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AMD Penang

gtqr68 — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:26:00 +0800

Anyone knows more about AMD Penang. From the outlook of it, seems quite unstable with massive layoffs in the past 12 months.

I'm currently working with an EMS company and thinking of switching over to an OUM.

Overall benefits are comparable and the overall increment is about 15% increment only.

Can help me with a decision?

Magnum Jackpot 20M

gtqr68 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:37:59 +0800

What would you do with the winning money

Spoilt Kids

gtqr68 — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:41:58 +0800

China's "Strawberry Generation" of young adults has been blamed on parents who are far too lenient and overindulgent of their children's every whim and fancy to the point of spoiling them.

The term references the sweet looking fruit that's sometimes sour on the inside, and the label has been slapped on kids born after 1980. These "strawberry cupcakes" are also deemed too lazy to do any work hard and too weak to deal with the realities of life in the real world.

Several recent incidents have been making the rounds on China's social media sites. Last month, a boy threatened to kill himself by lying in the middle of a busy street if his dad refused to get him a car. Another slapped his mother in public for presenting him with a fake iPhone.

One girl screamed at her mum in public and reduced her to tears when her mum couldn't afford to pay for her iPhone, her iPad and her MacBook. And another threatened her parents that she would drop out of university if they wouldn't get her an iPhone.

In the case of 21-year-old Xu and his traffic-stopping stunt in Chongqing City, he had demanded a 150,000 yuan (RM75,000) car from his 50-year-old dad who runs a scaffolding business. The car, he said, was one of the requirements put forth by his fiancée's family in order for them to get married.

He had tried that trick before and twisted his dad's arm into giving him a 3,000 yuan computer, neighbours said. However, when his dad turned him down for the car, Xu dashed to the street and planked himself on the road. His dad was forced to promise to take a loan and deliver the car at the end of year.

Days later, however, Xu again demanded for the car but now he wanted it right away. When his dad said no, Xu attacked the family van with a fire extinguisher and smashed all its windows. He then laid down on Pan Long Road again—but this time motorists called the cops and they came to haul him off.

iPhone envy has also caused these "strawberry kids" to humiliate their parents in public. One man in Longkou City of Shandong Province slapped his mother twice after she—a fruit seller—tried to pacify him with an imitation phone in the middle of his shopping. Embarrassed by her, he smashed the phone to the ground and slapped her in front of other customers.

Girls haven't been spared from the "Strawberry Generation" phenomenon. One university freshman from Beijing yelled at her mum in the middle of a store when she was unable to pay for her daughter's iPhone, iPad and MacBook, which totalled over 20,000 yuan. "You don't buy for me, let me lose face in university!" she screamed at her weeping mum.

Another girl threatened to drop out of Huazhong Normal University if her parents didn't get her an iPhone on top of settling her tuition fees. "I won't study here if you don't buy [the phone] since you've paid for everything!" she yelled in the middle of the Hankou campus.

After an hour of talking down by her parents and university lecturers, she was finally persuaded to take the latest model from another brand, even though it was cheaper than the Apple.

Performance Monster: Civic Type R or Mazda RX8

gtqr68 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:20:05 +0800

After all these years of working working and working, finally I've got the guts to invest on my very own dreamcar. Although my current dreamcar is the R35 GTR, it would cost at least 500k for one, a not so feasible compared to my budget. Therefore, I'm opting to get one around 200k.

A Civic Type R would probably fits me well with that kind of budget but one thing I dislike is the lack of "Wow" factor. Its exterior design is quite similar with those Civic wannabe Type R out there.
A friend of mine suggested the new facelifted version of Mazda RX8 which costs slightly above 200k. Have not personallty viewed the car yet but a search in the net views a relatively decent sports car with 4 doors and sleeky design.

These 2 were the only cars that are currently in my consideration. Feel free to add in especially those who own those cars, provide me with some feedback.
Well, I welcome any critics, bashings, comments, suggestions as long as keep it to those performace car below 200k.

City ECU problem

gtqr68 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:38:23 +0800

Greeting all,

I have this problem.
My car is City VTEC 04, and recently i sent it to honda SC for inspection and they found that my ECU needed to be recalibrated.
But there was an error jam popping out which show my ignition coil malfuction,
The formen checked and confirmed my ignition coil no prob, but the error jam still not cleared, therefore cannot recalibrate ECU.

I am scared that in the long run it might damage my GB or engine.

Do anyone have this kind of issue before? Will running the car without proper ECU calibration will damage the car in long run?

Honda City 04 as 1st car

gtqr68 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:28:07 +0800

Greetings to all forumers...

I plan to get a 2nd hand honda city 04 I-DSI for 47k
Is it worth it than getting a new car (MyVi, Persona B-Line) considering
1) Pricing
2) Performace
3) Fuel Economy
4) Resale value -after 5 yrs

for a honda city badge 04. heard that older badge might have CVT gearbox problem.
Is 04 version affected as well?
Also, if the car had just done the 80k servicing, does that means that it should have no prob?
Are they going to check the CVT gearbox during the service?

Please advice,

Mitsubishi Lancer 2.0GT perhaps?

gtqr68 — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:59:02 +0800

Hi all forumers,

I've decided to buy myself a brand new car. I need a quite powerful car as I travel through hills and slopes daily.

Been planning to get the new Altis or Civic 1.8 but suddenly came across the Lancer 2.0

The pricing for these 3 cars is quite the same but I thought Lancer is more worth it since its a 2.0L

Should I go for the Lancer? What is the pros and cons for those cars?

I need some inputs from you guys out there to help me make a decision

Thank you.

Irritating drivers

gtqr68 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:07:38 +0800

Hi to all forumers.

just want to share my experience,
I was on my way back to Penang, driving at exactly 110km/h, maybe a bit faster sometimes when need to overtake.
It was raining lightly and suddenly there was this stupid Lancer GT (maybe is Evo) tailgate and keep highlighting me.
I was at the left lane of the highway. Initially, I thought my car maybe got prob so the driver wan to tell me, so i slow down.
It happened for more than 10 minutes.
But that stupid driver overtake me at the right and during our car side by side, the drivers fren at the front passenger roll down is window and
showed me the universal hand sign and F### me.

What did I do wrong?

up to this day, I still cannot understand?!!

Need advise on 2nd hand car

gtqr68 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:07:36 +0800

Hi all forumers..

Want to ask you guys for advise.

I plan to buy a 2nd hand car but in this kind of economic situation, I'm still unable to make up my mind,

Anyway, I've found a car which is:

Honda City Vtec 05
- Test drived the car, engine is good, speed up to 120+ and no funny2 sound.
- Exterior is ok, interior got some stains at the back of the front pasenger seat
- full Mugen bodykit
- Tinted
- 53k m/l
- full honda service record

Price is 59k..

Is it worth to buy it? Or should I save more money and go for new city and wait for another 1 yr?

Process, Equipment Eng or FA Engineer

gtqr68 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:19:55 +0800

Greetings,

For both position, which one would be better in terms of job prospect and the learning opportunities for a fresh grad?

For me, I would think FA is better coz we get to handle lots of testing equipments.

But how about Process Eng? and Equipment Eng?

Plz share your thought.

Opinions: Small Company or big MNC

gtqr68 — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:45:51 +0800

Hi guys, I'm new here.

I need advice from u guys.

I was offered 2 positions but i do not know which 1 to choose.

1) Technical Sales Engineer
Basic RM2k, Allowance RM 800
Singapore based company selling enginerring equipments,

2) Process & Equipment Engineer
Basic RM 3.1k
US MNC, guaranteed high workload, highly challenging job.

What do you think.

I was thinking of accepting the (1) job as I like to interact and communicate with plp but I was unsure about the prospect as a sales engineer. Well, is joining a big company or a small company better in terms of learning opportunity,

Btw, I'm a fresh graduate in Engineering.