Oh, I almost forgot about this one.
Firefox Download Day starts today - 17 June 2008.
Go download yourself the latest Firefox now. I'm gonna start my download tonight! :D
Visit the pledge page here. Be part of the World Record attempt today!
.. and I wasn't in time make an entry about that! Haha!
I just lost track of time whenever I bury my head into works.
Will try do a proper entry later!
Update: It seems that I have managed to recover the deleted partition, it might not be so bad after all!
I think I screwed up with my hard disk. Most of my previous work is gone!
Argh!
Why is everything going to the wrong end at this time?
I hope I can restore the hard disk, if not, bye bye to most of my portfolios.
I was inspired to write this piece as soon as I got the SMS regarding price hike after midnight earlier in the evening.
Before you scroll further down, I must warn you that this post may not be well-accepted to everyone. You may not agree with what I say here. Even so, I'd still spill my thoughts out on this sheet.
"Petrol at RM 2.70, Diesel at RM 2.50 after midnight," read one of the text message.
A couple of hours later, when I was on my way out to basketball court, I saw 'chaos' at every petrol station I passed by. People were actually raiding the petrol station for fuel. The number of cars swarming towards the petrol station is just ridiculous.
Each time there is price hike, this happens. I must say, out of the long line, probably small percentage of it really needs petrol, with near-empty tank. The rest, are just rushing to fill up the petrol tank just for the sake of enjoying the last bit of RM 1.91 per litre petrol here. (The price for petrol here in Sarawak is RM 1.91; and it's 1 cent more in the Peninsular.) I'm not sure about the price for Diesel, but the sources available, the increase rate is 63% - from 1.58 to 2.58 per litre.
I mean, is this really necessary? I've seen this when I was in KL, and I'm still seeing it here in Kuching. When I was on my home after the basketball session, the petrol stations are still packed with customers.
I may not see eye-to-eye with many of you guys out there, but what's the point of save up one tank of fuel? How much difference does it make? After that tank, you'll still need to buy the petrol at the new rate! It's not like you can stock up gallons of petrol in your crib!
Annna.net just pointed out there was limit set for each patrons in the petrol station. RM 30 per customers. That's quite a sound move by the gas stations to protect both consumers and the petrol station's interest.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the time used to wait in queue to get into the petrol station for refill, the fuel consumed while waiting with the running engine as the car waits in the line, and also causing horrific jam in the traffic. I bet it was worse in KL. I've seen that before some 2 yrs ago.
Enough on the lining up for petrol issue.
Just what on earth are they thinking when they decide to shock the nation with this decision? Aren't they suppose to review the decision whether to remove the fuel subsidies or not on the 8th this month? I have also read about the decision to raise the petrol rate only in August. What happened to those? Why the sudden decision?
What's the real agenda?
I doubt the money-man in-charge would reveal the true intention to us. I don't know. I am no politic analyst, I am no economist, I'm just an IT graduate, who is better equipped with DSLR in hand than doing IT job.
For more on that, I think this post by JeffOoi.com elaborated the points clear enough.
Everything seems so wrong. Since being appointed as the lead man in the country, it seems that everything is on the rise, except for the nation's economy. Prior to this petrol price hike, we have price rise in flour, rice and etc.
With this going on, we can only forsee the poor become poorer, and the rich becomes richer. It's not helping the nation's economy overall. The backbone is clearly weak.
I mean, inflation will always be there, but instead of blaming on the inflation, couldn't we counter it with a stronger economy? We should improvise, really.
It's 4:22am now, I should really get some sleep now. Again, if you find this bit hard to digest, don't mind it. It's just me letting my inner thoughts out, instead of keeping it in me all the time. I have more to say, but I ain't got the time to write here.
Written at 3:12 am, posted at 10:40am.
My weekend schedule was like this:
24-May-2008.
morning - clicking shutter,
afternoon- clicking shutter,
late afternoon - clicking shutter,
almost evening - break, transfer files to laptop, nap,
evening - back to click more shutters,
night - dinner @ rasamas, boulevard,
after dinner - browsed through the so-called auto carnival, which seemed like a pasar malam to me, (p/s: I bumped into pazuzu there too),
late night - went out to attend a 'service request' to fix a 'cannot browse internet' problem.
late late night - yam cha with friends @ padungan.
25-May-2008.
morning - more shutter clicking,
afternoon - tried to click more, but i seriously ran out of things to snap,
late afternoon - revitalizing from the after-effect from the scorching sun,
late, late afternoon - dropped by bing! to have a cup of smoothies (banana chocolate), while I missed (almost) completely of Georgette's event there,
evening - dropped by Padang Merdeka for a random street shooting,
late evening - feeling tired, and really tired, and i'm typing this entry.
I felt like burnt out! Can someone call the fire department? Someone please pour down icy water to cool down my body.
I received a call yesterday around 3:50 p.m.
I was there.
I toured the hall for one round.
And I left - empty handed.
Pikom PC Fair is only held once a year in Kuching since few years ago, and it is held at the same o' venue ever since.
The location is pretty strategic, but the quality of the venue could have been better. Organizers turned this car-park into a exhibition hall, and in my opinion, the place is bit too small. I hope there will be a better choice for such event in near future, maybe a convention center?
I was told about the air conditioning in the hall this time round was bad. It seems the air condition wasn't working well. Or, was it because of the crowd in the hall?
There is only one thing in my mind -- CompactFlash card for my DSLR, but I knew the price here in Kuching is so blardy expensive. I didn't even bother asking. For some reason, it's so much overpriced. I'd rather order it online, or get it from KL. It's not worth getting it here, cos with the retail price here, you buy two items in KL. (I should have snapped a picture of the item with price tag there.)
The Participating Exhibitors
The booth is nicer this time round, nicely designed and made, and there are a lot more vendors/exhibitors coming up with good looking booth compared to last time.
I think these booths can be better complemented with a better venue.
We still lack the presence of cute promoters here. The only exhibitors with presentable promoter outfit is from Kingston. And that's it.
The Brand
There are even companies flying in from KL/Peninsular to participate in the fair. Irene bought her new toys from a KL exhibitor.
It sounds like it's quite a bargain for her Dell XPS M1530.
Toshiba
Robin has been telling me a trillion times that he doesn't understand why Toshiba notebook in Malaysia is so much overpriced. The price is so much different than they have it back in Australia. And one more notable difference is the keyboards used for notebooks in Malaysia, looks so much cheapskate than the ones used for Australia's.
We only get white, rubber-like material for the keyboard built here. But for the Australia ones, they have metalic, and solid keyboard, which make the notebook a class above the rest.
The Crowd
It was crowded in the hall. But I guess that's mainly because how the booths are arranged, and the hall size has something to do with that too. Remember, Permata Carpark Building is a carpark, not exhibition hall.
There's bottle neck at certain areas in the hall. People had to squeeze through the crowd just to make way over to the other side. There are customers (especially) blocking the pathway, while checking the items out.You might be able to feel how narrow the path is over there from the photos in this post.
I didn't get to snap the narrow areas, cos it was so narrow that I couldn't even wield my weapon camera out for snapshots. =P
Flash Memory Drive
Flash Drive has gone cheaper and cheaper over the time. How much does a Gigabyte cost nowadays?
MYR 17.00
I used to buy a 2GB at about MYR 50, and with that price now, I can get myself a 4GB capacity. Cheap eh?
That's all for the PC Fair. My only loot from the fair is just the photographs posted in this entry.
Yup it's still posts on Nana's birthday. Hmm.. I hope you guys aren't getting bored with post on Nana's birthday. :-P It's been few posts in a row now.
Hehe. What to do? So much to show from that day. And I reckon these are the highlights not to be missed. :-D
I think I forgot to mention her in the previous posts, I didn't even posted her pic. Paiseh, sorry..
Vivian aka ahGe
Okay, let's do the highlight for that night.
Highlight #1: Eve did a sexy strike -- thumb-licking action. =P
Hightlight #2, 3 and 4 are from this dynamic duo -- Frankie & Alvin.
Best is below here..
"I won't let you go.. zuzu.. "
And this could easily win you the "Best Couple Pic" award.
I know, I know, it seems my blog here is a bit overdose with Nana's picha. :-P But I think it's never boring to see her expression. Hehe.. So cute!
Normal mode.
Uno more! Cute Mode.
And to balance out the flow, I'm including an abstract piece as the random picture of the day:
Try guessing what it is, and where this pic is taken? :-D Anyone?
It was her birthday on the 28th.
She joins the rank of double two.
And she also had a new look, new hair.
She is Annna!
A few shots taken on that day.
The birthday girl.
Blowing the double two.
Yummy, Oreo cheese cake.
Nana and Joel.
Lastly, a random sky pic of the day:
A very unique Kuching sunset.
God is such a beautiful painter. More to post on Nana's birthday next.
Air Asia offered 50,000 free seats for all domestic flights.
This is a tribute serve to a little guy we've known for a while.
As my experiment continues, I thought that we were actually much, much better than what the J-dude could offer in KungFu Dunk.
The edited one (above) shows my good o' friend made a crazy attempt to shoot the ball.
Psst... Let me tell ya something...: I just added something to my wish-list, or something to work for this year.. That makes two items. Hehe. Two to add to the recently acquired new toys. =P
As I typed this entry, I just realized it has been almost 2 months since the Spring started its operation. Gee, that just shows how fast time flies nowadays. Gosh.
Anyway, let us just fly back to January a bit. I actually had Annna posing.. Hahaha!
The Spring was so crowded back then, everyone was there to have their own 'see see look look' session. Background ain't 'clean' enough to do this shot.
Two attempts, and off we run after that. LOL! So paiseh. Back to work again. :-)
Oh, and now that Joanne mentioned about the Palm Beach resort, she just reminded something - it's been a long while since I last did a travel log. I wish I can travel now, but budget is a big concern now.
Man.. it's March already, can be you believe that? 3rd month into year 2008.
I'm bit tied up now, I have a couple sets of projects due for delivery, and I have friends seeking for favor in design.
So, for the mean time, it'll be just one picture per post until I have cleared the pending tasks.
The bunch of old classmates had a gathering during CNY. Every time this year, we will have people coming back from all over the places, and continent. But the, the size of people coming to the gathering, shrinks over the time. This is understandable due to the commitment everyone has.
Everyone looks so different from last time now. Some have even stepped into parenthood already.
Now my turn to swap a place, from behind the lens to in front of the lens.
Keep in touch my friends! :-)
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