Seminar and Semester break

Weehoo! After all those sleepless nights, countless cups of coffee, days of bad fever, finally, my exams are over.. Ah, what a great feeling! I shall resume reading my fav books again now. Move over textbooks. :p

Anyways, I'm heading to another seminar tomorrow morning; "Seminar Media dan Pilihanraya Umum 2008", organized by the faculty of Mass Communication and Media Studies, UiTM.

I'll try to post a summary of the Palestine Al-Nakbah seminar soon. In the meantime, check out some pictures here and here.
Later.

Pennywise and Anti-Flag's latest album

..Pennywise - Reason to Believe


..Anti-Flag - The Bright Lights Of America

Not really the best though. Anti-Flag's For Blood And Empire (2006) and The Terror State (2003) are arguably among the best by Anti-Flag. Sometimes I feel I learn more about American politics and their foreign policy by listening to these bunch of left-inclined-anti war-anti capitalist political punk rock bands. :p

mp3 search tips

Politics schmolitics aside, here's a simple tip on how to get a better search result for mp3s on the net. Go to Google, and type the following in the search box. Include the artist name and song title as shown below;
?intitle:index.of? mp3 “artist” song title

example, ?intitle:index.of? mp3 “Nidji” Biarlah or

?intitle:index.of? mp3 “Madonna” Four minutes

You can also find lots of other Google search tips and tricks on the net, I'm just sharing one of the popular ones here. :)

Happy weekend folks!

The Used and NUFAN

..No Use For A Name - The Feel Good Record Of The Year (Fat Wreck Chords)


..The Used - Shallow Believer (Reprise Records)

Introducing two latest albums from The Used and No Use For A Name and The Used!

Reviews
Punknews.org
Absolutepunk.net

Download Youtube Videos

This is one cool website! For those not in the know and been thinking how to download Youtube videos, head over here. Just grab the Youtube URL and copy paste into the URL field and you're done! :)
Video of the day is - Nazi Propaganda (It's a school project uploaded by spawn868)

p/s: I'm not a Nazi or a big fan of Hitler. The video is just part of my research material.

Manic April

April is another 7 days to go, but I can already feel the coming of May. Busy weeks up ahead. Loads of assignments, term papers, presentations and final exams in April. I'll post some reminders here to keep myself on my toes.

Week 11 (next Friday): Media Psychology - Case Study
Week 12: FBI article critique (propaganda/psyops)
Week 12: Media Psychology term paper
Week 13: FBI semester essay
Week 14: War Campaign paper (group)
Week 15: War position paper

Windows Vista SP1

Ah, finally a Vista update. Although I've been using Vista since buying my Dell laptop last August, I'm not really keen on using it on my laptop. Been postponing (procrastinating) to "upgrade" to XP for quite some time now. This is one of the reason why I hate Vista.

Want Vista SP1? Here’s what to expect
When Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to manufacturing on February 4, they promised to make it available for the general public in mid-March. Today they delivered on that promise, making SP1 available to Windows Vista users through Windows Update and as a standalone installer package from the Microsoft Download Center. [full report]

Hmm, I still don't see what are the differences between the old and the SP1 Vista. Anybody? :)

Malaysian Crazy guy on Bike

I've been following Tzuo Hann's Long Way From Home bike journal on and off for quite a while and recently while checking on his website, I noticed that he has now finally crossed the Malaysian border, Padang Besar! I remember the first time that I bumped onto his journal, he was still somewhere in Istanbul, Turkey. Well, that was many months ago, obviously. As a Malaysian I feel proud for him. Correct me if I am wrong, I think he is the first Malaysian to cycle round the world, yes? But sadly there has been no serious media coverage on him. I wonder.. I hope the government would give some sort of a recognition to his amazing feat. Man, cycling round the world, sacrificing everything that you have isn't really something that anybody can do. Though I know that he has already claimed, "..no family of my own, no job, no girlfriend, no strings. What more can I ask for? The time comes around only once!". :p

I've always fancy the idea of travelling the world (well, who does not) and I really enjoy reading Tzuo Hann's travelogue and his beautiful photographs. To those not in the know, Tzuo Hann Law is a Malaysian graduate from an American university, unemployed with no commitment, and is currently on his way home on a bike from the USA. He has cycled over 28,286 km (17,576 miles) over 293 days from May 28, 2007 to present time. His journey started from New Jersey to Washington, USA to Europe, Turkey, the Middle East, Central Asia, China, Southeast Asia and now back in Malaysia..

His achievement is definitely no easy feat. I would strongly recommend him to publish all the journals and photos into a book. I'm sure he's already have this idea in mind. This is something that should be shared with all young Malaysians.

You can view his journey map here

In case if some of you are wondering why do I suddenly have interest in this crazyguyonabile, it's because I was a former mountain biker enthusiast too, during my school days. So yeah, basically that's about it. But sadly, the surrounding area of the oil palm plantation that we used to go mountain biking were now all gone - it has turned into a huge housing estates. hehe. Anyways, congratulations again to Tzuo Hann for his amazing biking adventure.

Sunburst KL 2008 - International Music Festival

..List of Sunburst KL- International Music Festival free ticket winners :p

Weehoo! I won free tickets to the Sunburst KL - International Music Festival!! (Incubus is one of the performing band of the day) Thanks to DiGi! Finally, I won something after trying for the third time to redeem my DiGi Bonus Point (Failed in two previous attempts to redeem a Sony Ericsson mobile phone.hehe). But, I won't be going. Already sold the tickets to my colleague, who wanted to go so badly. Haha.

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Assignment and Exam

Hey fellow bloggers and readers, I've been busy these few days concentrating on my assignment and exam due this weekend. Will try to update soon after. I have a lot of readings to catch up! warghh..

In the meantime, check out my Mobile Blog :)

Later!