November 2009 Archives

Yesterday night Dwenchan and I watched the movie: "Twilight - New Moon" at 1Borneo, I would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to The Body Shop - for sponsoring the movie tickets!

My focus for the movie was on three things: the first would be the movie's plot and how the actors play their part, the second are special effects that were implemented and how well did it blend with the movie, and the third - is a personal preference of mine: female casts. Overall, I find the story and effects in the movie rather satisfactory; save for Bella (Kristen Stewart) who seems to become the complete opposite of what I initially viewed her in the previous saga of Twilight.

"New Moon" is the movie adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" romance novel series and is the continuation of the first movie adaptation which screened on local cinemas, last year.

FaceBook's notification feature display notifications made by applications, and also basic services such as birthdays, wall posts and comments - especially after a long period of time, and on my FireFox browser, they are displayed in a list, which accumulates when you've not logged in for quite a while.

Those notifications - when expanded, can sure go past the browser's maximum window height; now if you got a browser problem like what I've been having with my Internet browser, you might not be able to scroll up or down in that list... but if you want to? read on.

Yahoo Messenger 10 is out of Beta since 12 November 2009 and is available for download at the Yahoo! messenger website.

Just yesterday I went to see the 11:30PM show of "2012" that's been on cinemas for about a week already around Kota Kinabalu. The movie was entertaining - to my standards. But I rate it 3 ½ of 5 stars because the downfall was the movie is predictable; story-wise... and the fact that there were a few scenes which the actors expressions were acted poorly (like the escape from the chaos that befalled upon them) The only thing that saved the movie were the cinematic geographical scenes and special effects.

The ticket? MYR 9.00... the price is an outcry considering the movie has been premiering for a week. I was assuming that they would have returned it back to the regular MYR 7.00 but that surely wasn't the case with this movie...

My Windows desktop (usually on a day's duration), gets awfully cluttered by loads of icons and files; if its not done by me, it's done by someone else that's using the computer. In short, there's documents, pictures, videos, software archives and zipped archives for email (the list goes on and on...)

Having those icons left there, it slowly becomes a ghastly sight - I usually waste big amounts of time shifting these files to their respected locations in different folders and harddrives... because if I don't do something about it, I'm going to have trouble finding those application shortcuts I'm used to running on a frequent basis. Another problem is when it concerns archiving/burning these files based on categories, it's going to be one hell of a task; sorting them all out if you leave them dumped in one place for too long.

I can think of certain issues I encountered while working on my desktop: The tedious sorting and moving of these files in their respective locations (especially if its smeared all over the desktop), and the retention of the layout you've been sorting out before the jungle of icons and files infested your desktop as it continues to grow.

Windows apparently doesn't have an efficient icon management system and using the sorting functions built-in Windows will have your shortcuts and icons mixed up together... sorting by type helps segregate some icons but nevertheless it isn't "categorized" the way you want it. Frustrating, but there's nothing much to do if you rely on those sorting features.

So how do we solve the problem of having our desktop icons and shortcuts organized better?

Just today... as the sun attempts to rise over the horizon, the moon refused to let go of its presence:


Ahhhh Mother Nature... you can never get tired of her... I sure never will...

Aside from the usual hours of router-tweaking, troubleshooting other people's messed-up computers and software updates and testing that I seem to do on a daily basis... it was kinda nice to take a break from it all and go out on Halloween for the sights, sounds and fun.

Le Meridien's Rumba Haloween Night - Friday, October 30th 2009

DwenChan wanted to head down over to Le Meridien's Rumba to check out the Halloween event that's held there - we heard of a number of friends were attending the event for costume contest, and that Dwen wanted to don one of his costumes and freak out...