Thursday, April 24, 2008

ZEN MAXXIMUS in trackmania thanks to ChaZ!


This is awesome! Again thanks to Chaz he did great work porting and converting my models into Trackmania game. And he also have great intro posing shots which looks like a scene from advance graphical comic book rendering! i love it. Glad to have him around grab some models and make it available to Trackmania. Thumbs up again to ChaZcaTriX. Now everyone around the planet can enjoy. You can download Trackmania version of ZEN MAXXIMUS here: http://www.trackmania-carpark.com/car.php?id=1183

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

How to enjoy safe meal outside home?

Nowadays i don't trust any food cooked from restaurant, cafe or what so ever unseen behind the kitchen. Recently i went to the hospital where my sister work and i notice there's more and more people hit by cancer, breast cancer, ulser, cronic stomach and intenstine diseases and worse got this picture of your guts came out from anus....eewww.. I can't stand how such people at the hospital could handle such gross stuff. Looking at the background of the patient mostly they actively having meal outside. Not only that sometimes even the packed food or premade from factory have such illegal stuff to make the food taste good. There a businessman mentioned to me when it comes to thumb rules making profit in food business. "Money matters, make tasty food let customer be happy.. at the end of the day no ones really cares what happens at the end because it not my problem..money man, money". That words echoed in my ear for long time everytime i wanted to have meal outside.

How make sure your meal is safe to consume? TIPS:

- When you buy a meal make sure they cook infront of you so you can see live what they add on your food like at the burger stall where you can see clearly.

- Buy drinks from a sealed can like cola, 7-up, 100 plus or anything that is sealed, never buy something prepareed on the glass.

-Don't buy over burned food which left blacked burn marks or known as carbon, consume more cucumber if you do to neutralised the effect.

-BEWARE OF PINK OIL!!!!! that's the number one culpritt putting you at cancer risk. Pink oil happens when they use too much cooking oil until it turns pink. When it turns pink it is known as mineral oil which i usually used for my bike hydraulic disc brake. I work in the restaurant before and most restaurant are likely to keep using pink oil to save money. They don't care much about customer health.

-Hotel food are notoriously have high chemical content. Believe me or not during my young days they wash pot and cooking utensil using VHS HEAD CLEANER! Why i don't know but one of the waitress says it make the food taste good!..urrgghhh.. After that for 15 years i never ate at hotel. You pay expensive food just to die? not worth it.

-When you want to pack "tapau" the food use you own stainless steel container or ceramic pot to keep the food. Polysterine, plastic bag and newpaper "WILL" deposite chemical after exposed to warm food. The heat from the food accelerate the chemical extraction from the container.

-Beware i saw some cook always sneeze!

-Beware of the "plastic" melting and the "underwear voodoo". I'm sure you heard the story locally.

-Acid bicarbonate or chemical that make the food lasts, the ingredient very popular on fast food that was built too keep it for more than 3 days, especially on rice and fish. You know the exotic food.

-Last week i bought a deep fried banana just for experiment as recomended by one of my chemist friend. Leave it out side and see if there any fly, ant or any insect infesting the food. Two days later i don't see any insect feasting on it !!!!! Dangerous food!

-Sponges!! here's something we neglected when it comes to eating outside. When they wash dishes to keep using same sponges on every plate. The technique on using sponges really matters a lot between life and death. Sponges when you squeeze, then place on the dirty plate and release it will absorb all the bacteria and chemical which trapped it permanently inside the sponges. Then when it squeeze again it will transfer to another dishes, the remaining bacteria or chamical will be breed and permanent reservoir for next cleaning. Next time if you feel olike you plate is very oily or looks stainly suspicious then stop eating that meal. Don't believe me? Place a dust of sugar on the plate. Get the sponges at your kitchen, slice it, squeeze out the juiced from the sponges on the sugar and leave it for 2 days....yeah you get fungus like stuff or if you're lucky something like tiny ring worm will be born.

I have too much story to tell because my last jobs was related to food industries which pays suks digit. So wanna life a healtly life just go do your own cooking.

Thanks to ChaZcaTriX on TM effort.


Thanks to ChaZcaTriX for helping me out putting MAXXIMUS into Trackmania community at http://www.trackmania-carpark.com/car.php?id=1182 Hope he could put the ZEN inside there too since i'm too busy to do that stuff. Thumbs up to Chaz. :D ;)

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

NVIDIA pumping raw power!! heavy rendering and texturing in progress.



Once again i need help from another additional monitor to handle "spanning rendering" which works as to handle left side horizontal body work for this car since the body is horizontally long required for high resolution texturing and detailing works on 3d modeler and photopaint. Right now you're looking on 3rd layer texturing where it comes out chrome effect, shiny and looks very silverish bling bling...which make my texture works easier to determine which surface contour need to be edit. At the same time i better watch out for any vertices/face brakage which spoils the surface smoothness. Basicly all my model creation will born with grey/silver color on its body which is easier for later texture editing and decaling works. Note that when reaching this part of the process i need to use extremely quality and high performance graphic cards to create quality and smooth models texture output. Also extensive use or RAM memory required to pump up and swap max multiple layer of 2048 x 2048 raw texture size. Thanks to NVIDIA, the job went smooth. I really missed those original graphic card given specially from NVIDIA HQ SANTA CLARA, was totaly toasted and manage to survive in the making of "NEMIXIS" models a year before.

Bad chippy day!


How unlucky i am, one of my radio control FET chipset got toasted after successfully rev at around 60KM/H with fully charged batteries, smoked smell like rotten egg. Looks like i need to find a spare FET IRF7389. Anyone have a spare FET to donate please drop me an e-mail. Thanks.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Adventure ride into MIRI rural country side.



Its muddy sunday today as i went along for an adventure ride into rural district of oil palm plantation area which consist of hilly hills, so we go up and down and visit some locals who live away from urban civilization. We start riding at 3.30pm and finished at 7.00pm. The road are pretty wet and muddy but its easy since its just some non-technical trails unlike the jungle where we previously hit the dust. Above are some picture taken on our last evening ride. "Picture worth more than words". I've enjoyed my self today as i've pushed my body to the max going up the some killer hill.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Coming MAY the movie - SPEED RACER!


Yes! its coming! what a nostalgia of my days being a kid now resurrected in new movie coming this may. Its SPEED RACER! Oh man this year they come out lots of movie based on old skool cartoons! cool!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Previous test drive on MAXXIMUS, torque test.


Here the last video taken during test drive a day after finish compiling it for 4x4 evo2 off-road simulation. Tough built and looks like Hummer. Actually rivalry truck for steep competition over the top. Hopefully this new 4x4 design could last longer than my previous creation because this is the only design i could put closer to real life scale.

Thanks for the ride home.


Just like any day today i get back to my bike and cycle all the way to the office, it was fun way tio enjoy the jorney without having a roof or boxes around you on crowded road. My plan is to ride up to Canada Hills higher above city level this evening after work to take beautiful photo of sunset behind the sea from above view. Not for long....Being on bike is fun except today when i'm just about to cycle my way home i felt a bit mushy on the rear wheels. Pssssttt!!!....tire puncture! No problem can fix it in a jiffy, ilucky as usually i have spare tube and mini pump with me. 5 minutes later its all fix and ready to jump in for home. Just i was about to cycle within 10 meters the rear getting soft again...oh no, no my spare too! I quickly cycle back to the office before the air run out knowing something was really bad about the tyre or some small splinter still stuck in puncturing the new tubes. Lucky there was someone in the office, a friend of my staying back late for work. She saw my problem and offer me a ride home. At first i rejected as i already call my father to pick me, but since my sister says my dad went out for a jog so i decided to take her offer for a ride home in her white hatchback car. All the way we talk about photos and car stories and in few minutes i reach home near the via airport road.
I would like to thank Ms Annie for helping me a ride home with my punctured bike in her car. Else i would have walk miles from home. Thanks Annie.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Beautiful evening Mini-z

This evening i went over to he stadium car park to play MINI-Z radio control and took picture with my PSP equipped with GoCAM (chotto shot). It was cool!
*** i resized it to 640x480 for easy web viewing.

SUBARU crash into PSP!


Another unlucky day with my KYOSHO MINI-Z and my PSP. I hit the brake but skid and hit my PSP, lucky the camera attached on PSP not damaged, jus some scratches at the back of PSP disc deck and battery.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Le breakfast deluxe!


With all those fake food from eating outside early in the morning its better to cook my own which save me money and keep me away from artificial food hazard. Unlike last sunday today menu will be eggs and sausage. Cooked with spicy Thai chilli sauce and black pepper powder all dipped into oil. Tonnes of fat and energy enough to propel me for afternoon outdoor activity.

I save $10 today.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Apply 3 section painting on 3d surfaces.


Alright you've seen previous stage of 3d models surface normalization process, to day i'm going to continue apply basic color painting onto the models. As always 3 color choices apply to various section of the body surfaces. The color are:

-Silver/grey: for main body
-Dark grey, 90% black: for lines and hollow vents/groove lines
-Drak grey, 50% black: for windows/glasses.

Its looks simple but later on we need to add render to create texture contour. Time for me to hands on photopaint work.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Sunny friday.



Was happy because today is a perfect day for outdoor biking after office hours, pull out my bike and roam endlessly around the city and up into highest peak to get a cool view up there. The sky looks fabulous! aromatic color and the windy cloud jet effect create stunning trails of clouds up in the sky backed with beautiful sunset beyond the horizon.

Lunch.


There's nothing to say, an office lunch. Be gald that we're not in Somali. For RM$2.50 can fuel me up till next day.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

The inspiration- colors of life.

With a heart of an artist inherited from my mother i have tendency to roam outdoors into open space look up into the sky, watching the tree wave along breezy wind, the white clouds againt beautiful blue sky and beautiful sunset. I'm so lucky to realised that the world around me so beautiful even despite the fact people complain its hell on earth..that's for short due to commercialization and social barrier that inflicted blind mind in peoples thoughts. Hey, call me hippie cuz i'm free!

Being outdoor is fun and feel very much alive rather than confined inside the building. Its the best way from me to collect ideas and inspiration especially when i try to come up with a new 3d design or graphic project. Around us have so many interesting color and aroma which only certain people could sense and experienced it. For some people looking into the horizon or the sky doesn't make any differences or trigger any feeling at all, that is because the mentality and behaviour of such person being self centered and too much clinging toward people and material gain. For short that person doesn't know much purpose of life or what his or purpose born here.

As for me the condition of weather, movement of winds, changes of color around me, the shape of clouds and its horizon trigger deep sense of nostalgic past and sense of excitement! Sometimes it can be an educational experience which i can learn some and blend this experience into ideas and then put it into solid object such as design or object which translate my ideas and experience as one. I called it colors of life. Sometimes you can see this color of expression and art on most of my 3d models that i design. It looks awesome! Just imagine the design and color i put on soon to be new models the: "EXAGE CD 20.0 XL-AM".