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London wins!

London 2012

London won by 4 votes, beating closest rivals Paris to get the hosting rights of 2012 Olympics.

Wow, my prediction is correct!

Tomorrow is the deciding day. Around 100 IOC members will vote for the host city of 2012 Olympics. In my opinion, London, Paris and Madrid stand higher chances compare to the rest.

London 2012

Madrid 2012

Paris 2012

Who will win? I place my chips on London.

Mykid?

Mykid = Malaysia (My) KID (Kad Identiti Diri)

It’s for young Malaysian under 12 years old. This identification card is similar to Mykad except the color and it comes without photo.

you may wish to explore more information, available from Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara (JPN) website.

What will go up?

Fuel price - Maybe… we don’t known [1] (last adjusted on 5 May 2005)
[1] “If the Government decides on a fuel price increase, the people will be notified” - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Penang Bridge toll - No, Confirmed. [2], heng ah (lucky in hokkien) or heng heng bo ki (lucky no increase in hokkien)
[2] “The Government has no immediate plans to increase the toll rate at the Penang Bridge” - Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.

Bus/Taxi/Transportation fare - maybe yes, maybe no, anyway we are not encouraged to speculate.

Chicken rice - ???

Hokkien noodle - ???

Roti Planta - ???

Nasi lemak - ???

Car - ???

Salary - Subjected for further review… [3]
[3] “Alo boss, you increased selling price already wat, to be fair, next month my salary also increase ah?” - Anonymous (adapted from conversation over the street)

I want to close my eyes… Too tired, enough is enough.

Got Jamling’s book - Touching my father’s soul, which he wrote about his IMAX film Everest expedition with David Breashears in 1996.

Jamling is son of Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who first reached the summit with Edmund Hillary in 1953.

This book describes the stories of his father ascent to the vertical end of the world and provides information about the society of the Sherpa, the Tibetan Buddhists who help Westerners climb Himalayan mountains since early 20th century.

He also documented the ill-fated 1996 summer climbing season, where both Rob Hall and Scott Fischer were killed after summiting due to unforeseen storm hit the mountain.

Jon Krakauer, who was travelling with Rob Hall’s team in 1996, described the tragedy in his book, Into Thin Air.

Hence, Jamling’s book is a good cross reference to Jon’s one.

“We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is—the top of Everest. Only it is different now: so near, so close, only a little more than a thousand feet above us. It is no longer just a dream, a high dream in the sky, but a real and solid thing, a thing of rock and snow, that men can climb. We make ready. We will climb it. This time, with God’s help, we will climb on to the end.” —TENZING NORGAY.

First Malaysian Everest expedition in 1997 via the South East Ridge remains clear in my mind. That year, Mohandas Nagappan and Magendran Munisamy successfully scaled the 8848m summit with 5 sherpas on 23rd May, reaching vertical end of the world.

Still remember the excitement I had vividly when watching live telecast and daily reports on the progress of Malaysian team beamed back from Everest Base Camp using satelite transmission, accompanied with ‘Malaysia Boleh’ slogon and KRU’s Everest song composed by Yusry Abdul Halim.

I asked myself… Where is Everest? Who are first to set their foot on the summit of Everest?

Then I found out that it was Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

Tenzing Norgay on the summit, May 29, 1953, during the first ascent with Edmund Hillary

Borrowed Hillary’s View From The Summit.

This is a reasonably interesting autobiography, especially the ascent of Everest.

I am using PowerColor Radeon 9550 256MB card.

PowerColor Radeon 9550 256MB

However, after Windows XP SP2 installation, noticed that some of the bold text appears to be blurred or fuzzy.

With the help of PowerColor forum, solved the above mentioned problem by unticking the ’smooth edges of screen fonts’ option in Display Properties > Appearance tab > Effects.