Yahoo! My Streamyx is working, finally...

Sometimes I just don't understand why, but maybe it's meant to be that patients will always need to see the doctor to get well. Not talking about myself... I'm talking about the modem I have... hehhe.. it's a super weird modem! It was not operating before this, but they have done something to the modem which allows it to connect to the Streamyx now.Don't know how, don't know why. Will find out.

As Long As You Love ME

Yeayyy I'm going to the concert!!! What Concert??? Hello.. Were you lost in space or something???? :) THE Tsunami - Force Of Nature concert. Among the performers:
1. BACKSTREET BOYS *Drum rolls...!!!*
2. Boys II Men
3. Black Eyed Peas
4. Jackie Chan
5. Lauryn Hill
6. Nicholas Tse
7. Yumiko Cheng
8. Paula Abdul
9. Clay Aiken

Local Artistes:
1. Sheila Majid
2. Innuendo
3. Anuar Zain
4. Dayang Norfaizah

Those who are coming:
1. Michelle Yeoh
2. Alan Cumming


The Who's who are here in KL this weekend, for many things , but most importantly, Formula One is happening this weekend. This is the reason a host of other good things are happening along too! There are parties upon parties in conjunction with the Formula One race in Sepang this weekend. I can't wait to watch Raikkonen performing! A lot of stakes has been put, and frankly McLaren better win , we don't wana see another year of reds!

Also, Champions League drawing today. Liverpool sure lose!!!! Let me see who is the fated nemesis of LIVERPOOL!!! Muahhahahahahahhahaahaahahhahahahahhahahahhhahaha~*evil evil*

It is the Broadband Age, it's not the Stone Age!

OK, I finally got myself a Broadband line at home. ADSL Streamyx RM66. Got a DLink ADSL Modem as wellfrom Low Yat, future wireless plan still on hold though.No money la! It's not that hard to turn my home into a wireless SOHO, since the ADSL modem can be conected to an AP and there I go!

Now I need to figure out how to actvate it in my house.

S E P E T

Many good reviews about the movie. Don't know how many thumbs-up.

Among the facts of the movie:
1. Directed by Yasmin Ahmad - an advertising giant-turn-director.
2. Hero of the show is the Creative Director in her company.
3. All actors are non-performer background.
4. This is a movie shot entirely in IPOH!!!
5. Language : Malaysian ( which includes BM , English , Canto , Hokkien)
6. Jokes are very Malaysianised... perhaps it's like Lat cartoons? Hehhehe..


But one friend said it has a stupid ending.... I have't watched it yet.Might go sometime soon.Maybe next Wed? How about it , Jun? :)

Is church a Church anymore?

"We live in an increasingly fragmented and isolated world. That mindset has influenced the way we approachour relationship with God. Faith is a solo pursuit.Many young adults in particular have given up on thechurch. If they do attend it isn’t something that theyinvest themselves in passionately.I believe the church is the most exciting thing to bea part of on the planet. It’s the privilege of everyChristian in every generation to play a small part inthe very big and very awesome story God is writing."

by Joshua harris

*Sent by Raj.

Fast and pray. Vegetarianism rules.

Easter will be celebrated on Sunday March 27, 2005. Greek/Orthodox Easter will be celebrated Sunday, May 01st, 2005.

Easter is coming. I shall fast and pray for*in this order*:
1. True wisdom from God
2. Blessings in my relationship
3. Healthy family members
4. Career advancement - pass CCNA and proceed to MCSE.

Too late... it's 530 already.

Dang.. why do problems only hit when I want to go home?
I-Pass , please work, I need to go home early today!!!

Never underestimate the power of parents

Trust me on this. Their influences reach far and wide in our thoughts, our feelings, our choices , and our decisions. Hahhaa...

Wahh.. finally!

Things has been pretty hectic in the office for the past few days since I came back from holiday. Piles of work waiting for me ..

Meeting for load balancing for WG, email backup summary report, help desk issues, streamyx not working(?) , phone line's out(???) , server patching , virus attack on someone's email account, formatting of someone's PC which is deeply infected by this stupid spyware, another PC whose email inbox crashed because she made a compact cleaning which is equivalent to the defragmentation of the whole hard disk , ADSL line instable / down , someone's notebook can't access the eamil server due to a faulty network card - gosh I need to send that to the service center in Shah Alam- , someone from China cannot get into our email server , list is endless.

No matter what , I'm going home early today. :P

Keep Smiling

Yes, I get you.Loud and clear.

Street Party at The Curve tomorrow

There's a Formula One street party tomorrow at The Curve . Among the attractions:
games, music, special demo,F1 souvenirs on sale, "exciting" roadshow , Ning Baizura singing,DJ Danny Bee (European guy) .. who knows we can win some cool F1 tickets and watch RAIKKONEN win the race??? hehhehe...
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
STREET PARTY
Feel the Heat at the F1 Street Party happening at the Curve in Mutiara Damansara on Friday, 11th March 2005.

Details are as follows:
3.00 pm– Games, Contests & Prizes, F1 Simulator
8.00 pm– Welcome Note
8.15 pm– Launch of F1 Street Party
8.45 pm– Ning Baizura Live!
9.15 pm– DJ Danny Bee & Cheryl Lynn Party Games
11.00 pm– DJ Castro (Dance Music Set)
12.00 pm– DJ Danny Bee (UK Dance Music Set)
1.00 am – DJ Castro & Danny Bee (Dance Music Set)
2.00 am – END

Info: http://www.malaysiangp.com.my/motorsports/f1/roadshows.html

Consulting

... is?

CON + INSULT = CONSULTING

Preparing networks, and people, for times of trouble

1.Preparing a company for disaster, above all, involves planning, both in terms of technological redundancy and staffing.

2.When looking at a diagram of a company's network infrastructure and wide area network links, one should be able to put a finger over any device on the chart -- as if it were down -- and know that the network can keep running.

3. While most large providers, such as UUNet, have their own backbones, other second-tier providers may use a large provider's backbone. That means that, even though a company may have two service providers, its data is traveling on one path.

4.Route optimization : This method judges traffic conditions on the network and helps to ensure that data takes the quickest route given the current conditions on the Internet.

5. Plan : Wanted to ensure that its IT operations could continue even if all of its personnel were unable to access its buildings.

Personal Note : How do we do this?

OK, as promised , the second day of the trip was like this...

Before 7am:

Woke up, didn't brush teeth, didn't brush the hair, didn't wash face, just walked out of the room and saw the sun rising. CT is already up and YL is sleeping like a baby. Ukwan already up and very wide awake. Can't remember much about Jun's whereabouts. I think he is awake too. Oh, yeah I think he is. Malcolm... dont know about him. Saw the sun rising, very happy. Stretched myself a bit and then , oopppsss the sun rose a little too fast. Ran back into my room and grab my faithful camera. Snap snap snap. It was pink and purple and orangy.

A little past 7am - 830am:

Ukwan, Jun, CT and Malc on the beach looking at something really interesting. So that's on my cam - ohh okie , they got a crab.What about Titanic posing by wonderful CT? And then I got a little more adventurous ; took off my sandals and walked around the seaside and played with the water a bit. It was quite fun because the sea is on low tide now and the waves are not that strong , so we had a very wide sea side to play with. No one was building sand castle, weird eh? There's a lot of sea shells and some rubbish on the beach, and we could see Ukwan playing treasure hunt. He found one purple sea shell which I used as my model. (It's displayed on the
blog.) Also found, some white pieces of shell, when broken looks like rocksalt or whitewashed stones. We really had no idea what they were. Ok, so I was being nosy, walked on the beach and washing my feet with the nice cool sea water and then, OUCH... something cut my sole. I hope it's not a stringe thrown by some AIDS drug addict - oh man - gross!! Else, I'd be ... : '-(Had to hop back to the abode to wash my sole. Yeah process of washing feet was recorded on the cam.)

Back to the beach. Took some silly pictures with everyone. Hehehe... Still got me in stitches , some of them. One was of me looking as if I'm pregnant *blaim the wind* , one was us loooking like cannibals chanting around the fire , one was me holding the sun , another was me wearing the sun on my left hand. Did some model posing as well :) We climbed the big boulders *this time with sandals* which were previously unreachable due to the high tides and the strong waves and managed to take some pictures from there. Very cool.

Breakfast time:

Table tennis. Round robin tabletennis with 6 people. Wind is still strong, and I love it. The only major set back is that if I don't tie my hair , it would make me look like "Pak Fat Mor Lui" (The Lady Devil). Breakfast was sardines and tuna bread , coffee, mee-in-my-mug or biscotti. Take your pick.

Lunchtime , 1pm:

CT drove us down to Kemaman in Ukwan's car. It's the first time she took his car, so I was kinda praying hard. But then again, she has driven a Merc before , so well.. this should be *wet wet water* for her. We just took a road up north towards KT. We were lost in the Kuantan harbour ; went into it and came out again. No boats at sight, but we could see it was a reasonably-built harbour next to the sea. Very well maintained. I could see some hillslopes being cut for more development. A long while later , we finally reached Kemaman. Went straight to lunch, after walking around looking for a shop which sells good stuffed crabs. OK, we're not really bothered, because all of us were to hungry to bother really! Ordered clams in ginger sauce, fried chilli prawns, fried belacan kangkung , taufu , and obviously stuffed crabs! I can't remember what else we had. Ah, yea, I had longan drink to cool my body off the heat. I went to the washroom and found out that it was really really clean, to my pleasant surprise. You know how toilets in Malaysia can be , rite?

Right after the lunch, it's tea time! We went straight to Hai Peng - the coffee shop which was recommended by the inn-keeper. Oh my, they served toasted bread with peanut butter and bananas.... what a killer combination!!! They also served the original yin-yong, bread with butter and kaya in buns and normal bread. It's not that great, but it is something because it's matched with the smooth aromatic coffee... ohh lala...I had Vietnamese coffee which was filled by this weird-looking metal holder which is used to sieve the beans out from the hot water. Ukwan checked out the price as it looked prettty neat really ; it was a whopping RM28! Now,
unless someone give me that as a souvenir, I won't buy that. Right after snapping some more pictures, we saw this interesting sign board on the way back - a woman with headscarf and a writing on the board : "Menutup Aurat Adalah Wajib" . Then I looked at CT and said no wonder everyone was looking at us weirdly, we weren't wearing headscarf, and plus she was wearing this super-duper short pants and sleeveless t-shirt... Memang menjolok mata! :))

Evening:

On the way back to abode. Stopped to get keropok lekor in Cherating -->the original objective to go to Kemaman ; but we ended up in buying in Cherating instead. There's two variation of the same lekor - one was fried , the other was steamed. If you can't imagine how it tasted like, it's like fish cakes we always have when we eat yong tau fu.Really nice ; not like the ones in KL - full of flour! Next up, we went to Club Med .. err, almost I mean. They wouldn't let us in unless we pay them , would they? Well, who cares? We ended up visiting the turtles at the Turtle sanctuary next to Club Med. Nope, there's no turtles laying eggs at this time of the year, plus the current was really strong . I'm sure turtle mums would choose areas which are more cosy to lay their babies right?

Night:

Ok, because we ate a lil too much during the lunch hour, all of us stopped eating proper food at night. Dinner was white wine, maggi-in-mug, Famous Amos cookies, more lekor in keropok style or in streamed style *this one looks kinda gross after how I saw Malc holding it, also the reason why I didn't eat it *. We played Chor Tai Dee . At first I was winning, but then I lost so many rounds after that , that YL had to come to the rescue. We won a few rounds after that, after which I got into a sleepy mode because of the wine. Went to bed at 9pm , or maybe earlier.
Sometime after that:

Wide awake! Let's have another round of wine? No? OK, the boys said no more for me! :( *sobs* Tried going back to sleep, but can't sleep. So ended up chatting with Specimen A about her family problem. It was just me at first with her, then it was CT and then it was Malc and Ukwan and then it was Jun. The whole room was filled with ideas on how to solve the mum-n-dad-are-too-conservative problem. I have that problem, but it's time to really move on. Thanking God for His grace everyday! :)

In between , I have gay guys rolling on my bed- three of them !!! YUCK!!!!!! GET OFF MY BEDDDDD!!!

2.30am:

Time to sleep.

New word in the dictionary

What do you call an animal which can swim and quacks?

Answer : EE TECH

Source : W*bster, *xford, Penerbitan F*jar B*kti.
Year : 2005

Software enginner (1 junior pos, 1 senior) post

cos my company this week conducting interviews. last day is friday

Position: Software Engineer (Testing & Development)
Salary: RM 2300 – 2700++ (more so with J2EE/Java background)Working Hours: 10 am – 7 pm (Monday to Friday)

Job Scope: The company is working on a huge ERP project in the aviation (airlines/flight) industry. Customer is a foreign airlines company in Europe. To ensure that the project requirements and delivery are met according to the customized specifications of the client. To improve and develop the Testing and Quality Control aspects of the systems, as well as to develop some parts of the ERP using J2EE, and bug-fixing.To be responsible to research, study and develop test cases and test scripts for use by the Test Team in our system while working closely with a Team of Developers and Management, as well as the Clients who are in Europe.

Plus Points: Great management & colleagues, opportunity to travel to Holland (client’s place)!

Company Address:
Dualnet Telecommunications (M) Sdn Bhd
Suite 1106 Menara Amcorp, Amcorp Trade Center,
18 Jalan Persiaran Barat, 46050 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Contact Person: Mr. Chen Keat Ming Chen.Keat.Ming@dualnet.com.my

The Shell 

Through the tinted glass in the car. 

Server Patched Successfully

So glad there was nothing wrong with the server . 13 normal / cumulative patches and 6 security patches. As many as those reboots - each reboot was , "Please work my darling server". When they have rebooted , it's "Thank you and let's move to the next patch!"

To patch the server:
1. You have to write down the details of each step.
2. Patch the latest files last.
3. Reboot.
4. Repeat 2-4 until they are done.

Why so urgent? Cos it is. We doubt there was a DOS being done on the server.

*Thank you God, for a wonderful good night sleep. I slept like a baby through the night hahaha..*

Talk about neighbourliness!