Nokia 2330 classic – cheap phone, but suits my basic needs, practicality.

My all-time favorite phone was Sony Ericsson, but since lately, there was so many cases involving complaint on Sony Ericsson, nice for sound, failed for functionality, some even said it is design purely for music purpose, nothing else.

Finally, my W760i meet it’s old time sickness, keypad not working and cant read the M2 card properly, what’s make it more annoying, the keypad that use for deleting messages is the one! Imagine receiving all the SMS’es everyday and you cant delete even one of it.

So to cut short, I surf around, googling for new phone, for the time being, this is my need;  Read more... (1093 words, 4 images, estimated 4:22 mins reading time)

Malaysia drivers & bikers, one of the most aggressive in the world

You can see the truth when you on the road, almost everywhere, at the traffic lights, highways, main road, or even on the normal road.

I have been using 3 vehicles so far, my old Yamaha SS, my Myvi and my latest, Lancer GT.

On my old bike Yamaha SS;  Read more... (468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

I’m not shortlisted for Backup Administrator interview at GSK? WTF?

To my suprise, I’m not shortlisted for the above position, really shocked to death since I do fulfill all their requirements.

It has past 2 weeks since I go for the first interview with them, which is a language interview and technical interview, I passed all the question flawlessly, it’s my daily job what, of course I know what I am doing. The first section will be language test, some grammar and vocab test, second section will be technical test, which roaming around Netbackup and storage question. I answered all the question with ease, bare in mind I’m not over confident, I know what I was doing because that is my daily routine. Come to third section will be face to face interview with the Technical Manager. A young Chinese guy, probably between 28-30, approached me and we headed to meeting room. I was informed that there will be no video conference with Hiring Manager from UK since that fella got infected by flue, so have to quarantined.  Read more... (368 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Interview with GlaxoSmithKline – a better quality of life

There have been mass news about GSK hiring new candidates for their IT center, recently launch in Merana Lien Hoe, Tropicana.

For those who dont know what GSK is, you can refer to it here : GlaxoSmithKline

Quoted from GSK website:

“GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is one of the world’s leaders in pharmaceutical research and development with a combination of skills and resources that provide a platform for delivering strong growth in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment

GSK’s mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.  Read more... (464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

My new ride – Mitsubishi Lancer 2.0 GT

Phew, quite busy with all the projects lately, don’t even have time to post about my new ride.

Well, just 1 week before this year Hari Raya, i managed to get a new ride, not even think twice. My original target was Evo 7, fits with my budget, but due to consideration on age and wear + tear, i decided to back off after several failed attempt on searching the right one.  Read more... (384 words, 3 images, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Stupid PHP error when you enable automatic update via cPanel

Hello all my friends out there!!

It has been a month since I last wrote here, due to heavy task came in and research that has need to be done, I left this blog for a while, while enabling cPanel to automatically update it’s system software.

Just about 2 weeks ago, when I tried to login to this blog again, then the shit happens, whenever I key in the username and password and click Login, the page will just refresh and nothing happened. I traced into all logs but couldnt find anything, weird. I can still login to my emails and cPanel GUI but not to all my sites, I was wondering what is actually going on.  Read more... (251 words, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)

Vacancy for Helpdesk Analyst Level II

Anyone looking for an IT support job? This evening while I was at clinic getting my medication, I received an SMS from my former boss from VADS (TMNET Contact Center), he is one of my favourite boss since I started working, no racist issue here eventhough he’s Indian, well Mathi, thanks for all that you have done, you have made me a better person

The job is with MNC company, one of the well-known IT support company in Malaysia, for job requirements and detail, you can download the document here;  Read more... (179 words, estimated 43 secs reading time)

Officially promoted to Senior Systems Engineer

Hi,

I’ve been busy since 2-3 weeks ago with lots of things – installation, preventive maintenance, research, simulation and user acceptance test – some of my friends even said that I have the “pressured” look, well it’s true, but it’s worth the pain in the ass.

Finally, yesterday afternoon, while I was at Ambank troubleshooting DB2 backup problem, I got an SMS from my colleague saying that new promotion email just came in, but I dont bother at that time, thinking it was for other staff, but then I saw an email from my technical coordinator congratulates me, then I know the email was meant for me.  Read more... (376 words, 2 images, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

URGENT: Scheduled Downtime Notice

I have just received an email from my host;

“Wednesday, May 27, 2009
10:00 AM to 11:30 PDT (UTC/GMT-7)

Final Scheduled Downtime for Power Upgrades
This is the last outage of our current upgrade schedule. After this upgrade of power, we have no further outages scheduled or anticipated.

What is happening?
Power systems are returning to full UPS battery room power after the incident in March.  Read more... (350 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Mass brute force attack detected from China

Hi guys,

What a terrible weekend, I have to struggle on fixing security on my server. My server got attacked massively from China, and some from other country too. On Saturday evening, I first detected the attack when I enabled cPHulk, one of brute force detection tools inside cPanel.  Read more... (523 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)