Back from Bangkok&Happy 2007!

Yes it’s been almost a week since I’m back from Bangkok with Sek Ling.

It was fun in Bangkok. Good food and cheap stuff. We went there with 2 luggages and came back with 4 luggages filled. Except for the fact that some of the thais constantly trying to scam tourists, it was a totally enjoyable trip. We thought 5 days and 4 nights in 1 city would be long but it wasn’t. We still missed some places of visit and Sek Ling said she hasn’t shopped enough. Haha.

Let’s allow the photos to do the talking:

(Collages are done by Sek Ling)

For me, I think I really miss Thai food. We had so many meals in Bangkok and most of them are at the roadside stalls, yet none of them taste bad. How I wish I could buy yummy chicken rice now below my house in the middle of the night.

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It’s a few hours to 2007 and I’m alone in my room, not out celebrating anywhere. Didn’t follow Sek Ling back to Malaysia as I had to catch up on my work after 1 week of leave.

To all of you, Happy New Year!

TIME Person of the Year: Me

OK, you too.

I’m gonna include this in my resume right now. Think that should just impress any potential employer.

GMobileSync

The most amazing piece of software that I have found after the my switch to Pocket PC from Palm 3 months ago has got to be this, GMobileSync. And it has just been released this month, and it’s FREE!

I have hated Microsoft Outlook since day 1 of my Pocket PC use. It’s just dumb, requiring too many unnecessary clicks for simple actions, and the 2-way syncing is problematic.

The moment I have found this software and got it working (after some help from Eric, the author), I am happy that my Pocket PC’s calendar will be useful again like my Palm days. It enables me to use Google Calendar, with features as good as any desktop calendar application and sync it to my Pocket PC using Eric’s free software. And with the fact that the calendar is web-based, it means that my calendar will be accessible not just on my Pocket PC but any computers in the world that are connected to the net. Not just that, I can then do without the buggy Microsoft ActiveSync for data syncing and would be able to sync my pocket calendar across any Wi-Fi connection.

Eric is simply efficient with answering technical support questions on his blog and also is very efficient at fixing bugs and coming up with new releases every few days.

I have pledged on the blog that I am going to donate some to encourage and thank him for making such a fine piece of software as soon as he gets the donation function up.

Do check out GMobileSync if you are a Pocket PC user and are, like me, hate Microsoft Outlook for calendar.

Technorati Pwnage (Some Love for the Bloggers)

Got tagged by Design Translator over at Design Sojourn on this little game to pwn Technorati and also to spread some love for fellow bloggers this holiday season.

The little ‘rules’ for the game:

What YOU can do is simply create a new post on your blog, but CUT AND PASTE the list I have below, and then ADD any blogs you feel aren’t getting their due either. It can be 1 blog, or a hundred(or none if you simply want to repost the same list), but the idea is, find those great blogs that, for whatever reason, you feel aren’t getting their due, link-wise.

Then after you leave your post, the next blogger will do the same thing, cut and paste YOUR list, and add THEIR blogs to the list, then repost it. Add the same instructions in your post that the next blogger should cut and paste YOUR list, and add any blogs they feel should be on it to THEIR list. The list will get increasingly long, and all the blogs will get a sort of reverse ‘pyramid-affect’ of link-love.

And for some background info on the meme, or whatever people call it these days, read this over at the starter’s blog or over at Design’s Translator’s post where he has explained it quite well.

Let me start with the consolidated list:
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Bob Sutton
BubbleDesign
Accure’s Carpark
Uzyn
Sparklette
Cuteable
Design East
Design Milk
Design Asides
Fugly Designs
Geekette
Gem Sty
i-Eye
Bjorn Lee
IDAsia.org
Niblettes
Pluit Solutions
reBang
sgEntrepreneurs
Signs and Wonders
Wifi Cat
Sumajin Blog
Technogad
The Foo Logs
Uniquely the Epitome
Aen Direct

And here’s my little something something:
Sek Ling
Cobalt Paladin
Daphne Loo
Sweska
Gratisvibes
U-Fong
Linda Chua
Xiao Luo
Whippleworld
Lih Shin
Shimmer
Chuan Zhi

Let’s spread the love.

Where is my December?

Everyone’s having a good time in December, but definitely not me.

I think I have overloaded myself with commitments and work this December.

Here are some of them, in summary:

• Ping.sg - I am working with a designer and also improving its functionality and usability to get it ready for the upcoming version 1. I am very much excited about this and I wish I can devote my entire effort on this though I know I can’t.
• Final Year Project - I’m struggling in this. I was pretty ok with it at first but as it progresses, I am becoming more and more lethargic about this project with more bugs and bad codings that are in the simulator that I am using. Just done with my Continual Assessment 2 presentations and now am in a great deal of pressure to achieve some target by the next semester.
• Client web development works - I am taking up not many jobs this holiday but with all the pressures, it is becoming quite tough for me. One job that I have taken up is pretty challenging for me even though I have been doing this for more than a year. I will be designing a SISTIC-like e-ticketing system for a PRC company. This job requires me to communicate and work closely with programmers in China. The world is getting really borderless now. On top of that, there are also some in-progress jobs that I have to complete for my existing clients.

I guess everyone goes through this every now and then.

At least I’m getting my break next week, by going to Thailand for vacation with my girl. Now I’m looking forward to that temporary escape plan.