~ my birthday ~

March 27, 2009 | Category: Birthdays, my Story | Leave a Comment

Wee ~ another round of 27th March again, which mean I’m older by another year ~ hoho ~ … flashing back at what I had done and what I have not done and what I want to “done” next? LOL ~ hahahaha ~

Sounds pathetic, did I ~ (” ?)

Most of the time I’m having quiet birthday… no cake, no present, no card, no party bash, no surprise. Least I still receives birthday wishes from my sibling, relatives, buddies and friends via text (which could be SMS or IM) and ++ I’m having my birthday at another country this year … not too bad huh? Really thanks and appreciate for those who wishes me and also for those that remember me ~ Thanks a lot ~

but hey ~ it’s a bit slighty different this year ~

Tada ~~~ a Lobster Seafood Pizza as my birthday cake from my two senior colleagues ~ yay

special thanks to Jazz and Elcent for it

and…

not to forget a very special “gift” from someone

thou not being around or together

but the presence can be felt

and that’s my most memorable gift

in my LIFE

thanks for being with ME

: )

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19.03.2009

March 19, 2009 | Category: my Story | Leave a Comment

Why today?

What is today?

Why 19th March 2009?

What so special about it?

Anything unique?

or perhaps…

something happened

and

a day who two will not ever forgetting

: )

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Happy New Year 2009

January 1, 2009 | Category: Friends, Travels, my Story | Leave a Comment

First time ever in my life that I’m celebrating Christmas and New Year away from Malaysia. Perhaps it is a no big deal for many that went to study overseas . Anyway, since I’m updating this so damn LATE!!! (=_=!!) I’ll lets the photos express my feelings out

My great friends from Hong Kong, (from left)

Cissy, Kate Chu, Wing Chu & Mike Yu (sitting boy)

This shot was taken at Nathan Road which is one of the busiest road in Hong Kong. It was blocked for today

Picnic at Avenue of Stars, East Tsim Sha Tsui

Since 2:00pm++ people already started booking for great spots at Avenue of Stars to stood up their tripods for phototaking of the New Year Fireworks at Hong Kong Island. Thanks to Mike Yu’s parents who came here around 4:00pm++ to secure this place for us

*Look here*

… and soon there it goes

* ~ Happy New Year 2009 ~ *

Fireworks photos courtesy of Mike Yu

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Hong Kong’s Tram Party!!!

December 7, 2008 | Category: Birthdays, Travels, my Story | Leave a Comment

Oh, please don’t bother regarding the date of posting. Actually the post before suppose to be on 29th November 2008 instead of the same date *bahhhh….. I’m just lazy ~ LOL*

My 2nd Sunday after I arrived at Hong Kong this time and I’m alone while my colleagues with their own life. Ahhh, it is cold outside and the very first winter season experience of my life. The climate is much cooler than the time I spent at Genting Highlands working part-time during secondary school’s long term break.

Finally decided to go out to Causeway Bay to walk around and shops for some sweater. Before I start get going to Causeway Bay, I went to Sai Wan where I used to stay during my previous trip to Hong Kong. Went there to buy some IDD cards *it is real cheap there and worth going ~ I saved HK$60 for HK$200 worth of Dragon’s IDD cards *. Took a set of tea time meal at Yoshinoya before I board a tram to goto Causeway Bay. Guess what …..

It happened there was a party on going on the upper deck of the tram I board. A few foreigners were having birthday celebration for one of their friend. I was offerred some cookies and beers. Cheers ~ ~ ~ sang a birthday song together with them ~ LOL

The birthday star is the one lower second from the left

Ahhh, we caught someone covering the face while taking photo just now!!!

Okayz, that’s a bad punishment.

Suppose the person beside her on the photo to be me

*smack* *smack* ~ dream on ~ >.<

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Tags: birthday, Hong Kong, party, tram

I’m off flying again…

December 7, 2008 | Category: Travels, my Story | Leave a Comment

It is like just a while ago I flew back to Malaysia from Hong Kong and now I’m off again flying to Hong Kong. Well, it was planned earlier and scheduled to be like this arrangement before I came back to Malaysia, so I’m pretty well prepared for it this time .

Aye ~ got to thanks my buddies (Dee & Koe) for sending me to the airport. Really sorry for the delay and thanks for rushing along with me . How the hell I could mistaken and keep thought that I’m an hour earlier than the time on the clock = =!!! *swtz*..

Yeah, we managed to reach the airport half an hour before my flight (in which I suppose to be there an hour earlier instead of just half). Dee’s driving skill was awesome!!! Checked in my luggage and I’m all ready to board the plane. Oh ~ this time I managed to grab myself a seat right next to the window .

Here we go ~ this photo taken soon after the plane took off.

Right above the clouds ~~~

Oh, here we see some lands again .

Noticed the changes with the shape of the clouds?

Soon we are entering dark…

The shape of the clouds changed again.

Sunset…

OK, I flight with our very own No Frills Flight Airline, Air Asia!!!

P/S: The above thermos mug not for free, I paid RM20 for it…

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Tags: Air Asia, airline, Hong Kong

5th November, Catherine Kok’s Birthday

November 5, 2008 | Category: Birthdays, Food, Friends, my Story | Leave a Comment

Yeah, 5th of November is Catherine Kok’s birthday!!! Happy Birthday to You!!!

*** but this dinner we had at the end of September 2008 which already two months ago

Please don’t take this wrong, we had this dinner for meet up but not for any like birthday-celebration-in-advance-dinner ~ LOL

Catherine Kok with her lovely cousin sister.

Alright, a snap right before she start enjoying her pasta.

Same goes for her cousin, Miss Senang. Haha, her name “too” related to “senang” ^^v

~ Fish & Co’s Seafood Platter for Two ~

As I can recall, this was my 4th Fish & Co’s meal, all previous visits I went to the branch at Lot 10 which already been closed for now. Taste wise isn’t great as the times I had at Lot 10 which already a few years back, but still a good place to try out some seafood on platter

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Starhill Gallery’s Jogoya Japanese Buffet

November 3, 2008 | Category: Food, Travels, my Story | Leave a Comment

The hype of Jogoya has been going strong all the while. Once anyone ever spelled out the word “JOGOYA“, everyone will be imaginating and fascinating how great it to be in Jogoya! *well, least that’s for my case ~ LoL *. Finally, here come the day which I tasted out Jogoya’s after all the hype of how good and expensive it could be

Okayz, this got nothing to do with it except that we parked our cars at Pavillion, KL

Just for those who don’t know, Jogoya is located at Starhill Gallery and not Pavillion

*Starhill Gallery is just located right opposite at the main entrance of Pavillion*

Wow, there was some performance at the Lower Ground of Starhill Gallery facing the rounded bar!

Finally the entrace of Jogoya at the Relish Floor of Starhill Gallery! (2nd uppest floor)

Alrights, here we go for the buffet’s sessions and its pricing available at Jogoya

I called Jogoya a few days in advance to make booking in case we can’t secure ourselves seatings during busy times. Honestly speaking, it is quite frustrating to get them pick up the call ~ LoL! I tried from afternoon until night only get them pick up the call. First you’ll need to pass a series of communication with automated-operator before you’ll reach their customer service representative. Ahhh well, if you happen to call, just spam the number on the dial ~ haha! *= =!!! sweat*

First you’ll get to the counter to register on your number of pax. In my case, I just spell them my reservation code and then they confirm me on the number of paxs before proceed to payment. Yeah, you’ll need to pay before you enter Jogoya

Here it is our reserved table for 10 pax (in fact I made for 12 but 2 FFK-ed!!! )

Lets get for the food! Before that, you’ll be noticing this clip thingy available one for each person on the table. This clip works like a token for you to drop into a bowl later for food which requires time for preparation. So they’ll later serve the food to your table and return the clip to you. There off you go again for hunting others. This brilliant system just not to PAUSE nor HALT you at one station while waiting for the food to get ready, you can go get and enjoy other food while waiting for it *isn’t that just nice?*

Don’t lost this while you still want to eat!

Within minutes, our table filled for our first round of food ~ muahaha!

Might as well we go on a short brief so you’ll get idea on what kind of food you’ll be expecting to eat at Jogoya . Emmm… I guess I’ll skip that on second thought because it is too much to type out = =!!! *sweat* Did you noticed those mini-stove available on the table? Certain food will require to heat up the food such as shabu-shabu and porridge.

Mini-stove on each of the table with something on…

… which is Jogoya’s Drunken Stone Mini Lobster!

Once we’re done will all the food, lets move on for some desserts!

Guess this corner would be the female’s main attraction, EAT WHILE YOU CAN HAAGEN-DAZS!!!

I had few scoops of the Green Tea flavour which later I gave up because it is just too sweet. If you aren’t an ice-cream lover, lets not worry as there are cookies, marshmallows, chocolates and many other varieties. You can actually keep your stomach filled by just having the desserts

Finally a group shot of us who went there together

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Tags: Food, Friends, Japanese, Malaysia

My Workstation aka Vearnstation V3

October 27, 2008 | Category: Games, IT Techz, my Story | Leave a Comment

The PC game, “Crysis” which released in November 13, 2007 created a great phenomena in PC gaming hardware where most gaming enthusiasts spend every possible bucks they could afford to upgrade their rig to support if not to match up with the high graphics requirement of the game, Crysis! PC Gamer remarked that “Crysis has pushed PC gaming to a new plateau, marrying the most advanced graphics engine ever created with phenomenal gameplay. From the cinematic opening to credits to its cliffhanger ending, Crysis is mesmerizing.”

I’m a FPS or First-Person-Shooter fans myself. I played with Half-Life, Quake II & III, Red Fraction, C&C: Renegade, Counter-Strike, Condition Zero and many other titles back in my school days. Ahh… those sweet times when we got nothing much to worry beside homework and exam ~ LoL . I stopped my last FPS during the time of Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 legacy where my rig was almost impossible to host a smooth gameplay. I gave up both game after a few hours with it when I couldn’t bear the lagness anymore.

Late in year 2007, my AMD64 rig giving me numerous problems from time to time. It was also critical when I need to finish up my assignment but ended up the rig serving me some downtime and I need to spend time fixing it up. Fedup with it, I made my move to upgrade the whole damn thing! *excuses *

Special thanks to a friend of mine, a dota-kaki to be exact, he helped me to source a low price processor where I made the Intel’s Core 2 Quad Processor possible in my new rig specification . With a little of shopping again done at LowYat.Net, my new specification as follows:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz LGA775 (overclocked to 3.2GHz )
Xigmatek HDT-S1283 Air Cooler
DFI LanParty DK P35-T2RS
OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Titanium 4GB Edition Dual Channel (4-4-4-12 @ 2.0V)
500GB Seagate 7200.11 SATA2 32MB HDD
LG H10A DVDRW-Rom
HIS HD 3870 IceQ 3 Turbo HDMI Dual DL-DVI & TV 512MB GDDR4 PCIe
Dell E1905FP 19″ LCD
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Edifier R501 MKII 5.1
Fortron Bluestorm 500W
Thermaltake Tsunami Dream
Dell’s 104-Keys Black USB Multimedia Keyboard & Logitech MX-518 on Xtrac Ripper

This new rig provide enough “juice” for me to finish the game Crysis on high customized setting. Finally I be able to play same latest PC games, but I keep my finger-crossed on how long I be able to hold on it till a new game which set another blow to shame on current PC hardware capabilities .

I bought a new set of computer table as well. The IKEA’s Jerker series which I admired since long ago already stopped in production and replaced by Fredrick series . Not to say that the Fredick series is bad, but it just does not suits my liking. In the end I grabbed the Galant series instead . It just nice that I able to add 2 cable trunks below the table for some neat cable management . Besides that, I customized it by cutting a 8mm tempered glass to lay on the surface of the table since many people said that it can get scratches easily or leaving marks when something wet rest on it for some time. Now I be able to use it without worrying much about putting anything on the table .

Finally this is the Vearnstation V3.0 where I spent most of my time on it while I’m at home for working, surfing, entertainment and relaxing .

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Tags: computer, Games, rig, Vearnstation, workstation

My Workstation aka Vearnstation V2

October 19, 2008 | Category: IT Techz, my Story | Leave a Comment

Later late in year 2004, I decided to sell off my rig (which I took quite a long time to consider) and topup a little bit of cash to migrate platform into AMD64 system. It was the time when AMD pawned most of Intel processors with their 64-bit and embedded RAM controller architecture ~ LOL . It wouldn’t be successful if I not managed to fetch a high price for my RDRAM, it was ON-DEMAND back on that time when everyone stucked with Intel’s RDRAM motherboard and doesn’t want to migrate platform . I sold few pairs of RDRAM back then by doing some trading .

So I went to do some reading and study on what hardware and setting I should get for my new rig. Thanks to many forumers at LowYat.Net which shared with me their information, experience and guidance, this was my first DIY and self-assembled rig :

AMD64 3000+ 2.0GHz (socket 754, first generation of AMDK8)
2x 512MB DDR400 Kingston Value Ram (Hynix-D43 chipset)
DFI LanParty UT nForce3 250Gb (best overclocking board for AMD64 s754 by Anandtech’s review)
HIS ATI Radeon 9600xt Excalibur Edition
Samsung Spinpoint 120GB SATA HDD
LG 16x DVDRW-Rom
Enlight 420W PSU
Thermaltake Tsunami Dream Silver
15″ Philips LCD Monitor
Altec Lansing AHS502 Headphone
Logitech MX518 Gaming Optical Mouse on XtracPad Pro
ANC s650 Webcam

This rig served me for 3 years++ until end of year 2007 before I did another major platform migration again back into Intel Pentium Core 2 system which with me till now while I’m on it updating this post . Occassionally during the 3 years time I upgraded some hardware and device:

FSP Bluestorm 500W PSU
Dell E1905FP 19″ LCD Monitor (it is a 8-bit MVA panel )
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Edifier R501 MKII 5.1 Surround Sound System
XtracPad Ripper
Canon Pixma iP4300 Inkjet Printer

Vearnstation V3.0 coming up next…

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My Workstation aka Vearnstation V1

October 12, 2008 | Category: IT Techz, my Story | Leave a Comment

Wah… laziness strikes back? Ahh… it has been almost 1.5 months I did not update my blog T_T . I just came back from Hong Kong about 4 weeks ago and have been very busy with my work lately, thus hardly get the time to do with my blog (hopes I’m not lying ~ ).

The first thing I’m concerned once I’m back to my own room is my computer work place. Usually IT geeks will call their computer as rig and computer work place as workstation which sound more pro? Hahaha… so I put mine as Vearnstation . This idea came up suddenly yesterday and so I took some of my time for it. I dig out my old photo files and trying to make a chronology of my so-called Vearnstation.

I first own a computer back in year 2001. I bought it at a computer shop named SBC at Low Yat Plaza and the spec was:

Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz (socket 423, the first generation of Intel Pentium 4)
2x 64MB RDRAM (rambus!)
Intel D850GB Motherboard
MSI GeForce 2MX 32MB
Seagate 20GB HDD (5,400 rpm)
Creative Sound Blaster Live!
Sony 52x CD-Rom & 1.44″ FDD
Prolink 56Kbps Internal Modem
Samtron 76DF 17″ CRT Monitor
Power Supply Unit & Blue Metallic Casing.
Thunder 2.1 Speaker Set
Canon S400 Ink-Jet Printer

It was legend as I’m able to play Diablo II, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Starcraft and Tiberium Sun without any lag at all! This is the time when I started passionate interested with computer and learning the bits and bytes of the hardware.

Vearnstation V1.0 (nice Ergotech computer table? )

Later on late in year 2003 when I started with LowYat.Net, I begin to learn on how to assemble, troubleshoot and repair my rig. My rig was updated with: