So I immediately begin my journey. My whole Saturday saw me wondering from place to place in search for good (not forget to mention, cheap) ingredients. It's freaking exhausting and I crossed my finger hoping everything won't fall into the drain.

But first, meet my current PC setup. Based on ECS 6100PM V2 motherboard and powered by AM2+ Sempron 1150LE, its far from being a beast I dreamt of.

Now meet the Replacement.

From left – 80mm & 120mm CoolerMaster case fan, CoolerMaster thermal paste, Asus EAH3650 512MB DDR2 and last but not least, AMD X2 5200+ 2.7Ghz

.. and the Galactic Pounder.

It is not recommended to assemble your PC while eating. Please, don't try this at home.

It took me 30 minutes to de-assemble and assemble everything and thank god, I'm not greeted by motherboard's error beeps. So how does it fare?

The Processor

For a mere RM90+, I am able to double my PC performance. Looking at the chart, each test shows that my new CPU achieves more than 200% gain on average. Not bad I said to myself. Huge decrease in video encoding time will ensure smooth movie viewing hereafter.

The Graphic Card

This is the catalyst of my first Replacement. It's a monster compared to my puny on-board graphic chipset. Just look at how much difference it made to my PC graphic related function. RM180 will never felt this well-spent. I haven't had time to test on real game yet but this should be sufficed for the time being.

The Conclusion

This is over awesome. Result on graphic card might be misleading for my onboard graphic chip is nothing to yell about. All in all, I felt good. I can't wait for next weekend when I will have time to tinker all its bell and whistle. If only we didn't have to work XD

Well, the time has come again. It's the time when I feel bored stiff about things around me. I need to change something.

Job? Nah, too risky.

Girlfriend? Shh.

Car? I don't even have one!

After cycling around list of things that I own, which is not much by the way, I set my sight on my lovely Sony Ericsson K800i. NO! I can't possibly dump her, screamed my heart. She's been very good to me over this year.

On a faithful middle of June, I finally made my decision to let her go. It's a hard decision. Really.

May she live happily with her new proprietor.

I had to get on with my life. I need a replacement. I need someone as sexy as her but more technically advance. I need something I can use to get over her. Fortunately, I have found one.

Meet Secret. Known by the techie as LG KF750, it's a phone designed to be sexy. It even defines sexy.

Semi touch-screen, 5MP camera, VGA video recording, 3G enabled. She is everything that K800i tried to be but I can't seem to love her. There's something holding me back from loving her.

Ahh, maybe I have mistaken crush with love.

I'm getting pissed off by Maxis right after the launching of PC Fair @ KLCC. Why? Well, there are several reasons which is sucky connection, damn slow connection, unstable connection and did I mention, sucky connection. Someone doesn't have to understand how atomic particle works to sum up what is actually happen on and after PC Fair 2008.

You see, Maxis is a company with this type of motto; "We Didn't Care". Yup, they simply don't. Instead of retaining loyal customers support (broadband wise) by improving their connection, they simply ignored us and continue digging for new customers. We (subscribers) have been fighting for reception all this while and now they are adding new people to this struggle. Do we see new communication tower constructed recently? None, damn it.

With Maxis broadband; port-forwarding was prohibited, torrenting is impossible and connection was plain suck. I don't really care about the first 2 characteristic but its the later that concerned me a lot.

My recent connection was like sitting in car driven on mount rocky with no absorber system what-so-ever. Yeah, bumpy ride that is. Who would've not be annoyed when they need to refresh their browser every 5 seconds just because the latency took like ... forever.

Please, for those who were thinking about getting Maxis for torrenting or online gaming, just ditch the idea. Do us (casual surfer) a favor by not subscribing to Maxis broadband.

As I was considered working right now (even if I am only a trainee), I have to let go one of my life-long hobby that is computer games. Not for long though, just for awhile until I have a real job. Contemplating this situation, I realized that I need an internet line before I got sucked into a realm called boredom. And I need it quickly.

I started my journey to dig and entrench myself into the world of ISP. Hrm, I heard about StreamyX long before and I guess, this is where I should be heading. But no, unfortunately, the stumbling block appeared as I found out that my new place doesn’t have fixed line installed. RM500+/- for installation, according to one of StreamyX agent was enough to stray me away from Telekom.

Then I realized that my only choice is wireless internet line. My first thought is, well, I’m doom. I remembered back then when I read an advertisement about Celcom wireless broadband and its cost more than RM2000. Sighed.

Towards the end of my boredom, I stumbled upon something called Maxis broadband. Is it good? Well, seeing this advert:


I could only think reasons why I should subscribe for it.

Now, I am one happy Maxis customer with a lot of complaints. Seriously, on the darker side, I was hoping our government to force Maxis being more sincere with their broadband service. They block and block ports like I’m paying for surfing only. While on the other side, I’m glad there is Maxis broadband to stick with as it was the most affordable (considering I’m getting a RM500 allowance per month) wireless broadband around. Maybe after getting a more appropriate pay, I won’t be so happy anymore.

Well, I always had this idea that Blogger's internal editor was not sufficed to my needs. I need a rich editor with the ability to let me blog while offline. I never thought that Office's Word 2007 has this feature all along. Remembering all that time I wasted, I sighed.

First, I added list of blogs I'm currently updating. Word 2007 handled the job of logging in into my blogger account surprisingly fast. I'm impressed and now I need to type something to post up into the blog. Bear in mind that no testing is done. I wanted to show and in the mean time see, how well posting using Word 2007 will be.

Hm, seems the text part is finished. Now lets me add some picture.

And now, the moment of truth whether I can compliment Microsoft for such beautiful creation (software) or not. I’m going to press the PUBLISH button right now…

[edited] Well, I cheated a little. Office ‘07 does not support image upload to PhotoBucket. Except for that, everything has gone smoothly and I’ll be a fast blogger in no time at all.

It has been a while since I last saw international football match that thrilled me out like today’s morning match. Czech Republic was the favorite while Turkey step in the stadium as slight underdog, resembling past prediction put on them in World Cup 2002. I was a neutral this time compared to the time when I was having faith in Rustu, Sukur and Tugay.

The match itself opened with a positive attitude. Ball is being passed forward rather than Greek-styled sideways. I enjoyed every moment up until Koller headed home an unstoppable shot passed Volcan. Lamented for awhile as my wish to see the Turks in the next round seems to be inevitably lost.

It getting wearier every minute after the half-game mark as Czech added another goal thru their midfield player, Plasil. Surprisingly, Czech does not seem to care about their reputation as their players started to camp in their own half. I yawned.

Few minutes pass by and Turks suddenly added a goal. Czech players were becoming more negative when all ten of them sat close to their penalty area. I yawned again but constantly kept awake by Turkey’s attacking flow. One decisive moment arrived. Nihat took an easy chance as Czech’s Cech miss predict a cross and parry it backward. Turks celebrate and before time were able to sweep their smile away, Nihat added a remarkable goal, one goal that thrust Turkey into the last 16 and might as well be the contender for tournament’s best goal.

I relived past moment when I was cheering for Turkey. It seems that I had another chance to do that again after all.

It is hard to describe my past six months. These period are filled with both enjoyment and disappointment. One morning I was playing Assassin's Creed and the next morning I find myself struggling to finish up final project's assignment or saving up a relationship. This loops drive me nuts sometime, but luckily, not to an extreme extend.

Now, I'm kinda free from all those things. All those pitiful studying to pass college's examination is gone. I'm free!! But of course, there is always a catch. 12 hours of my day is considered gone with me not being a student anymore. A catch that had eaten a lot of my free hours.

There's a bright side of this though. I had my own internet connection to play with and I don't have to worry about exam's preparation anymore. There is a little problem financially but I think I will managed to cope with this in the coming months.

Sadly enough, I must say goodbye to my gaming hobby, at least for a while.