When my wife went to Taiwan a few month ago, she bought me a pair of these in-ear earphones or canalphones). Which is nice, because since my Sennheiser HD570 hifi headphones died due to my own stupidity, I have no good head/earphones to listen to. All I could find at my house were some old Sony earbuds that came with Discmans and mp3 players.
Of course, these canalphones are nowhere near the quality of hi-fi personal listening devices, but the sound quality tops anything I currently and used to have. Maybe …

Last weekend, we brought little Ayra back to my wife’s hometown at JB & Singapore. Ayra now has officially used her passport for the 1st time! We originally planned to go back on the Malaysia National Day weekend, but decided on an earlier date because we anticipated that there’ll be a massive traffic jam on the North-South Highway.
As usual, upon entering Singapore I’ll start to notice the difference in the general atmosphere of the 2 countries. It’s not hard to see that Singapore is generally much cleaner and organized and …

Nowadays me and the wife don’t go out much. We could just hang out at home watching little Ayra do whatever she does. Even watching her sleep makes us smile. Looking at her having a good rest makes us realize how much joy she has brought into our lives. The feeling is evident throughout the household… whenever we bring Ayra out from the room, my parents and siblings will go “Ayraaaaaa!” and everyone wants to kiss and hug her. My youngest brother who is 8 spends the most time with …

If you guys regularly use Oracle Database 10g in your XP machine, then you’ll definitely realize that Oracle DB tends to leave shit lying in your system when you uninstall it. These remnants of the database installation will sometimes create problems with your XP system. Leftover registry keys will cause problems when you’re reinstalling Oracle DB. Leftover path variables sometimes wreak havoc on your normal command prompt utilities like ping and telnet. Leftover files and directories will make it harder to install a new database using the same Oracle Home …

We took Ayra out today. First we went to Avenue K (the shopping complex right in front of KLCC) because we wanted to get some toys for Ayra and a friend’s son. The Toys R Us over there was having a clearance sale of up to 70%. But the store was small… one of the smallest Toys R Us I’ve ever been in. They do seem to get smaller and smaller eh? Or is it because we’ve grown from being the excited little kid browsing through the nirvana of toys.
I …