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The Acer Aspire One

My bro came home with an Acer Aspire One. He asked me to format that toy to a WinXP, from its original operating system, a Linpus Linux Lite. So, I go ahead and search for a tutorial, cos this netbook doesn’t come with a optical drive. I found a great video tutorial on it.

Behold!!! 17″ screen vs 8.9″ screen. Captured when I was formating the Aspire One.

The Aspire One is pretty amazing. It’s small, it’s fast, and it’s convenient. Too bad I was gonna format it to the bulky WinXP. The Linpus works pretty well if you just want to use it to go online in a cafe, or get your documents done, but can be quite limited if you plan to use it as your media player. Certain video files just won’t work, and installing codec can be a headache for a non Linux user like me. From the guides I read on the net, there are ways to overcome this incompatibility by installing VLC alongside with the preinstalled mplayer, but I was too lazy to read on cos I am going to format it to XP.

So anyway, the whole process of formating and installing all the drivers took about 2-3 hours to complete. I used nLited version of WinXP to fit it into the Aspire One. I was too afraid that it will get too laggy because my friend told me that Windows running on SSD drives is like driving a Mercedes on a Kancil engine. It will be very slow. I tried all the optimization trick that I found on the web, and everything works great without much problem

Oh, not forgetting, games. Yes. Games. I copied Warcraft 3 and played the damn popular DotA Allstars on the Aspire One. Amazingly, it can run with 8MB video memory allocation.

It’s amazing how this little netbook can run a 3D game without much problem.

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Busy Study

Therefore, lazy update blog. See lah when I got go food hunt again, economy not good, so can’t always go out eat

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A Cost Saving Measure

My colleagues and I went to a shopping mall yesterday, looking for new cloths. You know lah, got sales mah… So I go look look see see loh, not necessary buy mah… And guess what? I laughed all the way walking down the aisle of cloths. You know why?

I bet the management is on a budget constraint. And they too, happen to have extra water pipes laying around, so as a cost saving measure, they decide to use water pipes to hang all their cloths. My colleague even joked about washing hand there.

How can they use water pipes there? I thought they have all those proper steel structure to hang their cloths? What a laughing stock.

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A visit to Citrus and Secret Recipe

It was yet another Saturday. Yet another food hunt for me and my colleagues, J, V, and FC. This time we decide to go to two expensive place, Citrus and Secret Recipe. Our hunt started of with Citrus. We went reached there around 6.30pm, and it wasn’t that crowded that time, which was good.

And this is what I ordered. The Citrus Breaded Chicken.

Nothing too special about it. It’s crispy. It’s hot. It’s er… chicken. The plate is big. The salad is nice. It has really cool presentation. And the butter on top makes the chicken tastier, but I think this is a no-no for the girls who like to keep their body in shape. For RM15.90, I’d say it’s a little bit expensive to compare with the cheap Jing Wood cafe’s western food, but I think for environment like this, it’s not too shabby.

The chicken chop, ordered by J, my colleague. And the mashed potato is looks kinda special, and the taste is simply amazing. And for the chicken, it’s just like normal chicken lah… The most important thing is the sauce. And for me, the black pepper sauce that my colleague ordered is a bit too salty to my liking. Perhaps they can fix on that next time. Oh, there’s a hidden cauliflower underneath the chicken chop. Hah. And this thing cost RM15.90 too.

My other two colleague V and FC ordered baked rice.

The baked riced is cheesy enough. The portion is large. And the price tag is RM11.90 if I’m not mistaken. The most important part is that, it’s cheesy enough. I think their baked rice is better than what Double Star offers.

And as for our drinks, I ordered something new on their menu, the Caramel Milkshake

It’s a little too sweet to my liking. Perhaps it’s the caramel. Caramel are meant to be sweet, right?

This is Funky Monkey, also new drinks in their menu.

Now this drink is super nice. I should have ordered this instead of the caramel milkshake. It’s chocolate drink with a twist of banana, thus the funky monkey name. The taste is just nice. I highly recommend this drink to everyone that comes here.

And as for our dessert…

I forgot what’s this ice cream thingy called. I know it has some honey, chocolate, coffee and chocolate flavoured ice cream, and crunched oreo cookies. RM9.90 for this 2 large scoops of ice-cream. The ice-cream is good, but this dessert is a little pricey, in my opinion.

Oh by the way, this meal is paid by my boss. He and his family happens to dine there as well. Perhaps he don’t want to lose face not paying for his staff eh… Hahahaha…

And for our second round, we went to Secret Recipe. A second visit from me. Hah.

We went in, and thank god there are seats for us. When my J and V looked at the menu, they’re tempted. Both of them ordered Seafood Curry Laksa.

The laksa looks delicious from the looks of it. J and V say its nice, and would love to go for it some other time. I somehow didn’t taste it. So, I wouldn’t comment much on it.

Me? Well, I did ordered something. But I just share them with FC cause I was really full, but the pictures in the menu somehow seduced me to order it. Hahahaha…

This is something that I remembered the most when I got my spaghetti. J said, “Wow, your spaghetti ah… The mee so big one ho…”. All 3 of looked at him and I answered, “Spaghetti is suppose to be big sized. You think have kolo mee sized spaghetti meh?”. -_-”

And after I finished my spaghetti, I realised there’s something in my spaghetti.

Perhaps my eye lid hair or eye brow somehow dropped when I eat the spaghetti. Or perhaps it’s the cook’s hair in the plate. Now I began wonder how clean their kitchen and cooks are. Perhaps their safest bet is still the cakes… After all, from what I heard, they don’t bake it locally, the cakes are air-freighted to all the branches across Malaysia every morning.

So, that’s all for today. It seems like my blog is turning to a food blog…

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A visit to Secret Recipe Miri

Me and a bunch of friends went to Secret Recipe last night. It was so crowded it felt like as if they turned off the aircond inside the building. It was that many people. We got lucky cos when we got there, a bunch of people paid their bills and went off.

So, are you ready to see some cakes?

This is the Marble Cheesecake. Taste like normal cheesecake. Nothing special, and the portion is smaller than any other cakes. Their signature creation, as what they’ve describe in their menu. My recommendation? Don’t go for this, nothing special about it. Try other cakes.

Chocolate cheese. This one is nice. Highly recommended. Chocolatey and cheezy and the same time. Makes me hungry everytime I think about it. Anyone that comes here should try this.

This is Walnut Brownies. I have never eaten any brownies before, and my thought upon my first bite, “I should have ordered this”. The chocolate topping is not too sweet, not too bitter, just right. Hack, I even dump my cheesecake to its chocolate to create my own chocolate cheese.

This is the Cappucinno cheesecake, or Espresso, kinda forgot already. All I know is it is one of the 2 coffee flavoured cheesecake in their menu. This is definitely a thumb up for a coffee lover like me.

Conclusion? RM6.50 for a slice of cake is burning my wallet. But I don’t mind going there again, once I got my next pay check. Their menu shows that they have a few promising food.

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Parking Champion for the Week

Parking champion for the week. Winner.

Just because your motorbike isn’t the normal kapchai, it doesn’t mean that you can park in a space for cars! Eh, imaginelah… You were looking for parking space during peak hour, and just so happen you see an empty space… Then when you turned in, you see a motorcycle there. What the fuck!!?? That motorcycle over there pissed off at least 5 to 6 drivers that were turning into that particular parking.

Fucking inconsiderate motorcyclers. Use your own parking space lah wtf.

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Exam Results, and other stuff…

I PASSED! I PASSED MY TAXATION PAPER!!! 1 down, 5 more to go and then I’m done with my Fundamental level. Which is still a long way to go.

Other than that, I have been busy with my life. And somehow, my life isn’t as interesting as before. Or, is it that I have become not so expressive as before? Sometimes, I just login to the WP Dashboard, go to the Write page, wrote a sentence and *poof*, I got nothing to write any more. It’s like I am so dry out of ideas. I guess its time for my blogging retirement? We’ll see. I still have a few months before this domain expires.

I’ll try to update from time to time. I guess it’s time to build up my sarcasm and write them down here.

And here’s cuci mata edition for this week.

This picture is taken from DSC_5077.jpg, originally by Sean*.

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I’ve been eating…

Ah, I got too lazy to update this blog, even after the 7-days-a-week working month of June. Now I’m back to Mondays to Fridays working days. How nice, isn’t it

So anyway, I took off day from 2nd to 5th of July, just to get myself a good rest and sleep. And guess what? Because of Clive, all I’ve been doing is eating. The first day of my off day, on that night, we had a BBQ in Alex’s place. The food is so much, we spent 3-4 hours to finish them. Started at around 7 and then we finished almost everything around 11. The most memorable food? The dessert. The cake.

Imagine the sweetness, the cream, the fats. Dang. Too bad I was too full, I was only able to eat 2 slices. Haih.

On the morning of my 2nd day off, again, we went for a breakfast in 2020 Cafe. Despite the rising cost of fuel, there’s still shit load of people there in the morning. Weekdays some more. Totally opposite to what is claimed by the tauke-nio of that coffeeshop. She say the business is doing not so well compared to last year. But what I see is the amount of people is still the same like any other year.

So anyway, that was one of the heaviest breakfast I had. I had a bowl of laksa, 2 roll of yam dumpling, no mai kai, and also some porridge. I forgot to take pictures of them, cos the amount of food we had was extreme. Hahahaha… I haven’t had any breakfast this heavy since June. And it was also one of the most expensive breakfast I’ve ever had, cos I got fined for not putting parking tickets on my car. Oh well. Life goes on.

And on Friday, a day before Clive went back to KL, we went for a cendol. And when i got home, I drink another bowl of cendol, my mum made them and she kinda force me to drink. So, why not right?

It was an enjoyable holiday. How can we not enjoy eating? I’m looking for more food hunt in the near future, but ack, this month is kinda tight cos my classes started already.

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My special day.

Another quickie. It’s 20th June and it’s my 20th birthday. So, a big happy birthday wish to myself. Oh wait. That’s pathethic. Kinda reminds me of Mr. Bean writing a happy birthday to himself. I guess that’s life someone who’s single. Oh well

Anyways, thanks to the birthday SMSes. Thanks to my manager who allowing me to go off without having to do OT. Thanks to all my colleagues for the birthday wishes. Thanks to the 1 or 2 friendster birthday wishes comments.

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Cuci Mata #4

It’s mid-June and my workload has increase 100%. That means a hell lot fucking busier than previously. I now even have to work on Sunday! Sigh~

Here’s a quickie. A cuci mata edition for this week. I’ll post something longer after this peak period. I am planning to take a week off in July to compensate the hardwork for this few weeks.

A photo by Dong Dream [♥]. Here’s the original flickr page.