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Just before I am going for my HongKong/China holiday, I got a great news. My blog, LiewCF.com is accepted in 9rules network!

“9rules is an online community of blogs and bloggers. In 2006 it took the award for Best Community Site of the Year at SXSWi in Austin, Texas.” [via wikipedia]

I was first notified by Keith Dsouza via Twitter. I thought it was a joke because I didn’t put much hope when filling the 9rules submission form after get to know about the 9rules 6th round submission on “Footsptes in the Mirror” by Edrei(the first Malaysian blogger in 9rules network?)

So far, Edrei found SIX Malaysian in 9rules network:

• Cypherhackz.net
• EducateDeviate
• Hochiak! Delicious Asian Food
• Liewcf.com
• Novelr
• Footsteps In The Mirror

I should be proud about it, shouldn’t I?

My two cents

I am not sure what is the traffic effect after joining the 9rules network, but it is great to be part of the big blogging network. 9rules is about community, as other existing 9rulers told me. Joining the family is definitely a good thing. Wish to have more Malaysian bloggers in the 9rules soon!

For the whole next week, I will be in the Hong Kong. ShenZhen and GuangZhou. My dad, younger brother and I are going to China for holiday. We do not follow any travel agency tour. We travel at our own, kind of backpackers. We will spend 3 days in Hong Kong, 1 day in ShenZhen and 2 days in GuangZhou.

Planning a tour online

Basically, we did everything online, such as booking AirAsia flight tickets and hotel rooms. There are many websites for travelers on hotel booking and travel guide. My brother and I did online research for a couple days to find the good one. I also asked for friends advices.

The AirAsia return flight tickets (Hong Kong) is about RM1,000+ for each person (not the recent RM0 promotion). The Hong Kong hotel room is HKD450 per night for 3 pax. ShenZhen is slightly cheaper. We will stay in a 4 stars hotel in GuangZhou with river view.

As for the attractions, we didn’t plan much about it. We have a list of attractions of each city but we haven’t planned a traveling route. Freestyle!

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Shopping, shopping, shopping!

Hong Kong is well known as the shopping heaven because it is duty free for branded stuff. I checked a Canon camera listed price, Hong Kong is few hundred bucks cheaper than the listed price in Malaysia! That’s around 20% cheaper!

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It is quite common that mod_security is interfering the functions of your web applications. mod_security is installed and enabled by your web server admin but you can still disable it for your individual website using .htaccess file by following this tutorial.

“mod_security is an Apache module (for Apache 1 and 2) that provides intrusion detection and prevention for web applications.” — HowtoForge

Disable mod_security in .htaccess file

1. If you do not have one yet, an .htaccess file in the folder of your web application
2. To disable mod_security COMPLETELY, add the following line to the .htaccess file:
   SecFilterEngine Off
   OR, to disable HTTP POST scanning only, use the following instead:
   SecFilterScanPOST Off
3. Save the file and test your web application to check whether disabling mod_security has solved your problem.

I recommend you to try SecFilterScanPOST Off first, instead of disabling mod_security completely.

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