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Kedai Pilihan Pengguna 2008/2009

2008-11-28T10:33:00.008+08:00

On 27th November 2008, Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs of Malaysia (KPDNHEP) had hold a function called "Majlis Anugerah Kedai Pilihan Pengguna 2008/2009". It is held in Renaissance Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. It is to give an acknowledgment to the recipients who sell the daily-needs item with the right price compared to its quality and service. Please support these recipients.

The recipients are:

Kategori: Pasar Basah
1. Pasar Basah Kulim, Kedah
2. Pasar Besar Jelawat, Bachok, Kelantan
3. Pasar Besar Kuala Perlis, Kangar, Perlis

Kategori: Pasar Malam
1. Pasar Malam Rapat Setia, Ipoh, Perak
2. Pasar Malam Kilang Lama, Kulim, Kedah
3. Pasar Malam Wakaf Che Yeh, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
4. Pasar Malam Bachok, Kelantan
5. Pasar Malam Kuala Perlis, Kangar, Perlis
6. Pasar Malam Taman Nuri, Alor Star, Kedah

Kategori: Pasar Tani
1. Pasar tani Putrajaya
2. Pasar tani Stadium Ipoh, Perak
3. Pasar tani Medan Gopeng, Perak
4. Pasar tani Wakaf Che Yeh, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
5. Pasar tani Padang Serai, Kedah
6. Pasar tani Bachok, Kelantan
7. Pasar tani Taman Sena, Kangar, Perlis
8. Pasar tani Cabang Tiga Pengkalan Chepa, Kota Bharu, Kelantan

Kategori: Mini Market
1. 99 Speed Mart Ampang hilir, Kuala Lumpur
2. Perniagaan Kim Far, Bukit Mertajam, Pulau Pinang
3. Mini Market Layangan Shopper, W. P. Labuan
4. Pasar Mini Yap heng, Kuantan, Pahang
5. PL Soon Huat Sdn Bhd, Langkawi, Kedah
6. Madani Mart, Maran, Pahang
7. Rembau Mini Market, Rembau, Negeri Sembilan
8. Zua Permai Trading, Setiu, Terengganu
9. Bernas Seloka Sdn Bhd, Temerloh, Pahang
10. Pasaraya Nasman Sdn Bhd, Pokok Sena, Kedah
11. Majusar Trading Sdn Bhd, Kuching, Sarawak
12. Everise Dept. Store, Kuching, Sarawak
13. Pasar Mini Budi, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
14. D'Mart Pasaraya, Semporna, Sabah
15. D'Mart Tersang, Raub, Pahang
16. Mini Mart Peladang Beseri, Beseri, Perlis
17. D'Mart Sungai Udang, Melaka
18. Lalang Supermarket, Langkawi, Kedah
19. Pasar Mini N.M., Bachok, Kelantan
20. Pasar Mini & Kedai Ubat Po Ai, Gerik, Perak
21. D'Mart Jasin, Melaka
22. Perniagaan Ban You, Kulim, Kedah
23. Hazlan Top Supermarket, Kuala Terengganu

Kategori: Kedai Runcit
1. Giant Supermarket, OUG Plaza, KL
2. Giant Superstore, Kuantan, Pahang
3. Giant Superstore, Sunway City, Perak
4. The Store (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Bentong, Pahang
5. The Store (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Sri Petaling, KL
6. The Store (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Ipoh, Perak
7. The Store (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Sg Petani, Kedah
8. The Store (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Kota Bharu, Kelantan
9. The Store (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Tmn Kok Lian, KL
10. The Store (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Kuantan, Pahang
11. Pasaraya Econjaya, Kok Lanas, Kelantan
12. Pasaraya Econjaya, Kuala Krai, Kelantan
13. Tunas Manja Sdn Bhd, Kuantan, Pahang
14. Tunas Manja Supermarket Sdn Bhd, Kemaman, Terengganu
15. TF Value Mart Sdn Bhd, Mentakab, Pahang
16. TF Value Mart Sdn Bhd, Jerantut, Pahang
17. TF Value Mart Sdn Bhd, Raub, Pahang
18. UO Superstore Sdn Bhd, Jln T.A.R., KL
19. UO Superstore Sdn Bhd, Plaza Angsana, Johor
20. Sing Kwong Supermarket (Sibu) Sdn Bhd, Jln Tun Abg Hj Openg, Sarawak
21. Sing Kwong (SKS) Sdn Bhd, Jln Salim, Sarawak
22. Mydin Kuantan Wholesale Emporium, Kuantan, Pahang
23. Pasaraya Billion Sdn Bhd, Tg Malim, Perak
24. Pasaraya Ceria, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
25. Pasaraya Salamku, Pasir Pekan, Kelantan
26. Pasaraya Yawata Sdn Bhd, Jitra, Kedah
27. farley Sdn Bhd, Sibu, Sarawak
28. Sabasun Sdn Bhd, K. Terengganu, Trg
29. Monegain Sdn Bhd, W. P. Labuan
30. Bumi Terus Maju Sdn Bhd, Temerloh, Phg
31. Teow Soon Huat Duty Free Sdn Bhd, Langkawi, Kedah
32. Super Cowboy Trading, Temerloh, Pahang
33. Choice Super Mall @ Mahsuri Ria, Kuching, Sarawak
34. Parkwell Sdn Bhd, Sandakan, Sabah
35. Yat Fong Herbs N Foods Sdn Bhd, Tg Malim, Perak
36. Nirwana Maju Sdn Bhd, Dungun, Terengganu
37. Utama Jaya Superstore, W. P. Labuan

Kategori: Pasaraya Besar
1. Giant Hypermarket, Kuala Terengganu, Trg
2. Giant Hypermarket, Sg Petani, Kedah
3. Giant Hypermarket, Kolombong, Sabah
4. Pacific Hypermarket, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
5. Pacific Hypermarket & Dept. Store, Batu Pahat, Johor
6. Tesco (M) Sdn Bhd, Sg Petani, Kedah
7. Tesco (M) Sdn Bhd, Ipoh, Perak
8. Pantai Timur Hypermarket, Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan
9. Mydin Wholesala Hypermarket, K. Trg, Trg
10. Boulevard Hypermarket, Kuching, Sarawak

Kategori: Kedai Makan
1. Restoran De Maxim, Gua Musang, Kelantan
2. Restoran Sri Menanti, Sibu, Sarawak
3. Doli Kue Teow, Taiping, Perak
4. Restoran Wan Thai, Langkawi, Kedah
5. Gerai Makan Azizah, Rompin, Pahang
6. Warung Kurnia Ibu, Pasir Mas, Kelantan
7. Restoran Ali Hijrah, Jerantut, Pahang
8. Kopi O' Corner, Kuching, Sarawak
9. Restoran Sri Tanjong, Maran, Pahang
10. Man Curry House, Kemaman, Terengganu
11. Restoran Old Town, Temerloh, Pahang
12. Tom Yam Klasik (Melaka)
13. Maryam bt Ahmad, Jitra, Kedah
14. Kedai Makan Wan, Rompin, Pahang
15. Restoran Mualaf, Raub, Pahang
16. Restoran Lot 702, Jerantut, Pahang
17. Mohd Zailani bin Mamat, Bachok, Kelantan
18. Restoran Mail Kok Diang, Grik, Perak
19. Restoran Capati Medan Gopeng, Gopeng, Perak
20. Restoran Mama, Alor Star, Kedah
21. Restoran Seri Melor, Semporna, Sabah
22. Medan Makanan Keladi, Kulim, Kedah
23. Restoran Ajmeer, Sandakan, Sabah
24. Restoran Taj Point Sdn Bhd, Kuantan, Pahang
25. Saza Gemilang Ent, Alor Star, Kedah
26. Restoran Sham's, Labuan
27. Grand Malay Restaurant, Kuching, Sarawak
28. Tifa Tom Yam, Temerloh, Pahang
29. Selera Zuzana, Kuantan, Pahang
30. Restoran Impianku Satu, Kuantan, Pahang
31. Seri Wangsa Garden Seafood, Kuala Terengganu, Trg
32. Best Q Restoran, Jerteh, Trg
33. Restoran Makanan Thai Nurha Rest, Alor Star, Kedah
34. ABC @ Ahseng Sea Food, Jln Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuching, Sarawak
35. Warung Saji, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
36. Restoran Hidayah, Sandakan, Sabah
37. Restoran Happines, Labuan
38. Restoran Husna Seafood, Melaka Tengah, Melaka
39. Muara Duyong Enterprise, Permatang Pasir, Melaka
40. Anjung Selera, Wisma Seberkas, Sabah
41. Restoran Alice's, Sandakan, Sabah
42. Restoran Sepakat Murni, Sg Isap, Kuantan
43. Hidangan Umi, Kajang, Selangor

Kategori: Gerai Makan
1. Nasi Kukus Jani, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
2. APN Cafe, Sibu, Sarawak
3. Selera Malam, Sibu, Sarawak
4. Restoran Serasi, Temerloh, Pahang
5. Satay Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
6. Restoran Shafie, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
7. Thumbee, Sibu, Sarawak
8. Dim Tom Yam, Jerantut, Pahang
9. Gerai Makan Pak Usop, Temerloh, Pahang
10. Rosnita Nasi Padang, Melaka Sentaral, Melaka
11. MM Medan Cita Rasa, Tanjung Keling, Melaka
12. Tesco Foodcourt, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
13. Restoran Warita, Ipoh, Perak
14. Warung Pak Teh, Kangar, Perlis
15. EE Burger, Langkawi, Kedah
16. Haji Sup Tulang, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
17. Restoran Mawar Merah, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
18. Restoran Tasik Raban, Ipoh, Perak
19. Sup Power Jimbau, Sibu, Sarawak
20. Restoran Ikan Kembung, Kuala Kedah, Kedah
21. FF Lazaria Baling, Baling, Kedah
22. Kedai Makan RM2, Kuala Kedah, Kedah
23. Gerai Teh Halia, Raub, Pahang

SPECIAL AWARD WINNER:
Kedai Makan RM2, Kuala Kedah, Kedah

Motorcycle price in Klang Valley

2008-10-16T09:39:00.003+08:00

The price of motorcycle in Klang Valley had gone up, starting from 1/10/08. You can get the latest price of most of the motorcycle here:

kaloiweb

p/s: I've already paid the deposit money to buy his EX5 yesterday, probably had to wait for 6 weeks before I could get my hand on that bike.

Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim in parliament

2008-10-13T12:30:00.003+08:00

DSAI had spoken about 3 scandal (is it the truth?):

1) Buying shares when the price is high and selling shares when the price is low
2) Buying helicopter based on letter from an UMNO branch leader (PJS branch, Capt Zahar??? My place....)
3) Broadband tender signed without procedure by Minister of Finance

*this is only a few info from Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, we don't really know the truth yet, because DSAI himself doesn't want to distribute the letter yet, he told us that he also doesn't know whether the letter is genuine. For more info, read tomorrow's news paper

Blogging live from parliament

2008-10-13T09:57:00.002+08:00

Today I'll be blogging live from parliament. Latest scoop.

Sometimes, listening is worth it.....

2008-09-26T08:51:00.007+08:00

Around 5 am this morning, I woke up for my 'sahur'. Sahur is an action of eating/drinking in the early morning before Subuh. While having my sahur, I change the TV channel to TV9, 3 persons are reciting the Holy Quran, listening to them is like having the wind blowing through my brain, leisurely. But that is not what this topic is all about. Around 5 minutes before Subuh, They stop the program (maybe the reciters also wants to take their sahur). I'm waiting for Subuh too because I want to pray right away. TV9 then show a video clip of a once famous song in my life - Al-Mu'allim by Sami Yusuf.

Before, I have listened to the song and I've watched the clip, but it just felt like a normal song but this time, it really gives me the goosebumps. I never notice the cinematography for the video clip is superb! Before, I only notice that he's a singing photographer, but today, I know that it isn't merely about a normal photographer, the photographer is a Samaritan and a good son. Then he found something beautiful to include to his photo collection (maybe as a result of his kindness).

The lyric is about a teacher (which is our Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu'alaihi Wasallam). It really amazed me (why haven't I noticed this before?). I only used to like the melody of the song....

Here's the lyric for all of us which I got from Subzero Blue (Thanks...you can read lots of nice comments there...):

Al-Mu'allim
We once had a Teacher
The Teacher of teachers,
He changed the world for the better
And made us better creatures,
Oh Allah we’ve shamed ourselves
We’ve strayed from Al-Mu'allim,
Surely we’ve wronged ourselves
What will we say in front of him?
Oh Mu'allim...

Chorus
He was Muhammad salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam,
Muhammad, mercy upon Mankind,
Teacher of all Mankind.
Abal Qasim [one of the names of the Prophet]
Ya Habibi ya Muhammad
(My beloved O Muhammad)
Ya Shafi'i ya Muhammad
(My intercessor O Muhammad)
Khayru khalqillahi Muhammad
(The best of Allah’s creation is Muhammad)
Ya Mustafa ya Imamal Mursalina
(O Chosen One, O Imam of the Messengers)
Ya Mustafa ya Shafi'al 'Alamina
(O Chosen One, O intercessor of the worlds)
Ya Mustafa ya Imamal Mursalina
(O Chosen One, O Imam of the Messengers)
Ya Mustafa ya Shafi'al 'Alamina
(O Chosen One, O intercessor of the worlds)
He prayed while others slept
While others ate he’d fast,
While they would laugh he wept
Until he breathed his last,
His only wish was for us to be
Among the ones who prosper,
Ya Mu'allim peace be upon you,
Truly you are our Teacher,
Oh Mu'allim..

Chorus
He was Muhammad salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam,
Muhammad, mercy upon Mankind,
Teacher of all Mankind.
Ya Habibi ya Muhammad
(My beloved O Muhammad)
Ya Shafi'i ya Muhammad
(My intercessor O Muhammad)
Ya Rasuli ya Muhammad
(O My Messenger O Muhammad)
Ya Bashiri ya Muhammad
(O bearer of good news O Muhammad)
Ya Nadhiri ya Muhammad
(O warner O Muhammad)
'Ishqu Qalbi ya Muhammad
(The love of my heart O Muhammad)
Nuru 'Ayni ya Muhammad
(Light of my eye O Muhammad)
He taught us to be just and kind
And to feed the poor and hungry,
Help the wayfarer and the orphan child
And to not be cruel and miserly,
His speech was soft and gentle,
Like a mother stroking her child,
His mercy and compassion,
Were most radiant when he smiled

Chorus
He was Muhammad salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam,
Muhammad, mercy upon Mankind,
He was Muhammad salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam,
Muhammad, mercy upon Mankind,
Teacher of all Mankind.
Abal Qasim [one of the names of the Prophet]
Ya Habibi ya Muhammad
(My beloved O Muhammad)
Ya Shafi'i ya Muhammad
(My intercessor O Muhammad)
Khayru khalqillahi Muhammad
(The best of Allah’s creation is Muhammad)
Ya Mustafa Ya Imamal Mursalina
(O Chosen One O Imam of the Messengers)
Ya Mustafa ya Shafi'al 'Alamina
(O Chosen One O intercessor of the worlds)
Ya Mustafa Ya Imamal Mursalina
(O Chosen One O Imam of the Messengers)
Ya Mustafa ya Shafi'al 'Alamina
(O Chosen One O intercessor of the worlds)
Ya Mustafa Ya Imamal Mursalin
(O Chosen One O Imam of the Messengers)
Mu'allim

Lyrics and Composition: Sami Yusuf
Producer: Sami Yusuf

And, If you want to see the clip, I got this from google video:

*you can also download this into your IPOD / PSP from google video site.

Ramadhan, the 'barokah' month.

2008-09-10T14:31:00.002+08:00

Ramadhan is a month in Islamic Hijriah Calendar (which is right now...). During this month, Muslims will be fasting for 29 @ 30 days, depends on the visibility of the moon. It is well known as the month of 'barokah', but what do we know about 'barokah'? Some people always ask for 'barokah' of their 'rezki', but they don't really know the true meaning of 'barokah'.

3 attributes of 'Barokah'

1) Az-ziyaadah (always increasing) : It is always increasing, you will not go low on supplies.

If you want the 'barokah' of your property, means your property will keep on increasing, the money will keep on growing . Of course, you don't even know the reason it grows and think that it's all because of what you've done, but haven't you heard of people who failed in business? Why did someone become so successful while others failed to gain such profit? .
'Barokah' of your children means they will keep on increasing in numbers, and kept on creating your next and next generation.
'Barokah' in you knowledge means the knowledge you have will keep on growing, it just wont stop at certain point. It also means that it will be passed to another person and to another person and to another person (just repeat as many times as you can).....

2) As-sa'adah & As-sakinah (happy & peaceful): It will make you happy and calm.
'Barokah' in your property means it will make you happy and calm. Some people have so much cash and yet he's not happy, he's very anxious, he cannot sleep at night, worried if somebody will steal his money, worried if somebody will catch him red-handed. Why is that? There's no 'barokah' in the money itself. Maybe he got it the wrong way (eg steal, fraud, corrupt etc.). Even when you have small amount of money, if there's 'barokah' in it, it'll make you smile.
'Barokah' in you children means they'll make you happy and peaceful. Some have many children, but bad children (eg everyone joins mafia etc.), would he be happy?
'Barokah' in the knowledge means the knowledge we have will make us happy and calm. Would you be happy if you have the knowledge which can be use to help you and the others? Or would you be rather be happy to have the knowledge for vandalism (then worried get caught by the police etc.)?

3) Abadiyyah (Last long @ forever): It will last very long.
'Barokah' in property means it will last very long. Have you seen the poor people but still can eat, tomorrow can also eat, the next day can also eat, using the small amount of money? Have you seen some one, bought something today, broken tomorrow @ stolen the next day, so he had to buy the same thing again? Have you found someone, today millionaire, tomorrow bankrupt?
'Barokah' children means they can pray for us when we've died, which is one of the 'most wanted item' when we've died.
'Barokah' in knowledge means it can stay in our memory forever. Have you forgotten what you've studied before? yeah, thing like that can make ypu understand more about 'barokah'.

'Happy Ramadhan'

Art on Berliner Dom

2008-09-10T11:38:00.005+08:00

I've been there, next to Museum Island. See the image and the story behind it here:
Berliner Dom Projected With Graffiti

My friend Nico...

2008-09-05T16:56:00.004+08:00

I met my friend Nico in Berlin. He's an Indonesian, one of my best buddy in Berlin. I want to upload all of his photos from my camera here (on request, I've unintentionally delayed this for such a long time, got to work ma...otherwise someone's gonna miss their lunch and dinner...anybody else??).

Life in Berlin

2008-06-27T16:53:00.010+08:00

Hopefully, I can manage to tell every story of the picture here. During a morning in Berlin, I walked to my destination, maybe a bit running because it is raining lightly. I had an umbrella with me, but the most killer thing is not the rain, not the cold weather but it is the wind that carry the cold weather. My face feels like falling off to the ground as the wind blows towards me. On the way, I saw a construction going on in one of the road. The way they do it is the same as my countrymen's:

The a train come passed us, the train is also not that different from my country, except for the colour, design and the PUNCTUALITY:

In the evening, I went to Checkpoint Charlie again (it has become my normal route since I like going to Potsdamer Platz). From there, I went to Berlin Hi Flyer through Leipziger Strasse. It is a very interesting place. You can rent a small car (painted like zebra!) and drive. I don't really know about the rate, it's just interesting (irony isn't it?):

Moving a bit through the street, we found (actually I had to ask a little girl to get to this place, thank you very much for the help....) the small portion of Berlin Wall. They put fences around it (maybe they want to curb vandalism?? Or just a preservation step...). My friend Nico is there inside the photos. The white plastic bag in my hands? Actually, in the afternoon break, we went to a "donor" corner. the sign is really confusing. I and my friend khan end up buying the most expensive donor set there, its 5.50 Euros! I can eat for more than 2 weeks here with that much money!! We cannot finish it, so I took a plastic bag and bundle everything together in it, for dinner (but half of it had been consumed during our trip to Potsdamer Platz, haha...).

I don't really know about this bear, but I guess it does make a good photos when you want to show the coldness there.

Another building and monuments on the way there:

And finally, were in front of Potsdamer Platz:

Then we went back to the hotel. The camera is in my hand, and I remember that I had to take some photos of my room (I should have done it in the first day, but keeps on forgetting) to show it to my family. Have a glance at the room of Mercure Hotel Berlin Mitte:

Museum Night in Berlin

2008-06-26T17:10:00.017+08:00

On a Thursday evening, we were told that it was the museum night -every Thursday night from 1800-2200, free entrance to every state-run museum in Berlin. I went there with my friends (Nico, Khan, Mr. Kone (sorry, I can't seem to produce the ` on the "e" of your name, btw, Mr Kone is a Minister-to-be of Mali in 20 years!), [Miguel and Criscuolo] -Argentinians friend). We went through Checkpoint Charlie, one of the gate connecting East Germany and West Germany.

From there, we went through Humboldt University to get to Museumsinsel (or what we called Museum Island). I'm still not cured from my snapping fever:

First, when we reached the Museum Island, we saw a church (and we don't even bother to know its name):

Then we went into Altes Museum. There are lots of Egyptian heritage in it. We can take photos, but no flash please (crap! I've been scolded by the authority, "No flash! No Flash!"). by not taking the photos with flash, the picture is clearer because the lighting is designed for it:

(The above picture is where I got scolded)
Then, we went to Alte Nationalgalerie. As Mr Khan said, "nothing much, just paintings and sculptures":

The last one was said to be the most interesting museum in Berlin, that is Pergamonmuseum. It's already late at night, so we go there and fast forward, and my hand keeps on clicking my camera (without knowing anything about it...):

Then out of no where, we found our friend from China, so I took a few photos there:

Since my Argentinians friends are already tired, I and Mr Khan move as fast as we can to the 2nd floor (They put some futuristic architecture model there) and snap what looks exciting to us:

Then we went back to our hotel by a taxi. There goes our day there....

Still picture from Berlin (2nd day)

2008-06-26T16:17:00.008+08:00

Since one post is not enough, I'm extending the post to more than one. The next day, I went to Patentamt. There, I were guided through a guided tour to certain place in it, it is a very creepy place (I don't want to get lost there...it's just suffocating..ugh...). They show me the room of the emperor (but I don't even know which emperor is it...but I managed to sit on his chair! wahaha...). FYI, the phone was said to be the one invented by Alexander Graham Bell, and it's still working fine (so as the one on my table here, Panasonic brand):

After finishing my business, I and my friend (Nico and Khan, we met at the hotel in the morning during breakfast) walked to Potsdamer Platz, too bad it's already closed, so we took some picture in front of the preserved Berlin wall:

After that, we walked to Brandenburger Tor, just to take some air there (it is nearby anyway...):

There, we met our Mexico friends (I thought they were couple, but they weren't). Subsequently, we went back to our hotel and called it a day. Huh, so much for the 2nd day in Berlin....

More picture of me & my friends in Berlin

2008-06-26T14:43:00.007+08:00

Ok, as promised (although it may be too late now...), I'll publish more photos of me and my friends here. Actually, I can't concentrate on my works today. So many things is going on in my minds. FYI, I'm a busy man (it's true! My works really require me to learn lots of new things in a very limited time)! If I continue this way, I'm afraid I have to take my leave tomorrow. So I decided to free my mind from my job and protect my village in Travian. While waiting for the construction to finish (my resources are going low anyway....), I decided to upload these picture:
I took some picture in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam (My flight transit in Netherlands before going to Germany...I had to ran out of my flight to catch the next flight, unfortunately, it was delayed...bummer!)

It took me more than 1 hour to reach Berlin (Tegel Flughafen = Tegel Airport. It's a small airport, believe me...) from there. When I reach Berlin, I went out of the plane as I normally do, and I saw the sign showing EU and Non-EU. Since I'm a Malaysian (Of course, Asia is not Europe), I chose the path Non-EU according to the sign. To my surprises, they show me the way out! I thought my luggage is outside, so I went out through the door. Nobody says anything to me. I saw that I'm out to the public area. So I went back to the door and request to get inside so that I can pick up my luggage. The guard is so strict, he wouldn't let me in (because there's a No Entry sign on the door). So I had to report to the "missing luggage" section. Too bad, my luggage had missed the flight. So I took a bus, an X9 to Ernst-Reuter Platz. From there, I took U2 heading to Pankow and I stop at Gleisdreieck, where Mercure Hotel Berlin Mitte is situated (I stayed there during the whole 2weeks). After checking in, I went out, just for a walk. I walk from the Hotel to Hallesches Tor, because I have something of my interest there (please don't ask). I also took a few photos. On the way there:

In Mehringplatz (it's a park, and there's a underground and upperground train station there too..., and the best thing is it's free...):

After that, I went back to the hotel, taking another route parallel to the one I took before (it was separated by a canal named Landwehrkanal). I snapped a few photos during the trip (what do you expect? Everything seems new to me!):

Here's the good one, it's called Technikmuseum (the spelling of technic reminds me of the spelling in Final Fantasy XII, technick). There's a US jet fighter on top of it.(I never went inside it for my whole stay there, but I heard it's good...):

The last picture is just a unique transport near the museum.

One day in Sanssouci

2008-04-14T18:26:00.006+08:00

Today, I've taken an ABC day ticket (€6.5). I have plan with Rizwan Khan and 5 of our friend from SIPO to visit El Palacio Sanssouci together. From the nearest U bahnhof to our hotel (Gleisdereiek), we go by U2 to Zoologischer Garten.We changed our course to U7 and went straight to the last bahnhof, Postdam Hbf. From there, we took bus number 695 that is said to bring us to palace, but we don't know where to stop.We end up stopping so early that we have to walk quite far to reach it (thanks to me for suggesting the early stop,sorry my friends!). Now,we reach the palace and they all want to buy a premium ticket for one day(€15). I think it's expensive, plus I don't really enjoy sculptures and paintings (but they don't tell me about the slippery shoes earlier! Otherwise I might have bought the ticket for some fun...),so now I'm waiting for them, blogging, eating apple. Rizwan is offering to buy me the ticket, but I'm not that good in wasting my money or my friend's money. There's a lot of place you can enter in the palace area with the premium ticket. Just now they manage to finish 1. I also met my 2 KIPO's friend. After hearing the entrance cost €15, they also decided not to get inside. I managed to get one photos of me+one of them (from his camera obviously, that's why it's not here...). The scenery outside is marvelous,but the temperature is too cold for me. Now,were moving to the windmill, which they call muhle. I manage to go to the ground floor, to go higher than that, you'd need a ticket.

You can actually help them by providing your manpower to this windmill!

So right now I'm sitting&waiting for my friends to finish their tour (which I like better). OK, now changing to another palace, the name is too complicated. It is in the process of preservation, and it's huge! There's a couple, maybe just get married+getting their wedding photos taken by a professional photographer. I like resting while they work their leg in the palace. I don't know how to describe my feelings right now, it does feels like Berlin is singing "more than words" song from Westlife, and I like it very much. Ah, so many place to visit, but we're out of time. around 5 pm, we get out of the palace area and went back to Postdam Hbf by a bus, have something to bite, then back to hotel for some rest (because Alexander Platz is waiting for my money!) More picture of me & my friends in Berlin to come in the next post....

Trip from KL to berlin

2008-04-09T22:21:00.001+08:00

It's around 9.30pm and I'm at the airport (KLIA) right now. My flight was scheduled to depart at 11.55pm tonight. I came here early on purpose, i.e. to request Muslim meal so that I can eat together with other passanger -not just watching them eat (This does prove to be useful after all!). I start from my house (Kg Dato Harun) around 6pm to KL Sentral by KTM Komuter. In KL Sentral, I check-in my luggage at the departure section (the counter man was very helpful, I would vote for him if there's an award going on in MAS). As I went down the escalator, KLIA Express train was already waiting for me. Although it says that the journey was only 28 minutes, it does feels like hours in there, most probably because I don't really enjoy watching all the commercial in the small screen in front of me. I also don't really recognize the outside (although I'm a local, how can they expect the tourist to recognize it?), makes it a pretty long journey for me. After getting what I want (the Muslim meal reservation,and maghrib+isyak), it's only around 8 pm something. I found myself a seat in front of a TV in the back side of the airport. It was showing a news from a Malaysian channel, TV3.(Now,I'm already in Berlin to continue this story). News in TV3 will normally end at 9pm, as I had nothing to do, I just wait for the news to end. Suddenly, when the news end, they changed the channel to CNN, in other word, more news! I'm so frustrated. It makes me thinking, is everybody who comes to airport only wants to watch news? You answer that....

I'm back! And I'm writing about Eye-Fi

2007-12-11T17:28:00.001+08:00

After taking such a long holiday (the better way to say this "after a huge workload release") I decided to write again today. I have no idea what to write here because a lot of technical gadgets comes in my mind, and there's so many of them that I can't decide to write which one of them. Let's see...I think I wanna write about an amazing
memory card, Eye-Fi.

what is Eye-Fi?
It's an SD memory card, which can make your camera suddenly has Wi-Fi connection! Absolutely amazing! It comes with free Eye-Fi service package, which can upload your photos in your camera to 18 web photo sites (including Fotki & Flickr) automatically (of course, you must configure it 1st before you use it)!

Does this technology really exist?
Yup, as a matter of fact, it works flawlessly (I never had a hands-on experience with it, this is according to gizmodo)

How does it works?
1)insert the Eye-Fi wireless card into the Eye-Fi card reader
2)connect the card reader to your computer (through USB port)
3)choose your photo site and insert your username & password
4)insert the Eye-Fi wireless card into your camera slot
5)start snapping photos
6)it will automatically be uploaded whenever you're in a Wi-Fi enable territory

Anything else to be considered before I buy this?

Features

* Uploads photos automatically from Eye-Fi Card inside your camera. Built-in Wi-Fi connects to your home network.
* Provides free and unlimited photo uploads to your computer and your favorite photo or social networking website via the Eye-Fi Service. Photo transmission is secure and private.
* Supports sharing and printing websites, including KODAK Gallery, Shutterfly, Wal-Mart, Snapfish, Photobucket, Facebook, Webshots, Picasa Web Albums, SmugMug, Flickr, Fotki, TypePad, VOX, dotPhoto, Phanfare, Sharpcast and Gallery.
* Handles full-resolution jpeg images and intelligently re-sizes photos if limited by your chosen photo or social networking website.
* Features Eye-Fi Manager for easy set-up of wireless network and photo upload preferences.
* Fits digital cameras that use SD memory cards.
* Offers 2 GB of memory to store photos on the card.
* Includes USB memory card reader to make set-up easy.

Technical Specifications

* Wi-Fi Security: Static WEP 40/104/128, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK
* Range: 90+ feet outdoors and 45+ feet indoors
* Storage Capacity: 2.0GB (1GB is defined as 10^9 Bytes)
* Power: advanced power management optimizes use of camera power
* Card Dimensions: SD standard 32mm x 24mm x 2.1mm
* Card Weight: 0.1oz.

Eye-Fi Product Box Requirements

* Eye-Fi Card requires Internet connection to set-up and WiFi network for wireless transfers
* Eye-Fi Card works with virtually all digital cameras accepting SD memory cards
* Eye-Fi Card works with 802.11g, 802.11b and backwards-compatible 802.11n wireless networks
* Eye-Fi software works with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X (10.3 and 10.4)
* Eye-Fi software works with Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (Windows only), FireFox 2.0 (Windows and Macintosh)

Price?
USD 100 (according to gizmodo)

How do I get more information about it?
Go to the official website.

How to be a sensitive Non-Muslim during Ramadhan

2007-09-24T08:11:00.000+08:00

It is almost 2 weeks in the Ramadhan, most of the people know this as it is well announced in the TV and newspapers. Somehow there are a few who don't even care about this (my assumption). Show some mercy to the fasting Muslim, how?

1. Do not eat or drink in the public
This helps a lot more than you think.For example, if the doctor has warn you not to eat ice cream because you have a severe cold, when you walk out of the clinics, you see a few people eating your favourite ice cream right in front of you, they don't mean to do it to provoke you though, what would you feel? -Angry!!- What do you think of them? -Cruel, inconsiderate!!- Same here. OK, that's the case if the adults eat the ice cream, what if their children eat the ice cream and their parents do nothing about it? If you're in our shoes, what do you think?
2. Offer seat the public transport
If you happen to sit in a public transport (e.g. bus, LRT and commuter....taxi is not included) and a fasting Muslim come in, the kindest thing for you to do is offer him/her your seat. This is super special if it happen to be on the evening, where he/she rush to get home, in order to prepare to break their fast.
Although Muslim can eat 'sahur' before the sunlight come out from the morning sky, sometimes they missed it, most probably due to over slept. Just imagine if you happen to miss your breakfast and manage to get into an LRT, but nobody offer you a seat, well kinda sad isn't it? So, if you can, offer them the seat even in the morning. Even if they have their 'sahur', they still have to reserve their energy until the night to get another meal again, don't you have any sympathy for them?
According to studies, fasting will trash toxic away from your body, and it can happen in 2 ways:(a)you happen to feel better from time to time, (b)it will take out all of your energy and your body fluid,makes you feel like dying, but in the end you'll feel healthier. If you happen to see somebody who cough loudly, sneeze, hard core cold, looks like he/she can collapse any time, please offer them your seat. Didn't you just admire their determination fasting even though they face the toughest challenge? If in the anime, no matter how bad the condition of the hero, he still get up to beat the baddy, I bet you'd want the hero to win, right? Well, if you can help with anything, even the smallest help ever, wouldn't you want to help? That's the spirit!
3. Don't wear revealing clothes.
Muslims have been given guidance on how to fast, one of the don'ts are don't look at the people with revealing cloth, it will lessen their reward. The problem nowadays is most of the people do wear revealing clothes (including the Muslims themselves! What're they thinking??) until it's difficult to put our vision to the place where they aren't. You can't expect us to walk with our eyes looking at the sky! Suppose that you're making a house model for a competition, and you know that the more part there are in the model will brighten your way to the 1st place. You took the whole month to get it ready, but during the exhibition (before the judge give you mark) every visitor who came to see the exhibition unintentionally take 1 part from your model. At last all of the parts are taken away, all of your effort has gone in vain, then only the judge came to give you marks. Take your time to imagine the scenario, what do you feel if it really were to happen to you?

This are just a mere suggestion, there's a lot more think you can do to show that you're sensitive, depends on the situation. If you've done these,thank you. It's good, it's very good, it's extremely good, in fact that is the best thing that ever happen (that's a bit exaggerate), we really appreciate it (this is real).

Malaysia WCG 2007

2007-09-11T08:13:00.000+08:00

On last Saturday, I went to Midvalley Megamall. The time is around 5.20 pm. Just as I thought of going to the "prayer space" (a room which is prepared for Muslim to pray, I didn't call it a mosque because it is too small), I encounter a few tourist, which somehow makes me think of the Exhibition Hall. I went to pray, and then start my journey to the 3rd floor. What I get to see is the Malaysia World Cybergames. I went there strolling in front of the registration counter. It seems like nobody's there to entertain me anyway. I went straight into the Exhibition Hall, a few ladies is giving away fliers, but I managed to slip away into the hall. As I move forward into the main hall, I can see a big screen where they projected the game that is being played by the gamers, lots of people are watching on the chair, thinking about it again, it does somehow resemble the cinema. I went through the left side of the hall, I can see a few booths selling some online games and the credit for I-don't-know-what-but-I'm-interested-to-know-it-although-most-probably-I-won't-buy-it-anyway on my left side. On my right side, there are a lot of computer, it is where the gamers compete among themselves, but only a few left, most probably as it is near the final round. I can see quite a big crowd of supporter there too. I went back to the main hall, move around, and suddenly a chinese lady ask me to fill in the survey for Sonic Gear. Well, what to say, I've heard Newsonic, Pensonic, Penasonic, Sonic View, but I never heard Sonic Gear brand before. As there's no need for me to cheat them....or myself, I answer the questionnaire as honest as possible. And guess what I get? A keychain with heart-shaped rubber on it (maybe you can attach it to the phone...but it's too big. My wife's happy as I gave her that), a flier, and a Lineage II CD! As I continue my search for nothing, I heard a voice. There's a DJ trying to get some attention and giving away a few prizes. Somebody answer the question correctly will get a gift. I was watching there, tried to answer a question but somebody get it 1st. I walk around thinking of going out of the hall, suddenly the DJ called for 5 people, I went there and get to play 5 frames of bowling games, but not the ordinary bowling, it's the Nintendo Wii bowling -(I just know that the thing I was playing is a Nintendo Wii just now!). Well, It's quite hard to explain how I feel about playing it, but I'll try my best. I have to press the button below the remote to pick up the bowling ball and swing it like I swing the real bowling ball (only that it is much lighter compared to the real bowling ball). When I want to release the ball, I just let go the button below the remote, and the ball in the TV will go all the way through the lane. After that you have to press button A to continue with the game. As far as I remember, the remote is not that consistent, sometime when I'm swinging hardly, the ball went slow vice versa. They don't tell me how to spin the ball either. At last I got 35 points out of 5 frames. The condition to get a Samsung bag pack is I must got 50 points out of the 5 frames. as a token of appreciation, they gave me a Samsung rubber ball for trying their game. I answered another question and get another Samsung rubber ball, perfect for my 2 daughters. Then I slipped away down to the LG floor and shopped for my groceries.

40 sen/kg, anyone wants to sell their PC?

2007-09-06T08:06:00.000+08:00

Well, I saw a news in The Star online, saying that 9 collection centers will pay RM0.40/kg of your old PC if you send it there. There's pros and cons by the consumer about this campaign.

Cons: Why the heaven (sounds better than its opposite meaning) would I sell my PC for RM4 (assuming the weight of his old PC is around 10kg)? It is a branded PC, plus I bought it in 1990 for RM3000++.
Pros: Well, you can't repair it. Even if you repair it, you can't use it. Even if you can use it, you can't use it with the optimum software.
Cons: I'd rather keep it, it has a nostalgia of my young age.
Pros: This piece is a junk, as a matter of fact, it is a waste of space. If you throw it in the garbage can, you'll get nothing, on the other hand, if you sell it, at least you'll get some money out of it, you've nothing to lose.
Cons: If you think about what you said, you should know, to bring your PC to the collection center, it would require more than RM4 for the petrol, not to mention the tol, parking ticket, your energy and so on. It just don't cover the cost.

p/s:I think, unless you're a scavenger, it's not worth it for you to sell your old PC, for that kind of price.

Link: 40 sen a kilo for your old computers

Malaysia's 50th Merdeka Celebration

2007-08-30T07:56:00.000+08:00

On Monday (20/8/07),I have to go to Maju Junction Mall to take my youngest daughter's MyKid. Unfortunately I forgot to bring her birth certificate with me, as a result, the clerk (I assume) at the counter doesn't allow me to take it. The due date is only 1 month, I'm running out of time, because the birth certificate is in my wife's 'kampung' in Terengganu. As I walk back to my office, I saw a few workers. At the first glance, I thought they're renovating the court (in front of Dataran Merdeka), my guess is wrong. They're preparing for Malaysia's 50th Merdeka Celebration. I can see a lot of stage base(it's like short staging for construction) remains untouch. 2-3 heavy vehicle were holding people to let the clean/paint the upper part of the court building I guess. I was kind of lucky to see it with my own eyes.
On Friday (24/8/07), I was going to my aunt's house because we promised to start sending my brother to Egypt from there. My brother is going to study Medic in Mansoura University. That is not the point though. I walked along Dataran Merdeka to the Masjid Jamek LRT station. I saw quite an improvement to the job. The left stage is almost ready although the right one hasn't started yet. They're decorating the colliseum seat in Dataran merdeka with the picture of the former Prime Minister and flag if I'm not mistaken. On Sunday (26/8/07), once again I walked along Dataran Merdeka as I'm heading home from Masjid Jamed LRT station. What a pleasant surprise to see that it is 90% ready (my own estimation). I can see lots of big screen covered with cloth, or plastic material, some of them are painting a hut in white...maybe a control post, I'm not really sure what it is, but it does look like a hut.

The stage is almost ready, all of the plywood has been fixed on the stage. One of the workers are painting the side of the stage background, also in white. No decoration has been made yet. Nice to see that the coliseum seat is ready! There's a few tourist snapping some pictures, well I also don't want to miss the opportunity, but only with my Treo. On Monday (27/8/07) they started the rehearsal of the show. The police are closing the road, making such a traffic jam in the morning. A few friends of mine were late that morning. After we start working, the rehearsal parade started- loud patriotic song, people with colourful shirt to make some colourful formation, and some jets are flying low, It ends around the afternoon, and this has been going on for 3 days, today they're resting, waiting for the day to come, only the jets still practicing (What I thought to be a coliseum seat is actually the stage for the show during the celebration!!).

p/s: The picture is so blur, luckily yesterday I got back my cybershot!!Unfortunately, I won't be at the show because I'm going back to fetch my wife & daughters tonight!!

My Journey to and back from Terengganu

2007-08-24T14:39:00.000+08:00

Last week (haha...I end up blogging about last week again) I've sent my wife&daughters to her 'kampung' ('kampung', if translated into English, is village, but of course it is not like the village in Europe,US....or in Smallville:-)). We went from KL to Setiu by a Proton Waja, and it is a bit too crowded (what do you expect if 5 adult and 2 kids in a car?) driving around 500km, luckily I'm not the driver though. We start from KL around 9am, and the most thing I do is sleep. After we reached Gua Musang around 3pm I became active again (yeah, you're right, it's lunch time). I began taking a few photos of the scenery between Gua Musang & Besut, while the car is moving, with my treo 600. I stayed in the 'kampung' for 4 days and I had to go back to KL alone (alone here means without my wife and my daughters, of course my aunt and her friend, Niza, the owner of the Waja; are in our trip). As I will attend an interview on the next day, my aunt ask me to just sleep during the trip. As I tried to sleep, I can't, the scenery is just too amazing to miss. We use 'Jalan Pantai' (Beach road), where you can see the beach beside you most of the time. They're building/repairing a few parts of the road in Setiu. We stopped somewhere near the beach to eat, and (maybe) we have to pay for the view too. I've eaten in my mother-in-law's house, so I just order a drink. The price of the 'nasi campur' (rise with dishes, you can choose the dish yourself) plus the view (maybe) is so expensive, maybe as expensive as in KL! After that, we move on to Kuala Terengganu. There, we went into Pasar Payang (although I am 1 of the Terengganus, this is my 1st time shopping in Pasar Payang). In the 1st floor, you can get 'keropok ikan', 'serunding', turtles' eggs, 'belacan' and other food. The Terengganus says it's the cheapest, well, I didn't make any comparison, I can't make any conclusion about it. In the 2nd floor, there are a lot of clothes, batik sarong and silk batik. Niza bought a silk batik. As I never bought any silk batik before, I thought the price, MYR1xx is very expensive, my aunt tell me that the price is very cheap if you compare the same thing in KL. You also have to take care of it delicately -can't use washing machine & detergent, must use soap! They said it is needed to maintain the color. After that, we went through the road in front of the bus station and out of the town area to Mydin. This place is a must if you visit KT(this,is also my 1st time visiting this Mydin branch). If this Mydin is in KL or other major city, I would consider it to be normal, but this is KT I'm talking about! Well, we actually go there for the toilet.1 of the most interesting thing there is "hand of wax" booth.well,I never try it and I never had any desire to try it, but I just think that it is quite unique,that's all. After strolling for a while we continue our journey. We went through Marang, where we can still see the beach from the road. I snapped as much of the beautiful scenery as I can because I normally wouldn't take 'Jalan Pantai' to go to KL. We stopped to buy coconut juice - the price is normal, MYR1 per pack, but the taste is not that good (my aunt's opinion). We stopped a few places, just to take some photos. Passing through Dungun, nothing much to see. Around 6pm, we reached Paka and start looking for mosque to pray. We manage to find our way to Masjid Jamek Paka, a big mosque so close to the beach, too bad the mosquito there do bite! We pray and my aunt rest herself in the mosque for a while. I started to blog using my treo (it is the last week blog!). Around 6.45pm we continue our jouney. Somewhere in Paka and Kerteh we can see the petroleum processing plant, there are a lot of them, it's huge! Here, we snapped many photos,unfortunately it's not that clear. I also took a photo of Malaysia Oxygen plant. The night came quickly. There's not much we can see, except the lights. We went near Kuantan and turn to get into the highway to KL, we got lost a bit then start moving to the right direction. I slept all the way peacefully, I can't seem to be disturbed by the radio (I guess, my aunt turn the volume loudly to prevent her from sleeping during driving). I don't remember the time, but when I woke up, we are already near my house. We stopped at a restaurant to have our dinner, while watching Hot Shot 2. It is hilarious! After that, they send me home, and I slept again around 3am!

p/s:well, as you can see, today is already friday...emm....emm....looks like my next post, which is most probably next week, would be about this week (another last-week-syndrom again....).

Gua Musang

Mydin KT

Marang

Paka

The Legend KL

2007-08-16T12:06:00.000+08:00

Last week (monday-friday),my family stay at The Legend Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. It's not like we're on vacation (btw,our house is near the hotel),my mother wants to take her holiday there. She joins Legend World Wide Holiday Club,she pays a certain amount yearly and she gets to stay in the hotel for a certain amount of days. She invited my family to accompany her there. The funny thing is, although I'm staying in a world class hotel in the night, I went to work during daytime. I went to work using KTM Komuter, from Putra station to Kuala Lumpur Station (the fare is only MYR1 per trip). Well, what I can say is the hotel is quite good. The location of the hotel is quite strategic. It is situated near PWTC, Hentian Putra (express bus station for the east coast of Peninsula of Malaysia) and it's on the same building of a niche shopping complex called The Mall. The lobby is on the 9th floor. Then you have to take another elevator to your room. I don't know what kind of room did my mother ask, but it is on 28th floor. It is quite big, a room with 4 rooms -living room,kitchen,bed room and toilet cum bathroom. The kitchen is great! Everything is supplied there (except the food). It has wash tub, middle size refridgerator,microwave oven,water heater and electrical heater (so they wouldn't have to worry about burning hotel room). In the living room, there is a sofa which we can turn into bed (perfect for unwanted visitor....or the children! hahaha), a tv and a few chairs and tables.
Inside the bed room there's a bed,a few tables and chairs and another tv set.There are a few cupboard, wherein inside it contains a safe, an iron and its board; and a few hangers. FYI, the tv channels are quite entertaining. It has a few Malaysian Channels, NHK, Australian Network, Star Movies, Vision Four Channels, ESPN and a few more channels which I can't recall (most probably because I don't watch them, hehe). The toilet is quite normal, except that it has a bathtub with selection of hot and warm water; and a big mirror :-). What I notice is, all of the light came from orange-colour-light-omitting-bulb, which is sometimes bad especially when we need to read, or sometimes good because it gives you the romantic feeling (after all, why would somebody read during their honeymoon?). Although this is not my first trip to the Legend, I still feel that it is really nice to sleep there. Of course, this is just a review of the room, there's still so much to see for yourselves especially when it is about the swimming pool, the spa, the restaurant and so much more.

My Treo 600 : Digital Camera

2007-07-31T08:02:00.000+08:00

After a while using my Treo 600, I came to my own conclusion that the digital camera attached to it is not so bad. As stated in many sites, it is only 0.3 Megapixels! I think this is quite optimum to what you need for your phone. Of course I've seen my friend use his Nokia N93 with 3.15 Megapixels, and it is so much clearer, but let me explain why I think my Treo has done a good job for me (read it, "for me").

1st, when the pixels is low, the size of your picture is small (I'm referring to the byte size, and of course the dimension is small too...). It is around 2-4 kilobyte per picture, and it saves the space of my phone storage.

2nd, you can juggle through the photos easily (maybe like other phone, I'm not saying my phone is the best). It is really convenient juggling using the palm keypad, congratulation to the design team!

3rd, The renaming option is quite easy, no need to go to 2-3 menus before you can rename a picture, you can rename it even before you save it or after you save it, conveniently. The only regret I have for this option is that the stylus highlighting ability in the process of renaming the picture is quite bad, but just because of one problem doesn't made this feature pathetic. Look at the positive side!

4th, I'm content with the transferable of picture in my Palm. You can transfer it to your SD/MMC card, easily. The setback is, after you transfer it, it will no longer available for you to see it in the camera application. I haven't tried transferring from SD/MMC to the phone yet. Another way of transferring it is by hotsync your phone to your PC, just for back up maybe, or to share with friends through email. I wonder if we could transfer it through the infrared connection....

5th, the dimension of the picture is 160 x 120, which is suitable to be the wallpaper of the phone. If you want to capture the wallpaper for your desktop, then I would very much recommend you to buy a Sony Cybershot instead.

Here's the picture of my first daugter:

But, from my personal experience, the best use of this camera is to take the picture of scenery as it can't focus. Here's one of the example:

Overall, I'm satisfied with the digital camera in my palm.

Postmortem...anyone?

2007-07-25T10:59:00.000+08:00

Have you ever involve in any event? In your university, club or anywhere? If you have, then you should know what is postmortem, right? Imagine, in a postmortem for a program, although some elements failed in the event, everybody is giving positive comment. Nobody mentions about the failed element and nobody is trying to find the reason for the failure, do you consider it as a good postmortem? I wouldn't.

Last night (24/7/07) I watched a tv channel (around 10-11pm), there's a debate program among politicians, although it is not quite a debate, it is more towards short speech forum (as the forum moderator keep on cutting the speech of the politicians by saying they're short of time, quite funny because the politician can't even make their point on that time). From what I understand, the opposition politician is trying to point out the reason why the government's last major agenda failed, the point is quite solid as it is backed by research from a university that is compiled into a book and published. From what I understand, The government politician is trying to emphasize that the xxx race is a weak race because everybody from that race is pulling anyone else down to get upper (this might be referring to the opposition politician trying to make the government look bad). Another point might be instead of looking for the mistake seriously, it is better to plan for a better future.

The reason I'm using "from what I understand" and "might" is because I'm afraid I might misinterpret the real point the politicians were trying to convey because the cutting rate from the forum moderator is quite high.

Suppose a piston in your engine is damaged and it can't work, then your mechanic had identify the problem but he said "A piston in your engine has gone bad, let's change the engine cover in the hope that the piston might work after that. Instead of looking at the piston, we should focus on the future of this engine". Can you believe what the mechanic just said?

Suppose that there's a wealthy thief in your neighbourhood, and the thief has stolen from your neighbourhood for years. some outsider had investigated the case and found out who the thief is, they even get the evidence, suddenly your leader said "let him be, we have to look forward, let's start our future plan, we have to be grateful that we're still alive and can work for another years and we're not that desperate for the stolen money. Who knows, someday the thief might even turn into a new leaf". Furthermore, the stolen matter is not even confiscated, the thief will be the legal owner of them. To make the matter worse, a part from the stolen matter is yours. What would you say?

p/s: Well I guess somebody might say "hahaha...Take it yyy (the thief's name), it's yours, I only work for 3 years for that much of money you've stolen from me, I can work for another 3 years to get the same amount of money, hahaha hahaha".

Free sms through the net

2007-07-24T12:57:00.000+08:00

Before, I was looking for free sms through the net and stumble upon sms.ac but it is limited to certain number of sms daily unless we pay for the service.

Yesterday My friend has emailed me an advertisement. He invited me to sign up for a website http://www.mobik.com . I tried it, and I think it is pretty neat. The interface is quite beautiful and easy to understand for example the sms page, something like address book on the left, space where you type the sms in the middle and advertisement on the right. I still has problem with getting the phone number in the address book into the sms-writing space, so I just need to type the number manually, after all it's free right? But the problem is, we can only send sms to another mobiK's user handphone.

It also has features like K points. When you invite friends, register, win contest on mobiK or take a mobiK survey you'll get K points. The K points can be use to purchase some gadgets in the mobiKstore. It is not easy to get the points, but to buy the gadgets needs lots of points! Unless I desperately need for a new handphone, I won't bother with this K points, free sms is enough for me. But, checking the mobiKstore is a must. The interface is done so well. You can sort the product by its category and prices, the graphics of the movement is totally awesome! You don't want to miss this. I can't really describe it well here, you just have to try it yourself.

p/s: one of my friend is using Internet Explorer in Windows 98 but the site won't work at its best, we tried everything but still it won't work. On our last try we change into another browser (Browsar), and it works flawlessly.

My 2nd hand Treo 600

2007-07-17T08:22:00.000+08:00

Last Friday, my father came to my house, visiting my 2nd daughter. As he was going home, he saw my old Treo 180 which I had been using (which he gave me as a present before). The phone had broken into 2 pieces and I had to use tape to keep the 2 pieces together (quite a sad story, I know...). As he saw this, he offered me his 2nd hand Treo 600 which he use as a substitute to his new Nokia N90 in case of emergency. Although Treo 600 is quite obsolete to the gadgeteers, to me it is still new. I pledge to use it to its best potential. Now I am downloading the software + driver for my palm from www.palm.com and it is now around 78% completed. I guess tomorrow I will be able to hotsync my new Treo. Till then....

Permulaan

2007-07-12T09:13:00.000+08:00

Alhamdulillah, hari ini saya telah selamat mendirikan satu blog persendirian, mungkin dengan tujuan untuk berkongsi ilmu dan juga pengalaman. post seterusnya bakal menyusul nanti. Harap maklum.