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Little Kancil Repairs

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:39:00 +0000

Three days ago, I managed to spend some time with my little Kancil in the workshop. After serving me for so long, I think its only fair that little Kancil get repaired. :)

Parrot in Singapore Zoo

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:20:00 +0000

Hi there everyone.. :P Finally an update for my dusty blog :D I had no time to blog for so long already. Almost 3 months till now. Haha!! Well... this will be my first update for this month. My family and I made a trip down to Singapore. Me, was to check hardware stock in SG. LOL. I also managed to make a trip down to the Singapore zoo. Here is the first animal I modeled.. :P

FGA College Camp 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:39:00 +0000

One word....AWESOME!! This was my best college camp ever. The coldness of the night, the wonderful worship songs, the awesome food, the close company of friends, the chats and not to mention, the cute babies!! :D

I had an awesome time in camp. Above is my games group, the S.W.A.T team :D Didnt win anything during the games tho, but we had fun!! Sadly, I sold my Canon 30D.... cant really take much nice pictures up there and also.... laziness has creep-ed in to my hands to just point and shoot!! Haha!! So... yea...waiting for my new baby to come :D 5D MII :D

Btw, here is my baby I was talking about. She had the privilege of playing computer games during sermons and worship :D Haha!! Got her kinda hooked to it too!! :D This is my chemistry teacher's baby. Cute eh!! :D

I don't really have much pictures to show you all about camp, may be I will be blogging on the dinner night, the last dinner in my next post and the badges, manual, tags which were so nice. They were designed by one of SoulKeeper's Players. Proud sial!! :D Till then :D

No editing have been done to the pictures, what so ever due to the laziness in me...

Twitt Twitt!! I am hacked!!

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:58:00 +0000

If you’ve been experiencing difficulty in connecting to Twitter over the past 24-hours, it’s not your Internet Service Provider’s fault – Twitter was hacked. Yesterday, hackers launched a denial-of-service attack onto Twitter, making it slow and sometimes inaccessible. At the same time, Facebook was also experiencing some irregular access problems.

According to source, they suspect that the attack was due to the ongoing political conflict between Russia and Georgia. Hackers then started spamming Emails with links to Twitter, Facebook and other sites written by a pro-Abkhazia activist, overloading them with illegitimate traffic. Although the problem only took few hours to solve (approximately 1 hour according to Twitter Status Page) it caused quite some hassle to Twitter dependent individuals – how do you find out that Twitter has been hacked when you can’t access it?

My message : twitt twitt!! I am hacked!! Congratulations to all denial of service hacker which hacked twitter!!

My RAZER Collection

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:12:00 +0000

I am back everyone!! The last two post were about the ACER Aspire 5935G. Now I will be posting about the RAZER's latest gadget, the RAZER Mamba. Before that, I would like to show you guys my collection of RAZER products. RAZER have been following me for 4 to 5 years now. Since I started playing my first Counter Strike game. :) Well, RAZER still seem to surprise me every year with their new products. Well, what we have here is the RAZER unboxing picture. I will be reviewing the RAZER in my next post.

In the picture above, RAZER Mamba, RAZER Deathadder, RAZER Diamondback and RAZER Goliathus gaming pad.

The RAZER Mamba Unboxing

ACER Aspire 5935G Review part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:24:00 +0000

Well guys, this is my second part of the ACER Aspire review.

this is the acer power button i mentioned earlier, it enables you to switch off your graphics card and revert to the intel integrated graphics to conserve power.

we have another star from me, for this little piece of gadget. this acer holds a 2mp webcam. a 720p high definition webcam for chatting. its very suitable for video conferencing and taking pictures.

finger biometrics for extra security protection

acer have adapted this concept of giving the user and option for everything, shutting off screens, touchpad, and even graphics card. :)

running on a Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.4GHz and Nvidia GT130M

the connectivity corner, the bluetooth and wifi touch buttons

the awesome touch media controls on the right side of the laptop, what you are seeing here is the volume control!! :)

touch sensitive media controls

the awesome fine touch keyboard with back light, not sure if its able to handle hard tapping.

ACER Aspire 5935G

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:46:00 +0000

ACER as everyone knows, have been the No.1 Notebook builder in Malaysia. Well, their products still suffer from design and durability issues. The main problem goes to their keyboards, the keys on the Aspire versions are more fragile than the TravelMate versions. Okay... No I have in hand the latest ACER Aspire 5935G and the keyboard suffers the same problem. I think they still have not learn from their mistakes.

On to my review of the ACER Aspire 5935G. My laptop specs are as bellow,

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
Graphics : Nvidia GT130M 1GB DDR2 (build-in memory)
RAM : Kingston DDR3 1066MHz 4GB
Harddisk : 500GB Sata 2

Well, I guess this is all you guys have to know. So far, the design is not bad, but yet again, the keyboard is not for monster strength hands. We have a neat backlited keyboard, connectivity touch keys, media control touch keys, on/off for touch pad, on/off for HD LCD, and the amazing power saver button.

Power Saver

Firstly, I want to comment on the power saver button. Its absolutely amazing piece of idea by ACER. When the power saver is off, you can run your High Definition games on high and play your heart out. But when the power saver is on, the laptop switches to Intel Integrated Extreme Graphics. This is cool because, when you are doing office work on the go and you need power, you will be able to switch off your graphics card!! :D Take a look at the graphics specs with power saver on and off.

this is power saver on

this is power saver off

Sound and Navigation

ACER finally got a grasp on the plastic touch which is obviously more sensitive and touch friendly than the normal gloss kinds on the Aspire 3000 series. Well, Dell is still to catch up. We have the ACER MediaControl on the right hand side and the ACER connectivity on the left. the response on the touch keys are absolutely amazing. Very human touch friendly. :) One up from me!!

ACER also took multimedia and sound systems to the next level. Comparing to DELL, Compaq and HP, ACER uses Dolby Home Theater Virtual Surround Sound and the new and powerful ACER Tuba Subwoofer with Cinebass!! The sound just blows you away!! In Dell studios, I wonder why they call....it Studio when the sound does not even match a Nokia N95 sound system, sadly.....

Screen and Body

Next off to the screen, well, we have the 15.6" HD screen, with the frameless design.

16.7 million colours
16:9 aspect ratio
8 ms high-def response time
60% color gamut
Frameless design

The body weight and dimensions is overall... not very heavy for the material used. The ACER Aspire 5935G is built with aluminum and plastic.

382 (W) x 274 (D) x 26/39.5.6 (H) mm (15.0 x 10.8 x 1.0/1.6 inches)
3.0 kg (6.6 lbs.) with 6-cell battery

I will be having more reviews coming up next. Stay tuned!! :D

SuddenAttack Emblem Designing Competition

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:47:00 +0000

Hey guys, I am designing this emblem for my squad in SA, if those of you played the game before, you should know what I am talking about. Haha!! Here is my first design. Give me some comments!! :)

HDR Photography and Photo Editing

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Last month, I made a trip down to Melaka again.... yup! For Jon's assignment and well.... the food as well. I played around with my camera and took some some images. I managed to edit the pictures and made my very own gothic cemetry picture!! I also managed to play around with some HDR editing in Photoshop. Owh the wonder..... of...... Photoshop... :P Anyway, a quick brief on how the shots were made. Its simple, just get you own model, the right type of clothes and a cemetry, chinese or christan cemetry works best for this shot. Here are the original shots and the edited ones.

this is one of the pictures taken in camerons, the lipton tea plantation. Edited HDR

the taken image before it was edited in photoshop. and before the elements have been added

this is the image after the editing. can you spot the difference?? Haha!!

The Blog Neglection

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:53:00 +0000

Hello guys, I am back after taking one month of from blogging. Just to busy and hard to squeeze time in to blog. Well, finally... its the exam week again. One week to exams, no... I think its 2 days more!! 2 days of suffering and then 34 days of holiday!! I will do a quick recap on my intresting month of June right after my exam. Have a bunch of pictures to post up and loads of stories to tell. :) Gadgets to review many things are in Q.

This are the list of things that I have pushed out

- Canon 30D + Batt grip and CF Card

- Dell Inspiron 640M

well..... wait!! There is more to come after my exams!! Out and In... :P

As for now.. back to my studies. Computer Graphics and Design for User Interaction.... Two subjects.. but the are the killer for me! TTYL!! :D

Kenyir International Triathlon

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:35:00 +0000

Last April, two of our triathlon teams made our first appearance in the Kenyir International Triathlon of Malaysia. We were quite impressed with our results. This triathlon has been labeled Malaysia's toughest triathlon. Well, here is our results... :)

14th placing in the men relay

7th place in the mixed relay

not to mention the wonderful state drive home, from Terrengganu, to Kelantan, to Perak, to Pahang, and final destination, Selangor.

Please be noted that none of the images were taken by me

the runners from malaysia

one of my friends which i met from my first ever triathlon in Port Dickson

the two team swimmers and two team runners

michelle trailed by alan

the swimmers look like a group of ducks from afar

the fastest swimmer, cyclist, and runner... all in one winner

this was taken when i was preparing my bike, pic by my sis

ASUS N50v Review

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:22:00 +0000

Last 3 weeks, I managed to test the newly released ASUS N50. In my opinion, this laptop is not for a very hardcore gamer to use. Well, it only runs on a GeForce 9300 GS 512MB mainly for medium gaming. This laptop is only capable of running Left 4 Dead on medium graphics. This laptop also have weight issues, weighing at 2.7kg, is not something you want to have in your college bag...:P The complete specs are as bellow.

Intel Core 2 Duo T9400/P8600/P7350
Intel PM45+ICH9M
4GB DDR2 RAM
15.4 (WXGA/WXGA+/WSXGA)
NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS с 512MB
500GB HDD
DVD/Blu-ray
2 Mega Pixel webcam
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi
Windows Vista Home Premium

equiped with finger print scanner, led lited shortcuts and altec lancing speakers

My RAZO TurboTimer

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:02:00 +0000

Last two months, I took my Little Snow White to my uncle's workshop in Ampang to get her turbo timer fixed. Well, at first we had some minor wiring problem with the ignition. After a few tries, everything works fine!! :) Now I have my RAZO turbo timer fixed.

How come I need a turbo timer, some may ask. Well, after running hot, the turbo needs time to cool down. The oil pump which runs the oil through the turbo will immediately stop working if you shut off the engine immediately causing the oil to boil in the turbo. So the timer will keep the engine running, thus cooling down the turbo and ends with an auto off. ;)
All this advice!! Thanks to Joe..... :D

little snow white in the workshop

the internal wires

the dead timer.....

finally!! everything is up and running!! :)

My Little Snow White

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:55:00 +0000

Last 2 months was the arrival of my Little Snow White. Well, you must be wondering how come its called Little Snow White. Firstly.... its "small", secondly.... its white!! :) My Little Snow White have quite a big appetite. It runs on a small 2.5L TurboDiesel engine and its a rear wheel drive commuter. Now.... :P it the time to reveal to you my Little Snow White!! :D She needed a little interior change. Seats have been changed, turbotimer and engine tuning. She is a little something with a big inside. Well... this is my Little Snow White.

my little snow white, she is a HIACE commuter vehicle

Pulau Ketam Dog Rescue Mission

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:48:00 +0000

About 300 stray dogs were rounded up
by Pulau Ketam residents and deported
to an isolated island to fend for themselves.

Over half of them are already dead and the
remaining ones may not live long. A rescue
mission is being mounted and your help is needed.

Please read the full story here

Updates here

The residents of Pulau Ketam sent some 300 stray dogs to exile on a remote island where the harsh conditions almost certainly guarantee a horrible death. Of the 300 dogs sent there, more than three-quarters are presumed to be already dead. I traveled to the island with Sabrina Yeap of Furry Friends Farm and managed to save only one dog on this reconnaissance trip. We did see several other starving and dying dogs along the mangrove shore. I am mounting an urgent rescue mission to capture and transport the remaining survivors back to Sabrina's Furry Friends Farm animal shelter. But time is running out and there might be only skeletons and carcasses left to collect on our next trip. Boat hire is expensive there. It is a tourist area and it has already cost me a few hundred ringgit for boat hire alone, so far. The rescued dogs cannot be transported on the regular ferries. Almost nobody will lift a finger to help without a fee. This is understandable. The locals are already shaking their heads in disbelief that there are outsiders who want to save the animals they so casually discarded. Instead of pointing fingers and antagonising them, we need their co-operation to help save the unfortunate creatures. In the process, we also hope to educate the islanders on better treatment of animals. It would be an impossible mission if we didn't win their hearts. If you are unable to help directly, please help by forwarding this appeal to other compassionate folks who you feel might be able to make some monetary contributions. Apart from boat hire, we need money to buy cages, to pay people to help catch them, to hire land transport to send the rescued animals to veterinary clinics, pay for vet fees, send the recovered ones to the shelter and to feed and house them for life. I can go on! To contribute or help, e-mail TV Smith at tvsmith@mycen.com.my or Sabrina Yeap at yeapwen@yahoo.com Update: Furry Friends Farm
CIMB 1457-000-1182-05-6 (Current Account)
*For online interbank transfer, if it prompts for Recipient ID/Business Reg: Just type in 5766

Contributors from abroad (and Malaysia) can also:

Send by PayPal to tvsmith@gmail.com

Please retain transaction record / slip for verification and audit purposes. Update:

For info or enquiries:
The Rescue Mission Secretariat at +6012 378 3730 (Janet) or +6012 320 8090 (Zalina)
The Sec's E-mail is dogrescue.pk@gmail.com (see updates page for info) Fellow bloggers, you can also help by embedding the appeal poster above to your blog and linking to http://www.mycen.com.my/rescue (this page) We are aware it is a monumental task and appreciate all forms of support, assistance, suggestions, encouragement and your prayers.
Thank you and don't forget to view the pictures of the dogs in order to appreciate their plight.

Visit also Furry Friends Farm's Blog / Website

TV Smith

3rd May 2009

Story Here

According to local fishermen, the starving animals resorted to cannibalism. They ate the carcasses of the fellow castaways who didn't survive. They were so desperate that they swam to nearby kelongs only to be chased away. Many weaker ones died in the water. We enlisted the help of a couple of Indonesian workers from a nearby kelong. They will also try to feed and trap the remaining dogs where possible. I am still formulating a proper method of delivering food to selected spots on this treacherous island. I hope to be able to engage a local mangrove expert to enter the interior of the island to estimate the number of remaining survivors and to identify the places to land. Because the island is relatively remote, the rescue mission is a logistical nightmare.

an Indon guy catching the dogs to safety....

Baking Battle

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:25:00 +0000

On 07.04.2009 my mother baked some banana walnut muffins, well... it was yummmy!!! The next day, me and my sister took up a challenge... moist chocolate muffins. The results turned out awesome!! :) My mum like the moist muffins as well! Here are the pictures of the moist muffins and the banana muffins. My favorites were the walnut and the banana when bite together.... the mix of soft and hard, and awesome taste! :) For the moist muffins, love the hard texture on the top and the moist inside...:P

Hershey's Moist Muffins.....

Banana Walnut Muffin....

My New Room

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:43:00 +0000

Last few weeks ago, my beloved room had a make over. New lighting, mirrors, border and new paint. The pricing for the make over was quite cheap.

Paint = RM 120
Border = RM 20
IKEA Ball Lighting = RM 56
IKEA Mirrors = RM 18
Clipsal Flat = RM 60

There are still some minor drilling to be done and some designer hangers to put up. It will be done soon!! :D Domo to my oneechan, she helped alot in painting and putting up the mirrors.

the clipsal flat switch

my brick border and light green for top and sea blue for bottom

IKEA ball light

IKEA Room mirrors (8pcs)

Simpang Pulai Mission Trip

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:19:00 +0000

Last few weeks, I had another mission trip to Simpang Pulai and then a resting trip up to Cameron. We went with a team of nine. We left on 16 March for mission trip and came back on 18 March. Well, the whole trip was very fun. We visited the pastor's church and manage to visit a couple of other villages. The first village that we went was blocked by a landslide so we had to walk for 40 mins in and out. LOL. I manage to snap snap with my camera. So here are some images from the mission trip and the Cameron trip. It was a quite nice weather and a nice drive there. :)

Mission Trip

firstly!! Comes the food! This is our dinner, the ikan bakar Ipoh....

this is mine, the chicken chop rice which only cost RM4.30

well, i hated the taste of Ipoh Loh Mai Kai!! :(

this was taken during our visit to the first kampung of the day, Marwan in a daze.....

the transport used to travel around

white pan mee.... very oily indeed

a group picture with the kids, well. tracy is always busy with her boy friend!! :P

a group of them sitting on my car :P

my sister sponsored 45 toy cars for the kids, their faces were the best picture you can have when they got the toys

this is Jerry Boy's little friend, not very little tho... but its a jungle spider

Cameron Trip

this picture is taken at the Cactus Valley in Camerons

some red cactus here.....:)

this is where we get mountain water, its along the Simpang Pulai road up to Camerons

Ipoh's salted chicken shop

this black and white picture is taken near the pastor's church, it is an abandoned house

the mist dew up in Gunung Brinchang

hmmm..... the human scarecrow in the BOH Tea Farm!! Jk JK! :P

a picture I took in the BOH Tea Farm....

our mission trip group in BOH Tea Farm

this is taken in Cactus Valley

this guy must have taken the wrong way down to town

We visited a few places, including the Brinchang night market and the Raju Strawberry Farm, own by one of my dad's friends :P

signing off for now - dixon -

My New Seat Post

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:30:00 +0000

Few weeks ago before the big international race in Kenyir, I bought myself a secondhand seatpost for my GIANT bike. First off, the color!! Finally I manage to change my seatpost color to black. Since the color theme for my bike is Yellow and Black, so yea.... Secondly, the weight, my bike went lighter by 130 grams!! :D Awesome!! The original price for this seatpost is RM 380, I managed to get is for RM 50!! :D This is a pic of my seatpost.

My Exam Results

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:28:00 +0000

Hello guys, I have been neglecting my blog for sometime, feel more like a long time. Well, got tired of blogging and got caught up in alot of work here and there. My exam result came out quite well I guess. 2B's? Yes.... my sister is not very happy with me tho, and come to think of it, I am not very satisfied with my results as well. Looks like I have to put in more effort this semester. With the work and the money building up, its kinda hard, Keep Trying!!

Finally A Major Update

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:22:00 +0000

Finally.... here is an update from the so many weeks of neglect on my blog. :D Its has been so long and so many things had happened during the whole of the few weeks. Here are some eventful things which happened and will be posted up soon!!

- My Exams
- My new seat post
- Mission Trip ( Simpang Pulai ) 14 - 16 March
- Exams Results out
- Dura Ace and Ultegra
- The prep and clean up
- Kenyir International Triathlon
- State roadtrip

Well... these are most of the intresting things that I did for my few weeks and yea... I will find time to update the pictures!! :) Till then.....

The Jungle Adventure

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:21:00 +0000

On the 25th of January, a few of us went for some jungle hiking in FRIM. Well, we had to pay.... to get in, that's very obvious since it is own by our non generous government which wants to make money out of plants... well. We still went in. LOL. We decided to create our own trail upstream. Climbing mini waterfalls and streams... slippery rocks, cold waters, thick bushes.... well... all that was kinda new experience for everyone. :) Here are some pictures that I manage to capture before my N95 and Canon 30D went for a swim in the cold water. Well, managed to safe them. :0 Thank God!!

the pictures are posted straight from the camera. Color saturation was not locked.

everyone!! this is ben. aaron's cousin

well, the girls kinda enjoyed it as well

rocks with moss and dead logs

introducing out pathfinder, jared!! LOL

this was quite a challenge for us, steep, slippery and high

the army behind the leaves, denise, aaron and jean

dun really know wad plant is this.... lol. but looks nice and cute

the water was refreshing and ready to drink already :)

My New B.U.M Shoes

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:50:00 +0000

Yay Yay!! My Chinese New Year shoe!! My sister bought me a pair of B.U.M shoes. Well!! I love it!! Its my favorite color oso. The shoe had to be widened for my foot!! Haha!! But nonetheless, I love the shoe very much Domo oneechan for the shoes. Its very comfortable and nice!! Domo

Marwano's Birthday

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:51:00 +0000

Happy Birthday Marwano!! Last week, one of my college friends had his birthday party at Picadilly in section 14, PJ. Well, and glad to say that the food there was totally awesome!! The so far nice and affordable food place. The environment was nice and warm. Here are some pictures for the birthday. :)

mushroom and creme on french toast bread

my dinner, the sizzling chicken

Liz posing for the beer tower....

the beer tower, we all shared money to get one

Well, i decided to try the banana shake

New Semester

noreply@blogger.com (Dixon Liu) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:51:00 +0000

Aha!! A new semester has arrived. Not as cramp as the previous semester. But yea…. The best part of this semester is, I only have class on Thursday and Saturday. Thursday full day, but Saturday half day. LOL. One fully coursework subject and one with exam. Well, I am looking forward to learning more from Multimedia. Another challenge is learning Adobe CS4. Assignments will be pouring in soon cause this is a short semester. All the best to everyone!!