January 2010

The Archives

• Of Ice Water & US news

  01.28.10 | Permalink |News| 1 Comment

  I am in US and it is freezing here, for me, that is. It is 9°C and every eating place I go, they served me ice water. Like I need to warm myself up with ice water. Ice water is not really good for health. I mean why do you want to freeze your digestive system? It probably will disturb it and it will not function as it is suppose to.

  Don’t drink ice water, drink warm tea. I had developed some sneezing and nose congestion when I was here, it may be due to allergy. After I drank some warm tea, my nose cleared. Feeling so much better. Please do not serve me anymore ice water.
  Anyway, what is happening in the States here? Lots!

  Coach outlets on Sale! Some bags were a good buy like tote bags, swingpack bags and wristlets. And I got my poppy!

  Apple is making an announcement today with a new launch of a new gadget. I wonder what it is. Some say it is a tablet PC.

  Toyota Big US Recall and halting sales until the root cause is found and solved. Looks like the car suddenly accelerate and accelerator jams. Only new models manufactured in North America. I am feeling a little nervous because I am driving a rented Toyota Corolla.

  Ok I am practically broke from shopping. I will be doing some window shopping only, that is very sad.

• Round & Round

  01.23.10 | Permalink |Driving| Comments Off on Round & Round

  Should have collected the car tomorrow! But I didn’t, so ended up a tour around the airport. How did it happen?

  You see I depend on the GPS when driving in US. I am not sure what happen, the GPS wasn’t cooperating. I just touched down after more than 15 hours flight. Fortunately I could sleep after asking for 2 blankets and a pillow, stacking it up and put my head on it. It was a full flight and not a pleasant one.

  Anyway, I decided to go collect the car after I land. The GPS given to me is a new unit or model and I thought I was not familiar with the new software. The GPS kept going off. Usually if I go the wrong way, it will say recalculating. It didn’t but kept going. It kept saying I was near the destination. The destination is 10 minutes drive away.

  Then I figured it out. I relocated the GPS from the left side to right site. It work perfectly and thank God I am safe in my hotel now.

• Fun Team Building

  01.14.10 | Permalink |Event| Comments Off on Fun Team Building

  I was invited to a trainer team building for 2 days at my workplace. The fun thing is I get paid to join this team building. Paid for fun and I am serious! Today was the first day and I had great fun. It is all physical challenge with management lessons behind it. At the end of the day, muscles were aching.

  The challenges I like was this, 3 members in a team, 2 members were blind folded and the other to guide using verbal communication. The objective is for the members to finish a series of obstacles.

  From the trainer observations, the funny ones that make me laugh.
  1. The guide started pointing the blind members to go to this and that direction. Hello… blind members cannot see.
  2. One obstacle where one of the blind members has to pick up 4 different colored chips. The guide kept telling the blind member that it is the wrong color and asked him to pick the correct color. Hello…blind member cannot see colors too.

  Last challenge was to keep a ball up in the air as long as possible. I like this because we came up with a near to the best strategy. We hit around 48 times before the ball fall to the ground. Good eh.

  Looking forward to the second day.

• Mini 110 Netbook

  01.07.10 | Permalink |Technology| 1 Comment

  
  
  

  I got my hands on the Mini 110 HP Netbook. It is small and very light. I am glad it came with XP rather than Vista/Windows 7. It is installed with HP Games too. It does everything I need in there. It is very good for those who just want to access Internet, FB and blog. It is definitely suitable for traveler.

  On the technical specs:
  Intel Atom N280 Processor 1.66GHz
  160 GB (5400 RPM) Hard Drive
  1024MB RAM
  Webcam
  10.1” diagonal WSVGA Anti-glare Widescreen Display
  Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with shared graphics memory
  802.11b/g WLAN & Bluetooth
  6 in 1 Digital Media Reader
  6 Cell Lithium-Ion batteries
  3 USB port

  On the not so good side, the screen is too small. I have to do a lot of scrolling too read a page of articles. The 6 cell Lithium batteries spoiled the design because it is bulging out, looking like a docking station. I also find it difficult to do pictures or photo editing with such a small screen.

  Well this unit got a 3 years warranty and I hope it lasts as longer than that. I heard that many notebooks bum out after 1 year.

  This cost RM1399.00

• Green Penang

  01.06.10 | Permalink |Environment| Comments Off on Green Penang

  Besides good food, Penang is going green. I like it. Now if you are coming to Penang and shop here, remember to bring your own recycle bags. If you haven’t heard, no plastic bags will not be provided from Mon-Wed in most supermarket and shopping malls. If you need one, you have to pay for it.

  I always keep a few bags in my car. Being a big prawn, I always forgot to take it out. Anyhow, I still can get it from the car if I need to.

  Now for garbage, I get the biodegradable plastic bags. It is slightly more expensive but it helps reduce garbage. I found it in GIANT and green in color.

  I know some supermarket use those plastic bags too. Once I store my stuff into those bags and it degraded into pieces. I had to clean up the mess.

  I like the Green Penang, let’s keep the garbage out for the next generation.

• Deceitful Cup of Tea

  01.01.10 | Permalink |Food| 5 Comments

  
  
  

  No pun intended. I have been deceived by Lipton and next time I will stick to Boh. I bought a packet of Black Kiss Milk Tea. It is something new in the market, I thought I give it a try.

  After I made my first cup, it smell and taste like coffee instead of milk tea! I looked at the ingredient, it has coffee powder….YEAKKKKKKKKKK!! I get sick when I drink coffee and they should put added coffee in the front of the label. If I have bad allergy towards coffee, I will sure sue them!