Renew Identity Card

Just back from National Department of Registration of Malaysia, Kinta branch which is situated at the sub-urban area. So far from city and I'm not going to comment on it because it will be a long grandmother story.

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Current Status?

"Busy"

Do you know how many things in my job list? Let me list them all...

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Happy Chinese New Year

农历新年

Fuh! It's been quite a dashing moment through the Year of 2009. So, say bye bye to Ox year and let us welcome the roaring, mighty Tiger this year...
I hope this new year can bring more peace, happiness and not forgetting lots of luck! I wish all my Chinese friends Happy Chinese New Year and wish that the door of prosperity will come for us to knock and open!

For non-Chinese friends, enjoy your holidays and pay visits to your Chinese friends as you can get ang pows...

So, aunty, uncle, and newly wed couples, prepare your ang pows for us to grab. Shall we say "Gong Xi Fa Cai" (农历新年)?

A bientot!

5 Reasons

It seems that lots of people are looking forward to this contest and it's no exceptional for me! Actually, I was my first time to post a blog for contest after Nuffnang have given so many contests. So, I bet my luck on it...

So, what are the 5 reasons to have a BlackBerry Storm 9520?

(1) I'm using a old phone.

... and it seems to start have problems! Comparing other opponents in this contest, no one can beat mine. Many of them are having nice, colour displayed, multimedia and GPRS function but not like mine. Same case when my friends look on my phone... :(

Here's my Nokia 2300.

Hopefully I will find other contestants to have much older phone than me such as Nokia 3310 and so on... :P

I've been using this phone since 2006 and it has been four years with me. It's also my first phone that I bought with my own money.

"RM 450"

I still remember the price!

So, what the basic functions of this phone? Making phone calls and SMSes are definitely on it. A bit funky polyphonic ringtones (only 5 of them and they are the default ones!) and the best feature is it has a built-in radio.

Still working but start to have problems. I've expected the maximum lifetime of my phone is about 5 years. So, now what? Four years? Emm, I'm prepared...

I can't totally protect my phone with bumps and drops. Sure it will leave some scratches...

Dust inside the phone is another problem. So, I can say is Nokia Xpress-on shell sucks!

So, what's gonna be?

Answer: Get a new phone.

(2) I prefer BlackBerry than iPhone.

When I first hear about BlackBerry, all I can see is most of the phones have the tiny little QWERTY keypads. When iPhone arrives, all the mobile phone manufacturers starts to implement the concept of touch screen phone.
Actually, I adore iPhones. I like their apps; their multi-touch with flick, zoom and taps; its embedded iPod and so and so... :)

When the Apple iPhones arrives to Malaysia under Maxis, I changed my mind. The price was too expensive and it's not reasonable at all.

So, I'm focusing on phones such as Nokia E71,72,73 and BlackBerry. As a result, BlackBerry is not a bad idea! Price + performance = Reasonable

In this case, Celcom is currently promoting BlackBerry Storm 9250. Nice and beautiful just like iPhone.

Yeah! I like its boldness and not forgetting it's stormy looks! :D

I think it can works like iPhone but I would like to use it as a productivity. So, iPhone has been crossed out in my wishlist!

(3) I want to become a real-time and full-time blogger.

Since I was in my university life, I started to blog about my things such as experiences in the process to become an Chemistry undergraduate. I shared a lot and meet a lots of friends. Plus, I enjoy reading famous bloggers such as Nicolekiss, my first fav blogger with her traveling stories, Fourfeetnine with her 'WTFs' and recently, Xiaxue.

Hardly you can find me reading a male blogger because I kinda like gals to do the blogging job. They have more passion to write their stories comparing to guys. So, no hard feelings to male bloggers. :)

I need a phone which can enable me to write blog in real-time without waiting by typing my post in notebook. I might miss something to write and it requires me to recall them... For example, now I'm taking the job where I need to update my course blogs for announcements and files distribution.

UTAR WBLE is terrible. Ask UTAR students and they will tell you the 'experience'.

Enough said. Period.

(4) Love at the first sight

Cameraphone

Being a blogger, I believe that photos can speak more than the text. Plus, I'm an avid photographer and I carry my camera, Kodak along whenever I go. Shopping, lecture classes, loitering and even in restaurants.

So, instead of carrying a bulky camera in your pocket, why don't we use a camera phone.

You might not going to capture super nice picture but it can be an emergency when you see a moment that you want to capture. Moments don't wait for people as they go along with time.

So, this BB (instead of calling BlackBerry) has 3.2 megapixel with the flash. I saw photos taken by BB phones before and they are okay. Not-to-perfect-and-yet-not-so-terrible rating from me.

Entertainment on my hand.

Believe it or not, I don't have a MP3 and MP4 player. I prefer to have such feature in my phone instead. Plus, I won't hurt my wallet by spending extra thing for another separate devices except for camera.

When I look at it, it was gorgeous.

It's cool as if I'm having an iPhone!

Paper-less organizer.

I've the principle of saving the environment. Minus plastics and more on biodegradable materials. I think that by using a PDA instead of an organizer book can reduce the usage of paper. Plus, I can save my energy without jotting down words and sentences...

GPS & BlackBerry Maps

I remember the last time I was driving to KL and tried to reach my uncle's house with my written instructions. Well, I almost going to Putrajaya instead of Sri Petaling. That time, I sweared that I won't stay and work in big cities like KL.

Since I didn't travel much, I think it's an essential to have a GPS system either in a standalone GPS device, GPS software in phone or GPS in your car console. So, this BB has it!

and last but not least, the fifth reason!

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(5) I want to win this phone!

Hopefully Nuffnang or Celcom would let me win this phone...

...then my life will be much easier.

*praying*

So, you can win this BB from Celcom by making a post on your blog about BlackBerry® Storm™ 9520 by Celcom. The contest starts from 5-25 February which means you still have less that two weeks to do that. Send your permalink and your full name to celcombbstorm2@nuffnang.com once you have your post done!

Why wait? Be a part of the storm! Roar~

A bientot!

Lunar Eclipse

Sorry guys that I'm not filling up my blog since the new year of 2010. First, I was busy preparing my Year 2 Semester 2. Then, when I'm back here, tonnes of workloads were pouring like water. Lab reports, assignments and plus, I've just hired as a committee member of the brand new Chemistry Society in UTAR Kampar. Gonna be a tough work here but I must persist.

So, when thinking about my starter to blog, I will see my Flickr whether I've upload any edited pictures for blogging. I have these...

You see nothing but just a moon. But it's the new year moon of 2010. So, what's so special about it?

It's lunar esclipse. Not the full one but the partial lunar eclipse. I'm not sure where I've got the news to see the eclipse but thanks to the person who notify me somewhere.Then, I wikify the information to see whether I can see it or not in Asia region.

Yeah, it will! The eclipse will start from 17:17, reaching eclipse at 19:22 and last till 21:28 in UTC. So, around 2.00 am to 4.00am in Malaysia Time (UTC+8), I was like a dummy siting under a eerie silent midnight myself.

I know you will call me crazy but it's my first time observing lunar eclipse. Solar eclipse is rather boring because you need to scorch yourself under hot sun and the observation requires eye protection. 

 

It's known as the blue moon, a second full moon in December. You can said it as 'once in a blue moon'.

Indeed it was 'once in a blue moon' since my camera captured its blue glowing around the moon.That night on 31 December 2009, there was a heavy down pour and I afraid that I'm gonna miss it since there are a lot of super thick clouds covering the sky...

See that? The disturbance is approaching!  ><

Be gone you stupid clouds! :P

So, what do you mean by partial lunar eclipse? 

It is the event where the moon is partially block by the earth from the total sun rays.

Something like this...
(The larger, darker circle is Earth and the smaller one is Moon. The view is based on the perspective of Sun)

So, I wait...

...wait...

and wait. Suddenly, I saw something moving in front of me and stop! Was it...
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Since, I have trouble to look during night time, I turned my camera flash on.
Ka chak!
It was a white cat...
Scared me of bumping something else! XD
The red thingy is the reflection of my neighbor's tailight car. So, no ghosts captured that night... :P

The eclipse was started on 3.15 am (UTC+8) and I thought the cloud was covering the moon...

Neh. It wasn't! It is the lunar eclipse...

The moon was so bright but it still okay...

Then, I adjust my camera settings on exposure meter, ISO and the focus zone.

Focus zone change. The picture become blurred...

Adding the landscape mode instead of macro or auto mode... Getting nicer...

I try to zoom in until it reached digital zooming. Bad idea as well!
That's why I don't trust digital zoom. Optical zoom is still the best!

Damn!
The digital zoom ruined my focus zone! Reset my setting and back to the drawing board. :(

Checking on the exposure meter...

Erm, the light is too bright but I'm expecting the focus and exposure will be perfect.

Yay! I got the lunar surface picture! By what? Adjusting my ISO down to the lowest, ISO 100!

Better without my hand shaking!

Take two!

Whoops!

*shaky hands*

Argh! The clouds!!!
They ruined the moment!
Shhss!!!

Move along...
Move it move it~

Sigh... I hate my automatic settings in my camera. Auto focus, auto ISO and auto exposure meter. But it still delivers a nice job. Love it!

So that's all folks about my coverage of the lunar eclipse on 31 December 2009 or should I say 1 January 2010... Don't care about it. Hopefully I will to see the next lunar eclipse on...

Let me check...

26 June 2010 (Partial eclipse)

21 December 2010 (Total eclipse)

15 June 2011 (Total eclipse)

10 Dec 2011 (Total eclipse)

4 June 2012 (Partial eclipse)

I think most probably is on 11 December 2011 where the eclipse is visible from all of Asian and Australia. I will get to see the full eclipse instead of partial! Emm, I might want to get better camera on that day? Anyone want to borrow me your DSLR or other high ends camera or equipments?

Or if you are kind-hearted enough, can you sponsor me? :P

A bientot!