A very meaningful song =D
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Evolution of Blog
Didn't wake up as early as I would hope to.
Watched the Channel 8 Law show on Mobtv select. I think most people around me have the consensus that Mediacorp Drama sucks big time. To me, the storyline is somehow predictable, but many a time people forget that how the actors protray the whole show is like mapped onto our lives. If only I was studying law...
My dad was saying lawyers are dangerous people. more dangerous than criminals. You will lose to them in arguments, and you never know if they are working for the good or bad. lol. Lucky, I didn't tell him what I wanted to do previoulsy.
Back to main topic, Evolution of Blog. Or rather should I say how social networking sites crafted out the was the blog evolved. Right at the very start, blogs were set up, so that people who wanted to bring the diary into the reality world can do so. You save paper ( but you also wasting crude oil--> burns to produce electricity) , save pen ink, more convenient too. The idea of bringing a physical diary into the computer world seems quite fresh at that time. Humans love fresh ideas, i think.
Graudally, I became one. Just type whatever comes to my mind without thinking. It got to a point when my blog was featured in my school quarterly magazine, that I complained the geog paper was hard to do. Totally no sense, Geog, you have to write alot of content, that was why my hand was feeling tired. Till date, I have doubts over the so called VS journalists. But anyway, by then you have stories that people set up blog not only because of diaries, it became a form of advertising, Both corporate and personal. Corporate, when people start to do advertorials for money, or do food critiques( not really..cause they either get treated for the meal, or get discounts, so youwill have to say soething good about the restuarant). Personal advertising, in a sense, you can let people know your inner thoughts which usually you aren't not that use to saying. Like in school , " Hey , you know what, lets talk about how should morals and ethics be viewed.." Back in VS, guess everyone will just say F U. Hahas, but of course, with a blog, just type whatever you want, and your thoughts will be stored in the online world. Advertising can be another form, when you want to stir up emotions of others or create a fake mask of yourself.
Soon after, there came nuffnang and advertlets. They requests to put advertisements on your blog, and then when people come to your blog and click the advert, you can get abit comission. Iwas one of those who was attracted to this kind of lobang. But of course, now my account i sjust $35. $15 bucks away to recieve the first cheque. But hey it has been like 7 years since I am blogging, and $35 for 7 years??? Just find a kid to give tuition too and you can recoup the money in 2 hours.
Then the social networking sites came in. Facebook, then Twitter. People are totally hooked on FB. I am one of them, Imust admit. Last time, you take hp out to check sms, or check if the person whom you wish to reply to your sms has really replied your sms. Now the first thing we check is fb. Check what on earth is going around on your wall.
A joke: A kid answered her teacher wrongly, so the teacher told the kid to go and face the wall and reflect. The kid took out his Iphone and start to type out the reflections.
So slowly, the blog has been neglected. So now when i look through the list of links under the friends list. 90% are dead already. I guess the attention has all shifted onto fb. Easier to like a post , rather then posting a long stuff on the tagbox. Hahas. Twitter, 140 characters, short and sweet way to convey whatever is on your mind. People find it fast. ME too. Just post a short one will do. Advantage of twitter is that i guess u can say whatever u see or convey any thoughts that come to your mind straight away.
SO where do blogs stand now? You seldom see blogs that goes like this
"today hor, go out with dar dar to marina square . so lub lub him leh, he bought the tix...blah blah blah"
OK maybe u still do la, those ah lian blogs, but i think most blogs are changing to a medium that you want to highlight a problem or ideas. That is what I am noticing. I guess the online population are sick to know what you are doing day in day out. Blogs are still money making machine, if you read through those famous peeps posts, most of them are covered by advertorials, which can rake in a huge sum depending on the readership of the blog.
Blogs are here to stay only for those who want their ideals or ideas to be written down and saved. I think. Sadly, for me, I can't read the life of what my friends are going on. And it actually makes me feel distant from them. Oh well, maybe this is how the world works
Alright 2 more essays to do. Wohoo. Time to go buy dinner.My template sucks big time. But got no freaking time to be bothered about it. SEA SEA. Foreign labour. Hahas. some topic to choose. Make sure i get an A out of it man.
Watched the Channel 8 Law show on Mobtv select. I think most people around me have the consensus that Mediacorp Drama sucks big time. To me, the storyline is somehow predictable, but many a time people forget that how the actors protray the whole show is like mapped onto our lives. If only I was studying law...
My dad was saying lawyers are dangerous people. more dangerous than criminals. You will lose to them in arguments, and you never know if they are working for the good or bad. lol. Lucky, I didn't tell him what I wanted to do previoulsy.
Back to main topic, Evolution of Blog. Or rather should I say how social networking sites crafted out the was the blog evolved. Right at the very start, blogs were set up, so that people who wanted to bring the diary into the reality world can do so. You save paper ( but you also wasting crude oil--> burns to produce electricity) , save pen ink, more convenient too. The idea of bringing a physical diary into the computer world seems quite fresh at that time. Humans love fresh ideas, i think.
Graudally, I became one. Just type whatever comes to my mind without thinking. It got to a point when my blog was featured in my school quarterly magazine, that I complained the geog paper was hard to do. Totally no sense, Geog, you have to write alot of content, that was why my hand was feeling tired. Till date, I have doubts over the so called VS journalists. But anyway, by then you have stories that people set up blog not only because of diaries, it became a form of advertising, Both corporate and personal. Corporate, when people start to do advertorials for money, or do food critiques( not really..cause they either get treated for the meal, or get discounts, so youwill have to say soething good about the restuarant). Personal advertising, in a sense, you can let people know your inner thoughts which usually you aren't not that use to saying. Like in school , " Hey , you know what, lets talk about how should morals and ethics be viewed.." Back in VS, guess everyone will just say F U. Hahas, but of course, with a blog, just type whatever you want, and your thoughts will be stored in the online world. Advertising can be another form, when you want to stir up emotions of others or create a fake mask of yourself.
Soon after, there came nuffnang and advertlets. They requests to put advertisements on your blog, and then when people come to your blog and click the advert, you can get abit comission. Iwas one of those who was attracted to this kind of lobang. But of course, now my account i sjust $35. $15 bucks away to recieve the first cheque. But hey it has been like 7 years since I am blogging, and $35 for 7 years??? Just find a kid to give tuition too and you can recoup the money in 2 hours.
Then the social networking sites came in. Facebook, then Twitter. People are totally hooked on FB. I am one of them, Imust admit. Last time, you take hp out to check sms, or check if the person whom you wish to reply to your sms has really replied your sms. Now the first thing we check is fb. Check what on earth is going around on your wall.
A joke: A kid answered her teacher wrongly, so the teacher told the kid to go and face the wall and reflect. The kid took out his Iphone and start to type out the reflections.
So slowly, the blog has been neglected. So now when i look through the list of links under the friends list. 90% are dead already. I guess the attention has all shifted onto fb. Easier to like a post , rather then posting a long stuff on the tagbox. Hahas. Twitter, 140 characters, short and sweet way to convey whatever is on your mind. People find it fast. ME too. Just post a short one will do. Advantage of twitter is that i guess u can say whatever u see or convey any thoughts that come to your mind straight away.
SO where do blogs stand now? You seldom see blogs that goes like this
"today hor, go out with dar dar to marina square . so lub lub him leh, he bought the tix...blah blah blah"
OK maybe u still do la, those ah lian blogs, but i think most blogs are changing to a medium that you want to highlight a problem or ideas. That is what I am noticing. I guess the online population are sick to know what you are doing day in day out. Blogs are still money making machine, if you read through those famous peeps posts, most of them are covered by advertorials, which can rake in a huge sum depending on the readership of the blog.
Blogs are here to stay only for those who want their ideals or ideas to be written down and saved. I think. Sadly, for me, I can't read the life of what my friends are going on. And it actually makes me feel distant from them. Oh well, maybe this is how the world works
Alright 2 more essays to do. Wohoo. Time to go buy dinner.My template sucks big time. But got no freaking time to be bothered about it. SEA SEA. Foreign labour. Hahas. some topic to choose. Make sure i get an A out of it man.
Game Theory, and lagging again
Oh yeah, just checked the philo blog, and I am lagging like a Singaporean athlete in the YOG.
Anw, yeah, back from giving tuition and party. Wan Hsin party! Wonder if you all face the dilemma in parties, like when u are asked to go up to take a pic with the group, but because you feel that you are the minority, then you do not wish to go take it. Just for that moment, you feel a sudden closeness to the minority groups in SG. Hahas, anyway, tdy was the first time I realise at the other end of Pasir Ris Park. there are actually so many chalet flats.
Hmm, so do you say Hi to you facebook fren whom u added like a week ago, or will you just choose to keep quiet, and just in your heart, create and imaginary hello. I chose the latter. ( looks around acting blur). WH cake looked very cool. Macaroons stacking on top of each other!
If you somehow see this FB mutual friend, whom happen to be one of your close friend's friend, and you think that she recognise you, and at that point of time, she happen to be standing beside you, will you choose to keep quiet, or say hi and strike a convor? I chose the latter, and it made me the question I have wanted to ask for 2+ years. We have so many mutual frens, and I have no recollection that we were from the same pri sch and the fact is that we were from the same pri sch. LOL. And then everything falls into place.
So after today, lessons learnt are that Fb has indeed play somewhat, to a large extent, a role in our lives that we cannot ignore or brush aside. Secondly, social interactions are still kind of weird. And the fact is that, if you know the word WEIRD is lingering around, guys guys guys, better do something .
Kz nights. 2 Essays, Econs tutorial, Philo blog posts, Maths tut. Wonderful Sunday ahead.
I joined the Nike 10K race! Wohoo!!! Finally going to use my adidas shoe le. lol
Anw, yeah, back from giving tuition and party. Wan Hsin party! Wonder if you all face the dilemma in parties, like when u are asked to go up to take a pic with the group, but because you feel that you are the minority, then you do not wish to go take it. Just for that moment, you feel a sudden closeness to the minority groups in SG. Hahas, anyway, tdy was the first time I realise at the other end of Pasir Ris Park. there are actually so many chalet flats.
Hmm, so do you say Hi to you facebook fren whom u added like a week ago, or will you just choose to keep quiet, and just in your heart, create and imaginary hello. I chose the latter. ( looks around acting blur). WH cake looked very cool. Macaroons stacking on top of each other!
If you somehow see this FB mutual friend, whom happen to be one of your close friend's friend, and you think that she recognise you, and at that point of time, she happen to be standing beside you, will you choose to keep quiet, or say hi and strike a convor? I chose the latter, and it made me the question I have wanted to ask for 2+ years. We have so many mutual frens, and I have no recollection that we were from the same pri sch and the fact is that we were from the same pri sch. LOL. And then everything falls into place.
So after today, lessons learnt are that Fb has indeed play somewhat, to a large extent, a role in our lives that we cannot ignore or brush aside. Secondly, social interactions are still kind of weird. And the fact is that, if you know the word WEIRD is lingering around, guys guys guys, better do something .
Kz nights. 2 Essays, Econs tutorial, Philo blog posts, Maths tut. Wonderful Sunday ahead.
I joined the Nike 10K race! Wohoo!!! Finally going to use my adidas shoe le. lol
Friday, 3 September 2010
Monday, 30 August 2010
Sunday, 29 August 2010
Philosophy!
Ok, at least this motivated me to continue to study what philosophy is about.
try this people! http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.php
My results.
Battleground Analysis
Congratulations!
You have been awarded the TPM service medal! This is our third highest award for outstanding service on the intellectual battleground.
The fact that you progressed through this activity without suffering any direct hits indicates that your beliefs about God are very consistent.
However, you have bitten a number of bullets, which suggests that some of your beliefs will be considered strange, incredible or unpalatable by many people. At the bottom of this page, we have reproduced the analyses of the bitten bullets.
Despite the bullets that you bit, the fact that you did not suffer any hits means that you qualify for our third highest award. Well done!
try this people! http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.php
My results.
Battleground Analysis
Congratulations!
You have been awarded the TPM service medal! This is our third highest award for outstanding service on the intellectual battleground.
The fact that you progressed through this activity without suffering any direct hits indicates that your beliefs about God are very consistent.
However, you have bitten a number of bullets, which suggests that some of your beliefs will be considered strange, incredible or unpalatable by many people. At the bottom of this page, we have reproduced the analyses of the bitten bullets.
Despite the bullets that you bit, the fact that you did not suffer any hits means that you qualify for our third highest award. Well done!
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Monday, 23 August 2010
Wasted...
one whole day on packing and rearranging the room.
consideredwasted? I dunno, hope that the neat and tidiness can really settle my mind to study. 3rd week starting and it is so freaking stressed full. People are mugging at the libraries, in the canteen , and every single freaking place. Kinda of sad, like really no life. That led me to want to join the lifesaving team . lol. After considering how "up-there" NUS swimming is up there..
Oh well, 8am lecture tmr. and what the heck am i still doing here.
Sob SOb. the cubs lost the match. What a defensive error. Haiz. Before these games, I think all atheletes should go through a mod on OG1101E. Learn about fairplay, sportsmanship and professionalism. Do a group project with 4-6 countries. Do a 2000 word essay and sit through a 1 hour final year exam consisting of 60 MCQs. Looking at how Haiti tried to waste time and delay the game, absolutely frustrating. But oh well, go for BRONZE Team Singapore!
Wohoo! Heavenly Maths!
*AH BOY AH GO SLEEP LE LA! LATER WAKE YOU UP SO DIFFICULT!!!*
consideredwasted? I dunno, hope that the neat and tidiness can really settle my mind to study. 3rd week starting and it is so freaking stressed full. People are mugging at the libraries, in the canteen , and every single freaking place. Kinda of sad, like really no life. That led me to want to join the lifesaving team . lol. After considering how "up-there" NUS swimming is up there..
Oh well, 8am lecture tmr. and what the heck am i still doing here.
Sob SOb. the cubs lost the match. What a defensive error. Haiz. Before these games, I think all atheletes should go through a mod on OG1101E. Learn about fairplay, sportsmanship and professionalism. Do a group project with 4-6 countries. Do a 2000 word essay and sit through a 1 hour final year exam consisting of 60 MCQs. Looking at how Haiti tried to waste time and delay the game, absolutely frustrating. But oh well, go for BRONZE Team Singapore!
Wohoo! Heavenly Maths!
*AH BOY AH GO SLEEP LE LA! LATER WAKE YOU UP SO DIFFICULT!!!*
Friday, 20 August 2010
Drowning in a sea of readings...
12 more hours to go. Have to go through 90 slides, then 3 chapters of econs, then another 12 pages of political sci notes.
Baik Singapore Boys! Watching you guys plan did nt make me regret not studying.
PS: I am decieving myself...
ok back to reading and reading....
Baik Singapore Boys! Watching you guys plan did nt make me regret not studying.
PS: I am decieving myself...
ok back to reading and reading....
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Technology Booster
Kind of uncomfortable to see how dependent on technology Uni will be.
Kinda of irritated by this person who was using the his/her laptop, typing furiously away. Pick u a freaking pen and write la, all the dadadadadada sound. zzz
Another thing is that, we have to keep logging in everyday to check on mail or IVLE to make sure we are not losing out on any stuff. Thank god, I have iphone to check on mails. But, using iPhone to check on IVLE is still not that user friendly. It is kind of a hassle actually.
Philo lecture was a like getting rammed by a truck. It is like a subject without any boundaries. It is not like english, where you knwo the boundaries is just grammar, tenses, and then have a wonderful vocabulary, you just answer the comprehension questions and write good essays. It is not like mathematics, as the boundary is just ask the mathematical questions using all the forumlas. It is not like science, where ok, the knowledge that you learn are all backed up the works of scientists over decades or maybe centuries.
Philosophy is like a subject that you have to think out of the box, no boundaries. Even what you say is crap, can be something that get you an A+. There was one example when the lecturer said that for those philosophy graduates, they may encounter a situation like this :
A lecturer puts a red ball in front of the class. And ask the class to argue whether is it a red ball.
There.you.have.it. So....? I can actally argue that, is the colour of the ball red? Why is it red? Who defined red? Or should I argue in the context of is the ball a ball? can it be a cuboid , or a diamond? Why is it defined it as a ball.
Holy crap.
Kinda of irritated by this person who was using the his/her laptop, typing furiously away. Pick u a freaking pen and write la, all the dadadadadada sound. zzz
Another thing is that, we have to keep logging in everyday to check on mail or IVLE to make sure we are not losing out on any stuff. Thank god, I have iphone to check on mails. But, using iPhone to check on IVLE is still not that user friendly. It is kind of a hassle actually.
Philo lecture was a like getting rammed by a truck. It is like a subject without any boundaries. It is not like english, where you knwo the boundaries is just grammar, tenses, and then have a wonderful vocabulary, you just answer the comprehension questions and write good essays. It is not like mathematics, as the boundary is just ask the mathematical questions using all the forumlas. It is not like science, where ok, the knowledge that you learn are all backed up the works of scientists over decades or maybe centuries.
Philosophy is like a subject that you have to think out of the box, no boundaries. Even what you say is crap, can be something that get you an A+. There was one example when the lecturer said that for those philosophy graduates, they may encounter a situation like this :
A lecturer puts a red ball in front of the class. And ask the class to argue whether is it a red ball.
There.you.have.it. So....? I can actally argue that, is the colour of the ball red? Why is it red? Who defined red? Or should I argue in the context of is the ball a ball? can it be a cuboid , or a diamond? Why is it defined it as a ball.
Holy crap.
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
School Is Back!
Wohoo, using my hp laptop to type this blog post. Last day of freedom, still feel like going for more camps. Seriously shouldn’t have slacked off too much in the month of July.
After the Orientation camp, played soccer with the bros again. We lost unvaliantly to DHS. Hahas, so sad, lost on homeground. Can see that without NS, everybody are about to die. Ended with a freaking huge ass blister. Nevertheless, fun as usual. Melvin joined in too. He has some fierce strikes in him. Power la.
We had our lunch at PastaMania. It seems that everytime we catch a movie at TM. We are bound to end up at PastaMania. Terry has some freaking long Korean hairstyle. He is so going to stand out among the ah tiongs and ah nehs.
Airbender sucks to the max I think. First thing first, the dialogues don’t make sense at all. I opened my eyes just to watch the CGI effects and that is all. Maybe I should just go watch the cartoon to appreciate this movie even more. Hahas.
Came back home, and did some change to my room. Sunday was mundane, saw Vincent at Bedok Macs.
Monday was National Day. Wohoo! Brings back so much memories 2 years ago, standing at the Marina Bay Platform. Anyway, this year NDP. I was so patriotic until I fell asleep after we sang Majulah Singapura and then to wake up, finding my parents switching off the lights and TV. Zzzzzzz…I am sorry Singapore. Will promise to watch the replay.
Tuesdays are my free day, so am slacking at home again, enjoying the last 24 hours. Supposed to bid for tutorial lessons, but it seems that it will be on this Friday. Hmm….
After the Orientation camp, played soccer with the bros again. We lost unvaliantly to DHS. Hahas, so sad, lost on homeground. Can see that without NS, everybody are about to die. Ended with a freaking huge ass blister. Nevertheless, fun as usual. Melvin joined in too. He has some fierce strikes in him. Power la.
We had our lunch at PastaMania. It seems that everytime we catch a movie at TM. We are bound to end up at PastaMania. Terry has some freaking long Korean hairstyle. He is so going to stand out among the ah tiongs and ah nehs.
Airbender sucks to the max I think. First thing first, the dialogues don’t make sense at all. I opened my eyes just to watch the CGI effects and that is all. Maybe I should just go watch the cartoon to appreciate this movie even more. Hahas.
Came back home, and did some change to my room. Sunday was mundane, saw Vincent at Bedok Macs.
Monday was National Day. Wohoo! Brings back so much memories 2 years ago, standing at the Marina Bay Platform. Anyway, this year NDP. I was so patriotic until I fell asleep after we sang Majulah Singapura and then to wake up, finding my parents switching off the lights and TV. Zzzzzzz…I am sorry Singapore. Will promise to watch the replay.
Tuesdays are my free day, so am slacking at home again, enjoying the last 24 hours. Supposed to bid for tutorial lessons, but it seems that it will be on this Friday. Hmm….
Monday, 9 August 2010
School reopens!
Oh my, the day has finaly arrived. Fast and Furious. Feels like a sledgehamer just hit me. And procrastination killed me hard. no blog posts. zzz. life has been abit more interesting lately. with alot of injuries suffered from camp and soccer.
Monday, 26 July 2010
Reasons not to buy Ipad!
Sebastien of iphonedownloadblog writes ...
Reasons the iPad Sucks
1. The first version of any Apple product will be outdated soon. It's the First Commandment of Apple consumers: Thou shalt not buy the rookie products. "I'd like all the other 'beta testers' to work out the kinks first," one staffer here says. Sometimes, the launch is completely half-baked. Remember the iPhone's debut? Just months after it hit the market, the 4GB version was scuttled and the 8GB version's price dropped. Fact is, there will be a second tablet within months, and the price will inevitably drop. If you simply must have one, wait for it, because you'll be pretty annoyed when see how much it improves.
2. You don't need a giant thousand-dollar smartphone. You've got an iPhone. You've got a laptop. You just received a Kindle for Christmas. Why do you need a tablet? You're probably not sure. Unlike the iPod and the iPhone, this is a product without a clear need. Unless you deliver FedEx packages, you probably don't need a giant mobile touch-screen device. It won't replace your smartphone, which you carry around in your pocket, or your laptop, which needs a keyboard. Will you want to pay nearly $1,000 to carry around a tablet, along with your mobile phone, your work BlackBerry, your laptop, and your Kindle?
3. You're just going to break it, anyway. Picture yourself with your steaming coffee in one hand, your squirming toddler in the other -- and, somehow, your shiny new Apple tablet, playing Sarah Palin's Fox News clips you missed last night until -- gasp -- your precious Apple escapes and plummets to the floor, shattering into a million little pieces. In The Hunt For Red October, sub captain Marko Ramius observes: "Most things in here don't react well to bullets." Don't expect an Apple tablet to react well to almost anything in the world. Water, soda, food, kids, pets: you'll surely figure out a way to damage your new toy sooner or later.
4. Multifunction devices can do a lot -- just not well. Other than your couch, where might your tablet be more useful than what you're using now? Will you use your tablet instead of the PC at your office desk? Will you watch videos on it instead of your flat-screen monitor? Will you use it instead of your smartphone when you're out? No, no, and no.
5. Buy one, and you might as well wear a "Rob Me!" sign. Carrying a tablet around on public transit, on the street, or in a bar is a needless risk -- yet that's precisely where you're expected to use them. Cellphones stow invisibly in your pocket, and laptops fit innocuously into cases, but if you use the tablet as intended -- on the go -- you're just asking for someone to snatch it. Remember those iPod muggings, with those telltale, enticing white earbuds? Think about that whenever you're tempted to watch last night's Daily Show on the New York City subway.
6. The tablet never caught on -- and there's a reason for that. You do not need to buy a new gadget every time Steve Jobs tells you to. The iPod represented a major evolution over the Sony (SNE) Walkman, and the iPhone escalated the smartphone game. But the tablet seems driven by nothing more than desire. Just take a breath...put the tablet down...and back away...slowly.
7. No keyboard, no mouse, no dice. Typing (or "typing") on touchscreens is annoying. How many Tablet buyers will wind up connecting peripheral keyboards and mice? And then...well, what's the point? Besides, mobile devices are only as useful as their battery life. Unless the tablet has more than about six hours of power, it's going to wind up tethered to a wall. Just like your desktop.
8. Netbooks are cheaper. With a glut of netbooks on the market -- with keyboards! -- offering a full Web experience with significantly less sticker shock than the tablet, there's no reason to go there. If you've got the cash for a tablet, you'd be better off with a MacBook Air, a device with far more functionality packed into its three pounds.
9. Something better's coming. With advances in speech recognition, data input will be changing radically over the next few years. Perhaps more importantly, advances in mobile display technology suggest we'll eventually be projecting images and videos on blank walls, or even into space. Or we'll be wearing headsets that project tiny images of the screen into our eyes at close range. In any event, the tablet is an innovation that'll surely be obsolete within a few years.
10. No Flash! Alex of Applicious says it all: No Flash on the iPhone was barely tolerable. On a device that you call Internet-specific to not have Flash is more than annoying, it’s insulting. Flash, love it or hate it, is one huge slice of the Internet. This is not optional.
11. No multitasking! During his presentation of the iPad, Steve Jobs called netbook cheap laptops. Guess what Steve, I might have a “cheap laptop” but I’m currently typing this post on it with 2 Firefox windows opened, TweetDeck, a Word Document and Flickr Uploader running at the same time. Can your iPad do that? Netbooks are fulfilling a need. The iPad is not. It’s just struggling to create a one. Not having multitasking on the iPad really sucks.
12. No camera! If you’re going to create a mobile device for Mom and Pops, you’d better give it at least a front facing camera because Mom sure loves to Skype her daughter. I didn’t expect a back-facing camera on the iPad, but I sure hoped for a front-facing one.
13. It’s big! Of course it’s big, it’s the purpose of it. Still, I’m confused. Does Apple have to license plus-size pockets as an official iPad accessory?
14. It’s heavy! At 1.5 Lbs, I don’t think you’re gonna be able to hold this baby for 2 hours without developing a tendinitis.
15. No Video Output! If you thought about plugging your iPad in your TV to watch a slideshow of your latest vacation’s pictures, then think again because it’s not going to happen.
16. It’s not pretty! Let’s be honest for a minute, the big fat bezel around the touchscreen is ugly.
17. The keyboard sucks! I didn’t expect the iPad to have a physical keyboard but that won’t prevent me from complaining about it. I hate typing on my iPhone and something tells me I’ll hate typing on the iPad even more because it simply isn’t convenient. When I type on a keyboard, I like to have the screen facing me, not laying down flat because it is unpractical and in the long run, it will most likely cause pain in the neck and back (I’m serious).
18. No USB port! Did you want to plug your digital camera into your iPad to download your pictures. Too bad. Oh wait, you’ll actually be able to if you buy the $30 adapter Apple will be selling. That is mafia-style racketing.
19. No 16:9! Watching movies on the iPad is going to suck as it will render the movies in 4:3 aspect ratio with big black bars around it.
20. No Widgets! Ok, the iPad screen is huge but it actually feels empty. Why don’t we have widgets on this thing? Sticky notes, calculator, whatever widget?
21. The battery sucks! I don’t believe Apple when they say the iPad has a battery life of 10 hours. They were praising the iPhone 3GS battery. I still can’t get through the day without plugging mine in. Play NFS on your iPad for one hour, do a little bit of web browsing for 2 hours, and I bet you your battery will be dead before you can update your Facebook status.
22. The storage limitation sucks! Starting at 16GB, this is a complete joke. If you want me to store my music, videos and photos on your iPad (all this in top of my applications), I’m going to need MUCH more space than the 64GB limit.
23. Reading books on the iPad sucks! The Kindle might not be dead yet after all. I dare you to read a book on your iPad for more than 2 hours. By that time, your eyes will be crying, you’ll most likely have a headache and feel tired. That’s what computer screen do to you. I’m not a big fan of ebooks (I like the smell and feel of books – call me old school) but I do believe the e-ink feature of the Kindle is much better than what we’ll get on the iPad.
So totally agree. Copied form email from wl.
Reasons the iPad Sucks
1. The first version of any Apple product will be outdated soon. It's the First Commandment of Apple consumers: Thou shalt not buy the rookie products. "I'd like all the other 'beta testers' to work out the kinks first," one staffer here says. Sometimes, the launch is completely half-baked. Remember the iPhone's debut? Just months after it hit the market, the 4GB version was scuttled and the 8GB version's price dropped. Fact is, there will be a second tablet within months, and the price will inevitably drop. If you simply must have one, wait for it, because you'll be pretty annoyed when see how much it improves.
2. You don't need a giant thousand-dollar smartphone. You've got an iPhone. You've got a laptop. You just received a Kindle for Christmas. Why do you need a tablet? You're probably not sure. Unlike the iPod and the iPhone, this is a product without a clear need. Unless you deliver FedEx packages, you probably don't need a giant mobile touch-screen device. It won't replace your smartphone, which you carry around in your pocket, or your laptop, which needs a keyboard. Will you want to pay nearly $1,000 to carry around a tablet, along with your mobile phone, your work BlackBerry, your laptop, and your Kindle?
3. You're just going to break it, anyway. Picture yourself with your steaming coffee in one hand, your squirming toddler in the other -- and, somehow, your shiny new Apple tablet, playing Sarah Palin's Fox News clips you missed last night until -- gasp -- your precious Apple escapes and plummets to the floor, shattering into a million little pieces. In The Hunt For Red October, sub captain Marko Ramius observes: "Most things in here don't react well to bullets." Don't expect an Apple tablet to react well to almost anything in the world. Water, soda, food, kids, pets: you'll surely figure out a way to damage your new toy sooner or later.
4. Multifunction devices can do a lot -- just not well. Other than your couch, where might your tablet be more useful than what you're using now? Will you use your tablet instead of the PC at your office desk? Will you watch videos on it instead of your flat-screen monitor? Will you use it instead of your smartphone when you're out? No, no, and no.
5. Buy one, and you might as well wear a "Rob Me!" sign. Carrying a tablet around on public transit, on the street, or in a bar is a needless risk -- yet that's precisely where you're expected to use them. Cellphones stow invisibly in your pocket, and laptops fit innocuously into cases, but if you use the tablet as intended -- on the go -- you're just asking for someone to snatch it. Remember those iPod muggings, with those telltale, enticing white earbuds? Think about that whenever you're tempted to watch last night's Daily Show on the New York City subway.
6. The tablet never caught on -- and there's a reason for that. You do not need to buy a new gadget every time Steve Jobs tells you to. The iPod represented a major evolution over the Sony (SNE) Walkman, and the iPhone escalated the smartphone game. But the tablet seems driven by nothing more than desire. Just take a breath...put the tablet down...and back away...slowly.
7. No keyboard, no mouse, no dice. Typing (or "typing") on touchscreens is annoying. How many Tablet buyers will wind up connecting peripheral keyboards and mice? And then...well, what's the point? Besides, mobile devices are only as useful as their battery life. Unless the tablet has more than about six hours of power, it's going to wind up tethered to a wall. Just like your desktop.
8. Netbooks are cheaper. With a glut of netbooks on the market -- with keyboards! -- offering a full Web experience with significantly less sticker shock than the tablet, there's no reason to go there. If you've got the cash for a tablet, you'd be better off with a MacBook Air, a device with far more functionality packed into its three pounds.
9. Something better's coming. With advances in speech recognition, data input will be changing radically over the next few years. Perhaps more importantly, advances in mobile display technology suggest we'll eventually be projecting images and videos on blank walls, or even into space. Or we'll be wearing headsets that project tiny images of the screen into our eyes at close range. In any event, the tablet is an innovation that'll surely be obsolete within a few years.
10. No Flash! Alex of Applicious says it all: No Flash on the iPhone was barely tolerable. On a device that you call Internet-specific to not have Flash is more than annoying, it’s insulting. Flash, love it or hate it, is one huge slice of the Internet. This is not optional.
11. No multitasking! During his presentation of the iPad, Steve Jobs called netbook cheap laptops. Guess what Steve, I might have a “cheap laptop” but I’m currently typing this post on it with 2 Firefox windows opened, TweetDeck, a Word Document and Flickr Uploader running at the same time. Can your iPad do that? Netbooks are fulfilling a need. The iPad is not. It’s just struggling to create a one. Not having multitasking on the iPad really sucks.
12. No camera! If you’re going to create a mobile device for Mom and Pops, you’d better give it at least a front facing camera because Mom sure loves to Skype her daughter. I didn’t expect a back-facing camera on the iPad, but I sure hoped for a front-facing one.
13. It’s big! Of course it’s big, it’s the purpose of it. Still, I’m confused. Does Apple have to license plus-size pockets as an official iPad accessory?
14. It’s heavy! At 1.5 Lbs, I don’t think you’re gonna be able to hold this baby for 2 hours without developing a tendinitis.
15. No Video Output! If you thought about plugging your iPad in your TV to watch a slideshow of your latest vacation’s pictures, then think again because it’s not going to happen.
16. It’s not pretty! Let’s be honest for a minute, the big fat bezel around the touchscreen is ugly.
17. The keyboard sucks! I didn’t expect the iPad to have a physical keyboard but that won’t prevent me from complaining about it. I hate typing on my iPhone and something tells me I’ll hate typing on the iPad even more because it simply isn’t convenient. When I type on a keyboard, I like to have the screen facing me, not laying down flat because it is unpractical and in the long run, it will most likely cause pain in the neck and back (I’m serious).
18. No USB port! Did you want to plug your digital camera into your iPad to download your pictures. Too bad. Oh wait, you’ll actually be able to if you buy the $30 adapter Apple will be selling. That is mafia-style racketing.
19. No 16:9! Watching movies on the iPad is going to suck as it will render the movies in 4:3 aspect ratio with big black bars around it.
20. No Widgets! Ok, the iPad screen is huge but it actually feels empty. Why don’t we have widgets on this thing? Sticky notes, calculator, whatever widget?
21. The battery sucks! I don’t believe Apple when they say the iPad has a battery life of 10 hours. They were praising the iPhone 3GS battery. I still can’t get through the day without plugging mine in. Play NFS on your iPad for one hour, do a little bit of web browsing for 2 hours, and I bet you your battery will be dead before you can update your Facebook status.
22. The storage limitation sucks! Starting at 16GB, this is a complete joke. If you want me to store my music, videos and photos on your iPad (all this in top of my applications), I’m going to need MUCH more space than the 64GB limit.
23. Reading books on the iPad sucks! The Kindle might not be dead yet after all. I dare you to read a book on your iPad for more than 2 hours. By that time, your eyes will be crying, you’ll most likely have a headache and feel tired. That’s what computer screen do to you. I’m not a big fan of ebooks (I like the smell and feel of books – call me old school) but I do believe the e-ink feature of the Kindle is much better than what we’ll get on the iPad.
So totally agree. Copied form email from wl.
Saturday, 10 July 2010
Wonderful Holiday!
Back. 1 week after I touched back down in Singapore, I have restarted the post. June 2010 has been a blast seriously. My 21st, My first so called official mahjong game without any help. Small surprise lunch and bdae celeb at wenyuan's house. Most importantly a 12 days long holiday at taiwan. Elvia's party which me and wy won the best dress award. Wuahah. Best attire i meant...
So much to blog, but left with 3 weeks before the hustle and bustle of studies comes back.
Used to grumble how far it is to school starts, we should work like some dog for the cash that we are going to use up during Uni. And here it is, 3 weeks time, will be heding to NUS which I gonna be at for the next 4 years of my life.
My body is still in the taiwan mood. Sleeping at 4am. ( We pratically watched soccer every single night) and waking up at 1.30pm. and realise that my morning is gone. Shiatz!
KKz, off to dinner. Must perservere to blog. i Must!!!
So much to blog, but left with 3 weeks before the hustle and bustle of studies comes back.
Used to grumble how far it is to school starts, we should work like some dog for the cash that we are going to use up during Uni. And here it is, 3 weeks time, will be heding to NUS which I gonna be at for the next 4 years of my life.
My body is still in the taiwan mood. Sleeping at 4am. ( We pratically watched soccer every single night) and waking up at 1.30pm. and realise that my morning is gone. Shiatz!
KKz, off to dinner. Must perservere to blog. i Must!!!
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