This certainly brings back memories. Lots of fun memories. It was the mid-nineties when Weezer songs were blaring from my and my friends' cars and all of us 4, 5, even 6 six guys all screaming along to the songs. Girls, booze, and just general mischievousness all around...

And now the guys at Pterodactyl Squad have released a cover album of Weezer's biggest hits that was in their own words, "created using original videogame hardware running home-brew software, and vary radically in style, from minimal 'one man and his Game Boy' compositions to 8-bit inspired full band performances". Downloaded it this morning and I'm a very happy man.

Jamie. Just drop the J and it's close enough

In the Garage almost brought tears to my eyes...

I've got the Dungeon Master's Guide...
I've got a 12-sided die...
I've got Kitty Pryde...

And Buddy Holly! Imagine my surprise when I found the video on Windows 95 CD! Those were the days I tells you.

Oh, now I need to find and download the emulator for Raiden, my favorite arcade game of all time. I used to have it and lost the whole collection somehow. Hopefully it's still out there somewhere.

Following on my previous posting (Look Out Point), below is a panorama of Kuala Lumpur at night from a couple of sets I took during the outing.

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So I went to this place called Look Out Point (very original name that), located somewhere on the hillside along the Ulu Langat Road. The place consists of a few eating places (two restaurants and a cafe) next to each other. and a purpose-built, multi-level viewing platform. There have been many blog postings about this place, some say it's nice while others are not so favourable (usually on the food). Well, here's my unbiased opinion.

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The most common retort I hear from people around me about this whole Earth Hour business is one of disinterest, and many say argue that it would make any real difference. I support this initiative, as to me before any real impact can be achieved, people at large need to be aware of the subject in the first place. The Earth Hour is one of those that seems to have gained a lot of mind-share recently, and if it can make more people talk about the subject then it has achieved its purpose.

Well, for what's its worth this was KL before and during Earth Hour 2009. Clicky on the thumbnails to embiggen the pics.

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2009-03-28 20:40

I think we did okay

Are you familiar with this type of urinal? A lot of us guys do. Even the ladies out there should at least know what it’s for.

So there’s one, or rather a few in my office as pictured on the right. This is an old, analogue type that has no electronic sensor to enable it to flush automatically when a guy is done with what he’s there for and moves away. It probably works with some mechanical timer or some such, I just never really have the time to actually stand there with a timer to know exactly how often it flushes.

What really amazes me is that this thing doesn’t behave like an analogue should. It’s suppose to flush at regular intervals, or maybe even irregular intervals. Say, whenever the water reserve is full - which can be affected by the water-flow in the pipes, or something like that.

But not this one - it seems to know when I’m there as almost 10 out of 10 times I use it, the urinal starts flushing the moment I stand in front of it. And I’ve been working here for almost 5 years now. Or maybe it's my very good sense of timing. Dunno... Cause there are many times when I'm there putting on a tie and the thing never flushes

Could it be just simple coincidence? Or maybe a synchronicity?

Synchro what?

I finally succumbed to the one thing that has been tempting me for the past 4 years or so... an LCD TV

It was the Toshiba Regza 37AV500E, a 37" LCD TV and I got it for about RM2.8K at SS2. I almost paid RM600 more at the mall i.e. form one of the large electrical/electronic chains. Luckily a fortuitous phone call to a friend prevented me from doing so - I got the hell out of the mall and checked-out the shops at SS2 PJ instead. I was told to be careful and really make sure that the TV was actually a new unit. No problem since this was a cash-and-carry purchase. Unlike CRT’s, these babies are flat(!) and they slide easily into the backseat of even a small car.

Why Toshiba? And not LG, which the latest model have more features and RM100 cheaper? Well, there are many reasons and I won’t dwell on them here. Suffice to say that it was a personal preference and not much else.

Woot! The movies never looked better! ASTRO and the other terrestrial broadcasts look shitty but still acceptable. Especially now that EURO 2008 is underway, I'll take this one over the old tube any day. But forget ASTRO, most of their programming suck arse anyway, and the CSI's are almost 1 year late! It's the AVIs man... that's where it makes the most difference. It's time to dust-off my LOTR Director's Cut DVD collection.

When I think about it, it took me 4 years of research before actually plunking down the dough, so I should be able to classify this as an informed buy, right? Heheh... that depends. A friend actually remarked about the timing of the purchase - just a few days after the petrol/diesel price increase.

But I'm happy so there...

Sometimes, a little extra service goes a long way. No, make that always.

I was just having a regular business lunch at this unassuming, nondescript Parkview Café at Level 1, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. There were four of us and one of them was Stan, and knowing him, I really should have known better.

We all ended up ordering pasta plus some soft drinks, and some coffee afterwards. What can I say... the pasta was really good. And when I say good, you better believe me cause I'm probably one of the fussiest eaters out there.

But I was really surprised when the cappuccinos came. They actually took the trouble to have our names on the coffee froth! Not that I've never seen this before but well, this practice is usually only done for special occasions. And the most important thing is this - it was actually one of the best cappuccinos I've ever had. I was told that the F&B manager for one of the top hotels in KL (I'm not saying which) even came to check this out.

Obviously, it's not a cheap place to lunch at, but neither was it over the top expensive. After Stan's discount the bill was was about RM133, and that includes 4 pastas, 5 soft drinks, and 2 cappuccinos. Not too bad... Well, with the fuel and electricity price increases announced last night, hmm... it's expensive!

So, depending on your luck i.e. when there's no major exhibition going on, and you happen to be around KLCC area and you feel like treating youself to a nice lunch/meal at a quiet place, you know where to go!

As you can see, I do put up a lot of images and photos on this blog. In fact I even have an image gallery for photos. While I always try to be careful with this, many people are not.

I hereby present you with one good reason why you must be careful about the photos you put on the net.

Link: Does this girl ever close her mouth?

Presumtively, what I think happened here is that an enterprising soul collated this bunch of photos that's probably are already on the net and put it up on another site as a collection. Someone else submited it to one of my favourite aggregator sites - Reddit - where it was voted up to front page for millions to see.

Whatever the case may be, just... well, enjoy!

We all know how the internet gave rise to product reviews by customers and many times, we would seek these reviews to guide us in our purchase of (usually) expensive items. I've done it myself - do a review and seek others' opinions when it's my turn to burn a hole in my pocket.

I thought I've seen them all - product reviews that is - until this one at Amazon... You really have to check this out if you haven't already...

Best product review ever!

I've just updated this blog's engine to the latest and greatest version. Fuyoo... despite the consternation while waiting for the upgrading process to complete, all went really well actually. We're talking about upgrading from v0.9x to v2.4.1 Nevada here folks... Yeah, I know... should've done it earlier...

Now that's done, I need to customise the skin and well, I really wish there's an easier way to deal with all this web apps. Me being a bit of an old-school, hand-coding guy doesn't help either.

I think I'll settle with the current skin, and just mod it to my heart's content when I can find the time