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March 2, 2010

Flavors.me - The Simple Social Media Aggregator

via flavors.me

I quote the copy on the main page of flavors.me;

"Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant website using personal content from around the internet"

This is very true, it cannot be simpler than flavors.me, it's design and functionality are top-notch. Jonathan Marcus, flavors.me's master of the universe has been constantly at battle with new features, community comments, marketing, and the unforgiving hardware issues and software bugs - Ah, Jon, we can relate. You're doing a great job.

Flavors.me has been available to the public since Feb 25, 2010. You can see my sample site at: http://flavors.me/nickchhan

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February 27, 2010

XGen IT Store Sold A Second-Hand Soundcard as First-Hand

Be careful about this store at the lower ground floor of One Utama, PJ. They sold to my friend a secondhand Audigy soundcard that was sold at 2007. Not only did they never apologise but the cashier had the audacity to tell it to my face that the sticker date on the card is a manufacturing date and not a sell date. I retorted, bullshit.

The box was dented, the card wasn't glossy, and there was usage rust at the sockets. Oh, the card didn't even work - no audio output.

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February 25, 2010

Today, on Prophet Mohamed's Birthday...

I supported a spastic kid at the Spastic Children Association of KL.

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February 25, 2010

Photo with Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir

Was at the Social Media Club, KL for a talk about 'Social Media for Social Good'.

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February 24, 2010

Spotted: @alvintey at PacketHub

An ex colleague from XM malaysia, Alvin came over to collect his prize that he won from ruumz.com

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February 16, 2010

Freak Upload Speed (P1W1MAX)

I was doing a routine backup onto my data cloud which was roughly 1GB. Normally, that would've take hours on my P1 Plus package connection (500Kbps upload). Well, y'know, Malaysia's upload speed is less than desirable. Anyway, I thought I would plunk this 1GB dump and go do some other stuff while it uploads. I was shocked that my files were all uploaded at a fraction of the time - thanks to the 1000KB upload speed.

I wish this wasn't temporary :( C'est la vie.

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February 10, 2010

Entertaining Bae Jeung fom Korea

     
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BJ visiting Malaysia for 9 days. First stop, Library, The Curve. Good crowd, must be the holiday season.

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February 8, 2010

The X-Mini Max 2 Portable Speakers

   
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After getting introduced to the X-Mini portable speakers by my colleague, Arsyan, I spent the next month just pondering if the value equaled the cost of the accessory. Rarely do I fall into the impulse buy trap, especially if it's geek gear.

After a month, I felt that it was a justified purchase. I could use it when I'm outdoors, in my bathroom, at Starbucks, etc. Heck, even when Im on my PC - so I didn't need to unplug my speakers and connect it to my iPhone. Also, I thought it would be great for my audiobook playbacks.

Boy, am I right. I went to the store and got the X-Mini Max 2 - the latest model by the Singaporean company. Lasting 14 hours, with great treble and average bass, it's indeed one good purchase at only RM179. Comes in 3 colours: dark red, black, and white. My audiobooks sounds better than ever, of course my music as well compared to the stock inbuilt speakers of the phone. 

Just a precaution: the speaker comes with special cables, if one was to lose this cable, I don't think you can purchase a spare. I intend to write to the company and find out.

Official Site: http://www.x-mini.com

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February 7, 2010

Just arrived; my N7 baseball cap

   
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Just arrived, thanks Bioware!

Update (Feb 17, 2010): Picked up a new accessory for my dog-tag from Hong Kong, see picture 2.

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February 7, 2010

10 Things I Want In My Lifetime

So recently I got together with some friends and well, we talked about life. What are the 10 things you'd like in life. Well, here's mine;
  1. Be a good digital strategist.
  2. Learn to cook lobster bisque and mom's Ar Char recipe perfectly.
  3. Live to see/experience quantum computing, a new source of energy (fusion), the advancement of humanity in space, the end of Malaysia's racial politics, and the benefits of the large hadron collider.
  4. Be knowledgable enough to publish industry white papers of objective quality.
  5. Tour an international zone on humanitarian efforts for a minimum of 3 months.
  6. Open a soup kitchen.
  7. Provide mom the perfect golden age she deserves.
  8. Marry someone that is passionate in her core interest, opinionated, spiritual, spunky, and thinks of money as a reward and not the reason.
  9. Survive raising my children.
  10. Never to get jaded and fall into complacency.
What are yours?

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