Sebagai seorang technical specialist, Imran berpendapat ilmu dan informasi harus dikongsi bersama terutamanya dalam bidang IT. Kepuasannya dalam menulis blog adalah bergantung pada sejauh mana ilmu dan info yang diberikan itu berguna untuk pembaca. Blog beliau juga terkenal dengan video serta lirik-lirik lagu-lagu. Imran juga banyak mengangkat aktiviti hariannya sebagai buah tangan yang menjadi topik utama dalam setiap entri. Gaya bahasa yang senang dan bersahaja, menjadikan sesiapa sahaja akan terus mengikuti blog beliau setiap hari. Ikuti temuramah eksklusif bersama blogger yang pemalu ini.

Layari blog Imran:
http://blog.mohdimran.com. Selamat Membaca!

Above is the excerpt from the interview with me, that is published as FonNovela on Maxis Website.

Actually, I feel so reluctant to post this to my blog, due to the fact that I have my photo there. Well, I’m just concern about all of you. Just afraid that people will be in traumatize condition after seeing the beast behind http://blog.mohdimran.com/. Hehehehe… View at your own risk. You have been warned…

Anyway, a big thank you to Mr. Malique of choosing me to be one of the blogger that he featured in his Projek Temubual Ekslusif. Sometimes, I do think that I don’t deserve to be there in hall of fame of bloggers to be featured, where when looking at other interview that he has posted, all of them are really goddess of blog.

So, if anyone wants to know what I have to say, just download my interview FonNovela.

And now, kita beri laluan kepada iklan….

Khas untuk pengguna maxis 012 dan 017 sahaja.
Klik untuk memuat – turun Temubual Bersama Imran. (Sila pilih mengikut kesesuaian telefon bimbit anda di sini

Untuk maklumat lanjut:-
http://www.fonnovela.com

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Apa itu FonNovela?

Fonnovela; salah satu aplikasi java yang terkini. Diaplikasikan dalam revolusi pembacaan novel di mana anda dapat memuat turun novel ke dalam telefon bimbit yang terpilih. Pendekatan baru ini memberi alternatif lain terutamanya kepada penggemar karya untuk menghayati hasil nukilan penulis dengan hanya di hujung jari. Terdapat pelbagai novel berlainan genre samada dalam versi Melayu atau Inggeris.

FonNovela merupakan satu alternatif untuk pembaca-pembaca novel dan ulasan. Dulu, kita hanya dapat membaca novel yang dibukukan tapi kini, sudah tiba masanya kita dapat membaca novel kegemaran di mana jua kita berada. Masukkan novel anda ke dalam telefon bimbit untuk dibaca ketika menunggu bas, ketika dalam lrt atau ketika menanti guru masuk ke kelas.

Komunikasi pada masa kini, makin hari semakin berkembang pesat dengan pertumbuhan teknologi-teknologi baru selaras dengan pertambahan pesat penduduk. Antara teknologi yang boleh dikategorikan sebagai salah satu keperluan asas setiap individu ialah telefon mudah alih. Boleh dikatakan, setiap individu bergantung hidup kepada penggunaan telefon bimbit di dalam pelbagai tugas yang dilakukan seharian.

Selama ini, persepsi kita terhadap novel hanyalah sekadar karya yang dicetak di atas kertas dan dijilidkan untuk tatapan umum.

Laman web FonNovela.com ini adalah merupakan satu platform di mana sesiapa sahaja dapat berkarya dan melahirkan bakat-bakat baru di dalam bidang penulisan. Di dalam laman web ini juga disertakan sinopsis novel-novel yang terpilih dan anda berpeluang untuk memuat turun ke dalam telefon bimbit anda.

Di samping itu juga, anda yang juga pembaca novel juga boleh memiliki novel “maya” ini dengan melayari laman WAP Maxis iaitu http://wap.maxis.com.my menggunakan telefon bimbit yang mempunyai fungsi GPRS. Laman WAP ini juga memaparkan sinopsis novel seperti yang terdapat dalam laman web.

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Managed to buy 2 more things to be added to my “aquarium” hobby. The first one is the following Float Magnet Cleaner. This thing is actualy algae scrapper. Over time, the aquarium glass often covered wth microscopic algae, and looks very unttractive. The purpose of this scrapper is to remove those.

And this particular one that I use is using magnet, and allows me to clean the glass without getting my hands wet. And in the case of the one in the water got pull off from the magnetic bond, it will float to the surface. Really useful to clean the hard to reach area.

And finally, to equip myself with more knowledge, I get the following book from MPH. Really spend hours there to choose the right book. I got to get the book that discuss things that I cannot find in the internet, and with good pictorial explaination.

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I guess my aquarium has reached its natural balance from the 2 weeks “cycling” process that I did with the 4 guppys, and with the help of bio-booster. The live plants that I put into the aquarium grows healthily, which is the good sign of the rich amount of nitrate, which I can conclude that I have enough beneficial bacterias that convert ammonia to nitrite, and nitrite to nitrate.

So, I paid a visit to Ikano Power Center earlier. The main reason is to go to The Pet Safari – getting new fishes to my aquarium. So it’s a fish shopping frenzy today.

I bought 6 “sakura guppy”, to make the number of my guppies to be 10 again (4 died during the new tank syndrome, 1 died in accident – got trapped between the plastic plant and die of suffocation, and another 1 MIA – I don’t really know where it go). I also bough 10 “neon tetra” and 4 “panda corydoras”.

I got interested in “panda corydoras” after knowing that they ar bottom feeder fish, meaning they looking for the food at the bottom of the aquarium. This is good to keep the bottom of aquarium clean, where guppies usually feed at the middle or at the surface of the aquarium.

Here are the new fishes that I get, from left to right – Sakura Guppy, Neon Tetra, Panda Corydoras.

Human likewise, every living thing will need sometimes to adapt to the new environment. Same goes to fish, moving them from the tank in the shop to our aquarium, we need to allow sometimes for the fish to adapt to our aquarium environment.

So from what I read, to acclimate the newly bought fish, just place the sealed bag containing the fish in the aquarium water so it floats for 15 to 20 minutes. Doing that, the new fishes will slowly adapting themselves to the water temperature and surrounding, that will reduce panic and stress when we put the fish into our aquarium.

My aquarium is full with fishes now. And for the next few days, I will pay an extra observation to see how the new fishes doing and to allow the nitrogen cycle to be in balance again. And of course I need to change the amount of the feeding from my auto feeder, and I now have 24 fished to be fed (from only 4 fishes last time).

Lastly, do enjoy a few video footage that I took a while ago during my aquarium cycling, and the new footage that I took right after putting the new fish in.

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It’s rather bad that the entry this time is still about my new aquarium. Yes. I just realize that this is my new hobby, of which the previous one has faded way (jigsaw puzzle thingy).

Anyway, I will be away from KL this weekend. Then I started wondering, who will feed my fish? I can’t just put a lot of fish food before I leave. It will pollute the tank.

Believe it or not I go and get the following automatic food dispenser for the said reason. I set the time so it feeds my fish 3 times daily, pretty much the same time as we human takes our food. One at breakfast time, another one is at lunch time and the last one is at dinner time.

And what about light? I have live plants in my aquarium now, and they need light to do photosynthesis. Again, for the said reason, I went and get the following digital timer plug as well.

I read that fish also need to have biological clock so that they happy, i.e. there are times that they away, and there are times that they sleep. I have pretty regulated light timing using this timer which can provide stress-minimizing waking/sleep cycle to my fish.

And that’s why I called this “obsession”. I really obsessed with my aquarium and its living now.

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The more I read aquarist guide and forum websites, the more I understand how to create an even more balanced aquarium. So, based on the scientific theories that I read, I put them into practice, using my own aquarium.

This is the latest addition to my aquarium, Bio-Rings.

Basically, what I need to do is just to slot in the following bio-rings bag into the aquarium external filter.

These rings are not chemical product of any kind, but it is just just a media to be used in filters. They provide increased surface area for beneficial bacteria to grow. So this bacteria will act as a biological filter. Remember my previous entry where food waste and fish waste will break into ammonia, and these beneficial bacteria will oxidize ammonia to nitrite, and nitrite to nitrate.

Nitrate is not as harmful as ammonia and nitrite, but eventually it will also build up. Found out from the forum nitrate is actually fertilizer that plants used and it will be converted to protein in leaves.

For that, I also introduce live water plants in my aquarium. So the plant will use the stocked nitrate in the water, taking carbon dioxide in the water, released by the fishes, and producing oxygen for fish use. Isn’t that a perfect cycle?

And I am now an amateur aquarist.

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Following up my previous house tidying that concentrate at my bedroom, during the just past long weekend, I had done it again, this time focusing at my living room.

Furthermore, I have a new Sony Home Theatre System. Hehehehe. My brother works at Sony factory in Bangi, and he get to buy sony good at a discounted price. And it is really really cheap compared to the price that you can get from normal shop. For my model, it is RM450 cheaper. I guess that the prize the the reseller pay for the transportation and shop display cost in their premises. So since I get the thing straight from the factory, these costs haven’t been introduced yet.

Anyway, I sold my previous HT to my brother, and add a little bit of money, and he bought the new model for me. After 2 weeks ordering process, and I got my new HT last week, and only this week I have change of assembling it.

Oh my. I got tangled in the spaghetti of cables from my other appliances as well. My body all ache due to squeezing my big size body behind the tv rack.

Walla. Finish at last, and this time, the transformation is from

to

Then I enjoy my quite night watching the newly bought DVDs using my new Home Theatre system. Awwww.. The sound is superb.

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To view the video for this, select Samsons – Kenangan Terindah from the dropdown list of this page.

Artist  :  Samsons Song  :  Kenangan Terindah Album  :  Naluri Lelaki

Aku yang lemah tanpamu
Aku yang rentan karena
Cinta yang tlah hilang darimu
Yang mampu menyanjungku

Selama mata terbuka
Sampai jantung tak berdetak
Selama itu pun aku
Mampu untuk mengenangmu

Darimu… (darimu)
Ku temukan hidupku…
Bagiku… (bagiku)
Kaulah cinta sejati… yea… hu…
Hu… (dirimu… bagiku… engkaulah cinta sejati)

Reff:
Bila yang tertulis untukku
Adalah yang terbaik untukmu
Kan kujadikan kau kenangan
Yang terindah dalam hidupku

Namun takkan mudah bagiku
Meninggalkan jejak hidupku
Yang tlah terukir abadi
Sebagai kenangan yang terindah

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To view the video for this, select Ungu – Demi Waktu from the dropdown list of this page.

Artist  :  Ungu Song  :  Demi Waktu Album  :  Melayang

Aku yang tak pernah bisa
Lupakan dirinya
Yang kini hadir
Di antara kita

Namun ku juga takkan bisa
Menepis bayangmu
Yang slama ini
Temani hidupku

Reff:
Maafkan aku
Menduakan cintamu
Berat rasa hatiku
Tinggalkan dirinya
Dan demi waktu
Yang bergulir disampingmu
Maafkanlah diriku
Sepenuh hatimu
Seandainya bila
Kubisa memilih

Kalau saja waktu itu
Ku tak jumpa dirinya
Mungkin semua takkan seperti ini

Dirimu dan dirinya
Kini ada dihatiku
Membawa aku dalam kehancuran

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Despite my busy hours at office, I still manage to get busy with things that relaxing my mind at home. So, here is my latest hobby. Keeping an aquarium. I got this aquarium as my birthday present last year, and it just only recently that I got this set up. Hehehe…

Well, my first impression of keeping an aquarium is fill in the water, put some deco in, put in fishes, and feed them with food daily, which soon I realize that my idea of keeping an aquarium is teribly wrong.

So, it was the first day that I got the aquarium set up, put the water in, put anti-chlorine luquid, and went to get 10 guppies. The first day, my fish seems so happy swimming around.

2 days later, I realise my fished are behaving oddly. They just swim at the surface of the water, and refuse to swim deeper to the bottom of the aquarium.

The forth day, my fishes behave even weird. They refure to eat, and they look stress. And suddenly, the food started to pollute the water. So I called an SOS, took out the fish and transfer them to a smaller jar while I’m going to clean the aquarium. 4 of my guppies died after that.

I then started to wonder, what went wrong. My fishes don’t seem so happy, the water got poluted easily. So I google around to see on the topic of keeping fresh water aquarium, where I suddenly enlighted to see that there is a science involved behind aquarium. Hohohoho. This kind of this is really my cup of tea.

First pointer that I get is, the aquarium needs a very good filteration. And I came across jargons like mechanical filteration, chemical filteration and biological filteration.

It turned out that this internal filter that is supplied with the aquarium tank isn’t sufficient to give a good mechanical filteration, that is filtering any debris of the excess fish food or fish waste from the water.

So I went to get the following external power filter. The good thing about this one is that, it also comes with activated carbon, used for chemical filteration to filter any dissolved waste from water.

And lastly life is about balance. Even the small thing as my guppies need a balance environment for them to live. From my reading also I come across this thing called “Nitrogen Cycle” where suddenly I remember I learned this during at secondary school during my chemistry class.

Fish waste will break down into ammonia, which is highly toxic to most fishes. With this ammonia contained in the water, soon will develop a good bacteria that will oxidize ammonia in the water into nitrite. But nitrite is also a toxin. Next, another species of bacteria will develop, that will convert nitrite into nitrate, which is not as harmful as nitrite to fishes. But this whole process can take from 2 week to 2 months to complete. But thanks to technology, this whole process can be speed up by using certain product that you can buy.

So, I ended up having the whole range of fish care products. Hehehehe..

Now my guppies strong and healthy.

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Dear honey blog,
I’m home at last. Do you know I keep thinking of you while I’m away. You don’t realize that I also kept stopping by, to see how are you doing. But my hands are tied then, that I can’t touch you the way I used to do.

My dear honey blog,
Now I’m a free men, well at least a bit free. We can start seeing each other again, and start having fun together again, the way we were.

Cordially,
Imran

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