I dare say this year is the most exciting, interesting and surprising F1 season ever, since I watch F1 in 2001.

Here are the ten reasons why:

1) Michael Schumacher had left F1 racing - which, of course, create a more equal opportunity for the racers

2) Lewis Hamilton! He created brand new record in F1, and of course, brings the super sensation in the F1 scene, which includes: first black to race, first (rookie) driver to finish on podium in the first three races, first youngest driver to lead the championship.

3) The racing team improvement are much more even (take BMW, Williams and Super Aguri for example)

4) Most interestingly, those cars that are using customer engines perform better than the main team. (Super Aguri had taken points while Honda hasn't, Williams had performed much better than the ever struggling Toyota)

5) We see some creative front wings design this year:

Mclaren's - which had proven to be quite effective since its introduction


Honda's - which was used only during the testing. Wtf? Like Jumbo only!

6) This season sees the experienced race like rookies and rookies race like the experienced one (pictures taken from BBC)

Kimi Raikonnen had (unfortunately) left for Ferrari. And this year, sees Mclaren, his previous team, becoming the strongest team in this season, ever.

What's more? He's struggling hard in the new car, learning the handling, the tyre etc etc. Correct me if i'm wrong, he had not done ANY significant overtake in this season, and most of the time see him unable to overtake. (Remember the Japanese GP in 2005? He finished #1 from #16)

And that's not all, his previous rival, Michael Schumacher, has been appearing in the Ferrari garage recently. What's more, rumour has it that, Michael will be handed a position in Ferrari (currently he's something like a consultant) My guess is that, he'll be technical director.

Psychologically (erm, will Kimi listen to Michael's, erm, advice? Plus, Michael has been giving advice to Massa, and Massa has been prudent), it's a big torture for Kimi.

I hate to say this but, I think he's jinxed.

Massa, on the other hand, has become the big brother in Ferrari. He's got the upper hand - Michael Schumacher is clearly giving him the support (actually I guess he would give one to Kimi, but well, will Kimi accept that..?) and the best thing is, Massa is keen to learn from this old man, er, I mean, expert.

Need to say more? Lewis has been creating new record in F1. He's a bit big headed, IMHO (in one of his first race, he said in the conference "I managed to trick him(a driver)" Then in the last Canadian GP, his take on Alonso challenge on his P1 - "I thought it's quite a good challenge"

But he's been extremely consistent since he raced, given that, this is his first year in F1 and there are a lot of experienced drivers on the field!

I'm actually sort of his fan now, just that, I really feel sorry for Kimi.

Alonso been a bit struggling in the new team. Like Kimi, he's trying to adapt to all the new things. But since Mclaren had given him a reliable car, he's performing a lot better than Kimi (note: Reliability is the super f***ing big issue with Mclaren in the past few years, and it's the main reason Kimi switched to Ferrari)



This Finnish, Heikki, is said to be a challenge to another Fin, Kimi. And he's been improving in Renault

Kubica has been performing since his debut last year. In the last Canadian GP, saw his car rolling like swiss roll. I'm glad that he's still have big possibilities to race later this weekend.

Nick is, and have to, perform well in BMW, I'm sure Kubica is one of the big reason that made him performing well. Now, he had just helped BMW to get a podium finish in Canadian GP, and now we can expect more from BMW.

TAKUMA SATO! He was marked as the dangerous drivers by Michale Schumacher when he was in Honda. But in the last GP (Canadian) HE WAS THE SUPER STAR OK!

First he overtook Ralf Schumacher (er, he claimed earlier on, in this year that, he's the 4th best driver in this season)

Then guess what, he overtook FERNANDO ALONSO, the two times world champion.

Need to say more? He initially signed the contract with Williams. He then regretted and got Honda to get him back.

Honda had help him to get the first podium last year, but that's all. Honda's been struggling very very hard this year, and even to its brother team - Super Aguri.

8) Canadian GP 2007 is the race that I'll never forget and I'll never regret of staying up late to watch. Lewis' first ever victory, Sato's overtaking action, 4 safety car sessions, accident-packed race(see below for Kubica's swiss-roll-like accident):

9) And guess what? Kubica only suffered sprained ankle! BRAVO TO THE SOLID BMW CAR

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Safari 3 beta... in Windows flavour..

What's wrong with Mac? It's invading Windows now!!!!

Try it here

Verdict: After trying for about one day, it's nice and a lot of features that even FireFox lacks


clear, intuitive 'search within page' function


Drag-and-drop tab (means after you drag the tab out, it'll become a new window)


Mac in action - remember those funky animation you see when you hide or show the window? It's available in this Safari too


Those nice Mac interface - is brought over to Windows, thanks to Safari.


But however, I'll still stick with FireFox - Firefox still load pages faster than Safari (therefore, i don't know why Safari they are the fatest)

Firefox is customisable. I love the quick search box, which is customisable (for example, I have quick search for wikipedia etc)

Bottom line - please welcome Safari, to explore the nasty Windows world ;)

Actually been listening to her album - Scratch since few months back, but lately really love one of the track - Snowdome.

Being a model, singer, composer, lyricist - she's talented :)

am listening to her live concert album. She's a gem.

Wonder how long she can keep on like this - to produce nice compositions without being too commercialised. (you know, even artist like David Tao also had to sort of succumb to the $$ ;) )

It's raining outside, it's nice to listen to her album... at least, I've got a better thing to do, than whining and feeling disappointed.

Happy Birthday and all the best to your new job la.

And thanks for the dinner and thanks for your hospitality in Singapore.

How much does the truth cost?
How much it takes to be an honest person?

A question with no answer.
An answer which doesn't need question.

Felt strange, or is it more like.. disappointed?
Perhaps it's true that, as the memory fades, the mutual will fade too ;)

The Great Escape is just in time - Out of Home for the next one week, to listen to Chow Yun Fatt - "Welcome to Singapore"

wahahahaha

BIG THANKS TO WEIHAN! BIG MUAKS TO HIM

He came and took me to Metro Prima Eneos to buy the battery.

Then with the guide found (as a result of Googling) we managed to install it by ourselves.

Steps are as follow:
1) First remove the negative cable, then positive's, then battery locker
2) Take out battery
3) Put the new battery
4) To whatever done in step 1, but in reversed order

It's simple, but the screw was a bit tight, I further more provided a screwed up situation by dropping a bolt into the engine bay.

Now need to get a bolt.... $@#$#^#$

By the way, I think it's fun to do the DIY. As a result from this, I think I've saved about 30-40RM for the workmanship.

Yes, WeiHan, please remind me next time, at least a treat for the meal is a must!

P/S: The radio still won't work, maybe it's time to ... change? (muahahhaha)

Today got a lot of black things happened.

1) Cannot eat Bah Kut Teh
2) Because my car cannot start
3) Most likely battery is dead
4) My wallet hasn't got much left

5) I'm waiting for my friend to come and bring to me a shop to get a battery on Sunday. Jusco Eneos might be the best bet.. WHAT IF, i mean what if, it closes also
6) Next, I need more DSK power to find out how to change the battery
7) Actually I found, but well, it's my first time. Human might be shaky for the first time, right?
8) Few days back my cd player stopped playing, could be this issue


So now, it seems that, very likely, after getting battery, I need to change myself, cos:
i) My car can't even move to the Eneos to change
ii) If getting some foreman to come sure need extra charges, and i don't have that extra T-T

So here comes
9) I don't know if DSK will become Destructive Silly King/Destroyed & Shortcircuit-ed Kelisa

Now let's pray, WeiHan will come soon, bring me to Eneos to get the battery (that's the very first thing to start off)

I like some of Sophie's songs like Murder on the Dance Floor, Take Me Home.

This album is O.K.

In this album I particularly love the track Me and My Imagination. It sounds fun and cool.

The video is fun too. (and she's gorgeous :) )

You can read more about the album from the wikipedia.

Rating: 6.5/10

P/S: I found that Sophie loves green colour - she previously used the green colour eye shadow + wore green shirt in her first album interview. Now in this video, she had green wear again.

Music video: Me and My Imagination (yes it's huge - 8 MB to load)

It happened about 3 months ago.

Coca Cola changed the packaging back to retro style.. But I don't see it in Malaysia.

Nice. Perhaps it's time for me to wear like Beatles?

(click to enlarge the picture)

This nice piece of illusion art work shows that the pieces will only be in one, when you stands in front of the Pattex glue.

By putting a plastic on the floor, it'll give you an illusion that you floor is extra shinier - with Limpo detergent.

I'm not a fan of Guinness stout (ew...) but I feel cool about their public awareness campaign - by putting the false/blur wording on its own brand - it'll give you a double thought whether you are drunk.

Yes, don't drink and drive, it kills.

They have this machine to chill up the people during the summer, but the ad served as the purpose to give people awareness on influenza.

So I said I need to find an alternative virus scan. And I found it, back in two months ago.

Kaspersky Antivirus 6.0 further scanned a few more threats that Mcafee VirusScan, AVG Anti-Spyware and Webroot SpySweeper couldn't even find.

Personal license would cost USD$39.95 per year. But personally found that it's worth it because, Kaspersky runs the update few hours once, to keep your computer away from the latest threat.

Pros: Ability to scan the virus/malware/trojan/spyware that famous brand like Mcafee or Norton can't. Low on memory consumption.
Cons: Slow scanning speed, but still faster than Webroot SpySweeper or AVG. Apart from that, slows down the computer while scanning.

Rating: 5/5

Literally, it means glutinous rice with chicken (you can read more here)

Tonight my mum cook this as our dinner.


Basically, to cook it you put the ingredients together (such as glutinous rice, Chinese sausage, Chinese mushroom and chicken), then steam it.



My mum cooked it for tomorrow's breakfast also. Oh, I wanna sleep now :P

Personally, looking at the trailer alone, I can't wait to watch this movie.

1) It's a Beatles musical movie
2) From the few covered songs featured in the movie, they all sound great. I like the cover version of "Hey Jude"

Available in US in Sept 07.. that's what the wiki said... what about the rest?

Recently there are lots of nice movie sequel, such as Pirates of the Caribbean, X-Men, Superman, Batman.

This one is no exception :)

The first ten minutes had already caught my attention - the zombie (erm, actually they are the victims of the 'rage' virus) chase in the house - I was on the edge of my seat.

-- Spoiler Begins--

The agressive Infected (taken from www.horror-movie.ca)


Chasing (taken from www.variety.com)

Note that it was still talking about the pre-28 weeks later era.

Then, the movie moved on to the "28 weeks later" era, which was talking about the restoration of an area in London called Isle of Dogs

The virus somehow and in some way reinfected the human again, and it's spreading fast.

Through out the chasing (by "The Infected") and hiding (to the military code-red operation)
There are a lot of action and tense, not to forget about the beautiful scene of London (London Eye, Big Ben, St Paul's Cathedral and not to forget, the New Wembley Stadium)


Hiding (taken from www.smh.com.au)

That's what I liked about the movie.

I also find the watching-in-the-dark-with-Sniper-gun-at-the-underground scene is unique too.

Unfortunately, the virus eventually spread out to Europe(!)

And it's up to audience imagination on how. But it's kinda logic actually :)
-- Spoiler Ends --

Rating: 7 (+1 on nice camera shot) /10
Pros: Lots of action pack scene, tense, it's not those horror movies that use the sound effect to scare people, but rather the action + situation.
Cons: Gory and violent(the helicopter-power scene, though it's creative :P). Plus, the main character of the Rage Infected is too powerful, ok... First, he was able to get into the lab to be infected(super access card? No security guard?), then he was also able to track down where Andy and Tammy were heading, and eventually infected Andy.

Bottom Line: It's nice! I must say, you may want to watch "28 Days Later" before you go for this. IF you like 28 Days Later, am sure you're gonna like this one too ;)

In the movie, somehow it reminds me of US Army in Iraq - killing the innocent, guarding the green zone etc, is that a hidden agenda? Plus, in this movie, you can see that humanity was one of the reason why the Rage virus spread out again.(Ironic, eh?)

Oh yeah, there are quite a number of good British movie lately! Would be nice if you wanna take a break from the American's.

The hurting part in this movie, is not about The Infected killing the Un-infected, but rather, the massacre taken between human and human.

I also like one of the music in the movie, which was first available in 28 Days Later, but heavily used in this movie - In the House - In A Heart by John Murphy

It's time to introduce this little addictive Chinese typing tools, which I've been testing in the past two months.



The reason is because it's a lot improvement over the Microsoft's PinYin. With that old-without-update software, you need to press "space bar" key while you type.


I'm here to demonstrate the convenience. The 3 examples I've shown below - are typing out all without pressing a single space bar


"I've no comment on Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai"


"The Hobbits love to watch Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away"


If it comes to the word which Google PinYin can't recognise as you type, you can use the selection option to get the right selection... The sentence I typed was "Be exhausted for 1 billions years while loving you for ten thousands years"



You can also do your customised type setting. For example, when I type tmd, it'll show "his/her mother's". If I type zo, it'll become Cantonese's 咗, which means "already"

This customised dictionary is tied to your Google account. Which means it'll upload the dictionary and if you login in another machine, you can use the dictionary again.


If you have the Google PinYin turned on, you can switch between English and Chinese typing by just pressing "Shift" key once.

You can read the rest of functions on Google's site
Best of all, Google PinYin is FREE. Get one to try today ;)



P/S: I asked my sis (she's been using it for one month) what will happen if I uninstall Google PinYin from her comp, she said she'll wallop me.