Year: 2004

Cafe Majestic @ Crowne Plaza

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cafe majestic

Cafe Majestic is the Crowne Plaza attached dining establishment. We
had two RM 40 complimentary dinner vouchers so that makes RM 80 for
three people. Thus, the dinner bill would have RM 80 deducted from it –
not bad at all. I’ve eaten here before though and I must say that my
previous experience was nothing to write home about. This time, the
gastronomical offerings fared much better.

warm buns blanket

Upon our arrival, we were greeted with warm, fluffy buns – fresh
from the oven and wrapped in a blanket to preserve the heat. It went
down well with the butter served on the side.

pineapple juice

I had pineapple juice. Juice is complimentary with a meal. The
pineapple wedge lacerated my tongue when I tried to eat it though…

chefs salad

This is the Chef’s Salad (RM 16.00++). It had
slices of ham, chicken, cheese, eggs and other things served with a
bowl of Thousand Island sauce. I didn’t order this, but I helped myself
to some and it was alright, for a salad.

crown plaza club sandwich

The Crowne Plaza Club Sandwich (RM 15.75++) tasted
REALLY good. It came with potato wedges, but the sandwich is the main
feature and it really pulled it off well. The bread was warm and
toasted, yet it retains a fluffy texture. The layers of egg, beef
slices, lettuce, chicken slices and cucumbers were absolutely
delicious. Definitely worthy of its “club sandwich” status.

grilled sirloin steak

I ordered Grilled Sirloin Steak (RM 30.00++) and I
was pleased with the choice. It came with fresh garden vegetables and
french fries and the steak was served with bearnaise sauce. I liked the
grill marks on the steak.

sirloin medium rare

I wanted it done medium rare and for once, the chef did not ignore such requests. I loved it.

ais kachang

To finish off the meal, we had Ais Kacang (RM
7.00++). It came in a large bowl topped with a scoop of yam ice cream.
The bottom of the bowl conceals a plethora of goodies – sweet corn, sea
coconut, grass jelly, the works! It was a great dessert to finish off a
great dinner!

This post was sponsored by Crowne Plaza Riverside Kuching. 😉

How to drill without making a mess

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clean drilling

I have just witnessed this wonderful synergy of common devices to
avoid making a mess while drilling. Some people came in to drill some
mounts in one side of my wall. What mounts? I’ll tell you very soon, we
have a press release coming up and also several exhibitions so I can’t
exactly keep under wraps the field I’m working in.

Anyway, this entry feels rather forced, I feel much more comfortable
venting in my quit drugs blog. That’s…that’s what a blog’s supposed
to be!

Catharsis for the soul.

Not entertainment for the masses.

Jesus, I have deluded myself for so long.

Home, sweet home, the journal for my progress.

I actually enjoy writing in that…I feel like I’m just talking to
someone who’s listening, instead of feeling pressured to entertain…

I think I’ll blog more there.

Stock clearance

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Everything must go! The first inventory* clearance sale on sixthseal.com is on!

Email: needfulthings@sixthseal.com

Serious enquiries only. Will only do transactions with established (posts on bulletin boards, forums, bloggers etc) people.

Ships internationally. Payment by PayPal.

*old clothes, books, Needful Things etc.

This is a strictly legal garage sale.
ILLEGAL REQUESTS WILL NOT BE ENTERTAINED!

Books from Amazon

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two amazon books
I just received my orders from Amazon – I sent them to my mailing
address back home instead of over here and my parents brought them over
today during dinner. They were on their way to KL.

strength of the wolf book
The Strength of the Wolf – The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs by Douglas Valentine

road of excess book
The Road of Excess – A History of Writers on Drugs by Marcus Boon

Anyway, my apologies about the quirks this site is experiencing
now…I messed up something while putting up the categories and broke
it even more when I went into phpMyAdmin to try and rectify things.
I’ll fix it tomorrow, excuse me, I’m so full now that I am either going
to throw up or sleep and I’ll choose the latter. 🙂

Download my nosebleed video while it’s still fresh! ;)

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nose is bleeding
Nose bleed

Here’s something to entertain you on a slow Saturday morning. 🙂 The
link to download it is at the bottom of the post. It happened just now
– I suddenly felt blood dripping down for no reason and saw that I had
a nosebleed when I reached up to wipe my nose. I quickly grabbed the
digicam – I can’t remember the last time I had a nosebleed…probably
before I reached puberty? I was mildly concerned at first though, coz I
thought it was precipitated by *cough* sheesh, this room needs a good
dusting.

nosebleed stemming
I love the ones that still drip after you wipe it.

Anyway, I must say though, I have hypertension, which they say makes
me prone to sneeze red. 😉 It sure wasn’t the gushers I used to have
while I was young – my mom had to get me to pinch my nose to stop it,
and still it won’t quit. Heh. Memories. How I wish it was one of them
legendary ones just now, those take to motion picture well. I don’t get
them now though so I was mildly surprised at this pleasant occurrence.
It’s something interesting to kick of the day, even though nosebleeds
are really very tame and isn’t anything to shout home about.

nosebleed teeth
Mmm…tastes like chicken!

I still like to take videos of everything though. This was a really
mild one, didn’t last longer than a minute. It makes a nice video
though, eh? 🙂 I thoroughly enjoyed this experience, as inappropriate
as that might sound.

Transcript:

Hey, this is sixthseal.com, and for no reason at all…
I found myself getting a nose bleed.
It sucks.
This is…a cause for concern.
I haven’t even touched it, before, ya know, like blood flowing down?
And then I felt it drip on my shirt…and…
I can’t remember the last time I had a nose bleed.
Must be pretty long ago.
I think…er, my teeth is clotted.
Well, anyway. I’m going to clean myself up.
sixthseal.com, out.

Download:
My nosebleed [sixthseal.com]
It’s only around 4 MB, good quality DivX encoded video running for 46 seconds.
Requires DivX 5.11 or XviD codec.

sixthseal.com – delivering cutting edge entertainment 24/7. 😉

Note: This post was made early Saturday morning, but went down
sometime during the afternoon – it’s a configuration issue, and also a
database corruption, which took the whole of this afternoon to rectify.
The post just disappeared and I’m not sure why that happened in the
first place. I remember six comments last time I checked, but I only
received four through email unfortunately, so I can only restore those.
Please feel free to comment again, as I’ve missed your input during
that time frame.

I will fix the rest of the server problems tomorrow – I’ve gone for
too long without sleep and I’m getting the hardcore constant visual
hallucinations now (tiny worms are infesting and crawling across my
screen, the box in the corner is flapping at me, you know the drill)
and I have to rest even though I’m not sleepy per se (an amazing 35 mg
of clonazepam could not put me down, not just due to tolerance but
*cough* damn, there’s some nasty weather coming up, I reckon).

I will also reply all the comments tomorrow – thanks for your
patience. My apologies for the glitch that affected Apache and MySQL
this afternoon…

Thanks goes out to Rebecca (Beckie) from Hamilton, NZ and Jason Tan
from SF, US for taking the time to notify me. Cheers! I’m still looking
into what’s going on here…

Movable Type 3.0D

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mt30d

sixthseal.com is now running on MT 3.0. I love the comments
interface, it can list ALL the comments in a descending order. I
already anticipate this will be my favorite feature in this release. I
have waited for this day for so long…the day, the glorious day, when
I can mass delete those spambot comments in seconds! I shall finally be
faster than a bot! 😉

Anyway, I was torn over MT or WordPress, coz MT with it’s Perl and
CGI bloat, really stresses my server while I rebuild the database. I
installed WP 1.2 and was mighty impressed by it, the easy set up
(imported my MT export file within minutes, faster than even MT can
import!). It can be easily set up within seconds and I like the PHP
type UI – reminded me of the stuff I used to write for the uni last
time. Heh.

It was really fast too, I know that MT rebuilds make a huge spike in
CPU utilization but surprisingly, extreme administrative stuff – I was
continuously right clicking Delete links and opening it in a new window
to see how fast it can delete, and even after 115 windows popped up,
all of them deleted fine, as PHP commands issued should. It’s just a
quick right click, close on each docked window, and there you go.

I went into my box via SSH and ran top in shell (no I wasn’t trying
to be smart, and not use WHM, I was already in there to do some dig
soa’s) and was surprised at the vast different between MT rebuilds
(heavy CPU and memory usage) and WP admin stuff (very, very low).

The only thing stopping me from installing WP is due to the
unfortunate “single php file with templates” design. You can opt to
have each post named according to the title of the post, but it’s
generated dynamically – there are no flat files, it usually ends with
something like this:

/archives/this-is-wordpress-posting/

The problem with this would be apparent if you go to WP blogs and
I’ve been to many before deciding that I’ll better stick with MT. The
WP system doesn’t pass PageRank down to the individual pages, except in
unusual circumstances.

Anyway, I’ll be adding the rest of the sidebar soon and do some general redesign of the blog later today.

Wow, is this a boring post or what? 😉

Quick, someone with better English than mine tell me what this means

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Why is there a single CPU restriction in the license?
The single CPU usage statement was not intended to be in the license.
It has been struck from the license, and everyone who has downloaded
Movable Type 3.0 thus far can officially consider this change
retroactive.

This is from the Movable Type 3.0 DE page. I still can’t figure out
whether it means MT only supports a single CPU or that there’s an error
in the EULA that erroneously states that it supports a single CPU.
Basically, from the semantics, does the answer mean that MT 3.0 can
support dual processors? This is an issue for me as I’m running on Dual
Xeons (2 x 2.4 Ghz). TIA.

This is my answer

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I know you don’t like me to write about our relationship, so I won’t.

veritas and castitas.com is gone.

I willingly deleted all of my drug posts. I will be lying if it
didn’t hurt me to delete all those memories. This will totally ruin the
PageRank and SERPs I’ve worked so hard for. You know how much
sixthseal.com means to me.

I don’t care about those now. I’m doing this willingly. 🙂
I want to know that you’re more important than anything else.

veritas
2002 – 2004
Pioneer and daredevil
May the memory live on…
R.I.P.

Those that will remember me will, and those that will forget, will forget.

I know that this would not be enough, nothing ever will be…but at least it’s a start.

This is a small token of my sincerity, my love.

I will try my best to be the boyfriend that I never was. I will try
my best to do the right thing. I am willing to do that, because you’ve
more than I could wish for.

I choose you, Louisa.
This is my answer.

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