I find that the web hosting industry is one of the most competitive industry. There’s ad about it everywhere on the internet. You can actually change your web hosting plan whenever you want as long as you don’t mind spending your digital money. However, competitive doesn’t mean that it’s not a good thing. Now anyone with the right knowledge can be an online web hosting entrepreneur by just buying a small monthly or yearly fees and seek out client online or offline. How do we know who are the original web hosting company that is really handling all the back end once it’s being repackaged or rebranded? We use this service:

I have always wanted to know where is the actual server that my blog sits on, so where is Staminus Communication located?

I don’t really know who my rebranded web host by reading their brief description but I couldn’t find any cheaper and better feature than what they are offering. Now that I now know where my blog is physically sit, I can now rest assured that I’ve made a good buying decision.Check out where your blog or website is hosted: Who Is Hosting This?

I had been a big fan of Transformers since I was kid. When I was 4 years old, I had the chance to be brought up in a Sunderland, England for 3 years so I guess I got the opportunity to watch The Transformers animated series before it even reached Malaysia. I’ve watched Transformers The Movie countless of time and I also nagged my dad to buy me a few of those Transformers robot toys and I must say that the quality of the toys there is way much better than the one sold today. Unfortunately, because the toys were so badly abused the only thing left is pieces of them inside my toy boxes somewhere in my house. Having younger brothers make it even worse. Oh well, those are the memories.

With all the buzz around Transformers Movie, I had to see the movie for myself, so I went down to Cathay Cineplexes Cineleisure Damansara which is about 15 minutes drive from my house to see if I could get a few tickets. As I arrived, the queue was there but unlike GSC at MidValley, it was okay. The only tickets left was at 2am and 2.30am.

Athough I got the far right hand side seat where I my head tilted to see the screen and I also had to sacrifice my good weekend sleep to see this movie, Transformers movie was worth my overpriced ticket fees and my goodnight sleep. By the way, the movie has everything from humour, love affair, flirting and most of all action packed which is why I just didn’t realize what time it is eventhough its 4am in the morning. I wish I could see this movie again if I could find a good DVD copy somewhere hehe..

If you wish to see or take a picture with a replica of the original Optimus Prime, head over to Cineleisure Damansara. I hope it wouldn’t get kidnapped like what happened to Homer Simpson. I wonder if it can transform..Mmm..for a full gallery, click on the image below:

When I first watched So You Think You Can Dance America, I would have never guessed 8TV would bought their franchise and did So You Think You Can Dance Malaysia. I have great respect for those dance performer because their dedication, hard work of practice and their passion. This is one of the reason when I first met Laadvamore, I fell in love with her because she’s so passionate about dancing, which makes her so special to me. Did you know that passion can be contagious?

It was not until a good friend of mine asked me to join him to a dance studio 3 weeks ago. At first I rejected his idea but eventually I changed my mind. I became curious to know what it’s like being in the dancing shoes. My friend didn’t go for some cheap aerobic style dance class, he chosed a premium one, Linda Jasmine Performing Arts Studio just next to Ampang Point Shopping Mall. So, there I was in a dance studio paying RM50 for the membership fees and for the class I’ve chosen, I need to pay RM110 per month.

Linda Jasmin Dance Membership Kit

The dance class I’ve chosen is called fusion dance. It’s been conducted by the lovely Pamela Chong. Pamela is Vince’s (Akademi Fantasia 1st Winner) sister and she is ‘da bomb’. It was unfortunate that my class wasn’t being conducted by the owner herself, Mrs Linda Jasmin herself but after seeing her conducted a class, I was thinking twice about it. I even heard that she can be so mean. Being a dancer is tough, I mean really really tough. It demands physical fitness, proper technique and a lot of practices. I can’t even swing my feet properly let alone dance according to the step Pam has showed. My whole body got sored by the time my first class ended. Here’s a few picture of the dance studio stolen from SuperStalker:

I finally decided to call it a quite after the second class because I realized one thing, my body is so stiff. The only time I’ve ever been athletic was when I was back in school, that was just for some marathon run which was compulsory for every student. It wasn’t much of a marathon because it’s only like 5 – 10 km of running around. Still, I am blessed with the health that I have. However, I need to work out some more if I want to keep on being healthy.To cut my long story short, I find dancing fun, exciting and very good for me. However being a self-proclaim geek, it’s kind of hard to break off from the habit of laziness. I need some motivation, I think Laadvamore can help me with that, right darling? ;-) Some related links and info about Linda Jasmine Performing Arts Studio:

The Official Launch of Linda Jasmine Performing Arts Studio
• Linda Jasmine Joint Yahoo Group

Several weekends ago, I decided it was time for me to change my left hand side car’s Constant Velocity (CV) joint. It’s been a while since I’ve noticed the clicking sound whenever I make a U-turn but I just ignored that. It costed me a few hundreds RM in repair for my car’s right hand CV joint last year because I’ve been telling myself that “it’s still okay for now and everything would be alright”. The cause of CV joint damages is most of the time because of the worn out or tear of the rubber that contains the grease. Visually inspecting my undercar components, it’s been several months already that the boot of the CV joint is torn. If I were just to replace the boot alone, it would have just cost me less than RM50 but only if the CV joint doesn’t make any funny sound. As for my CV joint, the sound is too obvious. Procrastinate just makes thing even worse but it is one tough habit that is not easy to get rid off.

Being a bootstrapper, I hunted for several shops to get the best deal for my repair. I was tempted to do it on my own but of course I was short on tools plus my car mechanic skillset has been rusted for so many years. The only thing I have is the knowledge on how to minimize costs and repairs. So, in order to prolong your car’s CV joint this what I am going to share:

1. Avoid making very sharp U-turn so often; this is because you’ll make your CV joint rubber boot to stretch in and out excessively and will make it torn off quickly.
2. Try and avoid small and tight parking spaces where you need to turn your wheel from end to end.
3. Check your undercar at least once a month and take into consideration every smudge of grease on your wheel.

Here’s a snapshot of how my mechanic removed my car’s broken CV joint. If I’m not mistaken, this is my fourth CV joint that I’ve replaced eversince I’ve been driving my own car.

The cost of the repair was RM130 for a brand new CV joint. It’s not an original part but hey, original parts doesn’t mean that it is really original. A car manufacturer have thousands of vendors working for them, they just kind of assemble them together and for aftermarket products, they just make the packaging use their own brand. As long as it works, I don’t see the trouble of using some other brand but of course don’t get a cheap imitation product or you’ll just endangering yourself.

I haven’t made my wheel alignment yet after replacing the new CV joint. I guess I’ll wait for my tyres to worn out and then proceed with a tyre alignment. Oh no…more procrastination..

By the way, check out this girl mechanic who got trouble removing her car’s CV joint. I stumbled upon this trouble with my former car and my mechanic had to cut his way through using a grinder. It’s not an easy job but somebody has to do it.