Koo Kien Keat in Sudirman Cup 2009

Yesterday was the semi-final of Sudirman cup and Malaysia meets China. Malaysia lost to china with the result of 3-0 is what we Malaysian don’t wish to see. Furthermore, I personally don’t wish to see Lee Chong Wei lost to Lin Dan but it happen yesterday. Anyway Malaysia team already try their best and performed well in the competition.

What I discuss here is the sportsmanship of Koo Kien Keat. I think all of us that watch the match yesterday noticed that Koo Kien Keat show middle finger to his racket during the match with China. Although he did not point this to the opponent but to a non living thing which is his racket but it is still not what a professional athlete should do in international stage. All his action is capture by all the camera there and the competition is live for people all over the world to watch and yet he dare to do such action. However, I understand his motive to release his emotion and during the match, sometimes emotion is hard to control.

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Bug in Dota 6.59b invisible frog

The invisible frogs in 6.59b, I wonder how many people have already try it when playing online in GG or in cyber. This bug can help you earn extra fast money. So there is no problem of winning the game. However, this map already out dated seem now there’s already have 6.59d. I wonder how many of you have played game with bug but you do not know they are exist? I still remember that I meet this situation once, the bug was on the syllabear where it can earn extra item by killing the bear. I played on GG and the opponent team got a syllabear. Of course I don’t know there is bug so for me, I still though that the person really pro because he earn fast although he had been slay for a few times. As a result we lost the game due to the extra fat syllabear. When look back the replay… then I know what is really happen. Anyway that just a game, so lost or win does not bring any meaning. Just feel a bit dissatisfaction of losing in that way.

One more subject to go before my final exam end, can’t wait till that day!!

Summon Tauren Chieftain in Dota 6.59b

Today I just know that there is a secret Quest can be done in Defense of The Ancient (DOTA) 6.59b map. This might already not a fresh piece of information for some of you but I still like to share this in my blog. This quest can be done easily if you play a single player mode. You can summon a Tauren Chieftain after you complete the quest. If you able to kill it which is impossible without playing cheat, you can get the “Axe of the Chieftain” which will give you addition of +200 Strength and Chieftain Strike. The Chieftain Strike is used to bounce any unit away from you but it does not cause any damage. Well, if this can be done in real DOTA tournament, then the one who get the “Axe of the Chieftain” will own the game with that extra 200 strength. Go and have a try with this quest if you haven did so. Watch the video below for more detail of how to summon Tauren Chieftain.

Fishing Competiton In UMS

Yesterday there was a fishing competition held in Universiti Malaysia Sabah. This competition was organized by the student from business faculty and the venue is at the ODEC of the university which is our university own jetty. Fishing is one of the famous activities done my people in Kota Kinabalu. When you drive along the way at the sea side of Kota Kinabalu, you can see people fishing. The competition opens for all people who is interested in fishing. The competition started at 8.00a.m and end at 12.45p.m. The winner will be selected base on the weight of their catch. Whoever that catch the heavier fish will be the champion. Champion will be given RM500 cash money.

There are quite a lot of people taking part in this competition. However, from what my friend told me, the number of participator for this year is less compared to the previous year. Well, I’m not taking part in this competition because I don’t know how to fish. I went there just to support my friend and see how people fishing. The weather on that day is so nice. I feel that it will be very relaxing to fish at such environment.

While fishing, participator can also enjoy the view of the ocean. Kota Kinabalu town can be seen clearly here. Due to the quality of my camera, you can see it clearly from the picture.

The moment I arrive at ODEC, my friend Allan already got a few catch. However, the heavier catch he got is only 170g which is still far away to be champion.

I don’t know what name is this fish call but it really looks scary to me. I look like belong to the grouper’s family. They said that it is poison, is it true?

Below is the fish caught by one of the participator which it is clearly seen that is catch certainly heavier than what my friend got. It is aroung 200g-250g.

What unusual thing happen is that besides catching fish, one of the participator hooks up a crab. I don’t know whether crab consider as fish or not but this crab certainly got some weight.

My friend doesn’t have any luck that day to allow him to get the champion. The heaviest catch in this competition is only about 400g. It really doesn’t sound like a big fish. I don’t know who the winner is so I can’t manage to get a snap on his fish before I leave.

After watching this competition, I really do have the feeling to try with this activity. There are really lots of knowledge can be learn in fishing. What stop my way is that this is not a cheap hobby because all the tool needed is quite expensive if I want to get a quality one. Well, hope my blog can earn me a fishing rod as soon as possible.

Universiti Malaysia Sabah Press Conference

On 15 January 2009, Universiti Malaysia Sabah had organized a press conference in SKTM. This press conference is mainly for letting the outside world know the achievement of Universiti Malaysia Sabah in year 2008. On the day, media friends have been invited to SKTM. So what is the achievement s of UMS in 2008? Well, UMS had won two champions from two competitions which is Freescale Smart Car Competition and Technical Presentation in National Chemical Engineering Symposium (NACES) 2008.

Freescale Smart Car Competition is a competition held by Freescale Semiconductor Malaysia Sdn.Bhd. and The Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Malaysia. This year is the very first time the competition is being held in Malaysia which is expected to be an annual event in the forth coming years. A total of 26 teams from 11 universities from all around Malaysia had participated in this event. Apart from Malaysia, similar competitions had been organized by IEEE and Freescale since the year 2006 in China, Korea and India. For information on the day of competition, please check out this post:

1) Before the Competition

2)During the Competition

3) Winning Video

NACES is an annual gathering for all chemical engineering undergraduates from both public and private universities from all over Malaysia. This program can enhance the integration among chemical engineering undergraduates from different races. Apart from that, this program can provide exposure to the issues and challenges faced by chemical engineers in the era of globalization in their effort to develop the country. The NACES 2009 will be held for the very first time in Universiti Malaysia Sabah under the wings of the Chemical Engineering Student’s Club.

This event is held at the foyer of SKTM.

Early that morning, we when to SKTM to do our final preparation. We recheck the presentation slide, the condition of the car.

This is the game field that we going to use to show the reporters how fast our car can go. Both the cars are in good condition and waiting for show time.

The event start at 11.00p.m. Before it start, we are ask to stand up to sing the song of our University “ Bertekad Cemerlang”.

After that, Dean of SKTM, Dr.Rosalam Sarbatly is giving out his speech.

Next is the student from Chemical Engineering which took part in NECES presenting their slide. Their topic is “Algae the Biofuel” which is the new method to get energy besides using natural mineral. This is the research that brings them the champion in NECES.

Then is student from Electronic and Electrical Engineering which took part in Freescale Smart Car presenting our slide. My friend Wong Cheok Liang is explaining to our Dean,lecturer and also reporters about the competition.

After the brief presentation, we also demonstrate our smart car in the game field prepared.

Our Dean and team lecturers for both competitions are being interview.

Lecturers are proud with our achievement.

In the end of the event, we are given a goodie bag. Well lets guess what is it inside the goodie bag.

No cool T-shirt, no cool Cap and this is what I got. Disappointed!!

This is the first time a press conference is held in SKTM and everything going smoothly during the conference. Hopefully there will be more achievement from student in Year 2009. UMS Boleh!!

Winning Video of Freescale Smart Car Competition 2008

This might not a fresh piece of news but I still want to share this with all my reader here. As you all know that Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) Freescale Smart Car Team is the champion in the Freescale Smart Car Competition 2008. I have post about it in my previous post and now I got the video where UMS's Team in final. UMS's Team finish the lap in 40.146 seconds which lead the 1st runner up, UTM Team about 12 seconds. Enjoy the video!!

Freescale Smart Car Malaysia 2008

Freescale Smart Car Competition is held in Dewan Sirim where it is somewhere near UITM in Shah Alam. There are all together 28 teams from 11 university in Malaysia took part in this competition. During the first day of the competition, we were given a chance to do a trial run on the “real track”. The “real track” I mean here was not really the real track they going to use on the competition but a small track that build with the same material as the real one. All the participants do not know how the real track is before the competition because the track is confidential. Below is the video Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) teams’ trial run.

You can notice that everything going well during the trial run on the small ‘8’ track.

The second day, 13 December 2008 is the day of the competition. Every team had done their full preparation for their smart car and all the cars were being place in the pit. The real track is very challenging.

The person in charge is trying to block the sun light that shine through the window into the track. This is very important because the bright light will influence the performance of the sensor or the camera use by the smart car.

This is the video that show my team’s smart car going off track.

Well, sorry that I can’t show the video of the wining team's car because I don’t have the video with me. So here are some pictures taken when our UMS team becomes champion.

Freescale Smart Car Competition 2008

Freescale Smart Car Competition 2008. This is what I have been doing after finish my final exam during this semester. Well, just come back from Kuala Lumpur yesterday and now can start to blog again. This is the first time this Smart Car Competition being organizes in Malaysia and hence we are all new here. One good news is that we Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) got the champion for this competition. Congratulation again to my course mate Justin Yap and also Wong Cheok Liang. They really spend a lot of time and effort for this competition so they deserve to be Champion.

Well, what is this Smart Car Competition about? Freescale provide us the model of the car, dc motor, battery charger, battery, Microcontroller, and also a programmer. Then you have to use what you got and add in what you wanted to add in to make the car run on the track in the competition. The winner will be the car that finishes a lap with the fastest time. Sounds easy but the process is not as easy as you thought. Below are the product of UMS team and one of the video of our test run in ums lab during the night before we packed up.

That is the track we build ourselves for testing. Due to insufficient of funding, this is the best we can do. However, everything going well on this track.

SMM Grand National Dota Tournament 2008

SMM Grand National Dota Tournament 2008 in Sabah had just passed last week. Recently my post always out of date due to the bad connection and also I’m busy with my course work. Anyway for those who know nothing about this tournament, you can still read some of it here.

This tournament is held all over Malaysia and open for all Malaysian’s Dota lover. The winner from each state will represent their state to compete with the winner from other state. For those who don’t know what is Dota, it’s really hard for me to explain but I can tell you that this is a simple computer game which can bring you lots of fun. The poster above showing some detail for the tournament. So you can enlarge it if you are interested.

The Tournament in Sabah is held in Cyber X which is a cyber café located in Damai, Kota Kinabalu.Below are some of the picture I took.

The cyber café is crowded with competitor and also supporter. Everyone is trying their best to win the game.

This is the first time I when to see Dota Tournament outside my University. I didn’t take part in it but just go to be supporter for my University Team call “I’m not Clan” .This team is our University Champion and they are going for this Tournament.

He is the manager of “I’m not Clan” and also my lovely course mate.

Here are the players in “I’m not Clan”. This picture is taken during their 1st match. They won this match easily. Well, “I’m not Clan” manage to go until semi final. The winner for this Tournament is a Team from Tawau “VZP” which got a very good skill and team work. Congratulation to them. As for my University team, they really did a good job.

After watching their first match, I went to walk around Cyber X and took some of this picture.

Cyber X is really big, the part I show in the above picture is for the tournament. The part showing in the picture below is for public gamer. The environment here is very comfortable.

Here are some of the Dota Character’s collections. This is only for display. Sorry for the reflection.

The Tournament is really excited and every team got a very good skill. After watching some match, I found that there are still lots of strategy can be used which I never thought of. Learn lots from this tournament about Dota.

My Favourite Computer Game of All-Time

The game I like to play is a well known game call Defense Of The Ancient (DOTA).Yes, I think everybody know this game. Even you didn’t play before, for sure you have heard before.

DOTA is a game or a map in War craft III. There are two teams which are Sentinel and Scourge. Each team can have maximum 5 players. There are total of 91 heroes and each hero got 4 skills. The base of each team is at the opposite side of each other. There are only 3 route leads which lead to the opponent base. The game is very simple, you only need to control a hero. You will level up and earn gold when you kill opponent creeps or heroes. The maximum level for each hero is level 25.The Goal for this game is to destroy “The Frozen Throne” of scourge(if you are a Sentinel) or destroy the “The World Tree” of Sentinel(If you are a Scourge).Who ever destroy the opponent “The Frozen Throne” or “The World Tree” will won the game.

Beyond Godlike is the highest rank for continually kill opponent heroes!

The game really seems to be simple but it is not when you are playing. You will need to earn gold and level up as fast as possible so that you can have good item to pawn your opponent. Teamwork is extremely important in playing DOTA. If you don’t have teamwork with your team mate, you will lose the game easily.

How nice if i can gold as fast as this.

Although the map only got 3 main route lead to the opponent base, but in between there are many side road for example forest where you can hide and hunt down your opponent with your team mate. There’s lots of strategy you can use in this simple map which make me like to play this game a lot. Beside your personal skill, strategy and team work is the most important factor to win the game.Believe me! You will like this game once you try it!

Nuffnang Gift Ideas Contest

I had participate in “Nuffnang Gift Ideas Contest” This contest is organized by Nuffnang and also The RealMart Online Merchandise Store to test the creativity of the participators. By entering this contest, you will stand a chance to win prizes as stated below:

First prize: RealMart e-voucher valued at RM1,500

Second prize : RealMart e-voucher valued at RM1,000

Third prize : RealMart e-voucher valued at RM500

So what are you waiting for? Participate now to win the prize and enjoy shopping at RealMart.

I would like to give a Sony Cybershot DSC-T300-black - T300 to my best friend Crazyfool so that he can take more quality pictures and also video to post on his blog. I think all of us enjoy reading Crazyfool’s blog, but you might notice that some of the pictures and video he took was not clear enough because he is using his Nokia 6230 which only 0.3MP.So this Sony Cybershot DSC-T300-black - T300 is just what he need to make his blog more perfect.