It’s so hard.. scratch that, it’s bloody hot! February, last month, was supposed to be the hottest and driest month ever in years but I beg to differ. It is much hotter now in JB than it was a few weeks back. Ice Kacang, Cendol, Bubble Tea and Ice Cream sellers will be smiling right now as another heat beaten customer orders up those chilly drinks to quench the thirst.

I myself is equipped with a huge bottle of Ice Milk Tea on my left and Gendang Kasturi (kuih) on my left. I had planned earlier to bake Chocolate Cake with Ganache but after after the heat beating at my back, I’d rather make ice jelly fruit cocktail.

I’m not sure of the exact temperature outside but I’m very sure that my clothes which I hung out to dry was dried after 2 hours (clothes consist of 2pairs of jeans, comforter, bed linens etc). I could feel the scorching heat every time I stepped outside of my house. It’s much more cooler to stay in the house or air-con malls than be outside.

Oh yeah, went to Tesco Bukit Indah again today. Bought rice there, much cheaper from those in Hwa Thai and other places. The throng of people looked menacing but the que at the Tesco Hypermarket itself was very much controllable and I can happily say that it is a breezy affair.

The large space area is not wasted and it is filled up with various shops. There are Fabiano Ricco (they are everywhere these days), Amly, Watson, KFC and other shops which I can’t really remember since the crowd of shoppers jostled me at every moment.

I’m glad Tesco is finally in Bukit Indah as I am an avid fan of them. They have such a large variety of items and groceries at very much discounted price and I really love their Tesco Choice products. Those products are very good quality and is priced at relatively cheap price.

Finally! After a very very long time, Ramblings of Zackire is back online. I’ve really missed blogging on this site and I nearly went through cold turkey without my beloved blog. So many things had gone and so many things I wanted to blog about such as my birthday!!!

I cant’ believe that I have turned 24. I didn’t realise I was getting old until I watched My Lovely Sam Soon. In that story, the 30 year old woman was considered an old maid just because she didn’t have an available husband at her side. If she’s an old maid, then that makes me a spinster! Hehehe..

There is so many things I had wanted to do before I reach 30. I need to get my driver’s license, drive without a care to Melaka, upgrade my studies and perhaps conquer the Dragons Age Origin in just one day.

Although the temptation of playing Dragons Age Origin is almost to the maximum, the priority of studies is still my very first. I was browsing through www.wgu.edu (Western Governors University) and found quite a few interesting pointers that made this education organisation different from the rest.

For example, if you wish to upgrade your rn to bsn online (registered nurses to bachelor registered nurses), you can simply do it online without hugging your heavy texts to your classes. They cover a comprehensive program at affordable rates.

It would be best if you were to check them out as it will answer any questions you may have in mind which I obviously cannot answer.

Sick and tired of those irritating pop up ads whenever you turn on the internet? Really hated and despise of entertaining irritating fake ‘Security Alert” windows that dings from your task bar? Gritting your teeth as you swear at the idiot who caused the inability to turn on your REAL anti-virus?

Don’t bother slamming your head onto your desktop. I have the simplest solution.

A few days back, one of my family members unknowingly fell into the “Security Alert” malwares. Ever since then, the irritating application turns on every available minute to remind us that we have trojans, virus and all that sorts in my computer. It’s a messy job to clear up the registry but it only took me 5 mins to download the Anti-Malware program to end this war.

Malwarebytes.org is the best thing that can ever appear on the Internet World. It is somewhat like Spybot but instead of massacring Spywares, it destroys Malwares. It is recommended by Cnet so don’t worry about it being fake applications.

You just need to install the Malwarebytes software, update it to its latest updates and then run it. You’d be amazed at the beauty of what this baby can do. Even your super-dooper anti-virus can’t beat this honey.

To download the free version, you just need to click here.

Remember after you have cleaned your computer of these pesky pests, make sure that you weekly update them and scan your computer! Never be complacent!

Yes! Finally after playing and grunting in frustration at my inability to earn enough gold, be strong to defend those pesky players who love to hit-n-run me, I finally am able to get some work done.

And I’m so happy I got into the Hit-List of the Dragon Wars Facebook Game. Hehehe.. Not everyday I became so popular!

Anyway below are some cracked stuff I had for my path to victory.

1) So you just started to play the game. Great! First as usual, do as many quests that enables you to get more gold.

2) Don’t forget to rally up your alliances because these friends of yours are your bodyguards when people like  me who loves to raid and leave you all bloody comes to fight and rob you off of your gold. If you are unable to get your friends to join, no problem, go to the discussion board of the game usually found when you scroll down the screen of the game as seen on the attached picture below. Then just write on the wall of the game “Add me for Dragon Wars”. I confirm and guarantee that you will be invited at least from 10 players.

Facebook Dragon Wars

3) Right so you have your gold and your alliances, now we need to invest your gold in Land. Before you can buy Training Grounds which cost 12,000 gold, you need buy a Town Lot which cost 50,000 gold. By now your income per hour would be 17,300 gold. You can choose to wait for your gold to increase per hour or you can head to the next operation to be stinking rich.

4) Once you have enough gold to get at least an Adolescent Dragon (60,000gold),  and other high end attack gears like Flaming Sword, you can now head to the Battle tab and begin your step into plundering the poor defenseless players. Muahaha… It’s time to get dirty!

5) After doing all the quests that gives out Magic Item and collect them all, you can now open the Battle tab. Choose the players that have alliances lesser than you and view their stats by clicking on their name. I prefer opening them on a new tab or window so I can keep track who is the better prey and the easy target.

Choosing your prey

Choose only the lowest alliances you can find so that when you attack them, you are easily overwhelmed.

Player Stats

Now see the number of territories this person has? This shows that he is rich and most probably earning around 30,000 gold each hour. This is the type of prey you want to attack and rob. However before you can attack him, you have to look at the number of dragons he has. His alliances will use them to fight against you.

If you have a higher alliances such as 20 alliances and your prey has only 10, then your chances of winning is high. You can attack him. Take note that not every player keeps his money on hand, so don’t expect much gold. If the prey that you attacked only gives you a low sum of gold, say 900 gold, you can go on to the next target until the prey that you attacked gives you a huge number of gold like 10,000 gold.

I have gotten 70,000 gold from my preys plenty of times and you can just imagine the number of gold I received per player. You can continue attacking the player until he dies or get iced. Then you have to proceed to your next prey and the process continues.

70,000 gold that I managed to plunder

In some rare times, you will receive Magical Items in between your attacks and this is such a sweet thing apart from getting gold from other players.

Remember to always heal yourself when your health reaches 30 or you will get into trouble. Oh yeah, if you keep continuing plundering others, expect your name to appear on the hit list soon. Some players can be such a sore loser.. hahaha..

6) When you do get rich, do not forget to always invest in more land and get the latest the weapons and keep increasing your alliances so that you will be a hard player to be targetted.

*this section will be updated the moment I get more information on the game.

Many of those living in Bukit Indah, Tmn Sutera, Perling and Tmn Tan Sri Yakob have long awaited for the construction of Jusco to finish. Today, 19th December 2008, Juco Bukit Indah is officially opened. As usual, I was there for the opening and surveying the type of shops that had became a tenant there.

There are a few words to describe the building and layout; huge and shopper friendly. There’s an almost 95% of all the shops occupied and the tenants that took up the place are very prominable such as Bodyglove, Bossini, Primevera, Stone Grill and so on.

I didn’t manage to get all of the tenants name down since there are a wide variety of them. Since it was the opening, I was expecting the huge car parks to be fully occupied but what I didn’t expect to see was a massive jam caused by inconsiderate drivers that insist on doing illegal parking. They even parked their cars at the parking gantry! The jam was so terrible with cars parked haphazardly that the JPJ and Traffic Police was called down to monitor the traffic.

Jusco was packed with shoppers that scared me a bit because it almost looked like there was a FREE SHOPPING EVENT on going in the place. You can even see a long line of shoppers at La Boheme confectionery. That doesn’t ever happen in any Jusco in JB but unfortunately I was sooo wrong here.

Everything looks Ok with opening discounts here and there. However there is stumble a bit and that is caused by clogged up toilet booth and faulty toilets at level 2 which nearly floored me since I was at the brim. Ugh.. terrible experience.

Jusco department store itself was messy!! The whole categorisation and shelving were very messy. I strictly do not agree on placing kitchenette items right beside the kids section. I do not want to find my nieces waving knives in the kitchenette section while I browse clothes for them. Really dangerous.

I managed to be in Pikom PC Fair in Johor Bahru Persada Convention Center on the first day. It was pack! It was noisy! It was THE best bargain item in town!! Perhaps its the fair that makes the items sold there competitively cheap. The whole exhibition venue hall was pack to the brim and banging with the latest gadget.

The traffic heading in to the place is going to be a hassle during the day and I suggest those who are thinking of heading there to take the public transport, motorbike or drive during the least peak hour. After all, Persada Johor is at the heart of the business district and the heart of all the JAM.. *snickers*

Anyway this time there were more exhibitors, more items on sale and more people coming in! Last year’s event was so badly done that I never thought of coming back again.

I manage to get myself a 4GB pendrive- Kingmax brand, high speed transfer file with life time warranty at RM 23.00. I also managed to get an optical mouse, the cheapest around to replace my dad’s broken one at RM10. I had wanted to continue shopping and getting new speakers for my PC but our stomach’s were grumbling at that time and I had to no choice but to cut the walk about and head back home.

Now I’m heading out to see what’s happening in Jusco Bukit Indah. It’s their official oppening today. Ciaoz!