New phone

Main screen with some
important apps.

With Angry Bird apps.

I have been wanting to get a new phone but need to be affordable, nice in style and sharp. Although my first choice to buy is Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc X12 but the price almost make me able to go to Rambutan Bay. 

After a long reviews, I could finally get a touch on my Samsung Galaxy Ace S-5830 with Android 2.2 Froyo, upgradable to Android 2.3 Gingerbread if Samsung going to get it fast. 

One week after, I managed to get myself used to this phone already. Thanks to Eric Chong for making this dream possible to get myself a smartphone (eventhough it is not an expensive smartphone).

Need to understand the situation I am facing, I am glad with the things I am having now. It doesn't matter either it's cheap or what. In the end, I'm happy enough what? Do I need to show to people? PEACE!

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Temporary Replacement: Samsung Monte

This morning, there were dumb dumbs sent SMSes to my private number (Aino). As you all know that my Aino was damaged and unable to be use unless if call-in phone calls only. I was frustration mood because it might be my bosses who sent it. Without any delay, I confirmed with my buddy Rex that I am going to Low Yat to get a temporary phone.

[Meaning of temporary was to use it for a short period of time.]

Because of rain, I had delayed my plan to go earlier and went there at 6 and reached Times Square at 7. I went to Times Square CIMB ATM machine to get money for the phone. However, the machine had technical problem and forced me to walk to Low Yat Plaza Lower Ground floor's CIMB ATM to get my money.

Scared that it might be my ATM card problem, I prayed that that time (at Low Yat) will able to get money for a phone. Luckily I got it and went to where Rex is working.

I wanted to get Samsung Galaxy 5 at first but I wanted it to better since I will going to use it for another few months. I was also thought of what Henry commented in Facebook which make me change my mind. Then, I saw Samsung Monte (which similar with Vivaz - in shape).

Although RM100 more expensive than Galaxy 5, but I get things better than Galaxy 5. Monte has 3.2 mega pixelS camera and includes 8GB microSD. Compared to Galaxy 5, it only has 2.0 mega pixels camera and includes 2GB microSD TransFlash.

For now, the biggest problem will be: to take phone numbers from my friends again - and I will left one or two person as well. I am concern that my bosses calls me and I don't know who is it.

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The End of My AINO

My Sony Ericsson Aino has went crazy back two months ago. My plan to replace that phone was postponed until further time when phone prices starting to go down, cheap enough for me to buy. Bad news is I can't afford to get an Iphone 4 (or maybe I can if I sign-up by using the plan package). Let's see when the time goes on!

My Aino has been crazy by reshuffled all my contacts by its own, especially the contact numbers. If using my mobile experience that I had before, it might be due to the software of the phone had gone haywire. 

Before this happened, around a month ago, there was a little malfunction happened. My pictures which was taken prior the beginning of having the phone until that day, has all erased out without reasons.

Although I like my phone and keep it nicely in a pouch, it doesn't make it damaged internally. I hope that I can get a better phone and will not going the same problem as this Aino. Hmmm... My favourite now is Nokia N8 which looks like Aino and full touch screen too. I will set it as part of phones that I can choose with.

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Nuffnang - pemusing kepalaku

Kepalaku mula berpusing-pusing disebabkan penambahan widget Nuffnang MY ke dalam blog saya. Walaupun nampak senang, tetapi kesemua widget membuatkan kesemua kod HTML dan kepada blog saya menjadi kelam kabut.

Saya telah pun mengikut segala arahan dari Nuffnang tetapi kesemua itu mencapai kegagalan. Kepala blog saya jatuh 5 pixel kebawah dari tempat asalnya. Malahan, selepas kesemua widget dimasukkan, saya diminta untuk menutup tingkap browser saya dan membukanya semula selepas itu untuk membenarkan iklan-iklan Nuffnang disegarkan.

Malangnya, saya menampakkannya sebagai satu kegagalan besar dalam sejarah blogging saya dan berasa dukacita terhadap kepala blog saya jatuh 5 pixel, disebabkan kepala blog saya direka khas dan bukannya berserta dengan masukkan menggunakan kod HTML. Kepala blog saya dimasukkan melalui widget Blogger untuk memberi susunan yang tepat pada blog.

Walau bagaimanapun, saya telah berjaya menyusun sendiri kesemua kod HTML Nuffang ke dalam blog saya dengan mengambil beberapa langkah yang mudah untuk menjayakannya. Diharapkan pengiklanan ini dapat memberikan saya sedikit wang poket untuk digunakan.

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Complicating "Followers"

Today, I used all my time to figure out how to un-follow people that followed my previous blog. Although I will not going to use my previous blog, but the blog still give me a great threat especially because there is still a person following my previous blog. Like Chinese proverb says, “If you wanted to cut the grass, you must take out the root as well.”

I was shocked to see that I did followed his blog and I try to erase it. My attempts met with failure. I keep retrying and try, still unable to figure out too. Even to search from Google Search, I can’t get a proper solution.

When I figured out where was the problem (actually I signed in using Twitter but the picture on the Followers List was with a Google logo), I tried my best to sign in using another account. Again, failed! It was because the server unable to let me sign in using another account. Even with many attempts, I still can’t get the thing to un-follow.

Then, I also added the Twitter there too (un-accidentally). It caused me a big frustration and almost going to bang my laptop. I also stress over the music I was listening as well. You know? When things get irritated, you will become very frustrated with your mind keep saying, “Quick! Quick! Quick!”

However at the end, I managed to un-followed it by logging in using Google Chrome (before that I was using Mozilla Firefox). Why Google does create the “followers” such a complicated way? I managed to un-follower which used by both Google and Twitter account. Finally, I also redirected my previous blog to my current blog to assure that there will be no more complications.

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Laptop and my new gadgets, and new hair cut

Click image to zoom in: From left - Yellow arrow: DiGi Broadband, Grey Arrow: Cooling fan, Lime Green Arrow: Mouse, White Arrow: 4 Ports USB Hub.

Yesterday, 26 August.

Although it's raining after my work, it didn't stop me from going to Times Square to pay my bill. Henry fetched me to the bank to get my salary for paying bill, buy rapidpass and get a new broadband. Yicol also went to get money from the bank too.

I wanted to get rapidpass from Cempaka RapidKL station after Henry dropped me there. However, that kakak said that, "Dekat sebelah sanalah dik." - "at the opposite of the station". I just get a ticket to go to Hang Tuah. I got my pass at Hang Tuah LRT station and the pass only can be use on the next day.

I walked under the rain to Times Square. I quickly went to the payment kiosk to pay it. My bill was RM359.XX. Due to the machine don't take RM1 notes, I was forced to pay RM350. I get my number to wait for DiGi personnel to serve me regarding DiGi Broadband. After 15 minutes waiting, it's my turn. I asked details about DiGi Broadband and got one for myself. Explore 10GB plus free personal insurance.

When I get back my change, I again went to the kiosk and pay up the remaining RM10. By the way, that DiGi personnel who served me forgotten to give me back my IC when he took it and make a photocopy. I also almost forgotten until his colleague reminds him about it. If not, I going to pay RM100 fine for losing my IC.

Then, I walked to Low Yat Plaza to get the price of Windows 7 CD for my laptop (to re-format it) but when I heard the price was around RM350++ AND the cheapest is RM269, I changed my mind and put it onto my next month's agenda. I went to a computer gadget shops to get a cooling fan, a mouse and a 4 ports USB hub. And so, I used up almost 70% of my salary.

I took bus from Bukit Bintang and I managed to get U46. On the way back home, Steven's mother and sister took the same bus from Majestic bus station. I figured that they saw me and I also wanted to greet them. However, they looked like didn't regonised me. Afterwards, I felt asleep.

The first thing I did after I reached home was open up all the gadgets and plug in to my laptop. Thank God that the 4 ports USB hub can be use because I got another one from Tesco a few months ago.

Today, 27 August
I wanted to go and cut my hair so badly because my hair was too long until can cover up my whole face and even can 'eat' it when I opened my mouth wide. Steven and I had a conversation on MSN to go out and cut hair until short. So be it! Because I want to get my 'Taro Takashi' hairstyle back and become my own self.

Although I sleep late to update my 1st Facebook account which I abandoned it to cover-up stories of myself that I had passed away by my former friends, I decided to revive it and clean up the mess rather to hide myself. Of course, my one and only alarm clock - my mother will wake me up at 9a.m. Even I woke up at 9, I wasted my time to watch WWE RAW.

When the time was nearly 10, I started to panic and rush for my things. I end up walking to the RapidKL bus terminal and hop into the bus, thinking that I would be late to meet up Steven. I did reach Majestic late but not very late - around 10 minutes.

We have chats together since we are now not able to meet each other as how we were when he still work at FCC. He then told me that I am the one who will cut the hair because he wanted to keep his hair for another month so his hair will be suitable to be cut with the style that he has in his mind.

We also went to play at amusement park and I also realised that when I played basketball with Steven, an uncle passed by behind us and that uncle hit my buttock. Gosh! What was it for? The things that Steven been through I also did now.

We went to have our lunch in a small restaurant but have many schoolgirls in it. We were surrounded by them. We talked many about short hair and Steven was tempted with it and returned to barber shop and cut his hair too.

Steven need to return home as quick as possible because his grandmother needs him to take care of her. So we all return to our respective houses. I reached at 7-11 bus stop and walked to GUARDIAN to get mat wax. I also went to Pustaka Rakyat to get a book holder to hold my anime CDs from falling and a card holder to take a good care of my rapidpass.

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Starting to use Semacode

Now, we are on a new era of technology. Semacode started to take over the current barcode system. Even Iphone (one of the applications) able to read Semacode.

The Semacode for this blog page (main page)

I am starting to use this semacode yesterday after I found out about it few days ago via Wikipedia. My Facebook profile picture already started it.

Sooner, much of my social network sites also will use this semacode as well. Try one today, it's fun. Much more if you use that Iphone application to read the semacode.

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Time for 'High Definition'

Since now ever thing also in Hi-Def, so do some of my social network website. It was started since this Monday when I started to worked out the logo designs for Baxx Revolutionary Army (original name supposed to be Baxx Infection).

If I am going to take down all the videos of shufflers which are under Baxx Rev. Army, I am going to use my U10i which the video is in nHD version. It is as clear as HDTV too.

Much graphics still in VGA version. I couldn't change all the things on the blog as the template wasn't my design too. The header of the blog already been changed to nHD version. My Twitter layout also has been changed to nHD version. Currently, few of my graphics in nHD because I am also don't know what else I forgotten to change. Too much of sites I need to update, even WWE Universe.

The nHD logo designed by Little Grey Rabbit. Green was used as part of green plan that has been matched out to all members of Takashi Clan for going green and environmental-friendly. I get this idea from WWE HD template too.

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Man who found — and sold — the missing iPhone unmasked

Apple's Steve Jobs, seen here on April 8, will be the opening night speaker at the "D: All Things Digital" technology conference, organizers said, a rare public appearance by the co-founder of the California company. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)

Twenty-one-year-old Redwood City, California, resident Brian J. Hogan, the man identified by Wired.com as the guy who found — and later sold — Apple's missing iPhone in a bar last month, has a message for Apple, the engineer who originally lost the precious gadget, and the tech world at large: Sorry about that.

Following a trail of "clues" on social-networking sites and confirming his ID with a source "involved in the iPhone find," Wired named Hogan on Thursday as the bar patron who made off with Apple's top-secret iPhone prototype and then sold it to Gizmodo for $5,000 after an Apple software engineer left the precious phone on a bar stool.

Up until now, Hogan's identity has been a mystery to the public, but the 21-year-old college student (or at least, he was a college student as of 2008) may have sensed that he was in trouble after all the hoopla over Gizmodo's gigantic iPhone scoop last week and the subsequent fallout, including a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's house by San Mateo sheriff's deputies armed with a search warrant.

Hogan has now lawyered up, and in a statement released through his attorney, the young man says he "regrets his mistake in not doing more to return the phone," and that he thought his $5,000 deal with Gizmodo was only "so that they could review the phone," Wired reports.

According to Hogan's attorney's statement, Hogan didn't see the lost iPhone until another patron at the Redwood City bar came up and asked him if it was his; Hogan apparently then asked a few other patrons if they'd lost the device before heading out, iPhone in hand, according to Wired.

Initial reports had it that the man who'd taken the iPhone tried repeatedly to call the Apple Care support line to return the phone, but according to the statement in the Wired story, Hogan never personally called Apple, although a friend of his offered to. The owners of the bar where the iPhone was lost also told Wired that Hogan never bothered to call them about the lost hardware, although the anguished Apple engineer who mislaid the iPhone "returned several times" to see if it had turned up.

Meanwhile, CNET is reporting that Hogan had help in finding a buyer for the lost iPhone. The "go-between," according to CNET: 27-year-old Sage Robert Wallower, a UC Berkeley student who "contacted technology sites" about the handset. Wallower told CNET that he "didn't see it or touch it in any manner" but knows "who found it," adding, "I need to speak to a lawyer ... I think I have said too much."

No one has been charged yet in the case of the lost iPhone, but a deputy district attorney for San Mateo County tells Wired that Hogan is "very definitely ... being looked at as a suspect in theft." (In California, finding a piece of lost property isn't a case of "finders keepers"; if you find a lost item and keep it without making "reasonable" efforts to find the real owner, you could be charged with a crime.)

Gizmodo's Jason Chen also has yet to be charged; law-enforcement officials have reportedly said they'll hold off on searching the computers and servers seized from Chen's house until they decide whether California's shield law for journalists applies to him.

Wired: iPhone Finder Regrets His ‘Mistake’
CNET: The people involved in sale of iPhone revealed

— Ben Patterson is a technology writer for Yahoo! News.

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Viruses are spreading everywhere

Recently many viruses are spreading – almost everywhere. Influenza A, H1N1 struck and claimed its first victim last month. It was so sudden that Influenza A, H1N1 returned for (don’t know how many waves) these past months. Furthermore, that person who had passed away (1st person who died of H1N1) already consulted doctor and not even the doctor could examine the presence of that particular influenza.

In addition of global warming and El Nino climate change, Malaysia might once again into a difficulty of draught season until this May. The government had warned its citizen to save up the usage of water, in case of the El Nino climate change continues for a longer time. On the other side, the climate change had make Malaysian (includes you, me and everybody else) facing cough, sore throat, fever, normal influenza and other normal diseases.

My mother and my cousin sister became victims of cough, influenza and fever. My mom had bad stomach back few days ago before she felt sick of those three diseases. Meanwhile, my cousin sister was very well back few days ago. After that, she also has fever, cough and influenza. She unable to sleep the whole night (2 nights ago) and caused my mother also unable to sleep well.

There is still more about the viruses’ stories. Recently, head office suffered virus invasion into the laptop used for mobile number registration. My boss had sent the laptop and repaired it into a better condition. However, when the internet plug was plugged, the viruses again infected the computer. It cause the only operation (company’s) computer is in my workplace. Head office sent their registration to us and we need to the registration for them. The laptop is under security threat and still under restoration.

Travia(s):

• Rumor says that NTV7’s website also been invaded by viruses. NTV7’s Twitter management posted their status on the net and blamed Google for the error (which make NTV7’s website only accessible using Internet Explorer.
• This few weeks, we were unable to do any Hotlink registrations too. Meanwhile, these few days, Maxis couldn’t make any calls/SMSes or receive calls/SMSes.
• RapidKL’s LRT services interruption. Most probably, the main computer infected with viruses, causes the interruption (because PUTRA LRT uses computer to control the trains).
  

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