Another failed trip

Decided to go fishing again after a long time and after much persuasion, managed to con two guys into accompanying me. We decided to go to the same place again even though the last few visits rendered fruitless. Everything turned out the same as the last few visits. Exact same pictures, exact same result = fishless, exact same lunch spot.


Sukida. Time for a spot change. Even the other anglers didn't seem to hook up anything.


Sunny and Law


Law's first attempt at the toss


Freaking catch of the day


Broga's ikan bakar where the location is not even shown on the GPS


Curry mutton


Curry style ikan bakar.


Some greens


Nyonya style ikan bakar.


The greenery surrounding the restaurant

Time to scout for new places. Even the pictures doesn't feel appealing anymore.

First scare

I received a short call from my housemate, Julian.

Then I received another sms from him and my iPhone went black.

I clicked on the unlock button. Nothing happened. I tried turning it off. Still nothing. Zero response. Silence. This can't be happening. I only had it for a week. This can't be really happening.

Fear started building up and after ten minutes, still nothing.

The only thing that kept playing in my mind at that time was:

"KNN CCB !!! THAT FUCKING GUY DAMN SUI MAN!! NIAMAH KNN CCB!!!!"

All this while, I always joked about him being a total jinx to me. At that time I was ready to redefine a word in my dictionary forever.

jinx (jngks)
n.
1. A person or thing that is believed to bring bad luck.
2. A condition or period of bad luck that appears to have been caused by a specific person or thing.
tr.v. jinxed, jinx·ing, jinx·es
3. Julian
To bring bad luck to.

I rushed home hoping that it just ran out of juice. When I reached my room, I suddenly heard a familiar sound. It felt like years since I last heard that melodic tune. It was my phone. It was ringing. It was fucking ringing and I could answer it.

It turned out that the unlocking feature somehow screwed up. I plugged on the power and I managed to unlock the phone. It still had the problem after I unplugged it, and I tried restarting the phone. It worked perfectly fine again after that. Like the past hour was just a bad dream.

I finally managed to breath again.

I checked my pulse and it was back to normal again.

Relieved.

Oh yea. *cough* Sorry about that Julian. I can be pretty superstitious at times.

No hard feelings ya.

*cough*

iPhone

Finally got my new baby. Farewell my soap shaped phone. No more pubic hair in screen jokes. No more laggy Symbian shit. Cooler ring tones to wake me up.

First and foremost, I would like to thank a couple of guys who made it possible.
1. Kevin's boss : who brought her over from US
2. Kevin: for devirginizing her (or rather asking somebody else to crack it)
3. Kiam: for escorting her over from Penang
4. Winghon: for fetching me over to the PC fair to collect her.



Had been using it for a week now, and I still find her a real beauty. Her sleek curves, brilliant display and minimalist design is simply incomparable. She makes me wanna touch her all the time, and only by touch would she get moving.

I've always wanted a touch screen phone and this one is simply wonderful. In a short while, I got used to gliding my finger around the screen and typing using the keypad was no problem at all despite my two fat thumbs. The dictionary function really helps a lot during typing, so a typo doesn't really matter at all. Only thing that bothers me is that the phone is now fully covered with fingerprints.

And now I have music in my pocket all the time. The iPod function is pretty cool (okay, it's just another friggin mp3 player) and it'll take a while before I get bored with 16GB of songs. But I ignored Trace's advice and synced my music using iTunes on another machine and it just erased my whole play list. Why the freaking hell cant it just add some songs to it!!!?? Fuck iTunes!



Having wifi on the phone is another cool feature (kononlah can always stay connected). But browsing on Safari turned out to be pretty sweet. It displays at a comfortable size and its just perfect for browsing blogs. Mail attachments can be opened without problems and so far I've tested .JPEGs, .PDFs, and office documents which is fitted the screen really well. The iPhone also has EDGE but I disabled it and only depend on wifi to download and surf. Learned from a friend's mistake where he downloaded stuff using his edge and was charged about RM200 for 20MB of crap. Heard some guy from Singapore ended up in debt of tens of thousands after downloading movies using EDGE.

But every rose has its thorns, and she turned out to be quite a bitch. Just needed some getting used to.

First of all, it doesn't recognize all the contacts from the SIM card. Thanks to the web application SIMport, I was able to copy out all my contacts from the SIM. Only then did I realize how unorganized my contacts were. It was a total mess as this phone sorts it out nicely using first name/ last name. Still slowly resorting my address book.

Another problem would be dialing and smsing out. Had me cracking my head trying to figure wtf was wrong with it. Turned out that instead of dialing the number 012xxx, we had to dial the whole number +6012xxx. Which also means, I have tonnes of numbers to edit again.

There's a mixture of love and hate when it comes to the SMSing. I love the SMS layout where it is arranged in a form of chat where you can see all the previous SMSes in a form of dialog. What I hate about it, there's no draft and forwarding. Had to retype a sms a thousand times when I was figuring out why the friggin message just won't get through. Well, there should have a web app for it but I haven't really been searching.


The chat box style SMS

No MMS at the moment, though they say it works fine using the webApp Swirly MMS but the freaking package doesn't seem to downloadable at the moment. Well, not a big user of MMS, so I can live fine without it for the moment.

There's a couple of other hiccups that had been bugging me. Thankfully the webs applications are able there to save the day.

Overall, the iPhone can be summarized as one hot bitch.

And I'm loving it.

The mad rush

It must have been at least 4 years ago. I vaguely remembered swearing never to attend another PC fair again in my life.

I called up Winghon, the most experienced person to look for when it comes to PC fairs. It was his turf after all, as KLIA used to be mine. As far as I know, he hasn't missed any of the recent fairs. Met up with him at Subang and drove to KL in his mini car.

The place was hell. People swarmed the area like ants coming out from an anthill. They were everywhere. Pick pocketing and ass grabbing should be a stroll in the park.

Decided to get a laptop for my dad. Recalled him complaining about the dying machine at home. This plan was totally ad hoc and I had totally no idea which model to get. Thanks to the flood of people, I really wanted to get it over with. Decided to get the Compaq F762AU as reviewed by Winghon. However, the main reason would be that Winghon had already downloaded all the drivers for the machine. A real time saver.





The HP booth was packed with people. I didn't even have the chance to get their attention not to mention ask any questions. Well, noticing that the rest of the guys in front were either bargaining or asking questions, I just said out loud that I wanted that unit. I got an immediate response. Really good service indeed.

The rest of the fair was really suffocating. And a waste of time if you are not looking for something specific. I bought another two external drives along the way and when I was done, I was totally worn out.

I then had to collect something from a friend who was at the HP booth, which was in the 2nd hall (out of 7 halls if I recall correctly). By this time, the crowd was at its maximum and even a short distance felt like a mile. After picking up my stuff, no thanks to the fucked up layout, I had to go through all the halls again, struggling through the horde of never ending people. I could hardly feel my legs.

When it was over, I was totally drained. Mind, body and soul.

Never again shall I step into a PC fair.

Never.