Specifically asked for the lunch time promo menu. Being a Friday, it was Fish and Chips. Ok, so we thought. Free drink sommore? So I pointed, Fish & Chips, pointed the *free drinks* column and demanded Ice Lemon Tea. He paused, then said “Yeah.”

Nice meal, good presentation (read more at kyspeaks) and overall nice quiet lunch at KLCC.

Bill came up to RM 50 and some change for 2 people, same lunch promo set. Suddenly RM 14.90 deal become RM 25 bill!

Definitely felt cheated.

Then again, we should have been more careful as to what drinks is allowed under the promo. The waiter should have gently reminded us of the extra charge. Instead we ended up with a RM 50 bill for two. What’s worst, the Ice Lemon Tea wasn’t refillable.

Bleh, maybe next time we should get more street-smart restaurant hunters to join us lunch~!

Hunky Dory

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Like, whhhaaaaaaat…?

The funny thing was, this morning as I checked in, a girl came and asked me, “Excuse me, where is the monorail?”. Not knowing then I was the mayor, I gave her the appropriate directions! Hmm… could she be a 4Sq user and saw my icon there and bla bla bla? Mission, accomplished!

Wimax Inside

Tomorrow Thursday, I will return the MSI U135 netbook that was lent to me by the folks from P1 Wimax.

Here are my top 3 plus points about the product / services:

1. It works. It just works right out of the box. Good enough for your social needs, and whatever e-mailing / web browsing requirements you may throw at it.

2. When it’s good, it’s very darn good. At it’s best it can top 600KByte/s (~5mbit/s) or, at it’s worst (1 bar signal), you get about 20-40KBps. In most cases, it is “usable” in many areas of KL / PJ areas.

3. Technology for the future. Definitely. if iPhone 4.1 comes out with 4G wimax specifications, then it will be a hit. The only thing different in terms of technology, is the 3G chip has an expensive license tag and telcos have invested heavily in 3G equipment (think BILLIONS of ringgit) whereas 4g is pretty much the same (15 by 15 millimeters) but requires new investments that traditional telcos won’t like.

My Singapore boss actually uses a netbook as he travels heavily. Full sized 13-15″ notebooks are very bulky. So in that respect, netbook wins.

Now, the downside:

1. One GB of memory only? Should come with 2GB.

2. Pricing. While P1 is relatively cheap, it cannot compete with ANY wired broadband, no matter how primitive it may be! It has to offer more competitive services like voice, video, net meeting, or something compelling to utilise the bandwidth.

I must say though, the netbook keyboard was quite fun to type on. Very nice chiclet keyboard which responds well to very fast keystrokes.

Last words?

If you’re looking for a mobile broadband service provider, my recommendation is do not commit now, HOLD til early December. We’ll see how the landscape is like then. Otherwise, props to P1 Wimax (Green Packet) for the good effort in raising awareness (especially with the Potong ad campaign).

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Link

Privacy

I was just sharing about how GSM is very hackable. ON a 2G GSM network, your calls, SMS and even EDGE data is trackable and can be sniffed by hackers with the right equipment. That equipment used to cost hundreds of thousands, but recently in DefCon, it is proven that parts and software are available for US$1500. Essentially you’re setting up a rogue base-station for GSM traffic. [defcon link]

Don’t worry though. 3G phone calls, data is very much secured (for now). SO what the hackers do is that they jam the 3G frequencies, bump you down to 2G and badda-bing, badda-bong you’re owned. [Youtube video]

Now this woman CEO who got printouts of her conversations and thumb drive of her voice exchanges, is definitely an insider job. Even low level employees like customer service or call center staff  *might* have access to all these sensitive information. That is why terrorists (at least on the movies, like 24) use Satelite phones in their dealings!

So how can we prevent this mishap? And who will win the lawsuit? And what is she hiding? mmmm… corrupt practices by this woman CEO? Only time will tell.

Are you Safe?

I guess it gets even less secure if you’re using internet based services. Then again, data theft doesn’t happen much in Malaysia. It’s just the spammers and marketers who wanna collect information on your surfing habits so they can spew advertisements at you.

BPL Quick Update

It’s good for Man United. Berbatov’s goal was a joy to watch!

Currently sitting pretty at 3rd place behind Chelsea and Arsenal with 7 points.

Merdeka 2010

It’s finally here; a much needed break. I think need to spend time gymming today as Wed – Sun = busy! Gonna have a second shot at Dew Crew handling the camera! (see what I did there?) It’s gonna be fun, fun fun! At the expense of my weight I think I’m gonna touch the magic century in kilograms!

UMW joke

Whilst on the train, an employee of UMW Engineering (Oil & Gas division) boarded the train at Bangsar and landed at KL Sentral. Looking at his shirt, noting that he’s in the O&G sector, I decided to play along with their company’s latest problems.

“Eh, how is your girlfriend, the Naga 3, ah?”

Naga 3 is the jack up rig that caused the company a lot of losses. The other divisions like Perodua, Toyota all doing great, with higher than industry standard profits. But O&G hasn’t been too good. Lest, they can find a big fish contract soon.

But I didn’t, cuz he was tall (6 footer) and I don’t wanna look like an ass Maybe, just maybe, if he was friendlier or in a cheerier mood!

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Ten-twenty four by seven sixty eight (1024 x 768) is a specification for screen resolution that is common for at least the past 20 years. If you were around long enough, the early CRT monitors that carried this gigantic size needed to be 17″ monitors. Only leet haxors had so many pixels to play with, for their codes, tools palette and of course for the “movies needs”…

As time goes by, technology advances. We started seeing 15″ laptops running on this 4:3 aspect ratio specifications. Later, early LCD panels had it (but eventually went to higher stratospheric levels a bit later)

But why is this 1024×768 so popular?

It is because it was popular in the age of the internet boom. Where every school, office and homes have to have a computer. To a certain extent, we have to thank the Y2K doomsday predictors, for I believe they accelerated the computer purchasing patterns. Good marketing created the need to upgrade your 486 box with green monitors running DOS and hop on to this thing call teh internetz.

At the turn of the millennium, pixel density increase manifold. Just recently, that 1024 horizontal pixels by 768 vertical pixels got squashed into a 9.7″ IPS display found on the iPad. And if you think that is impressive, then the iPhone 4 has a 960 x 640 (not too far away) resolution screen on a 3.5″ display. Just head over to Apple’s product page website and you’ll get all the technical jargons explained.

1024 is very special because it is 2 ^ 10 scientifically. And if you divide the two numbers, you get 4:3 ratio. Recently, the geeks found out later that our eyes are more suited to a 16:9 ratio, much much wider. I’ve seen Philips TV that tries to mimic the cinema experience by going 20:9. Now that’s super long.. but unfortunately all content are optimized for 16:9.

I find the above 3 shots interesting for a couple of reasons:

1. WHOA!! Looks awesome on my MSI U135 netbook with Wimax with LED panel! The Macbook Pro’s screen is yellowish already and not as bright…

2. Green screens are awesome! With the power of Final Cut, it makes things so easy!

BTW, we’re a news company reporting on the share markets, also involved with Business customers in their video needs.

About Last Night…

I attended a YTL Communications “round-table with the CEO and team” session at Lot 10. One of the participants (Ahem, I know who you are), asked the CEO Mr. Wing “What is YTL Wimax’s USP?”

There was a long pause.

His team of experts had a slight pause as well.

Only a handful knew that he was referring to unique selling point!

I guess this exchange opened my eyes to the differences in education system, differences in the choices of words used, of personality, and how to answer tough questions. To me, yesterday was like Management & PR class. It was nice.

WOOHOO… It’s the weekend! Dinner with the family. It’s been way too long since we had a sit down quiet family dinner. Way too long!

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By 2nd September, Thursday, our mouths will be drooling and frothing for yet another Apple product. This time round, it probably will be refreshed iPods. The Touch with FaceTime will take center stage. Potentially it can do VOIP via Skype, so essentially it is a dumbed down iPhone 4

Dinner

Yesterday whilst having dinner with a bunch of college kids (heh, I feel so old) I saw how culture has changed. Got to the restaurant, sat on the table and everybody whipped out their smart phone. Small bursts of conversation still goes on, and laughter aplenty. But the main center of attention is all about their iPhones and Nokias and Touches.

No longer is there eye contact. Maybe briefly, but much of the conversation is filled with “huhs?” because they were engrossed with the gadgets. It’s funny how we make a point to meet up but spend time more on the clickety-clack of the keypads.

Getting Married?

In cell group, I had too much laughter. The charades 2.0 game was awsm and the lesson that day was how to look good, presentable, and how to give a good first impression. Now, that is some practical advise! And I have a sense the cell is pushing for members to get married asap. Cuz, if not, it would be an “unhealthy relationship”. THEY DIDN’T SAY THAT, but I’m guessing it is implying that young adult’s current stay-together arrangement brings more problems in the long run. And as with the church’s position, a strong community begins with a strong family.

Meaningful conversations

Spoke with George (Twitter). He’s a guy with interesting stands and views. I like people who push the limits and has a different perspective to the norms. One thing to keep in mind: It is important to keep your feet on the ground, and know when to back off.

Character

I’m the argumentative type. Just like a trouble-maker, I find joy in poking people. I like to challenge their beliefs, to un-reason their reasoning and to make them subscribe to my beliefs (haha, nah, not so much nowadays…) For a long period, I was an Apple Evangelist.

I still believe in Apple; but now that they’re this big bully in the playing field, I tend to shy away!

Efficiency

Signing off with one of my favouritetopics. Three tips I’d like to share with you:

1. When walking, walk straight. You may seem like a robot. Your path may not be conventional. But trust me, you’re doing a whole world of good. “Take the RACING LINE“

2. Decisions. Some decisions might not be time CRITICAL, but it sure is time sensitive. Example: Choosing where to go for dinner. Whilst I won’t die waiting 10 more minutes for you to decide, (or what to eat) I’d really appreciate some form of “orderly decision making process”  where we are accountable to one another, considerate to the budget constrains, yet make a compromise so that the least amount of members of the party is inconvenienced. Phew. That was a mouthful.

3. Prioritise. We all have 24 hours a day and x amount of salary per month. 53% of the world lives on under US$2 a month. In every sense of the word, we are all filthy rich. How do you spend your time? How do you spend your money?

That’s about it lah.

Here are some old posts:

http://philipkhor.com/i-dream/2009/how-many-times-you-say-ha/

http://philipkhor.com/i-dream/2009/predicting-trends/ (same situation 1 yr ago)

http://philipkhor.com/i-dream/2009/see-you-soon/

[When the current iPod Touch 2009 didn't come with camera, you can feel the rage half way around the world. Let's see if Apple fixes that problem; and give us one or two more surprises!]

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Warning: Stay at least 3 feet away from your screen. DO NOT put fullscreen, unless you have a vomit bucket ready hee hee..

To be honest, although best in the class in term of netbooks, the MSI’s keyboard takes a bit of getting used to. Being spoilt with a 15″ Macbook Pro at work having a full sized laptop keyboard, so much more is expected. Then again, I am able to type full speed (when the MSI netbook is laid on a table).

Here is a quick video report of the experience so far. [coming soon]

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Here’s the list.

KADAR KOMPAUN BARU SAMAN TRAFIK

I know a few answers, but I’d like to ask the questions:

How do you pay for your sins?

If you do wrong, you deserve punishment right? Should you be reincarnated to a lesser being (rat, mouse, oink oink) or slave in the next life? Should you be barbequed in hell? If so, for how long? How about a mental sin, is it a sin? Some say the bible has over 700 laws and rules. Have you kept every single one of them?

On a brighter note…

This week I should have time for gym as I’m not on duty at church. Maybe take the KLIA express train on a joyride, or cycling at Cahaya at night? Meh, nice dinner will do, right? My video render failed twice. I came back to office on Saturday especially for this project. Monday burn a copy, it sucked. So I re-render it. Tuesday, hard disk full. Like 10MB of space left on the laptop. Hai~ Now 10:45am at 6% done, prolly ready tomorrow! Limitations of hardware, of resources, time, is really a true test of how strong you are!

Lesson: BAD camera angles can make you looking like a fool with your pants on the ground!

Have a good week, everyone!

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As we sit and laugh at the Aussies down under, and their problems with a HUNG parliament, one have to look at ourselves in general. Whilst unifying efforts are rampant and immense, Malaysia is still suffering; and badly!

Random Song Popping in my iToons

Enrique Igloo’s song, “I like it” has elements on Boney M – Ma ma ma baker (Lady Gaga – Poker face), the beat and tempo of the 90s hit songs that we all know and love. The marriage with Pitbull makes it relevant to the clubbing scene as well as the kids of today!  I like, I like!

Roaming Charges

A friend just came back from UK and kena Maxis’ wrath – RM 8.50 for a second’s failed call, or a RM 40+ charge for 3 min call to Singapore.

What is there to learn from this experience? Nothing. The internet will kill “traditional telcos” and their extortion of roaming charges. I was also discussing with a friend about cool smartphones without smart plans. Essentially,this was a problem 2-3 years ago, where phones were awesome and great, but no one wanted to pay RM 80-100 for a data plan.

Marketing 102

The conclusion is that, with A&P being the epitome of Marketing activities, the uptake rate of mobile broadband is immense. What would be the next big app that will convince the late comers and laggards to unlimited freedom, I wonder? I was thinking Augmented Reality apps using Camera and GPS and magnetometer to provide information of where you are.

Patience

Well, over weekend, I set a video to render at 576i. That specification is the dimensions of a DVD. I compiled a 54 minute visual presentation for distribution at the Maybank Investment Banks branches. Burn to DVD, looks stretched. Mind you, if 3 minutes of footage takes 1 hour to render, how long must I wait for a 54 minute compilation? Ahh.. memories of April 2010 haunting me again. Where I spent 2 weeks fixing something that can be done in 2 days!

Perseverance

Actually I believe more in keeping calm. Having a plan in your head, each and every minute detail being addressed is very important to avoid cock ups. For one, we gotta have faith in what we do. Things might go wrong; but at least we know what to do when it goes wrong. (And it usually does)

It is disheartening. But thanks to P1, I got an internet enabled device to use, this MSI U135 wimax netbook. 5 hours battery life, connectivity instantly when you open up the lid, bright display and a responsive system. The one feature I especially like is the “chiclet keyboard”. It is raised up, and every keystroke is felt with a little click. Firm, solid & “type without looking” is possible!

Paperplane Pursuit

They’re number 1 again on Campur Chart on FlyFM. They’re on a few Malay charts too. It’s nice to see your friends succeed. Their songs are quite decent too.

I’m guessing a Merdeka launch for their music video, Goodbye.

Can’t wait for “Forward” the studio version!

Steal Kill

I worked with a bunch of clowns a long time ago. They had great vision, big plans but no direction and action plan. One of the worst brags I’ve heard was this:

“I designed the [insert luxury car company's name] advertisement billboard”

“That’s impressive”, I said.

“Then you must be familiar with Adobe Photoshop and Quark XPress or Pagemaker”, I asked.

“Err.. no. I know what looks good or not. I just know whether a billboard is nice or not. I was a consultant. The graphic designer worked under me. He show me the designs I tell him to make the changes.”

I “high” for a while there.

Stealing credits for someone else’s work is nothing new. Many months has elapsed since this incident. But the absurdness is still fresh in my head. Might as well claim I designed the Space Shuttle or something!

Sigh!

Merdeka – Independence Day is on 31st August. This year it is Tuesday. So, who’s taking Monday off?

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[20 Aug update]

Gonna test out a P1 Wimax notebook / netbook soon. Look out

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It started off with Thursday night with the rehearsals. It is usually a relaxing and slumber night of testing the equipment; figuring out how things will work. The musicians, dancers and DEW crew (a/v production crew) have a short time of devotion and ice breaker, then we head off to our respective stations. A lot of things are happening simultaneously to make the DUMC experience what it is. The stage sound guys will run through the long and tedious process of mic checking and testing the musical instruments levels. There’s a separate mix of output for the worship leader, the backup singers and the instruments. There’s this cool box that allows you to listen to an individual track, inputted via Ethernet cable (the same stuff that connects your PC to your wired broadband) You can reverse engineer it to listen to two or more tracks to get past the “1-track limitation”, but I won’t tell you how!

As for the video guys, instructions are fed through a headset connected to the camera. We are shooting on standard definition broadcast quality, essentially TV1, TV3 digital quality lah! The zoom is amazing, whilst the cameras rest on a podium (mini stage). The 4 cameras are assigned numbers and roles. Cam 1 and the left camera, giving a side profile of the stage. It is used for artistic purposes. During worship, there will be shots of the ceiling lights (down lights) then the Video Mixer will merge with a close up of the worship leader. It is used in transitions as well, from the center cameras (cam 2 and cam 3) during the sermon. On the stage running with a portable camera is Cam 4. Also used for artistic purposes, getting shots of the bass, guitars, drummers up close is a very very challenging job. A big angry gorilla like me kenot be trusted with the Cam 4 role! We try to be as discreet as possible.

First floor is the Front of House. They take care of the sound requirements of the entire auditorium (by no means an easy job!). It is also the loudest part of the auditorium because the center speakers are directly blasting out loud at over 90 dbi (i s’pose that’s loud?) During the probation, we get to experience the different sounds at different parts of the hall. There are some sweet spots, loud spots, and blind spots. It is particularly challenging for the FOS people because the elderly members like it soft, while the younger generation like it max max volume. Then you have to take account of the kids, and the amount of people filled in the 2500 capacity auditorium. It sounds different all the time. Therefore soundcheck Thursday is very vital!

Second floor is the Video room. There are 2 PCs for visual aids, a Video mixer, Person-In-Charge, and recording equipment that we record the sermon for sale, and the whole celebration on DVD for internal uses only. The racks of equipment for the camera controls are also located here. Once the mixer is happy with the output, the Powerpoint PC will overlay graphics and slides before the final output gets to the 3 big projectors. Projector control is via a Linux box with a simple interface. It controls the house lights by clusters and sections. Oh, there’s an artistic lighting on First floor which give you floral patterns, strobe lights, and the many colours. Now that box runs on Windows XP (haha). Lots of Maths x,y coordinates and % intensity figures flash out whenever a preset is selected. It has 18 banks of presets, and it is quite a joy to watch the lighting guy play the switch board.

Sometimes Thursday practise ends 10:30pm, sometimes later.

Saturday 5pm worship was better of the two. I was totally new to the camera controls and tripod tightness, it was quite a nightmare. But we made it throught.

Sunday 10am, it was very challenging. Worship, it’s easy because there are 3 other cameras to choose from. The Cam 4 stage roaming cam is the one who gets most air time. It was pretty decent overall. But when it comes to sermon time, all pressure on Cam 2 and Cam 3 (which I was on). Cam 1 is there to help out during transitions. I didn’t lock it tight enough. But although some other videographers recommended NOT to lock it 100%, I didn’t really have experience on what to do. Furthermore the Cam 3 was a bit challenging itself; because the knobs react differently. In the end, Emily (the supervisor) had to adjust for me. Still, my hands were not stable. The words “not stable” is still ringing in my head, after being repeatedly told of my shaky shots.

I tried not to be disheartened. Although very shy and embarrassed, I will pick myself up and get ready for the next challenge in early September! Thank you to my fellow crew-mates for being patient with my noobness. And thanks for the advice. Will perform better next time!

(p/s Yang Wei suggested pics for a boring blog post)

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I did it twice already; with less than 24 hours notice! The line: “Can I take leave tomorrow?” is usually met with a really long stare and a surprised look! Not that the “emergency leave” wasn’t approve, it is just nice lah, to give people notice.

So 7 days ago, I applied for Friday the 13th leave. Initial plan was Penang, but realistically, I have tonnes of household chores to complete. We’ll just go Bukit Cahaya cycling, Subang SS15 pork mee and a nice lazy afternoon chilling.

The 4-of-us played Left 4 Dead. It was a map with a theme married from the first and second episodes. New challenges are always exciting. In the end, we played that full 3 hours. Quite unusual for “fully grown adults”, not high school kids, mind you. It was ok lah.

Before that we had Ninja Joe at Tropicana City mall. Quite pricey, and the only selling point is the fact that it is pork burger! A nice warm meal of Bak Kut Teh would have warmed our hearts better! haha..

Tonight there will be Dew Crew rehearsals. During both Saturday 5pm and Sunday 10am celebrations at DUMC, I will be playing with one of the cameras Ahh, finally the 4 weeks of probation pays off. Now comes the tricky part: remembering the names of my team mates! I suck at remembering names of people I just met. I referred to a girl Jenifer as Felicia, and it kept reccurring to me!! I can talk for hours, and suddenly ask. “Eh, what’s your name ah?”

OSK investment challenge on Monday. Will be there at the launching ceremony and our company will be providing video support for the challenge. Exciting times ahead, working with new people; in church and in work!

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via Twitter

@DiGi_Telco Interested in your 3GB quota broadband promo. But 3GB/day seems low, finish in 11 hours at 700kbps. So how? http://bit.ly/aJxIH2

Speed 80 KBPS Quota 3,000,000 KB Seconds 37,500 Hours 10.42

Here is their response!

Sigh..

p/s UTS Chancellor

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Looks very tight. Haven’t tried it before. The only ones I tried is the Shah Alam Stadium, and the LITRAK circuit (airport highway). Nervous, yet excited.

Good news is, just need to be top 20 of the 30 teams to qualify for Sunday! Which will be another surprise contest; could be IQ / General knowledge challenge.

Very nice to have someone who has competitive go-kart experience. Just hope we don’t bump into someone like Hui Jing (Red Bull rookie). That would be super embarrassing!

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Well, I got a challenge of my own! Hope you enjoy solving the mystery!

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Also, show some love to Paperplane Pursuit!

Vote for their song – Goodbye on Campur Chart

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4am Woke up

5am KL Sentral rendezvous with Syukri (Cameraman)

5:30am Train left on time

8;30am Arrive Ipoh as scheduled

9:00am Taxi-man got lost

9:15am – 2pm Indulgence Restaurant

a. Met Mark & Mdm Julie Song, Amy Ng (Mass Comm graduate)

b. Set up camera at downstairs lounge

- Lighting was challenging.

- Getting the right shot was trial and error process

- Limitation of 1 light as opposed to 2 lights

- Recorded on hard disk, 60GB

- Microphones work flawlessly. Mic very sensitive, picked up traffic ambient sounds

- Half shot, head shot, zooming in while interviewing, different techniques

- Commands: Standby, rolling

C. Personnel

- Met Lee Cheng Hooi and Mr. Chin Sek Chuan (Ipoh manager)

- Met Gerard Ambrose (Portfolio manager, one word investment firm, 8-10 characters) KL Kepong & Batu Kawan didn’t invest!

- Jessie, restaurant manager

- Tan Sri Dato Lee Oi Hian interview was smooth. Pick out good points which builds story about Property Ipoh

- Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Lai… very careful person.

3pm – Went for shots (B-Roll) at Train Station, Indulgence outside shot, Airport (hello, goodbye) but most required shots are train station. Got Tambun posh / high end housing, very nice shots (3-5 good ones, as fillers)

Other footage of Ipoh scenery, about 3-4 along the journey to the different destinations.

D. To-do

In total, we have all the throw-ins and throw-outs required (train station). Voice over needs to be done ASAP between Intro & Julie (first interview)

Get Charts from Cheng Hooi (KLK on his laptop for his piece)

Hello, goodbye piece must be perfect. Shot enough footage for a cinematic appearance & departure from airport. (mark)

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Ministry of Education, srsly, you gotta hire them to do the graphics on our textbooks!

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/captain_higgins

http://theoatmeal.com/comics (Personal fave: Coffee, Printer Hell, things to do with Pigs)

Now listening: Eminem’s new album. Lazy rhymes? Hmm… need more time to judge!

Looking forward to: Linkin Park’s new album, “A Thousand Suns”. I’m guessing it’ll be heavily Synths, with Joe Hahn doing all the cool stuff.

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I am a big fan of trains.

I am fortunate to have experience a few different trains throughout my life.

The earliest was the Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad’s Intercity train. At the age of 4 (circa 1990) I went with the family to Bangkok. Not sure the specifics, but it was a day and night, and day trip. The double decker beds were kinda nice. And I’m sure, with friends, it will be an awesome experience. To my knowledge, the journey is relatively safe and the Southern Thailand violence? There’s nothing to be worried or concerned about =)

Hong Kong. Went there before the handover, and tried the MTR (like MRT) which goes under the sea. From New Territory to Kowloon, I think. That was back way way in 1997. Then, I tried the Paddington Express from London Heathrow airport to the city center. Holy cow, it was expensive. Speed and convenience wise, yes, it’s awesome. Apparently London taxi is out of the question! On the same trip, we rode on the Eurostar to Paris, and Lucern in Switzerland. That was fast. But I didn’t really keep track how fast it was going.

Closer to home, on a trip to Vietnam, dad and I got on the train on a 3 days 2 nights “journey” from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi in the north. It’s a 1000+km journey, and we made stops. KTM has double decker, and the top bunk is pretty cramped. In Vietnam inter-city train, they have triple deck! It is facing each other so there’s up to 6 people crammed in the most smallest of spaces. Ahh.. good times.

Within Malaysia, I have tried all public trains on service. The all reliable Rapid KL LRT trains from Kelana Jaya to town, the cute little Monorail to the heart of Bukit Bintang, the cheap but unreliable KTM Kommuter bringing me to Subang, the 30 minute airport train KLIA Ekspress, the Star LRT (now managed by Rapid KL) bringing me to Sogo, PWTC and Pudu area.

On ice-breaker yesterday at cell, I asked “Would you prefer Flight or Train?” The consensus seem to be of course, plane.

On the subject of transport, here is Tony himself on the first AirAsia flight to Singapore on February 1st, 2008.

At the 1 minute mark, lady asks about Mauritius? No. Then Australia? listen to his answer.. (hint: you probably know the answer!)

Shakes hand. “Wanna take a picture?”

Happiest moment of my life; thus far

On Friday, I will go to Ipoh and back on the 3 hour shuttle train. It makes less stops, and I will be travelling with a camera man shooting an interview at this place called Indulgence.

Wish me luck!

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The daily also reported that pirated copies of Indonesian artist Ariel Peterpan’s pornographic video were selling like hot cakes in Johor Baru.

The video was being sold in DVD format for RM10 a piece, a little more expensive than other pirated pornographic DVDs which normally retail for RM7 or RM8 each.

Near the end..

p/s Sorry, this was Syndicated news. Meaning someone else wrote it, The Star just re-tweeted it!

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Had some spare time, so here they are!

One shot using my phone, another using the office cam.

Have a great great productive weekend, everyone =)

On the lift – from 21st storey to Ground floor in 28 seconds!

Podcast for 23 July 2010!

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Greek crisis, Gulf Oil, Malaysian subsidy retraction, what problem? What problem is there to deter punters the little glimmer of hope of get-rich-quick schemes such as LEGAL betting!

Let’s break it down for you. Imagine this…

I am your good friend. I am in need of money for something important. I come to you, ask for RM 1000. Problem is, I can’t pay you next week, next month. Heck, the only realistic timeframe for me to return you your money and interest is in 12 months time. Fine, you say. And you then lend me the money.

Today is 22nd July 2010. Then came 22 August, 22 September, 22 October, 22 november, 22 december (woohoo, christmas, time of forgiving your debts.. bla bla) and 2011 arrives. I owe you RM 1000 still. Same story. By now, any normal human being should be super pissed at that simple fact I owe you RM 1000. Then 21 July 2011, I come to you, say “Merci~ (french for thank you)”. Here’s your RM 1000 + an additional RM 25 for interest. How about, let’s spend it at a meal at Chilli’s?

I’ll give you a moment to absorb all that.

Sounds familiar? Know where / what I’m getting to?

That’s right, that’s what the bank is doing to you. At a measely sub 2% interest rate, you’ll be lucky to get a dinner at Chilli’s after one year of depositing your hard earned cash. This is the point where Unit Trust and Fund Managers start to pitch to you their products and investment schemes! hahaha….

Even the most optimistic consistent investment option, Warren Buffet’s investment scheme only offers at most 20% per annum. That too, has risks. In short, you’ll see RM 200/year of “profits”, break it by month, that’s about RM 16 a month.

This is where I come to you with MY pitch

Gambling. Gambling is a sure way to be rich.

You may say, why, that is a risky venture! And you would be right. You would be right to be skeptical on the odds of betting, so to speak. Let me tell you your rewards for 4D betting.

For every RM 1 investment, if you strike:

1st prize – RM 2500 2nd prize – RM 1000 3rd prize – RM 500

Consolation x 12 – RM 200 Special prize x 12 – RM 60

I wanted to use % gain like banks do. But I figure the numbers wouldn’t be fair comparison.

Here’s the deal. Banks give you 2%, so that’s 0.02 in decimal. 1.00 is your original principal amount. So on 22 July 2011, you would have got 1.02 x (times) of your original sum of RM 1000. Good?

Now. TOTO would be giving you, not 1.02 x but if you strike it, you’re getting 2500 x

Even the lowest prize. Remember, bank = 1.02 x (after one year). Toto special prize = 60 x returns.

Let me give you another minute to absorb that.

You might argue, well.. your chances are very low! And you would be right!

There are 3 draws a week, 52 weeks a year. That’s a healthy 156 draws (plus the odd “special draw” once a month) Just buy your favourite number consistently for a year, 156 times. Chances are you’ll strike at least 3-5 times. Your returns will definitely be more than 100% (using bank terms / metrics) or 2 x your original amount at the end of the exercise.

It’s simple maths. 27 numbers get drawn every draw. That’s about 4200 numbers are drawn. Many will often be repeated. But I dare say it is a “coinflip” as to your chances of getting at least a 2 x return.

The awesomeness of this scheme is that, your RM 1000 will almost definitely become RM 2000 in 12 months time. And this system scales up perfectly.

I’m open to comments and constructive criticism. @philipkhor

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A – Apple gave press conference last Friday in Cupertino with regard to their iPhone antennae-gate. In summary, all smartphones have weakspots. In his presentation, he showed videos of Blackberry, Android, WinMo having blackout issues. It’s all about how honest the bars are at reporting the real signal strength. The whole antennae-gate issue is highly exaggerated.

B – Bukit Bintang. Had a fun night out at Bukit Bintang shopping area. Walked to Sg. Wang, Lot 10 and the Celebrity Fitness gym at Lot 10 is like a Zen garden. Awsm experience.

C- Chinese food at Lot 10 food court is super awesome. For about RM 10, you get yourself premium hawker food at hotel standards! Worth a try if you are in the area.

(read more after the break)

D- Digg.com videos. Double rainbow was hillarious

E- Empty stomach. At 11am, I beh ta han and went for brunch / lunch. Gah, growwwlll… Must be due to last night.

F- Final Cut. That’s what I play with day-in-day-out. It’s been 90 days already since I first started. And boy, it is a wild ride! I’m friends with the cow now.

G- Gmail. I love the search function. Super powerful & fast. Never failed me thus far.

H- Holiday. I am in need of one. Looking for a long get-away. Local one lah

I- iPad will be available in Singapore this Friday 23 July. Very yummy.

J- Joker. Will rewatch Dark Knight (2008) again!

K- Kuala La La Lumpur. My beloved citeh. Sung this way by Mizz Nina in her song with Colby O Donis.

L- Langkawi (see “H”)

M- Melaka (see “H”)

N- No limit Hold’em. Poker is now fun again. Learnt a few things about playing a patient game. In life as well. We gotta wait for the right cards to be dealt to us.

O- Olivia. Met my sister first time in a long time! Phew.

P- Philip. That’s my real name.

Q- Quakes. Earthquakes. The earth has been quite quiet lately. I’m expecting some violent boom boom pows in the coming days. Action = fun.

R- Restless. So restless thinking about stuff. Another Random Random thought: Is it because we don’t trust machines, that we have to sit by it day by day, hour by hour? Automation is suppose to let robots do everything while we humans relax!!!

S- Sleep. Definitely need more of this stuff.

T- Time management. It’s easy to say, but it’s heck of a difficult to do and be disciplined.

U- Unifi. Wonder how the subscribers are now? Yes, it is fast. But what can it do that regular Streamyx can’t? Hah! Sucker! (meh, I’m just jealous)

V- Vegetables. I try to eat more of this stuff. Helps with the fiber needs and stuff.

W- Wallet. Definitely need a new one.

X- “X marks the spot” – Steve “his holiness” Jobs, on the iPhone 4 antannae problem keynote.

Y- “Yesterday, love was such as easy game to play! Yesterday, all my troubles seem so far away”

Z- Zynga. Bought by Google Games. damn you google! (ok, actually I wanna work for you guys)

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Here’s some info on Deuce-7 as your starting hand!!

1. 2-7 (offsuit)

This is the worst hand to start with in Texas Hold ‘Em Poker because there are so few good options: you have no straight draw, no flush draw, and even if you wind up with a pair of 7s or a pair of 2s, you’re very unlikely to have the best hand. Of course, you’ll see some crazy flops every now and then. But just because you might see a rare 7-7-2 flop once in a blue moon doesn’t make this a good hand to play.

Deuce 7 offsuit!

Wow, just wow!

Deuce 7 offsuit

Big shout out to poker kaki @natlerrad @melvynwee

Now I can start my week (for real)

Bring it on, TUESDAY!!!

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4G. WTF is it?

Here’s a brief introduction on the scene in Malaysia.

March 2007 – Izzi Broadband surfaced. That was the time where 3G had problems scaling up in terms of speed and subscriber capacity. WE were hunching at 384kbps (0.4 Mbps) on 3G Maxis, and DiGi was stuck on EDGE (real world 150kbps). In Subang where I lived, there were huge campaigns to create awareness of this new Izzi “4G” technology. Now, as history has shown, it was all pure marketing bs. As much as we hate it, it was an important first step in the advancement of technology. Someone has to spear-head the industry, and the big fishes are always cautious (but that is soon changing…)

Early 2008 – This new player known as Green Packet (later renamed P1 W1max with funky capitalizations) offered one of the “leading standards of 4G”. There were two camps. One is the consortium with Intel’s (and thus PC manufacturers in general) backing. The other, LTE, operates on a different frequency band, and is backed by the Telcos (Digi, Maxis).  Now 1G, 2G, 3G are all monikers for the prominent technology of that particular time. Did you know that AirPort was the original name for what is commonly known NOW as Wi-Fi? Of course, Airport was made popular by Apple, the fruit company. 802.1x had a few specs, but Apple managed to lobby everyone to agree on the current 802.11 b Wifi standard.

So let’s say we talk beer. Tiger, Carlsberg, Heineken are all 2G beers. Then in 2008, some German dude spend shitloads of money to market, say, a German beer. At the same time, another Swedish company also did the same thing. Totally different taste, packaging, specifications. For the average consumers, these new products are something extraordinary. Both were competing for the lucrative 3G market, where people wanna have better beer.

So that is why we need standards. WE need ISO, and we need an authority to bring all the players to the table and agree on different aspects of technology.

P1 Wimax are selling Intel notebooks with Wimax pre-installed. Those operate on the 2.3GHz spectrum. It is the same at yet to be released YTL Wimax, which promises insanely huge coverage across Malaysia. Unfortunately, Maxis just joined the LTE camp, the opposition lah. The two technologies don’t work together. Chances are, along the lines over the next 2 years, we’ll see people with multiple USB dongles depending on which service they choose.

I’m sure HUAWEI, the chinese manufacturer will work something out. Maybe, a cross compatible 2.3ghz / 5ghz Mi-Fi adapter?

For the rest of us, for home, we need to get Uni-Fi!!!!

For mobile, stick with you network operator (telco).

As for marketing bs? Keep on a lookout. Don’t believe the jargons you never heard of. Just because it iPhone 4 is “one number ahead” of the iPhone 3GS, doesn’t necessarily mean it can make better quality calls

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Enjoy it in HD (if you can!)

part 2

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Have a listen to Iyaz – Solo and Janet Jackson – Again

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1. Taman Bahagia LRT to Dang Wangi LRT (11 stops) 25 min 30 sec
2. Dang Wangi LRT to Menara Hap Seng, Jln P Ramlee 15 min 33 sec
3. Menara Hap Seng to booting the Mac 6 min 38 sec
Total time: 47 min 30 sec.

This exclude the bus wait from home to the LRT station and waiting time there. Some variables cannot be changed, but efficiency can be improved with well planned journeys.

Ever so often, I see myself spending over 90 minutes to reach office. The unpredictability of the RapidKL T626 busses makes planning difficult. Of course I can compromise my journey with the U88 or the Metro Bus 99 and reach Asia Jaya instead.

Having to work in central KL now, I find it hard to find time to do things I like. I’ve been skipping gym Tuesday and Wednesday. Due to the Dew Crew rehearsal tonight, looks like no gym tonight Gotta make an effort man!! COME ON!!

My cell leader was surprise I survived 5 years in KL without a car. Seems to be the accepted fact that, to get around KL and PJ in time, you gotta own a car. Yes, I agree it is a convenience, but.. gotta save up!!!

I elbowed a lady at the Dang Wangi LRT stop. She stared at me and I said sorry. She seems unforgiving, but what can you expect? It’s darn squishy in there, I was just positioning my big body to the exit. Gah~!

So it’s gonna be NETHERLANDS versus SPAIN in the World Cup finals. Is it a done and dusted deal for La Espanyol or, will the Dutch with their Dutch Luck!

I personally am going for the Dutch from Holland, the Netherlands.

The Malaysian Census 2010 is up. I hope we get some good statistics, useful ones for Marketing campaigns, racial distribution and stuff. The full analysis will only be released in Year’s end. Looking for some surprises on the emigration numbers…

Have a good Thursday, everyone!

[edit: friend in Brunei selling car - insanely cheap]

Melvin Jong WTS -
Recently renovated (Before 2010 cny) Nissan R33 Skyline GTS2.5 (Pics on my FB) – $10k Ono
Toyoya Caldina – Updated to 3C engine, 2.2litre turbo diesel (JPD approved). No black smoke – $8k Ono

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I blog for fun, to inspire and to reflect.

I like to rant, and point out the odds and ends of life. I try to be honest. I try not to offend.

[a little extra] Wanna see “hair in HD?” trying to mimick the TV shop’s demo video for HD displays!

It’s Monday, and let’s do a liveblog!

5:30pm: Checking out now. Fingers crossed for good weather home. Oh, wait. Bangsar GYM Wooo-oooooh. Oh My Gosh!!!

5pm: Helped my colleague Michelle through a recording. It’s a “new” programme, so it’s a first for anyone. Unfortunately due to privacy policies I’m not able to show you the final product. She did good! Give her 2 more weeks, and it should get better!

2pm: How can a Christian refuse such an invitation?? Gah, killed by genuis Marketing.

Exalt Jesus

Just like the chain mail where Bill Gates will donate a million dollars to a needy little girl in a remote place? These invites are so innocent that you can’t NOT forward to all your 100s of friends! Sigh~ I guess I won’t be exalting Jesus on Wednesday night!

1:30pm: I just realised, I just had “cow & chicken” for lunch! Really, no kidding~!

12:00pm: Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Betrayed Song with a story!

11:30am: There are calls for a new Federal Government in Malaysia. Wow, let’s hope it’s soon. A stable political landscape is vital for growth. [source]

11am: Top Gear just gets better and better.

10am: Some song names are “instructions” to the musicians…

Like Canon in D, Adagio for Strings, or Negaraku in Vuvuzelas!!!!

9:30am: Can’t wait for their new album somewhere this month:

9am: Posted a short write up on my “achievement”

Blog Statistics

Proud? Yes.

Happy? Yes.

Contented? Quite.

9:15am: Chat with Friend on church selection

people attend Church A secondary school youth church. I must commend Church A is the best in that field
then once you reach form 6 / pre-U.. you are in confusion of where to further your studies. the transition throws every teen off.. no one can escape this phase of life one
I think Church A wasn’t able to handle it properly
that’s where Church B steps in… the College group is the best, in my opinion
caters to different college, public & private.. mostly Help / Taylors lah, but from everywhere, there are people “like you” so you feel wanted
cell groups are flexible.. makan first, god later.
i mean, ok lah, we worship and all.. but at this phase of life, it’s all about having fun
If the cell leader is a killjoy, and always very restrictive and authoritarian, then it won’t succeed
Jesus also ask to “win the hearts of men”.. of course, to the glory of God lah
but step one is to win hearts, not be Kim Jong Ill
then once you graduate, the Young Adults / Couples congregation at Church C is the logical progression on the timeline
the demographic seems to be mostly 24-35 yr old young adults who shape the future
doesn’t matter which “zaman” you’re from..70s 80s 90s.. once you touch 24 years, apparently you “shape the future”.. and words like growth, development, nuturing, maturity gets thrown about frequenly. .and the church associated with this, is.. of cuz Church C
either that or you’ve migrated out of malaysia

(*sidenote: It’s not hard to figure out whom I’m referring to, but if you know me, we can go for mamak and I’ll tell you the A, B, and Cs lah!)

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Brazil vs Netherlands

Brazil vs Netherlands

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5pm: FreeNAS is powerful. I manage to remotely log in to the server admin page on the machine, booted off a USB thumb drive. It’s great.

But I kept getting Kernel panics. The system would just lock up and restart. Could be I don’t have any hard disks, but the fact that it’s not “stable”, at least on my rig, is quite worrying.

Will retry again next week, and the fall back plan is to use Win XP to fileserve. Sigh~ I need to read up Linux and FreeNAS in particular over the weekend.

(rig: Pentium Dual Core 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM, HP minitower)

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Argh, world cup tonight. Asked YW for pool, but he rather watch WC. Good also lah, chance for me to rest for Saturday & Sunday!

3:45 pm: The boss from Singapore had a chat. It was a reassuring tone, the little encouragement that employees need once a while. Ahhh =)

3pm: Went for lunch at Pavillion. Went to Low Yat to look around. Japan Tobacco offered plastic ashtrays like a coin purse. I didn’t know who Japan Tobacco was. “Camel” apparently is one of their brands.

Meh.

Playing with FreeNAS now. Gotta get it working before the hard disk arrives. If not, our fileserver will be running Windowz!

10am: Presentation skills 101: Just 6 slides. I have long been an advocate of KISS. In college, I remember my slides being the shortest, and having doubts as to whether it will sell or not. Ok, I didn’t exactly cream the opponents or High Distinctioned my way to glory, but I believed that I inspired, I put on a good show, gave them a good time. What’s more important is that the points I was presenting were well received, despite how technical it was (why a Gigabit router is important) or how controversial it was (newspaper and TV advertising are dead).

9:30am: Finished the work for the week, now waiting to see if it churns out right and if I’ve made any boo-boos.

We’re sending Justin Bieber to North Korea! http://www.forkparty.com/4chan-sends-justin-bieber-to-north-korea/

This morning it was Israel first. Now thanks to the power of 4chan and the internet community, our favourite “baby, baby, ooooooohhh singer” is heading to Uncle Kim’s country! Smart move, Mr. Marketing Manager.

I remember a while ago there was this competition to find a suitable candidate. Martin Seargant, made an awesome video submission. It was dugg up, voted up by the whole digg.com community (or people who know him through Revision3)

The company who made the poll didn’t pick him.

There was a public outburst.

So what we’ve learnt is “popularity contests” like American Idol produces unpredicatable results. Not a good way to gauge how good a person is, or how capable he is. Looks can be deceiving!

6:30am: From DSLreports.com

…/Average-Smartphone-User-Consumes-298MB-A-Month-109138

* The top 6 percent of smart phone users are consuming half of all data.

* The average smartphone user now consumes 298 megabytes of data a month — up sharply from the 90 megabytes a month consumers on average burned through during the early part of 2009.

* At the same time, nearly a quarter (25%) of smartphone users consume less than 1 MB a month.

In Malaysia, if a provider offers all you can eat, you will have users tetthering to their laptops and sucking bittorrent traffic like there’s no tomorrow, JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN.

Gah.

I’m a long time fan of DSLreports.com. Ever since the early days of broadband, back in high school. I drooled at Optimum Online, a NY, New Jersey based cable broadband provider. While e-Speed is offering 128kbit for about B$100 (SGD 100), OOL was at that time offering 10,000kbit for US$50. Mind you, this was back in 2003 era, where a friend, Luke Ding helped me download Mac OS X 10.0 beta in its infancy stage. I remember having to explain to friends that, yes it is 10 thousand kb per second. I didn’t count the zeroes wrongly!

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Arabs test Brits with money crisis, Dubai debt problem, ask for loan repayment extensions. Lots of “friends” suddenly disappear and move their operations out of Dubai fearing a crisis. Now the British’s turn to test their Arab friends.
BP oil spill, you still want to be associated and do business with us? And Halliburton? Where’s your loyalty now, through thick and thin?

I love conspiracies. When the news I see don’t add up, I know the mainstream media is being silenced, or… somehow isn’t telling to whole truth.

Ok, another story:

Last night, went gym, did the dance thing. Time to choose a dance partner. Now, this is a record 30-35 people crammed in the room. Funny thing; no one wanted to dance with me!

There were 4 left: One indian guy muscular macho type, One indian lady mama prolly mid 40s, one smoking hot chic who I’m too shy to ask her name but see her often, and me, the macho guy.

Ok, so here’s the deal. The Indian guy said he doesn’t wanna participate in the ending routine where guy-girl dance together. Said something about being smelly and sweaty (which I admit, it was true I smelt terrible). Ok, understandable. Then, the two girls hesitantly…. *drums roll* … decided to dance with each other. They both look uneasy.

But what’s next? I’m alone? Gah, the Indian guy finally partner me. It was funny, cuz girls rather danced among themselves, whereas in other classes, it would be easy-peasy, done and dusted matter.

Anyhooo.. the final 2 routines we didn’t do because, let me describe how it went down:

A: bend, kick right, switch, bend, kick left, left knee up, right jump kick, switch, look at partner.
(ok this set is easy, quite fun to do)
B: Hold the girl, throw her down (ballroom dance style), turn the lady, in-out, in-out.
(this is wayyyy fun to do with someone you like..)
C: Dance nearer and nearer to the girl, left right left right combo, you gotta coordinate this PERFECTLY. Or as Luciano puts it: “If you kiss, babies will come out!!!!” then the final four counts involves lots of rubbing on the knees / thighs area.

MMMmm… very “artistic” indeed!

But damn, I didn’t get to do it cuz I was stuck with a dude.

(Cell group later tonight, gotta repent!)

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