Just a Short note here :

I’ve moved my blog to a new place. I will not be posting here anymore. I will meet you at my new site:

daniel’s ground

So, please update your blog link! God bless!

Where have the children been?

I hope you still remember the case Nurul Huda (2004), Halilafati (2004), Nur Suhada (2000), Hung MeiFong (1987), just to name a few who were either kidnapped, missing, brutally murdered or raped. This kind of cases have been bothering concerned Malaysians of late.

According to statistics released by the police, a total of 6270 children and those under 18 were missing within the period of 2004 until May 2008. Somehow 4237 of them managed to return home safely while the remaining 2033 were still missing. (Source: SinChew)

What is being done?

A few months ago SinChew roll out this program called 《提防怪叔叔》 which I literally translated it as "Preventing Perverted Uncle". I applaud the daily’s move and initiative to organize talks in schools, distributing booklets and creating awareness among children and youths.

Yesterday during Mass, our assistant parish priest, Rev Fr Paul Wong (王保禄神父） distributed hundred copies of the booklet to children and youths. He managed to get the booklet with a low price from the daily and most importantly the church is so supportive of such maiden move.

My story, my encounter

Everyone has their own story to tell. The time is right for me to share with you one of my encounter with such perverts! I remember it happened when I was 13. One night while I was rushing to finish my homework, the phone rang. No one was at home so I climbed up the stairs to reach for the phone.

"Hello", a man spoke in a deep voice. I thought it was one of my uncle who wanted to talk to my dad or my mum, but it turned out to be a sales person. He started promoting new brand of shampoos to me and asking me what kind of shampoo I use. I guess my voice was rather matured when I was 13 that that perverted fella could not really tell my actual age.

Sick of hearing him bragging about how good his shampoo is, I told him I don’t have cash and am still a minor. Suddenly he started to switch topic. What now? He began saying things like "Oh, it seems like you are in your teen and some major changes is happening with your body. You are experiencing some kind of changes don’t you? Say for example, your voice is growing deep and pubic hairs started to grow…"

Being 13, I was still naive and this kind of sex-education was not made available in our education curriculum and our parents never mentioned to us anything about our physical changes. Our education system and our parents let us grow up and assuming that we know everything about it, as if.

I kept on listening to this fella who described to me the type of changes a boy will go through before becoming a man. Hairs, wider chest, bigger size, sperm, wet dreams and etc were much of the subjects of the conversation. I guess he got so excited that he ventured into another topic, MASTURBATION!

Teens are curious, so was I. I kept on listening. He instructed me to follow his recommended step-by-step instruction on how to masturbate as he was talking over the phone. I did not do as what he said but I just kept on listening. As he is describing to me his ‘tips’ I could hear him stroking something and a few minutes later I heard groans and heavy breaths. I became suspicious with the motive of this man.

Somehow something in my mind told me, "Gosh! Perverted uncle! Slammed the phone!"

Now! You see, boys not only girls may also be the victim of sexual harassment. You have read my encounter with a perverted man, I am glad no harm was done to me physically. I never tell my parents about this incident. And I believe most victims won’t tell their parents either.

Steps to be taken!

Tell your children that their body is to be kept protected from unwanted touching from others (i.e. perverted uncle), especially their sexual organs.

Children nowadays like to chat via online services. Get them to know that it is not appropriate to disclose address, phone numbers, personal photo of themselves and members of the family to strangers. Don’t ever go out for a meeting with strangers.

Perverted uncle likes lure children with kind invitation because they can easily manipulate children’s naiveness and innocence.

Encourage your children not to walk alone or being alone in a secluded place. They are so little to fight against those perverted uncles. Fetch your children if you can.

Even those who are close to your children may turn out to be a perverted uncle what more to say strangers. Teach your children to be aware when someone is behaving impolite to them.

Now, not only girls are victims, boys too! Time has changed my friend. Teach your son as well to protect himself.

Be extra careful when you are walking alone or sitting in a bus/train for you may not know who will approach you and touch you in an impolite way. If you received a harassment phone call, hang up the phone. If you saw someone portraying their private parts in front of you, don’t shout, run to a more crowded place. The more you shout the more those perverted uncles will get excited!

Download 怪叔叔 aka Perverted Uncle

Last night I sent an email to iCalvyn regarding an application for a new domain and host under one of his mega project, Domain and Hosting Sponsorship Program under the collaboration of iCalvyn.com and MyExHost.com.

I dreamed that one day, I will make my name known in the Internet. I always had this dream when I was a little boy. To be exact I wanted so badly to buy a domain and a host but I did not because I was simply out of cash four months back then when I first introduced you daniel.mylovepress.com

A deal is a deal. I get a free domain and hosting. In return, I will have to published two entries per week, at least. I will also have to begin building links and network so that there will be 100 unique visits/per day after the sixth month. As time accumulates, I will have to achieve 200 unique visits/per day after the eleventh month. One last requirement, I will provide my sponsor a link and banner at my site.

I know all this is within my capacity if I publish good contents and you, my favourite readers continue to lend me your support. Say, if I did not meet the minimum requirement, I will have to pay for the domain and hosting loh. You won’t want that happen to me right?

Freedom of expression! I couldn’t agree more that we all want to express our thoughts, our feelings, our ideas and whatever we can express. Under this Domain and Hosting Sponsorship Program, you have the freedom to do whatever you want within the blogger’s etiquette.

What does an applicant get under this sponsorship program?

• 1 Domain Name (.Com .Net .Org)
• 1 GB of Hosting Space
• 10 GB of Bandwidth
• 1 MySQL Database (applicant can request to add on)
• 1 FTP (applicant can request to add on)
• 1 Mail Account (applicant can request to add on)
• Cpanel Web Hosting Control Panel

Hurry up! The application is still on until iCalvyn announces it close. For those of you who are interested, simply refer to iCalvyn’s sponsorship program.

What are you still waiting? 50 places up for grab! I just grabbed one and so are you going to get it if you make it fast! All the best in trying.

In the mean time, I shall keep my domain a mystery. Only iCalvyn knows. Wait for me to announce this good news!

There are a few good news which I want to share with all of you.

The first thing to be noted here is the major renovation of this site which has started yesterday. This is a very unconventional theme as people won’t get to see words at the homepage anymore. All you see is a title and a picture (snapshot) relevant to the post, sometimes it may not be relevant, depending on the pictures I have in hands. This is certainly a very new concept of blogging to me.

Initially, I was just planning to search for a new theme as I have been using the theme Dilectio for a few months, three months to be exact. Who knows while googling, I made a discovery on this cool theme - the Unstandard. I get bored easily so I am always on the look for a better theme. In my previous theme, I modified it to a combination of green-red instead of the original maroon-red-orange. Now with this new theme, I am making it ORANGE!

Secondly, I was so happy last night. You know what? I never knew that I am a famous guy among some of the juniors from other courses in my university. Last night, UncleSeng initiated a chat with me over MSN.

"Eh, you got an admirer! Apparently I got some news that some juniors in UTM are interested in you!"

He then continued, "Not ‘an’, it’s a few!"

My eyes go blink blink! My heart goes thump thump! I almost reached the state of euphoria but heck my blog kept me occupied. I have better hang out with this guy more so that I have the opportunity to arrange a meet up with my admirers. I should arrange a meet up with them sometime.

The third good news is that, without me realizing it, this site has reached a total of five thousand unique visits and attained twelve thousand pageviews.

The fourth thing (yet to be considered as good news) is that, I am applying for a new domain and hosting under a sponsorship program initiated by iCalvyn.  I just sent my email to him last night and I don’t know what’s the chances for me to be accepted under the sponsorship program.

The requirements are to

• Update the blog at least twice a week.
• Build traffic and maintain at least 100 unique visitor/days at the 6th month and achieve 200 unique visitor/days after 11th month from this sponsorship program (Adjustable depend on performance)
• Maintain a sponsor banner and link of sponsor on the blog

The fifth thing is that, IF I managed to get this sponsorship then I will be certainly using my first name and surname as my domain name. IF it fails, then I will still stick with the current domain. Either way, I will still go on with mylovepress and its associated forum. The owner, Alvin, had just came back from Japan. We have better start developing the site.

Throw me comments to show that you love this theme as well as I do.

Many thanks to this guy named Derek Punsalan who came out with this gorgeous theme, I must say that it’s gorgeous. It’s called The Unstandard.