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  • A Visit To Logos Hope – The Floating Book Fair

    Have you heard about Logos Hope before? It’s the largest floating book fair that travels around the world. The Logos Hope is actually a name of a ship that is currently park at the Swettenham Pier in Penang. On board is a mini books fair, or also can say it’s like a mini Popular bookstore featuring many Christian books, and also many other books too.

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    Entrance is RM1 for everyone and free for children below 12 years old. I was curious and I went to check out the Logos Hope with my girlfriend, Hueisean to see what is it like on board.

    It was the Hari Raya day 1, Malay friends went to visit and celebrate and we went to check out the floating book fair. Upon arrival, I see many people queue up to get on the ship.

    To my surprise, the queue was pretty long and it took about 20 minutes to reach the entrance. Since it was near to sea, with sea breeze blowing, it’s nice to wait patiently and chit-chat at the same time. Slowly, we reached the ship and we got excited.

    The Logos Hope, by GBA Ships travel around the world with a vision of “Bringing knowledge, help and hope to the people of the world.” I really salute the volunteer crew that work on board and travel around the world with most of the time on the ship. It’s not an easy job.

    Thankfully, the weather was pretty good, partially Sunny, with a cloudy blue sky. We walked into the ship slowly, up the stairs, into the main deck where the book fair is.

    Best part is that it’s open until 10pm from Tuesday to Sunday and everyday open at 10am except Sunday at 1pm. So you can go relax in the ship sometimes although there’s nothing much.

     

    Upon entering, I could see many people wandering around. There’s an area where people can see the history of the ship in both electronic media format and photo format. I was not really interested in it, so took a photos with the logo and started to go with the flow.

    GBA Ships! Yeah. Do you know GBA? I think many don’t know about because everyone now is so high tech and advance and only know about iPhone and PSP, GBA was the GameBoy Advance, a gaming device with better graphic. I had one and sold it. Ouch.

    Went to check out the books with many Christianity books around. Some are good buy because they are cheap but I have no idea how old are them. Lot’s of language dictionary too. I was looking for home improvement interior design book, I found but didn’t buy any because they were too old. If you are a book lover, you must get on board and I am sure you will find your desire books.

     

    One cool thing is that the price of the book on the ship is using Units and 100 Units is RM8. I wonder why.

    Found a cafe named International Cafe selling pop corn, pastry, some juice and soft drink but did not get any because of the long queue, then we went out of the ship and headed somewhere else!

    Must visit if you are in Penang. If you are in Kuala Lumpur, it’s coming to Port Klang this month on 28th September 2011 and park for a month. Check out the schedule at the site.

    P/S: Good night people, tomorrow got school! Down.

  • Thumbs Up At Weld Quay Xiang Xia Tomyam Mee

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    It’d been quite some times I didn’t meet up with this guys. 1 years and 9 months that I have been away from high school and them. High school was a good time, especially the friends and people that I stick together all the time.

    Though, time tick tocks and everyone has their own life and way to go. It’s fated that we met and we walk our own life.

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    Yong Chieh, Tee Jin, Khai Liang, Zez Chien, Jin Jie and me.

    Friends are always friends, no matter how far the time goes, we will meet again. This is for sure, because we’ve got something call Chung Ling High School Alumni. LOL. I haven’t join by the way. Nice meeting you guys at the Weld Quay famous Tomyam Mee by the way. =)

  • Get Super Cool Skin For Your Gadget With Hydraskins

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    With so many same gadget out there, everyone having the same iPad, laptop, MacBook, iPad and other, it’s very hard to distinguish your uniqueness and coolness with other. But now, I have found a solution and that is Hydraskins!

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    Hydraskins is actually decal skin for your gadget like tablet and laptop and they have many design you can choose from, or even better if you are a designer or photographer, you can have your own print on it. The decal is very good quality and does not leaves any stain after peeling off too.

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    Recently, I got a limited edition of the Apollo 18 movie poster skin from Hydraskin and it looks really cool to me. I really like the quality very much and fit my laptop nicely.

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    Other features include that it’s water resistant, scratch resistant, reusable and easily clean! And of course, best part is no stain or anything after removing.

    Well, I’m gonna design my own decal skin already, I think it would be fun and cool!

    You can check out more about Hydraskins at the website or Like the Facebook page too for more contest and cool stuff!

    Check out the Apollo 18 movie trailer too! I am so looking forward to it.

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  • Goose At Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus

    Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus is one of the nicest university campus in Malaysia, the school fees also very “nice (expensive)”, yet the campus is really good. There’s a not-very-big lake in the middle of the campus.

    On a fine and cloudy, relaxing and lovely afternoon at Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, students strolled around the lakeside and I saw animal by the lake.

    The are the goose! I am not sure they are goose or duck. I thought it was duck, but mom told me it’s goose.

    It’s goose because they are fatter and the neck is longer. What do you think?

    These are the playful goose that always get onto the steps to find food. Students and passersby do feed them occasionally.

     

     

    Luckily they didn’t get further onto the land, the found it bored and went back for a swim in the water. =D

     

  • Ethnic – Penang Interior Design And Furniture

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    Ethnic is a well-established home decor brand in Penang since 1993 where it’s started with retailing furniture. Later expanded to Interior Design services that provides creative and style design services to residential and commercial space throughout Penang and Malaysia. They are also specialized in retailing of classical and wood furniture.

    Interior design is an important element to a space, given it’s a residential space or commercial space. It’s a place where people spend most time with. That’s why a good interior design must be given to the space to make life more perfect, more comfortable and better productivity for work.

    Ethnic ID is your ideal choice of interior design service firm in Penang as it has serve for more than 20 years and is one of the most reputable design firm in town. They provide interior design service like, residential design, commercial design, turn-key project, kitchen system, renovation, walk-in wardrobe, custom made furniture, built-in furniture and just everything about the home decor. They provide the best creativity solutions for your home and commercial spatial needs.

    Besides that, they are also specialized in retailing wood furniture like classical furniture, Chinese antique furniture, outdoor furniture and home decor accessories. All the furniture are made of high quality wood.

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    Well, to give a support to the business, you can LIKE the Facebook page to know more or visit the website for some work reference.

    Address: 19, Gottlieb Road, 10350 Penang.

    Tel: +6042298712

    Email: mail@ethnic.com.my

    Website: http://www.ethnic.com.my

  • Smurfs Figure At Gurney Plaza

    I think Smurfs is a old school cartoon character because I did not know about just until recently which I have been seeing a lot of the upcoming’s Smurfs movie promo. It’s coming to the cinema in about 2 weeks time. I know that they are the cute little blue creature and they are coming into New York City (in the movie).

    A buzz of Smurfs have been created with contest, t-shirts, figures and poster can be seen anywhere. A big marketing money have been throw into to make the movie a success. Eventually that I wanted to watch this movie too.

    The Gurney Plaza mall in Penang is exhibiting many Smurfs character at the New Wing area and it’s allow people to take photos of them. It’s pretty cute and there’s really many many Smurfs, I assume there’s more than 100 of them!

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    I brought my camera, remove the lens cap, and start shooting around the cute little blue figures. =D

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    I saw many kids were posing there too for the camera of their papa and mama. Even adults take picture with them.

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    In conjunction with the movie, there’s a session where 3 huge Smurfs mascot come on stage and allow people to take photos with them. In order to pose with them, you have to present a receipt of spending of RM15 in the mall. People queue up with their receipts anxiously to take photos with them. Cute!


  • Parking And Walk To Taylor’s On Wednesday

    This is quite a random post about what happened last Wednesday at Taylor’s University. Class was at in the middle of the day and I pretty hate it because of the hassle of looking for a parking spot in the campus.

    Parking in university is always not a good thing as there’s so many student and cars where parking spots are not able to accommodate everyone, especially when selfish people like me don’t want to park at the paid zone. Even if I am forced to park at the paid zone, it would be full.

    I parked far far away that afternoon, and took a nice walk about 400m to campus from car park. The weather was pretty cloudy and good. Wonder why it’s raining here so much, typhoon in Taiwan, hurricane in the USA and here we got the rainy days.

    I wonder why the school want to collect fee for student’s parking. Why is the fee we paid isn’t able to cover a parking spot, I wonder why. It’s ok to collect money for parking fare, but at least built us a proper parking area with a good covered walkway that protect us from the shines and rain. Then I will shut my mouth up. Imagine walking to and from the car in the midst of hot sun or a rainy day.


    Spotted an unknown lecturer got a surprise birthday wish from her friends. Pretty cool.

    The school is getting more and more commercialize which isn’t a good way of promoting education. That’s reality, that’s fact.

    One fact about Taylor’s University is that the traffic jam that occur around 4pm everyday. It’s the super big jam in campus, connecting out to the main road until the nearest traffic light. A normal good flow of traffic will takes about less than 10 minutes out but with a jam, do expect about half an hour.

    I have already accepted the shity rocky parking, finding a parking spot and walking towards class. That’s my college life. HA! Blablabla.

  • A Short While At Thursday SS2 Chow Yang Pasar Malam

    I am always in search of pasar malam or simply known as night market in Klang Valley. I have found one on Monday at SS2 around bank area, one on Wednesday which the most famous one at Taman Connaught and recently found another one at SS2, but at Chow Yang restaurant there which is on Thursday night.

    Very easy to find, just search for Jalan SS2/6 on GPS or Google Maps and you can find it.

    I didn’t really plan for this trip as I incidentally found it while driving back home after a movie and I was craving for bubble tea so I went to search for it. I didn’t want to go far for bubble tea as I know the nearest bubble tea to me at that wee hour was the pasar malam.

    The SS2 Chow Yang pasar malam has a variety of stuff for you to shop like street food, fashion clothing, wet market vegetable and meat, and the very bad pirated DVDs and CDs.

    As you know I am a pasar malam fan because I found it quite interesting and happenings. It’s not luxurious stuff which I couldn’t afford, I need not to pick a good attire for it, I can just wear my pajamas to there too. Simple, nice and fun.

    Besides that, pasar malam is always a nice place as I can see people from all walks of life, happy friends and family walking around the happenings night market.

     

    After getting my bubble tea, I went to walk around the pasar malam before heading back. Any nice pasar malam to intro in Klang Valley? =)

     

  • Canon Sprint And Ricoh RZ-700s Film Camera

    Canon Sprint And Ricoh RZ-700s Film Camera

    Do you keep your old toys, stuff and gadget? Some like to trash it away as they think it’s taking up extra spaces. I don’t really like to throw away stuff because I think they are memorable and have a value in the future. Just look at the rusty exhibits at the museum and gallery, they are all old stuff.

    Recently, I found 2 old camera in my house’s cabinet. It’s not really very old, but it’s there for more than 10 years. I wipe them with a clean cloth and I’m going to keep them well, as a exhibit, collection, and perhaps use it to take photos again.

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    The Canon Sprint, is a fixed focal length camera with 35mm and f/3.5 aperture with flash too. It uses 2 AAA batteries.

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    Another camera is the Ricoh RZ-700s which is a film camera that has a zoom function, but not sure about the auto-focus mode and aperture. Guess this is a lousy camera as my parents got it for free during a lucky draw session back then. It runs on a CR2 battery.

    Pretty cool, if you have some unwanted and old camera and want to get rid of, donate it to me. =D

  • How To: Install Facebook For iPad App

    How To: Install Facebook For iPad App

    How To: Install Facebook For iPad App – Facebook has released a leaked version of Facebook for iPad app in July. It was blocked by Facebook in less then a day and I couldn’t login to the Facebook for iPad app anymore. However, I have found a solution on how to access it and have been using it for a few days already.

    Some have ask me where to download the Facebook For iPad app but then you don’t really need to download it as you already have it if you have the latest version of Facebook for iPhone on your iPad. You just need to do some tweak to change your Facebook to the iPad version.

    One thing you must have is a JAILBROKEN iPad. Follow the instruction below to get your Facebook for iPad app. (Thanks to TNW).

    1. Check for updates to make sure you have the latest version of Facebook from the App Store. Also, backup your iPad in iTunes.
    2. Visit jailbreakme.com from your iPad. Jailbreaking your iPad is legal, but voids your warranty if you bring your iPad into an Apple Store. It’s easy to undo if need be. Just pug your iPad into your computer and restore it from your previous backup. (If you are running iOS 4.3.3, this will NOT work.)
    3. Once the jailbreak process is complete, tap on Cydia, that was just installed on your iPad.
    4. Tap the Search tab in Cydia and search for iFile. Download it using the button in the upper right hand corner.
    5. Once iFile installs, open it up, and navigate to the “var” folder of your iPad. Then go to “mobile,” then “applications,” then “directory.”
    6. Click the settings gear icon in the bottom navigation bar and turn “Application Names” to “On.”
    7. Open the Facebook folder within the “directory” folder you’re inside of. Once you’re inside the Facebook folder, open Facebook.app.
    8. Look for the info.plist file, then open it. Pick “Property List Viewver” to view the hexadecimal settings for the Facebook app.
    9. Look for the UIDeviceFamily field and select it.
    10. Delete the 1 you see, and put a 2 in instead. Tap “Done” to complete the process.
    11. Hold down your power button to reboot your iPad.
    12. Then go to Cydia again and seach for Faceforward.
    13. Download and install it.
    14. Launch your new Facebook app and you are now in.


    Cydia hack to allow you to login to Facebook.

    It’s a little bit buggy, Page is not working as it crashes but overall it looks good. But if were to compare to MyPad, MyPad seems better than this. Tell me what do you think after trying it.

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