Light = Portable or Less Function?

Look at my beautiful babes.

On the right is my new HP Mini 210 and Fujitsu L1010 on the right.

Well, I'm sure that most of you will ask me why have two computers.

To answer that question netbook is for portability and notebook is for performance but not as good as desktop.

After a week using my mini.

I feel that you should get yourself a netbook if you can afford it.

Honestly its really portable.

About a kilogram of mass, need not to bring bulky notebook to Starbucks or McDonald's to surf the net.

But if you are using heavy softwares such as Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Autodesk AutoCAD 2010, get yourself a notebook first then get a netbook.

I watched a few movies that I downloaded before coming back to KL for the Chinese New Year break, guess what?

The video played well like a portable DVD player.

No drop of quality if you are playing the video from the hard disk drive.

But there is a fall back when I played Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball via my USB Flash Drive, the rendering of the video drop causes the frames per second (fps) to drop from 30fps to 15-20fps.

My advice, transfer the video to you hard disk before watching it.

Using Skype is fine as I'm given two choice, using the Skype in my Windows or Skype in HP Quick Web interface.

I can log in to my Skype without entering my Windows.

Surfing the net also can be done without entering the Windows.

This reduce the time of getting yourself on the net as entering the Windows take at least half of a minute, the HP Quick Web interface is ready to be use as you turn on the netbook like your PDA just without touchscreen.

In a nut shell, get yourself a netbook if you want to surf the net with portability and less fuss.

J.Z.Wong

Welcoming the Roaring Year of Tiger

Sorry for the late publish for this post.

Before I continue, I would like to wish all Malaysians and Chinese around the world Happy Chinese New Year.

Besides that, I would like to wish you all Happy Valentines including singles as Valentines is meant for day of love not day of couples.

I reached KL on the 12th February 2010. It took four and a half hours from Gambang to Pekeliling as there were a few distraction that causes the delay.

Among the distractions were the present of an irresponsible passenger that took extra 45 minutes of break at a Rest and Relax stop and a few more that I shall not discuss here as it is very sensitive to talk about.

This year was my family's first time having reunion dinner at my new house.

The dinner was held on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Although it was a simple dinner with merely nine person, but we had a great time.

As usual there will be prawns and sea cucumbers as they significant happiness in Cantonese.

This year we got extra large prawns and sea cucumbers as my dad did not went to the wet market of Pudu to get it but from the jetty in Mersing.

The prawns we had this year is four times larger than what we had last year but at the same price.

Besides that, mom cooked me my favourite vegetable dish, Hong Kong Choi Sam with Shitake Mushrooms and few slices of canned abalone.

There were also my family's favourite on the table, Pei Pa Roasted Duck and Emperor's Chicken.

We had grass jelly and yee sang as our dessert.

On the first day of Year of Tiger, my family did some prayers to the ancestor (a Chinese culture not Buddhist culture) before going to my maternal grandmother's house.

After going to my grandma's house, we went to my maternal granduncle's house to pay respect since he's the eldest in terms of position though he is a decade younger than my grandma.

There I had fresh oysters, salmon sashimi, roasted lamb and stir fried beef as my main course.

I took some fried mee hoon as starter. Then I had some Ice Kacang as my dessert as I do not take alcohol. My brother get himself some red wine and cocktail as his dessert.

Then we went to my paternal granduncle's house.

There, all my father's relatives gathered at there including Uncle Andrew from Melbourne except my aunt which is staying in Kota Kinabalu.

That night we went to my grandaunt's house to have dinner.

That's all for my reunion dinner and my first day of new year.

J.Z.Wong

Almost the End of the First Half of Semester II 2009/2010

After seven or six weeks of classes, Chinese New Year is nearing!!!

But before that, I need work hard for a week because the season of test has arrived.

Maths II and Grammar Test.

Just sat for Computer Application yesterday and Engineering Drawing a fortnight ago.

Well, its also time for plenty of assignments.

Not just only that, I'm just been elected as a student representative for my program to my Faculty's Student Society as an Exco for Publicity. As the new member of the committee I'm required to scout for new members to work with me and prepare a report on changes should be done to CHEST aka Chemical Engineering Society of UMP by next Thursday night as there is going to be a meeting on Thursday night.

These are the thing that I should face before going for a week holiday.

I'm craving for Yee Sang.

Besides that, I'm going to get my brand new HP mini 210 when I returned home as it is scheduled to be delivered on this Monday's afternoon.

J.Z.Wong