Kopi Kampung

Let's rock at SDN. I've open a thread at SDN for Malaysia's SAP Basis ;).

https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1401712&tstart=0



Currently the SDN coffee section is full of.... hmmm people I guess. Here are the thread titles of this section:-



Currently if you google "Kopi Kampung", the top most result is the starbuck's kopi kampung. I hope the the SAP Basis kopi kampung will toppled starbuck's kopi kampung soon ;)

I'm hooked to Jack Reacher series

While I was waiting for my wife hair saloon treats, I when to the near by book store. I was just wondering around and got nothing better . As usual I went straight to the IT sections. One word; CRAP!. Who put Robert Kyosaki at IT section?? WTF??? Nothing hard core at all. Most IT books was about MS programming language which I can live without.

Then I flipped towards the pet sections. Nothing interesting at all. Not so much on felines and cats. So I move on the "MUST READ" section. There were couple of local novels, Dan Brown's and some other famous writer novels. I've thought of buying the Angels and Demons but I've already seen the Ron Howard's version of it. Too much spoiler already so scrap it!!!!

After a while of reading few back pages of the "MUST READ"s, this particular books stops me..


From the synopsis the main character seems like the hot head type like the Wolverine. The story seems got more twists the the pretzel factory. Ah.. What the heck.. I bought it.

I've just finished the book last nite and I can't seems to get enough of Jack Reacher. He is the hero in this story. I'm going to get more of this series starting from the 1st one which is according to Jack Reacher's official forum ( http://www.jackreacher.co.uk/ ) is the best of them all. Here is the Jack Reacher's series in accending order:-

1. Killing Floor (March 1997)
2. Die Trying (July 1998)
3. Tripwire (June 1999)
4. Running Blind/The Visitor (published as The Visitor in the UK and Australia) (April 2000)
5. Echo Burning (ISBN 0-515-13331-0) (April 2001)
6. Without Fail (April 2002)
7. Persuader (April 2003)
8. The Enemy (Prequel, time frame occurs before Killing Floor) (April 2004)
9. One Shot (ISBN 0-385-33668-3) (April 2005)
10. The Hard Way (ISBN 0-385-33669-1) (May 2006)
11. Bad Luck and Trouble (ISBN 0-385-34055-9) (April 2007)
12. Nothing to Lose (ISBN 978-0593057025) (March 2008)
13. Gone Tomorrow (April 2009)

One Shot, from the list above already in the midst of silver screening by Paramount Picture. Quote form the forum

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news on Thursday (25th September) that Paramount studios has given screenwriter Josh Olson (A History of Violence) the task of bringing Lee Child's much-love protagonist to the big screen.

"I had just finished watching the first two Dirty Harry movies on Blu-ray," Olson told the Hollywood Reporter. "And I thought, 'No one's making movies like that anymore.' It coincided perfectly. It's just the kind of movie that I haven't seen in a while. It's a tough, smart, action-oriented thriller."

Whatever it is I MUST READ One Shot before the movie got aired!!!. Now the question is, who got to play Jack Reacher? Retired army, 6 footer, macho, serabai and tak tentu arah. Mr Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman can be Jack Reacher but he is kinda too young. Retired army and macho, it gotta be Mr. Rambo rite? But he is a bit short for the role. According to celebrityheight.net Stallone is only 5'8''. Ah fuck it lah... let them decide lah.. baik aku buat keje :p

EMC training

This is not a physic class. I don't have to go all over again with the energy equals to mass times the speed of light constant squared. This is a storage training. One of my aunt ask me what was the training all about and I don't really know how to put it in layman terms..

aunt: eh, are you on leave?

me: nope, half day today. I went to a training this morning

aunt: Where?

me: kub.com

aunt: huh?

me: some place at KL... nevermind..

aunt: what was the training all about?

me: storage

aunt: storage? I thought you are in IT. The must be alot of stuff at your office eh?

me: no no no. not that kind of storage. This is more on data storage. Harddisk

aunt: Why do they send you for harddisk training? You should see your little cousin. The other they he fix my harddisk. He also know how to add new harddisk. He really good at it. He said if harddisk got problem you need to format it

me: wow really? he must me a genius. Format is such a big word. If you tell me earlier I can skip this training.


I think I'm kinda burn out with the EMC training. This is what will happen if you sent an application admin to an appliance training. The all new "data" will surely fry the dude's "RAM". Do you know what is a city? If people ask you which city are you from, can you answer it correctly?

Answer 1: Keramat? What the heck is Keramat? There is no city call Keramat at all!!! If you mean Lembah Keramat then you are still wrong. Lembah Keramat is not at city!!!!

Rama 5

Thai's food has been always associated with exotic foods. The term exotic ought to be some thing that is pleasurable, sensational and nice. Recently I went to RAMA 5 to celebrate Father's day for my beloved grand dad. The ambiance was 8/10 but the food was barely 1/10. I would rate it as almost crap for a Thai's fine dining. Most of the food is sweet. Can you imagine a sweet Tom-Yum? I think the food was tune for the foreigner ambassadors whom are living along jalan U-Thant.

The Don


The Sicilians..

THE CFA 2009 ID ASIA AWARDS CAT SHOW

Yahoo!!!!!. It has been quite sometime since I join cat shows. As for now I don't think Maya and Don is ready for shows. For more info go here http://mycatshow.wordpress.com/

Side story: At my office canteen I've found a cool looking black feral cat with a diamond necklace pattern. This is a future champ of the household category if it falls to the right hand ;)

The hunt of the hot buggy..

After my wife 1st trimester I've develop a wired interest. I'm into "buggy" also know as baby stroller in Malaysia. I think the business of getting a buggy is like getting a car. I want all the kick-ass feature with the bang of the buck. So I want a buggy with cool functionality and hot appearance in the same time. Thus I introduce you my dream buggy; The Quinny Zapp Black.

Doesn't it look like a Skyline GTR R35 flat black? Wicked ain't it? This is the latest color for Quinny Zapp. I don't know whether I can get it here at Malaysia or not but I love it. I wanna to get hold of this Quinny Zapp because it look different! Different from what I know about buggy. All the buggy I know in my life is the 4 wheeler buggy. When I first saw this Quinny Zapp, I love it at the first sight. I think the design is brilliant just like the sweet Skyline GTR R35.

After I've developed interest in Quinny Zapp I went online to know more about it. Then I knew that Maxi-Cosi Cabrio can be fit on top on it. Wow!!! This is amazing. Imagine red Maxi-Cosi Cabrio on top of Qninny Zapp black!!! This is like retro fitting a red Recaro Millennium bucket seat in Skyline GTR R35 flat black!!!! Damn Sexy!!!! Below is a photo of Sexy-Cosi on top of regular Quinny Zapperrrr


Speaking of Recaro, actually Recaro do come out with baby seat. Anything which is named Recaro you ought to get the red ones. Frankly speaking I hate Recaro's baby seat. Their design are horrendous. This one is one of the famous one. Recaro Vivo Crimson Red. It look like a cheap bucket seat sold at crap car accessories shop ain't it?



Most Quinny Zapp in Malaysia is UK spec which come with 3 wheeler design. The US spec got 4 wheels. All other spec is the same. I'm not keen into this design and some more it doesn't have the black wicked design. Even for cars I never prefer USDM. The US spec will definitely will turn peoples head though because it's rare here in Malaysia.



They are many reviews, pros and cons about Quinny Zapp out there. You can check out the net. But here are some of the complains about Quinny Zapp which I had gather..
1. It can't recline
2. No storage or pocket for whatever
3. The 3 wheel design is not escalator friendly. Hard to balance on the front one wheel
4. It is heavy for some ladies. It is 6kg


If you own a Skyline GTR R35, would you let your wife to drive it? Hmm... maybe yes but not to be daily driven. You get them a more suitable car like Beammer 3 series perhaps. So for my wife I would get a lighter and more easy to maneuver buggy. Maybe a Maclaren Triumph with red in color.



So I gotta have 2 buggies? haha

The day "shutdown abort" bite me in the ass

prdhost:oraprd 3> sqlplus '/as sysdba'

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Tue Jun 16 23:07:11 2009

Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> shutdown normal
ORA-01013: user requested cancel of current operation

SQL> shutdown abort
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL>

The terminal dump above is probably my last shutdown abort at my current office. I've been doing shutdown abort at Oracle RDBMS all my life for doing parameter change and stuff. Today! It bite me in the ass.

I've just finished with upgrade from version 9.2.6.0 to 10.0.4.0. CRAP CRAP CRAP my database is corrupted!!!! I was getting alot of ORA-01410 and ORA-00600 in SM21 at SAP R/3 . And guess what? SAP blame the shutdown abort by me. CRAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!

I still stand by my experience and knowledge. shutdown abort is fucking OK! but I will not do it again for SAP systems. Why? Because they ( SAP ) will take it as an easy target for trouble shooting and the person who doing it will be their scape goat! CRAP!!!!

Here are some references on shutdown abort on oracle:-

Misconception: ‘shutdown abort’ is bad

Shutdown Abort

Oh crap... the Oracle's guide against shutdown abort. Oracle Corp should know better about Oracle RDBMS rite? Hell yeah they ought to but this is yet another big company try to be politically correct. I think the don't have the balls to say "it's ok to use it" but deep in side their lab, their dba probably is doing shutdown abort while toasting champagne.

Oracle 10G Administrator Guide, chapter 3

I stand by my work. I trust what I did was the right thing but since SAP is saying it's not ok and I don't have any solid evidance that the corruption is not due the shutdown abort, I just have to be a sucker. Well everybody in my team is also agreeing to SAP anyway. Craplah this people.

In a tense time like this there will be always one smart ass who is actually know jack about the shit but try to look smart ass. In the post mortem meeting he will be saying..."shutdown abort? you should not use that. It's dangerous"

Below is from my OSS message regarding the db corruption

Hello,

your message was forwared to development support.

I have reviewed the alert_PRD.log starting with the migration path
at Sat Jun 13 12:44:13 2009

I found, that the database was 3 times aborted during the migration
and starts throwing block corrupts immediate after the it becomes
OPEN with the last crash recovery.

Sat Jun 13 14:21:48 2009
Shutting down instance (abort)

Sat Jun 13 14:21:48 2009
Shutting down instance (abort)

Sat Jun 13 14:22:27 2009
Shutting down instance (abort)

Sat Jun 13 15:11:25 2009
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)

Sat Jun 13 16:19:45 2009
Hex dump of (file 41, block 706577) in trace file /oracle/PRD/saptrace/u8.trc
Corrupt block relative dba: 0x0a4ac811 (file 41, block 706577)

For details I have attached the relevant lines from alert_PRD.log
in file alert_PRD.100000.log to this message.

The database has been corrupted by these 3 ABORTS before.

Please restore the last good backup from before the migration
and run the migration again, without to abort the instance during that
phase.

Development Support
Support Solution Center SAP - Oracle Germany

The above message really made the dogs bark at the wrong tree and made me the goat. A pack of dogs vs /me goat? goat lost!!! luckily it's not get lost!!!