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Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010

2010-01-01T00:49:00.000+08:00

It's time for a short review of what I did for the past few months in the year 2009. Let's do an unordered list here: Those who don't follow my tweets should know that I'm now living and working in Singapore. I moved out from Kuala Lumpur and started working in Singapore by around August. Migrating was quite a tiring but fun exercise, especially to another country. I find it very convenient to

Tab previews idea for Firefox

2009-08-04T18:08:00.002+08:00

Tab previews feature is not a new idea. It was originally planned for Firefox 3 and 3.5 (was known as 3.1). Now, it's back again in the Firefox 3.6 nightlies. There is also the Ctrl-Tab extension by Dao Gottwald, for you to install and try. In my opinion, this is a very cool feature. I've tried the extension on my Firefox and felt that it can be further improved. One of first thing that I

How I got started with Twitter

2009-04-26T22:32:00.000+08:00

First, let me do a quick introduction. Twitter is a web service for you to post what you are doing now. In other words, your current status. That's all. Still don't get it? Be patient, I'll be covering that in a minute. Or five. I used to write a personal diary, as a way to record my thoughts and happenings in my life. There are things I've learnt. Things I found. At that time, I don't have a

BarCamp KL was a blast!

2009-04-07T23:39:00.000+08:00

Last weekend was really a blast, thanks to the BarCamp KL event held on April 4th and 5th. This is my second time participating in BarCamp and it just got even better than I thought. I met with few familiar faces like: Nazrul (@nazroll) Andy Goh (@hantu) Ikhwan Nazri (@tekong) Zi Bin from Opera (@zibin) Colin (@bytebot) Khai Lee (@khailee) Mike Foong (@mikefoong) @Zeo and more... Plus few new

Seven things about me

2009-01-21T02:03:00.000+08:00

Okay, I got tagged by Gen Kanai. It's been a long time I haven't been tagged, so things will be a little rusty, especially the fact that I don't blog often now. First, the golden rules: Link to your original tagger and list these rules in your post. Share seven facts about yourself in the post. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs. Let them

Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009

2008-12-31T21:04:00.000+08:00

2008 has been a great year, at least, for me. It's the year when I revived Phoenity. It's the year when I finally graduated from university. It's also the year when I started working full-time and have the extra time to keep up with all sorts of projects and stuff. Things change. Ya, a lot of things. To my surprise, I realised that I've only blogged 4 times in the year 2008, excluding this one.

The meaningful three years

2008-09-16T00:01:00.001+08:00

Everything that has a beginning has an end. I said that four years ago when I was a Form Upper Six student. It all ended in a snap when I start to study in UTAR for three years after that. Now that I look back, I haven't update my blog since February! I mean, this year. Whoa, time really flies and somehow I don't even realise it. Many things happened for sure and it's time for me to list them

Belated Happy Chinese New Year

2008-02-11T19:35:00.000+08:00

Alright, I'm back from my hometown yesterday. The traffic was terrible and it took 8 hours to reach KL from Penang! A huge headache! Well, I went back last week with my friend in a car. Since there are no Internet connection in my hometown, I got not choice but to use Opera Mini on my phone to update my twitter and sometimes check on Facebook. Also not forgetting to check my emails with Gmail

Phoenity is back

2008-01-14T17:33:00.003+08:00

Phoenity. What a nice name. That's what I said last time. Even now, it is still a very nice name. Phoenity. Good news everyone, I'm back. Phoenity is back. For the past two years, I've been very busy with university life and never actually have time for Phoenity. Many things have changed since then. Few things I noticed are: The explosive emergence of free icon sets from various talented

Mobile-friendly version of PenangBloggers.com

2008-01-09T23:11:00.001+08:00

Last week, I've been trying to make PenangBloggers.com mobile-friendly so that phone or PDA users could look out for the latest blog posts. Also, I would love to include iPhone as well. And perhaps try to create an iPhone-friendly site since there are so many out there. As the matter a fact, it shouldn't be called 'iPhone-friendly' because iPod touch has Mobile Safari as well. So, it's better

Goodbye 2007, Hello 2008

2007-12-31T10:01:00.000+08:00

Now is the time for me to wrap up what I've done in 2007. It's been great, so let's do a little list here: I've gone though two hard semesters and now I'm a third-year student. Wow. Time flies. It almost felt like a dream. Examinations, tests, projects and homeworks. Next year will mark the beginning of my very last semester, before graduating! I've launched my Death Note site on January, which

PenangBloggers.com launched

2007-12-23T00:14:00.002+08:00

Yes, a domain name for the Penang Bloggers portal! And of course, after about two years, a whole new refreshing design. Even the back-end script has been rewritten from scratch. Perhaps I should say, it's a totally different script. Previously, the Penang Bloggers portal hosted under my phoenity.com domain, was powered by Lilina. It's a good script. However, I kind of got tired of hacking the

Webmaster Gathering @ KL

2007-11-17T21:28:00.000+08:00

First, it's been a very, very long time that I haven't attend any public gathering. I used to join blogger gatherings in Penang, but due to my busy university life, I can't do much. But fortunately, I got the chance to attend the webmaster gathering today at Starbucks, KL Sentral. Yeah, lucky me. The gathering is pretty cool. I saw LiewCF of LiewCF.com. And a few people from Exabytes. And also

Pentago or Pentagoo?

2007-10-26T00:04:00.001+08:00

Confused? Don't worry. It's just a project I've been doing for the past few months. First, let me introduce the Pentago: Pentago is a two-player abstract strategy game invented by Tomas Flodén. The Swedish company Mindtwister has the rights of developing and commercializing the product. The game is played on a 6×6 board divided into four 3×3 sub-boards (or quadrants). Taking turns, the two

Vista-style tweaks for Firefox

2007-09-26T20:42:00.002+08:00

Last time, I used to play a lot with the Firefox interface. The following web pages can prove it: Rounded Address Bar Firefox 1.1 Options on Firefox 1.0 Neat Trick css help Those days were great. It reminds me how I use to apply some advanced CSS and XUL binding stuff to totally change Firefox's interface. So now, I'm going to share something that I've been using for few months now. This

Still alive and tumblelogging

2007-09-22T10:27:00.000+08:00

Ya, I'm still alive. And my examination period has passed. Wow, I feel so free now. Many things happened for the last few months, which include stuff like boring assignments and test papers. It was quite frustrating but it's okay now. Just waiting for the results to come out. Anyway, I've been pretty quiet here because I've started on something new called tumblelog. It's something like a

20062007 Birthday

2007-06-20T00:06:00.000+08:00

My 22nd birthday. Wow. Time is fast. My new semester has begun since last 3 weeks. Been quite busy since then. I'm now a Third Year student. My subjects now are Digital Signal Processing Systems. Embedded Systems Design, Computer Vision and Imaging, and Advanced Computer Networks. Sounds cool. And oh ya, I've been working on a new project these days. Stay tuned.

Main and supplementary examination, all done

2007-05-15T08:35:00.000+08:00

Just yesterday, I've done my supplementary paper for Economics, because I got 'D' for it. How unlucky. I've actually finish my main examination since 7 May. Gosh, I really have no idea wy a Computer Engineering student need to take Economics. It's an elective subject. Some of my course mates got to choose the Management Principle subject because it's obviously easier, while I'm stuck to this

Laptop, Vista and examination

2007-04-30T16:02:00.001+08:00

April is a great month. Quite great. Let's start: Finally, I got myself a new laptop! It's a HP Compaq Presario V3205TU, bought on 9 April 2007. I choose it over other products because it just looks so sleek. Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1Gb RAM, 120Gb hard disk memory space, 14.1" WXGA High Definition BrightView Widescreen Display and Altec Lansing speakers. Okay enough for my needs. Also, my

Days of silence, extended

2007-03-20T08:43:00.000+08:00

It's quite surprising that my intention to update my blog has been delayed for weeks ever since I got back from Penang last month. Sometimes, I feel like want to update my blog but later become lazy to type. Okay, time for updates: There's one thing I forgot to mention before I went back Penang for Chinese New Year. It's my new MP3 player, the Creative Zen V Plus. It costs around RM 400,

Days of silence till today

2007-02-16T18:26:00.000+08:00

Seems that I've been in quiet mode again since last month. I guess it's pretty normal for a university student. This semester just got more stuff than ever, with jam-packed hours for almost every day. Okay, here are two updates of my life: A little embarrassed to say, I finally dared to try ice-skating last month, in One Utama. It was a very cool experience indeed. Thanks to my friends for

Another project, Death Note

2007-01-05T15:25:00.001+08:00

Ya, I have my own projects, in case if you're wondering. I've done a content aggregation site before, using lilina. I've done a mapping site before, using worldKit. I learn a lot through these projects. Now I'm stepping my foot on another one. A good one, I think. I somehow got the idea when I was on the way back to my hometown, feeling so bored in the bus. It's called Death Note. Let me repeat,

Happy New Year 2007

2007-01-03T15:51:00.000+08:00

Wow, what a blast. Past few days have been really fun, with all the celebration since Christmas till New Year. I've been celebrating with my friends, going here and there such as Sungei Wang Plaza, BB Plaza, Berjaya Times Square, and staying over at friends house in Rawang and Nilai. First time celebrating both events in Kuala Lumpur can be so much fun and crazy at the same time. Haha! Gosh, I'm

Back from two wedding dinners

2006-12-17T21:12:00.000+08:00

Okay, I'm a little late to post what I did since the beginning of December. I was kind of busy with my sister's wedding and stuff. It all happens when I got back to Penang last month, went to Singapore with my parents and aunts, stayed there for few days, went back to Penang again and finally back here in Petaling Jaya. Wow. I've attended not one but two wedding dinners! One in Singapore and the

Back to the two browsers

2006-11-05T23:41:00.000+08:00

I'm in Kuala Lumpur now, just back from Penang two days ago. I got to admit, taking the bus to and fro is getting very exhausting these days. Sigh. Anyway, I'm safe and sound. I'll be working too. But then now I'm going to focus on one thing first. Before I went back to my hometown, I was planning to write my own review on the latest Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7. Now, this is the one. Sort