Forever 28~

It was my first time encountered tyre punched. It happened when I was at Cyberjaya yesterday. I brought few students attended a briefing at Cyberjaya. I noticed my tyre is flatted after we planned to go back.

None any of us has the experience in changing the tyre. But, we just tried to change it with the theory we have learned. I called my colleague who has experienced on it. So, here are few things that we learned when you encounter tyre punched:

• Loosen tyre’s screws, but not entirely take off.
• Lift/jack your car off the ground by the tool provided in your car.  
• Take off the screws and change with the spare tyre.
• Tighten the screws, but not entirely.
• Lowered down your car, and tighten the screw entirely.

There is another incident happened after we changed the tyre. My spare tyre also flattens! I drove to the nearest petrol station to fill the air. However, I tried to fill it but it didn’t work! I was panic, is it my spare tyre GONE as well? Luckily, the assistant came to help me. He said must choose the “FOR FLATTEN TYRE ONLY” option in that pump to fill the air! I really don’t know it, do you?

After all the hassle, I drove slowly back to PJ. It was an adventure trip for me!

pic shown here is taken from flickr

Few days ago, I downloaded a (movie) file from the internet. The file was zipped in RAR format and it was password protected. Indeed, I have the password to extract it; but the password is in Chinese characters!

When I tried to copy and paste the password in the password dialogue box, WinRaR couldn’t recognize it! I am running in Windows XP Home edition and installed with Asian Language package. I wonder why it couldn’t extract my file!

At the end, I read the solution from a forum. Apparently, there are numbers of people are having the same problem. They recommend 7-ZIP in the forum. It is open-source software which is providing more powerful functions! I installed it and it works fine with the Chinese characters! I am so happy with it!

Anyway, I still have no idea what’s wrong with Chinese character in the encryption. Was it because the problem of WinRAR or it is my Windows XP bring trouble?

I think most of us would choose to RON97 pump while we are filling the petrol to our car. Do you know what does RON97 mean?

I used to think that RON92 is leaded petrol, but I was wrong! I think we couldn’t find any petrol station that still providing leaded petrol in Malaysia. But, I heard you can find it in Kelantan, that one I am not sure.

Recently, I read an article about petrol in the newspaper. It stated that if your vehicle required RON90, it means RON92 will fit with your car’s needs. It doesn’t have any extra advantage even you choose to use RON97. For your information, RON97 is more expensive than RON92. Why you choose something which is more expensive but didn’t bring benefits to your car?

You can check you car user manual to identify which type of petrol is suit to your needs. I’ve checked my Perodua Kelisa’s manual, it stated RON90 and above. So, RON92 just fit with my needs.

I am going to choose RON92 for my next visit to petrol station. But, I know some petrol station stop selling RON92 due to low demand. It is all about our misconception at the past. Sigh…