Some interesting sites...

Weibo (微博）is something like Twitter, Chinese version. This is the second Weibo introduced here. The author of this Weibo put this as the introduction : 但愿每一句深情的表白，可以拨动你寂寞的心弦！ 真的不大願意用英文來介紹這微博，不會翻譯那一句簡介。Google translate說是：I hope every one soulful confession, you can toggle your lonely hearts!要怎麼翻譯嘛～ Anyway, I found this Weibo very interesting. I think writing love letter is something very sweet. The writer must be in a very happy mood while writing it, whether or not the recipient like it. :P 開心就好嘛～ I never thought such romantic thing would really happen... Until someone in my office have a bottle of chicken essence on her table with a little note yesterday morning, "當你覺得累的時候喝。。。。“ From anonymous. This is so sweet! No one claimed to be the happy person. Just in case if "you" reading this, it's not me who put the chicken essence. I would like to know who too! :D OK, back to this love letters page. It is not exactly love letters, but beautiful wording related t...

I have another photoblog to introduce here. I read about this special photographer that she takes her own levitation photographs. From levitation photos, you’ll see people (or object) are in the air, floating in the air. In her website, she mentioned, she is using Canon EOS 5D Mk2 camera. (I only know this as Canon DSLR camera.) This allows her can get to places as far as 10 seconds distance away from the camera. If she would need to be further away from the camera, she’ll ask someone to help to take the photos. To take these levitation photos, the shutter speed must be high, or else the object (person) will be blurred. I love this! :D Check out her website at http://yowayowacamera.com/

I got an email introducing this feature of pchome.com.tw few months ago. I saved the link somewhere so I can share it later. However, I can’t find it, and I have to dig the email from 1K ++ emails in my Yahoo mailbox to look for it again! So, this website kept in my mind for quite sometimes. And yes, finally I have time to do some clean up on my Yahoo mailbox and found the email. (Luckily I didn’t delete the email. :D) I didn’t try to upload my photos to check it out, but I did try the default photo in this web application to check out the lomo effects. Frankly, I still can’t tell what exactly lomography is, but I do have my own preferred definition. :P I read some articles online, some said digital lomo cameras are not the “real” lomography, they are “done” by software, not by the physical feature of the camera or lens. Some use software (the real software in your PC) to edit the pictures taken, to make it lomo-feel-like. Some didn’t explicitly spell out, but I think (at least...

Ever since YH introduce the creative photos from this blogger, I have been following closely to her blog. Jamie is a photographer from NYC. She updates her blog almost every day with stunning photos! Something very special about her photo is, it’s “moving”. Yes! She has some “dynamic” photos. I know about gif file, and I have seen people using gif file to showcase some part from movie, but I never thought of using this feature in photography! In my very tight and do or die schedule, her blog is something that I am looking forward, every morning, after I turn on my laptop before I start my work. Is she going to have those gif files again? Is this a gif file? These questions pop up in my head every time when I open my rss reader. Check it out. She also occasionally has some giveaways too! http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/ Example of her work :

I saw this magazine in one of the Popular sales, months or couple of years ago, I can’t recall. It’s quite eye-catchy because of the name “Cheers”. My idol’s name is Cheer. :P It’s mainly about work life, tips, success stories, and they even have power point slides available to download (for members only). Membership is free, in addition, they have VIP membership as well. They also offer courses and seminars as well. Couple of weeks ago, they have 方文山, a famous lyrics writer and also a poet in house. How I wish I can attend it… Anyway, the articles posted here give a lot of advices. For example, how to manage your boss (shh…. Yes, I did read this.), 5 typical losers, how to say NO, and etc. I personally really like the magazine (hard copy) and also this website. :) http://www.cheers.com.tw/

I remember read her book before, at least wanted to buy her book, or at least saw her book on the bookshelf. Thus, this website appeared quite familiar to me. Probably I have been checking out this kind of books for quite some times. It’s something about anything. Pardon me, I am not really sure what I am mumbling here. :) I like the concept of this project (yes, I don’t call it website). It’s a daily record of things that she sees, or experiences, or to spell out her ideas. I believe she did the template for this project, and post new page every day. Hint? The html files. The files are in html, and if you click on the day 83 , you’ll see the links for day 1 – day 83, but if you click on day 75 , it’s showing the link for day 1 to day 75. It can be with photos, or drawings, or text only. A simple and relax to read them. I like this very much. It’s a 365 day project, every day in a week with a theme. I followed her fan page on facebook since weeks ago. I have something to look for e...

Found a special blog as I facebooking recently. The blog owner promoted his blog in one of the fan page that I followed. I like his idea of doing this. (I think it’s he, not she, just my guts feel.) He draws pictures, or I would rather say the story board for the songs that he chose. He does attach the actual MTV from YouTube and then his art work with the lyrics. These pictures are very nicely put matching the lyrics. Check it out! 歌&漫, by Zinc. http://zinc-sketching.blogspot.com/ I tried to mimic his work using MS Paint. Hehehe… Probably this is a good hobby to do during free time, or busy but bored time. :) My sketch...

I am not sure since when I started listening to Coldplay. This name is cool, that’s my first impression. And their songs? Even better! I heard of Coldplay, but didn’t actually “make effort” to listen to their song. Until one day, Tanya Chua, a Singaporean singer is having “Yellow” in her album… Or maybe it’s because of “Viva La Vida”? I also get to know his other songs from YouTube. “The Scientist” and “Clocks” are some other songs that I love. I got their update in my Facebook wall, so I clicked to their page to check out if I missed out anything. There I saw one of the entry saying this, “If you don’t have it yet, you can still download Coldplay’s terrific free live album, LeftRightLeftRightLeft…”! I got my first free album from them. What about you? :) Like them on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/coldplay To download the free album : http://www.coldplay.com/lrlrl/lr.html

I was looking for movie making software. Somehow, I was unable to install Movie Maker 2011 in my laptop. I gave up, and search for other alternative. In one of the search result, and somehow, this website attracted me, Shape Collage. I saw my friends posted photos similar to this using Picasa, however, I really do feel Picasa is not so user friendly, thus I gave up using that apps. I do found this Shape Collage very easy to use, it automatically generate the pictures based on your selections and settings. You can even specify how the picture collages looked like! If you would like to edit the picture, you can save it in PSD format, and edit using Photoshop or GIMP. (If you would like to use freeware all the way, GIMP is your choice!) One thing that confused me while I am using Shape Collage is, the review button is to view the shape of the picture collages, not to view the end result. You’ll have to save the file first before you can check it out. And one great thing is, it sup...

I was looking for direction to go to Max Pavilion last year. Then I found this website, and find it quite useful. I tried to search for some places in Penang. Penang Island is so small, yet the website divided Penang Island into 2 sections, timur laut (Northeast) and barat daya (Southwest). What about Northwest and Southeast? I search for Young Hearts from Penang timur laut. No luck. Guess it’s not a significant spot in Penang. Later I tried Straits Quay, no luck as well. However, I do find Island Plaza there. Finally, I can think of another big spot, that is Queensbay Mall! It’s with the barat daya region. Why? Anyway, overall, if you are looking for big-named places (for Malaysia map), you can use this web site. I would prefer the selection to have by state, instead of all, or select a region in a state. http://my.streetdb.com/ (Would it be using Google map better? I am having 2nd thought, though I got this website from Google.  )

I am tired of all kind of write ups, I just want to blog. I was looking for 2010 movie list from GSC web site, somehow, I was unable to find any movie database there. So I googled for it and found this website. http://teaser-trailer.com/ It has not only the list of the movie in 2010, but also some details on the movie, for example movie trailers and soundtrack details. It also has the best movie list. I intend to go through the list to check out the movies that I wanted to watch. :D

I wanted to blog about this site for quite sometimes. It was introduced by my dear friend. She plans to go to Europe or US to further her study. My plan? I don’t have a firm plan. I used to dream of studying in Japan. Alright, I was just dreaming of staying in Japan for a year or two, have a taste of being study abroad, or stay abroad for some times. I am thinking of taking this more "seriously", so I start to look for scholarship. Probably just by doing some observations, not taking any action. I am not that daring to make changes in life, despite I have been changing job for 4 times within 10 years. Starting from the Seed Hunter, then this scholarship listing page, I recall the very first idol I have when I was very young, Madame Curie (居裡夫人). Thanks to 人文與環境 subject. I am not sure because she is a widow continue the research that she and her husband were working on, or was awarded Nobel Prize (I just recently realized that she got 2 of the Nobel Prizes, both from diffe...