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By maskawaih, April 20, 2009 12:58 AM

I wasn’t sure why I chose the title above. Apparently I was drafting this post on Thursday after my presentation for MDeC preseed at Cyberjaya. But I was pretty lazy to finish it up. To sum up something related on the day, it was pretty hectic which gradually turned to mellow. My friend, Amin, had his presentation as well. Despite his best efforts to convince the judges, it seemed they couldn’t accept much of his idea. Basically speaking, the result would likely be a negative notion. Honestly speaking, I was quite a little bit slacking because of my crowded weeks earlier. Well, hearing unconvincing news from him made me doubting my luck. So there I went to the Innovation Center inside MMU with my other friend, Sapri.

Bloody hell

We arrived there at around 2:00 pm. There were some other people there as well. Pretty much my guess of them being some sort of participants were true as they’re also being called for presentations of their ideas soon after. My team’s presentation was supposed on 2:30 pm. When it was about the time, our group number hadn’t been called yet. I don’t really mind at that time because there were like many other groups there. But waiting until like 4:30 pm was really something. Well, according to the time table given, our group will be the last to present on that day and also for this batch as well. But only after some waiting of nearly 3 hours, even my confidence level was certainly reduced. Then again, why don’t we give the best of ours? After we were called to enter the room, the environment inside was quite pleasant. Not because there were some pretty chicks inside but the judges were calm and didn’t show any sign of fatigueness. Quite amazing as they were judging people’s ideas from the morning until that late afternoon. So we immediately started the presentation. After a brief presentation about our idea then the best part came, Q&A. They kinda like the idea of ours and started asking this and that. I believed I managed to give my best answers to them. Upon a question where I was asked by a judge of what may I proceed after finishing the project, I saw a brighter light. Though another judge quickly stated, “IF your idea approved” and they laughed gently. After that I went back to the office before going home.

BOOM! HEADSHOTS!

I did a few things at office on Friday. Well, I have to present my Masters’ progress report on the Wednesday, next week. Yeah, the semester kinda wrapping up before break (but no off days for working guys like me). But most importantly on that day was the yesterday’s results. My friends and I were waiting like until the end of the day before the results were sent to our emails inbox. I was kinda pessismist earlier though I do have high hope for my chances in getting good news. Amin’s proposal was rejected as he received an email from them. I only getting my email later on where my team is granted for approval cycle which means I will be having a second pitching with approval committees. Thank God.

Time for Siegheil

As I went back home, my copy of Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor just arrived. Oh, my PC was fixed, thanks to linkinstreet. But I lost a partition tho where my video collections of Minorin vanished. Yeah, pretty sad. Fishing sad ;_; Back to ToV, this is one of the game that I certainly buying it as I stated before. While there are some sort of additions, the 3 campaigns kinda short. Each campaign has 3 missions only. Within few hours, I finished all the campaigns and unlocked customizable units for multiplayer game. The AI pretty smart though. Previously when my friends and I were playing against Expert AIs, we could beat them easily but this new expansion brings better AI to fight with. Currently we were facing defeat by defeat as quitting the game halfway will be counted as a loss now.

Nutbladder 2: Return of Wideface

So, I went to Lowyat Plaza on the next day. Sora and I were planning to exchange PS3 games between us. I wanted to borrow his Disgaea 3 while he wants to play Valkyria Chronicles. It’s been a long time I haven’t had weekly /AS/ gath at Lemon Food Court. In the same time, Sora wanted to meet linkinstreet because he borrowed Rin Tohsaka and Haruhi Suzumiya figmas from linkinstreet long time ago and he wanted to return them back.  As usual I parked at Berjaya Times Square. Simply because it will be easier for me to go to KL-Seremban highway for going back home from there compared to Lowyat Plaza’s basement carpark. Since there’s Borders bookstore at BTS, I went there first. Finally, there’s Hidamari Sketch (Sunshine Sketch) volume 2 released. Immediately I bought the manga and grinned until my face became wideface. Then I proceed to the gath. Well, I gave to Sora my Valkyria’s game but Sora forgot to bring his Disgaea 3. Cibailancaufuck you Sora. After having lunch, talkcocks and whatever, we went around to find good deal for Sora’s memory stick. He wanted to buy a 4gb memory stick for his PSP. So there we strolled around from floor to floor. After strolling through several shops, we went to All IT Hypermarket at the 3rd floor there. While finding the thing the he wanted, I saw some LCD monitors. Range of brands and sizes. First, I was looking at Samsung. The 24″ LCD monitor was like just below RM 900 but no HDMI though. Well, not bad as it’s Samsung after all. Previously I had a thought of getting the Dell S2409W as it’s priced at RM 729. Of course I can only buy that LCD online which requires a credit card. After looking through Samsung monitors, I saw an Acer monitor there. Hmm, 23″ and priced at RM 669. So I looked at its specs; VGA/DVI/HDMI supports and Full HD 1080 resolution. Wait whut? I went to an ATM out there, forked out some money and then bought the LCD lol. Man, ever wonder how cool is that. Even the Samsung 24″ HDMI monitors are usually priced over RM 1000.

Acer H233H

My one year old Samsung 22" LCD monitor

Dual widescreens anyone?

I plan to sell my old monitor to linkinstreet. I was about to give the monitor to him on Sunday but it was raining heavily just now. Perhaps, next time.

Cool things about Acer H233H:

• It supports resolution up to 1920 x 1080. Widescreen. Full HD.
• It has VGA, DVI and HDMI slots.
• Audio output for sound from HDMI source.
• Sleek panel and the buttons are like touch-panel rather than actual buttons.
• Input button that cycle through inputs from sources. Which means I no longer need to connect/disconnect my cables to switch between PC and PS3.
• It comes with cables for all inputs. (I nearly buy an HDMI cable previously)
• It’s RM 669!

Meh things about it:

• The whole size of the monitor is not exactly that bigger than my Samsung.
• The screen is like a mirror. Too much reflections especially during the day compared to my old one.
• Bigger resolution means more burden to my Ati HD4850 graphic cards. So I have to reduce some details to make my game smoother.
• It’s kinda hard to find cool anime wallpapers at such resolution.

After all, it’s a good deal. Welcome to the Full HD World.

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By maskawaih, April 12, 2009 9:04 PM

Things are getting hectic these days. I haven’t get much rest time. I did play games a little bit but just to cool things up. For something related with my Fish post last time, it did getting fished up. Apparently my professor called my thesis chapter as rubbish and I ended up getting despair once again. Since the presentation was on the morning until noon and I don’t have class on the afternoon that day because of we will be having a test on the next week, I decided to go straight away to Kuala Lumpur rather than going back home. Because I could get a picture that I will be asked by anyone at home to do some stuffs which I was pretty much lazy to do so. It was yafex birthday. Well, his real name’s Yahya, yet I just like to call him John in which he instantly will reply, “Hoi! That’s Christian name!” Hahaha. I do need to resubmit my thesis proposal yet.

Where's your fish now?

But I couldn’t do anything much on the days after that because we at office had some sort of meet up with CIMB and as well as TGV people for business proposition. Yeah, somewhat taking chances to get projects from them. So, Monday and Tuesday were used to fix up some stuffs before meeting them on Wednesday. I took days off for Thursday and Friday. Since I was afraid things will getting fished up again so I asked Stormy to help me doing my thesis proposal. We met up at Mid Valley and soon after, I continued my works at his home in Taman Desa just nearby Old Klang Road. Even though IT is not his field but he helped me much in putting things right. But he already told me that this thesis requires more time to be perfectly completed. At least 2 weeks. Then again, I was only needed to do chapter 1 until chapter 3. Even so, one day is still not enough as Friday was the last day of submission. So he and I were searching papers, books and journals to fit them up into the literature reviews. Around 10 pm I went back home. That’s about 12 hours of works. Yet I didn’t sleep that night until the morning. Apparently it was hard to get papers that really related with my thesis proposal. After finished it up in the morning, I emailed the proposal to my friend, Firdaus, who was in Melaka. I had to ask him to print the thesis and submit it to my professor in the morning. I didn’t have much energy left (24 hours of works lol) and I rested abit before I too went to Melaka with Amin in the afternoon. We also had to submit our progress reports (basically some fill-up forms). Most of the time I just sleeping in the car. In the evening we went back to Bangi. I got headache and that almost prevented me from sleeping.

Unrelated picture of Doraemon and Nobita emerges!

I got my sleep for that night and woke up at 2 pm on Saturday. I supposed to study my noted for test on Sunday. Yet my computer got trouble that evening. I found graphical glitches and I suspected due to driver of my graphic card since I haven’t update it for sometime already. After updating it, the screen just went blank, only sounds from speakers can be heard. I’ve tried everything to fix it back. While I can access the Safe Mode but even System Restore didn’t make things right again. Then the OS cannot be accessed at all. Stupid Microsoft. I resorted to use my Macbook instead. I studied a little bit in which I can tell the questions will be most likely based on opinions rather than these notes. There, I went to Melaka again. After finished answering the test paper I straight away drove back home. As usual the highway will be crowded with vehicles near evening and it’s raining. Heavily. There will always be car accidents. I dunno. I seldom see accidents on federal roads but surely will be able to some upside down cars whenever I drive on highway. Yet statistically federal roads or other non-highway will have more accidents than highways themselves.

Yup, Sony Vaio now fits into girl panties now.

I am still not getting free enough for the next days. I have to submit my presentation slides for MDeC preseed tomorrow, Monday, as I will be needed to go for pitching day on Thursday at MDeC there. Moreover there’s supposed to be site visit at office tomorrow as well. A visit from SKMM (MCMC). There will also be my Masters progress report presentation which will be announced soon. Another thing will be SKMM’s pitching day on the next week.

Shoryureppa!