Thursday, May 22, 2008

House

OMG !!!! Season finale of House is just sooooo daaaaaaaamn bloooooody goooooooood. It made me cry man. If you guys haven't yet watched it. Just download the last two episodes of season 4.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

151 Swinburne students awarded more than RM400,000 in scholarships

"KUCHING – A total of 151 of students from Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus who scored impressive results in public and semester exams. were awarded a total of RM407,500 in scholarships yesterday, 7 May 2008.

Categorised as Entrance, Leadership and Merit, the scholarship awards were presented to the recipients by Professor Helmut Lueckenhausen, the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Swinburne Sarawak.

At the ceremony, 107 students who had recently enrolled for foundation and undergraduate courses with the university were awarded the Entrance scholarships.

This scholarship category is specially given to those with impressive SPM and STPM results.

Five new students, who had achieved good results and who had been actively involved in extra-curricular activities while in secondary school were presented with Leadership scholarships.

Of the five, one was formerly from Sekolah Seri Suria and two each from SMK DPHJ Abd Gapor and Chung Hua Middle School No. 1.

Meanwhile, 39 students who are pursuing undergraduate courses were awarded Merit scholarships for achieving high distinctions and distinctions at their recent semester exams.

Recipients of the Entrance and Merit scholarship categories included students from nine countries: Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.

Among those who were present at the ceremony were parents and families of the scholarship recipients as well as representatives from the scholarship recipients’ former schools.

Also attending the ceremony were the heads of schools and departments of the university.

Swinburne Sarawak awards eligible students with scholarships each semester and scholarship application is currently open for its July and August intake."

Scholarship recipients pose for a group photo with Professor Helmut Lueckenhausen, Pro Vice-Chancellorand Chief Executive of Swinburne Sarawak, and Enn Ong, Director Academic, of the university.

adapted from swinburne website: http://www.swinburne.edu.my/corporate/marketing/mediacentre/pr/2008/05_0708-Scholarships.htm

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Why and what do I blog here?

My friends in Melbourne do not know that I blog here ( I think ). So I blog about things that I can't normally post in my own blog because of the people that reads it.

What do I blog here?

What do YOU want me to blog here?

I can cover a whole range of topic :

Architecture

Fashion

Music

Movies

TV series ( mainly CSI Las vegas, Prison Break , Smallville and House because they're the only ones I watch )

Photography

Mp3 player review

My 600 ringgit sony player. . .





died on me last week. Just after a year of using it. Damn it. Partly because it was my fault. Very hard to explain. I didn't drop it or anything. Lets just say for me to get sound out of the thing, I have to press very hard on my headphone wire.

Then today I got a replacement. The Sandisk Sansa Clip 2gb for 106 australian dollars ( you convert la. I dunno the exchange rate ).






Initially I wanted to get the Iriver E100




The 4gb one sells for 113 dollars here. It plays video, has voice recording, expandable memory, fm tuner. Almost all of the things you need man. A bargain right? But why the hell didn't I get it?

Well the reviews for the iriver isn't all that good. The review for the sansa clip was very good. The reviews claimed that the sansa clip has the best sound ever compared to other mp3 players ( but only if you use some pretty expensive headphones with it otherwise you wont be able to tell the difference ).

I'm currently using KOSS headphones ( i bought it in Kuching for 180 ringgit ).



It's dying on me as well. But I'm getting my mom to bring a new one over for me. I think its the cheapest but fcking BEST headphone's I've ever put on my ears. The nearest competitor I'm guessing would be the 600 ringgit+ sennheiser ones. How would I know? Because there's this girl in my course, who saw me using these and agreed with me that these were the fcking best, but she ended up getting the sennheiser ones because the KOSS one wasn't "fashionable" enough. hahaha.

My verdict on the Sansa clip? The bass on the sony is actually more powerful. But it seems that the sound is clearer on the sansa. Well, I can't really tell the difference actually haha. My headphones aren't that expensive enough to get the maximum out of the player. The cnet reviewers used 500 dollar headphones on it.