BBQ party

Day 1:

Plan to have a bbq party at Kevin's place since he's parents won't be home for about a week. Bought Lamb, Sausages, Fries, Squid, Fishballs and vegetables. At first, we thought that there wouldn't be enough food for all of us. Bt end of the day, there were too much food. Lolz. Went down to Carrefour for the groceries.

Reading Seafield's school magazine

Kevin marinating the chicken wings

Sidharth turn!

Day 2:

We started barbeque-ing around 7pm. Kevin and Honsam went to Sri Petaling to pick Malcome up. Later, bought some other miscellaneous stuff for the bbq party. Supposingly, there should be around 13-14 ppl coming,...but you know...FFK-ers or last minute notice "Owh sry, can't make it" attitude. Anyways, that didn't stop us from enjoying ourselves Haha.

Newspaper method ain't efficient as Paper Plates




Jamie & Siao Han preparing the 1000 Island "Banjir" Salad


Lamb, sausages, and our over-marinated chicken wings




Heineken beer from Giant - RM13 each






Eric & Kevin


Me and da gurlz


Them in the kitchen






Me resting...haha


Malcome and Chen playing Tekken 5


The next thing when I'm awake - Fries!

Our party ended up at 2.30am. Chen was so freaking tipsy that she couldn't walk straight. I was pretty awake that time. Could go a lil further, but nahh...enough is enough. Overall, the bbq party was pretty good. Its better than the last time we did in Semenyih. :)

P1 Wimax Vs Streamyx

Alright, so I've been testing this WiMAX so called "The solution to Streamyx" for about 7 days. Here is a short review about it. Basically, all you need to know is that WiMAX uses wireless technology where else Streamyx uses wired based technology. Common sense will tell us that Wired Technology is faster than Wireless, and that is true. Streamyx uses copper wire cables to connect to their ISP, where else WiMAX uses wireless (radio waves technology) to connect to their ISP. To know more about P1, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_One_Networks.

P1 WiMAX

Advantages:

• Easy installation. There is no need for a router. Just plug in the WiMAX dongle and connect!
• Fast video streaming (2x faster than Streamyx). You'll love this thing if you're a fan of YouTube.
• Fast download speed. I managed to reach 130Kbps ++ while downloading my anime. We're talking about wireless here! Not your LAN cable.
• Weather likewise, it is not as vulnerable as Streamyx. Even when there's strong winds and heavy rains, WiMAX connection remains stable. It works for my case. Other reviews says it is affected by weather. Weird eh?

Disadvantages:

• Your download speed/bandwidth is reduced by HALF(1/2) upon reaching 20GB if you take the PLUS package. WTF? You're paying RM99 (RM11 increase) compared to the normal 1Mbps of Streamyx. When I was been approach by a P1 promoter, he told me that this 20Gbps is just nothing. "You'll get unlimited bandwidth". So how do I know about the truth? The officer that works in P1 WiMAX admitted it, and it is their company's policy. 1/2 is way too much! Besides, I do know that our current Streamyx doesn't even gives us 1Mbps when we are paying RM88 for it. Oh well, I rather stick back to my old Streamyx than signing up a new contract for P1. Why pay extra when you're given the same speed as Streamyx? :)

• Downloads and Browsing do not stack. So, if you're downloading a 500MB file, don't think that you're browsing speed remains fast. It'll be reduced.
• Online gaming. I do not encourage online gamers to take up P1 if you're playing excessive online games like CS. I have tested it with XileRO, and it seems pretty ok. I'm assuming that it'll go freaking lag once it reaches the fair threshold.
• Your connectivity to P1 depends on how close you are to the station/access point. If you're too far from its coverage area, don't bother subscribing it. Wireless itself is prone to interference. So, what happens when you're far from its coverage area? P1 = Coverage Area - Distance - Interference - Noise = 20%/30% signal? Think about it.

Conclusion:

P1 beats Streamyx in almost every aspect. It's browsing speed, video streaming, download speed beats Streamyx about 2x. Test P1 for 7 days, and decide whether you're happy with it or not. I decided to remain with Streamyx unless P1 changes its company policies. When you say Unlimited Bandwidth, give us Unlimited Bandwidth. I'll subscribe to P1 immediately! Hahaha.

For normal users:
I'll encourage you to take up P1 since you won't be downloading as much as 20GB per month. I'll be comparing it with the PLUS package since most of us are using the normal 1Mbps Streamyx package. Do take up P1 if you're a normal user!

For Anime lovers and gamers:
Guys, 20GB is too little. Anime file - 170MB ++. So, what if you're downloading Bleach + One Piece + Naruto + FMA = 800MB (1 week). Not include your browsing downloads, YouTube and other misc downloads! Even worst, if you're both Gamer and Anime lover lolz! I'll leave the calculation to you. Anime Lovers & Gamers = Remain with Streamyx until P1 gives us a better package + change in company's policy.

Things happening around lately

There's no idea why my hols this round ain't happening like last time, bt I'm glad that I could still enjoy my holidays in various ways. More and more friends have their own lives, no longer as free as last time. I begin to appreciate life in every way that I could such as friends, family, home, food and more. I personally think that being able to live in this world is one of the greatest gift from Heaven above. Haha, dun worry. Nothing's gonna happen to me. It's just something that I want to blog about.

So lately I've been playing bball :

Mamak sessions, swimming, lazing around shopping malls, meeting up with Juniors and many more. Besides that, I'm also setting up a guide for an R.O server. Btw, look at this new outfit for GM's and Admin.

As for today, I'm down with diarrhoea and fever. Took chinese traditional pills for the diarrhoea, and now its ok. My fever has subside. For stomach, not really that well yet. This body of mine needs more rest and water. Till then, see you guys around :)

I lost 80% of my life...

This happen yesterday when I was about to reformat my computer due to software problems and file complexity. Just wanted to format my whole C drive since several tumbdrive virus ate one of the running programs in Windows. An error message pops out every time Windows boots. So, while I was formatting the C drive (known as Local Disk/your Operating System partition), I did not know that Linux will play around with the partition. So, basically if u did not go through proper procedures while formatting Windows with Linux in it, you'll format your whole hardisk by accident, and thats what happens to me.

I realize it once the Windows was installed on the same partition which is C. As Windows boots, I was shocked that the whole E partition was not in there. So, here's what I losts in that so called "fatal accident"

1) My pictures starting from year 2008-2009. Every single one of them

2) UniMAP files, includes my previous semesters syllabus and assignments. Erased starting from the 1st day I entered UniMAP

3) My whole UniMAP Ragnarok Online server that I've set up for almost a month. All data, items, players information are completely gone. Worst, even the guides and FAQs I made myself are completely gone...

4) Music files (MP3 and all). I don't really care about them as it can be downloaded anytime...

5) Need for Speed Most Wanted. I completed 63/67 challenge modes. 4 more and I'm done. Gone as well.


That's all to it. If someone could tell me how to recover all my files completely, I'll pay them RM50 bucks. Even more if the data are in good condition. Currently, I'm using Easeus Data Recovery to regain all my lost data. Sad to say, all of it...are broken, distorted and small in size. Haihz, I'm losing hope...

Semester 4 - Completed!

Finally I'm back! Lolz. Been waiting for this moment for about few weeks ago. Thank goodness it's just one semester left. After that, Internship! Woohoo! I'll be around Subang for about a month. Maybe less if I have to go back to uni for the orientation week since I'm involved.

Final exam has passed, so as for camp PPMS (It's freaking Pembantu Pelajar Minggu SuaiKenal) and not Pre Pre Menstrual Sindrome dammit! Plz bare in mind haha. I'll elaborate on my final exams 1st, then PPMS and lastly my few days back in Subang alright. So how was finals? Great? Fantastic? Answer: Close to death! Thanks to Microcontroller 1. As for other subjects, it was pretty ok. Well, hope I'll be able to maintain my pointer for this sem.

Papers:

1) Data Communication and Network
Basically, this subject focuses on how digital data are being transferred through the 7 OSI layers. It's like a message being passed through from one computer (node) to another bt requires addition of bits (addition of unnecessary data) into the original data. This purpose is simply for error detection and correction. So, it's simply the understanding of how bridges, routers, gateways, message passing and all. One of my fav subjects haha.

2) Operating System Principle
This subject mainly emphasizes on how Operating System works. As an example, you're on Windows XP/Vista. So, we study about what are the programs used in that O.S to solve certain problems. Problems such as Deadlock (commonly known as Hang), how to solve it. When two programs needs to use the Physical Memory (Your RAM), how its resource is being distributed and how is it being passed on to another process and more. O.S used fr this subject is Linux.

3) Computer System & Architecture
As for this subject, we learned about how computer system works such as RAM, Bus, I/O, CPU, and more. Let's put it this way. It is the study of how components of computers are related to each other. Pretty fun as we're learning a new programming language which is known as VHDL using Quartus II. These language helps us to design the basic components of the computer.

4) Database System
We are exposed to SQL queries in order to retrive data which are stored in databases. This subject exposes us on how data is stored in modern computers. Involve MySQL database. Pretty fun subject as the queries are based on simple english language that can be easily remembered. One of my fav subjects too.

5) Microcontroller 1
And last but not the least, toughest of all, crazy subject, siao-lang punya lecturer...Micro.C.
So what is this Micro.c thingy? Microcontroller is an integrated circuit or commonly known as IC which is used in embedded systems to perform one task and one task only. As an example, a mouse. A mouse is to simply retrive instructions from the user by moving the cursor and sending information to the processor. One hell of a subject since the lecturer requires us to mastered each instruction & functions.

One must be able to understand Why, When, Which, What and Where to apply the instruction to master the whole subject. Cool? This subject mainly uses Assembly Language like MOV, XCHD, SWAP, RR and more. We learned how to program the 8051 (Micro.c chip developed by Intel) for various applications such as the Universal Countdown Timer, Sensor Detector, and more. 4/7 questions in the finals are real applications which is abt 20marks each? Believe it?! Haha!

Pembantu Pelajar Minggu SuaiKenal (PPMS)

The moment I step into this camp on the 1st day, I felt so grateful and thankful. Why is that so? Mainly because of the food, toilet and all...close to 3 stars. We had clean water to bath and drink. We had so much food to cook, that the supplies were enough to lasts for about a week. What a blessing! Thank God! This camp emphasizes on Team Building since all of us have to work together to conduct the orientation for the next intake. Activities include self-cooking, obstacle course, water confident, and more. Our Student Council was great as well, as all activities went smooth sailing all the way. Good job! Overall, I would give a 9/10 rating for this PPMS camp phase 2. Perfect~~

Our new Majlis Tertinggi for the Orientation Week

Team 8 - DJ MAVTAN

Looks delicious? Yes it does!

All of us

The night before I left UniMAP haha

Let's go home boys!

Politics & Education

Politics, they're never ending. Everyday, there's havoc in the Dewan Rakyat. Goodness gracious, can anything get any better? And for our dear DUN's and Parlimen's, why the hell is there so much power craze, every1 wants to be a leader, every1 wants to voice out their opinions first, nobody wants to take turns and discuss together. Just look at our condition now. We're in an economic crisis and yet there's still people thinking of themselves. This refers to our leaders in Malaysia. Ever since Barisan lost half of their seats to the Opposition, they keep on coming back by causing even more problems. Look, a lost is a lost. Just a little change in the way of doing things will not make things worst alright. Barisan & Pakatan, the best solution for the nation & the people is mainly putting yourselves together in solving the nation's main crisis and NOT for your OWN SAKE. "Owh dammit, I lost my seat, I'm gonna do something to get in back!", "Ohh Pakatan wants to take our powers, we shall regain our leadership in this country, go die Pakatan", "Hmmp, dun care about the nation 1st, we must fight for our rights to gain back trust from the nation!!!", "Hell Barisan national for being such a great LEADER with so much bribery". Will all these words...help the people out there? The answer is no...

When it comes to Education, it's pretty okay right now. There's not much problem in the Malaysian education system. It's just the attitude of the teachers. Yup! So, in order for the students to excel in their examination, teachers have to change their mindset. Emphasis on the student's understanding and not on memorizing. Simply because, memorizing is just like a volatile information in a RAM. It can only be stored for an amount of time, and once lost, is lost. When u memorize and tend to forget, what happens? BLANK! I'm sure some of you have experienced that before right?? In contrast to understanding, it helps students in any situation. Same concept but diff question, able to understand and you'll be able to solve it. The sentence " Dun care la, memorize la, not gonna use also after exam LOLZ" must not be a practice.... When it comes to language, ENGLISH is the BEST and will be the BEST forever so don't bother changing it, AS SIMPLE AS THAT!

Test + Sick + Home

It's been quite tiring lately, with test and assignments coming up. I've been missing home ever since the start of sem. I can't wait to come back and indulge Subang food, such as Pan Mee, Pork Noodles, Bak Kut Teh, fast foods and most important of all, my mom's homecooked food. Oh well, looks like I'll have to wait for 2 months more. Why did the university merged the CNY hols and our mid-sem break? It's no good at all. I mean, if some of us who wants to visit home like 1 month once, how is that supposed to happen?

Hmmp, the uni might want to improve the productivity of its students by minimizing the holidays. Ahhh, no escape. So, how's life back in UniMAP? Quite happening lately. I joined PPMS (Pembantu Pelajar Minggu Suaikenal) to assist the uni for the next intake. This means that, I'll have to be back in Uni for about 2 weeks b4 the new sem starts. Sounds bad! But, for the sake of 4 certificates, I'm willing to do it... To Jojo and Sheryll, sorry for not being able to see u guys in CHEER 2009. I've missed CHEER for 2 years straight already...damn!!! An option, choose either one... sadness.

I shall compensate for that when I'm back in early May. I'm sick too. Having cough and a lil soar throat. No fever, thk goodness. So ppl, please pray that I'll recover asap alright. Thx =)