including the murder of Gianni Versace. Due to the massive quantity of illegal passports in circulation (estimated at 150,000), in 1997 the Bates family revoked all Sealand passports, including those that they themselves had issued in the previous thirty years.

In early 2007 Sealand was offered for sale.[2] As a principality cannot technically be sold, Sealand's current "owners" plan to "transfer" custodianship.

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Benchmark Window XP with Window Vista

The following are some of the benchmark performed by Tomshardware.com, to benchmark the performance between Window XP and Window Vista.

It founds that Window Vista has lower bemchmark as compared to Window XP when come to system application, speed and graphic performance. However, it seems that Window Vista as more focus on multimedia application.

As such, it is important for you to access carefully before think of upgrading, and be mindful of your needs using the computer.

As usual, it is always not advisable to be the first one to use the computer products, be it software of hardware.






Clan Bala Profile At Battle NEt

Take a look at the Clan Bala Profile in Battle.net.

http://www.battle.net/war3/ladder/w3xp-clan-profile.aspx?Gateway=Lordaeron&ClanTag=Bala

Balla - a Small Town in County Mayo


Balla (pronounced Bal) is a small town in County Mayo, Ireland on the main road between Castlebar and Claremorris, with one street only. It is notable for its round tower. It formerly was a significant shop and market centre. In recent decades it fell into decline and lost its railway station, but has enjoyed something of a revival as a convinient residential area for people working in Castlebar.


In early times the village was known as 'Ros Dairbhreach', meaning 'The Height of the Oak Wood'. The continuing importance of the oak to the local community is reflected in the appropriately named "Dawn Oak 2000" project. At the beginning of this new millennium, 2000 oak trees were planted, creating a new wood in Balla's majestic town park. Tradition has it that Saint Patrick himself had rested in Balla, giving the village an important place in the history of the county.


The picture shonw the Round Tower at Balla


Bala in Buddhism

In Buddhism, Bala is the Five Powers, or Spiritual Faculties
In Buddhism are: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom.

Faith and Wisdom balance each other, as do Energy and Concentration. The Five Faculties are ‘controlling' faculties because they control or master their opposites. The faculties and powers are two aspects of the same thing.

Faith (saddha) - controls doubt
Energy/Effort/Persistence (viriya) – controls laziness
Mindfulness (sati); - controls heedlessness
Concentration (samadhi) - controls distraction
Wisdom (panna)/Discernment – controls ignorance