Goodbye to my new HP IPAQ 512 Voice Messenger

Today is exactly 8 days i received my HP Ipaq + Notebook from the Digi Promotion (Package Awesome with Voice). Though i have eagerly anticipated the arrival of my new toys but i was also sad to find out that to use the phone is like its language set to French.

As a matter of fact, it was so damn to send even 1 SMS that i gave up the instant it sent my SMS with 2 words to the intended recipient. What a bummer!

The supposed EDGE coverage at my residential are was quite lame, im only getting dialup (56kbps) speeds where as i was supposed to get speeds of 384kbps. Well for someone who have not gone online for more than 1 year at home, i suppose that is really an acceptable speed.

Anyhows to commemorate its departure, i will post up all the pictures i have taken to post it for sale. Got a lousy price for it but its better than nothing i suppose.

The front of the phone

The back of the phone

The front again on its protective pouch

The box

The data cable cum charger cable (USB chargeable and the plug actually have a USB port)

The unopened/unused earphone

The right side of the phone

The left side of the phone

"The Computer is Personal Again"

Goodbye, and thanks to you, i have now funds to finance a better phone, im looking at Motorola's V3xx. This baby has got HSPDA (3.5G), so when i have credits to spend on my Hotlink, i might just burn it on 3G or HSPDA speeds.

Working life also need to sit for tests =_="

In my final semester of my degree, i vouched to myself that i do not want to study anymore after i got my degree. So here i am 4 years down the road, and believe it or not i had to sit for an exam well more like a test and im supposed to read a book about 3/4 quarter the size of your average big ring file in 1 week.

With my heavy workload and 'ample' time, i just managed to flip through about 2/5 of the book and sat for the test. Luckily, its more like an open book test but for those who have sat through open book tests will know that if you did not study and its an open book test, you will waste most of your time flipping through useless garbage that won't help you answer the questions. Then come the next best thing, i can use Google, thank God! But sad news is internet connection is slow, great .......... what a time to face these kinda shit when the shit level is already at neck level.

With Google i think i managed to get answers for half of the questions and hopefully i passed. The test is just to evaluate our understanding of the new programming language that we will be using in our current major project. Well, i prefer to learn things as they come not by reading some book and you expect me to be an overnight (i had a week but just managed to squeeze in 1 night :p ) expert.

I really do hate studying for tests/exams!

Transformers The Movie =_=

This has to be hottest topic, it can be found almost everywhere, they rave about it, heaped praises on it, gets some of the greatest reviews and etc etc etc but strangely for me, as i have said when it was first made known to the world that this cartoon will also be made into a movie, i have rejected it to be a good movie (well most of the time im right).

Despite disagreements with almost everyone i know, i still say that im right. Im not sure what is Michael Bay's take on Optimus Prime but he is really one hell of big LAME-O! He is not a leader at all! I was like shaking my head in disbelief that Bay have turned this 'super' hero into such a wuss.

OK, so you all say that this is just a movie and the original stuff should be canned, this is the same with all other cartoon/comic turned into movies. But come on, somethings are NOT meant to be changed. You claim to have creative ideas about the characters but they turn out to be complete opposites? What kind of an achievement would you claim that to be?

Sigh, luckily i did not waste my money to watch this movie in the cinema, i might feel dejected like how it happened with Spidey 3, another failure with so many illogical events happening in the plots. Talking about plots and story development, this movie also lacks that somewhat. If they wanna mention that the cube have inscription from several cultures, then at least show that they have done the research to try to decipher what it may mean.

Argh, what's been done is done, no use ranting about it. Another disappointment, and i still don't get what's the excitement and huuhah about this crap!

The closest thing they tried to inherit was, "Autobots! Roll Out!". It would have been much better to sometimes use, "Autobots! Transform!". There is nothing much "more than meets the eye". =_=

Something is MORE wrong o_0"

In addition to what i have reported earlier with myself. I have now added even more symptoms. It really feels like im dying for the company but unnoticed.

My left shoulder up to my neck is very sore and aching. Seen the doctor and given some infra red treatment + medication but it seems that its not going away so easily. Most likely i will have to get myself some of them stickers and/or Yoko-yoko for pain relief. Sigh really feels like old age symptoms.

Im really getting pissed off to be dreaming every night. It used to be a pleasure because it does not happen so frequent and most of the times are good dreams. Now, any dreams are just depriving me of a good night's sleep. Im looking more and more like a panda now, China please protect me!!!

Talking about aches, my back is killing me now. To make matters worse later today i have test. After so many years away from studies, i had to flip through a thick book to prepare myself somewhat for the ensuing test. Though its a 1 hour thingy but it does more or less determines my immediate future within the project.

I feel a bit like John McClane now, where the hell is a fucking painkiller when you need one! Well i have painkillers but what i really need is a break, i need a holiday but i can't coz i have relieved my colleague to enjoy his Bali trip. Hopefully next week i can get some MUCH needed time off.

Something is wrong o_0

I can feel something is wrong but i can quite put a finger on it. Very strange things are happening to me.

When i sleep i don't usually dream, even if i do, its not every night. Furthermore NONE of the dreams are in any way good. I get into fights which usually have someone dying in it, accidents more deaths, problems which get on nerve. There was one morning which i woke up with a clenched fist, i think if i did not wake up, i would have caused some bruises on my palm. It felt numb for almost 1 hour or so.

Because i have dreams in my sleep means that my brain is not resting and therefore i wake up the next morning feeling sleep deprived. That would in turn cause some bad mood swings. Many a time i would have headaches as well. Because my throat don't work well with Panadol or its like made of paracetamol, i take ponstan. Its been a few months since i pop-ed my last ponstan for headache, its also used to treat fever the same effect as Panadol.

My temper is up a few notches and nothing seems to be good/correct. I would have to use my breathing technique to calm myself down, sometimes this does not work really well as well. Am i turning to be a violent man? Usually i can keep my cool but if its coupled with a bad mood swing, you'd better NOT be in the near vicinity.

Also my left eye have been twitching everyday for the past 2 weeks. If according to the Chinese saying, "Zho kat, yau hong" which literally means left means good, right means disaster. If so, i don't see myself getting any richer especially not the 17M jackpot which was walked away by a KL resident :( Is it due to heatiness or is there something wrong with my eye or even is there really something good going to happen?

I really don't feel like myself or am i finally showing my true self? o_0"

OST Frenzy

Currently im in another of those phase again, where im zoned out to try to get the whole OST of certain movies. In this case of course the current craze for me at least would be Pirates of the Caribbean (POTC).

For those who do not have the access to bittorrent technology, i have to resort to the next best thing ie download from sites which have file sharing capabilities. The current best, IMHO is Multiply, its fast and there is quite a good search function (provided by Google).

But sadly, on Multiply when i searched for POTC, there was only The Curse of the Black Pearl and At World's End OST available. Dead Man's Chest was missing, so in the frenzied state that im in, i went on to look for it but to no avail. Just last Friday i managed to find a source and luckily it was still available i now have all 3. Yippie!!!

Being stuck in that mood, i searched on for Lord of the Rings (LOTR) OSTs. This was easier because it was available on Multiply and all 3 are from the same user. Actually i already have The Fellowship of the Ring's album when i was in university, but heck i downloaded all of them just for the sake of keeping them together LOL.

So now im listening to them practically the whole day when im at work. If i had more space then i would have continued with Harry Potter series but then again i prefer to have whole sets and the current one is just the 5th movie out of 7?

Does anyone have The Matrix OSTs? Its not on Multiply :(

I would gladly upload my collection of POTC on Multiply if anybody wants.



Hoist the Colors.

The king and his men
stole the queen from her bed
and bound her in her Bones.
The seas be ours
and by the powers
where we will we'll roam.

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never say we die.

Update : I am now using 3 POTC ringtones :p

Another FREE SMS service???

Hmm kinda strange that i keep on updating these kind of things right? But anyhows, good things must be shared and this one is unlike Mobik, which is a bit sucky now as it requires both the sender and recipient must be a member to avoid spamming, well it was good while it lasted.

Click here to register for Callwave free sms.

I did not get the widgets' versions instead im just using the web version. From the registration process, the SMS sending from the time you click "send" to reach the recipient is almost as fast as your normal SMS. Kewl eh?

So watcha waiting for? Send SMS to your friends for free now!

edit : there seems to be some daily limit which is not mentioned, so maybe its not such a good service after all BUT the up side of this service is that YOUR number is the one that is displayed to the recipient :)