Multi-touch Interface Design

With all the hype about iPhone 3G, many didn't realized that the multi-touch interface design is not a new thing that is invented by Apple. The technology has been long exist, but not yet developed or still in developing stage by the major player in software and hardware field. HP has already come out with a new desktop HP TouchSmart PC that utilized this technology.



Imagine in the future, your computer is just a piece of plastic and you can control it by using 2 or even 10 of your fingers at the same time doing all sorts of things without the old-style mouse clicking, just like what you saw in the movie Minority Report by Tom Cruise, I believe this is the future. Look at the following video and you will definitely say "wow" in not less than 5 times !

Penang Butterfly Farm

I don't remember when was the last time I went there, my impression from what other people told me last time on the Penang Butterfly Farm is just a place full of butterflies flying around you and just that, nothing special. Well, I am WRONG ! Never see never know, I am quite surprise when I saw so many other things inside, in which butterflies is just 10% of what you are about to see in the Butterfly Farm.

Entrance to Penang Butterfly Farm.
Entrance fee : Adult = RM 10 for MyKad holder, RM 20 for foreigner.
20% discount for The Store Card holder

Upon enter, you will be amazed by all the butterfly flying around you. They are not afraid of the people and one butterfly even land on my pants!

The tree squirrel

A bunch of scorpion !

Difference of a butterfly and a moth

Asian Softshell Turtle

Alligator Snapper

Japanese Jewelwing Damselfly mating, look at their body forming a love shape

Moving leaf

Thorny Stick

Look at the size of it in relative to my hand

Giant Malayan Stick

Beetle

Malaysian Giant Scorpion, which fluorescence under UV light. According to the description, it can fluorescence under moonlight or early sunlight.

Orchid Mantis

Man-Face Bug

The biggest oil painting in Malaysia.

The photo you see in my blog is just part of the things you can expect to see at Penang Butterfly Farm, go there and you will not regret your time and effort to drive all the way to Batu Ferringi. Before exit, you will pass through a souvenir shop. Overall, Penang Butterfly Farm is a great place to visit and RM 10 is a fair price to pay compared to the over-charged Penang Tropical Fruit Farm at RM 25.

MU vs Newcastle

What is Sir Alex Ferguson thinking ? Playing noob players like F.Campbell, Possedon (who the hell is him?) and Rafael (which I get to know him only in FM 2008 and never used him) in an English Premier League opening ? All other major teams like Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool got the 3 points. Chelsea was particularly impressive, can't believe Lamaprd, Deco, Ballack and Joe Cole can played so well together and scoring 4 goals pass David James !

MU oh MU, don't you realized that you need a really good striker up front since last season? Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez are both good players but they are not Ruud van Nistelrooy, a lethal finisher ! Come on man... it is time to open your cheque book and get players like David Villa, Huntelaar, Eto or Henry. My personal favourite would be David Villa, providing the final touch which is so important than having various talents in the midfield creating chances but no one can put an end to it...

Cristiano Ronaldo please come back ASAP ! It would be great if MU can splash the cash and get both David Villa and David Silva, MU would become a dream team by then, Glory Glory Man United !

Goodbye Daniel Teoh Chien Yang

I am so sad to hear that a car accident took away your life from your family and friends. May your soul rest in peace and follow the light to a better afterlife. I may not know you really well but it is great to know someone who is so kind, understanding and easy going.



To everyone, drive carefully, saving a few seconds/minutes isn't worth risking your life.

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Titi Kerawang

Nowadays it is so hard to find a waterfall in Penang, and it is even harder to find a waterfall with clean water for you to swim and enjoy the water falling down onto you giving you free massage. The waterfall at Botanical Garden no longer allow visitors to enter since about 10 years ago, and I have been looking for another waterfall since then.

Last Saturday I planned to pay a visit to Tropical Fruit Farm, but the admission fee really scares me away. It's RM 25 which includes a person to guide you around and a glass of fruit juice. Student price is only available if you come together as a group. I decided to take out my PDA and search MapKing if there was any other interesting place to go, and then I found out Titi Kerawang Waterfall, which is just a few minutes drive away from Tropical Fruit Farm.

The map to Titi Kerawang, after Teluk Bahang Dam, the two-way road is just like the size of a goat's intestine where you need to drive at a speed of less than 40 kph if you don't want to fall off from the mountain, unless you are driving a car with superb handling like Mini Cooper or Suzuki Swift Sport. Along the road you can find a lot of durian stals, but I don't know whether the price is cheaper than other places.

One of the many durian stalls

You know you have arrived when you see plenty of stalls selling fruits and those typical tourist souvenirs

This is what I meant by goat's intestine road.

This will happen when the road is so small. I can't believe the bus driver managed to maneuver at this kind of road, really need a lot of experience and patience.

The entrance to Titi Kerawang Waterfall

1 minute walk into the waterfall. See the large waterpipe ? It is one of the water supply source for Penangites.

Lower end

You need to climb over a few rocks to reach the upper end of the waterfall. It is not as nice as the Seven Wells Waterfall at Langkawi, but I am happy to find a waterfall with clean water.

A nice place to espace from the heat, especially it is free for all !

Teluk Bahang Dam, 2 weeks ago there was International Dragon Boat Competition, too bad I missed it. However, there were polices from various state competing on last Saturday.

My next stop is Penang Butterfly Farm which I can't remember when was the last time I went there. More details and photos will be posted later.

China Olympic Mascots

These had got to be the ugliest mascots I had ever seen ! White face like ghost (except it is normal for a panda), alien-like character and looks scary to me with their mouth in between eyes

This Pukii mascot of Shanghai Bank at least looks cute, but if it become Olympic mascot may be whenever it appear on Malaysia TV it will be censored

Why so serious ?

These photoshop pictures are really funny ...

Judgement Day on show at 16 September 2008 ?

What is the original source of this picture ? That bomb should be a C4

A good shooter use his instincts under extreme situation, don't you know that ?

Again, what is the original source of this picture ? "Ubah" doesn't mean that you need to do it the hard way, take it easy

I know you paid RM 500 to get your driving license

This is a genius masterpiece translated by a genius !

Childhood

If you are Msia's 80s baby, read through this,
> > we grew up watching Transformers,
> > Thundercats, Woody Woodpecker,
> > Chipmunks, Mickey Mouse, Jem, The Mask,
> > Ninja Turtles, Voltron, Baja Hitam, Popeye,
> > Ultraman and not forgetting SAILORMOON,
> > POWER RANGERS n BUGS BUNNY!!!
> > AirWolf
> > McGyver

> > had to brush our teeth during recess
> > at primary school? had to hold plastic
> > cups, line up with your classmates side
> > by side and start brushing our teeths
> > at some open area... or maybe near some
> > drain??
> >
> > do you still remember that we had
> > 'dentist' rooms where we had to have
> > our teeth check?
> >
> > not to forget our 'program minum susu'
> > in primary school.. everybody is
> > suppose to buy like cartons of milk that costed
> > 30 cents.. and you would see everyone
> > drinking it everyday...its d UHT milk...
> > the teachers who would want to punish
> > us must use yellow rulers to hit us on
> > our palms?? 1 metre length..
> >
> > that a bowl of mihun soup or some soup
> > only costed 30 cents at the school
> > canteen...
> >
> > went to some sundry shop near the school
> > or to the 'roti' man waiting outside
> > our schools so that we can buy junk food
> > like chickedees, mamee, ding dang with
> > some toys in it, 'Ti Kam', ice-cream
> > and we would play games like monopoly, uno,
> > old maid, and all other card games like
> > that...
> >
> > another fun time would be during
> > Pendidikan Jasmani. the boys would
> > play football while the girls would
> > play netball... and it would be like we
> > were playing in the world cup...
> >
> > but of course. the best would be main
> > guli, batu seremban, bottlecaps, ice-
> > cream sticks, 'Pepsi Cola
> > one-two-three', Cops and Robbers, main
> > kejar-kejar duduk,getah... and for the
> > not so active, those kind of 'book
> > games' where we would use buku latihan
> > to draw and ask our friends to play...
> >
> > do you remember the ice-cream tubes
> > which are actually ice and colouring
> > that are sold for 10 to 20 cents.. the
> > colourful ones.. where you usually bite
> > off the top to glup it down.orange
> > taste s b best..(pop-ice)
> >
> > what about days when we felt like
> > doing naughty things such as folding papers
> > so small to make 'lastik' amd shoot
> > each other... how about throwing
> > chalks??
> >
> > back then, micheal jackson was just
> > turning white.. and still had albums
> > coming out.. compared to CD's, we were
> > listening to tapes that sold for RM9.90
> > ...
> >
> > in computer class, we were still using
> > black and white computer moniters..
> > played 'Atari'... maybe SEGA or
> > NINTENDO..
> >
> > well, are we all getting older or what?
> >
> > 1) if you understand what you have read
> > and you are smiling...
> >
> > 2) we have friends from school that are
> > already married...
> >
> > 3) we shake our heads everytime we
> > see high school students fussing about
> > their handphones in school..
> >
> > 4) we don't hang on phone with our
> > friends for hours a day talking about
> > nothing...
> >
> > 5) when we meet back with our friends
> > from time to time, we feel excited and
> > happy talking about old times, the
> > funny 'adventures' or stories that we
> > experienced as a kid..
> >
> > 6) last but not least, that when you
> > read this, you would think of all the
> > happy & sad memories that you have
> > experienced when you were still a kid
> > and would think of forwarding this to
> > your old friends that you have known
> > since forever... i'm sure they would
> > have a huge smile on their face after
> > reading this.....

Remember when you have to beg your parents to buy a TV game that cost you at least RM 100 per game (in a tape) ? Now you can play it for free !

Contra


Eating junk food because of the toy inside ?


Investing money to modify dash car's engine, suspension etc...? Tamiya is very expensive, I bought Audley instead for RM 12.90, that's a lot to me during that time !



Miss watching cartoon and those fictional shows ?

Air Wolf - I remembered it is on show around 11-12 a.m., I am in Standard 1 /2 and I need to go to my grandma's house for lunch before going to school, and I always watch until last minute only rush to eat so just manage to eat very little because of bas sekolah is coming, this is one of my favourite drama that time...



Baja Hitam - Another favourite drama, miss the opening music and trademark punch and kick...



MacGyver - Can't really remember it until I listen to the music and brings back the old memory again...