Since the first time I start using blogspot as my blog, I have been making 137 posts already.

Not that much yet, but they are very valuable postings, as usually when you write to your blog, it is something of your original thoughts and something that you think spontaneously and feel like of blogging it. If you were to write the same thing for the second time, it won’t be the same as what you wrote during the first time.

Have you ever wondering of backing up all of these entries/posts? Even though it is very unlikely for blogspot to go out of business, but hey…. I’m a paranoid person you know. What if there is something really happened to blogspot, like their server room is on fire or something, or there is a flood where all their server and backup tape sunk in water, and all of their data gone? That means all of your blogs gone too. That might sound a bit unrealistic, but the more realistic scenario is – what if someone hacked into your account, and delete all your entries? It happened before to JuanDanza’s blog, one of the blog about the well known Mawi, where he/she lost all of his/her entries, resulting from someone hacked to his/her blog.

Too bad that blogspot didn’t offer this feature. I tried to search Google for this, but too bad also that I can’t find any third party software that does this. I remember seeing one for blogdrive. If anyone know of any third party software that does this, do let me know OK!!

However, I do found the following instructions from Blogger Help section of the blogspot website.

How do I create a backup of my entire blog?

I guess I will start backing up all the entries/posts that I have so far just in case something bad will happen, and I should make this as my monthly routine.

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Since the first time that I acquired new DVD Handycam for myself, I’ve been taking quite a number of videos already at several occasions. Being a DVD-RW media, I can use the DVD over and over again for recording movies. Once it’s full, I backup the content to my computer’s hard disk, and reformat the DVD-RW to be used for the next recording session.

Eventually, my harddisk has been holding 5GB worth of DVD-VR movies. It’s time to back it up to DVD. The handycam pretty much put the videos in DVD-RW media as DVD folder format already (having VIDEO_TS folder). Just copy and paste the content of the DVD-RW to your harddisk. Burning the movie to the normal 4.5GB DVD+R media (or DVD-R can be used also) is merely just drag and drop of the VIDEO_TS folder using Nero Burning ROM, and it’s ready to go.

You don’t need to have capture card, or you don’t need to spend hours of capturing the movie to your harddisk (in the case of DV tape) where if you have slow computer or slow harddisk, you can easily get dropped frames – which is not nice as the final video will look jerky as it losts several frames already.

The mini DVD-RW media size is only 1.4GB. It will be a waste of space just to burn 1.4GB of information to a 4.5GB DVD+R. Why not we combined 4 different VIDEO_TS folders, from 4 different sessions of recording into a single 4.5GB DVD+R?

But it is not as easy as it sound. Since the movie from a single 1.4GB DVD-RW has already in DVD folder format, to combine them, you need to reauthor the DVD.

Thanks to VideoHelp.com website that teaches me a lot about DVD Authoring, which is something completely new to me.

Creating DVD is a bit different from editing normal MPEG file for VCD in Adobe Premiere for example. DVD uses MPEG-2 format for movie, and AC-3 format for its sound. You also will learn on how to create main menu, chapters menu and any other menu for additional features that you want to add (I guess people who have DVD Player know what I’m talking about).

There are quite a number of DVD Authoring software out there, but I kinda like Ulead VideoStudio 9.0 since it supports importing DVD-VR (which is the format used by my Sony Handycam).

Adobe Encore DVD looks good too but too bad importing DVD-VR movie is merely importing VOB file, which it doesn’t split the files into several chapters in the way that we originally record it using handycam.

Here is the final product of my first DVD Authoring.

After I burn it to the DVD+R, then test it on my DVD player. I just like WOW. Quite impressed of what Ulead VideoStudio can do. 4 recording sessions,

• Rusdy’s Birthday
• Majlis berbuka puasa with friends
• Karaoke at Yow Chuan Plaza
• Bersantai di hari minggu at Brisdale hotel

are all authored and burned to a single DVD with chapter menu selection. Really looking forward for my next DVD project.

Being a DVD, the quality of the movie is superb!! I just my Sony DCR-DVD602E Handycam.

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Al-Fatihah to Allahyarhamah Datin Seri Endon Mahmood

I’m quite shock to receive the email about this from a friend earlier. Just scared that it is just another rumour email sent out by people.

Then I check Berita Harian Online and The Star Online. Yes. The news is true.

It is with sadness to hear the news that Prime Minister’s wife, Datin Seri Endon Mahmood passed away at 7.55am today at Prime Minister’s official residence Seri Perdana Putrajaya.

In the rememberance of Allahyarhamah Datin Seri Endon Mahmood, I have added Surah Al-Fatihah reciting in the M’re’s Flash Video Player section. This video will be forced to play as default video for today, and this M’re’s Flash Video player will not play the last video that you choose last time as described here.

To all muslims, let us sedekahkan Al-Fatihah. Semoga rohnya dicucuri rahmat…

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To view the video for this, select Padi – Kasih Tak sampai from the dropdown list of this page.

Artist  :  Padi Song  :  Kasih Tak sampai Album  :  Sesuatu Yang Tertunda

Indah… terasa indah
Bila kita terbuai dalam alunan cinta
Sedapat mungkin terciptakan rasa
Keinginan saling memiliki

Namun bila… itu semua
Dapat terwujud dalam satu ikatan cinta
Tak semudah seperti yang pernah terbayang
Menyatukan perasaan kita

Chorus:
Tetaplah menjadi bintang di langit
Agar cinta kita akan abadi
Biarlah sinarmu tetap menyinari alam ini
Agar menjadi saksi cinta kita
Berdua… Berdua…

Sudah… terlambat sudah
Kini semua harus berakhir
Mungkin inilah jalan yang terbaik
Dan kita mesti relakan kenyataan ini

Chorus

Music & Choir

Menjadi saksi kita berdua…

Meta Tag: padi, kasih, tak, sampai, lirik, lyric, lyrics

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It’s rather suprised that I never had fast breaking at Mid Valley Megamall even though it is just 18 floors down from my office, and furthermore the building where I work is actually attached to the mall.

So decided to have my fast breaking here today with my other 3 friends at Chicken Rice Shop. As usual, the crowd is pretty huge at Mid Valley. My friends was there at 6:15pm, securing a place, while I’m still in office at that time finishing something. Then I get down at 6:30pm.

Then after that, I went to the “Kaunter Zakat Fitrah” set up by Majlis Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan in front of Carrefour.

It’s rather very convenience for JAWI to place their “amil” at shopping mall like this to collect zakat. Let’s settle the “Zakat Fitrah” for this year. Have you settled yours?

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I just found this interesting website, Googlism.

It will search related information about the topic that you entered from Google.com website. The search result is kinda funny, but that’s what it gets from Google.com.

I really wish that Googlism will enter Google Labs one day, and further enhancements are worked on it.

And below is what Google.com has to say about be, with the help of Googlism to extract this.

imran is not an isp
imran is the founder of the internet email system in pakistan and continues to be the premier provider of information services to the pakistani community
imran is very agile and energetic
imran is the father
imran is very close friend of mine
imran is a television host and an actor
imran is a successful model in pakistan
imran is someone you’ve been good friends with
imran is also among eleven undergraduates in all of cuny to receive the prestigious belle zeller scholarship
imran is the supervisor in the section specialising in egyptian history in the oldtown museum
imran is a director of the institute of strategic and international studies
imran is a lively little boy who suffers from a mild form of cerebral palsy
imran is the highest paid cricket columnist in england
imran is being pursued by sita
imran is still in touch with the game through the media and the candid remarks are coming out with the same intensity as ever
imran is also a handy right
imran is not quite your usual winner
imran is a trainer and social sectors development consultant
imran is best remembered primarily for his leadership
imran is also keen to emphasise that the west
imran is the way to go
imran is my mate
imran is the brains in the persija team
imran is someone you’ve been good friends with
imran is learning great stuff
imran is currenlty a visit faculty member at dept of cs
imran is
imran is a playboy
imran is currently in the final year of his phd that is spanned many topics
imran is president of his country’s national olympic committee
imran is a bright happy child who understands what is happening to him
imran is awarded to the cricketer at the tiger’s crciket club who achieves the most throughout the season
imran is an m
imran is isca certified
imran is a caring person
imran is doing good jobs
imran is responsible for researching bitmaps so the virtual joystick and mouse drag
imran is in charge for meeting with dreamwave employees for the fourth and final draft of the communication protocol
imran is married to jemima khan
imran is upset over the pakistan ‘sideshow’ former captain imran khan has launched a
imran is having a blast being leftover
imran is the poor man’s icon
imran is educated
imran is chief and hanif is his deputy and ashraf is finance secretary of the breakaway faction of the harkatul mujahideen
imran is magical by nature
imran is regularly invited to conduct workshops and address seminars
imran is 15 and his sister teah is 13
imran is absolutely right in saying that there is selective islam in pakistan
imran is trying to make his point by airing the colonial
imran is so afraid to discuss in a forum
imran is confused between attributes and >identity
imran is very cohersive with his analytics and design skills
imran is a lecturer in globalisation at udw
imran is a psc scholar for teaching
imran is not the first muslim to marry a jewish girl
imran is different from imran the father of moses and whose own father was kohath
imran is cool to be in bold in my profile
imran is the only
imran is still jealous of it
imran is an exciting prospect but he has to work on his technique to sort out some minor flaws
imran is a hunter athena scholar majoring in anthropology
imran is just like any other 12
imran is a powerful teacher and mentor
imran is a third year student at hunter college
imran is only a prospect
imran is aware of his wife’s affair but is prepared to forgive her and is prepared to treat the child as his own
imran is in the politics he is a chairperson of
imran is shown on the last track “true return”
imran is a leading light in the national civil rights movement and in 1999 received “legal personality of the year” award from “the lawyer”
imran is untainted by corruption
imran is the most respected pakistani cricketer all over the world
imran is in a minority
imran is fine in the serious scenes but tends to go overboard in the playful scenes
imran is identified as the leader of the harkat
imran is much better than all those mullahs who claim to be the “thekedars” of islam like you
imran is just a short walk away
imran is back
imran is the president of brandenburg wealth management in ottawa
imran is the
imran is delighted
imran is having an unsure and unpredictable love
imran is correct
imran islamic mujahideen resisting against nationalism al
imran is also a brilliant fielder
imran is none other than na`im ibn mas`ud al
imran is that his hypothetical statement seems to be true according to the following
imran is considered as one of the most revered families of the islamic traditions
imran is currently recuperating at his grandparents’ house in lajpore village
imran is offering to sell the rights to one of the company’s products and is asking for potential customers to make advance payments to an
imran is offering to sell the rights to one of the company?s products and is asking for potential customers to make advance payments to an
imran is one of the most widely cited cases used to illustrate the vulnerability of women in

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Below is the thing that kept me busy for the past 2 days. It’s my own music video viewer which I called M’re’s Flash Video Player.

I have featured 2 video clips on my blog in the past, and previously, once I replaced the old video with a new old, the old video is not accessible and viewable anymore. Somehow I want we able to choose the past video if I want to watch it.

And also, I just recently encounter that my hosting change its plan. Before, they offered 100MB web space with unlimited bandwidth. And now, I just found out that my package has been changed to 1GB web space with 10GB bandwidth monthly. Gosh. They never inform me about this. At least, just send a simple informing me about this.

But I’m glad! I got 1GB space now on my server. It simply means that I can upload more videos.

All the videos are in Flash Video format. I kinda like this format. The filesize is small and yet it doesn’t sacrifice the quality of the image (i.e no horror pixelation in the video image).

Here are tools used to prepare this, and some technical information about this

• Macromedia Flash 8 Video Encoder used to convert movie file to FLV format. All movie files are encoded to Flash 8 – Low Quality (150kbps) format
• Playlist stored in MySQL database
• Video files stored at my 1GB web hosting
• PHP programming language to program the page
• Macromedia Dreamweaver to put everything together

How to use?
Simple. Just choose the video that you want to play from the drop down list. The video will be played automatically after that. And also, it remembers the last video that you choose. Meaning when you come back the next time, that last video that you choose last time will be played.

Oh, btw, the M’re’s Flash Video section is visible only at the Main Page, and not at Archive Page or Item Page. Just to get rid of the annoyance, or else, the video will restart each and every time you click the Archive Page links or Item Page links. Click here to go to the main page.

Enjoy the list that I have now. It will certainly grow in the future.

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Dear blog. Just now, I received a called from a girl claiming that she is from a lawyer firm. Oh my god. What did I do wrong this time.

After a little introduction that it is me speaking the phone, she then said she’s calling on behalf of the bank that my loan is approved, and I have to be there at their office at Megan Avenue I to sign some agreements.

Yay!!! Why wait. Let’s go and settle that agreement today, so off to Megan Avenue I am. And what a perfect timing. My boss is not around the whole of this week as she’s attending DP conference in Macau. I can snip out for a while during office hour.

I then went straight to Chung, Gan & Yap Advocates & Solicitors office. I guess the lady that called me earlier has already been expecting me to come today as she have all the documents ready.

So, get a little brief from here about the terms and conditions, and a little Q&A session, and finally, I put my signatures on the agreement. Not it’s time to back to office.

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Hi adik – adik sekalian. Bertemu kembali di dalam rancangan bercerita sambil menunjuk gambar. Hari ni abang akan bercerita tentang makanan yang abang beli dari bazar Ramadhan untuk juadah berbuka hari ni.

Hak hak. Rasa macam nak menulis dlm Malay plak hari ni. Got mental block. Takleh berfikir dengan warasnya dalam English.

So hari ini, aku just beli makanan kat bazar Ramadhan yang berdekatan ngan kawasan rumah kat Pantai Dalam. Malas rasanya nak pegi jauh2. Letih weekend hari tu serasa cam tak hilang lagi.

Still pack with people, tapi tak se’pack’ masa mula2 start puasa hari tu. Time tu very horror. Ngan keter berlambak2 dan NPE yg tak penah jam tu boleh jam kat simpang yang menghala ke Pantai Dalam tu.

So berikut adalah antara beberapa benda yg aku beli untuk berbuka hari ni. Beli lebih sket sebab boleh di buat bersahur plak nanti.

Ayam percik memang aku tak penah tinggal kalau pegi bazar ramadhan. Kekadang tu ratah ayam je. Best.

Kepak ayam madu. Hhhmm. Time lapar2 ni kecur tgk semua benda. Tapi terasa nak makan plak. So belilah.

Nasik lemak. Kalau perut memulas lepas tu sebab tak tahan pedas, pakat2lah kita pegi berak ramai2 yer.

Sate. Hehehe. Benda nih best kunyah2 time tgk TV.

Lastly, mesti ada air, karang tercekik. So aku just beli air jagung, air soya ngan air mata kucing.

Sesampai rumah, as usual, lepak2 depan komputer dulu menantikan waktu berbuka. Best lepak depan komputer ni sebab tak sedar masa berlalu. Tahu2 dah kul 6:59. Bergegas ke dapur, tuang air dlm jag, get ready depan TV dah berbuka.

Burrppp. Alhamdulllah. Itulah alkisahnya menu berbuka puasa aku untuk hari ini.

Wah. Bestlah menulis pakai Malay ni. Sekejap je satu entry dah siap. Kalau english, terkebil2 mata depan PC nak karang ayat. Lepas taip tu, kena check plak ada grammar mistake ke apa.

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Arrgghhh. It’s this problem again today. Why it always happened nowadays, and why it has to happen today, on this usual manic, hectic, busy Monday.

I don’t quite remember how many times that Telekom engineer guy has come where to look at this problem, but it is still there.

Just look below, my 7 consecutive pings to www.yahoo.com. As you can see, the internet connection is “sekejap ada, sekejap takde” (direct translation: now you see it, not you don’t)

And just imagine, you are in the middle of downloading the data from the remote database server, and suddenly, the internet connection is not there, and the download breaks. And you have to repeat this again when the internet connection is back. Really time wasting.

And I have 12noon deadline to send some data to Singapore office. And they don’t usually buy the excuse that the internet connection causing the delay.

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