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Peninsula Trip Part 2 – Introduction

Published May 29, 2008 in Travelogue. 2 Comments

Last week from 17th to 20th May 2008, the Wild Geeks Makan Trip kakis have executed the second part of the Peninsula Malaysia discovery mission; this time with northern east coast being the main focus of the itinerary. The first part of Peninsula Malaysia trip was done in Dec 2007. No, this second part is not yet the end of cuti-cuti Peninsula mission.

路人甲: “wah lao.. 几 keng 一下咯，半岛游还分成几个 part”

We got to leave our foot prints in as many places within Peninsula Malaysia as possible, before fuel price is raised up (again), before inflation is getting even steeper (who says our inflation rate is around 4%), and before many places are getting more commercialized with their prices.

With the RM204 Makan Trip voucher to me as birthday present, I’ve participated in this trip with some top-ups.

Here are some quick facts of Peninsula Trip Part 2:

Total participants: 14 convoyed in 3 cars

Actual distance traveled: 1286 km
Actual cost: RM 335 per pax
Day 1: Kuala Lipis, Gua Musang, Kota Bharu
Day 2: Kota Bharu, Merang
Day 3: Merang, Kuala Terengganu, Kemaman, Cherating
Day 4: Cherating, Kuantan

With reference to the above GPS map, the yellow track assembles the journey that we’ve traveled. Thanks to George for keeping record of the trail with his GPS phone; now we can even tell exactly how many u-turn we took during the trip :p Continue reading ‘Peninsula Trip Part 2 – Introduction’

What Am I Doing?

Published May 24, 2008 in Life Log and Web Applications. 1 Comment

Most of us are using Google Talk custom message, MSN display message, Yahoo Messenger status message, Facebook status message, Friendster shout-out and alike for 1 common purpose – telling friends what am I doing, and what my mood is. Not surprisingly, many people are frequently checking out their friends’ display messages to “keh po” (a better word is “concern”) around, and stay updated with the status of people around us. Many times, you can derive all sorts of interesting facts from a person’s status message.

Before I left for east coast peninsula makan trip on last Saturday (24th May), I thought it would be interesting to publish short message updates in my blog, so that my family and friends could stay almost up-to-date with my itinerary. To achieve this, I need to be accessible to Internet via 3G or GPRS on my phone. Ideally, in order not to be charged for a hand and a leg to enjoy mobile blogging, the interface for posting should be as light-weight as possible, and I should also limit my updates to be short and precise, just like SMS text message.

Twitter

KC and Jack, being active users of Twitter, were trying to sell me Twitter ideas, convincing me to make use of the Twitter account which I’ve created more than 6 moths ago (that time Twitter doesn’t really look interesting to me :p).

So, I’ve decided to give Twitter a serious trial, due to its promising update-via-mobile-phone interface. My Twitter updates are viewable at http://twitter.com/tiensoon

Well, to the uninitiated ones, Twitter is a simple Web 2.0 app designed for us to tell the world “what am I doing?” By default, your Twitter updates are kept private and only viewable by users authorized to follow you. For example, I’ve approved Jack as one of my followers, and so he is authorized to view, spy, peek and keh-po at my Twitter updates.

However, if you don’t feel uneasy for your Twitter updates to be made public, you can alter the setting, and your Twitter updates can also be easily published on your blog, just like what I’m doing. Continue reading ‘What Am I Doing?’

What’s The Name of Your Sony Ericsson Phone?

Published May 24, 2008 in Gadgets and Phones. 3 Comments

My gf: “what you doin now?”

Me: “dating with Elena :D”

My gf: “”

Well… I was telling the truth. Moral teachers taught us not to lie :p

Hehe… actually, Elena is the name of my phone haha. Yes, Elena is the codename for Sony Ericsson P1. I definitely agree that my phone is a she; my personal secretary.

You can check out the codename of your Sony Ericsson phone at Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog. So far, all Sony Ericsson codenames are female names. My gf’s W880 is codenamed Ai.

Google Search Appliances Launched in Malaysia

Published May 16, 2008 in Google. 4 Comments

Yesterday (15th May), Google search appliances have finally made its official debut in Malaysia. The launch was organized by the sole distributor of GSA in Malaysia – Ingram Micro, at Sime Darby Convention Centre. I was there for this half-day event.

What this means is that, any organization in Malaysia which has always been saying “make it like Google la!” can now opt for a search engine which behaves like Google for his/her organization. At a price of course.

Google Search Appliance and Google Mini

The yellow box shown above is Google Search Appliance, while the blue box is Google Mini. My friend Wai Pei says the yellow box looks like a piece of cheese! Continue reading ‘Google Search Appliances Launched in Malaysia’

Be Delicious

Published May 13, 2008 in Life Log. 4 Comments

Am I not delicious?

My gf’s elder sister, Lee Fang, has just came back from work assignments in US. To my surprise, she bought me a souvenir, which reminds me to be delicious always hahaha

Yes, it’s a 50ml DKNY Be Delicious for Men perfume. The scent is quite long lasting, it stays naturally with me throughout working hours.

I’m not an all-time perfume user. Will only apply if I have it hahaha. Just FYI, another perfume that I like is Polo Black

Thanks Lee Fang sis.

Bought Bus Ticket for the Wrong Date

Published May 12, 2008 in Life Log. 1 Comment

Yesterday when I reached Melaka Sentral, as usual, I took out the KKKL Express Melaka-KL 4.30pm bus ticket from my wallet. Then, just to reconfirm, I checked the date stamped on the ticket.

The date stamped on the bus ticket was 10 May 2008. I took a look at my watched, but the day display was shown as 11. I was stoned!!! But, optimistically speaking, I told myself that my watch could be wrong. So, I took out my phone, looked at the date, but it was also shown as 11 May 08.

O shit!!!!! F**k! I’ve bought for the wrong date! What a big mistake I’ve made.

Knowing how Melaka-KL ticket is selling like hot cake on Sunday, I don’t think there’s still any ticket available for me to purchase on the spot.

I walked into Melaka Sentral, but as expected, KKKL, Delima and Transnasional were all posted with a paper written: “Kuala Lumpur Today Sold Out” or “Kuala Lumpur Hari Ini Habis”

Again, being optimistic, I told myself “it’s ok… I can still buy Monday 5.30am bus, and I can still get into office by 9.30am”

But again….. 5.30am Melaka-Kl bus for Monday was sold out.

Went to the least demanded Melaka-KL express bus operator - Jebat, but the only schedule available was 10pm. This trip is too late for me.

Leaving with no choice, I got to prepare for the much more expensive alternative - taxi.

So yes, I end up coming back to KL by taxi. There were 4 passengers, and each were charged RM40. aaaaahi~~~ what a big big big mistake I’ve made.

Birthday Presents 2008 from Friends

Published May 8, 2008 in Life Log. 2 Comments

This year, I’ve got 2 special birthday presents from a group of friends:

Shell Ferrari Collector’s Garage 2008
RM204 voucher as subsidy for an upcoming makan trip to Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang

The cash voucher is also nicely printed on a A4 paper, like real~~

Thanks to: Adrian, Annette, Calvin Loh, Chee Wei, Edwin, Elaine Ching, George Lee, Huey Ling, Hui Lee, Jack Hii, Jason Yap, Jessica Lim, John Lim, Johnson, Julian Khoo, KC, Ken Wei, Kien Fei, Kit Yee, Loh, Mei Wei, Micol Chan, Paullie Choong, Wai Pei

Claim More Free Disk Space with Vista SP1

Published May 6, 2008 in Tips & Tricks. 3 Comments

If you’re running on Windows Vista now, have you installed Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)?

Manual download and installation of Windows Vista SP1 was released on 18th March, and available from Windows Update beginning from 15th March. If you’ve not manually downloaded this service pack, chances are, by now, you should have been prompted for automatic update of Vista SP1 from Windows Update.

I’ve updated to Vista SP1 on 19th March, a day after the release of manual download hehe. Itchy hand lo… I was kind of frustrated with some performance issues and bugs residing in Windows Vista, and thus very much anticipating for the availability of Vista SP1, hoping to see some notable issues resolved.

7GB Free Space to Begin

For Vista 32bit, SP1 requires minimum 7GB of free space in C drive to execute installation. However, no worry, SP1 is NOT going to eat up your 7GB hard drive space. Continue reading ‘Claim More Free Disk Space with Vista SP1′

Jia En

Published May 5, 2008 in Shutterbug. 0 Comments

This cutie is my cousin. She is very sensitive to camera lens, and she likes to pose. When I pointed my camera at her, she given me this “tomato-eating” pose hehe… Repeatedly a few times, she given me this pose until I told her that I’ve got the shot.

How to Transfer Your Songs from iPod to PC

Published May 4, 2008 in Gadgets and Tips & Tricks. 1 Comment

I have a 30GB iPod as mobile “entertainer”, which I use for the following purposes:

Store MP3s
Store some latest pictures so that I can easily show-off my recent trips to friends
Store podcasts

iPod However, just like any other iPod owner, I’m facing a kind-of-disappointing iPod “feature”, which only allow songs to be transfered into iPod, and not vice versa (transfer songs from iPod to PC). If given a choice, I don’t really want to keep 2 copies of the GBs of songs, especially in my office laptop; I would rather keep them all in iPod, and transfer any individual song out to PC if needed. But how?? Continue reading ‘How to Transfer Your Songs from iPod to PC’