I'm welling up with pride

Kakiseni.com's review of Broken Bridges, co written by Ky-Gan. They seem to like it. I bet he dreamt of this when he was sleeping during Math's tuition.

Nice work! I can't wait to see it.

I love my Treo

My new Treo 650 arrived on Friday night. I was playing with it all weekend when I was supposed to be working. So far, so good. I had to hard reset it last night after installing some dodgy third party software, but all my data was safe (thank God for frequent hotsyncing). I quite like the OEM software and interface too. I've used my dad's Windows Moblie HP iPAQ before and gave up after a few months. It's now with my sister.

Why Palm OS is better than Windows Mobile: (keep in mind the Treo 650 was released in 2004 and I haven't been able to patch the software to the latest version yet)

#1. It's fast. Although it doesn't multitask this is a blessing in disguise: Since every program you use closes after you open a new one, you don't have to go to the memory page and shut down each application one by one, like you do periodically in Windows Mobile whenever you're low on memory.

#2. The QWERTY keyboard. I've hardly used the stylus over the past few days. I hate styli in general because they are skinny fiddly little things. Also I don't fancy myself as a screen tapping maniac.

#3. The interface. This is pretty much an extension of reason #3. 90% of what you would do can be accomplished within 3 keystrokes. With Windows OS, where you have to tap the screen frantically with the stylus. With the Palm, everything is faster and more effecient.

#4. It's a phone FIRST, and then it's an above-average PDA. Ok it had lag issues when I tried to play a simple 640x480 MPEG-1 file that was 20 seconds long. I don't need a mobile media player in my pocket. It's not that practical and I'm not going to watch episodes of Lost on the bus at 10pm at night with kids in hooded tops and Burberry caps looking over my shoulder.

I also like my new SD card/USB pendrive. Did I mention I got my first paycheck on Friday?

Bored? Malaysian? Read this. It was shamelessly ripped from Moses' blog:
Ah Lek was asked to make a sentence using 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10..Not only did he do it 1 to 10, he did it again from 10 back to 1. This is what he came up with…..
1 day I go 2 climb a 3 outside a house to peep. But the couple saw me, so I panic and 4 down. The
man rushed out and wanted to 5 with me. I ran until I fell 6 and threw up. So I go into 7-eleven
and grabbed some 8 to throw at him. Then I took a 9 and try to stab at him. 10 goodness he run away. 10 I put the 9 back and pay for the 8 and left 7-eleven. Next day I called my boss and told him I was 6. He said 5, tomorrow also no need to come back 4 work. He also asked me to go climb a 3 and jump down. I don’t understand. I am so nice 2 him but I don’t know what he 1..

2.35 am: Oh sweet silence, thou art perfection.

I'm going to bed.

Someone hand me a sword

It's 2 am. I have to be up at church at 8.20 tomorrow. My neighbours have been keeping me up for the last few hours with loud music. I sleep pretty well with the music on, and I turn on my stereo to help me sleep. However, I simply cannot fall asleep when only a ceiling and a thick pillow separate my ears from two billion watts of cheesy hip hop and overplayed indie music. So. I rang the police.

They redirected me to Environmental Health, which only opens during office hours. Also, they advised me to keep a record of when those Neanderthals keep me up and to involve other neighbours. Right. A quick blast on OpenOffice later, I've printed out letters to drum up some support from my neighbours. I've also included a guarded warning/appeal just in case the offender reads my 1-page publication. Hopefully he/she (women know how to use stereos too) will read my letter and decide to shut the hell up. For good.

The pen is mightier than the sword, they say. What I need is a sword. I have the sudden urge to shove it up someone's nether regions.