Its the month of May, and the sun starts to peak out from the darkness at about 6.45am. When I left the house at 7.30am, the Sun was already blazing and at times blinding the eyes. The air was still cooling and this makes the ride pleasant. There are seldom Morning heat, Evenings, are totally different. The air is thicker and even without the Sun, the heat gets to me. Today, the evening ride was quick, I speed and push my legs work harder coming down from the Queensbay Bridge. For this, I am now suffering from muscle pains and feels like a chore going up and down my home stairs.

The photo above was taken this morning on Jalan Batu Maung. The below photo taken on the evening ride. This is where the Fisherman’s Wharf Chinese Restaurant used to stand. In the last few months, there were workers manually dismantling the building. The workers would hack the beams with hand and when they reach the inner steel re-enforcing bars, they would hacksaw the bars collapsing the entire beam or walls. Its interesting to see how a building can be manually hack down. You still can see some of the walls standing at the far end of the photo. Looks like they are not done yet.

The WordPress Tavern reports that KevinJohn Gallagher was receiving death threats for stating his mind about WordPress.

“On the one hand, this is ridiculous behaviour. There is no reason what so ever to give someone death threats because their company has decided not to use WordPress anymore. Mark Jaquith was strongly opposed to the harassment Kevin was receiving and even Jane Wells offered to help out KevinJohn.”

Ridiculously absurd, there are people in the world that feels passionately towards softwares, up to a point that they are willing to take a life over it. I believe, those with such pump up emotions, if they put all their energy into WordPress instead of DDos attacks and death threats, WordPress may be a much better platform.

In my recent business trip to Manila, I have observed a thriving work commute cycling community. Most of the cyclist wears shorts and carries a bag which I suspect a change of clothes when they reaches work. Most of the bikes were Mountain bikes, then Road bikes and I did not see a Single multi color Fixie. There was one guy cycling Strida, he was all suit up for work. Strida has Belt drive, so he needn’t worry about his pants getting greased.  I got to get a belt drive for my Fixie. In Penang, most of the cyclist who commute to work are foreign workers. There are only a handful of peddlers that cycle to work in FIZ. My hope for 2012 is to have more commuters cycle to work in FIZ, lessen the traffic and CO. 

The above collage house two Starbucks 2012 planners, one from Malaysia and the other from Philippines. The Malaysian planner comes in a black box and has cream leather feel cover. The Philippines on the other hand, came in a cloth bag and has a wood cover. Being a notebook addict, I could not resist myself not getting these planners. Though I don’t like the planner type pages, I love the cover, especially the Philippines wooden cover. Maybe this will nudge me to using it in 2012. Well, if I don’t use it, I can always hack it with blank pages or ruled pages. By the way, I have down loads of coffee for these planners, just part of the monthly coffee ration. 

WordPress 3.3 was recently released with major make over. The thing that impresses me the most is the upgrade speed and ease. I was surprise to click the upgrade button and to be greeted with upgrade complete immediately. Nice!