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

A Distinquish Talk by a CEO.

Initially, I was forced to attend a talk by the

Chief Executive Officer of our National Car Manufacturer, Tengku Tan Sri Mahaleel. I'm required to attend this event because we need to obtain some

marks for Briged Siswa.

The title of the talk is, 'Human Resource Management'.

The whole talk is being carried on in English,

which I expected from a CEO would do.

I enjoyed his talk especially his point of view

about the changes that we need to make.

As he mentioned, a country progress needs to have changes in

human capital not physical changes

such as economy.

To have change we must not have resistance towards changes without leaving our own morals

and Asian qualities.

Besides that, I do agree that we must not simply choose a leader

or an employee based own a short period of

time.

He or she might perform well in the interview but might not in the future.

As Rome is not built in a day, we must spend several years of

devised research to change the nation along with its citizen.

This is what most of the governments in everywhere are lacking off

which includes our nation.

I enjoyed the talk and felt that my precious time is not wasted as

most talk does.

I hope that we will have more such talks in the future with a

proper seating in the Sports Complex as I'm struggling to seat comfortably.

J.Z.Wong

Mini 210.

Yesterday I just signed-up for the Streamyx Uni Cool Pack as stated in the 2010 Budget.

I'm not fond of the wi-fi nor the internet since my hostel area is equipped with an awesome internet speed up to 100Mbps with average 30% of its actual ability.

I'm actually into this new HP Mini 210 as my secondary computer after my Fujitsu L1010.

The RRP is RM1349 but I'm paying RM1200 to get it as this package requires me to pay RM50 per month for two years which cost me RM1200 along with 384kbps internet for my uncle since I used his house's line to apply this package and an TM Hotzone ID that enable me to surf the net if the server of my campus is down.

Besides I'm getting 50 legal licensed songs per month from hypptunes.

I hope that I will be able to see my mini when I return home for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration.

With this, I do not need to bring my hot buddy to see my lecturers to view the slides that I want to discuss about.

This does not mean that I do not want my L1010 because this mini will not be able to allow me to run Microsoft Visio, Auto-Cad or Aspen.

To all local university students grab a unit of yours while the 100,000 units of Mini 210 is gone.

All you need is your Student ID, letter of entry to your university, I.C. and an endorsement to prove that you are a first year or second year student of that particular institute.

J.Z.Wong

Confusion of Words Used by Malaysians.

Last week we were informed by the press about the chaos happened in our nation due to misunderstanding of the usage of a word.
Few churches were being attacked by unknown parties due to the decission of the High Court on the 31st of December 2009 to allow non-muslim to use the word 'Allah'.
Here, I would like to comment as a non-muslim and a non-christian.
I'm confused about the definition stated in Oxford Dictionary.
As stated in the book, the word 'Allah' means God in Arabic and it is first used by the Arabians since the exixtance of Abraham by his followers.
As we know that, Abraham existed before the era of Islamic Civilisation as stated in our textbooks.
If the word 'Allah' is not allowed to be used by all, I think that the word Tuhan cannot substitute it as it means 'The Lord'. So what should say in malay when it comes to 'The Lord God', Tuhan Tuhan?According to the malay metaphore, it shows plurality in the phrase and it might caused confusion to the public that Christianity practices polytheism. In this era, no religion practices polytheism which includes Christianity.
In my opinion, the word should be allowed to be used by all God believers but I'm not in a state of oppossing our muslim friends rights to exclusive it.
If we want to exclusive it for muslims, we should ask the linguistic experts to invent a new word to substitute the word 'Allah', so the new word can be used by non-muslims.
Besides, I heard some words like 'bin' and 'binti' should be only used by muslims.
Here again, according to Kamus Dewan, 'bin' means 'anak lelaki kepada' or son of in Arabic same goes for 'binti' as for daughter.
Futhermore, Arabic names like Hussein also being used by non-muslim which includes a prominent leader, Barrack Hussein Obama. This does not means his muslim.
In conclusion, we must not make so much of fuss over words that can disrupt our nation's peace.
Thus a new word should be invented to substitute the word 'Allah'. If we want to preach 1Malaysia and unity we must not add oil to fire as history proved us that unity is important for nation's interest.

J.Z.Wong

10th Year of the Second Milenium

This will be my first post of this year.

Before that, I would like to wish all of you Happy New Year.

I hope that is not too late for it.

Since I started my new semester, I will be informing you more about my life as a university student.

Thus, stay with me.

I hope that this year will be a year like no other year that will allow me to excel my life.

May all of be blessed this year and the year after 2010.

J.Z.Wong