Phillip, Australian Capital Territory

A place that I OWN! LOL ^-^ ! Man I am RICH =D ! See here Phillip, Australian Capital Territory

Nah,actually I don’t own that place =( .How I came across this site? I was random typing stuffs into Google and stumble on that website. Pretty cool!

Heading to Anime Festival Asia

Tomorrow night will be heading down to Singapore Finally!!! Been waiting for this chance for so long ever since I am a fan of Japanese Anime!!!

Am too lazy to blog much and have to pack abit more stuffs before I go sleep… hehehe

HERE I COME SINGAPORE!!!

Testing 1,2,3

Last Friday when I got home, my brother told me that the router doesn’t have any power! WHAT?!?! I quickly rush to try different power plug hoping that it hasn’t died just like that. After several tries running up and down the house, I hereby confirm its dead, may my DLink 524UP rest in peace after serving me since Feb 2007.

Luckily my home network is well setup if things like this happens. Which is always have a separate modem router + router switch setup. I enable my router in the modem which I kinda hate the features in it since it doesn’t have QoS (Quality of Service) and the performance of a modem router issn’t on par with a standalone router.

So I did some research and found DLink DIR300. It is an entry level router which comes with QoS, supports wireless G and it looks very cool in black.

It was easy to setup out of the box, just use the wizard and key in your broadband details, username, password and you’re connected to the Internet without complex settings.

Okay, maybe till now you’ll be wondering what good is QoS gonna do at all. In this DIR300, just enable QoS and it’ll do the performance optimization. You’ll notice the difference while surfing the net when someone else is doing BT download on another computer using the same network. The QoS engine will reserve bandwidth for every computer that is connected to the router and this gives everyone fair share of the line. I had to set it manually on my old 524UP router. This makes DIR300 a even better worthwhile router to get if anyone wants to get one.

After about 3 days of usage, I am very satisfied with this new router. I get to set my firewall to block ports easily, QoS is auto-pilot, enable/disable wireless is just a click away too. Only thing I must complain is I can’t set static IP for each computer from the router which my old 524UP can! Oh well, I can’t have everything, I get some and lose some.

Anyway, its better to change your network devices about 1-2 years once for best performance. IC chips are not meant to last long and the more you use the shorter the life span it will have. The older the device goes the less sensitive to the noise from the line and you’ll start cursing why the line is sooooo slowwwwww!!! But even with new device, the line is still SUPER SLOW!!! So its still alright to curse you ISP!

Study Study Study & Study

It is just 11 days after I came back from China Beijing, and still I didn’t have enough of Go! Even though I get to play online on KGS (but streamyx is freaking SLOW lately and laggy that made it near impossible to play even a game at night).

End up studying my new Go books that I have bought from China, which was very cheap. Got myself ‘Gen WuQingYuan Dashi XueWeiQi’, Yose Dictionary, Korean Style Life & Death and Go Exam from 30kyu to 1dan. Phew! Tons of books to study, I think the amount I read will be alot higher than the average a Malaysian read per year!

How much I study & effort I put in on a daily basis? Well basically I study almost every night for about 30mins to 2 hours of tesuji, yose, life & death and joseki depending on my energy level on weekdays. On weekends, I can study for whole day sometimes on opening concepts (fuseki), midgame strategies and replying pro games. Also lately I been researching my own joseki, which is very fun to play in my games, it has high win rate at the moment but time will tell whether this new joseki is actually good or bad.

Also I came across International Baduk Academy’s (IBA) website and found out that they also offer scholarships to students that wish to study there. There are 4 types of scholarship, they are:-
a) High-level player scholarship
b) Working scholarship
c) IBA scholarship
d) Special scholarship

More details can be found here in IBA’s website. After reading that, it got me to consider planning to study there for at least a month to three months. This can happen in the future but currently just not able to do it with so many real life issues to attend to.

So many things to study yet so little time! I need more than 24 hours per day!

A Game of Go

Not even a week since I came back from WMSG and my hands is so itchy to play Go at any time of the day! MORE GO!!!

Well I had a game on Tuesday 21st Oct night, to be frank its been a long time since I last enjoy a game this much! Why? This is because I was kicking the butt out of a very arrogant self claimed 4dan fella when I only admit I am 2dan the most

Besides that, I was damn happy that my 2 new experimental joseki variations worked out extremely well and it was super flexible. I can’t hardly believe that I could do that well with 2 new experimental half researched moves in this game.

I was leading by 12-20 points in the game until TMnut’s famous line disconnecting tactics rob me of a good fight towards the end of the game. I end up losing the game by time when the connection is back up, all thanks to TMnut’s super quality Internet broadband.

After that game, it made me finally remembered how fun playing Go is even if the result is not a win. I’ll continue to improve and improve and hopefully reach Pro level while I am still young

Anyone wanna play?

New Home

This will be my new bloging place and I’ll slowly polish this site up pretty soon.

More blogs to come, Stay Tune!!!