Some interesting sites...

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/