Author: bt

Just got back to asia from the first trip to France. I call this the “fact finding” trip. Mission being: find out my schedule to move to Paris, if ever.
It looks like its going to go ahead. The issues with the human resources are either ironed out or I’m feddup to argue with them over a few euro and a little detail here and there. Generally, this first trip is alright, except I got a little conned by the weather forecast on the internet. Either its my fault for being macho, or the internet. Whatever it was, I packed too little clothing for the French winter. My informal wear consist only of a fleece since I expected the weather to be close to 10C. Office attire is ok, I packed enough to survive an Artic winter. In the second week it was normal for the temperature to be anywhere between 0C and 5C during the daytime.

Will be going back to Paris again one last time Mid March to look for an apartment. That’s in about 2 weeks. Right after that I have another 2 weeks to sort out the transportation and selling my car before moving over to PAris for a full year (that’s what the contract says).

By the way, haven’t signed the contract yet. but that should be no problem.

There’s something jinxed about me. Tried to take some pictures at the Tour de Langkawi Stage 10 in Kuala Lumpur today, and it rained. Rather heavily actually, I’m sure if I had my D70 again at that time it would not survived. Luckily I was using an F4s.
The first roll of film went very fast. Had it on Continuous high, and I think its something like 5-6FPS, so you can finish a whole roll in 6 seconds. Had to use it becuase it was getting dark already and even with ISO400 film in the camera I was getting barely handholdable shots with f2.8. The rest of the second roll of Provia was shot on ISO100 and the shutter speed was barely 1/8 sec so had to do some pan-shoot style.

Will send in the negatives for development tomorrow, lets see if I’m lucky. How I miss changeable ISO on a digital SLR!!!

Today is the 4th day of the chinese new year. and this year we’re doing it in KL, and its as dead as Paris is in summer. No cars, no shops open… just like a dead city. This week is a long week of holidays here in KL. Just found out that tomorrow is still a holiday, (thursday) and I was already planning to make it back to work!
I’ve been waiting too long already to buy a replacement for my dead ipod g2… a video ipod could be next. NOt too sure… got some questions on what kinda video it can play. In a way, the flash nano is quite interesting, but sometimes I go on without a PC connection for months, so wouldn’t want to repeat the same bunch of 2gb or 4gb songs list…

The holiday season in Malaysia is starting this weekend. First with chinese new year, then followed by some muslim holiday and finally on wednesday a holiday that applies to just a few cities. What matters here is that there will be no work here (or so I hope), and tomorrow (Saturday) is another cycling day!!!! yahoo!!!
Will be staying in KL this weekend. The whole family is going to be here.

Flying off to Manila again this Monday (tomorrow). WIll be going there using Malaysia airlines, direct flight from KUL to MNL. Ordered low fat meal. NOt that I’m a health freak but when you order special meals they have it specially for you on the flight. You see 99% of people are going to have chicken or beef and you’re going to have…. sometimes cod fish… ok, it looks like cod, and its definitely better than chicken or beef anytime of the week!
Will pack along my running shoes and Polar HRM equipment. Although its going to be work, wont let it take running time away from me.

The new year came and went, and my Windows PC started acting strangely. 90% of the startups end up with a crashed Windows explorer. Most of the time it will restart explorer and it was ok, but once in a while DrWatson would crash as well, and you’re really dead and requires a hard restart.
While I was toying with the idea of reformatting the HDD and losing all settings, I thought I should try and look for the offending virus/trojan whatever….