Batik

Batik industry is one of the oldest industries in Malaysia, believed to have existed around the year of 1921. Even though the industry is not as big as other modern industries like electrical and electronic industry, batik industry does provide its share in making contribution to Malaysian economy well-being by creating jobs and business opportunities in rural areas and by producing products that able to attract tourists and thus contribute to the performance of tourism industry.

Batik is a cloth that is traditionally made using a manual wax-resist dyeing technique. Batik is an amazing and ancient method of color dyeing. Technically, batik is the process of applying dyes to porous surfaces. Historically, batik has been around for many hundreds of years. Esthetically, batik produces some of the most beautiful art in the world. However, batik is not easy and involves a very labor intensive and complex process with many hours of back breaking hard work.

Wax is then placed in specific areas on the fabric using a "Canting" tool. Wax acts like a barrier to the color dyes and allows a color to remain while the remaining non-waxed fabric absorbs the dye. Sometimes called “Resist Dyeing”. Most of the time the wax is removed by soaking the fabric in hot water. Occasionally some wax will remain on the fabric and is easily removed in a warm wash cycle.

The batik process of dyeing and waxing repeats. The wax can be removed and re-applied several times to make beautiful and intricate designs. Repeating until all the desired colors and patterns are obtained.

The process of batik is practiced around the world. New methods and techniques are continually evolving. Indonesian batik artists are well known throughout the world as the best batik. From the beautiful islands of Bali and Java young Indonesians start in their villages learning from the elders.

Management Information System (MIS)

MIS provides information on the firm’s performance to help managers monitor & control the business. The IS a set of interrelated components of people, software, hardware,networks, data resources & procedures that collect, process, store, and distribute information to support decision making & control in an organization

To support business process & organization : day to day routine task & business operations

To support mgmt decision making : short term decision making, reporting & simple analysis

To support strategies for competitive advantage: long term & future projection, prediction, forecasting, simulation, competitive advantage

Improved cust svc, better services, eliminate delays, fast response, do more transaction

Substantial cost savings, attracting new cust, retaining presents cust, generate revenues, global reach for mktg, supply chain, advertising, cheaper comm.

Intranet is an internal organizational network  that provides access to data across a business firm

Human Resource: forms, work manual, training, policies

Sales Mgmt : catalogue, database, reports, presentation, pricing

Acct & Finance: reports, planning tools, approval, records

Web 2.0, feedback from cust viral, mktg, young visitor prefer if cater specific population.

DATA	INFORMATION
can’t use for decision making	can use for decision making
not organized	organized
not formatted	formatted
not structured	structured
streams of raw facts representing events, activities, and transaction that are captured, recorded, stored and classified but not organized to convey any specific meaning	Data that has been organized so that they have meaning and useful to the recipient in the processes such as making decision. Information comes from the data that have been processed

Things that illegal. The unauthorized use, access, modification and destruction of hardware, software, data, or network resources. The unautho release of information. The unauthorized copying of software

Virus & worms copy annoying or destructive routines into networked computers. Often spread via email or file attachments.

Computer virus – programme code that cannot work without being inserted into another program. Worm – distinct program that can run unaided

DOS- hammering a websites equipment wit too many requests for information, an attacker can effectively clog a system, slowing performance or even crashing  site eg: Jan 4 2002: DOS on e-commerce cause 3hrs slow performance on google, yahoo

Software piracy happens when unauthorized copying of computer programs. 

Langkawi 2012

Last thursday 4/10/2012 we flew to Langkawi Island...It was a fantastic family holiday of the year. We spent 3 Nites at Sri Lagenda Apartment (Langkawi Muslim's Apartment Only). It was a comfortable stay.. 

Facilities in the hse.....

• 3 Bedrooms and 2 bathrooms
• Fully Air Conditioned
• Cooking Utensils
• Water Heater
• Towel is provided.
• Public swimming pool located nearby homestay. (its not well maintained- not recommended)

our special thanks to En Roslan Kasim.. For bookings pls call Tel : 019-4172177

We had a nissan urvan with 14 seats ( For booking pls call Syukur Tel: 012-4055634)  for our trip this time, so we were able to view a nice scenery of Langkawi and I’ve got lots to say about Langkawi, but let the pictures do the talking.. :) It was a really nice view..  many more pics will be upload soon...