Moving to a new place...

since i actively using Google account lately...so i will shift my blog to Google account...no more using this yahoo account blogspot...

http://tenchithelad.blogspot.com/

Sneak Preview of coming Diablo III

Blizzard is adding two new aspects to the game: a caravan that follows you around through all of the areas, and an artisan system that provides NPCs who can craft and enchant things for you. Basically, it's a load of groupies with mad skills. There will be three different artisans available: blacksmith, mystic, and jeweler, and they'll help you create more badass gear, or tweak what you already have.

If you thought Diablo was a loot whore game at heart before, wait until you hear about this. Read on for more details, and we'll be back with some more highlights soon, including screenshots and a video.

What is the caravan?

The caravan is a persistent group that follows the heroes across Sanctuary, providing a centralized hub for players to find questgivers, crafters and other important NPCs. As your character moves through the world so too will your loyal band, setting up in specific locations to remain close by should you need them.

Who are the artisans?

In order to access the professions in Diablo III, you'll need gain the loyalty of various artisans through your travels in Sanctuary. The blacksmith, mystic and jeweler each provide unique service over the course of the game.

What do the artisans offer?

Skilling up your artisans will unlock unique recipes, granting your character access to benefits that may not be found anywhere else in the world. The blacksmith crafts weapons and armor, and can add sockets to some items. The mystic creates scrolls, potions, magical weapons, spell runes, charms, and can also enchant items. The jeweler crafts gems, amulets, and rings. The jeweler can also remove gems from items and can combine gems to improve their quality.

How do I find the artisans?

Finding the artisans will be part of the main quest. Each artisan has been fleshed out to include their own story and quest line.

How do I use the artisans?

You'll collect loot as a reward for slaughtering the forces of the Burning Hells. Unwanted items can be salvaged in your inventory, converting these goods into raw crafting materials. High level items are salvaged into high level materials. You’ll then take those raw materials and hand them over to the artisans, putting them to work crafting or enchanting for you. Upon returning to the caravan after a lengthy foray, you foray, you may find that the artisans have been hard at work playing their trade for youe benefit.

How do I salvage my items?

Players will find an item while progressing through the main quest that will allow them to convert unwanted gear into crafting materials from the inventory. This item will not take up any inventory space. This should be a more satisfying option for offloading unwanted loot than the alternative -- dropping things on the ground or making frequent trips to a vendor.

(Editor's note: this item, while cube-shaped, is sadly not the Horadric Cube from Diablo's past. According to Jay Wilson, it's meant to be an homage of sorts to that cube, but it isn't the same cube.)

Why are you including crafting professions in an action game?

Professions add depth to the item collection that drives the action of Diablo III. We want to provide players with an alternative way to acquire gear, potions, and other randomly found items. We also want to provide additional forms of customization for players -- adding jewels, enchants or sockets to existing gear allows players further characters. Many rare crafting recipes and materials only found as world drops, enhancing the item acquisition process by increasing the diversity of items dropped by monsters.

Jokes

One day Lion summoned all the other animals in the jungle. "Eachof you must tell a joke," he said. "But if anyone fails to laugh, I'll kill the person who told it. Monkey, you go first."

Monkey began "Two men go into a bar . . ." When he delivered the punchline, everyone roared with laughter, except Tortoise. So Lion pounced on Monkey and killed him.

Next up was Elephant. He told his joke and, again, everyone laughed except Tortoise. So Lion pounced on Elephant and killed him.

The animals were furious with Tortoise, but no-one dared to move.

Tiger began his joke, but when he was about one sentence in, Tortoise suddenly rolled over and began kicking his feet in the air, giggling his head off.

"What's wrong with you" roared an irate Lion. "Tiger isn't even finished with his gag yet!"

"I'm sorry," said Tortoise, gasping between laughs, "but Monkey's joke was simply too funny!"

12 Ways to Jump-Start Your Metabolism

1. Use interval training to rev up your workout.

Walk for the same amount of time at the same intensity day in and day out and your body will get as bored with your workout as you do. Throw in some variety with interval training, which involves changing the intensity of your workout throughout your exercise session. Every 5 minutes of your walk, jog for 1 minute. Every 5 minutes of your bike ride, shift into a higher gear and pedal hard for a minute. If you swim, speed up every other length. You'll burn more calories in the same amount of time.

2. Fidget.

People who drum their fingers or bounce their knees burn at least 500 calories a day. That adds up to losing 1 lb a week.

3. Keep a small squeeze ball with you and grip and squeeze it frequently during the day.

It's one of the few exercises you can do at any time. You'll build up the muscles in your hands – and muscle, wherever it is, burns a lot of calories.

4. Don't starve yourself.

Cutting out too many calories can backfire in more ways than one. Try to subsist on morsels and your metabolism will slow down so much that you'll not only stop losing weight, but you'll be lucky if you can peel yourself off the couch.

5. Put five rubber bands around your wrist every morning.

That's how many 16-ounce bottles of water you should drink during the day to rev up your metabolism, helping to burn more calories. At least, that's what German researchers found when they got 14 participants to drink about 500 ml of water. The volunteers' metabolic rate – or how quickly they burned calories – jumped a third within 10 minutes of drinking the water and remained high for another 30 or 40 minutes. The researchers estimated that, over a year, increasing your water consumption by 1.5 litres a day would burn an extra 17,400 calories, or about 2.25 kg (5 lb) worth. Since much of the increased metabolic rate is due to the body's efforts to heat the liquid, make sure the water you're drinking is icy cold.

6. Turn up the heat with hot peppers.

Some studies show that very spicy foods can temporarily increase your metabolism. Specialist grocers often stock many different kinds of peppers. Buy one type a week and add some to various meals. Spice up your scrambled eggs with minced jalapeño, add a little fire to beef stew with half a Scotch bonnet pepper.

7. Exercise outside.

Maybe it's the fresh air, maybe it's the sunshine, but something about exercising out in the open makes you walk or run faster than doing the same exercise in the gym.

8. Eat five small meals throughout the day instead of three large meals.

You might think you should eat less often if you want to lose weight, but that's just not the case. By eating every few hours, you keep your metabolism fired up and ensure it doesn't slow down between meals in order to hang on to calories. A "meal" can be as small as a cup of soup.

9. Sip a couple of cups of coffee throughout the day.

Studies find that the caffeine in coffee increases the rate at which your body burns calories. This does not mean, however, that you should order a fancy calorie-packed frappuccino. And skip the espresso if it makes you toss and turn at night.

10. Don't worry if you've been yo-yo dieting.

There's a myth that if you've spent your life losing and gaining the same 10 to 20 lb, your metabolism gets out of kilter and ends up slowing right down. Don't believe it. When researchers reviewed 43 studies on the topic, they found no difference in the metabolic rates of yo-yo dieters compared to those of everyone else.

11. Walk with intent – and intensity.

Burn more calories in the same amount of time with these strategies:
1. Swing your arms when you walk. You'll burn 5 to 10 per cent more calories.
2. Wear a weighted vest – another great way to burn calories. But leave the hand and ankle weights at home. They throw you off balance and could result in injury.
3. Walk on grass, sand or a gravel path instead of the road. It takes more muscle power to glide smoothly over these uneven surfaces (especially sand) than over asphalt.
4. Use walking poles. A U.S. study found that you get a much more intense workout than you would without the poles.
5. Walk along the shore of a river or lake with your ankles in the water. The resistance burns more calories and gives your muscles an added workout.

12. Increase the protein in your diet.

There is some evidence that if you increase your protein intake to the upper end of the recommended range (roughly 20 per cent of overall calories), the amount of energy you expend at rest will remain the same even while you're losing weight. Normally, as you lose weight, your body adjusts and you burn fewer calories at rest.

What does GIRL stand for?

1. Girls In Real Life
2. Graph Information Retrieval Language
3. Goddess In Real Life
4. Ghost In Real Life
5. Grumpy Irritable Raging Lolita
6. Glamorous Intelligent Respected Leaders
7. Genetically Inferior Retarded Lifeform

Fisherman n Businessman

The businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The businessman complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied only a little while.

The businessman then asked why he didn't stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs. The businessman then asked, but what do you do with the rest of your time? The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos; I have a full and busy life, señor."

The businessman scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and I could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats; eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman, you would sell directly to the processor and eventually open your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually New York City where you would run your expanding enterprise."

The Mexican fisherman asked, "But señor, how long will this all take?" To which the businessman replied, "15-20 years." "But what then, señor?" The businessman laughed and said, "That's the best part! When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich. You would make millions." "Millions, señor? Then what?" The businessman said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take a siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

The fisherman, still smiling, looked up and said, "Isn't that what I'm doing right now?"

-Author Unknown

Sometime, people will ask me...working with Government can get rich or not? Why don't you quit the Government job and come out to do own business?

Well, I don't have high ambition to get rich or what...I just want to be just like the fisherman...


p/s: but the "toys" i want to get is cant be granted by the paid i getting form the Government job, that is the sad thing...hahaha

Stop Drinking Bottled Water Now! (Infographic)

Bottled water is becoming increasingly controversial. A lot of people have questioned the environmental impacts of shipping water around in plastic packages, when most of us already have access to good-quality tap water, and some studies have found that what we're buying at the corner store isn't really any cleaner.

Here is some food for thought on bottled water from friends at Term Life Insurance.

Proton Waja Impian 2010 a.k.a Waja Lancer

If really is the new Waja...I might buy this in future...sebiji macam Lancer Evo...

Mitsubishi didn't going to sue Proton for copycat?

QR Code

This is my name card

This is QR code of my Facebook url

Samsung I9000 Galaxy S - New Droid in the House

Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)
ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor
got secondary camera
MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
Flash Lite v3.1

I loving it....

Why Root?

1. Full control over your system
2. Ability to alter system files. You can replace many parts of the "Android Core" with this including:
   • Themes
   • Core apps (maps, calendar, clock etc)
   • Recovery image
   • Bootloader
   • Toolbox (linux binary that lets you execute simple linux commands like "ls") can be replaced with Busybox (slightly better option)
   • Boot images
   • Add linux binaries
3. Run special apps that need more control over the system
   • SuperUser (lets you approve or deny the use of root access to any program)
   • Task Manager For Root (Lets you kill apps that you otherwise could not kill)
   • Tether apps (like the one found at [android-wifi-tether.googlecode.com])
4. Backup your system
   • You can make a folder on your sdcard and backup all of your .apk files to your sdcard (helps if an author decides to "upgrade" you to a version that requires you to pay to use the version you just had)
5. Relocate your (browser/maps/market) cache to your /sdcard
6. Relocate your installed applications to your /sdcard
7. Reboot your phone from the terminal app easily (su reboot )

So I had rooted my HTC Hero yesterday to VillainROM 10.1, due to fed up waiting for the HTC official 2.1 Android upgrade for Malaysia...

After rooted and flashed, I enjoy file transfer using Bluetooth, use Hero as WIFI tether, gain access to Android Market...and many more...

Nano Make Over...

This is the end result

New mini canister filter

Rain bar...

Mini surface skimmer

GEX soil

Preparation

Rescrap the Nano Tank soon...

Buy the mini canister filter with flow rate 360L/Hr and Mini surface skimmer to replace the current HOB filter...free a piece of small driftwood

Fertilizer using Seachem Flourish Excel and JBL Ferropol...

For soil i will be using this brand...GEX soil for waterplant....

Smile...

How can one smile such sweet smiles,
When one is so saddened by sorrows for miles,
How can I smile the same smiles,
When life brings me nothing but tears,
I wondered for so long,
What reason you had to smile that long,
To keep smiling though troubles come,
And still remain sweet and silently overcome,
It's such a mystery to me,
Your smiles from heaven with glee,
I adore and yet envy thee,
But I'd rather you smile those at me,
I feel happy when I see you smile,
Even if I'm sad and lonely,
Your smiles bring me somewhere,
I don't even know where,
But it was you,
You gave me the reason to smile,
To smile with no reason,
To smile for a smile,
I guess life is just like that,
We need not a reason to smile,
For a smile is the reason itself,
To rejoice and open-heartedly give thanks,
I learned to smile because of you,
Because your smiles bring me joy when blue,
It proves how well and powerful,
A simple sweet smile can become so beautiful,
Smile for the sake of a smile,
Smile for the sake of happiness,
Smile for the sake of life,
Smile because of hope left in life,
Smile my friends,
Smile for me my Love,
Smile those same sweet smiles,

Smile so the world can be a peaceful dove...

CDs...

Lately got listening to these 2 artists CD...

Of cos I didn't went to buy the CD...just download from the net...wahaha...cyberspace so great!!

Olivia Ong (オリビア・オング, Olivia Ong, born October 2, 1985) is a Chinese Singaporean singer. She sings mostly in English but developed her career singing in English and, later, Japanese. In addition, she has also released rare tracks, recorded in Mandarin Chinese, which can be found on limited edition album tracklistings.

About Bevlyn Khoo :

Music is her passion and serves as one of the main driving forces in her life.

Bevlyn‘s active involvement with music took root at the age of five when she was found drumming her fingers happily on the piano’s keys by her dad who promptly signed her up for organ lessons thereafter.

Bevlyn is signed and managed by S2S Pte Ltd. Her first full-length album “You Are My Angel” is now available at all major record stores in Singapore from April 09...

Air Con is important when driving....

Last week my car air conditioning is broken down...

So I need to travel around under the hot weather reaching 33 degree Celsius...that is a torturing...

I already expected this monster above is broken...cos the foreman had told me last year when I send my car for service...

After check...the old compressor is leaking gas cos the air conditioning failure...

After changing to this Nippon Denso Compressor...which cost me RM606 including changing some piping that wear and tear...

Now is cold like cucumber inside my car...

Change to a new compressor had made my car idle RPM run liao...so got jerking while in idle...

After adjusting the number 1 nut for idle RPM before on air con and number 2 nut for RPM after on air con...

Still not very satisfy with the RPM...next week go find the uncle tune for me...

Hey, where is your entry??

This is the scolding i get from a friend...to push me to do some entry in my blog...

Not that I don't want...writing in English is hard for me also...you know my English standard...

Some more no people come to my blog to look see also...

I will try my best lah...patient...Taurus people actually is lazy character one...wahaha

The Twelve Steps of Bonding

Let me explain why sexual abstinence is so important to marriage and how it is related to the process of bonding. To do so, I will quote from my earlier book, Love Must Be Tough, in which I discussed the research findings of Dr. Desmond Morris. These insights were conveyed to me through the writings of my good friend, Dr. Donald Joy, and I am grateful to him for bringing them to my attention. I consider the concept of marital bonding to be one of the most vital understandings ever offered on the subject of long-term marriage. Read carefully, please.

Bonding refers to the emotional covenant that links a man and woman together for life and makes them intensely valuable to one another. It is the specialness that sets those two lovers apart from every other person on the face of the earth. It is God's gift of companionship to those who have experienced it.

But how does this bonding occur and why is it missing in so many relationships? According to Drs. Joy and Morris, bonding is most likely to develop among those who have moved systematically and slowly through twelve steps during their courtship and early marriage. These stages, described below, represent a progression of physical intimacy from which a permanent commitment often evolves.

1. Eye to Body. A glance reveals much about a person -- sex, size, shape, age, personality, and status. The importance people place on these criteria determines whether or not they will be attracted to each other.

2. Eye to Eye. When the man and woman who are strangers to each other exchange glances, their most natural reaction is to look away, usually with embarrassment. If their eyes meet again, they may smile, which signals that they might like to become better acquainted.

3. Voice to Voice. Their initial conversations are trivial and include questions like "What is your name?" or "What do you do for a living?" During this long stage the two people learn much about each other's opinions, pastimes, activities, habits, hobbies, likes and dislikes. If they're compatible, they become friends.

4. Hand to Hand. The first instance of physical contact between the couple is usually a non-romantic occasion such as when the man helps the woman descend a high step or aids her across an obstacle. At this point either of the individuals can withdraw from the relationship without rejecting the other. However, if continued, hand-to-hand contact will eventually become an evidence of the couple's romantic attachment to each other.

5. Hand to Shoulder. This affectionate embrace is still noncommittal. It is a "buddy" type position in which the man and woman are side by side. They are more concerned with the world in front of them than they are with each other. The hand-to-shoulder contact reveals a relationship that is more than a close friendship, but probably not real love.

6. Hand to Waist. Because this is something two people of the same sex would not ordinarily do, it is clearly romantic. They are close enough to be sharing secrets or intimate language with each other. Yet, as they walk side by side with hand to waist, they are still facing forward.

7. Face to Face. This level of contact involves gazing into one another's eyes, hugging and kissing. If none of the previous steps were skipped, the man and woman will have developed a special code from experience that enables them to engage in deep communication with very few words. At this point, sexual desire becomes an important factor in the relationship.

8. Hand to Head. This is an extension of the previous stage. The man and woman tend to cradle or stroke each other's head while kissing or talking. Rarely do individuals in our culture touch the head of another person unless they are either romantically involved or are family members. It is a designation of emotional closeness.

9-12. The Final Steps. The last four levels of involvement are distinctly sexual and private. They are:

• (9) Hand to Body,
• (10) Mouth to Breast,
• (11) Touching Below the Waist, and
• (12) Intercourse.

Obviously, the final acts of physical contact should be reserved for the marital relationship, since they are progressively sexual and intensely personal.

What Joy and Morris are saying is that intimacy must proceed slowly if a male-female relationship is to achieve its full potential. When two people love each other deeply and are committed for life, they have usually developed a great volume of understandings between them that would be considered insignificant to anyone else. They share countless private memories unknown to the rest of the world. That is in large measure where their sense of specialness to one another originates. Furthermore, the critical factor is that they have taken these steps in sequence. When later stages are reached prematurely, such as when couples kiss passionately on the first date or have sexual intercourse before marriage, something precious is lost from the relationship. Instead, their courtship should be nurtured through leisurely walks and talks and "Lover's Secrets" that lay the foundation for mutual intimacy. Now we can see how the present environment of sexual permissiveness and lust serves to weaken the institution of marriage and undermine the stability of the family.

-- From Love For A Lifetime, by Dr. James Dobson, pp. 32-34

I miss my hair...

Now my situation is IV A...
Last night meet an old colleague of mine...she so surprise my hair become so less compare to the last time she met me that is around 4-5 years ago...

In general, most hair loss is not associated with systemic or internal disease, nor is poor diet a frequent factor.

Some conditions produce small areas of hair loss, while others affect large areas of the scalp. Common causes of patchy hair loss are

• alopecia areata (patches of baldness that usually grow back)

Alopecia areata is considered an autoimmune condition, in which the body attacks itself (in this case its own hair follicles). Most alopecia patients, however, do not have systemic problems and need no medical tests. Alopecia is also often blamed on "stress," but in fact, it's usually the other way around: Having alopecia causes the stress, at least until people find out what it is.

Nowadays, some men shave their whole scalp now that this look has become fashionable...will this work for me???

Human Brain...

Brain the final frontier...where no human have fully utilize to the full potential...

What happen if half of it said bye bye to you?

well if u are left handed and not the right side of your brain said bye bye than mean you still have hope...same for those right handed people who left side of the brain is ok then you are pretty same...you still can have some of the quality of life...

but if you are left handed and your right brain go to heaven before you do so then you are in deep shit...

that is the situation my mother in law facing...she have an infarct of her left brain and she is a right handed person...its all happen last year during Raya Puasa time...had gone thru 3 brain operation within 2 days...end up bed ridden till now...

last week the tube inside her brain is block so have to do another operation to change the tube...now still hospitalized in Penang General Hospital...

Wedding Day...

The most important of my life milestone is done...on the 25th of February...

Thank you for those who take leave to attend and help up on that wonderful day...

Above is my family photo...now become 6 members in my family...my poor Proton Saga cant fit for all of us already...

Last Chinese Year that I get Ang Pow...

This year is my last year to get ang pow from relatives...cos next year i will be the one giving ang pow to the unmarried people...the big surprise is 1st year after married must give double ang pow...

My mobile phone history...

Since I in 2nd year of university i got my 1st hand phone, nokia 6120...that served me for 5 years ...after I start working I buy my 1st hand phone is Nokia 3100, my 1st colour hand phone...its served me for another 5 years then I change to Sony Erricson K700i, my 1st camera hand phone with 1.3mp camera...this also served me for 4 years most, then I planing to get a hand phone that have features like GPS, WIFI, 3G...some of the models i considering is Sony Erricson G900 and X1; Nokia N79 and E72...

At the end I got my self an Android Phone...last week I own a HTC Hero, Android G3 model...still getting the hang of this Android system...a lot to be learn cause is a open source system...comparable with the famous Iphone 3Gs...

Wedding Card Designs

Here are 2 design of cards...one is for relatives at my hometown...one is for my friends...

(all will be printed on a pink paper)

My Wedding Photo Finally is DONE!~

These photos (I only post 1 only here, cos been warn by wife not to simply put her photo online) cost me RM3688...

My wedding will be proceed as plan on this coming 25th of February...