(Stealing Colleen's iPad again when she's sleeping)

Sitting on the snow with my brother, Sebastian, talking about life.

So it was snowing here - as always, it's a privilege to experience such an occasion - many bears, in fact, many human, have not experienced that.

So in other countries which would give caution about the bears - in Kiwi country, of course, they give warning about Kiwis.


My grandpa trolled on my parents last Sunday, when they discussed about politics.

My grandpa said "BN will lose in the next general election la... Year 55 of Merdeka means retirement ma.."

55 years = retirement.

What a nice number and beautiful coincidence.

The best is, it was a trollolol from a man who has witnessed Malaya's independence to the formation of Malaysia, and to the downhill presence.

He can't be wrong :)


In the past 2 weeks, I didn't really commit to video editing - reason is simple, it crashes way too often.

First I thought it was due to the version - so I updated to the latest version.

Still, it crashes like joy.

Then I thought it's the laptop's video card driver - updated to the latest version as well.

Crashing is still in its blood.

So I asked my friend Google. It seems the problem lies with my Sony Text Generator and also Media Generator.

Which is true - it was prone to crash whenever I generated a text or blank black media.

So the solution

1) Right click on the vegas110.exe (You can find it under: Program files -> Sony -> Vegas Pro 11.0)
2) Select Properties
3) Make sure the settings are set to those highlighted as follow:

4) Hit OK when all were set.

So running in compatibility mode for Windows 7 did the trick.

I don't know why but at least it works and I was able to finish some work last night.

One thing I noticed though, is that Vegas is now running slower than usual.

But I believe Sony team won't be releasing any more update, as they are focusing on Vegas Pro 12 instead.


When I read it here, I couldn't believe it.

If they leave mobile world - are they gonna cope with the shrinking PC market?

Tablet is so handy nowadays. Even my dad, myself and my sister can feel it.

Adobe Flash is one of the reason why I chose Android - and being proud of it.

Though buggy, but I can still get some basic function from those website with flash.

With Adobe Flash exiting Android, it's like Adobe succumb to the fact that HTML5 is gonna take over Flash.

Disappointing but that's life.


(Blogging again from Colleen's iPad.)

Made some new friends in New Zealand!

Hola Amigos... well it seems like I'm really addicted to blogging. So here I am, in New Zealand!
So like locals do, we drank a lot, I was really drunk that I couldn't stand up.. this Scrumpy cider is really getting me tipsy.

Anyway, I know I'm gonna have hangover tomorrow, so I'd better catch a sleep now.


KFC did it again... with a failed product.
I don't need mention how many products they have invented on fried chicken - every time they intro the 'new spicy flavour' (such as spicy curry chicken), the spicy fried chicken would become the victim - retire for a while, then when the new product doesn't sell, the spicy fried chicken would come to the market again.

OK, this time, their tagline is ‘So Authentic. Even the Thais Want It’.

So I tried it like two weeks ago - it was the sweetest green curry I've ever tried in my life.

Thai green curry, in my opinion, is supposed to be spicy + slightly salty.

This KFC's case, the sweetness is like dominating 30% of the total taste, with 65% spiciness + 5% saltiness.

So my recommendation? If free, DIY to cook green curry chicken, on your own.

Your cooking will easily taste better than KFC - no joke.



For such an essential Malaysian drinks, it received much better salary increment than ordinary people.

RM31.30, for 2KG refill pack, at Carrefour. (it was like RM25 something two years ago? that's like 24% increment in two years)

Anyway, it comes with 200g bonus. (i.e. RM31.30 for 2KG + 200g)

So I guess I should rest my case, for having the "Janji Ditepati", to stay in the high income spending country.

On a totally different note: Milo tin is in its 70s retro design now. It looks nice. Go check it out in any supermarket.






Me and Sebastian, sitting with big fat Winnie the Pooh
I always think that a bear wearing a shirt is stupid.

I mean, by nature, 'civilization' is not applicable to bear - and what civilization? Use spoon to eat honey?

 To me, bear wearing shirt is the same as this dog wearing this whatever dress.

They tried to look cute but they failed in or by nature.

After all, it is not environmental friendly - when Winnie the Pooh made his (or her? It's a female name if not mistaken???!) shirt dirty, as a result of his take-all-he-can-honey-eating style, he needs water and detergent to wash it.

Clean water is a serious issue in the world now.

That's why, Sebastian and I, by nature, do not wear anything.

Let's imagine the day you enter the zoo, with all the animals wearing shirts.

I am not gonna give you the ticket refund, anyway.

P/S: I blogged using Colleen's iPad.



So this has been my favorite radio station since like 2 years ago?
That's when I was sick of mainstream music on other radio stations, or with only music only station (which I could use Youtube playlist, or something like that)

The morning session, Breakfast Grill, which they will invite some top guns from many companies, be it private, public-listed or even government-sectors.

After the 'grilling' session, 3 DJs will share their opinions on the session.

Though it's very much business related - but it is a good opportunity to expose to ideas/opinions by those top guns.

It is a much neutral radio station, it even report the news covered by The Malaysia Insider, one of the good example is the progress of the Scorpine court case in France.

Thursday Evening Edition is an interesting session - audience are given a chance to call in to give their opinions on specific topics - I called in twice so far :)

Apart from that, BFM has interesting guests, such as Dr. George Lee, a Malaysian who migrated to UK, but chose to come back to serve Malaysia :) (who is also TC's favorite Malaysian Doctor)

One of Evening Editions' DJ, Uma, is an avid reader. So occasionally he will share the opinions on the books he read.

Now, just when you think BFM is all about Business, Mon - Fri 7.30PM will feature interesting sessions such as football talk, and my favorite 33 RPM (Tuesdays & Thursday) which the DJ will intro and play alternative music, ranging from 60's to recent years, that I seldom heard the names before.

There are other things that you might just need to switch to 89.9 channel to get what I mean.

But so far, listening to those talks and the alternative music do make my day :)

I hope this indie radio station will stay, it really is a hidden gem.



Verdict: I just watched another action movie.

After the crazy but fun 8.8 "event" at 1Utama, finally, we managed to catch the movie.

To be frank - I kinda like some of the idea/technology (the 'phone', the Fall) about the future.

But apart from that, in this movie, you will follow the actor, trying to complete the puzzle of his torn memory, + do all the chasing, killing, and most importantly, memory recalling.

The story line is surreal - in fact, the original author of this story is the same as The Adjustment Bureau.

Most importantly, both of the movie are loosely based on the original books.

The problem is this - Adjustment Bureau would want you to think what could be the ending, and the ending didn't disappoint.

But this one is somewhat predictable - it didn't have a lot of explosion scene that can blow your mind away.. and even there were explosions, the hot chick was still able to survive (while the robots 'died')

If you have time, yes, it is still ok to spend RM9-ish on Wednesday, with 2 hours worth of airconditioning (no guarantee that there will be babies crying or phone ringing, but that is another story/blog post for another day)

Also, the consolation prize for Douglas, is that he had two hot ladies at the same time, somewhat, somehow.

Rating: 5.5/10




This was a song I heard few weeks ago during my lunch time @ McDonald (TMI, i know)

(Btw, I have yet to try their McCafe, looks interesting though)

The song was catchy... my sister likes it too.


But after a few days - I realised one thing, during the chorus, if you sing along with the "da da da da da da da da da da da... Hey Jude" lyrics from Hey Jude...

It MATCHES
So after I've done some Googling, it was right - the writer of the song says that he got inspired by the song "Hey Jude" actually.

Doesn't matter, still a good song.