New Aluminum MacBook

Today, my friend Ian told me that the new macbook is out & we went to check it out together. It's my dream notebook before it even came out. There are 2 version of aluminum macbook & i brought the high end one with the backlit keyboard. I have been dreaming of having a macbook with a 13.3 inch, aluminum casing, graphic cards for games, superdrive, plus backlit keyboard with light sensor before it is launch. Finally my dream came true. I'm also happy to hear from Optiprimus shop owner that i'm the first person to own this Macbook in Miri which, cost RM6000++.

Specs :

13.3 inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display ; 1280 by 800 pixels

2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2GB Ram of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM

280GB 5400-rpm HDD

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

8x slot-loading SuperDrive

Built-in iSight video camera

Backlit keyboard and ambient light sensor

2 USB 2.0 ports

Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet

Built-in AirPort Extreme wireless networking (802.11n) & Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

Size & Weight : 12.78 by 8.94 by 0.95 inches (32.5 by 22.7 by 2.41 cm); 4.5 pounds (2.04 kg)

Front of Mac box.

Back of Mac box.

In side the Mac box.My New Macbook browsing in my blog.

Car Almost Caught Fire

Around 2.10pm today, i went to Bolevard Commercial Center to meet a friend who came back from KL. While i was parking my car i noticed there was a smoke coming out from the parking space. 

There were few security guards & people taking pictures there. So i went to check it out and saw smoke coming out of Pajero. The car just parked there while the smoke keeps geting bigger. 

The car owner must be going for shopping without knowing about it. Inside the shopping complex they made an emergency anouncement for the car owners to move their cars near the Pajero & for the Pajero owner too. 

After meeting with my friend, the fire had already been extinguished. But still didnt see any sign of the car owner. I wonder where & how is the feels after i saw his car's condition after shopping. Really felt sorry for that owner.

Smoke coming from the car.

After the smoke has been extinguish.

What Style To Do Next? II

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Last month my brother Michael bought back something intresting for me. This time its a wooden "s"pecial dice all the way from Paris, somewhere near Notre Dame. Thanks bro for the contribution. Another intresting item to be added to my collections. :>

Previously i had posted a related blog at What Style To Do Next? I

Explosion Near River

Yesterday morning about 9am while, i was going to money changer in town to exchange some B$ before i going Brunei. I saw black smoke coming from the shell station. It looked like coming from the river. I tought it's either some ship caught fire or the store. Only later that night i heard from my friend that a vessel called 'The Ark' exploded & was torn apart by the blast. There are some crew injured & missing in that explosion. Good thing its the vessel was docking about 20 meters away from the petrol station.

Black smoke behind the river.

Training At Janda Baik

I went for training with one of my colleague last month on the 11th but we went on the 10th. The training is 5 days at ABC Training Resort, Janda Baik.

We bought a taxi coupon at the LCCT airport. It cost RM138.10 to go to Janda Baik. My colleague said previously she went there using taxi which, cost more than RM160. Good think we bought the coupon at the airport.

The map to ABC Training Resort. We took about 2 hours to reach there. There were many resort along the road, but ours is the farthest. 

The canteen, the food here is great.

Beside the canteen there is a river. 

There are a few animal groups to choose and we got to be the duck. I design & drew the duck. Look like a smart yet mad duck because of the neck-tie with the burning eyes. The tie represents professional & the red eyes represents power. The logo of our team called "Pro-Duck". Sounded like Product. Actually it means "Professional Duck". We even have our own war cry.

Our War Cry:

Who are we? 

We are Pro!

Who are we? 

We are Pro!

Who are we again? 

We are Pro.........Duck!

Sounds cool right?

A Trip to Penang

I went to Penang on 18th-21st July with all my colleague for 4 days 3 night for our Pruolymic conference 2008.

The first time arrived in KLIA airport we rush to LLCT bus terminal just on time before it leaves. Because we have to make it to LLCT in 20 minutes time to check in for Penang. Our team stayed in the Traiders Hotel.

On the first night we went to eat some seafood we choose Orental Seafood because it's near to our hotel.
Menu on crab meat. So many to choose from. All look so delicious. :p
Finally we choose Salted Egg Yoke Crab. Taste very nice, used to eating spiced up ones.
Around 7am we arrived at the PISA stadium. Many ppl from our company around malaysia. Our T-shirt is green in colour which represents East Malaysia.My team members & friends.
There are food stalls in the PISA stadium fo us to choose. We have to use coupon to buy the food & drinks. The price of the food & drinks are at least double or more than the original price outside. But it's for good cause because, the extra money goes to charity donations.
We went to a Lily's vegeteriankitchen to eat since, some of my colleague are vegetarian. Above is the Green Curry first time i saw it. I like curry very much so i order it. To my disapointment it doesn't even taste like curry. Tasted more like kacang ma more. But even kacang ma tasted better than that. How disapointing. 8<
On the last day i saw a donation poster with a wieard coin device called wishing well. There are two slots on each side insert coin here on the red steel bar.The coins are rolling like bicycle racer racing on the track chasing each other swirling down into the hole. The 10 cent coin is faster than the 20 cent, 50 cent is the slowest.

After i put some money in & enjoying the view. More and more ppl joining in the fun. Most of them put untill they used up all their coins. With this device it attracts ppl to donate more because, they can have some fun while donating. Its becomes donating not for the sake of charaty but for fun of it. Who cares as long as it can encourage ppl to donate more.

Special Birthday Cake

2 weeks ago one of my colleague celebated her birthday with a cake specially made for her by our colleagues. Does this cake looked like a butt with red panty? Someone try to poke it with his / her finger.

Dumpster Or XXX Stand?

On one evening when i was passing by Ricemill Road, something caught my attention. When i look carefully i saw one of the symbol is diffrent. Soooooo....... different!

The Original symbol can be seen on the left side.The modified version of the symbol on the right side. The bin still visible if you look carefully. When the time i saw it it didn't have the writings on it. The drawings looked like a wolf doing it with small girl which, says "Come Baby"! How creative are they to change the symbol. LOL.

Cars Stolen

This morning my friend Ian told me that his parent's proton car was stolen from Centerpoint last night around 10pm. At the police station while making reports the police told his parent that there are about 6-8 cars were also reported stolen on that same night.

Just recently my friend told me that someone got his Perdana car stolen too.

I was wondering that they were aiming at the easy to target cars like protons because of faulty, lousy or no alarms & many protons car in the market to sell the spare parts at cheaper price. Better profits for workshops too.

This is just one of the effects after price increase. Expecially crime rate increase.

This is what he wants say.

Petrol Price Up

On 4th June, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announcing the price increase. The new price for petrol at the pump would be RM2.70 per litre (Up 78 sen or 40.6%) and diesel, RM2.58 per litre (Up RM1 or 63.3%).That night at Petronas Petrol Station are pack with cars rushing to buy fuel near Columbia Asia Hospital. I wonder if there is an emegency or ambulance wanna go to the hospital have to go detour.

Miri Tua Pek Kong Parade

Sorry for the late updates. On 4 Mar 2008 around 7 pm there is a road block near infornt of Imperal Mall. There was a parade for tua pek kong with Brass Bands, Lion Dance, Dragons & etc.. I only manage to take some of the photos with my handphone.

Rela Jeep escorting the parade infront. Looks Cool dosen't it?

A car covered with lights and some ad behind it. Giant pineapple joss sticks behind a pickup.

Giant joss sticks infront of a jeep.

Just some of the Lion Dance pics i took.People caring cart with some statue in it.

Chinese musicians playing music behind a lorry.

A few teenage doing stilt walking.

Another truck full of lights with Chinese Tang Lung.

Weird Looking Fish

On Sunday morning i went to Lutong open market and saw the fish stall selling this weird fish which, caught my attention. Chinese called it "Tofu Fish" they sell it at RM5.00 Per Kilo. Looked like an deep sea eel. With big mouth and sharp teeth. I wonder what it will taste like.

Why People Wants Divorce

Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse. Why is it getting more and more divorce during this age & time?

Many of this case happened especially young people now days because they married too young or too fast. When two people married they should understand and accept any weakness of the other partner. If you can't accept it then, don’t start it before even dating or marriage. That’s why they said love is blind.

Some marriage is broken because of other family members especially with the family of in-laws. If your partner’s parents don’t even like you, then your marriage won’t last long because they might try to break up your marriage. Your partner’s friends can also influence the relationship from misunderstanding, jealousy or from rumours. If you intend to choose or secure marriage, you have to have good relationship with his / her family & friends too.

We must have to Love, Trust, Patience, Care & Understanding to have a secure a marriage.

I got friends who are divorced just after few yew years of marriage they, even got few children. The most shocking thing I have encountered is from a guy that I met during travelling, he and his new wife went on honeymoon at that time. Just few months later I contacted him on msn and when i asked about his wife, he told me they had already divorced. I was very shocked by what he said. I thought he was just joking to me. They were like two love birds, going here and there always together. I just don't understand why people want to divorce. They should have known & accepted the any weakness or bad habits before they are even married.

So don’t go complaining about it, because you made the choice too.

Many people now days can't have patience towards the other half. It’s a very sad thing that happened and it hurt the children the most. Many children now days are from broken families, and when they grow up they will do what their parents do. Because it’s getting more common, they will think it’s a normal thing to do to get a divorce because many people are doing it.

That’s why people says it "comes in a flash & gone in a flash".

Taman Selera Upgrade & Erosion

Yesterday, while i was waiting for a seminar to start at Marriott hotel, i went to Taman Selera since, i was 1 hour early. Actually, it supposed to start at 1.30pm but changed to 2.00pm. It's been long time that i went there so, i went to check things out. I heard there are going to have an upgrade there but, i was socked to see what happend there.There are upgrading the walk paths. But look the playground is just behind the mountain of soil. The playground is surrounded by it.
The walk path going to the public toilets. It's like a war zone in this park! The park looks so messy.
Look how near is the wave to the shore. It looked like the beach is almost gone and reaching the barrier. The barrier started to crack and tilted sideways, it looks like it is going to crumble. It used to have many sands. No Sands! = No Beach!
Further up i saw many trees beside the walk path cum barrier showing out their roots. It looks like the tree is going to fall down soon. When it falls, i think it will bring the whole walk path down with it.

I wonder if the sea level keeps rising all the upgrade is meaningless coz, there won't be any beach to see and all the walk path will be gone too, swallowed by the sea. If tsunami ever happens here we are doomed.

Wave erosion are made with the power of oceanic waves, large storm waves can produce 2000 pounds of pressure per square foot. The pure energy of waves along with the chemical content of the water is what erodes the rock of the coastline. Erosion of sand is much easier for the waves and sometimes, there's an annual cycle where sand is removed from a beach during one season, only to be returned by waves in another.

Previous related link my friend posted at http://www.miriresortcity.com/blog/ian/sinking_miri

What Style To Do Next?

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Out of ideas what to do next? I brought two of the these special dice, one white & one black last year when i went to Tokyo. Like yin & yang, black for guys & white for girls. It looks intresting and to add to my cute & weird collections. It contain 6 sex position for you to choose from, depends on your "Luck!". Lol. Can have some fun while doing it. So creative lol. Its amazing that the things you can find in Japan. Example like fake boobs, boob or dick chocolates & lolipops, etc...

PC Fair In Miri

The PC Fair by Pikom have started since yesterday. I only went there this afternoon. There were many ppl there, i even drive around for few rounds before i can even find any parking space. In the end i found a spot beside the road just next to the stadium even though its not a parking space. I saw lots of good speakers & notebooks. The one who caught my eyes are the Toshiba laptops, its only around RM1699. Of course without OS only comes with Free Dos but, they provide Windows installation. The specs are Pentium Centrino, 1GB Ram free upgrade and with build in webcam. For that kind of price you can buy branded laptop its good enough. The cheapest branded laptop i ever saw.

Cute Key Chains

Mr. Wombat is saying Hi! to everyone. This key chain i brought when i was in Australia it's cute & soft to squeeze. Always like to squeeze the life out him.
This Mr. Koala Bear is also from Australia. It has large head & eyes which, made of rubber like Rubberman Luffy in One Piece anime. When you squeeze its eyes pops out. I really like to squeeze it until he pops out his eyes. Just like to torture & see him suffering. Beware!!! you could get addicted in torturing it like me. I'm bad..

Super Cool Speed Boat

Super cool speedboat that i ever saw when, i was going for Sydney Harbour Cruise. This speed boat has 2 big jet engines. I was wondering if its faster than the Batman's one. Then again it might be for show only coz no chance to see it in action. LOL.