P1 Day 1, and the new iMac news!

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It has clearly passed the test and even Anita was impressed. With my Mac, I can watch YouTube in HD without a hitch. Also heard today that Apple just announced the release of the new iMac line. The flagship model now support 27 inch display with resolution of 2560x1440 in 16:9 ratio! That is just insane. But that not just it. It ships with i7 Nahalem chip, but my personal favourite, wireless keyboard and mouse ... and the mouse has multitouch technology a la iPhone! M jaw just dropped!

When I bought my iMac back in 2005, the choices were between 15 and 17 inch models. How time have moved! They also released a new MacBook line and from the great vine, I heard that they might be replacing the MacBook Pro line in time for Christmas as well. Well, my MacBook Pro is only 2 years old, and my iMac 4. We know which one needs an upgrade!

Finally taking the plunge

Dinner at IKANOThe lack of broadband at our Taman Cemerlang house is really driving me nuts now that we are planning to spend more time there. I tried tethering my E71 but the speed is just too inconsistent and I just cannot get much done. This evening, we went out to IKANO for dinner and just a spot of fresh air if you can call it that. I then had a chat with one of the lady at the P1 Wimax booth, just chatting about how good the connection is and stuff like that. She was actually very informative and described all the comparisons and what to expect. There was also an offer going on that if you are a Streamyx user, you can get 3 months off the fees to try out the P1. I thought, why not. The modem costs RM100 complete with the wifi base station.

Arrived home. Set everything up. In 3 minutes, I'm online, at 150Kb/sec. Amazing. No connection issue using my Mac at all. No interruption in connection. It's been great so far. I'll let you know if it's otherwise.

Cake time!

After the long round this morning and getting the procedures sorted out, I needed some juice. Luckily it's Depavali and one of the Professor was nice enough to bring us cake. Yummy!

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Weekend Activities

It has been a busy weekend in the household with the birthday party and last ditch open houses. The last weekend being the final weekend of Ramadhan and all. My sister hosted her daughter's and husband's birthday party on Saturday. My Auntie also traveled all the way from Sg Petani to visit us. The party went on all afternoon. In the evening, there was the Premier League fix after the two weeks international break. The result went United's way apart from Arsenal hitting form. The fiasco with the beach balloon in Sunderland really made my weekend.

On Sunday, we went to over to Cheras to attend Anita's cousin's open house. Likely going to be the last for the Syawal. Spend some time there but had to return early since I was taking my family for dinner that evening. We went to Cozy Corner in Ampang Park, a favourite spot for Anita's family but we were really disappointed last night. The food was off the mark this time around. The steak was dry, the noodles was not nice, even the fish and chips were soggy. Have they changed the chef? It was a disappointing end for a lovely weekend.

Monday arrived today and I spent the evening after work sifting through the photos taken during the weekend. Finally managed to do some post-processing on them and got evething on order. Unfortunately, I am at my Taman Cemerlang residence minus the broadband. Uploading the pix onto my site was a pain. May have to swing over to the Taman Setia home to upload it later in the week. I also need to use the printer to print some articles at some stage in the week. My friend's from college were also asking if I will be playing badminton tonight. Unfortunately it is difficult to leave Anita and the boys alone at Cemerlang and the game only starts at 9. After finishing at 11.30, I am sure that the Terendak boys wanted to hang around for a session of teh tarik. Might be playing next week we are back in Setia.

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Open house at Anita's cousin

Another open house today and it is at Anita’s cousin in Cheras. What is unique is the catering. She actually does some catering herself and decided to host something different. The food were all Kampong themed with real tempoyak and ulam. Petai was everywhere and the rendang tok was heavenly.

We stayed from 2 until almost six, waiting for cousins after cousins to arrive. Most of them were from other Open Houses and by the time they arrive, most are already full. Once they started chatting, nothing can sop them. It's a good time to catch on old gossip I suppose. Will be out later to take my auntie from Sg Petani out for dinner. Not sure yet where we will be headed.

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