My Dilemma: Software vs. Hardware

Ok so this whole iPhone sim unlock thingy is really getting serious now that Apple is actively preventing people from unlocking their iPhones. The current iPhones ship with Firmware 1.1.2 and also come with a new bootloader which makes software unlocking almost impossible right now. The best solution so far is using hardware such as Stealth Sim but I would have to modify my sim card (as in cut out a portion of it). The downside is, that it is costly. Something like $100+ USD!! Ok, so the situation is like this...

Software Unlock

Pros:

• Free
  
• Relatively easy to do

Cons:

• Can't unlock FW1.1.2 Out of the box
• Not upgrade friendly (as in I have to wait for a new unlock everytime a new firmware is released)
• There are paid solutions which cost about the same as the hardware ones but you have to give your IMEI number to a third party

Hardware Unlock

Pros:

• Quite easy to do also
• Most of it is plug and play
• Upgrade friendly

Cons:

• Expensive!
• Have to modify sim which might get me in trouble with my telco

Anyway, to get an idea of how easy it is to actually use something like Stealth Sim here's a short clip on it...

My Post Christmas Depression

So yeah, Christmas is over. You might be wondering why I bothered to make two posts instead of just one but well see the previous one described my Christmas. While this one will describe another event.

So anyway, one day Lam had to go to register for his course at UCSI and pay his course fees and do his course registration and so on. So he asked me whether I would like to tag along. I said sure why not and this post is about the resulting things that happened. Oh by the way, I met a new friend this Christmas. Her name is Michelle and she's from America and she's currently volunteering to teach in the Philippines. She is one cool person.

Lets begin then shall we.

Uhm, I don't know about you but doesn't that mission statement look a bit like the uhm... "Evil muahahaha" type?

While driving to The Curve Michelle decided to tie Lam's hair

Then she decided to pose with her creation

This is Michelle. Hats off to you. You are one cool American chick!

Oh you better not mess with her. Coz she bites too. This is The Kash in "pain"

Oh and there was this band from the Philippines I think who was playing. A four piece band. And Prakash decided to dance (incidentally, he loves to dance)

This is part 2 of the "dance"

My 12 Days of Christmas

Well, I didn't really keep tabs on what was happening this Christmas season plus I'm lazy to blog about every single thing that happened so I'll just lump it into one post. Anyway, Christmas was good. I really had a lot of fun. Got to go to Malacca on an eating spree (honestly, we just ate and ate and ate and suffered the consequences the day after but that's another story) and then there was carolling which was really gruesomely tiring and then there was all the hanging out and the Christmas shopping and the preparations before Christmas (I know this is not exactly in chronological order but who cares, its MY blog so there!). Anyway, I'm still waiting on our two official paparazzi for the photos (meaning The Kash and The Chay) so till then I can't really post any pictures up for you, my dear readers, to see. But then again most of you were already on the trip so...

My Newest Crush

She has got a really nice voice and she looks really cute! Plus she's half Japanese so that is definitely a BIG plus. Who is she? Well, she is none other than Marie Digby (Pronounced Ma~Ri~Eh).

My [Insert Random Name] Post

Sometimes as a Mac user I miss having this... 

Just so I can put into perspective all the Mac "problems" that I'm having now.

LOL.

My Tech Support 2

To all you Mac lovers out there who hate Power Point and have sworn to stick to Keynote and are having problems trying to put video's into your presentation today's post is for you. Seems all you have to do is to go to keynote preferences under the "slideshow" tab and select "Allow expose, dashboard and others to use the screen" and voila your video will play.

My Reason For The Season

Well, of course Christmas time is a time filled with joy and laughter. Where we remember the birth of our dear saviour Jesus Christ. Where even the shopping malls are decked to the brim with Christmas deco, and are blaring Christmas carol's. Christmas is the one time where Christians can actually act all "Christian-y" and no one would care. Its the only time where even public places proclaim the Good News. But behind it all, I think the reason why people have become so deaf to it is because of all the commercialisation that's been going on. Seriously, the devil is one smart person. If you stop to think about it, Christmas is the one time where we can talk and sing openly about Jesus Christ and no one seems to mind. But what does "he" do? Well "he" just goes along and takes that from us. "He" says, I will commercialise and rob Christmas of its true meaning. I will put the focus on presents and gifts and the spirit of getting instead of the spirit of giving which is what God the Father did for us that fateful day. Now, I had not intended this post to be a rant about Christmas, but it ended up that way. Oh well, so now I ask you. What's your reason for the season?

[Not] My Addiction

Well, to all you Facebook addicts out there. He's a song for you : )

My Tech Support

Ok, for those of you who have updated to Leopard and have noticed that suddenly you are not able to send files to your Mac using bluetooth I may have a solution for you. 

Go to System Prefs -> Sharing and make sure you check "Bluetooth Sharing".

 

It should work then. Oh works for Mac-to-Mac bluetooth transfers also I think. Can't really try it out now because I recently upgraded my N73's firmware and Nokia broke something D:

Ps: Solution courtesy of Apple's Knowledge Base : )

My, My What Will Apple Think of Next

Seriously, leave it to Apple to come out with creative ads.

My Identity Crisis

I think the title of my blog is really misleading. I mean, for the past like year or so I haven't really touched a PC and this is supposed to be a blog of my "Frustration/Disgruntleness". When I started I had these like really grand idea's of doing epic posts with PC vs. Mac or something to that effect but now, I have become complacent because Mac's are really that stable. I have had no really big problems on my Mac thus far and computing for me has been smooth sailing. So I ask myself, can I really qualify my blog title or should I change it. What say you, my faithful(?) readers? :P

(More of...) My Goofy Neighbours

I. Really. Have. Nothing. To. Say. About. This. Video.

The "iCute" test?! Double-U Teee Afff man?! o_0

My Goofy Neighbours

(In a country-ish sort of way... I am of course talking about Singapore)

Now, before you see this just keep this thought in mind. You can find out all about this guy, Dick Lee, in the wiki entry here. Suffice to say, he is a very well-renowned musician and composer and has composed National songs for Singapore. So, he's like really up there you know. Anyway, enjoy the video : )

My My, What Will These People Pirate Next?

Seriously, this has got to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.

Sometimes I wish that Apple would just like sue the crap outta them. But I realise that there are gullible people out there who would actually buy crap like that. All in the name of being "spend thrift". But honestly I still think the age old Chinese saying is true "You get exactly what you pay for" or "One unit of money, one unit of goods"(direct translation... I think)

My Worst Dinner, EVER

Everyone, please AVOID at all cost a certain Pizza Hut joint in the vicinity of Kajang. Those lame people there actually LOST OUR FREAKING ORDER! I wonder how the heck that happened? We ended up waiting for more than an hour to get our dinner.

My Long Wait is Over

Yes ladies and gentlemen, I just spent the whole night formatting my computer and "Putting a new mac on my mac". The verdict? Well if you can wait please wait. The upgrade path was not that smooth for me. Maybe its the way I have my data setup or maybe its because I have tonnes of stuff to transfer back and forth or whatever but it wasn't all a bed of roses. So I say, wait at least until 10.5.1 comes out... If you can. Now that I have it, I wouldn't trade it for the world!

My Long Wait Is Almost Over

Apple just announced that Mac OSX 10.5 - Leopard- has gone Gold Master. What this means is that, its ready! It has been sent for mass production and will be in our hands by the 26th of October which is when it will be released. I am sooooo freeeeeaking excited! Only one week to go. I can hardly wait. 

On a side note, I finally found out how to turn ON Aero in Windows Vista. After almost 2 hours (I kid you not) of playing around and trying to find the option (Well actually Hong Liang was the one who found it). We found it finally. And its a place you wouldn't think it would actually be in. Thanks Microsoft for wasting my time >_>

My Brain Just Went... What The Affff?!!!

Seriously, are these people really THAT ignorant?

And this one was quite funny. Now I'm not trying to be discriminatory but hey, I don't know where all these stereotypes come from.

My Jedi Training

...Well not really... Its just that some of Leni's friends wanted to come see what FRIM was all about (...city folk =.="...) Anyway, The Kash, Hong Liang and Lam were there too so it was lots of fun. Plus, The Kash had his camera with him so we were able to do some crazy stuff ^_^

The Kash and Me trying to do "Jump Shots"

Hadouken training

I find your lack of faith disturbing...

Well anyways, we succumbed to the Dark Side and started kicking each other's ass LOL. It was a good outing for a change. At least I was outside my house for once.

PS: Please click on the final image to see the animated gif. For the life of me, I can't seem to make it move ~_~

My Friends Are Strong in The Force

I didn't know that my friends were all strong with the force.

Strong with the force I am, Hmmmm....

For the right to Prakash!!

Don't mess with me and my lightsaber!

I'm known as the gentle Jedi!

My, My, Good Things Are Happening Yet

I couldn't believe it myself buuuuut... Trillian is coming for Mac OSX. Why is it so big news you ask? Well considering that Trillian is currently windows only AND yet supports not only the basic IM features of Yahoo/MSN/AIM but also Video and Voice chat capabilities (the paid version of course) this is exciting news indeed. Now according to their official "blog", the current Alpha build has only some basic functionality but all the underlying code to support all the features are there. The only difference is coming up with a Cocoa UI (thats uhm the pretty interface you see and interact with for all you non-geeks out there ^^) and providing controls for those features. If this is true, this might be the only non-Apple app that I'm willing to pay for. If everything works as promised, of course.

My Patient Wait...

...to reformat my computer. *Gasp* Yes you've heard me right. Normally people dread to reformat their computer's because it means that there is a problem which can only be solved by reformatting. However, I use a mac. And there is nothing wrong with it. Then why am I so eager to reformat? Well its because of a cat. A big cat to be exact. Well ok... Its because of Leopard. The new Mac OSX 10.5 which is slated to be released on October the 26th. My buddies and I are planning to pool together resources to get the Family Pack. Oooh I can't wait!

My Time Wasters(Fillers)

Well since the series have resumed their seasons again these are some I'll be following:

TV Series:
House (Season 4)
Family Guy (Season 6)
Prison Break (Season 3)
Heroes (Season 2)

Ongoing Anime:
Bleach (Anime and Manga)
Naruto (Manga Only)
One Piece (Manga)
Addicted to Curry (Manga)
And a few other Anime's I got from my friend Goh : )

Dang, why must all this interesting stuff happen when my semester starts ~_~

My Wee Little Blog

Wow, I've finally reached and surpassed 1000 views. Though in reality its quite pitiful, according to Google Analytics. My readership has been going down steadily for the past month or so which is my fault I know. Well, can't really help it since a new semester has started and I've been extremely busy with my final year project. I'm so dead right now ahahaha... Anyway, here's to another 1000. *Goes and does a mini celebration whoopeee*

My Kooky UNiM Mates

This is what an atypical Engineering student does with his (library borrowed) books...

Quote: "This is what library books are for, Its so hot today"

My Personal View

...On life. Well, its really tough trying to come up with titles that begin with "My..." Scrubs style. But I like a challenge and this is as challenging as it gets. Anyway, these are just some of the really dumb things that I have witnessed or have observed as part of my day-to-day life. Some are like really long time ago, some recent but I think its good that I compiled them : ) So here goes...

Here's your average McD's Fillet O' Fish right

I think they must be affected too much by their CHO. I mean honestly... Double packaging ftw ^^

Some smart fella blocked both lanes while everyone else was waiting at a traffic light

This was awesome. Finally, someone got their just desserts

Tesco Ampang, I will be avoiding you from now on. I ain't going to a place which sells "Crap Meat" man

My Realisation

Ok, so looking back on my previous like 10 posts or so. Almost all of them have had something to do with Apple's iPhone, and if you my dear reader's are not sick of it, well I am starting to get sick of it too haha (Maybe its coz I finally got to play with one and be around one for extended periods of time muahahaha). Anyways, its just that looking forward to getting an iPhone is probably the only thing keeping me sane in this really really crappy period of my life. Won't list it out here, but lets just say sometimes I get emo too.

Anyways, been listening to Acoustic Alchemy recently thanks to a recommendation from The Lam (Dude, sorry la but you're name just doesn't sound as nice as say The Chay, The Kash, or The Thong LOL). Yeah, back to Acoustic Alchemy... Listening to the album "This Way" now. And I must say I like what I hear. Very down tempo, very easy listening. And seems they've been around for a very very long time. Since the early 80's in fact. I'm gonna try to get their earlier stuff. So far from what I can listen, their songs have like this really nice groove to it while the melodies are really smooth and the keyboard parts are excellent while still being simple.

My Brief Interaction with iPhone

I got to play with it. Nothing more to say. Too ecstatic right now.

My Taunted Self

I saw this video on YouTube just now. Its exactly how I feel right now >_<

My Longing For an iPhone

iPod touch vs iPhone Interface Comparison Video


iPod touch vs iPhone Music and Video Playback Comparison

On a side note, my classmate who's in the US now, just got his iPhone. So he'll be the only one on campus to have a bloody iPhone when he comes back to Malaysia. I'm so jealous right now!! Oh well, the iPod Touch looks just like the iPhone, but I still want the iPhone haha

[Oh] My Gawd!!!! [Update x2]

iPhone unlocked. Free! Go. Here. Now!

There has been a major breakthrough in this field. The main guys who were working on a free solution has done it! They have finally unlocked the iPhone.

The steps seem quite complicated but there is a tutorial on how to do it here and here's a MacRumors forum thread where someone compiled all the early tutorials that are floating around. You need certain files which I will download and host on my own file server just in case it disappears.

Anyways, this is great news for me. The one caveat is that when Apple updates the firmware, it could break it. But hey, just knowing it's there is enough motivation for me.

[Update]

I found another tutorial. This one with nice pictures and a step by step guide. Go here its called modmyiphone

[Update x2]

Wow, these guys are fast! Well modmyiphone has created another step by step tutorial. This time detailing the whole process from activation to unlocking. It's here.

My Friends

This post is dedicated to you guys! You know who you are, I don't have to name you one by one. But thanks guys for all the good times that we shared! All those memories, the crazy things we do. The crazy things you make me do. Haha.... Anyways, all I want to say is that its been great getting to know you all and growing with you guys in the faith. Having you guys around has really made my life more interesting.

My Disappointment

All is lost! Today, I received an email from my university saying that they will be changing their networking systems from Novell to Microsoft! When I read that email line by line, the more I read, the more disappointed/dismayed I became. We're going to be using Outlook Exchange instead of Novell Groupwise and from Novell Network to Microsoft Active Directory. Oh the humanity of it all. I used to be proud of my campus because we remained fairly neutral. Supporting OSS through the use of open and cross-platform technologies such as Java, mySQL, Apache, and Novell. Now, I see we very well could be on the pathway to a "Microsoft Exclusive Campus" or something like that. I totally hate Microsoft to the bone! If I could I would rid myself of using anything even remotely related to Microsoft. But alas, the world is as it is.

Here's the section that totally ruined my day ~_~

Why change to Exchange?

The decision to migrate to Exchange/Outlook was taken by the University Management Board following a review of GroupWise email services. This particular product was chosen based on proof-of-concept testing, wide consultation and the recommendations of a small strategy group of staff from IS, Schools and Central Services Departments.

The Exchange infrastructure will support the University's use of messaging and calendaring for the foreseeable future.

My Not So Innocent Young Adulthood

My Little Pony, Apocalypse Pony...

[Robot Chicken Season 2 Episode 7]

My Innocent Childhood

What started out as a lovely lunch get together for the Young Adults of Canaan Church soon turned ugly as names were hurled across the tables, which garnered lots and lots of responses from the people from the opposite sides of the tables with words and ideas being shot across as cannons being released from the broadside of a magnificent warship of old. (The author has gone a bit crazy here so excuse the language. -Ed)

So what was it about? Well, nothing much. It was just that we were reliving our childhood days. Remembering all the awesome and cool cartoons that used to fuel our imagination and our creativity. Not to mention our current state of almost-insanity. Seriously, I think all the people who were sitting around us were like wondering whether we were high on some drugs or something. We were THAT loud and obnoxious and noisy. It was THAT fun! Oh man some classics were brought back to life. Classics such as Cybercop, Ultraman, Power Rangers, Thundercats, Gummi Bears, Smurfs, Captain Planet and the list goes on. Each thought bringing a sense of nostalgia as we remembered the good times we used to have either watching the shows alone or together. Man those were good times. Simpler times. When all we worried about was how the villain would be defeated in the end. Reenacting our favourite scenes from the fresh episode, much to the chagrin of our elders as we proceeded to mess up the place. Pretending we were on distant worlds, or different and wonderful dimensions (There he goes again. -Ed)

Anyways, suddenly The Chay remembered one cartoon which we all used to enjoy. And as he was describing it, I instantly knew what he was talking about but even I could not remember the title of the show. Well Google is indeed man's best friend now. The only thing I could remember about the show is that whenever they transformed into their battle suit or whatever, they would always shout "Power Extreme~~~~" *(echoes) and that is the keyword I used.

Lo and behold, the name of the series is "The Centurions" and it was released in the year I was born, 1985. It ran on for 2 more years with about 65 episode's in total.

The Centurions with Crystal Kane.

Remember them now? That do anything to jog your memory? Well it is true as The Chay described them. They had an exoskeleton with holes in them for them to attach their weapon systems. And for old times sake, I'll list them out here.

Ace McCloud(Aerospace)

• Sky Knight - the basic air system; small, lightly armed jet pack like air assault system with arm missiles, a chest mounted bomb and lasers
• Orbital Interceptor - non-atmospheric craft and featured several missiles and gunsl usually used for space missions, but was used underwater on at least one episode
• Sky Bolt - a heavily armed fighter-jet, and carried missiles, bombs and guns.
• Strato Strike
• Air Assault

Max Ray (Sea)

• Cruiser - the basic sea system; a SCUBA system with a gun and missile.
• Tidal Blast - a larger undersea system with two large torpedoes and shoulder mounted grappling line
• Depth Charger - a self contained submersible with torpedoes, periscope and depth-charge/mine
• Sea Bat - a surface system with guns and missiles, similar to a manta ray in appearance.
• Aqua-Blazer
• Fathom Fan - Assault weapon system resembling an Air boat with missiles and a small laser in the chest 

Jake Rockwell (Land)

• Fireforce - the basic system; a gattling gun and shoulder-mounted bazooka
• Detonator - a larger walker, with freeze-rays and missiles
• Wild Weasel - a gun equipped human-mortocycle that could move in a prone or standing position
• Hornet - a helicopter with guns and missiles
• Swingshot - a tracked gun platform
• Awesome Auger - a rill like weapons system, rarely used.
• Land Laser

Rex Charger (Energy)

• ChargerPack - backpack system that can absorb energy from surveillance devices, has laser cannons and a missile that creates an electric vortex
• Gatling Guard - a very large weapon system that has the ability to nullify gravity and generate magnetic fields along with its own force field

John Thunder (Infiltration)

• Silent Arrow - Crossbow like weapon system that is worn on his back, has a large pursuit arrow with a net indies and a sonnic knife that can break through walls and doors.
• Thunder Knife - Tracked system that has wheels on his hands that fire lasers, a missile back pack, and the ability to turn into a spinning saw type weapon

[From the Wikipedia entry]

So there you have it. Man, makes me want to go find the DVD's or something or try finding torrents of it to watch again. Just for the fun of it. And to whet you appetite, I leave you with a treat. Enjoy. 

ZOMG lookie what I found. The opening credits!

My Goodness!

Do you know what is the fastest supercomputer on the Earth today according to many leading security(?) experts? Its something called the botnet. A collection of up to 50 million(!) computers infected with the Storm worm. So all you windows users, rejoice that your computers might be part of this super network of evil! Of course you can't really help yourselves now can you. It is reported that if you calculate just the theoretical thoughput of the confirmed infected computers, it has more computing power than IBM's Blue Gene.

My Interesting Discovery

Well for all those people who are a bit worried about adding ringtones to the iPhone (like Mr. Chay) worry no more. There is an easy way of adding your own ringtones. And it really couldn't be easier.

Step 1: Apple uses a different extension for ringtones. So renaming any .AAC file to .M4R makes it a ringtone

Step 2: Double-click on the file and it will load in iTunes and be registered as a ringtone

Step 3: Sync your iPhone and voila... There you go... Your own ringtone!

I found this on the macrumors forums posted by someone with the pseudonym Cleverboy. The post is here

My New iPod (Finally...)?

New iPods are out. Nuff said.

The new Nano...

The new Shuffle...

The (new?) Classic...

And the Piece de resistance... The iPod Touch

My Safari

OMG!!! To all my Safari using Mac brethren out there. Have you been constantly frustrated by seeing all those ads in websites? Well, I have good news for you. And it doesn't involve any complex steps or complicated install. And best of all, its free! It works well enough, I guess. I just got it so can't really comment on how effective it is. Though I must say, its working well so far. Go get it, its here. Oh, and by the way... It works for any Gecko based browser which means Firefox/Camino/Netscape. Awesome!

My Addiction

Currently addicted to WoW. No, I'm not playing on an official server because I'm too cheap xP Anyways, anyone who wants to join me can go get the client (for both PC and Mac) and start on the server I'm on. Wowscape... Come to the Alliance, and lets crush the horde! For the Alliance!!

To All You Korean Lover's Out There

This ladies and gentlemen is the evolution of man according to country. I wonder what Malaysians will evolve to be.... Hmmm....

Sunday Evening [Updated]

In a flurry of activity, I better get some serious blogging done before I hit the books and study again. This post is in response to The Chay's call for caption suggestions for one of the pictures in his Fogal Meat Market, Plaza Damaz post. I submit to you my captions...

Image stolen from Joshua's blog. Ps: Dude if you could provide me with the high quality one I'd do it over again and repost haha

Update: Thanks Josh for sending me the original, full quality picture but I realise Comic Life cuts it into 595 x 842 irregardless haha. Oh well... You live and learn

Update x2: Oh yeah while trying to upload to picasa yesterday, this happened. It made me smile. I'm glad to see that Google developers have a sense of humour. At least it doesn't only give you cryptic messages like "Error: 500" ...LOL 

Sunday Afternoon

Since I have been spending my time buried in books and it is the weekend after all, I decided to take up Hong Liang's offer to go visit our dear friend Leni "Piggy" Tek and bring her out for a drink or something. And something is the more appropriate word for her I'm afraid. It started out normally enough, we went to her house. Waited awhile as she got prepared (Whats up with girls and their preparation times anyway. And we even phoned her like 1 hour in advance and told her we're on our way... Sheesh) and made our way to this new Jusco place over at Cheras. They call it the "Cheras Selatan Shopping Centre"... LOL

Moving along, we reach there right and find out Leni hasn't taken her lunch yet. So we go to one of the makan places there (those typical Hong Kong style coffee houses which seems to be really popular these days). Oh and she brought along a photo album (as in the real physical one) to show us pictures she took while she was in Taiwan.

Moving along, so we placed our order and start waiting patiently for the food. Now I almost always carry my "Baby" where ever I go so HL asked whether there was internet available in the establishment. And so I checked and found out there was none. Just as I was about to put my "Baby" back into my bag HL suggested I show Leni PhotoBooth which is an app which comes with all new Macs which allows you to take snapshots of yourself with some really cool and funky effects. That was a big big mistake. She ended up taking almost 30 pictures of herself, digitally distorted/discolored/disfigured. For the benefit of you guys here I won't post them all, but I will post some of the highlights...

Add your own captions, I'm lazy to : )

Anyways, here are some other pictures which may or may not be a representation of what happened this afternoon.

Photo Op for Leni and Hong Liang

As Leni continued to molest my baby with her funny faces, HL and I had to find other ways of amusing ourselves

Damn, at least HL had a PSP with him...

Just a little while more Baby

Leni trying out some antler hairbands

Ps: Forgive the overly warm tones of most of my pictures as my crappy N73 invariably only does that. Sigh.

Sunday Morning

This picture was taken while I was driving on my way to church service. What a great name for a pest control service huh. Hey I'm just presenting it here, make your own jugdements

The One Where I got Domesticated

Ok, so for this academic year my roommate and I have decided that we'll cook more instead of going out to eat. There are two reasons for this. 1. Its definitely healthier since we're not going to mamak's so often and we get to choose what we put into our meals and 2. It saves petrol since we don't have to drive around finding for places to eat. In that light, I can say we have successfully cooked about 5 meals so far in the past week or so. 4 dinner's and 1 lunch. Granted we didn't exactly cook from scratch and we've so far been cooking easy stuff, like fried rice, omelettes and spaghetti but still for noobs we haven't done so badly I guess haha. Hey, I'm still alive aren't I : ) Anyways its been quite tough, learning how to chop vegetables, marinade meat, and cry through onions >_< But I think its well worth the effort. I'm now one step closer to total independence nyahahaha

Ps: I'll post pictures next time of the meals we cooked. Sorry but most of the time we were so hungry after cooking it we just wolfed it down.

Manga Online

Well for those Anime freaks out there, I have found a very nice online manga site. It has like a freaking lot of manga's for you to read online. Not bad, go check them out at www.mangavolume.com It might not be as updated as some of the other "dedicated" site that cater to only one series but its a definite check-out-worthy site. Did I mention it has a WIDE selection? Enjoy.

Things That Amused Me...

...These past two weeks. First last Thursday as I was having lunch with my housemate, Goh, I saw this really funny insert in the tray that they give you to take your food in. Ever heard of the title "Chief Happiness Officer"? Well, McDonalds has one. And he is none other than Ronald McDonald himself! Don't believe me? Check this out.

See the first item? He is CHO ;p

The other thing that amuses me constantly, or rather reminds me why I chose to go with a Mac is this.

And it happens all the time too. Now to be fair, these are public computers and are used by many people everyday but honestly, this constant reminder is what makes me proud to be a Mac owner. One thing I have to say though, using a Mac has kind of spoiled me. In the sense that I am so comfortable using my Mac, not having to deal with any major problems that might creep up with Windows that I think I'm beginning to lose my troubleshooting skills ~_~

Oh well. Back to studying for now. I hate exams!

From The Land Of The Rising Sun

Wow, looks like they not only have weird fruits and anime but they have crazy people who are on fire for Jesus too! Not bad, this really made me smile a big BIG smile.

Thanks to Lam who gave me this link.

A Month And A Bit More

If there's something that I'm anticipating greatly this year, its this. Mac OS X 10.5. Leopard. Scheduled to be released sometime in October. The successor to an already great Operating System, Tiger (10.4). This is the thing that will make Microsoft busy for the next 6 years! And here is a sneak preview of whats in store. It seems someone leaked the "Welcome Video" (The Video you see just after installing the OS) and I don't know whether this is the final version or not but hey, enjoy!

Blast From The Past!

Wow, I'm sure everyone knows this song. Its like freaking classic man. Tis a smidgen of gay but hey, that was the 80's man. Now I'm not really sure if this is the original music video or just one of them man. Its got everything man. Cheesy white men dancing, cheesy dance moves, with their cheesy fashion, cheesy camera work, fast zooms, but again... Its classic man. So anyways, enjoy : ) ...man.

One Step Closer

See the carrier in the top left hand corner?

To quote KennySia "Oh. My. Freaking. Gawd!" It is done ladies and gentlemen. The iPhone has been unlocked. If you can get it, you'll be able to use it. Now. I'm so ecstatic I'll just leave it at that first. Go check out the full gallery of an unlocked iPhone over at engadget and go see the people who unlocked it here (They're called, ironically enough, iphonesimfree). Its a software thing so thats good. But you gotta pay for it. Not sure about the pricing, stay tuned as we bring you more *hopefully*

Holy Mother of God!

Carrier Select Screen

The part where you can input your Digi/Maxis/Celcom APN info

All images are from Engadget. Go there if you wanna drool more! LOL