English Premier League - midweek results

All the big guns played on Wednesday evening (Thursday morning Malaysia time) except for Manchester City who were held to a 0 - 0 draw at Queen Park Rangers a day earlier.

Great chance for Manchester United to stretch their lead at the top to 7 points.

Rooney scored twice in the Manchester United's win against Southampton. BBC photo

Results of interest:

QPR vs Manchester City                    : 0 - 0
Manchester United vs Southampton  : 2 - 1
Arsenal vs Liverpool                           : 2 - 2
Reading vs Chelsea                           : 2 - 2

A nervy second half for United at Old Trafford but they held on to a 2 - 1 win and indeed it is a 7-point gap now with nearest contenders, City. Except  for United, all other top clubs dropped points this week.

All in all, a very good week for United after the stalemate at Spurs last week. A 4 - 1 win on Fulham in the FA cup earlier, followed by this win put smiles on the manager's face. And mine.

Way to go Rooney, and United!

Apple announces iPad with 128GB storage capacity

It is another first for a tablet PC and it's an iPad.

While physical size shrinks, the storage capacity gets bigger. Previously I posted an article about How Thumb Drives can hold so much data, and it is just a matter of time before tablets and smartphones manufacturers started shoving in bigger capacity storage cards in their products.

Come on, where's my 256GB variant?

Apple announces iPad with double storage capacity

Apple Inc said on Tuesday (January 29, 2013) that it will sell a version of its iPad tablet computer with 128 gigabytes of storage, which is twice the capacity of its existing models.

Apple, which has sold more than 120 million iPads so far, said that the new iPad will go on sale February 5, in black or white, for a suggested retail price of $799 (approx. RM2,459) for the iPad with just Wi-Fi model, and $929 (approx. RM2,859) for the version that also has a cellular wireless connection. - Reuters


So, for those keen on loading a lot of stuffs in their tablets, this is a great option.

Malaysia tops bribery table.

This is an article I'm not proud to post/share at all.

Getting the front page coverage for the wrong reason, Malaysia sits on top in the bribery table. How I wish this is FIFA ranking for 2012 instead!

Malaysia called the most corrupt country for business? Source: WSJ

Wall Street Journal reported that Malaysia scored worst in the 2012 Bribe Payers Survey. It asked about 3,000 executives from 30 countries whether they had lost a contract in the past year because competitors paid a bribe—and in Malaysia, 50% said yes. Second on the dubious honor roll was Mexico, at 48%.

Since taking office in 2009, Prime Minister Najib Razak has pledged to eradicate corruption and regain public confidence. Hundreds of cases have been investigated. Yet Malaysia’s overall scores in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index have deteriorated for three consecutive years since 2010.

Malaysia's score for the past 4 years declining: (out of possible 10)

2008 : 5.1
2009 : 4.5
2010 : 4.4
2011 : 4.3   (By comparison, Singapore's score is 9.2)


It's sad, that:

Foreign companies looking to supply to the government have to be aware that they’re likely to be asked for a bribe. - Paul Low, TI-Malaysia president.