research

Ok so after a couple of weeks without any research or kopi or meow2 I need to refocus now. I think before I was stuck at installing WTP in Flex Builder. But later I got to resolve it by installing from different source which was not from Malaysia source, US if Im not mistaken.

Ok somehow I don't know where to start now

Redang; SubhanaAllah

Last weekend hubby and me followed my colleagues went to Redang for a little break. And it turns out to be a nice and memorable vacation that actually I didn't quite expect. Thanks a lot to mr organizer and our activity organizer shah, muza and sayuth for making the trip ermm overwhelming. hehe  Me and hubby had a really good time.

So we made our move separately from the others since we were from Putrajaya. It took about 6 hours to reach the state of Terengganu. And to tell the truth this is my first visit to pantai timur after... let me see 20 years . I went there last with my family when I was little. so for the first time that garmin we bought serve a good purpose.  We spent the night at badar's house, whos joining the trip as well, and headed to Redang the next morning. The road trip was really exhausting that maybe to go by flight is not a very bad idea after all. Eventho I was not the one driving. hehe.

1st day
I was worried about getting seasick at first and took the seasick pill. But as the consequence of exhaustion all of us just slept all the way on the ferry trip to the island.

Redang really wowed me. The white beach. The totally clear blue water that make you see all the fishes and I felt like a jakun a bit. . Our chalet were not that fancy since the sole purpose to go there was.... snorkeling! yeayy!

So at noon we started the first snorkeling trip and yup I was a freaking first timer. I had planned on what to wear beforehand since it quite bugged me how will I snorkel as a good muslimah. hehe. So I did some research on what are the girls wearing when snorkeling. What I found mostly wear the bawal tudung and at some point it could come off when you were in the water. So I decided to wear the ekin kind of tudung and muza wear this syria tudung which really looked nice on her and suit for swimming too.

So I think that ekin tudung really made my trip a whole lot easier. The first location we went to was in open sea (which I first heard as opency; err ape maksud die ek. heh). And it wasn't that bad  eventho I can't swim. hehe. but the life jacket and of course hubby helped to pull me around. hehe. So we were there looking at the coral and the fish. and it was so amazinggg to look at. It's like a whole different world down there; living peacefully. Ok I might sound so dramatic but looking at the bottom of the sea was really mesmerizing. Makes me awe to the greatness of Allah. So I was like talking through the goggle thing to hubby and he didn't really give attention and it made me wonder. Then I realized that he was exhausted by keep swimming and tagging me along and the coral was not in his priority at the moment. hehe Thank you hubby! I made a promise to myself to learn swimming. Tapi.. bile? isk.

After dinner we played bunch of games starting with treasure hunt, then guess-what-song then build-anything-u-like-with-trashes-around-you.. hehe. . And it was fun! I can't really remember the last time I played all these games.

So after the games we laid down on the beach watching the stars. Well.. it started off with gossiping actually .  Anyway there was no clouds and no pollution I guess, so the sky was really clear and you could see all the stars I sure glad I had my contact lenses on. But I should have had my camera. Because.. guess what we got to see a shooting star! for the first time in my life. well actually I saw it twice. And people said make a wish if you see one. But of course I didn't believe that. hehe.

Ok of course I did not see it this big. But it's really cool right! *picture from google. heh*


2nd day
We rent an underwater camera for 50RM (from 9am to 6pm if  I'm not mistaken) I taught at first so that we could take pictures of coral, fishes and stuff. But in the end the camera was full of our pictures of course.   It was really worth it though. So I have a favorite picture:  

We should have rent this camera earlier. So on this second day we went to two places for snorkeling. And finished all 150+ snaps we had with that camera. I finally got to see baby sharks after dok jealous with jimi and others who got to see them the day before. They kind of playing near the beach I guess. And they didn't bite luckily. This boy who one of the boat crew said the baby sharks come near the beach around 4pm, thats when you could see them. Later around 5 their mother (mak shark katenye) will call them back.  and I had a sudden shudder when he said that.

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Aiyo times up. Need to get back to work. All in all the trip went really well. Alhamdulillah.. We managed to have a little vacation in the middle of the hassling of work.   huhuhu...

*pictures credit to siti fatimah and sayuth. 

warna warni kehidupan

So me and a few of my colleagues (this word is hard to spell. )  went to a communication skill course. It was a two days course but I only managed to go for a day. They taught us how to speak the right english and stuff. Anyway it was pretty refreshing but towards the end they brought up an issue that got me thinking. And it is not a very good thought especially in a place like this country. Yup it is about race.

As a teacher I treat my students equally regardless of their skin color. But I can't help to notice that my-skin-color of students are very much weak academically. It does make me feel a bit upset. And I'm sick and tired of people saying; the malays are lazy, the malays are weak bla bla..

Does this looks like I'm living in denial. I refuse to accept that kind of statements. I just plain hate it cause when I look at my students most of them have good attitude and they respect us. Of course there's a few exception case but most of them are very polite. I'm still looking for the right way to teach. Maybe there's something that we're missing that makes the malays left out. I don't think it's because of english because they do understand english. It's just that they're not comfortable to communicate in english. So I'm still not sure what is it actually ...

new stuff

I have encountered with an interesting client technology a few weeks back: Flex. Its by adobe that have look n feel of Flash but with Flex we can program it. Hope I got this definition right. Actually its been introduced a few years back. I'm the one whose always in slow mo. hehehe.

So I'm planning to replace jsp and html with flex in the front end. But the thing of using technology that I'm not familiar with... It will always take me a damnnn long time to configure it!. And I'm 90% sure about this. But since I have a year to do this. What the heck. And it looks exciting so why not right. Anyway, the good thing about Flex, we can integrate it with almost all server tech. Java, PHP, coldfusion, etc. So in my case I pick Java, since thats the only language I think I have interest to do it.

So turn out the flex builder is using Eclipse; the same IDE for Java and that means we can edit both in the same editor and the same project. Found a nice simple tutorial for this configuration.But haven't quite finish it yet. Hope it works...

Another thing , it seems that I can't really host web site on my PC at work because for obvious reason; its in my workplace's network of course. I need the router password and whattnot and "fat chance" the IT people gonna let me have it. And I don't really understand all these networking jargons. So I thought maybe I can put in web hosting like the other people do it. But if we want to install the hosting server with any kind of software we need.. we can't. The hosting server that let us do that is.. dedicated server. And it is freaking expansive for rent. Like a few hundred ringgit per month. Hurmm.. I hope I'm getting all these info right.

So in my thought lets put the issue of publishing the web app or ria or whatever behind first. Lets focus on building the thing. And to start developing.. hurm lets see what should I buy now.. can't wait to spend on my grant. ;p

feel bad

So today was just like normal weekends we had; movies, lunch, window shopping. But this time we bought something; books. I was looking for books for my research project actually and suddenly I felt so old-fashioned looking for books in store which I usually did it online. I mean for academic books. Obviously there were a lot more choices compared to this MPH store. But Borders have a lot more nice books and this reminded me back in Vandy where we sometimes waste our time in Borders reading comics for free. :P and had starbucks too. Those were the good old days.

So I bought this book titled: diary of a wimpy kid. It was a story of a kid but I like the way the book was written when I first read it.

I'm at page 136 now when I felt that this book had no climax whatsoever. It is a plain story of a middle school kid but with a nicer presentation. I think I'll pass it to my younger sister. See if she likes it. She bought this book; seven sorcerers or something that I can't even comprehend the content.

Hubby bought percy jacksons fourth book. We like this sequel so far. Hope this one would be even more interesting. When he asked for the fifth one (which I can't remember what the title was). The sales girl quickly replied bla bla and demigod bla bla.. and its only in hard cover.. bla bla I bought it .. bla bla..

And I can tell she's really into the books too. And I started to judge the girl this and that. In my mind of course. It is a really bad habit of mine. Judging people or assume things about people and I can't help it. Even though I don't say it out loud but sometimes I ter tell hubby and he would say all the gracious thing about not to prejudice others. hehe. I do know that I have no right to assume bad stuff about other people especially when we don't know them any better. Well I'm trying to keep it down now... Ok thats it. bye.

new user

Me and hubby bought this new netbook MSI wind u160 last week as I kinda feel that I need one.. hehe. So anyway, ordinarily its equipped with windows 7 starter. I'm not a windows 7 user. so I didnt put much thought in it. until later I found out that theres quite a few deficiency in this version of windows. I can't even change my desktop background which made me thought how cheapskate microsoft can be. :P

So luckily there is a workaround for this; the name is oceanis. I guess what the software did it enable the window 7 feature to change wallpaper. and it works. yeay!

All in all I loykee this new gadget because... its new! hehe Its a bit slow though cause of the processor I guess. atom. eventhough we have upgraded the ram to the max; 2 gig its still not up to the normal laptop speed. thats what we have to compromise I guess.

Whatever boring stuff. I've been thinking it is about time for me to start my research for STG. Actually Im already late on schedule.. I should have started about two months ago. haiyaaaaaa.aa...aa.

hehe.. nice one.

lets be a manager

http://blog.techstacks.com/2009/05/tomcat-management-setting-up-tomcat.html