Hello-there once again! Had a nice weekend?
Well, it was my birthday over the week so I had a quiet celebration with my family, @ a Tea Garden. the latest trend around town on latest style of coffee shop but somewhat more cozy, not roudy like the normal coffee shops. Trying to adapt the city life style. Though new, there are a few slowly adapting to this kind of concept. It is going to be in trend soon. Other than Beer Gardens, this is the sprouting of Tea Gardens.
Looks very dim lit in the evening and providing economy food stall style with a little bit extra in between a coffee house and a coffee shop price. At least in this kind of environment, people who are not of high calibre and wanted to walk in at least would take a bath dress up more casually.
They do dispense some beers though but of smaller bottles, just to cater for some who would want a refreshing drinks other than coffee, tea or fruit juice. Not forgetting they also have "ice-kachang" ( a malay name for a bowl of tall iced nuts with a few coloured jelly, a few types of coloured syrups, some of which had chocolate sauce ). They also have the Indian "chendol" also a kind of jelly, made from pandan leaves deeped in coconut juice with a brownish syrup made from "gula melaka" ( a popular kind of cycindrical brown sugar from Melaka ).
Well, anyway, we had a fat meal, spending most of our evenings sitting there chit-chatting and had many types of dishes. From curry dishes to spaghetti. So they are filled with local cuisines to western food.
As the Malays are still in their New Year mood ( Hari Raya as it is known ), the shopping complexes are a bit quiet as we spent about an hour or so getting some sundries as usual to fill up our food storage for the week.
I managed to grab hold of 7 seasons of Star Trek Deep Space 9 DvD movie ( about 26 pcs or so I think ) home with Spiderman 3, 1408 and RISE, Blood Hunter. But too bad my 29" LG Tv failed to function all of a sudden thus I had a dull Sunday, but I did surf the net logging into IGN for the HALO 3 previews and free stuffs like the trailers, screenshots and wallpapers.
Then I decided to do some reshuffling and editing of photos into my live spaces blogs. Now just after mid-night in Malaysia, I am posting over this blog of MeBeFree as I promised I would.
Frankly speaking I have not got hold of a really interesting topic yet though I had it in my mind what I wanted my blog to be. Currently I am just trying to make myself in a introductory mode. I need to have a plan over my ideas, gather some stuffs on the articles that I'm having and then putting them to work with utmost care. That would only make a blog interesting to return to, isn't it right? Well, shy to say, what's with an amateur's mind though I do write quite a bit.
Other bloggers' stuffs sometimes crosses what I had in mind! So, we need to carefully think what we need to say to the world although it might somewhat clashes with other blogs but we could try putting them in other words. After all we are only just beginning, in our infantry. Imagine something like less than 10% people blogging online! Well, everybody has got a story to tell or some news in our own surroundings to share. Or maybe something that we read about that somebody else have not. That's all about sharing.
And as I am typing here, in Malaysia, my notes do not just stay in Malaysia but will be transported thru this electronic highway to the rest of the world! That is vast and yet getting people to almost become neighbours! Ain't that interesting! In my 50 years of living, and getting along with tech for about 20 over odd years is soon going to get more than advance - future living ( a topic I blogged @mp3.com many months back ). We are getting into a very advance future and it is not stopping anyway. At least not when the forthcoming of the so-called Internet 3! Hi-speeds over broadbands are no longer a common thing. So we are talking about something like 10 Gigabits of speed ?? Super don't you think so? We at the current moment are running our broadbands at only 1 megabit per sec!! My, what a vast difference and it seems like this talk that is materialising is sounding the impossible, yet it is happening. It's incredible at the speed things are moving these days! Malaysia now has launched the 4 megabits band width, especially targeting on the WiFi band waves.
At least next year we see some big improvements in speed over the virtual world! More to come would be walking gadgets - yeah the communication and entertainment arena. Watching Tv anywhere you want and also probably having the holographic communication system within our daily lives ( in due time ). Then the HD and blue ray thing will be a common event come 2008. So are the movies' new gigs in the future. Big changes coming to the big screens will come right into our homes. MTVs will be a big event too. Invisible music will have to be very much full of surround hifidelity sound. The screen right in front of our eyes to watch a big 36 or probably even 48" screens are a reality now. Just like bringing a projector right in front of your eyes! The projectors will only be meant for business offices and conventions. Imagine wearing spectacles watching individually your home theatre movies, and with surround sound?
My work years ago was involved very much in building workstations for offices and especially more on call centres who has dawn into the open plan workspaces. And fully integrated into how work is done at their desks all full of PCs. Slow PCs mann! What I am sitting right in front was once upon a time the future workstation that has materialized eventually. And all that ergonomic talk we had at that time was somewhat very very new and quite unknown even in the corporate sector. What? Have to sit ergonomically, even the typist chair for a clerk or an exec? Well, in those days the man hours on PC was so very unacceptable as the PC then and now are totally 2 different thing altogether. Work are so vigourous that I personally encounters some who had to have their wrists operated! The veins got bloated, swollen! My god! Many may not know about it and also alot of backaches too! Rheumatism was a common case as well, as far as I have encountered. Imagine we had to work with Windows 3 with unimaginable RAMs capacity. What? 1 MEGABYTE?? Whoooff! I just can't imagine it being half of that, and worst if to talk about the cost of PC. What more if anybody who know about DOS 5 OS. Harddisk at that time is just even worst than a CD-Rom. 20 MB! Hmm! What else if we wanna bring out topic on the VDUs that we had! Black/white and green screens anyone?
Yes, there is no end to comparison to the world of technology today and only about 10 years back. Don't even wanna mention some 20 years ago when the word PC still do not exist! We called it the computer. I once even had a Sinclair Keyboarded PC! Plugged onto our home Tv, working with the buzzing cassette tapes, hearing all those squeeky noise as if ET phone home. 48k my friend! I later upgraded to a 128k! Yes, only in kilobytes memory! Have you been in that speed?
I'd wonder how many people of today even has seen Steven Spielberg's ET ? That, is why now we see a sample movie file in the Shared Video of latest XP, containing a short portion of ET. Anybody watched it? Haha!! What's that?
If you say Warcraft or HALO many would know about. Graphics talk is all about it. Imagine average graphic cards are around USD500 in common sight. Well, in order to be online to those games madness!
So, after all that talks I put forth, shouldn't I be talking technology history of which would be a favourable topic? So I say what I had in mind is to share some "ghost" stories like this technology. Yeah, Ghosts of Technology would be a good start? My stuffs then would be meant for those who has the hi tech of today without realising or knowing of the past at all. I mean where can one read about it? All is written nowadays is how fast things should be. Where to find some space or time to put in words for past tech? I mean who or why bother?
Ok, since we are living in a multi-tasking networking world of technology, I think sharing is so so convenient and fun of course! This sort of linking would bring the world closer. Well, now I think I need to take my leave once again for the time being and I would come back with the first text of my real talks soon. Latest beginning November?
Hahaha!! I do have alot of stuffs down here I need to do and some gigs to resolve. So, I'll see ya soon! Have a nice time "travelling" before we catch up with each other again. Bye!
