Finally received my new digital camera. It actually arrive yesterday but I wasn't in the office to receive the delivery. Anyway I am now charging the battery now so could not play with my toy yet.



Also I am taking this chance to test if I can blog directly using email from my phone.

Today I worked from home due to a on-off splitting headache.. it's sometime a sharp pain behind my left eyeball... I hope it's not serious.... really lazy to go see a doctor now as there is no more company-endorsed clinic near my workplace and the nearest endorsed clinic is always crowded...

Anyway, it's really warm today.. and I'm really tired now.. but can't sleep yet because I'm still listening to a conference call.... I think I'm ready to drop to bed once the call is finished..

I can't wait...

On a side note.. I'm thinking of splitting out this blog from the main site and start using wordpress again for my blog.. this current website is good but i think it's a bit of a overkill to use such a large enterprise application for 1 personal blog... I am not sure how big of a hit it does to run this on the server.. but I expect it should be quite high compared to wordpress.. Plus the big fact that Wordpress is more updated (ie less security holes).. I have not update this current application for 1 year already.. I'm sure it's full of vulnerabilities now...

Have been listening to a singer 林健辉 from Malaysia recently. He went to Taipei and I saw him promoting his new song on some variety shows on the cable. Went online to search for his songs, and found some on imeem. Not bad, although he's earlier attempts (1st album?) are quite JJ-ish. But his later compositions are better.. so far I can only find some on imeem. But I think there's a new one that he released only this month. Anyway, here's the link if you are interested to listen.. http://www.imeem.com/tag/?q=artist%3A%u6797%u5065%u8F89&f=music and this one which is one of my fav of his songs 

and this one 

From his newer compositions seems like he is always singing about broken love.. Anyway, the songs are quite nice (for now).. just hope it don't become a permanent theme, otherwise it'll be just too sad.

Suddenly have the urge to blog....... but I've nothing much to say publicly! Most of things in my head right now are quite personal and not really suitable for blogging.... But I really want to "download" these thoughts somewhere to take them off my mind, literally! 

Sux.

Anyway, been playing a lot with my "new" phone lately that I've been neglecting my life quite a bit.. NOT healthy.. I really need to put down my phone and start interacting meaningfully with people again...

I cannot become a slave to my phone. Maybe I should go techless again next weekend. To clear my head and get myself back on-track on what's really important to me in my life.

Feel like composing a song, or write a poem or something. But nothing is coming into my mind. Just have the urge but no fuel to feed the fire..

Sux!

五月天 just released a new single 開天窗 . The lyrics does not make sense, but it's still a really nice song. In fact I find it so nice that I spent about 1 hour figuring out how to make it into a ringtone on my HTC Touch Dual. And at the same time find two nice position in the song to cut, so that the song will loop nicely.

So after some "hard" work, here is my 50 seconds looping ringtone. Not bad I think.

My SingNet broadband 3.5mbps contract has ended on 1st July 2008.

I'm contemplating not renewing the contract. Firstly the recontract promotions is not attractive enough.

And secondly I have the SingTel Broadband on Mobile plan added to my Mobile plan which comes with 50GB of data usage. I've been using this so far for the past 6 months only on my mobile phone to retrieve my emails and surf the web on the tiny phone screen.

I am now using the Huaiwei USB dongle on my PC to surf the web to see if the speed is acceptable.

Well, the result is not too bad. I think I can live with it. 

I wonder how much it will cost to terminate the SingTel Broadband. I think I remember that terminating a ADSL line cost money... damn!

I wonder if I can share the internet connection from the USB dongle to my VPN phone via the PC internet sharing.. Hmm.. got to test this.

this is where she usually sleep at night.. fit her just nice.



- Taken at 11:45 PM on July 15, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu

Once my PocketPc establishes a 3G connection it will not terminate it automatically and will stay connected to 3G, which in turn drains the PPC battery rather quickly. I found out 3 ways to get the 3G connection terminated, 2 manual and 1 automatic ( 2 of these involves Registry Editing ).

Manual Disconnection

1> When you are done with the 3G connection , just keep the call Disconnect button ( the red phone button ) pressed for a few seconds and the connection is terminated.

2> Get a disconnect button & time of connection in bubble when you click on the connectivity icon ( usually the 3G/E/H icon on top)

For this hack you will need to edit the following Key in the Registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\Phone\Flags2

you can have 3 options

0 - No disconnect button & time of connection in bubble
8 - Show disconnect button in bubble
16 - Show disconnect button & time of connection in bubble

Automatic Disconnection

3> With this Hack we can set a predefined number of Seconds , and if the 3G connection is idle for this amount of time the connection gets disconnected.

For this hack you will need to edit the following 2 Key in the Registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ConnMgr\Planner\Settings\

the 1st key is DWORD CacheTime the number denotes the number of seconds to wait before the auto disconnect, I have mine @ 60 seconds

the 2nd key is Multiline value / String SuspendResume which can have 2 values

~GPRS! :- 3G always On
GPRS_bye_if_device_off :- timeout after CacheTime

and you will need to set it to GPRS_bye_if_device_off

The above text is a direct copy/paste from  http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2008/03/19/auto-disconnect-gprs-on-ppc.html

HDB void deck. Something abstract. As someone mentioned on the newspaper, most HDB void decks are very empty. Duh! That's why it is called a 'void' deck. Not really void since people walk in void decks all the time. Anyway, my void deck leads to a portal of light. Haha!



- Taken at 5:38 PM on July 04, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu

My office is so cold, compared to the sunny 32 degrees outside my window!



- Taken at 3:43 PM on June 30, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu