Coconut Jelly from Penang

Back from Penang not long ago. There is one food, or should I say dessert - coconut jelly. It is the best thing to try on a hot day, refreshing and cooling!!

From the outside, it just looked like normal coconut with its skin removed. What really interesting is the all the coconut water inside in has been turned into jelly form. Bassically, you can scoop out the jelly or suck it using straw. What's more? you can still eat the coconut fresh after finishing the jelly.... yummy.

Almost forgot, it is located at Jalan Dato Keramat. Must try if you visit Penang.

Childhood memory.... Super Nintendo

My mom asked me to check if my brother's Play Station still working before decide to give it away or trash it. Well, Just for the fun of it, I 'dig' out my Super Nintendo system and give it a shot.

To my amazement, it is still WORKING!! After sitting in the cupboard for years, yes, many years, I would say 10 years or more. The Game Cartridges works too, some might not familiar with the term Cartridges as right now games all come in CD, DVD or even Bluray. It is the media for games in the 'old' time.

Here is a peek of the System.

Anyway, just want to make a note before selling this old time memory away :)

Bad day...

After attending my friend's wedding, I accidentally scratched my car's side underneath when I went out from the parking lot, how careless I am!?

It will cost few hundreds to fix, darn....

My new toy - Nokia N97

Finally I got my new toy - Nokia N97, flagship of Nokia. It was bought to upgrade my exisiting N82. Even though, my N82 served me well for a year but I was urged to get a touch screen phone as the touch screen phones are everywhere now.



Before I bought my new toy, I did a thorough check on the review available on Internet and also personally went to Nokia Shop to have the physical feel of it. Well, I would say 80% of the review I got from Internet is NEGATIVE!

To be always unique, at least I think I am :), I give it a try nonetheless. To be honest, it can’t compete with Apple IPhone, for its responsiveness on the touch screen, but it certainly not a bad upgrade if you own previous N-series phones. For its touch screen’s responsiveness, I found it acceptable though.

The build quality is superb and the body itself is not fingerprint “attracter” which is one thumb up for Nokia to choose the right material. I have a chance to try on Samsung Omnia HD, and I am not fond of it for its size and its build quality, it felt “cheap”, even though its specification is definitely stronger than N97.



Another main reason to get the N97 would be its built in QWERTY keyboard, many people found it hard to use, maybe those reviewers are all with big fat finger…. Hehe… who knows? Another complaint is about its layout, I found it difficult at first but later on you will get used to its layout pretty fast. We should not reject reject anything that is unusual to the rest right?

Screen and sound quality both look promising too, bright display and loud sound. Another cool feature would be it built in FM transmitter, although I myself is not a music lover, but who will decline cool features?

Finally, I would give a 8/10 score for my new toy - N97. It is not the best out there but certainly worth every cent I spent on it.

Souvenior from China

Can't miss to get myself souvenior from the China trip. I know ... I know, these are japanese dolls but they look cute, don't they :) Here they are!






Basically you can see them everywhere in the souvenior shops.

Short trip to Beijing - Part III

Our last stop was at the Ming Tomb - 定陵. It is one of the 13 tombs and is the tomb of the last emperror of Ming Dynasty. It took about 6 years to build the underground tomb. Really impressed with the ancient people, they managed to build such gigantic and impressive architecture without the help of machineries.



This shows the location of the tomb out of the 13 tombs


The gate to the underground tomb, which everyone who comes out from here will shout "I am back", sounds silly but I followed anyway:)


Throne for the deceased emperror. Ruler of underworld?


View from the exit.


The unearthed place of the "Guiding Slab" - which lead to the entrance of the tomb.

Short trip to Beijing - part II

Although it was rush, we managed to squeeze some time out to go out the GREAT WALL. Like Chinese saying: 不上长城非好汉.

Well, it was TOUGH, my friend and I managed to reach the top tower of the Great Wall, and it already took us like 1 hour plus.
The view is superb and majestic.

Never ending .......

Finally reached the the top tower!!

Fix for DELL studio 15 - Jammed Touch Sensitive Eject Button

Just to share with Dell studio user out there.

I am a Dell Studio 15 user myself and was bugged with the Jammed Touch Sensitive Eject Button on my laptop since DAY 1!!! Finally after few months, Dell has released the fix for it.

The fix can be downloaded at here.

More info can be obtained from Dell forum

Short trip to Beijing - Part I

As a host for Olympic 2008, Beijing sure is a well developed City. I did not spent a long time there though but managed to visit some interesting places. Let me introduce the Forbidden City.

Isn't it magnificent?! This has been the Palace for Emperrors since Ming Dynasty. For those who are not familar with the China history, the building is more than 500 years old!



Along the way, pair of Chinese Guidance Lions can be seen on the entrance to the main hall.

This is believed to symbolic powerful mythic protective powers



The throne in the Hall of Preserving Harmony. It was used for rehearsal ceremonies and the final stage for the Imperial examination.

Well, did not really have enough time to fully cover the whole area. I think it is worth to go there again and enjoy scenery there once again.