Okes. Today I would like to recommend a product that I use to hang clocks, mirrors as well as clothes... on the wall/behind doors etc. The product's name is COMMAND ADHESIVE hooks, from 3M :) Why I like this product? Okes.... I will story now :)

I was firstly introduced to this product from a TV advertisement (2003-04). But wasn't the Malaysian TV la... as even now I haven't seen it aired on any TV station. The main advantages of the Command adhesive hooks series are:

1) They are strong (difficult to tanggal). Seriously strong and reliable;

2) So-so-easy to take off also... Unlike other adhesive-hooks (where there is a large probability of you pulling out the wall-paint as well during peel-off), all you have to do is PULL the adhesive out... and VOILA! Settle. When properly done... it slides of very2 nicely. Even if improperly done... the remaining adhesive can be scraped off relatively easily with no residue :D (Please refer to http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Command/home/us_en/how_use/. It's the circular animation on the right...)

So... in this short post... I am promoting the use of Command Adhesive Hooks :D Heheheheh. I have used them to hang clocks, mirrors, winter coats, jeans etc. But of course, select the one that suits the task at hand lah. Don't la choose a 450-gram hook when you plan to hang a leather jacket!!! Sah2 la fall-down jatuh dan tergolek-dog :D

The price... well, since I am not familiar with standard adhesive prices (and I don't buy adhesive hooks on every hypermarket visit)... I think it should be ok. Maybe a bit expensive kot? ... RM5.00 to RM5.90 for TWO 45-gram hooks and 4-adhesive strips (that’s what's in the package lah). But in all... totally worth it :D It hangs on to the wall quite reliably... and up to this day, Alhamdulillah, has never failed me (when I follow the proper adhesive-hook capacity lah).

You can also buy the adhesive strips separately :D Which would be useful to stick other stuff other than hooks (I use them to stick an electric socket adaptor to the wall for my fridge, water filter and also rice cooker)....

Okes :D That's all I guess. Hope this post has been informative :D

Arigato dan Terima Kasih.... Ingat nama ini... Suleiman Akhlaken... Eh... wrong.. Command Adhesive....

PS:- Suleiman Akhlaken was a Peguam-Pumbela... a close friend of the late Ismet Ulam-Raja and also Abdul Wahub Ulam-Raja.

[WARNING! This is a very boring post. It is only here becuz the blogger thinks he needs to update his blog]

It's been like 10,000 days since I last updated my blog. Fear not... I am not cutting off my blogging fingers. It's just that for the past few months, I've been quite busy figuring out how to add value to my PhD work... By saying that... I'm actually quite pleased to be saying that I'm busy :D I mean... for the past many years of my life... things have been quite monotonous, un-eventful and... slacking :D I mean I myself... a slacker... with no objective in life or work! Now that I am busy... this means I am insyaAllaah going somewhere. And this brings some amount of joy to my life :D hehehehe... anywayz... enuff of that. Today I would like to talk about audio analysis.

Now I am in the process of extracting the audio (sound) part from my video documents. Yes, I am (sort of) legally ripping out the sound track from my videos. And all in the name of research. I have also filled my hard-disk with hundreds of gigabytes of information... many of which I might not even need. These audio files are really eating up a lot of this borrowed resource (the hard disk I mean... I am basically 'borrowing' it from my supervisor... who bought this PC using her grant money) :D And I am using MATLAB. All the countless MATLAB functions I have downloaded from the Internet.. they are proving to be useful Alhamdulillaah! Thank you oh brilliant programmers...

Anywayz... Now I am actually in new territory. Ripping audio is quite easy. But when it comes to analyzing what I've ripped... I get stuck. And am continuing to get stuck along the way. Now I am diving into terms used by famous celebrities such as Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowel, as well as unknown academics such as Dian Tjondronegoro, Sun Xuejing, Yong Rui, Poh, Joseph Kittler and the rest!

PITCH! VOLUME! DYNAMIC RANGE! AUDIO FRAMES! TIME STEPS! FRAME SHIFT (another word for time steps)! HOP SIZE (another word for frame shift... which makes it also another word for time steps)! CLIPS!

And after finding out how to get, process and analyze those things I just mentioned... now I need to come up with a way to make sense of what I've gotten, processed and analyzed. Hahahahaha! Tres interresant, non?

Anywayz... that is all. I would however like to thank Noris Norowi for her help in my 1/2-way and 1/2-completed audio journey. I would also like to thank a newly found friend on the Internet by the nick-name of Ita... You have been so kind to explain in crystal clear words about the basics of audio... I am forever grateful :D

But of course... ALL PRAISE BE TO ALLAAH!!! For guiding me this far. I beg for more guidance oh GOD... for I (as well as other PhD seekers) am in forever need for YOU to show me the way on this noble path.

Okes... itu je. Told'ya it was a boring post :D Hehehehe. Tq for reading anyway.

Assalaam aleykom WBT and Have a good one....