Electronic Labour Exchange (ELX): A free online job exchange portal

Are you a Malaysian job seeker looking for a job or an employer seeking to fill your company's vacancy? Well, now both can register for free at Electronic Labour Exchange (ELX) to get what you seek for free, and conveniently online. And to my suprise, ELX is bilingual (Bahasa Malaysia and English).

ELX is developed by the Malaysian Ministry of Human Resources as a free job portal to help match employees and employers online. The Job Clearing System (JCS) is a primary application in ELX to ensure manpower utilization is optimized by systematic matching of job seekers to job vacancies. As of 19 April 2007, an estimated 17,000 placements have been made at ELX. Available jobs are updated every second to ensure accurate statistics.

Job seekers can register at ELX and fill in their details and do job search. There is also an advanced search where you can search for job for specific industry at specific location.

Useful telephone numbers: Selangor and Kuala Lumpur

Here are some useful phone numbers you should take note of in case of emergencies, electrical supply breakdown, water disruption, etc.

emergencies
Police & Ambulance	999
Fire	994
Civil Defence	991
From mobile phone	112
utilities disruption
Tenaga (electrical breakdown)	15454
Water disruption	1-800-88-5252
Telephone fault report	100
Solid waste (Alam Flora)	03-2052 7922
AAM Breakdown (cars)	03-2161 0808
Ambulance
24 hours service	03-7950 2500
Private Ambulance	03-7954 1111
Red Crescent	03-4257 8726
St John's Ambulance	03-9285 1576
Transport
Intrakota	03-7726 2944
KESAS	03-5633 7188
KL Sentral	03-2260 6322
KTM	03-2273 8000
KTM Komuter	03-2272 2828
PLUS	03-7981 8000
Plusliner	03-2272 1588
Putra LRT	1 800 38 8228
Sprint Highway	03-7960 1050
STAR LRT	03-2698 4977
RADIO TAXIS
Comfort Radio Cab (HQ)	03-6253 1313
Comfort Radio Cab	03-5633 0507
City Line Cabs	03-9222 2828/7878
KL Teksi	03-9221 8999
Persatuan Radio	03-2693 6211
Public Cab	03-6259 2020
Saujana	03-2163 5193
Shah Alam Taxi	03-5519 1740
Silvertop	03-4023 1267
Sunlight Cab	03-9057 5757
Supercab	03-7875 7333
Sunlight	03-9058 9986
Teletaxi	03-9221 1011
Wira Cabs	03-2144 3630
Airports
KLIA	03-8776 4135 03-8787 3894
KLIA Flight Information	03-8776 0257
KLIA Limosine Services	03-8787 3030
KLIA Ekspres	03-2267 8000
Airport Limo/Taxi	03-8787 3691
Hentian Duta	03-6203 3064
Subang Airport	03-7846 1833
Penang Airport	04-643 0501
Airlines
Aeroflot	03-2161 3231
AirAsia Guest Support	03-8660 4388
AirAsia Call Center	03-8775 4000
Air India	03-2614 2166
Berjaya Air	03-2145 2132
Cathy Pacific	03-2078 3377
Garuda	03-2162 2811
Japan Airlines	03-2161 1700
MAS	03-7846 3000
Pelangi Airlines	03-5511 0557
Quantas	03-2167 6000
Royal Brunei	03-2070 7166
Singapore Airlines	03-2692 3122
Thai Airways	03-2031 1900
Tourist Police
Hotline (HQ)	03-2149 6590
Enquiries	03-2149 6593
Customs	03-8787 2312
Report Lost Credit Cards
Amex	03-2026 1770
Citibank	03-2383 0000
Diners Club	03-2161 1381
MBF	03-2161 8075
HSBC	03-2072 1966
Embassies
Australia	03-2146 5555
Bangladesh	03-2148 7940
Brunei	03-2161 2828
Canada	03-2718 8333
China	03-2142 8585
France	03-2053 5500
Finland	03-4257 7746
Germany	03-03-2142 9666
Indonesia	03-2145 2011
Italy	03-4256 5122/5228
Japan	03-2142 7044
Korea (South)	03-4251 2336
Netherlands	03-2168 6200
New Zealand	03-2078 2533
Norway	03-2163 7100
Phillipines	03-2148 4233
Singapore	03-2161 6277
Sweden	03-2148 5433
Thailand	03-2148 8222
Taiwan	03-2142 6711
United Kingdom	03-2148 2122
United States	03-2168-5000

Countdown to Malaysia's Vision 2020

The former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir, gave a vision to Malaysia, and that is to become a fully developed country by the year 2020. Someone on the Google Blogger Help forum asked for a countdown clock, so I might as well put a countdown clock to the year 2020 as a demonstration:



If you want a similar countdown clock for your site, just click the link at the bottom of the "clock". I had wanted a slightly different statement at the top of the "clock", but couldn't add in the last character as there is a limit of characters you can put in that statement.

This post was actually made as a demonstration for Countdown clock for your blog where you can get more information regarding embedding countdown clocks.

Traffic updates via Internet, SMS and MMS

The Star reported that it is now possible to get information on real-time traffic conditions on several highways via variable message signboard (VMS), short messaging system (SMS) and multimedia messaging system (MMS) based on the Intelligent Transport System ITS, and it will be free. However, it was not reported how to get the information via, for example SMS. I have sent a message to request for such information and will update this post as soon as I get the information.

So now in addition to the ITIS (Integrated Transport Information System), now we also have LLM (Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia) to get real-time traffic information in the Klang Valley.

Serviced apartments in Pangkor

Here is a list of serviced apartments in Pangkor, Perak:

Lumut Valley Resort Condominium

PT4189, Jalan Sultan Idris Shah
32200 Lumut
Perak.
Tel: 05-683 4081
Fax: 05-683 4082
No. of units: 73

Teluk Batik Beach Resort

Persiaran Teluk Batik,
Teluk Batik
32200 Lumut
Tel: 05-683 5998/8668
Fax: 05-683 3866
No. of units: 130