Nice Song...

Credits to aryalcantara for the disney's video. the video is cute! I added the subtitle in... Just knew the song not that long ago... But it seemed that the song had really captured my heart! And Sweet! Romantic lo...

My Signature Creation...

Yeah, the creation that got me nominated by the APICTA Awards. I was only given a week to prepare and touch up eveything... Eventually I rebuilded it... Haiz... Programming is a huge mess that time... Programming software got prob, 3D modelling software also turn me down... Dah hampir "ki siao" leh. Haha.

I used to inspire a robot that can help to... Somehow... Guard things? CCTV came to my mind... But I wanted to have a so called "Smart" system that is simple and affordable. So I will make use of camera, instead of CCTV then. The "Smart Guard" system will snap a picture and trigger a loud alarm when it detects something unusual - Loud noise or abnormal distance level. Just placed it behind your doors or windows. It will capture the face of the... Person... Haha.

Build with shock and shatter resistance material... gua... Camera will be protected. (I didn't afford to try it...) To retrieve the camera, you will need a passcard. It can recognise 16 passcards = 16 Users. I'm using binary system. Besides, to activate and deactivate the "Smart Guard" system, you will need to swipe passcard and enter a sequence of code, so that the "Person" can't deactivate the alarm that easily gua... Battery and camera chamber is protected from dismantling purpose. Enough explanation dy lar... Later people sleep in front of com leh... Wan to say somemore? Can... This can actually attracts children leh, so pasaran no prob. (My target its not for real industry purpose yet, just as a amateur security system). Put it inside your locker, near your room's door, so that you get to know who entered your room before. Haha... Needless to say: Turn off the flash k? Plug your camera and this robot to an adapter k? (The robot can tahan quite long without adapter actually). So... Presenting Guardbot! Haha...

Digitalised and non-digitalised... What's the difference? Virtual and Reality...

Took up 2 days to do the 3D modelling... Haiz... Anyways, post end... Chaozz...

LiteFM's Year End Countdown...

Being Malaysia most favourite radiostation... Lite Fm is hosting another biggest music countdown in Malaysia... Hope got kena at least some in my list leh...

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My Nomination...

Nah... What's the problem with the Paint?!?!? Lost 5 nomination...

Still remembered another 5 nomination is "Never Gonna Let You Go" from Sergio Mandes, "Just when I Needed You Most" by Randay Vanwarmer, Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack for "Tonight I Celebrate My Love"... Celine Dion for "My Heart Will Go On"

Notice that nearly all songs are that "old"... I'm living in the 80 + 90's gua... Found any common between all of them? Ans: All are love songs! I do found those old songs meaningful... (But not too old please). Some really requires your 'experience" to understand the song... Haha... A bit challenging... Perhaps I'm different from others! I'm not updated... So don't suddenly ask me some korean singers name like dunno what Kim Jeun what or some sort like that... Lols...

Come and go..

Its like an airport... At here is the place where we have people arrive and depart in our life... We welcomed them with a good impression of us... And we hope that when they depart, they will remember us... Thats typical... But in some cases,perhaps they departed in rush and, without us nor them realised presence each other. This may not happen in airport, only occur in real life or 'reel' life. What you think?

Swt cases....

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Taken this flyer from somewhere... Perhaps we really need to improve our Malaysian English language... English words are still directly translated from chinese grammar... With my low standard of english also can spot some error... How about you?? Looks like vision 2020 is still really far for us... To become something like Singapore... Comment on it...

Motorcycle exp...

Few days ago just went here and there to ask about driving. Well, i'm going to class on 29th to sit there for a 5 hours, YES, 5 HOURS talk... Bla... Bla... Bla... My parents said: "Undang is always correct...(Or true la)" But I totally disagreed... My quote: "Undang is only applicable when accidents happen, and people do not want to alert police for that...And they solved it with money lor...Credit card not accepted..." A very good way to make instant and easy money in this financial crisis gua. Haha!

So then... Unlike most of my friends, i'm going to take motorcycle and car... So, my parents said that if I have free time in the evening, which I always have... But not all the time of course... I can use my parents motorcycle and have some "training" around my housing area...

We started on today then. I alerted my mom that I'm going to learn today... She said before: "It's like riding a bike la, just that you wouldn't need to pedal... It's that easy... Just turn the knob and far you go... No need to cycle until you sweat+++"

So its evening... I pushed out the motorcycle to side of the road then... As usual, that heavy... Honda Super Cub 700... Erm, 0.7 cc... Not 700cc ah... So pushed it to the roadside... Then I have two "qualified" instructors helping me out... Haha... That bike can be considered showroom new... Bought it over from my cousin about... Arh, at least 10 years k? Haha... It's not frequently used, only "often"... Only for Short trips, like to market, or (seldomly) fetch me to tuition and all those errands gua...

Back to topic... Haha... Pushed the kep to the "Ready" position... "Neutral" gear light still off... Which is supposed to be on if your gear is at neutral position. Actually I'm prepared theoritically about the motorbike thingy... I even dismantled before the battery cover i think... Haha... And parents sometimes also teach a bit a bit mah... My dad commented... "The gear is neutral dy (While stepping on the gear to ensure its neutral), just that the battery died a bit..." So I started the motor with my hands turning the accelerator and start with with legs ah... At that era no such thing as pressing a "Start" button will start the engine... First attempt failed, But I learned fast (I had started it before though). For the second shot the engine comes into alive... The "Neutral" light is on, if i don't release the accelerator... Looks like it needs a bit charge huh?

Then my dad say: "Release the accelerator la..." Erm, if i release the accelerator, the engine will go die... He insisted. So I released lo... Before the engine goes die, he placed his hand on accelerator again, perhaps I'm right... He then turn the accelerator till the motor engine... Haha... 60 houses can hear gua... So it's warm up... Then they teach here and there lo... About the signal switch, lights switch, Front and rear brakes, gear and accelerator. I sat at my dad's back and he showed me one time how he change gear and all those... I can't see anything actually... Haha... So he made one u-turn and came back. I tried to observe what he did, of course.

Now my turn... So i got up the motorcycle... Felt very scared lo... And nervous... Don't know what to do suddenly. I thought the rear brake ahould be on the left and gear should be at right, but it's inverted... Apala... Of course right leg more active ma, gear should be on right rite? Common sense la... Stunted there like few minutes observing here and there. Then I stepped on the gear... 1st gear... Hmm... Tried to accelerate... The starting went well until I suddenly placed a bit more energy to the accelerator and suddenly lurch backwards... Haha... the experience is not bad though, my leg suddenly felt like nothing to do! Perhaps i gotta accept the fact that the bicycle's pedal had already switched to brakes and gears gua. Haha. So now the engine is roaring loudly, time to change gear I suppose, but I don't dare mah, I released the accelerator a bit. Whole motor and body lurch forward... Apala... Susahlah macam ini... I made an u-turn... (With my legs on ground, lols...) Went back and asked my parents why the motorcycle jerks like that if I release the accelerator... Answer lies beyond your imagination... Use the second gear la...

I went another round with first gear... I scare i'll lost control if I use the second gear as I felt that first gear is quite fast. No choice, lets try... Accelerated only like... 20km/h, changed to second gear... Wah... Too fast! Release the accelerator... Wah, cool! Not much jerk dy... I'm in control now... Haha... Then suddenly a car turns in... Apala! I braked with my front brake lo... Won't really stop one and brings the motorcycle like sitting on the horses on merry go round. Kept on going up and down like what... Then my parents commented again, use the rear brakes... I went to another street and tried the rear brakes... Not bad wo... Then repeated a few rounds for practice... Now i'm able to make u-turns without placing my legs on ground!

My mom asked me to go practice around this few streets which has less car... And keep left lo, so no need see traffic from right ma... Haha. So I started with my neighbouring street, then going bigger and bigger... At one junction I braked like what leh... The car like so fast! Emergency rear and front brake... I think whole neighbourhood can hear the braking sound between the brake pad and the wheels loh... Erm, my speed only like 40km/h... So no prob loh... Lols.

I went on... Then got 1 part... I'm on the left ma... Right? All the cars oppositing me kept to my lane woh.. I was like... Huh? This is not GTA ma... Its not America or Germany here... I remembered clearly that out country uses left driving system leh.. I had been sitting beside driver in car for my whole life... And I doubted I did wrongly... I'm on my lane right? I didn't really care, I just make sure I switched on my lamp so that the cars can see me... But I doubted they even notice me even if I had used beam light. Went back and asked my parents bout this, I'm right... Haha... Now you can see people actually does not follow the law (Only beginners gua, and during the examiner is beside you, Lols!)

Then it started to rain a bit... So I have no doubt, its getting dark also... I went back... I'm going to practice again... It's fun actually... No need to pedal like bicycle dy... Dah upgrade dah... Lols. Next time I'll go with the basics, I gotta start to familiar myself with signal switches... But I dare to say, if you use signal at this neighbourhood, people will thought you're mad (Unless got car around you of course)... And I still remember my parents mentioned about hand signal. Erm, I think if you used hand signal and place like Kampung Cempaka when there is no vehicle near you, perhaps whole kampung will think you're mad... Give you a situation, you're on a street, 1am perhaps? Now you wanna slow down and stop... You give the "slowing down" and the "stopping" hand signal... People will think you're waving to... To who ar? 1 am woh, no people woh, then they thought maybe you can see something that they can't see... Haha...

One of my next post will be about APICTA Awards... Stay tuned... Lols... (I'm currently a bit busy with my school stuffs, may post up a bit late...)

A Horrible Experience...

Another commuity awareness project by CyanBoy Productions...

(A subsidiary of Tjxian Productions group)

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By CyanBoy

Okays, cut crap huh? I'm back.... Dun worry, i'm not writing an english essay for some teacher to mark... Hehe... As my last post warns you about something... Here's the reason...

Well, it was 16 August 2008... Lets see... After my chinese tuition (which I skipped a lot)... My family and I went back to my mom's hometown... Then pass toll... (You don't need me to tell you that) Guess what's special? We were driving slow all the way... Not that slow... Below 130km/h? Not that fast right? Hehe... Until we reached the Nilai exit... So we chosed the path to south... And here we started to go Fast (But not furious)... Lol... It was just an ordinary trip... Since I was sitting in front for the past... Erm... Maybe 12 years? No difference for that day... Traffic getting bit tense at Senawang-Seremban stretch... But still able to speed...

We're in the third lane, 2km left to Seremban's interchange... It was about 6.40... Something funny happened...

Saw the picture above? Okok... Not the car hit this thing lar... Like that I won't talk here anymore k? Somehow the metal wheel of this type of dump truck thingy was rolling on the third lane... Bear in mind that i don't think I can even carry the roller, it's a pure metal... Expect how heavy it is... Come to how rational you are... Do you expect a few tonne's garbage lorry speeding more than 110 km/h at the third track? And there is no car in front of us at that time... So no one to suspect also if its done intentionally. But the final conclusion will be its dumped from the third track of opposite lane... That's the most rational one. We thought its just a paper at first... Then saw the roller then... Pap! Kena... It's impossible to brake at the moment, cars following tight behind... (You can see merz and bmw at high speed, depends on the place, they might reach up to 180+km/h near Tangkak interchange) Lets see... Hmm... What will happen if the roller goes through the car tyres? Nothing much will happen actually, for a 12 wheeler lorry, but for a car... Normally just flip and overturn + another few cars behind from 2 lanes will just crush you to death.

So thank god and dunno who as it went through middle of the car... Followed by the loud bang, my mom look through the rear window and saw the metal roller direction was "redirected" to the side of that lane. (I'm not talking about robotics) So we stopped aside and have a look. Engine oil is leaking... My father was worried about the engine is dented... (If it's dented the engine will either need to be overhauled or changed as the piston will got stuck and bla bla bla). Last time my father's Wira's engine cost us around 5000 for everyhting. This time is Waja + Auto... Price of an engine might just easily doubled up for auto cars... Thats what I heard. To check whether its petrol or engine oil leaking, I pushed the car in front... The car is not that heavy... Hehe. So what we saw...


So confirmed its engine oil... Its just like less then few minutes the engine oil dy leaked till like this... No idea of what to do... Hehe... So we called PLUS... For those who don't know, they are so effiicient that they have few Ronda cars every interchange and they will take more then 40 minutes to come... Last time we kena tow, PLUS towed us to the interchange, then they received another report, however, what I heard is... "Kita minum teh dulu...". And I think their "teh" will take up 30 mins gua... Thats why its so efficient!

Within minutes, a red Saga came and stopped on opposite emergency lane. The person crossed the road and jumped over the road divider then crossed the road again... What's this? Can kena saman one wei... The red shirt indian came to us, checked the car for us and say oil filter pecah... He talk there like 15 minutes nagging us to his workshop. He claimed that his shop is behind Balai Polis Seremban. He said, tow he will charge 40, then others only see how it goes... We didn't believe of course, I was there being very awared of all these. He gave us his name card... Which I think belongs to the same "gang"...

So we just ignored him and he left... I started to suspect things are going really wrong... 5 minutes later, a blue Saga came... Same as just now, another yellow shirt with jeans indian came out... This time he knows how to speak chinese! Waliao! tergugat sama sekali... He showed us his card first, very gentlemen...

He offered us RM 45 for everything... I got some proof here! Hehe... No one knows I was recording... The time when this video is taken is about 6.50 p.m.

The conversation between my father and the person...
Take note of my voice, i'm inside too!

Well... I don't know what tong is minyak haram... Then every car got minyak haram then... The thing is called the storage for engine oil... He claimed that oil filter pecah (thats true) and the storage might leak... But if leak a bit still can travel till Muar... And its impossible to find engine oil at price of 30, (Engine oil that he showed to us is Perodua and KCC brand) Oil filter imitation might get bout RM10? But he claimed that its original and only RM8! And NO towing fee! (Isn't this like the Yuk Chai UPSR trials paper Bahasa Cina comprehension part? Where two businessman tricked their customer like this?) To convince us again, he claimed that his shop is ALSO behind Seremban police station... AND HE CLAIMED THAT PLUS CALLED HIM TO COME! What's this rubbish? PLUS don't come by a SAGA! Here's another video I recorded... The time when this video is taken is 6.59pm.


Conversation between the person, my dad and my mum...

In this conversation, he also claimed once again that we are only required to change engine oil and oil filter then its all ok... He stressed again only RM45 will do all the work... So, eventhough I bantah sekeras-kerasnya... Haiz... So kena tow dy... I was not that surprised when I saw two PLUS tickets sticking out from the car radio compartment. According to the act of not returning the ticket or obtaining a ticket not directly from toll plaza, if found... Sabit kesalahan about 50000 to 2000000 I think, and may dipenjarankan dunno 5 tahun. So... Perhaps this person gotta be in jail if I reported this to PLUS.

So after towing, we reached the toll... That person just say... Hanya buat U-turn sahaja... So its free... Then he also obtained the ticket from my father and said no need to pay for the ticket... Whats the prob? RM45 got inclusive of RM15? Totally sounds wrong! So how? Your car kena tow what... What can you do huh?

So memories of going kerjaya came back... Cause we passed this toll mah, and after the toll is turn to the right. But this time it was left! I was trying to recognise the road... Something is going wrong... The person leads us inside a housing area... Turn here turn there, just like turning inside Kampung Cempaka for the first time... We passed through houses, pusat pemulihan, even chickens also got leh! Then we were led to a semi industrial estate... As stated in the card address (Green Technology Park). He showed us his shop... We were towed in then...

For your info, we were towed in to the back door of the shop... Which is supposely be the front... It was about 7pm... Then they start dismantling lar... About 6-7 person dismantle a car? What the problem? Even I also can dismantle some oil filter myself! Then they claimed that the oil filter got stuck with the "kemek" engine oil storage. So they dismantle lar... Trying to waste time... Then they dismantled... And found out another part of it spoil. The filter that is suppose to filter the engine oil that leads to the engine... The gauze was torn... So they say... "Itu spare part tak ada punya, kena beli..." So they called my father in to the office... Then, the yellow shirt guy said (in chinese): "Your father call you woh..." I was trying to monitor them so that they don't do too much "things" to the car... So I looked through the window to the ofice... My father was talking loud inside the office... And no sign of calling me... And said (in chinese): "No la, he will come out and call me one..." So they continue dismantling... All of them speak Tamil... But I caught a word... "Kacau" sahaja... This is their trick, if i'm not there, maybe the whole engine already down.. Haha... I got the recording of it... Just that I don't know how to translate... Anyone want help out? Hehe...

Then my father came out, he said, gotta leave the car till tomorrow only can take back as no spare part dy... But tomorrow is a SUNDAY! What's the prob? And its really unsafe to leave the car there, for sure they'll steal those things in car... Like radio or something? Or change your wiper? Change your headlight? We won't know... A glance through the whole workshop shows that all cars registration number are mostly started with another state... "A"- Alor Star, "B"- Selangor, "W"- Wilayah, "M"- Melaka... There is no "N"- Negeri Sembilan's car! So sudah sah something is wrong... And all the cars are totally dismantled, whole engine down, seat lost, steering lost, no light... They're totally condamned!

When I was looking over my father's car... I heard someone at the back... There's few indian guys at back also... Said that "Ada satu kereta di jambatan sana ah..." Then a guy went out with another Saga... Sah sekali lagi... They have contact with PLUS... So the thing goes like, I call PLUS, PLUS call the ronda person, ronda person call them, then they go, after more than 40 mins or a certain time frame or failed to convince the driver, then PLUS will go... If their business is sucess, PLUS ronda person got some money from it... Thats the way man!

So my father then ask them to place back everything and change a new filter with new engine oil... They tried to convince so that we leave our car there... Which will destroy the whole car... So they changed a dunno what brand oil filter... Something funny again... They took out a few different types of oil filter, and then try to fit to the hole 1 by 1... PRO! If its a trained person or even a new worker, they should know at least Waja uses which type of filter right? And the "ORIGINAL" filter? Where got? They give some dunno dumb brand filter... Haiz... We don't care, we just wanna leave, its like 8.30 dy... They installed back everything... And when they pour the engine oil, its sososososo FUNNY! They just poured the oil in like that without usinf like any funnel or what... Completely rubbish service... And they should give back the portion that is unused, but they just took it... Waliao...!

So all done, car started, ok... Now the price, my father went in and said... yes, 400! Hehe... Don't worry, its 450! So... Haha... Diela... My father was trying to negotiate... But failed lah... He's calling my uncle at Johor perhaps to come down and deal with the price... But didn't la, cause impossible one... My father was all the way holding my phone, his battery died out... Seeing us refusing to pay, they drive our car into the shop, and pull down all the grills except one left at te back of the shop, super wrong now... I just realised there is still like 15+ person in the office, some gambling some just sitting... Gangster lar! So total of those people in workshop is 20+. So 20+ indian guys in a workshop... If you don't pay up, mostly just pull down the last grill, then what do they do in middle of night 20+ indians with few chinese girls and some weak guys? That depends on how imaginative and alert are you... I have no chance to get evidence, but then, I managed to take back the phone at the last moment proofong that this happens and if want report to police for jenayah and Kementrian Perdagangan dan Hal-Ehwal Pengguna, this evidence is very useful and very strong... So I recorded this... Its in my pocket so its very blur... But the subtitle helps and this is the most accurate one!

Negotiating the price

The bill is like this:

Even you add up all is only 430 lar, where got 450? LOLS!

So engine oil suppose to be RM30 because of their "inflation" of more then 8% so... become RM68 for a KCC or rather never heard before brand... So called "Original" Oil filter from RM10 to RM12, Tow which shouldn't cost A SINGLE CENT become RM100! Pro le... Then labour RM250!!!!!! Gila habis... We thought of report police before, but it's useless I suppose. Well, they did for one hour and a half, still shouldn't be that expensive... Standard car service and labour price guide provided by Kementrian Perdagangan dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna is available at all workshops (Including theirs)... So next time you service your car you know lar...

It was bout 9.15. So we went out of the shop, drive away, finding ways out... The person actually lead us a long way, we used the main road and got out within minutes! They purposely turn here and there so that you can't find their shop... But sadly, I know the way! Haha... So we arrived at a Petronas Station... All the police cars are there... SWT! Yeah... Got Natural Gas! We ran out of natural gas actually... Lols! This shot was taken the next day when we got back from Muar.

Our journey continued after getting some advice through phone from uncle. We bought a bottle of engine oil in case. At anytime if the engine oil ran out = Overhaul... So we went slow and stop at Ayer Keroh R&R... Oil level still ok... So we added a bit and continued our journey... We successfully reached at 11.15pm+.

We have our dinner then... (Supper gua)... One of my uncle which work part time as a transporter had experience in this too... There's one time his lorry broke down in Seremban, tyre pancit woh, supposely they put some sharp things in purpose to make the tyre pancit, so they approached him. The nut to secure the lorry tyre seems to difficult for "them" to unscrew, so they offered to tow to their workshop again. Well, he managed to wait for PLUS and PLUS has all the equipments! Its too easy to unscrew with the proper tools... So don't believe in all these offer. He said its a syndicate operating underground led by a Malay leader. The Malay leader employed this Indians to work for him... And the road between Seremban and Senawang Highway is a Black Area of this syndicate operation. So, drive slow along this area to avoid all these.

Another uncle of mine which works as a mechanic claimed that he went there for tow before. But after he towed his customers car (Under insurance company order), a few Saga's kept on approaching his tow car and seems like wanna knock his tow car down. The car will speed very fast from the emergency lane and cut you in front tiba-tiba from your left. (Bear in mind slow cars moves in first lane) And those cars will like surround you, not letting you to tow to your shop... Saga's and Iswara's... So be aware of all these too...

Another source from my aunt also states that they purposely knock your car and they will bring you to their workshop and become kambing korban... They are willing to do anything just to "kill" your purse.

Well, its an expensive lesson... That's all...

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Hey... End of blog dy lar... Haha... Byes...

This took me about 2 weeks for videos subtitle...

Also kill my ear (Used headphone and turn high volume to recognise some talkings)

For slow bandwith users... Hehe... i know there's lots of pics and videos... So thanks for waiting lor...