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Finally I’m having my little holiday since it’s near Chinese New year. Last year I missed celebrating Chinese new year in my hometown but for this year, I will be in Kuching celebrating Chinese new year. What’s better is that I’m enjoying an extra week holiday off!

Anyway, it’s only been 2 months since I left Kuching and now, there’s another shopping mall where I can lepak. Yup, it’s Hills Shopping Mall which is on the same building with the new Pullman Kuching. Like every Kuchingkia, I love new things too. Whenever there’s a new shopping mall or what, I must go and see it with my own eyes. So I step foot on Hills shopping mall on the second day I reach Kuching.

Since it’s still new, there aren’t many shops at the moment. However, Karen is happy and excited with Skin Food which is finally here in Kuching. Now, I won’t need to buy Skin Food products for her in JB and bring it back =D. Oh, my little cousin is also happy with the big ToyRus opened within the shopping mall. I promised to bring him there and get him a birthday present before I step foot into the shop, once I went in the shop, the next thing I’m thinking was “I’m gonna be broke, big time”.

On that night when I went there, there was this yoyo show which wasn’t impressive, and a fashion show, which attracted lots and lots of people standing near the stage. The fashion show was like models wearing a big sushi as hat, big bee on top and magazines all over them. It was pretty funny.

To me, Spring is still the best =D although boring but still the best =D

Ho, it’s long since I last update my blog. It’s due to heavy load of assignments and tests. Anyway, today mark the end of the campus election period for student represent in University of Technology Malaysia. This is also the period where you can find alot of hanging posters and flying flyers with faces which comes along with a X right below them.

It’s an event where a lot papers, plastics and all sorts of stationary are wasted just to promote students who wish to stand out or wanted to represent UTM students. In this 3 days period, we have been continuously receiving sms on who to vote, or visitors which tells you who to vote and what they promise to do when they got into the Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar (MPP). It’s more likely same as politician elections in your area but the only different is you don’t get the road repair or drains unclog.

However, there are candidates who came out with ridiculous promises. Promises such as he would fight for 50% off flight ticket as if his daddy owns Airasia or Mas, 0% interest for ptptn. I wonder if he thinks before he puts on these promises. On the student side, posters burning are of cause unavoidable which this isn’t a positive act for these so called educated people.

Haha. The best part about voting every year in UTM is that we will be getting free stuff right after we vote. Every year, first ten students for each faculty who voted received a pendrive as a token of appreciation, the rest would be stuff like planners or drinks or foods.

Today, we voted, we fulfilled our responsibility like what they asked us to do. After tomorrow, will those who won the election fulfil theirs? Oh hey, can give me those posters after you guys take it off? Can use it for printing and calculation mah.

3D is one of the latest trend running in the technology world, you can now purchase 3D laptops which were lunched year 2009. Built in Software which is able to turn 2D movies into 3D. Most of the movies screening in cinemas are in both 2D and 3D since last year, giving movie lovers more sight pleasure. I myself prefer watching 3D movies since it’s nicer. However, it’s slightly expensive compare to normal 2D movies.

2 days ago, there’s a news in the newspaper which reported that a guy in Taiwan died due to stroke after having some headache watching “Avatar” in 3D, no kidding though. Some people might suffer headache watching movies in 3D, are you one of them? Anyway, it’s kinda difficult to find 3D cinemas here in Malaysia, I only know we can watch 3D movies in cinema in KL and Kuching only. Anyone know where else to watch 3D movies?

Since the University is providing bad wifi services, most of the students applied for broadbands in order to online in their rooms. Especially after the Potong Session, many new p1 user started to appear. P1 users will have a modem which comes with a wireless adapter after they applied for packages. For some people, they tried to hack into other’s P1 network and get internet access for free.

In this post, I’m not going to teach you how to hack into those P1 networks, but I will be giving you hints on how to hack into P1 networks. As you can see in the image, the red frame with weird combination of numbers and alphabets are actually the default network names for P1’s wireless adapter which comes with the modem. By default, the WEP passwords are actually almost the same as the network names. For example, 0810DE network, the pass will be 810DEXXXXX, the XXXXX will be the thing you need to add in at the back. I won’t reveal what’s the thing to add but it’s the same for all P1 default passwords.

Anyway, you can also hack into home networks if they are using wireless modems. Some of the users do not know how to change the passwords for the modem leaving the default name and password there. Therefore, if you see some names like within the orange frame, you can enter into their network using default passwords of different brands.

Actually, I’m not teaching you how to hack into networks but trying to give awareness. Users should try to configure their networks and change their default passwords. If you do not know how, try to lookup to the manual book. If it’s gone, you can always lookup onto the internet for info. Good luck!

I’m using Dell Inspiron 1420 and it has the blink screen technology which I’m not proud of it. The screen blinking problem started a few months after the warranty expired. I thought it would be expensive if I send the laptop for check ups, that is why I did not do so ( Yes, I’m a cheap ass). What adds up the fire is the attitude of the laptop, it ONLY blinks when I need to study for exams and stop blinking right after the exam ends.

I’ve searched for solutions to fix the problem. I found a few reasons causing the screen to blink like dat. Reasons such as graphic card error, cable error and OS error, but none was it. I met with this technician and he told me that it was most probably caused by the battery. Yes, my battery life span has almost reach the limit but I tried starting the laptop without the battery attached to it, it blinks too, so as my eyes.

So, what was the cause for the blinking to happen?