I'm sure all of you have heard about the new courthouse leak. It seems that everything that can go wrong is going wrong. Dun really know bout the construction industry in malaysia, but somehow buildings doesn't seem to be build like they used to. It all started with the landslide in Putrajaya (of all places) and then things went down from there.

Anyway, I feel that the cause of the leak; using PVC end cap to plug an ABS class 15 (to withstand 15 bars of pressure) is just so wrong, it becomes downright insane. There is no way either one of them can go together unless you had a proper adapter. To join ABS you need a special solvent which bonds the joints together. For PVC I think you use those plumbing tape and screw it in as it has grooves to allow it. Oh, did I mentioned the local water authority Syabas doesn't allow PVC pipes anymore? and ABS class 15 can't be installed too tightly otherwise it will break (expansion and contraction and brittle)? or ABS pipe is not recommended to be place in the sun? only licensed plumbers are allowed to carry out plumbing work? All this from a building services engineer whom is tasked to design cold water systems in building. In a perfect building the pipes would be stainless steel, but that would inflate the cost so much.

Anyway, my car had a change of plate recently. My car's cool number is transfered over to my dad's new car upon his request. The number is worth more than my Wira lol with car prices dropping like mad. Anyway the new plate is almost the same as the original plate and it costs cheaper too. I would prefer it to be BJM (JM is my name) but got BJL instead since the new car was expected to arrive from Thailand around the time the number was tendered. Coincidentally Ji Long is what those ang mo calls me when I was in Australia. At the same time my uni's e-mail is ji.long@ so and so. Over there, ppl tend to address a person by their first name and their last name. Oh well.

Now there is more reason NOT to play the 360 online.

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/05/17/xbox-live-security-5-17.aspx

Microsoft has started banning modded 360s in lieu of the launch of the Halo 3 Beta. It is a good thing to drop the hammer to ban modders as I have personally met this idiots online spoiling the game during the Xbox 1 days.

But I'm afraid my 360 ter-ban by Microsoft for some stupid reason and no way to get it fix since M'sia is not an official Xbox 360 supported country. Better safe than sorry.

Besides, our stupidyx is stupidly bad nowdays. We have the best broadband in the world!

I have been playing with my new rig. So far here is what I got to say; it can run things really really fast. I remember my brother saying to himself at the computer shop," X game, no problem. B game, hmm, no problem". The only game that has slowed it down is supreme commander. Dun ask me why, but this game is a very very CPU intensive. Quad-core is needed to run this game. In fact I believe the bottleneck is not the graphics card, it is the processor!

Also, since it has a 550W power supply unit, my room is warmer now everytime I play it. Last time my centrino laptop with 1 ceiling fan enough already. This machine needs the air-con on to play. There goes the electricity bill.

Oh, I have all 6 Shell Ferraris already. All perfectly lined up in my room and still in their packaging. The packaging is simply toooo nice to open :)

Finally bought my new rig :)

The specs are :
AMD Athon 64 X2 5200
Asus Geforce 8800 GTS 320mb
Asus M2n32-Su Premiun vista Mobo
Corsair 2Gb DDR2
Seagate 320 Gb HDD
and a very big casing with a glass side to see the inside

and that is excluding speakers, monitor, modem etc.

I finally able to try out Supreme Commander without having the game grinding to a halt. Even in demo form (I have not bought the real game yet) the game rocks! Will try out C&C3 later or maybe even DoW.

If there is one thing I noticed, this computer generates ALOT of heat. My room seems hotter than usual.

I'm still trying to get the msn working though, since this computer is connected online via a cross over cable to the router which is about 8 years old i think and rarely used. Either that the internet has been a little slow lately.