I was being approached several times to submit my photography portfolio. Without one, it's hard for people to hire me for any assignments. You can see those that I've uploaded from the link below.

Nesohu's Gallery http://www.nesohu.com/DAlbum/

While I'm busy preparing the web portfolio, please feel free to entertain yourself with with this clip "10 Optical Illusions in 2 Minutes"

[via Gizmodo via Engadget]

Labels: Entertainment, Photography

I'm back in Penang for less than a week (4 days to be exact). So far, it has been a very very packed week for me. Not like I'm forced to do most of those things, yet...who would want to loose out 10 days of their "virtual life"???

What have I actually being doing instead of reporting about my Germany-Swiss-Austria trip??? Once I got back to my room, I login my GoogleReader checking if there's anything I missed out in DPReview, then it's the engadget, gizmodo and other photography blogs I regular. Turns out there's 1000+ posts I've to go through. Only managed to slim it down below the 100th mark last night. Yet from all the things I've read...I can only say GNOME 2.20(http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/) released and some of David Ziser (http://digitalprotalk.blogspot.com/)'s flash photography. I also noticed that Nikon D3 gets more attention than the Canon's EOS 1Ds MarkIII but their EOS 40D gets quite some reportage though.

(Trivia) Reading trend: From your 54 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 2,323 items, starred 12 items, shared 10 items, and emailed 0 items.

Then, it's US's season premiers for Smallville, PrisonBreak, Heroes, DesperateHousewives, FlashGordon, BionicWoman and the likes of it. In Japan I get my regular does of hentai (not!) Naruto and Bleach. I'm not tied in my chair to finish all these episodes, but it has been a norm for me, just like the habits others have for getting a new phone every 6 months, taking a bath for not shorter than 30 minutes, or having to put purfume before leaving the house.

At work, there's more things waiting for me to follow up. My manager just breifed me about the list of things our group need to confirm by the end of the month. Need to come up with a few purchase orders, some reports and naturally dozen of junk mail to trash. Luckily I was not in charge of production, so the pressure is a lot lesser comparatively. Finish giving out souvenirs, can't bring back much for them as things are expensive and ppl I know at work is -- plenty.

Personal mails are not that hard to clear though, only took me 2 days to clear up Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail. On the other hand, magazine subscription that came through snail mail will be piling up on the side of my bed. Hopefully I can go through a few of them tonight as the past few evenings are taken either by my other obligations.

Fortunately, I still have some time to spend with my younger sister who is back in Penang for her industrial training in LamWahEe hospital. Told my parents a bit about my trip, and spend my regular wednesday evening with Irene. The JetLag is making my head feeling heavy, and adding to the lack of sleep, it's not helping at all. Irene says that it's becuz of the lack of beers after drinking frequently for the past week, possibly the lack of coffee in our blood vessels as well.

Looking forward to the weekends...since my Saturday event assignment is canceled, I'll try to clear up my luggages, change my bed cover and finish a magazine or two. Hopefully I'll be posting up the photos I've taken, and also do a little write up on the trip. Stay tuned for more updates.

Labels: Entertainment, Family, Myself, Tech, Work

Sarawakian musical lovers must the most fortunate people in Malaysia as they had the Rainforest World Music Festival in the heart of the Borneo Jungle for many years now. I've never thought that the Penang state government will be smart enough to bring this event to the Pearl of Orient.

For the first time in Penang, banners were everywhere...



Without ever been to Sarawak for the show, I booked my entire weekend for this magical extravaganza. For RM40/pax/night... I did not hesitate to buy 2 tickets each for Friday and Saturday night. Quarry Gardens is a new garden I believe Penang people never even heard about it. Right beside the Botanical Gardens, they built a rather spacious garden to suppliment the existing path we already have.

I tried to get my frens to come along as well. But their RM40 is bigger than a wheel barrow. So end up, I went there with Irene only. But managed to spot a few people I know from Toastmasters when I was there. It seems like I've asked the wrong crowd...and maybe because I am not really good in publicity.

As we arrive at the car park we parked quite a distant from Botanical Gardens...worrying about the crowd after the event. But it really surprises us when the volunteers asked us to hop into the shuttle bus. The drivers are kind enough to drive us from the car parks right to the doors of music. That's really 1st class service for a World Class event~!!! Totally worth the RM40 we paid.

Dissapointingly, it started raining when we were there....and the rain doesn't stop for half of the event, which I find the only problem with the event. The crowd is huge despite only "few" people know about the event. Eveyone comes prepared with their own grass mat, umbrella, and some even bring their own beer. I didn't manage to get close up to the stage to get good enough pictures without blocking people. So I ended up staying with Irene, and shot a few frames now and then.

The sound system is terrific, and I've never been to a life concert where I can get so up-closed with the performers. The location is also easily accessible. It's an event I'll be looking forward to in the years to come. Pictures? haven't processed them yet... kome kome...

Labels: Entertainment

Summer’s here, and it’s holiday for everyone, and it's the time of the year Hollywood comes out with all their great movie. This all happens despite raining and snowing heavily in the Southern Hemisphere. While people in China, Australia and certain parts of Kuala Lumpur is submerged in muddy water, I am having fun in the cinemas for the past month. I visited the cinemas so much that I managed to find popcorns on my bed! Just imagine that… if I’m as fragile as the “Princess and the Pea”, I would have tonnes of sleepless nights.

All the movies are great, but let start one by one. First there is Spiderman 3, which is supposed to be the biggest blockbuster of the year. The green goblin becomes allies with Spidey, and there is the sand man, venom, and appearance of Spidey’s dark side. And of course there is the romance part of the story. All in all, it’s a bit slow at times, but worth the price of the ticket.

Few days after that, we went for Pirates of the Caribbean 3 – At World’s End. In the 2^nd part of the POTC, they show Captain Jack Sparrow being taken away to the world’s end, and this trip, they are going there to bring him back. Full of laughters I shall say, but too bad the editor cuts the movie so short that at times it’s a bit confusing, like how the enormous creature died on the beach, where did the queen of sea went after getting back to her original form.

After strong recommendation by JiaJiun, I just feel like going in to watch Shrek 3 just to see if it’s that good. It doesn’t disappoints me with all the fun I have, so much so that I have 1 finished my big popcorn set and go out again to get another medium box. And it’s following morning that I found the popcorns left in my bed. Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer is all about it’s Computer Graphics, and Sci-Fi which are quite impressive. But I think all the guys are eyeing on Jessica Alba which kills as many (if not more) as Angelina Jolie. There’s a part where “The Torch” is mentioning about burning his new Dolce, but no one laughs except us…English comprehension of Malaysians needs a lot of polishing. The main complain of this show is it’s too damn short! I spent 1 hour in the cinema munching on commercials and only another 75 minutes on the action. Damn, bloody suckers! The GSCs are trying to gain more profit from the adverts these days since people are paying a small price for the tickets (compared to foreign countries).

Then the last second movie I watched lately was the Ocean’s 13. I haven’t watched the prequel, but comprehending it is quite a challenge for most non-English native. But as a banana cocktail, I loved the tricks in it. The actor’s brain twist faster than my fruit blender. All handsome and charming guys all shown in the 2 hours blockbuster. Impressive, amazing…simply Fuuyoh!

And of course – movie of the year 2007 goes to… Transformers by Michael Bay. He really gets my attention with the story of the autobots on earth. My heart is pumping of laughter and excitement from the start to end. There’s no dragging or time wasted. He allocate the time of the movie just nice….not too much contents, but just enough to show Transformers in the big screen for people like me who have been growing up watching the cartoons. Bullet time was used a lot, and the actions are pretty impressive. What I think he can improve on is on the fighting part. The shots are too close up that we can’t differentiate what hits what, but only a pile of metal flying here and there. Another thing that I expect from the 2^nd sequel will be a top-down shot of the autobots when they are transforming. A 3D-shot will also be pretty amazing if it’s possible with the new CGI softwares and higher processing power available.

So there you have it… what I have been doing to get pop-corns on my bed. So what have you been watching? Too bad I missed Ming Ming and Die Hard 4.0. Have to wait for them to get into DVDs before watching.

Labels: Entertainment

I'm so totally happy receiving this cheque. It's been months since I won the "wake up your brain" session in FlyFM. Let me explain how the game goes. Every morning, they will come up with a brain teaser, which will usually be related with factual trivia no one is suppose to be able to find out googling. Everyday they will pick up two lucky callers, which will attempt to answer. If they fail, the money will snowball to the following day with an additional RM100 tops on it.

Despite failing to get through for the larger snowballs, I managed to answer the easy question with Irene's help. "What is the fruit with it's seeds on the outside". Answer is an obvious "Strawberry".

How many of you actually won something over the air? It's not that difficult, as long as you find the time where people are either not yet wake up, or are in a middle of lunch. Give it a try, it's an experience not to be missed

Labels: Entertainment, Myself

1) Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
Launched world wide! Finally, the 3rd studio album from the incredibly talented band. Despite releasing limited number of tracks over the years, but they are particularly picky on what to put into their albums, hence the quality out of each of them. Rush down to Gurney Plaza right after work to collect the CD (preorder) just to be sure I have the first ear on it. So far...the CD is worth everything I pay for.

2) KDE 3.3 on my (k)Ubuntu 6.10. Downloaded and installed without any hickups. A lot of things to look thru and relearn. So different from GNOME, more advance features, yet simplicity is being compromised.

3) Waking up to know that I've over slept, yet managed to get through the door in time.

4) My Excel VBA (Visual Basics for Applications) study is progressing consistently since I don't have any projects in hand. Now know bit bit how it works liao. After this will continue reading up on Pivot Tables and start developing real life applications.

5) Wired and Rosegarden is still not working. Will get scold by mua cute for sure since she managed to get my wine working. :(

6) Lastly... dpreview.com acquired by Amazon.com

Labels: Entertainment, Ubuntu, Work

I always keep my mind open when I do gaming on my Ubuntu Linux. Today, managed to know Urban Terror v4.0 just came out fresh (on my birthdate). Download and tried it out just for the sake of proving it's able to run on my distro.

Tried it out with the help of some forums

* Download both these files:
http://media.digitalamusement.com/urt4/ioUrbanTerror_1.0.zip
http://mirrormaid.yi.org/UrbanTerror40_full.zip
* Unzip the first one into ( /usr/local/games/UrbanTerror )
* Unzip the second and put it into the Linux directory from the first ( /usr/local/games/UrbanTerror/q3ut4/ )
* Critical update for BattlEye [LinuxClient] [LinuxServer]
* cd /usr/local/games/UrbanTerror
* chmod +x ioUrbanTerror.i386
* ./ioUrbanTerror.i386

That should do it. You can only join non-punkbuster games.

And...since I'm not managing a cyber cafe... I play with bots. Here's how you do it:

Start Urban Terror, bring down the console (~ key), type in

/bot_enable 1

Close console, click Start Server, setup whatever options you like but make sure the map you play is "Abbey", otherwise the bots will be totally useless due to lack of waypoints. When ready, start the server.

Select your team and join, bring down the console, type in

/addbot chicken

Repeat command for any many times as bots you want added. Their skill varies, sometimes they're great, sometimes they'll tk you without mercy. Official bot support was dropped, but the commands remain in case you really want them.

Hope you enjoyed the game as much as I do. Now, moving on to other projects. :)

Labels: Entertainment, Ubuntu

Eventhough I'm quite free these days, but I don't understand how time are being burnt. It's about time for me to plan how to use my time fully.

So...this post is to share a MTV with you. I'm amazed by what our singers are capable of. Just need a little more acknowledgement and publicity. Respect!



Things got done today:-
1) HOWTO: Send and Receive Hotmail through Evolution - Ubuntu Forums
2) Gmail: Help Center - Configuring other mail clients

Labels: Entertainment, Ubuntu