Archives for September 2009
Why I like Giant Kinrara
5. Post office on 3rd floor – can do JPJ transactions there.
4. Modern-looking Maybank on 2nd floor.
3. Photocopy centre on ground floor (facing the car park).
2. Mango Chili (“Simply Thai”) right next to Maybank. Rice + green curry (chicken) + mango salad + ice lemon tea = RM11.80. Quite nice.
1. Covered, free car park! Lots […]
Classic Hari Raya Problem
Classic computer science problem: Given that a salesman needs to visit a number of cities (which are all connected directly to each other), find the route such that the total distance traveled is the shortest.
Option 1: Enumerate all the possible routes, but this can be increasingly time-consuming as the number of cities becomes larger.
Option 2: […]
The 11-year cycle
1986: Recession due to slump in commodity prices
1997: Recession due to the Asian Financial Crisis
2008: US-led recession
According to this pattern, Malaysia will be experiencing its next recession in 2019. Let’s hope that won’t derail Malaysia’s plan to reach developed-nation status by 2020.
Pilot G-1 Grip vs Faber-Castell Power Gel
I prefer the Faber-Castell because it sits nicely in the hand, and the way it applies ink to paper feels more luxurious somehow. On the right type of paper it writes like a dream; on the other hand, it just doesn’t work on some types of papyri under certain conditions. Strangely it’s rather hard to […]