Singaporean Died in Mumbai Terrorist Attack

It was reported on the news that one Singaporean had been killed in Mumbai's recent terrorist attack on Tuesday.

Initially the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had confirmed in earlier reports that the female Singaporean was unharmed as of yesterday. But at 9.35pm news tonight, the situation had turned for the worst.

Circumstances surrounding her death is still unknown at the moment though her family members had already flown to Mumbai. All we know is that she died a tragic death.

I don't know what all these terrorists are thinking but its totally unforgivable that they took lives away so cruelly. Besides, they were targeting the British and the Americans, what has a Singaporean got to do with anything? The Singaporean probably has the dubious honour of being the first Singaporean to die in a terrorist attack. *sighs*

The main issue that comes to mind is that why the Mumbai authorities couldn't save the hostages earlier? Unless their technology is not advanced enough to take on the terrorists? What could be the reason for Mumbai's failure to contain the situation and the losses?

Even right till now, the situation in Mumbai has not improved. But I don't care about that. I only know that Singapore citizens are not significant enough for India to get involved. Unless we get a satisfactory answer from India's government on their rescue operation failure, we will never have a peace of mind.

The losses are simply not tolerable. Not especially India should have been on the lookout for such terrorist attacks ever since their elections started. This breach of security is a serious issue that needs to be investigated and put in check.

As for the female Singaporean Chinese woman, I can only say that she happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. No one could have predicted that she would come to harm. Not like this. This barbarian way of the terrorists.

We should stand up to terrorism and not allow it to ruin our lives. Every single one of us must do our part to be proactive in preventing terror attacks. Terror attacks are such a lame and cruel way to destroy humanity. What is this world coming to?

I may not be able to do much but at least I can help to spread the message around. We are all human beings, is there a need to treat each other so hostile? Hmmm, actually I am sort of a hypocrite when it comes to equality. I don't have a single good impression of the China people but that does not mean we should launch a terror attack on China.

We should resolve issues through diplomatic talks, not through violence. What does violence acheive in the end? Only more loss of innocent human lives. These terrorists are probably brainwashed to the point where they regards humanity as nothing more than pawns in their games. Stupid, mindless games, I might add.

Besides the disaster in Mumbai, Thailand is also facing its own domestic problems with its people going all out on the streets to wage protests against the current government. Negative news are all the new staples for current affairs news these days.

When will it ever end? We might never have a satisfactory answer at all. Such is the downfall of humanity.

Unless, my own Twinkies comes along and takes me away with him, to live in eternal vampire happiness. Heehee!!! My very own Edward Cullen! Ok, I'm disgressing here.

We need to have more light-hearted moments in our lives. Otherwise we will remain gloomy and life will be something that we DON'T look forward to. That would be so depressing.

Now I'm off to my lala land, together with my Edward, to find light-hearted happiness! Tada!

Celebrating my mum's birthday

This year I celebrated my mum's birthday right on the dot at midnight.

I bought a birthday cake from Four Leaves at Tampines Mall and it's a mango cake. See the picture below for illustration:




I made my mum ate the cake before she goes to bed and she was happy with the cake. Mango is one of her favourite fruits, you see.

I am also happy with the cake as it's very soft and creamy. The mango taste is not too overwhelming but I don't recommend eating the mango bits on the top. They are too sour for my liking. Yucks!

Other than that, this cake is worth the buck and most important, my mum enjoyed the cake.

Cheers!!!

=D

JK Rowling Talks About Her Fave Harry Potter Scene

According to Mugglenet's source, JK Rowling has contributed an extract of her favourite Harry Potter scene to The Birthday Book, which marks the 60th birthday of the Prince of Wales.

In it, she talks about Harry's walk into the Dark forest, where Voldermort is waiting to kill him to end the prophesy that was foretold by Professor Trelawney many years ago. She wrote on Harry's accepptance of his fate by his own will rather by the expectations of the Wizarding World which expects him to destroy the evil Voldermort once and for all.

He could have chosen the easy way out by rejecting his fate and goes away from the Wizarding World to avoid confrontation with Voldermort. Yet he's brave enough to face his own destiny, that he is the only one who can destroy Voldermort and he walks his final path with conviction.

Albus Dumbledore is proud of Harry and is rightfully so. As a fan of the Harry Potter series, I am also feeling proud of Harry. JK Rowling's portrayal of Harry is so vivid and rich that makes it easy for readers and fans to connect to him on a personal level.

Now that the series has drawn to a close, I feel very sad that there will be no more insights into Harry's wondrous world. Nonetheless, I still possess the 7 books of the series and can still re-read them to relive the memories of Harry and his friends.

There is also the release of The Tales of Beedle the Bard and I am going to preorder it next week so that I can get my hands on the book. Man I can't wait for 4th December to arrive soon enough!

w00t!!!

Crazy ACJC Students Truly A Disgrace to Singapore

For the past few days, netizens have been very active in Hardwarezone.Com for one very interesting discussion: the ragging of an ACJC female student on her birthday.

Youngsters these days have the tendency to carry things way too far and often at the expense of other people's feelings. This poor girl's only problem is that it happened to be her birthday and her "pals" decided to do a special celebration for her. The whole celebration was videotaped and uploaded onto Youtube.

Things got out of proportion when netizens picked up the video and were disgusted by the degree of ragging done. Soon word got around and everybody got on to forums to talk about it. The next thing we know, it was soon published in the newspapers, mainly The Straits Times, Today and mypaper.

In my opinion, the ragging went too far and if my own friends were to do that to me, I would severe all ties with them. Can you imagine being tied to poles and having food forced down your throat, milk poured all over you anf not to mention being videotaped and having that video posted online with a tag labelled "loser"? To add the cherry to the topping, all these ragging were done right in the school's compound, in full sight of other students and heck! even the discipline master had walked past the ragging with little interference.

Aren't teachers supposed to protect students as well as imparting knowledge to them? ACJC is SUPPOSED to be an elite school with top-notch students. Yet those "top-notch" students are nothing more just animals without brains and feelings.

I bet the poor girl went along with it as she had no choice. She might run the risk of getting ostracized if she reject the ragging. In our younger generation's world, you apparently have to have a mind made from steel in order to survive all these ridiculous pranks. I don't understand why these youngsters see the need to create all these chaos just to make themselves seem powerful in the eyes of others.

Boy, I'm glad that I don't belong to this weird generation and therefore I don't have to face with being humiliated on my super special day. Birthdays are something to be enjoyed, to be savoured slowly as you embrace the day with new beginnings.

Yet for this poor girl, it's all humiliation. I don't know what this girl is thinking but some netizens had checked and said that the girl does not harbour any bad feelings towards her friends. This girl is way too weird for me to understand.

Nonetheless, it made us sit up and realised what kind of future leaders that Singapore will be getting. This makes my hairs stand on ends and I wish I will never be around to witness Singapore's fall from grace due to such rascals.

Bah!!!

Things you would do to get a Blackberry Storm

Pocket-lint has this interesting article to share with us.

"What would you do for a Blackberry Storm?" is just what Research in Motion had launched to get consumers to tell them what they would do for a phone.

Well, this man went ahead and got a tattoo of the Blackberry Storm done on his arm. Just like that. And the guy got his free Blackberry Storm as a prize.

If there were such a contest in Singapore, I doubt there would be any of us who would go to such extreme means to win the phone. But then again, I probably should never say never. You might never know there could be a possibility of another same fanatic guy who would tattoo the phone onto his body.

Anyway, it would be weird if the guy were to change his phone and he would still be stuck with the same tattoo. After all, a tattoo is for life and a removal is a very painful and expensive process. I'm not sure if I can deal with that. So too bad I can't be a tattoo girl the way Angelina Jolie is right now. But even she won't be tattooing a phone onto her body. Or not?

Perhaps. But it's sure refreshing to come across such an interesting read. Plus you can't deny the fact that the Blackberry Storm is indeed a stunning art of work.

MSI Wind is Product of the Year

According to MSIWind.Net, pocket-lint has announced the winners of the Vodafone Pocket-lint Gadget Awards and the MSI Wind walked away with both the Best Laptop/Netbook award as well as the Product of the Year award.

The awards are decided by the UK's top technology and gadget journalists from online and print and MSIWind.Net has stated that it is one of the more reputable sites around.

I'm feeling so proud of my MSI Wind's achievements and the fact that I am an owner of a MSI Wind makes me dazzled. LOL. I don't know much about technology but I do follow the trends going on in the technology world.

It's a wonder for the MSI Wind to take the Product of the Year award straight right from under Apple's iPhone 3G. After all, you can't deny the fact that the iPhone has redefined the boundaries of the mobile phone world. Just like the way ASUS's eeepc single-handedly created a market of its own: Netbooks.

Besides, both the MSI Wind and the eeepc come from the Asian people, not those elite engineers from Silicon Valley, mind you. This make their achievements in the technology world much, much more significant.

In any case, I'm delighted to have my MSI Wind with me and hope it will last me for some time to come.

Right now, being part of the MSI wind users, I'm savouring its victory in the Gadgets awards slowly. Ahhh...

It's Raining Heavily Now...

It's raining heavily outside now and judging from the thunders booming, there must have been a lot of lightning striking across the night sky too.

I wish I had a camera with the most advanced technology so that I can take pictures of the lightning. But these cameras are usually priced out of my reach. So I can only contend myself with lightning pictures posted by other photographers on the internet. See some of the interesting lightning pictures that I found just now:












They are so lovely and well-taken! Kudos to the photographers. I couldn't have taken such excellent photos myself, man. To take lightning pictures, you will need the right amount of time and especially luck. Lightning strikes anywhere in the skies and there could be some difficulty in pinpointing the exact strike location of the lightning.

I don't have much skills to talk about. Perhaps the experts will shed more light on that. Hmmm... I will need to do some research on the technique of taking lightning pictures. Then in the near future, I could take some lightning pictures of my own.

For now, my flu seems to have gotten worse and I hope the weather won't be making it worse. *sighs*

HTC Touch HD comes to Singapore!

According to CNET's Crave, the HTC Touch HD will be coming to Singapore and Starhub will offer the phone in November this year. The rest of the authorized distributors will offer the phone from December this year.







I just flipped through the Saturday's The Straits Times and to my disappointment, there was no advert for the Touch HD yet. According to the website, the phone will be priced at $1,388 and will be categorized as a premium phone.

Oh boy. I hope the telcos will cut the price down reasonably enough. If the reviews of the phone are very good, I might just buy it to replace my current Nokia N95 8GB. Will the Touch HD be a successful iPhone killer? Stuff.TV has put the Touch HD and the iPhone side by side for a picture comparison. See below:




Only time will tell.

If it fails to beat the iPhone, then it's not a big problem to me since I'm sure there are still good virutes about the Touch HD. There's the generous screen with its 3.8-inch WVGA display touchscreen. Plus multiple wireless connectivity options that makes this baby absolutely a techie's dream. The gorgeous design also helps to increase the droolicious factor for this baby.

The only thing that might, a huge MIGHT at that, be a deal-breaker for me would be the keyboard. See illustrations from Stuff.TV below:




The setup of the keyboard is, unfortunately, not a QWERTY version but a conventional one. How well the screen will survive on my heavy SMS usage will be a constant question in my mind. I have not yet tried a touchscreen phone and have no idea how good or how bad the keyboard will interfere with the mobile experience. I hope everything is not as complicated as it may sounds. I just want a phone that works and works well.

So far, it's still early days yet and there are other soon-to-be released models by other phone makers and it remains to be seen who will eventually win the consumers' heart, and also my pocket money. Hahaha!

Everything's Gone... I've Lost.

Well, what can I say? Everything is gone for me. Totally destroyed. In my career. My current job. I thought it would be a better future for me since it's a statutory board. Boy, I was so so so wrong. In all accounts.

I have been badly backstabbed in this company and it doesn't help that I am way too ignorant of the intricate things that go on in big companies. I have never worked in a big company before and certainly not as big as my current company. Never in my wildest dreams would I realised that I would be a victim of office bullying.

But it happened. And I was helpless to do anything.

I never stopped to think that all the while, I have been doing things wrongly in this job. Everything. I should have suck up to my boss. I should have suck up to the FM manager. Especially the FM bitch. I stubbornly did things my own way and this FM bitch was not pleased with me at all.

So she plotted to get me into trouble and she succeeded. She had something that I don't have. Power. She can wield power in her favour and I would be defenceless against her.

That is how things work in the corporate world and I was too naive to show my real feelings and thoughts to my "colleagues". To people whom I had put my trust wrongly. Right now, I am feeling the pain, the hurt that my job has given me.

Hurt by colleagues whom I thought were reliable. But I was wrong. My thoughts and feelings somehow managed to get to this FM bitch and poof! Here comes the attack. In this company, you have to do everything and you can't bitch about it. Every single work that comes into your hand has to be accomplished and you can't say that you aren't paid to do that job. You have no choice in any matter.

Guess what? I did exactly that and it's career kamikaze for me. Not that I minded much. It's just that my colleagues are so unreliable that irks me to no end. Yes, I admit I am a stupid person to believe them in the first place. Work is something that you can't find and build true friendships or relationships.

I know some of you will disagree with me on this. But to me, that's how I perceive my workplace now. This FM bitch even went to the extreme of getting my colleagues to stay away from me except for work-related matters. So I have become an outcast in my dept and a loner too.

I have been truly stupid to think so simple of these workplace matters. This FM bitch is not to be trifled with and she showed that to me. Now I have no more future left for advancement in my job. She put paid to that by complaining excessively about me to my boss, thus giving my boss a bad impression of me and my work attitude.

Now this FM bitch is leaving for another organization and that's a relief. However it's too late for me and my career. I can only hope to stay till end of this year and start looking for a new job next year and start things afresh. This time round, I will be smarter and interact less with my colleagues.

Also, I must start doing more work so as to appear extremely busy in front of the boss so as to increase my chances of promotion. Life's cruel and harsh but there's nothing we can do. It's a survival of the shrewdest individual that will win the competition.

For now, I just keep to myself and don't talk to anybody unnecessarily. I work alone, I lunch alone, I go home alone. Everything is just one word for me: ALONE. That would be the best way for me to proceed even though it will turn me into a super outcast.

Now I just want this whole year to go by and I can't wait to get my hands on a degree. With a degree, I would be able to get a better job and probably get to boss other people around. Wahaha! Ok, that's mean of me. Just joking. I just want to get out of the admin mold. Nothing else matters.

As long as I get to put food on the table, nothing else matters. There are people out there who live to work. But there are others who work to live. I belong to the second group but I would still put out my 100% into my work and hold nothing back. It's only when I feel that injustice had been done to me that I start drawing clear lines around my work.

Why should I do other people's work when they are supposed to finish it? And it's not as though they are too busy to do anything else. Rather they are spending time doing unneccessary work instead of prioritize their work. It's not my fault if they can't finish their work in the end.

However, I have no say in my dept and so I kept my mouth shut. But I do bitch around just like everyone else. No one is a saint in their lives. It's just that I'm pure unlucky that my bitching gets round to the boss. I'm resigned to it now. I stay clear from everybody so that I won't have to face awkward situation whereby no one talks to me. In fact, all the executives have stopped talking to me as they have been conditioned by the FM bitch.

I will never know the real reason behind her actions but one thing for sure, she's evil and probably that's why her husband left her together with their son. Yep, she's a divorcee. And I tell ya, this FM bitch is probably the best paid manager in my company as she did the least amount of work, choosing to delegate her work to the executive. She usually spent most of her time having tea/coffee breaks, long lunch breaks and shopping.

YES! She does shopping during office hours. How lazy can she get?! Anyway she's leaving in a couple of days and I won't be seeing much of her during this time. Hopefully by the time I go back to office after my training, she would already be gone by then.

By then, I hope my working life would be more peaceful without any troubles. I need to have a peaceful mind in order to survive in this cut-throat place. All right. Tonight's rambling is certainly long-winded. Time to stop. I'm falling sick to the flu virus soon. Argh! My nose has turned runny and I'm sneezing non-stop. Plus my throat is feeling the itch and I can't seem to stop coughing. Gosh!

Time to rest.... Orhmmmm......

Barack Obama Wins the USA Presidential 2008 Race

History has just been written into the books of USA. Yesterday's race for a new US president resulted in an expected win for Democratic candidate, Barack Obama.

Hundreds of thousands of American who had been yearning to see a shift change in the political scene casted their vote behind the man who would become America's first black president. In addition, they also showed through their voting that support for the Republicans is rapidly waning. Many Americans are very unhappy with President George Bush, who kept waging wars endlessly for the past five years and often with many fatalities that left families broken.

To add salt to the wound, the current economic crisis is proving too much for the US government, and the public, to handle. Thus loss of confidence from both investors and citizens might have contributed hugely to the Republicans' loss. And more specifically, to John McCain.

For me, I am hoping that Obama will not follow in the footsteps of that damn Bushfire and start waging fires wars on Afghanistan again. It's time to pool precious wood resources into other areas, more specifically the US economy.

With the lousy US economy crisis, everywhere else in the world is also feeling and getting the pinch. Here in Singapore, prices of essentials like rice, oil and water have gone up largely due to the US economic crisis.

Furthermore, we are still facing the onslaught of tainted food from damn China and that has definitely NOT help us a single bit. Most of our products are currently sourced or made in China and many people are worried about getting food poisoning from eating such stuffs.

Well, I'm not surprised by that. C for China. C for Corrupt. China and Corruption comes hand in hand. All right, I may sound very harsh here but that's just the way the officials work in China. No money no gain. So the China people are quite a bunch of practical and intelligent species. You can't doubt that.

Every small little thing can transform into a poorly made China product. From Louis Vuitton to Hermes to toothpaste to soaps to biscuits to drinks. You name it, they already re-make it. It's interesting how these China brains work so fast and seize a money-making opportunity.

Between the US and China now, I really don't know who is the greater evil. Both countries' economies have major impact on Singapore's economy and God knows that we can't afford to have either one of them being belly up. That would be a disaster. If both economies go belly up, then we are in deep shit man. No joke.

When that happens, I want to find my Edward Cullen a.ka. twinkie in cleolinda language quickly and get him to whisk me off to some obsure places where I can escape from the impending calamity. I would swear on my grave, if I had one, of course.

In really extreme cases where survival is at stake, i.e. I can't afford to buy staples like rice, bread or even potatoes, then I would get my twinkie to give me that special love bite so that I can feast on bears instead. Lions are welcome too. Or penguins. Hmmm penguins are so so so cute. Oh all right. I will spare them on the account that they are nearing extinction now. Then when I had my fill, I would dance with my twinkie under the stars on the arctic ice. Won't that be so romantic? Plus I won't even need a winter jacket since I'm supposed to be dead and get as cold as the ice. Wee!

Ok ok ok . Enough of my dream talk. I'm sure it's gonna disgust some people. Wahahaha! That would have been my goal. You are tricked! Ok, I think my sanity might be at stake here. Hmmm...

No matter what, I am definitely looking forward to see the changes as promised by Obama and see a transformed US. Otherwise, it will be just like another round of suffering like the one bestowed on us by that Bushfire. In that case, I will grab and activate my twinkie!!! Muawahahaha!

Meanwhile, Obama looks forward to his victory celebration before eventually settling down to his new office. Well, he better celebrate and enjoy his victory to the fullest because after that, a daunting task is awaiting him back in office. Hint: Economic Crisis.

I won't envy his position right now. It would be a big challenge to tackle the economy successfully and it might just make or break his presidential seat. Will he prevail? Only time will tell.

This is a follow-up picture to my first discharge on the 6 cells battery for my MSI Wind. Click on the thumbnail to get a bigger picture.



As the battery is still new, I will need to discharge it a couple of times before it finally stabilizes. But overall, the battery life for the 6 cells is around 5 hours, give or take. This is provided if the screen brightness is set to the minimum level and with only WIFI turned on. I rarely use other functions like the webcam or the bluetooth technology.

This in turn, helps to increase the battery life and giving a much more favourable lifespan than the 3 cells battery shit. I am a light user and my main activity is web-surfing. So this Wind works out to a nicely timing of roughly 5 hours and that's more than enough time.

However the battery life is still pretty much dependent on the user's usage pattern. If you turn on all the functions and do intensive work like photoshopping or browse videos all the time, stream music in the background, etc then you will drain the battery much faster.

Me is something of a computer idiot so web-surfing and a little bit of photoshop is pretty much all I do on my Wind.

Next I will post up comparison pictures of the 3 cells and 6 cells battery as well as the overclock function to give a rough idea of what my Wind is capable of doing. Not by much though. =(

Oh well. At least it's better than nothing. Tada!

Today's My Lucky Day

I am feeling so lucky right now.

I had just gotten a free ride home from my colleague and that's a rarity in itself. Mostly our dismissal times do not match and thus being able to get this ride today is giving me such a good feeling.

First, I get to reach home @ 6.45pm. That's at least 15mins to 30mins earlier than my usual time if I were to take the public transport combo of MRT and bus.

Second, I don't have to wrestle with other strangers for a seating. I get to rest my legs during the 45mins journey, rather than enduring the usual 1 hour standing ride home.

Third, I get to escape from the horrid service of bus service no. 228 for once. To me, that's a very good thing because the bus drivers aren't very nice people. Just because they are driving the bus don't mean that they can be rude and mean to passengers. Hmmpf!

Just based on these 3 factors alone is more than enough to make it my lucky day. Ok, I'm probably exaggerating a bit here. How about a lucky transport day? Better?

Hmmm... if only I can get this lucky for every single day. Yeah I know, I am such a greedy piggy, aren't I? But that's just wishful thinking on my part. My colleague doesn't owe me anything so if I manage to get a voluntary ride, I should start counting my lucky stars already. w00t!

And so, with that, I'll get an early dinner too! How's cool is that? Oooooh kimchi!!!! Here I come!!!

*Yum*

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton Wins the F1 Driver 2008 Grand Prix

According to the Formula 1 website, McLaren-Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton win the drivers' championship with 98 points, just 1 point ahead of Ferrari's Felipe Massa. Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari rounded up the podium with 75 points, coming in at third place.

Even though Massa really tried his best and won the Brazil Grand Prix, it was not enough to stop Hamilton in his tracks. Darn. I was actually gearing for Kimi to win but his point difference is simply too great for him to catch up to Hamilton. Oh gosh. Hamilton is really proving his mettle to be strong in racing. Lucky McLaren-Mecedes for getting such a superb driver.

Plus Hamilton must be feeling great that last year's disaster did not happen and he did managed to win the title by 1 point. Hee...

As for team constructors' championship, Ferrari won with 172 points on the table. Far from closest rival McLaren-Mercedes' points of 151 points. Well at least Ferrari can console themselves with this win instead of the drivers' championship. Bah!

A Really Cool Old Song by Bangles: Eternal Flame

I had came across a truly old classic song that sound good even after all these years. This song is almost as old as I am, mind you. LOL. Here's a video of the song below:

This song is sung by Bangles and its title is Eternal Flame. I thought the lyrics are quite cool and the music is very soothing to the ears. Well, to mine, at the very least.

Here's the lyrics for some references:


Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming
Is this burning an eternal flame

I believe it's meant to be, darling
I watch you when you are sleeping
You belong with me
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming
Or is this burning an eternal flame

Say my name, sun shines through the rain
A whole life so lonely
And then you come and ease the pain
I don't want to lose this feeling

repeat bridge

repeat verse 1 and 2


Simple yet alluring. Too bad there's only 1 famous hit to this all-female band. It would have been great if the rest of the hits are as famous and well-known as Eternal Flame. Sadly enough, internal rifes within the band caused them to break up. Even though they have come back together again, things are never the same again.

Oh well. At least they had 1 hit song to their credit and that's saying something after all.

A Short Update on my 6 cells battery

I have just collected my 6 cells 5200 mAH battery from Corbell yesterday and left it to charge for around 10 hours.

Today is my first discharge and I started using my Wind at around 2.13pm and the battery has lasted till now, and the time reads 9.16pm.

That's like 7 hours of usage for me, with the brightness level set to minimum and with only WIFI turned on. Nothing else. All I did was just web surfing, which is my main purpose of getting the Wind.

Now my battery indicator tells me that I'm left with around 12% of power or about 33 minutes of usage time. Wee!

So far, I have been very pleased with my new battery set & coupled together with my existing 3 cells battery, I can safely chucked my power adaptor at home without any worries of running out of battery power.

Now, MSI should have done this a long time ago and not make users wait infinitely for the 6 cells battery to arrive. That was such a torture. With my 3 cells battery producing only 90 minutes worth of battery life, I am literally bound to my room AND to the power adaptor. Not an amusing thing, I can tell ya that.

So, all in all, this 6 cells battery is a worthy bargain @ $99 for early adoptors. Now I'm truly mobile! w00t!