Not so smart tunnel

We (husband and me) woke up late (6.25 am) this morning, so we used the Smart Tunnel on the way to office to avoid some expected bad traffic from Jalan Loke Yew heading into Jalan Tun Razak.

Based on my experience travelling along Jalan Loke Yew heading into Jalan Tun Razak at around 8.00 am, our decision to use the smart tunnel was a very smart decision indeed. We left home around 7.15 am and parked my car in the parking lot in front of my office, i think around 8.25 am.

What not so smart about the smart tunnel is that it's CONGESTED!!! I estimated that only 30% of our journey inside the smart tunnel was smooth.

Such an engineering feat was not supposed to get congested that soon!! It was only opened in April 2007, yet to celebrate it's 2 years old birthday!!

My intention is not to nag about morning traffic, but to think about the best solution for traffic problems in KL. Nearly everyday I have this disccussion with someone. This reminded me of a subject I took during my final year, called "Engineers in Society". One of the final exam question was something like this: Problems getting into the city due to heavy traffic. Would you rather add lanes to the highway or built a mass speed train system. Adding lanes to the highway WAS not the preferred solution, at least in this class. So this bring me to my...

Solution No. One: Improve our LRT system (and bus system at that, or even better, all public transport) , so there will be less dependancy on personal transportation. Tp haruslah ada system yg bley dipercayai dulu, baru lah orang nak pakai kan??

Solution Two: Promote (or make a law) on car-pool in the hope of decreasing the number of cars entering the city.

Solution Three: Move half the city altogether, to another location (not viable, i know, but then this is me!!)

Any more ideas out there??

p/s: nak balik & menghadapi very bad traffic in KL city center on Friday evenings. Mana saje la sme org nak pegi nie...

The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory

I put reading Angels & Demons on hold when I bought this book. I want to read this novel first. The first impression I get when I read the synopsis at the back cover of this book was that this is going to be a fast paced novel, old fashioned english (because the novel is set in the 16th century), and chick literature (even though it is 1500-ish chick lit). It has the elements that I love. Especially the old-fashioned part, I dont know why but I like the big skirts that the ladies wore way back when.

Well, as usual, I dont like to give synopsis, I'd rather give my views on this novel instead. For the review, please visit the author's website or as I always put it, just google it!

The Other Boleyn Girl is like a dramatized history based on the lives of 16th century aristocrats at the English Court as seen by Mary Boleyn. As these people actually exists way back when, some critics said that some of the things that happened or mentioned in the novel are not historically correct. But who cares! I like the novel :)

The chick lit part of this novel is the fact that Mary and her sister Anne are rival in an old fashioned way. By old fashioned i mean "I hate you, but I'm gonna act as if i love you so much and i am so gonna get back at you, when you and other people dont realize it. Or if they do, they gonna see it as if I am doing a good thing for you when actually I'm gonna get my revenge." Haha~ Throughout the novel, this pattern is apparent. Everybody is doing everything to move themselves or their family closer to the throne without appearing to be doing so, with always a sweet smile and sweet words to hide the mean things that they actually do to get their desires.

The other thing that is very prominent in this novel is that the King Henry desperately wanted a son and is willing to go to extreme ends in order to get one (that and a new wife)! This is really frustating when a daughter can be just as good (or sometimes even better).

In a way, this novel ader la buat aku sket rase geram because it seems that during the 16th century, women importance and sole purpose in this life is to conceive a baby, carry it full term and make sure a son comes out after 9 months. What the *#^@ !!!!

Well anyway, there is a movie produced based on this novel (starring Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman), and my next move is to check this movie out. It has been out since Feb 08 but I am yet to see it. I'd like to see if the history is twisted more in the movie. Hihi~

I started reading The Other Boleyn Girl on 28 January 2009

I finished reading The Other Boleyn Girl on 12 February 2009

p/s: nak sambung balik Angels & Demons before the movie is out in May 09 (kalau x salah).

Naddie - Tak IT Savvy

Aku cucuk thumbdrive kat USB kat PC kat ofis.

"Nenonenoneno...Caution a virus has been detected". Sengal...

So i clicked "move to chest" and maka senyap lah bunyi nenonenoneno tuh.

And then i accessed my thumbdrive. I have satu system yang menarik for my thumbdrive (and my folders in my pc). I dont like to see files. So, i always try my best to group these files and put them in related folders. So biler aku access my thumdrive, most of the time i see 4 folders. Tp, in this case i saw 4 folders and one file. Adakah ini the damm virus that was detected by my anti-virus program?? Ahh...x pedulik lah. Even though i am not IT savvy and i might turned out to be wrong and that file is not the virus after all, aku nak delete jugak file nie. As naddie always do, naddie seldom thinks before naddie do most things, so naddie pon delete la this file yang naddie dah classify as DANGEROUS!!!!

Tak de hal pon! ehe~ Dah delete, yeay!!! After that naddie yg x berapa IT savvy nie try la access thumbdrive tersebut. X bley la plak!!! Busuk nye virus!!! So i scanned the thumbdrive using my anti-virus program and the program found nothing. Ok la kot agaknye. NOPE!!! When i click my thumbdrive again, this thing pop up...

Ehh...i think that is the file that i have deleted earlier. Alamak!!! Janganlah macam nie wey!!! Ader keje nak buat neh and the files ader dalam thumbdrive je, blom copy kat tmpt lain. Then, i tried right-clicking on my thumbdrive and explore the thumbdrive (yang aku namakan sbg naddie, ehe). Bley la plak. Tp i never liked to use explore to open my files. Rase cam x bess je biler explore utk carik files.

Dengan niat yang jahat which is to menunjukkan bakatlah kepada diri sendiri (dan yang pentingnye kepada husband yang sangat IT savvy) so i google this dengan harapan after this I can access my thumbdrive whithout using the explore function. Tetapi too bad...google returned this to me instead -> YOUR SEARCH DID NOT MATCH ANY DOCUMENTS. Hancur lah harapanku...

Ok. Maka aku malas nak layan dah. I give up (cepat sangat kan?). So i copied all the files in my thumdrive to my desktop and i (who is not very IT savvy or patience in the first place) did as shown in the pictures below. In that order and after COPYING all my files in the thumbdrive...

- UNO -

- DOS -

- TRES -

Yeay. So masalah pon selesai lah. I just copied all my files from my desktop back into my thimbdrive and yeay!! everything is back to the way it should be :D senyum lebar sket!!!

Even though tak pat nak berlagak tapi tak per lah. Janji masalah selesai. This is the best solution for people like me (who dont have the patience and passion) to solve computer related problem. Just as long as you have identify the related risk (in this case, biler format sme file pon akan ilang) and mitigate it correctly (in this case, i copied all the files to desktop before formatting). Janji sme orang pon happy (in this case, aku la!)