My So Called Life

This morning, the Radio 4 guys were driving for some money for the Malaysian Tsunami Victims to help them to get back to their daily lives. One of the caller that pledge RM200 made a good point when he talk about the upcoming new year celebration. Every year there are fireworks and huge events to welcome the new year. He was suggesting that the nation grief for our lost and the money to the fireworks are channeled to the victims. I thought that was a wonderful idea, then again, up to this stage, the fireworks would have already been purchased, and I am not sure if the local government who would have paid for the fireworks could do anything about it. In Penang, the new year is celebrated mainly in the esplanade and Gurney Drive. Since tsunami alert are given till end of the week, will the celebration this year still go on? By the way Siti Nurhaliza is to sing at Gurney Drive on new year eve... I wonder who could make the decision about the celebration?

Grill, the one word that cross every house owner's mind, a deterrent, a fashion and a device that makes our home, a prison. All the houses in my Taman already have Grills installed in them. Every window opportunity that a thief could squeeze thorough are implanted by steel bars. Personally, I despise steel bars, they make the home to look more like a prison. But it is something that everyone can go without. The bars are meant to be a deterrent, and could never stop a persistent robber. However, when a home does not have any bars, it automatically becomes an easy target compared to the neighbors. I was recommended a new window that has steel bars built into the frame and they look pretty stylish, however, these windows cost a bomb to install. I am still at a delima on weather to install or not... I guess it is better to be safe and be sorry.. or in this case.. be broken into...

Testing out a tool that I stumple upon, it is called w.bloggar and it is able to connect to multiple blogs with on just one interface. It has a bunch of text formating feature which is great. I am still playing with some of the features... pretty cool... oh, the current version v3.03 does not support MSN Spaces... [Listening to: Look What You've Done - Jet - Family Style (12/24/2004 10:20:54 AM) (05:29)]

Recently, there were a few bloggers who threw some ideas around on making video for PPS, and I was rather intrigue by the idea. I took a few snapshots of the resident Bloggers site and compile them with Photo Story 3. I could not decide on the music to include, so I just put in what I have been listening to for the past month. Anyway, it is a lame attempt, I would like to see what kind of response does this generate. PPS Promo Video 3Meg .wmv file

I remember once Jeff Probst, the host of survivor took the vote from the camp and then take a jet ski across the ocean to the Studio to announce the vote.... This time, the stunt 'tidak kurang dramaticnya'... He took a 'parang' and chop his way through a jungle from night till day to a plane, and then parashute down to a bike and ride to the studio and announce the winner. Everyone were already at the studio and the last two contestant were already waiting. The last two were all clean and neat and surprisingly, gain some weight, much weight actually...

Xinhua - English I am holding out for this...

My Space, My Words, My Domain ? New Guidelines For Banks I just install the "Blog This" plug in on FireFox and tried it out on this posting. Regarding the new Bank Negara ruling, I believe it may not be a good thing after all. On the surface, it is good cause the banks no longer have the freedom to charge what they want, and so the price of service are regulated. The bad thing is now, other banks who do not charge, may start to consider charging. Why not? The price is regulated and no one can charge more, most likely, everyone will have the same charges. So, in all, the consumer may be in for a raw deal. But then again, this may not happen, the other banks may still decide not to charge anything.

Microsoft started Beta on a new Blogging tool called Spaces. I notice Microsoft likes to put 's' at the end of a word and make it a name for their product. Windows for instance, and now Spaces. Well, this is beside the point. I have tested out the webhost / client and found many interesting features that are rather impressive. In many ways, it is much better than Blogger, and then again, in many ways, it fall far behind. Nevertheless, I did a mini review at Msn Spaces itself which I setup. Check it out at http://spaces.msn.com/members/shagalot/ Yea.. the blog address is rather sad... I still love Blogger.com blogspot address.... Oh, by the way, read the review from bottom up...

I found out yesterday evening that our Office Cafeteria sell iceCream from 2-3pm everyday… mmm…  what a wonderful finding.. I am going to try some today…  

I came across Earl Ku's site and was intreague by the little mail icon on the top right. I imediately searched in google and found a site that actually generate little mail icon. They not only genegrate for Gmail, but for other mail services as well, such as AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, Rocketmail, etc.. I generated some dummy mail address below to illustrate how the icon looks like. Pretty Cool... Mail Icon Generator - by nHacks

Everybody wants a Digital Camera, it is top of the US Christmas Wishlist this year, overtaking the favorite DVD player last year.  Even my 6 th Form sister in-law tried to coax my wife into getting one for her birthday.  Digital Camera is the latest device that changed the world.  Developing films was once a way of life, going into the shop and some shops boast 30 minutes services.  Digital camera have changed or revolutionized in how everybody live their life, especially in documenting them.  The price of a digital camera is not that cheap compared to the old Analog Cameras, but, the freedom to just snap away and decide on the good prints basically put the cost to the back of the consumer’s mind.  As time goes by, the price of a digital camera will drop, similar to the computer models, however the latest and greatest camera will remain to have a high margin and highly priced.     I do see a short life of digital photography though.  How much Megapixel does the consum