maybe I should get an extra h/p

My other colleagues bring 2 handphone with them, on the for the local SIM card, one for their home country SIM card. I think it's good idea, but means I need to get an extra phone later ??
sigh ... again is about spending money, and the worst is I always have no idea what phone to buy,of course this was due to my budget on it lah. If money is not an issue here, I know there are so many nice, powerful, stylist, advance and etc. I can buy.

HTC was come into my mind when I saying this, but ... to be honest, I am really not the type that really very 'up to date' as in mobile technology & trend. h/p is remains only as a calling tool for me :D

到时再说吧 ...

The India time - part 2

My colleague ask the front desk how long it take from the hotel to the office.
They told that it only need 5 minutes WALK.

The hotel do include the office pick up. So, we don't need to walk. With this short distance, it is good that at least we don't need to worry about any traffic jam.

So, the next morning, we are leaving hotel by 08:45, the training is scheduled to start at 09:00.

Then guess what?

It took about 7-10 mins by CAR !!!
Can you tell me how fast should I walk if I want to make it within 5 minutes ( ⊙ o ⊙ ) !!!

This make me feel that really cannot believe on the 'time' comments from them lah.
This would be 2nd experience that the reality 'time' is always much longer than the 'time' told from their mouth ...

The India time - part 1

The room been arranged does not include the Wifi connection, there is standard charge rate listed in the room, but since there r 3 of us stay in the hotel, and for quite a long stay, then I think we may be able to get a better deal. So, I try to check this out.

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1st time:
me: Can you please let us know what would be the rate if we want to connect Wifi from our room?
front desk: OK, let me checks for u
me: OK, we are going to outside for some walk, can u please get the details when we are back
front desk: No problem, madam

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After about one hour, we are back from outside

me: Hi, do u have the answer for me already?
front desk: you can check for the rate in your room, madam.
me: I know there is standard rate, but I wonder if we can get some special offer since we are staying for long
front desk: let me check ....
.... then the lady talk to her colleague in their language ...
front desk: madam, we will need to checks with our manager, he is in a meeting now, so we will call to your room later about this
me: When?
front desk: in about 30 mins
me: OK, i'll wait for your call
front desk: sure, madam

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After ONE hour, no call from them yet, so I made a call from my room
me: Hi, I'm calling from room xxx, I asked about the Wifi connection, do you have the details now?
front desk: sorry madam, not yet, can I check again and call u back?
me: When can you come back to me
front desk: in 10 mins madam

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After 30 mins, again hear nothing. So, I decided to go to lobby to meet the front desk lady face to face.
me: Hi, do you have the answer already?
front desk: Sorry, not yet, can you please take a sit, let me call my manager now.

.... i'm waiting at the lobby ... then the hotel deputy manager come and talk to me about this. finally we enjoy a 50% discount for the daily access, but ... i am not too happy with the front desk service 'style' as related to this issue.

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As I asked so many times, also, she herself is promise a time frame that she will response on it, I think at least she should call to my room to tell if her manager is still busy that she does not get any response yet. But what happen now is that I really have to make my face so thick to ask the same question again and again until the manager show himself to me.

This is no good !!

(I really getting good in criticizes people nowadays :p)

Around the hotel

Doesn't explore too much on the city yet, these photos are captured around the hotel area.

Hotel is opposite of the famous India s/w company Infosys building.

Big road, and...the is no divider line draw on road ?

2 wheels are very common; yellow/black are the color for the cab, doot-doot.

Tong sampah, and it's in every road junction, but still the road / drain is full of rubbish...

Shop lots, notice the Citibank? It's really the bank branch

Post office, quite similar to ours

Bamboo ladder while fixing high tension electricity...

Another kind of cab (I just notice the guy is saying cheese at me :p)

The hotel

The hotel is not very Indian style, in general I like it :)
Oh.... the curtain has the coconut oil smell leh....

I like this bed.

Small bathroom

Old fashion key

Old fashion door

Lobby

First day in Pune, India

Landed safely last night in Mumbai, then took about 3 hrs drive from Mumbai to Pune.

After check-in, already 4 a.m MY time. And during that time only been told that the room is not compliments with Wifi access, this make me disconnected for some hours until I get approval from the manager that to agree on the additional fee to be paid.
So, how's the feel?

Hmm... 艰难找吃 is really the first word when I on the way from airport to hotel, I am not complaining about myself here, this is a general comments for the local Indian. Along the way, the road is not so good, very the 'dant', then this Mumbai high-way is still having busy traffic during MID NIGHT. I saw bus that full with peoples, there are a lot of doot-doot / cab still run in the road; a lot of big trucks also.

Captured badly, am trying to capture the busy traffic at the highway.

When we ask the driver what those peoples doing so late? He told that Mumbai is a never sleep city, and the traffic is nothing if compare to day time. Usually the people will try to make their trip during midnight time to avoid the real busy crazy traffic at day.

The driver also told Mumbai office hours are start from 10 instead of 9, this due to they used to stay late till night, so the hrs are shift a little bit behind as compare to other city. In Pune, the driver told it start from 8 (i was so shock, but luckily I confirm that the training will be start at 9 only :p). So, if you need to deal with Indian office, not only need to aware of the timezone different, their office hours may be something need to confirm as well.

Oh ya, the horning sound is very very common here. In fact, those big trucks would has a phase 'Horn me, Please, Thanks' at their back! After my own 'analyst', it was due to these trucks are in long shape, also it carry big big compartment, so it would be very difficult for them to notice any vehicle behind it. So, to make these trucks driver aware of this, horn is the best way.

Then, I also saw people sleeping beside the road, without anything cover on their body. It may due to the hot weather, but my first impression was these people are really living in a very difficult life...

Then, I didn't see people shitting besides the road yet...well you may say who will shit during midnight ??

Incredible India ... but still I prefer my home country lah :D

Going for a training trip in Pune, India

Going to have a new city in my list by tonight ...

I'm going to Pune, India for 3 weeks training, feel ... nothing much special, except a bit rush as I was busy on work for last few days. Didn't have a chance to make currency exchange yet, didn't have a chance to really think of bring any special thing to there, just bought some tablets for diarrhea (wah... no only I know this word is so difficult to spell ..), cold.

I am still thinking whether I should bring ONLY the company laptop, or I should also bring my person laptop. One is only for work, one contains all my personal stuff. But if bring 2 laptop at the same time, will be very heavy leh, later I kelam-kabut when passing the security checks point. Hmm....

I will meet the other 2 members in Pune, 1 guy from China, 1 guy from S'pore (Indian), this is so called APAC team. CN - MY - SPORE, we all go to IN ... it's really as what being told about world is flat, people is moving here and there for work...

RM is stronger now, but why ?? I don't know, do u ?

Since I am a stupid fellow about a civil right, I seldom make any comments on those politic's man talk, but there is something I doubt when our great PM told that it is a good sign that RM goes strong, it show that we are getting recover very well now.

OK, RM goes strong is a happy news for people that earning money in RM.

But, is it really any fundamental change or trigger in our economy that boost up our RM?

Or, it may be another danger sign that RM is being 'goreng' ?

I don't know, I am not economy expert that can tell the details/analyst the trends.

But I really don't feel our economy is getting strong.... As a normal and ordinarily employee, I just don't feel it ....

Can you tell me what are the sign is telling us this?

There are more projects / investor coming to our country now?

There are more exports in any of our industry ?

Our salary is increase ?

Nothing tell on this, but is just a general comments that 'ya, we are getting strong' ...

This just make me think that maybe later we hear this: 'The whole world especially Europe is in deep shit, it is NORMAL that our country is in the same situation, which make our RM depreciate recently'

I tell u, I won't never surprise with this kind of explanation already. It just happen again and again in our country. Whenever bad thing happen, we will pointed to compare to the even worst situation. We never think of how can we survive or make a different to change our country status.

To be honest, I am not convinced by our great PM this time...

Show us the figure, or what we call fact, it will be much convincing that telling the story in a happy face.

Finally ASUS K40AE is running on XP properly!

Finally the ASUS laptop is configured properly.

For the blue screen problem, it was due to the setting in BIOS.
Advance | On Chip SATA type > This must be set to 'Native IDE' for Win XP


Then with the drivers in the CD, the setup running quite smooth, except the web cam keep giving me problem --> the image was upside down (inverted) with the drivers downloaded from ASUS site. i'm stuck for few hours on this, and finally found the latest driver from ASUS -->
http://dlsvr04.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/Drivers/CMOS_Camera_Azurewave/Camera_Azurewave_VS011_XP_32_z585400204.zip

Also has to change the 'snp2uvc.inf' file, this value need to change:
From: Flip, 0x00010001, 0

To: Flip, 0x00010001, 1

Finally I can feel a little bit relax after work after this ... :)

Bad customer service !

very busy recently, busy helping people installing the windows system in the laptop

just finished the one i complain that is very difficult to find the driver online, but luckily I do able to find one finally. Then now has to install another new ASUS laptop, this is for my niece that will start her college life very soon. Hopefully this will be smooth installation as I the driver CD on hand.

And... I want to complain about the service that I got from this ASUS specialist ASUS shop in Mid Valley. The story begins...
Last Friday I bought an empty software laptop that only come with the BIOS from this shop. The deal was done within an hour. I found it is a little pricy as compare to Acer, then this guy ask me don't compare Perodua with Toyota. OK lor, since I do quite satisfy with the ASUS I have now, I made the deal.

Then when I tried to install the Windows version that I want, it show me a very very scary blue screen to me, which telling 'xxxx maybe hdd problem xxx, restart xxx'. I tried few times, but the same blue screen appeared.

So, Monday I bring this laptop to the shop and ask the guy why. This young guy go and take a Windows 7, then show me there is NO problem for him to run the setup. Then my un-happy conversation begin:

I ask: "So, means this machine can only install Windows 7?"

The guy: "Don't know, there is other customer show us the same problem, but we can run it with Windows 7"

I said: "What do you means? Your friend told me there is no problem for me to install any version of Windows, and now you tell me I have to use Windows 7??"

The guy: "Don't know, not sure, maybe is ur CD problem"

I said: "But I used this CD a lot of time, I installed it with few machines already, and there is always running fine"

The guy: "Don't know"

I said: "So now, what can I do? Can I copy the setup file to an external hdd, and try it from there, tell me what can I do"

The guy: "Don't know"

Really bloody hell , @#%@&$%#!(&!@# is the un-spoken words from my mouth. I show him a very angry face, then he ask a senior guy sitting at the cashier place. The the senior guy told: "Oh, try to change xxx in BIOS to IDE"

Then the guy play a bit with the BIOS option, conversation continue:
The guy: "OK, you go back and try to set this to IDE"
I said: "No no no, please, I want to check it NOW!"
The guy: "It is not allow to install the p*r*t*d software in our shop"
I said : "It's OK, I just want to make sure there is NO blue screen anymore"

Then he let me continues on it, and finally I see what I want in the screen.

I do said "Thank you" when I left the shop, but I think my face is still showing a very angry look, I don't feel myself is smiling after the problem resolved.

For me, this kind of service attitude is really sucks. I don't understand why the guy show me it's working fine with the CD they have, but keep telling me "Don't Know" when I tell my problem

It is fine that to verify it is no problem to run the system with the original CD, but what do you expect me to do ? Throw away the new laptop because of NOT using the CD you have? Or you just simply telling me indirectly I should get the Win 7 from you? That just doesn't make sense, I want what I want, and you guys told me that there is no problem, yet you tell me "Don't know" when I come back to you?? Cilaka betul

That senior guy also funny, he just ignorance sitting there even he hear what I had been talk to this guy for quite a long time. He never approach and try to help.

Do they ever know what is customer service ? Just sell and care nothing ?
Stupid lah these guys. I lagi stupid, bought a product from them. Really a bad bad experience

good mood, bad mood

Every time I do went back hometown with a happy mood, then I will be back to KL with a very frustrating mood.

I feel very tired by 'swinging' my mood between:
- beh ta han when keep listening the same old shit, then feel sorry after the 'un-peaceful' talk

Maybe I should learn to be more soft and take it easy, but 'should' is just remain a 'should' whenever I faced back the same situation ....

Yeah.. all families has their un-told story, I have mine also. My family is never ends with this kind of small silly stupid matter that make life so complicated...

But nvm, after few weeks, I can re-set my mood, and re-swing again, what a flexible mf ╮(╯▽╰)╭

problem of getting Presario drivers ...

helping my relative to re-install her laptop, then found it's very difficult to find the drivers in the HP support website, after installed the s/w downloaded, doesn't seems to work at all

Compaq Presario V3000 (this shown in the laptop lid, then at the back hor, the sticker is showing V3500, I am confused about the model now ....)

really tired of Google around, do u have the same model ??
or what else you all expert can suggest to me ??

Ah X....ah X... where is the quality ??

I'm been assign to a project out of sudden, it's about supporting the production environment.

It is a Java project that outsource to a company where real man behind the screen is the Ah X developer (globalization mah, world is flat mah....) You know what I try to tell lor....

I have just been involve for last few days, first thing come into my mind is that it's totally out of control, or basically no quality control at all. This fellow is delivering something that my company has no knowledge at all, because they have no Java people at all before this, then no body in between to review the thing, and now already in production, the worms can't wait to show their face to the real customers !!

There are so many funny thing happen there, but I would choose this as #1 that I rate it so far. Guess how do they deliver the patch ??

They delivery list of Java class files / JSP / SQL whatever, then give instruction to user to copy over the file 1 by 1 to the production manually, WTH is this?? Amazing thing is the user never complain about this lah ... so it is a S**-S** situation here...
This just sound like kinder-garden playground for me, and yet it cost so much ??!! Why don't outsource to me leh....

My brain get very tire these few days, could be it was used to very relax previously, then this support thing come in with so many troubles that cannot be tell in one simple word, but it's good to warm up myself also lah... although I hate to work late at night also weekend just act as a coordinator to explain again & again about the solution I suggest to them, where is their brain lost to ??

They are not cheap, and yet they still dare to deliver rubbish???!!!

Blood type comic - Links to the better translation

Found there are many guest to my blog recently, all visited my blog due to the blood type comic translation

Actually I'm feeling a bit sorry for the slow progress in the translation.
It is now already 2 yrs since the first post related to it, and I still have 7 comics in my to-do list. These 7 has a lot of words need to be translate, also, it could be difficult due to the 'dialog bubble' might be too small for the 'Malay-lish' word, and I still failed to draw a nice bubble till now ...

So, I Google a bit on 'Realcrazyman blood type comic', and surprisingly I found there are some website doing the same like me. And to be honest, I think all of those translation are much better than mine, both in term of language, also the picture's quality. Here are some links if you interested to explore:

gurakko journal
oneidea2day

mom's birthday @ 2010.05.01

Went back hometown to celebrate mom's birthday on last weekend.

Happy birthday, it's nice to see you 2 smile happily

My wish to have a family photo is finally achieve by this 'event'.
Although too bad there are 6 people not able to make it that night, but I think I only can take it as 遗憾就是美, 毕竟十全十美不能强求

Everybody say cheese ~~

It is a very happy gathering, I was laugh till 'stomach-ache' when 3 of my sisters singing the birthday song, very very the funny

Sing like it's a China national song ...

Ladies in 3 generation

Really wish we will have the same happy gathering again by next year :)

阿弥陀佛

password here, password there....

expert advise better use different password for different account
expert advise better change password after few months
expert advise should combine alphanumeric, also with some special characters in the password

and now, some of the bank has policy that the online account will become dormant if it's not being access after 6 months, so i am busy login to all kind of bank/credit card online account i have.

result? with my 'good memory', i have now at least 2 account that show me login failed due to password.... ╮(╯▽╰)╭

just feel the life is so complicated with all these passwords, any recommendation how to help on this??