Harith Iskander was in Miri a couple of weeks ago for his Nationwide Live comedy tour, presented by Celcom. The event was held in an almost full-house Marriott Hotel and Resort’s ballroom.

The night started off with the special guest appearance of Douglas Lim, the comedian who made it up the ranks with the once-famous Kopitiam comedy. I’m sure most of you remember Kopitiam on NTV7 back in 1997.

Favorite joke of the night by Douglas:
How Timbaland made easy money in the Sexy Back video while Justin Timberlake does most of the singing and all he did was making the “Yah Yah” sound.

After about 30minutes of his performance, comes the man of the night.

I present you, Harith Iskander, ladies and gentlemen.

Both of them battle it out by a spontaneous, self-composed lyrics based on the lady’s given details. At the end of the day, the lady would wanna go on a date with Harith instead of Douglas, even though Douglas claimed that he’s the handsome one, but Harith won her heart because his name was on the backdrop of the show. Proven that, handsome guys doesn’t necessarily win girls.

Douglas and Harith duet, performing Hotel California with a lyric based on their experience here in Miri.

Harith:“If I were to release a CD, I’ll sell 4 million copies in Malaysia alone!”
Douglas: “Stop dreaming Harith, I bet you’ll sell 100 copies, that is among your friends and families, while the rest of your 4 millions will download from the Internet, IF, they happen to be interested in your songs, that is.

The comedy was filled with the Malaysia vs Singapore type of jokes. It’s funny and all their jokes makes sense and portrayed the true Malaysian’s way of live.

Most used word of the night by Harith, who happens to be a Celcom spokesman, is…

“Fuiyoh!”, which happens to be a DiGi slogan.

I think he’s getting paid to say that. Tee hee. But it does make sense though since the introduction of Mobile Number Portability, where any telco is basically, all telco.

Did you know? Harith dated a Chinese air-stewardess before! Now that’s a “Fuiyoh!”.

Do you own an online business and having headaches figuring how you can attract your customers to read your newsletter? We’ve seen many boring, plain-text newsletters being delivered in to our mailboxes everyday. Most of us will just click on the “Delete” button, Unsubscribe, or better still, mark it as spam. It’s that bad.

We seek professional help, but professional newsletter maker cost a fortune for small business owner. But thanks to Toddle.com, you can now kiss the old school, plain-text newsletter’s ass, good bye.

With its simple, straight-forward approach to creating a newsletter, you can easily get one done in minutes! Provided you have all your content ready. For all the time and money saved, all they’ll ask for a return is the little credit at the bottom of the newsletter, which I think is fair and unobstructive at all.

Are you one of the victims of the iPhone marketing plot? For something that looks so advanced, but didn’t perform to your expectations?

So bad it’s not even built to support MMS. FTW? Even a cheap-ass Nokia 2630 supports that.

Lack of MMS support. People laugh at my iPhone because its the only phone since 2002 that can’t send or receive picture messages. Why am I ashamed to have the most advanced mobile hardware in the world?

So you have an idea for iPhone that you think should be implemented or fixed? Head on to Pleasefixtheiphone.com and throw in your wishes. The good thing about the site is it’s featured on popular sites such as cNet and Digg, and from the popularity and the responses it accumulates, draws attention from the iPhone creator – Apple. Whether or not it’s fully heard and implemented, that’s another story.

Here’s a little introduction of the site from the developers.

PleaseFixTheiPhone is a technological ode to our favorite phone. A modern love poem. Sure, nothing is perfect, but this site brings together little musings and lustful tech haiku about the finest phone and how to make it even better. So take your favorite iPhone mantra and add it to the many wishes on the site in the hope that Apple will take notice.

There are so many social networks running on the web and so little time to manage all of them. It’s so annoying to be opening up so many tabs and going through them one by one. But thanks to EventBox, a revolutionary social application that allows you to integrate up to 6 of the most popular social networks, all in a box!

The Interface

Seamless social networking, so fast there’s no time to blink!

Using Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard’s groundbreaking CoreAnimation technology, we fully utilize your graphics card’s potential to provide a stunning interface. Everything is fluid, flexible and intuitive.

Photo Viewer

EventBox is equipped with a photo viewer so that you don’t have to leave the application just to look at a photograph!

Oh, did I tell you it’s available for Mac only? and it costs $20, which I think it’s worth it for the time and fuss you’ll save with the application! Check them out here!

Thinking about a holiday next year? Get your hands dirty now on the super jam-packed AirAsia website now. If you’re trying to book a ticket now, be prepared to get timeout response from their website as everyone is playing jackpot slot machine on the travel dates for Zero Fare.

Say No to Fuel Surcharge every time you’re flying with AirAsia and AirAsia X. We’re taking the load off your shoulders so you won’t have to worry about Fuel Surcharge. From 11 November 2008 onwards, only pay for the air fare, administration fee and airport tax on all AirAsia and AirAsia X flights. – AirAsia.com

To my disappointment, AirAsia website is not built to handle their immense promotion response, I repeat, their website is NOT ready for a promo. sales! I can hardly get a ticket done at the time of posting. Getting time-out when “jackpotting” for a free ticket.

The experience is not healthy, at one side, you’re trying so hard to get the Zero Fare, which is limited, and then you get a Bad server request after you’ve selected the date. Worrying you’ll miss the free ticket on that date, you hit the “Back” button, it takes forever to load. Then, you found out that the free ticket is gone.

What to do? You hit the slot machine again for the free ticket of course, only to find out that the slot machine keeps on spinning and spinning, and spinning and spinning and spinning….

Even when the date is set, you’ll have a hard time getting a payment done and worrying about double payments. End up I’ve to resort to using the Direct debit, which thankfully, turned out fine.

So, Mr. Tony Fernandez, please, get a better server so we all can say, Now Everyone can Book Online Faster, cause not everyone can fly if we can’t get a ticket booked, right?

There’s really a lot to see and experience in Bangkok, the “dense, corrupted and dirty” metropolitan. (as described in Bangkok Dangerous, the movie). It wasn’t that dangerous when I was there, maybe Nicolas Cage wasn’t there, I suppose.

So here I am in Suk 11, the place to stay if you wanna experience authentic Thai village culture, budget style.

This is the reception area, filled with vintage and old Thai artwork. It’s Halloween by the way! If you’re observant enough, try to read the notice on the top. ^^

The staircase to the rooms upstairs. The Sleeping Buddha welcomes you.

The lobby area as viewed from above. The place is always fully booked, so do book in advance if you’re planning to stay here. Some of them are even on waiting list. This is like the first choice for all backpackers to Bangkok so you’ve gotta book early!

This is the view from the table at the lobby. All the classic Thai art pieces you can get!

Visa is accepted here! But if you book online, you’ll need to pay for the first night and it’s non-refundable.

Kite on the wall. You can leave you signatures here, the wall act as a guestbook. If you’re good enough, you can even draw graffiti on it!

Drop your keys here when you’re checking out.

Walkways to the rooms.

Living room. This guy had been watching the TV for 5 straight hours non-stop.

Walkways made of wood, resembling Thai village houses.

Breakfast should be consumed in the lobby area only. The hostel practice strict rules to ensure safety and cleanliness. They won’t tolerate sex tourists, and you can’t eat in your room.

This is what they have for breakfast. Breads, muffins, papaya and pineapples. Tea and coffee is ready at self service. Breakfast is included in the room rate.

If you’re bored staying in the room, get down and take a stroll at night along the Suk 11 Walkway. There are art works on display/sale. There’s British lounge/bar along the same building where you can sit back and watch football. Suk 11 has a health spa and restaurant right beside the hostel, I’m thinking they’re of the same proprietor.

Many leave great feedbacks for this Suk 11 hostel. Honestly, I totally love the experience here but for one thing – the receptionist. To my surprise, the business owners, they tend be friendlier and more helpful to Caucasians than Asians. The employees were fine though. Overall, it was still a great experience at Suk 11. No harm done!

For bookings, please surf to Suk11.com