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Billingham Handley Pro Sage

2011-08-28T16:47:00.000+01:00

Hi All,

Happy long weekend and wish all Muslim around the world Eid Mubarak. I really excited today to reveal most anticipated product that I admired for years, Billingham bag. This bag is hand mad, pure England made , the material is water prove and light weight. The bag construction is durable and steady, worth every penny. I bought this bag from camera warehouse for £147 after 7% discount but retails price is around £180, almost £30 ish saving. This bag is designed for camera but the inner padding can be removed to convert it to be used as casual or normal sling bag. Overall I really please with my purchase especially the saving I managed to made as well as full filled my long dream to own one. Here, I included my you tube video and hope you guys enjoy it. Do subscribe and support this blog by purchase from amazon or click an adsense advertisement. Thanks

Buffalo Ministation 500GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Disk Drive

2011-08-21T06:33:00.000+01:00

A short review about Buffalo portable HDD, this drive cost around £40 from Amazon uk. It is 2.0 version, light weight and 500GB capacity. Here, I attached the video and hope you guys enjoy it, do subscribe to my youtube channel and do support my work by buy stuff from ads partner or just click the adsense.

Thanks

Iphone 4 Angry Bird Cover

2011-06-05T16:14:00.000+01:00

No doubt everyone familiar with an angry bird game and this game is very famous all over the world. Recently, I bought an official angry cover made by Gear 4 for my iPhone 4 for £9 at HMV. The price for me is ok but the product is brilliant especially the glossy finish at the back. There are 3 type of bird available red, yellow and white but I prefer the red one. However there a few aspect that i'm not very happy with the design. Firstly, the depth of the cover is less thick from the iPhone itself and this make the iPhone screen is more expose and not really safe if you drop the front of the phone. Secondly, its hard to remove the cover and do need a great effort. Overall, I gave 3 star to this case but there is still an area to improve. Here, I share my video review and hope you all have great week ahead!

Marshall Major Headphone

2011-05-01T01:39:00.000+01:00

Hi All,

As we all know marshall is a great product when it come to amplifier and now they also jump joined bandwagon in producing headphone. Last year they announce their new product called major n minor where the differences between these two are headphone and earphone respectively, also in price where the major cost around £90 and minor around £40.

Recently, HMV offered a discount for the major and I grab the chances and bought the headphone for £70, not bad for the price. The main reason I bought this headphone is only based on the design not on the performance. The design is great and brilliant, gold plated, Tim Marshall signature and can be folded hence easy carrying around when travelling. Check out these pictures:

The Simplicity Design

The Ear-cup

Gold Plated Marshall Logo

Overall, I will said the headphone is gorgeous in the design department but ok in the sound department. The price is ok compared to Dr Dre. Here, I posted a video hope you guys enjoy it !

Samsung SD memory card

2011-03-12T21:37:00.000+00:00

Hi,

First of all, I would like to express my condolence to all people in Japan for the earthquake and tsunami that hit their North East province.Hope thing getting better for them. By the way I would like to share a nice product which I bought recently. A cheap and undestructable memory card produced by samsung from play.com. As photography is one of my passsion, hence a good sd memory card is a must for me but I dont want to break my bank for it. A class 6 card will do the job but shock, magnetic and water proof card is a bargain more then I begging for. So I recommend this product to all keen and amature photographer at least to have one of this card. The card is less then £13 for 8G and less then a tenner for 4G. Worth the money and provide the security as well as peace in mind without worrying lossing the precious photo. Please check my video and make some comments about the product. Thanks and see you all later.

Panasonic 3D Active Shutter Glass

2011-02-20T21:29:00.000+00:00

Hi all,

I've been really busy lately and broke as well. I haven't bought much stuff for last couple of month, try to save money...lol, hence I decided to do review on 3D glasses. I got 2 different 3D glasses when I bought my 3D tele. These glasses made by Panny but early 2010 they decided to improve their product based on the customer feedback. I'm quite furies with Curry for supplies the old model but that is their policy. However, due to their clumsy staff, he gave me the new model instead. ;)

Here, I posted a brief review about these glasses hope you guys enjoy the vid. See u all next time.

EA Active Sport 2

2011-01-09T12:55:00.002+00:00

I hope it's still not too late to wish to you all a happy new year. Hope everyone had a good Christmas holiday and wish 2011 would bring us happiness, good health.. and most importantly peace to the world crisis. Today I would like to share review about a great exercise game developed by EA. This game is an improvement from its previous version. It comes with a heart rate monitor, two motion sensors and a resistant band. The game has gone through a series of thorough research by exercise experts and even backed by the England new sport ambassador, David Beckham. The price is around £60 but currently Game store make an offer purchase for £10 off. I've already tried four workout sessions in the last week and I found the exercises in the game reasonably extensive and well-planned. There is a virtual personal trainer to guide me along the series of exercises according to my choice, they take roughly 20 minutes to 40 minutes depending on the sessions I opt for. I did a literally short 20-minutes session workout but it did make me sweat and felt knackered afterwards. Overall, I think this game is a superb buy, would definitely recommend it to people who don't have time or money to go to gym cause you could still keep fit at your own home with your own time schedule. Here I posted the unboxing video for the game, hope you enjoy it and perhaps next time I could probably post some clips of me doing the workout itself!

Updated Panasonic Gt20 3D HDTV

2010-12-19T18:29:00.001+00:00

Hi all,
It has been a month I not posting any news to my blog. No worries now a grand finaly of my 3D HDTV review, I have posted it on youtube. Here, just a bit summary about it, stunning TV with pack of features such as internet, full HD, deep black level, 4 HDMi and etc but most important thing is worth the money. Ok folks enjoy the video and I wil update about the 3D glasses later. See you all and have nice holiday!

Buying new Tele, Here a buying Guide from Cnet US..

2010-11-19T09:45:00.000+00:00

Just found this useful article from Cnet US about Dan Ackerman sharing his experience bought new Samsung 3D tele. As far as I know there is a lot of debate about 3D tele at the moment...it is worth the money?. I'm not sure but I can tell you next week because I just bought myself a 42" Panny Plasma 3D tele. This purchase have make a big hole in my bank account. I hope it worth a lot!!!! :)

Its started last weekend when I saw an advertisement from BEST BUY about vat refund from SONY for 3D tele. I decided to have a look as their offer a lot of stuff like 2 pair 3D glass, 3D blue ray player and 3D movie. Hence, I went to John Lewis in Saint Davis 2 but I felt disappointed with it performance even the tele is LED balacklight which is great features for today tele. Next to the SONY is Panasonic (Panny) VT25 and I decide to compare this tele to the sony .... Oh my GOD, unbelievable image quality (3D) produced by the Panny but the price is more expensive and not offer any bundle.

After that, I decided to drop by at Curry then an epic drama begin when the sale person told me that they have an offer for Panny GT20 which is an entry level of 3D tele and they throw a lot of accesories with the tele such as 2 pair 3D glass, 3D blue ray player, 3D movie, wall mount, 1.4 HDMI cable, screen cleaner and 5 years warranty. Straight away it turn me crazy...lol unable to control my self and decided to make a purchase after 2 hours bargain battle with the sale guy. I considered I got a good deal even my missus not happy about it. The only thing that up sad me is I need to wait a week for a delivery. Add to the frustration I just sold my old Samsung 32" tele on Ebay and now no tele in my house. My wife going to miss her X-factor this weekend...:-/.

I will post a review on this tele soon and hope I get what I paid for because there is a mix review about 3D tele and plasma. However, I believe it down to the person it self, how much money you willing to pay for this premium. For me this is the best time to buy new tele because is festive sale season. Consider, Uk gov will increase VAT next year and I going home to Malaysia for good, ok guys do check out cnet link and happy weekend.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20023145-1.html?tag=TOCcarouselMain.0

GT 20 model

Wireless Mouse GIGABYTE GM-M7700

2010-11-09T21:18:00.002+00:00

Hi all,

Tonight is the coldest night ever, ;( I tried to push my self to do some of my PhD work, sadly I in no mood to read any journal or reference paper. Hence, I decided to do a short review about my recent purchased. I have bought a wireless mouse to replace my 6 years old Toshiba wired mouse. The main reason I got this mouse is to reduce my work station cluttered with wired such as power supply cable, printer cable and etc.

I did research about wireless mouse and stumble this little one, GIGABYTE GM-M7700. Most people prefer Logictec but the price is twice much compared to this one which only cost me £16 from play.com. The mouse pack with a lot of features such as 2.4G wireless up to 10m range, 6++ months of battery life, DPI adjustable, Tile wheel and importantly is laser mean work on any surface.

However, the only downside is the I reckon this mouse is suitable for small hand person like me :) but I don't think this is a major issue. Here, I attached a short review video and few photos. Hope you all enjoyed and good night.

nice curve from back view

How the Bible Led Me to Islam: The Story of a Former Christian Youth Min...

2010-11-07T14:21:00.001+00:00

Hi and Salam to all,

A wonderful video that I would like to share with everyone especially the non-muslim. The truth is here as you can see a person that tried really hard to find the truth and finally found it. However, for me born as a Muslim but forget about this and what has been tought by my mum and my religion teacher. Thanks to Allah by giving me another chance to correct my self and hope I will stay in the right path...Ameen

Folding Bike

2010-10-31T19:34:00.003+00:00

It's been ages I have not update this blog. Lately I've been busy with my PhD work, I spent most of my time in High Voltage Laboratory. Anyhoo, I got really excited stuff to share with you all, I just bought a second hand Brompton Folding Bike a month ago from Ebay at a bargain price. Generally, the bike price is around £700 brand new but will cost more when customise and can cost up to £1500. However I managed to get it around £500 considered the original price is around £900.

I did asked my dear friend Firdaus to collect the bike for me then two weeks later me and my beloved wife went to London. It is not bad though, carried the bike from London back to Cardiff due to it brilliant engineering design I managed to carried it from Elephant and Castle tube station to Victoria Coach station with out much problem. The bike weight is around 10Kg hence can be considered quite light.

Here, the bike specifications:

Model: M6L

Gear Speed: 6

Color: White

Other: Carrier, rear and front lamp with dynamo.

I'm really glad bought this bike and my wife loved it too. Now my journey to school is much faster and on the weekend my wife ride it while I jog. Overall it can be said worth the money and great investment because I still can get my money back if I sell it on Ebay. I did not make any video review on the bike yet but here few photos and video sample from youtube...Enjoy...

Nicely folded

My wife as a Brompton Unpaid Model

Her first Cardiff Car Boot Sale

2010-10-02T07:52:00.000+01:00

My wife always went to car boot sale when she was a student in Bristol, so she missed her old day of getting cheap stuff. That the main reason she nagging me all the time to show her Cardiff car boot sale location. In contrast, I hate car boot sale for the last 6 year or so, I only went less than 10 times to car boot sale. My opinion on car boot is people want to bin junk so what I will buy is a others people junk. However, I do agree sometimes you will get good stuff but it is require a regular visit to car boot which can cause an impulse spending.

Last 2 week her wish is granted , a friend of mine offer us to tag along to car boot. My wife really excited and we went to Splott and Bessemer car boot sale. I prefer Bessemer compared to Splott car boot sale area because it is more bigger and have a lot of seller. Unfortunately, we only bought a set of utensils...:) because every time she like something I just not agree with her, that switch off her mood a little bit..lol.

She at Splott car boot sale

Then after car boot we went to Global warehouse store which sell food but in bulk quantity. Here, I splash my cash buying a lot of dry and packing food for a winter stock..lol just joking. The food price is cheap compare to normal shop like a bag of 5kg long grain rice is £1 cheaper compared to Masaala Bazar. After I thought we done for today, suddenly my mate told me that their going to Asda. So we just head there and bought some fish. Here, a picture of friendly fish monger with his fish collection in store..lol Overall, we have really great day and I want to thanks to Fadzly and his wife for this half day out event. Cheers guys! By the way no more car boot for me...lol

The fish monger

An angry Seabass

Yo Sushi

2010-09-18T00:14:00.002+01:00

We went for lunch today at Yo Sushi in Saint Davis 2, this is our first time eat sushi there. The restaurant look cool and the sushi price is a bit expensive because it is based on colour coding. The shop look similar to Sushi King in Malaysia which the sushi is running on the conveyor belt as shown in this video.

The good news is we got a voucher from Yo Sushi website which give us 1/3 off from the total bill. The food can be said as good as Tenkaichi Sushi restaurant at City road but here the sushi choices is more. However, the food portion is too small and their miso soup is a bit salty but they allow you to re-fill the soup with out extra charge.

Overall, we recommend this restaurant but make sure you get a voucher because it can break your bank account :) . Here, few pictures I have taken using my D-lux 4 which I have intention to put on the conveyor but my wife forbid me to do so...hihihi!

She want everything on the conveyor

Prawn noodle

Very hungry person in action

Eid Mubarak Everyone!

2010-09-16T12:26:00.002+01:00

It is still not to late for me to wish everyone Eid Mubarak. This year is my 2nd Eid celebrated with my lovely wife but my countless Eid in the UK. Hopefully, I finish my study before next year Eid so I can celebrate with my family and relatives back home.

This year Eid is a bit different from our last Eid because we managed to prepare small party for our guest. Credit to my wife cook all the traditional dish all night, alone. I suddenly pass out after break our fast for no particular reason as an excused for being lazy ass :). Sadly there is no "Raya" cookies and I don't think it is a big deal as long as we have ketupat and rendang.

After, a month of hard work, fasting and do other good deeds, I believe it is pay off. I lost almost 3 Kg of my weight but sadly it not last that long and now I gain back the weight... :( Anyway the fast is to teach Muslim to thanks God for providing the mercy month of Ramadhan with a little of scarifies and rewarded us with the Syawal or Eid.

As usual we, Malaysian in Cardiff doing our best in celebrating Eid by pray together. This will remind us to home and opportunity to ask forgiveness among ourself. Here few pictures I have taken during the Eid celebration. Hopefully next Eid I will be with our love one :) in Malaysia.

Me and my wife

Eid small party @ our house

Rendang in the making

UPEC 2010

2010-09-13T16:03:00.005+01:00

I've been busy lately since end of August. A lot of stuff I tried to juggle around at one time. From 31st of August to 3rd of Sept 2010, I have attended a Conference organised by Cardiff University for High Voltage Engineering. The sad part is this conference is in Ramadhan so I missed a lot of free food however, that is not a big deal. This is my first Conference after 3 years of my PhD and hopefully I get more opportunity for next coming year.

There is nothing much during these 4 days conference, only seminar, Museum visit , free food and paper presentation. As a part of delegate and volunteer, my tasks are present my paper, tour guide, conference assistant and etc. This sound really sad...hahaha I wish the conference somewhere else so I can get a chance to visit other places for free. :)

They are around 300 delegates from academic and industry sector. So I take advantage from this conference to expend my network and sharing knowledge. I meet few people from other University and I reckon it was good experience especially PhD student from Netherlander which have a lot of sense of humour.

Overall, I enjoyed the conference, make a few friends and most importantly I got 4 days leisure time with out stuck at my office desk.. :) Here, few pictures through out the conference.

The three musketeer

Big lady Boss

Conference delegates

Empty cups like my empty stomach during Ramadhan

My favourite Raya Song

2010-09-04T17:29:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

Just want to share my favourite Raya Song by Sudirman. It is hard to live aboard and far away from the love one. The reality is really really hard especially when Ramadhan and Eid approaching it always remind me to Malaysia. The food is amazing especially at Ramadhan Bazar and when Eid, the atmosphere and celebration is different compared to UK. I looking forward to this year Eid and hoping this is going to be last Eid I celebrate in UK. Hopefully, next year I will be in Malaysia with my family and friend. Enjoy the song guys!

Chase Jarvis

2010-08-23T18:37:00.002+01:00

Hi all,

Just want to share this link posted by Chase Jarvis through his blog. I think is a great knowledge to share with everyone. Give it a go folks and enjoy!

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/08/scotts-guest-post-play-by-play-post-production-on-this-popular-photo/

Why?

2010-08-19T11:57:00.001+01:00

I'm a Muslim and really proud of my religion but sick with some people that used Muslim as their political agenda. Unfortunately, it is really sad to say that Muslim or Islam have been labelled as terrorist but not all of us is bad. Same like all rapist is man but not all man is a rapist. So folks we live in this temporary world why we can't tolerate and share the world equally?. This is because some people a greedy and love to see the destruction of the world. By the way I just want to share this link and hope you all watch it, learn and think about it for a moment. Try to find an answer why we can't live in this world in peace and harmony. Have a nice day!

How to get free Manfrotto Monopod

2010-08-17T19:29:00.005+01:00

Hi Ya!

Hope everyone doing well with daily life, a great news I just got myself free Manfrotto Monopod. Technically it is not free but by considering I break even, so I just assumed it is free :). I subscribe to PhotoPlus Magazine and as a welcome gift, I have picked a monopod. I always dream to have a monopod because it easy to carry around and also good addition to my current camera accessories collection. However, the term to get this welcome gift is I need to pay for a year subscription. By the way that is not a big deal because I used Topcashback and managed to get cash back of £6. This mean I paid less than the actual fees. So everyone this is a great opportunity to have good stuff at reasonable price plus free monopod. :) Lastly, check out my video!

What is Photography mean to me.

2010-08-15T12:57:00.006+01:00

These days I could see a lot of people own a DSLR camera. I did owned one; a Canon 500D and were really satisfied with the images it produced. It has an 18M resolution and capable to work under a low light condition. Here one of the picture taken using the camera..

I started to involve seriously in photography a year ago and now I got hooked to it and totally addicted. I love to flip through pictures uploaded on Flickr and share ideas with other people of this similar enthusiasm. The main reason I love photography is because I could capture special moments and store them. Like the picture below, you could see an endless happiness of the boy's smile..

There are times, however, when I felt cumbersome to carry around a DSLR so I then decided to get a compact camera. I later bought a Leica Dlux-4 and I am quite impressed with the quality of pictures it produces. Although its relatively expensive price let me down a bit but that did not stop me from owning one. I know the camera model is the same as LX3 but the hefty price tag represents its distinguished brand. I believe everyone wants to have an M9 but not everyone can afford it. At the moment, I am also trying to save a sum of money as much as possible and hopefully one day I could have M9. :) Here is one of the among the earliest pictures I captured using D-lux 4. This simple image managed to attract more than 200 viewers on Flickr and counting.

Recently I also purchased a ten-weeks photography course organised by CreativeLive, the course talks about the fundamental principle of digital photography with John Greengo as the speaker. I am really pleased to join this course because it opens up my mind about photography and teaches me a lot on how to become a better photographer by means of mastering my equipment. I highly recommend this course to all the photographers, especially the beginners. Here, the website creativelive, you can purchase a lot of courses from here.

Last but not least, I also want to share about my favourite magazine called PhotoPlus. Unfortunately, this magazine is dedicated only to Canon users. The best part is when they give away some welcome gifts such as mono pod, camera bag and many more when one subscribes the mag for a year. I love this magazine because the editor manages to provide relevant topics on photography and not being bias when making comments or reviews on equipments, for instance lens, camera and others. Furthermore, the mag also provides a photoshop tutorial on how to edit or improvise digital picture by showing step-by-step editing process. Overall, I love this mag and glad to be a Canon user. Alrighty folks, I have shared my photography knowledge, hope you guys enjoy it and have a nice week ahead!

Airasia X Video Update

2010-08-07T07:18:00.009+01:00

Here a live experience when I flying with Airasia X last month. As you can see the aeroplane shake a bit when flying through turbulence. However, nothing happen and we arrived Kuala Lumpur safe and sound. So folks enjoy the video!

My new born niece

2010-08-07T05:29:00.004+01:00

I would like to welcome a new members to Hussin family. A baby girl was born on 5 June 2010. My sister daughter weight around 3 Kg with a dark skin and black hair. Me and my wife felt really excited when we meet her for the first time. A small baby with loud crying voice. In total now I have two niece including talkative Afrina. Her name is Nurul Armani Bt. Ibrahim and I wish her welcome to the new world and hope she will be a good daughter to her parent and success always. You bring light and happiness to our family especially my mum and dad. The best part is she always want to hold her milk bottle when we feed her, for 1 month old baby this is quite impressive. I wish I will have my own baby soon :).

My Niece Sport Day Event

2010-07-31T22:10:00.001+01:00

Nothing much activity really when we in Malaysia, it is quite slow progress from one day to another except eating :). Luckily my beloved niece Arfina have her school sport day on 18 July 2010. It is a half day event which involved few school in Ampang area. A lot of sport taking place but she only participate in one event called "ku sarung cincin" which does sound funny to me.

However, she and her team mate did really well and bag them self gold medal. It was enjoyable day for us and most importantly Afrina having good time and not return home with an empty hand. Horayy to yellow the team!

Airasia X

2010-07-31T06:04:00.000+01:00

Who doesn't want a cheap flight we all do ;), I would recommend Airasia if you have tight budget and pay than less £300 for both way journey. If not don't bother to fly with this Airlines the main reason is the seat space is too small and the service is a bit disappoint but don't take my word for it. Someone people find it fine but from my experience it is just average and I like MAS better.

To endurance 13 hours flight journey with cramp sit and less choice of food sometimes no food at all is not a pleasant experience. Best example is when you purchase a ticket direct from the counter and want to fly on the same day they will charge you hell a lot of money but said that you can't book for your meal because they have catered the meal early. Then when on board the stewards say sorry we only have sandwiches left, what a shame.

I felt really unhappy with their service when fly from London to Malaysia.However, when a return flight I paid £20 for an extra leg room seat and book my meal and bring extra Malaysian Ringgit to buy extra food or drink later. In addition I also manage to sneak some food from home into the aeroplane.My conclusion is you get what you pay for the price however I believe Tony Fernandes can do better consider he can sponsor F1 why not invest more into his airlines business.

Anyway me and my wife safely back in the UK and looking forward for the Ramadhan and hoping everything back to normal. Have nice weekend and enjoy the British weather everyone :D