Yesterday, I went to Invent Singapore conference that organized at Pan Pacific Hotel. The conference includes 4 workshops but because of the time sake, you can only attend 2 out of 4 from them. As a result, I choose “Design in Innovation” and “An Inventor’s Journey” these 2 workshops.

The event start with a conference with few honorable speakers’ talk and a forum with speakers.

Invent Singapore 2008 Conference

There was an exhibition hall at the upper floor of the conference room as well.

Invent Singapore 2008 Exhibition

This is PlugKing that you can easily extend your power extension to unlimited (maybe?).

Plug King

We also got some robotic toys which is apparently expensive to own one (at least not me)

Robotic Toys

This one is awesome to me. In my imagination, the kidney machine is always big and heavy. Now, we have a portable and wearable version which is merely 1KG.

AWAK Portable Kidney

There still a lot of invention in the exhibition hall which I did not cover it here.  The event ended at 5PM. It was a tired but meaningful day. I get to know and learned from the experience that shared by others.

丧尸般,反复地,一二三的冷冰生活。

疲惫的门关闭着,房内月光写照黑白。

向窗外望,看,人来人往,来了走了。

不曾奢求,不曾支配,崇拜自由自在。

安静地,拼图着回忆,尝试了解明白。

坐在黑暗的角落,不时刻,望着那门。

好想,期待,会听到从门传来“咚咚”。

但,幸福,期望,永远成为奢侈的明天。

好累,很累,好困,想睡,躺下,合眼。

太太在二十五岁时问丈夫, 丈夫沮丧的回答她:
“我错过一个新的工作机会。”

叁十五岁时, 丈夫生气的告诉她:
“我刚错过了一班公车。”

四十五岁时, 丈夫伤心的说:
“我错过与亲人见最後一面。”

五十五岁时, 丈夫失望的回答:
“我错过了退休的好时机。”

六十五岁时, 丈夫匆匆的答说:
“我错过了看牙医的时间。”

一如往常的, 太太总是回以微笑, 而微笑中总带著落寞。

七十五岁那年, 太太不再问先生了,此时,先生正跪坐在病危的太太面前,想起太太每隔一段时间,总要问他的问题,他反过来问太太,而太太的微笑中带著解脱回答:
“这一生,我没有错过你!”

此时,先生早已泪流满面,原以为两人可以永远在一起,所以,终日忙著工作与繁琐的事,却从不曾用心体贴朝夕相处的另一半,先生紧抱著太太说:
“这辈子,我错过妳五十年来的深情?”

繁忙的都市里,有著许多为工作打拚的人,大家总习惯於把工作当成生活的重心,为了满足社会的价值,
不惜出卖自己的时间与身体,捨不得多花时间投资健康,以至於错过了陪同孩子成长的机会、忽略了身旁关心自己的亲友、轻忽 了自己的身体。

珍惜,果真要在错过後才能感受?

没有人知道明年今日会怎麽?

人世无常,赶紧把握当下,把心中的感激告诉爱你的人、用行动关心你的家人,把每一天都当成人生的最後一段,即使走了,也能让自己及身旁的人了无遗憾。

他们结婚已有两年了。

他爱好文学,经常写文章放上网络,可是从来没有人去看。他也会摄影,他们结婚的照片就是他自己拍的。

他很爱她。

她也是。

她脾气很大,经常“欺负”他,是个“辛辣小霸王”。

他脾气不大,经常让她,是个“廿四孝老公”。

今天,她又“任性”了。

她:“你为什麽不肯替我朋友的婚礼当摄影师?她答应价钱照付。”
他:“那一天我刚好没时间。”
她:“哼!”
他:“嗯?”
她:“什麽没时间?你少写几篇鬼都不看的小说,不就行了。”
他:“我相信总有一天,会有人欣赏的。”
她:“哼!不管怎样,你一定要替她拍婚礼照。”
他:“不行。”
她:“就只一次。”
他:“一次也不行。”

谈判失败了。於是,她下了最後通牒: “叁天之内,必须答应,否则… ”

第一天。她“封锁”了厨房、浴室、电脑、雪柜、电视机、音嚮组合,只有双人床没被“封锁” ,以示“宽宏大量” 。当然,她自己也要睡。他不在乎,因为他口袋还有点零钱。

第二天。她施以突袭,搜去他口袋的一切,并警告: “瞻敢找“外援”的话,一切後果自负。”他慌了。
晚上。床上。他求饶,希望她结束这种非常状态。她不睬他。决心不“软”不能被他的花言巧语“迷惑”。除非答应条件。

第三天。晚上。床上。他靠在床上,头朝东。她靠在床上,头朝南。
他:“我们好好谈谈。”
她:“不答应条件,不谈。”
他:“我谈的很重要。”

她不吭声。
他:“我们离婚吧。”

她头皮一炸,摸摸耳朵。
他:“我认识一个女孩。”

她气极了,想爬起来与他打一场。但她又忍住了,要让他把话说完, 不能没有“度量”,不过,她觉得眼睛有 点湿了。

他从胸口摸出一张照片。

她猜出他是从贴身衬衫口袋掏出来的,因为前天只有这件衬衫没有搜索过,是看走了眼。

他:“这个女孩很漂亮很温柔。”

她泪水出来了。

他:“而且性格也挺好。”

她很伤心,因为他把别的女孩子的照片放在“贴心”的口袋。

他:“她说和我结婚後全力支持我写作。”

她很嫉妒,因为当初她也对他说过这话。

他:“这个女孩是真心爱我的。”

她想爬起来朝他吼:“我不也是?”

他:“因此,我想她是不会逼我幹我不愿意幹的事的。”

她在考虑,但她气难消。

他:“你要看看我替她拍的照片吗?”

她:“? ”

他把那张照片凑到她眼前。

她火气很大,一掌打开他的手,再在他睑上留下鲜红的五指印。

他叹了口气。

她出了口气。

他把照片放回口袋。

她把手缩进被窝。

他把灯熄了,睡了。

她把灯开了,起来。

他睡著了。

她失眠了。

她後悔了,不该对他这样。

她又哭了,想了很多。

她要把他喊醒,要和他亲亲热热地谈谈。

她绝不再逼他了。

她盯住他胸口。

她要看看那个女孩究竟是什麽样子?

她摸出照片。

她又好气又好笑,又想哭又想笑。

那是她自己的“标準照”。

是他替她拍的。

她俯下身来,在他的脸上亲了一下。

他笑了。原来他也没有睡著。

人与人相处,感情有时淡有时浓。只要,不要忘记最初的相识情境,感情才能长久。恋人、朋友皆是。

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前日往回家的公车上,一对上班族男女吸引了我的目光,而他们的一段对话,更让人难忘。

每天搭乘公车上下班,来回通勤时间约莫近二小时,有时人少,可坐在位置上欣赏窗外的风景;人多时,也只能慢慢地挤回家,但这时,前日往回家的公车上,转程靠站时,乘客顿时多了起来。

一对上班族男女恰巧在我身边,吸引了我的目光。可能因为人多,男的不时地将手臂围住女的?并轻声的问

「累不累?」

「待会想吃些什麽?」

只见女的不耐烦地回答

「我已经够烦了,吃什麽都还不先决定,每次都要问我。」

男的一脸无辜的低下头,而後说了令我印象深刻的话。

「让妳决定是因为希望能够陪妳吃妳喜欢的东西,然後看到妳满足的笑容,把今天工作的不愉快暂时忘掉。我的能力不足,
妳工作上所受的委屈我没法帮妳,我所能做的也只有这样。」

女的听了後,满怀愧疚的说声对不起。

男的这才似乎重燃信心般说:

「没关係,只要你开心就好。」

而後亲吻了女的头髮。

下车前再回头看看这对情侣,男的依旧保护著心爱的人。

这样的情景,让我觉得自己今天同样在工作上有些许不愉快,如果没有听到这一段对话,回家後的我,可能也是一副全世界都对不起我的臭脸面对心爱的人,只在乎自己的委屈,却忽视对方的感受,不自觉地伤害最亲密的人。

所以在踏进家门时,我问自己,难道我要像公车上那位女孩一样忍心将自己的不满委屈带给身旁的人吗?

不,我想我现在应该做的是…

别再把工作上的情绪发洩在心爱的人身上,破坏了最亲密的关係,并且主动给自己一个微笑。

相遇,不是用来生气的!说得真好!

当自己快抓不住情绪时,想想这句话,应该会让烦忙的生活,加些微笑的因子吧!

同样地,在日常生活中,我们牵掛得太多,我们太在意得失,所以我们的情绪起伏,我们不快乐。在生气之际,我们如能多想想︰

「我不是为了生气而工作的。」

「我不是为了生气而教书的。」

「我不是为了生气而交朋友的。」

「我不是为了生气而作夫妻的。」

「我不是为了生气而生儿育女的。」

那麽我们会为我们烦恼的心情闢出另一番安详

Today was a sudden trip to Suntec City. Gilliam buzzed my messenger this morning and asked me whether interested to go to Sunctec because there is a comic exhibition. Guess you guys know my reply and I am here.

First impression, the exhibition hall is damn small and crowded. Right in the entrance, I saw the Storm Troopers are playing Wii. Honestly, I wish I can see some pretties play Wii Sport instead of these jerks.

Luckily, after a few steps, I find girls at the other Wii booth.

Here we got the modern matched version of beauty and the beast. She is cute, isn’t she? :p

I always found that it is interesting to watch people drawing. I used to draw but it was a decade ago, and I gave up my dream.

Realistic and cool looking Ironman. Pre-order one if you wish to.

Since this is a comic convention, we sure will see some cosplay. Here I got D.Grayman Leenalee and Allen Walker. Sorry Allen! I only focus on Leenalee.

Overall, nothing much to see. Maybe I am comparing it with Japan. LOL. But this may be a good start and I wish to see more of this kind event in future.

It had been quite few months I haven’t update my blog. I quit my previous job in Malaysia and now I am in Singapore.

I joined a local Singapore company, G Element and participate in the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge.

Today, I went to CommunicAsia 2008 at Singapore Expo to attend the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge Award Ceremony. My company participated and submitted a mobile solution, Earth@SG Mobile, in this challenge. I was lucky to get involved in the development just after I joined the company. Our solution is provide mobile user the local search proximity. User can query any points of interest (POIs) that near to their location using GPS.

Our booth at NAVTEQ LBS Challenge

We are manage to be one of the finalist in APAC region. But sadly we didn’t win any prices at the end. Joiku Soft walked away with the grand price of $275,000 USD. They provide an interesting software client called JoikuSpot which will turn your mobile into wireless hotspot.

Anyway, we still get us a “trophy” and it is a interesting experience to me.

Our Award

After the ceremony, I walked around the exhibition halls. Yeah, it is a huge exhibition with several halls together. There are a lot of exhibitors take part in this event. We got Singtel, Sony, Samsung, LG, Yahoo!, NTT docomo and more. TM telcom and Green Packet from Malaysia also joined the crowd. You can expecting some latest mobile phones and gadgets in exhibition. More photos at below.

I manage to get a hand on experience for the Garmin’s nüvifone as well. It is a fully touch handset with GPS functionality build-in which is the expertise of Garmin since they are one of leading GPS navigator manufacturer.

I am quite impressed with this device actually. Nice and neat interface it got. Kinda similar to iPhone where you can scroll the menu with your finger. I upload a demostration of the handset.

Lastly, I make my way to the another booth of my company. We have another project, Germanium. It provides a plugin which enable real time 3D in building rendering in the web browser.

Too bad, I was not able to run through every single corner of this exhibition with the limited time I had. And very sorry folks, sorry for the disappointment that no hot chicks’ photos have been taken. Or should I say I forgot due to the reason I was over excited by the gadgets?  Again, this is an exciting exhibition to attend if you interested in communication technology, mobile gadgets, and pretties.

Far well to our “beloved” floppy that served us for megabytes decades. But we really have to go my “dear”, we are going to new gigabytes era. So long my “dear”! We will miss “you”?

Apparently, I won”t! Wuhahaha!

With the introducing of USB flash drives in early 2000, our portable storage capacity increased thousands times than before. USB drive not only can used as a backup storage, but we can actually load some applications into this tiny little piece of hard drive.

What can we load into then? Maybe something that you want to use and often can’t find it on other people machine? Something that you don”t want to share because of privacy matter?

I had my personal internet browser and email client in my USB drive and carry them with me all the time. When I mean portable application, I mean I will leave no trace, log or even registry on the machine that I plug in.

I had all the tools I want inside my USB drive. But soon enough, I find I am repeating myself when every time I have to browse through folder by folder just to get any file or program of mine. So I started to look for more efficient way to accessing my files or programs, and I discovered the PortableApps and PStart.

Both of them offer a brilliant way to accessing your USB drive by providing something similar like Windows’s Start Menu. You can organize and list out the files and programs you want inside the menu. This will allows you get into the item you wish much faster.

Grab yourself one of them. Try it out and you will love it.

Surprisingly, I still found a lot of my friends have no idea what is a GPS about.

From Wikipedia (ENG / ),

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Utilizing a constellation of at least 24 Medium Earth Orbit satellites that transmit precise microwave signals, the system enables a GPS receiver to determine its location, speed, direction, and time.

Nah… I think most of us do know this “definition” from Wikipedia. In short, it is a navigation system that allows you to track and find out where you are.

Most of my friends, they thought GPS is a paid service. No, it is free. In general, if you only need to pinpoint where is your currently location, then it is absolutely free. For extra information such as traffic, tourist attraction, voice nagivation and so on, you might need to subscribe with certain amount fees from service provider, provided there is one.

To use, you only need a GPS receiver and a mapping device (e.g. laptop or PDA). Last year, I bought myself a Holux brand GPS receiver, GPSlim 236. I pair my laptop or PDA with the receiver through Bluetooth.

Install the map software (e.g. MapKing), off course, some of the software needed to be paid like the Microsoft Windows or Office you using. Then load the map of city or country that you desired and you are ready to go.

Most of the time, we get our job done through keyboard shortcut keys. Perhaps the most notables are Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. Who ever invent “copy and paste” was a genius(to me).

But do you know that our little mouse also has its “shortcut keys” as well? I am not talking about the 3rd mouse button or extra buttons that come with your Lamborghini(Logitech) mouse here.

Mouse Gestures! Yes, it is a way that combine your mouse movement with click to perform some common actions or functions on your program. Take a look on the video below and find out how a mouse gesture can do.

I started my very first experience with mouse gesture when I was using a web browser called Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2) a couple years ago, years before Firefox was released, when IE still “ruled” the web. It built-in mouse gestures which it claimed that “you will feel uneasy without it when you addicted …” some sort of marketing gimmick words.

When Firefox roll out, I miss the mouse gesture feature very much since it does not have one. My younger brother even insist to stick with Maxthon because of mouse gestures although Maxthon is based on the same rendering engine as IE. But later, mouse gesture plugin for Firefox cames out and I got my old “love” back. Welcome back my “honey”! Muack!

But fear not my fellow IE friends! You can do the exact thing on IE too with this plugin.

You can even do mouse gestures on your desktop if you want using StrokeIt. Awesome isn”t it?

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