What I Like and don’t like in this Technology Country

After 8 months here at France… I have some conclusion about my life here…From my perspective point of view…as a stranger (Malaysian people) in this technology country.

What I like:

1. Both of my supervisors are very friendly. Although they are Professor and Assoc. Prof… they help me a lot. I hope, I can manage to complete my PhD here. There is no communication problem with us, all of the time we speak English.
2. People that surrounding me here are very helpful. They always help me in my life here.
3. Very easy to get Halal food. A lot of Halal food can be bought at supermarket. Besides that a lot of Kebab stall here which is Halal.
4. Easily to cross the road. Car driver respect pedestrian very well…it’s not the same in my home country.
5. Very easy to pray(as a Muslim). I feel comfortable to pray behind my desk at the laboratory, even though there are seven French people here. Nobody ever disturb me, they respect my religion. Besides that, I can easily have a Friday prayer near the university. There are also two main mosques at Rennes.
6. Opportunity to learn French Language. I have installed some words in my memory.
7. There are 2 times a year, the shops are open for SALE. It is usually in July and January every year. Actually, my wife like it very much:-p.
8. There is a support from CAF every month for the house that I rent.

What I don’t:

1. I hate myself for not yet able to speak French even though I have been here for eight month. Maybe I need more practice. I only able to speak ‘Broken French’ and understand some words. Hopefully, after this I can speak fluently.
2. Be careful when you walk! Please look on the floor and road, because you might be stepping on ‘shits’ of the dogs. If not, you need to do ‘samak’.
3. Be careful with the beggar. Sometimes they could disturb your life. Maybe you should drop some cents.

These are base on my experienced, just to share with you guys out there.

Coming to France from Malaysia

While staying at home today..cause my laboratory is on blackout, suddenly it across in my mind that I want to write about my journey in France….journey to the technology country..Its almost a dream come true for me to study abroad… since I missed my first opportunity while I’m 18 years old…huh finally, I’m going abroad…not doing my first degree…but my PhD!… I’m not alone, but accompany with my wife..May Allah give bless for both of us…journey to this technology world..with nawaitu for Allah.

I came to France started November 2006. I came here with zero French...which mean: I did not know how to speak French at all!...My advice here, for those who want to come here..at least learn some word, if not you will have a lot of difficulties. Here, in this blog I give some guides on coming to France from Malaysia… in my point of view as Malaysian people.

Coming to France by Aeroplane:
If you take MAS ( Malaysian Airlines System) aeroplane, you will be dropped at Terminal 1. Go get your luggage and straight forward to get the navette (free train connection between terminal 1,2 and 3) If you have flight connection to other region, for example to Rennes. You should take the train (navette) and go to terminal 2 to take Air France flight. If you want to go to Paris, you can take the ‘navette’ and stop at Terminal 3 or 2, and by a ticket before take a RER Train to Paris. The journey by RER is about 45 minutes. At the city, you can get metro train to go to your destination.

Some advices:

Becareful with pickpockets. One of my friend just lost his wallet last year here. They always looking at you.Becareful while crossing the road, a lot of car did not stop for you in Paris. At Rennes its much more easier.Learn some little French word. Its much more easier to use English in Paris, but not in Rennes. I have difficulties to buy things here before and still have to learn a lot. Say ‘Bonjour’= Good day, ‘pardon’ or ‘excusez moi’ = to make excuse and ‘desole’ = to get forgiveness… This is the basic word of politeness. Here, there is a lot of people beggar for your money.. Maybe in some place you should drop some cents and some place is not.

Bon Voyages….

HP Madness Sales in Malaysia

I just get one information to share in this technology. There will be an online sales in HP Online Malaysia. Discount up to RM1400 rebate for laptop. I will get one!!:)

HOW TO BUY
Below are the procedures to buy through the HP Online Store:
1. Please fill in your details, select your e-Voucher and click submit!
2. HP Online Store will issue the e-Voucher code to customers via email from 30 June - 1 July 2007.
3. To buy the product, logon to http://www.hp.com.my/midnightsale from 2 July - 9 July, 9pm till 6am daily.
4. Choose your products and add into the shopping cart.
5. Key in your e-Voucher code and click checkout.
6. Fill up the payment and delivery information.
7. Submit order!

My Digital Camera - Canon IXUS 75 (Part 3)

The Canon IXUS 75 is also known as the Canon PowerShot
SD 750 in the US. This is a stylish looking pocket
sized digital camera. One of the attractions of this
camera is the fact it has a larger than standard three
inch LCD screen. Larger LCD screen really
does make a difference when composing and reviewing
photos, so this gives the IXUS 75 an extra tick in the
box. It also makes the camera's menu system that bit
easier to read.

Wow..so nice isn’t it?..I’m lucky to have bought this
camera..hehe…Its really valued for money. I’m glad to
grab this one. The picture is very nice. I have used
it in my vacation at Paris last week. I’ll post in
this blog some picture that I took while I was there.
Here, I also put a video from youtube.com. Enjoy it.
CLICK HERE

Internet Technologies ( Teknologi Internet)

My post today is about technology internet which is a different from before. Maybe this time is just a little break before I continue my journey on digital
camera and etc.This time, I will tell you guys on how the idea of making a blog came across my mind. Technology in internet, make me starting to use blog
as my first website. Here, In this blog again, I just want to share my journey in technology today.

Siapa sangka..akhirnya saya dapat juga dapat menyiapkan sebuah blog. Masuk hari ni dah kali ke 4 saya menulis di blog baru saya ini. Semuanya bermula
apabila saya membaca mengenai iklan di www.monakas.com.

Di situlah bermula minat saya mengenai blog. Yang lebih menarik, iklan ini di tulis dalam BAHASA MELAYU DAN DISERTAKAN TUTORIAL CONTOH.Siapa nak bagi beb..Di sini saya sertakan link untuk affiliate program cara membina blog.
Klik di sini atau di iklan di sebelah. Banyak yang saya belajar di sini. Saya hanya berkongsi di blog ini. Selamat mencuba. Good luck

My Digital Camera - Canon IXUS 75 (Part 2)

This is continuation about the previous story on this camera. Actually, this camera was presented to my wife as our first anniversary. Today is a modern day, so…most of woman wanted the ‘electronics’ hardware’ rather than jewelery and gold (Hehe.. I just guess on it). As long as she is happy, I’m happy too.

The digicam that I bought, actually have pros and contras। You can evaluate it by yourself before buying it.

Pros: -High resolution,

-large 3" LCD

-Attractive design

-High quality video recording

-You can take beutiful close-up photos using "digital macro" shooting ability.

-High quality portrait photos

-good qulity indoor images

-Tanks to the red-eye correction function, u can correct red eyes in recorded images.

-amazing shooting options in manual and SCN mode.

-By setting the shutter speed to "long shutter mode", you can take stunning high quality photos without noise in dark places.

Contras:

-It doesnt have charge indicator

-It doesnt have view finder.

-The "Auto iso shift ability adds too many noises to the photo.

Others info on IXUS 75:

The image processor has been upgraded to DiG!C III, which includes Face Detection AF/AE/FE and Noise Reduction Technology and red-eye correction is offered with image playback.

7.1-megapixel, 3x optical zoom digicams Canon

Comes with two colours: silver n black

Weight: 130g

Yesterday I saw on the advertising... the price have drop into €279, huh..so fast the price have dropped ,but never mind… the black digicam that I have bought, really satisfied meJ. Hope you guys enjoy on this information.

My Digital Camera - CANON IXUS 75

This time i will write on my new digital camera which is CANON IXUS 75. After a dissapointed time of using my previous digital camera( I cant take a picture on sunny day and dark place), I decided to buy a new digital camera.

At first place, i decided to go back to Malaysia and buy this digital camera at my home country...then, because of unpassioned, I just bought this camera at France which is cost about €299..it is quite expensive, i though i can get it more cheaper in my country.Overall, i really satisfied with the performance.It is quite a user friendly, very small,easy to handle, and the picture quality is very satisfied. Its really valued for money. I will use it to get around europe during my time here.


I will update from time to time some reviews on this camera that i have done some reading and research before i decided to buy it. This is the picture of the camera that i have bought:

Introduction

Hello..My name is Haizal and I'm from Malaysia. Currently I'm a phd student at France. I'm working on Antenna Design. I just want to spend my little time to write in my Blog.

This is my first experienced in blogging and try to write some information in it. Just to share my interest on technology that i have experienced. The technology that i have experienced by buyingt,interesting,visiting, working,travelling and etc. I hope you can enjoy the thing that i will share. Some of it is written in english and some of it is written in Bahasa Melayu. Whatever is OK or NOT hope you guys can help me.

regards,
haizal