Buyers Guide: How to Choose a Digital SLR Camera

By Admin in Tech on October 28th, 2008

tHe Spring Foodz

By Serene in Uncategorized on October 20th, 2008

This few weeks(maybe) compiled some food recommendations, in tHe Spring where I think it’s priced reasonably and quality-wise good.. In my opinion la.. haha.. Well, just a random post but all about tHe Spring~ Which foodz you can try and worth it? What I think is..

Food Bazaar

Fish n Chips RM13.00 from the Western Food corner. From my experience, it’s a lot~! o.O If you think my appetite is big, then you can share this 1 plate with a friend le.. coz there’s a lot of French Fries that you won’t be able to finish after you’ve eaten the fish.. haha..

Chicken Teriyaki Don RM7.00 From the Japanese food corner. In my view I think it’s quite reasonable for a Japanese dish and it’s fulfilling to the belly haha.. It comes with a miso soup so no worries if it’s too dry

Gyu Don *All beef* RM8.00 also comes with the same miso soup ^^

Tori Katsu Don, some fried chicken with egg in Japanese style.. RM6.50

Niku Ramen I think o.O RM8+ swt.. I forgot T.T excluding miso soup. But I prefer the rice ones, got miso soup lol

There’s actually many quality and reasonably priced food in the Spring, for now I recommend these hehe.. Cheers for the foodz! lol

Opera is more than a browser

By Amir in Tech on October 15th, 2008

Browser war huh? After all that posts and reviews about IE and Firefox, today I want to open a new window to those of you who’d love to browse as safe, as confident and as fast as possible!

How many of you have ever heard of Opera?
Do you know that many of those nice features, such as tabbed browsing, already implemented in Internet Explorer, Firefox and the newborn Google Chrome are actually inherited from Opera?

And as an answer to my friends who ask me “Hey dude! If it’s this good, then why it is not as famous?” I can just say “Because it is not AMERICAN! It is Norwegian and that’s why it has every thing sorted and disciplined!
The good thing I love about Opera is its innovative soul! It has been always many many years ahead of its rivals in terms of new and interesting features and services.
The other good thing about Opera is that its damn fast! You have to try it to see, oh no sorry FEEL, the difference!

I warmly invite all of you to go and try it by yourself and comment about it here.

Below is a short list of this awesome browser’s features, as Coxy says:

• Better than Internet Explorer
  If you access the internet using the blue ‘e’ icon you can be considered a bad, bad person. Internet Explorer is made by Microsoft and comes with your Windows computer - and it’s this very reason that most virus/security risks are aimed at Internet Explorer. If you value your security (ie, bank details, passwords, etc) - get a better browser.

• You’re using / thinking about Firefox?
  Mozilla Firefox is the browser that most Internet Explorer users are switching to. If you’ve heard of another web browser, it’s probably Firefox. Whilst Firefox is undoubtably better than Internet Explorer, for most users to make the browser do what they want it to, they have to hunt down and install ‘Add Ons’ making Firefox slower and more cumbersome. Most of Firefox’s popular plugins come built-in as standard with Opera. It’s well known that most of Firefox’s new features are existing features in Opera.

• Speed Dial
  Opening a new tab or window in Opera provides you with shortcuts to your favourite websites. If you’re a socialite, you can be a mere click away from Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Flickr and your other favourite social networks - there’d be no need to type urls!

• Opera Link
  Connect your browser to your free Opera Link account and Opera will back-up and sync your bookmarks, speed dial, notes, personal toolbar, search engine preferences and typed history. When you log in at school, work, on any other computer or mobile phone, you have instant access to all your data - and any changes you make away from your computer will still be there when you get home. Get in sync, get a better browser.

If all of us liked Opera, we can ask our IT department to install it on school’s PCs and then we’d get all our favorites and bookmarks, browsing history and Speed Dial everywhere, on every PC we use at school! IS not that great?

• Zoooooooooom!
  Opera zooms pages like no other browser. Seriously. Where other browsers will only zoom the text on the page, Opera zooms everything with the touch of the plus or minus keys. Save your eyes, zoom when reading long articles or small type.
  

• Login with Magic
  The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Return becomes your friend! Pressing it (or the magic wand button) magically logs you into your favourite sites - or fills out long forms for you - so long as you’ve saved that information previous. Login to pretty much any site and hit ‘Save’ when prompted and you’ll never have to remember your username and password again!

• Find Anything!
  Opera comes suited and booted with the latest search engines; Google, Yahoo!, Ask and more. You can also search your history by typing in the address bar. If you can’t remember the name of that lolcats site you were visiting, but remember seeing the word ‘kitten’ on the page, type away and Opera will find it for you. No other browser searches every word on every page you’ve visited! What’s more - you can add any search box on pretty much any web page into your browser by simply right-clicking on it. Another good reason to get a better browser.

• Ultimate Protection
  Opera comes with Fraud, Malware and Phishing protection built-in as standard. Every site you visit is checked against a list of known phishing or fraudulent site to ensure your computer’s not going to get infected with any spyware or viruses and that you’re not giving your bank details away to a fake website.

To be honest, I could go on - but I’ll stop now. There are so many good reasons to give Opera a try; even if you’re happy with Firefox or just don’t give a crap about web browsers - at the end of the day it’ll ensure you’re safe from nasty things on the web, or that you’re browsing that little bit faster.

If one person came up to me after reading this and said “I read you blog, I downloaded Opera.”, I’d be happy for the rest of the day!

Download and installation is free, quick and easy. Opera works on Windows, Mac and Linux… your mobile, your Nintendo Wii, your Nintendo DS and a handful of other devices. Just click the button.

Swinburne Sarawak Prom Night 2008

By Admin in Celebration & Events, Swinburne on October 13th, 2008

Orginally Written by- Ms. Woon Yien (www.yienyien.com)

Its Prom!!!

In the end.. i still choose to write a post about it before i finished up my assignments. haha! Well… i went to the prom night.. It was my last prom in Swinburne. The venue was at Riverside Sarawak Chamber. The place is nice as i have my first swinburne prom at there too.. back in 2005. What a co-incidence right? My FIRST prom and LAST prom in Swinburne was actually the same place. HAHAhA!

Anyway.. i will not comment much about the prom.. What can i say is.. i like the deco. Thats it.. but compared to Prom 2005, 2006 and 2007, this one is a more.. hmm.. not so happening one.. Ok.. no offend ya.. But still.. i like the deco.. Lucky enough for me, my table is full of interesting people and we have fun.. So again, thats what i mean in my msn pm, i have a great time tonight.. not because of prom but the people i met.. Arghh.. finally understood? hehehe! Anyway people, thanks for the prom..!

This year prom mostly consisted of juniors rather than seniors.. i can hardly see any familiar faces during prom.. *reason to be covered ya* haha! so again..lucky enuf for me.. wow..i m so lucky.. i m the youngest in my table! *NYEK NYEK NYEK* I went to prom with fabby, my closest in swinburne since foundation and we have Ken (fab’s fai), Terrence, Yii Seng, Yii Seng’s lovely gf who i duno the name (Pretty, i hope u do see u again ya), KK, Steve, Kheng and Kok Song.. Ken, Kheng, Steve and Kok Song is not from swinburne.. but stil they came. How supportive! ^^

Here’s some deco of the ballroom.

The opening ceremony

ANd most importantly, our table..Oh.. see my name? hahahaha!

Our table.. I like the rose pedals.. and Yii seng’s gf love it too! ^^

The food.. we have 8 dishes altogether..

Oh.. i forgot to take the picture of the Chilled longan and almond beancurd pudding (steve insisted its pudding.. Hohoho).. so u guys just imagine la hor… ^^

Okay.. here comes the random pictures of Prom 2008!!! There’s still a lot of friends which i din get to take pic with.. hmmm.. nevermind.. i still love u guys. ^^

Why is everyone is WHITE??!!!

The nOn- swinburners guys! heheheh! thanks people!

Me and Princess Fabby!

Oh.. she contributed this pic.. Woots! nice rite??!!

Ken won a lucky draw prize and he was so so so happie! hahaha! guess what’s inside? u wont wan to noe. haha! His lucky number - 280!!

SO here comes the footloose!

and our group pic! *fabby is so talkative.. muahahha*

And this one.. well edited by her.. she is definately a pro in photoshop eh!

What i owes like about Prom is..there always have lotsa balloons around.. last year we have Blue and Silver.. and this year.. they have red and white.. ^^

And lastly.. picture of the day!!

I like this pic the most eh.. coz its CANDID.. hahaha! u noe.. candid pic always look so cute and natural bah !!!!

Meet-Up

By WoonYien in SwinTalk on October 8th, 2008

Hey Guys!! since our swintalk blog and forum are going on track, we would like to arrange another meet-up again to discuss some future plans and activities..! Do come ya!!

Date : 15 October 2008

Day : Wednesday

Time : 2.00pm 

Venue : B213

So.. leave a message if you are not able to attend. =) New BloGGers are most welcome too! 

* if anyone has any issue which you would like to touch on, please do attend*

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri / Eid Mubarak

By Saad Kamal in Celebration & Events on October 1st, 2008

 

On Behalf of Swintalk Bloggers commitee I’m wishing all our Muslim Friends 

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri / Eid Mubarok! 

May peace and happiness be with you all!

Just to give everyone a little background, Hari Raya Aidilfitri (also known as Hari Raya Puasa) is one of the two most important days in a year for the Muslims; the other being Hari Raya Aidil Adha which will be held later this year.  Both Hari Rayas (which means Day of Celebration) are public holidays in Malaysia. So no classes for you guys :D 

This day is also very significant as it officially marks the end of the fasting month (Puasa) which began on Septermber 1 2008.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Maaf Zahir & Batin everyone!