Finally end of Training already

Well, half years pass so quickly. At the beginning, I really can't get used to this kind of life, where wake up before the sun did, squeeze at lrt with people, and bring the sleepy mood to office. Yet now, we know how to enjoy this kind of life already. We can't change the life of waking up early in the morning, but we makes our journey in the lrt interesting. :P We'll be missing those cute girls who taking the same ride with us every morning. Wahahahahaa..

Recall back from the first day till now, there are really many memories to be remembered. From SD to AM, from Java to Coldfusion, and many things more. From tomorrow onwards, we no need to go back to the office, and we no need to rush for the IESync projects anymore.

Hmm.. anyway, the road infront is still very long and you guys in IES would be remembered always. :) Anyway, click the link below to view the photo album taken on today. :)

http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=albumai5.swf

1Utama Shogun

Weee... today is our Mr. Richard's birthday and he suggest us to patronize the Sushi Buffet Restaurant - Shougn at 1Utama shopping mall. The buffet session was from 12pm - 3:30pm, so we really sat there for full time. XD

The restaurant waiter and waitress would line up in a row at the entrance there and all of them will greet us when we entered the restaurant. Isn't it cool? Feel like we are somebody who is big shots. XD

Then we find our way to our table which is booked by our friend and the first item we headed are the shark fins. There are eight of us there, and everyone of us takes at least a bowl of that thing. XD LOL... Well, sure have to eat something which is more worthy isn't it? If you agree, then you understand why I consumed more than 2 bowls of it. :P

After that the second item that we target was the sushi of course. We swipe all types of sushi 1 each type. For me, their sushi actually not very special but is a buffet style. Hence just eat as many as you can without worrying the bills getting longer and longer since it was long in the beginning already. XD

Well, after gulping total of 2 bowls of shark fins, 1 bowls of ginseng chicken porridge (Which I'm sure my mums makes a better porridge), 2 plates which filled with all varietys of sushi, 1 plate of BBQ'ed chicken and fried prawn sticks(Should be prawn), some pudings, jelly, fruits and finally the desert - Ice Cream. The ice cream was fantastic actually. XD Hmmm.. in the end each of us need to pay around RM55.20 for that sushit (typo) sushi buffet. :)

Then after our grand meal, we catch the movie called "DOA". Hmm as everyone expected, the characters are super sexy. It has high amount of funny elements. :)
Anyway, this movie still not worth for the ticket unless you wanna see sexy girl in widescreen la.. ahahahaha... Just same as what my friend said "Luckily movie is treat by our birthday boy". XD

Ok la... This post is worthless without some pictures. :P

Shogun sushi buffet.. Anyone drools while watching it? XD


The movie : Dead Or Alive



Well, not stopping my post here yet. Today is 23 September 2006 and it means the old Rapid KL services are officially revised on today. As we usually took the free shuttle to LRT from 1Utama, after the revision, there was no more free shuttle that travels between 1Utama and Kelana Jaya LRT stations. Instead of taking the free shuttle, now we have to take bus no T43 and it cost RM2. The most stupid things is there is banner everywhere saying that we can enjoy free ride during 3days promotion yet the bus driver charge every passenger for RM2. Aih.. though the RM2 is for whole day but if foriegner took public bus, they would be attacked by the blur virus. Local KL people also trying hard to understand the stupid leaflets.



To me it seems that the transportation system was getting worst. *yawn*

Nokia N70

Wohoo.. I finally got this baby on last tuesday. This phone really impress me with its amazing speed, although it might be slow for some people, but hey.. for me it was fast enough. Compared to my old Nokia 6600, one of the ancestors of the S60 clan, N70 has an amazing speeds.

It was a busy week for me, not really busy but spend most of my time in the office. :P Hence I don't have really much time to fully explore my baby here. Well, the phone same as me, a banana who doesn't recognize chinese characters. Though N70 has the firmware that supports chinese font, but not for mine.. :( So no choice, I installed the chinese stars (which work charms in my Nokia 6600) into my N70. Too bad, it doesn't really work in N70 as the font still fail to renders. Then without giving out, I tried with the good old Q9 which is a chinese input software that work with most of the S60 phone from 3650 till my previous 6600. Too bad, in N70 case, the font is still not there. After some google work for few hours, FINALLY.. the are some software written by china or hk people called gpfep. It comes with mmcfonts plugin which enable the phone to renders the chinese characters. Now currently I am using gpfep fonts and input with the good old chinese stars. (As I too lazy to visit Nokia Center to get the firmware upgraded).

Apart from the chinese software, the webcam software refused to work too. I still can't get it worked till this moment and hopefully I can found another way of getting it works. My good old TV remote control also discarded as N70 doesn't has a IR port. At least it was not too bad as I seldom watch TV. :P

Comparing the audio quality, it somehow dissapoint me. Perhaps I am expecting too much from Nokia phone to be par with Sony Ericsson's walkman series audio quality. Yet if compared to my old Nokia6600, N70 was far far better. I will try to get my Pop-Port audio adapter which converts the jack to the standard 3.5mm port within this few weeks. With this port, I can test the audio quality further with my altec lansing speaker. I do reserve some hope on the quality. :P

For image quality, N70 as a 3G phone, it comes with dual camera which 0.3Megapixel infront and 2.0 Megapixel at the back. For the front camera, it was extremely terrible. The noise of the picture are very high, especially at the poor lighted condition. However the noisy reduce significantly under well lighted area. For the back camera, I like the way which we slide the cover to activate it. It save the trouble from navigating all the way in the menu to get the camera activated. The quality was acceptable yet we don't compared it to the Sony Ericsson phone again as SE camera has the autofocus. Yet, the absence of the autofocus in N70 doesn't make the camera too bad. In N70, there are several picture mode which you can choose and see which mode suits you better. (The setting revert back to default whenever I close the camera slide :S )

As for the memory expension, it uses dv-rs-mmc so the cards of my n6600 could not be compatible with it at all. The funny thing is, I've to figure around 5mins on how to get the tiny little mmc out of the tiny slots there. LOL.. Talking about tiny, the button (2) is really close with the navigation pad which I often face the problem of pressing the button (2). Remind you guys, my finger was not the really big, yet I face this problem. So for those who was big finger, I doubt you can press the button (2) happily without accidentally pressed the navigation pad. Oh ya, press and hold the (#) button does not switch your active line to line 2 already. Instead, it is a fast switch between your current profile to the silent profile and vice versa. It is pretty good isn't it? ;)

One thing I found out is N70 really want us to get to the gallery very much. Why? coz there is a gallery shorcut at the active panel, and the new media key (which appeared on N-series phone) gets you to the gallery too at the default settings.

K la, thats all for the short review for the N70. I'll continue my review when I am free to explore it futher. Below is the picture of my new N70 taken by the good old N6600. :P


And this is the picture taken by my N70.. XD (Unedited)


My humble phone desktop (Please ignore the littlway watermark at the middle XD)

ActiveScene Project

Hmm..I got the idea of this ActiveScene from Lowyat.NET forumers who asking for a desktop which dynamically change according to the real time. For example, when it was night, the sky suppose to be dark, when it's dawn, perhaps blue color and etc. I start this ActiveScene project with simple platform - Macromedia Flash 8 with some actionscripting.

The graphics and the effect might not be as good as what you expected, coz I just wanted to bring out the ideas and make a living prototype out of the idea. Thus, the color and graphics might be dissapointing for those who has high demand in graphic details. Afterall, I am still very sucks in design field. XD

These are the features of my humble ActiveScene :
- Whole scene would be change according to the real-time (windows time)
- Stars at night
- Meteors fall from sky if you are lucky enough to spot it. (Happens hourly)

Preview of ActiveScene (Scaled down to 320 by 240)

Click here for original size version.

Feel free to comment and gives constructive ideas on how to enhance my ActiveScene. Those who has great design skill, you can contact me for participating in ActiveScene project. ;) No salary for participating though.

Update log
1. Incorrect rgb shown during 5am - 6am corrected (Credit goes to Ah Hock).

About Blogger BETA again

After some explorations on the template editor, I've found out that actually they do provide advance customizations for the widgets, just that I haven't found it few days ago.

This screenshots shows the default widget code in the html editor.


Just check on the widget control checkbox above the screen, it actually shows me whats inside all the widgets. That's pretty cool. Check the screenshot below



With this, I can arrange and customize how the content in my widgets to be appeared. :)

Switching to blogger BETA

Hmm.. I've switch to the beta version of blogger which seems to provides more flexibility. After switching to the BETA version, you have to discard your old templates and get it replaced by new templates. This is because the tags and the way they control each division are different now.

Last time I used to add things at the sidebar easily through the html template editor there which I can get full control of how I want it to looks like. However in the new BETA version, they renamed the whole things as widget. Each division at the sidebar are considered as a new widget. Hence if you want to add new widget, you need to use their template editor (not the html editor), then click on add new widget, after that choose the widget type that you wish to add, and finally you get what you want to add. The customizablity is quite low acutally unless you put everything using the javascript/html widget.

Another thing is when I ported the old template into this new template, the problem that I've faced are the background issue. No matter how I define it using CSS in the given <style> tag, the background is still white. After few minutes, finally I get to overrides it directly from the <body> tag. Aih.... During the process of trying, I have no idea how and when I accidentally remove the original blogger navigation tab and now I have no idea how to got it back. XD

Anyway, I like the label features though other blogs like wordpress has this kind of functionality long times ago. :P

Re-Cycle

LOL, today I watched the movie "Re-cycle" staring by Li Xin Jie one. Starting of the movie still got abit nice but at the middle where Li Xin Jie went into another dimension till the end, I don't really know what's the movie trying to tell me lor.. Whole movie was watching her keep on running from that so-called wave, and finally they ran to the final station. Arrr.. dunno la... maybe I am too stupid for this kind of movie.. Luckily didn't went to the cinema to watch. Really confusing... XD