3D hologram a reality

I'm guessing most of us have watched Star Wars and we awe in the special effects that George Lucas brought us in his films. Most notably the holographic visual of princess leia requesting for help. *Picture below


We would think such technology would only be available when we managed to travel through space in Hyperspace mode, well it's not. The people at The ICT Graphics Lab at USC have managed to create this 3D holographic effect. The video below shows a few example their experiment. It's soooo cool. Two dimensional TV will be the thing of a past once they've succesfully squeeze this technology into our homes.

Family Dinner @ Eric Tsang's Steamboat

*Picture courtesy of 3meals.blogspot.com.. hehe thanks ya

Me and my family went out for a family dinner yesterday night (sunday 29th June). After thinking where to go for makan, we decided to try the steamboat restaurant opened by the famous HK star Eric Tsang and his fellow TVB stars. It was located in Hartamas Shopping Centre in Hartamas.

Me and my family, only four (4) of us ordered the dinner steamboat set ( for 2 -3 person) and according to the captain that it will be sufficient for the 4 of us. We proceeded for it, as most of us were very hungry already.

We had the dual soup steamboat, one side we had the Tom Yam soup and the other we have the normal soup. The place is quite big and there were quite a number of patrons. Other than having the steamboat, you may also order ala-carte dishes serve with rice.

This is what I think of the restaurant, despite its prime "location" in Hartamas (where supposedly the rich people stays) the service and decor of the restaurant is rather dissapointing. It was very sub-standard feel to it... like those Hong Kong cafes Mong Kok or kim gary cafes.

Second was its service, the restaurant wasn't packed to the max but the service was slow. I mean we ordered the steamboat dinner set, and it took more than 20 minutes to prepare. Most of the ingredients is already pre-made, like the soups, fishballs, vege, etc. I dont understand why should it take so long to prepare, I had to ask the captain about it before I could see any sort of service or serving done on my table.

And now the most crucial part of all, the food. Apparently most of the food are prepared by the restaurant, meaning there is no commercially factory made fish-ball, meat balls, etc. The soups is good too, I dont sense there is any MSG used for the soups. The food are fresh and the soup is tasty. Overall not too bad, but the portion isn't big. At the end of the meal, I dont feel hungry but I dont feel satisfied as somehow it still lacked something.

Finally the bill for that night came up to RM87 something for 4 people (inc. a pot of tea and those pesky taxes). Sorry guys, I didn't bring my camera so didn't manage to post any pics. But I borrowed pictures from 3meals.blogspot and NST Online at least you peeps can see what it looks like.

Picture taken from NST online

My office

Konnichiwa Minasan! (Trans: Hello Everyone!)

It's already 2 weeks into my new job at HSBC and I want to share with you my experience and feeling so far.

Well for starters, I'm back to a relatively medium sized cubicle (Genting Cubicle small). The increase in salary and benefits is definately very welcomed and I guess the management is another plus. An ang mo (white) company way of management is definately a big difference to the china man company (no offense ya).

My official office working hours starts from 8.45am to 5.45pm (mon-thurs) and on fridays I start at 8.45am and finishes at 4.45pm. Its a 5 days work a week and on fridays its casual wear. Although it seems like very nice working hours, but we dont really get to go home on time. Normally I will leave around 6 or 7 ish.. sometimes even 8 ish (Random one le - see work finish anot lu)

I take the LRT to work now. It saves me the hassle caught in the jam and looking for car park. I also save alot on money, because use less fuel and no car park fees.

One sad thing I found out is that this company got no Annual Dinner one wor.. So so sad.. I was wishing a huge company like HSBC will have a grand annual dinner. Hehehe.. the lucky draws should also be quite nice.. *wink wink. But to my surprise.. no annual dinner one. Sigh.

Well that's about my work so far.. I'm posting pictures of my cubicle. Enjoy!!

Top Gear Season 11 is out!!

*UPDATED: SORRY GUYS, THE VIDEOS TAKEN DOWN FROM YOUTUBE

To all TG fans out there. The latest season to Top Gear is out, catch the funny trio of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond (Hamster) and James May in the season 11 on youtube. Alternatively you can see the video below (I've linked it).

On episode 1 of season 11, they will be talking about some fuel economy tips (hmm.. not very convicing to have Fuel economy tips on TOP GEAR). But they have bought out a Toyota Prius to go up against the sporty 4 liter BMW M3. You'll be surprise with the winner of this competition for better Miles Per Gallon match up. Enough said, just enjoy the videos below... Good ol' british humour..


Season 11 episode 1 part 1/6


Season 11 episode 1 part 2/6


Season 11 episode 1 part 3/6


Season 11 episode 1 part 4/6


Season 11 episode 1 part 5/6


Season 11 episode 1 part 6/6

Formula WORK + SAVE = MONEY

I believe there are three types of people in this world.

One that works hard but is very unfortunate that everything doesn't go well for him/her,
then theres one that works hard and gets their just rewards and lastly the one that doesn't need to work and gets a comfy life.

I'm a believer in what you work, is what you get or rather how much you work, is how much you'll get and that there is no free lunch in this world. I was brought up in a manner where I need to work and earn for the things I want. As a kid I had to earn extra money by helping out around the house, like cleaning the toilet, repaint the walls, etc. And with the money I have earned and saved for months and even years, only then I could go and buy that "monopoly" board game that I had longed for. I have to admit that there are times when I actually get lucky and do get things when I asked from my parents, but they tend to come with promises and commitments (like scoring A's in the exams).

With that background, its hard for me to deal with certain people who do not need to work for a living and yet demands for something, in which they had not worked for. Its a fact of life that if you do not work for something, you wont get it.

The formula is simple WORK = MONEY. Some of you might say, there are lots of people out there who do not work and they are inherited with lots of Money. I will say its partly correct, because the person whom they inherited the Money is the person who actually WORKED for it.
That money that you inherit is not the outcome of your hard work.

So lets all work and achieve your goals with your own hands. You'll feel proud at the end of the day with your achievements.

HK shopping list

There are quite a number of items I'm looking forward to get while I'm in HK this August.

1.) Camera Lenses for my Nikon (RM600 - 1,500)

2.) Shoes (RM 200 - 300)

3.) Caps & Hats (RM50 - 150)

4.) If any money left - an apple iPod (RM500)

Sigh.. that adds up to be around RM2,000 to RM3,000.... Would somebody give me an interest free loan? Hehehe...