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Ada 2 gambar terpilih yg aku nak share setelah 3 hari kat sini, banyak lagi gambar lain, tp banyak pulak nak diceritakan nanti. Letih.

Dubai Marina view dari rooftop La Riviera Tower - istana hinggap Ucop. Atas ni ada gym, swimming pool, wading pool & jacuzzi.. sayangnya aku takda mood nak berendam.

Downtown Dubai from Festival City. Burj Dubai on the backdrop. Visibly taller than the others with 160 floors at 707m, currently the tallest structure in the world. No sweat. Selamba..

This is how 530pm late October Dublin time looks like from a balcony of New Street. Dark, almost freezing cold. Lapar dah.. kat rumah ada soto.. yay yay!

[cemana bleh crop tak abih gambar ni.. ish.. sakit mata!]

Gambar ni amatlah biasa, tak menarik lansung. Tapi, menarik bagi aku, sebab time ni, tiba2 matahari keluar, cerah semua bangunan, walaupun langit masih gelap. Aku bergegas ke tangga ambik gambar ni, 2 min lepas tu, gelap balik. Macam nilah cuaca di Ireland. Winter tahun ni macam awal la pulak. Belum bulan sebelas, suhu2 malam & pagi dah turun sampai 5deg celcius.. aku pun dah pakai jaket winter lama aku berusia 3thn lebih. Nak ceriakan hidup dalam cuaca begini, kena amalkan moto ‘Layan Cuaca‘.. hmmm..

Kul 5.30pg aku tercegat kat depan gate umah Fuad, sejuk yg amat aku rasa 5deg kut. Pagi ni aku, Torot, Rufi, Alip, & Fuad sekali sama2 ke Dublin airport mengantar Nazri & Udey pulang tanahair setelah 2 minggu di bumi Ireland ni. By the time aku karang ni, korang mesti tengah lepak2 ngan family tak pun terbungkang atas katil. Diorang ni mesti tak tido lansung, selepas melayan pengunjung2 last minit malam sebelumnya, pack barang plus (sempat lagi) update blog masing2.

Last word - Udey, selamat menyambung tugas di CS, salam buat semua warga CS & Pendang. Terima kasih dengan ilmu & masa yang dikongsi. Ada rezeki kita jumpa lagi kalau bukan di Malaysia, mungkin di bumi orang lagi, Insyaallah. Nazri, salam dari aku, Masni & Aiden buat family di Malaysia. Selamat mulakan tugas di ‘opis’ baru. Lepas ni, kalau ada ‘training’ kat UK kira dah dekat dah tu. Bila lagi boleh merasa masakan ko?

Gambar malam last kat umah Fuad & the geng - shot by Fuad

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Video kredit to blog.rufilatif.com.

photo from Nazray.com

Peserta terhormat kali ini diimport khas dari Malaysia, Udey Ismail of Candidsyndrome & Nazri. Dengan kehadiran tetamu2 istimewa kali ini, ramai jugak yg join walaupun ada yg tak bawak kamera - Torot, Darina@Dot, aku, Penyoo, Hadi, Naza, Epi, Fly & Alip yg sempat datang kejap.

• tsue ahmed wrote:
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this guy didn’t get cranky or do anything funny when you snap his photo? Wow! I need the courage

• Bobahoosh wrote:
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courage - I walk past him then turn back after 20m, but, he didn’t get cranky because I asked his permission politely (takes courage too)..
“excuse me, for one euro, can I please take some photos of you” - “yeah2.. do you want me to look at the camera?”..
snap2

Lagi gambar kat bawah ni

SALFORD QUAYS, MANCHESTER

Not much photography lately, for regular site visitors, enjoy some house music on this video.
2:50 my favourite part

Original (1680) - composed by Johann Pachelbel

Canon Rock - arranged by Jerry Chang

Played by Jeong-Hyun Lim Youtube Nick ‘funtwo’

Okay… many of you might have already watched this video on the net (50mil YouTube view counts), but for those who haven’t, it sounds incredibly good to my ear, looks perfectly played to my eye, so it’s my pleasure to spread the joy. This is one of many songs based on the original Canon in D.

For this song the Canon Rock, most famous cover version was performed by FunTwo, a humble Korean student whose who initially posted his video for comments. What goes on the net, stays on the net - this video spreads worldwide with everyone asking who’s the boy behind the grey baseball cap. To find out more, please do your own research in your own free time.. kekeke..

Masni nya hp lama2 antik dulu panasonic ada ringtone lagu ni, mana nak cari wehh..

If you care enough to scroll this far, some interesting related links below:

Songs/Movie theme based on Pachelbel’s Canon including Basket Case and C U When U Get There

This electric violin version broke my heart

Also Pavaronian’s Pachelbel Rant

Screenshots Mac OS X

This happens first time last Friday (after a couple of months on the new iMac OS X) but I didn’t get a chance to get any screenshots. So yesterday, I googled around looking to find some screenshots (viewing pleasure of our IT guy), only found lots of double-text screen glitch, nothing of these Disco-effect problems. The screen was not totally frozen, but moving the mouse would create ‘Predator’-type effect of colours all over the screen. I managed to shut the thing off by blindly moving the cursor to find the restart button of course with the help of an Apple fan sitting besides me. Any Mac problem of this magnitude would seem to be a big deal - that’s because Apple Mac never usually have problems comparing to Windows PCs.

I left this to our IT guys to sort out.. but the screenshots are exclusively for you as reference .. yes you guys Mac users.

Machine - Mac OS X 10.5.4. Application used when it occured - Vectorworks 12.5 (2D colourful drawings)

[Post note 15.09.08] My average-consumer thoughts

With reference to The art of failure by Giles Turnbull, my average-consumer thoughts would be ‘Yes, it’s a glitch, an issue need to be resolved, but it is very tiny relatively comparing to how stable an Apple iMac is. I joined an office back in 2005 which used iMac and was freaked out.. but soon I fell in love with.

I can hardly recalled how many times my office Mini Mac disappoint me from 2005-2008, I am confident to say that it never crashed (only Vectorworks once every 6 months), unlike a PC which needs to be cntrl+alt+dlt restarted once every two week, or reformated every year.

Having said all this, I am still a domestic PC owner, not committed to convert fully to a sleek iMac. Why? I think it’s the same reason many people out there still use PC even after constantly hearing about how stable a Mac is - is because they are so literate in a Windows PC ‘routine‘. A normal home PC would generally keep having issues that users ‘evolved’ in teaching themselves how to fix it. I bet 1 out of 10 Windows PC users knows how to reformat their machine, open up their PC for their own ’surgery’. The more snuffed a PC gets, the better the nerd looks. Take myself for an example, I can reformat a PC, I even assembled my own PC from parts - but after 3 years of using Mac in the office, I still don’t know the keyboard shortcut for restarting a Mac (cntrl-alt-delete equivalent).. obviously because they never hang. This is a very reliable system, but in some way, people (by people I mean stubborn PC users) prefers the safety thoughts like having the knowledge to perform maintenance routine to their problem-prone PCs - rather than buying a ’strange’ sleek almost-trouble free iMac… hmm.. my point is unfair and debatable of course, until I have my own home sweet 24″ iMac, it will always be a beautiful stranger to me.

D80 + 12-24mm f4

[Technically-speaking] Our last night at Apt 8 - means our last chance to get the place sparkling b4 handing it back to our doctor landlord. Actually Masni already done most of the hardwork Thursday before (curtains, kitchen, bedrooms, floors, etc) and we did some bits as well the Sunday before.

Returned the key the next day at 2pm (Hari Merdeka)- what a relief

Alip & Ija drop by tinggalkan frame Ikea yg kami kirim, alang2 naik la dulu, lepak2 last. Mohon maaf dari kawan2 semua, tak sempat (tak larat sebenarnya) nak buat farewell last kat umah ni. Banyak kenangan and aktiviti2 yg happening kat tempat ni, sampai masa untuk tukar angin.