Dangerous limit

Just recently i have to start my computer like an old car ignition, start..stall, start..stall, start..stall, start..stall, start..stuck at login, start..Ble Screen of Death error on desktop...but if i'm lucky after 8th try i manage to login to my computer. At random times it slows showing pop-up "insufficient memory" event tough i have 7GB worth of temporary swaps space on my HD. My computer which is the main work station for all 3d creation is counting ticking towards the edge of the cliff. However i tried to squeeze as much juices from my computer to produce few output of 3d projects and design before its times comes. The computer now worth nthing in the market since most of its hardware are very much legacy as equal as the technology of yesterday abacus. I have the mentality not to invest very much on computer products even i'm very much rely on it. You buy today and tomorrow worth a piece of rotten wooden plank.

The computer going to die soon!

Uhh oohh!! Looks like my trustee work station pc life going to end very soon. This 8 Year old computer (the oldest and the most powerfull 2002 spec PC) is going to puke some blood out. The screen now is showing artifact lines on the screen signaling either GPU error, bad ram, bad boot or something else. This computer give birth to many of successful designs and work related to my hobby as well as my life goal. This pc is half dead, dead SATA, dead PCI, dead bridge chip and its life hanging on a string. Been runing hard for 8 years seems to be worth investment. The PC did went under several CPR to revive after several hardware failure. I like to squeeze out as much performance and work time from this computer before its lifespan worn out.

http://www.SupermotoXL.com maintenance

Well i'm sorry to all 3d modeler,4x4evo community and fans around the globe who deperately wanted to access the site to grab and seek resources at my website. I'm currently doing extensive maintenance and re-enter few critical data which i haven't been doing some web housekeeping for many year. Hopefully it will be back online by next week. So do keep intouch with me via blog. The http://www.supermotoxl.com will be back in style soon. Thanks

Week 5..no z-modeler

After long break i still not in the mood to stick my butt infront of the computer and whizz my mouse around on z-modeler 3d tools. Something tells me i should take more rest enjoying myself with other stuff first until some sparks of ideas get me going back again. Anyways everyday been busy around doing some designs, graphics, sites and some custom model building for clients. I wish there were at least 48 hours per day, 12 working hours, 2 hour for meal, 9 hours sleep and the rest will be my design hobby. Hmmmm.... put that on my afterlife wish list.

XIMPLE: Revenge of the IPOD killa

Check out my new creation, it runs all operating system both Windows, Linux, Mac and popular gaming core engine, plus tonnes of multimedia and communication components. I called it: "XIMPLE" - Portable Touch handheld PC with communication devices built in like phone, wifi, 3G, satelite link and broadband TV. Can stuff in Playstation, Wii, Xbox 360, and other homebrew emulator. Simple in design ad does all the job. Details coming soon. Cool eh?

Building the Ipod killer

So what's up with me doing stuff very late at night when everyone still sleeping? "I'm building a super prototype handheld device that can kick IPOD, Nokia or what every handheld, pda or what so ever in the market. Still in production so can't say much right now.

GO KARAS!!!

Never seen anime sooooo cool with all those special effect both 2d and 3d well blend with its environment. Being 3d artist who appreciate graphics i'm very excited to watch it. Sound and graphics plus its art work top notch. The action also really thrilling. I'm not much of a fan of ultraman or power ranger but this anime genre keep me glue to my seat all night through 6 episode. A night well spent watching. Thumbs up!

Going high tech on Mini's

Looks like my "Do it yourself" custom radio control models going further hightech beyond ordinary toys. My final parts to complete a line of hightech R/C collection have reached its peak. Got me a programmable ESC kit which i can hook my custom made mini r/c via USB programming card connector then link it to the computer where i can easily tune the performance of my car models. This is so cool. No more programming through sound beeping anymore.

Programmer's happiness in discovery

Life as a web application programmer is fun because you built something into workable product...a product i say from your own ideas,....well it depends how you run your department. There are times when thing going up and down. Its has this extreme moody thing when you do programming stuff. Like today is my happy day because i manage to solve a blockade problem which already keep me into dead stop for 12 weeks and my brain painfully thinking how to by pass such complex problem, for example having to synchronize UNIX EPOCH timestamp into standardizedSQL code and make it run smoothly throught the coding without any bug inside my web application. For me such a small discovery does make difference between happiness and gloomy days, Yes, i'm happy today! my programming task finally runs like a train, no more blockade of problem...at least have something to show to my boss that there's a progress. Yes, that's programmer life. Happiness cames when ideas pop-up and solution to the problem finally comes to the rescue. Being programmer also make me hungry because our brain keeps active more frequent that any parts of the body and burns more energy/calories. So dun be surprise if you see programmer gain lots of weight. That is because they are doing lot of thinking.
Ok, tomorrow is another happy day for me, i hope i don't encounter weird coding and made me jump into stop junction.

14th day on notebook...i hate it.

This is day 14 on notebook, gosh how can this bee happening! I hate typing and doing stuff on notebooks. No thanks to last last Saturday lighting surge my whole workstation PC hit badly by the surge. At first it was suppose to be the ethernet LAN card, unexpectedly it hit the bios and failed some critical hardware such as AGP slot and some PCI too. So i left with disabled main PC and remain cling to my backup notebook.
Man! i have whole project in that PC! I should have bough a surge protector much early before things happen. But lucky me the hardisk both IDE and SATA is safe from harm.

June full of bad luck,

You know my story what's happening throughout jun:
-Grandma went to heaven
-Family motor accident
-EXAGE models release delays
-Broken 1/24 MINI-Z .....$$$
-Broken network card and PCI slot....zapped by lightning
-Another cooked graphic card (just recently)..$$$
-And now another damaged big tooth....really painful
I just don't know why it happened so much and so costy this month. Did i did something wrong in May? Anyways i'm in July now hoping for changes and my my lucky coin turn towards a luck face, I'm going to get another car this month hopefully everything runs well.

Terrible week..

Was horrible week past few days ago, fever, cough, flu, sore throat...then again bad weather, especially last two days where my PC ethernet card hit by unknown electric surge which kill my on board LAN card and disabled my DSL internet connection....really made me angry. I have to pull out slow mo notebook internet connection which keep me at slow pace when browsing. So yesterday spent another cash on new Network card and also burn my pocket on my father fuel guzzling TOYOTA which totally cost me $100 just wthin a day travelling for such PC card, $100?? man i could spent something more usefull. Damn it..... really made me damn angry. Nowadays fuel price crisis and food price going sky rocket, It really made my life worse. Money doesn't fall from teh sky like i used to think when i was a kid. Yeah! yeah!. life is something awkward at random times.

ZEN model ranking going down at TM.

ohhh noo.. my model ranking at TrackMania going down (http://www.trackmania-carpark.com). Oh well i hope can make a big hit again with new mode design. Hopefully my "EXAGE CD 20.0 XL-AM " could hit the top chart soon. Btw i'm kinda angry to myself i couldn't settle the release of new design model this month as its already due by May. I have good reason to explain....yeah recently i had a fever and bad sore throat so i take my time for a healthy rest.

My PC Cooked!?

I was shocked in the morning when i notice my PC suddenly died after few minutes of runing early wee in the morning. Start....stop...start..stop...start..stop.. what?! I checked the 550 watt power supply, display card, cords, cables, fans, motherboards and etc... nothing suspcious of getting any short circuits. Today suppose to upload SDK package but interrupted by broken PC.

The next afternoon after work hours i went home, pull my PC out in the open and clean off some dirty dusty particle that clogged all those vents, heatsink and fans which might probably contribute to extreme overheat and cause fail safe activity on the power module. After disassemble my pc parts there were tonnes of dust clogged my pc parts to the max at bottle neck level. The dust way too thick for COOLER MASTER fan to handle. So i did some quick dusting the interrior and make sure everthing is clean.

5 hours later its was the PC tested and runs well!... the time was 1.30 in the morning...too late! i have to load the SDK package into my website tomorrow ...zzz...zzz

Evening walk

I reached home after work at 5.30pm..damn i felt tired just because staring at the PC screen staticly all day in the office and listen to the same music soundtrack on my PSP really dimmed my mind and dried my eyes. Man i better get a new music uploaded to my PSP soon. 30 minutes quick nap and then woke up to turn on my PC,
"pop!" ...!! a small sharp sound and burning smell all over the places under my feed, i've checked the switched and plug, troubleshooted and manage to find out that all fused electrical plug was almost at toasted state with terrible indicator of outer plastic case melt below the fuse capsule inside. I decided to drive all the way to the mall and grab me a new set of power extension and plugs to power my workstation..that will be after a bath and family dinner at 7pm. At 7.30pm i drive all the way to the Mall and grab a 5 slots in a row extension cord to power up my PC and external devices with much better surge and electrical burning protection at a cost of burning some notes in my pocket...i think its worth it. Chinese New Year celebration is still at large around here so people still in a mood during festive seasons. I also saw they already started some booth selling Valentine gift for upcoming Valentine day.. i did grab a few nice gift just to cheer up some unknown special ones. Hey there nothing wrong giving someone a special gift. Get ready on the 14th February.

Its MONDAY again, get back to real life job.

Sunday is over, it Monday all over again. Wake early in the morning by force, get change and head to the office. Your mood always remains shadows of Sunday attitude which mean totally feels like Sunday behind the table on the first day of working week...not only me including people around me too. In this field of IT work in the office designing websites and building online application is my field of work because building something new as a complete product for client user is something i passionate about...hey i'm building something. Just like making 3d models....but if you do the same thing all ver again you'll get bored..trust me some people died when they bored. hee hee.. I got the right jobs but sometimes i used too much skills and knowledge until theres nothing left to learn...and so at the end of the day the brain remain idle just the finger keep moving and click the screen. Its a scary zombified experienced. lol.

Lunch break for me is an optional, for some people it is necessity but for me its a window of time to slot in some extra task like planning what to do at home, what design i should come up with or sketch a draft of planing in advance so when i get back home i don't have to think much about what to do..just get to the point and start modelling. Sometimes i need to walk to the cafeteria and grab some munchies at cheaper price just to shut the noise from my stomach. The food was all 1st class like any big company like Googleplex of atleast Joe's Diner style..if you think about people inSomalia i should be grateful to pay RM$2.00 for a bit of crappy food. Yeah thank god we live in peaceful time. Thank you for the food. Bless the food yum! yum!

PART 16: Metal like ducted floor panel

To make the interior looks more attractive and industrial off-roading looks i decided to add extra poly work on floor detail. Hole drilled metal style floor panel. It looks cool!

PART 15: The dashboard panels

I made a pretty quick modelling on the essential parts inside the cockpit, mainly are dashboard components made up from basic shapes starting from ovalic surface for dashboards, tubular object for gauge meters, gear sticks, pull type e-brake knobs and etc. Others are foot pedal and rear view mirror. The other detailed will be rendered in texture work.

PART 14: The seat construction

Here's the seat design, i just wanna plain and simple to models and just looks good as stock design seat for a pickup truck style. Hoping this one uses less texture space and looks well rendered on plain DX8 style rendering in games..very at least.