Practice Makes Perfect!

After coming back from coll i decided its time to get back to sitar practice... its been bout 4 days since i haven touched it... so my dad gave me a tougher practice today.... my fingers are so painful so im tired of typing to much.. i did so many blogpost today... All i can say is that today im typing with my left ring finger instead of my left middle finger cuz in todays practice i had to use the middle finger a lot... so it has become sore... nevertheless... i still have to practice tomorrow and the day after.... damn hard but my dad says im learning quick... thats an improvement... three cheers for Me!... Hip Hip Hooray...

Back!

Yahoo!... Im back in KL... jus update my blog about my week event and u will see couple of blog post for the weekend...

Enjoying life with taman frens....

More Orientation...

Finally... Last day of orientation... Friday (today) i can go back... Yahoo!.... Lets see.. i got up fashionablly late today as usual... Actually, me and my fren Kevin was planning to take the bus from the coll and go around Nilai because the next activity will be held at 3pm.... but unfortunately we had group practice at 12pm... so potong steam... Anyway... i gave them the script... it was just as a rough idea... but what we practiced was really out of the script... we kept makin it funnier till it became super stupid... i dun wanna explain...

Anyway... he had a kinda boring talk... so i dun wanna bore u up to... The interesting event was DODGEBALL!!!! this activity was like super cun... i dun really noe the full rules but i noe how to win onli... hehe... This is the time where the most gentle guy becomes agressive... and girls are treated equally.... it became so interesting where a couple of games came down till 1 vs 5... and the best part was 5 ppl threw the ball at the same time towards the one guy and he dodged all the ball and countered them quickly until it came 2 vs 1... then they got him.... really good show... I dun wanna give so detailed explanation... all i can say is that my group made it to the finals and we got second...

After that i did more typing of the script... more practice... at night me and chewing gum were sitting in the cafe talking till late untill the cafe ppl had to literally ask us to get out... we walked around the campus and then settled in the canteen with a group of my frens and we talked till 3 am untill we decided to sleep.... that was really good... i think i talked to much that i dun even have to eat chewing gum ( real chewing gum.. not Chewy) to exercise my mouth... hehe...

Day 2... Life Goes On!

I was planing to start staying in Nilai on the week after the orientation week. But then the sadest thing or maybe the happiest thing happened.. Group meeting for the talent nite was to be held every night at 8 pm.. so i had no choice to but to stay there... I finally met my Mongolian room-mate... he is a nice guy... looks like a chinese guy.. before i met him all my frens was trying to scare me saying that he might be gay or something... but he is ok...

So we had the academic induction.... its a program where u will meet ur head of department and he will brief u about the course ur taking... so its like the Q&A session... later we had the Life After 5pm program... i thought it was gonna be a talk but it turned out to be acrobatics.... damn... my legs hurt big time dat day... i promised myself not to do acrobatics in my life.... CRAZY SHIT!! furthermore, that morning we had a telematch where we had to do various activities which im so lazy to explain now... we did quite a bit of running in the morning so more or less we were dead shit tired....

We had group meeting then... I became the group leader... we are gonna do a play... my group is like sleeping group or something like that.... onli me and chewing gum is coming up with ideas... when ask the rest of the group, all they can say is "im thinking"... so we agreed to do a play on robing the bank.... So i stayed up with chewing gum in the cafe untill 12 am writting the script... it was like damn short cuz i was like so tired to keep thinking the whole day...

When it was done jus went to bed... after being so tired i thought i thought i will knock out... but i ended up waking up every hour and sleeping again... mayb im not used to staying there for the first time... hehe...

Day 1...

Today was the first day in my college life... I dunno if i was excited or nervous?? Anyway.... it was onli orientation week and i onli choose to go for the compulsory programs.... i met a couple of new ppl... there was this kinda boring talk bout "living a fulfilled college life"... Boring!! The following segment was the Ice Breaking session... this was kinda interesting...

We first played a game... i dunno wats it called... we had to sit in a circle and there will be an empty seat... so the ppl sitting on both sides of the empty seats must get up hold hands and run and grab a person from the other side to that empty seat and the game goes on... if the music stop and u still havent found a person to bring back to the empty seat u will get a penalty.... the penalty was so funny... this 2 guys have to go to a girl and say "Honey, If u love me, Please smile!".... Lolz...

The next game was passing the parcel... but this time was a cup will with some kind of juice... There was 5 cups being passed around at the same time... so when the music to stops, the person holding the cup will have to chose either to drink that juice or take penalty.... the juice was damn bitter (according to the ppl who drank it) ...... Next Game was where ur group has to form the longest line using everything u own...

There is this talent night thing which we have to take part on 4th April... So tomorrow there will be a meeting... so i have to stay over this week... the counselor in-charge of my group is nice... her name is Ong Chui Yee (Chewy) but she said u can even call me chewing gum..haha... Banana Flavour chewing gum... dun ask y its banana...

Guess i have to see wat tomorrow is in store for me...

Nilai here i come!

Finally! After months of decision... i finally enrolled for Nilai International College... I went there for thier open day yesterday and i checked out the place... it seemed like a nice place... anyway... i will be doin diploma in Mechanical Engineering there... its a 2.5 years course there.... so that means i will be staying in nilai for the whole course....

Its kinda sad for me to leave Cuepacs... all my fren are here and my whole life was actually here... and the most ironic part is that ppl from other states comes to KL to further their studies but im going out of KL to study... I will be starting tomorrow... Orientation week...

I jus got my room today... apparently my room mate is a mongolian guy.... havent met him yet... but i hope he is a nice guy... so far i onli noe 3 ppl in Nilai College.. 2 ppl from my taman and another girl from SBU... And the best part is the SBU girl is taking the same course as me....

So i guess there wont be very frequent blog post from me from now on.... i will be back on the weekends.... so thats when i will be online for long hours again... hehe...

Sitar Passion!

Surprisingly... After 18 years, then onli i decide i want to learn how to play the sitar when it has been lying in ever since i was born... at least i think it has been that long... And i've heard my dad playing it a couple of times but never really took the interest to play even though the sound of the music is so sweet... i did actually asked my dad to teach me, but he said he needs 2 sitars to teach me... one he plays and the other i use... its not like i dun have 2 sitars at home.. as the matter of fact i have 4... but i was too darn lazy to bring the other ones down and get it cleaned so i just dropped the interest....

On Thursday , my cousin came to my house.. After dinner she was sitting in the hall and listening to my dad play the sitar and my dad was teaching her a few things... so thats when i asked my dad to teach me how to play and thats how it started.... the next day i took the all the 4 sitars and cleaned it... onli 3 of them could be used... so i actually took one of it and scrubbed all the 20 frets which was rusty with sand paper.... though job but wanted to do it...

When it came to the learning part, im still suffering... U see the strings are finer than the guitar string... and when u play u have to press is so hard and u have to drag ur hand while pressing the string to change the notes... So all i've been playing was do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.... and backwards... that itself is killing my fingers... my index finger on my left hand its so painful that im actually typing this whole blog using my left middle finger instead of my index finger... hehe....

After talking so much bout it... let me actually give u a short briefing bout the sitar...

A Hindustani classical stringed instrument, it utilizes sympathetic strings along with a gourd resonating chamber to produce a very lush sound. Sitar is a long necked instrument with an interesting construction. It has a varying number of strings but 17 is usual. It has three to four playing strings and three to four drone strings. The approach to tuning is somewhat similar to other Indian stringed instruments. These strings are plucked with a wire finger plectrum called mizrab. There are also a series of sympathetic strings lying under the frets. These strings are almost never played but they vibrate whenever the corresponding note is sounded. The frets are metal rods which have been bent into crescents. The main resonator is usually made of a gourd and there is sometimes an additional resonator attached to the neck.

Reformating..

Windows XP.... Wat can i say bout it??? Somthing to be proud of expect for the security loop holes in it... It easy to use XP but its difficult to maintain its performance.. Using XP without any protection, im talking bout good anti-virus and firewall is as good as leaving ur house front door open for the thief to come it... this is because as soon as u use the net, u are bound to get spywares, malwares and viruses that harms ur PC big time.. Sometimes its comes to a level where the onli option left is to reformat ur PC... The word reformat already sounds harsh to PC users as it erases everything from ur hard disk and reinstalls the copy or Windows... This means good bye programs and data.... its like doing 20 add maths questions on ur answer sheet, erasing them and writing them again... This guid will come in handy to many people as it will save u RM30 or sometimes RM50 if u send it to the computer repair shop to do it...

1. First and Foremost, we need to set ur computer to boot from ur Windows CD. Normally, ur pc will load the files from ur hard disk in order to run Windows. But this time its the reverse.. All u will have to do is press the DEL, F2, ESC or F12 button depending on ur system as soon as u on ur pc to enter ur BIOS set up... Thats where we will be changing the boot option... If ur not sure which button to press, look on ur screen if it is written "SETUP" anywhere... If ur still not sure, keep tapping any one of the keys i mention above untill the setup page comes out.. The Setup Page should look like this:

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2. If ur Setup screen looks like image1, then press ur up and down keys on ur keyboard to navigate to "Boot". There u will see a lift of device ur computer will boot from.. All u have to do is go down to the first boot device and click the + or - button on ur keyboard till the first boot option becomes the CD Drive.. Next u have to change ur second boot device as ur Hard Disk (HDD). When dat is done, press the F10 button on ur keyboard. A message will pop out asking would u like to save the changes, go to YES and press ENTER.



3. If ur SETUP screen looks like image2, press ur arrow keys on the keyboard to navigate to Advance BIOS Features.. Next go down to "First Boot Device" and hit the enter key... a list of device will come out and select CD-ROM or anything that resembles ur CD-ROM or DVD drive... go to "Second Boot Device" and now select ur Hard Disk (HDD)... when that is done press F10 on ur keyboard so save ur settings... a message will pop out and press y on ur keyboard for yes...




4. The PC will now restart and now insert the windows XP CD into ur cd drive... A message will pop up.. "Press any key to boot from cd".. so u press any key on ur keyboard.. The blue screen will come on with the title Windows XP... it will be loading some files so jus wait...

5. A welcome screen will appear. All u have to do is follow the instructions... So, press ENTER to set up windows XP.... Next, The license Agreement page will appear... u dun have to read it... Just press F8 to agree to it...






6. The next page that appears is asking if u want to repair ur copy of Windows... (obviously not)... So press ESC to reinstall windows.. When the next page appears... make sure ur C drive is selected and then press ENTER...





7. In this page u will see several option... dun worry... all u have to do is select Format with NTFS (quick)... if that option is not there... then select Format with FAT (quick).... Finally Press ENTER...


8. This is the time where u get to take a break... the setup will delete al the files and reinstall them again to continue with the main setup... after its done it will automatically restart the pc..

9. When the pc restarts, DO NOT PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM THE CD! let windows run like normal... Thats where the real installation kicks in... This part is not hard at all... Jus follow all the instructions and it will install within 30 mins or less....

10. Ur done... u have a fresh copy or ur Windows... no more spyware....

Evolution of Graphic Card??

As we know it, IT industry is growing vastly and all attention has been drawn to Graphic Card and Mother Boards as it technology wise. I recently subcribed to PC.COM magazine after one full year of being out of touch with the IT industry development and later found out my most loved PC magazine "CHIP" has stop its publication... **sob**...

Now as i read the latest publications, motherboards and graphic cards catch my attention every time. Graphic cards has come a long way since i used my first Nvidia GeForce 2 which im still using till today... U see... There are currently 2 manufacturer on the graphic card chips in the market that is ATI and NVDIA... This company has been there since the those days... At that time, graphic cards din come with a built in fan and onli had 32Mb of RAM on it... But now, things have changed big time... Let not even talk bout fans, graphic cards now r using thermal cooling, liquid cooling and things i've never heard of to reduce the heat produced... Speaking of 32MB of RAM?? If any graphic card comes with 32MB RAM, its a guaranty no sale!!.. ATI Radeon x1600 series of grahpic cards now comes with 512MB of RAM in it... If we talk bout a standard everyday use computer, 512MB of RAM is more than enough to ensure a fast performing PC. Even better, 512 MB of RAM is even enough to run VISTA!!

Lets not go so detailed into it... cuz i might jus confuse my self... let me show u how graphic cards has evolved...

The first card i use : NVIDIA GeForce 2 -> NVIDIA GeForce 3 -> NVIDIA GeForce 4 -> NVIDIA Geforce FX 5xxx Series -> NVIDIA GeForce 6xxx Series -> NVIDIA GeForce GO 7xxx Series -> NVIDIA GeForce 8xxx Series...









GeForce 2

GeForce 3

GeForce 4

GeForce FX 5700

GeForce 6600

GeForce Go 7600

GeForce 8800GTX AquaTank











ATI Fans out there... forgive me... im onli doing the review on NVIDIA cards.... From GeForce 2 till GeForce FX 5700, the connection type to the computer was the AGP slot... later models were then released on PCI Express x16 slots.... if ur asking ur self... Wats the difference between AGP and PCI-E??? AGP slot speed can onli go up to 8X where else PCI-E slots can go up to 64X speed... But Graphic cards nowadays onli go up to 16X speed... Wat i would like to point out in this post (finally! after all the reading) is the cooling system the grahpic card has... In Geforce 2 to GeForce 4... u see a slight change in the fan size... Card manufactures tried to reduce the heat using bigger fans.. Unfortunately, the issue of heat still presist when they introduced Geforce FX 5700. So, they used heat-sinks to reduce the heat. Next in GeForce 6600 and 7600, they had to rely on big fans and copper heat sink.. I was astonished and shocked when i saw the GeForce 8800 card by ASUS where they used water cooling system... In the real world of machinery... water-cooling systems is nothing new.. But its such a known fact that electronic compartments r very sensitive to water or moist... This was wat caught my attention... In addition to that, they r also using a fan and heat-sink together...

Thats Not all wat Graphic Cards have come too... U'll see more when i show u the ATI cards..

Cool Gadgets!! Wat The Hack??

USB Beverage Chiller

On the way to Kuantan the other day, i was reading the December issue of PC.COM magazine.... I came across the coolest gadget.... USB Beverage Chiller... Wat the hack???


This is suppose to be the ultimate gamin accessory... Imagine when u just decide to open a can of Pepsi in the middle of the game and u end up engaging in a frenzy or a battle and jus as u wish to celebrate ur victory, ur drink gets warm... damn... Thats where this gadget kicks in.... It cools up to 45° Fahrenheit jus after a few seconds of plugging it in... It uses a USB connection and the best part of all.. U dun have to connect it to the PC onli for it to work... it can get power from anything with a USB port... So XBOX 360 gamers, ur not left out... jus get it connected and game away for few hours...

iDJ iPod DJ Mixer

Was jus surfing www.coolest-gadgets.com and i came across this... iDJ iPod DJ Mixer... this is like taking DJ mixing to the next level... Never in my wildest imagination i thought bout this..



Anyway... Back to the story... this device acts similar to the DJ mixing device u see in the disco and party... the coolest part of it is that u and actually connect ur ipods into it as a music input... before this... DJ's had to rely on CDs to do this job... It also has a turn-table included... And it has a blue colour glow under the button which make it look really cool wen its dark..

The iDJ Mixer is both Firewire and USB2.0 compatible, so you can use 3rd Generation iPods (iPod mini, iPod photo) or newer generation models as well.

Technical Details

• Voltage: 110
• Length: 18.5 inches;Height: 5.75 inches;Width: 14.0 inches
• Weight: 7.0 pounds
• Inputs - 2 iPod, 2 Line (CD/MP3), 2 Phono (Turntable), & 1 Microphone
• Outputs - Master RCA, Record RCA, S-Video, Headphone (1/8 & 1/4)
• Compatible with 3rd & 4th generation iPods, iPod Minis, & iPod Photo
• Compatible with Firewire & USB 2.0 iPod connectors

Humping USB Dog

Need i say more??? This is outrageous... but hilarious... haha... new era of thumb drive.. Guess it lost its virginity to a dog... hehe... *No Comment*

Me???

Saw this personality quiz in Toby's blog so i decided to give it a shot... here is my results...

Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion |||||||||||||||||| 76% Stability |||||||||||| 50% Orderliness |||||||||||| 43% Accommodation |||||||||||||||| 70% Interdependence |||||||||||||||| 63% Intellectual |||||||||||||||| 63% Mystical |||||| 23% Artistic |||||| 23% Religious |||||||||||||||||||| 83% Hedonism || 10% Materialism |||||||||||||| 56% Narcissism |||||| 23% Adventurousness |||||||||||||| 56% Work ethic |||||||||||||||||| 76% Self absorbed |||||||||||| 50% Conflict seeking |||||||||| 36% Need to dominate |||||||||||||||| 63% Romantic |||||||||||||||| 63% Avoidant |||| 16% Anti-authority |||||||||||||||| 63% Wealth |||||||||||||||| 63% Dependency |||||||||||||| 56% Change averse |||||||||||| 43% Cautiousness |||||||||||||| 56% Individuality |||||||||||||||| 70% Sexuality |||||||||||||||||||| 83% Peter pan complex |||||||||||| 50% Physical security |||||||||||||||||| 76% Physical Fitness |||||||||||| 50% Histrionic |||||||||||||||| 63% Paranoia |||||||||||||| 56% Vanity |||||||||||| 50% Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||||| 70% Female cliche |||| 16%

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Stability results were medium which suggests you are moderately relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic.

Orderliness results were moderately low which suggests you are, at times, overly flexible, improvised, and fun seeking at the expense of reliability, work ethic, and long term accomplishment.

Extraversion results were high which suggests you are overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense too often of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.

Trait snapshot:
expressive, open, self revealing, loves large parties, loud, social, outgoing, does not like social isolation, assertive, social chameleon, positive, always busy, likes to fit in, likes to stand out, enjoys leadership, brutally honest, trusting, optimistic, desires attention, dominant, aggressive, attachment prone, wants to be understood, realistic

Streamyx.... Crap????

Streamyx???? The first thing that comes to my mind is a whole load of crap.... I think its a most crapiest service that Malaysia has.... All we see is that they try to get as many people to use their service but they dun bother to upgrade it.... Im not sure fo their latest promotion but i think it is RM 77 with a free modem...

I remember the day when i first got Streamyx... Well actually i dun quite remember... All i remember was that activating my line was hell... and it took me bout 2 weeks to get connected to the net after that.... For many of my frens, they dont know how to call and talk to the streamyx ppl... Well, i had to talk to them from day one... damn it... The first time they told me to take out all the wires from the modem and reconnect it back after 10 mins... i thought wow... like that also can ah???? Later i found out it never works...

I was disconnected from the net for a day and a half..... damn shitty... Called them, fired them and made a report.... and i keep calling them daily to rehilight my case... Its damn stupid... I was using the net and suddenly i get disconnected and cant connect back again.... wat the hack??? is the service that bad????

But im really happy with the download speed i get... 130kbs average... somedays when the connecton is very good i can get 200kbs or 500kbs.... downloading 600MB is nothing to me... onli an hour.... wow.. kewl...

The Day We've Been Waiting For!!!!

As the days approached ppl started freaking out big time... Unknowingly y... i remained kewl jus as how i was before my SPM..... after that wonderful sleep i had after my journey back form kuantan last nite... my sis woke me up at 8.30am saying that she wants me to follow her to the bank and later she will take mt to skool to take the results... i was rather blur so i jus followed her...

When i reached the bank, i saw a rather long que outside the bank... i was thinking wats wrong with Malaysians??? Did they suddenly get the Singaporean syndrome of lining up way before something opens... Apperently my sis told me that today the Amanah Saham Malaysia (or something like that) is open national wide thats y ppl were lining up...

When the bank opened... ppl started to rush in nad the whole placed got jammed pack... since it was going to take long my sis asked to go to the BSN which was jus on the same street to bank in my cheque... when there, TM Net server down... so they cannot process anything... so i go back to Maybank... and my sis says that the server is jammed or something like that here... waited and waited till bout 10.45am and then we decided to take my results....

When we reach skool, i thought it will be like the previous years.. u take ur results and go... but no... they decided to do something time wasting... they called all the student who got 9a's and above one by one to the stage to receive the results then onli were the people who got below than 9a's take the results.... i was the first to take the results for my class as i was rushing to go back to the bank....

Finally... it was the moment of truth... open the folder and saw... i got 6 a1's, 2 a2's, and 2 b3's...
kinda happy with my results today... checked with few of my frens and went back to the bank... after about and hour in the bank then we finally got everything done....

i was kind pleased with my results... i really studied and i thought i deserve wat i got...

Weekend GetAway!!

Jus came back home from a great weekend. Exciting trip to kuantan. Apparently, an opening of a new sikh temple was taking place this sunday. My parents decided to drive down for the temple opening, so i hoped in too... Over and above that, 2 of my fav cousins, Priya and her sister, Mindu where going to kuantan for the weekend too.. It was a wholesome weekend for me..

We left he house at 9.30 (indian timing) and we reached bout 1 something... The funny thing when i come to kuantan is to hear bout my stories when i was in kuantan. My dad studied from form 3 to form 5 here... so everytime we go to kuantan and pass a particular place he will say thats where i studied... thats where i did this and that... i always hit my head when he starts his stories but when i think again... when i have kids... my kids will be doin the same thing everytime we go to Cuepacs... After lunch, we headed straight to my cousins place... lepak there for a while while waiting for my cousins to come back from some taek-wan-do stuff... i would be spending the nite in their house anyway as my parents onli managed to get 1 room in the swiss garden hotel... So i stayed in the house while my parents checked into the hotel... i was to see them later for dinner in my cousins place....

Dinner was great.... Prawns and Chicken curry with some vegetable.... after that all of us went to the lawn and we had Irish Cream and talk stories... Mindu's fren Lueanne (sorry if wrong spelling) came over... the best part was she came to my house bout 2 years back when she came to kl with my cousin and the other day when i was talking to her on the phone, she said she dun remember coming to my house and i tried to explain wat happend still she dunno... After meeting her, i asked her if she rememeber me and i again told her that she came to my house and then she remembers... haihz... Anyway... back to the story....

After all that was over, my parents left at 12am and all of us (except me) got ready to go to sleep... 2 of my cousins had to referee the taek-won-do competition and the youngest one was taking part.... he did well for his category... won 2 gold medals and was the overall champion for his category.... well i never sleep early so i used my cousins laptop till 1.30 am and then went to sleep...

The following days agenda was pretty simple... we went to the temple close to 11am... when to the last part of the first ceremony... then it was the flag raising ceremony... that was quite nice actually... they actually got a band to play while the flag was being raised up.... lunch was then served... simple indian food... but it was super filling...

Visited a few other relatives... and came back to my cousins place... i used her laptop for awhile while waiting for them to come back home... i fixed all the minor errors on her pc... left Kuantan bout 5.30... Smooth traffic all the way till after the Bentong toll.... and after that i think u can guess.... TRAFFIC JAM!!! LONG TRAFFIC JAM!!! They even opened another road on the otherside of the road and yet it was jammed.... the best part of all was that the road was so jammed so much so for bout 10 to 15 mins u dun move then u move a bit and stop... and at desperate times like this people use the emergency lane to by pass the jam... i think u can guess wat happened then too... the traffic police was busy issuing summons to those people... VERY CLEVER JOB!... the jam was caused my road work...

Came back at 11.30 after sending my cousin back home and slept like a log for the next day (today) is the day SPM results were coming out...

Battle Between OS

VS

10 Reasons to Own Windows Vista!

1. Kewl Graphic User Interface (GUI)

Windows Vista introduces the new AERO interface which comes with transparent animated win dows that swoosh into place, subtle and elegant colors, a new Start menu. There is also a sidebar included which u can put widgets on it such as a calender, notes and a whole load of crap.

New Look!

2. 3D Flip

Switching between applications in Win XP was never a bliss. We had to rely on the dumb ALT + TAB key to switch applications. Now with Windows Vista AERO interface, switching between applications is actually kewl. With just a press of the Windows Key + TAB on your keyboard, you will see many thumbnail size images of your applications running and keep pressing the TAB key repeatedly to switch between applications. The best part of all, all of your application runs in real-time while switching. For an example, if your watching a movie and u decide to have a look at wats going on with ur other applications, ur movie will be still be playing while ur switch between applicaitons. This might be something new to Windows users, but Mac users, jus yawn when u see Windows Vista because Windows took ur idea...

3D Flip

3. DirectX 10 Support

I feel its a marketing strategy Microsoft came up to get gamers to upgrade their current version of Windows to Windows Vista. They made it in such a way that DirectX 10 is onli compatible with Windows Vista. For non-gamers like u and me it does not matter, but DirectX 10 has taken the graphic randering to the next level. DirectX 10 will do more to reduce CPU utilization, increase graphic card power and flexibility. I cant say much bout DirectX 10 because im not really a gamer so i dun really noe.

DirectX 9 Quality

DirectX 10 Quality! (Looks so damn real)

4. New Search Utility

Sick of the old lame search process on Windows XP?? You dun have to worry bout it anymore... its history. Windows Vista comes with an improve search feature. All u have to do is type wat u want to search and it will search as u type.. kewl heh?? thats not all. There is a search feature included in every folder and it searches as u type too. This really makes things easy if u are a persons who has millions of words documents and urgently need to find one particular document.

5. Ready Boost

Need For Speed?? Then get ready to be boosted by ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost is one of the most coolest feature in Windows Vista. This feature allows u to boost ur computers performance at anytime without adding additional RAM. The crazy part bout it?? it uses flash drives or memory to boost performance... that is super cool.. it also allows you to decide how much of memory from your device that u are willing to dedicate to use ReadyBoost. Let say as one particular point you are downloading something using LimeWire and since its downloading at a slow rate (as usual.. we r talking bout Streamyx) u decide to play a game.. in the middle of the game u notice a slight lag while ur playing your game.. no worries, just plug in a 1Gb or more thumb drive and speed up your preformance.. The even better part??? Thumb drive cost cheaper than RAM's.


6. Enhanced Security!

Finally! Bigshot Microsoft decided to do something about Windows security. When Windows XP came out in the market about 5 years back, people thought Windows Firewall was "WOW". But when u actually use it, it sux big time... The Windows Vista Firewall has been fortified with better features that can actually block viruses and spywares. Previously with Windows XP, the firewall was so bad it doesnt make a difference if u even had a firewall if u were planning to use the Windows Firewall. All i can say bout the Windows Firewall then was it was just there for the name sake. Microsoft took a bigger leap when they introduced Windows Defender in Windows Vista. Windows Defender acts as an anti-virus and also an anti-spyware. This is not a name sake thing. It is actually good. It actually managed to detect a few viruses on my cd the other day.. Cheers to Microsoft for the achievement.

7. Parental Control

Well.. Well... Well... Look wat we have here.. Parental Control!! Half of u who are reading this might think wat the hack do we need it for?? We dun have kids! But i do think that u have annoying siblings or even room-mates or wat so ever tha loves to use ur PC. This is where the Parental Control feature kicks in. Lets say u have an annoying brother who hogs on ur PC and when u tell him he onli gets an hour of usage and after using it for an hour we starts fighting with u demanding for more time. In Windows XP, there us nothing u can do bout it other than to fight back. In Windows Vista, no violence required. U can change ur Parental Control settings so that ur brother can onli use the PC for an hour, after that the Windows Vista will be locked and will require a password to open. U can also set the protection level in ur Parental Control settings that blocks your brother from visiting unwanted website. Before this, we had to buy 3rd party softwares to do the same task.


8. Cool Performance Tools!

If u are the type of person that tries to get every single drop of performance your pc can give u, then Windows Vista is for you. Probably the best of them all is the Reliability and Performance Monitor. It keeps tabs on every aspect of your PC in exquisite detail, including the CPU, hard disk, network usage, and RAM use, and it includes plenty of charts, reports, and logs for your inner geek. The Reliability Monitor module is particularly noteworthy, as it charts the reliability of your PC over time and shows you every single problem or failure in a calendar format.
(Source: www.pcworld.com)

9. Nifty Software Gadgets

Here comes the new Sidebar feature in Windows Vista. The basic purpose of the sidebar is to put various gadgets on it such as u can put a calender, sticky notes, picture slidshow and many more. Those are a few things that already comes with ur windowU can get many more from the internet that can do things u wont imagine of. The sidebar has the autohide feature and kewl transperancy GUI. It really looks cool, but then again, nothing new for MAC users!

10. Media Center is Back!

Get ready to be blown away with Windows Vista Media Center. Previously, Microsoft released Windows XP Media Center Edition after Wndows XP Professional. Luckly, Microsoft decided to include it in Windows Vista. Using Windows Media Center, u can view your photos in a cinematic slide show, browse your music collection by cover art, easily play DVDs, watch and record TV shows, download movies, and project your home videos—then pass the remote to let friends and family join in the fun! Windows Media Center in Windows Vista features some great advancements over previous versions, including an improved user interface with easier navigation and breakthrough media visualization. Windows Media Center also offers built-in support for archiving TV shows directly to video DVDs, faster overall performance, and an improved platform for content owners to deliver new online entertainment services and experiences.

(Source: www.microsoft.com)

More $$

I jus got richer today.... thats the good thing bout the pay day! i got a call from my manager of my previous company saying that my pay cheque is ready...

Without wasting too much time... i walked in to my shop today and was jus chilling around... then went to the opposite shop and was talking some crap stories.... when i came back to my shop, the admin clerk was about to give me the cheque... but no.. the manager stopped her saying "biar dia luangkan lebih banyak masa dengan kita dulu"... i was like damn... u call me here but dun wanna give me my cheque...

i din really mind cuz i was suppose to meet my fren Renga there... he wanted to buy a laptop so i showed him the model talk talk a bit and then went bowling... wat a horrible day to bowl... something was seriously wrong with me.... i felt as though i wasted my RM5 for 1 game of bowling... normally when i bowl i will stike or hit 9 pins... today all masuk longkang... if not will hit 4 or 5 pins... seriously sux....

All i have to do is wait for another week or so to get the cheque for my commision.... this pay was onli for the basic... half month pay...

P.S. people reading this post... dun get ur hopes so high... im not gonna belanja u at all... u want money... go earn ur living... hehe....

Enjet-Enjet Semut

I dunno who the hack created this flash animation... enjet-enjet semut is similar to the itsy-bitsy spider... its jus hilarious...

See for ur self!!

Got tagged... Thx Toby

These are the rules: Each player of this game starts out by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave them each a comment letting them know you tagged them and to read your blog!

1. Talk toooo much!
2. Have a crooked smile when i blush!
3. Flirt to much???
4. Im a pest... call a pest control manager!!
5. Glutton!!
6. Love to kutuk ppl!

Tagged list!!

Praveen


thats all for now.. im new to blogging... more to come.

Sweet $$

I went for some kind of discussion thingy... im not gonna explain wat it is... im too sick of repeating the story... it was at mid valley... i went there with no idea wat they were going to question me... i thought i will be sitting through the whole discussion like an idiot and coming back with some cash...

Well... i thought wrong... my fav cousin, Priya, told me that her fren will also be coming for the discussion... after registering my self at the Synovate counter... i met my cousins fren, who i later found out is my frens brother..... the day din turn out to be so bad when there was free food served... hmmm... nasi goreng with fried egg and ikan bilis... the food was actually good... met some nice ppl there... well... it wasnt so bad... as usual... i think i talked the most there...

All in all... it was worth while... well anything would be when u get RM70 for jus going for a 2 hours discussion... hehe... Toby thought way ahead of all of us when brought a camera to take a group pic...

















From the right: Mathavan, Me, Ferdinand, uh... Guan Seng, Mustaffa, Brian, Thana and Toby
















The leaders are on the left side of the pic.. Nithy and Sheena

Going N.U.T.S with editing!!

Original Picture









Well... i have to admit it... im very fond of the glowing edges effect... i used that effect and i also used the radial blur effect if im not mistaken... it came out like this... its a cool picture if u plan to use it as a background image..







I jus thought to my self then... i cant be editing all the pictures with the glowing edge effect onli... it will look like i can onli used photoshop to do that... so i decided to play around a bit and see wat can i come out with... the first thing that came into my mind was to remove the black design that was on the original picture.. with the help of the clone stamp tool and a bit of the blur tool... i managed to do so... i was then playing around with the clone stamp tool and thats how the double image sort of thing came about...


This is pretty much same as the picture above... but i changed the colour of the background and of the car... i also did the rims a bit... i got the idea from the rims of the picture speed it up... u will see that picture in my previous post... i was thinking to my self... the speed it up picture was obviously done in photoshop... so i tried to play with the liquify effect and wallaa... it turned out nicely...








Original Picture








I did not do anything great in this picture... all i did was put the car on the road and put the bmw logo there... nothing big... a noob can do so to...

Photo Krazy!

All of this photos were the ones i edited last year.... ignore the copy right sign and my name... that is not the actually editing... that is jus to prevent ppl from stealing it... hehe

After Editing Before Editing

This was one of the first picture that i edited somewhere last year. It was right after i learnt how to play around with photoshop. For this photo, i used the emboss technique and wind effect. It was nothing much.



After Editing Before Editing


This was the second picture i edited... i dunno from where i got the idea of doin such a thing... this happends in photoshop... jus try out this effect and that effect... soon u'll notice something interesting is coming up... this one i used the lighting effect... nothing so great but then again... its something i did..



Before Editing After Editing

This was my next editing.... this time i really went crazy when i tried out the glowing edges effect... i still think its the coolest effect ever.... it make ur image blakc and the details are highlighted using glowing colours... wow... in this picture i also used the lens flare effect... thats y in the picture it seems like the headlights are on....





This picture is the second edition of Speed It Up.... this time i went even nuts and put neon glow around the car... this is the coolest picture...
i really like the car's headlights... it sorts of captures ur attention to it...








I tried to take it to the next level.. i took the original picture and painted the the car with the same colour as the speed it up 2. i really thought that this 3 pictures is one of the coolest things....








Original Picture




One wicked photo... i tried to do something i saw in the book... i dunno wats it called... thats the background im talking but... its like so many tv screen showing the image of my speed it up car... hehe... i also tried to do the underglow neon thing... but it din really turn out well....






Same thing here.... did the exact same thing but used a mushroom background... i got the mushroom photo from my skool computer... sometime last year when we frequently went to the computer lab... the teacher was so boring that i actually was looking through all the files and i found this pic...






Same thing like the previous version... except i used two of the same cars... i should have change the colours of the car... it would have looked better... but at that time i din noe how to do such a thing... i had the idea of putting 2 cars together and make it look like they were racing each other....