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PC Fair 2008 Weekend

Posted by IcedNyior on December 14, 2008  |  4 Comments

I went down to KLCC on Saturday morning. Even after Aree, Jazzy and I were partying till 4am. Ib came over at 10am and we went to KLCC :D Met up with some of the guys for brunch then went over to see the blogger guys at Starbucks. Photo credit to Danny (I edited it a bit).

Attendees:

1. cassplayer – http://www.k-tucky.blogspot.com
2. powerfox – http://briandn.blogspot.com
3. dylanchan1688 – http://www.neversatisfiedwithlife.blogspot.com
4. aaron1kee – http://www.ximplixity.com
5. freezefrost – http://www.criticallyacclaimed.info
6. Jenkin_Yat -  http://jenkinyat.com
7. akiraceo – http://www.akiraceo.com
8. jayhan – http://www.jay-han.com
9. etsuko – http://www.dannyfoo.com
10. heavenhell90 – http://www.bryanlyt.com
11. Mikkiz

12. Cat
13. Haza_izzz
14. sassyset
15. PleaseEnterYourName

PC Fair was utterly packed! Meh! Now I remember why I’ve avoided it for the past 1-2 years. I could hardly walk around. What more with the people all harassing – offering ‘antivilus’, ‘stemix’, ‘waimax’, ‘cledit kat’. Yea, thats how they pronounced it.

See the crowd! Picture credit to DanielK @ Critically Acclaimed

Oh, there was this guy promoting credit cards and I said ‘takpe, student lagi’. Then he said “Betul ke student lagi?”. WTF! I said “I tak nampak mcm student ke?” Meh! What I look old?

Didn’t buy anything tho. Oh wait, I bought a tub of CyberClean because I really do like that stuff. Sticky and good for cleaning small things. There are lots of nice laptops. The Dell XPS looks nice. Wish I had money to buy all the stuff :(

Hari Bintang Jatuh – Aftermath

Posted by IcedNyior on October 29, 2008  |  No Comments

Phew, finally its over. And everyone – especially the hardworking organizers – can now breathe a huge sigh of relief.

For me, the day started the night before. Aree, Pam, and Jazzy came over the night before and we were baking, smoking (well they were smoking), ordered McD, waited 1 hr for the food to arrive, realized that they forgot 1 large fries, waited another hr for the fries. Chopped, mixed, beat, stirred, realize that we couldn’t melt the chocolate, realized that the coffee refused to brew, cut cakes, put some in our mouths, wrapped cakes in plastic and so on and so forth. Believe it or not, after all the washing up and sweeping and cleaning, we finished at 4am and the girls went back.

I checked my mail before going to bed and realized that we needed to go there around 8AM to set up our booth and secure a place where we would setup our stall. Didn’t realize it earlier because I couldn’t make it for the briefing (I sent Omar as a wakil. Tengkiu Omar ;))

 
Our wares – Seriously so much cakes/goodies right?

So after going to bed at 4am, we had to get up at 7.30 am, drove down to Ampang at 8.30am then deposited the tables, chairs and clothes rack. Then came home, picked my sister, picked up all our goodies, picked up drinks from Tesco, bought tons of ice then headed off to Ampang again.

Set up shop, watched people go by, listened to good music from talented local artists, bumped into friends from persetankan – jasmine, omar, ikhmal, etc – with the sweet Wani, surprisingly met an old classmate – Adam – who was reciting one of his poems.

 
Performances & Bazaar

There was one or two things I didn’t really like. Everyone got the email to start setting up the booth at 8am onwards. I know this is Malaysia but you shouldn’t be an ass and come late and then ask me to move over to the other side and make faces if I look reluctant. Secondly the event was more of a performance, rather than a bazaar. Made me regret just a little because couldn’t enjoy it.

But anyway, there are really good things that I liked. The outside area was spacious and not too cramped. Perhaps it would be better if the inside was bigger so that it could fit more people tho. I absolutely LOVED the fact that we (exhibitors/stall owners/performers) had designated parking. I seriously seriously appreciate that a lot! Committee members were all very helpful and nice – despite the fact that they probably didn’t sleep the night before. I know how hard it is to organize something like that.

Personally, I feel that Wani Ardy’s Hari Bintang Jatuh was a success. It was a experiment for me – learned some things that day.

~ Kudos to the hardworking committee. Very well organized
~ Shoutout to Jazzy, Pam & Feli for being involved. Thanks to Aree who also helped out – even tho she FFK at the last min. lol
~ It was nice bumping to frens. Bella, sorry takleh lepak lama. Afdzal + kawan, thanks for coming, hope u guys enjoyed urself

Cerita Kongkek di KLCC

Posted by IcedNyior on September 8, 2008  |  7 Comments

As you know (or perhaps you don’t know because you didn’t read my previous posts), I’m taking this PHP and MySQL course in KLCC. Yea I know some of you are like “What? PHP? You can learn that yourself la” but hey, its free (sponsored by MDeC and Petronas eLearning) and they’ll even pay for the Zend Cert (which costs something like 120USD). Its everyday from Monday-Friday, 8am to 4pm.

Anyway, for my other non-technical friends, PHP is (this is my simple explaination) a programming language used for the web. Basically any site that has a database (eg, some form of login) uses PHP. Its like giving instructions.

So there i was, sleepy in the morning (people who are close to me know that I’m not a morning person) and the guy was teaching about it.

“Kongkek this one,” he said and my eyes instantly became bigger. I was thinking, What?!?! then he mentioned it again and again and again. I looked around me and no one seem to have noticed anything odd.

Then I glanced over and saw that the gal next to me was writing her notes and typed it as CONCATE. And I was like “Oooooooo.” When you want to give two instructions together, you hv to concate it, meaning combine it together.

Can’t blame me for mis-hearing it right? :P

Be a Cleopatra Nose!

Posted by IcedNyior on April 24, 2007  |  No Comments

Want a more mancung (pointy) nose? I saw this weird device at Sasa KLCC and laughed to myself. Such a bad example of Engrish too

The Tagline
“Be a Cleopatra nose!
Indespensible for your beautiful nose
You wouldn’t **cant see** once”

haha…i guess im lucky that when i was younger, lots of people pinched my cheek and nose (come to think of it, some people even do that now)

So yea, if u ever wanted a pointy, upturned nose, go buy this ‘great invention’. LOL!