Lock your car before open your gate

There was a crime happen in my neighborhood. It goes like this. There were a gang of 6 thugs waited outside the victim's house and they have plotted a plan to hijack the victim's car (of course, it's an expensive one). They were there early in the morning because they knew the victim will go to work at specific hour where nobody will be around.

Unfortunately, the victim changed his plan on that day and thugs were uneasy because it's going to be daylight. One of thug rode his motorcycle to the back of the house to check out if there are any ways to get into the house. He was lucky because the house owner's maid open the back door for some daily chores. He took this opportunity leap over the fence and charge into the house. Then, he threaten the family to be quiet or he will kill them.

Luckily, they all were at their room upstairs and one of them call the police. Nobody knows what happened to the thug downstairs as he left quickly after he can't find the car key (That's what we believe he's trying to find).

Here is the weirdest part. After he left the house, he and his gang went to a nearby house and tried to run down the gate (Perhaps they were angry when their plan has failed). One of them manage to get into the front yard of the house and the owner screamed after she saw what they're doing. Her scream shocked the thug and they left quickly afterward as they knew the police are coming.

After all these, I have came out some measures.

1. Don't buy expensive car and live in a neighborhood that the car doesn't seems to fit. (If you have a Benz, you should live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of Benz. Go figure.)
2. Keep a close eyes on the street before leaving the house. (Any suspicious person waiting outside? Ask your family to accompany you with an umbrella or better, a baseball bat)
3. Have your family member to open the gate for you. Wake them up and tell them about Point 2 if you sees one. Let them close the gate for you rather than leave the car engine running and close the gate by yourself.
4. Lock the car once you're in it. (The most basic of all)

I hope this will help. Please do leave any comments if there are some points I have missed.

Saved by ten cent

It's not that my life was so cheap that only worth 10 cent. It just happened today that I found a 10 cent laid on the floor as I was meeting up my friend at the LRT station.

The truth is, I have been picking up a lot of 10 cent at the train station, especially at Putra LRT station. (10 cent here and there, maybe someday I might get rich)

So, after our lunch and on our way back to the station, the ticket machine only accept small changes. Fortunately, the 10 cent came just nice with my other 90 cents to get myself a ticket. :P

Adik

Sunday evening. I was doing my groceries shopping as usual nearby my neighbourhood. I reached to the dairy department and wanted to get some juice. Then there was this old Chinese lady in front of my path with her trolly. She looked at me in the eyes and the first word came out from her mouth was: "Adik!"

??!?!?!?!

My first thought was: I was so oooobbbbvious a Chinese race guy and why she would speak to me in Malay? Second. "Adik" is way too young for me. Do I really really looked that young?

Back to the story, I was shocked for a second after hearing the "Adik" and tried to help her whatever need she might come across. It seems she was looking for butter and I told her that the butter shelves is under renovation. (evil laugh: Hahahaha. That's for calling me "Adik") She looked disbelief so I told her to go that section and ask again.

By the way, I found old people hard to believe my words especially granny because this had happened to me before. I bet it must be the false age group that I'm projecting to people, even with this granny falls into it. :P

Bug reporter

I filed my first bug report to Gnome after I experienced a critical crash. The bug reporting tool just pop up on the desktop and I just write on what I did before the crash. After sending the report, I got back a response in 5 mins (wow). I play around with Beryl and the bug was gone. I went to the Beryl bug report page and did a search on my issue. It was a known issue and I replied my Gnome bug report stated it wasn't a Gnome bug. :P

Suddenly, I felt like I was being part a community (I also awarded with 1 point for being a reporter :D). I dug further more on the Gnome bugzilla site and I found all the contributors are from different background (wow).

That is really cool.

Ubuntu experience for a beginner (Part 3)

After I have solved my problem in Part 2, I started to play around with Linux software management and also doing some research on the internet. I hooked up with Beryl, the desktop effect enhancer. My internet browsing, desktop application and instant messaging experience was never be same again. The amount of eye candy that Beryl can bring me was enormous. It's like my desktop has combined with Power Point effect plus more.

It even comes with a management tool allows me to customize it almost to every single detail (There are many setting so everybody can have their own customized desktop effect). I have no idea why those guys invented this awesome tool and made it to be free (It has a potential to make money with it). Perhaps it was open source that everybody can contribute their ideas; it showed so much of creativity.

When I switched back to windows just to migrate some files (transfer my vCard contact to Linux Evolution Mail), I felt boring; there isn't much fun as in Ubuntu + Beryl. It seems that my windows was left for supporting devices or softwares that are not supported in Ubuntu. Anyway, thanks to the Beryl and other open source software that brings so much fun to my life.

Finally, there are couple issues left but they are just small issue. I can live without them or I can switch back to windows and use it. Hopefully, that day won' t come. :D