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Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Biggest iPhone

This post not seems to be too interesting, but this was the biggest iPhone I ever met so far.

This giant iPhone was displayed at the lobby area of Pavillion shopping complex by Maxis when the telco was promoting the new iPhone 3G service provided by them towards the end of April this year.

I was in KL for my working attachment that time. That's why I bumped with it. It was not actually a real functional iPhone, but a monitor to display advertisement for iPhone instead.

According to my rough approximation, it was about 1:40 of the real iPhone.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

World of High Definition Roadshow 2009 @ Sibu Gateway

Visited Viera World of High Definition Roadshow 2009 by Panasonic at Sibu Gateway last Sunday. 2 big trucks combined to form 2 exhibition rooms where Panasonic products were displayed inside.


The highlight of the roadshow was the Malaysia largest plasma tv owned by Panasonic. It is a 103 inches plasma tv. Just compare its measurement with the tv you have at home. I think it is not too hard to imagine how a giant 103" tv can be!

It was certainly entertaining. With proper surround sound system attached to it, you can experience the feel of watching movie in cinema right from your home!


In this exhibition room, a proper sofa seat was ready for visitors to sit back and relax while experience the amazement of the 103" plasma tv.

Want to own this plasma tv? Yes! Certainly you can! Just pay this amount of money and the tv is yours! What do you think? ;p

In another exhibition room, there were 3 show girls inside with few Panasonic LCD TVs been displayed. Apart from these, there were also other Panasonic products like Lumix digital camera and so on, but I couldn't really have chance to see all those products as the show girls were either sitting or standing in front of them while resting and chit-chatting without really care about the people walking in and out.

Talking about show girls.... Ya! It is "Buaya" time (TM)!! I managed to shot the picture of 2 out of 3 show girls. Another one somehow went out. It was certainly a big challenge for me because I understand this is Sibu not KL. People in small town are not that open-minded and I was doubt about their professionalism because they not really care about the visitors walking in and out.

After myself walking in and out for several times, finally I decided to take out my courage and asked for permission to take their photo. Well, at least in this case, they showed their professionalism. Without much thought, the show girls posing in front of my camera! Despite showing some unwillingness on their face maybe they thought I am a "weird uncle"(TM), they still kind enough to give me a sexy pose! For this, I would like to thank them for their professionalism!

The 2 pretty girls... if you somehow read this post, I am not a "weird uncle". I am just a amateur blogger who wish to show your prettiness to the world! Thanks for your kindness!

Anyway, I still not sure if they are local or from outstation. Didn't have chance to ask them. Actually I never expect I could have chance to meet or shot on pretty show girls in Sibu. That's why my heart was beating fast from the moment I asked their permission till I pressed the shutter! So for "buaya" out there... hope you appreciate this! ;p

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The Most Expensive Toll in the Country?

If you are driving from north to the south of Sarawak, before you exit Sibu through Lanang Bridge and proceed your journey to town like Bintangor, Sarikei, Sri Aman or Kuching, you will have to pass through a toll - Lanang Bridge toll.

[Lanang Bridge Toll]

Yes! Who said Sarawak doesn't have toll? At least Sibu has one and I guess it is among the most expensive toll in the country!!

Not trusting me? Let me ask you... how much you need to pay for using Penang Bridge which has about 13.5km in length? It's RM7 for 2 ways, to and fro trip right? Meaning you pay RM7 for around 27km of Penang Bridge usage. I am referring to normal passenger's car and MPV.

But you need to pay RM3 one trip for normal car or MPV to use the around 1.22km Sibu Lanang Bridge. So if to and fro, you need to spend RM6 for just about 2.5km of bridge usage.

[Toll and the payments which vary for different categories of cars]

RM7 for 27km of Penang Bridge and RM6 for 2.5km of Lanang Bridge... do you still need a calculator to count which one is more expensive? Lanang Bridge is a construction across the river whereas Penang Bridge is across the ocean! We don't need rocket science to know which construction is bigger and consume more costs, do we?

Then, why the toll fare is so expensive? Well, I heard it's actually related to some local politician involvement which is really complicated to explain.

Anyway, the toll doesn't really affect those travel once in a while but it is a burden for the people staying after the toll plaza who needs to travel to and fro Sibu daily for specific purposes like study, doing small businesses and so on.

[Lanang Bridge Toll - one of the most expensive toll in Malaysia]


++++++ Just a statistic ++++++

TypePenang Bridge Fare(RM)Lanang Bridge Fare(RM)
Motorcycles1.40 (RM0.05/km)
0.50 (RM0.41/km)
Cars/Taxi/MPV 7.00 (RM0.27/km)
3.00 (RM2.46/km)

*Penang Bridge Length: 13.5km || Payment Method: 1 trip
*Lanang Bridge Length: 1.22km || Payment Method: 2 trips
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