RON 95 Why!!!!

Well, it is lunch time now, so i have just checked into the hotel in BP.

Waiting for time to pass so that the customers come back from their lunch.

Mean while just update somethings along. Journey was cool, only with a crazy big bus tailing me at the back all the way to BP.

After i overtake some lorries i zoom zoom into infinity and i dont see the bus anymore. Mana tahu, the bus also came straight on. Tailing me all the was to my destination. It was really fun but not as much fun when i was using RON 97.

I pump RON95 the last time i went to pick my wife up in the airport. Unfortunately the Petronas along the KLIA entrance dont have RON97, i think all Petronas has cut the RON97, so what the heck i tried, no choice what.

Well this is what happen with RON 95 on my 7 year old Waja Automatic, Mitsubishi engine. Well with ROM 97, i enjoy the ride, though it sucks all time, driving a P1 car. Since i'm driving it so my as well enjoy the ride. My Waja is a little different from the others, cause i had some small little improvement done on it.

So back to RON 95. Why does the gov. want us to use a less superior petrol only after so many years they introduce RON 97. RON 97 is just nice. For malaysian made cars. Especially Waja. Heavy body, low torque, low performance engine, 97 is perfect, not to say too powerful nor too little power. Just nice is the word to describe. V power is a little too volatile. you get boost, but no milage.

Now RON 95 on the other hand, you might not like it if you have not tried, especially if you drive a car mentioned above. Engine seems to be roaring a lot when over taking, and over taking is full of doubt because you are not sure is there enough power move the car faster. So thats bad.
In order to achieve the same speed at the same time. The way i drive with RON 95 cannot be achieve. Its like the car is back in the old days. I had to press so much more on the accelerator to get the same speed or pick up. SO I DOUBT i can get back the same milage with RON 95, Infact i will have more stress, hate the ride and waste more petrol and in the end, damage the engine.

See i dont see why This GOMEN will love us to use RON 95 and the minister said.
"Malaysian dont need RON 97, because it is too powerful..." Hmm what is his logic in saying that. Probably he should refrase the sentence to " Malaysian Dont deserve better Petrol because you are not paying premium for it. So We will only Provide you with RON 95. Like it or not you have no choice because you are in Malaysia" Dont you think the second sentence makes more sense.

Ya, but Malaysian Mentality, " what to do? it is like this mah, Hai ya, accept it loh" As usual our moto, Malaysia Tak Boleh... So use RON 97 although it is more expensive. And if you love your car, please do yourself a favour, life is too short. So dont waste your time. Enjoy the ride.

BYE BYE 2009 welcome 2010

Can you imagine, it is coming to year end now. Just a while ago, i was still in 2008 and now 2009 is ending.
Well we always say, " time and tide waits for no men" , Life is moving at such high speed, and i just wonder how can I cope up with it, and now another year is coming.

How great if i could Freeze time and freeze them during good times. Anyway, i take my life very seriously now, because i dont want to waste it all away.

So recap back, this year i have manage to create a blog without knowing that i will write anything, but then i decided that what the heck why not put my life story into this. At least when im old. i could look back and read all those wonderful things that has happened to me, Just like my life;s milestone.

Many years i have live in this world, and i have learned so much, and yet there so much more to learn. So im looking forward next year;s projects.

This year i completed some house project. i had my HT setup nicely.
I have my wife went for holiday which she kept repeating to me in 2008. so 2009 onward i will have 2 times holiday with my wife, be it local or international.

I got myself a bluetooth headset for my handphone and also a new handphone. with is i can take pictures and place them here for you to see.

Setia Alam is now bussling with plenty of people moving in to stay.

I had my water filter installed for 1k,

And best part my dad bought a pre and power ARC amps. thats a great part. The nicer part is i came to know a friend that had open a used Hifi shop and now im enjoying it so much, i can go to a shop without the feeling of "want to buy a not. dont want to buy dont come disturb me" kind of treatment from Amcorp mall, although not every shop is like that. A&L is very nice.

I have a new born nephew this year and he is now still very cute. i miss him a lot, probably next week go back and see him

Most importantly me and my wife are very happy during this year, and i do really appretiate that. Although i work and cook and do house work, she does help around and we do the work togather. Thank you my wife.

haha forgotten, this year we cooked chicken curry in Setia Alam.

So whats my next year plan

1) Install Autogate,
2) make the wall's
3) Make RM 70000 next year , Sell 5 phaco machine Zeiss or Geuder
4) Sell 50 Acri Lisa a month by June 2010
5) i weigh 65 KG by June 2010,
6) i have 6 packs by October 2010
7) I will have a personal trainer by may 2010


Well thats for now, i know i have more i know it, but i will write down this year all my goals and weigh them with a dead line.

So you should do the same.

Biamping And wire wonder

The wonders of Hifi audioEver wonder what would you do with your current setup, are you satisfy? if not what will you do? well have you ever thought of Biamping your current Speaker? Or maybe strip an old Speaker cable and use a single core out of it and test if it sounds better ?

Well two boring hifi enthusiast did that the last weekend, infact they were so bored with the current system one of them decided to strip an old speaker wire cable and decided to test it in single core mode. Why would a person take so much trouble doing such stupid thing, as he was unwiding the cables, he was mentioning to his workers, "ini orang bodoh punya kerja, tapi kerja ini boleh buat wang" i wonder is that really true, but lets get on, so two crazy and boring person went on a journey and quest to find the perfect tune for the current setup.
What we wanted to do, or Harry wanted to do was to strip his old speaker cable and test it as a single core. He had no comment or idea what would it sound like but i had the impression that the bass wont be that good. Or rather loose that punch in bass. When we hooked it up, then we pop in the usual test discs shown on the first picture, silence we had, we were so surprise by the result. There was Bass, Treble and Mid's, it all sounded so nice and so smooth, no fuzzy feeling the vocal is not clear, bass muddy, or maybe some noise make a person unhappy. Infact it improved the system, Well, we were using the carver and Vincent Sp 330, Preamp was Conrad Johnson Sc 26, we put the Alchemist Audio to rest for the moment, and ran those mention amps all the time.


First up, was Polk audio Monitor series Model RTA 8T, Initially with the previous speaker cable, it was the usual sound that we had used to listen to. But it all changed when the single core untwisted cable was used. The Vocal is very prominant with sweet sounding lips which we usually dont get to listen from the normal speaker cable. With the single core, because of the energy transfer was not interrupted, that is my theory, that is why the it sounds better.
Bass on the other hand, was more than better i expected. I never knew that with only single core it can perform very well. It had punch and speed, most important it cleaned up the messy bass that we used to listen, which we were used to. Togather with the Stone, as the tuning the bass was much cleaner. Surprise to read this, dont be, So How come it sounded better? Probably the cross interference RFI was much less infact none that has reduced the amount of RFI contaminating the Signal during the transfer from Amplifier to the speaker.


The second idea was with single core, and proper contact point was achieve and probably Electrons travel in the same core has more focus energy delivery compare to multi cores. I can describe it as Using Single core, Tightens bass and tones the harshness down. Making music more soothing to the ear, We may be missing some sound, but It does sound good. Then we went on testing with the Polk Audio monitor 10, A very large Vintage kind of speaker. 1 Tweeter, 2 mid range and 1 big woofer, well not the biggest that i have listened, but big enough to make great bass, We had a little bit of a trouble with the staging and bass for the first time, but with Harry's quick thinking we solve it, by placing 2 small speaker stand below it.

After testing we call it a day, and i had dinner with Harry, so we discussed and talked then he had the idea of biamping, we discussed further what we wanted to do, we talked about using electronic cross over to biamp or triamp a system and how it can be done, I never had the idea of how this works but i had to try in order to find out, Then we called it a day and went home.the Next Day

The next day i had to get up early, cause i had a conference in Hotel Crown Plaza in Kl, I went there for half a day and went back after that, had some sleep because the night before A friend came with Boooze, and was drunk the whole night, so it was kind of a hang over for me, i needed the rest,

Went to sleep and at 430 pm I gave Harry a call, Asked him if he was doing the biamping. He said he was setting it up. Then i changed and went there. I was running in my mind how was he biamping his speakers, and how does it sound like, Soon after that i receive a SMS from Him stating > the Pink Triange sound Very Damm nice " It had a very Damm word there, this means it must sound very very good. So i told him hang on, i have some very nice CD that i brought along to test. SO Since our Single core wire had worked yesterday, Harry had spend the Noon twisting and braiding the single core into two, Before that it was messy, not nice, with Biamping, it was worst,
He did a great job,. The setup was basically using 2 power amps, and the speaker must be bi wire able. Harry had place my Beloved Pink Triangle to try first. The Carver amp and the Vincent power amps were used to Biamp the Pink Triangle speaker. Sorry no pictures for the Pink triangle, i forgot to take because it sounded so nice i didnt notice that i had to take pictures, I took some other photos. During the Time we had a guest present also. He is also a Kaki.
This was the ultimate of the Pink Triangle's performance, Because i had never listen to the sound like this before. the bass was even lower and it never suffer from insufficient power supply to the lower frequencies. The High frequency was even cleaner, much much more soothing. Since the days of the Naton Amp by C&B Company, the pink Triangle Ventrical speaker had always suffer in a certain way, when the Frequency went below certain level probably due to the Frequency Response of the Naton Power amp, of the insufficient power of the power amp to cater for High Frequency and Low Freq. But when 2 independent amps, work togatherthe Carver amp was very unique because it had 2 features most power amps dont. It had lever input, and also Line out, or output. RCA. So the connection was from the preamp to the Carver amp and Carver output to the Vincent power amp. It was very convinient. With the Lever control input, we can balance the sound level between the high level to match the low level from the Vincent Power amp. With some tuning done the sound was fantastic. It went down, way down, and the vocal was truly amazing, The speed was not compromise here also, i had my Global Beatz Track 9 tested and it was very Full filling. It was High resolution reproduction as it;s best. With small woofer that goes all the way down to 40Hz it is really amazing.
So there is it,
We had a great time listening to the Pink Triangle Ventrical, we switch to Mission and also Warfadale speakers later, till Harry Close the shop. It was really exiting as i never had done Biamping before. This was the First time, and it is a great sucess. i know, many have dont that before, but since we are experimenting on new ways to enjoy hifi, my as well do it. What the heck at the most it dont sound right,
With the idea of single core and biamping it had change how the system that we used to listen sound like. In many ways it is good, so dont throw or sell your current system yet, maybe on of these tricks can make your system sound different.

The next aim for me and Harry is to create a module speaker system, something like Uncle Vic in Setapak, that one is one system i have listen and will never forget. My respect to uncle Vic;s system.

Amazing Thailand

Zeiss Training
Well, again i'm going to Bangkok with work mates. This time is training on Premium IOL's, great, because now i have the chance to ask as much as possible on MFIOL, So we went on the Saturday evening flight and reach there in the middle of the night, went to sleep because we were all tired. Next day i went to check out the Swimming pool of the hotel, small but better than none. Had the swim and breakfast at the highest floor of the hotel. We took so much time eating breakfast that it lasted for 3 hours. By then the food in the stomach has already digest. In the afternoon we went to central world for a walk. As usual the girls will amke their way on their own. They had this world fair which is every country that participated had their products sold. So i bought a box of pop corns. I have not seen such thing in Malaysia, probably i have to open my eyes wider, because so far, i seriously havent seen pop corn in a box, Just pop into the Microwave oven then you have a pack of pop corns. great for my movie nights with my wife. Since i have a home theater, so it must come with pop corns.

First day.
first day sucks, because the weather was hot, so sat down with my boss and we chat while eating lunch and we chat a lot. after that went back to get some nap.
In the evening, we met up with Simon, It was his birthday, so he will bring us out for dinner and it will be on him
So we went opposite to have dinner. There was this huge fest on beer, Bangkok's mini december fest, the german's has october fest so the thais enjoy them in december. it is much cooler during this time of the year, i now know why they have it in december.
After many companies we went to, most were full we ended up in Chang Beer. Thailand's local beer, there is another brand Singha. that one is really good also. I think it is thai as well.

Beer fest or not
The thing now a days are so Westernised that i felt i was in another european country with yellow colour skin human, hmm, asian version of europe. So back to the story, Simon had ordered some food, finger food to be exact. And some beer. Chang Beer is kind of different, dont know how to describe but you can get them in Tesco in Malaysia, its cheap also. So the pretty girl fill us up and we enjoyed our second night. Happy BirthDay Simon !! And another year older.
Thai people like to pray, As you can see they have plenty of Deities and gods along the road and
and each god has different function. So dont simply pray to the wrong god, So that you can make sure you get the thing you want, BTW i'm no god person so i just watched and observed.
First Day Training
So on the first day of the Training, We started with Zeiss boss Steven giving his wrap up report into 10 minutes about next years Zeiss project in SEA, he had shown the report of 2009 reports and expects quite a lot next year, mainly on the surgical consumables, which is IOLS
then we had the Oscar of Opthalmology surgical Deparment goes to My company. Yeah Yeah.
so inviting the bosses of my company to come up to receive the award for best performing company for 2007, 2008 and 2009
There is it, my bosses receiving the Oscar award, nice one there.
So after receiving a award you are suppose to give a speech, i bet my boss didnt prepared his because he never expected to win this award. So spontaneously he gave the speech. It was good although a little nervous i hear,. but hey, can you give a spontaneous speech, well of course if you win the real Oscar award you should have prepared the speech and of course you are an actor so you should be able to act anytime anywhere. Great Speech. very informative too.
our hard work now is being paid off,
So we went back to the agenda that was to introduce our selves and then carry on with the traning. Well the thai team had a wholsome load of pretty looking OL's "office ladies" with nice tight office wear. i just cant stop wondering why Thai people are so thin, so beautiful and so happy and polite people, well its the food and the culture they have. They are great people and thailand has long history.
So during the break time i took the opportunity to take some nice thai gal pictures to share with you.

well as you can see, they are beautiful arent they. Well maybe i take a proper one next time. Hifi thailand
Hifi is in my blood. its like in my DNA and i cannot live without them. So to fufill my lust i went looking for any sign of a hifi shop in Central World. And indeed i found 2, One was more toward home theater, they carry Klipsh, Marantz and wonderful Epos. they had a year end sale discount so they were throwing price like almost 50%. Shit how come malaysian hifi dealers dont do that. Why they so Kiam Siap. sell half price lah, then i can own some HT amps on my own of upgrade the old one, This is really bad for the HT economy.
The hifi shop there carried the T&A brand and also Bel Canto.
well because i couldnt speak thai, i was being ignored, but i did get to listen to their only setup there, they sell a lot of CD;s so much of them. Well no pictures accept for this one because they didnt allow it. Hai ya. what a waste.
Went on listening but they turn on so soft its like they are telling me to get out of i m not buying.
probably i was wrong but anyway since i didnt wanted to buy so i left listening one or 2 tracks from their T&A amps and media streamer. Nowadays media players are so common, every company is making them. And it is damm expensive, Like the T&A, it cost about 20k our money, Im not surprise because Bladieus and Naim are also in that range,
Its really happening in Central world, even though it was Monday night, it seems Christmas is already here, I do love their Ad;s because its so colourful.


We had dinner, and Steven Belanja
So on the first night of course there will be some arrangement for dinner, So we went to a place near MBK opposite of Paragon Shopping complex to a thai restaurant and had food there. Frankly speaking this was the worst thai food i have eaten in Thailand. The very best was with my parents during our holiday to Bangkok a couple of years ago. I always come to Bangkok and have good food, but this one. it is really not worth, Prawns not fresh, fish not nice, Green curry sucks, Malaysia thai restaurant also better. vege was soggy and i really didnt enjoy much.
BTW it cost RM3000 for that meal to feed a total of 30 people. Its expensive, because the food sucks.

So i we headed back to the hotel but i had a rest instead while some went for shopping, i wonder why i was so tired and lazy during this trip? Probably nothing around here interest me. Next time i must research on used HIFI items before i come here. My journey continued on with next day training and went back after that. So boring, i have got nothing exciting to tell you, I didnt buy anything but the pop corn. and some dried food.

So anyway, cut the crap,. next time i come here again, i will for sure look for a proper hifi shop, again i have to learn some thai first before embarking on a journey into overseas HIFI shopping, probably i should start with Hong Kong. Oh, i forgot to mention. The Taxi;s are very colourful here, red yellow pink green and blue, so many of them and they are all Toyota Altis, sorry no photos but if i have the chance again i will take some to show you.

Still Busy In Thailand

Sorry my readers, i know some of you are browsing my web page and have no updates these few days, Problem is im in a training with my principle for a new upcoming products being introduced into the region,

So will update more next time, see ya,

Another Visit to my Hifi heaven

This week again, i get to visit my HIFI heaven in Campbell complex KL, As compared to my last visit Harry had informed me in advance that there is some nice goody amp that is waiting for me to listen to.

So i head on to Campbell Complex to see whats up with the new amps in the shop. When i went in the setup was the JBL L3 speaker, but today it is powered by the Vincent audio power amp. with the a Conrad Johnson SC26 Preamp, which came in a few days ago, sounded sweet when i first listened, played some regular CD and had a go with the JBL, some music were a little harsh, and less in vocal focal, kind of smeared a little in the center. So me and Harry Wong hooked up the Pink Triangle Ventrical Speaker, on the Vincent Power amp. hmmm,, dont seem to sound right, nothing coming out, remember my last review on the Pink Triangle, it requires 100W minimum at 11Ohm, so, so far no other Amp available in the shop can make the Pink Triangle Sing, only the Naton Power amp.


Intitial Setup , JBL L3 with vincent audio, below is Pink Triangle with conrad SC 26The pink Triangle is now known as triangle speakers, from France, never measured the woofer size but the speaker is a thin and slim looking speakers, some dont like because they will say, "this speaker no bass lah" mind the words, because you are half right, its a damn difficult to drive speakers and it dont seem bass able kind of speakers, but deep down in my heart, i knew if you can make this baby sing it will sing like you have never listened before.

Nice little setup, as you can see, the alchemist audio came as a replacement later to see if it can fit into the matching of the current one, It sounded good, but lets talk about some audio review with the conrad johnson, We had some variety test cd but the one most impressed me is Global Beatz, it is percussion and perfect for testing bass and speed of the setup, Kari Bremnes will be another favourite, and with whole lot of other good Cds, that i will mention later. First up, Global Beatz, this CD can get in Rock corner, i'm going to get one copy of my own later Ori, for sure,


Now if you can see, by comparing the JBL L3 speakers, and the Pink Triangle, the Pink Triangle Ventrical speaker seems to be a little too small in the woofer size, dont you think, i think also too, but the specification states that it does from 20Khz all the way down to 40Hz, which i think i should give it a try on bass, Mid bass, no argument, this speaker does perform very well, how about low bass? Browsing through the Global Cd i came accross track 9 which has the certain dynamicness in testing the speaker. Track 9 is fast, has the sudden slam, and perfect high pitch with plenty of instruments flying here and there, also it does some nice bass,
The sound was fantastic, the speed and dynamic of the timbre sound was fantastic, it does very tight bass. at one moment of the track 9 the music stopped and the pink triangle was like pulling the handbrakes like making a sharp turn, imagine driving a car, that was fantastic, the speed the stop and the high frequency.

Then i went for some vocal, Kari Bremnes, this is my favourite album, superb vocal, and some nice bass. The ventrical went very well performing Kari's first song, now most speakers that i have listen in the shop would have a quick little break of the vocal, when she pulls her voice high,
the Ventrical never showed any of these signs, thats because it has a round ribbon tweeter, Ribbon tweeter never suffer from high frequency, they excel in it and performs human voice perfectly,

Conrad Johnson SC 26, with Naton power amp at the back.


California Audio Labs CD transport and Tube DAC, the source that we have been using, I hope to see the Almarro that will be arriving soon,

the Setup as i calculated was very close to 8.8K which was infact a nice number but with fantastic sound, Although it is used but the system sounds fantastic, It is all about matching the system.
We tried also on Snow Rose, mainly vocal and guitar, it is fine and perfect but i had listened this on a Ongaku before, so that was much different from this one, This has a bit hollow in terms of vocal and space, making it somehow the Valves are much better in performing vocal, especially 300B tubes. Single ended with high dB speakers.

Alchemist audio, preamp, was somehow a bit different from the SC26, although not much sigfinicant difference but it was kind of different in its staging and vocal, Bass wise, its pretty much the same. I later pop in some pop music from Arron Nevile and Tracy Chapman, it was not as satisfying in the Ventrical compare to JBL and Infinity. Thats because the bass doesnt come in like it suppose to be. Its funny that somehow other music the Ventrical shine so well and impresses those who listen to it, but somehow the modern pop songs it dont serve it well.

I then pop in Hotel California, it was ok, but as i was saying, you dont get that bass that you know how the music sound like, remember i was telling you the bass for some music was fantastic, but in hotel california it failed, i probably think these kind of music a small speaker like that would not be able to perform. Harry said that the room was a little too big for the speaker but it were to be in a smaller room it would do very musch better.
Some how, if you want great bass, you still need a nice large woofer.

I didnt quit there, moved the Ventrical back against the wall, bass improved, but i realise one thing the imaging had blured and no more, sad sad, i had the bass improved but i removed the imaging,
So i had it moved back to its original position and the bass was gone, I have to learn speaker positioning, it is really important because this is how sound is reflected, how you can improve bass impact, and staging.

Time was not on my side but today i had had a very wonderful time with Harry exchanging knowledge about hifi and how we can improve better, hopefully the next shipment will have plenty more to play with.



Then and then is the Ventrical a worth buy? my answer, if you have the power like 350 Watter you can, take it to Symphony Classic audio and see if it matches the speakers. You will be impressed if you have so much power it can only drive a small speaker like this, but if your amp makes the Ventrical sing, you may fall in love with the Ventrical.

Im one of them, but only if the Naton had much better vocal performance it would be a total package, Classical Music, Music, Percussion and Jazz, this setup is great to listen to. Only it lack to shine in Vocal, this reminds me of this years audio show setup the German Physiks Carbon speaker. it excels in Timbre and dynamicness of the music but vocal wise it dont do well. never like a horn or a ribbon.

Anyhow, each and every product has pros and cons, that is where the tuning comes in, Next round probably i will go to Harry's place to get some tuning gimmics to tune the setup to perform in vocal,
If you want to have a go with this speakers always feel free to drop by Harry's place in Campbell Complex KL nearby Sogo, and ask him to hook it up for you to have a go,

Harry also has plenty of other speaker brands that might interest you,

Till then enjoy reading see ya.

The First Acri LISA recorded in HUKM

This is the very first time in the history of HUKM to inject a MFIOL Acri LISA from Carl Zeiss Meditec, Acri Lisa is formerly from Acri Tec, which is now owned by Carl Zeiss Meditec is now available in Malaysia, togather with a new range of Toric MFIOL and also MICS platform,

Today's demand in lifestyle is so different from those days where the patient want to see far and near without wearing glasses. Its a era where patients are well informed about what is available in the market. Carl Zeiss is able to provide such services and products for patients that require MFIOL with Toric platform all togather in one nice package.

In the olden days, MFIOL or Multi Focal Intra Occular Lens were not up to standard providing the best results today. There were problematic Haloes, very Pupil Dependent and does not provide the best results. Patient sometimes ask for explantation of a MFIOL.

Everything has changed, here we have one of the top leading optical company and they have the very best to offer you a fantastic product you can get in the market, The Acri LISA which is packed with plenty of features and high tech optical designs will allow a patient to have better visual outcome and more predictable results for surgeons.

6/6 or known also as 20/20 which is perfect vision for a person to achieve is no more a criteria, what makes a better lens is how much detail and contrast a patient can see is very important also. In a MFIOL we split light and when you split light you will compromise on certain visual quality compare to monofocal IOL,

with features like asymmetric light distribution, pupil Independence, SMP technology and Aspheric technology, improves your vision when implanted with a Acri LISA.

Find out more with your Zeiss representative in your country, see ya,