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Entries from May 2008

Via’ Nano (not Ipod Nano)

May 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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You will wonder what is nano this time..?

Now this time is a CPU from Via – a company which have move from chiptset design to low power cpu design. They just announce this new CPU based on Via Isaiah micro architecture after their C7 CPU launched in 2005.

Now their CPU provide additional preformance, security feature and lower power compare to it’s predecessor with it’s architecture change. It’s a fully out of order superscalar 64 bit 65nm CPU with up to 2GHz speed, max 25W TDP and feature double performance with the same power envelope as C7. Via also claim it’s new CPU deliver around 1.9x performance per watt compare to the Intel Celeron M with same speed( with 1.6Ghz CPU example).

List of feature

  • Superscalr and speculative, out-of-order architecture
  • Advanced Branch prediction
  • Blu-ray disc playback
  • Gaming(The lowest power Crysis-playable cpu ever)
  • Adaptive PowerSaver technology
  • VIA Pad Lock engine(for encryption security)

Whitepaper of Nano here.

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OMG! Is today my birthday??(teambuilding@QBM)

May 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Today is 23th May 2008. Our team have a teambuilding event at Queen’s Bay Mall. We are doing Walk Hunt inside the mall, it’s some sort of treasure hunt game but now we are guess the anwer which is one of the shop’s name in the mall throughout the route given by organizer.

The game last for around 3 hours, from 2.30pm to 5.30pm and we also walk for around 2 1/2 hour to search the shop around. The question is quite interesting and hard to guess for a normal people who seldom join this kind of game and weak at languages, let me give an example.

Q. He keeps the sign of Victory : keyword: keeps

The answer is

Sign of Victory is V (popularized by Churchill after WW2 when he held up 2 fingers as a V sign)

He is DIA in Bahasa.

So We have DI V A (DIA is keeping V)

So, what is your comment here? for the question.

Hehe, the answer in Walkhunt is not straight forward and sometime you need to twist your brain to another side.

After finish walk and guess for around 3 hours, we have our ‘buffet’ dinner in T.G.I. Friday’s and also present giving ceremony there. Due to the reason that we have treasure hunt expert in my team, we are able to get the Third Prize out of the 8 team that have prize – it’s a medium hamper.

We queue up then eat and eat and eat, suddenly the team of waiter and waitress shouting laud in the restaurant, I doesn’t know what is happening, so i continue eat the remaining last piece of chocolate cheese cake.

To my surprise, the team of waiter and waitress come to my table and ask me to stand up on my chair, then i only know i get tricked by friend, so i force to pretend that i am the birthday boy(a good-will liar), since they already think that tonight is my birthday.

The feeling inside me is complex, i don’t want to let the waiters down and i feel i cheat them for the service they provide, i also embarrass as some of my friends who know my birthday also in this buffet. At the end, i pretend to be the birthday boy – a beautiful liar for everybody’s pleasure(i think).

It’s starting like this – the waiter and waitress start shouting near the kitchen – sound like ” there is a boom today in the restaurent”. Then, they come to the birthday guy and ask him to stand on top of the chair, and give him/her a mic(what i receive is a pepper shaver) and ask him/her to sing a song – cannot be birthday song, can be any chinese/english or any language of song(not children song also). My singing is bad  and can’t really remember the lyrics – drag here and drag there- finally sing a bit of ‘Tong Hua’ of Guang Liang with sound that nearly reach the end of the restaurent by the request of the waiter. Really can’t tahan their request..

but after this, they reply me with their RAP version of birthday song- really nice :) Firstly sing by waiter and then follow by waitress, then back to waiter – everyone in the restaurent include out team member – around 60 people are crapping hand with the rap song. And after the rap birthday song, they end the singing with the rasa sayang in rap version also..hehe it’s pretty fun. They ask me to dance on the chair also, and say i am not dance enough, i just very hard and not moving.. not as happy like a birthday boy.

All this end with a birthday cake, ice cream cake with one candle.. too bad, to eat it, i need to blow it from 2 meter away. It’s hard to blow that by simly blow from your mouth – it needs to focus your mouth using your hand to the candle direction.

The cake is delicious although i already 90% full, and really worth it by the effort of singing and dancing abit. It’s one of the best cake in TGI Friday. Pretty happy and embarass for myself .

All the people thought i am birthday that night, thanks for all the birthday wishes =P, even big boss KS also come to congrate me for the fake birthday.

Hope everyone enjoy the meal and all these entertainment. If you ever take my picture or video during the buffet dinner, please send to me. It’s a beautiful experience, probably next time when your birthday come, you can try dinner at this shop.

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Sichuan Earth Quake Touching story collection

May 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Today marks the starts of three days of mourning for the victims of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province.

Lots of china websites are in gray scale to support this.. see google china site thumbnail below

Google in Mourn

There are lots of sad and touching stories associate with this shacking earthquake,

Let me collect and share some, the story will be added as time goes on for these three days, so stay tuned.

Love your wife as long as she is …

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“老婆,你放心,我帶你上路!”

一名身材黝黑的男子,背妻子,駕電單車在路上奔馳,偶爾停下來,不時回望她;妻子緊緊依偎他,一言不發。不過,夫妻倆正要前往的地方不是他們溫馨的家,而是殯儀館。為了給地震中遇難的亡妻留下最後的尊嚴,男子用繩子把對方緊緊綁在背上,再用電單車將她送到殯儀館火化。

here is the english translation

“My Wife, I walk together with you on the last mile!”

a dark skin man, carry his Wife, riding his bike on the road, sometimes stop down and stare at her; His Wife hold him tie, without saying anything. For your surprise, they are not going to their lovely home, but funeral home. To protect the last pride of his wife who die in the earthquake, this husband tie his wife closely with him on the bike while on the way to the funeral home for burning process…

Love your Mum… Baby

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搶救人員在瓦礫堆發現一名母親的時候,她已被垮塌下來的房子壓死了。她生前最後姿勢是雙膝跪著,整個上身向前匍匐著,雙手扶著地面支撐著身體,有如古人行跪拜禮,只是身體被壓得變形了,看上去有些詭異。

救援人員在廢墟中搜索沒有發現生還者,突然,在屍體下發現一名三四個的小嬰兒。因為有母親身體庇護,嬰兒毫髮無傷。嬰兒包在一個紅色帶黃花的小被子裡,抱出來的時候還安靜的睡著。

隨行的醫生解開嬰兒棉被時發現一手機。手機屏幕開著,上面有留言,“親愛的寶貝,如果你能活著,一定要記住我愛你”。

看慣生離死別的醫生,也忍不住落淚,隨著手機傳遞,現場每個看到留言人也都落淚。但幸運存活的小嬰兒,要長大後才能明白母親的犧牲有多偉大。

When the rescuers have found a Mum, she already buried die under the rubble. Her body shape when she die is strange, like doing ancient praying god ceremony. Rescuer doesn’t find any other survivor nearby the dead mum. Suddenly, one of the rescuer found a three to four month baby underneath the mum, because of the cover and care of mum’s body, the baby doesn’t have anything hurt, still sleeping silently when he is carry out from scene.

When the assciate doctor open out the cotton cover on the baby, a mobile phone is discovered, with the case open – on SMS enter screen is –  

“ My Lovely Baby, if you still live, must remember Mum’s love on you.”

Even though the associate doctor who come through all sort of things also has his tear down when he see this message, through the spreading of sms, the touching story is told to many people. But, the lovely poor baby, only can know the mighty love of mother when he grown up.    

Love Your Mum.. Baby 2

在週二(13日)下午,都江堰河邊一處坍塌的民宅,數十救援人員在奮力挖掘,尋找存活的傷者。救援人員突發現,一名年輕的媽媽雙手懷抱著一個三四個月大的嬰兒蜷縮在廢墟中,她低著頭,上衣向上掀起,已經沒有了呼吸,懷裡的女嬰依然愜意地含著母親的乳頭吮吸著,紅潤的小臉與母親粘滿灰塵的雙乳形成了鮮明的對比。

救援者說:“我們小心地將女嬰抱起,離開母親的乳頭時,她立刻哭鬧起來。”看到女嬰的反應,在場者無不掩面。

“我無法想象,一個死去的媽媽還在為自己的孩子餵奶,從母親抱孩子的姿勢可以看出,她是很刻意地在保護自己的孩子,或許就是在臨死前,她把乳頭放進了女兒的嘴裡。”

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Sichuan Earth Quake May 12th – death toll may reach 50,000

May 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment

You may already heard about the earth quake with richter scale of 7.9 happens at Sichuan on Monday. The devastating quake was centered in Wenchuan County, 159 kilometers northwest of Chengdu, Sichuan’s capital.

According to recent news, due to the rescuers may not able to reach the site earlier, many people can’t be save in time and it’s believe the death toll may increase to 50,000.

From the news, lots of small town is covered by landslide, out of 20,000 people in the town only 2000 of people is survive- you can see how serious is this earthquake- and some of the town is flooded with the highest building with ‘7 floor’ get flooded as well.

Sichuan’s survivor may also facing danger of flood due to damage of dam nearby. Two-thousands of soldier are fighting to fix the modern Zipingpu dam upriver from the earthquake-stricken town of Dujiangyan to prevent the burst. While local news talks about the sending of lots of helicopter to the scene to drop emergency supplies, digging and  help find the survivor buried beneath the rubble. Main traffic to the site already been broken by landslide, telecommunication have been cut off, the survivor only able to help themself of wait for the help from soldier. A team of professional emergency relief team from Japan left for Chengdu, Sichuan’s provincial capital, to provide medical help to the survivor.

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Aiyo!… Run Papa Run faster lah…

May 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

It’s Wednesday night again, a cheap movie day which attract all the movie lover who want to save money to watch whatever movie they like. So, because of this, and because i like this movie’s story told by media very much so i go to watch this ‘Run Papa Run’.

The story is pretty touching – A black society boss featured by ‘Louis Koo’ want to become a good father after he has his family accidentally. Although as a gang boss, he really shows the love when he become father of his child and husband to his wife featured by ‘Rene Liu’.

The movie is one of the most worth to watch Chinese/Cantonese “healthy” movie with limited violent(HK gangster), lots of love(Father’s love) and mix with some comedy(you know when you watch it), the story line is very rich and full of surprise, although it’s a bit like Taiwan movie. I highly recommended this Sylvia Chang movie although it gets 5.4 out of 10 in IMDB. Please check out this movie in nearby cinema, it’s in * mode now(means it’s nearly out of showing already).

I nearly cry when the gang boss said ‘He only cry two times in his life, one is when he was birth and he doesn’t know, and someone told him he cry. The second time he cry is when he know he cries, he can’t told the someone’.

Run Papa Run

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What is (HTC Touch) Diamond? ‘an ipod killer’?

May 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A Black Diamond in your handA new gadget is coming to town… from windows mobile platform, feature exciting new beautiful Touch FLO 3D interface from HTC that would be able to fight with Iphone face to face.

All the feature below is packed into a small form factor which fit into your pocket easily.

• large 2.8 inch VGA display (640×480 pixel resolution)
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• Quadband GSM/GPRS/Edge and UMTS/HSDPA
• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0
• 3.2megapixel camera with autofocus
• extra VGA camera in the front for video telephony
• QWERTY keyboard
• Qualcomm 528 Mhz CPU
• 4 GB of internal memory plus a MicroSD slot
• FM Radio
• an accelerometer sensor (like the iPhone’s)

Check out the basic review here.

A video is better than all the words.

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Perodua Nautica 1.5 is here

May 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Finally, the replacement model for Kembara whihc launched in 1998 is launched in Malaysia today – it’s name is Perodua Nautica. it’s just a derivative of Toyota Rush or Daihatsu Terios.

For Toyota Rush, it’s price is 1.5G M/T – RM85,888, 1.5G A/T – RM88,888 and 1.5S A/T – RM94,888.

While Perodua Nautica is 1.5L AT – RM89,900, which the spec is here. It may be a bargain if the spec is the same for both Nautica and Rush in Malayisa, but you may need to consider the resale value of Toyota brand car later.

Check out the review from paultan here.

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Windows XP SP3 (bad) news

May 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

hello everybody, Windows XP sp3 is now out in wild, you can download from windows update if your window XP copy is genuine (according to WGA). But now it’s causing trouble to some owners with AMD machines, bring many HP machine or PC with Asus A8N32-SLI mother board. It’s told that the service patch cause machines into endless loop of restarts for HP machine due to incompatible intel driver is provided for AMD machine, while for Asus mainboard problem, it’s possibly due to a faulty bios.

There is a long thread in microsoft forum for this. Also check this link for the detail of the possible solution of this problem if you have your pc crash after install xp sp3.

Update:

For those people who have the same problem, HP finally have a webpage cater for it.

another thing, if you install IE7 or IE8 to your Win XP SP2 system, you may not be able to uninstall it directly after install SP3. If you want to uninstall it later, you need to uninstall SP3 then you can uninstall IE7 or 8. This is stated in the official release notes of SP3 and also the summary of known issue.

Also, here is one of the review on installation of SP3 online from a well known news source.

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Airasia Fight back with Subzero rate

May 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Now, Airasia is fighting back Mas Airlines 0 Fare program launched at 5th May with price even lower than 0 fare. The airline is shouting that the combination of tax, fuel surcharge, insurance and admin fee of they charging now is stated as below, which is competitive compare to so called 0-fare carrier below. it’s a delight to see Malaysia’s airlines start competing like that, the one who benefit all of this will be our – the consumer who take airplane for traveling.

AirAsia (RM) 0-Fare Carrier (RM)
Airport Tax + Fuel Surcharge
+ Insurance + Admin Fee
44.50 76.00
Promo Fare* 15 0
Baggage Fee** 3 0
You Pay RM 62.50 RM 76.00

*Applicable for domestic flights only
** For pre-booked check baggage online

For your information, MAS’s offer is from 5-19 May 2008, and ticket is non-refundable and flight dates can’t be changed after your booked. The ticket also need to book at least 30-days before the departure date. it’s also without the charges of 20kg of luggage, fixed seat number and probably MAS’s food. The traveling time is between 10th June to 14th December 2008.

Also, the ticket for East Malaysia from West Malaysia RM120, it’s a good bargain from MAS for all malaysian here. Hopefully, airasia also can provide competitive price for this area.(the price in the table above doesn’t state the place of travel, you may need to take a look at it’s website or booked the ticket yourself)

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