FoxTab

This article is solely targeted for FireFox's fans. Don't worry if you're not one of them, what you need to do is to get yourself a FireFox browser by clicking here. Shall we?

Logo of FireFox

Have you ever thought of the dowdiness of tabbing experience when you switch between multiple tabs of opened websites on your browser? I believe so most of the people would experience the inconvenience of the conventional tabbing provided by most browsers especially when you've opened so many tabs and can't really remember the content of the pages have been opened. In that case, you've to switch from tab to tab in order to look for the content you wanted, which is for me a very unpleasant experience.

However, the unpleasant has been a history after I accidentally found a handy gadget (add-on) for FireFox - the FoxTab. This is really an awesome add-on for your FireFox browser which would definitely change your tabbing experience, believe me!!! The add-on behaves like the Aero effect in Windows Vista so you can "flip" between the tabs with the 3D effect. By flipping the tabs, you can have a glance on the opened pages and easily access to them. FoxTab provides six layouts to display the thumbnails of the opened pages for you. Besides that, you can also configure the 3D perspective of how the thumbnails are being presented on your browser. For the complete list of features, I would like to refer you to this page.

One Night In Ipoh

Few weeks ago a few buddies of mine had come to Ipoh to attend their colleague's wedding ceremony. Thus, we'd grabbed this opportunity to schedule a meet up after the function. This has been my first time to drive to Ipoh alone late at night as I'm not quite familiar with the Ipoh downtown except a very limited places.

Undoubtedly I'd spent quite sometimes to find the way to the restaurant they were having the function with the help of their friend by giving instruction through the phone. Perhaps with this time's experience has signaled me to get a GPS, so that at least I've something to refer to and wouldn't get lost easily.

After met up with them outside the restaurant, we first made move to the hostel the groom rented for them to unload their stuffs before we went out for drinks at a cafe somewhere near to Jaya Jusco. I like the decoration and also the ambient of this cafe and found it quite comfortable to have a few friends sit in to have some drinks and chit chat together. I think this would be the first time we all gathered together after got back from Korea, am I right, EY & SY? Should we schedule a gathering that summons all of the DSU graduates and trainees?

Friends Cafe

Sunset

On 24 July 2009 (Friday) at around 7 p.m, just before I left the campus I'd got the scenes of sunset captured by my camera at different settings. The God of luck was favored on me that day as I not always carry the camera with me to the workplace. Perhaps next time you should have sent someone together with me to cherish this beautiful moment.

Sunset (taken with different parameters)

Bridge towards the new phase buildings

The path way

New library (according to rumor)

A La Carte

What's your reaction when you first saw the title of this post? You may have thought that I'd most probably introducing some dishes I found tasty. I may have disappointed you for the misleading title of this post, please accept my apologize.

This post is all about a film, a short film which had won the honours over the works submitted by 3600 filmmakers from around the world at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival in 2006. The theme for this festival was about "Food, Taste, and Hunger". Amongst the works submitted by filmmakers, only 32 were chosen to be screened and the one I'm about to show you had topped the 32 chosen films shown in Berlinale Talent Campus.

Enjoy the show.

View this movie at cultureunplugged.com

Inequality

Nowadays the term "equal opportunity" is flying around especially has been practicing by most of the organizations to ensure all of their employees are treated fairly without sacrificing (I don't want to use the term "discriminating", though it may be the truth) the basic benefits.

Recently I've been known about the allowances allotted for each lecturer to visit the industrial training students as a routine to assess their performance during the training period. Unfortunately, I've been excluded from the budget list. No single cent has been allocated to me for this visitation, GREAT, isn't it? I'd voiced this issue to my superior and he'd discussed this issue with the acting dean of the faculty I belong. As expected, the proposal has been rejected by the AD. I'm not surprise when I got to know result as the moment my superior promised to raise this issue to him, I knew it not going to work. Why? Because of that old man (AD). He is soft and indecisive, perhaps the balls somehow have been removed by emperor sometimes ago. Sigh~

Inequality

Look at other side, I shouldn't be so mad on this issue as the unfairness has been practicing in this country. What can I expect a university owned by a political party to be fair enough to its employees since the righteousness of the party has been an opened issue in recent years.

Perhaps my loyalty to this organization has been doubted. The consequences of not being loyalty are well reflected to what have happened to me. I apologize here as I've devoted and sworn my loyalty to the McDonald's. I'm truly sorry if I just not fair enough to you ...

Am I fair enough?

Deeper Thought of A Typing Master Program

Finally, I have come out something which is quite different from the assignments usually given to the students. NO ticket reservation system, NO ATM system, NO library management system, NO hotel management system, NO registration system, NO calculator ... and NO ...

I had planned to give 3 assignments to my students as part of their assessments. The first two assignments are intentionally to warm them up which contribute only 5% to the total coursework mark. The first two assignments are actually quite related to each other and are not that difficult. The assignment 1 was due two weeks ago and the due date for assignment 2 is just around the corner. However, somehow I found out some of them are requesting helps from their seniors to write the programs for them. GREAT, aren't them? No worry, I can afford to give them the 5% for the first two assignments, but, please try to think further, would they able to score in the final if they do not even able to come out the programs as simple as the first two assignments given to them. Perhaps they should stay back with their juniors to brush up the fundamental programming techniques.

Despite the aforementioned situations, I believe they have got themselves warmed up (or forced to be warming up) and ready to enter the battle mode for the third assignment. I assure this time their seniors would not show their sympathies anymore as I have shown to them the demo program I done for the assignment 3. I have no doubt on their (seniors) capabilities as they used to be my students in last semester and three of them are 4 flat students. They have their own businesses (assignments) to take care of and would not have time to prove they are merciful.

Typing Master (Demo program)

In this assignment, I require them to form a group of maximum 3 members. There has no much instructions given to them but only the title and a few basic requirements like computing the error rate, accuracy, typing speed and etc. They have been given the room to design how the program should like and implement based on their design. Although the program seems like tough for them as I found out the students here have never done even a small project/system throughout their entire lifespan in university except for the final year project. What a surprise to me when I got to know about this. Therefore, I have decided to train my students to pick up the analytical skills by giving least specification and have them analyzed what would be required for the system during the process they designing the solution. The assignment 3 may cause them hectic, but I believe they would enjoy the sweetness of their fruitful works at the end of this semester. On top of that, they would have at least something to show to the companies during the interviews they might attend in the future and feel proud to express what they have done past few years in their university life.

Students, I would really like to see you all excel. Show others your capabilities; Disprove the claim by Jobstreet.com the undergraduates nowadays have been lacking of analytical skills; Prove yourself and show them you are BOLEH!!!