This is yet another short update… Have been busy resting and going out as of late, and haven’t really had the time to blog about stuff.

Tuesday saw me going for lessons at night, wednesday I saw a doctor for my cough… and no, I don’t have H1n1, not yet anyways.

Stayed up at the mac nearby til 4am with Jooseng and Weiquan, and on thursday afternoon we met up for Yum Cha @ Chinatown.

It was actually a buffet, and each of us paid about $20 bucks for a whole load of food. If i ever had any place to recommend for lunch/dim sum. This must be it! The amount of stuff we ate and the quality of it was gooooood! You can go to their website for more details. This is a map in case you’re wondering where it is in Chinatown

Last thing you should know, the buffet hours are from Monday to Fridays, 3pm-6pm (last order at 5:30pm). You won’t regret it.

We went to Chinatown point to rest and surf the Internet a bit, before I met up with Darryl and his friends, Sharon and Rion. Kher wei and her friends Huiling and Daphne came a bit after, before Zacky came at 9pm. We had lots of fun singing and playing around…

I do so love to meet new people~

And later in the day, I’ll be heading off to Suntec city for the World Cyber Games/The Games Expo. It should be interesting to say the least.

Incidentally, Dicky is coming to Singapore, yea, the guy I visited in HK. Seems like its going to be a busy week.~

PS (I forgot to say that i’ll be going on a one day Malaysia trip with residents from Hougang this sunday too. It’ll be a full day event. And yea, on top of that I still have school… which i seem to be sorely neglecting. BAH!)

Hey guys & girls,

I’m back! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed myself these few days, and I felt so natural being there this time that it was like.. its my second home or something.

That aside, i’ve been sleeping at 4+am everyday while i was there, and when I reached home yesterday night, it was all I could do to unpack and wash up, before sleeping at 5+pm and waking up at 10:45am the next day. I was That tired! Saying that, after I woke up, I did feel like a new man.

Oh right, my hair is really short now thanks to the chinese barber (grrr), but other than that, this trip really did me good.

Will be posting what little pictures I took, and my reflections on it soon. Duty calls, and I have to get back to my group and Wp stuff.

And if you’re reading this and belong to the age range of 15-35, and also reads the news (be it online or offline), please please click here to help me do up a survey consisting of around 10 MCQ questions. It took me about 15 seconds to finish it. It should take around that time for you as well.

Thanks for your help, and do look forward to future updates soon!

P.S (Congratulations to Davyd and Ruth for finally being engaged! I would really have to hear how you proposed… I want all the details!)

Hi friends, readers, and all,

Most of you are probably aware by now, i’m leaving for HK in a few hours and will not up updating the blog for a few days. The rain just got bigger and I’m thinking how i can make it to the train station without getting wet. I’ll find a way though… some rain will never get me down. Grandma just popped bye to say ‘Bon Voyage’ to me… Isn’t she just a dear~

I’ll be back on monday, with a lot of pictures and stories to tell, though i’m hoping all of them are positive.

Right, I hate long goodbyes so I’m going to leave it here.

Expect a lot more updates when I get back, and if you’re really hungry for my posts… just surf through the archives heh. Can’t believe i’ve been blogging for some 4 years now.

Wish me luck and loads of fun!

Aaron

Quote from One Piece

“Yohohoho~ But Chopper San~ Sanji is sorting everything out, and he told us to just stay put.
It doesn’t really make any difference whether we worry or relax while we wait, does it?”

“Even if we worry the time won’t go faster.
Since we’re going to wait anyway, lets wait while we’re relaxed”

Brooke (eps 394), on why he can be so “stupidly relaxed” after Camie was kidnapped

You got to admire his trust in his friends and his way of looking at life!

Barack Obama is the new Superhero!

Oh my, i wonder why no one does that in SG.
Oh wait, the Films Act. How could I forget..~

These are what i bought from the LPN Cats day @ Suntec City, and also the IT fair..
Almost forgot to post them up.

Cat bookmarks!

Cute mirrors!

Postcards~

Magnets and buttons~

Kitty Tote Bag!

And the spoils from the IT fair..

My new Lenovo S10-2 Netbook~

When its opened~

The things that came along with it..


and 1Gb of Ram for $50

I bought an addition 2nd and 3rd year warranty for it at $89… after trade in of $300 for my old laptop, I paid $448 for this~

And last but not least… my new Ipod Nano 8gb Blue~

Which came in a really nice case..~

This is how it looks like as a set.

All for $248.

That’s all folks, stay tuned for more pictures and posts!
(Right after I finish my essay due monday~)

Continued from here.

Adam Taggart, Senior Director, Product Marketing of Yahoo! Mobile did most of the explanation, while Turochas “T” Fuad, Head of Mobile at Yahoo! Mobile SEA helped with some of the questions.

The entirety of Yahoo! mobile was shown to us in an Iphone as it had the biggest screen, and also they already had an application built for it.

The premise of Yahoo! mobile builds on having everything at one page. On your mobile~
How does it sound, for you to be able to just access one page on your mobile, and you’re able to connect to Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail at the same time? Allowing you to stay logged in, you’ll be able to know when you get any incoming mail just by looking at your screen.

Another feature is that you’re able to design your own column of ‘widgets’. What it means is, by clicking the ‘add’ button, you are able to instantly put in all the stuff you want to be constantly updated about using their smart search function. The Iphone that Adam showed us had horoscope, sports news, local news, Yahoo! share prices, and so on.
The interesting thing about this is that this is localized for each country for easy use.

We saw how the search function was used to add latest news from Apple into the website. Its as simple as searching for “Apple”, and adding it. The whole thing took less than 5 seconds.

We also saw how the site works for other phones, but to less effect cause of the screen size of the phone. The Iphone application really makes the Yahoo! Mobile shine.

We were then shown around to the Yahoo! mobile booth where we tested the voice function for the search command, which was pretty lacking. Probably due to the interference from the background.

Yet Yahoo! Mobile looks to be really interesting. If you have an Iphone, go download the application. Its free!

And so wednesday saw me attending the Yahoo! Mobile launch at CommunicAsia, or well, the bloggers part of it anyway.

We were invited to a very classy looking dome for the bloggers event~

The outside

The inside

And a last look at the dome interior

This is DK with a shot of the Yahoo! Girls who brought us the slurpie, why was he the only one?
Cause he said the Yahoo! Girls were the prettiest among all the girls he saw in CommunicAsia.. heh.

The Yahoo! Mobile slurpee.. probably the thing most people will remember about Yahoo! cause they were giving it out for free

Adam Taggart, who explained how Yahoo! Mobile works on the left, bloggers on the right (sorry don’t remember your names~)

This is their booth where they were giving out their famed slurpees~
And of course, their pretty showgirls (cum blogger?)

And on to the review straight..~

Okay, there was actually a whole list of activities for the event before leading up to the PJ party at the Arena.
And it started at 2230. Sab wanted to meet me at 2315 cause she had the Video Game concert and couldn’t make it til that time, and so….

I reached Clarke Quay at around 2308.

On the way there I actually saw someone fly a bit off the middle of the road. I thought he was jumping or drunk, but it turns out he got knocked by a cab. As i watched on, I realised that he was sitting on the floor, checking his body for any damage. I didn’t see any bleeding, but the cab driver came out some 10 seconds later to check on him.

I wanted to go over, but then I asked myself…. “What can i do in this situation?” and I came up with nothing. Worse case scenario the cab driver would drive him to the nearest hospital and so instead of being a busy body, i decided to move forth.

I must admit I felt quite conscious in my t-shirt, shorts and slippers as I walked over, but after a while it became quite liberating. Sab would be late, so I inquired with the bouncer. First thing he said was no slippers, but after identifying myself, he told me it was normal entry after 11pm…

And so I decided not to go in. My better half could only stay for a while anyway, and I don’t think I know anyone inside… nor was I in a mood to party (eh, since when you all see me cheong?). So i relayed the bad news to her and decided to wait for her to come so we could grab a drink or something.

In the end, i sat by the river and called up a girl i recently knew. Lets call her crying girl for obvious reasons. I’ve only seen her laugh like once, and then i keep hearing her cry. Sigh, its hard to believe she was only in a r/s for 2 months.

Anyways, I chatted with her for 20+ minutes before Sab called and told me she couldn’t find any parking lots. What to do? We promised to meet up another time, and i left for home as well.

And that concludes my mini-adventure.. now i’m back at home and ready to attack my instant noodles!
Did I regret going out? Nope.
Had i known this was going to happen, would i still have gone out? Eh, maybe not, but I believe we can only do what we can, within our sphere of control. When fate decides to intervene, sometimes we can only react.

Soooooooo.. Sabrina, you don’t have to feel too bad about it. This IS life

PS (Oh yea, I wasn’t that psyched up to go in the first place =_=, I was asked only yesterday and i’m still reeling from the readings I had to do for my essay.. grr. Though i did enjoy the short time out … it was really HOT though~)

Continued from here.

The GM730.

First off, a little on the specs:
The display is 240 x 400 (3,0″ WQVGA)
with dimensions of 109.8 x 56.5 x 11.9/mm.

The feature highlights are:
Push e-mail
Perfect sync with PC Outlook
Corporate VPN service
Networking on the map
Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional (updatable to Windows Mobile 6.5)
A-GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth v2.1
3″ WQVGA touch screen
5 MP camera certified by Schneider-Kreuznach

We went through presentation and also a run-down of how the various functions of the phone, like the multi-tasking command can be used to allow you to copy a chunk of text from a web browser, directly to the message you’re sending out.

We were given some time to test with the phone after they finished their various presentations.

First impression:
-When compared to the Iphone, the GM730 actually feels a lot lighter, though it is also slightly smaller in screensize.
-The internal memory is capped at 250-300mb, though there’s a built in card slot for micro-sd card which supports up to 8 or 16gb.
-The sensitivity of the phone is upped, and personally I feel that it is much more receptive as compared to the Iphone, though manual clicking using your finger may be just a little bit harder when it comes to navigation.
-The multi-tasking window allows us to surf seamlessly through multiple programs, but it hangs when you try to overload it, though i reckon it wouldn’t be much of a problem- how many of us actually opens more than 5 programs at once?

The LG applications store will be launched on the 15th of July to support the GM730. While it looks great, i’ll reserve my judgment until I get to access it on the phone itself.

Overall, the GM730 looks really great. It has a lot of functions by its own like built-in GPS, Pocket office (though it can only save .docx files. Open office users will be at a disadvantage here), PDF viewer, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and the works by its own, and when complemented with the applications download should be a powerful phone indeed.

I can’t wait til I get to play with it for real and access the application store.
Stay tuned!