Kuala Lumpur International Motorshow 2010

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After making it last debut in 2006, Kuala Lumpur International Motorshow make it appearance again this year in PWTC.

This year, local car maker like Proton and Perodua trying to make it big by showcasing their latest concept and new Hybrid automobile.

Green is the new black! Not only local car maker, Toyota and Honda too showcasing their latest Hybrid automobile like FT-HS Hybrid that can churn out 400BHp and Honda with it's affordable Honda Insight Hybrid.

The international big brand manufacturer are moving towards eco friendly motoring.

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What a day?

I can't believe that I slipped off the G11 from my hands and dropped it onto asphalt floor. Immediately I send in to Canon Service Center. Got a call from Andy - Canon Service Center today said that the camera is still in working condition. I am not sure how serious is the damages to the G11. I knew that the cosmetic part is already scratched especially on top of the flash light, the adapter bayonet ring etc.

I need to test the camera again to see if there's any problem with the camera. I think I deserve the award of Camera Dropper. Today G11, previously my 350D and Sony DCR-SR62E HDD camcorder. What's next?

16.03.2010

I can't believe that the January 2010 was my last blog. February was a busy month for me. Chinese New Year, Crazy Monkey Studio and my daily job really takes up much of my time.

Yeah..wait..what the heck is crazy monkey studio? I had team up with another two partners to form Crazy Monkey Studio last year doing the things we loved most - photography and cinematography. We are a bunch of monkeys who tells your wedding story in a unconventional way... Curious to find out what we do? Just point your mouse and browser to http://www.crazymonkeystudio.com

My Huawei E220 modem been giving me some strange disconnection and device not found symptom. I've been trying for the past 3 hours just to get my self connected to gmail, unfortunately the modem keep on disconnected intermittently. This is getting up to my nerves. Until I found a better solution - instead of using the connectivity software provided by Huawei, I setup a dial up connection manually via connection manager in Windows 7. Whoalla, it get connected and stay connected - easily! If the problem still persist, I'll make sure the modem goes into the recycle bin. *pissed*

That's the end modem story. What's next? Time management...

2010

Welcome to 2010..yep..time strike like lightning..
Just some update..

My 2010 goal..
1. Get a house - a proper landed property for my own stay. I've been hunting it since last year. Due to financial constraint, still can't find a proper house yet. Hopefully will be able to get one before first Q of 2010.

2. Same as num 1.

3. Repeat num 1 if num 2 did not achieve.

My wishlist and shopping list (both are the same. What I wish is what I wanna get...)

1. Blackberry - Why? It's been running up and down and all around my head before I decided to go for blackberry. I started to hate touch screen phone. Furthermore, my Iphone 2G had been with me for more than 2 years started to disintegrate..

2. Tripod - yes, since the last incident where I accidentally dropped my camera due to overloaded small tripod. Repair cost me rm850 bucks.. Lesson learned - use a proper tools for proper job. Good things ain't cheap, and cheap stuff ain't good!

That's all folks

More to come in 2010.. stay tune..

Best drift - ass first~!

Best drift ever?

Hello world!

Hello world! I am back to blogging business after keeping myself busy for some times..

Break-in and robbed....

Last Thursday morning, I walked slowly towards my car parked beside the road where I stay in Sunway Damansara. I was a little shocked when I opened my boot and found out that it is so clean. Then slowly I check out the car surrounding and found that rear left passenger side windows was broken. The next thing in my mind it to take out my camera and snap surrounding where my car had been broken into.

I found a piece of windows glass belongs to my car next to the door. There's nothing much can I do but just to report to the nearby police station in Kota Damansara. When I arrived at the Police station, before I could make any report, the police officer ask me if my car was break in. Just nodded and say yes. Then I realize that same location, 2 case happened at the same time. I finished off my report and meet the sarjan at Mutiara Damansara police station to describe everything I found out from the break in.

There's nothing much can do with the losses, but a lesson learned - never put anything inside your car even inside the boot.

There's no such thing safe place in Malaysia. Welcome to Malaysia. I just found out my friend's neighbor who stay in heavily secured and gated area in Tropicana just got break into.

24 hours in a day...

There's 365 days in a year. 24 hours in a day. 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute.

There's a common rants from my friend; "I don't have enough time...", "I wish there's 36 hour in a day..." bla...bla...bla.. and so on. (All these rants are sickness to me!)

Time is what you can't buy even if you're Bill Gates, Soros, Warren Buffet, some kick ass famous prime minister, or legendary pop singer. You can't change the fact that there's only 24 hours in a day. Nothing more or less.

Everyone on earth is given 24 hour a day. The only difference is how you spend and plan your time. Once it is gone, it is gone forever.

Stop ranting and keep your plan kicking. Time is life. Once the clock stop ticking, you're no more alive.

End of June

Time flies. Second last day of June. June is a busy month for me. Too many things to do and see, to little time to share. Stay tune for more updates next month..

They got a braveheart!

Got this link from a friend of mine...

Niamah! in Perak!

Niamah in Perak! Barisan najis screwed people's democracy!





More niamah from Perak!

The Crisis Of Credit

Ever wonder how crisis of credit happened? Watch the clip below...

Part 1



Part 2

Velocity Angels Search 2009

Finally, manage to spend some time to process these photo taken during DCIM Show 2009 in Midvalley Exhibition Center.

My Redeemer Lives - Team Hoyt

Got this from my friend.



What do you think if you think everything is hard, can't do and impossible? Think again.

The Woman Who Shut Up Simon Cowell

A wise quote: "Don't judge a book by its cover!". Susan Boyle, a 47 years old unemployed Britian surprise Simon Cowell with her vocal when she sang "I Dreamt A Dream" in 3rd series of Britian Got Talent. Before she sang, the judges was bias towards her unappeal appearance and dressing.

Check out her performance in youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk

Malaysian 6th Prime Minister

Got this from my friend's FB.

Never format a 16GB Compact Flash (CF) card with your camera!

I learned my lesson yesterday when I happily bought a new 16GB Kingmax Compact Flash (CF) card for my DSLR from DCIM shows 2009 in Midvalley.

After I purchase the CF card, I immediately pop it into my 350D WITHOUT formatting it. It works like charm. The total image remaining indicate 999 even on RAW quality. I was really amazed with it. I tested a few shots and it works perfectly.

Till I get back home, since this is a new card, I normally use my camera to format it. I did it as usual for my camera. I go to the format card menu in 350D, it indicate total of 14.5GB memory space available. Without think much, I just pressed OK. There is goes. About 30 seconds later, the card is ready. I was shock when I check the capacity on the card. It indicate 7.5GB instead of 14.5GB!

Still unable to convince myself, I switch off my camera and turn it on again after remove all the battery, CF card and leave it for 1 minute. The capacity still the same 7.5GB!

The very next thing I did was to remove the card from the camera and popped in to my card reader. I used Disk Management from Windows XP to check the partition, surprisingly there's total of 2 partition, one active partition 7.45GB and another one is also around 7.5GB but unknown partition.

There's no way you can delete the partition from disk management tools. The option just grayed out!

Luckily, I had my friend's Nikon D2Xs with me. A little desperate, I try to use the D2Xs to format my card. Woalla! It works again after I formatted it with D2Xs. I recheck the capacity again in my computer and it indicate total capacity of14.5GB!

Lesson learned: 16GB CF card can be use on my 350D but DON'T ever use camera to format it! Use a computer instead to format it with FAT32 file system.

After I did some google from the web, I found that most of Canon camera having this problem. 5D Mark I (Please note it is not Mark II) problem solved with upgrading firmware, but then there's no firmware upgrade for 30D and 350D.

Canon Camera that might have problem:
1. 350D, 300D?
2. 20D, 30D
4. 5D Mark I (NOT Mark II)

So far Nikon camera haven't encounter this problem before.
1. D300
2. D2Xs

I am uncertain about older model for Nikon like D70, D70s, D100, D200, D1, D2x etc..

Please check out the link below for more information regarding this.
1. http://mikewren.com/transcend-16gb-formatting-kludge
2. http://www.openphotographyforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3304
3. http://davidnaylor.org/blog/2008/04/problem-and-solution-16gb-compact-flash.html

The Italian man who went to Malta

Got this from my friend. Kinda funny

BEAR-ish year ahead!

Our ringgit declines on recession outlook. Palm oil price drop to the lowest in 17 months. Looking at current market trend, we don't know what is the bottom.It's time to save hard, the cloud is getting darker and darker, thunder striking everywhere. Sign of rainy and stormy day ahead.

USD vs MYR in 1 year period as of 10th March 2009

Every Tom Dick and Harry know bear bear is coming our way hitting all of us this year till end of next year, maybe?. Our Boleh-land government still busy politicking, courting and blasting each other party upside down instead of putting full effort and focus together to withstand bear's attack.

I am expecting lot's of bear's casualties ahead in our country.

Wake up and buck up Boleh-land!

Gothenburg, Sweden

This is the third time of my visit to Gothenburg, Sweden. As usual 17 hours of total flight from Kuala Lumpur to Gothenburg. My flight with KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) to Amsterdam was not a pleasant flight. It took 12 hours from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to Amsterdam Schipol International Airport, Netherlands. It was a long haul flight in a Boeing 747. The flight is rough due to heavy turbulence when flying across the air space of Russia. The economy seat in KLM Boeing 747 is narrow. Forget about leg space between your leg and the seat in front. It is barely more than 10cm. Luckily, I manage to sleep for 9 hours most of the time inside the flight and seated beside the aisle.



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I arrived at Gothenburg Lanvetter Airport on Sunday morning. Not far away from the baggage claim area, I spotted a taxi driver holding "Husqvarna Construction" plate on his hand. When I walk toward his direction, he smiled at us and greet me good morning.

It took me 20 minutes from Gothenburg airport to Elite Storia Avenue Hotel in The Avenue Street, Gothenburg. I arrive at the hotel 2 hour earlier than check in time. I was told that the room is not available yet. I just drop my baggage into the baggage locker room, get myself prepared to roam around the surrounding.

Cafe in the park

Winter scene in Gothenburg, Sweden

Frozen canal and some city architechture in Gothenburg.

Gothenburg city is beautiful in winter. This is the first time, I experience winter in Scandinavian city. Most of the street and park is covered with snow. The ambient temperature is around 0 - 4 degree in the day time and -8 - 0 degree at night. Did you know that the entire population in Sweden is only 9 million, out of 9 million, 2 million in Stockholm, around 700k in Gothenburg, and the rest in other location.

Street scene in Gothenburg

Frozen canal beside the park

My legs getting tired after spending 2 hours strolling on the street. I've been walking non stop lugging 3kgs of Lowepro Fastpack 350 behind my back. After walking around the main street of Gothenburg, it's time to fill up my empty stomach. My initial plan is to had my lunch in Hard Rock Restaurant, Gothenburg. While I am walking towards Hard Rock Restaurant, my eyes suddenly spotted a group of 20 people queuing up in front of the restaurant called "Joe Farelli's Italian-American Kitchen" beside Hard Rock. Everyone was queuing up and waited anxiously for the restaurant to open.

The menu is written in Swedish and the best thing is I got no one to help me do the translation. I try to make a few guess what's written on the Menu board in front of the restaurant. Well, I only understand 165 SEK (1 Swedish Kronor = RM0.46) per person on what is written on the menu. The first thing came into my mind is 'buffet brunch'! I was correct when I asked one of the waiter what's their menu today. The buffet brunch was nice and it's different from Asian country. For around RM85 you pay (A rough convertion from 165SEK) , you get to enjoy pork ribs, pizza, salad, chickens, hams, bacons etc. A typical Italian and American cruisine in Gothenburg. It is worth every kronor spent! The taste is wonderful.

I finish my brunch buffet around 1pm. Went back to the hotel, check in every tom dick and harry. Take a slow shower after 18 hours of flight from Kuala Lumpur. I feel refreshed after the hot shower. Without wasting time, here I goes again to the street of Gothenburg with my camera. I leave my lappie in the room.

A famous statue located between the theatre and the end of Avenue Street.

The iconic lipstick building at the port

I spend whole day roaming around the city on Bus number 11 a.k.a my both leg. I only have one day spare to roam around the city. The rest of the way, I start my business meeting and training from 8.30am till 9.30pm everyday.

On the last day, flying out from Gothenburg to Amsterdam is smooth and easy. Unfortunately, my colleague and I had some problem with the immigration when we going through Passport Control at Amsterdam Schipol International Airport.

We were called to the immigration office. According to the immigration officer, they suspect the authenticity of our passport due to the dot at the photo is round instead of square one. We have only 35 minutes to board our flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Our passport was sent to their security expert to verify the authenticity of the passport. Within 10 minutes, we're lucky that they manage to verify our passsport is original. I doubt whether our Malaysian Immigration Department doing their job properly or not. This brings a lot of trouble to the traveller who travel frequently to other continent where they are bias towards Asian. Anyhow, it's a great experience learned.

Finally manage to catch our flight on time and get some rest on the journey back home.

Famous river for salmon fishing in Jonsered

Red building in Jonsered

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