iPad - Cool (Just like walking with 4 iPhones)

Coolest invention....but doesn't it sound like iTampons? hee....



No!! No!! No!!! this is not the iPad...LOL

This is the real thing itself:



The iPad has a big and brightly lit screen which offers the viewer something more visually striking than the pocket sized iPhone/iPod Touch. It looks like an over sized iPod =)

What's the most wonderful thing? It has NO CAMERA!!! YEAH!!! LOL...

It has a virtual keyboard software for spreadsheets and word processing....Cool huh? Sounds like a netbook?? Not really....its in between an iPhone and a netbook...The flat, magazine sized device allows users to surf net, send emails, read e-book and also watch movies...

Too bad it does not have USB or SD card slots...thats APPLE right? Sadly no flash capability as yet...and on top of that it does not have a multi-tasking functionality....crucial for users who likes to do lots of things at a time...

Key Features:
Memory: 16, 32 and 64 GB
Processor: 1GHz Apple A4 next-generation chip
Operating System: OS X
Battery life: Up to 10 hours

Quoted from kotaku.com

As Apple head honcho Steve Jobs noted during his talk, the regular iPhone user will be very familiar with the iPad's interface, minus a few quirks. One is that, with all that extra space, native iPad apps like YouTube Videos and Maps get a bit more complicated. Searching for locations on the iPhone feels intuitive; doing the same on the iPad will take some reconditioning.

More straightforward apps, like watching movies downloaded through iTunes, managing e-mail, calendars and adjusting settings do a damn good job of offering a lot more visual information onscreen at once.

Another quirk is the software keyboard, which does not "fix" the iPhone's keyboard woes simply by being bigger. I was still hunting and pecking, seemingly at a slower pace than on an iPhone, and making plenty of mistakes. The most frustrating change was the placement of the delete button. I've become accustomed to its placement on the iPhone, just to the right of the "M" key. The delete button is now situated in the upper right, the SHIFT key in its place, like a standard keyboard.

The keyboard/dock accessory works just like a mini Apple keyboard does, letting iPad users bypass the need for onscreen typing. The implementation of the keyboard is fine, with a handful of function row keys dedicated to iPad buttons like the Home button, Search and Photos.

Much was made of the iPad's iWork suite of apps (Numbers, Pages, Keynote), a trio that I didn't test during my hands-on time. But I did get a chance to take the iBooks browser and shop for a spin, which rendered fake book pages beautifully, making customization of the page display simple.

While the iPad looks like a solid, shiny piece of technology right now, something new to covet and throw hundreds of dollars at, it hasn't yet made a third pillar convert out of me. The device is zippy and well built, improving many of the iPhone's better first party apps. Apple still has a few kinks to work out, a few interface improvements to make, but it's worth keeping an eye on.

Naked Pictures of your friends - iPhone Applicaiton

Since Da had an iPhone to play with he's been downloading all sorts of games and application onto his iPhone....

Recently he was telling me about this cool application that you can sabotage your friend, take his/her pictures in a proper manner (something like a ID photo) and merge it successfully flawlessly with a nice naked body and be able to pass it off as "your friend's nude photo"...it even merge well with the background if you have a good "ID photo" taken...

As CH has said "google is your best friend..." I went and googled about it to see if I can find anything if there is really such an interesting application....to my amazement...I found out that the name of the apps is call "NUDE IT" made such a XXX and actually its only a scam....

The iPhone app that lets you see your friends naked....Interestingly if you show anyone the video below people will go wow is that real??



Everyone using the iPhone will be wishing that this is true...LOL...especially the guys hee...

Quoted from www.fastcompany.com

Also, Presselite tells us exactly what we want to hear, legitimacy be damned. Here's the description they sent, which is the same one that appears in iTunes (emphasis mine):

"Nude It is a funny Augmented Reality application for the iPhone that lets you see through clothes. Simply point your iPhone at a friend (less than 6.5 ft / 2 m from you), and using Nude It scanning technology, you will see him or her totally in the nude. Please, note that you must clearly see your friend's face on the screen to get good results."

Tack on Apple's stamp of approval, Presselite's relatively legitimate reputation (previously, they've developed iPhone games and subway map apps), and our general human willingness to buy into things that sound too good to be true--especially if they involve nudity!--and it's no wonder "Nude It" has made such a splash.

Alas, it's all for naught. We bought and tested the app in the name of truth and justice, and we can exclusively reveal that it's a crock of sh*t. Here's how the description should read: "Simply point your iPhone at a friend or random Internet photo, and using basic AR technology, we'll superimpose a stock image of a chiseled body over his or her torso."

Quoted from www.iphonesavior.com

"Simply point your iPhone at a friend, and using Nude It scanning technology, you will see him or her totally in the nude."

This novelty app which I found dumber than a box of hammers, fails to deliver on the nudity promised by its developers in their App Store description. But it sure does make for a tantalizing headline.

I prefer watching the original Nude It iPhone video spoof (below) that inspired Presselite to lay this less than golden goose egg in the App Store.

I bought it, tested it and confirmed it blows. Take the buck you save on this app and offer it to your friends to shamelessly strip off their clothing and then just snap a regular photo. You'll have much more fun without trying to augment that awkward reality moment.

Turns out its just a scam....

According to www.CNet.com....it's technically incorrect..

How to Dye Your Hair Red: new "Liese" Cassis Berry color

How to Dye Your Hair Red: Everything You Need to Know About Red Hair....

I have dyed my hair red yesterday, thanks to ss that I did not choose the stupid ash brown which she said "aiyo you will look so old" and thanks to Hx I have chosen a brighter shade of red for my hair dye..."The color will look darker then the one you choose", she emphasized. Else I guess the color I choose will never be able to produce such good effect...

I bought the new "Liese" Cassis Berry color (made in Japan)...also known as the Liese Bubble Hair color from Kao....real fun to dye my hair with...just follow the instruction inside and make sure you don't shake the mixture too much and its as easy as shown in the advertisements...real cool...

So a new look and a new hair cut =)

Da was arguing with me regarding leaving the hair dye longer like 2 times the time stated and I was thinking that should not be the way...

How to Dye your Hair Red: The Precautions

1. Wear gloves. (You must put on gloves at all times while applying the hair dye. The hair dye will definitely damage your skin if you are not careful)
   
2. Don't leave dye on for longer than instructed. (some people think leave on longer the better, that's not true)
   
3. Rinse your scalp thoroughly with water after use. (make sure all the chemical that you have applied on your hair has been washed off)
   
4. Never mix different hair dye products. (you don't know what kind of chemical effects the different products will have, just to play safe...never mix them...)
   
5. Do an allergy test each time you color your hair.
6. Never dye your eyebrows or eyelashes. This may lead to infection and even blindness. The FDA bans the use of hair dyes for eyelashes and eyebrow tinting.

The point I want to point out is that it does not mean you leave the hair color on the longer the better or brighter the color will be...

You can have a look at http://www.glamouredited.com for more information.

And just as a precaution on how to maintain hair color (it doesn't have to be red, works for all...), some of the guidelines to keeping it as if you have just dyed your hair red:

1. Use a shampoo formulated to enhance red hair. It will contain fewer detergent ingredients and provide more moisture.
2. Shampoo with cool water. Hot water fades color. (OMG thats really gonna be a pain...)
   
3. Condition every time you wash. Select a red-enhancing conditioner. (there are conditioner out there that are for color hair get those...)
   
4. If you hair isn’t too oily, try a leave-in conditioner, which helps protect hair. (this really keeps your hair healthy and smooth especially after a torturing hair dye session...)
   
5. Apply a deep-conditioning treatment or hydrating mask once a week.
6. Minimize exposure to sunlight and chlorinated water, which contribute to fading. (meaning no swimming especially...)

Wallet MIA? Stolen?

I was so worried that last friday that my wallet is missing when I went home...I assumed some one stole it from my table since I checked with everyone around me if they saw me bringing it back to the office...or anyone have loitered around our working area...I even suspect the guy who came upstairs to check our machine! OMG...Melon said to double check before I accuse someone...anyway I was not gonna accuse him cos its impossible to track him even if he was really the one who'd taken my wallet...How to track?

KW (JJ look alike) saw me as he was gonna go back and he followed me back to office to see if he can help me find...I already made Uncle Benben and serina look out for me, they couldn't find it...So I doubt I can be able to find it also...just to play safe...

After I calmed down from the whole situation, I analysed with some of my friends and concluded that staff like us will never jeopardize our own career over such a small thing...thats for sure...the janitors? Even confirm impossible...they are paid little but they will never do that too...anyway I never thought that any of our colleague or even the cleaning aunty will do such thingy...

CH called me at around midnight to back track with me whether I have left the wallet some where....conclusion that we had was that its either with the Fruit Stall Uncle or someone stole it...

Just to play safe, I went to the police station to make a police report and as usual there are lots of interesting thing that happens....first there was this young lady who brought her son to the station seeking help from the police man...She said "I know this is my problem, but this boy of mine does not understand that this is not right...he keeps getting violent with the house helper everytime we leave the house" (she was referring to her maid) So the policeman was so nice, said to the kid sternly "Do you want to stay here with us? You gotta understand that its an offence to be violent to people." Wow you should have seen the look on the kid's face...he was like gonna cry alreay...Took me like at least 1 1/2 hour to complete the police report...one section of the police report stated that "I am certain that the wallet is stolen in the company's premises." OMG I keep asking her to change the wording to "missing" or "gone" but she insisted that the Investigating Officer (IO) has instructed that she write it in such manner as it is an official police report it should be written in such manner...So got no choice...

Before I left, they received a phone call from some residence around the area complaining that someone played prank on them and actually called and ordered around SGD$200 plus pizza for them...OMG...thats pure sabotage...

I wanted to check with the fruit stall uncle about the wallet but 15 mins after I reached the office we had fire drill...so no choice gotta evacuate and check about the whereabouts of my wallet later.

Turn our when I went to the fruit stall uncle he passed me my wallet nicely wrapped in a plastic bag...yeah!!!!! So happy that I don't need to replace my wallet...this my favourite wallet!! Ha ha ha....what a bungler...I even checked with the security whether anyone sent it back to them...I guess the fruit stall uncle knows that I will go and find him so he kept it for me...he trust himself more then the security...very thoughtful of him...but cos of that I also have to cancel all my cards and make new ones...

Anonymous SMS

This morning I received an sms from some anonumous person, "Some one told me you are an open minded gal looking for a good time. If so, I would be interested to assist". Wa damn I was so angry dunno who played prank on me lor...

So I showed CH and walked over to show Hx the sms..."You means some one wrote your number in a guy's toilet??" OMG!!! That really scares me...Anyway they both agree I should play "insurance agent" and call the person to find out who's the person and what is his name...How can they be so sure that its from a guy? can't it be a lady who SMSed me and made a mistake? LOL...

Anyway when I called up the person I quickly recognized the voice.... "what the F**k are you trying to do?" OMG...Its Da...he had prank sms me using his Iphone..."You interested right? You interested right? You called back" He said repeatedly while I screamed at him on the phone..."You too free huh?" I laughed and hanged up...I am a real chicken...a prank SMS can really scare me man...

After I hanged up the phone, CH helped me sms to the "Anonymous" number, "Yes, what would you like to do to me? Lets meet in some dark alley. I like to be surprised..." OMG...LOL...Hx verified and sent out the sms...So funny...

Reply from Da: "Oh boy! You are a naughty gal indeed. When can we meet?"...this really brings out all the laughter...He really can make people laugh...

"White sands staircase or guys toilet? So wat time? Or the library between the shelves? Rem to bring a red rose so i can identify you You make me feel excited"...Ha ha...One sms contributed by 3 of us...staircase and by me...toilet, guys toilet and library is by CH and the best part? The ROSE is by Hx...

"The guys toilet sounds fun. I will let you know the time later. How will I be able to identify you?" Anyway SMS becoming a bit too R(A)...ha ha...So I replied him with what CH suggested...

"I will not be wearing anything...very easy to differentiate especially in a guys toilet right?" LOL....Kinky...

Amazing how a simple sms can snowball to such an interesting event...

=)

Man who survived 2 Atomic Bombings

Don ran into my room and exclaimed: "OMG! This is so funny...I read about a Japanese who survived 2 atomic bombings!"

"How can that be possible?" I was thinking...

Demaging Effects of the Atomic Bomb
Thermal Heat - Intense thermal heat emitted by the fireball caused severe burns and loss of eyesight. Thermal burns of bare skin occurred as far as 3.5 kilometers from ground zero (directly below the burst point). Most people exposed to thermal rays within 1-kilometer radius of ground zero died. Tile and glass melted; all combustible materials were consumed.

Blast - An atomic explosion causes an enormous shock wave followed instanteneously by a rapid expansion of air called the blast; these represent roughtly half the explosion's released energy. Maximum wind pressure of the blast: 35 tons per square meter. Maximum wind velocity: 440 meters per second. Wooden houses within 2.3 kilometers of ground zero collapsed. Concrete buildings near ground zero (thus hit by the blast from above) had ceilings crushed and windows and doors blown off. Many people were trapped under fallen strunctures and burned to death.
Radiation. People exposure within 500 meters of ground zero was fatal. People exposed at distances of 3 to 5 kilometers later showed symptoms of aftereffects, including radiation-induced cancers.

Bodily Injuries
Acute symptoms. Symptoms appearing in the first four months were called acute. Besides burns and wounds, they included: general malaise, fatigue, headaches, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, abnormally low white blood cell count, bloody discharge, anemia, loss of hair.

Aftereffects. Prolonged injuries were associated with aftereffects. The most serious in this category were: keloids (massive scar tissue on burned areas), cataracts, leukemia and other cancers.

The physicist Albert Einstein did not directly participate in the invention of the atomic bomb. But as we shall see, he was instrumental in facilitating its development.

In 1905, as part of his Special Theory of Relativity, he made the intriguing point that a large amount of energy could be released from a small amount of matter. This was expressed by the equation E=mc2 (energy = mass times the speed of light squared). The atomic bomb would clearly illustrate this principle.

But bombs were not what Einstein had in mind when he published this equation. Indeed, he considered himself to be a pacifist (a new word I learnt, meaning someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes, One who loves, supports, or favours peace; one who is pro-peace; One who avoids violence; One who opposes violence and is anti-war). In 1929, he publicly declared that if a war broke out he would "unconditionally refuse to do war service, direct or indirect... regardless of how the cause of the war should be judged."

Japan is the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks. About 140,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and 70,000 in Nagasaki.

On Aug. 6, 1945, At 2:45 A.M. local time, the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber loaded with an atomic bomb, took off from the US air base on Tinian Island in the western Pacific. Six and a half hours later, at 8:15 A.M. Japan time, the bomb was dropped and it exploded a minute later at an estimated altitude of 580 +- 20 meters over central Hiroshima.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified "hibakusha," or radiation survivor, of the Aug. 9, 1945, atomic bombing in Nagasaki, but has now been confirmed as surviving the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier as well, city officials said.

He past away on monday 4th Jan at the age of 93, reported by ABC news.

Yamaguchi, an engineer by trade, was on a business trip to Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 when the world's first atomic bomb, code named "Little Boy" by the United States, left him temporarily blind and deaf, and with serious burns covering his body.

Three days later Yamaguchi had returned to his home in Nagasaki where less than 2 miles away the second bomb, "dubbed Fat Man", was dropped.

Is this about Corruption?

I have always thought that corruption is really the root to lots of problems...

My brother once told me before....because of corruption in Indonesia, "if they are given money to make roads, they will make it thinner and also the road will be smaller" and he added that "if such corruption is done in China, you have to pay more and they give you the full thing".

Which I was quite amazed when I saw this particular post on Construction The Chinese Style and also Shanghai Bridge Made of Rubbish, gave me real shock, how can man be so selfish to pocket money and not think of the consequences of such action? Don't they know that this is a life and death matter?

Construction The Chinese Style

The structure itself was a 13-storey Shanghai apartment building, still under construction, built alongside a number of identical developments, the owners of which are likely eyeing their own foundation...

Investigations into cause of the collapse are ongoing, though it hardly takes much insight to realize the likely reason.

Such innovative construction techniques are said to be typical throughout China.

It is such a lucky thing that this estate is still under construction, or else I am not sure how many people will be dead and affected....

Shanghai Bridge Made of Rubbish

This is even better...a bridge made of waste materials and styrofoam....yes styrofoam!! OMG....that is so unthinkable! How can they be so naive to think that they can get away with such ridiculously build bridge? It will sure collapse!

Citizens of Shanghai are aghast at the collapse of a major new bridge, pictured, which was revealed to be constructed partially out of rubbish instead of concrete.

The bridge, spanning the Wusong River in central Shanghai, was completed in 2009 and replaced a century old bridge with a more modern design.

However, after only a short period in operation the bridge began to collapse, with investigators finding such sturdy construction materials as bags of rubbish, Styrofoam, scrap wood and waste plastic used in the structure in place of reinforced concrete.