Archive for November, 2008
Monday, November 17th, 2008
I just got my car wash today at a local shopping complex and after 5 minute my car hit the road, It was raining cats and dog. And my car goes back to the condition before it get washed. As Malaysia’s is a monsoon country, raining is inevitable. You can really predict when it will be not raining here as apart from the monsoon rain, here also got an express rain. It could be raining any time or any where. Can be as quick as 3 minutes to half an hour and after that the sky is sunny and bright. Some times rain come in sunny day, mean rain and have sun shine at the same time. Old folks said don’t let your body exposed to sunny day rain as you will get sick very quickly.
So as a result of this kind of weather, your car can’t be clean and shine more than 2 days. Lucky if you got 3 days without raining. Because of this many people here open the car wash business. At my small town there are at least 4 car wash shop. I at least go to the car wash once a week. Before I got busy, usually I wash the car my self. I live in parents houses and there are 3 cars belong to my brothers. So when my mom started singing about the water bill increasing, I think maybe washing the car can contribute to increasing in the water bill.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Wind
Since I was a teenagers I has started reading a comic book. Can’t afford to buy Marvel comics or DC comics coz the price and it were rare here. So I just read Hong Kong comics. Hong Kong comics is cheap and available in local language. One Hong Kong comic I read since I was 16 years old is The Storm Rider or Fung Wan in Chinese version. Now I still buy the comic and has gone to more than 500 edition. Is hard not to buy the comic when you have followed the character since 1st edition. I will stop if the comic is ended by the writer.
One of the Comic Cover.
When I was a teenagers, everyone of my friends read comic. Realistically comic is a rubbish. Not worth to read and not a quality reading. Still there is a demand for it. The market for comic itself is more profitable than an Economic Magazine. If I can buy comic for every week, why I can’t buy Times of Businesweek? No. 1) The comic is a lot cheaper. 2) You don’t need to think when read a comic. Plus others will say language barrier, not interested in certain educational topic or just lazy to read such things.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Panadol is the most famous pills in Malaysia. Almost every family has it and I has swallowed it since I was a kid. Headache, cold fever and flu are all type of disease that need to swallowed Panadol only. As time past by, we can see many brand of choice instead of Panadol. We have uphamol, hurix and panadol also have broaden their products like panadol soluble, menstrual and actifast.
So what is the Panadol all about? Does it boost our antibody and kill all those virus or bacteria? Panadol prove to be reliable since then and now for common fever and headache. Even baby also have a dose of it in a small amount after getting their first shot. For all the time, I am thinking that
panadol give your anti body more stronger when having a fever are all wrong when I read this article in the Internet.
To tell the easy story (because the article is so medical), panadol actually stimulate your brain that control a receptor that make your body temperature high. Seem like a drug effects just it don’t make you fancy like smoking pot. So it will cool your body temperature and ease your pain. The virus or what ever bacteria is still alive in your body and it is not panadol job. It is a job for antibiotics.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Nissan 350z is one of my favorite sport car. I’am a JDM fan. I know the existing of the Z sport car since sawing the 300ZX on the road when I was young. Dreaming a JDM sport car like the Z is more rational and realistic I think rather than dreaming of Enzo, Reventon or the R8. All the super car like the Gallardo are above 1 million here. Money moving on the road. Imagine driving an Enzo, proud but afraid to hit a small bump or a small scratch on the paint. So the Enzo will probably have more time at the garage for the owner to enjoy the beauty not in the road. Then the V12 is not more like a beautiful picture in the carbon fiber frame.
In the other hand, JDM sport car are more on the ground, price are not far to reach, your local mechanic don’t jump when open the engine hood and using the same engine oil as our daily sedan. I heard that Ferrari use special engine lubricant that can last for 1 year without changing. But don’t believed it 100% because I just heard from a friend that seem to know everything.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
I am consuming vitamins since teenagers. But there is no brand loyalty. As I remember when I was 15, I always got flu every morning and it is very uncomfortable. At that time everyone believe that Vitamin C can cure flu and give you extra boost on antibody. Fortunately vitamin c is cheap and had an orange flavor. So I bought my first vitamin and it is vitamin C. After consuming it everyday, I don’t feel like more powerful like no other. I still sneeze every morning. To tell the truth I just don’t feel any big impact. I just continued to eat the vitamin c just because it taste like oranges. No prescription like 2 tablet a day. Just eat whenever I remember and sometime a handfuls of it. So what? Better than I do illegal drugs rite?
After some time, I feel my weight just loosing and I become more thinner than before. My chemistry teacher said that Vitamin C is Acidic, so the Acid from vitamin c I ate must eroding all my meat and fat I think. As I am following my friend to the gym, am I gaining my bone or what because there is no muscle to built. “You try to eat B-complex laa, that vitamin can get you fat you know” said many of my friends. There is also a myth that Vitamin b-complex can make you starve and eat a lot. Then I bought the b-complex from the nearby pharmacy, cheap one, no labels just clear plastic bottle. The vitamin also big and hard. After finished the bottle and not gaining any muscular body tone, I decide vitamin b-complex was no good and the taste also no good.From that on I am not consuming any healthy pills until I graduated from the university.
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Since my laptop is near it’s expiry, I am thinking of a new laptop but cheap. And a small one too. When wandering around at the shopping mall, I saw an Acer laptop dealer promoting a small type of Acer. I can see that the laptop has an interesting color or it’s colorful. I approach the dealer and have a closed eye on the laptop. An Acer Aspire One.
“Hey Ah-Moi aah, where is the CD drive lorr?”
“No don’t havelah just USB” Said the sales girl like don’t want to sell it to me.
“Soo Ah-Moi aah, is there a slot for 3G Sim card in it?”
“What is that? Read the brochure laa”
So I think there is no slot for 3G Sim card at the Acer one laptop. The price is okay I think for a sub notebook or a netbook (the term for it) - RM1600 or USD$500. I don’t know much about the new Intel Atom processor - Intel’s smallest chip. Built with the world’s smallest transistors. No will not read it for you, read here about all the technical stuff about Intel Atom.
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