The next gen mobile phone
If you think you own the best mobile phone to date, think again.
It doesn't matter whether it is the current top of the line 3G phone Nokia N73 and Sony Ericsson K800i
Or the sexiest mobile LG chocolate and Motorolla Razor
Or the most fully featured smartphone Dopod
All of these will look like a laughable last century antique when you see this. Because Apple had just reinvented the mobile phone, and not surprisingly, they call it the iphone (with all their jaw dropping inovation, can't they think of a fancier name?). Go to their official site here
isn't this the sexiest thing, EVER?
The iphone is like a widescreen ipod + a full featured EDGE phone + a breakthrough mobile internet device!!!
Note that there isn't any keyboard, the entire phone is just the sexy looking 3.5" LCD panel and a button (the home button)! No, it's not a slider phone, it features a revolutional multi touch screen! Unlike other phones that has a touch screen, using stylus to navigate around the screen is just so silly once you see how this multi touch screen work like a magic using only you fingers! it's something like the infrared button of the LG chocolate, but only 100000x better! words just don't serve justice to how this technology work, you gotta see it yourself here.
Sensors are everywhere in this device. The screen can tilt itself whether you hold it vertically or landscape. It run on a mobile version of the OSX and feature a full blown web browser and other useful widegets you get in OSX! it comes with a 8gb storage, imaging browsing your photos, you videos in this little beauty...wah...just imaging how many pairs of envious eyes will land all their attention on you
that's just so cool, my saliva is drooling now, I want one!! give me one now!! other mobile phone manufaturers, watch out your ass man, maybe this will be the next ipod in the mp3 player market.
These are the specs:
| Screen size | 3.5 inches |
|---|---|
| Screen resolution | 320 by 480 at 160 ppi |
| Input method | Multi-touch |
| Operating system | OS X |
| Storage | 4GB or 8GB |
| GSM | Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900) |
| Wireless data | Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0 |
| Camera | 2.0 megapixels |
| Battery |
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| Dimensions | 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm |
| Weight | 4.8 ounces / 135 grams |
Although there is no 3G in this baby, but the Wi-fi feature is a ++! it is only available in US somewhere in June and it cost USD 599 and you need to have a contract with Cingular for 2 years! For us Asians, it will only be available in 2008, and god knows what might the price be like especially our country where we don't have any contract service offered by local telco companies. Who the fuck cares, it's so bloody sexy that it's irresistable...
Penguin's Rush Hour
I went back to
I went back to lab heavily the next day and prepared medium, thinking of doing genes transformation.. While waiting for the things to be autoclaved, my supervisor suddenly told me to hold my research progress as he wanted me to do the transformation with different plasmid vector.Okay.. I'll only get those plamid things after 2, 3 weeks..
ahh!! I've nothing to do in campus! Wireless network down due to Taiwan earthquake.. I've nothing to do.... hmm?? How about going to Seremban again?!
YES!! Brilliant idea!
I reached bus terminal the next hour after I came out with the idea. I managed to get on the bus to KL at
Who knew, the bus only arrived at KL at
I always follow some one's buttock (you surely know who is he.) all the way from KL to Seremban, besides, I'm not quite sure how to buy ticket for LRT and KTM as he was the one who did the purchasing everytime.
My brain kept refreshing my memory on how he bought the ticket and which lane to go for LRT and KTM while running through the crowd at Pudu Terminal.
I managed to get on LRT at
I run to KTM ticketing machine once I get off from LRT. I guess my awkward pressing movement on the ticketing machine had caught the guard's attention. He came over and taught me which button to press to buy the ticket. ( I found my hands shaking when i was pressing the buttons. If I was given time, I sure can do it myself.)
The train arrived once I got the ticket. I ran down the stairs (with a unreadable speed).
Finally..I got into the train!!Yeah, yeah! I felt so relief!
My phone battery ran out when I got into the train. When I reached Seremban, It was already
I made a call with public phone but I only heard Dan saying hello, hello...I searched for the talk button but there's no such button. I tried with the second phone. The stupid phone "swallowed" my coins before I press any number.. I tried the third...can't call also!! What had happened to the public phones?!
Ahh.. I can only wait and hope that Dan's phone would trace the call was from Seremban.
Thanks god! Dan came to fetch me after 15 mins (what took him so long anyway?!)..
Now everyone can fly - - - - INTERNATIONALLY!
Great news! We will soon be able to fly internationally with budget airlines under the brand name AIR ASIA X! this mean flying to London with as little as RM9.99 (excluding tax and surcharge)!!! Hopefully this piece of exciting news won't turn out to be a big coax. Maybe ASS can organize a graduation trip to places we never dare to talk about before! For further info, click here
Kota Kinabalu adventure part II - Poring hot spring & Manukan Island
Upon leaving Mount. Kinabalu Park after the descent (from part I) from mount Kinabalu on the third day, we headed to poring hotspring intended for a refreshing hot bath. However, the trip proved to be a major disappointment as the so called hot spring is rubbish, even the one in Kuala Kubu Baru (Ulu Selangor) is way way better.
The hot spring was some 30km from the mount. Kinabalu national park and it is really secluded. The accomodation we stayed sucks to the hell (it looked kinda like a haunted house more than a "hostel" *really don't know what category of accomodation that is, it's so fucking run down) and four of us were their only customer that day! Anyway, can't blame anybody as we signed up for super budget package.
The thing that really turned us off was the hotspring itself. It was under renovation when we got there and they tweaked the pump to allow the construction to proceed but leave us with hot water that need at least hours to fill up! The design of the spring is not like the one you see in Japanese movies, no, not at all, don't even think about it. It's like a water tank with four individual cubic where hot water is lead in by pipes and taps. It just felt so bathroom...no hotspring feel at all. As if that was not enough, the tank was leaking!!! wtf??? with so little water and yet the plug did not fit the drainage system!!! I tell you, my tank water level never get pass my ankle level! So there we were, sitting in a pool, waiting for our hot water to get ready, waiting, waiting...surrounded by construction workers and materials in an ambient of noisy drilling sound from the construction work....what a great bath, don't you think so?
we were so pissed that we didn't explore around the area. It was told that the scenery of that park was gorgeous with a lot of fauna and flora to be found, even Rafflesia flower (the biggest and smelliest flower in the world) can be found there. But i guess we had enough of that for the past 2 days. We slept early that night after dinner as like previous 2 days, this place is so fucking ulu that you'll get mad staying there for > 1 night.
We went to Manukan Island the next day. We need to get a ~20 min boat ride from Sutera Habour to the island itself. Along the ride you can see rubbish like plastic bags, empty bottles floating over the sea...well, it just make you hate those fucking tourist who destroy all these natural assets...
We went for snorkeling for the morning. For lunch, we had a fucking expensive buffet here and the food was only s0-so. The buffet cost about RM45 per person with a variety of food - satey, lamb chop, BBQ chicken wings, crabs, fried rice, etc. Look nice but taste blunt, that's what I would say.
barbarians feasting on meat, meat, meat!!!
After lunch, we went for banana boat ride! whew, that's really a great feeling to get toast into the sea! Then we went for further snorkelling before we decided to head back to Kota Kinabalu at about 3.30pm. Unluckily, the sky was turning dark and it started to drizzle. We boarded the the boat in such condition but as soon as the boat departed, the weather turned worse and there was a storm. Wa, me so big boy first time sit board in a storm, feel so nice, like in hollywood movie :) but the rain drops hitting your face on a high speed boat that is open air was not a pleasant feeling, it was so painful! Alas, halfway on our journey, our boatman felt worry and turned back to the island. Hence, we were forced to wait at the jetty for nearly half an hour for the storm to settle down. We finally reached Kota Kinabalu this time and this end our trip to Manukan Island.
*More high resolution pictures (1024*768) here
My Pahang trip
I have the intention to visit Mei Shuet's (my room mate) home town since last two years. But, i always chicken at the very last minute.
I managed to get myself three days off from my research and visited Pahang in last semester break. Mei Shuet's home town is Temerloh. A small town where you can reach after two-hour driving from Kuantan.
Our trip to Pahang appeared to be tiring as the bus broke down at Titiwangsa. (#$%&##@)
Her father Mr. Chiew is a primary school teacher, who I think could be a very good tour guide if he retired from his recent career. My three days in Pahang weren't as bored as I think. Her father brought us to many places.
I managed to get on
Penguin and Michelle at the park.
We visited to her mum's working placen before going to Kuala Krau, a place that i never heard, not even in my geography text book.
Penguin in Kuala Krau:
The next day, her father drove us to Kuantan to visit a best friend of him. The pretty girl on the very left is his best friend's daughter.
Here come to the interesting part. I noticed a Pang's clinic and KK's shops in Kuantan.
KK's tyre at the roadside
KK's...it's a printing shop if i'm not mistaken...
And when I went to wash room...
KK's tap!! (What's so interesting of KK anyway?)
Mei Shuet took me to her grandmother's home on the third day. There tasted the most delicious home - made chicken rice! Yummy!!
When we were on the way back to Penang, we nearly took the wrong bus ata rest station as the similar bus numbers were confusing us!
Although Temerloh is a small town, but there are a lot of delicious food too. I was having every meals with Mei Shuet's famil and I think it is unmannered if I take picture of the food in front of her parents. Thus, there's no photo of food available here. Mei Shuet told me that "Ikan Batin" is famous in Temerloh. I don't ask to try it out as the smell of fish will turn my stomach, especiallly the fish caught from river. If I was forced to taste it, I will eat it with extreme hot chilli so as to cover the unpleasant taste. After all, I won't be able to tell what Ikan Batin taste like. Ha...