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Progress on the building is going smoothly with pace. Cement were poured onto the first floor platform 2 days ago. Thanks to the bright sunshine, the cement solidifies and dry up quicker than expected. Works on the 2nd floor can now begin. I can start packing my stuffs and get ready to move back to Miri soon

Checkpoint No.3

October 13th, 2007.

A temporary gate to the Lutong-Kuala Baram Highway. Provides an easy access for the lorries to unload sands and building materials.

Scattered woods. Over tonnes of them are used so far.

This column wasn’t in the plan. The contractor suggested an additional columns be built to avoid cracks under heavy loads.

Beautiful morning sky. Fantastic view on the first floor towards the Lutong-Kuala Baram highway.

Labourers working on the mold for the 2nd floor columns.

The finished mold.

The rear end of the building. This will be turned into tarred pathway for cars to access the building.

There are 2 more lots of empty lands beyond the rear of the building.

The building is scheduled to be completed and handed over by January 2008. Watch out for the new age automotive store in Miri

I took a massive 3 days off last week and went back to Miri for the Hari Raya holidays. I had the chance to visit Brunei to check out the sports rims there. Will be getting them at the end of this year.

While approaching the Brunei Sultan’s Palace, we spotted these crowds along the stretch of the palace roads. The palace is open for public visitation every year during the Hari Raya season. During the visit, you get to shake hands with the Sultan himself and grab a free goodie pack, along with some hot food served on the spot - if you’re willing to wait on the queue.

A little traffic jam here.

The palace entrance.

Visitation hour is over and the crowd comes out of the palace.

I wonder how he managed to get so many of those goodie packs. I thought there’s only 1 for each person? By the way, those goodie packs are actually filled with food.

And then, there’s more people with goodie packs.

Everyone has it, little ones, old ones.

Goodie packs for the whole family.

Those who didn’t get it were left dejected and sitting by the roadside.

The chick in pink got a goodie pack too!!!!

Alright, enough of those goodie packs, I’ll show you some nice rims in the next post.

I was like What the F**k when I first heard it. 牛仔很忙 is totally not what I would expect from Jay Chou. But like most of his songs, it’ll get better after a few times, after you’ve understood his lyrics.

There you go, take a listen to his new song, the American cowboy themed - 牛仔很忙.

Now, I’m USD1.04 poorer each year paying domain names charges, and that’s just the price of one. I had about 5 of them. Too bad I didn’t renew for 10 years last time when it’s cheaper.

Namecheap had increased their price from USD8.88 to USD9.29, whereas their competitor Godaddy had it selling at USD9.99, it was USD8.95.

In April 2007, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved certain domain registries to increase their prices. Domain registries are the private companies which manage the registration, technical operations, and control the allocation policies of the TLD’s for which they are responsible.

Domain registries VeriSign(.com, .net tld’s), Afilias(.info tld), Neulevel(.biz tld) and Public Interest Registry(.org tld) applied for and received price increases and have announced they will be raising their wholesale prices to all registrars including us.

In light of that decision, NameCheap.com will be adjusting its pricing on Sunday, October 14, 2007 as follows:

.com domain renewals, transfers and new registrations: Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year
.net domain renewals, transfers and new registrations: Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year
.org domain renewals, transfers and new registrations: Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year
.info domain renewals, transfers and new registrations: Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year
.biz domain renewals, transfers and new registrations: Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year

I think this is not triggered by the recent oil price increase, is it no?

You know, if I were still a secondary school student, I think I’m pretty much gamed for playing too much DOTA. I would be proud to be able to name every single heroes in the DOTA game (89 of them) than remembering the states of Malaysia (13, or was it 12?). I’m proud that I knew every single hiding spots in the DOTA map, rather than locating each of the states of Malaysia correctly.

This is the consequence of playing too much DOTA. In an exam, students were asked to determine the opposite of the words given, and here’s the result.

Opposite of Pro? Noob. LMAO. Even the teacher doesn’t know what noob is. Check Wikipedia please.

Play against me and my teammates in channel ‘PUI’ in Blueserver from 8 to 12am. Chanlilian, please ask your boy join :P.

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A new building is currently under construction in Tudan. Upon completion, it will accommodate my future business activities in Miri. The construction site is based at the traffic light junction between the Tudan-Kuala Baram Highway and the road leading to E-mart or the new Permyjaya township. This is a log of my scheduled checks within the last couple of months.

Checkpoint 1: The Foundation

This is the remains of a 2-storey long house which was later demolished to make way for the construction. It was initially built to accommodate some Iban settlers at a minimal rental fee.

It’s now turned into a store room for the building materials.

Sands by the road side. Got fined by Miri City Council for road cleanliness issues. Shit.

Cement columns had been piled down a couple of days earlier and foundation works can begin.

Rain poured over night and the construction site is filled with water. Waiting for it to dry up a little before laying the sub-level platform.

Checkpoint 2: The Platform

This is a simple tool to assist in making the rectangular rings that will be a critical part in holding the building’s main structural support system.

Labour working on the square ring.

The rectangular steel ring.

Female labour working on the steel beam’s skeletons. Tying up the square rings to the main steel rods.

After the whole structure is finished, it’ll be lowered into the mold that will hold the cement later.

Cement will be poured into the “drain” mold, and when it all hardens, it’ll then become the building’s primary horizontal support beams. The vertical ones are shown in the middle of the photo.

This is the vertical columns that will hold the horizontal ones above.

Jungle of wood works to hold the massive platform on the first floor. Cement will be poured into the platform mold.

Read more in Checkpoint 3.