It nearly hit home – flash flood in Alor Star

Here are the pictures of flash flood in Alor Star. Places like Jalan Stadium, part of Jalan Putra, Jalan Pintu Sepuluh was flooded, though not as badly as in Changlun and some part of Jitra. Lucky that the flash flood doesn’t hit my home, because I hate rearranging my furniture back and forth.

The flood has subside in Alor Star now, with traces of mud and stinking smell particularly in area near Kedah Medical Centre (KMC), I saw a pickup truck was pulled into the river by the flash flood while driving around the place, hmmm.

Flash flood in alor star, by mypapit

Flash flood near Jalan Stadium Kedah, by mypapit

flash flood in Jalan Stadium, by mypapit

Near Kedah Medical Center

 

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Killing time with SuperTux game

My mom’s cousin getting married today, and after going there, I realised that I’ve got so much time in my hands without things to do. So, I’ve decided to try this game, SuperTux.

At first glance, it seems like a nice game, and after installing the game, I felt like it really is! In fact, I spend an hour and a half playing that darn game. By the way, SuperTux is brought to you by the NewBreedSoftware and is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2. Though it may seems a bit childish, it reminds me of the good old simpler days of sidescrolling games like Super Mario Bros or DoubleDragon and such. Besides, it serve its purpose of killing some of my extra time, hehe…

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I’m here for Langkawi, not Kuala Lumpur!! Get your geography right!

While I’m on holiday in Pulau Langkawi, I’ve decided to take a cable car ride in gunung Mat Cincang, since I missed it the last time I went to Pulau Langkawi. They said that you can get a fine view of Langkawi from up there.

As I entered the Oriental Village, I was suprised by what I saw. What the heck with that signboard?

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I mean what the heck with Jalan Dang Wangi signboard (complete with postcode) doing in the middle of Pulau Langkawi? Am I in federal territory now? Is Malaysian govt is too ashamed to admit this tourist attraction is in Langkawi?

Who’s the wise guy that came out with this idea of putting misleading signboard anyway? For starters, this place doesn’t look like Jalan Dang Wangi in Kuala Lumpur at all! I don’t know about you, but if I’m a Langkawi resident, I’d surely be deeply insulted by now.

(The entrance that magically transports you to Jalan Dang Wangi, KL)

Before you argue with me that the signboard is cool, save it. It isn’t cool to a tourist. I know that first hand because I’m a tourist myself, it’s misleading and it shows that Langkawi does not deserve such place so that the management had to put a fake signboard to make people felt they are someplace else. What’s wrong by putting the right signboard? At least people will remember it in their *cough* *cough* photographs.

Langkawi is a nice place, shame that some people doesn’t want to label themselves as being Langkawians.

Holiday and Limited Updates

Sorry for the limited updates on my blog, actually I went for a holiday in Pulau Langkawi a couple of days ago, and I wasnt connected to the internet (that’s my idea of holiday). So there was no new post during that period.

The good news is, the weblog is back in pace now. Bet that you have already know about the blog’s new theme, I changed it because the previous one is too buggy to be usable. Ah yes, I’ve also changed the syndication feeds back to full now, to ensure the widest coverage of my updates.

p/s : I might post pics from my holiday at my website, so stay tune.

Yahoo Media RSS extension (mRSS) and Photo Galleries

I just realised that Yahoo Media RSS extension (mRSS) has enabled me to view my photo gallery in slide show in My Yahoo!.

This is because I’ve included Yahoo mRSS extension as part of my experimental Coppermine RSS/ATOM plugin.

You can see the screenshot of “My Yahoo!” here when it reacted on RSS feed that contain mRSS extension. The normal RSS/ATOM feed subscription is on the right, while the mRSS-enabled feed is in slideshow mode.

Other photo gallery that supports Yahoo mRSS is Flickr

You can get Yahoo Media RSS extension specifications here : http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/mrss