November 2010
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“Be thou a bright flame before me, a guiding star above me, a smooth path below...”
– Columba of Iona
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Tech Time Capsule for Noah 吴智銘
To freeze time and history on the birth of my firstborn, I decided to encapsulate the technologies that exists at this time of the year. Being a gadget fan-boy, I hope my son would be able to look back at these “ancient” technology that his daddy is using.
Standard Internet Speed (Home) - 2Mbps@RM110/month
Standard & Best Home TV (Plasma/LCD/LED)
42” 1024 x 768 - RM2,500...
October 2010
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Conned!
I got a call at 14.32hrs today.. iPhone screen display "Blocked"
Me: Hello?
Automated Voice: You have an outstanding of RM8,377 on your Eon Bank credit card, please make your payment soonest possible to avoid interruption. Press 1 for Customer Service, Press 2...
Me: ???..
I pressed 1
Operator: Hello?
Me: Hello? I got a call from your automated machine telling me I owe RM8,377. How can it be? I didn't spend anything on this card!
Operator: Sorry sir, can I have your full name & credit card number please?
Me: xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx
Operator: We see that you have outstanding of RM8,377 from your Mastercard.
Me: I don't have any Master from your bank.. the one I gave you was Visa!
Operator: They say the transaction is done on the 21st July 2010 at Poh Kong Jewelery for RM8,377 on the 21st July 2010
Me: What?!
Operator: This means this card is a fraud card. Do you want me to cancel the card immediately?
Me: Of course
Operator: Can I have your IC number for verification?
Me: ****** ** ****
Operator: Okay sir, we have cancelled your Mastercard. I need to pass you thru to the "Fraud Card Department"
After 10 secs another woman voice answered
Operator: Fraud Card Department, how can I help you?
Me: I was informed that I have a fraud card from your previous operator.
Operator: Can you give me the card number?
Me: **** **** **** ****
Operator: Okay sir, can I have your telephone number? We will need to activate a phone recording now and call you back within 2mins. In the meantime, do not use your phone for anything. We will call you back.
Me: Okay. *** *******
Operator: Okay, please do not use your phone for 2 mins while I activate the phone recording and call you back.
Me: Okay.
After 30mins still no call.. I called back to the Eon Bank customer service number stated behind my credit card..
Operator: Hello, Can I help you?
I explained what happened..
Operator: What was that fraud Mastercard number?
Me: xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx
Operator: Sorry sir, I don't think that is a valid card number. I think perhaps the person who you spoke to just now was the Fraud itself!!!
Me: ?!?!..
Operator: In our records, no one made any call to you as well.. I think you will need to make a Police Report..
Me: ...
FML
How to open an airplane lavatory door from the...
Step 1: Approach locked lavatory Step 2: Lift “LAVATORY” sign Step 3: Slide the knob into the unlocked position Step 4: Cackle because you’ve just unlocked the bathroom from the outside
September 2010
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How I feel - Twitter
The amazing simple idea that turns bloggers into ‘twitter-ers’. Spore from SMS and into the cyber-space, it has literally turned our world apart. Information is desseminated at an instant, and there’s no turning back. Everything is recorded and everything is spread like a super wild-fire that has gone berzerk into the arms of followers. In the marketing world, this is a very...
August 2010
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Uzbek - Day 7
The rest that I get from the well made clean-soft-linen-bed in Radisson is practically a heaven in this land of Central Asia. I was woken again by the help of ‘morning call’ due to the absence of my beloved iPhone.
After a quick bite at the hotel’s restaurant, we were on our way again to two other inspections in Bunyodkor and Lokomotiv. Both very famous football clubs in Tashkent. I was...
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Uzbek - Day 6
We left Samarkand at exactly 6am if we are to make it to Bukhara to take our flight back to Tashkent. There is still one more club that we need to inspect that is located in Zarafshan City. The time taken to Zarafshan will be 5+ hours and from there to Bukhara is another 4+ hours.
Okay, I didn’t take any pictures caused I collapsed in the car. I slept throughout the journey.. well almost. My fever...
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“Nobody looks dumb till they start talkin’”
– v3
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Uzbek - Day 5
Last night was quite peaceful until I remembered something.. how am I to wake up without the operator’s morning call?? I don’t have my phone with me!
Thank God there’s Internet and there’s this “concierge” girl outside our dormitory, thus I went online and surfed onto translate.google.com and I typed this.. “I have no alarm. Please wake me at 7 am tomorrow? Thank you”
У меня нет будильника....
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Uzbek - Day 4
Woke up worrying about my iPhone. Furthermore to that, the BB Storm that I got with me decided to died on me as well!!.. The screen just went *blank*.. Tried to resuscitate it many time but to no avail.. How bad can this go man?!
We have to rush to the airport to catch the flight to Qarshi (Karshi) City at 0910hrs. In the midst of having my breakfast, I was also bugging my Uzbek officials to...
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Uzbek - Day 3
We finished our next morning inspection and meeting in the hotel itself. Sweet – need not to run around in the hot weather. For the past few days it hasn’t been very forgiving.. reaching up to 36’C and it doesn’t help when our drivers don’t turn on the car’s air-condition.
After our meeting, inspections and “prize-giving ceremony”, we were given a very good lunch before we hit the road...
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Uzbek - Day 2
Starting the day at 7am cause there’s a grueling 5 hours journey in front of us to Andijon City. I was so tempted to just drown myself with that champagne that was served during our hotel breakfast.
The ride was very bumpy as per most roads in Uzbek.. the car will occasionally swerved left and right to avoid pot-holes, slower vehicles, donkeys, cows and people on the highway.. yes.. think...
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Tashkent, Uzbek - Day Uno
The day starts at 7am, a quick breakfast and we’re off!
Our schedule dictate we’re to go to Zarafshan City today. So we zoom off to the airport. A photo of our hotel taken across the street.
And there we are.. the domestic terminal..
Was thinking we could just leave but we ended up spending almost 4 hours in the airport cause our flight was cancelled last minute. It kinda ruined...
July 2010
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June 2010
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June - middle of a year
So quickly, we’re now half way across 2010.. For the past few weeks many many events has cross my path. First and foremost the pleasant surprise of finding out I’m gonna have a son.
Then comes the Astro B.yond - HD is the new tech that invades Malaysian home.. But already all the shops are selling 3D LED TVs.
Talking bout TV, I just received my 42” Samsung Plasma bout 3 days...
May 2010
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Excited!
Dr.Raman: See the mouth, the small 'pei kor' there
Wendy: Ahh.. yeah..
Dr.Raman: See the mouth there, the spine and the chin, very nice
Wendy: Mmmm..
Dr.Raman: Can you see there.. there's the stomach, beautiful!.. there the liver, small intestine is this white thing.. this is the baby's bladder
Wendy: Where's his leg?
Dr.Raman: The legs is at the bottom laaa..
Ed & Dr.Raman: Haha!!..
Dr.Raman: I've enlarged this so you can't see the bottom.. let me zoom out
Wendy: Ohhh..
Dr.Raman: There's the kidney, very good and now you see the heart here.. see the heart? the chambers of the heart? beautiful.. very nice.. this is the right side and left side.. very good! Nowadays alot of complication with the heart, but this is very nice..
Wendy: Yeah..
Dr.Raman: Now see..the legs here.. twisted like a taugeh here.. and see what is sticking out between the legs!'..
Wendy (trying hard to see the scans): No.. what's that?!
Dr.Raman: What is between the legs and sticking out?!?!
Ed: OHHHHHH!!!!!.. so it a boy!!!!
April 2010
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March 2010
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Excursion
So it has been nine days that we are stucked in Doha, and daily three meals we have it in the ‘Brasserie on the Beach’ restaurant tucked on the LG of the hotel. So we’re quite sick of the food in the hotel already.
Tonite we decided to go out on our own to maybe a shopping mall to have fast food or any other food other than hotel. Thus, after asking the frontdesk we decided to...
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Life in Doha's fourseason
It’s a weekend here in Doha.. so was yesterday, their weekends falls on Friday and Saturday. I was more or less in the room the whole of today, yesterday was slightly more interesting with Friday brunch & catching a game in Al Gharafah.
Thus, I’ve decided to blog for once.. to show my love ones back home abit bout me life here in a country where people are rich and standards of...
“Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open”
– Elmer G. Letterman
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Yiruma.. entitled: ‘River Flows In...
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February 2010
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“Be Brave. Take Risks. Nothing can substitute experience”
– Paulo Coelho
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CNY
A year has gone past. This year rushes by even quicker than the last. Remembering the time I’ve to give out two Ang Pows.. How time has passed.
So many things has passed my life sometimes I couldn’t even keep up. Year 2009 was a quick one.. New house, new dog, new car, new job and not to mention new believes system..
I guess it’s all a good thing, looking back at these I’m certain that now I’m...
“If opportunity never knocks, build a door!”
– Milton Berie
January 2010
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“‘Experience’ is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes..”
– Oscar Wilde
WatchIf this video doesn’t bring a tear to your eyes and makes you smile for the rest of the day, you are a cold hearted bastard. Watch it from beginning to end—you won’t regret it.
This cover of Stand By Me was recorded by completely unknown artists in a street virtual studio all around the world. It all started with a base track—vocals and guitar—recorded on the streets of Santa Monica,...
“Nobody looks dumb till they start talkin’”
– Gump-ism von v3nom
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.. If...”
– Richard v3n Bach
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do...”
– Johann Wolfgang von v3nomous
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“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing..”
– Ed
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