Dizzy struck me...bad for health.

Very unusual day today, for me something hard struck my head it just happen after lunch at 1.15pm. My body started to sway left and right, hands shaking, eyes blurry but changing focus and my brains started to feel dizzy as if i did'nt have enough blood flowing into my head. I almost lose my concentration while driving my car. My body have sudden quick changes of tiredness since 4 months ago. Trying to locate the symptoms but nothing strange in my daily routine. I had a good and enough sleeps. Wakeup at 5.30am, have a good big breakfast and work. Usually i never get any hard dizzy even after hard yesterday's heavy activity, my body get used to that. But this one is different. It always happens during working days. Maybe i've overworked and stress up my brains. Work 6 days for 9 hours a day as IT personnel plus 5 hours part-time in 6 days as 3d modeler/artist, advertising graphics and online tuition lecturing..oh yeah and some web PHP work. Hmmm...
I realise the more i use my brain to think about work the more energy from the body needed via blood to supply the power for brain activity which make me more tired. So i made conclusion that our brain uses more power than our body muscles. Well maybe its my mistake for pushing by brain and body to work harder than usual but in this month period is unavoidable. Stress build up for reasons...this mid year there a lot of stuff just come crashing into me...its kinda big brother responsibility to settle this things.
1. Car loans
2. House Loans
3. Life insurance, car insurance, house insurance
4. House tax, road tax, international labour tax
5. Car maintenance, computer maintenance, bike maintenance, spare clothings and tools.
6. Utility bills, electrics, phone, internet, water, fuel,
7. Little brother university education fees and necessity
8. Daily grocery and necessity
Everthing above and more unspecified ones hit me in just 4 months much heavier than ever. Really scratch a lot on my head to think such problem just pop-up and come bang on my head. My 3d artist work manage to cover 40% of the bills and expenses, advertising work 5% and lecturing 10%. Need to work more harder and better time management. I manage to plan my days ahead without sacrificing other activity like my hobby and computer related activity. Wise planing leads to smart time management and reduce heatlh fatigue.

Sunday borneo forest adventure.

Yesterday i reached home from my long biking adventure at 11.00pm near midnight, i was damn tired, legs felt heavy, my body sweats and sticky all over my skins plus covered with dusts and few muds sticking around my feet. Exhausted i took a quick late dinner, bath and 30 minutes later fell heavily on my bed sleep all the way till moday morning.
So what's the story?...I went out riding with 2 of my buddies at 3pm using MIRI-BINTULU coastal highway towards a remote places called 'SIBUTI' covered with natural forest beauty of Borneo island. It took us 1 hours to travel half way on the road and another 2 hours travel through dense forest up the hills. In the forest we ride on the narrow trails so called "Borneo Head Hunters Trails" which in the old days thousands decades ago local jungle native people use this trails to travel through to hunt for animals and do some other hunting stuff. By the time we speeding through the narrow bumpy trails the sky getting darker by dusk at 6.10pm. Up and down, through open air green hills of paddy fields then dive into inner dark murky forest surrounded by dense trees, plantation patches, cycle over the rotten logs, over the bridges then swiftly surf gently like water around the snakey path like pro rider along the hills ridges....along the way we spots some wild monkeys, armadillos, rare "RAJAH BROOKE" butterfly, a Tamarine look like small monkeys and some tropical fruits like mangoes and Durian. As it getting dark we trun on our Halogen plus LED lightings to lit the dark forest trails as we struggle to find was to get back to coastal highways. 30 minutes later we reaches the main road and made a few pedals towards 'SIBUTI' rural town. We reached there at 7.00pm, tooks a quick rest and munch some foods. I bought to packs of cold sour plum drinks to fill me up...very tasty..local made drinks..yum! After 20 minutes of rest we then head back to MIRI town which took us less than 2 hours at max speed 45KM/H drafting behind each others. Our front front and back lights keep us safe by warn other car from hitting us from behind as we pedals beside the highway. At this speed we can still feel relaxed because the sunset windy breeze pushes us from behind provide us extra free push from behind...made our pedal more easy. It was almost dark, i can see on my left side the orange sun slowly gulp behind the golden sea horizon. It was beautiful sight but i didn't have time to pull out my camera to record those moments because all both hand on handle bars navigating the road. 7.45pm everthing completely dark, were half way home but decided to use the off-road beach trails to avoid nasty high speed car koncking off from behind on highways. It'll take another extra 3 hours because travelling through beach trails is quite bumpy and dark..still very thrilling for us. I can feel the sand just blasting over my face as we cruise and pounce our tires on the sands. At 9.30pm we reached MIRI esplanade costal area where public and local food stalls setup there, we arrive! We stop at nearby hut, unload our bike and gears and grab some refreshment..Coke, coconut drinks, BBQ chickens and seafoods fill us to burst. The night breezy wind from the beach blew our face strongly and the sea wave pounce on the sandy beaches, listening to the sound of wave and the winds make me feels much relaxed and at peace. Me and my buddy chat a lot and share common interest on bikes. We made some good laugh and share good moments travelling inside those jungles especially the monkey attack part where the monkeys more likely to ambush you from the top of the trees. Luckily no harm done and we're back in one piece. At 10.45pm most beach goers and local stall that sells stuff ready to pack their things and leave as it was getting late. Me and my buddy decided to call the day off and ready to pack our things and cycle back home. One of my buddy almost fell asleep and understood that each one of us have to wake up early next morning for work. We cycled out from the Esplanade and we broke away 400 meters ahead on the next junction. Upon reaching there i bid farewell and made a hand sign to indicate that we're going to meet again next Wednesday for another mountain biking ride around the city outskirts. My house located way up the hills so i have to pedal way up use up all the power i had left...tired... my head almost spinning like drunken dude i finally reached the peak, cruise down a bit and finally made a final fast sharp drift turn to reach my house gate. What a day!...great mountain biking life!

Ready for long adventure?..lets go!

Its Sunday!...this is great. Last night me and my buddy plans that today we should start mountain biking at 3.00pm going outskirt of MIRI city towards a remote hilly jungle/forest where there's cool narrow trails and thrilling adventure places to challenge our adventure minded attitude. I've took some heavy breakfast to recharge my bio energy, bought spare batteries for my lighthing systems, recharge my mobiles phones, servicing my lovely mountain bike, water bottles and pack up all necessary tools needed for our hardcore adventure. It would be 3 man trip on hardtails bike starting from 3.00pm till midnight. My muscles still a bit ache after yesterday full speed cycling but today is no exception for an excuse, so just go for it. I got some spare tubes, change my drive terrains lube using TEFLON lubricant, change brake pad and now waiting for the clock to tick and phone call from my buddy to decide our meeting point.

Saturday happy trip.

I went out cycling yesterday because was bored since my lousy broken computer doesn't do much to keep me happy, I went jumping around with my bike on stairs, ditches, neighbours garden, roads and public parks to excite myself, few distance later i stumble my old group of mountain biker buddy who was on his way for a long ride towards BRUNEI borders and then make a "U" turn and continue 50km journey around outskirts of MIRI city so i joined them, all together 4 of us on our long windy fast ride beside coastal beaches..it was sunset by then, very beautiful scene. From 5.30pm until 12.00am midnight we spent whole day on long mountain biking trip and have a good laugh and chat along the way.

My ass been rocked hard by ASROCK

Day 2, with crappy computer. Every since i lost my graphic card Geforce 6800GT i was force to use my old spare P4 2400 motherboard ASROCK M266A with intergrated S3 SAVAGE 3D graphics because i dont have any spare AGP graphic card to slot back into my main computer system AMD 3400+ on GIGABYTE K8N PRO motherboard.
The problem with the current temporary motherboard i'm using that is ASROCK M266A models is that i couldn't install S3 SAVAGE driver and also audio driver AC97 into Windows XP. It rejected and refuse to receive any driver from its own ASROCK company even if its already designated for its own models, flashing the bios to updated revision also couldn't help much. Other compatible driver also refused to install. The default driver installed was Microsoft compatible VGA graphics and unknown audio device status in system hardware marked as question on the spot. So for two days i couldn't enjoy any multimedia function, video, audio and couldn't get a simple 3d modelling application running like Z-modeler. This is sucks..ASROCK sucks! Never buy cheap intergrated motherboard from ASROCK. All i can do right now is surf the net...oh ya! this system lag and slow like snail even after stacking up 1GB of DDR3200 ram module...crap. I slot back 256MB module which run the same thing. This is nuts, its hard to live without any multimedia or at least 3d accelerated application running on my Windows. This is going to be sucky months for me. Maybe i'll just wait for my pay cheque and then grab me an ATI graphic card soon.

Speed is life.

Despite having a dull day thinking of losing the most valuable part of my computer, so i decided to go out maintain biking around the city just to relief my stress and tension. At the end of the rides i felt tremendously happy when i reach home with good news. It happens that on my way cycling back home i manage to caught glimpse of speeding lorry carrying rock pebbles to a distant which travel inside and outskirt of the city through 30KM journey distance. I pedal as fast as i can chasing behind the lorry and manage to draft behind it, the rear lorry produce a draft vacuum and low wind resistant so the distant between my face and the butt of the lorry is just 20cm apart as i pace behind the fast moving lorry as i get sucked by the effect...the lorry also helps me to break the wind resistant. The lorry cruising at the speed of almost 68-75km/h and the vacuum effect behind the lorry suck me in dangerously closer and force me to pedal like mad man been chase by monster.....pedaling effect is lighter but force to move my leg to pedal faster. I was think my pedalling stroke is much faster than F1 pneumatic piston. I pedal and grab my handle bar for my dear life, i couldn't let myself pull away from the back of speeding lorry travel at such speed because if i move aside the wind resistant coming from the front beside the lorry will hammer/blow me at sudden stop causing me to go way out of control and crash. So i just force my body to keep on pedaling like some dude on steroid. The speed is staggering on flat road and keep on pedaling for continously fo next 30km distance straight down the straight and twisted road and didn't even drop below 64km/h. Few minutes later, suddently the truck brake red light lits then came to a slow halt, i press my hydraulic brake and slow the bike down behind the lorry and made a slow turning beside the vehicle marking my end of chasing the lorry. So both of us split into different road. I pedal at slow pace move about 50 meters towards the bus stop, parked beside the bench, lying down lifelessly and made a big hufff and puff to grab hold of my breath and relax down my heart rate. My legs is like ouch!.....Looking over my handle bar is a mini cyclo computer which indicate a recorded speed and distance: DST: 32.1KM AVG SPD: 75KM/H MAX SPD: 84KM/H......man this is sick!. 30 minutes later I get back on my feet and continue proceed to the Miri City Fan Park and enjoy the sight and breezy wind that pass through the open area. Looking at the dusky sky….i feel relief, enjoyed and glad with my happy days on two wheels.
...mountain biking rocks!

RIP Nvidia GeForce 6800GT

Yesterday was my saddest day for this year, My only powerful graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT totaly toasted and unusable. It happened early Wednesday morning when i came down to check my pc which turned on since last yesterday night 7.30pm till 5.30am the next day. I was surprise when i see the screen color consist of vertical colorfull and corrupted lines appear on my screen. I restart my pc thinking it was a system driver fault...few seconds later no boot interface shown only the corrupt screen was displayed. So i took back to the office to double check and troubleshoot all over again. Yanked out any unnecessary hardware from my computer and run some test to narrow down the problematic possibility. I also pull out the graphic card and tested on my sister computer and my backup pc motherboard. The results, all the problem pointed to my graphic card....in was shocked to discovered my source of million dollar work have been broken and my ambition as 3d modeler have been shattered. I've tried lots of ways to revive the cards but none worked. ......omg! i have to spend more for another expensive graphic card.

So last night i took out my old backup motherboard: ASROCK M266A with S3 Savage 3D graphics on shared memory, P4 2400 cpu and lots of built-in cheap stuff intergrated and use it as my everyday PC usage until i get a new graphic card for my main computer. It may take several months because the pay cheque haven't arrive to my account yet. 3d modelling work can be really slow on this system spec without a good 3D accelerated hardware. So meanwhile i make my self useful on the net downloading texture resources, do some programing or get out from my home and spent outside riding my bike.

NVIDIA graphic cards always have problem with such fragile feature which its performance lasts for short duration compared to ATI chipset. As if Nvidia overclocked its GPU clock speed...proof can be seen on any Nvidia based chip topped with huge blocked of metal/alloy heatsink to force dump the heat faster. ATI however have light and small heatsink because it generate less heat and less prone to GPU being cooked under heavy thermal exposure due to excessive processing. NVIDIA now started to act like overfried AMD cpu unit. They should better do more on product durability. Good thing it happen after i finished all my projects.

Prototype CD18's wheel set.

Today i continue with the Prototype CD18 designs for 4x4evo1/2. I decided to design the models parts by parts according to my mood. So i was in the mood making only for the wheel set first. Since the models going to be an off-roader/SUV i decided to come up with a beefy design, tough looks and also modern urban feeling of stock vehicle style. I took me almost 3 hours to think a better design idea for the wheels. At first i want to avoid using 5 spoke/flanged wheel set design but most of the ordinary ideas been taken out by commercial designs and if i do there would be some duplicates design which put out from the unique list. Because of that i started to design something simple, i took the "0" zero shape and flatten one end and bent it a little arch outward bulky from the "0" shape to create enclosed circular spoke to make up the beefy and urban stock appearance. A single "0" spoke took hefty amount of polygon construction. Then i duplicate about 6 spokes and each object to be rotated by 72 degree sequentially side by side to create 5 petal configuration. Then the most simple part of all is grab a wheel from NEMIXIS - XETA wheels, remove the "Y" flange spoke and resize the tyre according to required standard. Salvaging some old parts sometimes save development time by 70% and it worth it. The new "0" spokes fits well inside the wheels hollow structure. 15 small extra tension bolts that circulate around the perimeter and hidden well behind the "0" flange have been deleted to reduce the polycount burden when render in the simulation. The total amount of polycount (not finalised) is: Vertices=6496 and Faces = 6258. Comparison to the old ZETA wheel set is: Vertices=8851 and Faces 7930. An improvement in poly reduction. Due to the robust amount of poly i have no intention to add the tyre threading/grip patterns because this will increase the polycount much further. Instead just used bumped texture to emulate the grip patterns looks. Later i should work out on the wheels texture.

Free at last... A year worth of 3D models projects have past.

Today i feel very happy and glad the burden now are wipe off from my shoulder. Previously i was hammered with too many contracts and special request. Out of 7 project: 4 success and 3 a failure. Good thing both side between me, the client (game developer) and also the publisher didn't even have any serious issue about deadlines, problematic critics or critical conflict that cripples the project. Last January i was almost create tension with UI developer because of misconception on the models design versus the game background glad it turn out as the so called on the job stress and we understood each other. Few months later another contract coming in from big shot company this time is even worse, the client want more than a dozen models of non-replica models to avoid branding licence/loyalty. Time partition between big client and small client was a fuzz and left a big mess. At the end of the day i gain something and i lose something. It was a good experience. The big project was ended early July and now waiting for the pay cheque (buying a new bike and pay house loan..lol). Then comes the bitter part, i forgot the small client. So i settle some remaining project and e-mailed him for feedback and confirmation. It wasn't goes as planned because it was my fault for the late submission, luckily the new models was bought by other enthusiast models collector for half the price of original price tag. All remain until now is 6 memorable models for me to keep. One of them is very special which i haven't practise my special work for long time (Check the picture above..for other 5 models check the previous months blog report). Maybe i publish a book about being a 3d artist experiences. lol. Good try moto.
Oh yes, for those "previous" client/customer who read this blog. I'm really sorry if i did anything wrong throughout the developement and also thanks for giving the golden opportunity. Hope we could work out a new project and make new stuff some day. Thanks.

New visitors...meow!

Looks who talkin' in the morning. Another new cat on the block show up infront of our house seeking for a house job, it meowing, meowing the whole morning to seek our attention. So i went out to gave some interview. Almost persian breed with pale blue eyes, soft fur and very friendly and approchable attitude. Its must be abandoned by some family or got lost on his way to his master house. The poor thing was hungry so we gave it some drinks and food and try to protect him from other dominant house cat (the our white cat) from harming him. This new comer seem to like us very much and always roll over our feet hopping us to scrub and pat its belly. Too bad my mom didn't gave any green lights to keep him..but any he's free to stray outside or home until our mom change her decision to keep em.

Da power lunch.

What's for lunch Dav?....Junk foooooooddd. For bachelor men on the go.
I don't cook for today, so to keep me in high spirit and energy i eat this...good stuff for adult. Kids don't try this at home. In 5 hours i'll be out on my mountain biking activity in full blast.

Something about seminars and meetings.

Today i came back home at 5.30pm, took bath, and gather around for dinner untill suddenly my mom persuade me, " Son accompany your uncle for seminar event near the school hall for "Peace and community responsibility" talks. ...I was making a blank stare at my mother giving sign of denial. I say no..no.i don't like seminar. After few argument my task ended only to send my uncle to the school hall and came back home after that and wait for his phone call to pick him up again.
I hate seminars, its the gathering of people who seek for truth, hope and reliable source of inspiration and spiritual purpose. Its for those people who can't even think independently and relies on people talks to feed their minds with foreign infomation..even if it doesn't suits a person need. Most of all if it talk about world peace, save the planet, stop the war, eliminate corruption, abortion, family stuff, politics and etc these are consider useless if the speaker came from people who just know how to talk but no action. We want action, don't talk crap and made us wasting time warming our butt and sleep with some flying words of yours. Action, action. Talk less more action. If you want world peace then get up your ass and talk to the world in the television and brain wash the world leader or those who responsible. If wanna crack down teenager's social illness don't just talk and blame the teenager, action! ..find the root cause of the problem and eliminate from below. If wanna save the world from polution and save the ozone..action! stop using car and stop using plastic bag on your way out from the hall, don't just turn the car ignition on spew some fumes and shout at the windows "Green peace!"... walk. Stop crapping and do more action. Action speak louder than words. Move your ass people!
Worst come to worse is motivation speaker. This speaker talk more carp than other type of seminar speaker. They treat audience as if we need some mental rehabilitation and some brain wash to make us perfect, this also include the audience who come there to worship him/her for their amazing talk. If they clapped it mean the speaker succesfully seduce and tricked their minds into it. Usually i lock my brain and let me myself do the self motivation. Only no brainer who lose hope in life goes to seminar. Seeking the lights? Motivation for success, enlightenment, friendship, business opportunity..c'mon do your own research before you get tricked by these people....they just want you money and support to cover their backs. The best way to protest in the seminar is by sleeping and snoring. If want to play decent just pull out some magazine and nudge your head a little as if you're following his lead..faking it. Sometimes i was wondering why do we need to pay fees for some seminar just to hear some dude yamming by him/herself.

The Information Technology job.(IT) - Dilema

One beautiful morning (almost)...i went to the office and someone pop-up out of nowhere saying, "Hey! this walkie talkie not working..could you please trouble shoot the problem..i think it ain't receiving anything." Few minutes later.."Hey, CCTV not working", "Yo! telephone got problem", "My camrecorder not functioning", "Microphone not working", "I lost my data", "E-mail not working", "Internet down", "My spreadsheet got virus", "Can't download music into my phone", "My PDA phone got problem", "Move this computer to here and this table to there", "Got problem with electric sockets", "My network account lost", "How can i hide this data?", "How to hack this file?", "Help me fix this home PC", "New user coming in", "I want internet in my phone", "I want super photo quality printing (Old canon BJC printer)", "I got new notebook, pls install this and that", "Movie player can't run", "Can you help me type this document and that document", "Can you fake this graphics and that picture", "I want to format this computer because MS words corrupted"....and so on. From our main HQ office to the outskirt of town help and assistance always in need. There are times i have to run up and down from the building, do phone calls, appoinment/meetings for support to client, make records, do server administrative task, internet, e-mail system, network account, design this and that, do clerical jobs including somebodys work, this and that. Sometimes people treat IT people like me as mobile computer encyclopedia or the IT Swiss Army Knife moving around helping people out.
Sometime when i see my job description it says i should do this and that, not beyond my designated jobs put for some people anything related to consumer electronics or almost have computeristic feature will automatically assigned to IT people to settle the problem.
Lets me give you a scenario, a mechanic and a car. So you know how both items related right? A mechanic fix a car. Right!. Mechanic don't drive you to the airport like a taxi driver, mechanic doesn't help you to drive the car around like a driving teacher, mechanic doesn't help you to clean the car, mechanic doesn't do beautiful paintjobs and design some accessories. Right. So car mechanic do job specifically on car maintenance. Right!
How bout IT people? There's a technician, server administrator, database specialist, programmer, helpdesk, LINUX/WINDOWS support, network engineer and etc. But somehow nowadays especially where electronic and computer consumerism become rampant people view this IT jobs as one. It means "That guy is computer guy (regardless what specialised he/shes in) so they knows how to do it". Yup! the popular belief adopted in any commerce society in a company. Thinking a computer related job can fix any broken computer stuff even its outside the job scope. As for my case my job is support but one feet on the administrative job and another feet on technical support which until now no ones know what job or even job title should have assigned to me. The salary? well.... ..i have my ways to cover holes in my pocket sort to say. Working in IT area especially where you're located at low level job is not as relaxing as other cheap job in the market. IT job labour sells like hot cakes, demands are high and cheap but this job always been heavily manipulated and max used by people because the computing technology and the electronic devices that relates to it is vastly in huge amount owned and widely use all around the world and its the key that accelerate our business world. No computer technology business means go dead and your profit will be robbed by other advance run business company. And yet IT area always remain at the support and services level for company that run business that is not related to computing products. So IT dept doesn't make much profit..it sucks money for manitenance and technology purchasing purposes, employer usually tends to reduce the cost on this department and pushes it labour capacity and skills regardless the impact the IT employee gets...low wage. That's why IT personnel won't last long in the IT dept because as the push their work scope more they will gain more skills and then leave the company for high opportunity prior to their gained experience and this infact also something got to do with unsatisfactory salary. My colleague mention, he will go where the field is greener" In this so called "third world" country the effect on fresh IT graduate is devastating, 70% unemployed (2002) even in previous year they been promised by govenment education institution that IT industry will boom provide wide job opportunity for them. Facts is wrong, company just need less employee but highly skills to run IT Dept because these group don't make much profit except for the support task. This culture infact will go on for another 5 years (2010) if the economy doesn't improve. No matter how much ones study in information technology the so called skilled IT worker will landed at cheap low level work force allocated under support worker. Unless he or she is business minded and get away from the work heirachy into profit making level...open up an IT company like MICROSOFT, SUN MICROSYSTEM, CITRIX, ORACLE, GOOGLE, YAHOO and etc.
Even unfortunate befall into this IT worker but they are one of the most cunning and lucky people to gain mass amount experinced and skills based on changing pace of technology. These people able to penetrate any market and jobs available to them as they progress thoughout their work experience. From one year standard low level support group they can become almost anything they can be as long its related to computers: Graphics designer, online businessman, web portal entrepreneur, lecturer, mechanical engineer, system analyst, photographer, novelist, magazine publisher, nutritionist, consultants and etc. How can that be possible?... now here's the trait, IT people dealing with information, information worth money and knowledge, use that knowledge and you can gain another job perspective. IT control information and how it flow...you can also say what evey information flows around the net and around the world they holds and can anytime took control of information need for any organisation on the net...stock market, educational system, investment information, stocks control, entity information, commerce statistic, global news, propaganda, military strategic resources, health archive, world history archive, currency rate changes, product price and also some confidential records....if the can filter out the usefull information and block it from gain by other party you can see the worl economy plunge by this culpurit. The once look down people are the people who is holding your the worlds life string.
The most respected discipline feature of an IT personnel is "ETHICAL". Without this anyone one in IT Dept can blurt out information they just discovered leaking all the stuff which is confidential to certain associated group. This people also located ontop of the food chain when it comes to private confidential information encapsulation. In fact these people have to jump into private information regardless the impact or how confidential the information it has to hide from the public because if anything happen to the information, lost, damage, corrupt or gone the IT people are the ones who have to put their hand dirty, dig out and recover those stuff for them if the employer or client requested to do so. You should be thankful if these guys save your files/data else he/she would smile some cash which also means threats in other ways.
Level of ethical ones has can be measure how much experience does a person learn when handling secretive/private information which worth alot for a company or the benefited association. First well have to see how much education background ones gain from learning from the past institution.

1.GENERAL IT Certificate holder, absolutely made for technical support specialised in non-secretive and non-private data handling. They need more than 3 year to realised the responsiblity to handle confidential data. Their easy to go experince based on their current education knowledge and skills worth only below administrative level. Should there be any need to delegate, probation and monitoring is needed.

2.DIPLOMA in IT certificate holder may have probably most doubtful ethical work value. Because they knew having such low certification means less responsibility and less professionalism enthusiast. Mostly reflected on how much they've been paid and nature of work skills they learn from college or university. At Diploma level student learn some basic computing, business structure, communication skills and popular computing program like SQL, FORTRAN, JAVA J2ME, C++, Visual basics, hardware handling and stuff commonly needed for intermediate company/organization. There not much concentration on how to handle data/information in computing because studies are much related on how to use them not how to keep them save. Not much moral or dicipline teaching at diploma level based on my past experinces.

3.DEGREE in IT certificate holder have high value of work ethical and discipline in handling confidential data, how to use it in proper manner and how to safely filter out the bad and the good data. This has been taught and higher level because at DEGREE level, students learn to be responsible and knew they will be assign as single administrative work reponsible to decide how the data would be organised in the company. DEGREE holder have high demands for administrative work and decision making in the company because it their nature to be entrusted with such work in the future.

4. MASTER/PHD...not much to say...all i know these people is in R&D and engineering purposes. But highly ethical...yup!


So are you still looking down on IT people?
Now Bill Gates from MICROSOFT is the most concrete evidence of successful IT people. Now everyone in the "WORLD" bows to WINDOWS. Without it your life goes kabunk!

Scenes from my biking adventure.

How's the sunset over here? wanna see? Here are some cool snapshot i've taken during my mountain biking rides, its beautiful especially when going out riding near sunset time. There's not much people able to enjoy outside with the wild and nature and enjoy life freely. I spent hours outside until the night stars come out to brighten the nights. Cycling is not about sports, its about being free to be where ever you want to be. Bike = freedom. Some people think having a car or fuel driven motors would get you a beautiful places hidden from urban things. You know what...not really. Glad i'm not one of those people. Happiness, speed, peace, adventure, thrill, danger. Feels like INDIANA JONES on two wheels everytime i'm out there mountain biking armed only with full imagination and courage to face anything that come face to face with my bike. "LIVE FAST DIE OLD".

Mountain biking, yeah!.

Wednesday 5.02pm, i press the car accelerator and push my way as fast as i can to get me back home quickly. Reached home 7 minutes later. Change my clothing to some rugged apparel, strap on SPD clipless shoes, gloves, helmets, Nokia Ngage, Sony Walkman, helmets and finally my best friend FASTRAX (my bike). By 5.30pm i'm on my way... first stop 40 meter stairs drop...zooomm!!, then bunny hop my way nearby some ditches..whamm!!, reaches small bushy trails, cross the path to the cemented public sidewalk and on my way for 50KM trips around my hometown MIRI. The blue sky almost engulf by orange violet fantasy dusk, wind blew over my body, my feet was like walking on floating clouds, my hand steer the way while eyes enjoy the beautiful sights and scene that can't be enjoyed inside enclosed car. Cruising at constant 35-45km/h my adrenalin start beating, my opponent are cars, trucks and bad ass motorist, i moved into dangerous road and draft behind big cars like "Need For Speed UG" wannabe. Experience zero drag and gave a maximum pedaling power pushing the bike max 67.8km/h. The lady driver of TOYOTA WISH was not in the mood to be chased and draft behind her MPV. So she hit the gas at 70km/h leaving me eating smokes, so i shift another lane and caught a cargo truck speeding at 58km/h...haahaaa!! an opportunity! So i pedal all the way for next 15km trip towards Brunei borders along the beach highway, all the way i got tonnes of some hany hard hitting music to keep me pumped on the road. 6.30pm i turn around and head back another few kilos to the highest hill in MIRI town (Canada hill). Few minutes later i'm in the mid of getting up there, pedalling them hard, shift gear to mid chain ring and at rear sprocket no 5, grinding hard..good thing the TEFLON coated lube from WHITE LIGHTING did a good job for smooth shifting operation. Heat pumping at 134 beats per/sec and few minutes later i'm at the top of Canada Hill, i cool my self with easy spin to relax my feet from acid lactic gathering around my muscles. Then i jump to the nearby path leading to some bushes, the hills packed with savana like grass just like the one you saw in africa with only few leafless tree after gushed by the wind. An eagle way up high looking down at me sqeeeling and guarding me from below. The could be snakes around these place so i have to be cautions. The trails going back downwards to sea level is very narrow, bumpy and bushy, good braking control is a factor. My rear XT discbarke didn't work well because i haven't replace RM $60 worth brake pad yet. So i just made a sign of cross and pray may luck upon me when doing high speed dive on bumpy downhills. I ram down through the narrow bushy path finding my way to another remote rocky trails decending down at 45 degree downhill drop fast and made sharp switchbacks..speww some dust. My MANITOU front suspension really eat some bumps! I went down the steep cliff...creak! crack, crock!, streetchh!!, ..then leap over a small ledge and found my way back to the main civilized road and head towards a very rocky hilly park towards airport road via road side. So i manage to catch up one of the passing big 4 wheeler and draft my way at 48Km/h effortless pedals. A car behind me NISSAN SENTRA honked me as if if i'm slowing him down and blocked his way..but i don't give a damn...so i speed up passing the truck around and drafting behind another moving bus. Going up, i can see the beaches with sparkling golden ocean on my right view as if God pour the ocean with rich golden liquid jewelery. The backdrop was beautiful! Fantasy orange violet two tonne color melt your heart as if heaven gave its last beautiful day to human on earth. 6 minutes later i reached the hill and cycle up on slippery rocky path way up to enjoy the top view of the whole city where its the only place to experience max wind breeze from the ocean. I climb down my bike, sit on dusty rock facing the sea and enjoy the sights and unparallel beauty of sunset. Sweats runs down my cheek quickly cold and evaporate. I switch my Mp3 album, play me some soft tune from beautiful anime sountrack. I feel light, trouble free, freedom, enjoy and troubled free from everyday civilised life of human greed for luxury. Here i am with god and nature. Sometimes when i'm up there i can feel he's looking at me wondering as i lift my hand up in the air reaching for the beautiful sky. At 7.00pm stars started to emerged behind violet pinky sky. Its time to go home. Small birds and swallow flying pass me returning home, i should too.

Oh Sh1t, no wheels!

I was damn happy when i found a small 64MB MMC card storage which previously used to store some of my last year project and early 2006 works. It was dusty slotted between my old wallet which i kept underneath bunch of old mountain bike magazines. I pull out my Card reader and took a peek of my old project archive. Jackpot! Found an old models which previously requested by specific customer which ordered last year between Oct 2005 and Feb 2006. 7 models altogether constructed on moderate polycount with smooth poly and texture adequate for common computer processing power. These are replica models requested attached along with invoices, original blueprint, sketches and plain custom texture. Some model made under old 3D Studio format, others under milkshape and other are standard SMF compiled for 4x4evo2. All 7 models lack the most vital item on every vehicles needs: wheels. Yup all the wheels are missing. Tracing back my memories i did make some wheels for it ranging some 17" street to 18" Dodge 5 spoke replica but somehow its not in there. Did i remember making any wheels for it or was i lazy back then. Heck 7 months ago i was busy with office work so maybe i got this brain damage or what so ever that forget the stuff i made. So without wasting any time i pull out my 3d tools and start models a new wheel for respective models. When finish i'll track down these client and see if i can track them down and send them the bills. yeah!

Ho! ho!.. Prosperity Sandwich.

Men love to eat, no doubt and women have to face the fact that men adore women that knows how to cook. To make men happy she must prepare good meal..this also lead to happy family. To conclude: Human happiness came from stomach. Today is not for that cause of it but to celebrate the "begone" gum pain. Yeah finally i can munch nice goodies and fill my stomach to the fullest like some pot belly builder. Now looking at my shrimp sandwich snacks on my computer table while working on my 3d models. yummmy! Since the sandwiches full of fat maybe tomorrow i should go out ride my bikes to burn off some excess energy.

A day off duty.

Due to the sickness problem i had on my tooth and gum ache which lead to minor fever and throat problem, i took a day off from work after just arrived at my office early in the morning. I went to Human Resources dept to for annual leave application and grant permission from my boss for early leave. Then drove to public clinic for light medication and then on my way home. At home i took a deep sleep, hot and sweaty ones because the pain haven't subside. By 2.30pm i woke up feeling just ok, open the fridge and took handfull of cereal bits and took a slow bite. A little improvement than yesterday because i can munch and swallow much effectively to fill up my empty stomach. I expected should be able to recover my sickness by this midnight if things go well

Day 2: the agony and pain.

Yesterday was horrific day, the pain and agony of gum pain and birth of new tooth was unbearable. I didn't eat proper way like normal people do. The only food i ate yesterday was breakfast. Skipped lunch and a few spoon of dinner but swallow few spoon of meal like a snake without munching it. Not only that i also swollen my throat since the rear gum jaw muscle and throat interconnected. I took early sleep because i almost felt sick. All night i just opened up my jaw to make sure those painfull gum didn't accidentally squished in pain. Later few hours pain struck without warning as if the new tooth trying to push way up toring the gum. I like rolling left and right, roll around the bed to cope with awfully painfull moment feels like i couldn't make it till morning, almost planned to take a day off from work and spent on the bed recovering the pain. Fortunately i woke up at 5.30am with minimal and but itch aching teeth, pick my tooth brush pour alot of minty tooth paste and gently brush my teeth. Then later for breakfast i took a box of "Honey Stars" cereal and munching using the front teeth. We'll see how it goes later on.

Painfull Sunday.

Today i opened up a pack of cookies for quick breakfast, a slight munch on the cookies at the rear teeth....OUCH!! OUCH! pain! pain!. It was awfully painful and irritating itch on my rear gums..why?!. I dug using my finger to reach my rear right end teeth and notice my gum have this bumps. Looking at mirror i notice a new rear big tooth emerge below the gum. ..Again? It looks like this is not the first time i had these problem. Early this year my left and right side lower portion of my jaw start to grow new set of teeth which is awfully painful to endure because it penetrate and rip tore my pink gums open to make way firt thos new tooth. I really began to hate my hormone. At age 28 and now started to grow some tooth?, what the!..!! The right side already grown new ones two months ago...now its the second set? I don't really understand much how this human hormone growth works. I hope it would be a plus sign if it distribute its hormone for height growth. lol. Looks like i won't be enjoying nice munch food this week. All this pain keeps me in agony and keep on pitching the gum all over to minimised preasurised pain. Awww!! Tomorrow is Monday, working days..hope i don't bring foward this grumpy face......hhhrrmmmm..

Teddy Bear for special Birthday girl.

Today is a very special day for a girl in our Information Technology Department. Its her Birthday...well its belated, since her birthday suppose to be yesterday but she didn't turn up because she applied holidays yesterday, luckily she was here today for work. So i send her a special gift for typical female present...yup! stuffed animals: Cute medium size fuzzy TEDDY BEAR. Very beautiful cute present.. few days earlier i went to shopping mall to do my typical window shopping for toys like Radio Control car spare parts then i stumble very nice looking and cute teddy bear, this stuffy animal is really different than others and you can feel that it is much special than other products shown off the shelf, very soft, warm hearted feeling, mild cream color well match red santa hat and also cute looks at affordable price. It looks very harmony and peacefull joy feeling. As soon i touch the teddy bear it reminds me of picking up a soft persian cat because the fur on the teddy bear far comfy and gentle to my hands, so i was thinking this is an ideal gift for a birthday girl present. So i took the Teddy Bear out, get a birtday card, ribbons, purchase it and take it back home with me. Its very cuddly in my arms feels like i want to get one for myself. Happy Birthday JENNY!

But if that was my "girlfriend" birthday i will buy her BIG BIG BIG! teddy bear so she could cuddle all day long and almost can sit on it and sleep,lol. Maybe some other day if i'm lucky enough to have myself a girlfriend.

5.30am....just like any other day..lame..

Huaaarrggg *yawn*, its morning 5.30am... today just like everday 5.30am is common number for me to remember to get up work and become slave of a company 6 days a week, 4 weeks a months, 12 months in a year,...and bla bla bla!. Luckily its Saturday today so half working days untill 12.00 noon. Then i'm free to do my stuff then, looking foward for great cycling hours in the afternoon and work on new wheelset models later on. Now i should get my tooth brush, soap, towels to refresh myself...cold bbrrrrrrrrr!!

Picking pool of genes from NEMIXIS into Prototype CD18

Huuuu yeahhh!!... i'm awake yeah! thanks to cof....i meant hot chocolate! yeah. Its nearly 12 midnight. Luckly my brain much active today and did feel sudden sleepy diseases. Well right now i suppose to inspect my last project "NEMIXIS CD 12.0 XL-GT" models meshes and see if some parts can be remove and implant into "PROTOTYPE CD18.0" models to save up the development time and also take out my several linear trademark signature of my SupermotoXL insignia like the "X" beam structure on the rear chasis and dual blade slanted head lights into new models which will be an off-road to be models soon. This to ensure genetical inheritance of previous models brought foward to new models to indicate evolution and family of models similarity and also indicate my models signature through the production line. I want that "X" marks to be around much longer period into my 2006 year end edition. Other parts salvaged includes some high poly bolts from the wheelsets, disc brakes, and XENO2 suspension system which ideally works on 4x4 EVO2 polycount limitation. Well see how it goes. Tomorrow i have to do some research to come out new wheels design for this new PROTOTYPE CD18.0 models.

When your time comes to an end.

I went cycling by pass the cemetery which was located beside the river bank, it was cold and you can feel the “thing” presences all over the places. Then comes the breezy wind swept dried leaf from the tree as I pass by as if autumn season is coming. The place abandoned and just like how they are now separated from bodies that return to soil and to be forgotten by people whom once with them when they were of the living back then. The grave shall be their permanent memories. How sad it was when your time is come to an end and to be forever forgotten and erase from our solid state society’s memories. Unless you’re the one whom contribute something big to the human society. A famous proverb mentioned: “Tiger dies leave stripes, man dies leave name”….unless you are some famous big shots like Abraham Lincoln, Genghis Khan, Ray Charles, Winston Churchill, Henry Ford or anyone who made into our history books to be remembered as icon and hero. But not everyone can become the fame and to become hero in a single snap. Nor people wanted to die to be forgotten. Its really a shame to be born and die like that without having to contribute to the people on earth and leaving back traces of you and to be remembered permanently in history book. What the purpose of life I you’re to be born wasted and empty…are you society trash. …figure it out. For me I’m working on it, to find place for my name and to die leaving my name in the history book when time comes. My future may branched depends how much effort I put into, maybe I’ll be a famous designer? a game developer, Bill Gates rival? Political fundamentalist? Actor? Public hero, drift racing legend?...what can 28 year old do? who knows. One thing for sure I’ll leave my stripes and to be remembered by many people for this I contribute before my time comes. Make my father proud, made my mother smile, make my brother and sister happy and make peace to people on earth and beyond. Hope I’d bring some good memories back into heaven and share with holy people over there in the future.

I am a sleepy head.

Well my sister suppose to wake me up at 12.00am midnight after she use the computer while i'm taking a short nap starting at 10.00pm and estimated awake by 2 hours later to fresh my body after heavy mountain biking exercise late evening. Previously my head and concentration started to blur and body getting heavier and powerless to concentrate when working behind the computer that's why i took early short nap.
She did wake me up at 12 midnight so i could stay awake to access internet and play some online games (RAKION) and do some 3d modelling for extra pocket money but it seem that i couldn't just boot up like that. I remember that were shadowy figure of my sister at my room door and from blurry distance it spoke in echos "hey, i'm done using it..wake up, wake up!".... but i fell back to my pillow and adjusting my trusty brain to wake me up 5 minutes later for cold OS boot. Then after few moment i woke up feeling very light and things getting darker as my NOKIA NGAGE pull the alarm clock, at those gleeming LCD light i looked at the sceen...it 5.30am! Ahhhh!!....dumbass i am didn't wake at midnight to settle heavy project and part time project workload plus some internet task. I wonder if that was some coffee effect i ditched or was it i really damn tired at the office by daytime. ...who knows....

Put less on Coffee..

Coffee is bad......if consume for long period. You see recently i have problem with coffee, after i drink it i feel super active and refresh in the morning. Highly active in the office by day but dramatically tired when it reaches evening and quickly doze off at around 9.30pm due to lack of energy...no energy left to spent another wonderful night playing games, 3d modeling, online gaming, watching video and etc. Thats why if you didn't see me pop out on the internet at evening till midnight (my hometown time zone) then i might probably accidentaly slept on my keyboard, lol. All those energy been used and pump up to the max last morning. The effect was really bad, I almost loose concentration when driving back home, no power to type on my keyboard and my eyelid felt heavier than ever. As soon as I laid my head against the soft, comfy, cusshy pillow I quickly fell asleep without warning and slept 9 hours till morning and the process repeated over and over again. So last 4 days ago I stop taking daily consumption of coffee, after few days later my brain and body metabolism gradually recovering back to slow to normal state. Previously I drink coffee almost daily since 3 months ago because i need to keep myself alert in the office by morning and hoping to stay focus by evening when i get back home and work on my models. Coffee contain Caffeine chemical which boost our brain alertness and force the our body cell to consume every energy available to boost our metabolic rate at short period. Caffein is like having a Nitrous Oxide in your car and help boost it power to the max regardless how much the limit can the engine take until it cracks up. Here are some links and FAQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine. I also drink coffee before taking off a long trip on my mountan bike for cross country exploration, it keep me awake for long hours and reduce tiredness through long hours of endurance. But for compensation at the end of the day i'll ended up drowzy, headache and quickly weaken and fell asleep due to extreme exhaustion. Back behind my working desk a high coffee consumption also give some negative effect that you can experience an abnormal feeling to your body :

1. Heart pumping pretty fast and gain slowly, also felt like something swollen.

2. In about 7 to 9 hours your brain started to loose concentration, eye lids getting heavier and your body began to sway.

3. Stress builds up, sweaty skin and sticky, place face indicate the blood didn't carry enough food or source of energy to dissipate around the body because its been used earlier as the result of caffeine boosting/energy force consumption.

4. You feel you body lack of muscles. Emptyness inside. Powerless.

5. Fell asleep without warning.

Another FAQ links right here for your knowledge:
http://www.mercola.com/2003/dec/10/coffee.htm
http://http://www.ineedcoffee.com/00/03/myths/

Well its ok to consume coffee like 2 cups a week but daily like 3 cups per day is way over. Possible diseases like ulser may happen to stomach or even worse if you don't control your drinking habit. Most project leader or people like me working late wee hours by night consume much of this caffeine booster drink but think about it...you may not wanted to spoil your body biological clock to offset your body timing system like active and resting schedule eg. sleeping. Now i'm changing and enjoying hot Chocolate, packs of cookies and a good early sleep to maintain optimal health. Also a good project schedule so that i won't messed up my time and force my self to work on my project. Smart move.

Bad dream...change parking stratergy.

Ouch! Woke up terrified....i dreamed my car been stolen which parked beside the road after finish some business at the shopping mall. Then suddenly i woke up...5.30am...time to go to work. I seldom have any dream that made my heart goes *lub *dub *lub *dub *lub *dub very fast. Damn i was panic hard in that dream. It may be a sign to come and warn me something in the real world. Later i'll change my parking strategy where my car is exposed to public view for better security and safe where bad mean people doesn't harm my car. Must pull out something so nobody can drive it away.

Ghost In The Shell: 2nd GIG

Its very typical of me staying late at night watching anime episode till the end before start another new series the next day. Today i just finish watching a very famous iconic anime titles "Ghost In The Shell" under special episode "Standalone complex: 2nd GIG" season. If you're an anime fans looking into political and conspiracy genre this is the best for you. I've been watching this franchise series ever since it was aired as a movie in mid 1990's. Its not suitable for teenagers or public viewing since it has political rated content and story line that would crunched your brain out to understand the plot. This anime mostly tell story how mankind come upon civilisation where humanity are bounded by augmented machined body parts and network linked human memories that incapsulate in artificial body which considered to be normal in around 2029. In reality it will be someday we encounter such biotech civilisation. Masamune Shirow the person behind the creator of anime character design, ideas and his philosophical I.G production animation crew did very well to come out a story which spontaneously teaching us about the impact of future and thing to come through this animation movie and series. ....ahh!!.. to many thing to tell about the details. Try google around for the info regarding this GITS animation if you wanted to know more. Tomorrow i'll be watching "Beyond The Clouds" animation. Oh don't worry i'm not that lazy bum to abandon my 3d modelling works... i've just settled 2 hours of 3d work per day on personal side.

Thief break into my car! .... that s** o* *he b**h!

8.00 am...Another beautiful Sunday morning, with beautiful sunlight shine through the windows of our church, hours later i done my prayer and went out sude where i parked my car. Another church attendant stood there stunned with his family garthered around to astonishment to what they seeing things i couldn't glimpse around so ignore and just dash back to my car planning to head to nearby restaurant for nice breakfast. Reaching my car then something glittering behind the seat...OHHH SHH***TTTT!!! Someone broke into my car through the back windows and reach the door lock to access the cockpit. Damn! Looks like not only me but also another family car just infront of me also gets the same fate have break in at the same rear spot. I didn't lost anything valuable to me. From the mess the thief cause it looks like it interested in something like handphones, mp3 player deck, big hard cash and something that could trade but luckily none inside my poor little car DAIHATSU have those stuff but i could have gotten it if i fail to follow my instinct. Earlier before i went into the Church i almost planned to leave my SONY 1GB MP3 player and Nokia NGAGE phone inside the car glove box but suddenly another voice struck me in the head saying i should leave those thing behind, almost reluctant but then i followed my illusional advice. Truly it saved my belonggings when the break in happened. Both me and the theft victim didn't made any formal report to the police because it would take lot of paperwork and extra stupid report fee so expensive than you can almost use those payment to fix the damaged part of the car...so we lose some legal claim for insurance which require authentication claim for our damaged cars. Yeah our local police sit their lazy butt whole day doing nothing but eating tax payer money. That what you get living in so called Asian third country region where when it happens around the neighbourhood people just don't give a damn. Car break-in and real grand theft auto happens almost everyday, not only that they can even steal cars, also house furniture and valuable even your property well guarded behind the gate....surprisingly it happened during day light. Yesterday my office buddy loose his SUZUKI VITARA to some midnight theft. Police get lots of those reports but none of them manage to solve the problem. Day light snatcher on motorcycle (happened to my mother), daring bank heist, samurai robbery and stuff happens to an extend it almost like part of the community life. Law inforcement suucckss! What the hell there doing with ur tax money. Ok, let back to our mini car topic, so the damage looks minimal to you but forme that's hell of some money to spent on fixing the damage they left, the thief nade heavy dent on the door ledge near the windows plastic seal, they also scrap some paintjobs and dirtied my car cushion. That would took almost half my month salaries to fix that thing, i need my money to fix my mountain bike front shox and frame.....if i saw that damn theif i'll screw him and bash his little balls with my baseball bat..make sure he has no pe*is to walk back to his wife or girlfriend. This evening i went round on my bike and hi-res camera for man hunt, take photos and make sure he got good skabs on hos face if i stumble the culpurit.

Get some pop-corn: its LAST EXILE

Today is Saturday, halfday work and then by noon head back home and spent good times on my favorite anime episodes. I just finished watched anime titled: LAST EXILE...all 26 episode till the end. Good stuff if you like to enjoy the story plot and graphic stuff. I really like the scene on how the producer blend 3d graphics and cell animation. It really inspire me to create nice looking models and good texture design. LAST EXILE is a story about an alternate world like those in mid 1940's culture with sci-fi sky fortress battle ship and old school red baron style airplanes dominates the land seeking freedom and liberation againts dominant ruler on the other side of the world seeking for new land for domination. Character and mechanical design are top notch, should see how they render those vintage airplanes thing they flew on deep blue sky. Nice, touching and action packed anime. Tomorrow i should start watching another anime. "Ghost in the Shell: 2nd GIG". Its going to be a long day.

Searching for perfect simulation platform.

Few days ago i bought this "Crashday" game from Atari publisher at my local PC shop. My buddy Patriot also bought it and have fun for its ability to make instant tracks. The game have a very good early development tools complete with tutorial and on the fly mod tools available for download (http://cidesigns.freepgs.com/cday/1_introduction.html). Today i went back home early to test some feature in Crashday and see if it could help me interested putting my design and models to run in that game. This year i'm looking foward to expand my models deployment not only in 4x4evo1 and 2 but also other potential game with major changes in graphics and physical enhancement apply in the game to boost realism looks on my models. At first KC forum (http://vales.com/flatout introduce the game FLATOUT but it lacks of total control and feeling "ownership" and of your vehicle/creation just like how you grab you models and touch/experience every corner of the models you built...failure. Two, then comes XPAND RALLY game...nice graphics and major plus on replay and camera view angle but also lacks similar to FLATOUT, don't feel you have total control over the vehicle. A year later CRC (Cross Racing Championship)..good game and handling but cheap GTA (Grand Theft Auto) style graphics with expensive modeler tools to spent just to model a vehicle for that game. Currently i have a near realistic car game which have similar characteristics to popular console game Granturismo...these are PC's SIMBIN FIA GTR: nice car handling, physic, engine, speed and etc..but also lack most on graphic feeling you own a PC which is 3 year behind on GPU feature. Worst it support limited polygon amount which is around 8000 kilos of polygon for performance sake and lots of redundant LOD work. Now CRASHDAY, still under review, not in a hurry to jump in.
I played for 3 hours, some feature satisfied me the most is the 'baked' model rendering, updated graphics, appearance enhancement, multiple cenimatic camera angle and it dosen't hurt your brain to start model a vehicle for CRASHDAY since tutorial and tools made availble on the fly. Thing that are in doubt is handling and graphic bugs which the developer left in a mess and put some garbage expecting future mods to clean it up. Its really hard to drift in the game since every car tuned stocks for agility and duel mode. So looks like user have to tweak manuall via text pad program to edit the vehicle handling and feeling. Now i'm still reviewing and see how it goes.....my next design should be sitting on much better game physic and graphics..a must for next step in SupermotoXL Designs.

My portable computer aka laptop..

Yesterday i was in the storage room where i kept my old personal stuff last year. I was looking for my hardisk where i store my customer requested truck models that was built last february ago and expected to sell it of by this week. Behind those dusty boxes i found this old Pentium P4 motherboard ASROCK branded with 256 RAM, Intergrated SIS graphics and LAN. It was originally belong to my sister but now she use my old AMD system for playing game. Lucky me i could use it as my mobile desktop since i couldn't afford a decent laptop. So today i just got my salary and spent half of it buying cables, atx power supply, mini size keyboard which everthing can fit inside 15" travelling back. Good thing i have LCD that could put this system as portable. This may sounds funny for everyone who treat it as DIY mobile PC wannabe but it does a good job finishing some jobs like spreadsheet, internet access and also run just on on 3d tools like Z-modeler. Junky system but usefull.

Tour de Pokimon town.

Well today i suppose to tutor you some car driving tips but i'd like to take five first cause i'm taking some rest after hard cycling on my cross country mountain bike. I manage to take some snapshots above sea level view of my town. If is rendered in 8 bit color it may look like some ala POKEMON city. Above place where i take some snapshots is a perfect place for me to relax and enjoy the scene and breezy wind from the sea. I've been cycling alot around these area and it very romantic if you hit that spot during sunset. Sunday the best, i can enjoy lovely Orange gold plus violet fantasy sunset above the sea and enjoy cool breeze wind up on the highest hill in my hometown MIRI.