Is this the new Malaysia we wished for?

ARE WE BETTER OFF NOW, MALAYSIANS?

1. We rejoiced, jumped for joy and congratulated each other the night Barisan Nasional stumbled for the first time in the 14th General Elections.

2. To some of us, we had waited a very long time for something like this to happen and never had we imagined that it was going to come true.

3. The fall of Barisan Nasional was mistakenly compared  to the night when the Berlin Wall came crashing to the ground.

4. 'Politics in Malaysia would never be the same again', so we claimed.

5. In actual fact, politics had always been on the wrong footing in Malaysia, right from the very first day we were exposed to the meanings of 'politics'. Politics in this country will always remain the same. There is no difference between UMNO, DAP, MIC, PAS, MCA, PPBM or even PKR. Every single party had always been racist in nature and struggle.

6. Over the years UMNO had always been at the wrong end of the public resentment.

7. Being the government, UMNO had to face the barrage from every corner of the political fence.  As for the DAP, they needed the chinese support. DAP started to indoctrinate the Chinese that UMNO was a racist Malay party (but aren't DAP racist as well?).  DAP saw that it was the easiest route to topple the BN government and in doing so, created the hatred between these two races.

9. The main reason to the Malay Tsunami that saw the fall of the ruling party in the last general elections was not because the Malays were against UMNO due to the party's mismanagement and bad leadership.The truth is the majority of Malays thought UMNO had failed them. Malays always thought that UMNO were giving too much to the Chinese. In reality UMNO had so many people to please. In the end they became a victim trying to please the Chinese but forgot that the ones who voted for them were the Malays. Had UMNO not try to look good to everybody and focused on the Malays, they might have survived the onslaught.

10. In came PH with all kinds of promises. 'A new Malaysia' they claimed. But soon, we realised that they are no better than the previous government.  Mahathir had the cheek to even say that his government will not be fulfilling the 100 days' promises which were stated in the PH manifesto as it  was not the bible to be adhered to.

11. But that's Mahathir. We all adore him. He can lie all the time and we don't mind a tiny bit.

12. The economy is going down and investors are shying away. While Malaysians are feeling the heat, Mahathir and his band of happy go lucky incapable ministers are having a field day blaming the previous government for their failure to deliver.

13. Mahathir made a big blunder by playing the blame game on China to topple Najib, forgetting that this economic powerhouse is no pushover. In the end Mahathir was the one who got bullied and other countries now don't want anything to do with Malaysia as long as Mahathir is in power. Even Japan has been very cold towards the old man.

14.Corruption is sipping in very fast. If it took 61 years for corruption to get into the way to topple BN, it took PH leaders just a few weeks to be caught with corruption. A Malaccan exco, Mat Sabu's aide and Lim Guan Eng's corruption case, to name a few.

15. The danger that lurks is far greater of what can be seen on the surface. By trying to destroy UMNO completely is actually asking for trouble. To many UMNO members, Mahathir is a DAP puppet. Many have begun questioning the role of the DAP in the actions taken against UMNO and its leaders.

16. As UMNO represents the bulk of Malay support, the 'bullets' directed at UMNO is seen as the attempt to 'massacre' the Malays. "We never did this to DAP when  we were in power but why are they trying to kill our party?", they have started to question.

17. And that is not all. For the first time in history, Malaysia is at risk of facing a split. Sabah and Sarawak are not happy with the government's empty promises.The rift is getting bigger and if not handled accordingly will see the demise of the Malaysian Federation.

Is this the New Malaysia we've struggled for?

(Copied from an UNKNOWN source. Inform me if this is yours so I can put the credit)

MacOSX on Dell Inspiron Mini 10v (1011)

It is the Dell Inspiron Mini 10v (1011) which had the most compatibility with MacOSX. All its hardwares are supported in MacOSX.

I did it twice before getting it right. It's running MacOSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Yet updated to the latest update. Installation was made through a 8GB USB flash disk. Steps:

1. Partition USB disk to GUID partition format and format it to HFS+ using Disk Utility
2. Restore Snow Leopard CD to the USB flash disk using Disk Utility
3. Download NetbookMaker 0.8.4 RC1 and install it to the USB disk
4. Install Snow Leopard to your Dell Inspiron Mini 10v
5. Once installed, the machine will automatically rebooted. Download NetbookInstaller 20100616212351, install and reboot
6. Install MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.8.dmg and legacy_kernel-10.6.8.pkg. Install Mac update but do not click restart when asked. Instead, install the legacy kernel package and restart.
7. System will be rebooted, running for 10-15 minutes and restarted again
8. Run the NetbookInstaller 20100616212351 again, and install SleepEnabler.kext to enable sleep.
9. Done!

Everything should work. WiFi, Ethernet, TouchPad. The best is you can configure the touchpad to be used just like Apple's touch pad, with the use of 2 or 3 fingers touch. Kewl isn't it?

It's now officially a toy to my son to watch youtube. It's a lot more stable and better responding.

Thanks MacOSX.

Mac Build on Gigabyte Z77 DS3H

As I had been using Kakewalk installation for my first build, I again decided to use Kakewalk for my new build thus why I bought the Gigabyte Z77 DS3H from the UK. It was brought back last year, 2013 but I was only able to have the time to buy other components like CPU, hard disk, graphics card, memory and power supply this year.

Initially I thought I was having issues with the Gainward GT640 graphics card as it keeps on causing my motherboard to be unable to boot, thus the decision I bought Gigabyte GT640, just to get to understand that PEG Gen3 might be problematic thus I need to set PEG to Gen2 in BIOS. I advertised my Gainward GT640 but no one was really serious in buying it.

I was unable to create Kakewalk USB stick from my older Snow Leopard build as it requires 64 bit system. I borrowed my sister's in law MacBook and managed to create Kakewalk USB stick, but failed to boot with boot0 error. No clue was found on the Internet. Most people reported the same issue.

I was then able to create Unibeast Mountain Lion USB stick and later managed to install Mountain Lion but there was an issue with the sound while playing videos on the browser, the sounds breaks and disappeared. As upgrading to Maverick was free, I created Unibeast Maverick USB stick and managed to get it installed and running.

After using the maverick build for sometimes, the machine keeps on hanging. All these while I thought it was due to maverick hanging issue thus I decided to either install Lion or Mountain Lion to avoid such issue. Until the last day before Hari Raya, my Maverick build keeps on hanging while I was trying to enable Radeon HD4350 on my older SnowLeopard build, it gets corrupted and I was unable to do any changes, until I found a Lion Bootable USB stick image that can be written to the USB stick using rawrite in Windows. My previous Mountain Lion USB stick had been erased to make way for Maverick USB stick.

Then I installed a Lion on the new build to develop the Snow Leopard on the older build, and luckily installation was breezing smooth. No issues and I was able to do my photography jobs.

Back to Malaysia after hari raya, i got hold of my sister in law's MacBook to try creating Unibeast USB stick but failed, and it actually asked me to get a new copy. Finally I decided to buy Mountain Lion for RM59. Just to spent the waiting time to get the code from Apple, before returning the MacBook, I tried to create Kakewalk USB stick for one more time.

Just before returning the MacBook, I was able to boot the Kakewalk USB stick on my new build. Walla. Installed completely but after update, the machine keep on hanging. Went back to Seremban for few days and I decided to test if it was the graphics card. I did the 3D test and the machine hung!

I did another clean install and clean update before installing essential drivers and performed the 3D test.

It hung!

I opened up the Gainward GT 640 box and replaced Gigabyte GT640 card and performed 3D test. It managed to complete!

Probably I will need update the Gigabyte GT640 bios and try again. Will update here. Will figure out how to install Windows 7 to play with Gigabyte GT640 graphics cards BIOS then.

Or probably I should consider higher graphics cards like GTX series.

As of now, I will stick to Mountain Lion 10.8.5 with SMBios settings to MacPro3,1to enableVGA output. Currently on Login to Lion Chameleon theme. Works perfectly!

My Ultimate Mac Build - July 19, 2014

Details

OS: Mac OS X Maverick 10.9.4 64 bit
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770k 3.4 GHz Ivy Bridge
RAM: 8 GB Corsair RAM 1600 MHz x 4
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA Z77-DS3H Rev 1.0
Graphics Card: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 2GB DDR3 RAM Rev2.0
Optical: ASUS DRW-24D3ST
Storage: Western Digital WDC WD30EZRX-00D8PB0 3 TB
Power Supply: Corsair RM Series 850W

Notes

1. Due to Motherboard unable to detect the Graphics Card in Gen3 mode, PEG settings set to Gen2 instead. No more boot issue
2. Setting the machine to Mac Pro 3,1 enables the VGA port. Changing it Mac Pro 6,2 disabled the VGA port
3. OSX86 took almost a month to be completed.

Issues & Workarounds

1. Motherboard was unable to boot with Gainward GT640 with 1 long and 2 short beeps
2. While motherboard randomly able to boot through the Gainward GT640, Kakewalk is unable to boot - Switched to Unibeast
3. Found a workaround to reset the Gainward GT640 card after not able to be detected on this mobo. Put it on the older mobo GA EP43 UD3L, detected without issues. Then switch back to Z77 DS3L with all sort of CMOS reset before it is able to be detected
4. While motherboard randomly able to boot through the Gainward GT640, windows were unable to load. Screen just disappeared. Used all VGA, DVI and HDMI port. No hopes
5. Removed Gainward GT640 and installed Mountain Lion with the built-in Intel HD4000 graphics. Installation was breeze smooth without any issues
6. Tested 3D acceleration. Super bad result
7. Realized sound deterioration while watching youtube. No fix had been found
8. Decided to install Maverick instead
9. Corrupted the old SL 10.6.8 on GA EP43 UD3L. Planning to save data
10. Able to install Maverick on GA EP43 UD3L with Gainward GT640 card like a breeze. The switch used: -v -GraphicsEnabler=No IGPEnabler=Yes
11. Failures over failures installing with Gainward GT640. Experimented with the old MSI 9500GT to install maverick on Z77 DS3H. Installation was smooth. 3D test was disappointing.
12. Decided to but Gigabyte GT 640 card. Still with Graphics Card detection issue by the mobo.
13. While mobo able to randomly boot with Gigabyte GT 640, able to complete installation without the screen going blank. Switch used: -v GraphicsEnabler=No
14. Read almost everywhere that most Gigabyte mobo had issues with PCIex16 cards. Some people set PEG to lower Gen2 or Gen1 to resolve BIOS boot issue.
15. Set PEG to Gen2 and the card is detected without any issue
16. Set machine to Mac Pro 6,2 disabled the VGA in Mac OSX. Switched back to Mac 3,1 to continue using VGA.

My Latest Project

Strange life signs found on meteorites

From this research, we can conclude that there's another form of life out there which is not being native to the earth. As an exo-planet apps user on iPhone, I have learnt quite a number of planet that was the earth type or super-earth type of which located within a livable radius from the star.

This study shows that microfossils similar to cyanobacteria - the blue-green algae which the pond scum living happily on the fractured inner of the meteorites surfaces. They contained carbon, which is a marker of the Earth-Type organism. It gives a clear hint that life is not restricted only on Earth.

In 1996, NASA scientist presented a research indicating a 4 billion year old meteorite found in Antarctica carried evidence of fossilized microbial from Mars.

All this made me wonder that how actually Dinosaurs exist in this world. It's weird that Dinosaurs were never found in Malaysia but it's all over the rest of the world. Maybe it's due to the small area of Malaysia.

Might it came through meteorite as well? My idea is that Dinosaurs might have not live in this world but they might have lived somewhere else but happened that their planet was having a big bang that all their corpse was scattered all over the place, including earth.

My idea was, if dinosaurs lived here, we should have been seeing a lot of their fossils around but we were just able to see one or two, not in numbers. Bones are non-biodegradable so we would still be able to see it even how long it was buried in the ground, it will still be there.

The idea of these bones would have degraded into petroleums is quite questionable as some are found but some aren't.

That's why I was thinking these Dinosaurs might have came through meteorites. And that's the reason why they are buried in the ground since meteorites that crashes to the earth will create a deep hole and causing these dinosaurs to be buried in as well.

The worse was then, I started to think that Ultraman might exist too.

My Hackintosh is nearly perfect

I have just upgraded my Snow Leopard to from 10.6.0 to 10.6.6 successfully yesterday. It begins with the upgrade for iTunes. I was holding the Mac OS update due to the fact that I will lose all my sound settings.

As expected, after upgrading to 10.6.6, I lost my sound. My Hackintosh is muted.

The reason why I'm scared to upgrade is due to the fact that I might have lost the sound kext for my hackintosh. I have also forgotten what sound card that I'm using. Thanks to my previous post of the Hackintosh which stated my Sound Card was actually ALC 1200. I thought it was ALC888 or ALC889.

The main resource for ALC 1200 is at http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=161430. There are 2 kind of fix provided in the page. Last time I did use the fix without having to edit DSDT from this page as well. As I didn't understand a thing in DSDT, I opted for HDAEnabler and no DSDT editing as I didn't know anything about DSDT.

All this while I didn't understand DSDT editing at all. All the guide over the Internet did not properly state what exactly needs to be done after compiling the DSDT. It was quite simple actually. Heck to those saying that DSDT editing is hard and confusing. Reading it that way made me think that it's hard.

It was known that by using the HDAEnabler, once the OS is upgraded, you will have to do the sound all over again. So this time, I'm opting for the DSDT editing. I have a few things to fix as well; eg. CMOS reset problem.

Actually DSDT editing is easy. After compiling, what do you really need to do is just to compy it to root folder and restart. As easy as that :)

DSDT Editing:

The easiest way to do DSDT editing is by using DSDTSE, which can be downloaded from http://www.osx86.es/FArchivos/FDSDTSE.zip.

1. Extract and install DSDTSE package
2. Once installed, browse through "/" folder and double click on dsdt.aml. A new window will be opened with an extract from the DSDT file. 
3. HDEF fix
4. insert this code to dsdt file
5. Device (HDEF)
               {
                   Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000)
                   Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                   {
                       Store (Package (0x0A)
                           {
                               "built-in",
                               Buffer (One)
                               {
                                   0x01
                               },
   
                               "codec-id",
                               Buffer (0x04)
                               {
                                   0x88, 0x08, 0xEC, 0x10
                               },
   
                               "layout-id",
                               Buffer (0x04)
                               {
                                   0x0C, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                               },
   
                               "device-type",
                               Buffer (0x11)
                               {
                                   "Realtek ALC1200"
                               },
   
                               "PinConfigurations",
                               Buffer (One)
                               {
                               }
                           }, Local0)
                       DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                       Return (Local0)
                   }
               }
6. Some board may have DTGP error while compiling. Please insert this code at the beginning of the file after the first {
7. Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized)
       {
           If (LEqual (Arg0, Buffer (0x10)
                   {
                       /* 0000 */    0xC6, 0xB7, 0xB5, 0xA0, 0x18, 0x13, 0x1C, 0x44,
                       /* 0008 */    0xB0, 0xC9, 0xFE, 0x69, 0x5E, 0xAF, 0x94, 0x9B
                   }))
           {
               If (LEqual (Arg1, One))
               {
                   If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero))
                   {
                       Store (Buffer (One)
                           {
                               0x03
                           }, Arg4)
                       Return (One)
                   }
   
                   If (LEqual (Arg2, One))
                   {
                       Return (One)
                   }
               }
           }
   
           Store (Buffer (One)
               {
                   0x00
               }, Arg4)
           Return (Zero)
       }
8. To fix my CMOS reset, I used this fix. The one in bold Red value was 4 before. So I changed it to 2.
9.                 Device (RTC)
                   {
                       Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0B00"))
                       Name (ATT0, ResourceTemplate ()
                       {
                           IO (Decode16,
                               0x0070,             // Range Minimum
                               0x0070,             // Range Maximum
                               0x00,               // Alignment
                               0x02,               // Length
                               )
                       })
10. I keep recompiling after every fix to ensure no error in the codes. After all this fixes, the compile successful with a warning. It was the _WAK warning which was fixed using this code at the end of _WAK paragraph.
11. Method (_WAK, 1, NotSerialized)
        {       
            ............................
            Return (Package (0x02)
            {
                Zero,
                Zero
            })
        }
12. Then my compile was successful without error and warning at all.
13. Backup the old dsdt.aml in "/" folder and replace with the one you just compile. Normally after compiling, DSDTSE will open a new finder window with direction to the compiled DSDT.aml

AppleHDA fix:

I downloaded the AppleHDA fix with DSDT patch file from http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=80281. You mus register before you are able to download this file. Extract this file and install.

Final thing to do is, RESTART. After restart, I have no more CMOS reset and the most important thing is, I got my sound back!

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7 on the Old Acer TravelMate 4050.

I was using IATKOS 10.5.7 for this install. It offers a much more flexibility and option in installation compared to Kalyway. It's easier to install using Kalyway anyway.

I'm not sure when does this notebook was being manufactured but I remember buying it from a second hand shop a the price of RM1700 (initially was 1500 but I added another 1 GB of RAM).

It seems to be possible to run Mac OS X on most Intel processor platform (except for my Asus laptop, that is purely stupid isn't it?) and my next quest would be to try to install Mac OS X on an AMD processor platform. My sister's old desktop would be a good one to try.

Everything seems to be working okay except for the Airport which driver was not properly working. Other than that, everything is okay :)

* this update is made using Acer TravelMate 4050 with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7

Snow Leopard on PC - Screenshots from my Hackintosh.

The setup of my PC. A tower desktop, a 19 inch LCD screen, wireless keyboard & mouse. Inside the desktop is:-

• Intel Quad Core 2.5 GHz
• 8 GB Ram
• Gigabyte EP43-UD3L Motherboard
• MSI nVidia 9500 GT 1 GB RAM

Step by step system booting into Mac OS X.

Anyway, I'm still facing problem with the BIOS reset. I will fix that up later.

I have a retail SL running in my desktop.

Finally, after buying the Snow Leopard installation CD for quite sometimes (I think I bought it last year), only now that I managed to get it installed to a PC and get it fully running. Tried with so many methods, then I decided to buy an almost compatible to Apple setup CPU.

The spec of the newly bought PC is as below:

Intel Quad Core 8300 2.5GHz Processor

Gigabyte GA EP43-UD3L motherboard bought from Lowyat

MSI n9500 GT 1GB PCIe Display Card

8GB RAM

1 TB HDD

I first tried the Kakewalk Installation method which is pretty easy to be done but I have to choose the GA EP45-UD3L method instead as it doesn't have any support for EP43-UD3L, so that was the closest I can pick. The installation was easy, except that the display card didn't work Out Of the Box (OOB), of which I have to use lookup for the nvflash utility, setup a bootable Dos USB flash and run the nvflash to get the ROM file. The using the OSx86 tools to inject the EFI string using the NVCAP string obtained from the nvflash utility.

Unluckily, my sound card is not as advertised in the website, which is reported to be using the ALC 888 codec. Mine was using the ALC1200. Using Kakewalk installation method, it was kind of messing up with my HDA kexts and installing the Kext for ALC1200 downloaded from the Internet was not a success.

Then I tried using the Snow Boot Loader installation Method. Good thing was:

Display work OOB. Even though I have to change the resolution, it goes blank blue and I restarted. It goes well after that.

ALC 1200 was installed with success. It works like a charm!

But I'm not pretty sure whether it is running in 64 bit or otherwise. I will have to check.

Will put a snapshot in the next post. Cheers :)

My Current Passion

Beside doing photography and starting to be actively playing music again, my passion towards 1 and 0 has never been off.

Even though lately I thought I'm already bored with computers, the actual thing was I just needed something new, just to fire up my interest again.

Legally not correct, but the challenge of doing it the right way and getting it to work is definitely a 'yes-yes' stuff to me.

I've started off with this project since quite some times ago, starting by buying the SL install DVD of which I've had never got it to be running on any system yet ever. Tremendous hours spent on the Net and reading all the Fuckin' Manuals will definitely not getting me to anywhere yet.

I've posted some screen shot on Facebook, whereby I managed to get a Leopard 10.5.2 to be installed and running on my Desktop and an Acer laptop as well. What I hated most was, I wasn't even able to get it running on my very own Asus Laptop with that HD LCD screen, of which, if it's ever going to be running the Mac OS X on it, it will definitely be as good as the Macbook display, at least at par.

As for now, I even manage to get it to be running on my other desktop and I'm planning to get it running on my other Acer Laptop, which currently I believe to be having the hard disk problem.

Buying a Mac book at the price of 2 laptops is definitely a pain in the ass. In terms of performance, with the same amount of money, I can build a super duper powerful Mac Custom system. How much is it to buy a Mac with a Quad Core processor, or even an i3 or i5 processor or even an i7 (owh am I dreaming too much), and imagine it having at 4 GB or 8 GB to be safe, and a TB of hard disk.

Keep on dreaming as it will cost you at least one and a half, of an EVO 6 half cut.

For about 2.5 k, I can get a decent Quad Core or an i5 processor with 8GB memory and 1TB hard disk, with an HD monitor linked through the HDMI cable.

And running the latest SL!

Sounds kewl isn't it? That's why I'm heading to Low Yat, after waking up from my sleep tomorrow afternoon :)

Full tummy with empty minded

For the past few weeks, there were so many things had been going on and a lot of things are gonna change for good.

People have been hard but luckily life is not as sucks as what other people might have thought of. I gained weight as a result of totally not exercising even though attempts were made to play badminton, last few weeks back, but the shift pattern of my job makes it hard on me.

There are also futsal session arranged by the mates in the office but again the shift pattern disallow me to join them whenever they have it held, just in front o my office.

Unless I got the guts to leave my desk and shut my mobile off and ready to get tonnes of warnings the next day on.

These, are plus my laziness as well. A tiring day at work (which normally a day with not so much of work, of which I would normally youtubing or facebooking for most of the time) causing me to be helplessly lazy to move around, even to go out to eat, but making your own maggi at the kitchen is one bad thing that I must stop doing it, especially late night, and when I'm alone.

The fact that my wife is away would help me to reduce my consumption of food is neverthelessly false.

I should from now on start to read for more. The amount of my brain nerves responding time towards my search request for wording/vocabulary, either in English or Malay is worrying. For most of the time, the words uttered from my mouth are actally the result of immediate biological response of my body; instead of actually my brain should do the thinking before saying things out.

As for example, a helpdesk operator were telling me he's gonna make the call I was asking for, of which I should have said "Thank You" or "I will hold on the line".

I stupidly replied with "Yes, HOLD ON" (You may start laugh now)

These phenomenon had numerously causing me problem with people, and it was worse when I was mad at something. I didn't totally freaked out but sometimes it hurts other people feeling.

One good thing to do is not to accumulate your anger inside your mind, as for I can conclude today, your tummy would need to balance it off; by making you eating more.

This may have been the stupidest conclusion afterall but I need to tell myself something and act upon it.

My waist is already 36 for the record. :(

Invited Readers Only?

I noticed that most of the links I posted here are open for invited readers only of which before it wasn't.

Does this has got anything to do with the piahzadora blog last time? Hehe.

Well, it's still their pick not to publish their blog to the public but sadly, I missed reading blogs for so long I have not been.

There are some dead blog as well. Just like this blog, hehe, it was rested for quite a period.

That means I have to dig some new blog to read.

Well, where's piahzadora blog? Anyone?

Fast & Furious 4

I watched it last night.

I can't remember I sat relaxed for even a minute. Not so much on the car technologies and so on but the actions were superb! Again, it's the battle of imports against tyhe muscle car.

As I was driving out of the cinema, everyone was trying to be furious on the road.

But not so fast.

Amateurs..

R u sure or not?

Today, when I was opening my gmail, I stumbled upon this advertising on top of my the gmail application. It reads like this:-

'Suami Jimak Lebih Lama - www.suamiperkasa.com - Kini mampu jimak isteri (1~3 jam). Isteri pasti puas. Dijamin...'

3 hours?

Can your wife/partner really stand for 3 hours of sex?

I seriously doubt it...

M.O.S.H

Nak poyo sikit boleh tak? Hehehehe...

http://www.reverbnation.com/mosh

As i was browsing through my old albums, I stumbled upon an album of my band, playing in the jamming studio back in 1995.

It was way formed 14 years ago, back in the end of 1994, after I finished my SPM exams. I was 17, who only knows how to play Acoustic Guitar, together with my brother, Ikhwan, who knows nothing, we went jamming. I only know some Metallica & G`n`R songs, plus some from Wings.

I do think we sound stupid, Ikhwan played the drums without knowing how to synchronize himself, but he improves from time to time. That picture was among those pictures we took back in 1995, Ikhwan in action. We managed to get the idea how to play the drums when we just came back from Umrah, back in 1995. Hahaha.. ada ke macam tu... but it's true!

We teamed up with a lot of people, to get ourselves a good bass player, until one day, my brother has just came back from 'Khemah Ibadat' and introduced me someone he met there.. Kimi... and he became our bass player for years, until today. Bayangkan pegi khemah ibadat, orang nak suruh beribadat, ini tak, pegi carik bass player... Hahaha.. Ikhwan ikhwan...

After 14 years, my brother Izzat has also grown up and in 2 years, i inherited him all that I have learnt in 15 years and he's a better guitar player than myself. Salute. He's now one of our band members since he plays better than myself. Saya tunggu masa aje untuk ditendang keluar.. hahaha.. :p

We still keep on playing the same songs, Metallicas and G`n`Rs. I do compose my own song but we've got no time to sit together to practice, as Ikhwan in Penang, Kimi in Serembn, myself in JB and Izzat in Russia.

Not to mention the latest addition to the band who is Hafiizh, my cousin who will be on the vocals, who is living in Melaka.

One band lives apart huh?

I have uploaded some songs, you know, just for the sake of having something to remember, am getting older, and being able to play music was one of my dream when I was small, all was self taught, self initiation and I'm really proud of it.

I dedicated a profile for my band at http://www.reverbnation.com/mosh. I'm adding more songs into it. I regret that I lost one of our demo, the only demo tape that we used to have. Last time, there's no technology like we have nowadays and analogous tape was prone to damage and loss.

Long live M.O.S.H.. hehehe (poyo)

D700 :: The wait so worth it.

I've been waiting for a non pro body of Full Frame camera from Nikon to compare with the superb image quality of the canon non pro body full frame camera, the 5D.

It's the D700, that was just launched a few weeks back. And the first unit has arroved in Malaysia and I was honoured to be among the first to test and review the camera for Malaysia.

Saturday has been the day I waited. This was what I produced.



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D700 simply rocks and is f*ckin awesome!

Tagged by Azq

* Sorry Azq. It took me so long to do your tiggity tag thingy.

Tag #1

2008 Wish List

- I wish I can survive the incoming hard years.

Tag #2

5 things in my bag

(I have a question... Which bag?)

If you mean my luggage bag, of course I have my clothings, handphone charger, toothbrush kit, my eye aid kit and deodorant.

If you mean my camera bag, of course i have all the bodies and lens inside

5 things in my MAIN wallet

(do people have 2nd wallet?)

1. MyKAD
2. My bankcard
3. My Driving License
4. Pitih (fulus or money)
4. My Credit Card

5 favourite things in my bedroom:

1. A place to lay down of course
2. My towel, easy to berak
3. My quilt to cover my feet when I'm cold
4. My pillow to hug
5. My handphone to call/sms

5 things I wish to do:

1. Travel all over the world and snap kickass photos
2. Have enough money to help other people
3. Do something worth it that I feel like not stopping doing it
4. Have all the people i love and care about around me all the time
5. Tell Pak Lah to step down and let Najib become the prime minister like Tun's wish

5 things I'm doing now

1. Garu bontot
2. Wishing Ema happy birthday. It's her birthday today!
3. Thinking of what else I'm doing now
4. Korek hidung
5. Wondering of how to get Pak Lah to step down

Hehe dah.. Aku rasa la macam pernah buat aje tag bila aku dah siap..

Tol dah naik ke belum ha?

Dengar citer harga tol dah naik.. betul ke?

When the toll goes up.. Everything will also go up..

And I heard that the petroleum based product prices will also be hiked up. No info on the price but it's gonna be a big price hike.

It's already 2 days of 2008 but I was already burden with a lot of price increase.

Since right now I'm doing some construction work in Labu, Negeri Sembilan, the former budget has to be revised again and again.

Most of the construction material price is increased by 1st January 2008. Cement price which was supposed to be sold at RM10.80 per bag by the government, they are now selling at RM13. When you asked for the receipt, they will issue you a receipt telling that you're buying a bag of cement at the price of Rm10.80 BUT there'll be a miscellaneous item priced at RM2.20.

Ridiculous!

That's only one item. Not to mention all the other things like canvas, plaster, nails, screws and bla bla bla.

I'm expecting a slower economical move this year as a result of the last year's snail-speed economical growth and weakened again by the price increased.

There were a lot of people who either privately chat or emailed me with regard to my comment on the economical performance of this country, who mostly opposing my views, I'm sure you guys who love and support the government like 'Neraka' will be happy as the government has done nothing to avoid such an economical catastrophe.

You also must be happy as most people now can live harder than before.

I bukannya the opposition but then when the government is letting the economy to push people, why would you continue supporting the government who makes it hard for you..

But then, if we give to the opposition, what the difference they will make? NAH!

Yeah living is really pinching me on my forehead!

8 facts -Tagged by kak eldynna

List out 8 facts about yourself. So here they are....

Fact #1

I like to bully cats. There are time i like cats, especially when there are a lot of mouse around. I hate cats for messing up with the rubbish in front of my housegate. They also like to poop in front of my house. There's a say,

Di mana ada pasir, di situ kucing berak.

Damn..!

Fact #2

I hate folding cloth. My mom knew that it's useless to ask me to fold the cloth as in the end she has to fix 'em all again. All this while, I only knew how to hang my cloth.

Fact #3

I hate lady drivers who caused me to step on the brake pedal everytime I'm driving behind them. These lady drivers also caused a lot of traffic jams, where, when there's no reasons for traffic jam, they became the reason. Ustaz Sheikhul-Haram bersabda,

"Sesungguhnya memandulah dengan berhati-hati dan biar lambat asal selamat. Jika anda dipandu oleh wanita, bersedialah dengan ucapan syahadah dan bertaubatlah selagi sempat"

Hahahah...

Fact #4

I'm very particular of my car fuel consumption. I will normally fill in my fuel to the maximum and then I'll take out my calculator and start calculating. Make sure you reset the mileage reading upon your previous refill. For my Frontier case, let say the mileage reading is 750km and the fuel refill cost about RM108 which is about 71 liters.

So the calculation would be like, 750 km / 71 liters ~ 10.563 km per liter.

Which 1 liter = RM1.52, so RM 1.52 / 10.563 ~ 14.3 sen

By knowing the numbers would be around that figure everytime you refill your gas, that means your car has no problem and you should not worry of anything.

After calculating, reset your mileage reading to zero again for your next calculation. People say i'm very calculative about it but my point is to ensure that the car is operating at it's normal mode of operation. If it gives a lot of difference, there must be something wrong with the car.

Fact #5

On the highway, I drove pretty slow unless I really have to hurry. My normal speed would be at 90-120 km/h as I will apply the most little pressure on the accelerator. So, I'll be driving like a syaitan in town; as I'm always late for everything.

It's kinda fun you know, to drive like an asshole and sometime you can even hear people swearing at me. Not to mention all the sensored signs.

Fact #6

Other people will feel that they will do better in things from time to time. I felt the other way. The more I do it, the sucker I am.

Maybe I'm lacking of new ideas and things always work the other way around.

I need a break. Feel like going somewhere. Sape nak itot?

Fact #7

Most of the time I'm an asshole. I like to be a jerk to irritate people. One of the incident was that a far neighbour taken my car park in front of my house. I still remember last time when I parked in front of their house, they immediately asked me to move my car as they wanted the car park.

There were this one time, they've taken up my car park.

Fine.

I parked both of my cars, one front and one behind, so close that she wouldn't be able to get out of that car park.

The next day, I went out with a friend so early and never come back until 5 o'clock. I took all my keys away.

The girl was unable to go to work.. Hahahahah...

I had a terrible scold from my mom. Hehehe.

The point is, jgn la cari pasal dengan aku. Memang aku balas balik kow-kow punya.

Buat baik di balas baik... remember that.

Fact #8

I need more friend in JB. Sape nak jadi kawan saya?

Now to list out who are gonna do this tag. What about only girls this time?

1 - Sufiyah
2 - Mazuien
3 - Irmasnina
4 - Voeg
5 - Sarclover
6 - Diva
7 - Kak Azyda
8 - JianaJone
9 - Erin
10 - Taiko

So taiko is a girl also today. hehehe..