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New Hoya 55mm ND4 filter added in

Some showing off  for my brand new 1st ND filter

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?

Abandoned Building

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.

WTF is F cup cookies?

Just noticed this advertisement in facebook… this is surely look retarded…

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.

Finally i got my HDMI cable

What’s life if you have HDMI capable 24″ LCD and a HD graphic card with HDMI output if you do not have HDMI cable? I bought my Dell 24″ lcd a couple of month back. Soon enough, I discovered that DVI cable is not enough. Why not take the audio processing off from the CPU (my audio is built-in to mobo) and place it on the GPU since most of the time I do not run graphic intensive applications. I watches HD movies and listen to songs most of the time.

Today, I decided to get a HDMI cable. Plugged it in to my graphic card and the LCD, some configurations in Windows Control Panel, and I am done. Sound will be produced from my graphic card, sent to the LCD via HDMI cable. Next, I hooked up the headphone to the back LCD panel, tested it and there’s sound. I will test the sound quality when I have the time.

And now, after feeling that my LCD should be complete with the addition of the HDMI cable, I deserve a self pride to show off my 24″ and it’s companions.

Triple screen arrangement. The CRT and LCD hooked up to the desktop with a single GPU and the desktop is linked to the laptop with Synergy2. Synergy2 works like kvm switch but without the hardware. It runs on booth desktop and laptop to provide seemless link and make use only a single mouse and keyboard to control both machines. The PDA is just a show that all the above displayed gadget is powered by Microsoft Windows.

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.

I'll always remember…

Looking on my student ID 105XXXXXXX, makes me ponder upon something. I should have been graduating. I am seeing people of my batch graduating, or left about one year to graduate. But not me. I started engineering studies quite bad, stuck for 3 years, before I finally decided that I cannot take it anymore. After almost a year switching to Game Design, I am much more contented. Although I still dislike programing and maths subjects, as least I am doing what people have been telling me I am good at, IT. Although I am not a 4 flat student, at least now I am back in reality, where the effort I put in seems to pay off with above 3 pointer.

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