openSUSE 11.1 Rocks ..... hope to download 11.2 soon

Hi there,

It took me almost 5 months to start writing again in my blog. There were so many things happened during this period of time, which i don't even know how to describe. Anyway, to start off with my recent interest in openSUSE, that was when i started to install the openSUSE 11.1 using the ISO format which have been downloaded by one of my colleagues to replace my previous OpenSUSE 10.1 on my dual boot laptop.

To find it quite amusing that i was actually very impress with the 11.1 as it solved my previous wireless problem in 10.1 that forced me to temporary stop using it. To my surprise, 11.1 was not the latest and openSUSE 11.2 was currently the latest release. They actually had a launching last month and i missed the opportunity to be there.

I found it hard to believe that i actually using it more often nowadays than the previous month to surf the NET. Now that i have installed most of the updates, i'm reluctant to replace it with the latest release. Eventually, i will install it but not at the moment. Most probably will install it into another spare company notebook, thats for sure to view the difference.

Cheers
Ian

Sometimes you just have to pamper yourself ....

Hi there,

After a disappointing event that i have attended on Friday night, weekend rest would be a good remedy for all that. Well, not quite yet .... i was asked by my wife to accompany my sis-in-law buy a new mobile phone as she needed some advise. Anyway, not until late in the afternoon that we started our journey there. Destination .... Sungei Wang Plaza. Expected, the traffic was terrible and i dropped them off at the entrance while i search for a parking space. Finally, i managed to park near the old Cathay cinema and started to walk along the Bintang Walk pathway.

Suddenly a strong wave .... kindda like a magnetic wave pulling me aside and within minutes, i was inside Low Yat Plaza instead of Sungei Wang Plaza. I took my mobile phone and called my wife saying i won't be joining them as i was in Lowyat shopping mall. So, off i went to Sri Computer to look for a new earphone ( my previous one died on Friday ) and while looking for it, i grabbed the Wireless Headphone as well (I needed this for the sake of my wife) :P.

RM14 (earphone) + RM27 (Wireless Headphone) that how much i paid for it. Well, it looks similar like this one but it's black in colour. It's really worth it as i tried it at home later and the quality is good too.
I was about to leave Lowyat when suddenly i remember i had a chat with my collegues previously about how we can watch rmvb files on TV with a special gadget called the HDD Multimedia Player. We were discussing about the price which cost around to RM250 or above. That prompt me to search around for it since i was there and no harm getting know the current price.

I went to numerous shops and the price were around RM199 and the most they can give discount was RM190. So, when i stumble around a shop with this uncle asking how he can assist me, i told him about a gadget which can play rmvb file on TV and straight away he pulled out the hardware and showed it to me. He explained all the format that it can run and tell me that it's the "IN" thing nowadays. So i asked if the price can be reduced and he say " I can give you RM180 for that" . Wow ! i said to myself, RM 180 ..... deep inside me i said i want it but then i told him it's still expensive and all this gadget will out date eventually and the price will drop in 2 months time. He paused for awhile and then asked me what's my budget. I told him My budget is only RM150 and he said cannot lah ..... I told him i have only that much of money with me and i can wait for the price to drop eventually. I started to move on like i was not interested anymore and then he stopped me and said alright RM150 for it. So i paid for it and head back to Sungei Wang Plaza to look for my wife.
From RM199 to RM150 - I didn't know i was such a good negotiator. :P

Altogether Rm14 + RM27 + RM150 = RM191

Sometime you just have to pamper yourself by buying what you crave for (only if you can afford it) and the satisfaction is indeed unimaginable .......

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What a waste of time attending this dinner invitation ...

Hi there,

Why ? you may say ..... i felt so frustrated about this dinner invitation until i have to express it out in my blog. To me, last Friday's dinner invitation by a vendor of our company was a waste of time for both my colleagues and myself. Why i said that ? it's because we never expected the function to be such a boring occasion and to add salt to it, the food was a big joke. To think that it is a 5 stars hotel and a grand ballroom, we never expected it to be that bad.

Well, to be frank all that doesn't really matters to us at all. What we were aiming for on that day was their lucky draw prize which is the most eye catching prize ..... the LG 32' LCD TV as it was clearly visible in front of us. Though it was surrounded by numerous other prizes which were wrapped nicely, both my colleague and i are eyeing for the LG 32' LCD TV.

Unfortunately, when the lucky draw started, we found out that there were only 3 prizes to be given out. What a pathetic company which is so well known in Malaysia and with 50 over partners and customers attending the invitation, there were just 3 prizes to be given out. I can say most of the guest there were not happy at all as most of them left just after the lucky draw concluded. So as my colleague and myself.

My suggestions to the organizer of the occasion - Please ensure you have enough lucky draw prizes to be given out the next time you organize an invitation or else you will left with only your staff attending it.

3 Lucky Draw Prizes --- What a Joke.

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The day i started Blogging ......

It started just like that ..... out of nothing, i login into my MSN and saw one of my friends online with a link attached to his message - http://boeyjoey.blogspot.com . So, I was curious and wanted to know more and so i click on the link. It went straight into a page where i saw photos of his children and hmmm very interesting. They just express whatever that's in their mind. I say to myself, well i can do this too and since i don't have any children yet, what should i write ?

after several minutes thinking, i look at my wife studying on our dining table (well, she used to do that cause she said she needed more space to put her books) and myself here trying to figure out what to write.

So, i guess i better start thinking hard but my mind is asking me to go to sleep. Tomorrow's a brand new day and hopefully i can achieve what i hope for which is to start off with this blog.

Until then, GoodNite .