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This gonna be a very long posting… but to make it shorter, I will spread it into a few posting for the next few days… all depends on my time and how much I can recalled… I’m very forgetful…

Here we go… my journey started on the September 9, 2007. I arrived at the KK International Airport around 7.50am and the flight is at 10.00am… I know, I’m too early… got reason for that.

I’m supposed to check-in with Bonn… but his phone seems to be out of service. Waited for him until 8.40am and proceeded to check-in. As usual, I requested for the emergency exit seat… coz it has 2 seats instead of 3 (for Boeing 737)… the space is bigger, u know lah big size mah, can stretch-stretch my legs bah….. Unfortunately, all emergency exit seats are taken. I end up at seat 9A, next to window… cool September 9 and getting row 9… 999 😮 lucky not 666 😛 SMS Bonn my seat number… hoping he will get the same row.

 I went inside and look for foods… imagine, paid $10 for this mee kosong, sausage & a cup of tea. I felt more energized after finishing it… then went to Gate 4. Saw few people I recognized… chit chatted with them… and still wondering where the heck is Bonn. His phone is still unreachable. Then 10 minutes before boarding… Bonn appeared… his Dopod keep hangs-up every time it rings. He got the very back seat; I think it was row 24 out of 25 or 27… I hate the back seat coz it’s very hot over there… my tips… for Boeing 737, emergency exit seat are at row 12, 13 & 14… around there lah. Take row lower than row 14 coz its cooler… the air-cond is stronger towards the fronts… don’t ask coz I don’t know why…

To be continued…

First, my apology to all those who have been sending me messages wondering what happened to me during the TechEd becoz I have no new posting…

Well, I’m still in KL right now… been shopping like mad for the past 2 days 😮

Unfortunately, my hotel don’t have WiFi service in the room 🙁 that is why I can’t do my blogging. When I’m back in KK tomorrow… my flight is late at night… I will continue my blogging as usual 8)

Right now I’m writing my blog in my room… trough DIAL-UP service to KK… can you believe that??? The speed is like tortoise… it’s not cool you know… but I have to do this way becoz I want my office to pay for my hotel phone bill 8)

I have not pack a single stuff… I only have like 2 hours before going to sleep… else I’ll be sleep walking during my flight tomorrow.

I’ve reconfirmed with the hotel yesterday and my booking is still on… I’ll be staying around Bukit Bintang.

I hope once we checked-in, we (5 of us) can go for the early registration at KLCC before 6pm tomorrow… else we have to fight for the long-Q on monday.

One of us, David, already in KL right now… probably having fun… he went today’s evening.

registration… pass
air ticket… pass
hotel… pass

Okay… I’ve completed with all the necessary stuff for my TechEd SEA 2007 trip today…

Registration: Manage to get the special early bird fee at RM599. I registered & paid online on May 23, 2007.

For the air ticket, I manage to get the not very cheap round trip price at RM608. If there were no gold-rush and last minute thingy during the MAS 50 Hours Mad Sales recently… my ticket should be around RM200!!! grrrrr…

Then for the hotel… it’s going to cost me RM145++ per night without breakfast. This is a corporate rate… Published rate is around RM215++ with breakfast! Never mind about the breakfast… if I wake-up early, I think I will be able to get some light breakfast… some snacks probably… hopefully provided by Microsoft 😉 else, I just eat maggi mee in my room loh… then, since I’m staying around Bukit Bintang, I’m gonna need taxi every morning… I think it will cost me around RM5-RM10 per trip… or I can use the monorail to Central then another train to KLCC just like what I did last year… one train from Mid Valley to Central then another to KLCC. Coming back time, I definitely can use the train from KLCC. Hotel and taxi/train fare will be shared with my friend… that will be lighter… so not so expensive…

So far, this trip has cost me…. without food… and I eat ALOT!!!…
Registration – RM599
Air Ticket – RM608
Hotel – RM145 x 7 = RM1,015
Total… RM2,222.00 whooaaa… what a nice number 😉

o my gawwddd… I can’t believe it… buying a game console is as good as buying a car… 3 years warranty!!!

Microsoft or Redmond got fade up with unacceptable hardware failures in its new generation game console Xbox 360 has decided to extend the warranty to EVERYONE… old and new box… cool… Redmond says:

“As of today, all Xbox 360 consoles are covered by an enhanced warranty program to address specifically the general hardware failures indicated by the three flashing red lights on the console. This applies to new and previously-sold consoles. While we will still have a general one year console warranty (two years in some countries), we are announcing today a three-year warranty that covers any console that displays a three flashing red lights error message. If a customer has an issue indicated by the three flashing red lights, Microsoft will repair the console free of charge-including shipping-for three years from the console’s purchase date.”

3 flashing red lights?… is there a “backdoor” for that… say, if I have 2 flashing red lights, can I make it 3 flashing red lights instead…LOL…

Redmond will take a pretax charge of more than $1 billion to repair defects in its next- generation game machine…. wow… estimate of USD$1 billion for repairing alone? pretax?… damm… how much are they making for the consoles anyway huh…???

And, sure there gonna be another Xbox 360 & PC Halo competitions in this coming TechEd SEA 2007!!!… wanna collect some Microsoft T-Shirts 😉

Microsoft TechEd SEA 2007 will be held in Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from 10th to 13th September 2007. Its going to be the 3rd TechEd SEA. The 1st TechEd SEA was held in Singapore in 2005 and the 2nd was held in Kuala Lumpur in 2006. TechEd has been held many times before in Malaysia but it was formerly known just as TechEd Malaysia xxxx. They started using the name TechEd SEA in 2005 for the first time in Singapore.

I’ve attended 3 TechEd so far… twice TechEd Malaysia and once TechEd SEA. I attended TechEd Malaysia 2003 & 2004 and TechEd SEA 2006. I skipped 1 year for TechEd SEA 2005 which was held in Singapore, the reason I did not have the chance to attend it.

This year, I’m gonna attend the TechEd SEA 2007… yea for real again!