Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Birth of Monstie

MONSTIE
(short for Monster PC)
Birthday: 21st Jan'09
Birth Place: HSG Media

Created by Elliot Koh
Financed by HSG




20th Jan'09 (Tues)
After confirming Monstie's final configuration with Boss Tan,
a special trip was made to the birth place of most PCs in Malaysia, 
Lowyat Plaza.

Monstie is a really special PC... hence unlike most PC, 
it was personally assembled by its creator
 
After 4 hours and 3 pairs of super sore-feet,
monstie's organs were purchased

(Monstie's body part pictures will be uploaded later : paiseh, it's in another camera)




Monstie's Motherboard
*I honestly think that the motherboard
 looked like a mini city...

See properly ah..
You can see schools, factories, housing area, 
police stations, power station, etc... 

Look under a microscope... 
you'll probably see cars and humans moving..
Can See or not??


If the motherboard is the city..
 I would assume that this is the POWER house?
 

Empty casing of Monstie
According to Elliot...
 It was once every PC creator's dream PC casing. 
and now it's Monstie's!


Elliot's delicate hands at work...


Wiring Monstie!

Lessons Learnt from Monstie's Birth
For some reason, watching Elliot configure and assemble the PC 
reminds me of the scripture in Pslams 139:13-14

"For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 

Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well."

Getting a PC as how it is.. and creating it...
 has a total different feeling altogether.
That's probably why we humans can't 
comprehend how special we are to God... 

However, through this experience.. 
I guess there is an increase of understanding of 0.00001% 
to what it means to be "fearfully and wonderfully made.."


1. Fearfully Made
Even as Elliot configure, I could hear him constantly
 him going through the possibilities that it will be truly functional 
and when all parts were placed together, would they be able to work together as one
 
"eh.. this cannot.. " then he start sourcing for another option

Fearfully made: God made sure all our parts work: even our emotions

2. Wonderfully Made
Monstie is a  Media PC & a Server.
It was meant super duper fast when rendering videos 
and keep all soft copy of files and documents safely.

It was configured to function its best in achieving those functions.
It is not a gaming PC, a normal desktop PC.. or a sole devoted server PC.
It's unique as what it is.. 

There is an "AWE" feeling when I looked at Monstie..
 
Wonderfully Made: unique, non other than you, 
everyone of us is configured to reach a specific dream and purpose 


3. God knows everything there is about YOU!

Since I wanted to post about Monstie.. I asked Elliot to list down the specification of Monstie.
And it took him less than 1 minute to list down everything... 

It has 3200GB Space,
8GB 800Mhz ram,
an overclocked Quad core processor at 2.8Ghz,
Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 P45 motherboard,
Creative Audigy Sound Card,
CM 690 chasis (casing)
Logitech G1 gaming keyboard & mouse
Xigmatek Red Scorpion CPU cooling
ATI Radeon HD4670 512MB DDR4 graphic card
Corsair HX520 Modular power supply


Viewsonic 22" 1080p ful HD widescreen monitor
Edifier M3300 2.1 soundsystem

He knows everything it is about this PC!!!

Shi:  "WALAU, you can remember?"
Elliot: "Of course, i configured it wad? hehe"

HAHA.. don't we sound stupid when we tell God that He doesn't understand..

Pslams 139: 15-16
"My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them."


Simple things in life.. powerful lessons.

Monday, January 05, 2009

December, The Busiest yet Meaningful month of the Year

What did I do this December??
Nothing but great stuff

1. WORK 
Christmas Flyers... 
You would not believe the amount of flyers that are 
produced for christmas.. neither do I, until I start doing it!! 







It turned out good afterall.
haha at least I didn't use the same design for all the flyers,
That would be SMART though!!
 
I must say... designning Christmas flyers is fun...
 but when you design so many in one month, it's challenging!! I'm proud of myself!!!

 Trust me, next year, I'm going to get a team to do it.. at least we get more variety that way!!


2. EAT 
Enjoy Real nice Christmas Dinner with Family & Friends



Don't judge the book by it's cover!!!
You probably can't tell much by looking by it. 
But it's actually salad... but not the average salad
It's covered with smoked SALMON!!



Then of course... how can we missed having Turkey..!!
This has gotta be the best Turkey I have tasted so far.. and the most expensive one as well!! 
Thanks mum and Wilson for ordering it!!



Because I thoroughly enjoyed it!!



And there was... this dish that my sister cooks that will make me crave for it for the entire whole year until she makes another dish of it..
Ze BACON!! (yes, I've learnt.. it's not ham)


And the dessert... came along with the turkey.
It was so cute... that we decided to play with it first...


Ah Wai pretending to terrorize Santa Village


My dear sister, the hungry monster...


*Poke Santa*
Taking picture with it before we devour it.

It was a lovely dinner.. couldn't wish for better company and friends. 
Thanks mums and guys!



3.GIVE  
Giving Pressies and Getting Pressies - To bless and Be Blessed!


A very special present that me and my sis decided to make.
It highlights some of the great moments we had along
 with signficant friends who shared a wonder journey with us in SE.


It turned out really nice.. I like it too!!!



No worries Sharon, I kept a copy for you...



Our Christmas Pressie..
Note: Santa didn't placed them under our tree...
Got lotsa Christmas Pressie this year..
Thank you. Appreciate them.

4. SHOP
We went door gift shopping for the youth Christmas Event


Nicki.. kidnapping the goodies!

Pretty nice goodies, don't you think?


And Guess whose hand is this..?
Winner gets a kiss from him!!


5. FUN
 Enjoying Christmas Events!!

Christmas Events in HSG has always been nothing but Fantastic... 
and it's getting better each YEAR.

Back to the 70's... 
The Disco YEARS


The dancers never ceased to amaze me..
with their butt shaking skills!!
You guys can SHAKE!



Jane and Sean, a very warm welcome  
to your first Christmas Event in HSG!
And there will be many more to come!!



What is Christmas without Mary?? 
LOL.. a picture fun moment

I won't post up all pictures
You can view them on HSG website once they are posted.

December was a blast... 



Wouldn't trade this time for any other parties!

Well hope this long entry makes up for my long absence.!! LOLZ
(Nicki: See, it ain't dead!)

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Do They Look Alike?





Pumbaa versus Walrus



Monday, November 03, 2008

A Post Inspired By Nicki

If Unagi have Testicles
Opps.. I mean Tentacles




They will just be extra tasty...!

Would you eat it?









Thursday, October 30, 2008

I Miss Japanese Food

So I went for some...


Salmon with Fish Roe 


Baby Octopus!! *Nicki: thanks! I termixed


Salmon Sashimi - melts in your mouth. This is so different from the usual buffet sashimi. Duh! Still, nothing compares so japanese sashimi. The usual servings in their buffet is the same as our KL's ala cart's quality... I can't imagine the superb ala cart version in Japan will taste like..!!


These nice looking sushi dishes are.... already in my tummy. 
If you wanna have some, you can head over to Mid Valley Garden... Sushi Zanmai. 

It's slightly more expensive compared to sushi king, but once it entered your mouth, you'll understand why it's actually worthwhile. 

There're a lot of other blogs that have given really good reviews on this restaurant, so I won't give it any more free ads!!

Let's talk about Salmon....
I had the opportunity to visit one of the smaller Salmon breeding farm during my trip to Japan and my tour guide was explaining to us why Japanese salmons taste different compared to Malaysia's.

Well....
It's not that they are of lower quality or not as fresh... but simply because...
They are NOT from Japan.
Malaysia import Salmons from Western countries!!! 
And all the while I thought we are eating salmon from Japan... *kena cheated*


Poor Salmon... literally live to be eaten ... 


"Mummy, I'm going to be a Sashimi when I grow up!"

*MUAHAHA... you never had the chance to grow up* 

Friday, October 10, 2008

It's Done!!!

After hours of editting... hungry midnights..

It's Done!!!



Enjoy the new HSG Theme Song 4th Quarter 2008

Theme: In Christ, My Reward
Song by: Leona Lewis, Footprints in the sand

Cute Video!

Found this super cute video on youtube... 
It's actually a present from the producers to their friend who is getting married!
MUST WATCH if you wanna get that cosy feeling!!





who is getting married next?

Heart warming right?
Such a beautiful concept.. might use it one day.. some day.. lol
 

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Having Fun with Photoshop

Anyone can photoshop now!!!

Learning photoshop has never been so easy! Thanks to internet, there's plenty source of resources!!

Good tutorials - this is one of my favourite links to learn photoshop stuff.



If you want to learn a certain effect, just type in the effect in the search box and be on your way to increase ur photoshop knowledge.

I was in in one of those moods in experimenting something new to learn, so I started browsing through... and aha.... I found this.


This is what I learnt today through this tutorial:


1. How to make 3D image.

2. Finally used the dodge and burn tool!!

3. How to place nice "grafitti" on text.

And it ain't hard!!!
Well, the toughest part is getting the "burn and dodge tool". 

I ter-burnt the second O.... reminds me of burnt mashmallow, yum yum

*Mine looked so amateur compared to the pro

You can learnt this through HERE!
LOLz.. see if yours turn out better than mine

I decided to put my new knowledge to use... 
Tata.....My Version of 3dness


Shishi in the jungle






Can one ever learn everything about photoshop?


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