Funny Conversation: Sudah Potong? vs Jangan Potong! (Cut Already? vs Don't Cut!)

Alright, the image above doesn't have anything to do with the following words. It's just that I'm using the relevancy of 'potong' (literally means 'cut' in Malay language) that may also be translated as 'circumcise' (or  'sunat' in Malay language) according to multi-cultural Malaysian. The following is a footage from an internet 'conversation' (not chatting LOL) between me and my friend, Darren, that occurred right in the night before Eidul Adha (Raya Haji) a couple of days ago.

(Take note: The conversation is done in Manglish so it would be best to consult a Malaysian if you don't get what is happening)

halfey: tomorrow after Eidul Adha prayer I gotta help the ppl at nearby mosque to 'take down' some cows & goats (and get some free meat later)

Darren: cruel!kill animal......

halfey: what to do... no kill no meat. can't say that cruel. ppl kill animal for food everyday

Darren: ya la...nt cruel... sunat will be cruel a bit....haha

halfey: no ppl die from sunat means not cruel oso LOL sunat is the proof of being 'heroic brave man' LOL

Darren: wah... ur parent also muslim??

halfey: ya

Darren: i c... damn.... last time u circumcise by doctor o tradition... may be dec i'm potong also. sakit o nt?

halfey: not that painful, got anesthetic at hospital. I even joking at the MA trainees on that time LOL

Darren: wat is MA?

halfey: Medical Assistant

Darren: oh... hw long to recover?

halfey: with good care, usually take less than a week, or 2 weeks to completely recovered. I played football after 2 weeks LOL

Darren: last time while my friend play football kena his friend who jus cut for a week....

halfey: his fault for playing football too soon, not the potong fault. Should have waited for at least another week

Darren: haha.... if i nt mistaken , all iban must cut,right?

halfey: not really, my papa cut only after he convert

Darren: i c...

halfey: last time I don't even realize when the MA started the cut. The moment I realized everything's done. So quick

Darren: they use operation gunting? hw old u cut?

halfey: they used some surgery tools I don't know the name. More recent practice uses more advanced tools of course

Darren: wat bout d tradition 1?

halfey: I cut by the age of 12. I laughed at the boys who are school bullies but crying like babies in the same operation room with me LOL

Darren: u evil!! hahah u say u bulky,but nt bully at school

halfey: no use bully ppl maa (although I might have bullied some if I got the chance but I never LOL)

Darren: u sure....! hard to believe sagitaurus so kind....

halfey: no, I'm a tamed tyrannosaurus LOL

Darren: wat bout d traditional ,must be hurt,,,

halfey: unlikely since the traditional circumciser today uses anesthetic too. Rest assured

Darren: use parang?

halfey: modern tools. In the past they used some special 'surgical' blades, not parang

Darren: actually most asian nt chinese r cut... like philipine

halfey: well, some see it as tradition, while some see it either as compulsory or obligation. As for me, I see it as a test of courage

The following conversation after that is even more 'interesting'.

Darren: u know? i worry a bit about sex after that...

halfey: don't worry la. science proved that circumcising added more resistance towards STD. but that doesn't mean you can sleep with a prostitute LOL

Darren: haha! oh... wat is STD?

halfey: sexually transferred disease, like syphilis, gonorhea, etc.

Darren: i c...

halfey: hey! wanna know something better about circumcision?

Darren: wat is it?

halfey: with your circumcised 'thing', there's no 'excess skin' getting in your way during sex = better performance LOL

Darren: haha!

I must say some sort of soft attempt to condemn my religious practice has failed in a good way, and thank God it's a good thing that he finally come to an understanding why Muslim do what they're doing.      

  

SSD - The Future of Consumer Hard Disk Drive Technology

Honestly I'm not buying it when people saying that SSD hard hard disk are still "too immature". SSD technology is already here so it is no use to be anti technology now. Don't be like TMNUT who are anti technology too (yes, because they're anti-wiMAX, another form of new technology).

I remember back then people said the same thing ("...immature technology...") when SATA first emerged in consumer market but soon it proved otherwise that it is not as immature as claimed by those skeptical anti technology folks. As we can see today it has completely replaced the IDE (PATA) drives as consumer PC standard.

How's the performance? Since flash memory is flashy in speed (hence the name 'flash') it can be sure that SSD hard drive is as fast as an average RAM module or USB flash drive. if not faster. The only bottleneck that prevents it from reaching its peak performance would be the interface it is using. SATA interface sure is fast but not as fast as the system bus that is used by system memory, thus u got the idea how it would hamper the drive performance down but still, it is faster than any magnetic plate based hard drive. Booting up and shutting down a PC would be a speedy experience, so do when firing up application.

So how reliable this SSD hard drive is? I bet it is just as reliable as your average USB flash drives or RAM modules, if not better. In fact, they might be much more reliable than traditional metal plate based hard drive since they don't have any mechanical moving parts. You might not need to worry about your PC is being improperly shutdown because there is no flying head reader on the spinning platter to leave any damage on it (since there's no spinning platter at all to begin with).

The usage of flash memory to house an OS has a history way as far as 2003, when the company Nimble Microsystems released the Nimble v5 computer (pictured above). The VIA C3 CPU powered computer was quite powerful to host an average personal website where it can cater quite a number of hits at one time, and its OS (WinXP) was installed on a Compact Flash memory card. FYI CF cards uses IDE (PATA) interface but this 'weakness' is compensated by the speed of flash memory. In other words, should it equipped with SATA interface instead of IDE, it would be a vast improvement in terms of seek/read/write speed. Now, imagine that card to have the same form factor as an average HDD, boost it up with multi GBs of storage space, throw in SATA interface and you'll get a full-fledged SSD hard disk drive.

I also remember back then about a PCI card that allows us to install several RAM modules on it and use them as a speedy system storage as if they are a real hard disk (intended to be a 'scratch-disk' or 'swap-disk' for some applications that require them like Photoshop). Well, unlike the flash memory drives we know, RAM modules can't store information without being powered, thus the card has it's own battery that can 'hold' the memory state for weeks and will always be recharged back when the system is up. Speed wise, it is fast, with the only limitation to its speed is the PCI bus.

Alright, SSD hard drive today is still too prohibitive in price (the bucks/GBs ratio is still too small) but that will definitely change when people start to switch over it and it become mass produced. Anyways, if I got money, there's nothing would hold me back to get it now

Why we must drop our poll in National Election

No matter how we hate to get involved in political matters, we must not avoid to cast our vote in every National Elections. We are a citizen of a country and we are nothing without a country. On top of that, a country needs political power to manage and administrate it. That is when our votes become significantly important.

In many nations in the world, especially the democratic ones, polling is the best way to choose the one who will lead the people. However since citizen consisting of many people, which means there will be stages or levels of elections need to be done. In that case, any election would start from selecting a people's representative from local electional area.

Now comes the tricky part. People always complaining or giving excuses for not to go voting by saying "none of the candidates are good people". Well, nobody is perfect in this world and we should not blame the 'imperfect candidates' because we are just another imperfect person ourselves. In other words, who are we to complain about that? Therefore no matter what we must cast our vote or if you happen to still not happy with the candidates then how about considering yourself to be another candidate or at least naming a candidate before the campaign? If even that is impossible to you then don't fuss over the 'imperfection' anymore. This is what we should know that no matter how good or bad the candidates are, there are always somebody better between them, if not the best.

The worst game in history: Eliminating Otaku

Thanx to a friend-o-mine, I came across to a blog that the sole purpose is to 'eliminate otaku wannabe' or 'eliminate failed otaku' in a game called "Otaku Elimination". Sounds lame and pointless, even at it's name, isn't it?

About the so-called 'game' itself, for the author, any attempt to to show one's fondness on figmas as well as linking to Danny Choo will blindly be deemed as a Danny Choo wannabe or a failed otaku. Some said his writings are so professional but no matter how 'seemingly professional' his writings are, what he did is so wrong in many ways, at any level. He is biased, prejudice & mala fide from the beginning so he never 'played the game' on an even field. There's no way he might have been fair if his attitude is like a crap like that. Acting like he is the authority of the 'English-speaking otaku' is out of approval.

Perhaps the guy's just having a grudge against those who think they're otaku (bcos he think he's the ultimate 'english' otaku of all) or rather he's just having a grudge against all otaku. Personally, I think he must be an obesed guy with thick glasses who is fapping to his PC monitor the whole day that even his meal need to be served by his mother (judging from the way he wrote most of his articles). Seriously, who do he think he is, acting like the authority to approve whether other ppl are otaku or not? He don't even dare to give his real name let alone his face but he openly assaulting the otaku who he deemed as ugly. What a looser himself we have here, I must say.

For other people/otaku out there, don't let this put you down. Raging against him at his blog would won't do anything so my suggestion is write something about the 'game' in your own blog and spread to the world about how bad the 'game' is.

Halloween Cakes... will you eat them?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OK all the above images are not shot by me. They're R.I.P.ped elsewhere. You got it?

Time to get back to (serious) business

Oh shoot I wonder how long I've been absent from blogging? Well I'd like to blame the broken template but the rational part of my mind holds me back. It's not that I've never consulted the author but it seems like even he himself don't know where things have been wrong because everything seems alright, at least at the codes level. Let bygones be bygones huh?

Some people also asked me what about yougotta? It's not like I am abandoning that blog either, it's just that wordpress has become more complicated to use with newer version. To make things worse, they update the software too fast that I can't really cope up with. I guess I'll just archive it for now. That's what so great about hosting your own blog on your own server where you have total (almost) control over your web content as well as the database. As for me I'd just backup everything including the database (thank goth wordpress uses MySQL) then I can just restore it should I decide to continue it from where I left later on.