Heaven and Jungle... where is the link between them?

Actually, the residential area that just beside my house there, Horizon Hill was opened quite a long time ago. According to a lady who working at the company said that it opened at the end of last year.

Well, here is the main actually I want to present. It is Horizon Hill Golf Clubhouse. I went there today morning after my basketball session with my teammate. I was curious about that and wanted to take a look long time ago and finally I managed to go there today.

I think I should you some pictures first.

Buffet area and the lounge is just beside the place.

golf course...

Golfers were enjoying their game under the big sun...

What a nice place....

Gym, haven't open yet...

Golf course...

Feel Tired? you can just take a rest here and enjoy the scenery...

Swimming pool together with a very nice scenery.

The place is very peaceful. You can find a lot of facilities there such as swimming pools, gym, tennis courts, lounge and of course, 18-holes golf course. The whole clubhouse is decorated with a lot of beautiful plants and water features.

Here come a problem regarding to membership for the clubhouse. Listen carefully. You will only have the chance to apply the membership there if you are the house purchaser and the house you purchased should not smaller than Semi-D. Seriously not what I can afford now. One Semi-D at there is not cheap. But anyway, you still can enjoy the swimming pool and tennis court there as visitor. Of course you will need to charged. The price range is around 10-12 bux for adult. For children the ticket will be slightly cheaper, ya slightly... and I need to mention this as well. The price actually different between weekdays and weekends. So I guess you roughly get the system there actually.

Don't know who been Bukit Indah Clubhouse before? If you were, what I can the differences between these 2 clubhouse are, they are cannot put together for comparison. Seriously, it is a different league.

The most interesting part that mean to me is the 18 hole golf course. According to the blueprint of the whole area. The golf courses are covering the whole residential area so if you are planning to complete all the courses, I am wondering that how the golfer can make it although the buggy you can get it from clubhouse definitely but one more problem is the weather is quite hot. I guess the reason is because they are doing the landscaping so you cant really find big tree that can help you cover the sunlight but maybe later will get better once they done the landscaping.

Lastly, the clubhouse actually haven't officially open but you can start using their facilities there and of course, you need to pay for it. But there is a nice place for you to relax yourself and enjoy the peaceful during your free time.

Surprisingly, it is not brought in to Malaysia by Celcom but Maxis is so much better so it is not a problem there.

The interesting part is when you signing up for the iPhone Plan, think twice. The plan is actually a bit weird. If you sign up for longer period, you actually spend much on the phone. So if you serious want a iPhone, just get a 6 month plan will be the best.

I won't discuss too much detail about the mobile plan here. I am waiting for its 3rd generation iPhone OS in this coming summer.

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This coming Sunday will the last episode of Gundam 00 season 2. Will they change the world once again? Who will lead the human's future? Only Sunday we will know the answer...

THE COOLEST RABBIT EVER....

LETS US LAUGH ONE MORE TIME... AND THERE WILL BE MORE COMING TO YOUR WAY.....

First of all, why I put a question mark at the last of the title because this is still in beta version but all the iPhone software developer can start to download the beta version of SDK for iPhone 3.0 through iPhone Developer Program

Before I go into the new features and updates for the new iPhone OS, iPhone 3.0, I would like to share my opinion after watching the presentation.

When the iPhone first generation came out, it really created a very huge shock to the mobile phone market, majority not because of its OS but its multi touch screen feature and accelerometer. These were the brand new feature on mobile phone when it was 2 years ago. When the 2nd generation of iPhone, iPhone 3G came out, it gives slightly improve from the 1st generation, majority is the 3G feature and the OS update. But on March 17, Apple was introducing a new generation of iPhone OS and it is really impressive. It starts to change my mind that whether I should get a iPhone at the future.

First, let's take a look of new feature for iPhone 3.0 SDK and what will happen for the future developement of the application. I am standing at the point of view as a handphone user but not a iPhone supporter.

1. In App Purchase
This idea is seriously attractive to the developement company. Basically, the idea is when you need to get new additional levels, items and features on the games, you can just purchase the items you want directly through the application and it makes the whole process faster and easier rather than go through iTunes Store and do it step by step. This new feature will just simply handle it all. So maybe this will attract more company to join in and develope more and more application for iPhone but it will be quite costy to play games.

2. Peer to Peer Connectivity
By adding multi player feature into your game, you can now play the games with your friends through peer to peer network connection and Bluetooth. This feature will not be just limit to games but it also enable for other application. Will it be better than Nokia N-Gage platform? We will see...

3. Apple Push Notification Service
This is seriously brilliant after a 6 month developement from Apple by redesign the whole server architecture. So now, they introduce this service. Let's take an example to make it simple. Usually, if you are running a instant messenger on your mobile phone, you can receive the messages when you are turn on the program but if you quit the program, the connection between server with your phone will break. It is possible to run the program at the background but it will cause the battery life drops significantly. To solve this battery life issue, apple come out this idea and it can ensure that you still can receive the service without running the application. The data will go through the apple server from the service provider and send it to your phone by sms. Brilliant isn't it? Seriously I am not a iPhone supporter but this new feature is really impressed me.

4. Maps
Will we feel sometime that the google map feature is just not enough and has the room of improvement? Here is the great new for the developers and users. The developers can embed maps into your applications by using the new Map Kit framework. It works with the Google Mobile Maps Service and features panning and zooming, custom annotations, current location and geocoding.

5. Accessories
For now, usually iPhone and iPod Touch users will just dock their devices with speakers but with the new feature available by new SDK, the speaker company can just add in more features like putting new applications that can enhance the experience with playback the songs through the speakers, like putting equalizer, visualizer and so on. During the presentation, the LifeScan by Johnson & Johnson company introduced a new equipment that can help diabetic to control and maintain their health. The equipment can connect to iPhone by using the connector and it will transfer the reading from the equipment to iPhone and analyze it. This is just more than a mobile phone can do and it will bring a lot of benefits to the patients. Brilliant idea once again.

6. iPod Library Access
Feel boring for the soundtracks during the moment of playing games? With updated Media Player framework, you can access your itunes library to play, repeat and shuffle songs or whole playlists, or create sequences of songs on your games and applications.


Beside these features, 1000 new APIs are prepared for developers. Developers will have the tools to enable in-app purchases — like subscriptions, additional game levels, and new content. They can also create apps that connect peer to peer via Bluetooth, communicate with hardware accessories, and use the Apple Push Notification service to provide alerts. Nothing is impossible with this new SDK.

After a briefly look for this SDK, now is the moment to get into the new iPhone OS, iPhone 3.0. 100 more new features are been added into it to make it better. The most exciting feature is cut, copy and paste feature.

I found this screenshot from a CrunchGear that show the procedure for copy and paste.

After you double tap on the text area, you can select a region that you wish to cut or copy. You can just resize the region pretty easily by holding the blue bar and draging at the same time.


The undo feature is even more awesome. I don't have any idea that which way can be better as what apple come out with, simply just shake the phone then the option will appear.

Another great feature is spotlight. It is a search engine that allow you to search all the files and applications in your phone and email inbox. Just simply press the home button when you are at the home screen or just switch your home screen to the most left page then it will show the search bar there. Spotlight is also one of the famous and useful feature that built in the Mac OS. I am really glad to see that because I am also a mac user.

I am afraid that I can't stop writing this post if I want to clearly explain all the features. Something i am wondering about is how the Bluetooth function will be improved? What I know so far is it can support to stereo Bluetooth headset and link to other devices but does it possible to transfer data through the built in Bluetooth? How about video recording feature?

Anyway, the iPhone 3.0 is still in beta version now. It still can be improved by apple before it release on this coming summer. So I hope that other mobile phone platform like Symbian, Window Mobile and others can come out something great as well to fight with Apple. Let's see how the thing will change in this summer....

I went to Suntec City last week for the IT Fair. Seriously I was planning to buy a external harddisk with bigger storage and considering to get a new headphone to replace my existing Atlec Lansing headphone.

I bought a new Seagate 1TB FreeAgent Xtreme Desktop with USB, FIrewire400 and eSata connector. I don't really concern about eSata connector. What I really want and more concern about is the Firewire connection. Although it only come with Firewire400 version, which mean it can support up to 400Mbps, slightly slower than USB2.0. Because of the MacBook only come with 2 USB ports, it makes me to buy the new external harddisk with firewire connector so I can simply use my Firewire to connect my harddisk meanwhile I can save one more USB port for other purpose.

The 1TB harddisk is solved all my problem. Recently I was burned a lot of my data into DVDs and it was really troublesome and wasting a lot of DVDs. I burned around 30 pieces of DVDs for my movies, pictures and other documents. In order to solve my problem more efficent rather than burning data into disc, another larger storage space of harddisk is required. The Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme is really cool. The cover is in Black color and the Seagate logo will glow when you turn it on. Wanted to get the silver color version but it is come without firewire.


It costed me $229. Although it is costed me a lot of money but I am happy to get it because I can just simply put everything into it. Now I already used more than 300GB.

Beside the external harddisk, another thing I bought is the Audio Technica headphone. I was only considering to get one at the beginning but the offer that was really attractive. The original price of the headphone is nearly $60 but after the 10% discount, it only cost me around $50.


Audio-Technica ATH-SJ3
After one week of using this headphone, what I can say is it is really worth my every cents for spending on this new baby. The sound quality is superb for the range and the look is quite stylish. I bought a white color version. It is also fold-able for me to bring anywhere conveniently.

The mid and high frequencies response is awesome and it is better than my another Sony Headphone because this is more focus on music meanwhile the Sony is more concern on movie surround sound. The bass i think it is also not a issue because so far it gives me quite a satisfied performance. The driver of SJ3 is same with my Sony headphone, which is coming with 40mm driver.

Here is the specification regarding to the headphone:

SPECIFICATIONS
TYPE	Dynamic
DRIVER DIAMETER	40 mm
MAGNET	Neodymium
FREQUENCY RESPONSE	10 - 23,000Hz
MAXIMUM INPUT POWER	500mW
OUTPUT SOUND LEVEL	114 dB/mW
IMPEDANCE	32Ω
WEIGHT	135 g
CABLE	1.2m /OFC/ Y-type
CONNECTOR	3.5 mm mini stereo, gold-plated
COLOUR	ATH-SJ3 BK (Black), ATH-SJ3 WH (White)

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Information from Audio-Technica South East Asia

So, I spent around $280 in this IT show. Although that was really a lot but these are seriously great deal.

Forgot to mention, I was went back once again on Sunday, the last day of the show to survey the price for 1GB mp3 player but the price was slightly expensive than malaysia. The funny part is because at the moment was fully crowded by people so the management of the IT fair suggested that people should return in an hour. What I feel is the way of them to control the crowd can be improved and I don't really think people will really return within an hour because you can hardly move in the place. Although the economy crisis is still existing but what i can see from this event is singaporeans will still spend their money for what they want and somemore there really offered a lot of great deals.

This is a very interesting video and it shows a lot of possible futuristic technologies like electronic paper, handset and so on. This is brought to us by Microsoft Office Lab.