Champion, Champion, Champion

Carling Cup Champion !!!!!! That's all for Man Utd this season. It time for you to retire, Ferguson....

Car Accident near Pudu Station - Saturday

Lazy to wake up as early as 7.30 a.m., so I decided not to join Peini and co. for the Bukit Gasing “jungle tracking”. As usual, I had my German Language course in Goethe Institute. After the class, I went back to meet Khai Loon for lunch around 1.45 p.m. I took the usual way back. I always believe that this is the shortest path back to my home in Gasing. KLCC -->Pudu --> Bangsar --> Pantai Dalam --> Gasing. Don’t know why there were so many buses near the Pudu station. I had stuck in the Pudu for almost 1 hour and started to lose my patience. I had been queue in the lane where all the cars in front of me were waiting to turn to the right. I supposed to be in the left lane so I turned on my left signal. Seeing the bus behind me starting to slow down and "make way for me", I decided to turn left. Bang! The mirror on my left hand site was broken as well as my side mirror. Shhiiitttt…. I just did nothing for 2 to 3 minutes, except having the peoples around me watching the incident. After calming down, I quickly went down to take the bus number and the bus driver asked me to settle it in the Hentian Duta. Luckily, I was still able to drive my car back and went to workshop. After bargaining with the foreman in the workshop, the repair fee was agreed to be RM1000. Khai Loon was the one doing the bargain since he seems to pick up the Kantonise after staying in HK for almost 2 years. What a ridiculous thing! He asked me to buy the 4-D lottery and then he lost the ticket on that night…

Picture says a thousand words. Just have a look on how my car in the workshop. Not too bad….at least the driver is safe!

der Mittwoch

Just finished my badminton session in Country Height. 1 hour exercise per week. Not too bad ;) I hardly took any sports recently due to my busy schedule. Ah, have to attend a workshop tomorrow. Country Height’s Sport Complex… This was my first experience playing there. The condition of the court is not too bad, except the hall is little bit dull. I seldom have the opportunity to play with my colleagues. They have tremendous stamina and power. Easily outplay me. Majority of them play other sports, such as Sepak Takraw and Squash. Watched the Part 1 of “Good will Hunting” yesterday. Just wonder it’s that possible for a person who has no opportunity to attend any formal higher education can become a Genius.

Wisdom from the movie?
“You can get this f*** knowledge from the book in the library, rather than wasting your money attending the class”

Jaring in IEEE Spectrum

Last week, there were two guys from British Telecom Research came to our office to give a talk on “IEEE 802.21 Handover for Seamless Network”. This is not a new topic since we all know that a lot of peoples are waiting the convergence of CDMA, 802.11, WiFI, WiMAX and etc. to be happened. But it’s good that BT peoples point out the necessary of Telcos to start working on data services, instead of voice services. I always believe that Telekom Malaysia has owned almost all the necessary infrastructure and should be more aggressive not only in the business but also funding the research and development for the ongoing evolution.

There is an article by Steven Cherry entitled “A Malaysian Internet service provider sidesteps its biggest competitor”. It is published in IEEE Spectrum, a very well known magazine for those who work in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The author has praised the Jaring’s initiative to deploy the wireless broadband service. Yes, I have to agree that Jaring has indeed done a good job at least they know how to self-promote. But I think that it’s much better we ourselves owned part of the technology, if not all. Soma Networks Inc. is the one providing the base station. Just wonder when we can become a technology leader!

Some very astonishing words from the author:

Malaysia has long been a telecommunications leader in Southeast Asia. It was the first country in the region to hook into the Internet. Its enlightened spectrum management policies encourage innovation. A so-called multimedia supercorridor—a miniature Silicon Valley constructed during the global dot-com bubble of the 1990s—still flourishes. So it's not surprising that a wireless broadband service like Jaring's is found here and only a few other places around the world. This type of broadband is not available in Taipei, home of the skyscraper that supplanted Petronas as the world's tallest, nor in Chicago, where the Sears Tower once held that record, nor in any other large city in the United States, which once led the world in Internet access but is now lagging.

We Malaysians should be proud of this. ^____^

A Genius is never understood in its own time.
-CALVIN-

Stadium

Think about the Berliner Olympiastadion. It’s good if I have a change to enter it again for the World Cup Final. I am a “Stadium” admirer. Don’t know why? But always feel good when entering the stadium. How many stadiums that I have visited?

Batu Kawan Stadium
A new stadium in Butterworth, Penang. Went there just once for sluggish performance by my state football team. Good seafood there!

City Stadium
An old stadium under renovation in Penang. It is unique because surrounding by three petrol stations and you can expect your life under threat if the spectators throw the firecrackers. You can join the crowd for the “dirty” words as well!

Larkin Stadium in Johor
Went thre only once for watching the national team playing…

National Stadium in Bukit Jalil
A lot of matches involving Malaysia team were scheduled there. A high capacity stadium, Manchester United used to play there once!

Shah Alam Stadium in Selangor
The toilets are terrible there. Our keeper scored an own goal to give the SEA game gold medal to Thailand.

MPPJ Stadium in Kelana Jaya
The black spider team plays there. Big apartments surround this small stadium.

Cheras Stadium in KL
Myanmar and Malaysia spectators fight each other there!

Berlin Stadium (Pictures)
2006 World Cup Final venue. Went there in the wrong time.

Dream Stadium ---- Old Trafford (Going to change the name!)

Hwang's Downfall and Linux

An article discussed about Linux and Hwang Woo-Suk. The title of the article catches my attention. How Hwang and Linux relate to each others? For those who haven’t heard about Hwang’s story, just go to this link. For your information, Linux is an open source OS contributed by developers all over world. I still remember a few words from a Microsoft speaker who came to my company for a debate entitled “Open Source: Yes or No” He said that “Open Source’s developers are irresponsible on the copyright issues. They can do whatever they want without any rules and regulations imposed on them”. Until now, I am not too convinced with his words. One thing that I agree with him is that Microsoft is creating job opportunity to the peoples. According to the article, Hwang’s downfall was mainly contributed by young scientists who frequently visited the web-site. They started to question the validity of Hwang’s photo. Some of them even proved how the photo is cooked. Same as what "Y" said to me, Jinho is good in using the PhotoShop to manipulate the photo! Anyway, I haven’t seen the photo before. I agreed that the only way to improve your research results is to make it publicly accessable. Same as giving out the source code in Linux, allow other to modify, enhance and make it better. However, this is not the case in current research practice in engineering. You have to pay for accessing the Journal. Even to publish your result, you have to pay for it. My roommate once asked me why you need to pay for attending the conference and this is not applicable to those who studied social science like me! Anyway, I still could not believe the reviewers of the so called prestigious journal could not pinpoint the faked photo. At last, we should blame the reviewers as well.

More discussion on the internet culture in this article…..

Family Outing in Damai Laut & CNY Gathering

We had our family outing in Damai Laut Resort on the 3rd Day of CNY. My sister booked the apartment in Damai Laut for 2 days 1 night. We reached the place around 4 p.m. and had seafood in Setiawan before that. We had to wait for almost 1 and half hours before we can have the first taste of the seafood in Setiawan. My mum was not impressed with the food there. Anyway, it always feels tasty when you are hungry. We could not find out any delicious food in Lumut for our dinner and ended up with “terrible” Nasi Kandar.

In the resort, we went for Sauna, Table Tennis, Tennis, Canoeing…… Fully utilize the facilities there. The only thing that I missed out was swimming. There, I had my first experience on canoeing but actually my brother did all the hard work. An important announcement here is that I have been crowned as the champion of table tennis there after beating my brother twice. Until now, he still keeps on complaining about the bats. We returned home the next day around 2 p.m. and had our dinner in Tambun. The seafood in Tambun was better than the one we had in Setiawan!

Some pictures to share, including the gathering in Khai Loon’s house….








Pic. 1 : Apartment in Damai Laut
Pic. 2 : Canoeing
Pic. 3, 4, 5 : At the Jetty
Pic. 6 : Good View
Pic. 7 : Khai Loon's House