March 2009

Swinburne student reunion on 1 March. Cool. Lunch at Cho Gao. One day i'm Gonna buy myself a Suckao ceramic cup from Max Well Brennan and melt choclate in it. ha ha. Sunday 8th March we went to Aquarium. $31.50 per adult. The penguins were adorable but the sea horses and blue legged frog were top notch creatures. 14th March. Dinner at cool Movida was yummy. The tapas had full flavour and was bite size yet fulfiling, especially lamb shrank and leak & potato croquettes. The churro was a tad dry nonetheless crunchy. The drinks were pronto and exactly as we ordered, no delay and no mix up. Gr8.

Learning Japanese is fun using Human Japanese software. However, my ability to pronounciate is far from being perfect. Enjoy seeing difference from native speakers.

My attempt to connect iPhone to analogue tv was half successful, got audio alright but video was mono black and white. How disappointing. It requires a digital tv or something like that. Um.

My attempt at viewing online rental movie on PC was dismal. Firstly, the download of the movie from iTunes took up a whole day (1.45GB) and only viewable in iTunes. I can hear the audio but the video was choppy and lagging against the audio being played, um. Is it a PC problem or the monitor (60-70 Hz) or poor file quality? Dunno. I'll try again once I'm on ADSL2+ and faster monitor (200mhz). ha ha. if I strike a winning, of course.

Sad that Australia doesn't have gr8 internet plans. Internet caps were very high on charges and signal strength frequently drops. Once you have exceeded in data allowance, on top of your cap monthly cost is the excess charges, your included value doesn't cover data usage .Telco are unable revert plan back to your original one uless there are loops involved -how wonderful.

28th March. Butcher's Grill was so-so in food & service. I'm sure other people had a better time, my bad luck.

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1. For those who wanna know why u rec'd #spam from #fanbox.com email relentlessly see URL http://tinyurl.com/cn2o5s2:19 AM Mar 31st from web
2. so today I wear the fool hat. boo.1:26 AM Mar 31st from TwitterFon
3. in hind sight, there is such as a good thing and I should 've just my cap incl. value instead of free sms site. sigh.1:26 AM Mar 31st from TwitterFon
4. argh! I'm a fool 2 fink free sms site r free of unwanted crap. lost some credibility no thx 2 spam. sigh. hope no one was harmed. :s1:24 AM Mar 31st from TwitterFon
5. @DHughesy then u can throw a tweet party & charge 'em 4 parkn their bikes on da curb or let a parking inspector charge each 1 a fine. lol12:12 AM Mar 30th from TwitterFon in reply to DHughesy
6. #earthhour should be made into #earthday, a perferably a Sunday. Then can we make a gr8 difference. wot u all fink?4:43 AM Mar 29th from TwitterFon
7. churro with chocolate dip, um, a yummy weekend treat. (/--/) a slave to the chocolate god. LOL10:14 PM Mar 28th from TwitterFon
8. @animedancer87 i'd think his enteries would be witty, funny, & bring sunshine to a gloomy day with laughter. I can only imagine.4:08 AM Mar 28th from TwitterFon in reply to animedancer87
9. 'bob giblets' eatery was a let down & has da same curse as 'hot croc' did in yr 2007. LOL. 'watchmen' was, um, okay.4:02 AM Mar 28th from TwitterFon
10. watch on tv Ch9. penguins r so cute.1:04 AM Mar 27th from TwitterFon
11. @wondercast oh ic. words lack tone so unable 2 c ur joke. hee hee. some Asians do look-a-like.1:03 AM Mar 27th from TwitterFon in reply to wondercast
12. @animedancer87 yeah, not a lot of celebrities are that interesting these days. Nao is a gem. wish he'd twitter too.12:59 AM Mar 27th from TwitterFon in reply to animedancer87
13. I myself is happy Sim3 is just around the cnr. oh can't wait to build my ideal community. evil ha ha12:25 AM Mar 24th from web
14. Internet cap of 250Mb sux, while $99 for 1G is a joke. go die ppl12:22 AM Mar 24th from web
15. @perezhilton sorry for belated "happy birthday". 31 is not old, 105 yr old is old. lol12:19 AM Mar 24th from web
16. wot's the pt of having #bundles when telcos can chg ur bundle to NO bundle? huh? #AAPT? wot gives?2:38 AM Mar 23rd from web
17. after Nov '08 AAPT bumped fr agreed "$35.45" to $45.50 for Internet on my bill w/out my consent! mad! my lazy family didn't ntc it woh.2:06 AM Mar 23rd from web
18. @sngo1982 hey u go online yahoo chat now!1:42 AM Mar 23rd from web
19. Funny stuff and no smite button required. lol.http://usingdata.typepad.co...6:09 PM Mar 22nd from web
20. just watched DVD ver. of Tropic Thunder & man, was it Gr8, loved Robert DJnr role & Ben biceps were rippin', Jack semi funny1:32 AM Mar 22nd from mobile web
21. RT @arjbarker @DHughesy frens wif ur ex depends on both ppl comfortable wif the idea & naturally accept this is all they'll ever be. peace.1:29 AM Mar 22nd from mobile web
22. you'd fink having an a/c wif a telco over many yrs they'd chg ur plan easily. not. exit fee r ouchies.6:23 AM Mar 21st from web
23. Doncaster has dev. in2 a mini Chadstone but 2 bad ppl still ram trolley/prams in2 ur leg in da mall.10:17 PM Mar 20th from web
24. is it me or is it adult movie tik leaning to $20. man, yo u can so buy a DVD wif that.1:39 AM Mar 20th from web
25. finding it difficult to embed ppt files on wiki. too large. ah, just my luck.6:54 PM Mar 19th from web
26. never did catch the flick, instead we walked around in peak hour. ha. no free list are a pain.4:59 AM Mar 19th from web
27. Gonna catch a flick in MC #hoyts and #Nandos in 20mins.9:11 PM Mar 18th from web
28. #AIG u sux. In this period of GEC and GCC. HOW could U?!8:07 AM Mar 18th from web
29. ppl fr interstate should outta know they ain't special in Melb so no, we ain't bowing to ya10:33 PM Mar 17th from mobile web
30. @maxcelcat ic i 2 've iPhone but I dun care abt chg unless it is of gr8 benefit. upgrade firmware, huh? neat. yet another restore.10:32 PM Mar 17th from mobile web
31. HaPpY St. PaTrIcK$ dAy 2 every110:54 PM Mar 16th from TwitterFon
32. @animedancer87 I agree Nao-san blog is the funniest n delicious10:44 PM Mar 16th from TwitterFon in reply to animedancer87
33. @wondercast I beg to differ on the voice similarity, but u nailed their style of pop songs are same.10:40 PM Mar 16th from TwitterFon in reply to wondercast
34. wiki make it such a pain to embed word doco. why is that? what profit can you get?10:34 PM Mar 16th from TwitterFon
35. oh online dictionary are all easy to use. bang in words and press enter. ta da.10:31 PM Mar 16th from TwitterFon
36. @sngo1982 Japanese dictionary online http://jisho.org/5:13 AM Mar 16th from web
37. @vezzah is it me or has this GEC made ppl more demanding about paid services. overloading incoming copy requests. ugh. tiring work.4:52 AM Mar 16th from web
38. @maxcelcat does it have a cute animation while ur doing that long file transport? eg.fishes.4:44 AM Mar 16th from web
39. bro is sick of nandos plus anything that is take away which he does the drive-by-buy bit too. :( agro10:50 PM Mar 15th from mobile web
40. mom gave me a buzz, it seems she is tired from washing衣服吧. That's why she wants pizza. 1st day of the wk n she's tired. no way.10:48 PM Mar 15th from mobile web
41. and who is buying the pizza? i doubt bro likes oily food.10:15 PM Mar 15th from web
42. Making comparing of Zoho vs WetPaint wiki(s) ability 2 display SlideShows wif restricted access. Zero winners.10:06 PM Mar 15th from web

February 2009

Ah, back to basics and routine. A very HOT summer. Between JAN - FEB we had 40-ish degrees days. It is unfair the weather only dumps water over Queensland, what about us?

We had a deadly heat wave through out the whole of February. Even at 1am it was 28 degrees. Gosh. This heat caused more than sleep deprivation, train cancellations, power black outs, and the most worst was bush fires (caused by arsonists). The wind ushered the lit fires to destroy many, many, many things and killed people as they tried to escape the blazing fire.T_TTo make matters worse is more fires were deliberate lit while the bush fire appeal was going on, and that angers the hell out of me. Then to hear low life scums stealing charity tins is totally disgusting and devastating news.>.<

I did managed to watch a movie, "Yes man". It was wonderful and funny. A good mockery of those self help seminars but inspiring about taking chances and self improvement.

My take on the iPhone and fyi stuff for myself.

Main concern is SMS basic functions found in other mobiles cannot be found in iPhone quite tragic. I hope forwarding function at least be retified and not worry about writing style or my words and so on. I can see why there is NO 'copy and paste' function, to get the cursor where you want it and drag to highlight is pretty difficult without a stylus or joystick or physical keypad. lol.

The camera not having video recording function, well my knowledge of lens in still images versus picture in motion is feeble to explain why or how to tweak it. Though the iphone's camera is good at taking photos during daylight. Like most cameras with no flash attached you get noisy and dark resolution. Even night mode wouldn't hit the mark. Ha ha. Though all cameras should have auto focus face detection and auto balance for lazy shooters.

It would be cool if you could upload pdfs or text to iphone direct via iTunes. Then it would save people using apps that crash or has size limitations or privacy issues. Yes, cloud computing appeals to many but for some like some degree of control.

Battery is will deplete fast if have 3G or wifi or GPS ON. However, if you had all that turned off and remembering to put the iPhone on idle mode when not in use, the battery will last the whole day. Only when I hop online do I've 3G switched on, other times it is off. So if use 3G and wifi sparing can you get a whole lot more out iPhone's battery. Of course, it does need more improvement, solar power screen perhaps? lol.

Over joyous when I had my iphone unlocked from Optus. やった。I just hung out at home studying Japanese grammar using an application called Human Japanese on my iPhone. I'm upto chapter 20. わたしは HJを いちばん だいすき です。(^0^)

Energis2go $39.00 @JB-HiFi
DLO Jumpstart for iPod/iPhone $59 @OW.com.au

I did manage to go on a weekend food fest on 14 Feb we ate lunch at Nando and dinner @Cafe Sahara while on 15th we ate late lunch at Richmond hill cafe & larder and dinner at Toff at town. We were bloated with glee. /-_-/

VF $69 internet cap 250MB (excess 12 cents per MB)

[VF changed all std caps eg. 49,79,150 on plan & prepay mobile internet use $4 per MB] ouch!