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2011-12-15T21:49:00.001+08:00

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2011-12-15T18:41:00.001+08:00

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2011-12-15T18:18:00.001+08:00

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2011-12-07T14:13:00.001+08:00

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Closing this blog

2011-06-26T13:26:00.003+08:00

Hmm...after a few years blogging this blog, I felt that it is time to close this blog as I would like to focus more on a more specific theme blogs.

Thanks everyone for your past support!

OCP pass

2011-06-07T20:50:00.001+08:00

Hurray!...Passed my OCP exam.

I am delighted and extremely happy today. Looking for a holiday break tomorrow.

Book on birds and bees

2011-05-22T15:38:00.000+08:00

www.ambermadisononline.com

Sent from my iPhone

Mapsource

2011-05-07T18:41:00.001+08:00

Download the Training Center:
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=835

Install it

Then download the MapSource update:
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=209

Singapore Future

2011-05-07T05:44:00.001+08:00

Today marks an important day for all the Singaporeans. It is a voting day! GE 2011.

Whatever the outcome it is, it is going to change Singapore.

Of course we are all hoping for the best.

2011-03-24T01:01:00.001+08:00

http://www.capers.com.my/

For reference.
http://www.myrealestate.com.my/viewtopic.php?t=9247&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=325

10th Floor,
Unit 1 - 661K - Type B 1381sf
Unit 2 - 622K - Type B 1381sf
Unit 3 - 622K - Type B 1381sf
Unit 3A - 822K - Type A1 1567sf
Unit 5 - 468K - Type C1-5 867sf
Unit 6 - 898K - Type A1 1567sf

20th Floor,
Unit 1 - 690K - Type B 1381sf
Unit 2 - 651K - Type B 1381sf
Unit 3 - 651K - Type B 1381sf
Unit 3A - 852K - Type B 1381sf
Unit 5 - 578K - Type C1-5 867sf
Unit 6 - 926K - Type B 1381sf

YTL Land sets benchmark

By The Edge Financial Daily
Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:38

YTL Land & Development Bhd (March 28, RM1.83)
Maintain buy at RM1.87 with target price of RM2.70: While we expected The Capers' launch (gross development value about RM380 million) to be successful, the huge turnout last Friday to Sunday was a positive surprise. More than 90% of the 466 units (two blocks of high-rise and low-rise) were taken up at an average selling price (ASP) of RM600 psf (choice units as high as RM800 psf), doubling the last launch price of RM300 psf for Saffron in 2006.

Built-ups range from 695 to 1,965 sq ft, priced from RM689,000 a unit. An early-bird discount of 3% to 5% and 10:90 financing (interest absorption by developer during the 42-month construction period) were also thrown in. The strong sales are commendable in view of the 70% loan-to-value cap for the third house onwards (since November 2010), heightened market uncertainty (Middle East and North Africa crisis and Japan earthquake), and Sentul's reputation as an old, underdeveloped area (ripe for urban rejuvenation).

The stronger-than-expected pace of sales at a new price benchmark for Sentul indicates: (i) under-pricing for an emerging prime area sandwiched between high-end enclaves Kenny Hills and KLCC (Binjai On The Park which recently set a new price benchmark of RM3,000 psf for a penthouse); (ii) rising interest in properties near potential MRT interchanges (Sentul will be just three or four stops away from KLCC on the proposed Circle Line); and (iii) a strong following for reputable developers with a good track record, strong branding and innovative design.

At RM600 psf ASP, implied land value for Sentul works out to RM440 psf (assuming lower initial pre-tax margin of 20% margin, RM350 psf construction cost, RM20 psf interest absorption cost, four times plot ratio). Every 10% increase in ASP would boost implied land value by 44% (yet to factor in potential plot ratio expansion; YTLL aims to gradually increase Sentul ASP to RM1,000 psf). Capers is expected to drive up YTLL's unbilled sales to about RM450 million from about RM60 million previously.

Sentul East is set to see another three new launches — D2 & D5 commercial and Fannell condos worth RM1.4 billion over the next two years. Along with margin expansion, this should boost YTLL's thee-year earnings compound annual growth rate to 47% (potential upside as any contribution from an asset injection exercise by YTL Corp, pending completion in mid-CY2011 has yet to be factored in).

YTLL has the biggest exposure to the potential MRT interchange at 66% of realisable net asset value via Sentul (119 acres), KL Sentral (five acres) and Bukit Bintang (5 acres). — HwangDBS Vickers Research, Mar 28

Article taken from http://www.theedgeproperty.com/news-a-views/6907-ytl-land-sets-benchmark.html

1st Property Investment

2011-03-19T13:08:00.001+08:00

Hope to get one property for investment in KL, Malaysia.

Resolving housing agents matters in Malaysia

2011-03-07T10:56:00.000+08:00

Here is some tips given by one forum in Malaysia if ever need to resolve housing issues.

.....http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1779927

1. you go to the real estate company and try to talk to their manager, sometimes the manager is more reasonable than the agent.

If doesn't work, then

2. go to Michael chong, MCA, Jln Ampang and threaten to expose the real estate company in newspaper if they don't return the deposit.

Trust me, sometimes will work becos real estate company don't want their name to be blacklist.

If still doesn't work , then

3. Go to small claims tribunal in the Mall near Jln Putra.

Small claims tribunal is where the court will summon them to court and make them pay back the deposit.

Bad sore throat

2011-02-20T21:33:00.002+08:00

Still battling with a bad sore throat after more than a week.

Getting old and health is a concern.

Malaysia Properties In Mind

2011-02-19T15:19:00.002+08:00

These are the recent launches

-M Suite

-M City

-YTL Casper

-Bangsar South Camelia.

This is by no means the best. Do research much more properties coming up.

X window

2011-01-24T23:04:00.000+08:00

I have windows 7 installed as my OS in my laptop. I wish to get a x terminal session from a unix/linux server that I am working on.

Assumption.
A- Laptop
B-unix/linux server
network: VPN

These are the following tools required:

1. Obtain the latest Xming server
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/

2. Then you need putty as your ssh

3. You need to enabled X11 forwarding under SSH setting in putty

4. Upon completion of Xming installation, double click XLaunch.

Select any..multi window is ok. Leave the display number as 0. click next. select start no client. --> next
check on No access control..vip

DONE!

5. Now run a ssh from putty into the host that you wish to connect remotely ie B server.
remember to enabled X 11 forwarding...

upon login, you can either set
export DISPLAY=localVPNIP:0.0

or
just run directly the program you with to run

eg: xclock

it work both for me!

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-225898.html

Not happy with Aztech WL556E Repeater

2011-01-13T16:31:00.002+08:00

I am using 10Mbps broandband and through speedtest.com.sg I can verify that my wireless router is serving me that.

When I plug in my Aztech WL556E Repeater, the boost the weak signal that I had in my room no doubt..very happy man...however the bandwidth speed was slow. I am getting like 25-30% of the bandwidth speed ie 2-3Mbps out of 10Mbps.

You dont want to slow down your broadband for sake of stronger signal. Does it make sense?

I am using this repeater Aztech as an AP now. What a waste...

My mini abalone

2011-01-11T22:18:00.001+08:00

Taken in crystal jade signature. Yummy.

Sent from iPhone

Aztech WL556 repeater

2010-12-29T18:32:00.005+08:00

Due to work requirement to work from home for quite a foreseeable duration, I got myself a Aztech DL556 repeater today as my room is having a blindspot for wireless ID.

The installation was alright. I was confused initially after entering the web's UI. I input the repeater's SSID which is incorrect. It should be the AP/router's repeater.

Initially connection through wireless from my Milestones phone does not seems smooth. The signal was excellent though. Then I was to restart the repeater and connect again. Seems ok now..will continue to monitor and update this.

I suppose this gadget is under evaluation?

I asked the man in the IT shop. Probably Aztech is the only company selling this at the moment.

Parting quotes..

2010-12-16T14:59:00.001+08:00

"a bird in hand worth more then 2 in the bush" ~Yim San..

thanks..

I will remember...

I'd like my life back

2010-12-16T13:27:00.002+08:00

Source: mypaper.sg

Something similar happened in my career's life. I'd like to have my life back too. According to chinese lunar calendar year 2010 is a tiger year full of power, fierce animal. I need to watch out in next cycle ie 12 years. My life is shaky. Glad is going to be over. Things hope will improve in 2011 year of rabbit. Hopefully a more tame animal.

Digital Cabinet

2010-12-06T16:35:00.001+08:00

I am sourcing for a digital cabinet. Trust me, if you got a SLR investing in a digital cabinet is the next utmost important thing that will never regret. 10 years ago, I owned a F60 Nikon film camera while my buddy has a Minolta film SLR. He has been putting the his camera in dry cabinet for 10 over years and last checked was still in good condition. While mine, already got fungus everywhere..Dont think it's worth anything now.

Dry cabinets has various brands in the market like Aipo, Akarui, Digicabi.

Maybe I just go for analog simple ones.

My first digital SLR - 450d

2010-12-06T15:07:00.000+08:00

I got a used Canon 450d yesterday from a friend. It comes with a standard kit lens 18-55mm and a prime 55mm 1.8f lens.

Pretty cool.

Start taking photos. Check out this space.

A new beginning

2010-12-03T16:22:00.002+08:00

Had a nice evening dinner with my boss whom flew down from the States. We had a nice meal at the Fosters, an English rose cafe in Holland village.

Then we moved on to Harry for our beer session.

Nice team building.

Next day, I told him about my plans moving on....

Glad to have his blessing boss.

You are the man.

Getting last line in file using PERL

2010-11-18T16:41:00.001+08:00

#!/usr/bin/perl

open(INFILE, "input.txt") || die "Cannot open file $!\n";

while () {

if (eof) {

print $_;

}

Meeting MP

2010-11-12T18:02:00.001+08:00

Meeting my MP. First meeting and to collect my pink ic.

10th Wedding Anniversary

2010-11-11T17:23:00.000+08:00

Celebrating our 10th Wedding Anniversary this evening.

苦中一粒甜酸酸

2010-11-01T08:38:00.001+08:00

苦中一粒甜酸酸...

My thoughts at the moments..

dentist

2010-10-23T13:00:00.001+08:00

Dr Hong Yong Huat
360 Orchard Road #01-14
Singapore 238869
Tel: 67346522
Fax: 67351505

Dr Soh Jen
Braces & Aesthetic Dental Clinic Pte Ltd
10 Sinaran Drive, Suite #10-36
Novena Medical Center (Square 2)
Singapore 307506
Tel: 67322706

Tungsten MySql replication

2010-09-30T17:39:00.001+08:00

Spend a fair bit of time to setup tungsten by continuent. A software that enable mysql replication and load balance.

Book on business trading

2010-09-28T21:01:00.001+08:00

Jack d schwager
Market wizards: interviews with top traders. Harper collins 1993.

Heart age tool

2010-09-28T07:53:00.001+08:00

www.heartagecalculator.com

Developed by unilever.

Music free royalty

2010-09-24T16:48:00.002+08:00

http://creativecommons.org/

music track 'Minor Romance' Apple FCP royalty-free music

Java 6 Ubuntu

2010-09-20T16:31:00.001+08:00

New way of installing java in Ubuntu Lucid

sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner”

Update the source list

sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk

Timeline: Gulf of Mexico oil spill

2010-09-20T07:20:00.001+08:00

Timeline: Gulf of Mexico oil spill http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE68I1KT20100919

Options

2010-09-13T18:21:00.001+08:00

It has been one of a fruitful weekend back to my hometown. The purpose back home originally was to attend my brothers ROM. I was lucky to meet up with my uncle who flew from Melbourne. I have not meet up with him for almost twenty years.
I mentioned I am happy and lucky and over our conversion I learned that he is actually been doing some options trading which I have looked into it for the past two years. I took some initiative to ask a little more from him. Spend a few hours and he willingly shared his experience with me. I am sure this will me invaluable to me one day.

Top 100 books from BBC

2010-09-07T14:55:00.003+08:00

Publish Date: April 2003

In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books.

You can search these books in this site to download or read online.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

Korean ginseng

2010-09-04T20:16:00.001+08:00

Tired but looking forward to weekends

2010-08-27T21:41:00.001+08:00

I am feeling tired nowadays with late nights and early morning need to wake up early to travel for abt 1.5 before arriving work. Need to sleep early.

Another colleague had resigned

2010-08-26T07:04:00.001+08:00

My best friend colleage that I make in this company had left today. What that means for me? Must I always be the lone person? Cant get a friend that can click and chat?

Wish you best in your new company Mr Goh. ..

KB982110 flaw

2010-08-26T00:02:00.002+08:00

I clicked update as per normal windows 7 updates. Then I clicked restart.

Little I know that my PC was unable to complete the patch upgrade and it said that it needs to revert. ANd the PC rebooted. Then it prompt the same screen saying trying to update and failed and then reverting...pls do not switch off.. this was happening for at least past 3-5 times before it allows me to boot into windows 7.

Then I checked on the windows patches applied. This is the one not applied KB982110.

==> Updated

An update. I uncheck the update for this patch KB982110 and rebooted my PC thinking that it will not apply the patch. However it did and applied. This time there is no error. Patch was applied successfully. Thanks.

Install Sun Java 6 into MySQL

2010-08-23T17:59:00.003+08:00

1. vi /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following two lines into the end of the file.

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main multiverse

deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main multiverse

2. sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk

mySQL installation

2010-08-23T15:41:00.002+08:00

Have been struggling to install the MySQL Binary version in Linux. Wow..what a challenge..thought the source was the difficult one.

Basically..follow the instructions in mySQL website. but need to do more..

/usr/local/mysql/> sudo scripts/my_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr/local/mysql

/usr/local/mysql> sudo bin/mysqld --user=mysql --basedir=/usr/local/mysql

need to set .profile as well

mkdir $HOME/bin

PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/mysql

Windows Utils

2010-08-21T22:50:00.000+08:00

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

http://old.bink.nu/xpbootcd/

Promise TX2650

2010-08-21T22:47:00.002+08:00

Well, I got my Samsung 1TB F3 hdd after reading various good review from the web.

Happily got the hdd and went home and tried to install the hdd. Boot up fine and into OS. Then launch WebPAM tool by Promise RAID via http.

Great...can only perform RAID 0/JBOD on my two hard disks. My primary is a OS disk. Gosh this is not what I want now. I wish to perform RAID1. But I can't without deleting the primary logical partition. And if I do that, I will loose my OS disk.

I guess I am stuck and just have to get another hdd and then perform a mirror.

Promise raid tx2650

2010-08-17T19:44:00.001+08:00

This is a entry level raid card for desktop. I used it for raid setup and plan to use it for raid 0 stripping. However the idea of raid 1 strikes me and I might give it a go not to worry about my file backup. Though it still compulsory to perform backup. But for busy user like me might be a good temporary alternative.

Installation of the promise card in windows 7 is not smooth. I hit into several issue and blue screen as soon as I get the card installed into my pci-e 1x card. I have to unplugged my sata from the card and connects back to on board sata to boot into windows 7. Then I run the installation cd. The windows tries to install a driver for my sata but was not successful. I have to manually update with two driver that comes with the cd. As soon as its done, you are up to go. Point your browser and enter http://localhost:8080/promise

The only issue that I had was the ctrl +f key seems not allowing me into the raid bios upon startup.

Else I am looking forward to raid when I shop for hdd this weekend.

Promise fastrack tx 2650 raid card

2010-08-16T21:47:00.001+08:00

Working late

2010-08-16T19:20:00.001+08:00

Been quite a while that I did not work late. Today was staying back a little late.

Encoding and transcoding

2010-08-12T18:56:00.001+08:00

I was surfing the web last night and bump into this two terms -encoding and transcoding used in video capture and editing.

One website mentioned that encoding is transforming from a looseness ie original contents eg wave files to a loss format eg mp3.

While transcoding is converting from a compressed to a more compressed mode.

I am looking at several cards that does video editing. One of them is the leaktek a taiwan manufacturer. Software used tmpneg 4.0. Very powerful card. Nice card.

Amazon.com,newegg.com,buy.com are several e shopping sites.

I have tried vpost and comgateway for shipping service.

Happy shopping.

My colleague has resigned

2010-08-12T18:51:00.001+08:00

Having joined my new company for a month, and l was lucky to click along a new colleage whom come from a very similar background like me. However this morning he told me that he is resigning after a short two months with the company. I was definitely sad to see him leaving.

Yealink voip

2010-08-05T18:08:00.002+08:00

I am going to get the Yealink voip phone. Its is being distributed by Lantone systems in Singapore. Two interesting model t18 & t20. The latter has a lcd screen to configure ip address. While the former requires a computer to get it configured. Apparently skype software is not supported.

Multiple mysql instances

2010-07-29T18:29:00.001+08:00

I have been trying a couple of hours today to sort out the multiple instances of Mysql running in the same box of linux.

According to mysql website only a copy of binaries is required. Today I manage to launch the instances listening in different port and socket file. Importantly you need to specify a different data directory.

Run mysql_db_install --user=mysql --datadir=/xxxx

Renounce Msia citizenship

2010-07-28T17:42:00.001+08:00

Today went to malaysia high commission to renounce citizenship.

Des&Jac's Honeymoon in Europe (2003) - Part 1

2010-07-27T20:41:00.000+08:00

BP CEO resigned

2010-07-27T19:32:00.001+08:00

After several weeks I resigned from BP, it was reported in reuters news today that BP CEO Tony Haywood has also resigned in wake of the worst oil spilt history in America. He will be replace by Rob Dubly whom two years ago was fleeing out of Russia when the TNK BP join venture went sour.

Mysql learning journey

2010-07-26T18:44:00.001+08:00

Coming from an Oracle background, there some learning steps for me to pick up Mysql.

We are using Mysql very 5.148, the latest on Ubuntu. One important feature is to enabled log_bin=on in /etc/my.cnf file. This is equivalent to archive logs feature.

Next we need to take care on how to archive these bin logs before it fills up. I have a cron script that runs and remove binary logs that are a couple of days old. Alternatively, there is a parameter 'expired%' that can specify the validity of binaries log before removed by system.

New job

2010-07-12T19:22:00.001+08:00

Started new work today and it took me nearly 100 mins to get home.

A new beginnings

2010-07-11T00:36:00.001+08:00

Come Monday mark as a new beginnings of my career life. For past three and half years, I have contributed and developed myself to prepare for new challenge ahead.

extracted two tooth and braces

2010-06-23T09:47:00.001+08:00

Went to extract two lower tooth last week. And the doc told me that I am progressing well with my orthodontic treatment. Doc changed to a thicker wire for my upper two teeth.

I am feeling the pain now.Oucch.

Melaka seri costa hotel

2010-06-16T16:17:00.001+08:00

Checked in today at 230pm.

Tough times for tough jobs

2010-06-15T13:48:00.001+08:00

Well was walking alone aft lunch meeting a long time friend, Sam.

Saw this scene where two workers was cleaning glasses of a nearby office building. This pic will reminds me the difficulties faced by everyone.

Birthday gift for my daughter

2010-06-12T21:58:00.001+08:00

Today was a hectic day. Went to giant tried to get a bicycle wasnt that cheap as promotion only applies to other bike. And worse another customer took the left one bicycle away. Finally settle down in toys r us. And got a bike. But was a display set too.

What a day. Its for my daughter 6 yrs birthday.

Develop Anroid software

2010-06-11T17:46:00.003+08:00

Was trying to play around developing Android.

Found lots of useful sites that guided me. Thanks.

1. Install Netbeans IDE 6.9 RC2 was the one I used
http://netbeans.org/community/releases/69/install.html

2. Download SDK for Android
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

3. Go to youtube. There's a good video there that shows you how to develop and setup it run.

Go to SDK directory,
cmd> android.bat create avd -n android_1-1 -t 2

BP close to 4 pounds now

2010-06-11T17:32:00.001+08:00

3.9 pounds...is it time to buy?

BP shares has been trading ranges lately. It has gone up to 4.8 just few days back and yesterday's close was 4.58 pounds.
Tracking of BP Shares performance
31/3/11- 458.45

BP short interests

2010-06-11T13:53:00.004+08:00

Source: Shortsqueeze.com

Prushield purchase

2010-06-10T17:30:00.003+08:00

Decided finally to move all my shield plan with my good insurance mate, Joo Chuan today on Prudential.

Folks visits

2010-06-07T14:12:00.003+08:00

My folks are in town last weekend to visit us. It was a nice short visit from Fri to Sun.

Fri was an easy going, stay at home most of the time. Evening went to Marina Barrage and Mount Faber. Nothing much excitement as it was late already.

Sat was cool evening went to Singapore Flyer.
2 adults free 2 child promotion right now.
Online book got 20% discount. Also they have Senior citizen price.

They enjoyed the ride, except the disappointment came when it come to collect the photo. The process was slow. Took about 15mins queue.

Then it was late we decided to dine in Marina Bay, Imperial Treasure. The noddle was just ok. But the chinese dishes was well prepared.

Motorola Milestone

2010-05-29T14:16:00.002+08:00

Got my first Android 2.1 Motorola Milestone phone from StarHub today. Was a pretty good and amazing phone. They are currently having a promo from DBS giving 24 mths free call-ID.

I am kinda of like the phone except the battery was a little weak. Got a spare battery from Energizer to charge it as a standby battery.

JP Morgan run

2010-05-06T20:33:00.001+08:00

Clocked abt 1 hour for 5.6km. No preparation at all.

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Resigned!

2010-05-06T08:40:00.001+08:00

The day had finally come. I tendered my resignation on Tuesday 4 May. It was a short chat of quick 5-10mins and settled. My boss wishes my all the best in my new career move.

Yeah three years finally has come. Time to move on.

pat on your back Dessie!

Work life

2010-04-29T18:05:00.000+08:00

Thought it might not be the bottom of my career. Things just goes bad
to worse. I am still surviving. The going gets tough the tough gets
going. I hit into an obstacle where my bosses put all the fences
blockage from preventing me to move upwards, take all the credits of
goodwork that I have done these years. All I get is a giving up seat
to a newcomer. Thanks for your reward. I will persevere. Years later
when I see back this post I will laugh, and gets myself motivated. I
know someone I watching.

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Life is tough but the life gets going

2010-04-27T09:06:00.002+08:00

I reckon that I have a crisis in my life be it my career or family. I still remember my Sec school English teacher, Mr Patel whom taught us "When the going gets tough, the tough gets going"

Yes I will persevere...and determine to succeed.

Parenting primary school kids

2010-04-22T07:18:00.000+08:00

I have a primary 3 boy whom is the eldest in the family. Since young
we have been pampering him, showering him with lots of materials toys,
love and care. This to the extent it brought a not so welcome
personality that we see in him. He became very dependent on us, taking
things for granted, got lots of hatred when reprimanded, he not
showing a loving character towards his 3yrs junior younger sister.

We have tried various way of disciplining him whenever he did things
that are wrong. His resentmet only happened at the time of being
discipline. He will forget thereafter. We are disappointed in him. My
wife has asked to sent him to Sunday school. Will that help if he
can't appreciate god's words.

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Circle line

2010-04-19T08:27:00.001+08:00

This my first day experience on Singapore circle line since it opened
last sat.

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Orthodontist

2010-03-30T17:42:00.003+08:00

Being 33 years young, I have decided to take my gut and patience to try out orthodontic treatment for my jaw and upper/lower teeth.

Treatment is planned to last for a total of 24months, hopefully.

I am into week2 of the treatment now. I am sort of impatient for the results as my teeth doesn't seem to move any. No obvious difference can be seen yet.

MBQ

2010-03-30T17:41:00.002+08:00

Installed a 8" subwoofer for my car. It's the MBQ which sits nicely under my Vios driver's seat.

Nicer and deeper bass now.

A trip to Kukup

2010-01-17T17:14:00.003+08:00

I was just spinning my car hoping to reach a humble 20K within 1 year, still a shy of 1K away now. I dediced to bring my family for a spin to Muar. Cus it is much further away from Singapore and I could make most milage too.

We started journey through Tuas (2nd link), hoping to chalk up more mileage in Singapore. Tuning into local radio, told us that our decision was right. It was about 4pm on a Saturday. The news confirmed that the traffic was heavy in causeway. Cool, lucky for us.

As we breeze through the 2nd link, my son was complaining hungry. Our dear, didn't have a heavy lunch. I search through my Garmin POI, tells me that there is a yummy roti canai in Gelang Patah. I didn't pay much attention to the POI and thought it might be need the exit from 2nd link. Drove past Msia custom, and followed the GPS to the roti canai stall. The GPS kept on directing into smaller inner road passing through Gelang Patah on route to Tanjung Pelepas. Somewhere detour into a local remote village. Gosh, still not there yet. Finally after another 10-15km, found that place, it was closed. Yes, it's afternoon, roti canai in local village is meant for morning breakfast. Good. Drove another 5min, found a mini stall selling groceries, got a bread for him. Oh dear..He must be hungry.

Looking at the destination arrival time to Muar, it showed 7pm compare to 6:30pm earlier. Shall we go? Yes that was the answer. Our clocks shows 5pm. As we breeze past through some trunk roads, found the "'Leisure Farm Resort". There's some publicity and advertisement about this rich area. Many foreigner and Singaporeans have settled there. I decided to drive in and was stopped at the guard house. We manage to have a quick glimpse of the bungalows before making our exit.

Time is getting late. We decided to carry on and the sign board shows our way to Pontian. Well might as well go there as it is a shorter time. Now my turn to get thristy, hungry and need to go to loo. Manage to drive another 30mins before arriving Pekan Nanas, a town that was once famous with a great export of pineapples. Didn't know what to eat there and found the KFC. We have our dinner. Ordered 2 dinner plate plus 2 extra chickens. Yummy Malaysia always serve the best KFC chicken. Never disappoint us.

Time already 7pm. Continue our journey. The GPS is unable to route my route to Kukup or homestay Piai which we found out from one of the signboard.

Never mind just carry on and rely on the local sign board. Manage to pass through Pontian Kechil. And then way on to Kukup. We came to a junction. The police station is a local landmark. On the left turn into Homestay Piai and straight to Kukup.

Well, let's turned into Tanjung Piai (It's the soutern tip most of Asean mainland).

Time is darked. Manoveour our way and manage to find it though our Garmin GPS is unable to route. Lucky us.

We route back our way and went into Kukup town. Here there were ample seafood restaurant that really worth exploring the next time.

We got hold of some fireworks display and enjoyed.

Korean

2010-01-14T12:58:00.001+08:00

Korean outfit.

New year 2010 Resolutions

2009-12-31T09:11:00.003+08:00

Nothing beats today to write about a beginning chapter of year.

My new year resolutions of 2010

1. Earn more money. Money money. To support family and life.

2. Of course a good career is neccessary.

3. Without the most important aspect of life -- health, point 1 and 2 is useless.

4. Above all, spiritually blessed by God. Amen.

5. Lead a simple life. Be contended.

6. More time with family spending quality time with parents, wife and brining up children.

7. More time with good friends and relatives. Socialize.

8. Have extra spare cash. Be charitable.

9. Have a passive income to be financially independent

10. Be a charisma person.

Food

2009-12-30T09:23:00.001+08:00

As the kids are not around, might be a good time to catch up with
Lawrence and his family.

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20litre tank thing

2009-12-28T16:31:00.003+08:00

Foreign registered vehicles is allowed to pump up to max 20 litres of petrol within 50km radius from Malaysia checkpoint.

Yesterday was a long weekend (After X'mas) holidays back to Singapore. The North South highway is choked with cars, especially after three lanes merge into two. Whenever there is heavy vehicle with some driving slow especially at night, soon you can imagine car started to crawl at 70-90km/h. The traffic was bad in the petrol station somewhere in Pagoh where everyone rush to pump in some petrol. Hurray to the petrol kiosk there. Car drivers however have to endure the long queue in the resting area leading to the Petronas.

What I did was detour to Macap toll --> Immediately after the toll, turn left and head towards the JB trunk road. After travelling another 10km+, there are ample of petrol kiosks for refilling. Petronas on the left, Shell and caltax 250m on the right. And another 500m, one should see Mobile on the left. Thereafter, travel few more km and join back the highway.

Still the highway traffic is terrible. Caught in causeway jam for an hour and half before arriving home past midnight.

A busy school holidays

2009-12-28T16:23:00.002+08:00

This year school holidays was spent mostly in Malaysia. With the kids back to my hometown in Seremban, we went to Sunway Lagoon as well. MyKad holders entitled to 20% discount, Jusco card 25% off the entrance ticket.

2 Parks - Water Park & Amusement Park
Adult Ticket RM 48.00 (Normal RM 60.00)
Child Ticket RM 36.00 (Normal RM 45.00)
** Maximum 6 tickets per transaction **
** Click here for park details **

http://www.sunwaylagoon.com/whtnew/whtnew.asp

2009-12-19T19:58:00.001+08:00

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Concert

2009-12-19T19:58:00.000+08:00

3 good men concert

2009-12-19T19:57:00.001+08:00

Hi we are experiencing 1st concert experience at maxpavillion spore
for 3 good men show.

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My lucky draw

2009-12-19T01:19:00.000+08:00

After 2 years of unlucky charm, at last the spell has been broken. Thank you Lord.

Manage to get a lucky gift from my company dinner and dance!

Fairy Contest experience

2009-12-09T15:57:00.002+08:00

Was early arriving 30mins before the scheduled stated time of registering at 8:30am in the shopping mall. The person in charge did not come until 9am+ where registeration begun.

Some experience to share:

Yes, my daughter did not make it into the finals but it was a nice and worth experience participating. Thanks for the organizer giving a chance.

The performance was the core scoring irregardless of the theme. Almost...if u can score high in the talented section. Also when it mentioned as 2 mins means 2mins.

Nice learn.

tiger woods

2009-12-03T09:13:00.001+08:00

"I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone."- tiger woods

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/sex/whats-next-for-elin-nordegren-and-tiger-woods-549896/

A visit to the Singapore Zoo

2009-12-01T16:11:00.004+08:00

It's been quite a while since my last visit. It was like 2 years ago or more perhaps.

The entrance fee is a first shocking. It has increased with inflation of course but not my pay :(

Adult: $25
Child: $12.5

A family of four of us, we paid $75.

inclusive of admissions, tram ride (unlimited) and one way boat ride.

Hmm.. probably will enroll into the Singapore Zoo Friends membership which costs $180 for a year unlimited visits to the Zoo next time.

Mei Mei contest

2009-12-01T16:10:00.002+08:00

Brought my daughter to a fairy contest. She managed to get into the qualifying round.

Post to Wordpress using email

2009-11-19T15:45:00.001+08:00

http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email

HP p6290d PC

2009-11-19T15:28:00.005+08:00

Got my new PC last Sunday. It is a Quad core HP PC.

Love it. Ergonomics. My first branded PC. I used to assemble previously with bits and pieces and ended up with a mix of rainbow colour of periherals.

With a branded PC it just makes me proud to be a owner of a PC. Powerful. Upgraded from previous AMD Athon 1.8 with motherboard supporting only 1.0, IDE disk.

Now much faster DDR3 ram, 6MB internal cache, SATA disks. Cool.

Will consider for a new HP again.

Only draw back it's a windows 7 32 bit OS. :(

Thanks for the feedback from the comments by user.

I am attaching my Windows 7 Experience Index here.

Apologize, I am unable to enlarge the attach at the moment till I figure it out later. The base score is 5.9.

Processor: 7.2

Mem: 7.2

Graphics: 6.5

Gaming graphics: 6.5

Primary hdd: 5.9

Recently, I tried to run Age of Empire II and believe me or not that I was unable to run with such a sophisticated machine. I got some driver issues. This machine comes with DirectX 11. I suppose the net has some resource that said some dll are omitted from DirectX 9.0c to directX 11. Hence can't play AOEII.

Financial Spread

2009-11-13T18:13:00.000+08:00

I have been touching on spread lately. In a contango market ie.
Bullish view on the commodity market eg oil or gas. One thinks that
the prices will eventually be up in the future eg 3 months later. The
opposite is known as backwardation market. This is ignoring the
current oil price market ie. Flat price

To trade profitability in a contango market , one will sell M1 and buy
M2. And to close the position will simply reverse it with buying M1
and sell M2.

This is known as a time spread.

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Heavy rain

2009-10-30T19:48:00.000+08:00

Swimming class cancelled.

3rd Jab of Hep A & Hep B

2009-10-29T11:43:00.000+08:00

Did my 3rd final job of Hep A & Hep B today at clinic. Was told by the nurse that the jab can last a 'lifetime' but of course subject to individual. So sometime down the road, need to perform a bloodtest to check the immunity whether a booster is required.

10 great stocks for the long haul

2009-10-24T22:05:00.001+08:00

http://money.aol.com/rtn/press/10-great-stocks-for-the-long-haul/rfid263949331?channel=pf

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East coast park

2009-10-19T11:32:00.001+08:00

Meet up with Grace Cheng

2009-10-15T10:07:00.001+08:00

Last Sunday, there was a short an hour workshop on Forex trading by Grace Cheng in Suntec. Somehow I did turn up for the event and manage to get in touch with what Grace was explaining how she travelled around the world across 5 continents and not missed a day of trading work.

First forex trade placed

2009-10-06T16:18:00.001+08:00

I performed my first forex live trade.

The journey of thousands miles begin with a single step...

A day trip to Teluk Sengat - Crocodile Farm

2009-10-05T14:47:00.003+08:00

Hello...please see a scenic view from Teluk Sengat where the crocodile farm lies...behold...danger beneath...

Oracle OEM 10g agent installation into Cluster nodes

2009-09-18T16:14:00.001+08:00

There is not much resource available on the net that mentioned about the installation of Oracle 10g agent for grid control into a Cold Failover cluster.
CFC is generally a OS control cluster.

I would discuss about the setup that I have done.

Basically, this was an installation into a Solaris Sparc OS 9 two node using VCS cluster. Oracle Grid control version 10.2.0.5. Oracle Database Enterprise 10.2.0.3.

I installed through GUI using runInstaller.

I have tried about almost 10 times all in all until the last one manage to get it up monitored by OMS.

The trick is...

1. export ORACLE_HOSTNAME=logical-hostname

2. cd /source
where source is the installation files for oracle 10g agent 10.2.0.5

3.
Instead of just ./runInstaller

use this

./runInstaller -invPtrLoc /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/agent10g/ ORACLE_HOSTNAME=

This will enable the installation of 10g agent to be cluster-aware.

After installation, modify $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/config/emd.properties file
Set
AgentListenOnAllNICs=TRUE
to
AgentListenOnAllNICs=FALSE