As I was blog-tagged by k-yu, traditionally I have to tell the secrets or the not-so-secret-but-you-would-not-ask-about-it secrets. These are what I can come up.
1. Bedtime
I once fell off the bed. It was one night when I was a kid. Usually I sleep quite still but that night I must had been rolling around the bed and suddenly fell off by the bedside and stuck there for minutes. I can't move and then woke up. It's kind of embarassing, so I haven't told anybody about it.
2. Childhood
I was once stabbed with a pencil at my face near my nose by my friend when I was in kindergarten. Sounds scary? Not much. I still think the carbon is left there. What a child! Again, when I was a kid, I used to take a bath and go playing in the bathroom reservoir full of water. My parents finally catched me because my brother accidentally opened the door and found me in that and he ran out telling them I was drowning. How kind!
3. Accident
I experienced two serious accidents in my life. One time I was hit by a car driving towards me while crossing a parking lane. Another time I was hit by a motorbike while crossing a street. In both accidents I did not feel any pain or remember anything about being hit "at all". It was like my brain just switched itself off. Weird? Anyway it is great for me. The latter one gives me a scar at my right ankle.
4. Decorati
I used to collect Smerf glowing-in-the-dark figure set at my desk when I was a kid. Somehow my teacher just posed the policy for children not to keep toys at the desk and found my precious Smerf one day. I was almost crying but I cannot do anything about it. Oh!
Growing up, I turned my desk into some fantasy land where I can play whenever I want to. I decorate inside my desk with everything a kid could find amusing and appropriate enough to satisfy the imagination. One of my favourite theme is that I decorate my wonderdesk to be an amusement park. Up to the present I still decorate, but not my desk, one of my closet shelf to be like a window display at shopping mall.
5. Addiction
I am a fan of Cher – hooked to her voice since I heard her smash-the-record hit 'Believe'. I am also addicted to The X-Files, Great Expectations, Fight Club – my first three movies I bought, which I watched more than 20 times that I can remember every single line. I bought these films' soundtrack and score so that I can still have audio version to listen to on the road. I love sci-fi movies : The Fifth Element, Gattaca, Sky Captain, Star Wars, etc. I am a Mac fan. What could I say ... is this some kind of therapy session that people gather around and reveal their secrets?
I'll pass this to you guys:
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понедельник, января 29, 2007
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Recently I just received a new notebook from my company for work. It is interesting that notebook nowadays are becoming like an ordinary consumer product. Price is driven down, thanks to advancement in technology. Features are richer and more interesting, which really help us empower ourselves to become almost any roles we would never be in the past. We can be the author, the web designer, the merchandiser, the buyer, the freelancer, the professional photographer, the clerk, the executive, and the list is endless.
This Dell Latitude 620 sports 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo / 512 MB DDR2 RAM / 60 GB HDD / 14.1 inch TFT LCD / 8x DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Writer Drive / 4 USB ports / Bluetooth / 802.11 Wi-Fi / Windows XP Professional (of course, or you expect Mac OS X in a Dell?) / 2.00 kg weight / More Work From Bosstm / Less Graphic Creativity (compared to Mac) / Pirated Software Protection / Colleague Virus and Malware Invitationtm Technology.
It will take me a little while to get used to working with both Windows PC and Apple Mac. Anyway, there are still many high-end notebooks and desktop PCs out there like these ones :
Alienware Area 51 m5790 Special Edition – Roaring
The Alienware brand is known in gamer's world as one of the best and luxurious one could find on earth.
Windows Vista Capable / Overclocked 2.66 GHzIntel Core 2 Duo / 2 GB DDR2 RAM / 256 MB NVIDEA GeForce Go 7600 / up to 400 GB Dual Hard drives / Blu-ray Disk Drive / 17" Wide Screen Clearview LCD / Intel PRO Wireless a/b/g / 7.1 High def. audio / 4 USB 2.0 ports / 8 lbs weight (about 3.6 kg.)
VoodooPC Envy W:201 – Superb notebook
From the legendary VoodooPC comes the Envy W:201 notebook featuring 20.1-inch LCD with weight around 16 lbs (7 kg!) and NVIDEA GeForce Go 7950 in SLI mode and up to 320 GB dual hard drives. Price starting from $5,000. No more spec needed as you can imagine the power of this machine. Envy will certainly be around the one who purchases this one great notebook.
Shuttle XPC 1337 – Extreme monster
With this compact cube ensures that the gaming experience will be smoothhhh to the last minute. This lovely monster features Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (Quad-core) / AMD ATi-Radeon X1950 Pro Crossfire / 10,000 RPM Western Digital Raptor 150 GB HDD / 2 GB Crucial Ballistix RAM / Vista-ready.
I wonder what the scene would be if an ordinary businessman or businesswoman just uses one of these to do his or her routine like browsing internet, typing documents, or spreadsheets. For me, I would just cry.
Awaken from sleep too much in recent weeks due to heavy workload, these are some updates from my personal perspective:
1. Apple iPhone – Revolution of communication
The long-awaited-and-rumored iPhone is showing itself at the annual MacWorld at Moscone Center by Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. CEO, with the crowd applausing, shouting and screaming with excitement. This blending mix between the iPod, the phone, and the internet communication device will be on shelf in US around June, Q4 for Europe, and 2008 for Asia. $499 is the price for 4GB and $599 for 8GB model plus 2-year contract with Cingular network.
This wonderful feature-rich phone supports multi-touch technology, which means no need for stylus. Many cool technologies like accelerometer that automatically detects whether the phone is in portrait or landscape position and then adjusts the screen to the appropriate mode, the proximity sensor turns off the screen when lifting the phone to the ear, the ambient light sensor adjusts the screen brightness according to the environment, would surely attracts many users. Can't wait to get one.
2. CNBC – Financial news channel
As the financial market nowadays is racing at an amazing pace that anybody who can catch up with the latest trend will certainly be able to make a fortune out of the opportunity pool out there. CNBC is a reliable and best known for its financial news coverage serving business enthusiasts around the world. I personally do not usually watch the channel as much as I wanted but recently this channel just offers me what the perfect financial news channel should be. Its graphics are very cool and exciting (that really helps boosting the eager to get to the market a lot) and the news just covers every regions more than ever, not just US and EU concentrated like CNN. Moreover, there are many interesting programmes to watch. Just love it.
3. Kuler – Colour cooler
This colour guru website will help you discover the world of harmony in a beautiful way.
Whenever the graphic designer wants to express the message visually, colour always plays the critical role. With this website everyone will surely enjoy producing creative works. Cool!
Oh, and there still are many interesting products and websites to come. Stay tuned.