1. Trance Never Gets Boring - I mean it

    Still remember about a year ago, i was being introduced to trance (In Search of Sunrise Asia 7 was the first album I heard). And from that time, i'm addicted to it big time.

    It was quite an unexpected transition of my music taste.

    When I was young, I wasn't actually interested in music. Let alone trance, which is still a genre that not everyone can enjoy and understand.

    It was standard 4, i remembered because it was 2004, that my parents bought me the first CD dedicated for me, it was the techno house 2004 or something, and you've guessed it wrong, it wasn't pirated.

    Back then, i don't know who the hell is Tiesto, or Markus Schulz, or any DJ that existed, although Tiesto was pretty popular. At first i gave cold shoulders to the disc because like i told you, Trance was a reaaallly odd thing to me, the looping tunes, abstract beats, made my head spin. But still, I tried to like it, though i have a few favourite tracks, like the old-time Traffic by Tiesto, and the Able to Love by Benny Benassi (i dunno the names of the songs at that time actually).

    That was long long time ago. I'm lazy to elaborate the whole thing. So I'm not going talk about the insignificant past.

    Trance Rocks. It puts you in a surreal mode. You are drifting away. You suddenly found yourself in sync with the music. And progressively, you are in The Trance. A State of trance 08 can't really do that, i don't really like Armin actually, except for some of the tracks like the Cygnes, Strangers We've Become, which has other DJs collaborated with Armin. ISOS7 can have that effect, in fact, ISOS7 is the one that gave me the first impression of trance.

    Moonbeam. I love moonbeam. He rocks! totally! his minimalist plus techno characteristic of his tracks totally suductive. His beats. Like the Lacula, or the When Flowers Talk, my favourites. I have the whole album of his mixes, 41 of it, downloaded from iTunes, plus some from podcast extracts like the club life, totally wicked.

    Beltek, Andy Duguid, and Laurent Wolf are not bad too.

    If you want to have a taste of trance, try listening to some of my playlists. It may not be the best, but at least its all the best from imeem. You can't simply youtube or google trance, you need to know what you're looking for, then only you will get the best out of all the mess (Some people can't distinguish the meaning Trance and the other cheap rojak club tracks like Rage and stuff).

    You can try to buy other CD titles, but the good ones are very very rare, only the established artists have their CDs on the shelves (and personally i hate them). Ministry of Sound is quite good, try getting the ones from Zouk, they have good DJs with real skills.


    My imeem page trance playlist, have a TRY!
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  2. Another Free Wifi hotspot : Rapid Penang

    Yeah, proven with my nokia 5800

    It rocks to be able to facebook on the go and watch youtube videos without paying a cent. And all you can do is pay RM2 and find a good place to sit, and start your internet journey right from the comfort of your plastic seat.

    Sure. The speed is also decent though. It feels like a typical malaysian broadband speed (384 kbps, proven, tested, although i hoped it would be a bit faster), and it loads youtube mobile without much lag or buffer.

    The mobile broadband ISP is Digi, and this rapid penang bus was the first bus to be fitted with 'Free Wifi on the go', and i unknowingly found out bout this when i tried to facebook on my carrier instead i was directed to a nearby wifi hotspot (which is the rapid penang one with name 'rapid penang wifi 11'

    Digi recently rollout HSDPA around penang, and i can see this as my phone started to appear a 3.5G icon, and i can sigh a relief because i can now use the technology my phone is able to utilize(think about comparing south africa to malaysia as of 21st century, theres no much difference to it)

    yay another free wifi hotspot added to my 'access point' list.
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  3. Wishlist : A SSD replacement for my laptop (HDD)

    After much stumbling through youtube, i'm now so so so desperate to do something bout the performance of my notebook here.

    Currently this notebook is aged 10 years old.
    Asus L2000 p4m 1.68ghz 256mb ram with ati m radeon m7
    with a real slow IDE harddrive .

    The boot time for xp on it including loading mcafee is around 10 mins.(yes its painfully slow and i had to bear with it)

    I could imagine how this pice of shit would load if i replace it with a 60gb ssd from samsung . Perhaps i could even cut the boot time to a quarter.

    I've seen people booted a clean xp under 6 seconds. No joke.

    The thing is , installing an 60gb SSD is like installing another 60gb of RAM to ut PC which translates to zero waiting states and no more seek times and hell no more HDD crashes. (SSD loads my friend's desktop adobe photoshop cs4 under 2 seconds)

    MOst of the time you sit and wait for the PC to load something , please, do not ever blame it on slow processors, the stupid operating system, or the lack of ram (which needs disk swapping which in turns needs the slow HDD), its all caused by the darn slow HDD itself tryin to rip data off and on the drive. And that costs a lots of time.
    And most of the time the processor is also left waiting there (read 0% utilization) until it has something to process after the HDD finshed it's loading. That's why people introduced the RAM ,which is never enough.

    Yeah you see Core i7 yada yada yada with its so called ddr3, i think its all bullshit cuz they're gona run as slow as my PC as long as it's still running on a stupid HDD.

    Win 7 boots 80% faster on SSD computers. Proven. Seen. Even touched.

    I just hope the price of SSD would tumble soon, i wanna get my hands on those foxy things, and sooner or later im gonna be loading my DoTa in less than 10 secs, and that to impress my friends, although im still running a vintage spec pc.(ITS ALL ABOUT THE HDD)

    64gb would be enuf, i will just use my 320gb sandisk ext. HDD to store my media, and 64gb to solely run apps on the comp . Yeah, talk about being effective and effiecient.

    Think bout it . DIsk defragmentation? This term will be erased forever as soon as SSD dominates.
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