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For the Geeks

Use My Coupon and Get a Telltale Games Episode for US$5 Each (44% Discount)!

Get your game today!

You may recall in 2007 I was passionately writing the reviews for the Sam & Max Season One episodes that were released monthly.  Undeniably one of the best adventure games ever made and the episodes have consistently received positive rating from PC Gamer magazine and others.  In celebrating the 5th anniversary, Telltale Games is giving me a coupon to share with you all!  Use my coupon below and you can get any of their games for $5 per episode at their store.  That is a 44% discount.

COUPON CODE: GCP-AQE-RN3-TS6

To remind you how great Sam & Max is, below is one video I have contributed to YouTube.  A user rated 5-star video with a humble 15,873 views to date.  This genre of adventure games often involve solving puzzles by point-and-click in a 2D world of beautiful cartoon art.  In between the game, there are cut-scenes.

As you can see from the video, the game is hilarious.  For every title, Telltale Games releases the game by episodes.  That way, gamers get to receive a more frequent release and the developer gets to fine tune the game based on online feedback.  My personal experience with Telltale Games has been very positive.  The payment and delivery is seamless.  The download of each monthly episode has been fast.  And the collector’s edition in DVD format available at the end of the season was delivered to my home address as promised.  I did have a slight problem with the discount and they responded to my query posted at their forum almost instantaneously.

To start browsing for your favorite title, click on this link.  You shouldn’t need to type in the coupon code (see below).  All the episodes should come with a discounted price of US$5.  Depending on your appetite, you may wish to try out Sam & Max, Wallace & Gromit, Bone, Strong Bad, and more.  Feel free to download a trial version and see if it’s your cup of tea – free.

Shopping chart for Telltale Games

My coupon only works for per episode download and not for the bundle.  Spread the word!  Every time someone uses my coupon, I get a $1 credit to fund my future purchases.  Thanks!  You won’t regret it.  It’s fun.

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Diary Reflection

Into the Valley of Selegie

An area around Selegie

A few good friends of mine commented that I have come to a full circle when I told them that (1) I’ve moved to a “new” office that isn’t new and (2) year 2000 I worked at the same building for the same employer.  The difference is: I was a consultant to them back then and am one of their gazillion employees now.  I have no idea what a full circle means.  Year 2000 was perhaps a mini-peak of my career.  And then kind of crashed and burned for a while.  Recently, things started to look up and then I am working in the same building as I was nine years ago.  Now, is that a full circle?  What is a full circle?

Back in the beginning of this millennium, the surrounding area of my office was awesome.  Vast area of greenery right in the middle of the city.  And then the unthinkable happened: our government has decided to build a university that spans across adjacent plots of beautiful parks.  I was much saddened, kind of upset.  Today, Singapore Management University (SMU) looks pretty awesome, architect in a way that blends in well with the surrounding.  But I still prefer the parks to a set of buildings that mean nothing to me, personally.

I still prefer the newer looking old office to my older looking new office.  One friend at work said to me: Once it gets into your system, you’ll be fine with it.  My desk space has shrunk at least 4 times; I no longer have my own desk; there are junks, empty water bottles, half drank water bottles left behind from the previous occupants; dust everywhere; I now look up and see tons of faces staring at me; and there are even more staring at the back of my head.  These two days, I have this hallucination that I am working inside a cube farm.  I know what I am producing each day.  I wonder what everyone else are producing each passing moment.  Time to get plugged in.  I need a phone line.

I am a natural when it comes to making myself happy creatively and realistically.  So I took the opportunity to explore the area during my lunch hours.  It turned out so fun that I am going to set up a plan to explore this strange neighborhood systematically.  Day one after my brief lunch, I took a walk into the area of Selegie, discovered quite a number of eating places, old fashioned shops that sell interesting stuffs, new shops that are opening soon, quite a number of night clubs, and I came face-to-face with the awesome looking building called LASALLE College of the Arts.  I took some pictures with my phone.  I wish I had my dSLR with me.

I took a picture of LASALLE in year 1996 when the construction was started and another one in 1997 when it was completed (see my previous blog entry).  Perhaps life is as such: At times we go through changes in life and some are dusty, some are messy, and through all these unpleasantness, inconvenience, something good, something beautiful may blossom.

LASALLE College of Arts

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Diary

Cold Cold Floor, Cold Cold Reality

This is the usual view from my cubicle

Good thing I have waited for a week or two before writing this.  It would have been rather depressing for me to write, even more depressing for you to read.  This proves one thing: for most of us, work is just business.  Unless you are building something that has the civilisation, interglacial level kind of long lasting impact, in a positive way, work is just business.  May 97, I was about to leave my client site in Paris.  I’ve had such a memorable time.  One friend whom we’d had lunch and coffee almost every weekday during my 9 months of stay wrote: Out of sight, out of mind?  Call it self-fulfilled prophecy, we’ve lost touch.

One fine Monday morning, I arrived at the office at the usual hour, the usual minute, and my office floor was freezing cold.  I took a picture as I looked around, hardly a soul.  Not enough body heat to consume the cool air from the air conditioning vents.  The cold cold reality as such: my previous department [that I’ve left a while back] has been dismantled.  The Friday before, everyone was saying goodbye to everybody.  Some moved on with a job elsewhere, some without.  Others have found another role within our organization, as a permanent, as a temp.  All had the same last day.  Global economy hits even those that are profitable.  Some sacrifices need to be made to meet or top that operating profit.  I get it.  Some say that the easier jobs are lost, the easier jobs can be created.  Oh is it?  So where is that spirit of mutual survival, huddle together and weather the bad storm?

Work is just business.

After attended that lunch time corporate talk that I went zzzz, I have attended another one and have thoroughly loved it.  What a contrast.  The topic was on economy outlook.  Throughout the talk, the knowledgeable presenter slipped in a few forecasts.  On the threats that may upset our economy, he highlighted the possibility of a flu like bird flu and SARS.  He couldn’t pinpoint what that could be.  That talk was held last month.  No, he didn’t say the words: Swine Flu.  I would have called him an oracle otherwise.

Next week, I will be moving to another office building as our organization is consolidating all who remain.  Looking at the space surrounding my cubicle, can you imagine that just less than 2 years ago, my floor was fully packed?  New hires like me were squeezed into a meeting room sharing one round table with 8 to 10.  Job openings could be closed within a week.  There was a huge shortage of office space in the central business district.  Looking at the recent up and downturns, it never ceases to amaze me on how much we as a collective species have progressed, and how much we have yet to learn.

Today, inside the restroom, in front of a huge mirror, I saw one colleague of mine patiently teaching another colleague of mine on how to put on a tie.  I guess in his new role, he is required to wear one.  Such a heartwarming moment.  That spirit of mutual survival, it’s hard to forget.  I wanted to chip in and help.  But I reckon too many cooks spoil the soup.

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For the Geeks

Dell Swarm – The More People Buying It, The Most Discount You Get!

Dell Swarm Website

So I was at what appears as the world first preview of Dell Swarm.  Of all the countries in the world, Dell has decided to choose Singapore as the pilot for this new and innovative way of product sales.  Maybe that says something about how we Singaporeans love … discounts?  Or more so for group discounts.  To cut a long story short, Dell Singapore is selling some of their products at a promotional price.  But there is more to it.  The more people swarmed together and buy the same product, the more discount the entire group gets.

That makes perfect sense.  I bought my Nikon dSLR camera together with my buddy Darkspore; and then we bought the white balance card together at Amazon.com.  I bought my NAS together with my buddy TK; and then we bought the digital jukebox together at Amazon.com.  So if the air travel industry has the 2-to-go or 4-to-go concept all this while, why doesn’t the e-Commerce retail business follow suit?

Apparently, that is what Dell Swarm has in mind.  The idea is so new that the Dell and Intel folks at the blogger event are as excited as me on how this will turn out.  So what exactly is Dell Swarm?  Here is a quick run down.

  • A Swarm is a group that forms to buy selected Dell laptops powered by the latest Intel® processors for less, within Singapore.
  • Every Tuesday (at 00:00:01), two swarms will be opened for two selected products eligible for group discount.
  • Any product put on swarm will have a discount from the original price as advertised in Dell.com.sg regardless on how many buyers are in the swarm.  So I guess if you already want to buy that Dell product powered by Intel®, you already have a good deal when you join the swarm.
  • And now, here is the fun part.  The more people join the swarm (in Singapore) and buy, the lower the price will drop!
  • The swarm has a lifetime of 72 hours or it will close when a limit of 15 buyers is hit.
  • So how much do you pay?  Everyone in the swarm will pay one final price – the lowest one.

Since I am given an access to their yet-to-go-live website, here are some screenshots on how it works.  I was told that all prices shown are not official so don’t get too excited if it is too … low … ha ha ha.

Dell Swarm - Demo 1

In this example (above), the Inspiron Mini 12 at the original price of S$899 is selling at a discounted price of S$854 if you are the first buyer (I tried the new netbook by the way and it looks awesome!).  So what happens when more buyers are joining the swarm?

Dell Swarm - Demo 2

With just 3 buyers, the price has dropped from S$899 to S$820.  And with 8, the illustrated price has dropped to the lowest you can get, S$809.

If you are not sure about buying, you can choose the follow option and will be informed as and when the price changes.  Maybe you have a target price in mind?

What is interesting about this innovative sales model is that it encourages word-of-mouth through both traditional means as well as the social media network.  Simply put, the more people join your swarm, the deeper discount you will get.  And which products do Dell Singapore plan to promote via Dell Swarm?  Reliable source tells me the followings: Inspiron Mini 12, Dell Studio 14, Dell Studio XPS M1340, and Dell Studio 14.

Dellswarm.com will be launched on May 5, 2009.  Keep a look out if you plan to get a Dell.  I for one am shopping for a netbook for our upcoming Spanish trip (mainly for the back-up of my digital photos just in case you think I am a workaholic or blogaholic).  I know someone in office who is buying a netbook for her business trip to UK.  And another friend is buying a laptop for his daughter.  Happy swarming guys! 

PS. This is not a sponsored post and all details are subjected to change.

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Linguistic My Hobbies

Spanish Supercharged: Elementary 2 @ Las LiLas School

The only Spanish DVDs I have ...

The thought of giving up on my Spanish class has briefly come and gone.  I would miss my classmates too much, my teachers too much, and if Cynthia wants to continue, I just have to press on.  It is rather up to my linguistic limit knowing how little talent I have on that department.  Today was the first day of the 10 “Elementary 2” lessons that will lead to an examination, unlike “Elementary 1” that is exam-free.  My lovely teacher Natalia jumped when I jokingly yet rather seriously commented that the only two or three things I have learned [by heart] from the last 10 lessons were que pasa (what’s up?), pausa (have a break), and uff (an expression).  Something Natalia always says; something I can always pick up.  The rest of what she says?  It literally sounds like music to my ears.

Stress aside, I always welcome a lighthearted break.  This morning I woke up with a foggy mind and a pair of eyes that could hardly be opened.  Still not fully recovered from that mild cold over the weekend, I thought of taking a medical leave.  But I thought of all the work piled up, the face-to-face meetings and the multi-country conference call that were set up, maybe working through the day with half of my brain still working is not too bad an idea.  So I did.  And as I was rushing out of the office for the Spanish Class this evening, my wireless phone continued to ring.  OK.  One more call to answer then.  This morning, in the car, Cynthia was playing the album by James Morrison.  I nearly fell asleep.  I begged for something more upbeat and she put Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” on repeat.  Immediately I woke up.

Immediately I woke up when today’s Spanish Class started.  Today’s topic was on movies.  Thank God.  I love that topic.  You know I do.  And we learned the different genres in Spanish, how to describe everything about movies in Spanish (including popcorn), and we were given a printout of a movie schedule and asked to form sentences in Spanish.  Lovely.  When it came to my turn to speak, I said, “Me gustaría ir a (I would like to watch) … Confessions of a Shopaholic.”  The rest of the class was shocked while Cynthia was laughing (she knows me well).  And I continued, “Porque me gusta (Because I love) chick-lit.”  OK.  It took the entire class some time to explain to our teacher Natalia what chick-lit is.  And it took me quite a few moments to convince them that I do read the Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella.  Seriously guys.  To get into a woman’s head, chick-lit is as close as you can get.  Besides, that series is very entertaining to read.

So, how does the photo relate to this blog entry?  Well, as part of the exercise for next week, we are suppose to pen down some Spanish film titles that we know.  I dig through my foreign film DVD collection, only manage to find 3.  Two of which I have yet to open.  Maybe I shall try out learning Spanish by watching Spanish films.  Now, that’s easy.

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For the Geeks

Norton Internet Security – Protection That You Won’t Feel Like You’re Having One!

Norton Insight

These days, everything seem to be on steroid.  Like the F1 on TV, that very fast very furious movie, and like the new Norton Internet Security I have been using for the past 30 days.  In the beginning of this year, I wrote an entry on the Norton Gaming Edition.  I’m still running that in one of my machines at home.  Friends of mine know how much I value the speed of my quad core monster.  Right after my Norton subscription on that machine was expired, I installed this 2009 version.

I timed it.  The installation was indeed less than a minute as advertised.  That’s pretty fast.  From the moment I’ve installed Norton Internet Security till now, everything works in the background.  That is, from live update (or now they call it pulse update as it happens every 5 to 15 minutes on its own) to quick scan to incremental full system scan.  What is really cool about the latest version of this software suite is that scanning happens whenever my computer is in idle, automatically (see screenshot below).  The moment I wake up my computer, the scanning stops.

Norton Security History

So how quick is a quick scan?  I just did one.  Less than 30 seconds.  How can that be?  That has to do with the new Norton Insight.  It is a community intelligence-driven technology that drastically cut down the need to scan common files.  As you can see from the screenshot at the top of this entry, 87% of my files are in the trusted zone.

Just how resource intensive Norton Internet Security then?  In terms of working memory usage, it’s less than 7MB.  That’s pretty light.  Norton Internet Security offers a higher level of protection than Norton Gaming Edition, for those who need it.  And if you are into actively monitoring your security, there are tons of reports on security risks and scan, firewall activities, errors, Norton community watch, and more.

Idle time scan

If you need a more comprehensive protection than just an anti-virus and if you work with the Internet a lot, Norton Internet Security is a good product to consider.  Its small memory footprint, fast scan, and hassle free security management makes it certainly one attractive product to own.  If not for the little pop-up that appears every now and then (see right), I wouldn’t even feel that Norton has been working hard for me.

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Diary

A Lovely Quiet Six Days of Holiday

Our friend TK's office

These days I am addicted to taking pictures of what my friends’ surrounding working environments look like.  Like my sister’s and mine.  I find it odd that I think I know that someone so much but have no clue what he or her daily life is like.  The picture you see here was taken when Cynthia and I visited our good buddy TK.  At a location far far away from where we live, from where we work.  For those who are new to Singapore, Jurong is at the west side of the island.  An industrial area that many International and local companies set up their headquarters at.  Cynthia once worked for a pharmaceutical client at Jurong, near where TK’s office is; I once worked for clients inside the military bases at Jurong.  Our little road trip to TK’s office did bring back sweet memories.

My holiday started from Good Friday till today.  Initially wanted to go for a short road trip to Malaysia.  But since the first half of the holiday has been devoted to Church and Masses (it’s a Holy period after all) and our band, and Tuesday is our Spanish class, we have decided to stay in town.  Watch a movie, discovered a peranakan restaurant near our home, and play our online game.

Play our online game?  It is probably hard for some of you to relate.  Let’s just say, it is good for couples to spend time solving non-real life puzzles together, strategizing the game tactics, laugh and cry at some bizarre moments inside the game, and for better or worse, just spend time with each other.  We love to play World of Warcraft.  And now we got our friend Darkspore back into the game too.  Ha!  Note to Darkspore: For the Horde first … and we can For the Alliance later.

All things in moderation, I wish I could say to same for my recent obsession in ripping my music collection into a lossless format.  Ever since I have bought a network attached server at the IT Show last month, I have been ripping CDs non-stop.  Day after day, night after night.  I still have much to go.  But right now, I am partially enjoying the fruit of my effort with my digital jukebox finally arrived from US.  And that was one of the reasons why we visited our friend TK at Jurong yesterday.  To collect the shipment.

A lovely quiet six days of holiday.  Back to office tomorrow for 2 days, and then the weekend.

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Diary

Ah Ha! Time for a Change / Mi Cara Muy Bonita ¡Si!

this is me ...

Yes, for many years, my friends have been telling me that I shall be making $$ from this website of mine.  For all I know, I could be sitting on a gold mine.  Right?  Imagine, I just need to spend an hour or two a day to blog, and $$ goes to my PayPal account 24×7.  ¡La vida loca!  Before I know it, I’d have enough $$ to travel to Spain every so often.  No need to monitor the airfare daily seeing the price for 2 swinging from the low 2k to the mid 3k and then back to the high 2k.  Shall I buy?  Shall I not buy?

So I am selling everything you see in here and more.  For $14.99 per year, you will get to keep my yearly blog entries on DVD delivered to your doorstep every year today.  For a very affordable lifetime membership fee of $1,499, you will get to own everything I write since 1996 recorded on Blu-ray format!  OK.  I’ll have to figure out how to set up a PayPal account.  Stay tuned.

My workplace has been going crazy.  Really.  No one knows if we will still have a job tomorrow.  So, whenever bosses call for a departmental meeting, people do get freaked out.  And my colleague was summoned – together with his three other colleagues – into his boss’s room, this morning.  I know his boss.  I’ve worked with his boss.  A pretty senior guy.  So, another department bites the dust?  And here was the announcement …

Apparently, as the story unfold, because the stock prices of companies in general have come down quite a bit, everything seems pretty affordable.  We have finally managed to buy a big entity somewhere in the Central Asia.  Cool thing!  And his boss is mobilizing the entire team including the boss himself to take on the integration work.  Of course, everyone in the room was excited, including my friend.  Then his boss dropped the bomb: the entire department is relocating this coming weekend.  “For how long?” I asked anxiously.  “2 years,” my friend answered.  “Where are you heading?”  “Kazakhstan.”

“Kazakhstan?!” I screamed, “Is that the country featured in that movie …”  “Borat,” my friend completed my sentence.

Wow … how would I feel if I was in his position?

We paused.  I didn’t know what to say.  Then he continued, “My boss burst into laughter and asked why everyone was so serious.”

OK.  His boss got him and he got me.  Happy April Fool’s Day!

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Photography Travel Blog

My Early Photography Work on Fraser’s Hill

Our (day 1) hotel room at The Smokehouse

Of the few highlands in Malaysia, Fraser’s Hill holds a special place in our hearts.  It is tranquil, it is serene.  November 2008 seems so distant.  It was cloudy, rained most of the time.  The same month when 2008 Formula 1 reached its finale.  And this afternoon, I was glued to my TV watching the 1 hour qualifying rounds held in Melbourne.  Season opening for the 2009 Formula 1.

Back in last November, when F1 was still fresh in our mind, I was racing my 2 litre Honda car – within safety limit of course – through the winding wet road of Fraser’s Hill.  Heightened concentration on the road, for the more than 1 hour drive.  Why?  The final 8 kilometers road connection between the top of the hill and its nearest town is a one-way street.  Odd hours up, even hours down, and we were running late.  Lots of braking, acceleration, and overtaking.  One 4WD overtook me.  It must have made it to the gate in time.  We fell short for just a couple of minutes.  That’s life.  We did our best.  One too many slow moving vehicles that didn’t give way.  And that was one hour’s wait.  We drove somewhere else to kill time.

Back in last November, I was still trying to understand how dSLR works.  The results are less than impressive.  Pretty bad, I think.  Cynthia called for a re-shoot.  I agree.  Nevertheless I put together a little album for memory’s sake.  The Smokehouse is a lovely hotel.  We always go back to the same hotel.  A special thanks to Henry, Bala, Hanif, and Nural for giving us such a memorable stay at The Smokehouse.  Hope to see y’all again the next time we visit Fraser’s Hill.

Related Link: Extra photos in high resolution format (87 items)

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Diary I See I Write

Day 1 of Unlimited Music Download – So I Surprised Cynthia with a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

The new Nokia XpressMusic 5800 with "Come With Music"

Edit: I have received reliable responses to the questions I raised in this entry and I have edited this post accordingly for sharing!

Words cannot describe the sense of liberation as we spent the entire Sunday downloading music, legally.  Free or not free, it’s arguable.  But for what I pay for, I don’t know which one is a bonus – the entire catalog of music at the Nokia store or the touchscreen phone itself.

I like to surprise Cynthia every now and then, just to put a smile on her face.  Ever since I have attended the official launch of “Comes With Music”, ever since she has read the advertisement of these new Nokia phones the next day, I know she’d love the possibility of unlimited downloading any number of music tracks – even for just a year.

Yesterday, out of nowhere, I asked her to synchronize her personal info from the Nokia N95 that I passed to her, to the Ovi.com Nokia server.  After I’ve backed up her media files, I told her that we were going for phone shopping.  She was shocked, and so was the shop assistance when I handed him the N95 for trade in.  “You don’t want this phone?” he asked.  It was either that or the Motorola that Cynthia wanted last February.  Doesn’t matter to me, either way.

This is not a sponsored post.  Not even for the yearly S$120 phone voucher from the phone operator that I couldn’t use because after the trade-in, the balance is less than that.  This is a little personal journal of mine on day 1 of the free music download service and my 3rd impression of the XpressMusic 5800.

Comes With Music – 12 hours of download, 60 albums, 904 tracks, a play time total of 2 days and 13 hours!

Click here for a screenshot of day 1 achievement!  The Nokia software is pretty neat, as you can see.  I was playing music to my Hi-fi, downloading albums from Nokia Store, uploading albums into Cynthia’s new phone at the same time.

OK, to be frank, the Nokia Music Store doesn’t have everything.  There are tracks I couldn’t find.  But interestingly, there are versions of the albums I wouldn’t be able to find in Singapore either.  Some versions have bonus tracks, some versions have a lot more tracks than others.  Some are digitally remastered.  All of them come with album artworks, encoded in a decent sound quality (192 kbps, mp3).  Yes, you can download as many tracks as you want.  No, you can only play them in your computer or from your phone.  It’s not big a deal to me really.  For what it’s worth, 60 albums would have cost me quite a bit.  And it is only day 1.  My on-board sound card handles mp3 format pretty well (with X-Fi Crytalizer).  I have a very decent cable to connect either my computer or the phone to my Hi-fi.  I am a happy man; Cynthia is a happy girl; we are a happy couple.

So we downloaded albums that are on our to-buy list, albums that we couldn’t get in Singapore, imported albums that are usually too steep in price, old and new albums that worth the listen but may not worth the cost, albums that are digitally remastered, and albums that satisfy our curious minds.  A download speed of half a minute per song seems reasonable.  But all things in moderation, it takes much longer to consume an album than the time it takes to download for sure.

I know there are people who are not entirely happy with the digital rights management (DRM) that restricts how we play the downloaded music from Nokia Store.  I certain have tons of questions in my mind such as what would happen if I too shall buy a “Comes With Music” phone and would Cynthia and I be able to share the same library since we share the same computer at home?  Is the yearly subscription model of “Comes With Music” as simple as upgrade my Nokia phone every year?  How easy it is for me to move the contents when I eventually upgrade my computer?

Reliable responses received as follows:

  • Tracks and playlists can be shared between registered Comes With Music users (subject to confirmation that the user hold an active Comes With Music license)
  • For now, access to the Comes With Music service after a subscription ends is only available with the purchase of a new Comes With Music device.
  • You can de-register your old PC and transfer your Comes With Music membership to a new PC every three months. Following which, you can transfer your entire Comes With Music collection to the new PC via the Nokia Music Store as all your account information is stored there.

Looking at the way we collect and consume music on vinyl to today, I personally wouldn’t think too hard on DRM.  Today, I am a happy man.  That’s all that matter.  You could be too.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic – Still loving it

The phone is a beauty.  Before long, Cynthia was showing me how to switch on the predictive messaging in her native language Bahasa Indonesia.  OK, it did take a a good couple of minutes for me to figure out how to download Cynthia’s personal info such as contacts, notes, calendar items from the Ovi.com Nokia server into her new phone.  But the rest of the functionalities are pretty easy to be figured out.  Like tapping onto the clock to set the alarm.  Tapping on a little icon on top that opens up a quick application access bar.  Tapping onto a video on YouTube opens it up in full screen mode.  And etc.  Punching in text messages is a breeze.  I like the alpha-numeric mode with vibration feedback.  Cynthia seems to like the QWERTY keyboard or the handwriting mode.

To those of you who approached me for opinion be it as you have not owned a touchscreen phone before or you are not entirely satisfied with the Apple iPhone or others, I am putting my money to where my mouth is.  Go get one.  You won’t regret it.  If you have the budget and touchscreen is not a must, the N96 Comes With Music is a very good option.  Otherwise, you could also wait for the new touchscreen N97.

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