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Last night, I was invited to a farewell dinner in this new cafe, Planet Amore Diner which located at 3rd miles roundabout there. That night was the grand opening of this cafe. And this is Italian cafe. Amore means ‘love‘ in English word. The environment of the cafe is pretty classy and Italian ‘feel’.

There have two types of section, one is indoor and another is outdoor. The indoor environment is rather romantic in a sense that the lighting is pretty cozy and ‘reddish‘ candle light atmosphere. In addition, it also creates the Italian style/atmosphere with some unique furniture, such as the lamp post.

The farewell dinner is at the outdoor section. The outdoor environment is considered good as well. Again, it is in Italian atmosphere. Each of the tables will have a real rose to spice up this planet of ‘love‘.

That dinner we didn’t order drinks but we drank ’skyjuice’ with lemon. Haha. After experiencing the classy atmosphere, I had a pretty bad feeling about the ‘price’. Yeah, it is indeed no cheap food.

Majority of the dishes are Italian food. We had ordered a couple of dishes, such as lamb chop, fillet, beef steak, Italian pasta and etc. Each of the dishes served in a huge and heavy plate. They all tasted pretty delicious and worth for the price.

I had a great dinner at there. Thanks to my old classmate, Ee How, who will be going to UK (University of Nottingham) in this coming Monday (15th September).

Wish you all the best!!!

The world’s largest particle accelerator complex, Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has been switched on last couple of hours ago. It is indeed a breakthrough, not only for the involved scientists but for the people in this world as well. LHC is to recreate a similar condition which exists just after the ‘Big Bang‘. LHC is developed under CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and it is funded with approximately 6 Billion euro (USD 9 Billion). Wow, just imagine it. Probably Google also sponsored as well.

“With great power, comes with great responsibility“

This seems extremely risky if ones goes wrong direction. It might create a mini-blackhole instead during the collisions. But some scientists say that it can be ‘easiler’ decayed.

There will be a few steps or phrases. So, once the first beam is established, the next steps, taking place later in 2008, will be to accelerate and then collide two beams. Be sure to catch more news on CERN live, or BBC radio, or Guardian’s Big Bang Article.  And video below descibes a good overview of this LHC experiment.

Yesterday I had just been to this Cats Exhibition @ tHe Spring, Kuching. This event started from 6th Sept until 7th Sept, which is today, from roughly 11am until 8pm according to the schedule. It will be on the ‘North Court‘ @ tHe Spring.

It is rather a short event, but it is quite interesting. There are ton of different type of cats, such as exotic type and also wildcats, such as Persian. They are all kept inside a small little cage, what a pity. Ton of people taking pictures of the cute exotic cats. Not only that, you are allowed to carry those cats with a price (of course).

The activity not just for ‘showing off‘ those cats to the public but to bring public awareness that caring for the animals, not only for cats alone. There are some group of people giving some speech regarding how to care cats and etc. Sadly I only manage to take one shot of the wildcat. The wildcats are usually huge, can be said similar size like baby tiger (cub). This wildcat is called, Maine Coon, not Moon Maine. [Thanks to the commentor, HORATIO for the correcting the name]

Speaking about moon, moon cake festival or formally, ‘Mid-Autumn Festival‘ is just around the corner. There are few stall sell moon cake @ tHe Spring, on the center of it. By the way, they selling durian favor as well, the smell is darn strong.

Lastly, HAPPY MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL EVERYONE.

Yesterday, the big ‘G’ or Google just released its first public beta browser, Chrome. Currently it creates tremendous news throughout the big INTERNET. Is it going to be replacement for ‘Firefox‘? Sadly, I doubt it can happen anytime sooner. Currently this beta is only for windows, mac and linux have to wait.

Google Chrome is open source browser and just like Mozilla Firefox. It is a WebKit, open source application framework, and just like Apple Safari browser.

First impression:

• It is pretty cool to have another browser on the INTERNET.
• It is definitely a pretty lightweight browser and with simplicity layout.
• It is easy and simple to search by typing in the URL bar.
• It is pretty fast to load the web pages.

• It has no add-on or plugins supports
• Some websites have problem rendering
• No ‘Home’ button for the keyboard shortcut

Google Chrome is indeed a rip-off browser for all main browsers out there, IE7/IE8, Firefox, Opera and Safari. All the good ‘ideas’ have been taken it out and put into Google Chrome. It is kinda like ‘rojak‘ browser. From the simplicity layout, it is actually based on IE7 abit. Chrome can allow user to drag out the tab to be independent windows or other way around, this is based on Apple Safari ‘idea’. Chrome has a feature to be able to track down your most view sites and can be reload at once in a single tab, that is based on Opera ‘idea’ which is speed-dials. There are a lot of similarities. 

What’s unique about Chrome? Each tab has its own process. So whenever ones tab crashes, Google Chrome will not crash its own. There’s no other browser works in such a way. But it is a bit annoyed, see the above image. It creates chrome-babies along the way under your windows task manager.

Lastly, it is still a very early stage to judge this Chrome. The official link won’t give you the full version of installer. That’s mean you have to online to download and install at the same time. Below is the offline installer that I have found.

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Fast and Furious is the upcoming anticipation movie  (2009) in The Fast and the Furious film series(2000s). The teaser trailer just release today. It is related back to the original movie.

Fast and Furious will release in 5 June 2009 (USA). The plot is when he is released from prison, Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) teams up with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) work with the feds to bring down a heroin importer by infiltrating his operation.

My favour part of this teaser trailer.

Unknown Guy: So you two know each other?
Vin Diesel : He used to date my sister.
Unknown Guy: You’re lucky man
Brian : How is that? (O’RLY)
Unknown Guy: You’re still breathing
Vin Diesel: Heh… (XD)