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Farming 101: Precision & Smart Farming – Part 3: Lessons from Malaysia

Agriculture Farming Statistics Graph

When one is looking at land in the country, there is a substantial increase in agricultural land in since the 1960s. In 2018, the farmland area for Malaysia was 85,710 sq. km. The farmland area of Malaysia increased from 37,559 sq. km in 1969 to 85,710 sq. km in 2018 growing at an average annual rate of 1.72%. Data & chart source: World Bank

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Technology 101: Brilliant & Creative 3D Rendering Challenge

3D Rendering CAD Computer Design

I have always been fascinated by the brilliance and of modelling & using computers ever since I have gotten freeware but rather primitive -aided (CAD) many years ago. Photo by Uzunov Rostislav from Pexels.

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Technology 101: Smart Fitness Band Review – Garmin Vivosmart 4

Fitness Garmin Band Health

When it comes to personal , one thing is clear is that it is getting smaller, cheaper, more sophisticated and more intelligent and one of the improvements that I have seen is the fitness tracking where it was used to be manual before step tracker apps started to appear on smartphones. Photo by Ketut Subiyanto from Pexels

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Technology 101: Breaking Down The Bad Facts On MySejahtera App

COVID19 vaccination movenpick malaysia MySejahtera

One of the positive outcomes of the is the development and improvement of pandemic from rolling out of the vaccines, quarantine procedures and close contact tracing using the MySejahtera app.

And thanks to these action plans, our medical front-liners were not overwhelmed by the number of severe cases and we were able to recover from strict lockdowns and a high number of cases.

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Prepping 101: Doomsday Bunker – Part 1: Original Idea & Interesting Samples

Svalbard Global Seed Vault Doomsday Bunker

One of the more famous bunkers in the world is the for seeds – ‘s that holds more than a million varieties of seeds of crops and it is protected from natural disasters and the temperature is regulated to ensure long term storage of the seeds. Image source: Wikipedia.

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Military 101: F-20 Tigershark – Excellent Fighter That China Helped To Kill

F-20 Tigershark Northrop F-5E RMAF fighter jet aircraft

What if Northrop (now Northrop Grumman) brings back their next evolution of F- 5E fighter which is known as the and update it with the latest and offer it as the next generation light combat fighter? Image source: Wikipedia.

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Military 101: China’s Aggressive Naval Expansion & India’s Responses

China Aircraft Carrier Navy Naval Liaoning

Presently has 2 battle-ready carriers, both of which is based on Russia’s ex- but this is not stopping them from constructing more aircraft carriers. It is said that they may have up to 6 aircraft carriers including nuclear-powered ones. China’s first aircraft carrier, started off as a Russian Kuznetsov-class aircraft cruiser Riga and is capable of carrying 40 aircraft of different types. Image source: Business Insider.

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Military 101: Lining Up RMAF’s Next Deadly Light Combat Fighter

Hawk 208 LCA RMAF TUDM

For many years, the reliable and trusted Tiger II had remained at the forefront of front line interception and ground attack fighter before temporarily moving on to ex-US owned A-4 Skyhawk before settling down with British made light attack combat BAE Hawk 108 & 208 jet fighters.

BAE Hawk 108 & 208 jet fighters played the role of training new pilots, ground attack and providing close air support like how it was done during the Lahad Datu intrusion, with RMAF dropping Mk 82 unguided bombs and CRV7 rockets before the troops moved in. Image source: Junchuann@Wikipedia.

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Technology 101: Does Mesh WiFi Improves Internet Connection?

Mesh WiFi Internet

When using the for the connection at home which has multiple floors and thick walls in between, one cannot run away from internet dead zones, poor connection and solutions like actually designed to resolve these connectivity problems. Image source: Hello Tech

The that most of us work and attend classes from home truly tested the robustness of the logistics at home and this included the internet connection and also arrangement on shopping for groceries and . The good thing is we had installed fibre optics internet way before the pandemic hit our shores but over time, as more devices hooked to the internet and some areas of the encountered wifi dead zones, we had to look at a solution for this.

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Military 101: Malaysia’s PT-91M Pendekar MBT against Powerful German Leopard 2A7 MBT

Merkava IDF main battle tank MBT Israel

(Frankly speaking and in my personal opinion, the best or out there is Israel’s Merkava MBT which came into service in the late 1970s and has gone through substantial improvement over the years. It has a very low profile and is armed with a locally built 120 mm smoothbore gun that is also capable of firing laser-guided anti-tank guided missiles similar to the Russian tanks. Image source: Wikipedia)

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Money 101: Best Things I Ever Bought Via Online Shopping Part 1

Online Shopping eStore Lazada Shopee

My first experience with dates back to the year 2013 with me purchasing phone accessories from IPMart and this was way before online shopping was the norm. Back then shopping at or was something totally new and there were not many options available. Fast forward to 2021, it is a totally different story. Infographic source: Midec / Exabytes

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TV Shows 101: Reviewing Amazing Star Trek TV Series That I Have Watched – Part 1

Star Trek Captain TV Series Kirk Picard Janeway

One of the positive things that came out from the prolonged lockdown at hone is the available time to watch the long due TV on Netflix and I picked to complete all series from the very first 1960s that started it all to the latest shows that keep the brilliant Gene Roddenberry’s live today – to go to boldly go where no man has gone before. Image source: SYFY

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