Flickr ~ Don't try this at home kids.

Don't try this at home kids., originally uploaded by kennymatic.

Wow... I can use that too!

1st ever trip to Hong Kong (25th-28th Oct 2010)

I'm on a mission assigned by the boss. So here I am now. 1st night since arrival - not much discovery made yet. Probably I should have set some expectations before I came, just to add spice a little bit.

Well, tomorrow onwards I'm gonna have my fellow work friends bring me around HK to discover the right places.

Oh ya, one really bad impression with Hong Kong's hawker. I got conned by the wanton mee hawker!! Based on my own calculation it should have been just HK22, not HK30 like what he charged me!! Damn you bald uncle. But I was afraid because I was alone and don't know if he has "friends" suddenly come out of nowhere or not... :S

I'm investing in better life with my life now

Just wish my efforts won't be wasted...

But then another question pops in my mind... Is it going to get worse if I move on like this forever?

I'm crossing my fingers now...

Oh no! Facebook has killed my blog and emails and messengers and my time!!

When I realized it, Facebook has already overwhelmed my life and taken everything from me - my blog, my emails, my messengers, my pc games, and most of all my Internet life!! Now I don't surf the net the way I used to find new and interesting stuff. Now I don't share stuff with my friends in emails. Now I don't chat with my friends to keep in touch with them except visiting their Facebook profiles. Now I don't... I don't... live my Internet life the way I used to any more!!

So what's next Facebook?

Flickr ~ Pac-Manic

Pac-Manic, originally uploaded by [a.m.photography].

Creative!

I used to have an idea of a "see-through" desktop wallpaper that lets you "see through" to the inside of a computer display, you know, all the wiring and electronic parts inside (basically an illusion of course). But seems like now people have gone way beyond my original idea.

Finally resolved the USB issue I had with VMware due to the Sony Ericsson driver (seehcri.sys)

Since yesterday, I've been struggling with resolving the issue I had with connecting my USB scanner to my VMware OS. Every time when I booted up my VM, I received a message saying "USB controller initialization failed". So I searched on the Internet hoping to find a clue about what's going on. At first I found nothing specific to the problem I was facing. Then some guy suggested in a forum to use a utility called DebugView (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx) during the VM boot process to diagnose the cause of problem (million credits to this guy). Then only from there I found this important clue "seehcri.sys" showing up. Then I continued to google this clue and that's when Sony Ericsson came out on my screen (I installed its software and uninstalled it sometime ago). Damn... this problem almost caused me a heart attack because the first time I realized about it was when I was preparing for a software demo using my VM and the bloody Sony Ericsson driver just stopped my VM from connecting the USB scanner for me! Phew... That was the past nightmare now... I have survived in the end.

And today I continued to search for a solution to this and finally I found the tricks:

1. On my host computer, I could see a Sony Ericsson device listed under the Universal Serial Bus controllers (Control Panel > System > Device Manager) though I had uninstalled my Sony Ericsson program sometime ago.
2. Disabling and uninstalling it would not solve the problem as Windows would detect it again and put back the Sony Ericsson driver in place. So I needed a "total" "annihilation" of this driver.
3. So I uninstalled the Sony Ericsson device first, then I searched my computer (mainly C:\Windows\) for the file "seehcri.sys" and I killed all of them.
4. I restarted my computer after that. Then I found out all my USB root hubs listed in the same place as step no. 1 were having some driver problem and none of them worked!
5. And so lastly I just needed to reinstall the driver for all the USB root hubs one by one, by manually picking up the 2nd USB Root Hub driver from the list when Windows asked me for a signed driver. This was the trickiest part, as you would be presented with 2 signed USB Root Hub drivers, both with the same name! And you could now guess it - the 1st driver was indeed the Sony Ericsson driver (damn you). And if you tried to pick the 1st one to install it would prompt you for the location of the file - "seehcri.sys" (I already deleted all of them from my computer in step no. 3).

So the result? Whoooola! I finally got my USB scanner to work once again in my VM! But my demo was due yesterday :(. Anyway, just thought of posting it here so it might help somebody with the same problem again. Thank you Sony Ericsson... Thank you very much...

It's New Year time again

Last year was quite a challenging year to me as I was stuffed with works which I have never been acquainted to do. There were basically 2 parts - one part to deal with the systems, another to deal with the people. That's the scope of presales, in my way of explanation.

First, I'd like to comment about dealing with people. As a Scorpio who tends to be low-profile and keeps quiet and cool most the time, doing pre-sales activities which inherently means getting to know more people and hanging around with them, has been quite a daunting and scary job to me. Till now, I'm still trying to adjust myself to accomodate with the environment but I guess it's gonna take some time and (interpersonal) skill improvements.

Now let's talk about the systems side. I thought, as I've been thinking all along, until now, dealing with systems, or more specifically software, should be a very interesting and tireless task for me, like I was born to do it. But dealing with other people's systems? What I mean here is the vendors' systems. NO, not as much fun as I do it with my own hands (please get it 'straight'). Problems, problems, problems... Yes, I understand no system is perfect. But how about systems with fundamental in-built mistakes? Where the heck was QC? Who let this thing out to the market in the first place? All these questions then turned into doubts, against the vendors and ourselves.

So what's gonna change in year 2010? I really have no idea but to take the first step out into the war zone again. May angels watch over me all the time. Cheers~

Flickr ~ Avatar (Dec 2009)

, originally uploaded by OfficialAvatarMovie.

I love this movie very much~ This is the movie genre that creates the fantasy dreams for all of us at all age. James Cameron takes good time to make good movies.

Flickr ~ Broccoli?

IMG_6956 viel gesundes grün, originally uploaded by tin.G.

Fascinating creation by the Mother Nature.

Creepy video ~ Where will you be on Dec 21, 2012?

Doomsday is coming? Where am I gonna be and what will I be doing that time? Do we have any chance to fight against it? Suddenly I feel so teeny in the universe. But I'm gonna live till that day to witness it...

Can't wait to see the upcoming movie 2012 to at least live through this unique experience once in lifetime...

Flickr ~ Ready... FIGHT!!!

, originally uploaded by Brooke Pennington.

Flickr ~ It's a Trap! (#3)

It's a Trap! (#3), originally uploaded by powerpig.

Flickr ~ It's a Trap! (#2)

It's a Trap! (#2), originally uploaded by powerpig.

Flickr ~ It's a Trap! (#1)

It's a Trap! (#1), originally uploaded by powerpig.

That's his classic speech in the movie.

Memo ~ Love Felt & Expressed (13 Sep 2009)

<3...

Music video ~ 不能說的秘密 (周杰倫)

This song touches my heart and soul... Sorrow always looks so beautiful...

Flickr ~ Let there be light

Let there be light, originally uploaded by Christolakis.

Music video ~ 我以為 (品冠)

This is one of my favorite music videos. The ending is so heartbreaking and hopeless...

Sports video ~ 陳信安's double-clutch layup

Perfectly done!

Sports video ~ Kobe's reverse slam dunk

That's one of the best reverse slam dunks. Noooooo doubt!!