Waiting at KIA Part 2

Just back from 7th Mile. Had "yong yin"... Can't exactly sure how to pronounce it. Its actually a type of drink = coffee + tea + milk. Very nice. Then Kuching kolo mee. Haven't had authentic Kuching Kolo Mee for a very long time already. Can't remember when I last went to Kuching. Maybe a few years back.. Kuching changed quite a lot.

Went with Pei Ye, Su Ting and Thian Lin. All beautiful ladies. Pity I don't have a camera. If not I'll post their pictures here. Haha...

Now back at the airport. Using the free Wifi from MarryBrown in the departure hall.
Then there is the dlink by dunno who.

Outside there are 2 services..

But have to go.
Battery weak.

Waiting at KIA

Now at Kuching International Airport. The wifi services here are much better. 11g instead of 11b in KLIA. One would expect that a world class airport would have world class connection, but somehow Kuching is much better. Or maybe at KLIA I'm just waiting for the domestic flight. Not sure if it is the same if I'm going for international flights. Just now my gate was 11B at KLIA. Now for my flight to Sibu, I'm waiting at Gate 4 for my 1555 flight which takes around 30 minutes from Kch to Sibu.

Now is 12.pm. I think wanna go out with my friend. Will update later.

Waiting at KLIA.

Now at the KLIA. Waiting for my flight to Kuching at 1005. Boarding time should be 0935, about a few minutes from now. This morning took the Start Shuttle from Ipoh to KLIA. Then have breakfast at McD. Then just shopping around the KLIA.

Now got a group of young cadets/police going the same flight.
Calling now...Update my blog later...

Better go.

Going to Ipoh

My flight is at 1155. Which is just nice for me cos I can have my usual laksa after the church service. The flight is from Sibu to KLIA, MH which takes about 1 hour 30 minutes. Then Mr Wong and I took a bus service from KLIA to Ipoh. The cost per person RM 42.00. If you buy both ways, then it would be RM 80.00. But we are not sure how/when we are going back. Anyway the trip from KLIA to Ipoh took about 3 hours plus with just one 10-minutes stop.

After that we took a taxi from the stop to the hotel. The cost per taxi = RM 20.00.
After we checked in and took our bath, we went for dinner/ buka puasa at 7.13 pm.
The food are quite nice. Lots of sweet things. :)

Then we and 6 Sabahan teachers took 3 cabs to Jusco. We spent 2 hours there just walking around. The cost from our hotel to Jusco = RM 10.00 per taxi.

HOWTO - reset a lost Ubuntu password

It is an interesting read. I took it from hackzine.com.
Posted by Jason Striegel | Sep 3, 2008 10:37 PM


I loaded one of my test Ubuntu virtual machines today (one that I hadn't used for a month) and, surprise, I had forgotten the password. This sort of thing happens from time to time, and if you're new to Linux, it can be a little disconcerting.

Losing your root password isn't the end of the world, though. You'll just need to reboot into single user mode to reset it. Here's how to do it on a typical Ubuntu machine with the GRUB bootloader:

Boot Linux into single-user mode

1. Reboot the machine.
2. Press the ESC key while GRUB is loading to enter the menu.
3. If there is a 'recovery mode' option, select it and press 'b' to boot into single user mode.
4. Otherwise, the default boot configuration should be selected. Press 'e' to edit it.
5. Highlight the line that begins with 'kernel'. Press 'e' again to edit this line.
6. At the end of the line, add an additional parameter: 'single'. Hit return to make the change and press 'b' to boot.

Change the admin password
The system should load into single user mode and you'll be left at the command line automatically logged in as root. Type 'passwd' to change the root password or 'passwd someuser' to change the password for your "someuser" admin account.

Reboot
Once your done, give the three finger salute, or enter 'reboot' to restart into your machine's normal configuration.

That's all there is to it. Now just make sure to write your password down on a post-it and shove it somewhere safe like under your keyboard. :)

Google Chrome

Heard that there is going to be a new kid in town. But the kid wont be any ordinary kid. The parents is the giant of the internet, Google.

The kid's name is Google Chrome, a new web browser that is going to be kick the butt of Firefox and especially Internet Explorer.

It is an Open Source software with the codes are written from scratch! Which really got me excited. Here are some of the features that caught my attention.




1. Multiprocesses!!
Normal browsers are single process. Even single-threaded. But now they are going to make each tab a separate process!! Which means that you can kill each tab individually without affecting the whole browser.

2. Open Source!! It is developed using Webkit, an open source application framework that provides a foundation upon which to build a web browser; and V8, an open source Javascript virtual machine.

3. Tabbing! Cant live without tab now. I know Firefox and IE has tabbing now, but the way they design it will be different in a sense that each tab has a separate url box and the tab will be on top of the windows. Btw did I mention that each tab is a separate process! Should have its own task manager too. Cool man!

4. Security!! The most important thing when almost everything is done online. Malware, spyware and the old viruses and trojans are now the norm. To avoid malware from installing themselves into your pc, they introduce the concept of sandboxing, i.e each tab/process has been stripped of their rights for different security level.

5. Gears! Actually this is for the web developers. I.e it is an API that can extend the browsers capabilities.

Cant wait to try it out! Just post your comment and tell me what you think of it!

UiTM Fiasco

The recent controversy surrounding the UiTM has certainly caught my eye. I was quite surprised to see that a lot of students are against opening up Uitm for all Malaysians. I never thought that it will happen because most of my friends are from the UiTM and they never show that kind of tendency. Maybe because they are from Sarawak. I'm not sure. Please don't get me wrong but this is what the general impression that I have. Sorry to all you readers out there but I don't mean all those from Peninsular are racists. Maybe just a few, but those are the obvious ones, and when they are loud, they seems like the majority.

And another thing, I'm just wondering where is the "University and University Colleges Act" or AUKU which we have been constantly warn about.

This is taken from the blog by Haris Ibrahim about the UiTM demostration by the students opposing the opening of intake to other Malaysians!


One particular UiTM student was asked to wear black coloured clothing by a senior when he refused to as the colour black on that day meant supporting the protest and he did not support it. The senior could only respond in ways such as asking him whether he was a jew or a homosexual. And this brilliant friend of mine then just answered, “No, I’m a muslim and remember when the Prophet Muhammad SAW ruled Medinah? He had all kinds of races that were hostile towards each other to live peacefully under the open sky. Why would you be afraid of opening this institution to others if you claim to take the prophet as your example?” And the senior who was lost for words just left and slammed the door on him. Although stories like these do not happen everyday in UiTM as many students who share similar views to my friend here are usually fearful of the consequences of speaking openly.


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Though I believe there is still hope. The light comes soon after the darkest part of the night. In an incident in a Constitutional Law lecture, a student went up to class defending the recent student protest as on the principle of defending natives’ rights with, in her own words, “First come, first serve”. Ironic that a business principle has been adopted to an issue affecting all of Malaysia, I thought to myself. I then proceeded to ask her why then are there cases of stripping the rights of land from the Orang Asli, which are the real natives, to give way to capitalist ventures and these natives are then only compensated with how much their houses were worth, which probably costs less than my pair of shoes? Is it not a practice of double standards when you talk about “First come, first serve”? Are we really protecting the natives’ rights or Malays in particular? She then proceeded to open the Federal Constitution to find an answer but predictably, it was in vain. She ended her presentation right there with a dumbfounded look. But what happened soon after was even more interesting. Students from the class started to flock and ask me questions, wanting to know more about the issue. With interested faces all around, I could only smile.



A few blogs reinforced my belief that not all from UiTM is racist. People like Dr Azly Rahman , Haris Ibrahim, and a few others shows that not all Malays thinks the same way.

The only problem is knowing which is the majority.