The other day, my digital camera flashed red light telling me that the memory card is full. Wow 1G of pictures and video. Imagine if it were a traditional camera, it will cost me a lot of film. With advance technology, xd picture card come with 2G of memory space, that is twice as much memory. It is also affordable.

With 2G, you can take over thousands of pictures. You can capture the world in your digital camera. Isn’t that great?

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They don’t make notebook like they used too. I always thought the LCD screen is water proof. I was so dead wrong. The other day I was rushing for an offsite meeting. I packed a bottle drink into the notebook bag. I forgot to tighten the bottle cap. As I was walking to my car, I felt water spilling over my pants. Oh no. The bottom of the bag is wet.

Next surprise when I open my notebook, I saw water stain on the LCD display. I thought it will damage it. However the notebook did boot up without any problem. Now how do you fix a wet notebook LCD screen?

I was searching in Google to see whether I can fix the water stain in the LCD screen. Hey you can find lots of fixes in Google. I found this cool post showing step by step how to take the LCD screen apart.

No of coz I didn’t do that. I decided not to do anything because it is only water and water dry up. I will let it dry up by itself. If it doesn’t, I just send it into my company support team to repair it. It is still under warranty.

Today is the second day and it dried pretty well. Take note, if you have water stain on the LCD display, just let it dry up by itself. However if you spill water in between the keyboard, I would suggest you not to power on to prevent short circuit. Use a hair dryer to dry it up first.

The white area is the water stain.

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If you are called a banana, you are yellow on the outside which means a Chinese but white inside, which means westernize inside. An egg is a person who is white on the outside, a Westerner but yellow inside which means a westerner who stick to Chinese culture or ways. Sounds interesting isn’t it?

Sad to say I am often called a banana because I am a Chinese but I don’t know any mandarin or write/read any Chinese characters. I do speak Cantonese, one of the Chinese dialect and love watching Cantonese Hong Kong TVB series.

The other day a friend of mine gave me a Chinese website with lots of goodies about iPhone. I wanted to install some application but I have no clue what was on the website. It is Babelfish to the rescue. Now http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ allows me to enter the website URL and it will translate most of the Chinese characters in the website. It is just so cool.

Now I can understand Chinese sites using babelfish. Try it, it is fun.

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For men, buying gift for their love ones is a pain because men just have no clue. A tip, the safest thing you could ever give a lady and she will adore you for it, will be something she can wear like a necklace, bracelet, jewelry gold anklet or a ring. You can never go wrong with this gift.

There are so many beautiful jewelry out there. You can browse through JewelElegance.com for more pretty and elegant designs there. Surprise your love one today!

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The company is Nationwide Express. Last week I discover a yellow receipt in my post box. I am not sure what it was but looking at the company name, I soon discover it is a courier company. I assumed that there is a parcel for me but it wasn’t clearly stated. There is no contact number on the slip.

I decided to wait for them to call me. After a week, no news from them. I decided to search their website and left a feedback, also asking for a local contact number. They email me with a contact number. I called but no one picked up the phone. I tried after a few hours, the phone is engaged. I wrote back to customer service to request them to call me.

The officer called and first thing she asked me, when are you coming to the office to pick up the package? I was stunned by her question. The customers pay them the courier fees to have people collecting the parcel from them. It must be a good business for them

I told her to have the parcel delivered on Friday where I will be at home. She didn’t ask for any other information and I thought everything was settled.

Today, I still haven’t heard from them. I wrote to customer service asking when will my parcel arriving and provided my contact number again. The officer called me asking me when I will be home. I told her to deliver the package today as per instructed previously. She complained to me that she is short staff and that is not even my problem.

She also kept telling me that I wasn’t home when they delivered the parcel. First she could have contacted me before delivering it, my contacts are on her record. Secondly, I asked her when was the last time she delivered the parcel, she couldn’t answer me.

I am impressed with Pos Laju, DHL and ABX because they would call me first before delivering the package. DHL is the best because they route it to my company as there is a station there. It saves lot of petrol this way.

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When petrol price went up, I didn’t feel anything. When food price went up, I didn’t feel anything. When café food went up, I didn’t feel anything.

Today, I felt the pinch. This morning I didn’t have time to go for morning breakfast at my local kopitiam. I decided that I will go to office and get something to eat. First I went to the vending machine to get my usual cup of milo. I put in 60 sen and a cuppa of hot water came out. Darn vending machine was out of order. Never mind, I scroll down to my office convenient store to buy a small pack of 3-in-1 milo powder. It cost RM1.00 (40% marked up). I also went to the café to get a piece of marble cake, it costs another RM1.00. Total spend: Rm2.60 and my tummy still growling.

I should have gone for the local mamak store, eat 1 piece of roti canai and a glass of teh tarik ice. Total cost: RM1.80 with a happy tummy. Sigh!

People are suffering and what does our gomen doing? They are more concern with the darn politics and internal affairs. No one taking care of the haze (people’s health), no one taking care of the poor people, no one taking care of upgrading kebangsaan schools and the children education system. I feel more than a pinch!

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A memo was sent out that there will be a hike in café food prices. I have no complains over the price hike but the way they do it. It is so similar to our gomen’s method. First similarity, they claim that the café food price is still the lowest compare to other cafés. Second similarity is that they send the memo out the day before the price hike. Third similarity, the day before the hike, everyone was eating in the café making it a little congested.

I wonder will they put a cap on the price hike too. By the way, we do have subsidy for eating in the café. It has been a long time since they revised the subsidy amount. I will called this The Ripple Effect, lets hope it doesn’t bring any Tsunami, if you know what I mean.

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Everyone wants a smooth and spotless face. However not everyone is born with good complexion. If you are not so fortunate type and someone who gets acne, there is help for you. There are many acne product in the market which can help improve your skin completion.

Read the review and testimonies of people who has tried those products. Drink lots of water and get rid of those dead skin cells. Remember to hydrate your skin with hydration products. It helps!

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Today Phishing comes in many forms. Be aware of it and never fall into the trap. When I first discovered phishing, it was in the form of email. The email will ask you to go to certain site which the sender will make you think that it is legitimate.

An example would be an email from your personal bank asking you to update your personal information in the bank site. The site will have the bank logo, the same look and exactly the same functions. But the URL is different from the usual. If you update any personal information like login and password, you will fall in the trap and may lose money over it. To avoid, do check the URL and make sure it is really legitimate.

Second type of phishing is through SMS where they send you a SMS saying you won a million dollars. In order to get 1 million prize money, you need to deposit a few thousand to their bank account. Don’t be greedy even if they claim that they are from reputable company. Do check with the stated company by calling their company hotlines and not the contact in the SMS.

Third type of phishing is through phone where someone called you up, saying that they are your bank officer. They want to do bank maintenance and they will fish for confidential information. Do not give them any login or password! Better still, do not give them any information but take his/her name and contact. Call back the bank and check the references.

Beware of Phishing, they are out there to get U!

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A package arrived for me. I love receiving packages. Have a guess what it is before scrolling down.

I received my very first free pinhole glasses. I am so excited! I have signed up to test and review this product. I have actually seen one of these pinhole eyeglasses in my local pharmacy. I was wondering what it was. I did a little online research to investigate how it works.

Pinhole Glasses consist of a series of pin size holes about 1 mm on the lens. Light enters our eyes through these pinholes, reduces the size of the circle of confusion as the restricted rays are coming straight from the viewed object. These rays do not need focusing which makes the image clearer in our eyes.

I was surprised when I tried it on without my prescription glasses, everything is so clear. By the way I am short sighted. It is kind of cool. However I still have trouble reading words far or near. I guess it takes longer for my eyes to adjust to it. Some folks claim that these pinhole glasses will improve vision, help myopia or cataracts. However some experts say that there is no scientific proof. One important benefit is that it is 100% harmless. It will not make your eyesight worst.

I will definitely put it to the test. It will be effective if I wear it frequently for at least 6 months. I probably will wear it at home else people will stare at me if I take it out.

I must say that wearing pinhole glasses help my eyes to relax. Prescription glasses can strain my eyes some times. If I read too long or work on my computer too long, my eyes will get tired easily.

It is not very effective when it is use on a dim lighting. It blocks out a substantial amount of light which lowers the quality of the images. Not encourage to use pinhole glasses at poor lighting area. It is also illegal to drive with pinhole glasses.

You have a try, it may work on you. It is cheap too! By the way come back in 6 months and I will tell you whether it has improve my vision.

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