Ugly Singaporeans on Internet Forums

I have experienced a first-hand incident whereby a netizen shamelessly asked for freebies in a popular local forum. This is what the fella requested from a local computer vendor in the forum:




This billovee shamelessly asked the vendor to give him a free 6-cell wind battery just because he started the preorder listing for the MSI Wind. Come on. Get a life. There is no free lunch in this world. Everything you ask for comes with a price. A simple start up on a preorder list doesn'twarrant as a valid reason to get a freebie. It's not as though you are the only person that can come up with such a list.

This guy's face is super thick loh. He doesn't understand the actual meaning of Corbell's reply. This is a disgrace on the Internet world. Look at what he wrote in reply to Corbell's initial rejection:



People already give an answer to the question posed but why can't this guy's head absorb it? It's a shame, really. Ugly scenes could have been avoided but too bad this guy DEMANDS for his free battery. And so many responses from other netizens came fast and furious:


















So many responses in a short period of time. At least there are smarter people out there to teach billovee the meaning of shame. I also wrote a post in response to his smirk remarks.



This is because he had written remarks that were so shameless and witless that I felt that I had to make known my points too. Look, if it were that easy to get freebies, everybody in the world wouldn't be busy working anymore. Instead people would just go out to the street and demand for free food, free drinks, free clothes... just because they boasted that they had started off the preorder list first. Or so they claimed.

In life, nothing is ever that easy. Unless the guy gets a lot of support in his "quest" for that freebie, otherwise he can forget about getting anything at all.

So, billovee.... SHUT UP, STOP DREAMING.

Interesting Feature on my Wind

Whoa! I have just come across a very interesting bit of information on one of the features on my Wind. For the uninitiated, it's MSI Wind.

All the way I have been using the arrow keys to scroll down pages of documents or websites. But through this very useful forum, I came to know about the side scrolling on the trackpad. I have been so silly and didn't realise that I could have made my life simpler by just doing the trackpad touch. *sighs*

Oh well. Better late than never. So far, everything has been very good on the Wind, except for the battery life, which continues to disappoint as usual. I am now waiting for the 6-cell batteries to arrive in Singapore so that I can buy them for usage. Then I won't have to be plugged in to AC power for most of the time.

A portable laptop is supposed to allow the user to move around without being tied to the power socket. Yet for the Wind, the battery life fails to deliver what it promises.

The Wind would have been a perfect, little machine if not for its abysmal battery life. Oh well, life is not perfect and it doesn't go your way all the time. Patience is the only thing that will bring the 6-cell battery closer to me. =)

Really Old Piece of "Antique"

Look what the cat had brought in! Figuratively speaking, of course. Actually it was my mum who found this gem but then she dismantled apart for the sake of taking out the copper wire for sale. Take a look at the pictures below:







Yep, it's a very old piece of computer keyboard. One that you thought you'll never see it again. This probably belongs to the 486 series or perhaps much earlier. Notice that there are no Windows buttons that mark today's keyboard.

The placement of the F1 to F10 keys are also not your typical keyboard style. The control button is also different and the number pad has no Enter key.

This is such an old, old piece of "antique" which used to belong to my cousin. Now my mum has tore the computer apart to get to the wires. Sad though, I didn't manage to get a picture of the whole computer. Not even the mouse. Mum had threw it away by then. =(

Such a special equipment deserves a little mention. Wee...

More Windy Pictures

More pictures of my Wind are posted below for viewing. I am simply loving this Wind too much. Except for the super short battery life. I still can't get two hours from this baby. That mars the whole experience of owning a portable laptop.








The white case comes together with the Wind but it's kind of a mismatched combination in my case. So I will be on the lookout for a better-looking laptop case. =)

Cool Feature on my MSI Wind

I have been testing out a special function which is unique to MSI Wind netbooks. The underclocking button. That's right, you can actually underclock the processor to conserve the battery power. Interesting, isn't it?

Take a look at the screenshots of my Wind below.

The original processor speed, 1.6 GHz.

After using the underclocking function, it now goes down to 800 MHz.

This feature is activated by pressing the Fn+F10 together. Initially, the Wind was supposed to get an overclocking feature but at the last hour, the company decided to ship the final unit with a underclocking feature instead.

So now I am waiting to see how long my Wind can last this time round, compared to the previous 1 hour and 15 minutes. This is really fun! =)

See ya!

Yay! I finally gets my new Wind!

It has been a very long wait for this baby to come along. I had placed order for it in early June and was told that the estimated date of arrival is in July. Finally, after a month of waiting, my baby has come.

Ladies and gentlemen, here comes the MSI Wind.

I received the much awaited phone call from M/s Corbell yesterday afternoon to notify me of my wind's collection. How I wish I could go down to the office immediately to take the wind but it was not yet time for dismissal and their office hours are the same as mine. *sighs* I could only wait till today in order to go down and collect my wind.

And so, after 1 whole day of charging the batteries, I finally get to tinker with my new baby. Here are some pictures that I took of my new Wind: -

My Wind in comparison to my Sony Ericsson K800i

I bought the Wind for $864 with an upgrade of my existing 1GB RAM to 2GB RAM. Besides using the latest Intel Atom chipset, my Wind also has a 80GB hard disk, wifi, bluetooth, 1.3MP webcam, 3 USB ports, 1 ethernet port, 1 kensington lock port, 1 vga port, 1 mic port, 1 headphones port and a 10.1 inch screen. For the operating system, it comes packaged with Window XP home basic, which I prefer to use. =)

Setting up a wifi connection by myself sounds very daunting to me and I went about doing it pretty much reliance on a CD. This CD is supplied together in the package of the Linksys wireless router that I specially bought for use with my Wind. Now I can happily say that everything went well, from the connection to the security of my network. Now both my desktop and laptop get to surf Internet without any worries. Wee! =)

The only bad thing about the Wind is that it has a short battery life with the supplied 3-cell battery. If I were to wait for the 6-cell version, it would be another long wait again for its expected release period is September. Plus MSI has this bad habit of pushing back the release date so I decided to take the 3-cell version. I can't bear the long wait again. But the battery power life really sucks big time.

Other than that, everything is good. The keyboard is manageable. The screen is also relatively good. I don't own a EEE PC so I can't really compare the two netbooks together.

Nonetheless, I am loving my Wind a lot and since it's supposed to be power-saving, I am going to be using it more often than my Acer desktop. This should help to save a bit of electricity.

With the upgraded 2GB RAM, I am seeing a fast response to my applications as well. Unlike my 512MB RAM Acer desktop which works so slowly. Everything is so zippy on the Wind and I am more than delighted at its performance. Though the webcam is not quite good and the mic doesn't capture my voice at all. So when I tried out video-conferencing with Mayi, she can't hear what I'm saying and the image freezes occasionally.

All in all, I would say it has been really worth it. I don't regret buying this netbook and I hope it will be a faithful companion to me the way my Acer desktop is.

Second Hair Job Done

Today I went back to Reds Salon at Suntec City to do a follow up treatment for my rebonded hair. The treatment is supposed to soothe and nourish my hair so that it will look its best and at the same time ensure that the hair cuticles are not damaged by the rebonding process.

So far I am very happy with my hair's new look. Not a single hair strand looks out of place on my head and this makes me feel very confident too. It is definitely worth the price to get such a nice head of hair. Hee...

Not to mention that while I was doing my hair, in pop Mayi. She came to the salon to do the same treatment as mine. What a small world indeed. Well, at least I had a companion by my side while I'm getting my hair done.

After my treatment was completed, I went to shop for some facial products while Mayi had to go home together with her mum.

In the end, I spent more than $80 on tea tree oil products from The Body Shop. I had heard that tea tree oil is good for fighting acne problems on skins. As my face is prone to acne, I decided to try out the products so as to fight the acne problem. I also bought a seaweed cleanser for makeup removal purpose.

With the many positive reviews that I read on tea tree oil online, hopefully my face will get better too. =)

See ya!