tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-125690442011-08-07T22:08:15.779+08:00Perception in life is not defined by a long and continuous journey but rather a series of momentous singular events that shapes an individual's unique character. Each event gives rise to new perspectives, new fears, new strengths and even new ideals. By contemplating on the meaning of these events, I seek to expand my mind's vistas and thus becoming a better me.Ericoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359473411262120310noreply@blogger.comBlogger691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12569044.post-1131584907388962612005-11-10T08:58:00.000+08:002009-11-29T13:10:22.662+08:00

I was with Sabrina yesterday at a vendor's office. I noticed the file she's using coz it's a very elegent black leather file. I noticed the cure tiny little logo on the file but couldn't recognize the symbol. I asked her what it was and she was surprised I didn't know. Honestly, I don't know.I have been telling Mastura about my recent craze on all things metal, leather and canvas. I wanted a bag

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After four years of using Lotus Notes Mail, you will never fail to learn something new about it once in a while. This software tool is a ubiquitous dinosaur that can be found being used only in large corporate organizations. While savvy netizens out there area embracing Google Gmail and Mozilla Thunderbird, corporate users are still languishing in the archaic PC era.I was trying to organize my

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"Micasa Sucasa" means "My house is Your house".Yesterday, in the morning, I chanced upon this lovely phrase while watching Monster-In-Law. Viola (Jane Fonda) mentioned it to Charlie (Jennifer Lopez)'s friends during the night-before-the-wedding dinner. Btw, JL is HOT in the sexy apple green dress.Yesteday, in the afternoon, I chanced upon this phrase again while watching Madagascar when Marty

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I read about Rosa Parks yesterday, about how a single black woman, for refusing to give up her bus seat for a white man forty years ago, galvanized an entire nation to fight for liberation and human dignity, and subsequently changed American history forever.Today, the story of a black woman's disobedience to fulfill her 'duty' to give up her bus seat for a white man was briefly shown as I watched

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I was watching Michael Moore's documentary film Columbine for Bowling (absolutely brilliant production by the way) when I spotted a black and white symbol that is unmistakenly familiar to all Malaysians. I couldn't screen-cap the shot from the film yet, but I Googled and this is what I found...See anything similar? Coincidence maybe?

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Another momentous occasion. Google Print is finally here. This convergence of digital and print technologies truly heralds the 21st century of human civilization - albeit on a search and discovery mode only. Finding books is supposed to be easy, it seems.Gosh, I wonder why Amazon did not do this. Copyright infringement issues and nervousnous from some prominent publishers still lingers, but

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This a momentous occasion... :-)MYSQL 5.0 is officially released. Gosh, this is huge. What everyone has been waiting for. The most ambitious release yet from the cool guys of MySQL AB.Checking out the features is already so exhilirating, the type of feeling that you get when you feel power in your hands,Stored ProceduresTriggersViewsInformation SchemaXA Distributed TransactionsStorage Engines...

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Finally! After weeks of inactivity, I found the 'mood' to come online again. So much have happened. Sigh, why do time flies so fast. Especially when you are enjoying every moment of it.Major projects at work and moving to a new place really took up lots of my time. Still it was no excuse not to have updated this blog of mine... hehehe. I should have at least checked.Anyway, staying in TTDI is

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Been very very very very very busy lately.Got myself a brand new PC about three weeks ago. Badly needed a new system to do new stuff. I needed the raw processing and memory power to sustain my interests on the latest and exciting developments of frontier world of technology.Apart from that, I've been running around to re-orientate my life again. To discover new goals, throwing out old ideals, etc

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A day for contemplation

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Got to meet Andrew Matthews, the author of Being Happy, at Kinokuniya KLCC on Sunday. Bought his new book, Happiness Now and got his autograph too.Here are some shots:

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A very close friend of mine was fortunate to visit Japan for a one month long training course. I was overjoyed for her. Experiencing a foreign culture for such a long period of time is a very defining moment in one's life journey.Here are some of her photos (lots of it actually) which she's happy to share with us all. Thank you so much dear (you know who you are), luv you dearly for this, ;-)Sigh

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Every quarter, my company holds a tea-talk session that provides the opportunity for management to share with all employees on the company's overall performance, key initiatives' progresses or whatever business issues that are deemed necessarily important for everyone to know.On a recent tea-talk, in one of the presentation segments, my MD/CEO presented our Employee Satisfaction Survey (ESS)

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Roughly three weeks ago, I had the good fortune of standing in for a colleague of mine to cover for a particular TV coverage for a restaurant in USJ 11, Subang Jaya. I was actually quite apprehensive at first about the assignment since I have no journalistic experience before this - even more so when it comes to describing gourmet food. That morning, I prepped myself with enough intelligent

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Gosh, the haze is back again.Packed to go back early but was surprised to find that I couldn't see anything at all outside my office windows. Just one large white gray expanse into nothingness.Here's some shots...Ambank (picture taken at 5:47pm)K Avenue (picture taken at 5:47pm)KLCC Convention Centre (picture taken at 5:51pm)KLCC Park (picture taken at 5:51pm)Public Bank (picture taken at 5:54pm)

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Years ago, I was overjoyed when my father decided that we can have an encyclopedia collection for the family. I couldn't remember the collection's name now, but I do remember, vividly, many of the first-time-seen images that had made an impact on my young and impressionable life then.And now, I remember about a particular one. A graphical illustration from the volume on psychology - science of

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It's always great when you can combine two skills together in the pursuit of perfection. While I was learning computer programming, I picked up a few digital graphics and animation techniques. Pure fun all the way.My uni's library had a good collection of computer literature. Major research works on computer graphics will, invariably, make some references to a few images of objects, scenes or

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Watched Fantastic Four on Saturday.Fantastic rubberman, Dr. Reed Richards' acute inability to decide on his love for Susan Storm, stunning miss invisible, intrigued me. His brilliance is also his failure. Everything he sees is accounted for by variables that must be factored and weighed before any action is forthcoming from him. Variables in equations allow us to predict a future outcome for a

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Came across this interesting list of adages named after people.This is my favourite at the moment...In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.Peter Principle

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Epiphany.A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization: "I experienced an epiphany, a spiritual flash that would change the way I viewed myself" (Frank Maier).www.yourdictionary.comI like the word very much. Have you ever experienced it once before? I bet you do. A flash of brilliance. A moment of revelation. An instance of orgasmic proportions that leaves

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I admit it takes a long time for me to compose anything in English. Sometimes, a posting on this blog will require 2 hours. I was never coherent in my thoughts and thus found it very hard to concentrate my ideas, if there are any at all, into consistent sentences.Constipation.Remember the principles of good English writing that we were once thought in school? Simple and concise but not monotonous

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We live in exciting times. And I have the exciting June's issue of Business 2.0 on my lap.Got an 'idea' for a new product? You think it will be a hit? But you fear that there will be too many obstacles even to launch into the first steps?Well, read this...The New Instant Companies.About how you can go from concept to contender... in 'instant-noodles' time.Be the new breed of product-oriented

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Now I know why some adults are so glued on to our national primtime news. It's to wait for exciting soap drama episodes like this...Kenny Sia wondered why Malaysian bloggers are always so serious when our Singaporean counterparts are such a fun loving bunch.You wanna know why?The Singaporeans need an outlet to let loose some steam because their Singaporean government is such a control freak while

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Missed the primetime news yesterday, as usual.I only heard about the latest blasts in London over the radio today. Not again. 4 small coordinated explosions hit the bus and underground train network, just when Londoners are getting themselves back together again from the wake of the July 7 attacks exactly two weeks ago. Luckily, there were no casualties this time.While I admire the British for

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You know you are in heaven when you are in the company of a beautiful woman to savour a wonderful bowl of seafood laksa during a wet Friday afternoon. Yup, that's what I did last week, :-)Huge prawns, oysters, sotong slices, fried tauhus, fish pastes and enough veges to make my mouth saliva again while posting this.Not sure what the exact address for Restaurant Yu Ai is, but will remember to note

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Brilliant! Totally funkily superbably way way brilliant!This is THE next generation. Just being able to feel it in its infancy and envisioning the future for it is enough to send electrying shivers down my spine.I came across this pic from one of their banner arts. The 'shopping cart' is one of the best known online metaphor in our wired world. Putting the cool looking guy in blue with his

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Borrowed my collegues' book on 'Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps' by Allan and Barbara Pease.Was reading Chapter 3 - 'It's All In The Mind' and came across this very enlightening illustration...

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This must be it! I have Aspergers! Just by reading the symptoms I could perform my own diagnosis already...Struggles with creative expression.No doubt about this. I always have a tough time trying to string sentences together in the first place.Are very intelligent but cannot perform well in social environments.Agree agree.Very highly skilled in one or two areas. Will excel well in these skills

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Guffaws.Dads don't go through 9 months of nausea, vomitting and all the other symptoms of morning sickness that moms have to endure. Dads don't have to suffer during delivery. Dads don't have to worry about a flying career in jeopardy once a child arrives into the house.So it amazes me when I read from The Sun today that apparently dads DO actually suffer from post-natal depresssion. Some dads

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Sunday yesterday. Rest day. I droved all the way from Ampang to The Curve in Mutiara Damansara just to catch the family-oriented MBF Cards Dash for Cash with MixFM event. I wanted to take some shots of my favourite radio DJs from MixFM, the famous on-air pairing of Richard and Shazmin. While I do admit I need to get a life, this was a great opportunity to check out the personalities of the two

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I was at PETRONAS USJ 2's tmnet Hotspot yesterday afternoon. There were a few Internet surfers around and I kept myself busy with my own work at that time. Then, I noticed a laptop, an IBM Thinkpad, left unattended at the high table without the owner in sight. A few horrifying accounts of missing laptops from my friends is enough to make me feel jittery for the owner. I looked around and tried to

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Just came back from a department's away day at Allson Klana, Seremban. A 5-year strategic business blueprint was the agenda. I have always felt honoured whenever I am invited to represent my unit for such occasions because someone up there (most probably my boss) seems to think that I can contribute some brain power to the discussions.We had a SWOT analysis session. There were three discussion

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Left the office late today. On the way down, saw a young and extremely pretty Chinese lady at the tower's lobby. She was conversing on her phone during that time. Then a guy, who was walking in front of me initially, approached the lady and unhesitatingly gave her a smooch. She responded unabashedly too. Lovely couple.They proceeded towards the entrance. I was following behind. And then, they

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I know that by the time I express my experience of reading this particularly amazing little book by Malcolm Galdwell, much would have already been written about it on the web.So instead of reinventing the wheel, I am listing down some notable links related to any conceivable form of social epidemics:Tipping pointHow To Start A RevolutionThe Tipping Point, And How It Works With BlogsApple's

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A slight turn of event saw me ending up at the Maxis 3G Service Promotional Launch at the KLCC Convention Centre on Sunday night. Apparently, it was the event's last day and I was lucky enough to check it out before it ends at 9PM.Some shots from the admin office observation deck...I made one round through all the exhibition booths which were fitted with high-tech LCD displays to showcase Maxis'

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The world over came together to aid the cause of The Greatest Concert On Earth yesterday. 1 billion souls and 100 artists in 10 major cities united in solidarity towards the 1 big cause of trying to make African poverty history. Credit goes to Bob Geldof, the most influential mastermind of the Live Aid movement who have managed to bring together hundreds of widely-loved artists to contribute to

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I am curious as to how such a huge moth can find its way onto the 25th floor of the PETRONAS Twin Towers.Been seeing many of these silent flying creatures around the Twin Towers lately. Lift, lobby, foyer... you name it, I have seen it. Even stepped on one accidentally once, sorry.Hmm, wonder what's the species name.

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My perennial favourite Malaysian cuisine...

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A search and discovery engine for music and movies with information exposed by Amazon's open API. Really cool web app as it allows visitor to see how their favourite artists are linked together in a hyperbolic hyperspace.Liveplasma

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Have been contemplating on my financial predicament often lately. With the bearish share market and jittery oil prices of the past few months, my current investment portfolio sure looks very depressing. Recent liberalization of the foreign exchange administration rules for overseas investments also failed to generate enough interest among many local investors.If the current economic outlook

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Don't remember how I came about Cheryl Tan's blogsite. Her post on Sek Man Ng's murder caught my attention initially. But when I drifted over to her personal photo collection, I discovered beauty.

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The INTERNET.The single largest entity that is shaping the world today. It drives economies. It drives population demographics. It drives freedom of expression. It drives us insane... or so we think.A CONGLOMERATE.Of ideas and ideals. Of passion and fears. Of brilliance and lunacy.A WEB.It entangles you. Binds you to its complexity. Alluring dynamics and yet amazing simplicity. Every single link

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Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly Radar's contributor, posted a very interesting example of what Ajax can do for our web client browsing experience.AJAX is an acronym for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML". Reminding myself here to check this thing out one of these days.Related links:Ajax: A New Approach to Web ApplicationsAsynchronous JavaScript Technology and XML (AJAX)With Java 2 Platform, Enterprise

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Read about kimberlycun's entry on her night out with her mom to watch Batman. Before the movie, they decided to pamper themselves with some new clothes at a shop nearby (I am guessing here). She was pretty frustrated (and mad) when her mom did not pay for her two halterneck tops while at the sales counter. Her mom told her to buy those clothes with her own money. Naturally she was hurt and felt

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Here you go guys, I made a map for those who require directions:

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Finally, after all these years, Ampang folks have a cineplex to call their own. Where did you say it was (those in KL would wanna know)? It's at the new Galaxy Ampang Shopping Centre situated at Taman Dagang, right next to the Ampang Jaya Police Headquarters. All 10 cinema screens for the viewing pleasure of movie buffs.YES, 10 SCREENS! Now here's the surprise for you. It's neither from the TGV

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Little Freya, my colleague's baby daughter is slightly over a year old. She's the cutest toddler I have ever seen. I have seen her grown up since when she was just only a bundle of joy in her mother's arms. Check out the little princess' cherry lips.She's so CUTE!PS: Photo was taken during the PETRONAS Sprinta AAM Cubprix Championships 2005 roadshow at Megamall Penang, Seberang Prai on 7th May

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Would be glad if anyone out there can sponsor me for the following course. Just look at the virtues below that are being expounded by these enlightened Java masters.Course: Core SpringThe Spring Lightweight Container Architecture, including Inversion of ControlAgile, domain-driven design techniques with SpringEffective JDBC and Hibernate data accessDeclarative transaction managementPragmatic

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Attended the 10th Asian Oil & Gas Conference at the newly opened KLCC Convention Centre last Thursday. An old friend, Jane, whom I bumped into on Wednesday, invited me to her Schlumberger booth. Had wanted to visit this prestigious event when she called but was too preoccupied with other commitments then. The event was held from the 13th to the 16th of June. Wished I had more time to visit the

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Got this story to share from a funny bird.After attending a recent international conference at the new KLCC Convention Centre, some delegates from a foreign country decided to check out Kuala Lumpur's bustling 'nightlife'. Apparently, they thought they didn't need to go far when someone observant in their group spotted the neon-like blue signage of Aquaria right at the concourse level of the

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Biggest fish tank in town...A good friend of mine told me this story. Apparently, the fishies in the tanks now are from a 3rd batch one. The 1st batch was caught from all over the world and were kept in Sri Lanka last year. So when the tsunami hit the island's shores, all the fishies died. And then when a 2nd batch was gathered and finally placed in the Aquaria tanks, temperature control went

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Another round of applause please for the Selangor administration. According to the state government policy, Shah Alam is not going to have any cinemas at all. Since no explanation is provided for this sudden move, one can only assume that the movie theater is not a suitable public entertainment venue for the masses anymore. Maybe several city council officers witnessed some hanky-panky happening

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Citizen Nades has a very interesting take on the Selangor Government again in the Sun today. Apparently, some little bird told the Sun columnist that the state government is planning to have a celebration to commemorate the occassion of Selangor having achieved a fully-developed state status in August. So, I googled any related news item on this and discovered the following web-page from the

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Here's some naughty pics I took while on my unusual site-seeing tour of Vienna early in the morning (last day actually).PS: Photos were taken at the northern residential area of Vienna, accross the river from Hilton.

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The newly opened Borders at Berjaya Times Square is officially my favourite bookstore, at the moment at least. Anyway, I was there the other day, deep in thought after a lengthy discussion with my boss on strategic directions for my company's e-commerce initiative, trying to find some inspiration evidently lacking from me then. I was browsing around the Business Management section and I

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I am on a very exciting quest right now. To look for the most beautiful, most stylish and most alluring digital SLR camera as my soul companion. My quest shall begin with the Nikon D70.Source: Nikon ImagingFeatures6.1 effective megapixelsNew Nikon DX Format CCD image sensor for 3,008 x 2,000-pixel imagesNew advanced digital image processor to optimize image quality, control auto white balance,

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GOAL: Capability to build any domain web applications using a robust and flexible development architecture based on the Java platform.Web Application FrameworkUtilizes open-source solutions:MySQLOpen-source RDBMS system with huge install and support base. Constant development guarantees improvement over time.HibernateLeading Object-Relational Mapping framework that provides a solid persistence

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A line-up of Mini's to whet my appetite.Mini OneRM147,454.30Mini CooperRM172,254.30Mini Cooper ConvertibleRM185,254.30Mini Cooper SRM206,754.30Mini Cooper S ConvertibleRM224,254.30.cooperfont{padding-left:10px; color:#93ABCF;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt; font-weight:bold; text-transform:uppercase;}.cooperprice{padding-left:10px; color:#FFA200;font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt; font-weight:bold

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Read an article on Thursday, 9th June In Tech. Summarized points here:Everything Bad Is Good For Youby Steven Johnson,American pop science writerLast Child In The Woodsby Richard Louv,JournalistJohnson observed that modern computer games require concentration, forward planning, lateral thinking and sustained problem solving, thus offering a cognitive exercise for mental development.Games like Sim

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One of the good things about my company is the ample opportunities that I am given to go for self-improvement trainings. It is compulsory for executives (including some senior management too) to ensure that they complete all of their respective skill group training courses. I absolutely have no complaints about this. I get to be away from the office, in other words, away from my boss... hahaha.

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Last week, I came upon an interesting article in the New Sunday Times, titled "Recognise Fine Differences" by Mohamad Radzi Mustapa. According to him, categorical thinking is a flawed approach to understand the socially constructed world around us. Due to the evolution from a primitive past in the physical environment, the human mind has the built-in capability to perform automatic categorization

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There you have it again. Some genius in our Malaysia Boleh country made a 'brilliant' observation and then decided that our national anthem, Negaraku, has not been fully appreciated by its citizens. So what do we do? Well, someone suggested that we should probably make all cinema-goers sing the Negaraku before their movie begins. What a wild idea, if you ask me!While we are at it, I can suggest a

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This is a great day! I won in today's MixFM Battle of the Sexes game. I didn't plan this at all. I heard Richard's cue on-air just before I was about to start my car for work. I thought, well, what the heck, might as well give it a try... nothing to loose anyway. By the second time I dialled in, I heard Richard's voice on the other end. Richard asked me if I was ready to play and I said YES! I

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Got the latest issue of WIRED from my boss the other day. One of the cover's title, "Time's Up, Einstein" caught my attention. Having been a physics aficionado (all right, call me a geek all you want, I don't care) back in my college days, I was naturally interested to know what those people in the upper echelion of human's intellectual realm is up to this time. To my surprise, the story is

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Bumped into 2 extremely cool looking Mini Coopers on exhibition while on the way to work this morning in KLCC. Now, this is a car where a man can have a love affair with. If I have all the money in the world, the Mini is definitely one of the cars I would have in my collection. No doubt about it. In fact, I will even have every colour in the edition too... muahahaha.PS: Since I can't afford a

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Photos of some very young participants of the colouring contest held during PETRONAS Equine Park's Community Event on 21st August 2004.Comel kan? :-)

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I have to admit that I am really jealous now. The new Perodua MyVi sure looks darn good! By chance, I passed the Perodua sales office at Bandar Baru Ampang last night. Curiosity had the better of me, but then again who wouldn't be when the hottest news for the last 2 weeks were about the newly launched model from our second national car company. So, I ventured into the showroom and 2 shining MyVi

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This is a photo of me taken at the tallest peak of Mount Kinabalu, Sabah in November last year. The view around was just breathtaking. Never would I have imagined that I would be climbing a mountain much less the tallest one in South East Asia. I guess the picture says it all, tired but relieved that I did make it all the way to the top. Yes, RELIEVED! In all honesty, I did not really prepare

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Vienna! Yes, the city where Johann Strauss, Wolfgang Mozart and other great minds of classical music influenced the cultural world of Europe for the past three centuries.I am still reeling from my initial excitement from the past week.Vienna really waits for you... :-)

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