Me n my N95~

 

This was actually the very first blog i wanna put in when i got the phone. But since then, i was busy posting other blogs. think i might as well post it here since i sorting out my pictures. :)

BKK~ The trip finally!!!

Have not been at the best of moods these days. Due to lotsa reasons ba.... Beside the work that i have been doing. Seriously, i am beginning to feel that a, 24hrs, seven days a week, job is something that no one is able to do perform sanely. No to think that i have not been taking any leave for almost 4 years le... Off was like a so call "rest" at home issue but still have to attend to calls. Study also have to work. Tests too.... I can rem that my maths test. With three phones on the table in silent mode. All vibrating at the same time. lol. Even the maths lecturer also cannot tahan... Luckily exams time i divert my calls to my sisters. The maths lec still walk over n tell me, "No give chance for u to answer phone calls le hor!"

OK so the day is fixed! 28th Apr 2007 to 1st May 2007 will be my first ever own trip with my pal. Mr Ee. Come to think of it. There's lots of 1sts to this trip. 1. First time travelling to BKK. 2. First time after 4 over years i can really say bye bye handphone (91068838) for four whole days n nvr wake up in the middle of the night worrying that the phone got switch to silent of not. Or if the hp is beside me or not... 3. First time travelling alone. Or rather with another friend only. Err... not really travel la. Consider i got travel to Genting with friendS b4. This should be first time taking a plane ride with a friend. Err... then again i got travel to langkawi before, by plane.... lol So not so first after all.... :D

Well, many would ask why the sudden trip?

I think its more like because i feel i have not be in the best state of mind these days. Not to say that there are jobs that i screwed up, though i did cause some delays here n there for not processing the orders effectively, but more like i have not been making firm n right decisions. In my job, i have to decide which is the best way to fully utilise the small fleet of boats in my hands. If the schedule is not planned effectively, the company will not make as much $$$. There is also a few blunders that i made that cause the customers to be really unhappy. Sigh....

Studies is also a big headache for me. I will be taking my last semester of my specialist dip n i have not made a decision to continue my studies where... Lotsa advice have been given by the most senior guy that i could think of in advicing. Mr foong kor. ;) Foong kor is my classmate in my spec dip course. With his exp in the sea n trade. He has given me lotsa valuable advices for me. Currently thinking of getting a company to sponsor my degree studies. Thinking JSL or Sembawang. Or maybe will go out n find some other company like Keppel. Think its quite worth it. I dun need to pay for the course, then sign a 1 - 2 year bond. Which is the amt of time tat i wanna spent in the industry to see if i can mature to assist my own company or not. Think i will try to go into the ship design side. Hopefully i can tap something out of there n eventually build my own boat. lol.

Well.... at least that will be my short term goal now. (3 years). A new long term goal will have to be set, since i have changed my preceptions of things. Hopefully it will be good n benefitial to my carreer.

N95, after almost three weeks of use...

Well, since a friend of mine posted a review of the N95, which i feels is obviously siding another HP maker... (p.s. he is a K800i user n he doesn't own a N95. lol)
So, being a user for almost three weeks now, i shall post something "real" bout this phone... *muhahaha

N95, this is wat computers have become, is truely a computer in itself. From the basic uses of a phone like calling, sms. To the camera functions of photo taking and video taking. From the Pda functions like organisers to the Computer functions like web browsing and words, excel, powerpoint viewing. Its really a powerful machine packed into one small box. Not to miss out the GPS system in the phone!

Boxy it may seems. But its is nvr heavy. Nokia have made the N95 much lighter then the N80 and at the same time making it pretty plasticy. Now it looks like a "Ma Sa" lol. Screen is fantastic! U are talking about a 16million colour screen, that is clear n bright n BIG!!! In fact it is 2.5" wide... Its bigger then some digital cameras! Though its already great with its 5 megapixels AUTOFOCUS camera. Its the video that stands out. I assume no one like to take video from their hp cameras. Be it a Nokia phone or a sonyericssons or a motorola. Video taking from phones are always lousy. Enter the NOKIA N95!!! *confetti thrown in* Video taking is going to rock the world. TV quality video can be taken from the N95. We are not talking bout those pixelated video anymore. Set it to the highest setting, it is as good as watching High Def video on ur screen.

(back after this draft was written three weeks ago. lol. date now is 5/5/07)

Beside the marvelous camera ability, i also mentioned the GPS. Initial setup was easy. Almost too easy, making me think that i might have set it up wrongly. Coz i was not able to get the signal that very first night i got the phone. After reading the manual, i realise the keypads have to be exposed to get a better signal. And that night i got my first navigated route by my phone. There is two maps program. One have details like atms, hawker, etc. another have the voice nav trial. Tried the voice map. Its pretty effective, considering they will draw a coloured line to show u where is the shortest route or fastest route, depending on wat u set. But... the voice navigations was to slow le... It actually will anounce the turn jus about 5secs before the turn. So imagine if u r not expecting the turn, and is on the 1st lane. U will have to swirl to make the turn. Which can be very dangerous. This is wat happen to me... Ametuers pls dun rely on that. lol. Other then that, its program is pretty clear n well coloured. Using it as a street directory is pretty good too. :)

Web browsing is a breeze! If there is a wifi accessible, most prob u wont get any trouble using it. I tried it at burger king, using Qmax free access, tried at my home. Even in BKK! Even though they are WEP protected, i managed to get the passkey n access. I also got a voip program that nokia recommend. N i am able to make calls to msn users thru the phone! Using wifi. Same goes to skype users too. Yipee!!! Managed to save myself a bit using the wifi to make calls in BKK. Web browsing is also cool, all thanks to the 2.5' clear, bright screen. :)

That about the few items i used most of the time. Did not use the words, excels program yet. Neither have i used the organisers much. But i find that buying this phone, n using these three function is already worth the $$$. Oh, i didnt mention the bad stuffs. Battery power have been weak. Real weak.... Using the wifi n cam n GPS, within a day the phone will be totally exhausted.. I think that the real bad thing about it. Thats y i have my charger n car charger with me at all times. :)

Well, as i have said before. This is really a worth while buy for me, (Might not be for others) using the cam, GPS, web. *my last singtel bill for web access is 100bucks... lol.* To have invested total of 1028-100-400=528 I think its pretty ok for such a power phone ba. ;P

p.s. pls pardon my ignorance to buying this phone ;p

Coming up next?

Next, food review at the Cafe-Delmar.

For those who are going... pls read before going....

Food At Cafe-Delmar@ Sentosa

 

Food we had at the cafe. Looks good right??? But oh no u are wrong... Looks can be deciving...

 

This is wat i had. Its a Paella with chicken. My pass experience eating paella was good. ( i had mine at Ma masion @ bugis. <--- Thier seafood paella was great! N huge too! Two can share this dish. Bear in mind though, they aren't cheap. lol) So i didnt expect how one can be bad. But i was wrong... They have stone hard crystal rice, (better know as "zhen zhu mi") n lousy taste. N the rice was charred at the side. There is jus chicken pieces and green pepper, jus like wat is written in the menu. So i wasnt hoping for more ingredient. But they are jus lousy...

 

The bdae boy have this, which i think should be the best out of them all. Its duck leg on mashed potato n a tiny piece of duck "foie gras" Didnt taste it, but i could feel that its gonna be much better then mine. Jus a simple braised duck with mash potato is gonna be better then that. But without any complains for the bdae boy, i assume its good. :)

 

This is wat another friend of mine took. Well its jus pasta. I dun think it would be super nice nor super lousy. Lets jus stick to normal pasta ba. Though paying 22 one seems exp. lol


The dish that the rest choosed was this chicken with rice. Same rice that was served to me, with different taste. N they taste better. Didnt try the chicken so couldnt really comment.


Last was some sausages that was cut up n i think tune or some sort of sutff was stuffed inside. Just one word. LOUSY.... Couldnt comment anymore.

Conclusion. If not for the slightly better then sitting on the sand place. Cafe delmar is not tat bad. Jus dun spend too much on the food n drinks. Though they cost a bomb. (Nowadays where u can find nice places that charges good food? <--- Hawker centres??? minus the "nice place" jus the good food will do.)

p.s. dun try the bed there. Those cotton bedsheet are expossed to sun n rain. N there are lotsa stains around. Who know wat kind of stains u could be lying on... lol (my friend did mentioned bringing a UV lamp to check. Maybe u will find some white stains there..... lol)

Oh by the way. Its not that i wanna condem the place. (Which i already did. :P) The aboce statements are jus my point of view. U could jolly will go n experience it urself. :)

Sentosa B-dae for DH

Our Birthday boy with his gifts :)


Nice view at the cafe. N testing out my N95 cam capability. :) not so bad hor~


The two babes in my "yuppies" group







All the gifts he recieve for the day



The Cake




Glowing lights near the musical fountain. Nice hor?!?

Updates- cannot back date liao

From my office, cannot connect to my new, powerful N95 to upload photos. so this shall be another photo-less post.

Well, recently got lotsa prob with my home pc. Cannot connec to internet, cannot connect to the router, play game dun have sound, screen keep on flickering. So i decided to format my com. Got home super early on mon to do that. End up spent all the time there to transfer all my movies, programs games etc to my portable hdd. I think i should consider burning them all out. So after that since already so late le, end up playing DOTA. lol

Oh i think i posted somewhere regarding the C&C game that i bought. The graphics is good. (due to my good graphics loh) Played for a few hrs completed some mission n i forgot to save... Came back another day to play realised have to restart all again... (Oh i forgot about the autosave too, seems tat its already overwriten. So no choice...) So far this game is not as captivating as DOTA. Dun know y i m so hook to it. already so long game le still stuck to it.

Anyway, i watch heroes with xiaomei n bigbear last night. We had a heavy dinner @ varinice. 1/2 cute chicken + lousy "wu siang" Reach his place still got swedish meatballs. lol trying to squeeze in the balls. They were well cooked though but the potato gravy is not my cup of tea... I still finish it though as a sign of respect. :) (Well, they were not lousy loh, jus that i dun fancy.) Back to heroes. Skipped epi 17 coz my dl hanged at 97.4% Will try to dl it again after i formatted my comp. The show has become intriguing with introduction of new abilities, like the shape shifter, and peter being able to do things with jus him concentrating. lol

Ok, still have lotsa to post when there is supporting pictures from my N95. Till then...

updates...

posting off my bed now. Lights all off. Actually using my n95. :)

Actually wat happen is that i got a new wireless router. Recently lotsa new things for. :) coz i sorta went on a spending frenzy.

Getting very very sleepx., post another may

bye bye n80

bloging off my n95 now. Rushing to bugis as my friend wants to sign singtel corp plan. Rush from pearl's centre to sell our phones then to city hall. But the store was closed. So we decided to go bugis. But time is running out! Its 2045 and the shop closes at 9pm! Reached le. Lol. Now queueing for numbers. :) oh did i say we took train here? There's actually two cars to pick but coz we are short me time, we decided mrt would be fastest. Lol. Two driver, two cars and tired guys end up taking mrt. :)

Back to my poor n80... Sigh... Really kinda sad to see it go. Esp when the salesman was tearing her up to check. Dun know why i would feel sad... Wanted to take a last photo of it i also forgot... Real funny as its jus a phone.

Ok. My n95 batt running out. Post again bout this fantastic phone when i return ba. :)

Half-fark Updates~

Got so many things to update. My superb N95. Shagging tomb sweeping on sun. New Commander n Conquer 3 game. TMNT (turtles show).

But i have to leave le. Hopefully i can rem them n update them again. :)

Gonna watch my next heroes show later. Possibly eating claypot rice too! Hungry now. look out for my new updates hor!

Signing off...
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