Time for a makeover….

My pc has been in service to me for 6 years++ now… yes 6 years…and am still able to play games such as fs9 and farcry. well it wasnt always that way though. the pc started out as a super basic pc…AMD Athlon single core which packed a mind blowing 2.01 GHz at that time..haha… memory was 128MB…which costs around RM 100++. Comparing today’s prices…a 2gb crossair gaming ram costs +/- RM 95. Motherboard was from MagicPro. Never heard of the company till today and of course lets not forget the classic floppy drive and also a MSI combo drive. The one thing about the pc at that time was that it came with a 17” Samsung LCD screen…which costs about RM 1100 at that time..now its hard to even find a 17” LCD and an Acer 22” will cost you RM 345.

Although this pc was bought in 2004, there was no graphic card inserted until 2008….yes, only 4 years later there was something to fill the AGP slot crawling with spider webs and layers of dust. For the span of 2004-2008, playing counter strike on my rig was something that was just beyond imagination if you will…haha… But than came along the legendary Flight Simulator….which made me promise myself i’d get a graphic card but than my financial status din really allow me….sad i know. So i had to live without a graphic card for a while….funny thing is.. i din really need one until late 2007 when my flight simulator came in. However the minimum specs to run the game was rather low and surprisingly my pc was above the minimum requirements. So heck…lets give it a try…and it works like a charm!…a bit crappy frame rate though….but still….a real game!!! =D…hahaha…yeah sorry i know i’m over exaggerating…but heck…it was a game i could play…lol.

Moving on…. and so one fine guy comes along….Dr. N.R. He suggest i get a graphic card to further enhance the game experience.And by chance my savings were building up….just enough for a medium performance graphic card. GeForce FX5500. Chipset by Palit. 256MB graphic memory and 8x AGP. It was the perfect card to fit my budget or +/- RM 150. And so i bought it…and it truly gave me a remarkable experience. i could also play farcry now…

But the pc was getting old and it was showing its colours.. Frequent breakdowns were occurring and i wanted to change but again…my financial status din allow me to. And so again comes along Dr. N.R. who tells me that he’d sell off all the components of this pc and put in some of his own cash and buy new components. Well it was a success….he din have to take out any pocket money but instead he made a profit of rm 15 after everything was over…dun ask why. And so here are some comparison of what my pc used to be and what it is today. Thanks Dr. N.R… couldnt have done it without your help..haha….

	The processors back then and the one on my rig now..always was a big fan of AMD..
BACK THEN		TODAY

	The memory rams that powered my pc back then and today.
BACK THEN		TODAY

	The MagicPro motherboard which used to power my pc and the MSI one which powers it now.
BACK THEN		TODAY

	My FX5500 back then and the monster today… both 256 though.
BACK THEN		TODAY

	The crappy power supply unit and the cooler master one
BACK THEN		TODAY

of used tin cans

hey guys…been a while since i blogged about schooling life…mainly cause i' joined form 6 around may and there’s also been nothing special to talk about in school….plain ol’ boring school… where some teachers cant speak a word of english and end up teaching maths…oh well…nvm that…

however something interesting did catch my eye….a 2nd attempt to embed the school’s name into the malaysian book of records… this time with a picture 52 meters long by 34 metes wide which is to be made ONLY with used tin cans… the aim was to collect around 180 000 cans but the students and teachers worked really hard and exceeded all expectations by collecting 186 000 cans.

the colors involved in making the picture were blue, green, red, orange, yellow and white. so the main cans consisted of COKE, SPRITE, 100 PLUS, F&N ORANGE, HEINEKEN, CARSLBERG, TIGER, REDBULL AND SEASON’S SOYA BEAN. the collection started around january…i wasnt in school yet but i heard it through some juniors who were involved.

the first step was to draw the huge picture on to the field…which was done by some measuring according to a set of scales here and there…which really wasnt my cup of tea and luckily for me i was not involved in that department. while the drawing was going on..the process of smashing the cans flat was also taking place…slowly and steadily the project was looking more and more convincing…

it was time….the cans had been collected and smashed…the picture had been drawn..it was down to us to arrange the cans….all 186 000 of them…

it took approximately 150 lower six students and 2 days to finish the project… and as serious as we were in achieving the record…we never seem to seize having fun all the way! =D

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Passion or craze?

well its been a while since i’ve been here. mainly because i’ve been having a blast with my bro almost everyday..darn thing is i have to go to school 5 days a week…but oh well..life goes on…

getting to the point, i’m sure that many of you readers are aware of my NOT SO EXTREME craze of gadgets ..mainly electronics and all…well comparatively not as bad as my bro i guess =P …anyway the one electronic gadget that makes me go gaga is any remote control toy. always had a craze for off wheel rc vehicles but never had the courage to ask dad to buy it for me….reason?…go figure =D……

but be it from dad or others, i’ve had at least 7++ rc cars between the ages of 5 and 17..mind u 2 of them still exist and are in good working order unlike the other which may already be recycled 5 times… so this time i opt for something different….remote control but not a car…at first i was looking at an rc plane…but then there were 2 major factors that made me rethink it… it was a) the space required to fly it, take off, and land and b) the damn price…it starts from rm 500++….

i was discussing with my bro when he hatched an idea…he was like “if space and budget is concerned..why not get a helicopter?..cheaper and less space needed”….and after that i began looking around sites such as lelong.com…and true enough…price was way cheaper…the small ones would costs just around 50-80 ringgit while the bigger ones would start of from rm 200 to 2000++….

this was around 2008…and it stuck to me…was just saving enough cash for it… while saving as usual i did my research on what type to buy and what variations were there etc…and so it came to my mind that i wanted to get a 4channel helicopter…in layman’s term…4 channel means the helicopter is able to go up down, front back, twist left right and bank left and right. a 3 channel helicopter would do all of the above except bank left right…2 channel is useless…it can only go up down and twist left and right…the one for veteran rc helicopter enthusiast is 6channel…which is capable of performing acrobatic maneuvers and at the same time burning a hole in their pockets.

and when i went to kl to get it, the guy in the shop was saying that i should get a 3channel one because its not as easy as i think. but u know me… i wasn’t about to budge until he showed me how tricky it is to even handle a 3 channel copter…and mind u…its been like 3 weeks since i bought it and i crashed it more times than its take off…lol….well am still learning so yeah…below are the pictures of my 3channel helicopter.

once it was bought… my bro and i decided to take a couple of pics of our rc collection which i have posted here as well in the same album as my helicopter … all of them are in good working order. 2 of them belong to my bro and 3 to me…. well i guess my posts is more likely to be an essay…so i think i’ll cut off here…cya later!!

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~AniL RekhraJ~