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no, not just your regular realplayer.

durin this december 2008 pc fair 3, i noticed the massive availability of products which plays rm/rmvb files on your lcd/tv. usually these products come with the support for an internal hdd, which could turn out costly, but this time it supports the cheap and light-weight alternative: usb thumbdrive. my housemate managed to get hold of one, which i will write about in this post.

this rmvb media player (don’t get fooled by the 2.5″ hdd player wordings written on the box) is one of those made-in-china product, which cost rm200. it is sellin pretty well at the fair, so do check it out.

inside the box is the media player, a remote control, an power adapter, rca plugs (yellow white red cables), and a manual (which we never bother to look as they normally contains broken english).

now, how does this device work? very simple. basically, just plug those yellow, white and red cables to your tv (or use the vga connector to your computer monitor), plug in the adapter, and connect a usb thumbdrive or external harddisk which contains movies to the host1/host2 port and you’re good to go! this media player supports sd cards as well.

the output resolutions for this media player are ntsc (480i, 480p), pal (576i, 576p), and hd (720p). the on-screen display language are english and chinese, and the dimension for this device is 150 x 105 x 25 mm. the supported video format are as follows:
- realvideo 8/9/10 (*.rm, *.rmvb, *.amrm)
- mpeg1 & mpeg2 (*.mpg, *.mpeg, *.dat)
- dvd (*.vob)
- mpeg4 divx/xvid with subtitle support (*.avi) (so far only tested with *.srt)
- quicktime (*.mov)
- m-jpeg (*.mov, *.avi)

audio format supported are mp3 and wma, and picture format supported are jpeg, bmp, png, gif, tiff, and txt. sadly, the now available high definition rip (*.mkv) is not supported.

another drawback is the usage of china’s socket plug, which you’ll have to invest about rm5 for a converter to be able to use the adapter. now i’m just contemplatin on whether to get this, or the one which supports an internal hdd inside

My sis, bro-in-law and i were thinking bout my sis's baby's name. My sis is in her 28th week by the way.=) However, we didn't come up with any names that the baby responded to, i.e. she didn't poke my sis's tummy. She does u know!

After coming back to vista, i told chin yeong what i did earlier. And since chin yeong and i had nothing to do, we decided to help wen yi and shen yang think of their future children's name. His surname is 'chin' btw.. Since 'chin' means 'really' in hokkien, we had fun creating names..

WARNING: Strictly for those who understand hokkien only.

We came up with this list:

If she's a baby girl,

Chin jia sui
Chin jia san
Chin ho mia
Chin ho kua
Chin gao zhi
Chin gao sueh
Chin gao xi
Chin hao xi
Chin zuey wei
Chin ai sui

For baby boy,

Chin kut lat
Chin boh song
Chin jia song
Chin jia ho
Chin jia eng
Chin jia guai
Chin wu lat
Chin wu eng
Chin wu lui
Chin gao pia

Fuh yo! Try reading it in the fastest pace possible and u'll have fun too! And please do wen yi a favour by telling her the name you will vote for.=)

On tuesday, a bunch of us went to midvalley to celebrate devi's birthday. The venue changed from PJ to chili's in midvalley and when we reached, the waitress told us that they were unable to arrange table for 18. And thus, recommended us to Spaghetti Grill aka Chili's sister. Thinking it would be good as well, we agreed.

It's located in the same stretch as Chili's.

Much to our disappointment, the food there was...HORRIBLE!!! Shall explain based on pictures.=)

Poh yee's soup and salad. The soup is very thick. In fact, TOOOOO thick. Cant imagine? Well, imagine taking a scoop of it, and pouring it on a flat surface. It will not flow slowly down like usual thick soup, but it wil go 'piak'..
Rating:3/10

We ordered hawaiian pizza and garlic sth pizza (forgot the name d). They were the only better ones that we had. It was nothing special (u can get similar tasting pizza in many restaurants), but i guess the fact that the other food was so sucky that we really appreciate these pizzas!
Rating:7/10

Wen yi's grilled chicken pasta. For one, the grilled chicked is dry, and doesn't taste much. The spaghetti has very limited sauce, hence very dry as well.
Rating:5/10

Raj's fish and chips. The chips suungguh the little, and doesn't taste good. The fish is still all right but i hated the sauce. It's not the usual tartar sauce. Dunno what they added in.
Rating:5/10

Chin yeong and i shared lasagna and stuffed mushroom. Considering it was rm23.95, we sort of expected a TGIF size lasagna. But...it was pathetically small. I think the angle i took made it look bigger. Do not be deceived! Now, the taste. It was the worst lasagna i've ever tried. Seriously. I am a fan of lasagna and this was a huge let down. Even the lasagna i had in germany (the ones we bought from rewe supermarket and then bake it in an oven) taste better.
And Kenneth, you rmbr once we overbaked the lasagna? It tasted kinda yucky rmbr? This is worse. Cuz at least the one we overbaked had nice cheese on top.
So my rating:1/10 (i gave up eating halfway)

This stuffed mushroom cost rm17.95..and it taste bad. The mushroom is of those chinese mushroom, but they made it soft and not chewy. The menu stated 'stuffed with meat' But i could hardly taste any meat. Just some macam flavoured oat kinda feeling.
Rating:1/10

Giri's lamb shank. I didn't try it so no comment.

And apparently, the ravioli that chew ning ordered was also bad. I wonder how was the food that the rest ordered.

Anyway, shall end my blog with a group photo.*all smiles*

i was in the gardens last wednesday for some pasta at italiannies.

you know, the bowls of pasta promotion where you get to pick 4 pasta of your choice out of the available 10, in a single order for only rm29.90.

among the 10 choices available, we picked (clockwise in picture below) chicken & mushroom, classic carbonara, chili shrimp, and chicken lasagna.

of course, the best is still classic carbonara, which i never fail to order almost everytime i went italiannies. the chili shrimp, in my opinion, is a little lack of taste, but addin pepper into it solves the problem. as for the portion, it’s enough to feed 2 not-hungry people =) because i wasn’t satisfied with the helpin, i ordered another quattro platter.

seriously, i dislike the stuffed mushrooms balls, and the zucchini fritte is a little too on the salty side. all in all, i spent rm69 on a bowls of pasta, a quattro platter, and a glass of ‘bottomless’ (not butt-less) ice lemon tea.

Venue: Italiannies The Gardens (second floor), Mid Valley
Tel: 03 2283 3675

Currently Listening to: 85A by Yelle

Yayyy….. it’s that time again! Wtf duno why I’m so happy… tomorrow JLPT 3 & 4 exam la donk! Not yet finish studying but can’t wait to take exam? Wana flunk again?! I hope I would do better for JLPT 4 this time… Last year I failed by 1 mark. Damn… need to pay RM50 for retake zzz.

Neway, my passport sampai-ed yesterday dee!!!!! Phew… & I thought I wouldn’t be able to go to Singapore. Can you believe it? I left my passport at Labuan and thank god I still have friends who are still in campus so they post it here.

So, today will mark the 1st day of my ever-so-busy-travelling-all-over-places!

6.12 - 8.12

Will be at Ipoh for JLPT test & some shopping with Hooi Ming after that. HM, finally get to shop with you! I miss all the crazy things we bought & did in Penang:)

First go sing k at Redbox

Shop till we lost track of time, got ready for wedding dinner in half an hour nia. Arrived only to know that the bride’s mum asked us to be the flower girl wtf

Returned to hotel, camwhore session resumed

HM sells perfume, me sell heels

Still got many crazy pics we took that night but cannot upload here bcos gila kah?