Just an ordinary guy, living an unforgettable life, in an extraordinary world.
On Feb 4, our team gathered in the early morning to prep up for the launch of ruumzCauses at Bijou, Mont Kiara Damai, Kuala Lumpur. Over many months of hard work culminated to today. We invited bloggers, media journalists, writers, celebrities, ambasadors, and the admirable people from the charity organisations to be part of this launch.
ruumzCauses is one of our big projects, it is our obligation to ethics & responsibility as a citizen, as a human-being. We wanted to help and we wanted to fight against the people that mocked charity by engaging in fraudulent scams in times of dire need. So we came up with an easy-to-use online system that was transparent to the public - we will be engaging an international audit firm.
I thought the launch was pretty good - a fun casual event; yet debonair, the theme was praised, and from the feedback we got, it looks like were on track to make a good difference, all together.
More info at: www.ruumz.com/causes
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Arysan, Alex and I had a close look and feel of the new MIMOS JEN-ii - a tablet PC aimed at the non-techy Market. We personally feel it's a great idea, to make things simple and connect people to the information age. But this piece of doodoo isn't at all easy or useful. With a 5 to 8 minute load time and applications that are practically useless, I think it misses the target. Check out the vid and pics.
Update on TheStar (Feb 17, 2010): http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2010/2/17/technology/20100217142954&sec=technology
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Media Prima launched an iPhone app to stream 3 of their radio stations over the air. It's a clear quality stream of 128kbs and it's streamed lived. The 3 stations are; Fly FM (English), Hot FM (Malay), and One FM (Chinese). There are a few quirks here and there but that's probably because the app hasn't gone through an aesthetics process yet - the app feels like it just came out from the developer oven.
My opinions on where it can improve;
Being a big consumer of streaming music, I have to say this is better than AMP's app and there's alot of potential for the MPB app to grow. Pretty cool if you ask me.
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I attended the P1 Social Media Evening - a closed event to thank the many people that helped make this year, a great year for P1. Tonight, the bottled beer and vodka is freeflow. I met some friends, some of the 15Malaysia directors, Weng from Uberfusion, sixthseal, smashpop, Tian Chad, KY, Josh Lim, Paul Moss, and many more. Someone recognized me through my facebook picture as well, her name's Felicia - a friend of my middleschool mate, Jonathan Ha. How nice of her to introduce herself.
Above are some photos taken with my iPhone - as you can see, it doesn't do well in a low lit environment. More high quality pics will be posted soon on ruumz.com
By chance, I met a girl whom I found strikingly charming. Perhaps, we'll meet again.
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Ever since I started working (indirectly) for the fastest growing WIMAX network in Malaysia, Packet One (P1), I've gotten my share of questions from family and friends interested about the service - coverage, how to get a better signal, packages, etc. Especially since I manage a casual online gaming community, celestialorder.net - I do get an average 2-7 queries a day regarding P1.
It's also a chance for me to get feedback. Of course I want P1 to succeed in everyway possible, but I'm not zealous to be blindsided by the shortcomings of the service. I've gotten both good and bad comments and I wondered how's it fairing at a larger scale. Thus, the poll below. I'd like to know your comments as well. If you have any questions or problems, I'd like to hear them, perhaps in some small way I can help you. Please note that this isn't an official P1 poll, it's a personal endeavour.
My personal experience with P1 has been more than satisfactory. I'm currently on the home plus package (RM99) since April this year, at first I got a few disconnects at night, after a month or so the problems stopped. That's when I decided to ditch StreamyX. Up until now I can download up to 180KBs, after I reach my 20GB cap I get throttled to 55KBs. Video streaming doesn't require me to pause and buffer the movie. When the movie loads, it plays until the end. Browsing? No problem. Online gaming though does suffer higher than normal ping. If I got 80ms on StreamyX, I get about 200ms on P1. Not ideal, but hey, it's not like the bulk of my online time is gaming anyway. But when I do game with my pals overseas, I wished it was better.
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So Maxis has released a pretty neat app for Malaysian movie goers and it's available on the iTunes app store. The app will allow you to check showtimes, movie info, trailers, and even allow you to make a booking - only for TGV cinamas for now. Booking will open your safari browser, so it's not part of the app. Still useful nonetheless.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/maxis-movie-bookings-application/id343002280?mt=8
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