After dunno-how-many years, I have re-visited Langkawi island under company’s team building trip last Friday. It was a 2 days 1 night trip inclusive of all the traveling required from/to Penang. I met up with my colleagues around 530am at McD Sungai Dua. Idiotic enough, we need to board the ferry from Kuala Perlis and not from Penang itself. Things got a little ’sui’ although not on me when one of the participants got into road accident when he was on his way driving to the assembly point, at the factory. He was fine though, from what I heard. Except the pity Kelisa.

Not getting enough of the bad incident, our bus broke down at the side of the highway just after it got out from the tol plaza near Sungai Dua. There, we have waited patiently inside the bus for around an hour. What happened? I was told by the driver that the one of the 8 bola (ball alike thingy I suppose that has something to do with hydraulic ) was not functioning therefore the suspension wasn’t working making our ride very bumpy when traveling at high speed.

After an hour or so, bus’s company sent a mechanic over and made some tuning/tweaking to the bus and magically it recovered almost in no time! Lucky enough! And we have made the ferry waited for us probably due to our large number, they were urged to wait. The air-con inside the ferry was awful. It’s merely good for ventilation and not cooling us down at all. Their seats are scrapped, damaged and broken. Awful!

45 minutes later, we made it, finally, to the land of eagles.

After so many years, its wings still spreading wide. But, how come it’s not flying yet, still?

(Pics credit to SeeMun, Liang and many others)

to be continued…. I need to pangkang now… have a good weekend folks!

Got this piece of news in my inbox today. It writes…..

Objective of internship program is to select, train and subsequently recruit best-in-class university / college graduates.

If you know of anyone who wish to undergo internship with Motorola, please point them to this site for online submission at www.motorolacareers.com

Job ID 81131 : MYS-2009 Internship (Non-Technical - Finance, Operations, Business, etc)
Job ID 81130 : MYS-2009 Internship (Manufacturing Engineering)
Job ID 81129 : MYS-2009 Internship (Software Engineering/Computer Science/IT)
Job ID 81128 : MYS-2009 Internship (Electrical/Electronics Engineering)
Job ID 81127 : MYS-2009 Internship (Mechanical Engineering)

Criteria:-

• Master or Bachelor Degree from Engineering (Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Science)
• Master or Bachelor Degree from Non-Engineering faculty (Finance, HR, IT, Economics, Social Science, etc)
• Malaysian citizenship
• CGPA with 3.0 and above

Motorola is organizing MotoIntern on 9th January 2009 at Mandarin Oriental, KL. Shortlisted interns will be invited to attend the interview session.

To know more about the courses/program offered, just go to the link above and key the appropriate job ID listed above.

Come come work with me.

Workplace Location:

KL Tower and Petronas Twin Towers

Kuala Lumpur Skyline Panoramic View

Note: Right-click on the photos and choose “open in new tab/window” would give you a better view! Sorry my lightbox don’t shrink images automatically.

These shots are taken at Look Out Point! Location as shown below.

Tada~~~ I went to Kerachut again for the second time this year. This time, I went with my colleagues from Motolala.

SJLee, Adrian, Ricky, Hugo and ChoonYi and…

Joyce from Motolala also. Nice to meet you for the first time.

I couldn’t catch my breath and got muscle cramp on the way back and It was worse than last time. I think I need to exercise more given my limited little stamina in my body. On the way back Joyce and ChoonYi were the two that are leading the pack and pulled away at steady rate. By the time I reached I can see them practicing dancing. Just imagine how slow I was. Ahahha.. man… I’m weak

Had a great time hiking and sweating. That’s the spirit! Let’s do it again some time in the future!

Ahem, Here’s some good shots taken during the trip. The rest of the photos can be found in the album page link below. Comments are welcomedddddd

More at this Photo Album

Kerachut Suspension Bridge HDR

View album in Full Window!

Penang Pearl of Orient Panorama City Skyline

Ahem… may I get your attention please…

This is my latest panoramic masterpiece of my beloved Hugo Penang Island. It is taken using Canon 10-22mm at 10mm 1/250s F/10 handheld.

And here’s the location where I composed this shot.

Yes, if you see it correctly, I took it from Prangin Mall’s carpark.

ahahaha.. yes yes… make no mistake.. I took this from carpark. In fact this is my second time doing so.

Here’s the first panorama taken at the very same spot few years back in 2004 using Nikon 5700 prosumer camera.

The wide angle shot above is made possible after stitching using software. It was taken using Sigma 18-200 at 18mm with 4 exposures taken vertically.

That was my only visit to Starhill gallery so far and I actually went for Jogoya that time. I tried to take some photos on the restaurant’s environment but was stopped by the staff there. Therefore, these are all I got for Jogoya. Read the rest of this entry »

TMNet Streamyx users may be experiencing difficulty to surf the Internet despite getting connected properly with no apparent reason of why you can’t surf. You restart the modem, use different browser, turn off and on this and that and not to avail. Then, its probably TMNet DNS has gone haywire.

What the heck is DNS? It’s like I say I want to go to Tesco. So, DNS will tell me in order to get to Tesco, you need this address: 123, Jalan Abc.

That’s how it works, more or less, in Internet. You want to go to yahoo.com, DNS will give you the IP 68.180.206.184 to your browser to surf into. Simple!

Problem here is TMNet DNS gone kaboom and not too stable most of the times. So, here’s the solution! Use alternative DNS like Singtel, TIME Net, OpenDNS and many more!

For Windows XP:

1. Get to your Network Connection, pick your usual network adapter, right-click and choose properties!
2. Select TCP/IP, click properties, select use the following DNS server addresses, fill in any values below.
3. Click OK, wait for it to take effects. And you are ready to go!

OpenDNS

• 208.67.222.222
• 208.67.220.220

Singtel

• 165.21.83.88
• 165.21.100.88

Time Net

• 203.121.16.85
• 203.121.16.120

Okay, this blog post is intended for those with situation as below:-

1. You are blogspot blogger. (Of course, you are)
2. Bought domain at godaddy.com thru blogspot’s “purchase a domain”
3. And lastly, you get “Another blog is already hosted at this address” when trying to point your blogspot to your new domain.

With the purchase of domain thru that, you will be given a googe apps account. You can retrieve the details in the email sent to you after your domain is purchased.

Solution:

1. Log in to your Google Apps account as administrator.
2. Go to Service Settings -> Sites

3. Go to Web address mapping

4. There will be one entry only namely www. Select it and delete the record. Proceed with all the delete warning and confirmation. It’s safe. No worry here.

5. After you have finished with the deletion. Go to your blogspot dashboard and try to point to your new domain again. NOTE: In blogspot dashboard there, put your domain name with www prefix. Example: put www.hugolim.com instread of just hugolim.com and you do not need to check “redirect www.hugolim.com to hugolim.com”

6. That’s all. Very straightforward is’nt it. Happy blogging!

Technically, if this solution worked for you, then the reason why you getting this error would be…. google apps’s webservice(sites) is utilizing your domain thus your blogspot failed to get your domain linked up with it.

Resources:

I got by brain worked from these links:-

• http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2007/06/another-blog-is-already-hosted-at-this.html
• http://www.consumingexperience.com/2007/01/blogger-google-apps-godaddy-custom.html
• http://www.hugolim.com/2008/05/setting-up-custom-domain-for-blogspot/

And if my solution above doesn’t work and you think its google’s database problem. Ask google to manually clear your domain from their database here https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pZHHZdeYKeHitQbvxkvwnCg&email=true