December 2004

Happy 2005

It's new year's eve. I supposed the whole Malaysia is not celebrating. It's because we have learnt a new word. Tsunami. Searching the web, I found a lot of tsunami-related stuff, such as Jeff Ooi's blog, other Malaysian blogs, photo ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Friday, 31 December 2004

Kampung on fire

There's a kampung house on fire near my apartment just now. I witnessed it from the balcony at fifth floor of my apartment. Frankly speaking, it's the first time I see such huge fire with so much smoke rising to ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Tuesday, 28 December 2004

Tsunami hit Penang

What a shocking news. Tsunami Kills 43 in Malaysia, over 8,700 in region; Earthquake most powerful in 40 years At least 53 Malaysians killed by tidal waves Anxiety and tears at Penang mortuary Victims caught by surprise Hundreds rush out of high-rise buildings At least 38 ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Monday, 27 December 2004

Earthquake in Penang?

Few minutes ago, I was sleeping comfortably on my bed in my room. Suddenly, I felt that my bed was trembling as I heard noises outside my room's window. Those noises sound like people running. A lot of people running. ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Sunday, 26 December 2004

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone! I didn't celebrate it much, but well, I'm busy with some stuff, especially the Phoenity theme for Thunderbird. I'm not very sure when it will be done, maybe by New Year's eve? So, I think I'll steal ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Saturday, 25 December 2004

Reading user comments

I read. I notice. I reply. Too bright yellow Nice, but the bright yellow for folders is awful Maybe I should make it brown? Or simply darker? Most folder icons are yellow in colour, though I doubt about it. I agree there are ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Sunday, 19 December 2004

IBM Thinkpad

After three days of filing work, I finally have the chance to touch a computer today in the office. Well actually, it's a laptop computer. A very, very old laptop computer. What brand, you are asking? IBM Thinkpad, baby. IBM ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Thursday, 16 December 2004

My first working day

Today is my first day working in GKN Driveline. I went through some briefing about the company, rules, regulations and stuff by the Human Resource Administrator. Then, I went out for my medical body checkup at the Joe Fernandez Clinic ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Monday, 13 December 2004

First steps in theme design

I remember before I started making themes for Phoenix, I don't know anything at all about icons design and theme design. At that time, I have never even created a theme or skin for any software before. But somehow I ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Saturday, 11 December 2004

Thunderbird takes flight

Okay, Thunderbird 1.0 was released 3 days ago. I haven't get it yet. I am a Firefox fan, but not necessarily a Thunderbird fan, yet. Sadly speaking, I am still using Outlook Express. That might explain why I haven't create ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Thursday, 9 December 2004

Temporary job

Now, STPM is over. There will be about 3-4 months of holiday for all STPM candidates, till we get to know our results by around the month of March or April. Some of us might book plane tickets to Italy ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Wednesday, 8 December 2004

Web standards breakage

Hear, hear. Code for standards, don't code for browsers. Site developers, web authors, repeat that mantra every day please? Indeed. I read Tristan Nitot's article and Eric Meyer's comments. It's a good read, focusing on issues of web standards support and web ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Sunday, 5 December 2004

PA Paper 1 and Physics Paper 1

Today is the last day of STPM. Early morning, the PA paper was quite okay. I was surprised to see a special piece of paper placed beside the examination paper. It's called the Ralat paper, containing a corrected version of ...

Posted over 6 years ago, on Wednesday, 1 December 2004

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