After my training, i followed one of my friend to low yat to get some computer hardware for his friend back at his mother land.
But his friend has some interesting requirements.
Has to be stylish, delivers a sense of class, highly impressive, weights light and physically small.
Best part is budget isn’t much of a constrain.
So we were debating on which would be a suitable lap top for his friend. At the end of the day, we narrow down to a few options.
And Apple’s Mac Book Air.
At first i disagree with my friend with the idea of Mac Book Air, my reasons was that it’s small and has no features at all. Worst if he is interested in running Microsoft Windows only.
For the money you are paying, you could get a better laptop which is jam pack of juice in it’s arsenal.
I even compared that the Mac Book Air is just like a big boob blond with no brains. Looks good, nice to feel and stupid to live with.
Even my friend agrees to a certain extent and said he would try to convince his friend not to buy the pretty fruit.
The next day, he said “I failed to convince my friend to buy Air”.
And so after training, we went to low yat to get a brand new Mac Book Air.
After experiencing the Air in the shop, I would have to agree that this is the ideal laptop for his friend.
You see, he is a business man, and business man often needs to impress clients and stand out by a mile compared with his competitors.
It’s a general rule in business world, first impression decides 50% or not if the sale goes through or not.
The Mac Book Air definitely delivers in terms of style and class.
Given it’s light weight and size, it gives you the wow factor to impress people around you. Just like when Steve Jobs pull the Air out from a normal mail envelope on the Apple’s keynote address.
It has it’s down side though, the Air only has 1 USB port.
It has the build in WIFI so there will be no Ethernet port.
No optical drive, getting an external Apple USB super drive cost you RM389, and if you’re using a wired/wireless mouse connected to the USB, say bye bye to it while you need to jack in the super drive. You may argue that you can buy a multi port USB hub, well that doesn’t solve the problem. Using the multi port, there won’t be enough power for both your wireless and super drive they’ll both die without power.
Mono speakers.
On the up side, like all Apple products, it delivers the style and simplistic design features.
It’s definitely as light as advertise and what impress me the most is actually there is a build in light sensor that will activate the keyboard’s back light if it detects that your surrounding environment is dark or dim.
The basic unit that my friend bought is RM6,299 excluding the Super Drive(RM389), USB Ethernet Port(RM119), hard plastic protective cover(RM128).
So would you buy one?
My answer yes if i would just use it for entertainment, surfing and meeting clients with it.
I first heard of pete teo about 5 years back i think. I’m not sure how i got to know about his name, but i’m very sure it has to be about local music that i was searching around till i bum over his name here and there.
If memory serves me right, he was a DJ-ing for NHK radio in japan for sometime.
For a independent artist, he sure has make his mark in the local industry.
Malaysian Racism
Now.
What has Pete Teo and malaysian racism has in common?
The story was like this:
pete was juggling tomatoes.
bored. so he telephoned a few friends instead. “how about getting together to make an anti-racism song and music video?” all said yes without hesitation. not because pete threatened them with a rusty knife. only because they love malaysia.
The headcount grew to 52, then swelled to 120. Including famous people like ning baizura, amber chia, reshmonu, jaclyn victor, awie, daniel lee, tony fernandes, maya karin, and so on.
Besides the obvious celebrities, among them include local filmmakers, dancers, singers, producers, musicians, actors, entrepreneurs, designers, footballers, activists, models, students and even a florist!
they named the project “Malaysian Artistes For Unity”.
Originally, they were suppose to use a old john lennon song for it. Some how they got into some licensing issues with the john lennon guys.
And so, Pete kind of wrote the song 5 days before the studio recordings.
Later on, they manage to shoot a MTV of the song with KLPAC sponsoring the location. (I personally like the MTV, it’s shot at with a very malaysian style.)
we the rakyat lah
With just over 5 weeks of effort, they manage to complete the production phase from scratch. Best of all, all these was done without any budget.
Some of you may have heard the song from local radio stations or on 8TV. But if you missed it, here it is:
Here In My Home - Malaysian Artistes For Unity
try to look for tony fernandes.
And try not to laugh also.
Oh yah, since it’s a non-profit effort and they would like both the recording and the video freely and legally available to every malaysian regardless of race, income and politics you may get it over here. You can download the MTV,MP3 or even in your mobile 3gp format.
Let’s throw away all those racial nonsense and lets be Malaysians.
She had previously bugged me for quite some time to settle her dim sum urge, and so, off to SS2 we went with a few other friends.
I myself like dim sum a lot, but the problem is since i came to KL 5 years back, I haven’t ate or found any dim sum shop that is comparable to the 1 I used to eat in penang (which i think most of KL food cannot be compared at all).
Recommend me if you know 1 ! ( besides, sri petalling please. ) I heard there is a good 1 in cheras and old klang road.
Dim sum has it’s small little attraction, you will have to wait for aunties or ah po, with the tray or a push cart to come by and then you go on a shooting spree to choose what you want.
As usual, my gf is the 1 trigger happy and i’m the 1 who clears up the unfinished ones.
Like everyone else, we were sitting on the road side tables for our dim sum while enjoying the Sunday morning breeze and blue sky.
Talking about sky, do you guys notice that we have more “white skies” than blue skies? it’s always white/silver-ish. I notice this when i was trying to take some out door shots.
Anyway, back to dim sum, there we were 4 of us enjoying our dim sum, then suddenly we were hit by a wave of “visitors”.
First to came was the lottery ticket indian uncle, we weren’t interested so we shook our heads and he briefly went to the next table.
Then came a young male volunteer, asking donations for some home. Again, we weren’t interested, he tried to continue on after our rejections but after a while he left for the next table.
Less than 5 min after that, came 2 kids who speak quite good english, we did the same and off they went to the next table.
“no, thank you”
Then the champion volunteer came, i was already quite irritated with all the donation talks where they talk non stop even after we express our intentions.
So before event the guy could say a word i showed him a small hand gesture telling him i’m not interested and said “no, thank you”.
Naturally one would just walk to the next table to try his luck,law of averages will tell us the more we try the more we get, thats what every lottery ticket and DVD pusher does.
But no.
It seems that this guy was having his PMS that morning, and he freaking told me off in front of my friends and gf.
WTF.
He claimed or rather he scolded me, that he is just a volunteer and that i am being rude to him and ask me to have more respect towards him.
Look, i have no problems with volunteers or charity, but there are many ways to do charity and i really don’t like donating through this kind of channel.
1st i wont know if this guys are sincere and genuine, 2ndly, if they are genuine, the full amount wont go to what ever homes that need it.
But i hate it when i’m in the midst of enjoying my meals and these guys come over and destroy my eating ‘ZEN’.
WORST if one tells you off for not respecting him while all you did was gently waving your hand and saying “no, thank you” while he is the 1 rude for disturbing you having your peaceful meals.
I even put on a small smile for him!
I really feel like blasting back at him, but then again, no point it will just further destroy my ZEN. And so i just ignored him all the way.
Ohmmmmmmm……
He continued on teaching me on what is respect for the next 1 min and went to the next table who bloody gave him the same cold response.
