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Malaysian, Cooking Abroad!

glozz — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:06:17 +0800

Join me for home-cooked recipes, away from home!

Malaysian, Cooking abroad

Property transfer from parent and then refinance

glozz — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:55:00 +0800

Hallo, I have a question about property transfer from my father and then refinancing that property. However, as I'm overseas; I would like to see what options are possible to prepare for next year.

Appreciate any advise/feedback.

[WTB] Apple iPhone 2G

glozz — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 21:11:01 +0800

Looking for Apple iPhone 2G; must function and include full package + box. Offer me please; thanks!

Looking for something timeless

glozz — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:44:41 +0800

Hi Guys,

Am on the lookout for a classy car from the 90s. Something that's fun to cruise in and handles well. Budget's around the 80k mark (with loan) or 40-50k(cash). Nothing urgent, maybe only get it next year.

Has to be reliable and reasonably cheap to maintain. I'm thinking of the following, but please help me out here. Thanks.

BMW E36 (M3 or non-M3)
Merz CLK (230 or 200k)
Merz CE (how much's road tax for the 300?)
Merz 190E (with cosworth engine?)

Give me your thoughts please; thanks.

Need Certification Advise

glozz — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:38:26 +0800

Good Day,

I'm interested in looking to further my certification qualifications. Currently only got a BA in Business IT (2nd Upper Hons). Looking for suggestions into any or all of the following:

1. Professional Technical Certifications. Which ones should I do?
2. Masters?
3. PMP Certification?

My background is as follows:

<30 years old
9 years working experience (4 years in development/sys integration/migration/analyst; 5 years in IT management/development/analyst/admin)
UNIX/LINUX, Windows/Windows Servers experience (mostly development environment and 'bit of admin exp and server setup here and there)
Oracle, SQL Server, MYSQL, Foxpro, T-SQL-based-database experience (mostly development and performance tuning and migration experience)
Shell Scripting, C/C++, Visual Basic, ASP, QBASIC, PL SQL, PRO*C, T-SQL
Have basic network and socket knowledge and experience (developer POV mostly)
I enjoy consultancy and analyst roles; basically problem solving. Also IT management.

What would be the suggestions on the professional courses and/or certifications or perhaps Masters path that I can follow? Thanks alot for all advise and opinions.

Kernel Panic Problem

glozz — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:18:10 +0800

Good Day,

Am running Debian Sarge 3.1. Server was running fine for couple of months until 1 day the motherboard konged and it kernel panics everytime I try to boot it up. Have replaced the motherboard with an exact; but it still kernel panics during bootup. Anyone with some thoughts on this:

RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Freeing initrd memory: 2664k freed
VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

Any and all help appreciated. Thanks.

A Warning to all looking for cheap buys ONLINE

glozz — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:23:07 +0800

Good Day,

I was browsing ebay.com.my looking for any deals for ibooks and found this posting:

http://www.ebay.com.my/viItem?ItemId=270127216877

I recognised the images as coming from one of the guys selling his ibook here. I managed to trace the forum thread here:

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/451426/+20

At first; I thought they were the same one person and was merely disposing of it via ebay as plenty others have done and proceeded to bid for it. After making bids, the next day my bids were erased by the seller and the current bid was a much lower amount. He left his e-mail so I dropped him an e-mail saying I bidded a higher amount but i'm not sure what happened to my bid. He replied asking me giving me his contact details because he said I was the 2nd highest and he felt that the highest bidder would FFK the deal and he would then deal with me if that was the case. My bid was RM1300.

I said OK and didn't think anything about it; except that I noted his location was Malacca and he mentioned that he would have to courier the item down and charge an extra RM50. The next day I asked him what the status was and he mentioned still no contact from the winner and he would give it to me. I told him i would pay him a deposit(RM150) and that I will pay the rest next week; subject to his IC number being given to me after I made the deposit. He reluctantly agreed to it and only said yes after about a 10-15 minutes lapse.

I had a strange feeling about this especially since he re-iterated that his location was Malacca which is strange because the guy (liquid_ooze) posting it in LYN has clearly stated multiple times and posts that he was from Johor. Especially since the photos were the same. I went through the ebay seller's previous deals and how he obtained his current feedback and they were all from brand new members with no feedback until he also gave them one each. That and the fact that the 2 selling threads were almost identical made me more suspicious. As I had his number; I checked the number with liquid_ooze's posted contact number (which I had to search multiple threads to find). Since it was not the same; I suspected something was amissed. I posted in liquid_ooze's thread and PMed him the link to look at; since liquid_ooze seemed to be the real owner as he also had a friend verify on the thread that they knew each other.

This (saturday) morning; I received a reply from liquid_ooze both via PM and on his thread confirming my suspicions. I have also forwarded the contact details to liquid_ooze for his and everyone's caution. I have also smsed the ebay seller telling him I found out an exact duplicate thread with the same photos and same description on LYN so as to allow himself to explain himself, but have not received a reply from him.

PLEASE be careful when dealing with sellers especially if it's not COD. Do some background research first and if it sounds too good to be true; it probably is. Sorry for the long story. Without much ado; his personal details:

Name he gave me was David Leo. I've got no idea whether it's a real name or what not. Anyway; Maybank Account 101057415121.

HP Number is 012-2141405

Thanks for reading. liquid_ooze; no reduction on your best price ar? heh.

Looking for streamyx agent

glozz — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:53:19 +0800

Good Day,

I have about 5 guys who're looking for streamyx. Need an agent to apply. Pls include packages offered and details.
Thanks.

WTInform about cikokui

glozz — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:40:18 +0800

Good Day,

cikokui posted a thread; selling a Sony Flat Monitor; the thread is:

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=263001&hl=

I PMed him; expressing my interest in his monitor and asking him to PM me his contact so i can call him to settle it. No response. Fair enough. As a last course of action; I PMed him this afternoon; giving him my contact details and asking him to contact me to settle the deal; if he's interested. The following are SMS conversations TODAY(15/3/2006) and the timeline:

6.45pm: cikokui : Are you interested in the monitor? COD tonight if confirm.
my reply: OK. What time and where? Is tomorrow alright?
cikokui : Tonight is better. 9@Projet Cheras.
my reply: OK. Can we do COD anywhere else?
cikokui : Cheras better tonight. Reply my SMS if confirm as have only 0.20
credit.

So I called cikokui; and negotiated to do the COD deal somewhere else since i was not familiar with Cheras. Agreed to do the deal at 9@Kesas Awan Besar rest area. Confirmed the deal. The following are following SMS conversations and the timeline:

8.30pm: cikokui : Sorry bro. Cannot deal the monitor with you. Have confirmed
the deal with someone else who can COD earlier than you.
Cheers.
my reply: No prob then. But i'll post this on the forum since already
confirmed with you earlier.
cikokui : O realy. Anything la. I tak salah. So do whatever u want. Hehe.
Peace.
my reply: Ok then. I hope you meet a seller next time who did the same
thing as what you did. Say tak salah; but mungkir janji.
cikokui : Everyone ok with me. But u not ok. So. Whatever la bro. I dun
wan to waste my money to sms u again. Anything juz pm me la.
cikokui : And fyi. B4 u. There are 6 ppl i deal bout this monitor. But they
accept and respect my decision. Maybe they r older than u la. U so
childish.

I left my house at 8.20 and was on the way to Kesas already. And I promised my friend the monitor tonight. At this point; i don't see the point of replying the SMS. So after dinner and everything; I came back, logged on; and in my PM is this:

bro, u said u want to report to forum? under what reason? i cheat you ka? u wait but i didnt show up ka? but anyway... whatver la bro... i dont care.. ppl will know which one is in rite and which one is think he is rite. chow...

peace

I wanted to post this post into the thread selling the monitor; but it was closed already. I accept his decision; just not the way he did it; since it seemed unprofessional to me. True; i may not be as old as the other ppl he was dealing with and i may be childish; but; I work and service clients as a personal business for a living, and I don't remember doing something like this to anyone of them.

Just to warn other people my experience with cikokui. No offence intended; just trying to be as objective as possible.

I will PM cikokui as well; notifying him of this thread.