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Penang PC Fair 2009 Fun

Written by Nicholas Chan on December 10, 2009 – 10:41 am -

Last weekend was the PC Fair exhibition in several places in Malaysia. We’ve got one in Penang, at PISA, the Penang International Sports Arena. I didn’t think of going there because I have nothing to buy, but some friends wanted to go there to take a look, walk around, and feel the crowds, so I joined them.

PC Fair is always crowded and I didn’t go to PC Fair a lot. A lot of people like to go there buy laptop. In my opinion, there’s too many laptop in the market, competitions and hard to choose a good one, I picked a out of competition, you-won’t-see-it-at-PC-Fair-model and that’s Apple MacBook. You probably won’t see people shouting “Come and see MacBook!” because the price is fix all the time.

On that Friday morning, Chien Chern came from Batu Feringghi, passed by my place and fetch me along. PISA is like on the other side of the island from my place.

Then we reached Zez’s house as a meet-up point for everyone, waited everyone at there only we walked to PISA because his house is just right across the street.

We haven’t went in and we started taking photos a.k.a. camwhoring, a blogger’s term. As the picture shows, we are Digi user, I am too.

Since H1N1 is not over, there’s handsanitizer, but I believe not many will bother about it.

We then started walking, following the route to the exit as we didn’t have anything wanted to buy. I just wanted to look around, to spot anyone familiar and find some cool new gadget.

Fangs, Simon, Chung and Chien Chern.

Elaine, Chaiwei’s friend, who were both working on the same booth.

Chaiwei.

It’s all flyers, flyers, and flyers. They just keep handing out flyers even you have already got it. Their task was to give it out all.

After passing by a few laptop booth and there comes the broadband booth. It’s like a war zone there, all the promoters were in their coloured uniform representing different broadband service provider. This is the most happenings part, which created by their own “army” but not people.

They will never ever convince me to potong (cut) my broadband line because I like sticking to my Streamyx. This part is the noisiest and there’s balloons by Maxis and P1.

Arron and Huaken.

To make things fun, I went to speed test all the broadband and found some pretty interesting results.

Chien Ming, working for Digi and was poisoned by Digi broadband.

Priscillia.

Met friends working there too! Too bad they can’t get my support, what I could do was just take photos.

After walking around on the outer zone of the indoor arena, we went into the real sports arena.

Chien Chern, HP girl, me, Arron, Yong Chieh, Simon.

There’s camera, hardware, laptops, antivirus and all the same computer stuff that you can think of. Nothing much interesting, except we went to take free gift from HP.

Avira’s Showgirl. =D

So sad that there’s no booth babe in this Penang PC Fair. I always thought of there will be booth babes at fairs and exhibition, especially a tech related one, but this in Penang, didn’t have. That’s not fun.

Kaspersky Boys. =D

Met Yiphing there too!

Wallace too!

Although there’s nothing to buy, we spent quite long time at there. We spent like 3 hours. I don’t know what did we do actually at there, but I remembered I spent most time speed testing and collecting balloons.

They liked giving me balloons because I Maxis’s balloon, then P1 came and gave me their balloon, then Maxis came again and same thing to P1, in the end I’ve got a lot balloon, which in turn, I became a unofficial broadband balloon boy.

Me, Fangs, Arron, Simon, Matthias, Chien Chern, Edmund.

For your information, I am also a Maxis Broadband user, I uses the data plan on my phone but the speed test I had at PC Fair, sucks. No choice.

So, after taking photos with the balloon, we dumped back the balloon to the broadband company but sticking onto their cars. =D What I’ve actually got that day was a hell lots of flyers, plastic bags and a lot of photos in my camera. It’s a fun PC Fair day outing with all the friends, but bought nothing.

Tags: Crowded, Event, Happenings, Lifelog, Malaysia, Many People, pc fair, Penang
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Featured on w3garden.com

Written by Nicholas Chan on December 5, 2009 – 5:43 pm -

I am happy and want to thank the people behind w3garden.com for featuring my blog in their directory. w3garden.com is the Malaysia Blog Showcase, something like a blog directory which features some cool and interesting blog from Malaysia. Yay, thank you everyone for support. Follow me on Twitter. =)

Tags: blog, Blogosphere, Cool Stuff, featured, Lifelog
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Phuket Night Market and Streets

Written by Nicholas Chan on December 4, 2009 – 11:21 am -

My brother is now in Phuket with his friends and this reminded me that I still have some photos of my last Phuket trip haven’t share them with you guys. To make it simple, I’ll let the photos and captions talk.

I like Phuket, do you like Phuket?

Handmade keychains and armband.

Nice Starbucks promotion. I like!

They have this Thai boxing vehicle moving around to promote their Thai boxing event and some drunk kids climbed up “Thai Boxing WOOHOOO”.

Pubs with dancers. (Some) Thai girls do look good, but we always doubt whether they are a real she, or a she-man.

Street magic. This guy locked his arm on the pole, but somehow manage to get of the pole. Pro.

Jungceylon, nearest and biggest shopping mall near my hotel and Patong Beach. Got cinema and departmental stores. Nice place.

At night even got water show.

Saw a fight. Caucasian man vs Thai lady. Throwing of glass and shouting “Fuck you”. I was having dinner opposite and didn’t know what happen, the police came later. End of show.

Thailand-made and designed T-shirts. I have plenty but don’t really like to wear them now.

Usual Phuket’s street market.

Thai’s Starbucks tasted the same.

Tags: Night Market, patong beach, photolog, photos, Phuket, Shopping, Thailand, travel trip
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Dinner with Graduation Magazine Members at Equatorial Hotel

Written by Nicholas Chan on December 4, 2009 – 10:46 am -

I don’t really want to condemn them for choosing this location for the buffet dinner as a celebration dinner for work completing of the Form 5 2009’s School Graduation Magazine. The place for the dinner was Equatorial Hotel and it’s far away in the woods. Frankly, the place wasn’t famous and good for buffet, I would prefer other place but since it’s paid by them, I cannot say so many. Hehe

I almost lost for finding the place. Google Maps brought me to a wrong junction and I need to make a big U-Turn. There’s like  so many result on the Google Maps, in the end I found a real one. It’s hiding somewhere in the wood because it’s a big golf course and it’s dark at night.

Everyone was there already when I arrived, I was the latest.

Went around a took food. Not so interesting afterall, I like Rasa Sayang’s buffet.

Just eat, talk and take photos with other members. The Graduation Magazine is still not out yet, a little bit slow and will be out around mid-month of this month and looking forward to see my face and my work in it. =D

Do or did your school have a Graduation Magazine which compiled addresses, photos and some articles of students?

What I had the most was ice scream, guess it’s the best food in there. Haha.

Not many people in the restaurant, there’s 30 of us and 2-3 tables occupied.

Tee Jin, Miss Hong and me.

Teik Min, ex-classmate of 2TA4, year 2006.

Renyu, primary school mate.

Jiaen, ex-classmate of 3TA4, year 2007.

Zhao Wei, Yao Zhu, Andy.

Chin Lai.

Andy.

Lastly…

Bye bye. So fast working together for 1.5 years already.

More photos are on my Flickr set.

Tags: Dinner, Friends, graduation magzine, Lifelog, School Life
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Day 7 of SPM

Written by Nicholas Chan on December 4, 2009 – 1:20 am -

Thursday was another of SPM 2009 and it’s day 7. The paper I had was Physics paper 1, 2 and 3. I didn’t drive to school because the car that I usually drove went to the service centre for cosmetic enhancement and car service. So mommy had became my driver once again, thank you.

I arrived pretty early in school today, 45 minutes before paper start. I thought everyone was late today but in fact they went inside the class early to read. The school has stopped putting up little station for temperature check and hand sanitizer, they have now move around with their thermometer to every student one by one. Great.

My comment on Physics paper was I didn’t know how to do 3 question. Feeling bad for it man because I did not study enough. Argh. Hopefully, I still will get 1A for it.

I got only an hour and a half for lunch and I didn’t drive. I went on Shi Jie’s car and we went to McDonald’s at Farlim for lunch. We didn’t want to go to Greenlane’s McDonald’s which is nearer because there will be a lot of students as there’s 4 school around it.

We thought the Farlim’s would have less people but we were wrong. It’s full house and most of them were from my school. We had to sit outside then, no AC and enjoyed hot afternoon day.

Two more subjects, Chemistry and Chinese. 8th and 14th December. =)

Tags: 5SA1, chung ling, Chung Ling High School, clhs, farlim, Friends, mcdonald, School Life, spm
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Day 6 of SPM, Gonna End Soon

Written by Nicholas Chan on December 1, 2009 – 8:23 pm -

3 more days, 3 more days, then I am out of high school and everything related. This is the mix feeling of excited and sad, excited for the end of exam and sad for leaving high school. Life is like that, but I want to say, I am still young! =D

So day 6 of SPM has gone and it was Biology. I don’t really like Biology, I did learn things from Biology, a lot, but it’s hard getting the terms into my mind. I always thought it’s hard, but somehow my Biology scores in school weren’t very bad and I got quite high, once. Weird huh?

Yet, I still got to say Biology is the hardest subject among 3 science subjects to me. Chemistry and Physics are fun. Wondering, did you guys take these subjects last time? Or just 3-in-1 Science?

Forgot to turn on colour.

The night before was bad because my sleep was bad, probably was the coffee I had a few hours before sleep. I kept waking up in the middle of the night which turned out, I think I had just a little sleep. So I brought along a tumbler of coffee to school too. Thankfully, it freshen me and kept me awake.

There’s 3 paper for Biology, so do the Chemistry and Physics. And so, we have to look for lunch ourselves. There’s only a stall opened in the school’s canteen and there’s one coffee shop opposite our school, since most people will either go to the canteen or that coffee shop and became so crowded, we went elsewhere to eat. We went to Farlim, just a 5 minutes drive away to eat chicken rice, then got back in time before the next paper starts.

So, I have question that I didn’t know how to answer and I wrote a lot, hopefully what I’ve wrote was correct. 1A FTW!

Tags: Chung Ling High School, clhs, Friends, Lifelog, Penang, School Life, spm
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