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Yes, it’s going start with 2008 FORMULA 1 ING AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX in Melbourne.

I’m not a fan or supporter of driver… I support TEAM, no matter who is the driver. But if the driver sabotages the team, I will hate the driver forever… just like how much I hate Fernando Alonso and Kimi Räikkönen.

My favorite team is McLaren-Mercedes
And my second favorite team is Toyota
I also like team BMW… but that is because I like their cars.

Here is some details of the Australian Grand Prix:
 Race Date: 16 Mar 2008
 Number of Laps: 58
 Circuit Length: 5.303 km
 Race Distance: 307.574 km
 Lap Record: 1:24.125 – M Schumacher (2004)

2007 Winners:
 1. Kimi Räikkönen – Ferrari
 2. Fernando Alonso – McLaren-Mercedes
 3. Lewis Hamilton – McLaren-Mercedes

On the grid tomorrow are… yeeehaaa… McLaren took the POLE position! And McLaren has new driver too from Finland… same country with Kimi. I hope McLarren takes 1 & 2 tomorrow 😀

1. Lewis Hamilton – McLaren-Mercedes
2. Robert Kubica – BMW
3. Heikki Kovalainen – McLaren-Mercedes
4. Felipe Massa – Ferrari
5. Nick Heidfeld – BMW
6. Jarno Trulli – Toyota
7. Nico Rosberg – Williams-Toyota
8. David Coulthard – Red Bull-Renault
9. Timo Glock – Toyota
10. Sebastian Vettel – STR-Ferrari
11. Rubens Barrichello – Honda
12. Fernando Alonso – Renault
13. Jenson Button – Honda
14. Kazuki Nakajima – Williams-Toyota
15. Mark Webber – Red Bull-Renault
16. Kimi Räikkönen – Ferrari
17. Giancarlo Fisichella – Force India-Ferrari
18. Sebastien Bourdais – STR-Ferrari
19. Adrian Sutil – Force India-Ferrari
20. Takuma Sato – Super Aguri-Honda
21. Nelsinho Piquet – Renault
22. Anthony Davidson – Super Aguri-Honda

If your job involved servers, routers or anything attached to any network, I’m hundred percent sure this little tool is one of your best friend. Telnet is the name which is indispensable to any network admin or system admin. For the past few days, I have been struggling managing and configuring some of the network devices remotely. Without telnet, I think I will get blisters on my foot for walking up and down to the devices and to my room. Telnet helps me to access the devices on the network remotely. You can even use telnet across the ocean through the internet if you want to, that’s how indispensable telnet is.

This morning, I stop by at the Penampang Post Office to renew my driving license. Renewing driving license at Post Office is not the same as renewing it at JPJ or Transport Department. Post office is only able to provide the supplementary card which will become your driving license. They cannot replace your main driving license card which has your picture on it. The supplementary card must be presented together with the main card. And it will cost extra $2… commission for the Post Office for doing the JPJ job. One year fee is $30.00

No, I’m not turning this blog into an online casino blog. I’m sure some of my readers are scratching their head wondering why I’m going nuts with online casino lately. Don’t worry I’m not tuning myself into a gambler. It just that suddenly I’m seeing lots of slot machines popping up everywhere on my screen whenever I’m online.

I have been visiting lots of online casino sites lately to read about the games they are offering. I have read the beginners guide to online gambling too and learned many new things about craps, carribean stud, baccarat and keno which I never heard before. Before, I only know slots, blackjack and poker.

Anyway, do you know that 8888 and 7777 are the most displayed numbers in gambling world? My interpretation on 8888 is, it came from Asia world because Asian believes 8888 is luck. And I believe 7777 is from the western world. Why the number 7777 and what the meaning of it, I really not sure. Anyone know why gambling world choose to show 7777?

Today I will be driving with an expired driving license. It expired on the 13th March. The first thing I’m going to do this morning is… of course sleep 😀 Secondly, after sleep, I need to go to the post office and renew my driving license.

I was lucky that I checked my driving license the night before my car service appointment. I was relieved that it will still valid when I drive to the UMW service centre since it falls at the same date. Normally I will forget renewing it up until 2 weeks… meaning I was driving with expired driving license for 2 weeks… lucky no road block or anything 😀

I’m not really a gambler, but I’m going to talk a lot about gambling today. I don’t know why, but I just feel like to talk about gambling today. Maybe it is because of the date 13 today. Gamblers don’t like this number because it is considered as unlucky number.

People gamble because some believe in luck and some really do have good luck. Gambling online is the more preferred choice today. But there are hundreds or thousands online casino out there. How do you know which online casino is good? Lucky we have people who are doing testing and reviewing these online casinos. For instant, Online Casino List, who has 20 editors are reviewing thousand of online casino throughout the world. They are reviewing and rating every online casino they have ever played. Their review includes welcome bonuses offered, payout time, graphics, game play, speed, security and many more criteria.

Without these people, you will be handicap on choosing which online casinos will suit your taste. It will be impossible for you to try at every online casino out there and to compare them. You might end up become the big looser at the end.

I was lucky today to be one of the fist to see and touch the all brand new TOYOTA Corolla Altis. It has 5 models. Four models with 1.8 engine and one with 1.6 engine. The models are 1.8G Sporty, 1.8G, 1.8E Sporty, 1.8E and 1.6E. You can see the pricing at the picture below.

These are the captions in the brochure…

Step Ahead With Style – You’ve always been known to make a statement. Now make it in style. Introducing the brand new TOYOTA Corolla Altis. Completely redesigned, its aerodynamic silhouette cuts convention, conversation and drag with the same ruthless efficientcy. Take your turn in the spotlights with the all-new Corolla Altis.

Headlights – Signature 3-individual-cylinder style headlamps that can only be at the Corolla Altis.

LED Rear Combination Lamps – Its unmistakable design draws attention from tailing cars.

16 inch Alloy Wheels – Sporty, stylish design that’s more than ready for the red carpet.

Aerodynamic Styling – Aerodynamic designed to suit the sophisticated you.

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Talk about casino and you will not miss the word slot machine. Even at private club you will find slot machines which some people call ‘one arm bandit’. Don’t ask me what is the meaning of the words, just google the words if you would like to find out more about the meaning.

But that is old stories, you can forget about going to casinos or clubs. Nowadays, people don’t waste time and money travelling to casinos or clubs half way across the country. Now they play online through the internet. When you play slots machine using the online slots machine, the excitements’ feeling are still the same as playing with the real machines. When you play at Online Slots City, you will be able to find and play all kind of games here. Whatever games you can find in then casinos or clubs, you will find it here online. And you do all these without leaving your home. It’s up to you who you like to invite to play with you. You can choose to play alone or invite your neighbors to play together online.

At last, I manage to service my car today. I missed servicing it at 30,000KM and now it is already 34,000KM. My appointment was at 1pm today. I went to UMW Toyota Service Centre at Inanam around 11am. I wanted to be there early so that I can include polishing. When I reached there, no one was at my service counter.

You see, when you book your servicing date and time, you will be given a counter number. Every counter has UMW Service Consultant or something like that. UMW Inanam has 8 service counters…  well 6 actually… the other 2 is more like paying counter. I always asked for the same consultant which is at counter 8.

I waited for a while because I assumed he is at the servicing area. After like 5 minutes, I asked the guy at counter 7. Then he helped me to look for my consultant. It turn out my consultant was on leave and he is replaced by another guy. Luckily he is very helpful.

According to him, service at 30K includes air-cond service which cost around $400! And he also said the next service at 40K is a major service which will cost about $700++. I wanted to push the air-cond service to the next service because I just spend almost $5k for my new Canon EOS 40D, but decided not since it will cost me more than $1k in the next service.

Because of the air-cond service, polishing can’t be done since air-cond service will take a very long time 🙁

I went to take my car around 5pm. When I reached there, I saw my car still at the servicing ramp… Oooo man… it’s not done yet 🙁

The service cost me $683.20 and no free gift like usual.

While waiting for my car to be serviced, I went to the show room. It looks empty, not like in the morning. Only 1 car in the show room and it is surrounded by the TOYOTA sales personnel. WOWWWW… They just received the latest brand new TOYOTA COROLLA ALTIS 2008! I consider myself very lucky because I’m sure no other people other than the TOYOTA people get the close up of the new ALTIS here 😆

The new UMW billboard in town… put-up this morning. What a coincidence.

  
I manage to enter the restricted area… The service consultant and the foreman…

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Inside the restricted area 😀

  
There was pest fogging outside while I was inside the servicing area.

Last week I was surfing through auction sites looking for Canon digital camera long zoom lens. But it’s hard to decide whether to buy or not when the goods are used. It looks like I need to change that. Instead, I will try to look for promo coupons. Yes, promo coupons which have promo codes on it so that I can buy brand new stuff cheaper. And I actually found a place to get those promo codes. It’s called CouponChief.com and when I search for camera using the site search, it shows me Ritz Camera Coupon Codes, Camera World Coupons and many more… that was easy 😀