Most Days are fine, Some Days are tired.

i have been thinking why the Windows Defender on the Vista is always not started automatically, and it has been like that for some time.

i had even googled and search microsoft support site but could not locate any solution.

so just now, somehow, i decided to take a look at the Services, and there it was, the Windows Defender Service was set to Manual!!

just watched the latest podcast of CrankyGeeks, and guess what...Singapore was mentioned twice, one for being highest number of users on Facebook? and the other, two of them expressed they were impressed with Korea and Singapore in terms of broadband, i think...

i liked the part about U.S. and Korean schoolgirls on their dream phones, it really showed how far ahead Korea and Japan are in technology...

updates 11 May - didn't know that i had set this to personal!! 

i had thought it was going to be a full day session but in the end, it was just half day, and so, since i was at SUNTEC, i took a half day leave, and went to Funan Centre to collect the digital photo frame. as i thought it being a full day, i didn't bring along my laptop, but i brought the power cable for the digital photo frame and a SD card containing photos.

i went for lunch at MacDonald's, and SMS a colleague that I was sitting there watching life pass by...

in fact, i had downloaded so far nine episodes of the podcast of "The New Earth" which is hosted by Oprah, as to why i'm attracted to this, it's not just because there's podcast and i could watch/listen on the ipod touch, but it serves as a complement to the book as well as the topic is meant to be spiritual rather than religious...i tend to find this more compelling than "The Secret".

the session starts at 9:30am, and as i was walking along the underpass, i was listening to the podcast and taking my time since it's still early, while watching the rest of the people passing me by ... while most of them took the escalator, i took the stairs ... i noticed this sign on the wall that indicated "58 steps stairs"!! and it hit me that if i was late, or not listening to this podcast, i would probably not have taken note of this sign!

and at MacDonald's, i sat there and watch those people passing by ... and life is quite a rush, and because the adults are living such a hectic life, that as if like a contagious disease, our children are too living a hectic life ... and i feel bad that my children might grew up thinking - "what was my childhood like?"

the fact now is, would i be able to slow down? i would like to but i'm not living alone, am i?!

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after all the walking from the MRT to the designated place, my throat was dry so i decided to drink tea or coffee ... and i sat down in front of a tv showing the interview of Marie Digby, and i thought, hmmm, she's beautiful...and i thought i also saw my ex-girlfriend, and well, i needed very much to soothe my throat...so, i didn't have that urge to go confirm it's her...

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just the other day, as i was browsing the Fujitsu web site, i came to realised that there is an accessory called Modular Battery Bay, which is essentially a battery that i could slot in and take out the DVD drive. i had written an email to the company that i had bought the laptop but didn't get any reply, and was quite pissed off at that...but somehow, i seemed to be feeling quite good - not sure if it's the result of listening to the podcast (downloading Chapter 10 at time of blogging) - but that's S$380 in the credit card bill and possibly 6 hours of battery time? we'll see...

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I called MacDonald's thinking to order for dinner, the guy at the other end told me it would be 75 minutes before i could smell the burger!! 75 minutes, not 25 minutes!! i told the guy i'll go and buy myself...so, i went to the nearby Mac and came back home all within 15 minutes!! my wife said it's probably because it's dinner time...hence, the long waiting time...

... had to lecture my children, that Happiness is contagious, and whether they prefer their home to be filled with happiness or unhappiness as either one of them is contagious...

... was watching John Q, Denzel Washington, James Woods, Robert Duvall...powerful cast...now that i have children, i'm moved by this movie...

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LIFE...

oh my! what happened to Paula Abdul!?

if you do not know what i'm referring to, either you do not read news/listen to news, or you are not interested in american idol or where were you!?

anyway, from the various videos, i thought she did not appear to be herself, she appeared out of sorts ...

btw, i'm also not following the idol series, ...

updates: i was still able to run the old version - somehow, and well, it appears it looks better with the border ... heehee. secondly, yes, the Contacts portion is already improved over the original one with windows mobile!! with this in place, I can uninstall CNetX Face Contact application! with this in place, i could also uninstall the Slide2Unlock!

i came across the following from newsletters, magazines:

PointUI and iLaunch for PPC.

i like both of them, and iLaunch cost USD12.95, and certainly cannot beat that of pointui which is Free!

Pointui border

I have just downloaded and installed version 1.5 for pointui, and about the only thing i prefer the older version is the home screen. Now, there's this border that surrounds the Tasks, Appointments - i shld have screen capture the old one for comparison - but anyway, i don't quite like that border...i have to get used to it though :P... it's not just the price, but the whole ui experience is really good ... wonder if they would extend the theme to Contacts...?

as for iLaunch, the only thing i like about it is the vertical slide unlock -

Ilaunch

unlike iPhone which is horizontal slide - and i thought a vertical slide seems logical that while you hold the phone on say the left hand, your thumb should be free and long enough to slide up, oops, down and unlock the screen, rather than using the other hand to do so, imagine your right hand is carrying groceries! other than this, i don't really need something to look like iPhone, i would prefer something to be different from iPhone... :P

  take a look on the left for the Windows Mobile 2003 iLaunch since I'd uninstalled from my HTC Touch. yes, there is a version for Windows Mobile 5, 6 and 2003. This screen shot was taken off my iPaq 2210...

a colleague was asking me why he could not download using ie7, that happens after he restored from a backup...

i could not determine any cause other than the ie7 was "corrupted" or registry entry was "corrupted".

he came back and let me know that the download problem was because somehow the location of the ie temp folder had been moved...he has not identify what could have moved that folder though.

ever since i had put up that for sale blog post for those disney VCDs, audio CDs, i have consciously - whenever i'm online - or sub-consciously been thinking about what happened to interauct, an online auction site...

i just saw an email from the admin of iAuctions.com.sg which has this line "Welcome all InterAuct members!"...

so, is this an indication that this so-called Secret, Laws of Attractions really works or just pure co-incidence...

well, let's see how many things i'm going to experience in the near or far future...

for now, let me go to this new auction site and post my stuff...

i was watching "The Secret" on the iPod Touch...not done yet, but after watching for a while, i thought might be better to take some notes:

Happiness (think happy thoughts) -> (Happy) Thoughts -> Manifests (Laws of Attraction) -> ...

there's still more but i feel something else is missing...

1. what about taking action?

2. what about how to see an opportunity?

i mean, they are not seriously saying that by just harbouring those positive thoughts, i could be getting what i wanted without working up a sweat?!?! C'mon!!

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probably have to re-watch again...

i mean, Al Gore, save your breath, just tell everyone to focus on good thoughts about the climate, and by Laws of Attraction, the universe would "cure" Mother Earth!!

updates 5th May: i've decided not to proceed with this application, i had also just terminated another credit card, and a credit line...

i went online to sign up for a no annual fees credit card, even though it says apply online, i still need to print out the form and mail it out, i enclosed a photocopy of my identification and salary statements, and submitted online for another document.

i think it was yesterday or the day before, i got this letter from the bank indicating they need me to sign on the document - which was exactly the same as what i had printed, signed and mailed out - as well as other documents which i had supplied in that mail based on their online requirements!!

somehow, i don't feel pleased about this, and i have 12 days to react as my application would be considered withdrawn after 15 days from Apr 28.

at this stage, i'm deciding to not proceed...

this R2D2 projector really packs lots of functions!!

can someone add on design to make it into some sort of a artificial intelligence domestic helper? er...maybe that should be C3P0 ...

anyway, my colleague brought up an interesting point in terms of energy saving:

it does not mean that by you switching off the power in your home, the power generator would produce less power. it would still produce the same amount of power daily, and would not be regulated by demand...so, with the power that was supposed to come to me going to someone else, where is the nett savings in energy? i'll probably get a smaller bill though...

... this reminds me of a similar question on water. we have seen those shower heads that salesperson says would help to save water; but the issue is the meter would have started, and water started to flow ... it could just be a false impression due to seemingly less water or smaller force of water, but the water meter is still running at its usual pace!

as my ex-colleagues used to say, if you need 3 litres of water to shower, you need that much regardless of the type of shower head you use...