Spice Market Cafe Buffet Dinner

Spice Market Cafe located in Shangri-La’s Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa, Batu Ferringhi. The interior design are so nice and beautiful.

Inside the lobby while waiting for the cafe to open.

Upon entrance, both site had lots of spices display. It is also open for sale.

 

Indian and Malay corner. Have several type of curry, rice, lamb and chicken tandori, satay and etc.

Western style. Have pasta, spaghetti, lasagna, grill fish, beef and etc.

Chinese corner. Fried rice, prawn, vege, soup, noodles and etc. I guess Malaysian chinese don’t really prefer to eat these but foreigner do.

Cold charcoal, salad, bread and Japanese corner. Had sashimi such as salmon, tuna, white tuna, abalone, octopus, sushi and etc. Cold charcoal such as slipper lobster, prawn, yabbies, oyster, fruits but not really nice as the seafood too cold.

Dessert corner had lots and lots of cakes. Cheese cakes, tiramisu, and etc. We can eat from the cold storage till the jar. Also had ice kacang, fruits, and etc.

          

1st round, Enoki soup. 2nd round, Indian cuisine.

3rd round, sashimi. 4th round, chinese meet western.

5th round, cold charcoal. 6th round, chinese herbal soup.

Then too busy eating for dessert. Forgot to take picture. Dessert I had taken 5 rounds and still unable to test every single one. Too much dessert. For cakes itself can make you full. That is impossible to try every single dessert unless we don’t try other food. Spice market buffet is worthy the price as we pay for buy 2 free 1 promotion. After divide, it cost around RM80 per person. Really nice buffet. I will be back next time.

Streamyx Wifi@Home

Does really Streamyx wireless modem good enough for normal home use? Let’s have a look into it.

Inside it contains manual, LAN cable, splitter, power adapter, modem, 2 phone cable, installation CD and a warranty card.

After plug in all the necessary cables into position, we will able to see the light on “Power” will on. The “WLAN” light showing the wireless is currently turn on. If we turn off the wireless in the modem settings, this light will went off. If the “DSL” light is on and stable, it shows that the phone line is ready to be configured for internet. “Internet” light means the connection to internet is establish. “Ethernet” light showing there is a LAN cable plug in to the modem to a PC, router, switch and etc.

If you had a wireless PC, you can connect to the modem by searching for the available wireless signal. The default SSID for this modem is “Streamyx Mobility” and there is no security encryption enabled. You can also use LAN cable to connect to the modem. Usually what I will do is to plug in everything, search for the wireless network on my PC, look for SSID “Streamyx Mobility” and connect to it. Once connection establish, go to browser, type in 192.168.1.1 and enter.

On manual, it will show username: tmuser, password: tmuser. However, this account only had limited access. I always prefer to login with username": tmadmin, password: tmadmin.

 

Under the “Smart config”, we can directly key in the Streamyx ID and password. Hit on “Save/Reboot” and we are good to go to internet. Uncheck the “Enable Wireless” if you prefer to use its as a modem only. We always can change the SSID and set the network key.

This modem also allow us to change perform port forwarding. However, it is call as “Virtual Servers” under “Advanced Setup” > “NAT”.

Some user may prefer to hide the SSID. The option is available under “Wireless” as well. This modem also allow user to have multiple SSID such as Guest which able to isolate the sharing local network. Usually this happens to be useful for small office or prefer to share wireless to others.

If you feel that WEP security is not secure enough, there are others type of Network Authentication available under the “Security”. I always prefer to use WPA encryption.

      

We also can create MAC address filtering under “MAC Filter” to allow certain PC to have access to the internet and LAN if the MAC address is allowed. There are various function such as wireless bridge setup, change channel, speed, frequency of wireless and etc. User also can choose to filter IP address, block certain address and IP at certain time or certain IP and etc under “Advanced Setup”. I feel that this modem had most of the common features in others branded modem. If we are comparing on stability and performance of this modem, errrrr I wouldn’t say it is bad nor good. It is usable for normal home user.

Blackberry Bold 9000

Blackberry box, whole box black in color and no fancy drawing or logo.

As usual, inside contain manual, CD drivers and some stuff such as charger, USB cable and headset. The good thing is the charger comes with universal adapter which you can change the socket from the adapter to fit the country power socket.

It comes with a scroll ball in the middle. Very sensitive and smooth. Feel comfortable with it and not like my 1st expression on it that the scroll ball might be hard to get use.

It comes with a mini USB port for charging and for data transfer and normal audio port. Quite convenience as it use universal port where we can get the cable from shops.

The back really looks ugly. It comes with leather skin and looks very old fashion. The camera come with flash as well but of course not a xenon flash.

Blackberry is good enough for working environment. Not too fancy, comes with security features, and had ability to install applications such as Windows Live Messenger, Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Messenger and etc. However, if ask me would I spend money on this? I will definitely say NO. Comparing to IPhone? Can’t compare, I will go for IPhone of course.

Specification: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/blackberrybold/bold_specifications.jsp

Wimax Desktop

Went to Prangin Mall for shopping, saw broadband fair outside the mall. After some shopping, proceed to have a look on P1 Wimax booth. The salesman told me wimax is powerful, superfast, click on YouTube video, before it play already finish the loading. I told him I stay floor 18th and also located at the border of the wimax coverage. He told me no problem, floor 25th also can receive and stable. Ask me if have existing broadband line, subscribe potong package and will get 1 month cooling period and free 1 month. Means will get 2 months free before start paying. Only will need to pay RM100 now, collect modem now, and activate 3 hours later.

The LAN cable quite interesting and unique. A flat type rather than round type.

So simple, just plug and play. Plug in power cord, turn on the power and it will start connecting. Red light on top showing the signal is weak.

Try so hard to adjust here and adjust there, place as nearest to house window, and finally get orange light. Try so hard and still unable to get green light. Orange means average signal, and green means good. I guess there won’t be possible for green at floor 18th and at the border of coverage. The modem instead looks very nice.

Follow the instruction in the manual and login to the modem access. Check some configuration. Had almost all basic settings that available in wireless modem.

       

Tested the speed at speedtest.net, it goes up to 1.60Mbps. Not bad but the speed is random and unstable. It can goes from range 0.80Mbps – 1.6Mbps. Try to launch torrent, able to goes up to 147.6kB/s. This is consider great as no capping or etc from the P1.

On the 2nd day, it was still such awesome. At night it rain, I had to close my house window so that rain will splash into my living hall. What the!!, the light on the modem turn red. Check at my PC, no signal to internet. Open the window, tadda!! Signal is back. Close the window again, tadda!! Signal gone. Magic.. This show do not close your window when rain if you need to go internet.

On the 3rd day, check at my account status at P1 site, it show I had left 13GB usage available only before they cap my speed down to 60%. I had stop download after that.

On the 4th day, try to get online, line keep drop. Try to reboot the modem and adjust till I able to get orange light on the modem. Line still drop, live messenger dc, loading YouTube slow, VPN to office dropped, and page loading always stuck. Totally different from 1st and 2nd day.  Try to run a ping to couple of website include P1 site, all giving same results.

Try run test at speedtest.net and it showing upload test error. Try few times and still the same issue.

 

Finally able to get a result, showing 0.95Mb/s download and upload 0.06Mb/s. What the!! I off all application in my PC still having same issue.

Try using P1 speedometer, even worst. Stuck at uploading page. Try few times still the same. Is it wimax only good for download and not good for upload?

 

The next day, I bring the modem to the P1 office at Queensbay. The receptionist told me that they do not support high rise building. My house at the border of coverage and high rise building, that’s why signal is not strong. Then what to wait, ask for refund since still under cooling period. After return the modem, checking all in good condition, fill up some form. Then the receptionist told me the process will take 45 working days and they will send me a cheque of RM100. What the!!! 45 WORKING DAYS!!!

Wimax Wiggy

Potong, potong, potong.

Had a P1 Wimax Wiggy for testing. The wiggy size is half of Sony Ericsson W580i.

It is plug and play. A few seconds after I plug in, the red line will on. Then it will prompt for installation.

The prompt actually comes from the wiggy it self.

Once the installation done, it will continue to pop up a small window trying to connect to available wimax. Too bad the connection is very weak, I had to sit in open area or near to house window in order to get connection. If stay inside room, it will show unavailable service.

    

Once it is connected, the red light will turn to blue. Connection pretty slow for wiggy. Test download speed at speedtest.net, only showing 0.80Mbps instead of best effort 10Mb… Not even 10%.

 

Chin Yen birthday

We had about 8 person celebrating Chin Yen birthday. It was a last minute decision but still good. The worst thing is 8 person going with 5 cars. No wonder traffic jam as society nowadays didn’t know what is car pool.

This cake bought by YKK. Non of us understand what he wrote on top of the cake. Seems like a encryption code. Up 156 OCY. We only understand OCY stands for initial name of the birthday boy. The Up156 means Sang Yat Fai Lok means Happy Birthday in Cantonese. Up in mandarin is Sang, 1 in Cantonese is Yat, 5 in English is Five, 6 in Cantonese is Lok.

We went to eat seafood at Batu Maung. Below is the face of the birthday boy. Blur face.

 

 

Eh, where is the camera man?

Handmade recycle lamp

Follow the concept of shoji lamp, I had made a lamp which is easy to be done and cheap. The material is only a wood I found somewhere in my house, bulb holder, plug, used cable, bamboo satay stick, bulb and two used spoiled CD.

I saw the wood into a smaller piece that only able to fit the bulb holder and sand it.

Then measure and fold an A4 paper so it fits the width and length of the wood.

Then I glue the stick accordingly and it will look like this.

I fold it letting the stick at outside then glue the join together.

Then I make a small hole letting the wire to go through. Then stick the CD to the wood and the wood to the bulb holder.

The box will go in exactly the wood and hold it. Then it is time to try out.

 

Tadaa!! It’s done and working. Pretty nice too as the design is simple.