Friday, November 13, 2009

Turtle soft toy for C H A R I T Y

Hi guys,
Just want to promote an activity which I'm handling right now.
Long story short, I'll have turtle soft toys for sale and all proceeds will be channeled to the turtle rehabilitation center in Redang

Pricing:

Small one (3.5 inches) = RM 4

Big one (9 inches) = RM 15

If u buy 2 big ones (for a price of RM 30), u'll get a small one for free.









Any enquiries or interest, please feel free to contact me.
Thanks in advance :)

Friday the 13th

It's friday the 13th and when went to office and check my mail, i got a really surprising news.
It's all over the net by now so here's the press release :)

"AMD and Intel Announce Settlement of All Antitrust and IP Disputes
SUNNYVALE/SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Nov. 12, 2009 – Intel Corporation and Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) today announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes.
In a joint statement the two companies commented, “While the relationship between the two companies has been difficult in the past, this agreement ends the legal disputes and enables the companies to focus all of our efforts on product innovation and development.”Under terms of the agreement, AMD and Intel obtain patent rights from a new 5-year cross license agreement, Intel and AMD will give up any claims of breach from the previous license agreement, and Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion. Intel has also agreed to abide by a set of business practice provisions. As a result, AMD will drop all pending litigation including the case in U.S. District Court in Delaware and two cases pending in Japan. AMD will also withdraw all of its regulatory complaints worldwide. The agreement will be made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission"

Intel must be shaking in their boots after being sued by the NY attourney, EU, Japan and Korean trade commisons. They paid dell 6 billion dollars to not use AMD chips, not to mention HP , IBM and more.
AMD will go fabless, which means no more fabrication plant and will only do R&D and design.
The nice fabrication plant is sold and is being owned by GLOBALFOUNDRIES

Check anandtech for more info
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3675

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Greetings and Updates :)

Blog has been dead for some time.
Guess everyone, including myself, has been busy.
Well, anyway, I'm currently free and thought of posting some updates of my life. (not that you guys are interested anyway)
Haha

Well, first up: My industrial training.
Some of you would have known about me getting my internship placement at a company named Kerry's Ingredients.
What you guys do not know is what this company is all about (I, myself don't even know much)
Lolz
So, I did some research and this is some of the information I got regarding Kerry's.
Would not want to bore you guys with too much details, so here is the gist of it:

- Kerry's Ingredients is a company based in Ireland.
- It specializes in food ingredients and flavours, serving the food and beverage industry.

Well, that's what I got from their website. More information would have to wait till when I actually start my training there. And for those of you who even cares to know, I'm attached to the R&D department. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, and hoping that it would not be a boring place to be :)

Picture of the brochure given to us
(Credit to my friend, "stole" this pic from her blog. Lolz)


Moving on, musings of mine.

When there are problems with friends, when you see two friends having a tiff, a quarrel, a fight, a war, what can us as friends do? We try to help, but it is really none of our business. So, we just sit by the sides, enjoy the "show" while eating popcorns?
Well, I do not wish to be a gossip-monger, nor do I want to talk bad stuff about my coursemates, but recently there has been some problems between my coursemates (and to Ee Kai, it does not involve me. Haha)
But I, of course, have my own opinion on that matter. I do not support either one, but it is more like my opinion on what you can and cannot do, even in a fight. Simply put, one of the sides started to attack on the other side's parents (saying bad things bout the other side's parents). To me, parents' involvement is a big NO-NO.


"In life, there are those clearly marked lines, the ones that if you dare cross, you may never find your way back"


*Quoted from Gossip Girl, and I find it quite true in this context. When you had a fight (more like a quarrel) with your friends, there is always a way back. A way for us to apologize, make up, forgive and be friends again. But when one side clearly crosses the line (in this case, dragging parents into the equation), I wonder if there is a turning back option. And till now, (the problem had been going on for a while now), I can't see an end to it.

But then again, it is not my problem. It's just that I do wonder about this.
My wish is for everything to be fine again, and for collateral damage to be under control.



Hmm, sad things aside, recently I went to celebrate a friend's birthday. Went to a look-out point at Cheras, and this is the view.

It was a clear and sharp view, as the rain before had wash away all the mist or dust that would otherwise cloud the view.
(Again, "stole" this from my friend, Sian Ho's blog)

Went to a restaurant, with Middle East theme, named Breads and Olive. The food wasn't really nice though. But it doesn't really matter does it? All that matter is we CELEBRATED. Lolz



Other random stuffs:

1. MU jersey :)
(Yes, it IS a fake one)
Haha

2. As of this moment, I'm still left with another paper before my exam (and my 5th semester) ends. Should I feel sad? Happy? Haha... It's all a mixed bag of feelings inside me. I would be back home for half a year (happy), starting my industrial training (nervous), leaving my uni friends (sad), have more time hanging out at McD with DC (bored happy, of course), wont be having exams for a semester (happy, definitely). So, overall, I guess I'm still happy :)

Ok la, i guess that's all. It's a very long post, and congratulations for staying with my post up to this point.

Till we meet again (soon),
CHEERS! :)