As our usual tradition, we always play fireworks during malam raya. Yup we still doing it for tonight!

My choice of weapons

Let the fireworks begin

The magnificent shows
   

Well, usually everyone are busy fixing and decorating their house when raya is getting closer... but me... I'm busy fixing my Astro cable. After lying all over the floor, I decided to clean it up. :P

Cables all over the place

Work done
   

Cool eh.. we finally hacked iPhone using somewhat a "method" which I can't disclose. If you want to know how, then head to BlogZero and wait for the post by JacobsCrack. It's a join effort by 3 of us. Hehehe... look at the pictures for the proof.

Lock and not yet activate. It need to be AT&T subscriber to be able to activate it; in US not in Brunei.

Now ACTIVATED, you can use all of the features except phone call. Look at the top "No Service"

BlogZero can be seen from iPhone's Safari browser.

Finally UNLOCKED, now look at the top left, BRU-DSTCOM. Fully functional iPhone using normal DSTCom sim card!

Know how to hack it. Full details coverage and how to will be post soon to my favourite blog, BlogZero.

No where really. I've been busy assembling my Lego Technic. This one took me 8 hours to assemble, but it worth it. My Lego is a Tractor. However it can be assemble as a 4-wheel terrain vehicle as well. Cool part is that you can add engine to it.

Oitss! I got this task to learn more about Microsoft SQL, well, get to know the stuff. Actually I don't know how to explain it, let just put it that the main purpose is to know about Microsoft SQL 2005, and the product that orbit around it; e.g. BizTalk, CCF, BI, Enterprise Search, Groove, Katmai, etc.

Anyway... once again I'm not a nerd or geek, I'm doing this because it is main part of my work. And I hate learning new stuff.... especially during this fasting month. Anyway.. lets talk about fun stuff.

LEFT: Going to Sentosa. RIGHT: Underwater World

LEFT: Sting Ray. RIGHT: Siloso Beach (I think so... can't really remember the name)

LEFT: Walking to my hotel after work. RIGHT: Up that way is the entrance (pass-through the mall)

LEFT: The famous lion, if you look closer, there is a building on the left with red billboard. Thats where I spend my working day - Microsoft Office. BELOW: I dont know this place name, see more below...

BELOW: This is the weird and unique durian-like building, sorry can't remember the name. RIGHT: Where I stay, yea... its next to durian building

OK, now lets see inside my hotel...

LEFT: The lobby or is it reception? Oh well they confuse me... They got 2 locations, one at 1st floor, this one is at 4th floor.
RIGHT: View from my room's corridor looking down. Yes I have 2 corridors, 1 looking inside the building, 1 looking outside the building. BTW, I'm not enjoying the height...

OK too lazy to upload... The other 4 places... I really can't remember the names, but I do know the picture on the top-left actually got 4 towers...

Aight! I'm in Singapore now. Doing something about Microsoft SQL stuff. Phew I feel like ages I haven't been here. I did experienced one problem about currency notes. Ahhhh.... I'll update again later. Right now... I want to enjoy my food!

Alright, its been a while I haven't post something up here, lets have a full long post summary of my last 10 days activity.

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The video

The place where I'm working with ask me to create a video to be play during annual dinner. Its kinda big, so I already have a head start few months back. To make life easier I put all the stuff inside my iPod, so I can just plug to any of my computers and start editing. One day I plug my iPod to my NEW pc... since this pc dont have anything inside its iTunes library, it sync an empty library to my iPod. My iPod empty. My videos gone. My music gone. My files gone. Luckily I have worse habit of copying stuff all over the place inside my computer. So, I gather all that left and start compiling it back.

I told my colleague about this, well, she's not mad; after all I have a second video that luckily I already copied to my pendrive. Upon presented to management and minor changes, second video APPROVED! Oh wait, I got to re-create first video. Time is running out since I got only 2 weeks to pull it off. I head off and bring my video editing machine and start doing some magic. Precisely 4 days, I got it done. Upon presented there were some changes to be done. Back and forth ideas after ideas (luckily I work with such patience colleague...) finally the first video finish. Next... putting it all together.

Work our magic through time schedule during the dinner we finally finish it with 1 week in spare. Oh wait we got request from management to create a this momentum video! After received the charateristic of the video, within 2 days I came up with something. At first it was approved by the management, then after several review, we need to improve first video, and overhaul third video. With the help of our CFO and HearMeSay we finally got video that we really wants! By the way, the third video took 1 whole day of our time to research, compile, edit, and encode. Nice work team!

3rd video the most special video. Which only played once! Oh well... are you ready?

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The leave

I took make annual leave for me to have a nice rest. But hey my phone keep on ringing as if they don't know that I'm on leave. I tried to reshuffle my off day by going to work half day.... talking about sacrifice for the company... What I did? Hang out around bandar, stay at Empire Hotel, having fun at JP, alot of stuff. Well its not enough especially I need to chase time before fasting month. But hey... every seconds count... and its worth it!

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Annual dinner

It was fun. I got to met some old friends. My date for that night of course my best buddy all the way from KB. Wearing my favorite color.... thanks for coming! I didnt win anything though. Thanks to my cousin! You know who you are!!! Anyway, enough teasing him, after all I dont want him to play with his 'kikik'. But yea... it was among the best night. The momentum video got the best applaud.  The reaction was overwhelm. Some of my friends played with the balloons. I still dont believe that it does changed your voice. I experiment it to my cousins as well. Oh man it was soooo funny!!!

Anyway, that dinner was great. Camera keep on snapping that I didn't know whose camera to look, oh why bother... just smile to any camera.... its not everyday I can be like a superstar....

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The maintenance

Next big thing is maintenance phase for my website. But the most affected site is our technical blog, the "we're not nerd" blog. Alot of stuff is being done, e.g. Off-Topics page, objective, engine upgrade, bug fixes, forum, integration, etc... Well its a major upgrade. How I do it?

Fixing Off-topics page, with Apache server and MySQL db.
 

New look* with new upgraded engine

New forum* with integration

* Not yet finalize and its still offline; I might continue with the new stuff or remove it.

Any how, I'll try to finish it up whenever I got spare time, otherwise this thing will have to wait two months after hari raya.

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Others?

I got to go to work tomorrow! Oh well, time for me to go to bed! Happy sahur, and selamat berpuasa!

Ooooo "kalau ada... ada lah..." ahhh.... See whats the status?

Cannot see? Let me zoom in!

But, everyone can make-up a status right? Tapi, main question: Siapa Fatin?

I was thinking... should I put 2 or 3. Anyway... it was 3 things that happened today. First off Malaysian Independent day (I'm Bruneian by the way....  it just happen to fall with the same date today). Second, my colleague Young Young Event at the beach. Thirdly, my family doa arwah event.

Anyway, I've been here and there dividing my time to attend both second and third event. Below is a picture of the people who were washing some dishes - revenge finally... hahahaha.... more pictures at blast.

Thee other event.... coming soon. I'll post the picture when I get the picture.

After a long discussion, finally me and my friends decided to have a try to play go-kart at JP. Just after work we straight away went there and play 2 hours straight.

I never played go-kart before, so it was the best 5 race of my life! You really feel the adrenalin as the debris pass by your helmet. I did cut and box my friends. Then they push me away off the circuit... Well.... its not a bad thing. I guess it was among the best moment of my go-kart career... hahahaha.... Anyway... towards the end, my adrenalin kicks in, and I still remember that I dare to push the pedal where I should just slow down... hahahaha.... For those of you, dont do this unless you really good with your go-kart skill!

Wow it seems like ages I haven't update this blog. Been busy with work stuff as well as maintaining my other blogs. This and that functions etc. Well, I'm going for my other exam as well... so some more up notch...

My life part.... I'm more meaner but not rude... hehehehe.... More wiser.... More forgiven..... I guess alot of personality upgrade.... hahahaha. One thing I notice is that, I keep on making myself busy with sport... don't know why.

Even my cousins can't predict me anymore. Cool eh. Now come the question: Where I am? and What should I do?

Well I guess I'm going to keep on moving on; but just like every step I made I always keep on telling myself to play after every storm.

Oh... unpredictable... On thursday, me and my cousins hang out the whole evening till 3am - arrived home around 4.30am. Wake up the next morning around 8am. Thinking to go swimming. But then changed my mind and I asked my cousin to stay at Empire Hotel.

Oh wait... lets stir things up even more. I book a seat at The Mall to watch the new Rush Hour movie. To make it even more different, I hire a Merz limo with driver to send us there as well as pick us up.

Badminton is my fav sport. I always make sure that I got my racket inside my cars trunk. While staying there.... I even asked my cousin to play badminton, bowling, and roller blade. I suppose to post this to our cousins blog, oh well.... I'll post when I got some more time... sorry guys!

My boss just announce regarding my exam infront of everyone else. It was an honor after being appreciated by the whole organization, as well as embarrassed... I'm a shy guy okay!!! hahahaha

Anyway just to clear things up... MCP means Microsoft Certification Program. But upon completion of certain exams, for my case Client OS: Windows XP, I got MCP certification. This MCP means Microsoft Certified Professional.

Notice that the acronym is the same MCP... but it means absolutely different thing compare to program and certification.

Anyway I got new certification TS:WSS. Which means I now have Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for WSS 3.0

I've been talking with a guy conducting ICDL, and according to him the Core Exam for ICDL which is the top most and difficult exam is almost as equal as MCP certification. Meaning you need to be an ICDL trainer and specialist to get the core exam as well as walk the same level as MCP certification. Oh yea, not to brag or anything but I got my ICDL certification as well... just if you're wondering.  :P

I try to get back where I used to stand. I don't like what I used to be, I've been trying to forget all about it. But back then I'm open, happy go lucky, motivated, (hyper)active, exciting, intelligent, funny, playful, determine, neat, fun, lazy, nasty, focus; you can say I was an active typical kid with a grade "A" student hanging all over my belt. Until one day things hit me and asked me to grow up!

The thing is, I just realised that I don't have to be someone else just to grow up. I should just be me. But I guess I should also try to mix my awareness attitude with the good old days behavior. Of course not naughty and bad boy image. Today I started my day to be helpful and punctual. Don't get me wrong, some old habits does comes out. I can be mean and rude at the same time, I mean come on, that what makes me normal right?

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I forgot, just buzz me if you think my attitude is unacceptable... :P

Alright... I guess this is something kind of big for me to announce it on the internet.. hahaha... Anyway... there's a rumors and story about my relationship, well... I guess I better clear up the air a bit before I hurt someone else feeling. There's a rumor of me holding hand and hanging out with alooot of girls. Some said I was married and have 3 kids. Goshhh... I know I'm not a superstar or something, but this things make me feel like one... at least it makes me feel like I'm back in high school... Where everyone monitor my every move, I guess low profile and hiding under radar doesn't work anymore... Anyway, I just want to say that:

1. I'm not a player... and most of the girls are just a friend.
2. I don't have any relationship with any girls at the moment.
3. I never have not holding any girls hand (you know what I mean), well at least for the past 1 year.
4. Obviously I'm not married and therefore no kids!

Alright... for the past few years I've been slowing things down, to catch my breath. But now I'm ready to push up the notch a bit. Is it means I won't have time for relationship? Well... not really, I'm very strict when it comes to balancing social life and work life. Work is useless without social life, because if you keep on working it means you don't have a life. Once again, toward the end of this year, I'm going up 1 to full notch. I got 1 straight deal and I'm going for it!

Yup and yes I like blue. I hate red and try not to mix my clothes with anything red. Yuck, yuck, and yuck. But its my nature to be curious and like to try for something even if I don't like it. Just expect unexpected :P

Anyway, how is it like to be me? Got some works on my plate - real work stuff. Got several e-mails I need to reply to - more like a feedback. Got several request I need to sort out - got alot of invites and people who wants to be invite. Sorting out Cousins Reunion Camp, arghhh its very hard when you are one of the key people.

My free time.... spend time playing with my iPod and Linux... and ofcourse VeohTV. I'm kind of addicted to Veoh TV now... There's also alot of invitation request for VeohTV.... anyway... need to get some rest...

Peace out!

Wow, my first post. This is my 8th blog I ever owned. I manage and host 3 of my active blogs and I don't like 5 other blogs which are host somewhere. Anyway, I'm going to use Live Spaces for my personal stuff. Cool... now what should I post for the first shout-out?

Oh yea... this weekend I was so inspired and happy... As you might know, there was disturbing news about this young girl who was given a drug. I end up hunting YouTube for that video - I did found it but not in YouTube. Anyway, towards the end I came face to face with this video clip "Tell Me Why" by Declan Galbraith. My gosh, my heart just sink. I mean come on, after watching the disturbing news... then this music video.. gulp... I didn't cry... just gulp.... :P

Anyway... that kid voice is WOW! I mean WOW! So impressive. Then I just remember about another kid performing Michael Jackson song. My research begun... During that concert that kid just made me WOW X 100 times.... I mean he just a kid but then the voice WOW. Oh yea... finally I got his name, Billy Gilman.

Both were still kids back then, but by now they are around 16-18 yrs old. OK, lets listen to both voice. Here is what I found:

I read some articles about Billy Gilman... wow he got alot of personality, his talent is a worth and a serious deal. I hope people should take him seriously. WOW! You got one more fan today!