What Steve Jobs said to Bill Gates...

"Definitely not a virus"

Steve Jobs, you left a legacy

Credits to Things We Forget: Rest in Peace, Steve.

Woke up to the news of Steve Jobs passing away, one day after the introduction the iPhone 4S.

Looking back, about 4 years ago when I have gotten my first MacBook Pro, and since then ever, I have became a frantic Apple convert, true-blue Apple fan girl. That was before everyone around me has a MacBook in Singapore, so I am not definitely not one of those Apple convert out of peer pressure, maybe just "brother-pressure". My brother kinda encouraged me to buy and assured me how easy I would be able to get used to things. Glad I made that decision(: Since that day, there are 2 Macs at home, and even my parents are a little inclined towards using a Mac, though my home desktop is still a Windows.

Next apple product I've gotten was their iPod nano, in pretty lime green! They have it in my favorite colour so why not right? I am drawn to the aesthetics initially, however, the best thing about an iPod is the turn turn click wheel! Fast and easy to use user interface. Though I still won't call it the best mp3 player, in terms of sound quality, in the market, but it is the only one that does syncing with my iTunes so seamlessly. No more drag and drop, pretty album artwork, all ratings of songs rated with my iPod is synced, with smart playlists like recently added, recently played, top rated, ohhh and not to mention the lyrics function which supports dashboard widgets, iTunes add-ons etc...

And when Apple first came out with an iPhone. The one that is sold in US and never made it to Singapore, I wanted to get one. Tried to find ways to import it into Singapore to unlock it etc, but I guess it was all too expensive, didn't really get a chance to own it at all. Then came the iPhone 3G which finally arrived in Singapore, probably due to the bitterness I felt not owning an iPhone "2" I tried to convince myself over and over again that it is not the best phone out there. I chose to put my trust in an Android instead of an iOS. Although my Android didn't serve me that badly, I started feeling left out by friends and family members playing Angry birds on their iPhones. Oh, and cookie dozer too! I remembered how I kept searching on the Android's Market for this game, trying out all the different keywords combination, but it never did return any good news. Even till now, my Android Market still doesn't have that game, though it is officially out in the Android Market. (My Android is one of the first or second generation Android phones, thus a Market that can't be updated and is no longer able to support many apps.) 

When the Mac app store finally came up, I told myself that I need to get my hands on the Angry birds app, and ta-dah! I got it on running my 15-inch MacBook Pro. Full Size, so much better as compared to those playing it on their 3.5", not even 4" screens. HAHA. I was just happy though I never gotten even close to completing the game, I did not even complete the first 20 stages. I guess playing in on a Mac, with the Trackpad or the Magic mouse just lost its purpose and thrill in the whole game. 

And now as the iPhone 4S is out, (I was expecting an iPhone 5 frankly, plus who would want to own a 4S, and being mistaken as a 4? Then again people who own a 4, wanting to upgrade to a 4S knowing that there won't be a difference in the feel and appearance of your phone?) I am kinda disappointed that there is no iPhone 5. I have resisted various temptations of other HTC new releases like Sensation, Incredible S, even the Cha Cha with a full qwerty keyboard!, just to wait patiently for my iPhone 5. I told friends and family to stop me from buying any other phones till the iPhone 5 is out. But now, they came up with the 4S only, and first. After following the updates of @Macrumorslive on twitter in Apple's latest keynote event, I was left not very spurred on buying the 4S. Though I am looking forward to the iOS 5, but still an additional Siri doesn't really make the 4S more attractive than the 4. (Reminds me of Southpark episode of Humancentipad, where the Southpark Apple made a product that can read.) Hence, I dismissed that thought of owning an iPhone 4S, and to began my long and painful wait for the iPhone 5. 

Now, my brother first broke the news of Steve Jobs passing away to me, it made me realised how, this could be  IS the last iPhone that is with that Steve Jobs *touch*. I am now inclined towards buying an iPhone 4S, not sure if it is to show my support and gratitude for him or do I really want to own this 4S. What if the iPhone 5 isn't as good or as phenomenal as Jobs always puts it? ): Indeed it is a tough decision to make. The iPhone 4S or to wait for the iPhone 5? I am kinda sick of waiting yet afraid that if I eventually bought the 4S, 5 launches as so much better a deal! It is the endless waiting and fearing cycle of Apple users. Always torn and trapped in between... 

Steve Jobs, was such a legacy in the world of music, then computers, and now the Tablets. Look at all that Samsung Galaxy Tab, Blackberry Playbook, Asus Transformers, Kindle Fire etc coming out in the market. And who is the initiator of all these? Him, The Steve Jobs. I guess Moore's law has really to thank him for being the great catalyst.   

Always remembering what a great speaker and presenter he is. I am gonna miss his presentations and keynote events, I remembered how I would always watch almost all of his keynotes events, even those when he introduced Macintosh long long ago. The way he delivers, the zeal and enthusiasm in his every carefully crafted word, is better than Phil Schiller, and Tim Cook? Haven quite watched him yet. 

Re-watched his Stanford Commencement Video (2005) again. Listening to the part where he talks about death, and having a total new revelation about things, knowing that now that he is there, up in heaven and he must be resting in peace.   

  

I guess he could feel himself reaching this final destination soon, explains the stepping down as Apple's CEO. Many of his eureka moments is shared by people all over the world, and with his passing, we have lost a great innovator, a great speaker and motivator. Yet we know that he has indeed left a legacy, and maybe now he is beginning another legacy up there in heaven.  

Credits to http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

In memory of a simple black top and jeans wearing Steve Jobs. 

 

P.S. I think I will be buying a iPhone 4S and this has been one of the longest blogpost ever, dedicated to Steve Jobs. RIP. 

"You've got to find what you love." Steve Jobs wise words (:

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

and nope, i do not idolize him. Joan idolizes no one! :D [expect for herself probably. (:]

NEW ipod shuffle!

I have always looked down on an ipod shuffle. However, with this new shuffle, which actually TALKS to you! yes, It Talks! hmm. maybe I should stop looking down on it.

oh! but i still have one little problem with it. It looks like a lighter. Those lighters for cool and rich smokers, who smokes cigar instead of smelly things. Not that i am against lighters or anything along those lines, i just feel that there is some similarities between the two.

Apple has seriously decided to go buttons free once again! as you can see, there are no buttons on the shuffle itself. Nothing to press, replaced by something to slide(on top). Sleek move!

Read more about it here. Do watch the guiided tour too! (:
* one thing to note. I assume it that works only with the Apple earphones that are included. No chance of plugging in your favourite Sennheiser ): (Watch the guided tour to learn why.)

Macbook wheel

looking at how Apple once again come up with something WOW-ish.
*sense the sarcasm please*

Introducing the Revolutionary Macbook Wheel!
"To reduce energy use, Screen goes black after 4 seconds"



"I'll buy almost anything if it shiny and made by Apple!"
"I never really realised how much I hated keyboards until I saw this thing..."

oh and please listen carefully to how much it cost!

in case you are just wondering, i am still pretty much a Mac fan.

long weekend!

long weekend ahead.
just feel like sleeping it away.
with the cooling rainy weather,
the only mood that i have in mind is my sleepy mood.

heaps and piles of things to accomplish within this long weekend.
it makes the supposingly long weekend seems rather short.
time is a relative concept,
like every other thing in life.

just yesterday, i was telling my brother my birthday wishlist for this year.
and he sorta ignored me totally. ):
only four things on my wishlist. :D
and of course, one of them is an Apple product. :D

my sony T200 is hospitalised. ):
cant get to see it for one week!
damn it!
it actually vibrates you know!
the person was saying that he will get my lens replaced.
hopefully it will recover,
and hopefully it will recover before sir desmond's wedding.

on the topic of his wedding,
he was saying that he has the experience and will be able to advice us accordingly next time.
"You think you all still very young ah?" was his reply when i said that there is still a long way to go.
but i am really still young what!
haven even reach the starting digit 2 lo. ):

dawn and i went shopping the other day. (thurs)
that was before meeting the project comp instructors for dinner.
We bought identical stuff!
this is crazy, but crazily true!
haha. attire finally settled! :D
thank you dawn!

Thank you dinner for proj comp instructors was at manhattan fish market at Central mall.
The seafood platter was huge!
Very Fulfilling!
and i love watching the flaming of the prawns!
looks cool! feels magical~
The bad thing about that place is the un-understandable accent of those waiters and waitresses.
rahhs.

Desmond sent all of us home after that.
it was raining very heavily.
the wiper was not doing its job well.
the windscreen was not cleared.
the view was blurred.
sungsheng was feeling nauseous.
gladly, desmond was accustomed to his unclear windscreen.

i was the last to get down.
i miss those little talks that we often have on his car.
how he always feels like a papa to us.
Truly TKNP's godfather.
what a reminiscing feeling.

Finally went to the gym yesterday!
after like almost close to two months!
Feeling a little more healthy after gyming.
a little only. ):
stamina has deproved by a lot!
or was it not the time of the month to gym.
rahhs. ):
supposed to go swimming with zhenyew today, and gymming with him tomorrow.
but today is a bad day to swim! ):
rainy weather.
and hougang is far when the nearer alternative is merely a 5min cycle away.
i will consider gymming tomorrow again.
but i wanna gym again on monday!
oh, and in the end i didn't go for his POP!
heh, not sincere in asking lo. :P
and i dread going down to HTA!

counting down to exams.
my last paper is one day after my birthday.
finally get to experience what it is like to have birthday on my exams.
):
not that i want to have this kinda experience.
the second best part of it all is that the last paper is Maths.
the only paper that i have full confidence in.
but that is of course with lots of practice and revision to be done on 30nov!
WHICH IS MY BIRTHDAY!
(i need to clarify that i am not trying to do last minute revision here.
Just that it is crucial to revise everything once again the day before.)
and the best part of it all is,
this year my chinese birthday nicely coincides with my English birthday! ):
like what the shit.
first time it happens and i am not gonna celebrate it.
anyway, i have decided that i am not gonna risk my maths just so to celebrate my birthday.
looking on the brighter side of life, i don't have to make the decision whether or not i want to celebrate my birthday the Chinese or the English way.

few more days to my Final theory test again.
sad. i failed the first time. ):
hopefully i can pass this time.
few more days plus to German 2nd Vocab test.
aiming for 90%.
ambitious ya? but i can do it de.
one week plus to SSA2204 test again.
the topics aren't even out yet lo.
the SSA lecturers are always so slow and inefficient in uploading notes or information.
nevertheless, i will try and start studying for everything la.
one week plus plus to German oral test! ):
how sia.
I am not very confident or rather not comfortable in conversing with my tutorial mates.
how i wish oral is done with my lecture group mates.

on a totally random side note,
i have decided to change my trackpad to tap clicking.
trying to get used to it now.

the new MacBooks and MacBookPros are so impressive.
basing it just on the look.
looking more and more like the iPhone.
haven got the chance to watch the Keynote yet.
will watch it when i am free ba.
heard that now it is four fingers multi touch! :D
nope, i am not thinking of changing.
oh, and Apple is gonna make it more affordable for the masses.
but we won't get to see it in Singapore soon.
its stupid la.
the first batch of MacBooks and Pros that are coming in will go to those elities that preordered.
damn it la!
that makes Apple so so exclusive.
Exculsive to only the rich.
Whatever.
I am so gonna work hard, Strike rich and be a proud Mac user!
lalala.. dream harder..

looking forward to ending all these damn things.
anyway, i am looking for a job.
anyone has any lobangs?
lobangs for 15 year olds contact me too!
not that i am 15 year old STUPID!
:D
i wanna try working for Apple!
yeah! good idea right!
they should be glad to employ me lo.
no need too much training. (:
anyway, i need a job for one month.
yeah this december.
don't think i am going anywhere for holiday la. ):
sad. ):
economic recession. ):

just got Jay's new album.
listening to it now.
This magician song is uplifting and has a happy melody to it.
not sure about the meaning of the lyrics though,
haven started deciphering it.
and i do miss listening to chinese songs..
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Now playing: 周杰伦 - 魔术先生
via FoxyTunes

iPhone frantics singaporeans should read this!

Singapore Gets IPhone, but No Visual Voicemail or ITunes

Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) will start sales of Apple's iPhone 3G handset at midnight tonight local time but users who buy the phones won't get support for visual voicemail or access to videos and music sold on the iTunes Store.

"On launch, customers will not be able to buy content from the iTunes store. However, they will be able to buy applications from the Apple application store," SingTel said, adding that visual voicemail will not be offered in Singapore.

The iPhone 3G will be available for free to Singaporean customers who sign a two-year contract that costs S$205 (US$145) per month, including 1,500 minutes of outgoing talk time and 3G bytes of data access. The cheapest plan for new subscribers costs S$348 for the 8G-byte iPhone 3G and S$508 for the 16G-byte model, and requires them to sign a two-year contract that costs S$56 per month and includes 200 minutes of outgoing talk time and 1G byte of data.

The operator did not offer an explanation for why visual voicemail, one of the iPhone 3G's standout features, will not be offered. A Singaporean version of the iTunes Store has never been offered by Apple despite the popularity of the iPod and other products here, likely a reflection of the Southeast Asian city-state's small population of 4.5 million people.

The iPhone 3G handsets that will go on sale in Singapore appear to be unlocked, and could be used with networks belonging to other local operators. "It may work but you may not enjoy the same iPhone experience as SingTel only supports iPhone 3G devices that are connected to SingTel's network," the operator said, without specifying what specific advantage its own network will offer over others.

Although the iPhone 3G is already available in 22 countries, SingTel hopes to recreate the media attention that followed the handset's July launch in the U.S. An invitation sent out to reporters invited them to a "special launch ceremony," to be held at midnight tonight and attended by the operator's top executives, that will include the first local sale of an iPhone 3G.

Such ceremonies have become a common occurrence when the iPhone 3G is launched, being repeated in several different markets where these events brought out local Apple enthusiasts as well as media.

Source

know what to expect.
this is not gonna be as fantastic as what Steve Jobs has described.

Singtel tapping on the iPhone Frenzy for marketing purposes?

I was randomly checking out on how to do go about reserving an iPhone without having to go down and queue for it onthe first day of its launch in Singapore.

And to my horror, I chanced upon this blog which once again confirmed my constant belief that Singtel is as inefficient as it used to be.

A summary of what the blog entry:

Firstly, this person, like i was, excitingly went into the Singtel iPhone reservation website.
(You can click on the link. although i strongly advise you not to, as you will realise how stupid you actually are and how much precious time you have actually wasted after clicking on the link. Just continue reading on first.)

So this was what was shown on the main page.

(Click to enlarge)

So this person clicked Yes.

Directed to the next page.

Where have to go through all the hussle filling in your correct details and information.

Whne you finally click NEXT, thinking all that trouble is finally over,
and you will see the confirmation of your iPhone reservation.

However, Singtel will disappoint you by showing you this page:

"Currently iPhones can only be reserved at at your local hello! store.
Please don't forget to bring your personal identification documents..."

It just make you feel cheated.
All the good fifteen minutes was wasted?!

I feel like saying, HELLO hello! stores.
Why was this page set up int he first page huh?
Stop doing illogically things to waste Singaporeans' time can?
Don't you know how busy and hectic a Singaporean's life can be?
Time to grown up Singtel.

Furthermore, many will be asking this question,
"Will Singtel be the only one that will get the iPhone?"
My answer is " No! to a certain extent."

Singtel may get to be the sole distributor.
Or they may just get to be the first mobile operator to bring iPhone into Singapore. But the iPhone will never get to be as exclusive as it was when it was first launched in US.
This is because Singapore forbids the locking of SIM cards to a certain mobile operator.
So no worries.
Everybody do not need to switch the inefficient Singtel.
(provided that everybody wants a 3GiPhone.)
But I don't see why anybody wouldn't want it. At least not now.

3G iPhone unveiled! (:

Oh my god!
3G iPhone finally unveiled!
Like what macrumors has predicted, the new 3G iPhone is launched at WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2008 Keynote!

To watch the WWDC video, click here.
(QuickTime required! (:)
(and the video takes a bit long to load. everyone is in apple's website now!)

For those interested in iPhone only,
you need to skip the first 1hour.
Forward all the way to the back.
I am still watching the video now.
will do a update later. (:

Apple rocks! (:

iSHOP free photo shoot! *photos!*

This is the pictures post of the free photo shoot!
i'm loving mac! (: whee!!

the scratching show demo!Free make up!
M.A.C Cosmetics
Photo shoot time (:
looks pro huh?first shot.
so boring right?
Testing only la!
normal again.
normal too.
bleah!
sticking tongue! :P
looking up!
looking away (:
and what's with my brother's eyes!
so small! :P
Fly me to the moon! (:
superman! (:
normal (:
my brother looks sad.
he says that i am abusing him!
see child abuse! :P
:P
sweet huh?!
can smell rising jealousy among my brother's secret admirer.
our favourite and most unoriginal pose!
say cheese! (:

if you look at the two pictures carefully,
there is actually a difference in focus.
this one-focus is on the hands.
this one focus its on the face.
Must be the Canon EOS magic! (:
covered face!:P
enlarged.
no longer covered!

these are most of the photos! (:
didn't post up all of them.
waiting patiently for the postcards to arrive! (:
will post it up after getting them! (:

BIG BIG SMILE!
:D

iSHOP free photo shoot! (: a MUST GO!

free photo shoot at iSHOP!
@ cineleisure. (:
iPhoto demostration.

went with my darling brother, who is now known as my xiao boyfriend.

I will post up the photos later as it is taking quite a long time to load!

Photos are taken with a Canon EOS.
Free Make up session given for females. In case the males start screaming unfair!
you can get a free hairdo "makeover", if you are thick skinned enough to ask for it.
(definition of "makeover" a little hair spray on you hair?)
however being a little thick skinned is worth it, as at the end of the day,
you can get a pretty young lady to do your hair for you! (:

ladies, in case you are wondering what sort of make up they are using and whether your skin will corrode at the end of the day.
No worries man, cause apple always gives the best they can!
They actually use M.A.C cosmetics.
not any other cheapo silky girl cosmetics, but M.A.C!

i highly suspect that there is pun intended.
yes, MAC uses MAC!
see the link?
aiyah, never mind if you don't! :P

oh ya, and the hair spray they use is the l'oreal one. (:
smells nice!
haha. my brother wasn't thick skinned enough to go and ask for a hairspray though.
lousy brother!
he didn't even want to accompany me for the photo shoot!
BUT fortunately the Apple salesperson managed to persuade him.
Thumbs up uP UP for the salesperson!
They are friendly people. (:

OH! there is one thing that they really should improve on,
THERE IS NO MIRROR TO CHECK IF YOU ARE SHUAI OR CHIO ENOUGH BEFORE THE SHOOT!

haha!! the only mirror that they have is the one at the make up area.

at the end of the whole photo shoot,
you will get 4 postcards/2 greeting cards.
(obviously made by iPhoto. You get to design and personalise them.)
i think this is where the iPhoto demostration is suppose to come in,
however i feel that it is not very demo-ish la.
we get to do everything ourselves,
they didn't do much of a demo for us la.
(Probably cause my brother and I aren't mac noobs. :P)

We also get a CD with all our 22 photos burnt in them!
I am not sure how many photos can people take.
The female photographer was saying, "Come on guys, one last shot!"
Yet, we ended up taking so so many more shots! (:
HAHA!!
i think the photographer like our last pose very much! (:
Happy! :D

other than the free photo shoot,
you can get to see a "scratch show"! (:
not bad la, cause i am not quite a fan of this genre of music.
Nevertheless its cool to be a own DJ! even at home! (:

I was hesitating whether to post this up, as i do not wish to have people rushing for this great deal, causing a long queue!
However, i have decided to be nice, so there you go:

free photo shoot on the 7th, 8th, 21st and 22nd June.
until 8pm! (not sure what time it starts though!)
At Cineleisure iSHOP.

and i'm GOING AGAIN!
loyal MAC supporter! (:

microsoft/apple?

hey, i have created his microsoft or apple poll. (:
do it ya. (:

it won't take much of your time one.
less than 1 minute (:


oh ya, the poll is on your right!

Microsoft Windows 7- how long will it take to come true?

pretty cool video huh?
multi touch on windows too.

what really amazed me is the smooth transition of the GPS.
and also the piano keyboard.

however, Apple can do it too.

Rumored that it will only be out in year 2010.
And by that time, Apple would have already come up with something even more fantastic.

When asked if Apple might come up with something better,
the Microsoft spokesperson response was,
"There's a lot in Windows 7, and our goal's got to be, with our hardware partners, to produce fantastic PCs. ...
We'll sell 270m PCs a year, and Apple will sell 10m.
Apple is fantastically successful, and so are we."
[quoted]


wow, full of confidence huh?
we shall see how it goes.
and please not let your definition of fantastic PCs be limited to the boundaries.
like how Windows Vista has disappointed many.

for the time being, i am still standing on Apple's side.
Mac supporter.
But not those that Queen Blogger, Xiaxue, has described as arrogant and stuff,
but i am just a mild supporter of Mac.
(probably due to the lousier alternative. :P)

Nevertheless, looking forward to the battle.
Battle between OS!

and i promise, if Microsoft can do a better job,
i will change sides immediately! (:

just realised that my Apple and Microsoft posts are one after another.

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference

Will the next generation iPhone be out?

Results will be unveiled on
9 June.
in San Francisco.

overwhelming excitement lingers in me.