Wikipedia - Donated!

So!

We did it UTAR-ians! Although our numbers are small, and the response is not as hot as we expected (I blame it on the finals), we still manage to get a bit of money out of the donation drive, and as promised, here is the donation!
Below is the list of donors:

Donor’s Name	Amount (RM)
Hor Sze Wang	2
Loh Hong Khai	3
Hee Zi Song	2
Ho Kah Sing	2
Teo Yan Chun	2
Aaron Kho Lek Ying	5
Hor Yin Hong	2
Saw Huei Jye	1
LaLaaa	5
Lim Zong Yong	0.50
Chong Sui Ping	2
Lim Zheng Yue	1
Lim Wei Hong	1
Wong Ling Cheng	1
TOTAL:	29.5

A total of RM29.50! Kudos for all of us which has contributed back to Wikipedia!
with the currency posted on Google and XE today:

A total of 9.62 USD should be donated. So to make things easier, I decided to make it a round number and donate USD10!

check it out:

and at last, we have one creepy Jimmy Wales smiling at us:

as I quote for the Wikipedia story:
As a frequent user and casual browser of Wikipedia, it is impossible to miss Jimmy's picture asking for donation(scary face Jimmy, lol). Me and my friends gathered together our funds to donate to Wikipedia, which has contributed in making our life easier when it comes to searching info on the net, and doing our Science reports. We hope this small amount of donation is able to express our gratitude(our local currency MYR exchanges at a rate of 1USD=3.06MYR, and we're all just pre-U kids), and we hope to see a bigger and better Wikipedia in the future.
The names of the donors are posted on my blog:
likethisloh.blogspot.com
lastly, thank you for keeping Wikipedia free and long live Web2.0!

Yup and that is all for our small project of Wikipedia fund drive donation!
I have the Email Receipt and also a thank you email from Wikimedia. So if you need it to see if it's real, I can forward/printscreen for you.

Stay tuned to this blog as I will do some random gags once in a while!

 :D


Best Regards,
Hong Khai aka Roti

Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
That is the phrase that is on the main page of Wikipedia.

I believe in our century, almost everyone that tries to search some info on the net, will somehow be directed to Wikipedia.
With more than 17 million (that's 17 with 6 zeros behind!) articles, it is the biggest collection of information gathered from users all around the world.
The most important thing is, 17 million of these articles are available for everyone free of charge, and are all edited and submitted by volunteers around the globe.

You know who made this possible? Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia.

This is the site that provides you information when you need to write a lengthy discussion for your thermodynamics and electromagnetism reports.
This is the site for you that allows you to read the latest information about a certain famous person.
This is the site that lets you know how rockets are made, and what is what.

Want to know what is theory of relativity?

Want to know who is the White-barred Emperor?

Want to know how Micheal Jackson became white?

Or maybe you want to learn how to make a Mentos and Coke eruption.

Get all the info you need in Wikipedia, free of charge.
You can stare at it all you like, touch it, print it, even abuse it.(just remember don't let your lecturers know you sourced from there!)

So now, Wikipedia is having its annual fundraising activity.
Me, who has earned and gained and learned and sourced(not plagiarized!) a lot from Wikipedia, would like to do a little for this big community that has contributed so much to the net.

I do not know about you, but I figure students like us, even though we would be more than happy to spare a few bucks for Wikipedia, find it a big hassle to register a web bank account, then go through all the tedious process, just to donate RM2.

So I have an idea.
I have a bank account. I can help out to do the donation work.

My idea is, I will put up a form for UTAR-ians to fill in(in the campus), then anyone interested to donate a few bucks can just pass me the money, and I will collect all the funds gathered and make a donation one shot. Of course, I'll convert the RM to USD beforehand.

Be it a RM1, RM2 or RM5, even if there isn't anyone who has interest to donate, I will myself in the end of the month.

So what say you? will you give out a few bucks to the site that has made your life easier?
Will you response to this fundraising drive? Do let me know below!

Will you donate to Wikipedia?

Appeal from Wikipedia:

footnote:
If this plan works out, I will post out screenshots of the donation payment and also the names of the donors.
Don't worry, I eat Roti Canai Telur Bawang, not money. :P

那些年，再也回不去的那些年

第二个学期接近尾声。
朋友不见得多了，也许我爱上我的手指。
可是那样也很好，不知道什么感觉的很好。
就少烦恼，少hi bye Friend 的烦恼。

前几个星期的我，无意间得知俊霖迷九把刀，介绍了给梓嵩。
听着听着，我隐约注意到一个书名，《那些年，我们一起追的女孩》。
不以为然的我，赖了许久，终于在电脑面前没有事做，就去找找来品品咯。
下载了，把它放进电话里，让无聊等公共交通的我有个消遣。

怎知，九把刀的幽默，幽到我了。
加上好几位名人如方文山和苏打绿的吴青峰推介，的却很不错。
故事讲述得很深动，人物事件好像就在眼前上演。
这就是九把刀的力量吧。

其实九把刀，我早在中二时就听闻了。
多得道晟的文艺气息，让我在他那堆漫画里发现九把刀。
那时道晟也是给予好评。
可那时的我没有拿起来看，把九把刀当作一个“出名但是我没有兴趣的作家”之一。
听说那时的他，不是写武侠故事的吗？

俊霖知道我看完《那些年，我们一起追的女孩》，如遇知音，给我好几个link继续追九把刀的作品。
可是我看这段时间，就让《那些年，我们一起追的女孩》沉淀先吧。
好东西不可以一次太多，这样让我心不安。
况其今天的考试真的不是很好，看来要够够力了。

这本书，要出电影了诶。
改编的，希望不要乖离主线故事太远咯。
那些年，我们一起追的女孩。

P.S.:梓嵩，我叫“罗弘凯”。记着咯。