Started new job this Monday.

Gotta wake up @ 6AM every morning - cos taking train to work nowadays.

I'm surprised that the KTM has improved - yes, longer coach means better passenger load la..

So ya, many ideas stuck in my brain, unblogged.

Wait till a day I'll unblock to blog.

I've lost track of movies I had watched recently - to clear those off my head.. here they are:

So that's how the society is, nowadays.

Every year or every 6 months, you will get new (gadget) product release that sometimes confuses the consumers on what to buy (with introduction of Windows Phone 8 series, this statement will be even more valid)

With refreshing Facebook page as the hourly routine task, sometimes I wonder if that is necessary.

It's good to keep in touch with the people - knowing what they are up to, what's the new thing happening in town.

Also, an example of information overload, is that whenever a major event happens (be it disaster, civil war, president campaign, Euro crisis), you will see or hear many analysts giving their opinions non stop on CNN or other news channel.

They all look interesting at first, but after a several cycle, you will see that they are quite repetitive, and most importantly, their opinions won't really change the situation..

Come to think about it, I realized I had neglected self-improvement, that really matters.

All is not lost though - the FB+Gadget generation is the active user/participants of crowdsourcing. It's powerful & effective - recent example being PSY's Gangnam Style: FB & YouTube were the effective tool in crowdsourcing, the MV gained so much attention and generated many parodies, that even the singer PSY himself didn't expect all these for.

So,
(Information + Gadget) x (filtered for 'just enough' usage) = Powerful Knowledge
(Information + Gadget) x cool factor = Powerful Advertising

To be frank, leaving a team of great people doesn't make me feel good.

But as a friend told me, you do what you think, and you deserve it.

So yes, I'm responsible for my choice, and since I've decided, I should be act responsibly.

I talked to a friend earlier. My friend didn't believe that our votes can change the future of this country.

That's sad.

My friend added that either opposition or current regime would do the same.

However, my friend admitted that the story is different for Penang.

So I shared the story about Penang - I told the summary of my relatives' awe & shock in Penang, after the last election:

"They didn't like the previous state government (under Gerakan, a BN alliance), so they just vote for opposition - which they didn't plan out together, it was an individual's will. In the end, they were all surprised that they made the change, and Penang is a better state now"

It is the same for Selangor, which, along with Penang, are among the richest states in Malaysia, albeit lack of natural resources compared to poorest states such as Sabah & Sarawak.

So really, the reason we have election, is to vote for change - if you do not have confidence with the current government. It happens every 5 years, you get the chance to choose the better candidate to run the country, if the current screws up - examples shown in many countries around the world, 5 years can't be screwed that bad, if really screwed.

It's the same as you changing the phone - If one day iPhone has become sucks, you have other options such as Android or Windows Phone.

Phone nowadays has yearly (or shorter) update, though ;)

As a follow up to the first video I edited two months ago, here it is.

It was supposed to be completed as an anniversary gift to the couple, but thanks to Carrot Fantasy, this video is one week late.

So, congrats again.

So today there are two things I came across about space:

First was there's a planet, called PH1, 5000 light years away from Earth, is orbiting on a twin sun, which have a pair of sun revolving that twin suns.

Four freaking suns for that planet.

Now this video looks much more interesting than the ad itself.

The crash test and the keyboard (cum cover) are the biggest take away ;)

I have a feeling that Tim Cook is starting to feel the threat, really.

Looks like iPad has another serious contender, after Nexus 7.

There were naysayers about his jump, claiming that the money spent didn't produce breakthrough results such as fighting cancer or AIDS etc.

But those people forgot that - it is the spirit of trying the impossible that gave us aeroplane, car or even handphone - that none of us thought possible few hundred years ago.

For a man who had done more than 2500 jumps and this time:

Jumping off at 128,100 feet, 'flying' down at speed of 1,342.8 km/h or 834.4 mph(Mach 1.24) -- that is definitely not something those naysayers can do in just few years

While I am OK with how Microsoft trying to create the 'fun factor' with the Surface tablet ad,

I am more impressed with the VW Golf done by DDB 4 years ago

Similar idea, big difference :)

It's been a while since I last wrote something. Finally, I've finalised the lyrics, after 3 years.

Hoping to get the demo done soon, but just too many things to explore now!

Music: 2009-2012
Lyrics: 2009-2012

Lyrics:
I was on setting sun,
What had I done last night?

Another kind of crime,
My soul is purified.
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I opened a door inside,
I was locked from outside.

The sun will shine in blind,
That’s when the moon will rise.

I'm all alone,
I'm feeling high.

I'm all alone,
I'm feeling high.

 
The lyrics doesn't describe how I feel (AT ALL) but the melody is.

Random, unknown, unsure, unfamiliar but to be frank, reluctant.

You guys are great people.

To be frank I felt disappointed with Quantum of Solace, I just read again my review earlier, and my memory still feel the same as I wrote.

Now what attracted me on the next installment, was Adele's Bond theme song - emotional, grand and cool, reflected James Bond's state of mind in Casino Royale & Quantum of Solace - and the movie trailer.

Of course, this time I hope to see more destinations & gadgets - which is the very reason why I particularly love the James Bond series from 60's, which I saw innovative gadgets that I still feel awesome today.

So let the Skyfall. And it will fall before Mayan predicted it :P

Sometimes that's how electronic music works - transforming a song into something with totally different feel.

Below is the original track:

Lately I found a fake bear. I'll talk more in the next post.

Meanwhile, the photo = Colleen and I.

Finally completed all levels this morning 130am.

Life becomes normal, once again

Since he had apologized and suggested for alternative - OK, that's quite a brave move, it needs hell a lot of courage to admit a mistake for a big corporation.

But how to move forward? Just a quick background, Apple Maps uses GPS data from TomTom. Based on those data, it does its own mapping.

At the same time, TomTom sells GPS app too, on App Store. If you would like to purchase, it cost at least 60USD PER REGION.

Further research on Google, you will find that TomTom is a company that is on par with Garmin, which both make good GPS gadget.

The situation that most users wanted: Apple to put the Google Maps back on the iOS.

But by doing so, users will lose confidence on Apple Maps totally - even though it gets perfected next time.

Again, how Apple Maps will get perfected, is by users' input (crowd-sourcing).

Now Apple is stuck to get to that point, because users simply will try other alternatives.

One of the options, is to buy TomTom, the company.

Yes. To own TomTom.

Then, make those TomTom GPS apps -> Apple Maps.

They will instantly get the experts in making GPS + app.

If Apple wants to be kind to users who purchased TomTom GPS apps - well, Apple can refund by giving the iTunes/App Store credit, which users can spend again on other stuff.

Apple has more cash reserves than government of USA.

This shouldn't be hard to quickly gain the confidence, again.

Exactly why I'm still awake

Recently, BFM has been playing the original version - previously I thought it was a song by Counting Crows :-/

Joni's version is clearly better, and the lyrics, surprisingly, still applicable for the world now.

Save our earth, let's do it since this song has been wooing since 42 years ago?

Such a catchy and lucky tune of mine

Reminds me that rock music is not dead despite of David Guetta.

March 28, 1999 - I found a chemical reaction of 5 elements can make an object disappear and reappear in 2 weeks. Adjusting the order of the elements & using different voltages can control the time and size of object to be transported to (see the full theory & diagram in the notebook)

August 5, 2002 - I met Natalia on the way to the train station. She was talking on the phone when she dropped her wallet. I picked it up and returned to her. That's how we started to know each other.

December 25, 2012 - I completed 50 testing on the time machine - some example: I time transported a piece of bread with butter, to two weeks back - when the time transportation is completed: what I saw was the bread was at the same place, but full of fungus.

I then time transported a can of Coke to three weeks in a future - the object disappeared. But three weeks later, the Coke reappeared with the drink still fizzing.

January 13, 2013 - It is our 10 years anniversary. Natalia made a birthday wish to go back to 13 August 2001, to stop a car accident that caused a scar on her face.

Knowing that action might change the timeline, I time-traveled to:
October 12, 2000 - to sign up the safekeeping service that was valid for 1 year, with 1 month notice for collection before expiry. That was when I posted these letters & notebook to you both

After reading these chronologies, if my theories earlier were correct, that means you are already in different timeline now.

Just my thought, sometimes, when a history is done for, there is no point to reverse. Just live with it, and find ways to move forward.

It seems my only legacy is these letters.

For I exist in a timeline that no longer exists.

From this review - it seems to be good stuff, more like an Video FX-enhancement of ver. 11 My only hope is that it is much stabler than ver. 11, which really drove me nuts.

Some of the entries from the competition - by looking at these photos, human is really nothing in this universe. (you may right click -> open on those photos for higher resolution)

The second page of the letter reads

"In year 2013, Natalia and I have been together for 10 years.

On the anniversary, she wanted a gift, that is to use the time machine to time travel, to avoid a car accident that caused a scar on her face.

I predicted that will change the timeline from there onwards. In case you both only know each other by now, that means history for my timeline had changed.

Predicting that might happened, I wrote these two letters, signed up with a safekeeping services so that it will send the collection reminder to both of you, with two purposes:

1) to safeguard my invention: time machine
2) to inform you that Natalia is the greatest person to be with.

Apart from that, I can also get to confirm two theories (I guess you will be the one confirming that, if the timeline has changed):

1) Changing a past event can affect the timeline from that point of time onwards.

2) if that is the case, whoever makes the changes will disappear from the timeline, because that person is no longer relevant.

Sounds complicated? I'll write a chronology of the timeline that happened during my time, to let you understand better"

 Ok, I admit that this trailer gave me some eerie feeling in the cinema.

But well, I believe it can sort of re-create The Ring or Ju-On phenomena.

Let's hope the whole movie will be good (instead of the trailer summarized everything)

Don't watch alone at night if you are afraid of paranormal stuff - you've been warned.

13 Sep 2001

It's almost evening.

Natalia followed the address to the house. She arrived at a house that has a huge garage beside it.

She knocked the door for a while, having no one answering the door.

Instead, someone came out from the garage to answer the visitor.

As the person approached Natalia, she realized that he is the guy whom she saw in the shopping mall last month, and who has been appearing in her memory randomly.

She was shocked and starting running away.

The guy chased after her, while asking out loud "Are you Natalia? I am Timothy!"

"But I didn't write those letter!"

Natalia slowed down, she asked "What did you just say?"

Timothy replied "Well, I retrieved a letter from a safety box, sent by a guy named Timothy, he asked me to anticipate a girl named Natalia to visit you."

Taking out a letter from his jacket, he continued: "Listen, if you can just read the letter that I had received, I believe that we can solve the puzzle - in the past one month, I had a strange memory of a lady appearing  in my mind, and yes, that lady does look like you."

Natalia started reading the letter

"Dear Timothy,

What you are gonna read is something that will blow you mind.

Yes, it was me writing to you from the future.

In year 2013, I had successfully built a time machine. I was able to do time traveling and had fun!

Something happened in the future, just right after I built the time machine - which I will further explain in the next page.

Now, right after you retrieved this letter, expect a lady who's gonna visit you - her name is Natalia.

Show her this letter, and next, show her the time machine you were building - before she can really trust what you are saying"

"So, do you wanna see the beast that I'm building? I've started it like 3 years ago, but myself from future had sent the working blueprint that will really help me to complete this thing!" Timothy said.

"Wait! I'm still very confused - how did that Timothy send us all these letter, and what time machine are you talking about?"

"Perhaps you need to read the next page of the letter" Timothy said.

Details with piece-by-piece can be seen >>here<<

Even though with the crappiest Apple software on it (i.e. Apple Maps), it is still a good piece of hardware.

12 Sep 2001

Just a day after the shocking encounter at the mall, it was Natalia's birthday.

It was a usual day in the office, added with a bit of surprise by the colleagues, in conjunction to celebrate her full recovery from the accident last month.

When she arrived home, her sister was preparing dinner, while telling her "Hey you've got a mail"

Natalia picked up the mail from the coffee table, it was sent by a bank's safekeeping services, indicated that she has an item due for collection.

That made her feel strange, as she had never signed up any safekeeping services.

But out of curiosity, Natalia took a day off next day to collect the item.

13 Sep 2001

At the bank, she opened up the safety box, inside, it was another letter.

The letter read:

Dear Natalia,

First of all, Happy belated birthday.

I hope you have been well.

Anyway, if you see this letter, please proceed to take this letter to the home address written at the back of the letter.

A greater revelation lies ahead.

Regards,
Timothy

Despite feeling weird on those uncertainties, Natalia had decided to pay a visit to the address - since she had nothing to do for the rest of the day.

Yesterday went to visit my god-mother. She shared a story which helped me to come up a theory.

The story is about a dream that she had:

A relative from Singapore visited her in Kuala Selangor, in the dream. She cooked dishes for him.

He enjoyed eating the dishes, ate little rice.

He then brought her to see the place he stays in Kuala Selangor

They were chatting outside the door.

Reality: That relative could never have come back to Malaysia due to passport issue.

Most importantly, he passed away a day before she dreamed about him.

Next, My god mother had moved from Kuala Selangor more than 15 years ago.

Interestingly, during a visit to Kuala Selangor some time ago, she visited the "place" that the late relative stays.

What she saw, is a warehouse. The place where she chatted with him, has no door - it's just a wall.

My theory: Chinese believes that when a person passed away, that person would visit places that he/she would miss.

But from this dream, it also explains why abandoned houses, empty places with no people staying for a while, are famous for being haunted.

Simply, in this dream, her late relative would find a place with little presence of human, "created" a door to stay in.

September 11, 2001
Almost one month past, the car-hospital incident was left behind Natalia's head.

She was in the office when her colleague talked to her in shocked mode "There's something really horrible happened in the New York City. I heard it was terrorist attack"

Natalia replied without hesitation "Yes it was really bad - the terrorists hijacked the plane and collided onto World Trade Center"

Her colleague asked "How did you know?"

Natalia paused, she was unsure. Yes, how would she know as she has been working non stop since early morning? She was so busy that she didn't even have a chance to listen to radio, and of course, no time for web surfing.

The headache came back again - she took the day off and went to shopping mall to get something from the pharmacy.

While she was walking in the shopping mall, towards a junction, she was as if having a flashback - she had seen this before, it was as if she dreamed about this exactly same scenario, same atmosphere, and if she turns right at the junction, she would meet a guy in green shirt, whom she would start talking with.

Natalia slowed down her pace. She slowly walked towards the junction, had a peek at the right corner.

To her surprise, she saw a man in green shirt, who looked exactly the same in her flashback or dream.
The guy noticed that Natalia was staring at her, and he stared at Natalia with clueless face, too.

Out of shock, she ran away from the shopping mall, headed home.

At home, she was still very confused. The guy looked so familiar, but where else did she meet with him? Do they know each other? If they know each other, why would the guy gave her the clueless look?

She frantically took out her yearbook, flipped thru the pages. No, the guy was not in any of the classes.

She closed her eyes, trying to recall who the guy was.

In her fragmented memory, she 'saw' that the guy used to hold her hand, intimately.

Natalia opened her eyes, she was even confused and what's more, she is now scared of what she had just recalled.

Just exactly who is he? What was in her mind? Where did those dream or familiar feeling come from?

If you would like to know what is it about, you can read from wiki >>here<<

What made me write this post is based on the observations on people as well as discussion with my friends.

Well, I'm one of the post 80's generation, but I found that some of the people, who are just 3 years younger than me, showed another category of Generation, I would call it as FYG generation, i.e. Facebook+YouTube+Google generation.

What makes them think they can do better than the rest is, in my opinion, that they read it from Facebook on how easily a person can be successful, or they watched youtube on how that person can easily achieve something, and get famous because of that.

One last thing, the reason why these people, including me, can get the information more organised and faster than the previous generation, is because we could make use of the internet, especially Google.

That made the FYG generation thought things can be easily done.

More than often, they seek for instructions on 'what to do', instead of thinking 'why this has to be done' or even 'how can I do this better'

Similar to the gadget that they own - they will think of 'what to own' instead of 'why do I have to own it?"

You can't blame them, as company such as Apple or Samsung are pushing the phone generation cycle yearly, while creating the 'must-have' feeling among those people.

Back to how the FYG generation react at work - they often think they have done a very good job, if you don't like it, it's ok, there's always a way out and there's another company which will appreciate me. (especially applicable if there's slight increment in another company)

They seldom seek for more responsibilities as they think they should work 'just enough'.

But of course, there are some people who are of exceptions - so this is just one of my random thoughts of the moment :)

August 13, 2001
Natalia woke up in a hospital, she didn't know how what happened.

All she could remember, was that she was as if flying thru a starry night sky, and now, woke up with occasion headache.

A nurse approached her when she noticed that she had awaken.

"How did I end up in here?" asked Natalie
"You were about to cross the road while a fast approaching car almost hit you - but just before it happened, it seemed you were pulled back by a strong force, then you collapsed right after that" the nurse replied.

"The doctor said your situation is quite stable & without any big issue, you can be discharged by tomorrow" the nurse added.

So, Natalia tried to look at her body - true, there were no bruises all over her body.

She went to bathroom to wash her face. In the mirror, she somehow thought there was a scar on her face - but it is not there anymore.

Natalia tried to call her sister - her only contactable relative in this world - but another person picked up the phone.

She had headache again, while trying to recall the actual number, she succeeded with her sister came to accompany her till the night.

The next day, she left the hospital to have the rest of the day sleeping at home.

So I had an idea, combined from various idea, be it a story about dream that I heard from my friends, my own experience and some theory that I came up with, on a night before I fell asleep (whatever)

So while I don't know if my story telling is up to a standard, but I'll start writing it - as a training to my imagination :P

I only found out this trailer yesterday, LOL!

Looking forward to it.

Many people do not know what this day exactly meant for.

It was 49 years ago when Malaya, Singapore, Sabah (was called North Borneo back then) & Sarawak formed Malaysia.

Details? Read it from wikipedia.

I read from somewhere, which is very interesting: Terengganu, Kelantan, Sabah & Sarawak are oil producing states.

But, they are also the poorest states in Malaysia, with Sabah being the poorest state.

What went wrong in the past 49 years?

It's a food for thought, by the way.

But it doesn't stop me from loving this country, which will have a lot of greens compared to others.

I need to make a follow up on the iPhone 5 launch that I followed closely earlier this morning.

i) It is a good phone because it is based on an already exist & matured technology, better processor and better camera are something expected for a new phone, in fact it will be applicable to any new phone, be it Apple, Android of Windows Phone.

ii) I've had enough on their marketing phrase such as 'it's never been done before'
On App Store, Tim even claimed.

"90% of the apps in that 700k are downloaded every month. The average customer uses over 100 apps."

"It's a revolution. It's phenomenal."

Hello? How did they come up with the stats?

To my knowledge, none of my friends use over 100 apps.

His theory was indeed revolutionary.

iii) I'm unsure this will be Steve's second turn in his grave. His first turn has to be the naming of "The NEW iPad"

I laughed when Phil said "So a lot has changed, and it's time for the connector to evolve. Our new connector is called Lightning. So we have Thunderbolt and Lightning."

My instant thought was "Ya Phil, why don't you call yourself Thor"

Lastly, iPhone 5 doesn't really give a big 'wow' factor compared to previous releases, such as Retina Display or Siri.

Conclusion: Since iPhone 5 will arrive Malaysia no earlier than November (just my wild guess), you might as well wait for the wildcard in the making: Windows Phone 8, which will also arrive in November.

Samsung has clearly closed a lot of gap with their Galaxy series, and iPhone and Samsung's android seem to be pretty much on par (except on the battery performance & processor speed)

It remains unclear if Apple is able to come up with a revolutionary successor to iPhone 5, but if they can't, Apple's big expansion might become bubbles.

One observation that I found on Tim Cook, is that he is a figure based person (in all his previous presentation, he kept focusing the sales figure and market share)

I've no doubt that he is very good in running operations, but running operations and coming up with revolutionary ideas are two different things.


Nevertheless, iPhone 5 is definitely a solid good replacement on existing smartphone, at least it will work for the next 2 years.

LTE may not be applicable to Malaysia so soon, but it is a big thing for other countries

- A6 Chips (claimed to be 2x faster)
- (Slightly) Better battery life
- Slightly better camera
- 4" 16:9 screen
- Screen is sharper (a layer has been reduced, that touch sensors are integrated right into the display itself)
- 30pin connector is replaced by "Lightning connector" (er, sounds a bit lame)
- iOS 6 (comes with cool looking Maps - replacement of Google Map as the default map)
- 20% lighter & 18% slimmer than iPhone 4S.

I think few years ago, an ex-blogger mentioned that Marrybrown is nicer than KFC.

After reading that post, I only tried once when I was rushing - so I didn't manage to get the real taste.

In the past 2 months, I tried twice, I can confidently say, it tastes fresher and crispier than KFC Original.

Trying it is also in support of Malaysia's brand as it is really Made in Malaysia.

Every story has a beginning, now, we have a prequel for The Avengers' Hawkeye. Enjoy.

After all, the video is actually a fake

Cos in some part of the video, it made us thought it was a Lumia phone.


In this video, however, you can see PureView comes with "a camara man in a van, with some high-tech camera."

Not a good way to promote its technology, even though Nokia clarified later on that it is only a simulation.