2008... I got alot of wish and things to do in 2007. Gladly I'm able to do it as well as balance between work and social life... sorta.....

Throughout 2007 I'm looking for those perfect picture

Between the way I find several lessons through good times and bad times

Some... I didn't expect it coming...

Then I realise its already the end of 2007 journey... how do you know, current chapter end and a new beginning start.

It feels like I'm standing at the edge of a cliff while watching the time passes me by so quick and so soon, when I just about to begin my step... Then I realise its not all about numbers 2006-2007-2008 and not about perfect picture; its about those small and memorable moment collected altogether to make the journey worthwhile every year.

I found my memorable moment in last year's journey and I'm still going to pursuit that perfect picture to keep me going. Happy New Year 1429H - and Happy New Year 2008!

HOW ARE YOU BRUNEI???

Well I know its been like everyday the rain keep on pouring down. But thats normal especially towards end of year right? Anyway, I would like to post few pictures which I like the most during my last visit. I like the night scene.

And yet another night hanging out with the gang. Actually there was no plan at all except having lunch and chill out at the MOD. But yet we did manage to accomplished our mission to hit CocoRoche at bumper car ride

p/s It was raining that's why we were all wet and cant think straight

This week I went to my friend's wedding - a close friend actually. Through the up and down time that we've been knowing each other, he finally get married. Congrats! Next on the line is who? Sorry Din, kami nda tau d mana rumah pengantin perempuan, kami kan ke sana plang tapi end up mliat wyg...

Well, its been along time I haven't been to JP. Ever since I keep on playing go-kart that I'm addicted to go there and try any other open ride.

uh...

no post for so long.... been very busy with my work. but i did enjoy my life recently. anyway, life uodate:

1/ i pass my ITIL exam
2/ busy with some work projects
3/ busy with my sea-monkeys - darn it, when is it going to hatch???

Back in Brunei, as promised, here are the pictures.

Where I stay...

Outside (forgot to take the lobby and building pictures)...
 

Inside...
 

Around it...and at night...

Where I spend my working time...

Microsoft Office... The pantry, the wall, and the view from 22nd floor...

The free time...

Day time...

Almost night time (time magrib bah)...

Night time (yea yea yea)...
   

The food...

I eat alot of food but my fav and take-away were Burger King, McDonald, Delifrance (no pictures), and Starbuck (no pictures)...

Going home - 6hours of non-stop hectic...

At around 4am heavy rain. My flight is at 9am, meaning I woke up at 6am, ready by 6.45am, have my breakfast and finish at 7.15am, leaving hotel at 7.25am - still heavy rain, arrived at airport at 7.45am, check-in and stuff finally at gate lounge at 8.20am, boarding at 8.45am, traffic delay and take-off at 9.20am - still heavy rain, landing at 11.15am, luggage problem and eventually out of Brunei airport at 11.55am.

20 October 2007... hari yg agak bersejarah bagi kami sebagai satu sepupu dan sebagai satu keluarga Tutong. Why? its one of our grand's wedding. Well... the wedding is not that GRAND but the event is. Its involving one of my grands from my mum side. She's like 50+ years old. The number of people coming was... ALOT... let just put it that way. I'm not even sure if some of the guest are among the invited one. I guess people just want to see this historic wedding among senior citizen. You have no clue how many cameras were flashing that night, I felt the wedding was like a clebrty's wedding... Congrats Nini Ichi! you're a celebrity now... hehehe... As for us.... its a cool way of celebrating a memorable Hari Raya 2007. And of course to snaps some more candid moments.

p/s Pictures are in Blast, look for it or let me know if you need access.

lawa eh nick nya budak ah... - one of cousin - I wonder who are the lucky girl that stolen his heart? hehehe... jgn marah... time raya nda buleh tarik balik maaf... buruk siku hati... :P Anyway... would like to share some nifty pictures... I really dont have a clue why and what I'm doing there...

I woke up, then have a blast Raya with my fellow cousins... tonight suddenly I feel weird. This funny feeling inside keep on attacking me one after another just like radioactive from solar ray keep on slamming invisible force towards me... All I know that I'm not me anymore and that I'm not what I used to be, but I'm still here am I?

As usual all photos are available at Blast site. Contact me if you dont know the address.

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?