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  • Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm F1.7 1:1.7 added in

    This is it…

    DSC04448One of the ‘legendary’ Minolta lens…

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    The 50mm f1.7 prime lens…

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    It’s in my possession now :)

  • Spring Cleaning

    Right after exam last Friday, I decided to spring clean my room. It was supposed to be a routine of moving everything out from the room, cleaning up the room and my stuff and re-arrange them back in my room. However, over the years, my junks had grown. It took me 2 days to ’spring clean’ my room. Baby helped me with moving out my belongings from the room and to clean the room.

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    DSC04157 copyThose were the things were moved out from my room.

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    DSC04159 copyThis is how the room looks like after it was thoroughly cleaned.

    DSC04162 copyThe space under the bed shall be fully utilized…

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    DSC04229 copyAll my belongings moved back in

  • New Hoya 55mm ND4 filter added in

    Some showing off  for my brand new 1st ND filter :P
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    Hoya 55mm ND4 filter

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    This is how this expensive piece of glass supposed to look like?

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    No, it doesn’t cost that much. Seriously.
    And yeah, Selamat Hari Raya to whoever celebrating it (Not necessary Muslims only. We are Malaysian!).
  • Which Image Gallery Script to use?

    I am thinking of hosting my own image gallery for the pictures that I have took with my a200. I already reached the 10k shutter count mark, but I barely posted up my pictures. I need a simple script that can manage mass upload, preferably with AJAX. I do like the facebook photo album, it is very simple and convenient, but the down side is, the url generated is very long and not ‘personalized’.

    Any suggestion?

  • And I thought you were cool…

    When I thought you insulted me enough already, you insulted me again.

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  • I am too pissed to write anything

    For the pass few months, things has been very hard for me. Alot of unpredictable things had happened, some for good, some for worst, but it can be summed up to total fucked-up-ness. Random shit happened to my ‘career’ as a university student whom actively invovlve in clubs and events. There’s so many things that I would like to spill the beans, but I am not guranteed the total freedom of speech and I am just tired if any joker decides to report to police because he or she claimed that I have falsely accused him/her after hearing from someone who read my blog.

    My life as an active student was fine all the way till right after my first paper on the last semester’s final exam. People who are supposed to do their job right, were not doing it. I ended up vouluntary fixing problems that were caused by some of these ignorants. I was supposed to be relaxing and preparing peacefully for my next paper (if I had the choice), but I can’t. I sacrified my ‘long break’ between the papers. At the end of the day, I lost some friends who quited being my friends via facebook. How ironly was that. I didn’t even knew it until someone told me. How stupid and human be. I told you, I had problems with your work ethics, not you as a friend. As a friend, when I was able to, I wanted to talk to you face to face about it. There had been times that I (or my assistant) tried to arrange face to face meeting, I knew I am busy, but I still try to find time. You did the confrontation over the phone and email. What was that? You broke your friendship via facebook and the other person followed suite. Sad. What happened to the balls that you are supposed to have? If you have any problem with me, come and confront me or talk to me face to face. Deleting me off your ‘friend list’ is one of the most coward action you can do behind me. After this incident, maybe other problems rooted. I appreciated those who keep standing behind me and backed me up when I needed the support to keep me and our work going.

    My stress did not end there. As the day drew nearer and nearer to a ‘big convention’, problems rotted up and my president had to try his best to dealt with it. Although I am just a small fry, but I know my responsibility as his committee (read this with sarcasm). I offered my help as much as my knowledge and manpower allows me for as long he knows what he is doing and do not bail out on us.

    I do not know how much more I can continue, when I witnessed experienced first hand the idiocracy of the very top management of convofest09. Weeks ago, I spoke to the director (insert name here) trying to negotiate where we can open a small yearbook collection counter. As we do not want to interfere with the convofest and out of my respect to him as the director and as a person whom I treat as friend, I thought that was the most polite action I could do. Instead, we were slapped with a notice we have to pay RM480 (RM100 deposit refundable) if we wished to open a booth.How could we pay? We are already selling the yearbook at a lost. We barely cover our operation cost. I thought that was a miscommunication, thus I give a call and tried to discuss this in a proper manner. In the end, we were told that we were not allowed to open booth anywhere, except we tumpang somebody’s booth (which is stupid), or we pay for a booth (Which we could not afford). Although I was unhappy, but I understood your unreasonable reasons. I did not persue you further on this matter. I thought between you and me, this matter were already over.

    Until today… I saw you around the lecture complex. With you having that unfriendly stare at me (although I still had some grudge on you for not giving us a booth, I kept it to myself). I knew what was in your head. I was sitting on a small table with a friend, holding up some flyers and a sample card. You did not confront me for what you thought. You chosed to inform your security dog, to give me a call on my personal number using SRC’s phone. I was accused of some convofest committee (I know who it was) saw me opening a small booth. I was threatened that I cannot do it and my stuff will be confisticated by their unauthorised securities shall I continue to do so tomorrow. Come on. You should start wearing a spectable. I was only doing my work as a part time promoter for the mmu official photographer studio. I was tired, thus I took a sit near the unoccupied chair and it just happen to have a table there. Not enough with that, a couple of hours later, you brother came to me to ‘halau me cara sopan’, without even politely greeting each other and finding out what were I doing. If I were to complain to my boss, you guys would have probably been in hot soup. I was paid to promote his services around campus. Not for you to ‘halau me cara sopan’. Whatever that had happened today, really had put the respect that you didn’t deserved or earned from me but I gave you out of common sense down to the drain.

    I do not know how much more I could write. There are more things just happened a couple of hours back and I could still remember it vividly. There is so much anger that is kept inside me and I can’t think properly what I can and can’t write.

  • The worm is back online

    Coming back from meeting, after I took my bath, fired up firefox and checking my iGoogle, noticed that finally giuk.net’s has some activity. The worm has made it and is back online. Checked it out, still empty, submitted my blog and hopefully others will follow suit soon.

  • Vote for Earth

    Vote for Earth, say NO to Global warming.

    The process is simple, on Earth Hour, (8.30-9.30pm local time, whenever you are, on Saturday, 28th March 2009) turn of your non-essential light switch if you vote for Earth. Leave your lights on if you vote for Global warming.

    Vote for Earth. The only candidate that won’t fail you.

    Sign up now, to show your support.

    It is in your hand.earthhour

  • I am stressed

    Yes, I am stressed. It seems wierd, I have time to play psp, yet I don’t have enough time to play it. Yet, I still have other things need to be settled. Assignments, events, club activities, just to name a few. I have been using Google Calender to manage my daily task, but it seems insufficient.

    I am not going to post some emo stuff here, but I do hope someone can share with me on how they manage their time. I am not complaning 24 hours a day is not enough, but how to do you make use of your time efficiently.

  • Putting Z-Core and Z-lectron to rest

    Been working out the career fair website for 4 days (minus 8 hours of sleep and 2-3 hours of toilet breaks and meals) straight on this two machines. While most of the simple graphic design and web building(yes! building, Microsoft Expression Web 2 is so fool proof that I did most of web page using mouse. Minimal hand coding) were done on Z-lectron, previewing (I want to know how ugly it will look on 800×600 and 1024×768 resolution) and oraganizing the information for the web is done on Z-core. I have control of both machines using only a mouse and a keyboard. All thanks to Synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/).  I can control both machines without the need for kVM switch! Best of all, it is open source, and it is free!!!

    Here is the sneak preview of how the career fair website may look like (This is not the final product). Remember, you seen this first on cereal87.iantam.net!!!

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