5 major points I’d like to make.

1. Conflicts with some programs. I had an old version of Kaspersky. It caused my installation to be extremely buggy and unusable. Credit to them though for releasing a fix within days.

2. ReadyBoost (as described earlier elsewhere) is a godsent! You’ll notice signficicant boost in general performance by plugging in a Thumb drive and dedicating it for cache disk duties. The responsiveness is just breathtaking.

3. This is truly a multitasker. Past versions prior to Win 7 had terrible multitasking performances. Run an antivirus scan and your PC is basically useless. The code has been optimised and the core handles all your requests in small threads (pretty much like Mac OS X since its inception in 7 years ago!). Microsoft has finally caught up!

4. Everything works out of the box. With a Win XP installation, you won’t have Network connection or audio for example. You need the CD to get started. Win 7 includes basic drivers to save you the headache (at least for my setup!)

5. Try this. Open all 6 programs in Microsoft Office 2003 in one go. Chances are, you’ll take 4-5 seconds. On Win 7, it takes half the time! The programs are ready to use as soon as you click on the icons.

My first test went well. I needed a miracle, and I think I got it (gotta wait til mid Dec to find out). Here is an article related to my studies which is interesting to read:

http://www.ceaconline.org/pdf... [link]

In today’s fast paced world, change is imminent. In order to gain an advantage, you gotta “change” the Players, Added Value, Rules, Tactics and Scope of the Game.

Another article worth a look is the Holy Bible translated in Lolcat language! [link here and here]

I think its an internet phenomena / meme. If you go to Youtube, you can find cats do all sorts of crazy stuff, including playing an organ! They’re so “cute and adorable” thats why any cat related jokes are damn viral!

I’m using Google Desktop and Google Chrome now. Chrome has seen much improvements. And speed wise, its the best. Every tab is a different process. This means multi-core systems will see significant boost in speed! Give Chrome a try [link]

It is a beautiful Wednesday!

Here it is, my moment of Zen

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A tribute.

[11pm update]
Locus Iste – sung by angels in heaven. I’m serious
[youtube link]

Digg Article worth reading [link]

There are many people who should not be going to expensive colleges/universities to get degrees – you don’t need a degree in General Studies, Women’s Studies, etc, etc. That’s what this article is addressing (though in a sort of round-a-bout way).

However, if you’re going to be an engineer, doctor, lawyer, or other highly skilled professional which requires higher education and brings with it a significant increase in pay over not having a degree.

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This 50 Million $ ranking bugger raised me all in, 22k.. nothing to lose, I went ahead.

I had 10, Q.

Flopped a full house, rivered Quads!

This sort of shit makes me addicted to Genting. dammit you gambling gods!

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I went for meetings with the Engineers from Taylors, and later the career services officer. It was quite productive, although I put the chances of successful partnership within 30 days at 50/50. Not very optimistic, Its fun to see how businessman works, especially when they’re selling stuff.

As a business student, we are NOT that gullible, still we get interested whenever someone has some shit to offer.

Anyway, will go by TRAIN to Singapore and arrive 7am Friday morning. Then its phun philled phatventure! Hope they got iPhone to play with.

I can’t get roaming, so I won’t be reacable Might twit once in a while, so stay tuned!

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Construction in progress, but sexciting things to come.

Had a good game of bowling with Patrick and Lukas. Lukas came out tops today (Won’t be surprised to find picture evidence of this).

Had a fun time accompanying him to make passport at Subang Airport Terminal 2. Queue was ok. And yes, we had 1901 hotdogs.

Still contemplating whether to go Genting next weekend instead of Singapore. There’s a Texas Hold’em tournament, and Darrel has accomodation. If I can raise the RM 500 + lodging & transport needed, I will participate also. Just for the experience.

Ok, off to CG now.

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I think they purposely put RC Ho to teach us because on the surface, this is not a very important subject. It is just there to add credit points for us to graduate. But don’t get me wrong, I’ve learnt the MOST in this class in terms of social skills, organisational skills, man management, psychology, public relations, communication and presentation skills. Yupp.

Its not in the course objectives. Its a by-product of a well crafted syllabus. Kudos Taylors Business School admins.

Its kinda like the “unintentional safety” that most intermediate pool players execute once in a while.

I really thank RC Ho for all he hath done. We need more lecturers like him to really shape us for the working world. Lousy lecturers impart facts. Traditional lecturers impart knowledge. RC imparts wisdom.

The people at Twitter sent me an email confirming my suspecion as to why I was suspended. Yes, my philipkhor.com was serving malware last month and I twitted my site. Nevertheless, when restored I’ll redirect traffic to my new @philipkhor account. [check Social media links]

This morning, my trap worked. I had pocket 5s and flopped a set. On-the-gun, I checked and there was a bet, raise and re-reraise. Turn card, I all-in and yes this time it worked. I’m now at 30k chips.

After today I would have 2 subjects left in college. Once completed, I can reward my dad with a well deserved retirement… like he’s been working to kill time and fight boredom, yes… but partly also to fund my Toto addiction (as some close friends may know!) hahaha…

Lets see Melvyn can remember our appointment to go gym at 9.30am. I highly doubt it, but he’ll surprise me! Oh, I’ll be going to Singapore next Thursday. Woooot~!

It has been a great 4 years in Subang, helped by great college friends such as Lukas, Melvyn and Kathryn. Church helps too with the likes of Yang Wei, Mark and Patrick. “As we go on, we remember, all the times we, had together. And as our lives change, from whatever, we will still be, friends forever.” [youtube | lyrics]. Check out Obama Swats a fly [Youtube] and I’m a Boss [YouTube] & Microsoft is getting desperate [Digg]

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The pressure to impress is tremendously HUGE these days.

Like when I was playing basketball with Aidan and Patrick, we wanted to show what we’ve got. We got tapao-ed by noobs, missing easy points and shooting long range like Shaq O Neal!

In pool, everybody wants to BEAT Melvyn. Whatever it takes, whatever concentration levels that is required (that will cause us to go crazy), we still play at our highest level. In a  Pippo v Patrick game, the competitive level goes down. Miss simple shots, make crazy shots. The victor will just say, ‘oh, yeah… [smiles]“. But if you beat Melvyn in a race to 5 game, you go do the dance, you treat your friends to shots of your favourite Vodka or JD, make the DJ play poker face on repeat, fist pump and twit about it~!

The human mind is the hardest to decipher. The f

Here are the fastest supercomputers in the world. A new list will be drawn for June 2009. Expect the charts to be shifted when performance across the top 10 increases over 10% every 6 months!

TOP 10 Systems – 11/2008
1     Roadrunner – BladeCenter QS22/LS21 Cluster, PowerXCell 8i 3.2 Ghz / Opteron DC 1.8 GHz , Voltaire Infiniband
2     Jaguar – Cray XT5 QC 2.3 GHz
3     Pleiades – SGI Altix ICE 8200EX, Xeon QC 3.0/2.8 GHz
4     BlueGene/L – eServer Blue Gene Solution
5     Blue Gene/P Solution
6     Ranger – SunBlade x6420, Opteron QC 2.3 Ghz, Infiniband
7     Franklin – Cray XT4 QuadCore 2.3 GHz
8     Jaguar – Cray XT4 QuadCore 2.1 GHz
9     Red Storm – Sandia/ Cray Red Storm, XT3/4, 2.4/2.2 GHz dual/quad core
10     Dawning 5000A – Dawning 5000A, QC Opteron 1.9 Ghz, Infiniband, Windows HPC 2008

To put in numbers, the number 1 supercomputer has a rated peak performance of 1,456,704 Gigaflops (billlions of floating point operations per second). To put in perspective, a modern 2GHz Core2Duo pumps out 10 Gigaflops of processing power (assuming the software is optimised). That makes this supercomputer about 150,000 TIMES faster! Isn’t that insane?

Nuclear simulation models which would take 2000 years to complete on a single Core 2 Duo will now be computed in 5 days, paving way for many new exciting discoveries.

Which brings me to, innvoation. Back when computers were non existent, the human race produced the most interesting and significant discoveries and works of art. Things like, electricity, gravity, Mozart, Bethoven, Mona Lisa, tall towers that actually stood up against teh forces at that time.

Once the “computer” became popular in the 80s and mainstream by the turn of the millenium, whoa… we started becoming less innovative and creative. We argue over where to eat, what twitter / facebook short vanity URLs we want (I’m guilty of domain whoring too), whether to buy a car with 148 Horsepower or 155 HP, whose turn is it to break in a game of pool, and all that! So rediculous lah~!

People are scared of accountability. People do not want to take responsibility.

Example: If we want to go Penang in July, you let the Penang people choose where to eat and what to do. At the end of the trip you say, “Aiyah.. you recommend all the lousy place wan, so dirty, so smelly, so expensive.”, I TOLD YOU we should have gone [there and there]. What the cock~!”

Or in an assignment, your idea gets rejected and the marks your group get is below average. You point fingers. In most cases, the guy who points fingers and makes accusations is the one who either contributes the least, or is the reason why the group failed. Even though my part is 100% correct and that you are the weakest link, it is just not logical to argue about who is wrong. Doesn’t make any good.

I agree with Patrick that “you learn more from your mistakes and failures”. A company exec said in a talk, “In the interview, I ask the employee, how have you failed before? And if he haven’t yet fail, I’ll say – Go work and fail first, then apply to join my company again”.

A friend gave me a copy of The Painted House – John Grisham as a birthday gift back in high school. I misplaced it. Now I borrow one from the library, because I never got past Chapter 1. Hehehhe….. Also planning to read Early Civilizations of South East Asia and Law Contract!

Oh, if you’re curious to what the above two phrases meant, and started Wiki-ing for an answer; don’t bother. They’re both BS statements I created trying to mimic the explanation of BitTorrent and hacking online backing over Wifi! Have a nice day!

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As you no doubt heard last night, the whole Facebook vanity URL grab thing was big. Within seven minutes of the service being available last night, 345,000 users grabbed one. Within 15 minutes, over a half million had, Facebook spokesperson Larry Yu told Bloomberg. But who got the best one.

The best one I’ve seen by far, was grabbed by Christine Shipley of San Francisco. Rather than go for facebook.com/christine.shipley or even facebook.com/shipley, she went with facebook.com/default.aspx. Yes, her name could easily be confused as the default landing page for Facebook. (Though, savvy users will know that the site is actually built in PHP, and not ASP, which the .aspx extension suggests).

Numero Uno. Christine….

Phailed Mix June 09 is almost done. I’ve shortlisted these songs, with 2-3 more extra as “surprise” when the final mix is out. Check it out, ya’ll!

Busy Day today! But exciting as always~!

Ok, I need a small favour from  you guys. Go to Google.com and search for “Khalij Petroleum”. That’s its. Your help is much appreciated.

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Flop Ace-8-9. Hmmm… this is a big table, 100k buy-in. 4 other big guns loaded, I’m first to act, or under-the-gun as they call it. Worst position, but hey, I got good cards, right?

I check. And it checked around the table!

Turn card was a Queen. Scary card. Again, out of position, I checked. No one played, 1 folded, perhaps couldn’t take the pressure!

River was 6. All different suits, so no chance of a flush draw. Someone raise all-in 4,000. Next player re-raised 50,000. I was so freaking confident I committed all my 100,000 chips all-in (Melvyn gave). Turns out my two pairs was beaten by a Set of eights. Dammit.

So depressed now. Waiting for a Pool table at Club 9, no action. Tomorrow’s a Sunday; and I plan to take time off my busy week. Every day, its eat-sleep-exam-yum cha-pool .. you know, the typical routine.

Went to Bangsar for some Chinese food. And yes, my photo stream works now. See if Maxis comes up with a better data plan, cheaper.. or else each photo will cost me RM 1? Argh..

Whoa, its mid June already. Gotta lay out my plans and schedule for the remainder of the months. If not, my life will be wasted away in nothingness. Anybody up for doing some crazy shit? Like Genting, all-in our life savings? OK lah, Penang trip it is… at a “safe” speed ok, Lukas?

See how Patrick tomorrow come back from Penang. And Jeniffer coming back from Semenyih. But there’s Salsa class at 6pm at the GYM tomorrow. And lunch, Manhattan Fish Market! Wootzah!

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I’ll do a cleanup of this blog this weekend, God willing, the site will be in full swing by Monday. Exams so far was great. Will be able to pass, no problem! Now to tackle the IT subjects.

Follow me at http://twitter.com/philipkhor

I watched Drag me to Hell with Melvyn. It was terrible. I don’t like Horror, but according to Melvyn, Thai horror flicks are even more gory. I left the cinema but came back for the ending. Went to Thai Express at the Curve for the expensive dessert.

I’ll be gymming soon, then try to find some cheap food. Really short on cash now.

Ta!

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credits: Johanna Liew

Form 1G / 1999 was one of those crazy years. We spent 75% of the year skipping class for the SEA Games held in Brunei. I think this SEA Games experience was very pivotal in the moulding of my life, it truly is! I was the bee in one of the opening/closing dance.

Lets start from front row: We’ve got Fathima, Effa, and GODZILLA (good times…), Dee Kay Hafizah, and of course, Rachel Ong. We’re led by Mrs. Lily Tan, my dad’s uni coursemate’s wife from Muar! And next to her is of course, yours truly. Next to me is Aizul.. the dude who intro-ed me Eminem and Manchester United (ah, roughly this time as well!) then its Julian Tan (Doctor at Monash?), Randy Lim (pro photographer in Canada limages.ca) and lastly Leosofie.

Middle row sees Jared, Joshua Lew (Tifosi from BACK THEN, true fan), Hamzah (the only smoker in lower Secondary.. hes the TREND setter!!!), Salam (ustaz’s son) Johanna (pic uploader, close friend), Audrey (Hakkinen, Mc Laren fan! Very calm person, mum makes nice moon cakes), Yeh Sie (doing well in the UK), Suzanne (dentist in India), Junie (just reconnected recently, also in UK), Eve Lim, Muizzah and Alice Chai (super duper smart girl).

Back row we have Zamali, Chen Ee Loong who really know how to tackle the ladies back then in familiar interesting ways, Aziman (the Yap equivalent, funny humor guy). then its John Gatchalian, the Pinoy from Manila… bebot bebot!!! The tall dude is Jonathan Chen, Bomfunk MC FREESTYLER! FTW, next is his sidekick Nicholas Lim KHAI wei very open about his sexual fantasies and adventures, then its Arifin whose mum makes the BEST speghetti ever.. very very nice. In form 3, when he decided his future path to join the millitary, he told us, “You know counter-strike.. where you go shoot people. Yeah, I will be shooting people in real life!”. I think we watched Season 7 of Friends together at a party at his house. Whoa.. good times. Far right is Chee Peng (?) Not sure.. too blurry.

One person missing that day was Adeline Chong.

This class for 1G/1999 was an interesting period. We just got the internet.. and.. IRC and stuff. We created the IRC channel on Undernet, #2g2k and #3g2k1 … but #2g2k was the more popular one lah. We had computer studies back then… we were learning Windows 95 and how to use basics stuff. Well, its better than Accounting right? So what would you have chosen?

Ok, that’s about it. Will talk about my Form 4 / Form 5 years when the time comes

xoxo.

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I tried Facebook Ads before. They were SUPER strict while selecting and approving advertisements. I guess these dating sites were paying a premium. I keep advocating for businesses to advertise on Facebook. Its like US$0.15 per 1000 impressions… like to get the same effect on newspaper, you’ll be paying US$40 per 1000? Yeah, that’s how cheap FB is. And it is TARGETED.

Bottom line is, yeah, I know and HOPE you Christian girls are like her *wink*

New apple iPhones VERY SOON.

But definately new Macbooks, cheaper, better, faster, stronger.

Had a good time with Melvyn, Yang Wei and Patrick at Club 9. Wasted 5 hours of our lives (and wads of cash) waiting for the lucky draw. We humans need hope. The little hope that we might win the Toshiba Laptop and 32″ LCD tv was good enough for us to stick around, despite being tired.

Learnt shitloads in marketing and business and psychological terms from yesterday’s experience!

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Personally, I feel there’s a quota. Yes, I think that love is a free flowing thing, kinda like water. But at the same time, to me it is as valuable as oil. On top of that, we have a quota. My initial model is that it is a one off, lifelong quota. But upon reflection and fine tuning of this idea, I think its more of a “yearly” quota, which a divine power will restore you with on your birthday every year. Actually, the term 1 year is very significant. Every 365 1/4 days, the Earth make one circle around the sun, travels hundreds of millions of miles (that’s 8 trailing zeroes) in seemingly endless “ether”.

Its like this, say on October 21st, you get your quota. 100 units for example, to be used on anyone you come in contact with on the year. I’m zooming in on the one-on-one sort of friendship relationships, whether same sex, or otherwise. So if you’re giving a speech to an audience of 1000 people,  you’re not really SHOWERING everyone will love, per se, as per this model. It is more of a individual thing. I believe love is a constant if all else equal, but you can “tambah” if you feel obliged or prompted to. Lets say I have 3 friends only. In this case, the slice of pie is very huge!

A – 20 units. B – 70 units C – 10 units

Because perception varies from people to people, the 70 units you “show” to B, might be perceived as only 10 units received. B might not value the love you show, but guess what, you’ve “used up” your quota on B.

On the other hand, you invested only 10 units on C. On the other hand, C might interpret it as 50 units, yielding P/E ratio of 5:1 (Finance students correct me, Finance bo gia A1!) Imagine the possibilities if you just double up your effort, and C would get the full 100 units of love. I am currently studying whether the relationship between love given and love perceived is linear, co-linear or it follows the Power Log.

One of the factors or possible application of this model is, your Facebook friends. I have only 120 friends, so my 100 units of “love quota” per year has to be shared among my active friends. For friends I haven’t seen in the past 6 months, you would only have 0.002 units of my quota each, for example. For friends on a more regular basis, the score is about 2-3 units. If its a “close friend”, then maybe 10-15 units. Remember, this quota is shared. In this case, we exclude the love for divine powers, as practised by some religions. I think we can exclude family members and immediate relatives in this model because we focus more on our love for friends.

This model breaks down on the recipients end, because I have not yet determined how much love you can handle. Should I give it a 100 unit scale, or, should it be a percentage scale of the love you give?

Say for example, C is a very sadist person, and has only given out 10 units of love to a different person D. Now, you gave C only 10 units, but C  perceives it as 50 units. That is how much you are worth to C. The adjusted relative score (or Z-Score, alpha) would be 50 over 10, in this case 5. My model stipulates a scale

0 < Z < 0.5 Go see psychologist!

0.5 < Z < 2 You need to love more

2 < Z < 10 Good job, you’re a lovely person

Z > 10 Go see psychiatrist!

I like to call this scale, the Felicia Score in memory of this girl I knew

Another score worth tabulating is the Pippo Score. Taking the same case with our fictional “C”, I give 10 units, C perceives it as 50 units, but only gives out 10 units.

Say, C now gives out 30 units to E. The dynamics has shifted more towards E. The Pippo Score gives a more accurate picture of the whole situation relative to the new variable that has entered the equation.

You -> C = 10 units

C <0— You = 50 units

C —-> E = 30 units

My quota left: 0

C quota left: 60 units (used 40)

Felicia score = 50 / 10 = 5

Pippo score = (50 / 10 ) / 40 = 0.8

Lets say C uses all 100 units of love, the Pippo score (awarded to the subject would be)

Pippo score assuming C uses 100 units of love = (50 / 10) / 100 = 0.05

For the Pippo score, it doesn’t really say much about what type of person you are. It is just a method of evaluating your investment, whether your priorities are right.

In future more complex models, I would adjust “Felicia Score” relative to the love returns you get from A and B as well.

So if A’s 20 units yield 20 perceived units and B’s 70 units yield 10 units, your average Pippo score would be:

A 20/20 = 1, B = 10/70 = 0.7 + C’s 0.8 (as calculated earlier) divided by 3 subjects yielding a average of 83%. Break even point is of course, 100%. So you might re-evaluate your strategy to allocate more resources on C for example.

So to be a normal person, I determined that you have to be loved 200 units assuming you use up all your 100 units of love. Anything below would be signs of an introvert, or.. someone hated and disliked. Anything too high, and you might be in potential danger. Not now, but perhaps when one day, the people close to you abandon you.

Now, this analysis must be carried out independently by an audit firm like KPMG, PWC or L&D (lukas and darrel) or Y&W (Yap and Wilson). The subjects involved must be mutual friends, so an independent auditing can be done, negating the bias in opinion when you are in love.

Yupp, that’s it for this morning. Its 8am, time to hit the gym before pushing for my DMM exam, which of course, involves Statistical Analysis which is why I wrote this. kthxbie.

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1. OMG, auto-tune is the shit. that’s what made britney spears sound so good. now that this technology is widely available to the public, its like.. wtf, you don’t have to sing good. auto tune … levels the playing ground. no wonder, people on american idol had to sing their heart out, yet get so little respect.

2. we are all good at one thing or another. Aidan is super good at guitar. Lukas drives like a F1 racer, fast, and safe. I like to think I’m half decent in badminton and web development.

You don’t have to be good at EVERYTHING. Specialise.

3. Rift. Sexy word. I know how to play the rift to Planet Shakers, All the Praise. Giler.. and also the truth about the guitarist who rifts.. he is very talented.

4. Kathryn Ho can play badminton AT A COMPETITIVE LEVEL. Bravo.

5. Twitter is super powerful. Its like an ad-hoc IRC chat room, with the power and sophistication of e-mail, with short addresses / nicknames, hash-tagging which allows you to keep track of a developing topic. It is wonderful. Now we need it to be localised. Like Microsoft Exchange server. The mobile integration is superb.

6. Its Friday tomorrow. That means BOWLING DAY! Wootzah!

7. Praise Jesus for such an interesting half year of 2009. I learnt more than I did for the past 3 years, in all aspects of life, love and relationships.  And most importantly, emotions, and BUSINESS.

Ok, here are the Yooooooo Tube videos. At me on twitter @thepippo

Vid 1 After Badminton

Vid 2 – Car Breakdown

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I was extremely surprised. Most of my collection are ripped at 128 or 160kbit and I find them “awesome” on my Altec Lancing 221.

One component that influences sound quality is of course, Speakers. There’s a huge difference comparing a RM 100 and RM 1000 speakers. But will you get the same exponential “jump” once you touch the 6 figure mark like some audiophiles do?

Another thing is sound card and cables. Modern computer motherboards have decent onboard sound. So if your speakers are under RM 300 just stick with onboard. If you’re going professional, or doing recording (podcast for example), then you should get a better card, perhaps a Condenser Mic (yup, i’m considering this one).

Just for kicks, I ripped Track 14 of Planet Shakers – Beautiful Savior (2008) from Lukas CD Thanks bro…. “Nothing is Impossible” (a swipe at Adidas tagline!!)

Nothing is Impossible (Apple Lossless .m4a 43.2 MB)

Nothing is Impossible (AAC 256 VBR iTunes PLUS 11.5 MB)

Nothing is Impossible (MP3 192 7.9 MB)

Nothing is Impossible (MP3 320 13.1 MB)

#casfumal updates later tonight. Hitting the gym at 6pm for Hip Hop dance *yeah!* but gonna “consult” my Excel lecturer on how to pass teh exams.

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And here they are: The MAN UTD TIX!

I am so happy today, for myself and for our ALLK representative to Melaka, Lukas *hehehe*

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Here’s something to read while we wait for the server to refresh!

From: Dr. Patrick Zuma

Audit Department

Africa Development Bank

TEL: +27-73-986-3114
EMAIL: patrickzuma2009@gmail.com

ATTN: Sir/Madam

I am Dr. Patrick Zuma, a senior staff of African Development Bank of South Africa {ADB}. I have an urgent and very confidential business proposal for you. An American Gold consultant/contractor with the South African Solid Gold Corporation, Mr. W. Ali. Bryant made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at (Fourteen Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S. dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the South African Solid Gold Corporation that Mr. Bryant died in a plane crash in Alaska Airlines Flight 261 On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. W Ali did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$14,500,000.00 is still sitting in our Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Laws of Republic OF SOUTH AFRICA, at the expiration of 7 (Seven) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the South African Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin / business associates to Mr. A. Bryant so that the fruits of this old man’s labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that the attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits that will put you in place as the next of kin. We shall employ the services of an attorney for drafting and notarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration in your favor for the transfer.

A bank account in any part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 70% for me and 30% for you. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the attorney and my position as a prominent senior official of ADB guarantees the successful execution and immediate conclusion of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via the private email address and telephone number above. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction. Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers for easy communication. Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply.

You can contact me at all times.

Best Regards

DR. PATRICK ZUMA

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Aaron Eu Jin aaronejgoh@live.ca

Hey guys, well after reading the report on the part talking about helping the needy and all, i would have to strongly agree with ronson on helping the less fortunate in our college itself.

on having long term objectives regarding the same matter, i guess another cheap and possible way to meet achieve that objective is by sponsoring a child program which is supported by World Vision. its only rm50 per month and this amount of money will enable the child that you sponsor clothes,daily needs, and also education. so i guess if the council would really want to have a long term objective, this would be a good way.

think about it this way. council has got 26 members, and if each member gives rm2 per month, its already rm52. and rm2 per month x 12 is only rm24 per year. is it really that hard to give rm24 per year per person compared to the amount of money we spend else where? well, i honestly must say that if you need a long term goal, think of this alternative. trust me, its really not hard when you think of how much you can help those kids with just rm50 a month. even i myself am sponsoring 2 child. 

http://www.worldvision.com.my/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=42
(click on the link above to know more about it)

think about it =)

regards,
Aaron

..

hi aaron,

i sense some hostility. no, i’m not attacking your ideas. i’m just offering ways we could make it better. i would like to refute your arguments, but frankly speaking, its not worth my time.

i just wanna make clear that i do not intend to insult your cause. I am all for charitable organisations and causes. if i have offended you, please accept my apology.

we’re just trying to work together. we got to be more open to ideas, thats all.

using words like “hell no” and “keep the money”, “no one is forcing” “i don’t mind if..” “stab or murder”, suggestions that i do not support “charitable causes”, “the world is unfair, live with it” “you don’t get things your way”

All these accusations doesn’t help your cause at all.

its like i’m a christian (yes i am) but i take drugs and look for hookers at the same time teach them about my religion. it doesn’t make sense if you contribute, yet your character do not reflect the charitable nature of your cause.

in my opinion, there are better and more gentle ways to convey a message, especially over e-mail.

again, I apologise if the suggestions were deemed offensive. good luck in your causes.

peace.

sincerely,
Philip

Hi All,

 

It is always good to know that you guys are passionate about charitable work e.g. blessing a poorer community.

 

Please brainstorm for a project. It may not be necessary super mega huge but a simple one. It’s good that many of you have a lot of ideas. However, please choose one that is intentional, feasible and you guys have the capacity to do it.

 

I would like to caution all that communication among each other is very important and please do not make any assumption. Having contradicting ideas and opinions are normal and I hope that no matter how small an idea is, please treat it with respect. It is through the little little ideas we have that we can do great things.

 

Regards,

Ronson

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 hey hey philip,
dont get all sarcastic okay.
i didnt see anything wrong with the way aaron wrote his mail.
i dont feel the HOSTILITY which you were talking about.
i think you’re abit sensitive. :/
it’s like, whenever ppl disagree with you, you tend to get pushy and all uptight about it.
you dont have to act this way.
we’re all in the council together.
aaron was just merely suggesting.
what he said was true, if those ppl want to prioritise their dignity over accepting the fact that they are in need of help, then, it’s just too bad for them.
we’re not going to force them either.
and for your information, the way he talks/dresses/acts does not prove how ‘charitable’ he is.
perhaps, learn the fact that you cannot judge the book by it’s cover.
you said there are more gentle and better ways of conveying the mail, would you say you were doing the same as your advise?
in my opinion, just chill out, and discuss about it.
do remember that this isnt a formal mail ya.
you dont need those ‘yours truly’ and stuff.
that explains the terms we’re using which seems offensive to you.
it’s just some online discussion among friends, okay.
chilling philip.
chilling.
 
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hi val,

 

thanks for your e-mail.

 

yes, i agree its all about perception. from the way i see it, aaron was quite pissed. so i was just trying to apologise if I offended lah. now you accuse me of being soft. and we merry go round once again.

 

i think to half of the members, they could sense the frustration on aaron’s part of my first reply. i re-read my two e-mails and i still can’t seem to find any fault, or in any way that “disses” anyone any organisation anywhere. once again, please accept my apology for offending anyone.

 

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dont get all sarcastic okay.
[/quote]

 

right off the bat, you diss me. its like, “hey hey random stranger, FUCK YOU! *wink*”

 

i don’t really mind your comments lah. but yes, i value your opinion about me.

 

i don’t mean to get all preachy. however, if we as the Student Council intend to represent the student body, how can we be chilling all the time. yes, there are times we can fool around. but there are times where serious matters are being discussed. like in aarons case, he wanna help taylors poor students and do charitable works. yes, its fine. you fail to see my point. i’m merely suggesting ways to implement his ideas. i’m not calling people names, or insulting someone’s cause. no, i’m not.

 

[quote]

if those ppl want to prioritise their dignity over accepting the fact that they are in need of help, then, it’s just too bad for them.

[/quote]

 

You aim is to help, yet you are neglecting the fact that people don’t want your help in a public manner.

 

My solution: Doing things subtly, organising contests and free food.

 

Now why am I suddenly the bad guy?

 

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it’s like, whenever ppl disagree with you, you tend to get pushy and all uptight about it.
you dont have to act this way.

[/quote]

 

You know Val, they say it takes one to know another. How did your idea of having people write notes for lecturers go? My micro-blogging / twitter idea was stupid and impractical, wasn’t it?

 

yes, i fight for what i think is right. that’s what leaders are made of, not by calling votes and going with the majority. yes you can call for vote, but you must be able to be man enough to go against what your team wants, if necessary.

 

influential and famous leaders have to take drastic actions that contradict popular vote. just ask bush, or obama, or badawi.

 

i guess people with strong personality will get their ideas through. business people, the westerners (american, canadian, brits and aussies) in general will always want their idea go through. Us asians will just be their workers following instructions cuz our ideas keep getting shot down.

 

no offense to anyone, but look at the Exco. All are business students. How big is the Business faculty in relation to the whole Taylors Subang? there. you got your reason why participation within the council is so weak, and in shatters.

 

There is no power sharing. There is no accountability. And the red tape is fucking rediculous.

 

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and for your information, the way he talks/dresses/acts does not prove how ‘charitable’ he is.
perhaps, learn the fact that you cannot judge the book by it’s cover.

[/quote]

 

You hit reply before you know what’s going on.

 

I was suggesting that instead coming in our Ferrari and SLRs wearing gucci and armani, we could maybe wear something plain and simple. Read up on Psychology and you will know why. This, we do during the free food handout / charitable event we are having.

 

On a normal occation, I would not reply to any council e-mails. We’re becoming just like NATO.

 

I can understand why aaron might be abit pissed. The timestamp reads May 15, 2009 2:42 AM. One rule of e-mail is that you would not send e-mail in the middle of the night, cuz it affects judgment. Now, i’m not judging anyone, but its something worth thinking about.

 

tell you what, how about val, aaron .. we go for teh tarik on me =) talk in person, then everything will be cleared. correct? then we all can continue productively in peace and harmony. the internet fucks up our communication.

 

with love and respect,

pippo
 

p/s on a worst case scenario, you can call for an emergency meeting to vote & remove this “annoyance”. i’ll get my programme director to send a replacement and then your council can run effectively?

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the end.

damn, i’m getting too overanalytical now. hope they accept my teh-tarik request =)

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Meh.

My Telephone line is fixed and I got a tone. But my Streamyx is not yet up. They need to physically “jump the port” at the box near my house. Looks like its another 1-2 days. Damn inefficient lah.

Oh, I received my MSI motherboard, socket 775, support latest Core 2 Duo and Quad Core, basic functions. Bought at RM 220, Retails now for RM 180, I sell you RM 140 best price.

On 12th, it was Teachers’ Day in Taylors UC. The response for “write a note” didn’t go out that well, so the Council had to “compromise”. I still stand by my Twitter / micro-blogging idea which can be carried out in all computer labs / laptops around campus simultaneously. That way, people are interested in technology, and it would be easy, fast, indexable, searchable and printable.

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I went to Segambut for Seafood Noodle Lunch Ai Yu. From Segambut KTM station, it is about 600 metres, but it was damn hot.

Luckily we shared taxi with a lady from Melaka. I told her, “hey, its only 600m, lets walk lah!”. She said, “I cannot walk”; as if she’s lame. I walked 200 metres, and a taxi pulled up. She called me to go in. The fare was RM 3, she only offered to pay RM 1.

For the next big event, I don’t want to take part at all. I will instead be the analyst. I will look for problems throughout the organisation of the event, so that the event I’m planning in the future will go smoothly. Of course I’m not self-fish. I will publish the report on my blog of the shortcomings and what else could be done better lah.

Went to lookout point yesterday. Had Gasoline, and went to Taman Connaught Pasar Malam to meet Patrick’s “friend”

Today is Thursday. It is Advertising day! One of my favourite subjects; where it is relevant, and useful in business. The assignment is due Friday, so I guess no outing for me today. Pat is suppose to come meet me for breakfast at around 7am? See if he makes it.

Live long and prosper. @thepippo

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Need time off to complete two big assignments in Networking Fundamentals as well as Advertising and Promotional Management, both due very very soon. To add salt to insult on top of injury, I got Internet Commerce assignment also due Friday. But this one is much more easier cuz I only have to search for 10 journal articles from the Interweb.

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Meeting with a few people regarding 2-3 web projects, not to mention, finals in 3 weeks time. Exciting times are ahead. And also a Manchester United match later tonight (or possibly Thursday morning).

Yesterday we went to Jalan Alor for some good foods. We had stingray, pork, sambal kangkung and a forth-dish. We wanted to have durian at the street corner but the uncle wanted rm 16 per kilo. The durians were small, but we reckon 2 durians would set us back for about RM 50.

I guess they gotta put that price lah. if they sell us too cheap, then the real durian-kaki would complain and wanna pay our “student rate” as well. As Donald Trump would say, “location, location, location”.

I downloaded about 700MB over 3 hours on my Maxis 3G at home. If you follow the iPhone 3G data plans, they give you only 1000 MB per MONTH for rm 150! Crazy hor? And I swallow up all of it so fast. Now, i *think* they banned me already. I can’t seem to surf the net, so I gotta rely on the school network.

Maybe later I’ll give Maxis a call.

Actually I ported over back to Digi due to the better rates. I did it last week but still no response from them. The red tape for Mobile Number portability is simply amazing, they don’t want to steal customers easily, and of course, who would wanna lose their customers to their competitors.

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I think its a good time to pray for political and economical stability in our nation.

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E-mail and Snail mail are EFFECTIVE in getting Donations for Charity

Mmmm… I’ll be rich! But yeah, there are limitations… the other alternative was Telephone, and I prove that its not that good if you use Telephone.

One thing that would be totally awesome would be the Internet. I aligned my APM and DMM and IC and NF knowledge to deduce that internet is the way of the future. :”)
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Executive Summary

Moonlighters is a Not for Profit organization facilitating a system of giving money, food or help free to those who are in need because they are ill, poor or homeless, to provide money or help in this way. As a charitable organization, they rely on public donations to run their day-to-day activities.

During their recent mail campaign, only 5% of the donor list made a donation. On a database of 20,000 people, the net return was a paltry $10,000.

This report uses Microsoft Excel and some Statistical Analysis through Regression to find out a suitable model to explain and improve the current targeting methods. Out of the 26 variable provided, only 6-8 variables are useful in determining the amount donated. However, other demographical and socio-economical factors can help explain further on the models being used.

In short, we concluded that Mail and Email are the best ways to send promotional materials. Our ROI was between 5-8 times, whereas the potential for Telephone to convert into pledges was a very slim 2 times.

We mustn’t completely ignore the effectiveness of telephone. This is because, with a good telemarketer and an up-to-date contacts list and fact file, many people can be persuaded to contribute or donate.

Whilst the above 2 methods are good, the future lies within the Internet. With varying technologies in place, online marketing is the way of the future. Technologies such as social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace helps links the wealthy and influential people on cyberspace. A lot of information can be displayed on a corporate website which will make the organization more transparent and relevant.

Another common promotional activity is through Blogs. Web logs or Blogs are websites created by an average Joe who loves telling the world about what has been happening. Various Web 2.0 technologies enable linking and searching of relevant and up to date sites. This introduces viral marketing where when someone learns about something interesting or beneficial, he can easily share it to the world, may it be through e-mail, Twitter, blogs, social-network sites, or social-news site. Once the awareness has been created in the blogosphere, the traditional News networks will pick it up, blowing the whole campaign to into an astronomical scale.

Introduction and Statement of the Management problem

This assignment requires us to find ways to better target our advertising campaign to obtain better returns.

A list of 20,000 records was given. We used a two-pronged attack configuration.

1. Remove all Non Donors (or people who have never donated)
We ended up with only 989 donors.
We then analysed on how best to reach them; either by Phone or Email or Mail

2. Using the same 20,000 records, we found out who can be reached; some by phone, some by e-mail and the rest by mail. We ended up with 11,067 records.

Some assumptions we have to make are:

1. Homephone is the only telecommunication option available to them. There is no mention of handphones, pagers or other methods which are common in today’s world. Therefore, these findings and models are based on Home telephone only, which not many people have nowadays.

On the same note, this could be an advantage because when a person is at home, he is usually relatively free and available to talk. On a handphone, he might be driving or having a class or meeting when the telemarketer calls.

2. Since this project is a Donation for Charity, the amount different people of different demographics gives may vary greatly. Not all donors are rich. Not all rich people are donors.

3. When disclosing information to researchers and marketers, people tend not to be entirely honest. Certain private information might be misconstrued.

4. Data might have changed between the time of capture and when the data is processed. A person might have changed job, changed house, bought a PC / phone, bought more Cars or a senior citizen might have died. To ensure a good model, the list must be current and updated.

Description of Analytical Model

Step 1: Creating dataset containing Current donors

Using the sort function to sort the Donation Column, I deleted all records with the values “0” meaning that this person did not donate to the charity.

Step 2: Variables which are useful indicators

I found that the variables Lifetime, Gifts, Average Gift, Promotions, RecentGifts, Sales, Cars, Technical are significant depending on the model used.

Years since First / Last is not that useful because donator’s behavior changes over time. In different phases of a person’s life, he might have heavier personal commitments like house and car loans, marriage or holiday expenditures. As long as a person has donated before, it is safe to assume they are willing to donate again.

It is harder to get non-donors to donate, and the Returns might not be as good.

The Major Donor Indicator was not used because only 48 records were found. There was no notable pattern observed.

Age is not a factor.

Home Phone / PC Owner / Catalog Shopper – these three variables do not affect whether or not a person donates.

MedHouseInc – Donation is voluntary. Not all donors are rich. Not all rich people are donors.

Occupation based percentages which are significant are included in the results below.

Percentage of Senior Citizens in the community did not affect the Regression results.

Education is also not a factor when targeting for donors.

Results

Basic Information

1. There are 989 Current Donors.

2. Using the CountIf function in excel, here are the results:

10,116 people can be contacted by phone
2,227 people can be reached by e-mail
1,276 of the above can be contacted by BOTH phone and e-mail

Of the 989 Current donors:

Total 989
Phone 476
Email 113
Phone & Email 58

No phone/email 458

Step 2: About the Model

As a general guide to whether or not a value is Significant, the t Stat must be greater than modulus / absolute 2. The P-value must be less than 0.05

Step 3: The models

Total Current Donor

Donations (Y) = 18.403 + 0.059 (Lifetime) – 0.542 (Gifts) + 1.317 (AvgGifts) – 2.935 (RecentGifts) + 29.483 (Sales)

By Phone

Donation (Y) = 3.998 + 2.407 (AvgGift) – 1.325 (RecentGifts) – 46.954 (Technical) + 32.577 (Sales)

By E-mail

Donation (Y) = 13.881 + 0.085 (Lifetime) + 1.201 (AvgGift) – 0.265 (Promotions) – 3.922 (RecentGifts) + 62.225 (Sales) + 33.913 (Cars)

Final Model Chosen

Out of TOTAL Current Donors

SUMMARY OUTPUT

Regression Statistics
Multiple R 0.711633
R Square 0.506422
Adjusted R Square 0.503911
Standard Error 16.44714
Observations 989

ANOVA
df SS MS F Significance F
Regression 5 272829 54565.81 201.7157 5.7E-148
Residual 983 265909.8 270.5084
Total 988 538738.8

Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value Lower 95%
Intercept 18.403 2.031 9.063 0.000 14.41797
Lifetime 0.059 0.009 6.586 0.000 0.041164
Gifts -0.542 0.096 -5.638 0.000 -0.7307
AvgGift 1.317 0.074 17.862 0.000 1.172694
RecentGifts -2.935 0.513 -5.718 0.000 -3.94203
Sales 29.483 9.603 3.070 0.002 10.63782

Donations (Y) = 18.403 + 0.059 (Lifetime) – 0.542 (Gifts) + 1.317 (AvgGifts) – 2.935 (RecentGifts) + 29.483 (Sales)

By Phone

SUMMARY OUTPUT

Regression Statistics
Multiple R 0.7478
R Square 0.5592
Adjusted R Square 0.5554
Standard Error 14.6394
Observations 476

ANOVA
df SS MS F Significance F
Regression 4 128046.9 32011.72 149.370 0.000
Residual 471 100940.5 214.3111
Total 475 228987.4

Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value
Intercept 3.998 2.893 1.382 0.168
AvgGift 2.407 0.114 21.125 0.000
RecentGifts -1.325 0.632 -2.097 0.037
Technical -46.954 27.071 -1.734 0.083
Sales 32.577 11.618 2.804 0.005

Donation (Y) = 3.998 + 2.407 (AvgGift) – 1.325 (RecentGifts) – 46.954 (Technical) + 32.577 (Sales)

By E-mail

SUMMARY OUTPUT

Regression Statistics
Multiple R 0.7480
R Square 0.5595
Adjusted R Square 0.5346
Standard Error 13.55
Observations 113

ANOVA
df SS MS F Significance F
Regression 6 24723.48 4120.58 22.443 0.000
Residual 106 19461.86 183.6025
Total 112 44185.35

Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value
Intercept 13.881 8.551 1.623 0.107
Lifetime 0.085 0.026 3.244 0.002
AvgGift 1.201 0.278 4.319 0.000
Promotions -0.265 0.109 -2.427 0.017
RecentGifts -3.922 1.332 -2.945 0.004
Sales 62.225 26.093 2.385 0.019
Cars 33.913 12.367 2.742 0.007

Donation (Y) = 13.881 + 0.085 (Lifetime) + 1.201 (AvgGift) – 0.265 (Promotions) – 3.922 (RecentGifts) + 62.225 (Sales) + 33.913 (Cars)

3. Conclusion / Recommendation

When doing regression analysis, we should be careful to never assume and generalise who will donate and who would not donate. Donation is a form of free will and although the data shows that donation is wholly contributed by specific groups, we can never be too sure to assume the other specific groups will not donate later on in the future.

The reason for them not donating could be probably because it is not the right timing at the time of survey.

Therefore with this theory we should still include the other specific groups but minimize the campaign cost on these “less-value” targeted groups. As for the specific groups that have been successfully donating, we should focus more on them by focusing our attention more to them.

Pros & Cons of 3 alternative campaign strategies:

Strategy 1: Mail

After filtering the Current Donors, we are left with 989 records. These people are the ones we intend to send mail to. The total cost is $2890.

The estimated donations received using the model is $27099 which garners a profit of $24209

Strategy 2: Telephone

There are 476 people from current donors who are contactable by Telephone.

Putting in the numbers into the model developed for Telephone, we get $6324 estimated donation giving $4325 profit.

Strategy 3: E-mail

Very few people have access to a Home computer. There were 113 records found. The donations estimated is $10414 with a profit of $8858

Below is a table with further information

TOTAL COST ESTIMATED DONATIONS Profits ROI (X)
Strategy A Mail
Fixed Cost 2000
Individual cost 0.9
Count 989 2890 27099 24209 8.4

Strategy B Telephone
Fixed Cost 1500
Individual Cost 1
Count 476 2000 6324 4325 2.2

Strategy C Email
Fixed Cost 1500
Email 1
Count 113 1557 10414 8858 5.7

From the previous table, we can deduce several interesting findings:

1. Traditional Mail is still the most effective way to encourage donation, closely followed by E-mail.

This is so because a lot of information can be delivered through these two media.

A potential donor can take his time to read the material in his leisure time and make a decision whether or not to donate. There is nobody rushing him, and he would psychologically feel more generous to have the proposal in front of him before committing an amount of money to the charity.

With modern software, email and letters can be personalized with salutations.

2. Telephone is not so successful because it is not the right way to sell or market to a client / donor. The target might be busy driving, cooking, chatting with friends, busy with work or having a bathe. If they are not reachable, they are unlikely to call back. Even if they do, the response would not be that good.

In general, tele-marketers have a bad name. They are usually associated with credit card scams, fake lottery winnings and pyramid schemes as well as unsolicited spamming or request for information via surveys. People usually hate it when they receive phone calls from marketers.

A grand total of 11,067 people can be contacted either by Home Phone or E-mail.

1,587 people have been accounted for in my models.

Therefore, a total of 9480 have yet to be reached or has not made a donation.

Recommendations

A. Who to TARGET?

We have identified 9,480 people being potential targets because they have not yet donated to the charity. There is no way to categorise this group of people because we do not know how much they are willing to donate.

As said earlier, not all donors are rich. Not all rich people are donors.

B. How to campaign (which methods)?

Based on my findings, the campaign to use is Postal Mail and E-mail.

Week 1 – Send out postal mail
Week 3 – Send out phone / e-mail reminders to remind the people whose records are available

C. Various alternative mixes to get the maximum donations.

The most important asset of this charity is the amount of existing donors (or people who have donated before). This is the most valuable group because they are known to be quite generous.

Given a budget, we should allocate about 60% of available funds to entice them (the 1,587 people) to give more donation.

The balance of 40% should be targeted to the 9,480 people who are potential targets but have not yet made a donation.

Another thing to look out for is % sales in the neighbourhood. This group of people have consistently been giving generously.

4. Technical Appendices – Methods

1. Make copies of the Original Data for manipulation.

2. Clean the list using the sort function
a. Make copies of the cleaned data

3. Use the sort function again to find HomePhone = 1 and PCOwner = 1
a. Make copies of the cleaned data

4. To build a model, select Donation as (Y) and up to 16 variables at one time.

5. There are some variables which are not able to be compute, like Age. In this case, we merely remove them from our model.

6. Using t Stat > |2| and P-value < 0.05, Anova value F > 5 and significance F < 0.05 , we can evaluate whether how good the model is.

7. R square is the percentage change of Y (in this case Donation) for a unit change of X (in this case, the 6-8 different variables chosen to be Significant)

8. To calculate Estimated Donations (assuming 100% response), we just apply the X value being the Count. For example, there are 989 people who can be contacted by e-mail, so we replace X with 989 in our model.

9. Residual Plot in a regression offers a good example of what a problem-free plot should look like. There is no odd fan or curved trends in the plot, the average of the residuals is zero, and the points are equally represented about the x-axis. This residual represents the difference between the observed response variable Y and the value predicted by the regression line.

10. Line of best fit (trend line) - A line on a scatter plot which can be drawn near the points to more clearly show the trend between two sets of data.

The line of best that rises quickly from left to right is called a positive correlation.
The line of best that falls down quickly from left to the right is called a negative correlation
Strong positive and negative correlations have data points very close to the line of best fit..
Weak positive and negative correlations have data points that are not clustered near or on the line of best fit.
Data points that are not close to the line of best fit are called outliers.

Formulae

1. Use
Data | Sort | Sort By
Then Select the Field to sort by.
It doesn’t matter ascending or descending, so as long as the Zeros are separated from the Ones. We then delete the appropriate values and records accordingly.

2. Using Cell-Referencing to ensure completeness and accuracy of data

='Current Donor FINAL'!B17+'Current Donor FINAL'!B18*Master!C13+'Current Donor FINAL'!B19*Master!C13+'Current Donor FINAL'!B20*Master!C13+'Current Donor FINAL'!B21*Master!C13+'Current Donor FINAL'!B22*Master!C13

In this example, the regression output on “Current Donor FINAL” sheet is used in the Master sheet pointing to the Count (number of donors). The predicted output is extremely accurate but for analytical purposes, we round it to 3 decimal places.

=ABS('Phone REGRESSION FINAL'!B17+'Phone REGRESSION FINAL'!B18*Master!C18+'Phone REGRESSION FINAL'!B19*Master!C18+'Phone REGRESSION FINAL'!B20*Master!C18+'Phone REGRESSION FINAL'!B21*Master!C18)

Sometimes in regression, a negative value may be obtained. In this case, the Absolute or Modulus function is used

Residual Plots

If the residual plot is random (and the conditions t Stat > |2| and P-value < 0.05, Anova value F > 5 and significance F < 0.05 are met), this variable is significant

Line Fit Plot

Note that there are many “outliers” where the blue dots do not align with the pink dots.

Due to the uncertain nature of donations being unpredictable, the R-Square for all models described in this assignment is between 50-55%. This means that based on a demographic or characteristic profile of a donor, there is a coin-flip chance that he will donate to our charity and proving that my model is correct.

[the end]

Student Name: Philip Khor
Student ID: 0602D56499
Tel: 016 9465088
E-mail: philip@taylorians.com

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A. LABOUR chief Lim Swee Say has this advice for the 30,000 job seekers in Singapore: There are still jobs out there.

Well, despite there being jobs, the competition for the spot is very tough. You’re competing with ang-mohs (which I’ll get onto later) with super hebat qualifications from super overhyped universities (yes, Melbourne U, I’m talking about U). What you can do is to offer something that the company needs, and a single competitive advantage. Don’t tell the interviewer / boss that you know SQL, XML, Java, C++, Sybase, Oracle, Unix, Apache, LAMP environment, Cisco and DJ-ing. No use lah, although impressive.

Tell them, Ï designed silentscreamonline.com, a successful Malaysian rock band as well as headed the online advertising and promotional efforts of multiple college organisations and a big Petronas-subcontractor”. That is enough to sell yourself already.

B. AFTER its $40 million makeover, iconic Orchard Road is going all-out to sell its charms to Singaporeans and tourists alike.

Final exams are 8-19 June. Immediately after that, will probably visit koko (brother) in Singapore and walk-walk around. By then the iPod Touch should be available. I wonder if its cheaper there. At the same time, gotta visit the new Orchard Road, and friends such as Vineet and Jason Lim

Another place I wanna “visit” is Genting. But dad wouldn’t allow lah; cuz I’m a serial gambler!

C. Sex education remains an awkward subject for both parents and teachers in Viet Nam because of the conservative attitude towards things considered “sensitive”. Thus, adults either end up not talking about sex and relationships to youngsters or else talk down to them or are evasive.

No sex ed in Viet = no Viet wives or Gfs.

Think twice when a prostitute offers you, “Sucky sucky fai dollah [rm 18]“. Kthxbie.

D. How to get lucky with women by Skilldo [link via Asiaone]

Very useful tip to khaw Singaporean women. I hope it works globally =P

But I never trust any tips no matter what (shares trading, business proposals, 4D betting). Gotta “listen to your heart”.

E. Mc Donald’s Malaysia on Facebook – Win an iPhone with 6 months of Maxis Value80 plan. Essentially they take care of your whole iPhone experience for the minimum duration.

This is a great marketing campaign by Mc D. Buy a JesusPhone for RM 3500, get thousands of Malaysian bloggers to blog about your shitty restaurant serving food that shortens our lives. On top of that, imagine the FREE publicity they’re getting for a mere RM 3500. Blog readers are on average having more spending power than non-online savvy people. They’re also easily influenced and believe almost anything they read online even if its half truths.

Air Asia starting this blogging thing with the Wanna be a Pilot? Blog about it. I’m still bitter they didn’t call me!

F. REVVING up their machines, they burn rubber as they tear down the roads of Malaysia. These are illegal racers who occasionally duel with each other for glory.

We gotta read international media to know about the shit happening in Malaysia. We get a different perspective on the real issues going on around us. We are blessed because unlike China, the InterWeb is not censored or monitored. Instead of reading thestar.com.my or malaysiakini.com , we should look at WSJ.com or Google News which links to hundreds of overseas news agencies. Rempit FTW.

G. Swine Flu (H1N1)

We’re at level 5 now (out of 6) so its pretty serious. Anyway, according to Patrick, we should be worried cuz the virus dies at 70C. Even if we don’t die from this flu, we’ll still be kaput in 2012 (oh no, here i go again, I’m out of my medicine!)

Hong Kong kena already. I gave wrong info to the guys yesterday. Its not Najib’s admin team that kena Swine. But OBAMA’s team. My bad.

H. SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Microsoft said Thursday that a nearly-final version of its next-generation Windows 7 operating system will be publicly released on May 5.

WOOOHOOO… Salvation is here!

Goodbye, XP. File -> Delete -> C:\Windows\Vista .

The only thing that can sway me right now is that if Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is compatible with normal Intel-PCs without having to apply some leet hacks. If Apple makes its OS available, Windows would have to do something radicle. But at the moment, I feel MS will still have its slender lead (ok, a big one lah) but Apple will be chipping off their market share.

I. http://digg.com/d1q0Gu Obama Ruins Black Jokes

I’m a big fan of Jon Steward. His jokes are very funny. He works with a team of jokers (literally) and a creative video team. Worth watching la.

J. http://mcdonalds.com.my

Ok, I did say Mc Donald’s is bad. But as college students with our Catan withdrawal symtoms we have no other choice but to buy a “small Coke” at RM 2.10 with Unlimited Refills and sit at their air-cond restaurants with big TV and watch our football matches. YW: There are downloadable coupons there, so you might wanna try them out.

Ok, you win, Mc Donalds.

K.Ang Moh Learn Chinese

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L. Phailed Mix May 2009

Here are the songs I chose for May 2009. Its now 6am so I’m a bit woozy. Will rearrange the final order by lunchtime and cut it by dinner time after buying some blank CDs.

Super late 03 May update: I included Kevin Federline’s – Lose Control in my May 09 Mix. Luci @ Celebrity Fitness keep playing it, and although the reviews say it sucks big time (and Kevin being an epic phailure being a riprapper hip hopper). Got opportunity I show you some dance moves I learnt from this song

You will be able to listen to EVERY song via the music bar on my blog ;0)

Have a Great WEEKEND everyone. Be productive

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I need your help to pick your top 5, then I’ll compile based on popularity, and I’ll make a final choice From this list only, thanks

oh, and one more thing.

GOOGLE CHROME SUCKS!

Yes, its fast. But its too buggy (at least on my Win XP configuration) and crashed often. I try upload on WordPress, with Shockwave, walau, super painful experience and time wasted. I’ll give it another 12 months lah. Meanwhile, I’m back with FIREFOX ver. 3 .. and the nice extensions like DownTheMall and FireFTP. everything just works.

Off to Ban Huat with Lukas, Yap and Bernard. Nice cheap food in middle of nowhere

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Black Girl and Melvyn

Jamie and Patrick Ho

Yang Wei and yours truly

Here’s a video of the action.

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I won 2 or 3 games, but flattened out in the last part. Maybe it was late lah, or maybe my Mojo ran out. Either way, it was a good hangout session with nice people.

When finishing, we met Kathryn and Jamie who just came back from Paroimia – and 2 mamak sessions in OUG area. Hahaha..

Melvyn told me its Week 10 already. Oh shit. Exams are so close – no more play play already lah. Finish up all the assignments, or else mati lah.

I went gym from 12-2, 4-5pm (pool from 2-4). Now I know where my cash all flow out to. GRRR… must reduce!~

Well, tomorrow is another day, the start of another week. God give me strength to carry on living life to the fullest!

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Sorry lah, pork is in our culture!

Blog about this later today.

1am: Chelsea and Liverpool won, so its game on for Man Utd now.

[6am update]

I surely know Yap, Wilson and Darrel will say “”bird word, lah!”” when I give my explanation on why I chose relationship when chopping the roasted pork and making a “wish”".

Some might know that I met this dude in the petroleum and gas industry recently. He’s been interested in Taylor’s Engineering talents as well as the possibilities for his company. So yesterday Saturday we had a meeting with him. Not only it was productive, but also information and beneficial; even to a non-Engineering student.

Bottom line is, I was hoping for a successful business and collaborative relationship with this particular boss.

A single meetup between a good looking girl back in high school is probably a catalyst for greater things to come, but at the moment, study and career first, family second, God third, then God willing, maybe we talk about these “serious stuff” when the time is right. At the moment, its good that we open the opportunity lah, but I won’t be as selfish as to put a “booking fee’” or “deposit”"

So, Man United won 5-2 in a thriller. After the first goal conceded, I was just too exhausted from the day’s events. For once, my Internet streaming channel of YES TV! worked flawlessly. But if your physical body cannot handle it, there’s no point pushing.

So far, I’ve listened to the Planet Shakers – Deeper album close to 20 times. Verdict? Yes, it is nice. My favourites are All the Priase and You are Good. Melbourne is worth a visit, not only for the friends there, but also to this wonderful church. I invested in a couple of headsets, one for the phone and another a regular 3.5mm earbud. The earbud sounds like you’re listening in a “hall”". The sound is very hollow and bassy. Its a different experience, so just asking all you audiophiles whether its normal for this to happen. The Sony Ericsson audio converter to 3.5mm … YW predicted it to be RM 200. I got it for RM 20 at Subang Parade.

I wanna talk about being prepared, and the culture of Malaysia in relation to business appointments and meetings.

I gave an e-mail to the attendees to come at 9:30am so we can chat over breakfast and get to know each other, and told them the meeting was at 10am onwards. YW came prompty around 9:30am and we went Foh Foh. I gave calls / messages to the other participants, but phailed.

Nevermind, I had some leeway and by 10:05am YW and I were at the location. Still no sign of anyone! I didn’t panic, cuz I had it all planned. A few phone calls and messages later, I met M at the garden entrance to our prestigeous University campus and later, the boss at around 10:15am. We walked to the meeting area, and luckily the two guys from Taylor’s engineering were here. What a relief! We then started the meeting 10:20am.

Most developed species in this world value their time. When you say “5 minutes”, make sure it is 5 minutes. I got a few more stories to share regarding this meeting, so if you’re free, call me up for a yum-cha session lah

Now I’m using Chrome. Its a better browser than Firefox, certaining beating it for speed. But the Download manager is abit funny, and confusing. The tabs also timeout and phail after a few moments of inactivity requiring you to refresh. This browser is still young, so tis forgivable.

I’ll be posting some photos on Facebook, so add me at pip@thepippo.com if you haven’t. That, btw, is also my MSN e-mail address for chatting

I formatted my computer and downgraded to Win XP. Wow, it feels so much faster and more responsive than Vista with its animation. Hopefully the games will perform better. Just waiting for Windows 7 to reach Gold Master.

Meetup with Kate, Sook Kuan and gang tonight for Paroimia. Gonna be interesting lah

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Option A requires some MORE money due to the fact he’s travelling through UK where the exchange rate is 1GBP = 5.3 RM. That’s shitloads in our economy. But the good thing is that you get to enjoy Britain a bit.

Option B is more direct. He’ll get full service and its less tiring to checkin/out the huge baggages he’ll be bringing. And there are tonnes of advantages of flying with the big airlines.

Surprisingly though, the direct route is cheaper. Going East-wards towards LAX is faster than going via the UK. If I were to put a number, I’d say its a 5,000km saving. What would be cool is if he did both; travel via UK and come back via West Coast USA!

It can be done.

Please comment about the above route or suggest a better way to get to DFW

Mmmmmm…. iPod Touch 64GB anyone? US$299 with iPhone software 3.0?

So, end of the year we go watch Manchester United in the cold harsh winter? I think tickets (both-ways) to Stansted is only under RM 1700. All – in, the air tickets should be around RM 2,500 to Manchester. If booked early.

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