Ocasionally, I participate in TechARP - an online IT community, although not as active as Lowyat Forums but it's a nice place to be in, not so much of /k/ nonsense over there.
Last year, Adrian - the boss of TechARP organized a BBQ Party, I signed up for it but it was unfortunate that the event was cancelled as his wife, Jenny was admitted to hospital. All of us prayed for her speedy recovery and this year we were able to pull out that BBQ party sucessfully. The last time I saw Adrian was back at 2006, but we constantly kept in touch via MSN.
A geek gathering, people from all walk of life, all age came together and talked in one common 1337 language.
Chilling out at Adrian's place
Adrian's place is at Surian Condominiums
It is a very nice place, good environment, friendly and trained security guards, unlike those I encountered during my GPS tracklog mission.
I finally found time to blog about this, it has been a busy 2 weeks with many activities on my schedule. Unlike Su Yi, I don't have the liberty of time to create 3 posts for the 3 days we were at Penang, instead I'll just summarize it into one post and let the pictures do the rest of the talking.
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This video below pretty shows some of the activities we had there.
I recently got my hands on a Sensonic N520 GPS, a GPS unit powered by Falome navigation software - I'll review this unit in the near future. But at the same time, I began to participate more in the GPS community - Malfreemaps.com (MFM). MFM has been providing free maps for various navigation devices such as Garmin and Papago. From the various POI to Junction Views and Lane Assists, it has made navigating to a new area an easy task. So active is the community that you can expect new roads to be included in the next map release, usually in the next 2 weeks.
If you are using a Garmin device, there is a high chance that your map come from MFM itself.
I have tremendously benefited from the hard work of the community and so I decided it's time I return something back to the community. I came across this 'untracked' housing area near my house and I decided to 'track' the area.
I had a hard time with the security guards, getting in was difficult already. Once I was in, I drove into every street while my GPS plotted every metres travelled. By doing so (driving along every street), I obviously attracted alot of unnecessary attentions, the security guard was following me into every single street that I was driving.
Security guard - which was a pain in the ass for me.
Recorded track on the GPS device. Then exported to Garmin Mapsource software on the computer.
It was extremely difficult to record the tracks, the security guards were asking questions like "Which company are you working for? Why you need this map?" I told them that this is a public road and they have no right to block the road, but the fact that this is Malaysia, they told me that the road belongs to the 'residents' and hence not a public road. On one hand, it's good (for the residents), but on the other hand, it clearly violates the law (and annoys people like me, who might want to enter, perhaps to have a look at the houses there)
And that's it, I have made the map more updated for everyone to use!
I can't help it but during all the subjects where it's highly theoretical such as P1 - Professional Accountant, most of us would not be able to help it but doze off. Same applies to me.
The best part is the way you write when you're jotting down notes as you're falling asleep. I was looking through my P1 textbook and I remembered this particular page where I was falling asleep while jotting down the notes and eventually was woken up by Yee Jun.
There's 3 sections to the above picture as can be seen by the 3 red rectangles. Let's zoom in
Part 1 - falling asleep.
Part 2 - this was the part I was already 'hallucinating', I had no idea what I was writting, I 'entered the zone'.
Part 3 - And then Yee Jun woke me up, and I began to write more like a human again.
Shown below is another example of me trying to write down some notes while struggling to stay awake. It results in wavy sentences.
It's amazing the kind of visitors who arrive at your websites through search engine. I track the statistics to see how visitors reach this website and this one caught my attention.
