Windows SBS 2003

Do you know that you can't install Windows SBS 2003 and set it in a workgroup instead of a domain? If you really do so, the stupid server will shutdown by itself after 7 days, from the eighth day onwards, it will shutdown itself everyday!
I just kena that recently, make sure you don't do that.

Longest single english word

FYI, the longest single english word is:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It is a pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust. Or keep it simple: a lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust.
Ok, I'm just too bored in office.

May/June 2005, period fulled with good things!!!

From end of May until now, I'd been hearing quite a number of good news from friends and family. It started of with my parents' success in their elections. Celebrated my grandma's birthday right after the day of announcing on the election's result. Then finally saw my cousins' baby girl and baby boy who borned in the month of March. (same like me) ^_^

After came back from Gopeng, then I found out that 1 of the close friend is expecting, no wonder she was not feeling well like few weeks ago and we are like making jokes of her having baby. And it does ended up that she is really expecting for about 6 weeks and come to the 8th week now. Hope the baby is healthy in mommy's stomach. Can't wait to be the godma liao... haha...

Wen called me when I'm driving my way back to office one day, and told me that 1 of our closest friend in Tokuii actually bought a house together with her boyfriend. Well, both her and her boyfriend are definitely not a spontaneous person, and they won't act emotionally especially speaking about involving a big chunk of money. So we assumed that they must have planned something along the way, like when they are getting married and so on. This means that me and Wen need to start saving up the ang pau money and plan for some trick for the groom. kekekeke....

A secondary schoolmate, called me from Singapore the other day. We haven't been seeing each other since we graduated from Form 5. Almost coming to the 10th years already. But we did catch up quite a lot thru out conversation that day. She told me about her latest relationship which is being with the person that we know and never thought that both of them can actually being together. Anyway, really happy for her. We really need to expect the unexpected at times. =)

A hometown friend is getting married this month as well. Although we are that as close to each other. I would like to wish them happy marriage and congratulations!!!

The next thing is... Someone, who used to be very close to me gave me a good news yesterday. He finally found someone, someone that he can love and be loved again. I will wish both of them happy with each other and hope to hear more good news form them from now on.

Just now, as I was clearing up my yahoo mailbox with 800+ unread emails, only I realised about Joyce's announcement. Yah, I know I'm a bit slow in receiving this news, but well, at least I know it now. ^_^ . A big CONGRATULATIONS to our bride&groom-to-be!!! There comes another suckspage's event to be celebrated next year! Prepare your ang pau everyone!!!

HOPE IS EVERYWHERE!!! BE HAPPY ALWAYS!!!

It just can't get worse

Nowadays the presales people have to do postsales as well, the company will just squeeze every single drop of juice out of you. So I went to install this bloody IBM server for a client with a colleague on Monday. This baby came with a single processor by default, but then the client purchased an additional processor, IBM said we need to upgrade the BIOS in order for the dual processors to work. So we downloaded the files, copied into a disk, and proceeded to upgrade the BIOS.

When the upgrading was running, guess what, the power of the whole damn rack failed and came back after a few seconds. We had connected the power for more than 1 hour and nothing happened, but now it failed when we were upgrading the BIOS. As everybody knows, your server will die horribly if the power fails when you're upgrading the BIOS. As if things were not bad enough, the production server that was also in the same rack was rebooted due to this temporary power failure. Within minutes, bosses started to flock into the server room, questioning the IT staff about the downtime. I could foresee our back will be full with arrows in a short while, time to take cover, so we joined in their discussion and explained that we had done nothing at all, in fact, we suffered the most, as the board of the server will need a replacement from IBM.

Their production server came back up after half an hour. The bosses smiled again and left the server room happily. But now we were in trouble, the baby lied there, motionless, lifeless, dead. Fortunately, IBM tech support promised to assign a field engineer for us. The next day, he came in, replaced the board for us and everything works fine again. The job's done, customer's happy, , the bad luck stops. Kudos to IBM tech support for the fast response.

I hate server rooms. I wish I can avoid them.

Philip Wain

I went to try out Philip Wain with Sandy and Echo on Saturday. The facilities not bad except that the whole area is smaller in compare to Fitness First. There is only 2 room for classes but I gues this is because the centre only serve females. Thus, 2 rooms might be good enough. I went to 2 classes back-to-back; 1st was some kind of martial art called... err... (forgot the name), and the 2nd class was Yoga. The first class was quite tough as the move was bigger and the pace is faster, luckily I still can catch up my breath doing that. Sandy went off just after the first class and we continue with Yoga. Yoga was quite relaxing as most of the steps were slow and most of them were like stretching every inch of your body. I wonder if we can get taller or hands longer doing those stretching frequently... hmm...

After the classes, I went to pay a visit at the gym, it's quite small but the machines are quite new. Without much interest to continue our workout with those machines, we headed to the sauna and then continue with steam bath. Had a good chat with Echo. I think this is the longest conversation between the 2 of us... haha... we suggested to have another round of gathering at Genting or what... anyone got any other suggestion? Interested?

Overall, the day was great, had a good exercise and relaxed all my joint and muscles...

Today, Sunday, was a painful day for me. Almost every move that I made hurts me. So I need to walk carefully and slowly, just like those grannies. :p Went to breakfast with PB, Fei, Darren and Stan. Then we continue the day with karaoke session, Stan's favourite pass time, Paul, Donkey and ZinLu joined us for 'k'. We sang from 3pm to 8 something pm. Had dinner together and everybody went home with tired faces. And I'm here to blog now... haha... I'm tired too, so good nite everyone! ;)

wat unites us??

hehehe its me again!! tkm..
i m quite relaxed nowadays...
n decided to tokok a bit here lo

feels great to be back! but no topic to write lehh.. tiu lo... running out of idea tim...
out of 32 teams.. 5 already there!!
germany as host
japan, iran, korea, saudi n argentina.. all qualified!! ukraine n brazil should b the next 2!
hoorayyyy!!! schevchenko in germany 2006..!!! finally....
so fast 3 yrs.. last 3 years we all were still in suckspage.. look at now!! all left.. sigh...
but thats life! n life must go on..
world cup in asia... hahaha portugal 2 usa 3 i still remember that, kenny oooi!!
england 1 argentina 0.. both my fav match in 2004 wc

football is my life... for the past ten years lo... its a never ending story.. good to have so many footbal kaki around.. too bad the beautiful is too commercialized.. its not just a game anymore... its an opportunity now.. its business :(
sucks!! bookies spoilt it... to b precise mr sepp blatter spoit it! sometimes i gave up! sometimes i enjoy it.. but for sure i will keep on following... cant live without it...

win is good, lost?? dunt give up! win liao can lose back wan!!! lost liao can always win back.. thats the kick! end of the day.. win or lose does not matter.. but participation is!! football unites the world! thats the magic of it! n it explains why u have manchested UNITED, newcastle UNITED, sheffield UNITED, west ham UNITED, leeds UNITED etc...fomula 1 nba tennis etc all failed.. even olympics will not match the passion! how come?? can somebody explains???

Book Review: 4th of July by James Patterson

This is the 4th installment of the Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson. The story begins with Lt. Lindsay Boxer battling a lawsuit after a shootout that claimed the life of a 15 years old girl and crippled the 14 years old brother. As she is put on suspended duty pending the trial, she took off out of town to her sister's place. But she soon found herself intrigued and involved with the local police force in investigating a series of murders involving couples living in the area.

Overall, the book is still a page turner, but I felt that the writer (and co-writer) tried to create a little Grisham-ish style with the courtroom drama, which didn't quite appeal to me (especially compared to Grisham's books). And I am not sure if it's just me, but I can sense a little incohesiveness in the tone and language, the difference between the two authors are a little apparent.

I've always been attracted to storyline with strong female leads. So I guess I will still look out for the 5th installment of the series by James Patterson.

Book Review: My Life as Emperor by Su Tong

I've always been fascinated by the stories of the emperors and dynasties of China. I know those of you from the Chinese school get to learn and read about the dynasties during high school, and probably dread that, but I was unfortunate not able to read about them, except to learn from the TVB serials on TV.

I remember coming across the review for this book once in the weekend copy of The Star, but I never did looked for it until I came across this book again during my visit to Borders (okay, so I did managed to pick something up from Borders despite my gripes about the layout and settings).

The book chronicles the unexpected ascension of 14-year old DuanBai to the throne as the Emperor of the Xie Empire. It tells how the young Emperor is being manipulated by the Empress and the Empress Dowager (grandmother), how he grows up, unable to control his paranoia, his turn to cruelty and his own insecurity of his own impending demise, as foretold by a mad monk when he took to the throne.

Overall, I do find the book quite an interesting read. I am sure, some of the nicer "words" used in the Chinese language are lost in translation (the book is originally in Chinese). It describes quite vividly the emotions and the turmoil felt by the Emperor as he journeys from the lavish settings of his palace, to the warring borders out his empire, and to the streets as he seeks to find his place.

Sad

One of the best boss I have ever known, who was a manager in the previous company I was employed, passed away last Saturday. He had a heart attack on Thursday and was admitted to the hospital, everybody thought he would be ok but he left us on Saturday morning. Although I never worked under him before, but I really respect him as one of the best boss I have ever known.
Why did God take the good people away from us at their young age?
May he rest in peace......