Early last month, I was fortunate enough to be invited for the launch of N97. I’ve been stalking on this phone ever since April this year when one of my director came into my office and showed me the N97 on YouTube. I was really looking forward to seeing a real unit and to play with it. Davidlian became the victim as I kept on bugging him for the date of the launch.

The launching was held at Mandarin Oriental Hotel and we arrived on time. You may check out Suanie’s post for the reason. During the launch of Music Express 5800, La Bondage was lip-smacking and now the ballroom was filled with mouth watering buffet line which made me had double dinner for the night. Nokia always serve their guests well with superior food.

Mandarin Oriental KL

On top of the speeches and the N97 introduction, an ample number of demo units were there for you to play with. Stalls with various activities were everywhere but face art was the only one I knew because Suan did it and it looked awesome. There was also a live event twitter update shown on a LCD TV telling the world that I had my 1^st dinner of the night at Dome because Suanie twitted about it. As the result, subsequent few greetings I received started something like this “I know you had your dinner and it was at Dome.”

Suanie with face art & Carol

live update on Twitter #N97KL

The epic action of the night ended up with epic failure when Mel, KY team up and Kim, ST on another competing with the rest on Guitar Hero with lead guitar and drums. All of them are good with it normally but due to some lagging between screen and the music, they failed tremendously with completion of 11% and 10% respectively.

Kim & ST on stage world tour

Slightly after a week from its launching, I made myself a proud owner of white N97 when my P1i decided to RIP before Michael Jackson. It has been a while since my last unit of Nokia and I was having some problem with the interface and control initially but after few weeks of using, I’m starting to get used to it.

I like

• Nice outlook and size
• Responsive touch screen
• Spacious & sensitive QWERTY Keyboard
• Solid mechanism when angle the screen
• Self customize widget placement
• Simple S60 Nokia interface
• Camera quality (not really fantastic but good enough)
• Plenty of application available for S60
• Placement of the space bar on QWERTY (Used to be weird to me but I found it ergonomic to be there now)
• Durable. video clip (accidentally did drop test on my unit yesterday T_T and it survive)

It can be better (comparing to those phone I used before)

• SMSes sorting (No grouping by user into 1 line like iphone or my HTC diamond)
• T9 (not able to show the predicted word, SE and HTC are doing better on this)
• The phone original condom – phone protector (Difficult to pull it out and when sliding the phone in it, it might just activate the phone by hitting its activation button on the side)
• Battery life (consider not bad for a Smartphone but still wish it could be better. HTC diamond is worst)

Overall, it is a decent phone with affordable price (worth the specs). This phone will make you love it more by holding/playing with it longer. However, it will eventually boost up your spending on data because the N97 will create an “online you”. I switched to 5Mb package earlier and now I have to convert back to unlimited for optimizing the phone.

Kim wrote about it here

Yoonkit’s reviews here

More reviews and specification of the phone

The long awaited autobots finally drove into town early this week. Ticket purchase was heat up by the roaring engines. Getting the tickets for the 1^st day screening was actually harder than pursuing a place for all the concerts I’ve been. The ticket purchase transactions should be at all time high for this week, at least for this 1^st half of the year. I was one of the idiots who was trying very hard to get hold of a few by sacrificing my precious sleep time (failed transaction middle of the night and woke up 6am yet still failed), sacrificing lunch hour to go to cinema counter & only had McD in the car and lost count on how many times I’ve tried on the online e-payment thing until I finally succeed to secure 6 tickets.

Just before the official screening, I got a pleasant surprise offer from Nuffnang on a premiere preview a day in advance of official screening. It was just a few hours before the preview started when I was being informed. Got 2 tickets but different by a row, which was not very pleasant. I wouldn’t complaint much when it was a FREE Transformers 2 premiere preview for god sake. However, I managed to change seat with an uncle who went alone without much persuasion. If you are reading this (I bet not), thank you very much! I was just being lucky I guess.

biggest ticket ever

Ok, back to the movie, it really exceeded my expectation and didn’t disappoint me as one of the most anticipated film of the year. I was expecting it to be good after the trailer. To my surprise, it turned out to be amazingly awesome. I enjoyed the 1^st Transformers and I loved this one more. Revenge of the fallen actually filled the screen with more robots, more actions, more explosive, more hilarious scenes and overdosed of unnecessary too.

just blow everything up

The special effect in the movie was really fantastic. This is in fact some great achievements in the industry I believe. The robots fighting scenes were truly fascinating and mind-blowing with the almost human-like karate fighting act. These were the part I enjoyed most in the movie. It does make Optimus Prime looks cool. Apart from this, seeing the increase in number on robots was something entertaining as well. However, it was not easy to differentiate the Autobots and the Decepticons in the battle field as they did look alike which was a bit confusing at times.

Too much this kind of scene

I feel that the director (Michael Bay) was working very hard on the plot which I think is quite acceptable but not great. It did serve its purpose well though. I can tolerate the draggy part during the combat but I just don’t really appreciate too much (Megan Fox) Mikaela’s boobies bouncing and cleavage views. Some sexy sights will definitely stimulate our vision and brain but overdoing it wasn’t very wise. There were parts that (Shia LaBeouf) Sam’s parent and some of the new Autobots acted silly which didn’t really help increase the plot’s credit but at least they were in fact hilarious. The act surely helps to delight viewers in certain ways.

Mr. Cool Optimus Prime

Transformer 2 is no doubt with flaws but, the movie definitely deserves to be as high as it could possibly reach in its chart. I did enjoy the premiere screening session a lot and it was one of the best I had so far. As for the movie, twice in 2 days was never too much. I’ll still strongly recommend it as one of the movie you must not miss the cinema. Since I like it a lot, I’m still going to give it a high rating even with some imperfection.

Myhorng Rating: 9.0/10

Courtesy, manners, compassion, sympathy or even morale are some of the elements in our daily life. How much we care about these values & how much we have ever thought they could bring to the betterment in term of our quality of life. Have you ever pondered why we Malaysians just like to curse behind the wheels on the highways, cursing when someone obstructed your way or even raising our anger when some favorite spot of yours are taken – though it’s not exactly your private spot for parking?

Above are just some basic examples of how we Malaysians have neglected our core values & have been very discourteous to the people around us. Have we ever seen politeness being practiced throughout all, be it in shops, public service departments or even some private organizations. Or, is politeness & greetings only available to certain affluent society like the rich & famous on a luxury service organization. Who should we really blame on such destruction of morale?

Should we look into the local education systems as the basic fundamental to this? I strongly believe we are all equipped with the basic moral of good mannerism & courtesy from young from any of the institutions you were enrolled. But, theory remained just in text books. Implementations & practices are the root cause here. How much we have remembered & how much we have adopted in our daily life is questionable.

If we look into our society today, are we seeing any leadership by example? Are we the minority to be stereotyped if we uphold the belief & practice of some basic courtesy of at least being patient on road, to greet some people you hardly talk to or even cleaner of your office.

Perhaps, pay a little attention to our business practice and operation. We might be rude and harsh at some time due to anger built up instantaneously. Maybe you might have also witness some sarcastic, bossy, authoritative instructions. Take a deep breath! Just pay some attention to the danger or harm one could create on another. Be polite & at the same time be firm on what you stand for.

Bottom line is just be a little bit nicer to everyone & you can create difference – SMILE! You can definitely improve your life & others.



by KSC

Two weeks back, just before the Tiger Nuffnang standout party, I went for the 3^rd movie for the week in the afternoon. Never had any experience on a full length 3D movie so far making me craved for this Monster vs Alien 3D way back April when I had my business trip to Shenzhen. Yup, it was up on big screen that much earlier than us. The willpower to watch this animation just got enhanced when Suanie told me how good it is during yamcha session the day before.

The story itself was very predictable after 15mins watching it. The moral behind the plot was so clear that as if you were having déjà vu. You could easily found similarity in at least 100 movies. However, what really make it a pleasant watch were the very fine piece of 3D work and the interesting yet hilarious monsters lineup.

I’m not sure how’s the effect watching in normal 2D screen but for 3D, by watching monster Ginormica’s (Susan) hair itself worth the 60% more pricey ticket. It was so fine and making everything looks so real. This 3D experience was so much different from those I had on short film. Awesome job by DreamWorks Animation team.

The main character Susan was the backbone for the whole movie and kept the plot flows. However, what made the movie interesting were a bunch of weird supporting creatures. I found the dumb but funny B.O.B. was the most interesting monster that actually stole the show. The vocalist behind the screen actually did a very good job in making those monsters sound fascinating.

Hugh Laurie - Dr. Crockroach Ph.D

Rainn Wilson - Gallaxhar

Reese Witherspoon - Susan Ginormica

Seth Rogen - B.O.B.

I truly enjoyed my animation screening session and really looking forward for more 3D movie in the future. However, wearing the 3D glasses was not very fun though.

Myhorng Rating : 6.75/10

Thanks to the nightmare which I couldn’t remember by now, I’m awake middle of the night AGAIN and not able to return to my precious dreamland. I’m not too sure if it got to do with new milestone in my life or there are just too many things on my head. Since that’s it, I should be clearing my blogging backlog.

I was once again invited to attend the Tiger Standout Party by Nuffnang with the blog post I did earlier. I was slightly late for it and by the time I reached, most of the guests were inside HQ9 craving for their food on the buffet line. I had my dinner before the party which was why I was late for the photo taking and mingle around session outside the club. Thinking about food when you are awake middle of the night never a good idea. It makes me hungry NOW.

I came across some who claim bloggers are a bunch of people who has nothing much to do and having a boring life. By looking at the party, I think a lot of bloggers in fact really know how to party and standout in life. Everyone shown up in all sort of costume and outfit from terrorist to CTU, from beggar to Princess Cleo Petra, native Spartans to civilized gigantic costume, you name it and you will find it there. I went in gay-ish T-shirt bought by Mel from her Bangkok trip.



There were some funny games, human slaves bidding with Nuffnang dollars which I won quite amount of them from Carol and HuaiBin and best costume of the day voting etc. Free flow of tiger beer throughout the night definitely one of the reasons cheered everyone up. I didn’t drink any of the Tiger fluid because mummy told me not to. OK that was not true. I was half sick.


The party was heading to the end not too long after the announcement of Timothy’s birthday which everyone got to stuck a piece post it note with wishes on it. It was a another great successful party throw by Nuffnang.


Pictures taken from
Shaolintiger
Kimberlycun
Yatz
Joshua