Coming Soon

Coming soon as the name says... its coming soon...

I am the culprit

I was the culprit in my attempt to declaring my income tax successfully as I cannot login with my digital signature properly. And the reason is... the language of the OS was set to a native language instead of English (US). So for those having the same error "error 5, invalid procedure call or argument", please proceed to change your regional and language settings to English (US).

Cheers!!

Vlagyimir vs Léko Péter - Kramnik won with 4.5-3.5

Kramnik won the rapid match with Leko with 4.5-3.5. Following is the replay...

Game 5 Kramnik, Vladimir - Leko, Peter 1-0 57 A30 English Symmetrical
Game 6 Leko, Peter - Kramnik, Vladimir 1-0 49 C84 Ruy Lopez Centre Attack
Game 7 Kramnik, Vladimir - Leko, Peter 1/2 30 D43 Anti-Meran Gambit
Game 8 Leko, Peter - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 30 C77 Ruy Lopez Anderssen

Round 5
Kramnik,V vs Leko,P
Result 1-0
A30 English Symmetrical

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. g3 d5 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 dxc4 7. Nxc6
Qxd1+ 8. Nxd1 bxc6 9. Bg2 Nd5 10. Ne3 e6 11. Nxc4 Ba6 12. b3 Bb4+ 13. Bd2
Bxd2+ 14. Nxd2 Nb4 15. Kd1 O-O-O 16. a3 Nd5 17. Rc1 Kb7 18. Ke1 e5 19. e3
Kb6 20. Bf1 Bb5 21. Bc4 f6 22. Ke2 Rd7 23. Rc2 a5 24. Rhc1 Ne7 25. Bxb5
cxb5 26. a4 Rhd8 27. axb5 Kxb5 28. Ne4 Ra7 29. g4 h6 30. h4 Kb6 31. g5 hxg5
32. hxg5 fxg5 33. Rg1 Rc8 34. Rd2 Nc6 35. Rxg5 a4 36. bxa4 Rxa4 37. Nd6 Rc7
38. Ne8 Rca7 39. Nxg7 Ra2 40. Rxa2 Rxa2+ 41. Kf3 Kc5 42. Nf5 Nb4 43. Ng3
Kd5 44. Ne4 Ra8 45. Nf6+ Ke6 46. Ng4 Nd3 47. Rg6+ Kf5 48. Rf6+ Kg5 49. Rd6
Rf8+ 50. Kg3 e4 51. Rd5+ Rf5 52. f4+ Kg6 53. Rd4 Nc5 54. Ne5+ Kg7 55. Rc4
Nd3 56. Nxd3 exd3 57. Rd4 1-0

Replay the game here:


Round 6
Leko,P vs Kramnik,V
Result 1-0
C84 Ruy Lopez Centre Attack

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. d3 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8.
a4 Bd7 9. Nc3 Na5 10. Ba2 b4 11. Ne2 c5 12. Ng3 O-O 13. Nh4 g6 14. Bh6 Re8
15. Bd2 Bg4 16. f3 Be6 17. Bxe6 fxe6 18. f4 exf4 19. Bxf4 Nc6 20. Nf3 Nd7
21. c3 bxc3 22. bxc3 Nde5 23. Bxe5 dxe5 24. Qc2 Ra7 25. Rfd1 Bf8 26. Nf1
Bh6 27. N1d2 Bxd2 28. Rxd2 Rd7 29. Rb1 Kg7 30. h3 Qc7 31. Rf1 Nd8 32. Rdf2
Qd6 33. Qc1 Nf7 34. Nh2 h5 35. Qe3 Ree7 36. Rf3 c4 37. dxc4 Qd2 38. Qb6 Ng5
39. Re3 Rf7 40. h4 Rb7 41. Qc5 Rb2 42. Qxe5+ Kh7 43. Qxg5 Rxf1+ 44. Nxf1
Qf2+ 45. Kh2 Qxf1 46. Rg3 Qf7 47. c5 Re2 48. Qe5 Qb7 49. Rxg6 1-0

replay the game here:


Round 7
Kramnik,V vs Leko,P
Result 1/2-1/2
D43 Anti-Meran Gambit

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 c6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. Qc2 dxc4
8. e3 b5 9. a4 Bb7 10. axb5 cxb5 11. Nxb5 Bb4+ 12. Nc3 O-O 13. Be2 Rc8 14.
O-O Nd7 15. Rfc1 a5 16. Na4 Rab8 17. Qd1 e5 18. Rxc4 Rxc4 19. Bxc4 Bxf3 20.
Qxf3 Qxf3 21. gxf3 exd4 22. exd4 Nb6 23. Nxb6 Rxb6 24. Rd1 Kf8 25. b3 Rg6+
26. Kf1 Rg5 27. Rd3 Rh5 28. Kg2 Rg5+ 29. Kf1 Rh5 30. Kg2 Rg5+ 1/2-1/2

replay the game here:


Round 8
Leko,P vs Kramnik,V
Result 1/2-1/2
C77 Ruy Lopez Anderssen

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. O-O d6 8.
c3 h6 9. a4 Rb8 10. d4 Bb6 11. Na3 O-O 12. axb5 axb5 13. Nxb5 Bg4 14. Be3
d5 15. exd5 Nxd5 16. h3 Bh5 17. g4 Bg6 18. Na3 exd4 19. cxd4 Be4 20. Bc2
Bxf3 21. Qxf3 Nxd4 22. Bxd4 Bxd4 23. Rad1 c5 24. Nb5 Rxb5 25. Qd3 g6 26.
Qxb5 Nf4 27. Qc6 Nxh3+ 28. Kg2 Nf4+ 29. Kf3 Ne6 1/2-1/2

replay the game here:

Last day to declare income tax

Just back from the income tax office (LHDN) where the area including the roads to there and the parking area was full of people. No camera around to take any photo though. I just parked my car 500M away, rush to the office, get my Pin and run home to finish the final step...

Vlagyimir vs Léko Péter - Day 2

Day 2 saw Kramnik winning game 3 and taking the lead of the match with 2.5 - 1.5

Result:
Game 3 Kramnik, Vladimir - Leko, Peter 1-0 44 E15 Queens Indian
Game 4 Leko, Peter - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 52 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed

Round 3
Kramnik,V vs Leko,P
Result 1-0
E15 Queens Indian

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Bg2 c6 8.
Bc3 d5 9. Ne5 Nfd7 10. Nxd7 Nxd7 11. Nd2 O-O 12. O-O Rc8 13. e4 c5 14. exd5
exd5 15. dxc5 dxc4 16. c6 cxb3 17. Re1 b2 18. Bxb2 Nc5 19. Nc4 Bxc4 20. Qg4
Bg5 21. Qxc4 Nd3 22. Be5 Nxe1 23. Rxe1 Bf6 24. Bxf6 Qxf6 25. c7 Qd6 26. Rc1
b5 27. Qc2 b4 28. Bb7 g6 29. h4 Rfe8 30. Qa4 Qd2 31. Qc6 a5 32. Bxc8 Rxc8
33. Kg2 Kg7 34. Rc2 Qd3 35. Rc5 a4 36. Qxa4 Qe4+ 37. Kh2 Qd4 38. Qc2 h5 39.
Kg2 Qd6 40. Qb2+ f6 41. Qc2 Kf7 42. Qc4+ Kg7 43. Rc6 Qd7 44. Qc5 Kf7 1-0

Replay the game here:


Round 4
Leko,P vs Kramnik,V
C88 Ruy Lopez Closed

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8.
h3 Bb7 9. d3 d6 10. a3 Na5 11. Ba2 c5 12. Nbd2 Nc6 13. Nf1 Bc8 14. c3 Be6
15. Bxe6 fxe6 16. b4 Qd7 17. Ng3 Rfb8 18. d4 exd4 19. cxd4 cxd4 20. Nxd4
Nxd4 21. Qxd4 Rc8 22. Bb2 Rc2 23. Rad1 Qa7 24. e5 dxe5 25. Qxa7 Rxa7 26.
Bxe5 Rd7 27. Rxd7 Nxd7 28. Bd4 Kf7 29. Rd1 Nf6 30. Be5 Ra2 31. Rd3 a5 32.
bxa5 Bxa3 33. Rb3 Bc5 34. Rxb5 Bxf2+ 35. Kh2 Be1 36. Rb7+ Kg6 37. Bxf6 gxf6
38. Rb6 Bxa5 39. Rxe6 Bc7 40. Re3 Ra4 41. Rf3 h5 42. Kg1 Bb6+ 43. Kh2 h4
44. Nf5 Bc7+ 45. g3 hxg3+ 46. Nxg3 f5 47. Kg2 f4 48. Nf1 Kf5 49. Ne3+ Ke4
50. Ng4 Ra2+ 51. Nf2+ Kf5 52. Rb3 1/2-1/2

Replay the game here:

Rusty

The last time I sign in to Chess Tactics Server was 1 month ago on 27th Mar 2007. Details as shown:
The consequences of being inactive for 1 month is RUSTY and hence I got following rating and success rate:
60 rating points missing, 1664 -> 1604 and 0.1% success rate missing, 80.2% -> 80.1%.

Well, it's terrible as even at some point, my rating drop till below 1600, 1570+ to be exact!! So chess require constant practice~~ Practice make perfect~~

Cheers!!
Eu Hong

Vlagyimir vs Léko Péter - Day 1

Day 1 saw 2 draws from the match with following results:
Game 1 Kramnik, Vladimir - Leko, Peter 1/2 25 A33 English Symmetrical
Game 2 Leko, Peter - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 51 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed

Round 1
Kramnik,V vs Leko,P
Result 1/2-1/2
A33 English Symmetrical

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 e6 6. Bg5 Be7 7. e3 Qa5
8. Bh4 Ne4 9. Bxe7 Nxc3 10. Qd2 Nxe7 11. Nb5 O-O 12. Qxc3 Qxc3+ 13. Nxc3 b6
14. O-O-O Rd8 15. Be2 Bb7 16. e4 f5 17. exf5 Nxf5 18. Rhg1 Rac8 19. Rd2 Kf8
20. g3 Ke7 21. Re1 Nd6 22. b3 b5 23. Red1 Ne4 24. Nxe4 Bxe4 25. Kb2 1/2-1/2

Replay the game here:


Round 2
Leko,P vs Kramnik,V
Result 1/2-1/2
C88 Ruy Lopez Closed

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8.
h3 Bb7 9. d3 d6 10. a3 Na5 11. Ba2 c5 12. Nbd2 Nc6 13. Nf1 Bc8 14. Ne3 Be6
15. Nd5 Bxd5 16. exd5 Nd4 17. Nd2 Nf5 18. Ne4 Nd7 19. g3 g6 20. h4 Rc8 21.
b4 Qb6 22. h5 cxb4 23. axb4 Nf6 24. c3 Ng7 25. h6 Nge8 26. Bd2 Nxe4 27.
dxe4 f5 28. exf5 Rxf5 29. Be3 Qb7 30. Rc1 Bd8 31. c4 bxc4 32. Bxc4 Qxb4 33.
Rb1 Qxc4 34. Rc1 Qxc1 35. Bxc1 Bb6 36. Be3 Bxe3 37. Rxe3 Nf6 38. Qa4 e4 39.
Qxa6 Rc1+ 40. Kg2 Rc2 41. Re2 Rxe2 42. Qxe2 Rxd5 43. Qc4 Kf7 44. Qc7+ Ke6
45. Qc8+ Ke7 46. Kf1 Rc5 47. Qb7+ Ke6 48. Ke2 Rf5 49. Qc8+ Ke7 50. Qc7+ Ke6
51. Qc8+ 1/2-1/2

Replay the game here:


Watch the game live at The Official Website.

Vlagyimir vs Léko Péter - Opening Ceremony

Vladamir Kramnik vs Peter Leko, another world championship match? No, this time an exhibition rapid 8 games match takes place from April 23 and 30 in Miskolc, Hungary.
Some pictures from the Press Conference.





Hungarian Champagne.

Schedule of the event:
24th of April
(Tuesday) 16.00 Press release int he Oval Room of CityHall
18.00 Opening ceremony and hosting of the draw

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25th of April
(Wednesday) 16.00 The first game of the match.
17.30 The second game of the match. After finishing, the two grandmasters give a short press conference of 10-15 minutes.

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26th of April
(Thursday) 16.00 The third game of the match.
17.30 The fourth game of the match. After finishing, the two grandmasters give a short press conference of 10-15 minutes.

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27th of April
(Friday) Rest day. 16:00 - 18:00: The two grandmasters are available to meet fans (venue: International Trade Center Miskolc)

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28th of April
(Saturday) 16.00 The fifth game of the match.
17.30 The sixth game of the match. After finishing, the two grandmasters give a short press conference of 10-15 minutes.

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29th of April
(Sunday) 16.00 The seventh game of the match.
17.30 The eighth game of the match. After finishing, the two grandmasters give a press conference of about 30 minutes.
19.00 The closing ceremony of the match, result announcement

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30th of April
(Sunday) Departure.

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Source/Original Post:
ChessBase.com
Offcial Website:
www.lekokramnyik.hu, English Version.

Almost Done

Previous Post

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The coding and configuration of my website for chess is more or less done and even some content is up already for the launch on 1st of May 07.

Site Map:
1) News - Done
2) Articles - Done
3) Forum - Done
4) Shop - Done
5) Online Registration for Tournaments (Pending)

Progress: ..|||||90%||||-..

P/S: Kindly contact me at euhong@gmail.com if you are interested to become a journalist for the news/articles section.

Cheers!!
Eu Hong

National Closed 2007 in USM, Penang

National Chess Championship 27-31 May
Venue: Banquet Hall, USM, Penang.
Closing date: 19 May 07
Jointly organized by :
Penang Chess Association
Malaysia Chess Federation
Kelab Bridge dan Catur Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Please visit PCA Official Website for more information.

To Perlis Rapid Open, I am Going

This Saturday will be the first time I am going to Perlis for a chess tournament as I have not been to Perlis for years not to mention playing in a chess tournament over there.

The objective is high as I think master would not want to play in an event with RM80 as first prize but this tournament will be serving as a testing ground for my openings so things might turn out ugly.

Some details of the event:
Organiser: Sek Men Keb Syed Hassan & Persatuan Catur Prestij Perlis
Venue: Kantin SMK Syed Hassan
Date: April 2007 (Saturday)
Time: 8.00am – 6.00pm (Round 1 start at 9:00am)

Please visit GilaChess.com for more information.

Old Pictures on Stage

Just "discovered" that I did copy a few old pictures of me from PCA last month.

Chung Ling Butterworth Open 2006, 3rd Placing

StarWalk Chess Tournament 2006, 4th Placing

USM Open Invididual Chess Tournament 2007, 8th Placing

I do look different in each picture, don't I?

Cheers!!
Eu Hong

Almost There

The construction of my website for chess is more or less finalized and now is the time to put in the initial contents for the launch on 1st of May 07.

Planned contents:
1) News
2) Articles
3) Forum
4) Shop
5) Online Registration for Tournaments

Excluded Contents:
1) Shout Box

Progress: ..|||||70%||---..

P/S: Kindly contact me at euhong@gmail.com if you are interested to become a journalist for the news/articles section.

Cheers!!
Eu Hong

Malaysia National Rating List - April 07

The April version of Malaysia Chess National Rating list if finally out. I had no rated game played over the Jan~Apr period so my rating stays at 1680. Too bad all of the 4 tournaments that I had played in Penang was not rated (USM Individual, Team, PFS Open, CLHS Open) or else I would had my rating >1700 as I finished top 10 in the events and losing only 4 games in total...

Until then,
Eu Hong

Important Notice for all Jit Sin Students

Excerpt from blog by Jynee read as follow, sorry for some foul language in following text I think the guy was quite pissed.

This is a letter from Chee Yang. According to Boon Pin, Seow Meng from my batch, graduated 2001 become one of the victim last month as well. My fellow friends, please be aware and inform your family immediately. Don't let those bad guy misused our graduate magazine.

Hi all,
My name is Choo Chee Yang, and I graduated from SMJK Jit Sin at 1999, currently stay in singapore . However, my parents are still stay in BM.

Last friday morning, i received a phone call from my mum, said a guy called and claimed that he was my classmate, named Han Ping or You Peng. Told my mum that he wants to send the wedding invitation card to me.

That time i only recalled i got a classmate called Han Ping who is now working in Singapore as well. So i told my mum i don't know and thought mayb he'll mail to me, I wasn't vigilant enough to tell my mum to beware since it maybe a stranger.

But, this guy showed himself at my house in BM and wanted to hand over the invitation card to my mum, my mum got to let him enter to show politeness and my mum said he ' s looks smarter than me (good looking guy not bad guy's mentality).

After he entered, started to tell a lot of stories to distract my mum, such as my school time's stuff. After awhile, he complaint he was thirsty and required a drink. At 1st he said he can't take cold drink, so my mum went in dining room to pour warm water for him, unnoticely he followed behind and then suddenly changed his mind that he wanted cold drink. So my mum went to fridge to get some cold drink.

At this time, this f**ker told my mum said his b**** mother was waiting outside and he want to fecth her outside. So this fucker walked out in the seconds. Before my mum noticed something wrong. This bloody cb f***er took away my mum ' s hand bag and a new mobile phone that i gave my dad during chinese new year.inside my mum hand bag there's a old hand phone and rm40++. Although i am very very frustrated, but the loss was not too great. Just a new samsung mobile most.

But, whati most t*l** was this bloody cb f**ker went to another friend of mine called Teh Chee Hong's place. Headdressed himself the same name as he told my mum, and he's able to tell Chee Hong ever met in the motorcycle's accident during in the school time and he's currently in Japan. As usual, Chee Hong's mother believed what he said and let him enter. The details of these incident I was not too clear because it was told from my neighbour Ming Hong to my mum who is very closed to Chee Hong. All I knew is this time, this cb f**ker really cheated her that he knows the methods to clean to golden chain and jewellry etc. So she brought out all her jewellry to let the f**ker clean it. And this f**ker really took away a total cost of rm7000 from her!!!!!

Friends from Jit Sin,i suspect some organisation has used our graduation book to get our address and house phone no. And they maybe had monitored our residents a long period of times. So i am here as a victim to warn you all, to tell your family not to open the gate to a stranger who claimed he's your old schoolmate. Because this maybe the wolf within a sheep's outfit, this f***ker is look alike my friends in the graduation book's photo. This incident I have told my friend Chau Chong, Han Ping, Aik Keong, Koon Chuan, Kean Kun etc. And I'll make more calls to others.

To prevent this syndicate still active, I pleased that all mates could take this incident seriously and I want this cb f**ker get arrested. I hope BM police force and school administration can notice this issue.
Last, please help me pass this message to other Jit Sin pals and wish there's no more victim from now on.

Newspaper, Kwong Wah Yit Poh did report on this issue.

So guys and girls, please beware!

Best regards,
Eu Hong

1,000

This blog was launched back in Dec 06. Originally I was thinking of only writing something for myself but later, around mid of January, I changed my mind to announce it to Stonemaster and Gilachess. Then the counter of visitors started on Jan 14th 07 and finally reach 1,000 visitors after 3 months.
And the 1000th visitor is
Not a great archievement though, but at least I got some regular readers.. Thanks for the support. =)

Cheers!
Eu Hong

老朋友

有朋自远方来,不亦乐乎? 半年没见了,她依然那么迷人...
周末午时突然接获短讯,知道她已人在槟城, 于是互通短讯约好周日午餐时相见...
迷迷糊糊过了一天,很快到了周日午时.好不容易来到PC Fair现场,寻着了她, 无奈她却忙着,午餐延迟至三时...
终于见面了,不管三七二十一地把她载到最远处(来回50公里)只为了午餐.半年不见,咱们没放过一分一秒,沿路谈个不停.也许把午餐延迟让大家都饿了,两人共吃了六盘!!
夕阳无限好,只是近黄昏.. 不得已, 咱们踏上归途. 沿途还买了不少快餐.
把她送到PC Fair现场,而我却独自踏上归途...

Idiot

Who is the idiot? He is non other than yours truly, me, myself. Well I installed PostNuke as the CMS (Content Management System) for my website but could not manage to configure it in such a way that it act the exact way I want. Finally, I had to write my own CMS with PHP, create the MySQL database and design my own template which is ugly, well I am no designer and always get complain since years ago.

Am I am too stupid to use a system or am I simply too choosy?

Cheers!

More photo on Penang Bridge incident 2 days ago.

ABC from far away

I had to travel more than 300km as a driver last weekend. On the way back, my friend suggested to stop and take an ABC** at the side of the road. While it ain't so delicious as compare to what I can get in Penang but it was from far away.
Guess where was the place.

**ABC? ABC == Ais Batu Campur == Ais Kacang (please refer picture above).

Cheers!!
Eu Hong

Disturbing News

Excerpt from The Stars Online

Thousands caught in jam after bridge closure
PENANG: Thousands of Penangites were caught in a massive evening jam when the Penang Bridge was closed for more than two hours after police received a call that there was a bomb on the bridge. Read more...

Bloggers may have to register
AT THE DEWAN RAKYAT
BLOGGERS using locally hosted websites may be asked to register with the authorities, Read more...

Threaten

Someone just walked over and asked me "Did you mess up with my friend?" during lunch hour, Date 20070403 and Hour 1310. Can we call this a threat? May be I should file a police report on this...
Someone just does not ask a friend to threaten me like this, this is not the way. If someone does not like me, just tell me and we can sort this out the other way but not by telling someone else and let the someone else threaten me...
I know I joke a lot but I always tell out my words with a smile and that means big jokes. May be some people does not like that. I remember joking around and a friend told me he did not like that so I sort of keep it serious with him after that...
But this time...

Still Active

I had not been playing in any FIDE rated event and get rated (I do play in Malaysian Chess Challenge which was rated but never paired with any of the rated players.) As a result, my FIDE rating should be inactive according to the rules of FIDE. My record however is still active when I check on the latest FIDE rating list this morning.
My rating card as follow or available at FIDE (World Chess Federation) official website.

My world ranking is of 5 digits as shown here or figure below.

Well, I should start finding a few days off my work commitment and join 1 or 2 FIDE rated events later this year or else I will be inactive soon...

Cheers!!
Eu Hong

Dinner @ Little Kitchen Restaurant

Gathering became the theme last night when we (3 people only) gathered at Little Kitchen Restaurant for dinner and later went for movie, Meets the Robinsons. We all ordered a set dinner that is different from each other and as usual we took photos. Well, ladies first so here we go the photo of the girl with her main course.Next myself with 70% cooked steak.Finally, the guy with pasta.The dessert!
The food was good and the atmosphere was great. For those looking for a great place for dinner (candle light dinner) can look for the restaurant at Bandar Sunway, Prai, Penang.

Until then,
Cheers,
Eu Hong

NEC Computers Community Open House 2007

The year 2007 edition of NEC Computeres Community Open House concluded successfully last weekend (23-24 Mar). I was helping on the game booth to let the visitors complete a puzzle and get a free PS2 Optical mouse. We gave out several dozens...

On the mean time, I managed to take some times to take some pictures with people around. For the opening, here is a picture between me and a pretty lady. Guess who is she? She is one of the models for NEC Computres!!
Nothing particular happens after that as day 1 was only a few hours and after that, we went to Penang for dinner. As a record, we ordered 10 dishes for 12 people!The people just could not wait for me to finish with the photo.


Day 2, and my colleagues insisted that I should meet an ex-colleague... as they say..
Do we look like brothers? They all say that, what do you think?

Well, that's all for NEC Open House as some other photos are...

Cheers!!
Eu Hong