Swordie Bloggie

Today I have to attend a networking course for 3 days at Mercure Hotel located at 1Bornoe’s Tower A, at level 17 of the hotel to be precise.

IPv6 is the next generation of the internet protocol… the de-facto protocol to communicate through the internet. Currently we are all using the IPv4 but it is running out of public IPs.

The course is not very tough but the ‘sleepy’ make it very tough especially after food. Foods are more than enough… for the next 3 days, sure will gain weight and tummy will get bigger 😀

Talking about tummy… there is a type of cancer called mesothelioma which develops in the mesothelial cells. Mesothelial are tissue which produce lubricating fluid to protect and allows organs like lungs, heart, and stomach to move smoothly.

OK, back to the IPv6 course… there are 11 participants and the first day is mostly looking at the white board. And the white board is not big enough until the lecturer has to use the glass wall in the room to write.

Hopefully tomorrow will be more ‘awakening’ since we will do labs.

A friend requested for my help to snap photos for their friendly woodsball match held at one of the Kota Kinabalu Industrial Park (KKIP) construction site. It was held last Saturday, 11 April 2009.

I was assisted by another friend to take the photos and who also took some videos. We started our journey from Penampang before 7 am. We took our ngau-chap breakfast at Nyuk Pau Baru at Inanam Manggatal before continuing our journey to Mangatal Tuaran.

We actually lost our way and end up entering the Kayu Madang garbage disposal area. We were already off for 3km from the main before realizing it, but luckily we manage to reach our destination before the match started.

The place is quite nice… big open space… easy to avoid stray bullets 😀

I enjoyed taking photos of the match and looking forward for my next assignment 😀 … which I believed will be a real ‘woodsball’ match… in none other than… in the jungle lah, where else kan?… it will be somewhere in Moyog or Babagon Dam 😀 And this time, the 70-300mm F4-5.6 IS USM lens I ordered should be around… I wish I can get a faster lens though…

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Do any parents go and see their son or daughter at the office on their first day at work? And when the parents walks into the office, they enter as if they own the office… what would the kid feels? I’m sure it is bloody embarrassing to the kid…

And what is the parents’ reaction when they found out that their son or daughter is browsing for cheap sale on the internet to do online shopping? And paying for the goods using their parent’s credit card? Well, just hope the kid did not do all that during office hours, else the kid is not only get embarrassed, but probably will get kick out of his or her first job on the first day…

I was attending a workshop since Monday, 30th March 2009, until today Wednesday, 1st April 2009.

The workshop was held in Borneo Paradise Beach Hotel in Kinarut along the Papar Highway. Our daily programs start from 8.00 am until 10.00 pm!

I was lucky that my roommate is from Kinarut, so he did not stay in the hotel. I have the room, called BISAYA room, for myself throughout the workshop.

The only problem is no one is waking me up. For the final day, the presentation day, I woke up at 7.50 am!!! Damm… I have to skip the breakfast, luckily there was a break at 10.00 am and I was the first one to attack the food till our deputy ‘commented’ me for taking so much bread 😆

I understand the organizer manage to get a good deal… very cheap… from the hotel. But unfortunately the hotel room is not really taken care very well… well probably the hotel is a bit old.

I think the room need new painting… some part of the walls is dirty with smudges. The TV is quite old and too small… about 14 inches, so don’t expect an LCD TV with LCD mount on the wall with spectacular view from the bed… my Dell XPS M1330 screen is almost the size of the TV. The cabinets also need to be ‘replaced’ or fixed.

The bathroom is OK but the built in hot shower is no longer working, it was replaced with an instant hot shower. But unfortunately the shower head holder for the instant hot shower is broken. I reported it to the hotel management but it was not fixed until I check out. I have to use my skills to hang the shower head so that I can take my hot shower without holding the shower head. Overall, this place is still a nice and reasonable place to do function or vacation or resting.

The only bonus is the hotel is next to the beach. But the beach is a bit dirty. And while I was taking photos on the beach, I was attacked… and attacked… and attacked by sand flies. Now both my legs and hands are full with red spots… and it damm bloody itchy. My previous encounter with sand flies in Tempurung Seaside Lodge, Kuala Penyu, are still visible… scars is still visible on my legs. Maybe people will think I’m having skin disease if they see those old and new bites.

Taking photos here is great. Lucky, one of my colleague is quite good in photography, I learn some during our outing in the evening and early morning. We actually walk so far until we reach to some islands… yes… we did reached to an island by walking… coz it was low tide. And that’s why the beach looks a bit dirty since we can see all the garbage lying on the seabed.

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Last Friday I received a package from Dalit Bay Golf and Country Club for renewing my membership there for another year. I renewed my membership in January 2009.

Every membership will be given a package. My package was ready since February but I do not have the time to collect the package at the Club House in Tuaran… A friend collected it for me from the Club House which shows that I have not played until today since my last game somewhere around 4th quarter of last year.

There are few things inside the package… club by-laws, club rules & regulations, golf cap, car sticker, golf shirt and an envelope.

The shirt is size L, not my size… I have to exchange it coz if I were to wear it, it going to be a body-fit kind of shirt. Hope they have the big big size coz last year they run out of the big big size and I end up keeping the L size shirt.

Inside the envelope, it feels like there is a gift card inside. When I open it, the content is actually a membership card… new membership card with beautiful picture on it. This year the card really look neat compared to the previous year which is very plain.

Next, I have to fully utilize my membership… but it looks like I will be playing much lesser this year… 😛

A woman in Fairfield, Connecticut, US, had an argument with her husband. She wanted to resolve the argument but was not successful. The husband went to bed and falls asleep… probably too tired with the argument.

The wife got an idea on how to resolve the argument. She took a handcuff and put it on herself and to her sleeping husband. She hope by doing so, the husband can’t get away and reconcile their differences.

But when the husband woke up, he was not happy with what the wife did, so he called the police. The wife got mad and started hitting and biting the husband on the arms and torso. Luckily she did not bite her husband’s ‘tool’. If she did bite off his ‘tool’, it will be catastrophic and too late even if you wish you had term insurance for that ‘tool’. He will be handicap even if the doctor is able to reattach back his organ. And imagine if she chew and swallow his organ!!!

Anyway, the police on the other end of the phone heard the fighting and dispatch a patrol car to the house. The police have to force their way into the room. Guess what else she did… she changed the bedroom door’s lock!!!

She was charged for assault, disorderly conduct, reckless endangerment and unlawful restraint. But she was released on a $400 bond… not sure who bail her out… probably the husband. If the husband did, that’s mean she was successful in resolving their argument 😀

McLaren-Mercedes Rear Wing

The 2009 Formula 1 officially started today with free practice session at the Formula 1 ING Australia Grand Prix. The 2009 Formula 1 ING Australia Grand Prix will be held in Melbourne, Australia starting today, 27 March 2009 with free practice, then for tomorrow, Saturday 28 March 2009, with time-trial and the Final Race on Sunday, 29 March 2009.

I really hope I can go and watch the race in Australia… but I have to leave that as my dream for now. Right now, my wish is to get free tickets… not the New York Yankees tickets but for the 2009 Formula 1 Petronas Malaysia Grand Prix at Sepang on 3 – 5 April 2009! If I were staying in Kuala Lumpur, I definitely will not miss the race. Too unfortunate if I were to go and watch the race in Sepang, I have to get air ticket and hotel room.

Jarno Trulli - Toyota

I don’t support or fancy for driver, but I’m more for team. My all time favorite team is McLaren-Mercedes. My second favorite team is the young Toyota F1 team. I also support the BMW Sauber team.

Some people support and become fans for driver, but I don’t because team drivers can change but team never change.

I hope McLaren-Mercedes will win the constructor/team championship this year. Last year they almost grab the title but they were penalized where they lost some points and Ferrari took the constructor/team championship.

But McLaren-Mercedes first driver, Lewis Hamilton, won the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship for driver.

And I hope Toyota can improve their position this year. Last year they took the 5th spot for the constructor/team championship.

Lewis Hamilton

BMW Sauber

I was busy scrutinizing some analysis and report this morning. In the evening I have to attend our weekly systems presentation which started around 2.00 PM. Before 3.30 PM, I have to leave office and the systems presentation to meet another two colleagues in another office to discuss further on the analysis and report. We started before 4.00 PM and stopped around 5.30 PM.

We have to prepare some flow charts and a few standard letters to be presented in the next meeting with the committee which is tomorrow. Me and the two colleagues have been meeting and discussing about this stuff since last year.

All these need to be presented and accepted by the committee… and since tomorrow is going to be our first presentation, I don’t expect it to be accepted 100% tomorrow. I’m sure there will be some changes to be made.

But once everything are OK, the higher authority will stamps all the documents as valid and legal using their custom rubber stamps… 😆 Once all these documents are stamped, our future works will strictly follow the procedures we have outlined in the documents, and hopefully it will improve the service quality and performance.

And today, someone caught using pirated or illegal AVG… were slapped with this message… You may not be aware that you are using a pirated or illegal copy of AVG! 😆

I really hate it when I need to go outstation for a few days, I have to wear shirt coz when I pack my shirts in my luggage, they all get crumple when I reach my destination and I have to re-iron them all over again at the hotel.

And not all hotels provide iron in every room. When they don’t, you have to ask for it by calling the house keeping service.

When I was at the Grand Central Hotel, Singapore, the hotel did provide iron in the room. But some psycho who stayed in the room before must have iron plastic instead of shirt… I should have taken photo of the iron… damm.

I requested the hotel to replace the iron. Unfortunately it looks like the replacement iron was also used to iron plastic coz it can’t iron smoothly and I can see some thin layer which looks like plastic stuff on the iron surface.

I was lazy to ask for another replacement. Instead, I use an indigenous ingenious method to strengthen my shirt.

I turned the bathroom into steam cleaners room! 😆

I hang my shirt in the bathroom, turn the shower heater to maximum, close the door and leave it for a while… I’m steaming my shirt 😆

Then I use the hair dryer on my shirt to dry the steam and at the same time remove all the wrinkles 😆 and it turn quite amazing. Actually I was mimicking the way some shopping complexes like Parkson and Jaya Jucso ironing their cloths. I’m sure you have seen where the sales girls blow steams to the cloths instead of ironing them flat on ironing board… now you know how to remove wrinkles on your shirt when there is no iron 😀

I had a meeting at 1Borneo on Tuesday, 24 March 2009. It was at the Ballroom, Level 3 and it starts at 8.30 am.

I leave home at 7.03 am and have to join the traffic jams at Lintas Road, Damai Road, Likas Bay Road and last but not least the Kingfisher Roundabout.

I usually take the first entrance to 1Borneo to go to the underground parking. I reached the 1Borneo underground parking at 7.58 am… damm… almost 1 hour on the road!!!

I really have no idea where the Ballroom is. When I enter 1Borneo, it was still empty. I walk to two counters on the ground floor but no one manning the counter. I went to the centre court and see someone looks like wearing uniform. I approached him thinking he is one of the workers and ask him where the Ballroom is.

He seems to be a bit lost but still answer me by pointing somewhere and saying it is near the lift. I reacted with ‘blur blur’ face… probably he sensed that and he said he will show me.

While walking with him, he told me he also not sure where the Ballroom is. He is just a driver and his boss also went to the Ballroom. My mind said… O shoot…

Anyway, he took me all the way to the Level 3 using the escalator. I saw my colleague already inside and join them.

They asked me whether I’m from downstairs… I said of course lah… you wan me to fly, the parking is downstairs what!!! Then they pointed outside… when I turned… OH NO… I SEE CARS… I SEE PARKING… right at the Level 3 of 1Borneo’s… the very next to the Ballroom… damm…

After lunch at the meeting, I went downstairs to my car. I stopped at Watson Pharmacy at Ground Floor to buy some weight loss pills… 😆 No lah… to buy some supplements. I bought Vitamin C and CoQ10. I have not taken those stuffs for quite sometimes… and luckily I have not encounter any flu, runny nose or sneezing since the last time I took them, especially the Vitamin C coz every time I stopped taking Vitamin C, I will sneeze a lot in the morning.