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Finally!!! After all these months of torture, I'm happy to announce that our beloved 'Pug' is back to it's healthy state... No more 'Depollution System Faulty' error message and the engine check light is off for good!!!

But how long can this last??? This is the BIG question that keeps lingering in my mind... This problem exist since June and this is an on and off kind of problem... Whenever we sent our car in for diagnosis, they managed to solve this problem... But after a while (the longest is around 1 week time), the problem came back and it is really frustrating... So I'm really keeping my finger cross and hopefully they solved the problem once and for all!!!

Technician diagnosing our car...

I can't remember how many turbo solenoid and dump valves they have change... At least 3 for each if I'm not mistaken... After sending our car in for two weeks, the technician can't seems to solve the problem as well... Before this, they have diagnosed the car and told me that the turbo is faulty and it need to be replace... I'm more than happy to hear this because judging from the turbo, it is indeed in a very bad state as I can see oil covering the turbo... So we took our car back and waited patiently for the turbo to arrive...

Finally when the turbo arrived, we made an appointment and send our car in and I was greeted with all sorts of nonsense... The service advisor said they need to re-diagnose the car before they can start changing any parts... This is really stupid as they have all the records saying that our turbo is faulty... Why do they need to start doing this all over again... The first time they diagnose they change the dump valves but the problem still exist... Then they diagnose again and this time the error code shows that the turbo solenoid is faulty and they change the solenoid again!!! But still they can't solve the problem...

So my darling cannot 'tahan' anymore and called them almost everyday talking from the service advisor to the manager in charge... In the end they decided to change the turbo as they believe that the turbo is indeed faulty!!! If they change it in the beginning, it will save us at least one and a half weeks of our time... But looking at the bright side, at least we got a new turbo and the irritating error message code is finally off!!! Luckily they managed to solve our car this time because I'm thinking of writing a complain letter to 'Peugeot France' and told them how incompetent 'Nasim' is!!! I guess this letter will have to wait!!!

I've been craving for 'McD' beef family dinner box set for so long... Without my darling, we can't finish the set so she's a MUST if we wanted to have 'McD' family dinner box set... The moment I reached 'McD', I told them that I wanted the beef family dinner box set but I was greeted with "itu set sudah habis"!!! "Sekarang sudah tukar kepada 'Classic Chicken McDeluxe' set"... "Semalam baru tukar"... I admit that I'm disappointed but at least I can try out their latest offering... My darling is the happiest among us as she don't really like beef...

She's the first to bite into the burger and she said that it was spicy... Her younger brother took a bite and said the same thing... I don't believe them and I too took a bite... And you know what, it was indeed spicy!!! Damn they took the wrong burger I guess!!!

See, no tomato!!! The 'Classic Chicken McDeluxe' comes with a slice of tomato and obviously this one doesn't!!! Can't have the beef set and now I didn't have the chance to test their new burger!!! What a day...

Recently we changed our 'Astro' package to the newly launched 'Superpack' which we find it more affordable... Don't get me wrong on the affordable part as the package is still super expensive to me!!! I said more affordable because if we choose all the package separately, the price add up will be a lot higher than the 'Superpack' package... So this is a very clever tactic used by 'Astro'...

If you follow my blog closely, I'm very sure most of you will know that I'm a movie freak... I love watching movies and obviously two of my favourite channels will be 'HBO HD' and 'Star Movie HD'... A few days ago, I managed to watch this movie 'Let Me In' which I find it really interesting after watching the trailer... After watching 'Kick-Ass' (which I will blog about it later), I fall in love with 'Chloe Grace Moretz'!!! I really admire her... She's really stunning in her own way and she really can act if you ask me... So please don't be fool by it's age!!!

The storyline is about a small kid falling in love with a vampire... I'm very sure some of you will find it a bit boring with the lack of dialogue but I find it really artistic... I really love the way they film it... In fact, I find the storyline almost similar to 'Twilight' and if I compare these two movie, I find this movie much much better... A good thumbs up from me and 'Chloe Grace Moretz', you are my new idol!!!

I've been playing with 'instagram' since it's inception but I stop playing with it almost the same time I started it... I don't know the reason but I guess is down to my antique 'iPhone 2G' that I'm using... I'm very sure most of you know that the camera on the first generation 'iPhone' sucks BIG time... So I took a few pictures and posted it online and that's about it...

Recently, I don't know what got into me but I'm actually quite addicted to it... But I didn't take those pictures with my 'iPhone'... Instead I took it with my 'iPad 2'... I know the camera sucks as well but frankly speaking, taking pictures with 'iPad' is much nicer in my opinion... You may look like a fool to most people but I just don't care about them... They can laugh and label me as a moron for using an 'iPad' for photography but that's what I enjoy doing...

The experience of using 'instagram' with 'iPad' is totally different with 'iPhone'... Everything is much nicer now... I can fully appreciate the pictures I took and those that I follow because everything is BIGGER... I don't have to use a magnifying glass in order to view pictures now and this is what got me hooked I guess... Is true that pictures taken with 'iPhone 4' is much more better in terms of quality but to me, 'instagram' is not about picture quality... If you want good quality photos, please use the 'DSLR' or any dedicated camera and NOT your camera phone... For me, taking pictures using 'instagram' is more towards feel... I can't really explain this but the feel must be there... But this is purely base on my personal preference...

Another reason I'm hooked is that there are a lot of good photographers in 'instagram' and it is always a delight to see their pictures...

By installing different photography apps, you can virtually create any kind of pictures that you desire... No messy photoshop work to get those 'cross process' colour that I love... Besides that, I don't have to waste a fortune on lens as well... No fish eye lens, no problem... Just install 'Lomo Lomo' (one of my favourite apps for photography) and viola... As easy as 'ABC'!!!

Below are some of my favourite pictures that I took using 'instagram' and others photography apps...

I can even combine two or more pictures and turning it into one picture... Take this picture for example... I used two different pictures and turning it into one... There is a meaning in this picture but I don't really know whether people can understand what I'm trying to portray here... If I separate this picture into two different pictures, I won't be able to portray the meaning of it...