Monday morning… *sigh*

And to make things worse, I have a massive headache since yesterday. Probably brought on by the long long period of walking and standing without drink much water. Maybe. I dunno. I am no doctor.

Anyways, the weekend was filled with photoshoots and makan makan. As you may know, this is the season for fashion shows. Almost all shopping malls have their own runway and their own show. Mid Valley got their runway, and right next to it, The Gardens have their own stage as well. I would not call it a runway, it is merely a stage. Sorry excuse for a runway. Come to think of it, there is no runway at all, thus a stage. Well, maybe The Gardens built it that way to cater only for their shoppers.

Anyways… some photos.

OK la.. now back to pretending to work. MUAHAHAHAHAHA….

Hah!!

I finally know how to use the Screen Shots application which was loaded into the phone by the guys from Samsung. Great thinking loading them apps for us. Or is it a standard application which comes with the phone? No matter, I finally got help from Jun Yan on how to go about using the application.

You see, by default the key to do a screen shot is the camera button. When I tried it, it launches the camera application. I kept on trying and trying and trying and it keeps on launching the camera application. Then Jun Yan showed me the way.. fuhyor!! I then how a load of screen captures.

As mentioned, the Samsung i450 runs on Symbian OS9.2, the same OS which powers Nokia phones.. with just a little cosmetic differences here and there.

Slide the phone downwards and it automatically launches the music application. Very nice if you ask me. There are some cool background animation, either that or you can choose to switch it off completely. Why would one wanna switch it off I would not know, it looks so cool!!

It looks so much cooler with the animation going instead of just static.

You can also choose between a red theme or a blue theme.

There is also a host of equaliser settings for you to choose from.

Too bad there is no manual setting. I would love to play around with them frequencies to see the outcome.

When you slide the phone back to it’s ’standy’ position from the music player mode, the screen will remain in landscape mode. Quite interesting for a while, then you get tired of it, especially when it does not stay that way when you slide the phone back up to use the numeric keypad.

The other thing which I only found out recently is that you can actually set multiple alarms. One of the reasons why I stayed away from the other Symbian-powered phone is because I thought it can only do one alarm. You see, I am not a morning person, so I need several alarms to ensure that I wake up on time in the morning.

All I had to do was to go to the Alarm Tab and select a New Alarm

Woo hoo!!! Multiple alarms!!

Alrights, now back to the first day I got the phone.

I was thrilled to find the GPS option in the phone.

Navigator woh!!! …Excited!!

However, to my dismay, it did not have GPS built it. OK lar, I knew it before hand, but I could still hope right?

It would be cool to have these applications, which will come in handy when travelling outstation.

Oh.. and another discovery earlier today. VOICE CONTROL!!! FUHYOR!!!!! Sungguh canggih!!

You press and hold down the ‘0′ key and the voice control application launches. Then I called out to the phone…

“Call Jason Cheng“

The application recognises my speech, but was not too sure.. so it asked… Wah.. not bad leh. That fella not sure, and can ask to confirm wan woh.

And then… it recognises that Jason Cheng in my phonebook has got two numbers, so it asked to confirm again which number I would like to make that call.

Then finally it made the call.

Fuah.. quite refreshing. Ok lar. I know lar.. I quite Sua Ku Voice control also never played before. Wahaha.

The Internet today is excruciatingly slow. It is not only crawling, it is also extremely unstable. My MSN is signing in and out constantly through out the day. My internet banking also got screwed up, resulting in me hanging on the phone with the customer service for the better half of my morning. You see, I did a transaction which will cost me RM10. No problem. The hassle of driving all the way to my home branch, rounding the place to find parking, pay for parking, walk in the scorching hot sun, lining up and finally repeating the process backwards is worth RM10. But the problem is that the transaction processed halfway and then kena error.

Fuah!! Where can like that. So transaction went through or not also I do not know. I checked and my account have been deducted RM10. KNN!! I am still on hold by the customer service. *sigh*

In the mean time, the internet continues to crawl. *sigh*

With Singapore and Taiwan offering bandwidth which is triple off what we have here, it is quite embarrassing la hoh? Better not tell anyone about our measly ‘broadband’. During the yesteryears, our current ‘taman roads’ are considered highways. Those also were the days when a 28.8k modem is like… PHWOAR!!!! And only the privileged few can even hear a 56.6k modem dialling. You know, the familiar Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee… Krooooooooooh… Tiong tiong…”. Now some of the younger generations may have not even heard the modem tone. Probably even gawk at the thought of having to DIAL.

Ahhh… those were the days when you have 512kb of RAM, you are DA MAN!! Colour monitor? *gasp* you have that at home?