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Blog :: Stopwatch

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:01:56 GMT

When I first see this promotion package - Gillette Mach3 Turbo plus a free watch, I know I′m going to buy it.

I want to buy a new safety razor. I also want to buy a new stopwatch. This is the best package that suits my need very well.

Let see how long I can utilize this free watch for recording my running time.

1 Comment

visited and nanged

By theeggyolks | 01/11/2009 22:06:46

Blog :: Mizuno Wave Run 2009

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:42:09 GMT

This morning I′m going for Mizuno Wave Run at Stadium University Putra Malaysia (UPM) which is organized by Pacesetters Athletic Club Malaysia.

I was expecting a good quality of running vest from Pacesetters as the previous New Balance Pacesetters 15km Run 2009 running vest is quite good.

But they had failed me, the quality of the running vest is just too normal. I guess it is depend on the branding very much.

Early morning, I had been awake by the heavy rain. I though I can skip for this run as I didn′t do much training for it. Unfortunately, the rain start getting light around 5am, too bad I have to wake up.

UPM 11km running route is having too much up & down hills. Especially the last long up hill, my legs almost use up all the energy. Luckily I still manage to make it non-stop running till the end. Time: 1 hour and 3 minutes.

Certificate & top 500 men open finishers medal still be reward.

1 Comment

Well done!

By Fatt | 26/10/2009 09:48:46

Blog :: 1st Cash Out From Nuffnang

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:44:57 GMT

Today I open up my Nuffnang account to check my earning as usual, look what I saw?

RM 50.75

I didn′t see it wrong, it finally reaches over RM 50, and it means I can cash out.

Cash out my earning

I do a blog search over Fabio Entertainment for my Nuffnang history, I manage to find my "start date" - 2007/03/30, that was like two and a half years ago.

Your earnings request has been successfully submitted. Please allow 30 days from the end of the month for your payment to be processed and sent (60-days for non-Glitterati members).

I guess I am a non-Glitterati member, 60 days start from the end of the month = 90 days to wait. >.<

Unpaid

After click cash out, it reset all my owning. Let wait for my 1st blogging income.

5 Comments

nice..
it′ll be worth the wait!

By kenwooi | 04/10/2009 00:29:04

I think you are a Glitterati member...coz it says there on your status that you are one

By Dree | 04/10/2009 00:38:53

Oop, I think Dree is right, I didn′t notice I′m a Glitterati member till now.

By Fabio | 04/10/2009 00:44:49

Haha...Congratulation!

Why don′t you wait for more? Such as RM 1000? LOL

By Tony Wan | 04/10/2009 00:51:11

First bucket of gold. Can smell retirement already.

By Ryan Lee | 06/10/2009 17:30:04

Blog :: Chinese Subtitle in VLC

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:25:59 GMT

I′m trying to watch a Hong Kong movie with Chinese subtitle in VideoLAN - VLC media player.

Default setting.

Default output, some kind of Alien subtitle.

After some research, I finally find out that it require me to select the correct encoding of the subtitle file & a Chinese font on my PC in order to display the Chinese subtitle correctly.

Correct setting.

Correct output.

That is for Universal, Chinese (GB18030) setting. If you are looking for Traditional Chinese (Big5) setting, you can try this out.

Blog :: Feng Shui (风水)

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:43:29 GMT

Recently I just finish read a Feng Shui book. Overall, it is easy to understand, not bad.

"好宅运，打造你的富贵命" by 李昭颖

I have been thinking about following every detail on the book during my reading. However, I had lost my excitement to do so right after I finish reading it.

There are few things bad about my house:
1) Street light is right in front of the main door, "opened the door see the column", there will be either loss of money or loss of population.
2) Computer is right in front of the bed. Electromagnetic from the computer might make me sleepless.
3) The kitchen gas stove is right in front of the toilet door, foods might affect by the toilet smell.

I feel like wanted to avoid all the bad display. But unfortunately, I didn′t feel like changing anything that will give me extra luck. Maybe I am not that into Feng Shui also.

Blog :: Cameron Highland Trip

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:48:21 GMT

Last weekend I just went to Cameron Highland for the first time with my colleagues. Here some random photos from Cactus Valley & BOH Tea Centre.

All the gentlemen at Cactus Valley entrance.

My close colleagues - Lee Ken, Rachelle & Xion.

Group photos at Cactus Valley.

Funny scene, nice shoots by Ming.

Group photos at BOH Tea Centre entrance.

Such a nice view.

Full of green background, nice view too.

Overall, it is a nice trip, a very big thanks to the organizer - Rachelle, you did a great work.

Blog :: Certificate for New Balance Run 2009

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:13:13 GMT

New Balance Pacesetters 15km 2009, Certificate of Completion.

Time: 01:31:22
15km Men Open: 256/720
15km All Men Category: 441/1266
15km All Category: 493/1649

Blog :: Certificate for KL Marathon 2009

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:32:41 GMT

Certificate for Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2009, Full Marathon (42.195km).

Finish Time: 06:16:29.81
Ranking: 1237

Blog :: Shape & Men′s Health Night Run 2009

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:57:51 GMT

Last week, I had tried my first night run at Putrajaya. Compare to a morning run, I feel like it is hard for me to get oxygen. One of my friends also claims that there is sun heat on the ground which made her legs with shoes feel hotter. Anyway, Putrajaya night view is awesome.

This time I take 11.5km run, my target is to finish it in 58 minutes. Same as my previous run, there is no timing chip for the run again. Never mind, I just use my own way to get my timing then.

The run start at 8pm. As usual, I skip all the water stations running non-stop till the end. I can feel that I run slower this time. By the time I reach the finishing line, I immediately look for any watch around the area & ask for the time. It is 9:03pm. I hope I didn′t see wrongly. That also mean I finish 11.5km in 1 hour 3 minutes, slower than my own target. But is ok, next time I will try harder.

After the run, I go to redeem my goodies bag which is worth RM300 according to their website.

Do you notice there is a condom there?

There is not much water supply after the run. I & my friends decide to go mamak for some drink after we take a group photo.

2 Comments

lol, (33) -_-

Don′t have the haze mah?
seem like the nice run at nite.

By lekboon | 03/08/2009 10:07:08

This few days seem like no see haze.

By Fabio | 03/08/2009 10:25:54

Blog :: Siemens Run 2009

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:04:23 GMT

Yet another Dataran Merdeka runs right after Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2009.

The longest distance for Siemens Run is only 10km. It is kind of short for me. Because of that, my target for this run also changes to aim for completing in faster speed.

Right before the race, I had tried few trail runs at KLCC Park just to help myself set a realistic goal for the race. Last week before the race, I finally set my goal to complete the 10km race within 50 minutes & hopefully I can get a top 100 medal.

I wear Siemens running vest on the race day & start the race at 7:30am. From all my previous run this year that I had joined, this event is the only run that didn′t use a timing chip. I really disappointed on this issue.

I run well, able to maintain high speed running from beginning till the end, nothing happened to slow my speed down. I skipped all the water stations, my entire mind is thinking of the finishing line. Finally I reached. Without a timing chip, I immediately look for the big clock on the Dataran Merdeka building, time is 8:20am. Yes, I achieved my goal. I finished 10km in 50 minutes.

I get a certificate right after the race. My time is not good enough for top 100, no medal. Although I had failed to become top 100 runners, I still curious to know how much time I need to improve to achieve the top 100 dream. But unfortunately, I find nowhere to show the results on the race day, after the race, even until today, there is no results been announced.

So, I decide to post this question to their forum & I finally get a response:

"Hi fabiolee, with respect to Siemens Men open results, i believe we dont have time records for 100 runners. Siemens Run has not introduced the timing chip system yet. However, FTAAA managed the time records for the 20 to 30 runners of the category if I am not mistaken."

No personal timing record, no medal, no results for improvement. Worst event ever.

6 Comments

hi there...
The number 101st position was taken by Kevin Chow and his timing at 49′47. So I will think that one have to be a few minutes better than 48 minutes to get position 100.

Got this from pacesetters blog where we each have our own watch and timer.

So you just missed it by a few minute slower.

By DanielCtw | 22/07/2009 14:37:02

Thanks Daniel Chew for the info, I′m so close. >.<

By Fabio | 22/07/2009 14:54:22

What a pity. Anyway, 10km in 50 minutes is really good man! I am still trying hard to maintain speed even for the first 8km...

Maybe can get a self-timer next time?

By Yow Chuan | 22/07/2009 21:54:05

Ya, going to get one.

By Fabio | 23/07/2009 09:07:22

hi fabio, good effort on the 50-minute 10KM. perhaps you could just get yourself a simple casio watch to time yourself. that way you can see immediate result while waiting for the organizer′s official result

By kevin cheng | 23/07/2009 09:09:48

Try the Singapore Standard Chartered Marathon Run in Dec 09 ... Pretty well organize all these years.

By yihui | 23/07/2009 23:08:02

Blog :: Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2009

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:58:35 GMT

Sunday morning, I wake up at 2am preparing for the Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2009 which will be held in Dataran Merdeka. This is a very big marathon event. There are 12,500 participants in total.

2 days before the race day, I went to collect race pack during a weekday lunch hour.

It was a nightmare, as you can see, the queue is damn long. I end up have to go again on the next morning. This time, I only used 5 minutes to collect 7 race packs for myself & my friends, very big improvement.

Here is the running vest:

Compare to New Balance Run 2009 running vest, the quality is slightly lower.

My race starts at 5am, full marathon (42.195km) with a time limit of 6 hours. There is some small rain between 4:30am - 5am, but overall, it didn′t affect the race.

After 5 minutes the race start, my left stomach begin to feel pain, oh crap, not again during this important race. I try to adjust my body by running extra slow so that my pain will be gone after some distance. It works well, my stomach pain gone after I cross 8km.

From 10km on wards, my body feel fit & I think is time for some catch up with my extra slow start up. I start to cross a lot of runners one by one between 10km - 20km. And that is the biggest mistake I had ever made.

After 24km, I suddenly feel that my left leg having some muscle twitch, oh crap, my legs are not fit enough or maybe I am running too fast. I start to look for 100 plus, hope that water restoration can reduce my muscle twitch. But it didn′t work very well, I finally end up my first stop at 27km, begin to walk.

As my previous running experience tell me, when I start to walk, I might not able to run back so easily. Yeah, the theory work very well, I walk until the end for the remaining 15km.

I feel so disappointed during this 15km walk, although I feel like I am able to run for the last 5km after 10km of walking, but I didn′t feel like want to do so, cause 10km of walking is a shame for a runner. There is no different for 10km or 15km walk, I feel shame for both ways.

Well, I still pretend running for the last 0.195km, I cross the finish line at 11:15pm, which mean I took 6 hours 15 minutes to complete my 27km run, 15km walk full marathon.

A finisher t-shirt & medal still be rewarded.

Experience gained, mistake learned, I will do better for the next full marathon.

4 Comments

congrats!

1. the distance you ran was 42.45km. You did more than a marathon.
2. Any water shortage?
3. cut off time was 9hours, not 6. It was stated that the finishing area were to be opened until 3pm. They wrapped by at 1pm.
4. there were still runners coming in after 1pm but no one to go to.
5. timing chip fler wrapped up at 11.30.
6. police went off at 11am.
7. you can walk a marathon and still finish in 7 hours. i′ve done it before after after swimming 3.8km and biking 180km...can finish marathon in 7hours...no problem even if just walk.

again...well done!

By stupe | 29/06/2009 15:18:51

Congrats and well done for finishing the marathon.
The time limit was 6hrs and not 9 hrs. It was stated in the marathon website. I think it is too short but for security reason I suppose the organiser has not much choice.

By P C Lim | 02/07/2009 00:02:24

If it is indeed 6, then why put notice that race area closes at 3pm?

And worse, if really 6, why sweeper bus did not sweep runners?

By stupe | 02/07/2009 00:53:27

Hey,well done for you.
I am Annie Yee,18 1/2 yrs old. I took part in this meaningful activity too and I was happy to have such great experiences. This was my first time to participate in this activity. Luckily I didn′t give up as that day was my registration day to local U.
Keep on doing it!!Good luck!

By annie yee | 18/07/2009 13:13:09

Blog :: Update Parent Window from Child in JavaScript

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:33:20 GMT

<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            function doAlert() {
                alert("Alert!!!");
            }
            
            function openPopUp() {
                w = window.open("", "myWindow", "left=10, top=10, width=800, height=600");
                w.document.write("<html>");
                w.document.write("<head>");
                w.document.write("<scr" + "ipt type=\"text/javascript\">");
                w.document.write("function callParentToDoAlert() {");
                w.document.write("window.opener.doAlert();");
                w.document.write("}");
                w.document.write("</scr" + "ipt>");
                w.document.write("</head>");
                w.document.write("<body>");
                w.document.write("Click <a href=\"javascript:callParentToDoAlert();\">here</a> to call parent do alert.");
                w.document.write("</body>");
                w.document.write("</html>");
                w.document.close();
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        Click <a href="javascript:openPopUp();">here</a> to open popup.<br/>
        Click <a href="javascript:doAlert();">here</a> to do alert.
    </body>
</html>

Sample code for a web page as parent window opens up a pop up child window where the child window is having a functionality to call the parent window to do alert in JavaScript.

Reference - HTML DOM opener Property

Blog :: Bukit Tabur East Wing

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:07:16 GMT

After 11 months when my first attempt to hike at bukit tabur east wing, I finally decided to go for my second attempt on last Sunday.

This time, I myself as a newbie organizer is trying to bring 11 people to conquer the most dangerous hill in Klang Valley for their "virgin".

The journey begins at 7:30am.

As usual, it is not an easy place for beginner.

I somehow see "heaven". (What a beautiful view)

We finally reach our final challenge, climb up to the peak.

A group photo on the peak.

I am so proud of you guys, we make it! What next?

4 Comments

This hill is a ′normal′ hill but it is dangerous. Maybe you should try hiking other more challenging hill/mountain like the G9.

They are more exiting. =)

By Nigel Tee | 03/06/2009 01:59:18

Hi Fabio,

You did a great job. I can see that you were very responsible and taking care each of us. Even offer us biscuit at the peak and paid for our beverages *thumbs up*
Actually we are the one who suppose to belanja you wan.

Can′t wait for next adventure. But my body still aching ler. So good, I can try something new when mixing with friends from different interests.

When you free and got nothing to do, it′s time to organize another trip, k?

By Rachelle | 03/06/2009 11:40:48

offer biscuits and paid for the beverage?
why last time he didnt do such things when i hiked with him?

By Peonky | 13/06/2009 22:10:46

Simple, because I am not the organizer when with u.

By Fabio | 14/06/2009 10:02:20

Blog :: Certificate for KL Towerthon 2009

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:38:26 GMT

KL Tower International Forest Towerthon Challenge 2009, Certificate of Achievement.

Overall: 781
Ranking Category: 398
Ranking Total: 704
Net Time: 00:28:46

Blog :: New Balance Run 2009

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:55:25 GMT

New Balance Pacesetters 15km Run 2009 was held at Tasik Perdana Lake Gardens 7am this morning.

There is only 15km category, no other option available, the entry fee of RM45 for this event also not cheap.

However, I get a damn good quality running vest.

The running vest is perfect. I didn′t expect to get such a good qualify running vest from New Balance.

I was a bit late to reach Lake Garden this morning. Thanks to the timing clip system, my time only start count when the timing clip on my shoes crosses the starting line, it is nice that I having a fair timing count.

Race start!

I think I am rushing too fast in the first few km, I was like rushing to cross all the people in front of me, but I know it is impossible.

I finally notice my mistake when I saw a "4km" sign board along the road. "Crap, I had use off all my energy on my first 4km run, how am I going to continue my remaining 11km?"

So, the remaining 11km was a night mate for me, I keep my mind strong to not stop running, I don′t want to become a LEAVER. Distance from 4km to 10km is terrible for me.

Luckily I still manage to finish it & get the finisher medal.

The finisher medal is a New Balance shoes. Not bad for the creative design.

Looking forward my next run - 28 June 2009 Standard Chartered KL Full Marathon (42.195km). Hopefully I won′t make the same mistake again.

Blog :: Format Number in Struts HTML Taglib

admin@fabiolee.com (Fabio) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:51:07 GMT

I am trying to format number in Apache Struts input text field.

First of all, I go to setup my Struts ActionForm.

package com.fabiolee.struts.form;

public class NumberFormatActionForm extends org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm {
    
    private String strNumber;

    private int intNumber;

    private double doubleNumber;

    public String getStrNumber() {
        return strNumber;
    }

    public void setStrNumber(String strNumber) {
        this.strNumber = strNumber;
    }

    public int getIntNumber() {
        return intNumber;
    }

    public void setIntNumber(int intNumber) {
        this.intNumber = intNumber;
    }

    public double getDoubleNumber() {
        return doubleNumber;
    }

    public void setDoubleNumber(double doubleNumber) {
        this.doubleNumber = doubleNumber;
    }

    public NumberFormatActionForm() {
        super();

        strNumber = "10000000";
        intNumber = 10000000;
        doubleNumber = 10000000;
    }
    
}

Three variables in String, int & double format.

Bean Taglib can format number easily with:

<bean:write name="NumberFormatActionForm" property="strNumber" format="#,###,###,###.00" />

<bean:write name="NumberFormatActionForm" property="intNumber" format="#,###,###,###" />

<bean:write name="NumberFormatActionForm" property="doubleNumber" format="#,###,###,###.00" />

Both int & double format convert correctly but String format fail to convert.

For HTML Taglib, I can reuse Bean Taglib:

<html:form action="/number_format">
    1) strNumber:
    <html:text property="strNumber">
        <jsp:attribute name="value">
            <bean:write name="NumberFormatActionForm" property="strNumber" format="#,###,###,###.00" />
        </jsp:attribute>
    </html:text>,
    <bean:write name="NumberFormatActionForm" property="strNumber" format="#,###,###,###.00" />
    <br />
    2) intNumber:
    <html:text property="intNumber">
        <jsp:attribute name="value">
            <bean:write name="NumberFormatActionForm" property="intNumber" format="#,###,###,###" />
        </jsp:attribute>
    </html:text>,
    <bean:write name="NumberFormatActionForm" property="intNumber" format="#,###,###,###" />
    <br />
    3) doubleNumber:
    <html:text property="doubleNumber">
        <jsp:attribute name="value">
            <bean:write name="NumberFormatActionForm" property="doubleNumber" format="#,###,###,###.00" />
        </jsp:attribute>
    </html:text>,
    <bean:write name="NumberFormatActionForm" property="doubleNumber" format="#,###,###,###.00" />
    <br />
</html:form>

Here the output of the code.

Clean and clear?

4 Comments

You are using struts 1 or struts 2? Struts 2 is slower. Has it been improved?

By encikwan | 12/05/2009 15:15:05

Struts 1

By Fabio | 12/05/2009 15:27:32

It works very well. Good idea and very clear. It was very useful for me.

Thanks

By Fabian Pena | 09/07/2009 21:16:26

Nice shoot !!!! Worked and cut hours of fixes !!!

By JUNIOR | 04/09/2009 07:16:11