Posted in Personal, Work, tagged Farewell party, Job on August 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Another friend left. This one resigned from office for a career in banking and investment industry. Despite having degree in Electronics, he’s leaving engineering behind for good.
We threw a quite nice farewell party for him. Well, few quotes during the farewell party.
The celebrated guy said,
This is one of the hardest decision I’ve ever made. I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is the least “meriah” merdeka in my 25 years of life. “Meriah” is “happening atmosphere” in Malay. Could it be that the word “meriah” originated from English word “merry”? I dont know.
Anyway, when I put on my MSN status “31 August, Independence Day is coming.”, a friend messaged me and said “it’s not Independence [...]
Posted in Shogi, tagged Game, KL, Shogi on August 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Hmm Shogi again. I hope Go community won’t think I have left them It’s just that, I am interested to know how good can I be in Shogi without learning any theories, but just relying on my past experience as a chess player. Anyway, I love all board games. Perhaps should get acquainted with [...]
Posted in Go, Personal, Shogi, Weiqi, tagged Go, Malaysia, Shogi, Karen, Ryou Takehito, Suzanne, Billy, Wan Aimran, Saenson Apaporn on August 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It appears to me that many people from Malaysia Weiqi Association are getting stronger and stronger everyday. Not including me, sadly!
Suzanne in particular had improved tremendously, and even beat Billy recently. Honestly I can’t wait to see her playing against Saenson Apaporn from Thailand, and Karen, Kay from Singapore. I heard there are other strong female Singaporean players, [...]
Posted in Food, Health, Personal, tagged Detox, Supplement, Vitamins, Kinohimitsu, Honey, Ginkgo 2000, Nutrilite, Double X on August 21, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Finally, I decide to listen to mom. She’s been telling me to take vitamins, raw honey and 6 Day Program Kinohimitsu J’pan D’tox Juice. Usually taking supplement is no problem for me, I used to be quite obedient few years back when it came to that. However after I was fed a lot of weird [...]
Posted in Drama, Japanese, Shogi, tagged 81 Diver, Hachi-One Diver, J-Drama, Segata Kentarou, Shogi on August 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
イダズワイカ
Suzz helped me to spell “idazuwaika” in Katakana How can I make my Japanese name official?
Anyway, she also informed me of a Japanese Drama based on Shogi. It was Hachi-One Diver. Hachi-One or 81, represents the number of squares in Shogi, or Japanese Chess. A bit like a chess board, it is square [...]
Posted in Technology, Telecommunication, tagged 2.3GHz, Asiaspace, Broadband, Malaysia, MCMC, myWireless, Packet One, Redtone, SKMM, Telecommunication, Wimax, Y-Max on August 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access or Wimax technology is coming to Malaysia. Four successful applicants for 2.3GHz band will be rolling out Wimax services by end 2008. They are Packet One, Asiaspace, Redtone-CNX and Y-Max. Realising the importance to get the industry keeping abreast with latest wireless technologies, Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia (SKMM) or its English [...]
Posted in Events, tagged Ariefah, Haniz, Wedding on August 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Right after playing Shogi and Go at Japan Club, I drove to Kerinchi LRT station and took the train to KLCC. From there, I took taxi to go Menara Yayasan Tun Razak, Jalan Bukit Bintang where Haniz and Ariefah wedding reception was held.
Haniz and I knew each other since primary school. In my opinion, he [...]
Posted in Work, tagged Jeans, Work on August 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I forgot to mention one of the latest development at work. Apparently the new top management decided that allowing staff to wear jeans and casual attire on every Friday was an excellent idea.
Of course it was !.
So today is the first day I wear jeans to work. What I love most is the fact that I do not [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Book Review, Go, Ideas, Weiqi, tagged Go, Weiqi, AI, Computer Go, Mogo, Myungwan Kim, Artificial Intelligence, Michael Negnevitsky on August 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »
From American Go Association newsletter,
COMPUTER BEATS PRO AT U.S. GO CONGRESS: In a historic achievement, the MoGo computer program defeated Myungwan Kim 8P (l) Thursday afternoon by 1.5 points in a 9-stone game billed as “Humanity’s Last Stand?” “It played really well,” said Kim, who estimated MoGo’s current strength at “two or maybe three dan,” [...]
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