Saturday, August 29, 2009

Star Wars - Y-Wing Fighter

the most powerful vessel in the Rebel Alliance fleet, the Y-Wing Starfighter

Bought this toy from e-Bay. To me, next to the imperial shuttle, this is my favourite vessel from Star Wars. My vehicle collection is almost complete. What's left now is the Imperial Shuttle and the AT-AT. Quite competitive if you're bidding for the shuttle on e-Bay. The shipping charges alone is about USD80.

it comes in one of the most neat packaging i've seen. complete with the rebel base diorama.

includes Y-Wing pilot and R5-F7 droid

nice....

I'm gonna 'weather' these toys to make it more realistic and that requires some paint job. Might ask for my brother's assistance. What I need to do now is go to IKEA and buy a new displaying cabinet to protect my investment. I'm so glad the boys knows how to discipline themselves when playing with the toys.

very nice....

next to the millenium falcon..

Han Solo: Ko bukak puasa dekat mana hari ni? Aku pikir nak beli seri muka la

Gold leader pilot: Aku tak puasa hari ni, aku hyperdrive berapa kali dah...Musafir...

Monday, August 24, 2009

I thought i had it.....

I'm not an experienced bidder on ebay. Still, I thought I had the chance in bidding for a mint condition Imperial Shuttle from Hasbro. It's a cool toy really and it's so cheap there. Here in KL it could cost you up to RM700! But what to do. I lost to a bidder who's probably surfing on a 100MB/s broadband SDSL somewhere in Europe. I can see why we need high speed broadband to remain competitive!!!
p/s: dah confident menang, siap buat screen capture to 'capture' the saat-saat kemenangan..
1 min 51 seconds to go....

just 35 seconds more and this baby is mine..muaahahah

what the hell?? kalah???by a dollar?? under 30 sec??

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Face Mask..

I'm having a difficult time persuading Zidani to put on his face mask. He don't even let us wear our mask! It terrifies him as it reminds him of the hospital.

I have a suggestion for the producers. Make the mask more fashionable. I don't know whether it's possible but it would great if they could print out the mask with cartoon characters. Print out Ben10 charatecters and I bet all young school children would want to wear it. It makes parents life easier. God knows it could even help to reduce the spread of H1N1.

So make it more fashionable and trendy laa..letak gambar bunga ke..buat macam kaler tudung..baru la matching. A slow yet assuring transition to purdah...hehehe

p/s: hope to see somebody selling face mask with jalur gemilang imprint..sempena hari merdeka. maybe corporate bodies should think about this...

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

"Today's Internet a force to be reckoned with" - But it's still a jungle out there...

Interesting article from the NST here. The Internet was used to pressure a mobile operator in the US. With community based websites, it’s possible that state/corporate level command and control model can be directly influence by the citizen/consumer. Democracy would strive best when decisions are made bottom up.

The corporate and Gov’t sector must embrace social networking platforms. It not only connects them to untapped knowledge resources but most importantly it links them directly to citizens who puts them into power, the voters. In Malaysia, governing the majority group is not as easy as it used to be. It’s almost like when a company used to be a monopoly and suddenly, the market liberates and they grapple with competition. And hopefully, the political competition would push the incumbent to be more citizen centric.

Governance model in Malaysia is very unique and I think the country has the opportunity to showcase the world how we use broadband to enable citizen centric governance. Multi ethnicity, religions and social history demands differentiated services from the Gov’t. And these differentiated services, not the one size fits all approach can be delivered through the Internet or Web2.0 apps. 1Malaysia to me means treating each citizen as a unique individual with their own rights as a Malaysian.

The question is how does a Telco play its role in enabling this? Do we just supply infrastructure services and be detached from the application value layer? Or do we marry or embed application layer into the network? The Internet is a force to be reckoned with. But as it is, it’s like a jungle out there. It has it’s pros and cons. IP network provides ubiquitous connectivity. What does is it mean really? Are we making the ‘jungle’ even more denser?

A telco could provide a more robust and federated interconnecting world. It could make the Internet more secured and organized. People have been talking about the effect of information overload as we have to increase our capacity and capability to assimilate and synthesize information. This is an opportunity for a telco to provide crucial value in terms of transporting the right information at the right time to the right audience. In a knowledge and innovation society, a federated network is critically important especially in the area of governance, health care, security and financial sectors before we extend it to the consumer or citizen.

To deliver this value, for a Telco, being customer centric is a must. By being customer or industry centric, we could map industry, social, legal or governing standards into the network. And that’s how we add value to the network. That’s how we bond the application layer and infrastructure layer. It’s a deep jungle out there and no one else is going to cut the under growth, collect rubbish or clear the trail for you. No rangers to come to the rescue when you’re in trouble. By integrating infrastructure with the application value layer, a Telco can make this ‘jungle’ clearer, safer and more sustainable for everyone to use.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Star Wars - Millennium Falcon

Pictures first...toy review later...you might have a PS3 at home, but do you have a 2 1/2 feet long Millenium Falcon Star Wars vehicle??? hehehehe

it comes in a huge box....
assembling the vehicle is kids play....

we had dinner that night with millennium falcon on the side..hahahah


this is one cool toy... storing it is a problem though....
we couldn't take our eyes and hands off her...hahahaha