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Inconsistent petrol price at stations

yrh0413 — Thu, 24 May 2018 13:00:33 +0800

I always pump Shell V-Power Racing, due to weekly price fluctuations I do not track the petrol price but I do keep the receipts in my Fuelly app.
These few weeks the petrol price has been consistent with no change on Wednesdays.

These are the fuel price (per liter) from my receipts (I always pump at the same station):
23 May: RM3.15
20 May: RM3.15
16 May: RM3.12
13 May: RM3.12
09 May: RM3.12
06 May: RM3.12
01 May: RM3.12

Note that the advertised petrol price is RM3.17 per liter for VPR as per paultan site.
I use my Bonuslink card but I do not remember Bonuslink gives any form of rebate other than clocking reward points.
I do not recall our petrol station gives any credit-card based discounts too.

A friend of mine just pumped VPR this morning at a different station and his receipt shows RM3.18 which is even higher than the advertised price.

Could it be every petrol station charge different fuel price?

Smart Tag installation on windscreen

yrh0413 — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:19:38 +0800

Working in Singapore for 8 years, nowadays drive into JB quite often.

Curious to know... if installing Smart Tag permanently on the dashboard is safe? Many years back my friends advise not to do so as robbers may brake your windscreen and steal your T&G card... but won't it make more sense if they steal the whole car instead?

Measurement and size of rooms/ interior

yrh0413 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:24:30 +0800

Hi guys,

I hope this is not a stupid question .

Just bought a house, VP in 2015. The marketing materials and the SPA does not state the measurements of every room in the house, only stated the land size and build-up size in the floor plan.

The developer told me that I need to measure myself when I collect the keys. Alternatively they ask me to purchase the architect drawings from the architect firm, for RM150 but they also advised me not to get it now because there might be changes from now till VP.

I checked other projects from the same developer, some of the projects state the measurements in the floor plan (which is available on the project website) but the measurements are not available/ provided for my project.

Reason I asked this is because I am in the midst of doing my own ID with AutoCAD. I have drawn up the land size but cannot proceed further without the actual measurements of every room. With the room measurements at least I can plan out the furniture placement, lighting and power points, and even do 3D modelling on a virtual tour of the empty house.

My question is: can I obtain the room measurements from the developer prior to VP, or like the developer has said: get the measurements upon VP?

Thanks in advance.

Property launch date postponed, sign LO first?

yrh0413 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:02:49 +0800

Hi guys,

I have placed deposit for a property in JB now waiting for launch. I have also secured a pre-approved loan from the bank.

I was told that the launch date for my project is end of Oct, then was told early Nov. Then today I was told end of Nov. I spoke to my banker and she told me that my loan agreement is expiring soon and she wants me to sign the LO first.

What is the risk if I do that? And should I sign the LO before S&P?

Thanks all.

confused with MRTA interest rates

yrh0413 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:09:34 +0800

Hi guys I need some pointers here...

I'm getting my 1st house, a terrace house for around RM580k. Seeing that I do not want to burden my family if I pass away early, I decided to take up MRTA.

I was offered by 2 banks (30 years MRTA + 2 years deferment), Bank-A charges MRTA interest rate 4.2% and Bank-B other charges 7%.

End up Bank-B's MRTA cost RM3k more than Bank-A even though $$ insured is the same.

My loan interest rate is BLR-2.4 or BLR-2.45%... current BLR is 6.6% so I am looking at effective interest rate of 4.2% and 4.15%. I asked Bank-B why he impose 7% interest rate on MRTA but banker himself told me that this is the bank's practice.

I did a spreadsheet calculation and I realize that the sum insured is slightly higher for Bank-B... Bank-A's sum insured is very close to my reducing principal amount. In short if I go with Bank-B, my family will get extra cash (not a lot, few thousand only) on top of a fully-paid house if I pass away.

Is there any reason that I am not aware of? Or Bank-B just want to make extra bucks?

Macro Outing Invitation - KL Butterfly Park

yrh0413 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:07:32 +0800

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Photography: Macro
Date: October 11, 2009
Time: 8:45am - lunch time as I am heading back to Singapore at 2pm
Pax: 5 max
What to bring: Your gears, and RM1.00
Fees: Just need to bring RM1 for your camera. I'll foot the RM5 entrance fee.

Hi guys,

I know most of you should be dead tired after today's Canon Marathon. Still, I am back in KL and I'll be going to Butterfly Park tomorrow morning (I'll be driving there from my house at Setapak area). I had limit the pax to 5 as I prefer to shoot in a smaller group. The entrance fee is RM5 per pax and RM1 for your camera, but I'll take care of the entrance free so you just have to pay RM1 for your gears. I am not rich enough to sponsor this outing 100%

Butterflies/ dragonflies are not that active in the morning so you can approach them easily without scaring them off. I guess any lens with short MFD should be sufficient to capture butterflies.

Take note that this is an outing; we all shall go our seperate ways when we enter the park. I do not recommend HERDING a.k.a. one group of photogs shooting at the same subject. Take note, this is an outing and NOT a model shoot. There are lots of butterflies, dragonflies and crickets around so please find your own subject. Of course I encourage knowledge sharing but no herding please.

No restriction on race, gender, and camera. I can fetch 4 more person so do PM me together with your contact number. Please sms me [deleted] to confirm your attendance and also arrange pickup if you need me to fetch you tomorrow morning

Participant list: (please copy this into your reply if you confirm attending)
1. Daniel (yrh0413)
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3.
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Oracle 10g/11g: How to allocate physical memory?

yrh0413 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:16:08 +0800

Guys may i know how could i allocate physical memory without going through the wizard? I could only find settings to enable/disable SGA and PGA but i can't seem to find the setting to do it manually in the Enterprise Manager.

I'm on Oracle 11g by the way.

PC Shuts down randomly

yrh0413 — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:45:39 +0800

My current sig:

AMD64 2800+ with Scythe Infinity and 120mm fan
DFI Infinity NF4x
Kingston DDR400 1GB x1
Maxtor 80GB SATA
MSI Geforce 6600 128MB / MSI x1950pro 256MB
Silverstone ST50F

Current temp according to EVEREST Home edition:
Motherboard: 49C
CPU: 44C
HDD: 50C

History:
Previously I was using a MSI K8N Neo3-F board with chapalang PSU. I bought a used DFI board to replace the MSI as I saw a lot of bulging caps on the MSI board. Everything went fine for 2 weeks then one day the whole computer freezes and when I turn it back on all my hard drives were empty. All data gone... I suspect it was my chapalang PSU so I replaced it with a ST50F. Eventually the "power failure" killed 2 of my Kingston 512MB DDR400.

Then after I changed to this ST50F I always encounter random shut down. It happens very frequently when I play games like C&C Tiberium Wars. Sometimes I could play for hours then only it shuts off; sometimes it just went "poof" when I was still at the loading screen. I suspect is my graphics card overheating so I bought a used x1950pro but the same problem still arise.

May I know what is happening? My motherboard is faulty? Please help!

STYLO KL Fashion Festival (Day #2, March 15, 2008)

yrh0413 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:31:33 +0800

My 2nd try on fashion photography (1st one was few years back, don't know which year's KLAFW taken with my ex Sony F828). I covered this glamorous event with 2 lenses: DA 12-24 and Tamron 70-300 (mostly at the 70-150mm safe range). ISO 400 was used, aperture priority with aperture set to f/5.6.

The biggest problem I faced is the drastic change of lighting (due to spotlights, flash fired from other photographers). I grabbed a seat at a slight angle from the catwalk so all my shots have this "angled" view instead. Somehow I do wish I have a constant f/2.8 telephoto (man... when will Tamron release its 70-200 f/2.8 K-mount? )

Lastly, special thanks to the organizers for giving me the chance to participate and enjoy myself in such event. I sure learnt a lot from other photographers there

Photo of the actual catwalk in the Fashion Cube

STYLO registration counter

Opening ceremony (featuring Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Nur Zahirah, Dato Nancy Yeoh)

Melinda Looi and her gorgeous models

p.s. Catwalk shots and the remaining photos are here: My Weblog. Comments are greatly appreciated as I'm not sure what should I pay attention to.

Anyone interested to shoot pets?

yrh0413 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:23:04 +0800

I'll be going there from 1:45-3:45pm on Saturday, and maybe 10am on Sunday (don't really favor cats though )

KL Street Shooting + TT session

yrh0413 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:31:32 +0800

Special thanks to each and everyone of you for making this outing a success! Nice meeting you all

Too free on weekends, have to find myself something to do instead of rotting in front of my PC. Anyway, here's my plan:

Date: March 15th, 2008 (yup, it falls on this Saturday)
Time: 0800 hours tentatively.
Places: street shooting, architecture (Chow Kit - Dataran Merdeka - Sultan Abdul Samad building - Petaling Street - Central Market)

Plan
0800: Breakfast time!
0900: gather at Chow Kit's monorail station.
0915: start our journey from Chow Kit to Coliseum, then Sultan Abdul Samad building and Dataran Merdeka
1300: lunch time at anywhere.
1400: Petaling Street and Central Market
1600: Sit down, relax, have a drink and have some Kit Kat

Gears preference: Any lens will do! Be it kit lens, fisheye, UWA, macro, super telephoto... you'll still get shots from any angle.

anyone interested to join? Please copy and paste the participant list below:

Participants:
01. yrh0413 [zero one seven - three three one seven four three three]
02. hanafinoor [zero one nine three eight three five nine seven seven]
03. ebernie [zero one six two three three zero five three six ]
04. CutieLynette [zero one two - three four eight four nine six five]
05. hornetEJ [zero one six three one one three nine nine six]
06. SamsonYeap [zero one two - two one two six nine seven zero]
07. valho [zero one two - three zero two six five three zero]
08. datto [zero one two - six seven eight one eight eight two]
09. kwws
10. convicted_knight and friends
11. syukur2931 (PhotoMalaysia)
12. jocko (PhotoMalaysia)
13. JebatJr (PhotoMalaysia)
14. rhizomegrazz (PhotoMalaysia)

goldfries sez : "This event is NOT sponsored/endorsed by Lowyat.net (LYN). LYN will not be held responsible for any mishap, mishandling, or problem that may arise during the event."

Discussion on our upcoming photography outing

yrh0413 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:15:02 +0800

guys... let's see:

1st outing: Bird park
2nd outing: Zoo Negara
3rd outing: Buttefly Farm
4th outing: Model shooting

what's next? street photography? night photography? and please refrain yourself from suggesting "NUDE" photography

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Current suggestions:
- Bukit Tinggi
- Selayang
- Malacca Town

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Date: Confirm 29th March, 2008 (Saturday)

Daniel's Gallery

yrh0413 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:20:09 +0800

Finally I got the time to setup my own gallery here.

Camera: Pentax K100Ds
Lenses: DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL, Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 LD Di Macro, Tamron SP AF90mm f/2.8 Macro
Flashgun: AF 540FGZ

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Gallery layout:
1. A Trip to Ho Chi Minh
#1
#2
#3

[Gallery] Photography Outing Butterfly Park

yrh0413 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:09:17 +0800

Guys, please post up your photos here.

[addedon]February 3, 2008, 9:21 am[/addedon]All shots taken with SP90 + AF 540FGZ

Photography Outing this Saturday (02.02.08)

yrh0413 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:30:14 +0800

I plan to have an outing this Saturday, but haven't really decide where to go. Anyone interested to join me?

thinking of going Butterfly Farm at Lake Gardens

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Location: Butterfly Park, Lake Gardens
Time: 8:30am
Fees: Entrance RM5, additional RM1 for camera
Gears: Anyone with a camera may join. You don't have to own a macro lens (although having one means greater fun )
Map:

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List of participants:
1. yrh0413 (Daniel 017-3317433)
2. TheVoIP
3. aero99 (Ting 012-2101213)
4. vikingw2k
5. enhaw82
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Move on, or continue waiting...

yrh0413 — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:12:07 +0800

I'll keep everything short... we had an argument last weekend, and it was quite intense until she said she wanna break up with me. I was in a terrible mood that time, and we just "break up" like that. However the next day I called her and beg her, and she said give her at least 2 weeks time to consider...

And to her, we'd actually broke up. This 2 weeks time is to allow her to change her mind, whether she will regret breaking up or not. I felt very miserable when I thought we're no more couples, according to her. I keep persuading her and beg her, even cried countless times... but she still thinks we'd broke up. After 2 days, I lost my senses and did something really bad to her... and hurt her deeply. I thought her parents might be able to help, but in the end I made everything worse. And she told me firmly... she doesn't want to continue this relationship anymore.

Days have passed... I really felt miserable and lonely. Its as if I was left alone in this world... helpless. I still tried to persuade her and beg her, but she doesn't want to change her mind. In the end she said it is better if we remain friends... since her decision was final, I have to accept it. And when I finally accepted this "friend" (we actually chatted on msn), she cried at her workplace... she said she's "not willing (不舍得)". I'm really reluctant to accept this ending... lovely couple to just friends... but her reactions told me: she still has feelings to me, and I still love her very much.

Now that we're friends, I still sms and call her everyday. She even sent an sms to me this morning... I still treat her very good (as I still treat her as my girlfriend)... she said I have changed after we broke up; but I really want her to know... I'd known my mistakes and I will change for her, because I'm still very much in love with her. The feeling towards her is still very strong...

And when I ask her... will we be couples again in future, she said maybe... time will tell. I'm 100% sure that she still loves me and miss me after we broke up, but that's her call; she wanted to breakup and I'd done everything... I wanted to move on and get to know new friends, yet I'm still hoping she will take back her words. If I choose to wait for her, god knows when she will accept me back...

[Discussion] IEMs vs full-size headphones

yrh0413 — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:39:47 +0800

I'll start the ball rolling Feel free to contribute your experience too (w5k vs 716? MS2i vs 716/Mylar? )

[center]Shure e4c and AKG Acoustics K701[/center]

Introduction:
I just acquired an immaculate pair of Shure e4c from our forumer cfim last weekend. This is the first pair of IEMs I ever own, so please bear with my shallow experience on IEMs especially in this review. In fact I never thought there would be one day IEMs become a necessity to me. Well, it all started when I accepted a job offer from a company at Cyberjaya, and from that day onwards I spend 4 hours in the bus on my workdays. Eventually I bought an iPod to satisfy my thirst for music, but its stock earbuds does not provide good isolation and I have to crank up the volume on my iPod to extreme levels just for the sake of drowning external noise. I told myself: I definitely need a pair of IEMs.

I'd tested the Mylars during our 2nd audiophile meet up, but they leave me too much to desire as I'd gotten too used to AKG's signature. Then I had a 5 minutes experience on the Shure e2c and AL IM716 at machines one month ago. I like the e2c very much as it has decent bass and good isolation; but it does not reveal much details. The IM716s on the other hand gave me sore ears when I walk out from Machines. But I do admit it sounded better than the e2c especially when it comes to details. Bass wise the e2c has more quantity but the 716 is more refined. However I did not consider the AL or Ety because I prefer IEMs that do not use filters. I almost bought the e2c but I would like to try out others like superfi.3 or UM1 before I commit my purchase. And when I notice there's someone selling a used pair of e4c, I consulted my financial advisor and she gave me the green light to proceed... lolz. Yup, I had never audition the e4c before; it's a blind purchase.

Setup:
Source: ESI Maya44 coaxial output -> Modded Zhaolu with LM6172s
Headamp: Modded HeeD Audio Canamp
** e4c has medium soft flex mounted

Review #1 - Comfort:
Frankly, I don't think there's anyway a pair of IEMs can match the comfort of a full-size headphone, especially circum-aural cans like the K701. It took me few days to get used to having rubber in my ears, not to mention there was once I got a soft flex stuck inside my left ear Nevertheless even after days of usage I'm still experiencing some mild discomfort.

Review #2 - SQ:
Here's the important part of the review. When compared with the K701, e4c has a very very confined soundstage. It creates a sound sphere inside my head, and the effect is very obvious on binaural recordings. I have a test track that simulates the sound of an airplane flying from extreme left to extreme right. It sounded uber impressive on my K701, but when I tested it on my e4c it was a totally different experience. The plane is actually flying inside my head, from my left eye to my right eye! I was like "wtf??" when I encounter this weird behavior. I couldn't accept it thus I picked some classical pieces and run them through my e4c. Tada! I have a mini orchestra playing inside my head. I still can pinpoint where is the cymbalist, violinist and other buggers, but it's certainly not as immersing as listening to the same track on my K701.

Other than the soundstage, I find the e4c loses a little in terms of details; maybe it is due to e4c having rolled-off treble. Bass wise the e4c has punchy bass but K701 performs even better. You know, K701's bass rocks my head but e4c only manage to shake my eardrums. The bass is definitely there but it is channeled in a different way. K701's bass hits hard and deep; you can actually feel it echoing deep into your head. For the e4c, it has same amount of bass too but I feel that the ripple just travel for a very short distance.

Review #3 - Miscellaneous:
First and foremost, I picked the e4c because most reviews show that it resembles Sennheiser's signature (and which it resembles closer to AKG signature). I find it partially true, albeit quite disappointed with the soundstage. The sole reason I got a pair of IEMs is isolation, and the e4c does meet my requirement. It sounded decent and I would say it resembles 60% of my K701, but then do remember that the e4c is a pair of IEM thus it has its limitations. It does irritate me with its weird soundstage but I'm slowly getting used to it. Nevertheless I do not regret this purchase as it exceeds my initial expectations. It is a different beast but it serves its purpose well; that's all I care about for an IEM.

Headphone stands!

yrh0413 — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:05:01 +0800

Introduce you... Lego stand!

original link: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=244537

Pics:

seriously i'm freaking impressed! It made my K701's stand looks so bad. Even better than the WooAudio premium stands

10kg+ dampening material...

yrh0413 — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:12:01 +0800

Headphones/Earphones Recomendation Corner V2

yrh0413 — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:59:53 +0800

This thread serves as a Q&A section for all new/existing audiophiles seeking advice on their new headphone purchase. The rules are simple, no flaming/bashing and try to not to spam (posting irrelevant post).

You may ask us any headphones/earphones related questions, and all of us in headphilers in this forum will gladly assist you. Don't be shy!

Best of luck on your headphones/earphones purchase.

(added by wK) This is a sequel of the topic previously located at http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/185976