Disastrous Year of 2009

Seeing my friends going for Korea KPMC (Korea Prime Minister Cup), Thailand U-Go (University Go) and China Naning for competition. I feel very disappointed that my Korea AABC (Asia Amateur Baduk Championship) has been called off by the main sponsor.

Losing one trip that I have worked very hard to get is unbearable. To add to the big disappointment, I have lost my Japan Pair Go trip and KPMC trip all together in this year! Alex which won the Japan trip wanted to switch for AABC with me but I have insist on going to AABC.

I also switched with Zaid since AABC initially will clash with Malay’s Hari Raya. To our surprise, AABC was postponed due to high number of cases of H1N1 in that tournament area. But I also failed to switch back with Zaid after that.

After knowing AABC got canceled I was very sad, but also gave me great motivation to improve at least 2-4 stone before the next selection which is before Chinese New Year.

For this year I have already gained 2 stone improvements in my overall game. Even that I am still striving for improvements I still maintain high winning percentage on most of the players in MWA. A few of them that was once strong opponents, now I am able to beat them most of the time. Some of the people might not see it but nevermind, they just need to check the results to see where am I and not judge by seeing one game. In simple note, they don’t know how I play, they don’t know how I study, they don’t know how I think and they seriously use their backside to think!!!

Since last month I have been working very hard to find a major breakthrough instead of some improvements. I know where to improve and how to improve as I have all the materials to study. I hope I’ll be springing a new wave of surprises that I have been doing every year.

2 to 4 stones improvement in dan level, that’ll be damn fun to get in this few months!

God Knows Piano Version

I so wanna share this music to piano and violin lovers, THIS IS A VERY DAMN NICE MUSIC!!! The normal one is already damn cool, this is even BETTER!!!

This is the piano & violin duet.

This is the live Aya Hirano version rock version enjoy

Music On My Ipod

Here is my list of songs on my ipod:-

1. Kishi Ou no Hokori
2. Anata ga Ita Mori
3. Sakura Kiss
4. Sakura Kiss – Piono Version
5. Sakura Kiss – Violin Version
6. Honto no Jibun
7. Kokoro no Tamago
8. Meikyuu Butterfly
9. Yume no Tsubomi
10. Heartful Song
11. Tsukiyo no Violinist
12. Black Diamond
13. Gachinko de Ikou!
14. Cagayake! Girls
15. Don’t Say “Lazy”
16. Fuwa Fuwa Time
17. Sweet Bitter Beauty Song
18. Hishoku no Sora
19. Another Planet
20. Joint
21. Innocent Starter
22. Eternal Blaze
23. Orange
24. Silky Heart
25. Pre-Parade
26. Vanilla Salt
27. Jikan yo Tomare
28. Kimi, Meguru Boku
29. Kataomi Fighter
30. God Knows
31. Lost My Music
32. Parallel Days

Okay thats part of it, maybe next time will list more, the above mentioned is one of my most favariote anime songs.

OpenDNS

Been around a week since I switch to OpenDNS instead of TMnut’s DNS. What is DNS? It is something like server that directs you to the where abouts of a website that you wanna visit. And because of that, TMnut’s DNS is basically screwed up and slow, which makes you internet enjoyment sour.

To go to the site at a better speed, I just tried to use OpenDNS. To my surprise, I had a terrific speed!!! Pictures loads super fast than previous, sites loads alot faster. To prove my claims, I have did online speed testing on a few test sites. Results, to my amaze it was 20-30% FASTER than normal DNS!!! That shows how “snail” TMnut DNS server is (please provide better quality service).

Till today I am still using it and I am still very happy todays OpenDNS that gave me that 20-30% speed boost that my line dreadfully need!!! THANK YOU OPENDNS!!! Even youtube LOADS FASTER!!!

If you need more info about OpenDNS, feel free to Google them out. And on a side note, don’t do your banking with OpenDNS its don’t feel safe enough for that at the moment.

My First Violin Lesson – Basics

Finally started my first violin lesson since interest struck me few months ago. My handsome best friend Alex Chan will be my teacher.

There are a couple of things to learn at the start, the first is how to hold the bow properly. It wasn’t easy but it wasn’t too hard either, just need to remember and practice alot of the holding position everyday.

Next was holding the violin on my neck. Unfortunately, my neck is longer than my friend and his shoulder rest couldn’t fit me properly. Guess I’ll need to get another one pretty soon. Well I just hold the violin with one palm at the body at the mean time. Standing position is also another basic after holding the violin, imagine the violin is pointing 90 degree to the left and I’ll be standing 45 degree.

After that it was pulling the bow on the violin, Alex taught me that it is best to have a big mirror infront and properly align the bow and the violin at a cross and practice on that everyday as well. That explains why his home has a big mirror in front of his practice place.

So this morning, I waste no time and rearrange my room abit so that I can use the old monitor to act as a mirror so I can see myself practicing. He also told me that it is best to have a very solid basic so that I can pickup playing many songs later. Basic practicing should last around 6 months according to him.

Hopefully I’ll keep learning and not stop halfway like what I did to my piano and guitar long long time ago. Also will have to save up money as I progress to get a better violin next time, can’t always borrow stuffs from my friend.

Stay tune for more!!!

Exploring My Dell Studio

It was in the box since I got my laptop, then suddenly the remote control came to my mind. So I go take it out from the box it was sleeping in. Below is the picture of the remote, well my one kinda got colors on it =)

Next I went on to put in the batteries, and then started playing with the remote control. Little did I know that the remote can remotely shutdown/sleep (I dunno which one) my computer. That screws up my unsaved work that time (=P juz chats and web surfing).

Next I went to press on the window logo on the remote, guess what? It was for the Windows Media Center YAY!!! Now I can listen to music without moving my butt off the bed by just pressing the remote.

Other stuffs is just like a normal remote control, guess now I got a reason to get a good wireless keyboard. As for remote mouse controling, either I use the extension that came with my new logitec laser mouse or my Sony Ericsson phone as the mouse. Pretty cool huh?

Now I wish I can use the Wiimote as a mouse replacement. Then I wont be needing so much gadgets in my bed next time. I also wonder is there any replacement software of Windows Media Center for OpenSuSE ^-^ that will be a good thing to have too!

World’s First Lesbian Prime Minister

Guess what, history is in the making for Iceland Prime Minister! A “Lesbian”!

What has the world become? We have bank closing down, Insurance company going down, automakers going down, semi con going down, whats next? Alien invasion? Men turns into women & women turn into men?

Feels like living in a era of weirdness world now. Well I hope she would be able to handle the situation in Iceland as the world is taking a big change lately, we too had Obama President of US making history.

I hope we Malaysia will create some form of new history and bring new changes and benefit everyone as a nation. Malaysia BOLEH! Faster boleh lah, 2020 soon and now we are already in 2009, 11 years left.

Click here to read more about it.

Happy Chinese New Year

Yawn… nothing but eat sleep and play. Feel more tired than normal days.

Been hitting on my Go books reviewing LeeChangHo’s past Samsung Cup games. Pretty impressive and learned a few new tactical moves that should be very useful.

Other than that, I am also hitting on my RPG game, The Legend of Heroes 6. This is an addictive game, this will be the 4th time i am replaying and its just chapter one and I have the second chapter too.

Kinda feel bad for not playing more Go and doing my opensource project too. too lazy I guess during Chinese New Year.

New Year New Hope!!! But same old wishes that has YET to come true!!!

A night to remember

On 20th Jan 2009, it was my first night listening to a live orchestra in KLCC.

My friend Alex suddently called & invited me the day before the show. It only cost me RM10 for the tickets.

It was damn pretty when we enter the music hall, so artistic and I feel some comfortable sitting there and feel the atmosphere.

The music is so smoothing that it cured a slight headache of mine when I enter the hall. The musical instrument was so pretty and nice, wish I could play one of them.

I also notice there is a very young girl performing on the stage, my guess is she might be 15 years old, I was impressed by how she manage to play that well in that age. I wonder what was I doing when I was 15, maybe playing computer games… lol

Next one will be another live orchestra in KLCC again either Feb or March ^-^ I sure love good music and look at the pretty girls performing on stage… LOL

My New Baby

Been a week since I got my new Dell Studio 15 from PCFair. I wasn’t planning to buy a laptop this early in pcfair. It was just my friend idea to get me to touch and feel the laptop that I am planning to buy next year.

The first thing I notice when I reach Dell’s booth, hey this Dell Studio looks damn nice! Ontop of that, a cute little girl came infront of me and start trying to get me to buy a laptop from her (hehe). She told me the specs and which are free upgrades. Main Specs of my new baby below:-

• Centrino 2 – Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26Ghz (Latest cpu, what more can I ask for)
• 4gb DDR2 ram (I have tons of ram to waste)
• 320GB HDD (alot of space to store my animes)
• 256MB ATi Radeon HD 3450 (at least can play some game anywhere)

After knowing the specs, it gets very tempting to get it straight. I give a few hours for myself to think about it while having lunch and went shopping in KLCC.

Since I’ll be getting a laptop soon and with such tempting specs, JUST GET IT!!! Head for the ATM machine and head back to Dell’s booth and that set my wallet back RM3299.

Whats even more great is that when I reach home and check back Dell’s website and configure the same specs on the website, guess what? The website is quoting me around RM4000++ and I got it for RM3299, I’ve gain extra value by buying from pcfair. Good investment I should say ^-^

The design is nice and artistic, the speed is good, I can use it anywhere and anytime. Best still its not heavy despite its a 15.4″ model, my mom and friends said its kinda big laptop.

Oh yeah forgot to mention this baby has a HDMI port. With that port, it makes me forget to get the 22″ LCD monitor that I was planning to buy, I’ll be going for a 32″ LCD TV instead and watch all the nice high defination videos from my baby LOL.

Lastly, if anyone wants to get a laptop, this is a model I’ll recommend people to buy if they ask me for tips ^-^. The only thing to complain is the speakers, sounds lame but no big deal as I can get a good set next time that can create a small earth quake ^0^