My Life

October 2, 2007
I have just received an Apple iPhone in Malaysia! Click to start reading of when the Apple iPhone arrived in Malaysia to me.

Recently Apple officially released its talked about Apple iPhone on June 29th, 2007. Every hardcore Apple lover in the United States started queuing at their nearest store for one. Apple Centers were packed with customers and many seen gleaming with delight after coming out with their new toy.

Thanks to the build up of publicity by Apple iPhone advertisement screened online and not to mention the keynote speech by Steve Jobs, all lovers were in a frenzy to lay their hands on the upcoming Apple iPhone. Photos taken by arikan proofed customers were willing to wait in the rain and sell their spot for USD5000! Folks at Gizmodo interviewed the possible first iPhone customer. So why is Malaysia not talking about the iPhone?

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My absence is felt since my last entry, visits, pageviews, Alexa and definitely my Adsense. I can’t apologize any more than the times I’ve tried but I can say now I know what it really feels when you really wished you had more hours in the day to accomplish your business activities and have leisure time. There just isn’t enough minutes in the 24 hours I’m spending each day.

Here’s a quick update of the recent happenings in my life (though most of them business):

• Local prospective customer has been increasing.
• Now managing 6 projects at this time.
• Have 2 proposals to prepare.
• Forming future business relationships.
• Planning to expand the team.
• Plotting to take the Malaysia web industry by storm.
• Attempting to take over the world after Google so we will later be funded by them in future.
• Visit Japan for one-month as part of our ‘research’.

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While browsing through my daily library of websites, I stumbled on an engineering website that wanted to express their non-lack of sense of humor. And I must say, they did it very well with the inclusion of a cartoon by Dilbert. Don’t know who’s Dilbert?

Dilbert is a popular American comic strip. Written by Scott Adams, the comic is known for its heavily satirical humor about a micromanaged office, featuring an engineer as the title character.

Source: Google

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I was randomly tagged by Ah Pek recently from Project Petaling Street and I bet he must’ve been playing A-E-I-O-U while doing it too. I don’t really like the whole ‘tag’ you because it’s a little like forwarded emails to me. And I delete those straight away normally.

However, I’m going to go along and play the ball in my court here. I’m indecisive to tag more people or not so you’ll know by the end of this post. Besides, tagging gives you an excuse to increase a post today so if you’ve not been blogging lately this is the best excuse you can get.

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Today I visited the MPH Distributors Warehouse Sale in Jalan Bersatu, Petaling Jaya. The last time I attended an MPH sale it was hosted at the MBPJ Kelana Jaya sports complex. The sale was great because there wasn’t only great book titles at very very very affordable prices but MPH arranged a special preview day for their loyal customers.

Alas today was a huge disappointment for me at the MPH Distributors Warehouse Sale. The prices were still relatively high, the variety was very minimal, no available parking area and the worst of all no doubt in comparison to the above, I was duped in believing there was an arranged special preview day like the last time.

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What a week it’s been. Three days ago it was Valentines Day and now it’s coming to Chinese New Year. The whole town is becoming even more red and everyone is now in a joyous mood for the holidays. The city is going to be a little more quiet and we’re going to be seeing more road mishaps of imbeciles. Oh, the joy!

I don’t know much about tradition but I believe the color red is auspicious because it represents the strength of fire and love. As for gold, needless to say that’s to tell the God of Wealth, “Hey, I’m over here praying for you so show me the money!”.

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Donning a yellow raincoat or a yellow suit and start serenading your beloved wherever they may be. Doesn’t sound familiar?

If you’ve seen the new DiGi telco advertisement on TV or heard the radio the past few weeks, DiGi started a ‘yellow’ brand campaign. They’ve got people to dress up in a yellow suit, painted their faces yellow and behave in an exaggerated manner. The song they’ve used was addictive and they’ve made it addictive again in this new age; Ricky Nelson’s I Will Follow You.

So what has DiGi got to do with starting your Valentines Day today?

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Other than blogging about web design and development, I’m pretty hooked up on several web comics. As much as I used to love reading Spiderman, Superman, Fone Bone, Garfield and a whole lot of other offline comics, I’ve found several web comics that tickled and made me have anxiety attacks to what happens next.

And the thing about web comics is that it can be started by anyone. I know of an architect turned comic artist and their comic is really really doing well. How many of you haven’t heard or read Megatokyo before? You have no idea what are you seriously missing especially if you like reading romance comedy genres.

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And here I am thinking that it was already 5:00pm nearing 6 even. I suppose these shady clouds hovering in the afternoons and evenings does give a different impression of our sunny and humid country.

But most importantly, in weathers like this it’s best to keep healthy. Reason being is that most people would end up sick during this cold and hot season. I remember there was one time even the meteorological department informed the public Chinese New Year is one of the warmer seasons.

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I signed up for a free (that’s why I went) talk by The Affiliated Solutions at the Securities Commission, Bukit Kiara and attended it just yesterday. Sorry if I didn’t share the information here because I assumed no one would skip their office hours from 3PM-5PM to attend an event with topics like ‘unorthodox strategies of affiliate marketing’ or selling a product ‘without a website’.

Anyway, if you’d like to attend one of these with me in the future do let me know in the comments. Without further due, let’s hear about the good and bad of the talk I attended.

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