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Korea to get 1Gbps downloading by 2012

Posted in Insight 洞察力, Life in Japan 日本の生活, My Story 私の物語, Science and Tech 科学・技術 with tags , , , , , on February 7, 2009 by Mervin

If you are looking for high speed internet. Then Korea is the place where you need to be.

Gizmodo – the Korea Communications Commission is spending $24 billion to secure 1Gbps access by 2012. 1Gbps allows you to download a 120-minute film in 12 seconds.There’s one small catch to the commission’s plan, which is that only large cities in Korea will have access to the top tier broadband. But surrounding smaller areas will still have access to 50 to 100 Mbps speeds.

When i was in Japan, i was enjoying 50 Mbps broadband for 10 months. Can you imagine my life when i back to Malaysia where our broadband service can only go as high as 1Mbps? Yes 1 Mbps?

We are behind East Asian Nations like Japan and Korea 50 to 100 times in terms of internet speed and in 2012, we will be far behind like what…500 times perhaps?

Yes Malaysia boleh.

What is your broadband speed?

NU Voyage

Posted in Life in Japan 日本の生活, My Story 私の物語 with tags , , , , , , on July 6, 2008 by Mervin

under NISP program, i took a course this semester known as Laboratory for fisheries science, by the end of the course, it was concluded with 2 time of short voyage on two of Nagasaki University’s Research Ship – TS Nagasaki-maru and TS Kakuyo-maru.

Nagasaki maru
Nagasaki Maru

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伊王島 – IO Island

Posted in Life in Japan 日本の生活, My Story 私の物語, Travelling 旅行すること with tags , , on May 24, 2008 by Mervin

伊王島 – IO Island

Walking down the sandy beach, humming our favorite song…
Enjoying the mid-spring Sun, listening to the music of the Sea…
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Dontaku Festival – 博多どんたく祭り2008

Posted in Life in Japan 日本の生活, Travelling 旅行すること with tags , , on May 6, 2008 by Mervin

博多どんたく祭り or Dontaku festival is one of the 3 biggest festival in Japan.
It’s a must-not-missed event if you are in town in early May.

Fortunately, me and Kae managed to go on Sunday. The place was overwealmed with people from all over Japan. Every years Dontaku Festival attracts more than 2 million crowd. Unbelievable @.@

Indoor performance
Indoor performances are held in various places

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Nagasaki Tall Ship Festival -長崎帆船まつり2008

Posted in Life in Japan 日本の生活, My Story 私の物語, Travelling 旅行すること with tags , , , , on May 3, 2008 by Mervin

Last Saturday we went to ‘Nagasaki Tall Ships Festival’ in Nagasaki Port.  I wonder how tall must the ship be to be categorised as ’Tall Ships’ haha…

Anyway, Sailing vessals from Japan and abroad gathered in Nagasaki Port for this Spring festival and giving Nagasaki Port a rather unique port scenery.

I had a great evening that day although the weather was freaking cold. The fireworks were great and so i decided to go again on Sunday night equipped with full gear for the fireworks shots!

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Ultraman returned…

Posted in Insight 洞察力, Joke lar 冗談, Life in Japan 日本の生活, My Story 私の物語 with tags on May 2, 2008 by Mervin

Visiting World Heritage without mom?! No way…

Posted in Life in Japan 日本の生活, My Story 私の物語, Travelling 旅行すること with tags , , , on April 12, 2008 by Mervin

Well this is it. I finished editing this photo album especially for mom. She took a long vacation and travelled to Japan since 13 March till 7 April. We had a fabulous time together and it was SUPERB!

Thank you mom!! I Love you!!