Swordie Bloggie

Now I know how it feels when there are frequent blackouts. Last night, around 8.40 pm we had a blackout. I have to take my bath with candle and torch light. I don’t know what time the blackout end because I slept early around 11.00 pm. When I woke up this morning, the supply was already back.

And tonight, around 7.40 pm there was another blackout. But lucky, this time the blackout end around 8.30 pm. Gosh… it really sucks.

Last night blackout was made worse when I was unable to read my office emails. When I arrived at the office this morning, there… a very urgent email sitting in my mailbox… call for meeting at 9.00 am!!! Shoot… it was already like 8.50 am!!! And the meeting is about 3KM from my office… and it is in KK!!!… Traffic Jam!!!

So, I rush down 2 floors…  rush to my car 50m away and did my F1 driving… and made it 5 minutes late… I should have made it faster if not because I made the wrong turn because in my mind the meeting was somewhere at Sutera Harbor direction… it was at the other side of the area… damm…

Then I just drive without stopping 3 floors up… I did a fantastic circle to reach the 3rd floor… just like The FAST and The Furious: Tokyo Drift 😛

wow, they were waiting for me… everyone are already inside… crazy…

That’s about my morning rush today!

OK lah, OK lah… I’m still lazy bah, but becoz someone commented I did not update the blog for so long, suddenly I ter’wake-up’ lah…

So today, I just want to post something and also to tell everyone that I’m still around and do read ‘your’ blogs, it just tat I’m lazy to sit and type entries…

Basically I was busy with work as usual. Since came back from KL early Jun, I have gone to Tawau…

And I also made myself busy with my aquarium which I’ve modified since my previous post about it… for now, do enjoy my aquarium… it was not that clear coz of the reflection… I captured it this morning before rushing to office 😛

At last… MAXIS send out a SMS to inform their service status…

MAXIS, Wednesday, 2 July 2008, 08:16PM
Thank you for your patience and support during our recent service disruption. Full service is being restored.

And this is what on their website… and HOTLINK too…

It has been more than 60 hours and MAXIS service is still unstable here in Sabah!
It was completely down at Penampang until yesterday noon, 1 July 2008, since 30 June 2008… That’s like more than 36 hours.

Can MAXIS compensate us?

I’m a postpaid subscriber and holding what they called VIP number… but who cares whether it is VIP or not… we just need the service to be stable and consistent.

Where can we put our complaint?.. Should we sue them through the Tribunal Court? Can we use the Cyber Law?

Today I’m on leave… so this morning I sms my friend for breakfast. I did not bother if the message was sent or not. After a while, still no reply. So, I tried to call… NO SERVICE… shooott… what the heck. My message also failded to be delivered!!!

I call using the home phone… according to the friend, MAXIS is down since LAST NIGHT!!!

Damm… today I need my phone the most… and yet the service… THE MAXIS is DOWN!!! FOR HOW LONG???

I check giuk.net to see if anyone blog about it… sure enought maslight has one entry here…

My friend call his relative who are on MAXIS at Penang… NO PROBLEM there… shooott… this is only happening in SABAH or WHAT???

I have to buy a prepaid XPac… I’m on CELCOM NOW!!!

Kota Kinabalu was hit by flash flood this evening. It was raining since 3pm… even until right now, 11.30pm, it’s still drizzling at home. The roads around Queen Elizabeth Hospital looks awfull…

The traffic-jam right after the Penampang Bypass Tunnel.

The round-about at Sembulan… next to Rohayu Cafe.

 
Well… my as well enjoy it…

I’m in KL right now attending course. I came here on Sunday using Air Asia… my first time with AirAsia. Well, it supposed to be MAS but something went wrong in the booking when both of my tickets are canceled… I end up going by Air Asia and going back with MAS. I have to pay the Air Asia first then claim later… almost $500 charged to my credit card… grrrrr…

Experience with Air Asia for the fist time is ‘exciting’… here are the first part of the pictorial experience… 😀

My first ever boarding pass with Air Asia on the 25ht May 2008

 
I paid extra $20 for Xpress Boarding… so that I can enter the aircraft first and choose the best seat. I manage to get seat 6A 😀

 
Inside the waiting area at KKIA Terminal 2. I took my sweet time, and become the last person in the Xpress Boarding queue… but it gave the the chance to snap more photos.

 
Snapping photos on the tarmac is not allowed… but who cares… I will only stop when they catch me 😀

 
No aero bridge… so have to walk under the sun and use the ‘stairs’…

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Manage to get some ‘good’ snaps but not as good as Fattien’s

What is Megalong? Well it supposed to be the longest mall in Borneo… that’s what the developer said… but I doubt it!

The developer ‘bulldozer’ its way to develop the mall. It was a controversial project because the land is in dispute and the approval to do the work is not in order… anyway, anything possible in our country… so the development proceeeeeed… as if nothing happened!

Because of the controversial and the ‘size’ of the project which supposed to change the face of Donggongon, I nick-named Donggongon to DONGGOLONG!

But if you are using the road around Donggongon, then you know how bad is the traffic flow around the area… especially around the Megalong… safety is waaaayyyyy below par!

These photos are taken during the public holiday, Wesak Day, around 5pm, the traffic is not that very bad.

This is the video of the huge fish tank at Ko Nelayan. It can hold 300kg of fish… errr… meaning when all the fish inside the tank are harvested… adult fish of course… you should get around 300kg of them 😀

Last Saturday, 10 May 2008, my department’s sports club went for a study tour at Ko Nelayan, Dalit Tuaran next to Kelly’s Bay (I hope I got this right). Ko Nelayan is a government unit under the Fisheries Department. Their duties are to do research and to breed fish and prawn. They are selling the prawn and fish fries to farmers.

The group went there by bus but as usual, I drive myself. I was late and about 20KM behind them. It was raining heavily along the journey. I believe the traffic ‘speed trap’ will not work when there is not enough light, so I was speeding more than 100kmp most of the time like a Formula 1 driver trying to catch them. Cool enough I arrived there less than 3 minutes after the bus arrive 😀

This is the first part of the photos I taken…

 
We had our lunch at Transit Dalit

The plankton ‘farm’ for feeding prawn and fish.

  
More of the plankton farming lab…

 
Demo on how the prawn mating! Each of it cost about $130… and its duties is to breed.

Next is the $16K new generation tank from Australia… Maybe I will buy one of it… or maybe I just build one 😀 I have a video of it, I will post it later. I know someone who is starting a fish pond is eager to see the video 😉 Hold your horses… It will be in the next part I hope 😀
The design of the tank is circular and it has a reason for that…

Demo on how to control the flow of the water…

The Bernoulli concepts… see how much air bubbles in the water… oxygen for the fish.