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• Delicous healthy beef noodles as Pho Hoa! http://t.co/osatnuNs #
• Looks like @dropbox completely underestimated the participation in the quest and totally crashed. Oops. #
• Get into the quest now with @Dropbox. Winner gets 100GB for life and a bunch of cool swag http://t.co/50K2x30z #
• This @Dropbox quest aint no good for me. Am up to Chapter 11 and it's getting a bit mad. Time to sleep! #
• Heavy arabic accent can be really hard to understand, especially when they are talking about deep tech stuff ^_^ #

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• At Hilton to celebrate the wedding of @paultantk – congrats bro! #
• Happy days – @paultantk getting hitched http://t.co/DvjsSLW3 #
• Cheong k!! (@ Red Box Karaoke w/ @lavuarne) http://t.co/qYySiGtq #
• House warming is fun when it's for @eyerizzz – check out the mad whisky stash! http://t.co/1n6iRvqA #
• Trying out some Hokkien Mee! (@ Restaurant Double One) http://t.co/avpkOjxP #

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Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. brings together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki and his army.

I went through a period last year of watching a movie almost every weekend, it tailed off after a while though and honestly 2012 hasn’t been a great year for movies so far, the only thing I’ve watched which I thought worth writing about was Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol – that was the time I discovered the joy of TGV IMAX in Sunway.

I’ve watched a few things since then, but nothing really noteworthy – so far Avengers has blown everything out of the water in 2012 – it’s also doing amazingly well on IMDB with a stonking (and deserved) 8.8/10. I’m also of course looking forwards massively to The Dark Knight Rises in July and The Hobbit in December – those are big contenders for 2012.

I also have a fair amount of hope for Prometheus in June mostly due to the fact it’s directed by Ridley Scott.

Anyway back to the Avengers, of course I’ve watched every single Marvel film in the series -

- Iron Man (2008)
- Hulk (2008)
- Iron Man 2 (2010)
- Thor (2011)
- Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Some were better than others of course, but Iron Man really was the only one that stood out for me – the rest were ok. There’s going to be an Iron Man 3 (in 2013) as well – so let’s see how that goes.

Anyway, back to the movie – The Avengers – I thought it was great! Especially on IMAX 3D – it was a visual spectacular and the most enjoyable cinema experience I’ve had for quite some time. It was very well paced, the dialogue was witty and the cinematography was suitably epic.

Obviously there’s not a whole lot in the way of storyline, but what were you expecting? In some ways the story is quite similar to that of Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon.

Acting wise the whole cast delivered, even Robin Scherbatsky – yah she’s in there! And for the record, this is the first movie where I’ve found Scarlett Johansson attractive.

This is definitely the best team based superhero movie EVER made and quite possibly the best comic book adaptation so far.

If you haven’t seen it yet, you should go and watch it ASAP at TGV Sunway on the REAL IMAX screen in 3D – it’s well worth the extra few bucks.

That’s all – go watch it! I give it a PUNY GOD 9/10.

So it’s kinda weird, last year I did 2 talks in the same month, 1 on WordPress (High Performance WordPress – Scaling, Tuning, Optimizing & More) & one which was more random (The History Of The Future at WebCamp KL.

This year I ended up doing 2 presentations in the same week (actually on 2 consecutive days), and once again the first was technical and the second a bit more random.

The first one was about MongoDB and was for the KL Mongo User Group AKA KL MUG. For those that don’t know what MongoDB is, it’s one of a new breed of SQL engines in the NOSQL camp – this means no more horrible SQL statements, no tables/columns/rows. Just documents being stored however you like.

MongoDB (from “humongous”) is a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database. Written in C++, MongoDB features:

Here’s me with my AWESOME Linode t-shirt giving the talk.

Some useful references I used:

- Replica Sets
- Replica Sets – Basics
- Replication Fundamentals
- Replica Set Administration
- Replica Sets – Voting
- Replication Architectures
- Replica Set Design Concepts
- Replica Set Tutorial
- Use MongoDB to Store Application Data on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
- MongoDB Replica Sets on EC2
- Fun with MongoDB replica sets
- Recommended practice to deploy MongoDB on EC2 for production?
- Tips from a Production MongoDB Deployment
- MongoDB Infrastructure Tests (Part I: Setting up Replica Sets with MongoDB)
- MongoDB Monitoring: Keep in it RAM
- My Experiences with MongoDB in production over the last year
- Security and Authentication
- Ubuntu and Debian packages

- Munin plugins for MongoDB
- Munin configuration examples

The official MongoDB documentation and wiki is REALLY good, and also one of the reasons why I choose MongoDB over the others.

Don’t forget to join us on Facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/klmug/

• Foooooooood!!! (@ Peng Heong Hakka Paikut Restaurant (????????) w/ @kimberlycun) http://t.co/JODvjyvu #
• Pick up car! (@ Wai N Lin) http://t.co/IVkKmzZw #
• Time for some delicious noms! (@ Naan & Tandoori) http://t.co/QRwB3Prm #
• Trying out the supposed best Tandoori in KL. I have to say its superb! http://t.co/1pmHYf8J #
• Man it's so hot tonight I need to put the aircon on in the living room #1stworldproblems #

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As we probably know by now, I love music. Especially break-beat EDM kinda stuff (Drum&Bass/Dubstep/Trance etc).

One of my favourite films during my seminal raving days was Human Traffic, and it’s probably still one of my favourite films today – I can watch it over and over because it doesn’t really have a plot.

It’s just a bunch of moments that all ravers will empathise with, captured on film. There’s one seen where the character Kip is selling records and wearing a wicked T-shirt with a set of turntables on it and the words Junglist Movement. I’ve wanted that shirt since I first saw the film around 1999. Here’s the scene with the shirt:

I don’t know why, but I recently had the urge to track down the t-shirt and buy it – so that’s I did.

I ordered it, and it just arrive so I’m proudly wearing it today

It’s also bloody hot today!

And yah I’m living my dreams – with my Junglist Movement shirt! Have a good weekend all.

BTW did you know where the sample in this track came from?

It came from this video:

Stacking level = Asian.

• Omg moleskine has a beer journal! @eyerizzz http://t.co/yzHT3L3x #
• Yo @wordpress the latest WordPress version doesn't have the newest Akismet plugin version bundled in – sort it out guys! #
• Check out @kimberlycun doing her best "Miss J" from ANTM impression. #fierce http://t.co/7J9Af2bA #
• People Of Walmart (Sexy And I Know It – LMFAO) http://t.co/6lZfe6Lg #

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…I’m a royal pain the arse.

I like to be Obstropolous.

I like to be Obstinate.

I like to be Opinionated.

I like to be Obdurate.

I like to be er..ok I admit I’ve exhausted my list of fancy sounds words starting with ‘O’.

But you get the message right? If you don’t, get a dictionary.

Thank goodness she can put up with me.