Monday, December 03, 2007

sunday

lepas abis buat laundry, aku pecut pegi Katy Mills lepak ngan budak2 malaysia tu... 4 of them dah nak balik next thursday, so last kopek nyer shopping la ni...

beli magnets ni buat souvenir utk member2 kat mesia nun :)

pastu gi lunch. carik kedai ni sket nyer susah, dkt kul 4pm baru jumpa

nasi briyani

then sorang tu nak gi beli laptop lak, singgah la pulak kat fry's electronic. bapak besar kedai ni. cheap2 fujitsu laptop usd799 only ma... dpt free printer lak tu.

before balik singgah sini lak tapau our dinner

chicken wings


sedapppp... alhamdulillah.

SeaWorld, San Antonio

i don't know about others, but for me whenever i fly abroad (ceh cam selalu jek pi oversea :P) i feel really glad if i bump into another malaysian (rasa cam balik kampung pun ada hehehe) especially if you are travelling alone. we malaysian have our own unique needs, so at least there is a person to share some info about the place, where to eat malaysian taste alike food (kalo ade la), and for muslim where to get halal food, where to shopping cheap2, sites seeing and other tips that might come handy.

so, last 2 weeks while i was walking around at the mall, a couple approached me and asked

"are you malaysian?"
"aah" (dang! i tot my face look like italian :P) actually i saw them first & i knew they are malaysian.

and from there on we talk2 about this place. like i said above information sharing :)
turned out the wife is actually working the same company but only in different location. she's also seconded here for 3 months & her husband coming over to pay the water bill :P
there are 9 of them here actually.

so last friday they asked me whether i wanted to join them to go to SeaWorld, San Antonio
definately i wanted to go.

on saturday i woke as early at 6am, drove to their place and joined them for breakfast. at 730am we start our driving that gonna take about 3-4 hours. 8 of us (2 of them decided not to join in last minute) with 3 cars. the couple gonna stay overnight in San Antonio while the rest of us gonna back to Houston in the same day.


to be continued... i want to do my laundry first :)

Saturday, November 24, 2007

halal

so far aku dah jumpa a few halal places for makan2 yg at least not so far from my hotel. not so far tu dlm 30min to 1hour drive gak la. yahoooo macam2 ada dr chinese, indian, middle east etc... the taste boleh la tahan... alhamdulillah janji kenyang :)





ni kalau aku rajin nak masak leh la beli sini
tapi they serve the portion mak datuk bapak gajah punya banyak, normally leh abih kan half of it jek. kalau la aku leh abihkan all the food yg they served, balik nanti sure lailing tak kenal aku lak nanti ;P

lailing kat klia: do u see my husband? look like you, handsome like you but a bit slimmer?

p/s: the weather getting colder and colder. dang!

Thursday, November 22, 2007

fsck /dev/oncall

last weekend was not very good weekend for me. sucks big time! i was oncall last week. there was no page at all during the week days. but on friday my bos told me that there will be a power outage in one of our DC this weekend. they want to do something with the power supply & will fail over the power to generators. my thinking, i should not be worried then since the power will still be there. but i was wrong!

on saturday i got paged as early as 7am. one by one our servers rebooting. login to office's vpn and looked at our monitoring tool. shit! all of our servers rebooted & a few of them still down including 4 out of 6 our cluster servers! i knew something was not right.
connected to console to check what wrong with the servers. some of them crashed & needed fcsk, some of them keep on rebooting with root_mount_not_found and some other weird errors that i never encountered before.
my boss called and told me to go to DC. he's coming too of cos. i was there till 10pm doing fsck the servers. we managed to recover all except 1 server and continue on Sunday till 12pm.
there goes my weekend...
but out of it i learned a lot of things especially recovering root filesystems on solaris disk suite, veritas volume manager & veritas cluster server as well as the preasure behinds it when the big bos keeps asking when will the systems back online.
what went wrong was the generator failed!!! fsck /dev/generator

p/s: in total i received 100 over paged