A Year Older

I would like to wish Happy Birthday to my younger sister, Nur Haziqah bt Mohd Sadli who turns 17 today. She is also sitting for SPM at the end of this year. Study properly and may you excel the exam with flying colours!

p/s: Saje ltak gamba kat Bazar Ramadhan Gemas taon lpas, bia nmpk gedik sket~ hahahah~


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Now playing: Adele - Right As Rain
via FoxyTunes

Post Saturday Night Fever Syndrome

I have just watched the popular movie in the 70's, Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney and Donna Pescow. These are the songs that I have been longing to search for, as previously I only get to hear them on the radio without knowing the title of the songs. After watching this movie, I am glad to know the title of the songs and I want to share with you some of my 70's disco madness. I just love the 70's disco beat, let's get boogie! :)

Artist: Yvonne Elliman
Title: If I Can't Have You

Don't know why
I'm survivin' every lonely day
When there's got to be no chance for me
My life would end
And it doesn't matter how I cry
My tears, so far, are a waste of time
If I turn away
Am I strong enough to see it through?
Go crazy is what I will do

If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you...uh-huh-huh, oh
If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you...uh-hoh

Can't let go and it doesn't matter how I try
I gave it all so easily to you my love
To dreams that never will come true
Am I strong enough to see it through?
Go crazy is what I will do

If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you...uh-huh, oh
If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you...uh-hoh

If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you...uh-huh, oh
If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you...uh-hoh

Oh! If I can't have you...

Artist: The Bee Gees
Title: More Than A Woman

Oh, girl Ive known you very well
Ive seen you growing everyday
I never really looked before
But now you take my breath away.

Suddenly youre in my life
Part of everything I do
You got me working day and night
Just trying to keep a hold on you.

Here in your arms I found my paradise
My only chance for happiness
And if I lose you now I think I would die.

Oh say youll always be my baby
We can make it shine, we can take forever
Just a minute at a time.

More than a woman, more than a woman to me
More than a woman, more than a woman to me
More than a woman, oh, oh, oh.

There are stories old and true
Of people so in love like you and me
And I can see myself
Let history repeat itself.

Reflecting how I feel for you
Thinking about those people then
I know that in a thousand years
Id fall in love with you again.

This is the only way that we should fly
This is the only way to go
And if I lose your love I know I would die.

Oh say youll always be my baby
We can make it shine, we can take forever
Just a minute at a time.

More than a woman, more than a woman to me
More than a woman, more than a woman to me
More than a woman, oh, oh, oh.

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Now playing: Bee Gees - More Than A Woman
via FoxyTunes

808.8 + 80.0 = 888.8

888.8? What is the significant of this figure? Some of my friends had given their assumption via my Facebook page:

The figure looks gay, at least that's what they said. Does it sounds gay to you?

Ok, let me clear things up. 888.8 translates into 888.8 GB of my current hard disk space in my PC. It consists of two Western Digital S-ATA hard disks, the 80.0 GB Caviar and the recently owned 808.8 GB Caviar Green. Previously, my PC faced a very serious disk space issues so the acquiring of new hard disk solves my problem. Currently 3 of the S-ATA ports on my MSI 915P motherboard are occupied; 2 are used by the HDDs and 1 is connected to S-ATA Pioneer DVD burner.

Setting up the new hard disk was a breeze. Then, I backed up all of my files at second partition of the old hard disk to the newly formatted 808.8 GB hard disk. To obtain a significant boost of performance, I have reformatted and departitioned the old hard disk to be used as primary location where I installed my Windows XP SP2. Now, I have one whole 80.0 GB space specially assigned to install all my software. Most importantly, I installed the Microsoft Office 2007 suites and MATLAB 7.1 R14 software as my specialization in Power Systems require me to do power flow analysis that involves iterations using Gauss-Siedel and Newton-Raphson methods. MATLAB is very great mathematical tool that can do the jobs for me, and for that it requires large disk space and processing power to complete the complex and lengthy iterations.

However, I noticed a significant lag in my PC although I have just fresh install the WinXP. I suspect the RAM is the bottleneck here as my current RAM is only 1 GB made up of 2x512 MB DDR2 RAM sticks running in dual channel mode. I think my next step of improving the performance of my PC is to upgrade the RAM to 2 GB (2x1 GB on dual channel). I might opt to go for 4 GB of RAM but since I am not going to use Vista, installing 4 GB of RAM would be pointless since WinXP only detect up to 3.5 GB of RAM. Only after that I can think of procuring new 1 TB HDD to make full use of the available 4 S-ATA ports on my motherboard. Hehehe...~

Working in Tandem: The 80.0 GB HDD (bottom) and the 808.8 GB HDD inside my PC

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Now playing: Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You
via FoxyTunes

Shopping Spree!!!

Today I go back to UTP again since I have lectures on Monday. I departed at about 9.30 a.m and arrived at UTP at about 3.00 p.m. Why I am taking so long to arrive at UTP? Yup, I went to Low Yat Plaza in KL to do some shopping! Here are my shopping bill:

1. Western Digital WD8088AADS 808.8 GB S-ATA Hard Disk : RM 235.00
2. VZTEC Bluetooth USB Dongle : RM 20.00
3. Kingmax UD-02 8 GB USB thumbdrive : RM 55.00
4. Kingmax Super Stick 2 GB USB thumbdrive : RM 24.00
5. Buffalo Mini Station HD-PFU2 320 GB External Hard Disk : RM 230.00 (for Aiza)

When I arrived at my room in UTP, Qadir told me that the printer toner is running out of ink. Also, I forgot to but a new S-ATA cable for my new hard disk! Therefore, I called Aiza who was in Ipoh to do the shopping for me. So, my shopping bill adds up:

1. Canon Cartridge 303 Laser Printer toner : RM 195.00
2. S-ATA interface cable : RM 5.00

Total spent = RM 534.00 (excluding Aiza's external HDD)

Verdict: Totally satisfied with the purchase.

I need a new hard disk since my current WD 80 GB hard disk has very serious storage space issues. I need a new one primarily to allow me to work with engineering softwares like MATLAB that requires huge storage space. As for the thumbdrive, I need a new ones since my last SanDisk Cruzer U3 went kaput. My selection of Buffalo HD-PFU2 portable HDD is because it offers shock protection, faster transfer rate with TurboUSB technology and wrap-around cable that is very useful in managing the USB cable. These features, especially the shock protection and cable management is very suited to sloppy nature of Aiza. No offense here :P

So, I better do autopsy on my PC to install the new hard disk drive (HDD) and partition it to suit my requirements. :)

Always use genuine toner for my LBP2900 laser printer

Kingmax Super Stick footprint is smaller than my room key!

This brick should keep me satisfied for quite some time... Hehehe...

Home 1 Nice 1, Not...

Yesterday I received a call from Ayah right after performing Maghrib prayer telling me that my mom are struck by fever. The doctor gave her anti-viral treatment and asks her to rest at home and reduce outdoor activity, fearing H1N1 plague that is currently the universal phenomenon. Worrying about Mak's condition, I rushed back home at 9.00 p.m. by motorcycle. I arrived home at 1.00 a.m. using Tronoh - Setiawan - Hutan Melintang - Kuala Selangor - Klang - Banting route. Upon arriving, I found Husna is down by fever too. Thankfully, both of them are not in critical condition. I hope they will get well soon.

And that also means I can celebrate the first day of Ramadhan at home although I do not plan to go back home at first. The first of day of fasting, we only break our fast with foods that were bought from Ramadhan bazaar in Banting. At least, for the first day of fasting I can avoid eating food at the cafes. To mak and Husna, rest well and get well soon!

The Waja's battery died today, so the Kembara is giving the dying Waja a jumpstart...

The Most Awaited Thursday

I always wait for Thursday to come. It is like the 3rd day of my weekend, sort of. This because I only have one lecture on this day and it starts at 3 p.m. That means I can wake up late (although it is no later than 9 a.m since I am trying to be morning person now, hahaha...). This week's Thursday is as torturing as always since I am still struggling to survive in UTP due to ESU arrogance and foolishness for holding my monthly allowance (and so the rest of my colleagues who are returning from industrial internship) until the result comes out.

Enough of that crap, I tried to divert my anger to anything related to blogging. This is the only thing possible to do in this snailing-slow UTP internet connection. That includes posting something on my blog and bloghopping. While doing this, I noticed something when I surf these blogs. I always watch their language style when writing to their blogs. As for me, I think the authors should use proper language when writing posts on their blogs. No bahasa rojak (mixing languages) in the posts. I have my utmost respects when reading posts that have no mixing of languages although the post is totally crappy ones. What I mean is, it is better to use either fully English or fully Bahasa Malaysia in the posts. That will give the author some dignity and shows the level of proficiency of the languages. If you really need to use the terms from other languages, you may do so by properly quoting it or italicized it. Some of them also assimilates words of other languages into the other languages indiscriminately. The most obvious situation is borrowing some words in English and change the spelling to sound like Bahasa Malaysia. Here I would like to share with you some of the examples and the suggestion to replace it. I am not a master of languages nor the moving Oxford dictionary nor moving Kamus Dewan. But I hope through blogging, we can help to give the language some identity. I am not opposing the use of some terms in English to be borrowed into Bahasa Melayu especially terms that are related to science and technology, but the examples below are the common words that has their own words in Bahasa Melayu:

appreciation => appresiasi = penghargaan
conclusion => konklusi = kesimpulan
consumption => konsumsi = penggunaan (this is funny word that is blindly 'borrowed')
family => famili = keluarga

These are the most common words that need not to be assimilated into other languages. They have their own definition in respective language. Mind our language. Thank you.


p/s: Looping on Hujan, Mencari Konklusi. Haish, I can't resist the catchy beat...

PMS

It was a sunny Tuesday, overcast in the midday and raining in the afternoon. The discussions with my dear friend had already shaken me and thrown me off balance. To top it off, an investigative phone call exacerbated me. But I can't blame the caller though. I am controversial and everything I do will bring suspicion to the person who only see at the surface. I am all aware of that and I am OK with it. Feeling like I have PMS today. And that cost me the Multimedia Network tutorial. Anyway, it turned out good. A good afternoon sleep while it is raining outside. So refreshing. :)

Boleh tak ikhlaskan hati tu sikit?

Wahai diri sendiri,

Tolonglah ikhlaskan hati tu bila membantu orang lain. Lakukanlah pertolongan itu atas dasar kemanusiaan dan tanggungjawab setiap manusia di atas muka bumi ini. Kau hanya tahu nak melenting, nak rasa down bila orang abaikan kau walaupun kau dah tolong dia sebelum ini. Hentikan sajalah perasaan sebegitu, ada ramai lagi orang yang ingat pada kau walaupun kau tak tolong dia sangat pun. Kalau kau rasa kau bengang sebab orang tak ingat jasa kau pada dia, kau berhentilah tolong dia. Tapi kau ni lembut hati sangat, kau memang tak boleh tengok orang lain dalam kesusahan apabila kau tahu kau ada kemampuan nak membantunya. Sebab itulah kau harus ikhlaskan hati kau bila melakukan sesuatu. Kalau orang tak nak tolong kau, apa yang kau boleh kata pun. Kalau orang tak ingat pada kau, kau ingat orang tu ikhlas ke nak ingatkan kau kalau kau paksa dia sekalipun? Mungkin kau rasa kaulah yang paling hebat bila ada orang datang meminta bantuan pada kau. Tapi apa yang terjadi kalau orang yang kau bantu itu langsung tak menghargai pertolongan kau itu? Mungkin kau rasa kau patut menerima layanan yang baik apabila orang yang pernah buat salah pada kau datang merayu-rayu untuk berbaik dengan kau. Tapi kau pernah tak terfikir ada manusia yang akan lupa segala-galanya apabila dia sudah dapat apa yang dia mahukan? Tolonglah hentikan kerja sia-sia ini. Ikhlaskan hati tu. Buat kebaikan bukan untuk dipuji. Membantu yang dalam kesusahan bukan untuk mendapat penghargaan. Buatlah kebaikan semata-mata untuk mencari keredhaan dari Tuhan dan mengumpul keberkatan dalam hidup.

Otak serabut seperti wayar-wayar yang berselirat ini. Tapi tak mengapa sebab nampak cool bila bekerja dengan perkakasan yang nampak canggih seperti ini. Kuang2~

Remapping My Thinking System

Imagining myself as a car, after several years of driving I've became 'less efficient'. Taking a car as an analogy, this is made obvious from deteriorating fuel consumption, higher engine revs when idling, increased exhaust emission, loud engine sound and even more frequent warning indicators blinking from the display panel on the dashboard. Therefore, an ECU remap will do the trick. All the settings and parameters will eventually fall off the prescribe limits due to many factors contributed by the environment (engine condition, aging parts, poor maintenance and etc). By resetting all these to the original settings, the efficiency can be achieved again.

I would like to do that sort of things to myself, increasing my 'efficiency' in driving my life. Redefining myself is the best word of it. I am reminding myself to be more sincere in everything I do. Everything must be done for a good cause and seeking for revenge using kindness and empathy to mask the real intention is strictly forbidden (this reminds me of Stewie from Family Guy who is always being ingenious and cunning when paying revenge to his enemies). Anger and hatred can easily meddle with the principle of my life. I hope I am strong enough not to be affected by that. I have to constantly brainwash myself to appreciate the person who is appreciate me. I have to be strong in defending my belief and stick to it. I must not hate other people although he/she had done something terrible to me BUT always put limits to prevent from falling into the same trap again. I have to stop thinking much about others till I neglect myself. Just be myself, not seeking acknowledgement from others by trying to live up to their requirement. If they don't like me to be myself, I would tell them to F off since there are persons who understand me and can sync with my flow of thinking. I can always FORGIVE but I must not FORGET. As the Malay saying goes, "Buat baik berpada-pada, buat jahat jangan sekali". After all, all I need is to have a kind heart and positive mind. Amin.

Rempiting Back Again

Pardon for the 'rojakness' of this post and it's title. :P Today I will be embarking on 300 km journey back to UTP since my campus was sealed for 1 week due to H1N1 case. I will be riding my BJG3564 bike and hoping for good weather throughout the journey. Amin~

Roadtax: CHECKED
Battery: CHECKED
Tyre pressure: CHECKED (29 psi - front, 32 psi - rear)
Oil level: CHECKED
Backpack: CHECKED (and heavily stuffed)
Myself: CHECKED
Money: CHECKED (emergency capital injection from my mom & dad - skoler xmasok lg, ampehs!)

I think, everything is in order right now. The route to the deserted Tronoh is via North - South highway. Rempit!

My Deuter Gogo Brown Check. Ready to travel without much backpains~