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Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Took Then’s nieces to a short tour of Putrajaya recently. Was surprised that the lake cruise can cost between RM54 and RM84 for a family of four!
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visiting putrajaya
December 30th, 2007 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email
Merry Christmas
December 25th, 2007 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Hope this X’mas brings much joy and happiness into our lives. Let us not forget those who are in need of our help and support. Let us bring light into their lives as well.
Merry X’mas and happy holidays.
while at langkawi
December 18th, 2007 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email I was in Langkawi last week (hence unable to update blog). Had a bit of time to visit a minyak gamat (sea cucumber/ sea slug oil) factory, Beras Terbakar (Burnt Rice), and Makam Mahsuri (Mahsuri’s Tomb). The tomb was packed with people, so I did not enter the complex. Since I’ve visited other attractions like Pantai Pasir Hitam, Cable Car, Underwater World, Telaga Air Hangat, and Galeri Perdana recently, I was not interested to drop by those places again.
buying a laptop
December 17th, 2007 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email since my pc is giving problems in the last few weeks, i was scouting around to get a laptop as a secondary computer. the laptop was also to be a gift for Then. my eyes were on products from Dell. Took the opportunity to visit PC fair on 7th Dec at KLCC. We went around most of the laptop dealers booths. my budget was below RM3500 and style was the last thing on my mind 🙂
We surveyed the following brands: Acer, HP, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Twinhead, Fujitsu, Lenovo, and NEC (did i miss any brands?) among others.
The lady at NEC tried to pull a fast one by showing their tablet PC which does not run on batteries (cannot compare with laptop, right?) when we asked for laptops.
Fujitsu pushed their “made in japan” tagline. their cheapest was about RM4K.
Sony was good at design and bundled softwares, but was pricey.
Oh, right i forgot to mention the specs i wanted:
– core 2 duo 2.0GHz minimum
– 2GB RAM
– 14″ screen
– free delivery/immediately delivered.
– 200GB hard disk
– vista home premium
now, that looked a bit tight for RM3400, but there were three which we felt quite reasonable – Dell, Acer, and HP.
Acer tried to attract by offering free movie pass for a year (buy 1 ticket free another ticket), which Then nearly fell for 🙂 The guy even offered a printer together.
Only problem with HP and Acer was the payment which had a charge of 2.5% for credit cards (i mean who in their right mind will be carrying Rm3000++ in a jam packed hall?). Secondly, it was impossible to upgrade the hard disk from the initial 160GB to 200GB.
That left us with DELL, which for the promotion, offered the Inspiron 1420 for RM24xx. I chose to customize and upgraded to the specs I. The final cost was about RM32xx, which is RM200 below my budget.
Post-purchase there were some problems. i asked to partition the hard disk. actually the sales agent forgot to write the partition request and cost in the initial bill. i called the following monday, and mentioned that the agent did not write on the order. the customer care said they will do so. but the laptop was delivered with any hard disk partition. Now i’m stuck with a 250GB partition 🙂
The laptop seems ok, but the DVD drive is a bit plasticky and looks like may not last long. I also feel that 2GB RAM for Vista Home Premium is the minimum required. The laptop is a tad bit slow at times.
I’m yet to install protection tools in it, hopefully can do it tonight. Plan to use AVAST Antivirus and also ZoneAlarm firewall.
murder charge againts 31 detainees dropped
December 17th, 2007 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email The drama is about to end soon. After nearly 3 weeks of high-octane action of creating mountains out of molehills, the story now spirals towards an anti-climax, with a predictable ending. Everyone will go back happy (except those 5 blokes) and pretend nothing ever happened. Status quo is maintained. Malaysians value peace, money, and things that does not need much thinking over street protests.
I remember that there’s a quote saying “melayu mudah lupa”. how about the indians? So far, about 80% of the people i talked to in the last two weeks clearly know who they are going to vote (or not) in the next election (hmmm…the may say one thing and do another!). the longer BN waits to call for election the better. time heals, as the saying goes.
Hindraf 31: Attempted murder charge dropped
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/76127
Soon Li Tsin | Dec 17, 07 12:41pm
Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail today dropped the attempted murder charge against 26 Hindraf supporters who were alleged to have gathered illegally at the Batu Caves temple in the early hours of Nov 25.
However two counts of causing mischief and illegal assembly against the 26 remain.
Also dropped are all charges against four students.
In all 31 Hindraf supporters were charged with attempted murder of a policeman and they have been in remand since Dec 4 after being denied bail.
Representations were made by several Indian-based political parties, including MIC and MIC and some Indian-based non-government organisations for the attempted muder charge to be dropped against the 31.
