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What to post….

Ok, really been a long time since I’ve became active. Anyway, it’s probably due to the numerous websites that I need to work on that’s been dragging my time at the moment. Apart from that, everything seems to be fine.  Business is as usual, as we are currently waiting for the school holidays which is end of next month.  Internet sales seems to pick up which is also good.  So I guess we’re pretty much doing ok.

This week started out really low for me, for no apparent reason.  Maybe it’s because weekend is over thus Monday starts again.  So you could say I’ve gotten the Monday blues.  I’m actually kinda blank on what I want to post.  At times, when I started to write something and then half way through, I just decided not to post at all.  Hopefully this post will go through before I decided to scrap this post as well.

Well, for starters I went and called up both RHB and Citibank this morning to cancel my cards with them.  As I’m on a mission to pretty much cancel all of the cards that I’m not using at the moment.  So Citibank actually asked me what’s wrong and why I wanted to cancel it, as I told them that I don’t use it.  Not only I would be charged by the Government RM50/year also their annual fees I would be charged as well.  But the lady Selina I think was kinda nice, and understanding and even told me that we have waived off the annual fees.   Never the less, their customer service is good until something bad happens again which was like few months ago that I don’t I want to mention it for now.  RHB requires me to head over to their bank and then cancel it there.  So I guess I’ll be going there tomorrow morning to pretty much settle that as well.

I went and ordered a part from US for my car, through eBay. It took about a month to reach me, whereby the item arrived 1 week after the seller posted it.  So you could imagine that my item was stuck in the custom office for 3 weeks.  But never the less, I was overjoyed when I receive the package last Friday.  And quickly tried to fix it into my car, but unfortunately for me it didn’t seems to work because of the different connection it uses.  Fortunately for me the connection part of my previous air  condition switch is still working, so I ended up prying open the replacement switch and then swapped it with my old connection.  And voila it worked.  There are 2-3 more items I’m planning to change again but might take a while.  As most of these things I’m currently working on myself rather then sending it to the mechanics.

So that’s pretty much about it for now.  Maybe tomorrow I shall do a post on how I managed to installed Android 2.2 Froyo on to my HTC TYTN II after failing for months.  Now that would be something to write about.  I’m currently switching from Ubuntu to Windows as of late.  As most of the software that I need was on Windows.  But when I develop sites and etc, I normally switch to Ubuntu instead, which is kinda nice considering that I’ve sort of changed it to look like a Mac OS.  So I’m pretty happy about it, just that I haven’t got the time to try out it’s Studio yet.  Maybe after I finished working on some sites, then will have fun playing with it.

Anyway, tonight’s is podcasting night so both Kevin and I will be back once again talking about losing weight.  Whereby both Kevin and I are not qualified or not in the position to talk about it due to our size.  Hahaha.  So we shall see how it turns out later.  You guys have a good day now.

DiGi iPhone 4 Me

OK. Finally posting up my piece for this competition as I spent at least 48 hours straight in planning for this thing to work.  So here we gooooooo…

So why do I want an Iphone 4 from Digi?  Well, apart from being able to maintain it easily (which will be explain in the 3rd task), I can do all sorts of stuff with it especially with my beautiful daughter.  I went and purchased a 2nd hand Ipod touch earlier this year only to find out that it does not have external speaker which I thought it was a bummer.  So lugging it around would be very inconvenient, but it does help gives me an opportunity to spend time with my little one especially with a busy schedule like mine.  What do we do you may ask?

Music

My little girl loves to listen to music

Yes, she loves listening to music all the time.  And at times, when mommy need a break from baby.  Daddy would have to try and sing our baby to sleep.  Which at time failed, because would end up have to take a 5 minute break to drink water.  So having an Iphone 4, would indeed help daddy a lot to keep her precious little daughter to sleep.  And for me to be able to make this little girl sleep is a miracle.  So that’s why I seriously need an Iphone 4.

Youtube

She loves Youtube!

One source of inspiration where Esther gets her first education is from Youtube.  No joke, especially all the children songs, recognizing numbers  and alphabets are from Youtube.  As we made it a point to make sure she watches the proper channel and music.  As you know the Ipod Touch that I got for Deluxe was the 1st generation (which never came across my mind something like that could actually happen), thus we’re only able to watch it at home with the external speaker.  So with the Iphone 4, I would be able to bring it out and let her watch it whenever and wherever she wants.  Especially her meal times :)

Video Recording & Playback in HD

Watching playback in HD!

I think this has by far the most impressive feature that has been installed on to the Iphone 4.  With it I would be able to watch videos of my family or easily share it online once it has been edited.  With this feature, I would be able to capture those wonderful moments of my little girl growing up and would indeed have a good time laughing at it.  Being able to record in HD, we won’t need to purchase a video camera or even a camera.  How cool it is if I would be able to have this wonderful device.

GPS

I always have a bad sense of direction

Believe it or not, I have a seriously bad sense of direction.  So if you come to me and ask for direction, I’ll probably ask you more question on what are the landmarks there and I might know.  Being here in Kuching for 8 years already, I still don’t know what the road names.  So having a GPS system guiding me or even  you who plans to drop by in the future would be useful.  Plus, I won’t have to embarrass myself especially in front of tourists when they need help in getting to certain places which I don’t even know of.  So it be cool to have a GPS system when I drive in the future :)

Facetime

Now I would be able to call my best friend for FREE

The latest Iphone 4 comes with an app called Facetime which makes the IPhone 4 complete!  I would be able to make video calls absolutely for FREE.  What is there not to love about this phone.  Plus, if ever I would go traveling I know I would be still close at heart with my little girl, and my beautiful love of my life.  Instead of only being able to hear them, I would be able to see them CLEARLY, once again FOR FREE!

Phone Calls!

Guess who am I calling?

I guess for every phone that you purchase, the most important thing is being able to call your loved one or friends just to say hi.  Especially for those who are always traveling, calling home has never been a bad idea.  You can pretty much guess who I’m calling, when I’m traveling.

Yup. You've guessed it.

Taking Pictures!

A picture is worth a thousand words

Photography has been my passion.  But it’s been a while since I really went and did a photo shoot.  Ever since our bundle of joy came to our world, our hands seems to be tied.  But I never failed to take out my camera to shoot for special events.  If I was armed with this 5MP camera, then I guess it would solve pretty much 99.9% of my photo taking problem.  And the best part is that, I wouldn’t need to wait too long share it on facebook mobile upload.

Those are a few things that I could think of at the moment when obtaining an Iphone 4.   If you would like me to talk about what else can I do with an iPhone 4, I guess you might need to let me have one in order for you to find out.  And you can rest assure that life would never be the same again for this family of 3 when daddy brings home a new Iphone 4.

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Late Nite Post

I’m currently sketching up a post for a competition which will officially end this coming Friday.  But before that I pretty much need all the details so that I wouldn’t have any redudant post later.  I’ve actually completed a script, but due to the requirements for the following 2 days, I had to make some minor adjustments.  So hopefully eveything will be out by tomorrow.  So that I can proceed on finalizing the script.  So do look forward to that.  Hahaha.

Anyway, tonight I’m currently blogging on Deluxe’s laptop as she told me it was running very slowly.  Found out that it was due to the anti-virus which kept on scanning the whole time thus taking up most of the resources that was running on her laptop.  So at the moment just doing a little bit of maintainence and at the same time just post up something here.

Again, thanks to Ruey once again as she managed to tempt me in getting something which I thought was never possible but apparently gave me something to think about.  It’s the Apple Peel 520, which actually turns your Ipod Touch (currently working for 1st, 2nd & 3rd Generation Ipod) into a usable phone.  You can actually send SMS as well as make phone calls with it.  So imagine the wonders you can do with it.  Currently there are people selling on eBay which cost about USD130 inclusive of shipping.  But I’m still trying to find other options.

But, after doing a bit of research on it.  I found out that apparently there seems to be a few glitches especially for the Ipod version 3.1.3 as either it turns off halfway as well as call drops once in a while.  Almost went and pressed the Buy It Now button if I didn’t decide to check out on what other problems that I might encounter. Hehehe.  Another down side is that, when you receive calls you won’t be able to tell you who called you as no name will appear on the call.  You won’t be able to adjust the volume of the ringtone, as well as even changing it.  I’ll definitely keep an eye out on this, as who knows they might come up with a better feature in the future.  Especially supporting 3G.  They’re expecting to ship by next week, and hopefully they will fix all the problems by then.

Currently installing some free apps on the Ipod touch for Esther.  As she’s co-using it along with Deluxe. And to be honest, I don’t really fancy the Iphone 4 that much.  Was thinking of getting it for Deluxe, as I think she really deserve one.  And I know someone would say probably the reason why I get it for her and hopefully she won’t get use to it.  So at the end of the day it will fall back into my hands.  Now that would probably be wishful thinking. Hehehe.  That’s was why I got her the Ipod (which I thought I got it for a bargain) for her in the first place, as she hardly have the time to switch on her laptop and check her emails or see what are her friends doing on facebook.  So with that, after updating the firmware and installing some software it went to her all the way.  Never really touch it after that.  So if I do get an Iphone in the future, you can be sure you won’t be able to see me using it.  Just to let you know, Deluxe is able to check her emails and forward me stuff almost everyday already. Hahaha.  So I know it would end up in good hands.

So what else is new?  Nothing much really.  Trying to prepare myself for this coming Wednesday as I’m supposed to give a brief talk and more to Q &A session.  So basically that’s pretty much about it.  You guys take care, and thanks for visiting.

Welcome Alyssa

Alyssa Jong

On the 15th September 2010, Esther just got another cousin who came into this world and her name is Alyssa.  And we will most likely to meet her during Chinese New Year.  Nothing much to update, as of late apart from the fact I got new batteries for my Canon A70.  Feel sorry for it, as I felt that it is a good camera.  Anyway, will update more tomorrow.  You guys have a good one.

Walkthrough My Blog

Few days ago my mom bought a box of those peel fresh grape juice in one of the supermarket (I’m not going to mention any names).  And unfortunately my sister became a victim of food poisoning after that.  They bought it on the 6th of September, while the fruit juice actually expired on the 5th September 2010.   So don’t always take for granted that the things being sold in supermarkets are always fresh.  There were a few places that I know off actually started to throw off their selling prices because their products were going to expire.  If it was 2-3 weeks was still acceptable, because you can pretty much consume it finish in a short while.  But anyway, I still think that it is wrong for them to do so.

As you’ve noticed that I’ve changed the template once again, as I thought maybe this would be suitable especially for my pod casting series.  As the previous template didn’t really give me the results that I wanted.  I’m still working on this one as, there are a few more minor tweaks that is needed to be done.  Hopefully it will keep me motivated to post daily from now on.   Ok let me briefly tell you how will you be reading this blog.

1. Main category and sub categories
2. Pages in my blog
3. Headlines - This is where any updates that I’ll be doing will be posted up here.
4. Personal - Main category of my posting, in case you missed out on something.

5. Daily Ramblings Category- Major category I normally update
6. Coffee break category – Another major category I update
7. Podcasting Category – Yup, it will be easier to follow up with my previous shows with this.
8. Tips & Tricks category – More on tech stuff or things I tend to do DIY.

9. Other Sub Categories – You can follow each of them here if you tend to miss them from 1 or 2.
10. Facebook page (Holankia Talkshow) & Google Connect
11. Videos that I might find interesting to post them up here.
12. Login into your twitter account and start chatting with me ;)

Well.  Basically that’s the walk through of my blog.  Hopefully it wouldn’t confuse any of you.  You guys have a good day now.