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Lets make this quick and easy coz I wanna drop the sentimental conclusion.

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THe reasoning behind the move will be posted shortly on my new website... so Do bookmark the new web and please comment on the new outlook

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PcLinuxOs Virtualisation

Full photo coverage during the process is on the web album

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Wilson Promontory pt.2

The goodies of my travel. at part-1, i was mainly describing how "exciting the journey was" on the hiking at wilson prom. link on the stories is below or you can click on the tittle of the post to redirect you to the previous post.
Wilson Prom- I survived pt.1

The reason why I left the goodies behind is because it is best to describe it with pictures. the best thing about wilson prom is that the hiking mountain is just next to an awesome beach. So, if you plan your journey well, you can almost always camp in the evening at the beach side..

Harvey is kind enough to share the collected photos of the journey...

View the photos on flickr

I will download some of the photos and attached it sometime soon. I am working on VIRTUALISATION MACHINE now

Blog's New look! by -90point4degree-

This post is attributed to thank one of my very good friend who has been helping me to transform the new look for the blog.
-90point4degree-

I wish i could show you guys her awesome blog! but unfortunately it is a private one as so only her close friends get the access of it.

Thanks heaps for making it easier to read now!

Trading platform setup

Just follow the link for trading update.

SKYPE , unlimited International call for $9.95/m

Here is An article from yahoo

Skype to sell unlimited international calls for $9.95/month

By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer Mon Apr 21, 12:02 PM ET

NEW YORK - Skype, the Internet calling subsidiary of eBay Inc., is introducing its first plan for unlimited calls to overseas phones on Monday.
The plan will allow unlimited calls to land-line phones in 34 countries for $9.95 per month, said Don Albert, vice president and general manager for Skype North America.

The countries encompassed include most of Europe, plus Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Malaysia.

Calls to domestic land lines and cell phones are included as well, as are calls to cell phones in Canada, China, Hong Kong and Singapore, but not cell phones in other countries.

Skype has already been selling unlimited calls to the U.S. and Canada for $3 a month. It is expanding that offering with another plan, for $5.95 per month, that gives free calls to Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey, and a discount on calls to other places in Mexico.

Skype is generally used as a software application running on a computer equipped with a microphone and speakers or a headset. But subscribers will also have the option to call a local number from their phones and be connected to international numbers that fall under their plan, paying only local access charges or using their cell-phone airtime.

Unlimited international calling plans have been popping up in recent years from hardware-based phone services like Vonage International Holdings Corp. and cable companies, but the prices are generally higher, and the plans are add-ons to basic calling plans that cost even more.

Skype said its subscribers called phones for 1.7 billion minutes in the first three months of the year, compared with 14.2 billion minutes used in computer-to-computer sessions, which are free.

Software Update

If you're using Google Earth and Yahoo messenger, there has been some update

GOOGLE EARTH 4.3

You can open your Google Earth and on the top bar, click on"help" tab, and choose "check for update online". Follow the instruction and you will be able to download "google updater". the rest is as easy as ABC.
If you would like to know what kind of improvement it has brought, just click on the link below

"Google Earth Updates Give Users a New Global Perspective"

Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Beta

This messenger offers a better graphic (user's experience is still the same, and i think it is a very minor upgrade).
I do expect with the expansion of yahoo's community site like yahoo mail, flickr, avatar, yahoo answer, they can incorporate all of this like MSN trying to build MSN PASSWORD while integrating everything in one place.
Anyhow, you can check the webpage to update it on the link below.

"Upgrade to Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Beta"

Question about my partner/GF

Well, for some of my closest friend would SURELY! eagerly! be looking forward for the following post.
I am in the mood so, lets just start with some of the question I found on Friendster post that i found.
Btw, i will not be entertaining further Question k... hahaha

1) Single or Taken?
Taken since a very very long time ago :p

2) Are you happy with that?
I am always satisfied with who, what and where I am.

3 ) Would you still kiss your ex?
intuitively yes, morally nope.

4 ) Have you ever had your heart
broken?
Maybe......

5) Do you believe that there are
certain circumstances where cheating
is ok?
Anyone in the right mind would agree that cheating is not healthy. But, nobody can escape a little excitement from it. Based on a survey recently in UK, "woman thinks about cheating more often than man".
Cheating is a crime, if it is not proven to be guilty it is OKAY. On circumtances, cheating is fine.
Personally,
I do not believe and capable in cheating as i do not lie.

7) Have you ever talked about marriage
with another person?
Yep, surely... shallow typo

8) Do you want kids?
I love kids...
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9) How Many?
There has been a great debate on this issues in my mind. Marriage is unhealthy if you want to build wealth. reason is:
a. Once you're married, you do not have the freedom anymore
b. once you're divorced, half of your wealth will puff
c. If you lose the kid, you need to pay ALIMONY for the rest of your life
d. COST of having kids is exteremely expensive. considering my tuition and living cost is AUD 40k/year, a 5 years college study will cost 200k AUD. that is ONLY for one kids.
and this video


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However I do wanted to retire early in my age and get a voluntary job to fill my day with my kids and work with kids either in orphanage house or training them martial art.
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10 Would you consider adoption?
yes! there are alot of UNFORTUNATE kids out there, why would we need to make so much of our own while we can better the statistic.

11) If someone liked you right now,
would you want them to tell you?
Not that I wouldn't go for it. But with the load I am occupied currently, i am not in a position to give you any attention or to accomodate your position.


12 ) Do you want someone you can't
have?
yes

13) Have you fallen in love?
to love someone is a blessing, to fall in love is a SIN. NO, i will never fall in love not with anyone, not with anything.

1 4) Do you believe in celebrating
anniversaries?
I yo, nande monai. I do not have the objection at all.

15 ) Do you believe that you can change
for someone?
My approach is that, if there is a problem in relationship, there are 2 ways to fix it. your partner change her attitude/thought or you change yours. Since it is easier for me to change mine, I will change and adapt with the new reality pretty simply.

16) Do you still have a feeling for
your ex?
past is a past, even if i have one, i would still have for sure.

17) Have you ever broken a heart
before?
Answered....

18) Does your ex still have feelings
for you?
Past is a past, i am not looking forward to the past

20) Do you believe in long distance
relationship?
Statistically NOPE! 98% is a failure.
Personally , yes. how silly is it.... haha

21 ) If you have bf/gf right now, do
you love him/her with all your heart?
honestly?
not my bf/gf, but if it is my fiancee/wife, i would certainly do.
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1. smoking partner?
I will smack them with a piece of mountain... No kidding!

2. your partner is on affair?
I'll listen to the justification.

3. ugly partner...?
When you're doing "IT" with your partner/BF/GF, in cantonese after you switch of the light, it is "sap sap soi" means, it does not matter coz u cannot see it.. ha3x...
SAP SAP SOI , lo....................

4. fat and drunkard?
Fat? hmm... tats gonna be less likely coz altho I eat alot, i will certainly encourage her to do sport... no sport no relationship..
to drink is fine once in a while

5. chubby BF/GF?
would love it

6. slapped by Gf?
I will laugh and looked at her, .... gotta be a very gut-ful galz, she better has a darn good reason for it... ha3x. Its fine for me.

7. Scolded by your GF?
Argument is healthy under the closed door.

8. if your GF care about you?
This is silly Question

9. If she lies typo?
She can try,.... ha3x, gotta be very very smart to fool me... and if it works.. i will congratulate her.. ha3x.
Nah, better not, it's gonna be a joke for me.

10. Alot of guys is after your girlfriend?
ha3x... monggo... I have no objection at all even if she is being approached

11. she is sick real bad?
Normal answer,...

12. if she is poor?
What i need is passion for life, money is just a factor

13. if she is a drug user?
Lets join! hahaha, what a silly question

14. if she likes clubbing?
Nothing's wrong with clubbing, just do not get into shit.

16. if she is smart?
what is wrong with that???

17.If she is a lesbian?
Lets do threesome... :p hahaha, no seriously....:p

18. if she is religious ?
I am fine, if she is not fanatics. religion is a guideway for people in life.

20. seandainya pacarmu emosian?
gak bakal tahan lama sama aku...

21. If she is different religion?
Like religion ever matter in my life...

Trading Parameter Indicator

I have just posted my trading parameter indicator excluding the chart and price. I think the parameter is quite general.
Follow the link if you would like to read

Trading parameter, technical analysis

Just click on the link if you would like to read on trading topic

Trading equity

I guess, my stretch of interest may not only confuse people who read my blog, but also myself in the long run.

I do not plan to narrow down on things that i am excited about in life altho it may not be mature to do so.

But I am ready to start organizing them!

Starting now, all of the post on my trading activities will be posted on the neighboring blog. as usual, it is not for publication. it would just be my online journal on my paper trading whilst i cannot trade before i finish my study hehehe.

Boeing 787 , What is the fuss about?

This videos is shared by sensei cherry on the new features of 787 which has been delayed launched until Q1 next year.

enjoy

I screwed a missionary

I do not normally write about religious stuffs on my blog.this will be an exceptional

Today i had lunch at campus's common room like usual and having my good carbonara pasta, home made... with pork sausage.

I am sharing table with a Chinese girl whose i do not know and she was talking with an old man 40years old about something that i was too lazy to be bothered about since i am entertained with my good lunch for the day.

Well, after passing a booklet to the girl, he came and asked me where do i came from? and after that I asked him how about him... He is from penang , a small modern state island in west Malaysia.

So, from that, he started to blabber about god and how your need god and explain that the heaven is beautiful but our heart and soul is black and dark. and to be able to enter the heaven you must bla bla bla.....

I was sort of pissed coz I love food and anyone that spoil my mood infront of good food sure deserve some attitute.
I told him "I do not want to go to heaven, nor i have desire to meet god", infact if he would be kind enough how can i get to Hell instead.

He then started telling me that i need god like i need doctor when i am sick. i need life that's why i asked doctor to cure me if i am sick.
I told him " i do not see doctor, i do not drink medicine and i need nobody to extend my life"..... If i am to die today or tomorrow, I would humbly accept it as i have tried to live my life best that i can and try to make a decision that i will not regret one day.

still unhappy , he kept saying in heaven it is bla bla bla... so i asked him, "who told you that what you did will bring you to heaven?
he said, "bible"...
i told him, there are alot out there, bible, Quran , tripitaka etc etc.. which one to follow... ?
He said, bibble is the best...

I told him "WELL, THIS IS WHAT I AM GONNA DO. i AM GONNA LET THOSE ALLAH, JESUS AND BUDDHA FIGHT FIRST. LETS SEE WHO WINS... THEN I WILL CERTAINLY BE HUMBLE AND COME PRAISE THEIR NAME AT THE END OF THE DAY"

He to then ran off and silently says "you will still need god and life"....

Only Morons Buy Iphone and Ipod

I have just read an article on Mobilitysite the forum of dell axim forum (attached below)

I am always a windows mobile supporter and will remain to be due to it's application support and the possibility.
Following my writing previously on

Morons buy Ipod and iphone

Article below should pretty much highlight the light non productive nature of Iphone.
I used to enjoy transferring MP3 with bluetooth with my friends, assignments report over bluetooth and direct email..
Iphone-2, eh... Lets see how low can u go...
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A Stranger in a Strange Land: a Windows Mobile guy meets iPhone

Posted by Tim Hillebrand on 04/9/08 in Apple, Featured Posts, General, Microsoft, Opinion, Pocket PC Phones, Rants, iPhone

My brother, the cinematographer, is a MAC kinda guy. So, naturally he packs an iPhone of which he is very proud. While visiting me last week he was showing off the virtues of his iPhone with a bit of a smug air and a tinge of superiority.

He quickly established that the iPhone makes phone calls, surfs the Web, does email and SMS, takes pictures (but has no flash), and it does it all on a really cool, high-resolution, finger-friendly touch screen.

Perhaps a little reluctantly, he let me try it. The first thing I had to check out was the finger-friendly interface. Sure enough, you just touch any icon on the home screen, and the tapped application appears. I suppose this would seem cool to a cellphone user, but not too impressive to an old Pocket PC packer.

Within the application, you can use your finger to scroll around, but you can’t use the keyboard or a joystick 5-way button because they don’t exist. You can even zoom in or out on a screen or photo by pinching your fingers together or spreading them apart—very cool.

This is all well and good until you get to a Web page that has many hyperlinks such as the results of a Google search. Try to expand, contract, or scroll the screen, and the slightest touch invokes the hyperlink and drives you nuts.

The iPhone has neither keypad nor keyboard for inputting. Instead, it has a QWERTY popup input panel that requires finger tapping. The keys are far too small for my fingers that are on the gorilla side of the scale; the keyboard is more suited to the fingers of a five-year-old.

It must have taken me five minutes to type my first and last name without any errors. This is not my idea of productivity.

Oh well, the obvious solution was simply to use the stylus from my Windows Mobile device for more accurate inputting. I thought it strange that the iPhone didn’t come with one. I whipped out my stylus, started to tap the iPhone screen with it, and I thought my brother was going to have a heart attack. You’d think I was accosting his screen with a jackhammer. That’s when we learned that styli do not work on the iPhone screen, which seems to require heat from your finger. I wondered if you can use iPhones outside in the winter. You can’t use them with gloves either.

We had been talking about a family member whose contact info I didn’t have. My brother found it in his iPhone. “Great!” I said as I grabbed my Windows Mobile 6 Professional Phone. “Just beam it to me, bro.”

“Huh. What’s that?”

We learned that an iPhone cannot beam contacts, photos, files or anything else because it doesn’t have an InfraRed port. Hmm… Apparently you cannot beam or synchronize wirelessly either even though the iPhone has both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The iPhone comes with Bluetooth 1.2, not 2.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11 b, not b/g. Oh well…

I wanted to show him a bit of the surrounding countryside. I told him I had a universal Window mount that we could put his iPhone in, and he could keep track of our progress with his GPS. I just assumed that his fancy phone would have GPS. Nope.

Well, no problem if he didn’t have built-in GPS. I told him I had a GPS program that included maps. All he had to do was plug it into his device, and we’d be in business. I asked him what kind of SD slot he had because I can accommodate standard SD, Mini, and Micro card slots.

What? The iPhone has no expansion slot. He informed me that the iPhone had no expansion slots because it had an 8 GB memory and didn’t need any expansion. Of course, my device has infinite memory because it does have expansion slots that can also be used for certain peripherals.

His battery was getting low from all the texting he had been doing. (By the way, he could do SMS, but not MMS, and no IM either.) He couldn’t just slip in a spare battery because the iPhone battery is not removable. His iPhone had no car charger. No problem. I handed him a live mini-USB cable so he could charge up his battery. He had a questioning look on his face. That’s when I found out that the iPhone does not use the almost universal USB connector. Bother…

During our excursion, the conversation turned to a topic about which I had written an article. I knew I couldn’t beam it to him. So, I said I would just email it to his iPhone as a Word.doc attachment so that he could add his thoughts to it. That’s when I learned that iPhones don’t do docs–no word processing, no spreadsheets, no databases, no PowerPoints or anything else expected of a normal computer. You can’t even use an iPhone to move documents from one MAC to another. Hmm… You can’t connect peer-to-peer with an iPhone either.

Now I was curious about just what programs you could actually load onto an iPhone to increase its productivity. On the Apple site, I went to the iPhone section where I’ve heard boasts of over 600 applications available. Of course there are well over 12,000 applications for Pocket PCs, but you have to start somewhere, and iPhone is a new platform. I realize it will take a while for developers to catch up.

I was surprised to discover, no I was shocked to discover that there were few programs that you can actually download and install on an iPhone. Almost all of the applications reside on the Internet; they are called Web Apps. They remind me of Gadgets for Vista. You have to go online to use them. But what if you don’t want to incur the expense of getting online or there is no connection available?

Most of the applications seem to be some kind of list tool of one kind or another to keep track of stuff from photos to songs to money to you name it. But, I hasten to point out that these are simple listings, not complex spreadsheet programs or relational databases. There was a fare share of games too–in other words, fun little applications, but no serious productivity tools.

My interest perked up when I saw a section called Productivity. This must be where they keep the cool stuff that let’s you do actual computing. Nope. No word processors, no spreadsheets just more list keepers is about as serious as it gets.

Now it was my turn to give him a quick demo of what WM6 Professional phones can do. I started with the dual 3.0 MPX camera that takes pictures front and back and is set up for teleconferencing. Then I showed him how I could not only scroll in a finger-friendly fashion through various applications and on Websites, but also use a stylus and joystick. I showed him my actual QWERTY keyboard and a variety of screen input applications that go way beyond QWERTY. I showed him how I could beam stuff to other devices and printers using wireless technology consisting of IR, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. I showed him SD cards with mini and micro caddies. I demonstrated how I could create, edit, and read Microsoft office documents and send them to other devices. I showed him my built-in FM radio and how I could listen to Sirius and XM satellite radio as well. I let him see how I control my TV and DVR at home from my pocket pal from anywhere in the world and watch live and recorded TV on it. I couldn’t resist showing him the built-in GPS navigation, star gazing, and tracking abilities. I showed him some of my favorite peripherals such as a Bluetooth keyboard, printers, scanners, and video eyewear, none of which is available for iPhones. I showed him how I could access data and control my home office computer from my handheld. Then I hooked up my trusty little Bluetooth mouse and connected my pocket pal to my desktop monitor to demonstrate how it becomes an extension of the big screen and the cursor travels freely between them.

You can’t do any of this stuff with an iPhone. By the way, you are not going to increase your literary IQ on an iPhone either because they don’t do eBooks. How sad.

One of the things I enjoy most is just bossing my little pocket concierge around with voice commands to do my bidding and telling it to run applications, view photos, play music, and make calls. You can’t talk to iPhones; you have to poke them in the tummy with your finger to get them to do anything.

For sure, iPhones are fun, but when you want to do some serious handheld computing, you need a machine that means business and serves for more than poking fun at with your nose picker. I appreciated my tour as a stranger in the strange land of the iPhone, and thanks for the finger frolics, but I’ll stick with my far more powerful Windows Mobile Professional device.

Wanna Get Yourself fired

You can follow the link below, and it is alot of fun.

Get Yourself Fired

Thumbnail as below

Gadget UMPC-MID

If any of you are interested in UMPC (ultra mobile PC) like Asus Eee , MID is Mobile internet device.
This thing will be huge considering that a "stationery internet" like the one on desktop at your home or computer lab even your laptop is like a "fixed line" telephone.

The future is following the mobile phone trend, where people can integrate everything from gps, internet, note and storage into a mobile internet device.
and moving while still can stream the internet.

some of the hottest MID

Blog update

I had a soft critics from my old friend Veri due to my style and the topics of my writing that is not "easily" digestible.

well, clearly I am not writing for public consumption and infact there is no "yet" any advertisement on my blog is coz i do not expect any traffic.

At any rate,... simple is good. life is about to improve and simplification is where i am heading. =)

Wilson Prom- I survived pt.1

I arrived back in Melbourne about 6 weeks ago. I was here 4 years ago for 2 years before transferring to Malaysia Monash University. Well, nothing much has changes. Although adapting to the Melbournian’s way may not be that much of a challenge anymore, it does take time.

Some to note is regarding the weather. I was in northern china for 2 months for homestay and traveling, but being born and breed in a tropical country, chill has always been an issue… :p

Last week, I went and joined MBOC, Monash Bushwalking Club who plans to go to Wilson Promontory National Park for hiking. 4 days and 3 nights. I will save introduction part and the goodies for later.

But I have never done any overnight hiking and I have not much idea on the hiking plan except that we will do camping for 3 nights and the walk is a full 4 days.

The first day, we drove 3 hours to get to the site and after being brief, what I was thinking is “bring it on, I’ll handle it”…. (was not really sure of the going, but daily 20km sounds like an easy 3-4hours walk for me)…. If I can run 20km non stop in 2.5 hours.. aint a good problem at all…

Well… ! obviously I was wrong.

I have never packed 15-20 kg and walk more than 10 minutes before.

5 minutes after we started, we walked inclined for a FULL 1 hour Under the RAIN with 15-20kg pack on the back and a freezing cold 13 degree temperature and super “breeze” rain.

Half way, the guy reminded me, “this is the condition that you may get hypothermia because it is windy, its very cold and you are wet cold”. “symptoms is, if you feel dizzy, something funny on your brain and walks wobbly, do tell us”.

I was not trained for this and the rain was just getting worse and worse. after 1hour +15 minutes, we arrived at Mt. Oberon parking lot. Still raining, drop our pack and start hiking the mountain for another 1 hour. their walking pace starts to make me exhausted. I was dizzy, extremely tired, and really gotten the bite of cold because my pants are wet with my head.

when we reached the top, It was undoubtedly worth it. the view is AMAZING, but the wind and cold has started to bite my bones. another 30 mins to walk back down, well the rain hasn't shown its mercy yet.

arrived back at the carpark, i put on another layer of jumper. and I have started to shiver.

My mind kept shouting and whining, and telling me "this is not your stuff, you'are not training for this, what if you are sick, you are not used to the cold and weight!!, just go back and rent a cottage wait for them for 3 days",... this sound is something i knew i should not listen to say out, but it kept telling me and I know i was a wimp.

Deep in me, i kept walking, silent and keep walking. another 16km to our Camp site for tonight. The walk is easy moderate and we have to lift our pack all the way.

I can feel my shoulder felt as heavy as the mountain and my hips has bruised all over from the waist clip. I kept thinking of " THERE ARE STILL 4 more days, are you sure you want to do this".........

Still i was silent, and the rain kept on pouring.

Within the next 3.5 hours, we reached the beach side. I have to taken off my shoes to cross the river to get to the camp site. and walk 200m barefooted into the jungle afterward. the rain has started to thin out. it was 6.30 pm.

We found a spot, and built our tent on the wet ground and i have never felt hungrier in my life than that day. I can eat anything including uncooked pasta.

The best part is not over yet, i have no idea my backpack is not water resistant. So,... guess what,... EVERYTHING is WET. socks, undies, clothes and its cotton material.. so there is no way i can dry it.

Well as you know,.. NO shower, no new pants, no new underwear, no new jumper, no new towel NOTHING FOR THE NEXT 4 days. and i have to sleep with my smelly wet clothes hehe.. not ONLY for tonight.. oh... fuck it... hahaha...

Things started to pile up and all i can do is to smile over my misfortunate, look at the sky and say "nice try there, aint gonna break me down"......

I kept quiet but deeper inside me i kept saying " Just walk ,........ After tomorrow, it will be too late for you to go back... by then, those whiner will die off because to go back is as bad as going forward... "

At least i have the sleeping bag dry ALTHOUGH.. again, i cannot zip it haha,.. i think after what i have had, it was not that much of a big deal anymore despite a super cold rainy night.

I had a warm seafood marinara cooked pasta for diner,... its a mess but nothing beats the taste at my current condition...

Woke up in the morning, i was told the walk is going to be easier today, but looking at the rain that keeps pouring, everyone's spirit has been like the "cracker" being hit by the water... ESPECIALLY MINE... hahaha

the tent base was not water resistant... so,.. yes another great news... the sleeping bag is partially wet and my socks is wet... not to mention my runner....

we pack by noon as rain has not stopped and walk to Little waterloo bay for our next camp stop.

another tough day, blister on my feet , hips, cold with a better state of mind.

second half was real tough walk, up and down hill....rain stopped in the afternoon briefly but having a cotton cloth means a bad luck.

at night, when we had to wash dishes... the water is phewwww.... super cold hahaha....

Arrived early, we hang our tent, clothes, sleeping bag to then wait on the beach for 2 hours.... no cellphone, no sms, just you,... waves and sea breeze....

we had pasta again... well for all dinner... a veggie pasta... and lie on the sand afterward to hunt for falling stars.

Still it rains, not as bad as yesterday...

Third day, my mind was solid. no more whining. the walk was tougher, still no shower and same smelly semi-dry cloth... =)

walked for 19km today to Roaring Meg camp site zapped in 6 hours. then jimmy had his misfortunate when he torn his sleeping bag. ( we didnt sleep that well, .... and honest we cannot really sleep hahaha)...

arriving there we ran down to South Point (the most southern tip of australian continent). he ran with such a speed he got a hit on his knee.... i was hit too... blister on my right food and knee injury on my left.

we climb down the hill about 4 meters down and along the big stones on the sea shore.... it was cool... it was frightening coz when i look up, i kept saying "shit,.. fuck, how da hell am i gonna go back up".. i was fucking foolish...

Plus my knee was trembling, it was shit scared to go down and climb up... hahaha...

well.. Made it.

The last day, first half was easy,.. not much of a hard hiking good for our wimpy leg while packs are alot lighter now.

after lunch,... we were walking against the 80km/hour wind + sand along the beach. a 500m feels like 5km.guess what... THE BEST YET TO BE OVER... god refuse to go easy on ur.. hahaha..

Rain... falls... this time is super wonderful rain with 60km/h wind and you can feel it pinch your lips even when you're hiding behind your rain coat. ah... passing through the "squeeky sand beach" is the most memorable...

wet all over again and the sand of the beach was so soft that your feet dipped for 10-15cm each step.. I can feel the sands inside my real wet shoes... and hear the squeek squeek every step i had. One in my mind.. " this is the last few hours...., fuck it.. is this all you've got? hehehe.....

in an hour.. we reached "civilization"...... had a stupid shower at a toilet with about 50 worms in it never feels better... hot chocolate and chips... is HEAVEN!!!!

When i was back, there are only 2 words in my head that keeps playing,.... " I SURVIVED!!!"

and a silly big smile..................

Toothbrushing for kids

It would not be easy to build this system, but its a nice one and possible to for automation/ mechatronic engineering... nobody ever thought much of this interesting idea... simple,useful and intuitive... indeed

MSN Encarta Live!!!!

I came accross an interesting article when browsing for Windows Mobile platform news. there is a-link to microsoft software that told me that by adding an address (encarta in this case, there will be an agent/robot/computer that can help to answer your question).
You may find the link above on the details, while the snapshot above was me trying out the program.
"IT does not give an accurate answer, but it is near to good enough incase you're lazy and the google breaks down haha"
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/articles/connectedapps.mspx

If you are interested, you can try to add "them" on your MSN as friend like usual.

The complete list are as linked below:

http://windowsliveagents.spaces.live.com/lists/cns!5BCD45E519E07634!105/

Agents

Add Item Enter information for the item you want to add, and then click Save to add it to your list.
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Vtap video

From my conversation over MSN yesterday with sensei cherry, She just had her hand on new Samsung i780 smartphone, very nice candy looking phone with blackberry stylo.
Good price for a great specs indeed, they hit a right spot there.

She suggested "vtap" to watch youtube video on Pda. I gave it a try and first trial, did not realized that IT SHOULD BE INSTALLED On the device.
So, uninstall it with memmaid, and re-install it. Change the video output ot direct draw and set the video quality to medium.

Why i would mention this unusual product is that, not only i can watch flash video on my pda, the best is that it helps me to save the hassle of crawling the whole world to look for my favourite anime such as bleach and naruto to watch.
After being blocked from crunchyroll, I was kinda lazy to search with google where can i get the video from, so I was just hitting "bleach + episode number" and that's it, popping up sources from all over the places.
Voala... Loving it. either on PC or pda.. it works quite well.

video below is what it may look like on pda

Travel Map

Here is where i have been to in my entire life

1. Melbourne, Australia


2. Sydney, Australia


3. Siem Reap, Cambodia


4. Parapat, Indonesia


5. Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia


6. Tidal River, Australia

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Mac Os X, hmm, easiest to HACK?

I used to believe and still believe that OS X is a very safe OS due to its lower user percentage. But with Mac getting more popular and more students plus people considering Mac, it is just about time it will be hacked badly. Welcome to the jungle steve.

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That's right; Mac OS are the easiest to hack, according to Charlie Miller, analyst – ISE (Independent Security Evaluators). Charlie not only proved by hacking the MacBook running the OS X, 10.5.2 version, in less than two minutes, but also won $10k and a new laptop.

Sponsorors had put up three laptops with different operating system and each patched up with the latest updates. They were made available to any one who could hack into the system. The three day hacking contest was organized at CanSecWest conference, Mariott Renaissance, Vancouver, British Columbia. A USD 20k cash prize would have been paid for successful applicants on day one, USD 10k on day two and USD 5K on the last day.

No one was successful on the 1st day, but on the 2nd day Charlie Miller breached into the MacBook OS, in just about less than two minutes. Charlie Miller did not share the vulnerability as he was bonded by the nondisclosure agreement. Miller however pointed out a bug in Safari browser 3.1.

The co-winner of last years hacking content, Macaulay was able to breach into the vista operating system running service pack 1. It took him two days but was finally successful hacking into vista on the last day.

Overall threre were three winner, Charlie who hacked MacBook, Macaulay who breached the Vista, and linux operating system Ubuntu 7.10 installed in one of the system that remained unconquered.

Video on Blog

Just learned this from Veri chub chub. a nice clip i found today.


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Minor Bullying, An argumentative essay

Our dynamic society has agreed that bullying in anyway form is condemned. However, cultural background and family's value in which someone's brought up may differ from person to person. The argumentative essay wish to address a practical approach of how opportunity and values may vary within a person a situation on a minor abuse cases that often being missed. While a minor may occur without anyone may have realized.

Being a scaleably responsible person may get yourself into a target of a minor bullying. For example, if you are in a shared house with a limited of 250MB per day per user you are expected to respect the guides and try not to exceed your monthly quota. One way is to install a download meter which will record all of your traffic and measure your daily, weekly and monthly download to keep you under the quota. However, the other housemate may refuse to install it with simple excuses that such as " I only use few hours a day" , or I do not download anything. But none realize that a 10 minutes of youtube is more than 50Mb of download. A page of new york times is nearly 500Kb, and a technology web or blog may be 1-2 Mb per load due to its high graphic and photos. By being scale able, you are capable of defending your right and stand when being questioned as long as a self obey his/her quota. However, the bully comes when there is a sudden jump in the use of download on a particular day. Just because you're the only person who responsibly "scale" your usage, you're being the ONLY target of the investigation/quiry while others enjoys QUO status of "I do not think I use that much because I think I am a light user".

Secondly, cultural intimacy may also encourage minor bullying. To follow up with the previous example, it is assumed that your housemate is a person who has a similar cultural background.He/she can be a friend, family, colleague or spouse. A similar parameter is introduced where a home with a download quota and a particular day of a jump in useage. Due to your cultural intimacy, the other party may easily start the investigation and accusation from YOU. This may due to the relevant party's inability to enquire others fairly without feeling to offend them. For example, if the other housemates is from korea, the investigating party who is from china will be more comfortable to accuse the other chinese housemate FIRST because of cultural intimacy that they may have. Hoping that the chinese housemate is the relevant suspect and so to save the efford to enquire the other housemate. If the chinese housemate starts from korean housemate and it could not prove it, he/she may offend the korean depending on how the investigation process run. However, unfortunately on this case and parameter, after accusing the "culturally intimate" housemate and proven wrong, the investigation STOPs(does not continue) due to the party's inability in intercultural communication.
Further, due to the other's korean's housemate unwillingness to scale their useage, the primary party cannot argue on the issue.

The conclusion on the case study is that being a responsible person and to scale your useage of quota may encourage the possibility of you being the target of bully. Coupled with the cultural intimacy of the primary investigating party, the maginitude of the possibility is enormous. This is often due to cultural hesitation and incapable of proving scale of useage they may have which boost their advantage.

As a suggestive measure, it is recommended to keep your logbook of useage clean and tidy. This will help to prevent an escalating tention that may arise from the initial minor bullying. Secondly, it is advised to a primary investigating party to be sincere and accountable while realizing that a minor bully may have occur although he/she may not realize.

Tibet

Hi Ratna,

Certainly human rights has been violated with people being shot "like a dog". about 99 people are dead as reported per se.

Well, Only about a few months ago when myanmar government cracked down on the Buddhist monk's backed protest that claims hundreds of lives, world pressure china as Myanmar's largest trading partner to conduct restrain.
But it seems that for now, before Olympic torched being passed down by the runner, the protest will spread into other provinces and other countries even faster.

for the information, that Myanmar is still alive altho the whole world under UN embargo the nation is because Myanmar is the largest producer or world RUBY stone. ruby is the red diamond crystal. it produces 90% of world's ruby.
and china has mainly supply the nation with goods and military equipments.

anyhow, one to learn... whose gonna remember those who "WERE SHOT LIKE A DOG" TOMORROW....i dont give a fuck what future has they changed, i dont even know a single name of the dead people in tian an men square...
they all pretend to care.. but who knows any of those tian an men square victim?
the point is,
DO NOT DIE LIKE A DOG FOR A SILLY REFORMATION THAT UR NAME IS NOT GOING TO BE REMEMBERED, i better die like hitler remembered than die like a dog being squashed by tank not remembered...

on a link above from reuters article,
it was titled. , "China accuses Dalai Lama of taking Olympics "hostage"

the world has become so interesting that we sometimes question if china's accusation on holy person like Dalai Lama is valid.
Some might condemn what china did, but china is communist, a no god land.
world has become so interesting that even an olympic games can be held hostage... Good play dalai (if he does orchestrated the whole "incident")


below is an interesting opinion from an expert regarding tibet

Comment by Jamie Metzl , Executive Vice President, Asia Society
Comment by Jamie Metzl, Executive VP, Asia Society - Mar 17, 2008

The most important thing to keep in mind is that tension between China and Tibet has been building for decades. On one side you have the Chinese increasing their efforts to fully integrate Tibet into China, while on the other side Tibetans are pushing for meaningful cultural and religious autonomy under Chinese rule. The upcoming Beijing Olympics are creating a platform where the Tibetans may feel more emboldened in making their claims, while the Chinese feel that they need to limit dissent and promote peace and stability.

We don’t know how these protest are going to end. Certainly the Dalai Lama has made a strong commitment to non violence and I have every expectation that commitment will be maintained. The Dalai Lama has also expressed his desire for Tibet to remain part of China, but with greater autonomy. To date the Chinese have been hesitant to yield to the demands of the Tibet exile movement for things such as the Dalai Lama’s return to Lhasa.

Huo Guo/ Hot Pot -part1-

Well, this post is sort of away from the normal posts. Ah well, As a food lover... yes FOOD lover, the only object tat i would dare to use the word "love" on, Huo Guo/ Hot pot/ Shabu shabu is one of my world favourite.
Well, before I went to china, My thought was that there is only one or two types of hot pot/ Huo guo. and normally the pot will be divided into two sides, like yin yang, the first one is plain with normal and the other one will be the spicy soup.

Ah, as you can guess already, it is truly a ground shocking and amazingly awesome experience to taste some of the weirdest and BEST-est (pardon the use of wrong grammar) ever.
Well, I do not attached my super favourite huo guo on this post.

It is Hong men yang rou, basically it is a goat meat Huo guo with a red sauce. It is the specialty of a small town where i used to live. Tried so much but that's the one I truly loved.

Not saying below's list is aint good , they are really close in terms of taste. But the variety of it will lure your salive to drolls!!!!
Enjoy........................ and Btw, pardon my han yu Ping yin, it sucks... yes i do realize.


A. Xiang Lak Xia Huo Guo., xiang = smells good ; Lak = spicy/hot; Xia = prawn/shrimps, so Its a Spicy smells good prawn Hot pot.

Second input is the same huo guo with better angle take. Well, its basically a stir fried prawn, potato/sweet potato (fried first before stir fried together with the prawn), dried chili, garlic, some ginger, herbs, chili pepper ( Ma lak, sechuan chili pepper), some spring onion and UNKNOWN ingredients.
Basically they will put the cooking first on the top of the hot pot stove, wait until you finish all the prawns and filling (warn you this is spicy and Oily).
After you're finished, they are going to pour the hot water in it until the wok is half full , where u then can light the fire and start your "huo guo" inside.
It cost about 60 Yuan /2 people to order as you like until you are very very exteremely full.
VERY GOOD, rating 8 out of 10. ; Cheap, spicy, amazingly surprising taste.
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The next one will be U mi zhou Huo guo.
This one is quite unique. Zhou is basically a congee or porridge.
It starts with a "milky" white water of soup based. The host describe to me that the milky feature is because they use the water from "washing the rice" to make it.
to better describe it, maybe some singaporean or malaysian would know the word "barley" drink. Its tasteless but it is really thick and good to absorb the taste of anything stewed on it.
Anyhow, normally we'd eat it with "seafood" side sauce specially made and whole chopped chicken is poured into the boiling hot pot.
Later, normally some vegetable and normal huo guo meats can be poured and enjoy at usual.
Well, what is special about it then?
It is at the end of it,... A thick congee/porridge (Zhou) is poured into the soup and while all the essence of the boiled hotpot we enjoyed before mixed to create a very very tasty and delicious porridge.
This Hot pot is actually one of the most expensive i had, for 5 people it cost about 150-200 Yuan/RMB.
I tried it 3x , Its awesomely delicious, and especially the congee.... its wordless... Heavenly!
Rating 9 out of 10
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The next one is less radical. Everyone who has ever enjoyed chinese huoguo should be familiar with this. the design of it is yin yang elements. But it is not called yin yang. To my surprised, it is called "yuen yang" huo guo.
It borrows the meaning from a kind of duck that always goes in a pair. I knew this when i went to the local zoo and this couple of animal which looks like a tiny duck swims here and there in pair. one is white and the other one is black.
Guys.. you're very lucky. I found the picture of them,when i took it at local zoo... and you can see them as below.
A symbol of yin yang , and this couple will stay together from kids until they die.

Cheap, and traditional.
Rating 7 out of 10.

Well
This next one is Sechuan style Huo guo. frankly, i had this one in malaysia at KL city. This will be a typical southern hotpot/huoguo.
The pot may seems to be a little unique. Instead of dividing the pot , half and half, it has a tiny spicy pot in the middle.
The soup based is very tasty itself which you can also easily find oyster mushroom being boiled together.
Rating. 7.5 out of 10
I tried "pork brain" filling in this huo guo.... its INTERESTING
Second last is Cu tier Huo guo/ Pork feet hot pot.
Yes,... If you're a fan of FAT FAT FAT,.. and a jelly like skin of pork feet... this is heavenly food.
There is nothing except an abundance of pork feet that is well stewed. The texture is tender and very juicy and Lots of skin... which is best...
It cost about 75 yuan / 3 people and we could not finish it either.
rating. 8 out of 10.



The last one is called "Beijing Huoguo". I have no idea nor i know the story behind it, but this huo guo is quite unique in terms of the design of the pot.
Unlike normal huoguo which you will have a metal pot and fire at the bottom of it, this huo guo is very tall.
Well, it basically looks like a "volcano" when the top long cover is taken off.
In the middle of the pot, a hot charcoal is placed and if the long cover is taken off, you can see the fire/ small flames coming out of its mouth.
Soup is basically tasteless, and filling is normal.
Intersting to try but in terms of taste, there is not much of a surprise.
One thing to note is that this huoguo normally accompanied with an abundance of sliced meat.
Rating. 7 out of 10

Can Investor Trade in Option?

I had a question from my good friend on his -Option trading- strategy approach incase he has made any mistake in it.
I did not yet responded on his strategy, but instead posing a fundamental question on his style and if he has actually chosen the right path for himself.
A reply of an email archieve is copied as below and edited to avoid any privacy breach that may affect the respondent.

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Seriously bro, I had a brief discussion of you with my uncle in singapore. The reason is because you started and showed me that you're an avid PURE INVESTOR. However, option is mostly used as a speculator/Short term trader to make money.
Pure Investor like Warren buffet, does not know and understand TECHNICAL INDICATOR. things such as charts, volume, MACD, ROC or candle stick charting. while Traders do not really care about the company's profitability of financial reports.
THIS are two different world.

What is my question to my uncle is , "if someone has never/ almost never buy a stock in his life, and he is always been reading "Investor" books and he is a pure INVESTOR, can he do well in OPTION trading? "
Well, it can be a easy question and a tough one. Easy is that the logic says the tool you're using is WRONG, but it can be hard to answer if you DO make money although you have Investor brain and the wrong tools to trade.

Anyhow, Try to answer it yourself.
All the best,

KenZ

Steve Jobs, CEO apple

Below's link to an article about one of the most notorious business man in the world
CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs.
The article is fairly long, but found it to be profuoundly interesting.
u will need at least half an hour of free time to enjoy it.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm

Cheers

Google Vs Yahoo search engine Demography

Well, if you want to be successful and technology literate, statistis shows "search with google!"

Soulmate,Are you looking for the right one?

Well, this posting is going to be a little different than usual, and it has nothing to do with travel or financial issue like what i would usually written and the discussion will not be in a poetic sound either.

So, straight forward," are you/ we are actually looking for a right soulmate?"
Have you ever asked such a question to yourself? .......
Reason is because, when we're looking for the right person,.. we often search for "similarity" which is the magic word.
"I wish he/she cooks"
"I wish he/she love sport or badminton or swim"
"I wish he/she enjoys classic music instead of the stupid rock brain draining music.
Well, why are we looking for similarities? its obvious isn't it that the more similarities we have, .. the more reason/excuses we can have to be "TOGETHER" with each other.. ohhh.. , how sweet... haha.

Imagine if you love writing, and the "dream girl" enjoys typing sms better, it will be like you're writing alone and she will not reply. Or you love fast food and she loves street food that you are so extremely anti for being not hygienic.

Or when you're out, you do enjoys gardens and a lovely cafe with a cozy music and a small chit chat while she loves food and shopping to the blood... ha3x.

Well, dating or PDKT in indonesian means to find and understand each quality and to see if the surface differences between both of the people can be matched through a bonding relationship or not. then the "COMPROMISE"-stage comes later.

well, there is nothing totally wrong with that, but clearly, we are out there looking for The Oher Half. Of course if its an organ, we certainly looking for something symetrical whether in physical or chemical properties.

however, the word to simply Complete and being Rich in content is alot of different when you're starting to look for differences in others rather than similarities between you and the one.
First of all, I do not believe in key and lock assumption of relationship in which there is only one key to every woman's heart.

I am more or less into Blade and the cover relationship. a long blade cannot fit in a short cover, and obviously everyone can see a flaw in it if you keep fitting in one, howver it is up to you if both is okay, things can go on. Some holy great royal sword may not mind to be wrapped around a pretty but made of poor material.

Simply ask yourself,.... Why would you not looking for a compatible differences between you and your soul mate?

what i mean is like, well, both of you love food, but one enjoys spicy food the other one enjoys a sweat desert like ice cream. What both people need is the love for food which later on will help you to try the spicy food and the icecream. every once in a while you will have spicy food, and then the desert is icecream when you have spicy food. It may not be perfect for both, but its a good enough combination.

the other is if you like sport, one enjoys let say karate and the other enjoys swimming. pull a thing together, jogging and strecthing excercise is extremely important for both sport why not go out there and have a try of it together?? jogging is to build stamina and stretching is to gain flexibility and reduce injury, but both of the exercise is ALOT more fun when you do it WITH someone. Jogging is boring when its alone, and streching is better with someone's assistance. so you both have reason to do things together without have to merge and force between things that you love. let the other to enjoy what each of you love, but yet when you grow , you get better together because you're always with each other when you're training.

this is what i meant by "Compatible differences", not only complete both of the party, it makes it richer in quality and quantity.

instead of compromising to argue who should be accompanying whom this week, ... both can indeed be more creative and open mindedly enjoy what they love. while you can finish third quarter of the spicy food and she can finish the third quarter of the icecream for example. but enjoys it altho the other loves it alot more.

So, what is wrong with finding a "key and lock" or "a perfect simetrical" the other half?
In my humble opinion (IMHO), first is that it is extremely hard and it may be amongst 6.5 billion (consider you're a person with a sexually confused orientation,... mean if you're a man, you are not sure if you're gay or straight.. ha3x).

not everyone can find a good one and a simple answer is that how many times do you go to a park and see there is a 65 years old man still holding his wife hand or they're sleeping on the arm of each other? not a usual thing rite? and why would that be? are we not sure that we will still love each other until the end of the time?

the answer is that when its so similar, it gets so boring easily.

Again,... are you looking for the right one then??