Some interesting sites...

I’d like to introduce a blog today. The blogger, 雅晴, is from Taiwan, and just released books on 100 kisses in Paris. I didn’t have a chance to read those books, but I admire her for dare to dream, and dare to work it out. Before the books were released, there are people who admire her, and of course there are people who criticize her. It became a place of argument in her blog whenever she has a new post. She closed down the comments for a short period. Recently, this blog mostly write about her activities, and also her dog, and some of her thought. She seldom talked about her boyfriend now. Today her blog is about some happenings that she’ll give a public talk. If you just happened to visit to Taiwan during that period, you may want to consider meeting her there. :) http://www.wretch.cc/blog/angelduck777 Oh yeah… I forgot to mention, she is a pianist! :)

I was doing cleaning, and make my study room to be ready. It is about 90% completed, and I can blog in my study room already! I found some papers, which I got from my previous company. It was about the line dance steps that we practice for the Wild Wild West annual dinner in... I guess in 2006 or 2007. I can’t remember. So, today I would like to introduce the website where the seniors got the line dance “scripts” from, Kickit. Just found out today, it also has the Youth Soccer section, but I am not interested in. :P I found the bounce clip in my external hdd. Frankly, I almost totally forgot how to dance it! It was fun to have a group of people in the company doing things that we enjoy. This is what I really called, GPTW. This is one of the dances we did. Ah... I start to miss this “exercise”, but my sifus are not here.... http://www.kickit.to

Into my boredom, I turn on TV1 when I got home after my dinner. Yeap, as usual, it’s just TV1 and TV2 program are “watchable”. Thank god TV1 broadcast this National Geographic 1 hour documentary show with the least and shortest commercial breaks at that time. I am amazed by this Science exploration, with limited budget and under bad circumstances, Dr. Ken was persist in his hunting for wild chick pea, and of course to collect any varieties of wheat and barley along their expedition for the seed library/collection. The storyline was about this expedition and also the problems faced by the farmers in Australia and how the Scientists have helped to improve the plant genetic to overcome the problems. In the show, Dr. Ken calls these seeds as green gold. They are the basic and most valuable “gold” to human. I just found the website to this documentary and would like to share it here. http://www.seedhunter.com/ At the end of the show, I wish I am a genetic engineer, or a farmer. Or I wish I...

I was in the mood of “Drops of Jupiter” again. The actual meaning of the song, compare to what I used to comprehend quite different. You can go YouTube and check it out. This is not the web page that I would like to introduce in this post. :P From the YouTube clip of this song, I travelled to Billboard website. I was amazed that this song was in some of the charts for more than a year! I continue browsed the pages, and go to the chart page on that particular week, and I found another song that I loved so much, was on the chart for about 1 ½ year, and more than 2 years in some other chart! “If you’re gone”, by Matchbox Tweenty. OK, I was browsing this at work, so I can’t dig much further. For music lovers out there, I guess this is a great place for you to visit, to get to know latest songs, and also old songs. It’s coming with the video clip as well. You can listen to the song while checking out the album. You can also leave comments, and view review/comments on the same page. I think ...

Friends said that I have travelled to a lot of places. Frankly, my journey started only last year, to AU/NZ. My friend, ET, was in NZ in holiday making visa. She gave me her phone number, and I would call her, occasionally, to keep in touch with her, or when I am in the right mood. I only know the country code for Malaysia is 60, not sure about other country. So, I tried google to check it out. This is the page where Google landed me to, http://www.countrycodes.com . You can select what is the country calling from, then select the country you would like to calling to. It will show you the number to call before the country code, followed by the country code. You can also select the city, which will give you the area code of the city. Normally you’ll dial a plus sign (+), followed by the country code, then area code, lastly the phone number, if you are using cell phone. I am not sure if line phone does give you the plus sign (+) key on the key pad. I guess this page won’t be used very fr...

If I recall correctly, I attended the forum last week. My peer chaired the forum, and he used this tool to collect the inputs from the forum. It’s called XMind. He said it is very handy to be used when doing brainstorming session. It is related to mind mapping and etc, etc, etc. I did go and check it out, and tried to use it. It is not bad, it helps to organize your thoughts into a more systematic and graphical way. I used it in today’s class. I haven’t really gone through it thoroughly. This type of applications does help a lot, but not necessary work for me, as I am a super not-organized person. I saw my colleague put his data and research information in MS Office OneNote in a very organized way. I tried, it just won’t work. :P Hope you find this application useful, and do help you in organizing your thoughts. :) http://www.xmind.net/

Found this website when I was looking for Mr. Children’s lyrics with translation. I read from magazine, there’s a Japanese model love Mr. Children for their poem. She said they inspired her a lot. My Idol also likes them. And I know Mr. Children since I was in uni time, he sang this song : Not found. This is the only song from them I know that I am aware of. :D This site provides not only the lyrics and translation, but also the romaji lyrics and YouTube video clip! So, I can sing along with them! Ha! I also browse the C-Pop category just now. It also has similar features, and auto scrolling for the lyrics! The romaji lyrics happened to be in 漢語拼音 (han yu pin yin) with the 陰陽上去 (the “tone”)! That impressed me a lot. Normally you’ll see the “pin yin” only. I think this would help people who want to learn Mandarin on his own. :) http://www.jpopasia.com/

Another long time I have not updating this blog. I was on vacation, and then idle for sometimes, and busy for other time and finally found some time today to write about this page I found few weeks ago. I was checking on a photo competition submission rules and regulations. It requires participant to submit 10.5cm X 15cm size of photo. I have been using Microsoft Office Picture Manager to do resize, and it’s in pixels measurement, how do I resize my photos to fulfill the requirement? As usual, I use Google to find solutions. It brings me to this site, TranslatorCafe.com. I can directly key in the values, and it will do the conversion right away! It is very impressive to me. Besides length, there are a lot more converters available, such as energy, mass, velocity and etc. Go and check it out! As for my problem, hmm... I doubt it can be direct convert like that. Think there’s dpi dependency in the calculations. :( http://www.translatorscafe.com/

Couple of months ago, my friend, q.a.d asked me if I can get her a website to check out the weight of one’s birth date. Hence, I googled, and found this. To calculate the weight of your birthday, you need to know, of course your birth date, and also your born time. I remember long long time ago, I tried using 通勝to calculate mine. 通勝 is a book that has a lot of information there. You can check out when is the right time to move, get married and etc. You can also read stories, learn English, and... and etc. :P It is published yearly... haha... I feel like laughing as I describe this book. I love this book very much somehow, probably because of the nice Chinese characters. Well, go and check out your birth date weight and see how it goes. The heavier your birth date is, the better your life is. ;) http://8word.net/bazi.asp

I can’t recall how I found this website, anyway, it was safely kept in my favourite’s folder. I talked about IkeaHacker before, and this is LifeHacker. :) As I browse through this website again, found this article, “What should I do about my virtual life after death?” Anyone else has the same concern? Or most of us have the same concern? I myself never thought of that. However, I started to think about this few days ago, when I saw the friend recommendation on Facebook telling me that I might know this person, my friend, who died early this year. It’s a bit freaking me out because of all recommendations that Facebook made so far, he rarely appear on the list. But this recommendation was “stuck” to my Facebook page few days ago, even though I kept refreshing that page. (In case you don’t know or you are not aware of, this month is the 7th month in Chinese Lunar calendar, some call it Hungry Ghost month.) I am not sure what do I wish to do with my online accounts. I guess it doesn’t real...

I should start working, after watching the drama and also working on today’s photo and post it to my blog and Facebook. It’s been a long while, I really should start to work. But... in case you don’t know, today is 七夕, the 7th day of the 7th month in lunar calendar. There are quite some stories, or related tradition activities today. My English is not really good to tell the stories, so I’ll try my best to briefly talk about one of them. This day, is also referred as Chinese Valentine’s Day. We have 2 yearly, I think, one is on the 15th of 1st month in lunar calendar, and the other one is today. Today is the reunion day for 牛郎 (niu lang) and 織女 (zhi nv). 牛郎is a mortal, where 織女is a fairy (Any other term? I got this from Google translate, probably deity? I am not sure.) They were in loved, got married, and have kids. When the 天帝 (Emperor of Heaven) knows about it, He summoned 王母娘娘 (The Queen Mother?!) to bring her back to heaven. 牛郎had a 灰牛大仙 (immortal cow), who helped him to chase afte...

I attended a one-week Design Pattern class couple of weeks ago. I remembered boss asked me, “Do you know what design pattern is? Please go and find out before you want to sign up.” Frankly, I didn’t know what Design Pattern is, if you ask me now, I can’t really tell you what it is, still. I briefly read some introductions from Google search result, and told him my justification to sign up for the class. I think it is useful not only for software design, but also hardware design. SystemVerilog does support object oriented, thus it should be applicable in my work related area. I told my some friends about this, people think this is my excuse to go for the class. I hope my boss didn’t, because I really do think it works that way. I think, Design Pattern is an abstract methodology, using object oriented concept, to ... to solve issues, to tell about relationship, how relationship works, in software design, maybe using SystemVerilog in hardware design flow, and in our life. One funny, but s...

I went to a class of The Analects of Confucius. It was very interesting, indeed. I love literatures. I am not sure why. I do think literatures bored me, sometimes. I hesitated to go for the class, because I am afraid I might fall asleep in the class, secondly is because I am unable to fully attend the class due to some planned events. I was glad that I went, and found my new idol, the speaker (傅承得老師). Though he was just sitting there, talking and reading through the book, I rarely fell asleep in the class (except the hour after lunch)! It’s rather sad to see today’s education system, which emphasize on the “technical” or knowledge based, rather than having teaching or helping a student to be a better person. If you try to understand the life of Confucius, how he taught his student, by reading the Analects of Confucius, you’ll know how a great teacher can be. I don’t know how to put these in words, especially in English. In short, he is a great educator, a great philosopher, and a great...

Unicode is a character encoding standards to support multi-language characters, including Braille. As you know, we normally have Big5 for traditional Chinese, and GB2312 for simplify Chinese, of course there are more, or variations for the Chinese characters. It is very inconvenient when you are browsing between web pages in simplify Chinese and also traditional Chinese. I have a lot of this problem last time, when I was active in one of the popular Chinese forums in Malaysia. The text that I entered sometime can be “corrupted” (亂碼), probably due to the browser was set to view in GB2312 encoding, but my input is Big5, or vice versa. Sometimes, I need to set to view in HZ, and then the text only can be readable. I am a traditional Chinese character supporter, though I can’t really write it, at least I can type it. :P So, with Unicode come in place, it eases all these pain. However, probably not all websites are using this encoding, but at least it is a great solution to the web domain, ...

Do you still remember bubble sorting? It’s the simplest sorting algorithm, which can sort a small data quickly. When it comes to a large pool of data, this is not the best algorithm to be applied. So, how do we determine which sorting algorithm is the optimum (there’s no best one I guess) for the scenario that we are looking at? Found this website from Google search result. It has the simulation animation for different sorting methods, and also based on the data distribution. So, if you would like to know more, check this out. Click on the refresh icon on each sorting algorithm to start the simulation to watch the performance on the algorithm on different data distribution, and click on the data distribution refresh icon to view the simulation of different sorting algorithm on that data distribution. By the way, you can even choose the problem size! Enjoy! :) http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/ My comment on this website : light weighted, simple, clean, and precise. :)

I have been a student member to Lee Guitars right after my birthday this year. I heard his show over the radio, a daily 5 minutes sharing on Music topics. I added a link to its facebook, thus I am thinking of sharing this website with you today. :) Jonathan Lee (李宗盛) is a famous musician. He writes songs, he sings, and he makes guitars! This website basically introduces the guitar by Lee and also the radio shows on music classes that he conducted. He came to Penang last month, and too bad, it was too crowded, though I reached there around 5:30pm, but I left there just in time when he came. I blamed myself for reaching there too early. Else, I would have been in that restaurant watching him sharing in real person! I did blame for the restaurant personnel to bar me from entering the restaurant too. Should have told me there will be a queue numbering to go in for the session and dinner mah . :( I need to comment something about this web site structure. Firstly, it is using flash, thus it’...

I visited this website again today. I use this website look for those unknown file types. The first time when I landed on this website was due to I wanted to do “clean up” on the files in my PC. Some files are OK to delete, while some files are not. I can’t recall what the file extension I was looking for. Today, I am looking for the file extension of wll. We were discussed about dll files. I asked the teacher, what a wll file is, he doesn’t know. So, I search for the information. I have been compiling the program that I supported into wll file, but I have no idea what kind of application type that I am looking for. Finally, here it goes! Rupa-rupanya it’s for Word document add-in. :P Check it out! http://filext.com/

I spent months to go through every post in this blog, just because I was touched by his lyrics, I’d like to know what he’ll put in his blog. I was surprised to find out his photography touched my heart as well. Mayday is the spokespersons for BenQ. I was tempted to get one BenQ camera when I see this post... (Time tickling and I am still can’t find that post entry...) OK, I am unable to find out the post that I wanted to share here; it was photos of somewhere out there, not in Asia, but in a neighborhood. But this one is not bad too, don’t you think so? I love “long” photos, that’s why I love Canon pretty much, it has that setting to choose. However, the photos that he shared here close to square shape. I am not sure if it’s due to the blog settings, or the photos being cropped, or BenQ has this setting. :) What inspired me most about his blog is this entry : http://ashinmayday.mysinablog.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=978325 He wrote daily activities of Mayday, and their...

There was a hit from this Korean drama last year, Boys over Flowers. My friend lends me her VCD, and I watched it day and night except during working and sleeping hours. I am attracted to this talented girl who is the main actress in this drama, Koo Hye Sun. I googled, and read a lot about her. She was started as an online popular sweetie, then she starts her career as an actress, and story goes on. I was very surprised, in fact, in real life, she is so talented in music and art! The time when I was reading about her, she is having her illustration exhibition! I am soooooooooo e.n.v.y! This is her personal official site. I like the layout of the website. However, it’s quite “heavy” in terms on, the page load slower than others. It’s using flash in the web design. For non-critical web system like this, it is fine to use flash. However, I still prefer fast loading web site. I just subscribe to basic package from the internet service provider, so.... If you know Korean, check out her webs...

It has been for quite some time that I never update this blog, I have tons of url that I have kept to share in my laptop, which I wish I can shared all of them here, thus I can clean up my favourites folder. :P This is a URL sent by an admin from my department. I was so excited when I browse this website. I always have these cooking thoughts run in my mind. As I go through the ingredients and method to cook, it just quickly visualized as though I went shopping for the ingredient, food preparation, and starting to cook. It always stopped at the food almost ready, and I have already gone for the other food preparation. I never had a chance to taste it in my “vision”. Anyway, apart from the side talk, from this website, you can choose the ingredient of your interest, which kind of cuisine, type of food, whether it’s for dessert, appetizer or main course, and etc, and ta-da, it returns you the recipe results based on your interest! What’s more awesome, it has more than 14K of recipes avail...

I used this website for several times, not really “fancy” about it until that very day... I was talking about self-centered with P. She said, what I described is not “self-centered”; it’s actually “egocentrism”. What was I talked about? I am sad not because my boss scolded me, but I made mistake that leads to my boss to scold me. I am said not because he left me, but I let him come near me. I am happy not because you treat me an ice-cream, but I get to eat the ice-cream... And... These examples are so I, me, and myself, why it’s not “self-centered”? She sent me this link : http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/egocentrism and told me, it is egocentrism. Anyway, I tried to check “self-centered” from this website, it’s actually suit what I was saying! I missed that out! Haha! I also just realized that, it has links to thesaurus and web search, which are quite useful. The translator and web tab somehow doesn’t work as what I expected. Anyway, I like this site. :) http://dictionary.refer...

Frankly, I don’t really feel stress. However, the symptoms that appear on my body and my life routine showing I am. I have hair drops problem, sleep problem, irregular meal time, feel like anti-social and don’t feel like talking to strangers at all. I googled “stress” keyword, and found this website. “The body doesn’t distinguish between physical and psychological threats.” My mind doesn’t distinguish between stress or not stress! What do I do? :( I checked out the top ten stressful life events on this page, it seems I am not really in one of the category. So, I am not on the chronic stress. Anyway, if you are a writer, story writer, novel writer, this might be a good reference site for you to get to know about mental health if you are writing something about it. I wanted to, and take part in a novel competition, but... 70K – 120K characters?! Gosh! I used to write “short story” and force myself to make it 1K characters each, I just manage to get less than 20 completed in... I forgot h...

I love Japanese drama, and I still do, despite recently I am crazy over a Korean drama... Found this website as I was looking for the web entry on Night Tenjo (in Zettai Kareshi). I was crazy over fall in love with a robot, and how I wish I’ll have a Naito of my own. If you go to the main page, you’ll see there are directives for Asian dramas, including Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Chinese and Singaporean. I love this website as I can browse through the details of the drama of my interest. Today, as I get this link from my bookmark to introduce here, I browse the information about some drama that plays on my mind, Dream Again, Boys over Flowers, Zettai Kareshi... Of course, besides information about drama, the site is also showing information about Artists, songs, lyrics... Very informative site, I would say. I am bored, I guess, after long day out for work and photo shooting today. Guess I shall stop here. Enjoy~ http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Main_Page

If you are interested to watch leng chai and get to know leng chai, you must not miss this blog! The blogger update this blog irregularly with Asian actor’s basic information and photos! I can’t remember exactly how I found this website, but... I guess it must have been due to Takeshi Kaneshiro! :D There was once I was googling for his photo... Google must have brought me here. Hehe~ This year, the website only updated with a new blog entry, introducing a Thai actor, Andrew Cronin. I don’t know him, frankly. But, he is kinda cute and cool. Check it out! http://asian-actor.blogspot.com/

I wanted to introduce some other websites that is in my “to share” list. However, they load too slowly. I can’t get the snapshot that I want... Thus, let me share this URL instead. I am crazy over YouTube, how you can find all kinds of information and entertainment clips there. There’s one channel that I really like. It’s BuddhistSocietyWA’s channel, it’s mostly, or all are recording of Ajahn Brahm’s talks. I am not really religious, and I take all good and kind thoughts as my gurus. Had a few “debates” or “discussions” or “sharing” with my friends recently. It just comes at the right time, where something in the past hurt me so much and hit me again. Sharing of Buddhism, or I always refer it as way of life, helps to remind me again, we do not live in the past. There are long forgotten hatred that I should have leave behind shouldn’t rise up again. Facing everything with smile and calmness, is one of the ways of life that I am looking for, I guess. :) I only repeatedly watched a few cl...

Wow, I can’t believe I have “abandoned” this site for several months! My favourite’s bookmarks are piling up. Got to “clear” them ASAP. :D Yesterday, I went to QBM with PY during lunch time. As we “window shop” at Jusco food department, I asked about cheese. I am not fancy about cheese, but... somehow, I like cheese baked rice or spaghetti. As we went back to work, she sent me this URL on the cheese baked rice recipe! I am so delighted! What’s running on my mind is, I should get part time job, earn some pocket $$, but a table top or something, put my oven there, and forever there, so that I can use the oven more frequent, rather than keeping it in the living room, and put back to the “store room” after use. I am sooooo tempted to cook myself this dish! Alas! My mum will be here soon. Most likely I’ll have to wait until I got my kitchen back! :D Most of her blog entry is food and the recipe! Well, I haven’t really gone far in her blog, but the cheese baked rice is definitely caught my e...