As we touched down from the airport, I eagerly awaited to see my parent’s newly renovated house. However, we needed to have our dinner before that. The first impression when we were outside my parent’s house was very good. The stainless steel front door looks nice and great. And guess what, there are two new additional rooms fitted with air conds and wood flooring in addition to the existing three rooms. The idea of having the additional rooms and air conds is for us to have a nice and cosy sleep during the night and also to accommodate the additional family members that we have at the moment and in the future. After all, the best place to stay is still home.

The internet connection at home is real slow. It takes some 10 minutes for me to be able to type a post and post it into my blog. Well, what can I do because it is a 56kbps dial up modem connection. And that is the reason that I post very very less during this period in Malaysia. It has been a hectic schedule during Chinese New Year. We have been visiting relatives and vice versa from the first day of Chinese New Year. Today is only the third day of Chinese New Year and I have not visited any of my old friends yet. I need to plan soon.

Also, I need to go to Mee’s hometown which is some 5 hours drive away from my hometown. Then, Mee and I will do some serious shopping at Kuala Lumpur. Hehehe ….

Oh yeah, we had paid for Dragon Dance on the first day of Chinese New Year. Soon after the Dragon Dance, we went to our grandpa’s house and we got some ang pows. At night, we went to another relative’s house for supper. By that time, my nephew and my niece were asleep and they went home first.

It had been a stressful two days at Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. My sis, Mee and I went to Kuala Lumpur yesterday so that Mee can apply her visa to continue to live in UK. However, I must say that the drivers in Malaysia are very arrogant and bullish. They never signal when they are changing lane and they just change whenever they like. Neither are they courteous enough to give way to other vehicles lest alone pedestrians. Some do not even bother the traffic light when it turns to red. Well, I believe driving in Kuala Lumpur alone will certainly cost more stress to people who have never driven in Kuala Lumpur before and save some money on diet pills.

Hmm… I wonder what is taught by the driving instructors in Malaysia. Sometimes, I also wonder if I was driving like them before I came to UK but I am certain that I strictly followed the rules and regulations.

Yesterday, I woke up at 0630 and there was no heating. Sadly, the heating only starts at 0700. However, I still bravely took my shower and it was freezing when I came out of the shower room. But I must admit, it was a good way to start the day.

When Mee and I moved in to this place, the heating did not function properly. The toilet did not have a radiator and the whole house was icy cold during the winter. After the heating was fitted, the landlord controls the time. There is virtually no heating in the afternoon which is fine in the summer but it is winter at the moment. Shouldn’t he be adjusting the time to suit our needs?

Still, I must say that the landlord has been good to us. He installed the water softener and I believe that the house is utilizing a tankless water heater. In addition, he hires a cleaner to clean the open area once a week. What can I say? Maybe he is fed up with tenants moving in and out all the time before he made the house a better place to live.

It is a norm for Mee and I to take supplements; vitamin B, vitamin C and vitamin E. Almost everyday, we will make our own juice drinks; combinations of carrots, green apples, cucumber, grape fruits or celery. Sometimes, I just think that drink fresh juices and eating five a day food will be good enough and maybe better off than taking supplements.

Indeed, eating healthy is important. However, supplements are quite necessary too. Previously, Mee was taking 500mg of vitamin C. On the other hand, I take 1000mg of vitamin C all the while. Lately, Mee followed and she takes 1000mg of vitamin C. I find out that she seldom sneezes in the morning compared to the time when she only took 500mg of vitamin C.

Sometimes, when I see the advertisements about diet pills such as Decaslim which they boast of having a combination of superfood, I just wonder if they should be called as diet pills. If the claims were true, then taking those ‘diet pills’ will be a very good supplement for our body. Don’t you agree?

As planned, my manager and I managed to upgrade the system. The upgrade was successful but somehow, a number of computers were unable to run the system reports. We had no idea how that happened and it took me the whole morning to figure out the solution and implement it. Well, I did not solve the whole thing myself, I contacted the software support as well as liaise with our IT support personnel because I needed to make sure that my solution would not cause more problems. In addition, the IT support would have to help me to deploy necessary files onto users machine. Thankfully, the problem was resolved at 1300.

Back at home, I have been helping a friend in repairing his laptop. It is a HP Pavilion DV9000. The recovery failed to work and it seems to always happen on HP machines. I reinstalled Windows Vista and created a recovery partition for him using Acronis True Image 2009. The secure zone partition created by Acronis has quite the same function as the HP’s recovery solution. Just press F11 when prompted during boot and it will restore the backup-ed data without logging in Vista.

Netbook and Laptop

Comparing my netbook to the laptop, the size is obvious. The weight of the HP is enormous too.