http://www.rendervault.com Where engineering meets art Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:48:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A bunch of quick updates since I'm so darned busy with daily work to even blog: - Safe and sound in San Fran - Heading to San Fran city tomorrow - Damn cold here I will be publishing a long long story about my journey here that started off a little bit rocky. I ... http://www.rendervault.com/2008/04/11/quick-updates/ Recently there's quite a few Hollywood interests in the Chinese or Asian cultures, with mega-budget films like Battle For Red Cliffs, Forbidden Kingdom and Geisha hitting the big screen. Well okay, Battle for Red Cliffs isn't exactly from Hollywood, and Forbidden Kingdom isn't really about Chinese culture, but for generalization's ... http://www.rendervault.com/2008/04/04/three-kingdoms-a-review/ It's finally here. Tomorrow 9AM I'll be heading towards Los Angelos, and then to San Francisco. I woke up with a daze today, a bittersweet feeling even though it's just gonna be only one month. All the while I thought I am pretty emotionally independent, and that I would be ... http://www.rendervault.com/2008/04/04/missing-somebody/ Just today I read a piece of news in The Shit... I mean, The Star that sent my blood boiling. Here's the fucked up piece of news: KUALA LUMPUR: A seminar on Syariah Law review wants non-Muslims found committing khalwat (close proximity) with Muslims to also be held liable. This was among ... http://www.rendervault.com/2008/04/03/khalwat-laws-to-be-imposed-upon-non-muslims/ Blizzard just cracks me up everytime. Seems like not taking themselves seriously is a trend nowadays, evident with Kia's "Drive-with-wii-remote" concept and BMW's "Canine Repellent Alloy Protection" (CRAP) System, but Blizzard takes it to the next level - by introducing Taurens into the upcoming Starcraft 2. Wait... Taurens? Heh, it gets ... http://www.rendervault.com/2008/04/02/starcraft-2-new-unit-tauren-marine/ I guess my prayers to the Invisible Pink Unicorn has been answered. I'm heading to San Francisco this weekend, 9AM Saturday, for one month to work closely with our client on their "core project". What project? Beats me. No idea. It's been a tough time for my girl of course - ... http://www.rendervault.com/2008/04/02/3-more-days-to-flight/ It's fun! Believe me! See, the opposition... opps, I mean the state government are playing it, and the BN parties are playing it too. The latter are heavyweight champions on this however, so no surprise there. You see, this morning, Sivasubramaniam, an Indian representative in the Perak state assembly tendered ... http://www.rendervault.com/2008/03/31/come-lets-play-the-racial-game/ I've been addicted to Wikipedia since god knows when, mostly because of the convenient knowledge you can get from it. But people have been saying "don't trust everything on Wikipedia" because most of the content... ok, ALL of the content comes from the community, and anybody with an account in ... http://www.rendervault.com/2008/03/28/funny-wikipedia/ The race is on. Malaysia will see a massive and perhaps controversial issue soon, in this coming April 2008. The future is set to be unpredictable, as both sides in the Barisan Rakyat and the Barisan Nasional are racing against the clock to reach the finishing line first. But the ... http://www.rendervault.com/2008/03/27/anwar-vs-tengku-razaleigh/ It seems that in this era of Information and Technology where everything moves at light speed, we as human beings begin to forget about values that we once hold true in the past. And because of the competitiveness that we all are subjected to in this urban life that we ... http://www.rendervault.com/2008/03/27/freewill-and-respect/