For quite some time I have been working from home with no difficulties, and I am happy with the speed. Sometimes I even have 3 or 4 terminal service windows open, juggling between them to complete my tasks. However this morning when I tried to utilize my Nortel IP Softphone 2050 to call my boss [...]

I was watching HBO when one of the short sections in between the movies were aired. It was about the new movie “Role Models”. I have always wondered why Starbucks have the sizing system “Tall” (small), “Grande” (medium), and “Venti” (large). It’s plain weird. Interestingly Danny Donahue (played by Paul Rudd) mentioned this directly in [...]

Well, to be really honest the light setting and the loud music is really cool. However I feel that the bowling alley is poorly maintained. Discolored screens and malfunctioning equipment really helped to spoil the mood for a good bowling night. I was playing in lane 36 on Friday after work and I counted at [...]

I recently received an email from PayPal announcing that they now support additional languages. One of them is my native tongue, Bahasa Melayu. However when I clicked on the Malaysia flag it directs me to the same page as Bahasa Indonesia. Although many part of the Internet has already acknowledged and are well aware that [...]

I went to have lunch at Marché Mövenpick at The Curve on Saturday and I was a bit disappointed by the lack of staff and all the waiting we had to do. While I understand that the system is for you to order and wait they should not have ask people to come back in [...]

Mangkuktingkat.com is a very convenient service, initiated by YAYASAN PEMBANGUNAN NUR HIKMAH. The intention is good – to help single moms and women to excel in business. We are subscribing to a month’s worth of lunches and dinners for the month of November. The food tastes good (not great) and it’s worth every cent paying [...]

Yesterday I was trying to pay my overdue house rental that I have forgotten to pay because of the Hari Raya holidays (sorry landlord!). When I load Maybank2u it was fine at a glance, and the new design looks super cool! However when I tried to login and use the functions I was disappointed. Logging [...]

I have just returned from a short trip to Taman Equine McDonald’s to look for some light food for sahur. It was exactly 4.22 AM when I arrived at the drive-thru. We wanted to have the big breakfast set but the voice on the display said “during Ramadhan breakfast starts at 5.00 AM”. I said [...]

Yeah, you heard it right. Multimedia University (MMU) is up for sale, and it’s valued between RM800~900 million. The plan is to raise money for the high-speed broadband (HSBB) project which will cost TM RM1~1.5 billion per year. Here’s an article from Business Times Online. From the line While management remains optimistic on the disposal [...]

For those who have been busy or simply missed the news, MySQL has been acquired by Sun Microsystems (last month). There are many speculations on the effect of this acquisition, some good and some bad. I just hope Sun will preserve MySQL as an open source project and keeps the dual-licensing option. According to Kaj [...]

More than a year after I wrote this post: Google In Malaysia, and more than a year after Hanson Toh was appointed as Malaysia Google Consultant, we may actually have a real good news. I just saw in TV3′s Buletin Utama that Malaysia Prime Minister met Google’s CEO in Switzerland (World Economic Forum) and they [...]

What great way to start 2008 with a pile of money obtained from other people’s credit cards? I am writing to share my experience today. I am lucky I am not that stupid although I didn’t realize an obvious bit earlier during the call. By the way the call came is as “Private” Caller: Is [...]

I wish I had found the site “Joel on Software” by Joel Spolsky earlier in my life. It contains a lot of precious insights and good points in the area of software development. Being a partial developer myself, I would have never thought of doing programming as a full day job anymore in this lifetime. [...]

Do you have any backups of your data? Are you willing to lose precious data such as your digital photos, accounts, letters, spreadsheets, and the list goes on and on. Today, you hardly keep so many paper documents as everything is kept digitized for easy handling. Who are we kidding, it is convenient to travel [...]

I have been terribly busy lately and my energy seems to be drained out completely once I reach home. It’s time to write something. For no apparent reason I was browsing the Internet when my eyes caught on the words Intel and Penryn. I was curious. Really curious so I Googled the words. The results [...]