Monthly Archive for January, 2009

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i hate my phone

Published on January 18, 2009 in me and stuff. 9 Comments Tags: .

Just a piece of advice from me: don’t get the Nokia N73 Music Edition. It sucks.

Well, I must admit that I love the text message layout where the words are really small and the fonts are really nice. And how the phone can store tons of messages (I know a lot of phone can do it, but my previous one couldn’t). I know it’s a N-series phone and I should be using more of the advanced features, but I guess somehow I don’t need it.

Anyway, I hate my phone coz in a mere 3 months, I had to reset my phone (using the *#7370# code) twice. TWICE in 3 months!!! I had to go through the hassle of backing up my stuff, reset the whole phone, restore my phone with all my settings and contacts before I can use it again. Everytime when I need to do this, it shows the “not enough memory to receive data” error. I don’t remember paying for this feature. sigh. Restarting the phone doesn’t help in any way whatsoever. Argh. Btw, my phone is only 9 months old. :(

I like to keep my life simple. In fact, I have my definition of simple (I’ve wrote about keeping things simple back in May – click here to read if you’re interested).

Being simple means:

  1. If I buy a phone that has x amount of features, the phone should function with that x amount of features. Certain feature CAN fail, but basic features of a phone, a.k.a the capability of receiving text messages should function. Should the phone fail, it should fail pertaining to the reliability lifespan of the phone. I bet 9 months is not acceptable in the context of phone reliability. If I know the realibility is as short as 9 months, I would definitely not buy it in the first place.
  2. If I love someone, and want to be with someone, I work my ass off for that to happen. If that someone wants to be with me, he too will work his ass off for it to happen. Hence, we will both be working our ass off for things to happen. If we both want it so bad, it will happen – it won’t take forever. If one of us doesn’t want it that badly, it is over. See, simple.
  3. If I know how to complete a task given at work, I will say I know how to do it and just get to work. If I don’t, I say I don’t know how to do it and ask someone who knows how to do it. After asking and understanding, I get back to work. Yet again, simplicity.

I know I know… what I want is way too ideal. And I know not everyone wants things I want. And I know most of the time it’s an interaction between 2 or more humans of different personality and characteristics.

I’m just ranting. All I’m saying is, I hate my phone. Gotta do something about it. *sigh*

me & my blog

Published on January 15, 2009 in me. 4 Comments

I just realized I’m coming to my 4th year of blogging about nothing but absolute crap. hmmm… :|

People blog for different reasons. Some people blog for fame. Some likes to share. Some started blogging becoz of someone else.

Me? I started blogging becoz I was bored out of my socks and needed something to do. It was March 8, 2005 and I have just finished my final paper, officially jobless, with nothing to do. Aside from reading, I thought it would be nice to attempt to try something different. Writing. I thought it would be fun to just give it a go.

Little did I know, I actually enjoyed blogging. :)

I’m no food blogger nor am I a fashion blogger or some technical stuff expert blogger. I blog a lot about my thoughts, my opinions, my complaints and stuff I like. It is me, and my thoughts about life.

Some may disagree with the things I blog. Others may like it. I guess it is really a personal blog. After all, it is a blog about what I think about life… :)

job security

Published on January 13, 2009 in people and thoughts. 6 Comments

Do job security ever exist? I fear not. Everyone that works for someone literally has got no job security. Well, maybe a 2-month job security. Or is it 1-month? A week? A day? Nonetheless, the time period is basically insignificant that one can literally say job security does not exist.

The assumption is that if I work for a company which appears and is said to be stable, then my job should be secure. If I have a lot of work to do, the company would not fire me – coz the assumption is that if I have “work” to do (the more the better), then I am a “value” to the company.

Ermm… Yea right.

I think most of us overlooked the fact that people can be replaced. There may be certain skills that are empowered by certain people who are unique, but in general, most of the stuff we do daily, can be done by another person if being trained properly. If you think you are better, there is someone else who will be better than you. We are replaceable. If we are replaceable, how is it possible that we have job security?

And then there is the economic turmoil. Organization crashes itself into the economic turmoil and people lose their job – overnight. So, job security? Reality check – job security does not exist.

In a nutshell, it doesn’t matter if you’re working extra hard right now coz to begin with, you’re replaceable and working extra hard for 2 months will not stop the company from firing you becoz if you suck at your job, they know.

You can disagree. These are just my 2-cent thoughts.

Lomo

Published on January 9, 2009 in stuff. 10 Comments Tags: .

I was thinking of making lomo into a project to work on this year — learn how to take lomo pictures. Lomo pictures are lovely. The effects are lovely. So old, so classic, so different, so exquisite.

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Here’s a Diana F+ camera. There’s more; Holga, LC-A+, FishEye, other lomo cameras and tons of accessories (I secretly want to own them all… *grin*). All lomo stuff can be bought off the web from the lomography website. It’s totally convenient and your lomo will arrive from HongKong in… 3 days! Way cool. I went all crazy when I saw the lomo cameras, accessories and books sold in C!ty Super, HongKong. Crazy crazy!

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Here are 2 pictures taken using the Diana F+. Not by me of coz. Click on the photos to go to the flickr page of the person who took these pics. Lomo pictures spell AWESOME out loud. At least for me it’s absolutely lovely. For more lomo pictures, check them out on flickr.

Lomo cameras go way back. Click here to read more.

I hope I can work on this with someone. Doing alone won’t be all that fun. After all, the Diana F+ is just sitting around.

classic notebook

Published on January 8, 2009 in me. 6 Comments Tags: .

New technologies have somewhat phased out the art of writing on classic notebooks & papers. You now “write” stuff into your PDA and have the PDA remind you of your appointments and tasks. I may like certain new-tech stuff, but nothing beats having a good old diary to write down my daily stuff.

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Best diary to own – a Moleskine®. I’m most definitely loving mine. Not just the layout, but also the smell. It’s so classic. Yes, I’m nuts. :)

the Malaysia “customer service”

Published on January 6, 2009 in people and thoughts. 5 Comments

It has come to my attention that there is a whole different definition for the term customer service in Malaysia. Customer service means:

  1. Selling a product without knowing what or how the product function
  2. Solving a problem that a customer faces by going to the extend of proving that it is NOT MY PROBLEM. “Customers are always right” is NOT APPLICABLE in Malaysia.
  3. Not sticking to the Company policy — if you are gonna make ‘returning goods with no question ask’ a selling point of your company, for crying out loud, stick to it.
  4. Asking a customer where they put their own product.
  5. Non-apologetic despite having their customer wait 30mins at a FAST FOOD outlet (note: it’s a FAST FOOD outlet)
  6. Serving their customer with a frown; and sometimes, with an added amount of rudeness.
  7. Slow. Extremely slow.

Generally speaking, the customer service in Malaysia sucks big time. If customer service is just not your the field of choice you want to work in and answering to your customer is something you hate, pls quit. If you don’t have a choice, then suck it up and do your part.

One more thing: bad services do not just come from the local companies (I HATE TM STREAMYX… oopss, did that come out too loud?). Bad services come from international branded companies as well; Ikea, Fast Food chains, Banks etc. It’s not the company, it’s the ppl.

*sigh*… will they ever change?

p/s: if there’s anything else u can add to the list, pls do so… :)

just friends

Published on January 4, 2009 in love and thoughts. 6 Comments

I’ve never really gotten over this love quote:

Wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you’re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have you…. The one who turns to his friends and says, ‘that’s her’.

Yea, ‘that’s her’.

When a boy kisses you on the forehead, you feel a different type of warmth and love. When you think you’re looking absolutely horrible after a jog or a game of tennis, sweating and all, but he is still not afraid to tell the whole world that you’re his feels absolutely wonderful. When he bumps into a friend at the mall, and still hangs on to your hand, or draps his arms around you; the feeling – unexplainable. When he even tells his friend, ever so proudly that you’re the one, the one that is right for him, you feel absolutely out of the world. To me, I think it’s better than a diamond ring.

But, “Just Friends” won’t bring you to this level now would it?

01.01.09

Published on January 1, 2009 in me. 6 Comments

a new year
a new beginning
a new start

but is it a good start?
i think i blew it

happy new year 2009

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