air asia's promotional cheap tickets

Air asia is now again promoting for a cheap air flight tickets targeting minly for asean countries. The promo starts from today and ends on mid july, and the tickets are for those that start on 10 feb until 5 august 2014.

1st successful swimming

Today was my 1st swim that i managed to take breath without holding on to the swimming board. Although it was not perfect, i was sure happy like hell. This is one of my wishes for this year, and after practicing for almost half a year, i finally able to swim freestyle; of course still with the aid of feet paddler. Despite the fact that it is still far from a perfect swimming technique & without using any swimming aid, i felt that it was truly a big progress for me.

Thanx to my gf for her help in teaching me and giving few tips during my entire practise.

Standard chartered marathon postponed

It wad a kinda a blessing in disguise when standard chartered marathon event was postpone to end september. It was due to poor whether condition caused by haze covering most cities at western coast. Actually i was not ready for any long run. My last training of 11km showed my timing wasn't impressive. I event doubt that i could finish below 3 hrs.

Having additional 3 more months before the race hopefully gives me ample time to be ready. Well, that's including ramadhan. I'm not really sure how to go about during fasting month. The most i can do based on past experience was 5 km.

Aah layan je.

Swimming at putrajaya

I went off for a swimming practise at putrajya public pool on saturday night. That was after a long break. The pool was not that full, resonably because it was the same time when the final football match between kelantan & jdt. Although i was not a die hard fan of a footballer, Kelantan won 1 nill, yeay!

I guess my technique wasn't that much improve or maybe didn't improve at all. I still cannot swim without the aid of my buoy and paddlers. My gf commented that i cannot surface out my face from the water mainly because my feet didn't kick hard enough. I tried not to use the board, and even with the help of paddlers, i still failed to raise up my face which in the end, i gulped in water durong breathing attempts.

Looks like it wont be that close to swimming at all this year :-(

Swimming lesson dying

the last time i went for swimming was at putrajaya, and i think it was about amonth ago which was on the same day that i'd my paragliding lesson. Perhaps, it's almost a month. I wad still struggling to turn my face perfectly so i should be able to catch my breathe while paddling. The fact that i need to use the feet paddler and swimming buoy quite worry me and abviously annoying. It shows that i'm a slow learner. Well, perhaps thats is the real thing that bugs my mind and psychollogically turns me down.

Mmmm, needs to say no for a failure even if i need to go through years of practicing.

Swimming lesson continued

Faridil had texted me on the night before saying that the whether condition farecast was not good. The wind speed has increased to more than 20km/h so this could mean hazardous during learning lesson, it could be i could not learn anything or i could injure myself while putting up the wing in high speed wind condition. So, he suggested that the class is canceled and postponed it to the following weekend. Well, i guest it was a blessing in disguise cause i started to feel i was not in good shape of doing something extreme to my body. So as to replace the vacant schedule, i go on with something more subtle. i went for a swimm at bukit jalil aquatic stadium with my gf. It's time to brush up my free-style swimming lesson. We went off for the last shift which was from 6:30pm to 9pm, although we arrived a little bit late. My gf become my current unofficial swimming instructor with zero fee lessons, cause i have no plan until now to go on with a paid real instructor. so, i showed my swimming technique to her and i think i had some few tips to improve my swimming. Currently, i have a problem of catching my breath while hand paddling. According to my gf, it was due to my poor kicking which resulted in my body not able to surface up. Well, i guess those of the new things that i shall occupy my swimming time in this coming weekss. Push and kick harder so that face will emerge from the water surface!

1st paragliding lesson

i went for my 1st paragliding lesson on last friday, 31st may. I never thought that it would be that difficult because from my past learning & researching over the internet especially via youtube on kiting lesson, it looks pretty easy. anyway my advice is don't judge the book by its cover! My personal experience was, it was damned difficult. Faridil, a young guy with a-kind-of skinny built-up being my instructor and teacher for my paragliding lesson had given me a prototype glider for me to start off. He referred it as 'kuda liar' and frankly speaking after my first few attempts to take it off from the ground, i had to admit that glider is very very 'liar'! i have been dragged, pushed and turned around on the bare ground when i was trying to fly off the glider. It was truly a painful experience but i slowly picked up lessons.

My 1st day of lesson was undeniably a painful one. Most of my attempts failed and only at the end of the day, i was able to put the wing up for 1 to 2 seconds over my head before it crashed down. To be honest, after my 1st-day-lesson was over, i have big hesitation whether my successful attempts to fly off the wing was truly because i did understand the concept of flying off the wing or it was just a mere luck. I returned home with a little dissatisfaction on myself and with tensed muscle, blotted stomach and a little migrain. Faridil kept on reassuring me that the current whether condition with aggressive wind speed at the learning field was the reason i suffered the pain of learning. 'Kuda liar' has done its job very well to put me into sufferings, i was kinda phobia after that.
 

 Anyway, the 2nd day was sometwhat very progressive. Despite the fact that the wind condition did not come to our advantage, in fact it was poorer that a day before, i was able to fly off the wing with many attempts. I could also experience stabilising the wing over my head and able to apply most of Faridil's instruction. The 2nd day was not a good day for learning to fly off the wing, especially a beginner like me. The wind was consistently blowing at roughly high speed of 15km/h. We arrive at 11am and could not start off my lesson until 4pm. That was the time when we had to wait under the tree shade for almost 5 hours doing nothing useful. Our long so-called time-wasting waiting was paid off, i could able to steer up the glider on top of me with little problems and i did learn something new during the short 2-hour-training session.

Now, i couldn't wait to go on learning other new lessons on paragliding. As of now, my lesson on ground handling was not over, i still need to learn forward takeoff, turning my body from reversed takeoff and some other things. I hope i can have enough confidence to fly off next weekend.

3 nights in a row at Bukit Jalil

Last night completed my 3-night-swimming-practice. Honestly i rarely make this kind of commitment especially when it comes to swimming, however because of me realising that i have progressed remarkably within the last few weeks, i consider this as a breakthrough. Last night, i did the same thing of paddling with my hands and constantly kicking my legs. Although my face was still under the water surface while padding and making me not able to breathe, i noticed that my entire body afloat was reasonably moving stably, as oppose to the last practice where it was wobbly. Another thing which i think it was an improvement was, when i paddled using my left hand, i felt that i was more confident. I always make the bars at the bottom of the swimming pool as my mark to make note on my progress. So until now, i was able to reach 2 bars by paddling my hands and obviously holding my breath underwater. Well, i could not wait to learn on how to surface my face out of water and catch the air. Until now, just keep on practicing. I got to stop, cause i have a meeting to chair.

gopro xshot extendable arm

It's really a good news for me today. I just arrived at my office cubicle and i realized that there was a large parcel lying on my table. Not to my surprise, immediately i know that the xshot 2.0 extension arm for my gopro has arrived. i dont expect that it will arrive that soon, i was thinking it may take around 3 to 4 weeks at least, well this is based on my past experience of purchasing over ebay. Thumbs up ebay!!! it looks like my gopro will be accompanied with a handsome xshot extension arm.

New year with new goals in mind

I admit that i haven't got any reasonable excuse to explain why i have lost touch of my blog. Well, i don't to blabber wasting my time justifying myself why i'm so lazy. the fact that my blog becomes irresponsibly poor, well in fact with no post at all for the past 5 months is just & inexcusable & un-acceptable. The point is now, i wanna start it back. Making myself of returning to my old habits of jotting down my thoughts is something that i think is good, at least to my mental therapy. There were so many things have happened and yess i wont blab about them. If i think i have ample time to scribble it down, then good for you. In this particular posting, i just wanna to share one of my personal goals this year which is freestyle swimming and paragliding. As of now, i'm so into thinking of my swimming lessons. Honestly speaking, i cam say to my self that i have progressed remarkably. I started i think almost one month ago at bukit jalil pool, never had in mind that i would progress quite well like now. i only set a mildly goal that i want to be able to freestyle swim at least this year, if not the worst i can make myself move forward just by kicking. The last memory i had on swimming lesson was in 2006, where i failed to swim. I know the theory but when i dipped myself into the water, things were not as what are learnt. From thereon, it become sort of a nightmare & i'm phobia of starting another freestyle swimming lesson. Well thinks had changed now, thanx to my gf for encouraging me to go to a pool and start over again. Now, i am able to kick forward & moving afloat at the water surface. and i just started practicing using both of my hands slowly paddling the water. It was still not really in orderly fashion but i started to get the hang of it. Couldn't wait to update another posting on my progress.

An unexpected surprise of my blog

I got an unexpected call from my lawyer this morning while i had just finished my Monday morning meeting. It was a little surprise of the reason why she called my up. There was a claim by another lawyer issuing a threatening remark claiming that i had intentionally produced a blog writing ugly things about the lawyer as well as the judge. To my surprise, according to what i've been told over tc the content of the letter addressing me as the one who creates slandering over the internet about some individuals related to courts. An dthe funny thing here is it threatens me if i were not to officially apologise within given time, i'll be summoned & thus brought to the court.

Funny sunggoh mangkok2 ni!

Location of Android SDK directory in my computer

Until now i have successfully install the basic Android SDK. what i have noticed once the installation was, it comes together with the Android SDK manager. The manager functions as a tool to download even more Android libraries. When i have downloaded the recommended libraries, it turned out that the space required to store those libraries has depleted to close to only 300Mb left. My computer starts to crawl like shit.

Few other things left that i should learn while installing the required program to run Android, such as ADK and Eclipse.

My first discovery of Android application development

I thought of blogging about a post of my past experience at the Shah Alam High court. That was the first time we, (i mean the rest of usual crowds who have attended my boring harta sepencarian case) have direct communication my ex-wife's farther. Personally, i believe my court battle is actually against him and myself, and not between me and my ex. Anyway, the thought of bursting out about the whole experience in the court and few things that managed to capture which i would think may become an advantage to my side, has somehow influenced my consciousness not to do it right now. Perhaps another posting would be better cause i have something more relevant and at-least-more exciting to myself for me to jot down. It's about a new area of knowledge that i have discovered yesterday while window-shopping and book-browsing at Popular bookstore. It's about Android application development.

To make it short, i unplanned-ly have bought a thick wrox-publishing programming book that cost me reasonably a fortune. The book is in general explaining about how one can write a program on Android platform specifically on sensor-related programming language. Fortunately, the principle language of programming is Java, so it would be and hopefully easier for me to deal with.

And today, still having a good level of enthusiast-ism on the subject, i did a little google, and i came across the following address

http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html

http://www.eclipse.org/resources/resource.php?id=539

A big applause to myself for the reckless accident i have commited

Till now i have done twice accidents in the kitchen. I guess my mind was pre-occupied with other unfinished matters that keep on hovering over my mind since i came back from raya. First accident that has happened this morning was i accidentally slipped my budu bottle that i've just bought when i was about to remove it from the plastic bag to my room fridge. The bottle that was obviously made of glass fell down and shattered across the kitchen floor. The whole house smelled with stinky budu. At the end, it took me almost 1 hour to clean up the mess, picked up carefully all the shattered pieces of glass and mopped the whole damned floor.

The 2nd accident was, i burned my chicken drumstick when i was frying it for lunch! i didn't noticed that i put the stove fire on high and left the drumstick on the fire. I went into my room and so absorbed into my facebook i have obviously forgotten about the frying drumstick. The ironic was, naturally when i did multiple things at the same time especially when one of the tasks involves with cooking, i set the timer on and this this time i did the same routine. The uncommon routine here was, i unforgettably putting the fire on high. Then when i came back to the kitchen which was less than 5 minutes after i left it, the chicken is half black at the bottom. Well, i have to throw it away and redo the frying.

I guess i really need to do something about those unfinished thoughts that are bugging in my mind! Perhaps, i should start off with getting in touch with one of those NIOSH officials.

My posting as a sticky-google-search-result to honeykoyuki.blogspot.com

I realise that many of the visitors that unintentionally bumped into my pages were due to their attempts to search for a celebrity blogger, namely nur fatin through her overwhelming visitors blog honeykoyuki.blogspot.com. I remembered that i did blog about her in early Apr 2012, since then my blog had became one of the entries to nur fatin's blog; though my blog is sooo mind-blowingly unpopular. My utmost apology to those internet searchers if my page does not meet their desires of seeking more info about her cause it's not my intention to make my blog as a spot in indulging into other people's matter and especially those who are related to celebrity or artists.

The last time i've checked (in fact few minutes ago) when i googled her site, my blog comes up in the result list at page second, and that explains why i receive people coming to my site.

1st day of work and my mind is numb

I don't intend to do any fruitful work today, cause i guess my mind kinda slow and i need some space to recollect what i really should and must do before the year ends. It's about planning the whole things that i have planned mentally in my mind while i was on hari raya vacation last week.

Anyway, at first i thought my mail would be choked with boring stuffs and naturally if i didn't open it up for few days it would already be closed down due to massive email sizes in my inbox. Despite my worry, it is totally working fine. There are only few warnings from administrator email saying that my email is over sized, and they are not too serious where any incoming emails would be bounced back. As of now, after few deletions, my mailbox instantly receiving other incoming emails and i'm able to send out emails.

Things that are over my mind are the NIOSH classes and how i should carefully plan for my outdoor activities involving mountain-climbing, marathon practices, weekly piano class and a-just-discovered new wish skydiving.

I've just been informed by my girl fren that Tahan mountain expedition is called off cause the climbers from Kinabalu team who wished to join us cannot make it this year cause their schedule is tight. So it can possibly been done early next year. The shit here is, i have already promise my old fren Bado xMRSMer that i'll do the expedition right after the Raya. Perhaps i can make do with simpler expeditions to Irau/Berinchang or Stong.

Love reading chedet.cc on insights of international as well as local matters

I love reading some articles and blogs made by our x Perdana Menteri Malaysia. Althought he was no more the political figure, his insights and ideas on various matters are exceptional. Whenever i read any of his blogs, i would feel that i am a little further enriched with matters that i would hardly find some other resources, especially in the areas of politics, economy and whats-going-on-in-other-parts-of-the-world. Honestly it would take me ages to grab such enormous info or news and mentally reconcile it for my own use. Chedet.cc's info is compact, precise and direct to the point; and this is what i like most of all his articles. Anyway, watch out on few of his ideas wrt Islam-related issues cause it could be a little bit misleading if you're not sufficiently equipped with islam-knowledge. But the rest of his ideas, i would solute him. Thanx for sharing his thoughts over his overwhelming-tak-putus2-visitor blog.

Fur Elise Beethoven

I'm practising my piano on Fur Elise composed by the famous Beethoven. I kinda stuck at the 0:57th of the song, it requires a smooth and fast pressing of keys, slur and allegro mode. I think i would be playing this song perhaps 1 or 2 months ahead before i'm able to play to smoothly.

Total 2012 mobile subscribers exceeding Msian population

Malaysian 2012 income

This is an article cut on the proposal by government officer for Badan Rasuah SPRM. He claimed SPRM should be entitled to have more budget for next Budget 2013, taking into account the comparison made with other countries such S'pore and HK. The one that i want to highlight here is, our Malaysian income as of 2012 is RM230 billion.