My Workplace

I find the red-brick building very fascinating.

Unfortunately, I think I was able to capture only around 20% of its charm.

Deco Ball

Taken in The Curve, Mutiara Damansara.
If you look carefully, there's my reflection in the shiny decorative ball.

Credit card at petrol station?

There is a good news today! Referring to The Star - No credit card boycott

Government has decided that the banks, oil companies and dealers must resolve their issues and should not burden the public.

I would think that it's a matter of who's going to take one step back and sacrifice some profits.

Another great firefox extension - Gmail Notifier

Gmail Notifier

After installation, this extension will display a small 'mail' icon on firefox's status bar. It shows brief information about your gmail mailbox and notify you when there's new mail arriving.

I won't be using this often, as I prefer email client, but this is still pretty cool. :D

Fasterfox - firefox extension

Fasterfox 0.7.0

I've tried this extension, and it seems to be working quite well. I'm trying it on Firefox 1.0.7, will try on 1.5beta as well. And yes, I'm still using firefox, once in a while ;)

It provides a few pre-set settings to boost speed, and you are also allowed to customize the settings (manually changing item by item). This is pretty useful, comparing to going through the long and never ending 'about:config'.

RED ALERT: Duplicated Blog at txthub

Yesterday night I noticed that my blog (partially) was posted on teethntusks.txthub.com as well.

I do NOT have an account with txthub and apparently my blog contents were being duplicated illegally to txthub.

I have emailed txthub support and hope that they would take necessary actions as soon as possible!

Opera browser

I used Opera during its early days in 1997, it was running fast on my
486 PC back then. It was also one of the few browsers that allowed me to
surf and listen to mp3s at the same time. It's responsive and sleek.

Here is a short article on its history:

Opera Version History

After a few years, it was still free but there was a banner ad. I switched to other browsers since then.

On Sep 20 2005, Opera eliminates its Ad banner and licensing fee, which is pretty much a good news to me, and I'm back using Opera, ver 8.5. My favourite browser once again.

Mushroom Bruschetta - First Attempt

If you start wondering what is Bruschetta, here's a short explanation:

[extracted from wikipedia]

Bruschetta is a food originating in central Italy. It consists of grilled bread rubbed with garlic and topped with extra-virgin olive oil, salt and and spicy red pepper. Variations may include toppings of tomato, vegetables and/or cheese.

It is worth noting that in Italian, bruschetta is pronounced "bru-SKET-ta," though in English-speaking countries it is commonly pronounced "bru-SHET-ta."

I stumbled upon a Mushroom Bruschetta recipe at this website: Mushroom bruschetta - MediterrAsian.com, it seems to be quite an easy recipe for me to make use of the extra virgin olive oil I bought, and so I tried.

It turns out pretty well, here my version of the recipe (simplified):

Ingredients:
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
8 pieces of shiitake mushroom
2 slices of thick hotel bread
1 clove garlic—peeled and cut in half diagonally
some bottled parsley herb
some black pepper

Methods:
1. Use 2 tablespoon of olive oil to fry the mushrooms under medium heat. Add some black pepper and parsley.
2. Toast the bread until golden and RUB one side of the bread with the cut side of garlic.
3. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of olive oil over the slices.
4. Spread the fried mushroom over the slices.
5. Voila!

Happy trying. I would add in bottled black olive and red pepper flakes on my next attempt :)

Putrajaya at 4pm

Putrajaya at 3pm

Putrajaya at 2pm

Putrajaya at 1pm

Putrajaya at 12.45pm

Putrajaya at 12.15pm

Hazy Putrajaya

The hazy condition has been quite bad, and does not seem to be getting any better for the past few days.

Mum's plants

Favourite Scents (BodyShop)

After much trial-and-error, here's the list of my favourite scents combination:

1. Minteva + Zinzibar
2. Amorito + Citrella
3. Altaro + Citrella

They are mostly citrus based, just the way I like it :D

Scents

I bought a set of frangrances from The Body Shop yesterday, and I think it rekindled my passion for scents and perfume ;)



It allows me to invent my own scent by playing mix-n-match with nine fragrances that come in pretty glass vials.

The 9 scents includes fruity, flowery, citrus, musky and etc. By mixing 2 or more of them, one can get a totally new and different scent.

I've tried citrella and velique today, the combination is quite nice, but a little bit too flowery to my liking.

Here is a pretty good read about Perfume and its history:
The History of Perfumes and Fragrance

I'll continue to experiment till I found my favourite scent!

Tweak for Firefox

Wondering if this would help if page loading is slow in Firefox:


Easy Firefox & Mozilla Tweak


Happy Trying!

Requirement Workshop

In view of my upcoming requirement workshop this friday, I've been reading up and searching for ideas to improve myself on it.

Found this useful article:
Requirement Analysis

Managed to get some interesting insights from it.

My Pet

My Pet called Chubi

Things that I learned about Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta Splendens):


1. it's easy to take care of
2. very good jumpers
3. build bubblenest when it's happy









Bits and Pieces

I presume that this blog would contain interesting bits and pieces of my daily life.

I would try to post some pics when I can't churn out suitable words.

A warm welcome to you and hope that you would enjoy reading (or simply browsing)!