CR-Z: The Paint & Coating

The first thing you need to do on your car when you first got it, is to protect its paint. The factory paint is probably the best and it would be your wish to maintain the way it is.

The picture above was taken when my car was about 1 week old. Look at the gloss. Awesome right? Okay I admit I did increase the contrast slightly. Haha...

On the day this picture was taken, I sent her for coating. Hoping her beauty could last forever.

Optimum Coating was where I sent her! The result has been amazing so far. In case you decided to opt for Optimum Coating do tell that you know them through me, HockSiang. :D

New Chapter in Life: New Job New Beginning

Well, instead of further study like I mentioned in my Preview of 2012, I changed job. The 23 of April 2012 was the last day of service to my company. 

It was my first company since graduation and I have learned lots to grow to a more mature engineer compare to 2 years ago. I joined this company on 17 May 2010 and gosh time passed so fast. I have since involved in 3 projects which exposed me to the fundamental of marine construction. The experience was awesome! Many thanks to colleagues whom had guide me throughout my time in this company.

About 3 months ago a new opportunity arose and I took it. As a result I will be starting my new job at 2nd of May. I will be working in Malaysia and this involve giving up my employment pass. It had certainly served me well for this past 2 years, enabled me to access Singapore easily. For the record, my passports only got stamped once by Singapore Immigration.

However, working in Malaysia also means a different kind of lifestyle. Not exactly new to me but this time it is more reassuring that I will be staying here far more longer. Hence I have bought my first ever car in my life! More about my car in future posts! ^.^

By the way, for the record as well, I have never bought any laptop in my life until one month ago. I've been using my company laptop LIKE A BOSS all this while haha! I'm changing company and of course the laptop has to go back to the HR, which it already did.

HP Envy 14 Spectre with HP X7000 Wifi Mouse and Beats by Dr. Dre! Also starring are my HTC Desire HD, Nokia Xpress Music 5130, and Samsung Monte.

Yes I did use 3 phones and in fact I have 4 phone numbers! Call me crazy but I really found them handy as I always moving around between JB and Singapore, and also to segregate my calls between personal and work. Don't be surprise if you only have one of my 4 numbers, because no body have all my 4 phone numbers. Mostly got one or two, three is very few! However I'm likely to reduce it to 2 or 3 starting next month.

I pray my new chapter in life will be better than ever if not awesome. 

Ritsu Tainaka 1/8 Figure by Alter

After about a month i back from Japan, i finally unwrapped Ritsu and assembled it from pieces.

I also put it into a proper display case, but i had removed it for taking the below shots!

The level of details in this figure is just amazing! Never regret bringing her back all the way from Akihabara Tokyo Japan. Hope to bring in Mio next time if possible and eventually the entire K-On! band! Haha! ^.^

Something to blog about

Finally there's something worth blogging about. Here's something new about me.

I bought my first DSLR ever. The Nikon D7000. Currently eyeing at a decent tripod and portrait lens.

My company finally agree to apply E Pass for me after working for 7 months.

HTC Desire HD is finally available at Singtel. Once my E pass is approved i will be registering with Singtel to get the HTC.

One month to go before i receive my first ever bonus. Wonder how much would it be.

For the first time ever i rejected an invite for alcohol drinking. I am commencing a healthy diet and active lifestyle.

Hope all this will come true very soon. 

Am I a Shopaholic?

Buying things certainly makes me happy. It feels like... hmm... great. It boosts confidence.

Recently i was like in a shopping spree, buying lots of stuffs. Are these symptoms qualify me as a shopaholic? Or it is just simply an outcome of improved financial condition? Lolz...

Swatch that i just bought

Old one don't go, New one don't come?

24 hours ago my external hard drive spoilt. A mere 3 months life! Total hours in use probably not more than 24 hours. Buffalo!!! You really did GREAT!!

Don't ask me how its life ended. Just tell yourself don't buy Buffalo!! Although it is under warranty, i not sure i will be happy if i get a replacement though in case it couldn't be fixed. Even if it fixable am i gonna get back all the data i stored in it is still a big question.

On the other hand, company finally handed me a laptop, to facilitate my work. It is a HP ProBook 6440b. Besides, i bought a Microsoft Headphone with mic and a wired mouse, also from Microsoft. Both these were shopped at Sin Lin Square, the electronics stuff heaven, like the Low Yat in KL.

Does a new beginning requires the sacrifice of the old stuffs? My photos, videos, songs, documents, installers... all gone! Back to zero. So i can start over? Nice man!!

Nevermind... I'll start over.

I bought a buffalo today!

You know i am not a big fan of laptop. The only thing it is attractive to me was size. I am using desktop all this while, but now i am going to SG soon. So today, quite impulsively, i bought a Buffalo 500GB Portable Hard Drive.

Buffalo MiniStation Lite 500GB

Instead of a laptop, i bought an external hard drive. Reason? Simple, i don't have enough money to buy myself laptop yet. Lolzz... So i will squeeze whatever i may need, videos, songs and installers in it and bring it to SG. Then later some time i will get a laptop there. :)

I tested its speed by copying a 700MB video file into it for a few times, it took 43 seconds on average. Fast or slow? I don't know... Believe it or not, this was the first time i bought an external hard drive. :D

Dimensions (W x H x D) 80.6 x 129.6 x 15.5 mm
Weight 190 g

It is a single USB powered with SecureLockMobile software for data encryption to prevent unauthorized access. It cost me Rm 295. Expensive or cheap? Again i don't know! How about you tell me?