Last weekend, I went to Ipoh for a day trip. I’ve planned this trip for 2 weeks already however I was kind of in a tight budget so my trip had to be in a minimal cost as possible. I’ve never been to Ipoh by bus before, I’ve been on a day trip by bus to Butterworth last year. I’ve brought along my digital camera so I’ll let you see a glimpse of what I’ve experienced.

My trip wasn’t so bad. It cost me RM13.30 for a one way trip using MARALiner Express bus. The seat were comfortable and the leg room is quite big. In my old days, these kind of seats are considered executive seats and cost more. Anyway, I parked my car outside of Jalan Duta Bus Station (there’s free parking but you park at your own risk), get on the bus and I’m off to Ipoh. My journey starts at 9am. Almost three hours later, I arrived at Medan Gopeng Bus Station somewhere before Simpang Pulai if I’m not mistaken. I didn’t actually arrived at Ipoh town but I was on a mission to someplace else which I have no idea yet because I had to wait for my host to bring me to the place where ever that is at that time. Here’s a few shot of Medan Gopeng Bus Station. At least this bus station has air conditioned compared to the other bus station I’ve been to.

Less than an hour later, my friends and I arrived at Hutan Lipur Sungai Salju located somewhere in Batu Gajah:

We had to climb all away to the top with all of our food before we can reach the waterfall. Seeing the waterfall was a really refreshing experience. Eventhough it was raining a little bit, I enjoyed every moment of it.

All my life, I’ve always been a Windows user. So if you ask me to use other operating system such as Linux or Mac, I can always use it but the comfort level would never be the same as using Windows. However for Internet browsers, now that’s different. I’ve tried most of the browser that is available for download but I’ve never tried Safari browser. When Apple decided to give away their beta version of Safari 3 public beta browser, I downloaded it. So, what is so special about this browser and is it suitable for me?

Another reason for me to download is because I need the latest Apple Quicktime that is bundled with Safari browser download package since I just installed a fresh Windows XP SP2 on my computer. I tried and install Ubuntu as a dual boot on my computer but something went wrong so I decided to scrap that idea and just stick with Windows. I’ll write about that in a special blog post.

While downloading, I was reading my RSS feed using Google Reader and found this:

• Safari 3 Is An Half-baked Web Browser from Apple, Wait for a Patch

I almost ditched my downloaded Safari browser installation file but I decided to install it anyhow. I wasn’t really going to use this browser permanently so I gave it shot.

I like the fonts and the User Interface (UI) that Safari browser renders. It looks similar when using FireFox on Ubuntu and also when we use Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista, everything looks so nice to the eye. What I don’t like is, it slows down my PC. Until I can afford a faster PC, I don’t think this “eye candy” software would benefit me. Still, it’s a great alternative for a change. I don’t think web developers and designers would welcome this browser as that would mean another change to the source code.

So many things happened since I last wrote my last post. Now I just have to many drafts that I need to finish up. Last weekend, I could have finish up or at least add in a couple of blog posts but something strange happened to my Windows, it got corrupted. I had to concentrate all my effort to track down my files on the hard disk because I have this bad habit of not having a full back up. I then found out that it was my RAM that was loose that cause my motherboard to act weird on my hard disk detection and some other useless computer crap. I had to say goodbye to most of the junk files I have but it did hit me that I need to further schedule ahead for some timely back-up just in case something happen. This might be one of the reason for me to use Ubuntu as a change? Well, not quite.

Anyway, last month I went to Putrajaya for the Colours of Malaysia launch 2007. It’s already over if you look at the dates on Tourism Malaysia. I never would have known such event if not for my sweetheart who participated as one of the 1600 dancers. I wrote a blog about it in Malay on her blog. I’ve also uploaded a couple of videos shot using my Kodak Easyshare DX6490. The camera doesn’t work at night but I finally figured out which mode to use. Here’s one video where I had a little fun and danced with her after the event: