Another boring sunday , woke up late and was thinking to join my sister for some cooking session in the kitchen. This week it's gonna be Italian Spaghetti – Similar to my Pasta Jeta here, it's just another way of cooking and garnishing. Amazingly, the recipe turn out pretty well. Have a look on how this Asian Italian Spaghetti were being prepared. Ingredients are pretty simple.

It's everything in the mix! Prepare tomatoes, meat chunks (pork used), green + red + orange capsicum to make your dish more flamboyant & interesting, some big onions as well. Just dump everything in the skillet and stir fried it with a pinch of salt & pepper. It would be better if you have some paprika in it.

Now the secret behind every Italian dish – Prego sauce! If you some chicken stock, prepare along and blend it into the skillet along with the puree but be sure that the sauce are creamy enough at your desire level. You can put in some corn starch or Mozzarella cheese into the sauce as well to thicken the sauce.

Fried some onions along with your spaghetti. Now that's asian style! Stir-fried noodle not – it's spaghetti.

Whalla… there u go! Asian-Italian Spaghetti prepared for you. Oops.. din't bought any Mozzarella cheese here but it would be nice if you have it for toppings & garnish some fresh parsley on it.

27.02.2010 – Another busy saturday meeting people and sitting down doing the chit chatting. Just before this little reunion, I met Annie & her hubby who's gonna get married this month and as well, Sonny along.

Late evening, I met Michael Liew at City Hall and man, he didn't change much though. Still recognize his face after 15 years since we last graduated in Primary 6. Later on, Hui Sian & Ivy pop up from nowhere and all of us would just find a place to sit down and reminisce our stories back in 1989-1995. A lot had changed, some had passed away but I can't recalled how he looks like – poor memory of mine. But I still remembered most of names & faces. Luckily I uploaded the one and only photo that I grabbed from Chin Huan otherwise it's hard to recognize most of them. Facebook tags and activities really helps a lot on in our reunion & identifying faces.

I remembered there's a reunion once in Form 4 but that time not much people joined, if I can recall correctly, it's about a quarter of the class who attended the steamboat buffet @ Hornbill and I am one of them, being a cool chap sitting round the clock and smoke aside.. Kinda regret that we didn't took any pictures for that gathering but this time, a reunion of 4, although is small – but worthwhile on the meet.

Ivy can't recognize me much but the rest said my face didn't change much. Ah… same old same old! The conversation lasted for 3+ hours and frankly speaking, I feel a bit uncomfortable sitting at the same table for such long hours, that aunty waitress was starring at us – not ordering another round of food but still with the same beverage on table. Our session ended  started at 6.30PM and ended at 10PM. That's a wow! Next time I prefer a comfy home or starbucks would do. Anyway, it's really glad to see them once again! Hope future reunions will be thronged.

Our little corner in Facebook

Our group photos back in 1995. It's sad to acknowledged that one of our deputy principal passed away a few years back. Name is Mr.Pui (贝校长) seated center with a blue tie. Our form teacher in purple, Ms. Cheng (鄭蛾霞). Our principal, Mr Wu (吴校长) in brown tie.

This is Hui Sian. I use to remember these girls sat far away from me.

This is Ivy. She can't remember me but yeah I remembered her. LOL!

This is Michael. Still funny as before. Also, main organizer for this reunion.

I ordered Curry Chicken. Not  bad!

Chinese dumpling for everyone

Hui Sian & Ivy are still close to one another, rare to have good friends around

Michael & Hui Sian grinned~~

And here's the group photo with those who attended this little reunion in Singapore

( Windows Section )

I believe a lot out there is looking for an exact answer & explanation of the soft volume after installing Windows XP. I've had enough with Windows XP SP2 which I found tons drivers defects specifically on Audio part and decided to try out Windows XP SP3 (OEM) instead. As for Windows 7, it's proven to be a lil' laggy for dual OS & mid-range games, still, XP is preferable. Never use Parallel for your secondary OS as it drains memory fast and the more you install, the more retarding the system goes. Experience told me. So the best options still goes to bootcamp.

(Menu bar)
Go > Utilities > Boot Camp Assistant

You might came across those X audio drivers that you've downloaded is not working normally like what you've expected. I.E : Intel High Definition Audio Driver or REALTEK High Definition Audio. Finger's crossed! Apple uses Cirrus Logic chipset which unfortunately, is less popular in this region. The driver you should be looking for in this range is Cirrus Logic CS4206 but with CS4206A as hotfix for soft volume issues which is available for download below, originally from here.

Before I start off, I'd like you to have a clear understanding of my specs.

2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo,
13.3 inch, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphic processor

It is advisable to use the latest boot camp driver for your windows platform. If you experience driver defects, google the results with the strong keywords; Nvidia GeForce 9400M driver download – and install away, as simple as that.

I've read tons and tons of craps in the forum but eventually didn't get the thing that I wanted and users tend to bring you merry go round. Now here's some print screens for you in case you wanna standardize your system volume at the right order. 

Note : This driver update applies to Macbook Pro user, with Microsoft Windows XP SP3 installed (or if you experience soft volume, you may give this a try)

Watch the video tutorial here.

Download Driver Here

Step 1 : My Computer > Properties

Step 2 : Under Sound section, look for Cirrus Logic & Update driver

Step 3 : Advance

Step 4 : Manual select

Step 5 : Have Disc, find your driver

Step 6 : Make sure you choose the first driver

Step 7 : Continue Installation

Step 8 : Now boost your volume to the max..

Hope the above instructions helps and no more woozy text / post.

Joe.

The days were filled with fun, laughters and school mates sessions. Well, after our 10 Golden Years Reunion, I have some private shooting session @ my sister's home and brought along Mike, Adrian & Gab for assistance. Glad the team were helpful and didn't mind much for some of their private time used. About 4.30pm, we drop by Madam Jong's house for CNY visiting and meet up the rest of the gangs there. Same old little gathering like what we did a few years back and Madam was gleeful to see how much her student's changed, from school life to working life and latter, marriage. EJ used to bring his cammo Canon Powershot along but guess this time is the "huge" camera on work – and that would be me. We captured some wonderful batch photos as well. Enjoy~

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We had dinner @ Pizza Hut with the operating chiong Penang crew (Adrian, Gab, me & Mike), bought some popcorns & snacks (Lee Fah Mee) @ Cold Storage before heading for EJ's home for the Scooby Doo premieres. LOL!! Feels so childish with those snacks though but it taste good! It goes.. licky licky yummylicious! After the premieres, the audience claimed it was so 'blair witch project' – like till some almost fell asleep. Rotten Tomatoes Given : 93% Ahahahaahaha! SFW~ most prefer the trailer instead. Oh, I apologize for the apathy as my render were hooked up earlier + lack of time to compile. Oh well… we still enjoyed! LOL!!!

Operation Chiong EJ House for The SFW Premieres.
Gerard.. don't do that!~ where is another version with the boys? Mike???

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Now this is more decorous~ 

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Day 4 – CNY. Well didn't bring my camera along but had a fun filled afternoon with The SFWs and drop by Tang Chen Chen's house @ Muaratuan (dang far away from the city) after my dinner. Chen chen is pregnant and she might be deliver her baby any time soon. And still the same, she was as funny as before. Moon split up with us and met her fellow gangs @ bing while the 3 boys had a short midnight visiting @ my house and some wine session.

Pardon that… Iphone quality~ Kai Fei & Chen Chen behind…

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~ End of 2010 CNY Session ~