Monthly Report: April 2011

Alright, I know. It was an unproductive month for me. Unconventional zero blog post, slumping network traffic and certain stuff which I'm always working on remain its inertia. The true is, instead of dipping my fingers down to keep grappling with some 'visible' accomplishments, the lapse of time was more likely to be categorized as sort of the fresh mental enrichment act - stay out to glean an idea of hatching up an ideal pathway.

So, what does it mean? I started to spurn away the mechanical lifestyle that I used to follow up since I had gotten myself back to work - repeatedly having the classical-city-fast food in daily basic and doing the same thing at the same time everyday. It was cool and steady but lack of spark. I spend 40 hours per week in Klang where is a suburban town far away from the downtown. Unlike the major Cantonese-English speaking city, it's a Chinese-Hokkien speaking and relatively traditional town. I wandered around the stalls and went to the Pasar Malam to enjoy a variety of rustic foods. It really provides me a sense of familiarity while I'm 240miles away from my hometown, the familiar taste and smell.

I went to several places in Kuala Lumpur lately where I further realized that there do have a slew of fascinating places are out of there in Malaysia, even just within the boundary of the main city. I would say, I do have a great relish to stay at high-tech city, but the experience of throwing myself into those traditional and rich-cultural places somehow spontaneously lead myself toward a new era -a philosophic approach to life. I can't really depict out the chemical changes behind that notion, but it's quite true. I would strongly recommend anyone to seize on the free time to live out your life without the creature comfort that you're used to, you will be able to get ahead of the curve and understand the impact of difference.


It was absolutely a great delight when the coveted fancy of watching the live Formula 1 Racing had come to fruition. When the deafening sound from the high rpm engine pierced through my ears and numerous cars fleeting before my eyes at the peak of an over 150mph speed, you gonna know, how gratifying the experience was. It was all about an ardent fever over the feeling of the top speed. Awesome!

I had been confirmed a place as a counsellor on the upcoming MICSS Science Camp in Chong Hwa High School, Kuala Lumpur. It's going to be my third appearance on the said science camp following up my past participations. What to expect? Tons of fun! =)

Cheer for my Hong Kong friends who wound up their HKALE in few weeks ago. Really wish them to successfully achieve their (satisfied/expected?) results and dash toward their dream schools. No more dilemma. Enjoy your summer time :)

Sony Malaysia announced its new employee scheme last week (Finally) to enhance its poor managment system - from my angle of view - and filter out unqualified employee. It's pretty happy to..'witness' a major change with that unappealing and 'getting dying' management team. Since Sony is a large and well-known Inc., feckless and inefficient in both soft and hard managements should not happen in that standard of level. However, it's P&C issue, I can't really manifest too much about that over here. Pros or cons to the whole eco-system? Remains doubt.

Following up a surprise of Thanks-to-Dad HTC HD7 Windows Phone and my new-joined-gadget ThinkPad, undeniably, Windows Phone OS, XNA Studio, Sliverlight will be my new toys to play around with. Ready to get wired in! A detailed review of the Windows Phone will be come to a post afterwards. Wondering why not Andriod or iPhone to create a 'Happy Family' with my Mac and iPad instead? Apparently, it will have me to lay down an over thousand words essay to refute it- too many mumbles in behind. HAHA

Movie of the month: 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart'. Romantic + sweet scenes in every frame and my all-time-favor song - David Tao - Love Is Simple - as the theme background music, I was seriously obsessed with this romance when I first stumbled across it in Youtube. Hmm..It really incites my desire to......ah ha, okay. No matter you're single or in couple, I believe you're not about to be immune with it. Unprecedented.

Last, what to describe my current situation? A limbo, I would say. Things are right on the path slowly getting their momentum ahead, however, few of the vital factors and real hassle remain unclear - that's what I really concern about. Stay on the course and keep pushing up myself - believe the things will somehow be connected with each other in the end - tenaciously.

Happy Birthday To Myself. Random Check Out.

There are few bottles of beer in my room. Oh.. No, I'm not gonna have the leaning to trigger a shot for it in order to gain a little bit more psychologically mirthful feeling - I was seriously drunk two days before in a boisterous farewell party for my colleague. Okay, I know it was awful.

It seems to be raining out of there. The wind is whirling and the starry night sky is gonna turn out to be in complete darkness, of course, with light pollution as well. The background music is one of the famous song from Jacky Cheung. I'm unconsciously fond of his songs recently, so soft and so harmonious. Inconsistently, this entry is going to be wholly a gaggle of murmuring, unusual, super random.

Thanks and thanks to my lovely friends and family. Your blessings and supports are always be the only, you know, the most tremendous force to keep driving me to the ever-further destination. Social networks make the 'amount' of birthday blessing increase dramatically, it makes people lives easier, full with great blessings from everywhere. It does turn out to make it not-so-exclusive, as well. Haha. Sorry to be so straight-forward, but it's quite true. However, the exclusive one would always remain its exclusivity, special thanks for the air mails from Taiwan and special gifts in my room. They're absolutely adorable.

20 years old, ironically, a big quarter of my life, an uncomplete puzzle. Well, I'm so desperate to jump out from the current world recently, maybe somehow being inspired by the popular narrative story. If there did have a birthday wish for me, I will give it a bet for 'Opportunity'. It's by no means limited to study, relationship, work, travel and all that. It's about the opportunity to explore the ultimate meaning of life and further stuff up my excessive hunger and boundless curiosity. We can't live our lives to please other. As when you step forth, you will be alone, the decision and fate must be yours. I know we're not living in utopia, things never come easy. We're forced to follow some 'rules' in order to survive in the current world. No matter how, don't lose your soul and originality. Quote from my favorite Jobs' quote again: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

I hate time and distance. Time just always be its way lead ahead quietly and leave behind the memories. It makes people understand the past would never come back and the future will not always in a straight-line. People recalling, waiting and looking because of the time is beyond control. The feeling of time is ambiguous in each occasions, I dislike it.

Distance makes people disconnected, either in physically or mentally. I know, global internet connection might be the remedy of that, but you know what? The getting farther distance between hearts are not those virtual stuffs are able to really make up. Distance tames down people expectation, hope and willingness, severely.

Woops, yep. I bought myself a much-yearning ThinkPad as my birthday gift, added up a new member to my ample series of gadgets family. Gonna embrace to Windows system once again and digging into the Windows-based programming stuffs which I was wholly immune in these few months. Thumbs-up!

Notwithstanding a devastated recession of market recently, the back-to-Sony-Malaysia work has been in the progressive and smooth direction. Attending weekly meeting, sending out formal report, managing the stock level, shooting out the stunning photo have been all part of progress. The only drawback is just the usage of time - the working time fills up a large part of my daily life in this period, yet, it has to be arranged efficiently. Thus, ice-staking becomes the only sport that I'm having recently. I'm so desirous to find back the feeling of a "runner's high" spurred by the endorphins released by exercise and enjoying my sweat trickle at the running path once again. I miss both my running, basketball shoes and follow teammates so much.

It has been quite a period of time, I exposed myself to the real heart of our society nakedly. Keep discovering and unfolding the dreadful fact behind the dim veiling. How uncivilized, materialistic and mediocre our societies are. The world is in polarization. People get used to the incentive-oriented society. People bamboozle, disguise, fight, drive for the fame, profit and the dirty bucks and it ends up with the extinction of the virtue and right, its essence is no longer been understood. Oh-no, of course, it does have some sparks, too. I saw few awesome examplers, but not too much around there so far, far below the expectation. What's wrong? The education. Not the academic one which most of us having, but the general education which beneath the foundation of our civilization. We need it, desperately.

I still couldn't really convince myself to have an unique dinner for my special day. Well..truth to be told, it seems to be ended up alone and alone, doesn't mean so much at all. Haha. Seriously. An understanding, I would say for today. I did fail, succeed, thrill, frustrated, lost and all that. Nonetheless, the whole process was in the way of self-endured and self-satisfied. I still haven't been..hmm..you know, that kind of understanding by someone else. Maybe it did exist over there, but I didn't realize or miss out, not really sure in which case so far. Haha, a little bit emotional right here. Despite being a science-y guy, I do believe in some superstition, oops no, it calls the believing of fate. Haha. So..in restrospect, maybe it just doomed to be and the dots will continuously connect themselves forward? Jammed, not so sure.

Alright. The day just passed by, when I was writing this entry. It looks just as ordinary as the other 365days in a year, depends upon how you deal with it. Happy Birthday to me and anyone who having the same birth-date with me. Best and best.

David's Opinion: Japan Tragedy - The Vital Role of Social Media

The Scenario
Friday afternoon, while I just arrived at my working spot, powered on the wifi, went through my daily mental consumption - scrolling down bunch of updated articles which featured on several news websites. A sudden headline with red color embroidered popped up right at the Wall Street Journal website. Just a second, more and more of my favorite websites - CNN, BBC continuously happened to report the latest situation of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake. Live videos were up, recording from a high altitude of helicopter, showing the dumbfounded tsunami, not so far from the epicentre, relentlessly eradicated the farms, houses and slammed on bunch of ships. Extremely astounded. Tons of related news started to flood my Facebook wall, people showed great concern over the debacle and managed to try every means - Skype, MSN, Facebook, etc. to contact their friends and families who were staying at the high risk areas or countries of this unexpected disaster.

Japan Live Blog Update began to run on a handful of websites, provided with the latest news from the battlefront to all of us. Google person finder has been established for those looking for or with information about people affected by the Japan earthquake; see here (in Japanese), or here (in English). The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released the list of estimated arrival times of tsunamis across the globe, following by the alert announcements from several global agencies and authorities. In Japan, as mobile phones remain down, Twitter is proving to be one of the best ways to contact loved ones and get updates on the quake.

One of the Twitter's user wrote that they were “walking home with the rest of Tokyo”, as trains and subways remain stopped: It’s “amazingly calm and orderly.”

The American School in Japan, the largest international school in Tokyo, sent out an email message to parents saying everyone was safe about a half-hour after the quake. All the chief mobile service providers in Japan incessantly took actions to cope with the lack of mobile connectivity problem. An emergency phone service has been set up, an online emergency message board as also be created to help people confirm the whereabouts of those in struck areas. NTT provided free public phone service in the rendezvous for victims. KDDI, SoftBank followed up the NTT created an internet platform for people to send out the message of peace to their love ones. Bic Camera, one of the biggest electronic equipment chain stores in Japan, handed over the free battery charging service for mobile phone users. Suntory has been prepared tons of free drinking water vending machines for emergency purpose since 2005 and it turned out to be so invaluable at this moment. Thanks for the integrated TV function on their high-tech mobile phones, people were able to catch up the live stream from TV network.

"It's very convenient being able to watch live TV when the phones are down," said Minori Naito, an employee of Royal Bank of Scotland in Tokyo. "Otherwise, we'd have no idea what is going on."

Throughout the whole story, not surprisingly, you find the social media sprouting like weeds in a garden - that is, everywhere.

The Vital Role
Those epoch-making inventions - World Wide Web, social website, telecommunication - all of them turn out to become so essential and effective nowaday for all the people get connected, get know the latest movement out of the world, no matter where you are. Japan tragedy slowly dawn on us that social media is not just about the entertainment, games and fun, but it's all about connect, caring and accessibility. As you know, social media shows its great heap over this incident, it's by no means limited to spread the immediate and precise information for people to get aware of the upcoming threats, but also the handy tool for people to connect and find out their love ones. Fancy the scenario when all of this happen without social media, people might never know what the hell was going on out of there, the alerts couldn't reach the people on time, deteriorate the threat of the disaster and the rescue operations would be so messy and complicated after all. Social media, no matter which particular website or service, spontaneously contributes so much to our daily lives, we use it everyday. Chatting with your parents in a distance, getting know the score of your favorite football match, checking the highly fluctuated stock market, applying to an oversea college, more and more. Thinking back, the infrastructure itself is absolutely amazing and stunning. We're in such fortunate to born on this age, the age of social media, the age of practical use of technology.

Contemplation
By witnessing the whole progress, Japan is arguably the most disaster-aware nation in the world, and has spent several decades developing mitigation strategies for a variety of hazards, including earthquakes and tsunamis. This event directly shows us the state of the art in readiness for earthquake and tsunami disasters which wholly minimize the damage and save thousand of lives. The Japan government didn't seem to be delayed for any rescue operation but giving out aid rapidly instead. The victims didn't seem to be panic and anxious but calmly flee from the riskful areas instead. The mass media in Japan didn't seem to be overblow the disaster but precisely convey the useful information to people instead. The effectiveness of the government, the steadiness and attitude of the people, the quickness and discipline of the mass media are what other countries, especially our countries, should really learn and apply. Ponder over it.


The Buttom Line
The terrific story still didn't come to its end, at least untill the moment that I was writing on this entry. Blast at nuclear plant follows the Friday's 8.9-magnitude quake, might cause the meltdown of the reactor and has the potential for a nuclear catastrophe. More than 83,000 people live within 10 kilometers of the two dangerous plants, the evacuations were immediately proceeded. The experts and workers are now out on a limb to flood the reactor containment structure with sea water to bring the reactor's temperature down to safe levels. The effort is expected to take two days. In the next hours, days, weeks and months, Japan will go about the emotionally painful task of assessing the damage and counting the casualties and injuries. It will rebuild homes, roads and lives for thousands of individuals.

"Today's events remind us of just how fragile life can be," U.S. President Barack Obama

Life is vulnerable. Cherish for your love ones and the time you hold.
- It would never come back once it gone.

God Bless Everyone.

New Year ⋅ New Hope ⋅ New Path

Will it be a little bit out of fashioned to write about some kind of stuffs regarding new year while it has already come to the end of January? Woops, as a pure-real-tranditional Chinese young man, since it still left several days before the Lunar New Year descends upon us, I personally think that I'm still in the right time to catch up the last train :)

Okay, enough chattering. Year 2010 was a big year for me. It brought me to hop from a tempting pinnacle of starting point, push me down with an extremely frightened 'falling down' feeling and then straight away hit to a glossy surface but full with caves. In the end, I woke up with an ever-broadened prespective. Failure in SAT I, rejection from NTU, mistake in applying UCLA, UC Berkeley, those experiences undoubtedly provided me with a precious moment to really comtemplate about my ability and to really understand how much effort that I still need to put it on. Tons of people might wondering about this part, I mean, my education/further studies, in promise, I will further interpret for it once everything work out OK. On the other hand, work in Sony Malaysia, participation in Asian Science Camp, involvement in several national conferences and events, led me to realize how astonishing that the people in the other communities. Their passion, enthusiasm and attitude were what I should learn and keep working on.

Thus, what's the next plan for the Year 2011?

You know, right after undergoing the dreadful year of 2010 which sort of like leading to nowhere thoughout the year, I'm now so much hungry to set out a distinct path for the new year. Collecting all sort of jigsaw puzzle piece by piece and matching up them toward my ultimate goal. In a short speculation, I prepared a neat 'To-do' list for that. Let's see what should I do/ought to do/eager to do in year 2011. Of couse, they're not sorted in priority.

To-Do List:
• Be more proactive. At least five blog posts per month. (Okay, I know I failed on this month)
• Exposed to oversea experience. Both study and travel.
• Raise back my entrepreneurial bent. Gonna kick start for something big.
• Be serious in computer studies. Going to complete my self-study in web technology: CSS, XML, PHP, SQL, Javascript, Ajax, in both theory and practical works and further up my step toward Objective-C and Cocoa.
• Set out a real-valuable-professional research work in Computer Science. Not the topsy-turvy that I did before.
• Improve my second language - English. Both speaking and writting. At least getting near to a native speaker.
• Get deep into business area stuffs. Stock, forex, business managment, etc. Understand the real theory behind, keep following up the latest movement of the world business topics.
• Relationship? Okay, this one to be really optional @_@

The roads are there, tread them softly.

Happy New Year to everyone, wish everyone have a good good year :)

Merry Christmas 2010!

Merry Christmas! It has been the third times for me to be right here giving out my earnest blessing to everyone since I set out to beef about my stuffs by blogging in Dec 2008.

Sprang out from my bed while whole of my family had gone for Johor Bahru for a shooting of new year stuffs, swayed back to my desk with the chicken rice that packed by mum, embarked on all the formality - Firefox, Gmail, Facebook, Wall Street Journal. It's the dawn of my little bit shabby Christmas Day. When all the tavern, alley and everywhere in the town were full with revelry, riot last night because of this domestic, gift-giving but getting more commercialized holiday, I was particularly immune. No boisterous count down, no mirthful celebration. Extremely quiet and ordinary.

Haha. I'm not being autistic. Neither has it distracted me from studying nor has it recalled my dreadful trauma. I just simply have the leaning to decamp from all the agonizing stuffs and indulge myself into a real relaxing state. Leaving my fingers down on my keyboard to think about what that hell I was doing recently.

I just wound up my first semester in Taylor's University - RMIT University Bachelor of Computer Science lately. People might wonder the weird part of my course - the name. Actually it's a twinning program or so-called a partnership degree program between Taylor's University and RMIT University. In simple words, it means that the course students are pursuing their RMIT University Degree in Taylor's University Campus. The course students are having the same study curriculum and privilege no matter they're studying in Taylor's Campus or RMIT Campus. Thus, course students are free to transfer to RMIT Campus if they have the bent.

Of course, like any Computer Science course in any other Australia universities, we're required to enroll in four subjects in one semester. I acquired three High Dictinction in Programming 1, Computer Organization and Maths for Computing subjects and one Dictinction for Database Concept subject for this semester. Nevertheless, unlike the high school caged-fixed study mode, I know how much that I learnt thoughout the whole semester which the grades are inept to truly depict them. Ok, for those who personally know me, you guys should know I do have some grumbles for the course and school. A little bit more cumbersome and tedious story, I will talk more about it in later blog post.

Otherwise, I was selected as one of the twelve winners in IT@Green Photography Competition which is part of the Taylor's Bario Community Project. My awarded photo will be printed with my name in a 2011 calender for the charity purpose and a press interview with New Strait Time (A local daily newspaper) regarding the Bario Project will be featured soon as well. Thanks for all kind of earnest attention, I have the inkling of surprise that my trivial contribution would turn out to be so imperative afterwards.

I will going back to job segment next monday in order to cope with my devastating bailout. And keep screwing up with few personal projects that I'm currently working on. Keep strengthening my own pillar and prop. It will be awesome if I got any chance to share with you all in later time. I need all your support, dude :) .Since I had completed the Oracle Database Workshop during the school semester, I'm now seeking the time(Frankly, the money) to proceed to the certification exam which will going to cost me USD125 in first paper but it's no doubt to be totally worthy after all.

Some mumbling: Actually I'm in the a roaring progress of cruising my direction to the other beacon of light which will going to be another trail-blazing and life-changing milestone for me. Desperate and desirous. Stay tuned :)

Right at the end of this fervent holiday, again, wish everyone Merry Christmas and all the best!

As there is a dream, so there is a hope.

The Lapse of Time

It has been a couple of time since my last post to be right here to convey something so-called my inner voice, perspective. Just right after the dawn of my first-university-final examination, I'm spontaneous to dip my toe into deep immersion again to hand out some stuffs which nailing down several dim hindsight that authentically raised me up and hope it wouldn't be too wearisome after all.

When I incessantly stumbled across a sort of my fellow juniors' graduation photo recently, it suddenly burned my mind with a prossession of my high school scenario - a wonderful memory amused with lots of gaffe, disgrace and topsy-turvy. And yet it's dreadful and darned: Time just flows too fast for me to realize that it has been one year of time since I graduated from my lovely high school. While I tried to recall every piece of my mind to scrutinize them, I eventually got that: Instead of continously discovering myself, like what I did thoughout my past-eighteen-year life. I transformed. Of course, it was not the way how Transformers transform themselves but the way of fundamentally changing on my mindset which I didn't ever perceive before.

My intense desire is unanimously the best thing that I ever found of myself. It always intuitively drives me to overcome bunch of hindrance and rid me of being pessimistic. Frankly speaking, in past, my desire was bound up with fame, prestige and fortune. It was morbid and terrible. I was just like, did a thing mechanically because of 'something' or screwing up so badly for the sake of getting 'something', I couldn't find what it really meant to me afterwards. You know what, what our societies really inoculate to us is merely a scripted, lock-step curricula. It has been in the process of polarization and turns out to create a tyrannic phenomenon which hypnotize people to just follow the rules that something like: We're desperate in winning the competition to embroider our C.V. to get prettier, we struggle so hard in study because of getting a fat university admission, we go ballistic over work in order to get earning more and more incentive. And the cruel fact after all is simple as that: We're there, we 'ought to' breathe under this kind of spineless, grueling and rigid cage. I would say, most of us. WE LOST SOMETHING ELSE.

Ok, I know, I'm a little agitated at this point. The CAGE makes people just do because people told them to do, other people also do and worse, eventually they feel - it 'has to' do, even people had a great disinclination to cope with it at first. Guess what? Mediocrity. Yes, it makes us absolutely mediocre. We lost our individual character, emblematic personality, potential creativity, remarkable diversity, self-improvisation and more to name few. Hence, without them, what else we left? A solid machine produced by the other prototype of machine with a big and splashy ISO mark.

We must, before setting out our head start, ask our inner voice, true heart, what the thing really meant to you? In term of our interest, responsibility and right, but not in term of benefit, acquisition and seducement. In order word, BE YOURSELF. You're the master of your fate. Ask and analyse always, your inner voice will be the beacon of light for yourself. Follow your heart and do the thing that you love or love the thing that you do (Ponder over it). Don't trap by others, just be the way you're.

I know in most of the time, in real world, it's always tough to reach the win-win situation. But if there have a choice, even just as tiny as nothing, choose and try for it. I do believe we're always able to at least make a gratifying balance between ourselves and reality. Just have to tenaciously believe it.

Right now, after the intuitive speculation, my desire was gradually transformed. It was not longer a matter of getting A or B in my final exam paper, nor the matter of Mum: Son, could you help.. Me in reluctant: Yes, mum.., but the matter of treading my path softly without cognitive dissonance, and also the matter of fulfilling my responsibility without any nausea. My desire lead me to learn, to improve and to strive because it serves my self-mental-comtentment. I disentralled from the cage of society, high school and myself. I gonna love the thing that I do. Anything else is secondary.

Second point, a quite straight forward idea that I truely wish to convey to all my fellow friends - Living as a Learning Process. Nowadays, it's obvious to see a lot of books, stuffs talking about: Self-motivation, Secret of Success, Grasp your Dream...blak,blak blak and all that. Definitely, we're always encouraged to think big, to weave your dream, to sputter out your ultimate goal. Nevertheless, there exist an underlying notion that people, especially the young generation, didn't catch up - The fundamental and basic. If you want to create another Facebook, please learning from HTML, if you want to probe into the mysterious Cosmic Microwave Background(CMB), please learning from Physics. The rule is simple as that. But a majority of people are more likely to be vehement to find out a 'short-cut' to boost up their vigorous ambition. Don't be too anxious to get overdo it, you may be somehow cruise near to the destination, but it will go haywire in once since your pillar and prop was not durable enough to handle with it. Worse, it will mess up and eradicate your previous effort. Thus, be step-by-step, keep looking and don't get pissed off. Don't just think and talk but plan and do. Have a clear picture of how to embody our quixotic dream into reality but not just dilly-dally in your house and wait for the bottle of accomplishment falling from the fixed, sturdy roof. Start learning thoroughly from the fundamental will show your the distinct direction of getting the seamless connection toward your ladder of success.

Last, again, Living as a Learning Process. As a youth, we should seize on any opportunity to learn thoughout our daily life. Oops, no..no..no.., don't get me wrong. I didn't compel your to keep reading the book page by page or crunching the dictionary utterly. The definition of 'learn' is far more not just limited in having a hands-on experience of E-banking system, getting an overview of government financial plan through the newspaper, changing the dining room's light bulb with some handy tools, processing a shipment at pos office, but also all the fundamental and ordinary tasks that I think as a human being should know. If you are already above eighteenth and you're still clueless about all of that, don't still ask someone else to help you this and help your that. LEARN THEM NOW. It never be lated to learn if you push yourself again right at the threshold.

As it's tale, so it's life.

So..Hey dude, how life treat your recently?

Apple 'Back to the Mac': What can we prospect of?

Once again, Steve and his fellow team members wound up the 'Back to the Mac' event at an unique day of 20/10/2010 morning. I should say, the protogonist of this thread is going to be totally different. I'm not going to extol how amazing and gratifying of the new Macbook Air. Nor I'm trying to acclaim the glamorous sneak peek of the upcoming major release: Mac OS X Lion. Instead, I would like to sputter out how those crucial steps, which Apple currently working on, will drastically change our daily life strides. Of course, within the confine of my own perspective and conjecture.

First of all, in order to uncover the ultimate secret behind the Apple, let's list down what Apple going to surprise us after the 'Back to the Mac' annoucements:
-Mac Apps Store
-Mac OS X Lion with tons of new features mimicking from iOS
-FaceTime between Mac and iPhone as well as iPod
-An ever user-friendly and powerful iLife 11'

Alright, those are the major factors that I gonna concentrate on throughout my following analysis. As we know, in retrospect, after the successful releases of iPhone, iPods and of course iPad, Apple was hopping from a dying Apple Computer (Personal Computer-based company) to today Apple lnc. which all of its products incessantly flood everywhere of our lives.

Guess what? Ok, fancy a scenario something like that: You were a Windows user. But one day, you were enamored of the fascinating iPhone and you got one into your pocket. Since then, you were enjoying happily of downloading tons of Apps through iTunes 10' and next figured out that it was quite unsatisfying to sync your iPhone with Windows Edition of iTunes 10' as there are not available iPhoto, iCal and so forth to get things prefect. Soon, it turned out that: You bought a Macbook and cast away your Windows. All the stuffs went well afterwards before you stumbled across iPad. It dawned on you that you 'might' need a iPad to fit a gap between the Macbook and iPhone (Steve: Exactly you need). You know, especially when you were hypnotized by the privilege of tracking the stock market or get your stuffs done just by laying at the sofa. Undoubtedly, you added it into your order list. Wait a minute, what's next? Sorry for the little bit fussy story(Ok..I know I'm over bragged about that) but I guess the following gadgets will come to mind are: Macbook Air, AppleTV, iMac, iPods..what else?

Perhaps, some of you may resonate with me, maybe not. Whatever, what I was trying to convey is not how those rich people spending their money. I just wanna simply unveil the Apple's knack of enthralling us into its world in reality. And it's astonishingly effective. Apple creates a kindred 'connection bridge' between all of its products. We are always able to share, sync and reorganize our files, music, video, Apps between its various products without any effort. It provides us a sense of mobility, flexibility and accessibility of our important data. Moreover, the upcoming AirPlay, FaceTime on Mac, Mac OS X Lion and so on will further enchance customers' experience of the connection bridge. AirPlay for sharing file wirelessly without complicated configuration, FaceTime for 'face to face' connecting with your friends ad lib, no matter you're in toliet using your iPhone to show how bad you're or in the kitchens using your iPhone to teach him how to cook whereas he's doing his assignment with Mac in the room. It will be not surprise to divine a new iPad with FaceTime intergrated coming soon. Mac OS X Lion, mimicking a sort of impressive features from iOS, consumers will have the sense of familiarity when switching between iOS and Mac and it turns out to become the ever-user-friendly operating system. As a result, it's obvious that that 'connection bridge' indirectly(or directly) coax the consumers into embracing all of its products en masse and people just foolishly follow it. Ok, the first point, check.

"We have been improving it with every major release. We're very happpy with the Snow Leopard. But we know how to take it ever further." Steve Jobs

Next, Apps Store. It's no doubt that Apps Store has led Apple toward a lion's share of market since it announced. 'Over 7 Billion Apps had been downloaded from Apps Store', there doesn't exist any corporation in the world is able to stack up against Apple at this point. Apps Store is feverishly successful and now Apple brings it to Mac. But why? What actually Apps Store benefits us?

This occasion inadvertently hit my mind to recall the story of Palm OS. Eight years before, Palm OS was the most famous and popular mobile platform as well as PDA platform in the world. I was in part of it. User friendly GUI, stable and secure operating system, more important, a sea of applications and developers flourished the splendid moment of Palm OS at that time. Thinking back, it's weird but fact that people always eager to get more functions in a single device even they will never use it. Apple knows what consumer needs. The announcement of Apps Store apparently stuffed up the hunger of that psychological phenomenon.

Apple released the SDK(Software Development Kit) of iOS to developers once the the first generation of iPhone had been unveiled. In a short time, thousands of software developers were obsessed by the relatively easiest coding system and the best way to distribute their earnest applications. Low cost and less effort. They flocked toward it to be the first to trigger the handsome income from the Apps Store. Vice versa, the consumer segment. Instead of spending much of time to keep 'googling' the apps that they eager to have. Thanks for the developers, with the tremendous amount of apps exist in Apps Store, consumers are able to choose and grab their beloved apps just by tapping few simple clicks on a neat and well-organized list. As you can see, it's not just benefit in the particular fraction of the whole progress, but it works out with a win-win situation for both consumer and developer.

In the same case, we can easily to foresee that Mac Apps Store will going to weave another fairy tale in the IT market. Mac Apps Store will be another threshold to reinvent/subvert the new/traditional way of purchasing a software. It will going to be rampant, historical and people will inevitably thrill about it. So, what are you waiting for? Be the first to earn a bucket of asset and pop up your apps in the top ten list!



In corollary, Apple is now getting better and overwhelmingly dress all its rivals down. Apple drives by its creativity, innovation, fresh angle of view and so forth. Apple was no longer just a technologic manufacturer. You know, it's Apple, not an ordinary apple. Apple has already become a fashion brand - it creates a contagious phenomenon or a sence of superiority which billions of 'Fans' take great relish in its products and bindly/foolishly follow it. People could hardly immune for that. Still, it makes people feel good with it!



Last, what's next for Apple? This, this or this? Check it out :)

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Microsoft PDC 2010 KL: An exploration of KLCC@Microsoft Auditorium?

PDC, Professional Developer Conference, is the Microsoft annually definitive developer's conference where various developers will gather to learn about Microsoft's latest technologies, share their own expertise and explore the new products that Microsoft have launched year to year.

And the shimmer of PDC incessantly leaps its stride to this year, PDC 2010. Instead of garthering all the enthusiastic developers from every piece of the world to Redmond, Washington where the PDC 10' going to be held. Microsoft provides more ways than ever before for us to experience the Professional Developer’s Conference closer to home. Microsoft is working with Microsoft offices, academic institutions, and 3rd parties around the world to provide us the opportunity to attend a PDC10 event near to us by using the broadcasting and live streaming technology through internet.

Of course, Microsoft Malaysia is on the list to bring this splashy event descends upon our town. As one of the Microsoft Malaysia TechNet subscribers, I was pleased to have this precious opportunity to be a part of this local event but also seize on this chance to have a first and fresh exploration of Microsoft Auditorum located in Pertonas Twins Tower Level 29.



Check out my random photo during the PDC 2010 KL:
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Hence, what we learnt from PDC 2010?

-Internet Explorer 9, the next major milestone of IE after undergoing an obvious period of losing big fraction of browser market because of the more gratifying Google Chrome and Firefox. IE 9 going to be ablaze again with the devastating support for HTML5, ever better API system and developer-approached modification.

-Windows Phone 7, a revolutionary mobile phone platfrom which going to potentially stack up against Apple iOS, Google Android with its ever amazing and user-friendly GUI, integrated consumer-demanded functions, the most simpliest and distinctive developer tools, Marketplace(The next Apps Store?) and even more fascinating privileges.

-Windows Azure, the pioneer of providing a flexible cloud-computing platform that lets you focus on solving business problems and addressing customer needs. We all know, building out an infrastructure that supports our web service or application can be expensive, complicated and time consuming. It turns out that cloud computing gradually comes to the limelight as the stronger demand from customers. Windows Azure is the easiest solution of cloud computing aiming to provide users to manage their web service in an ever-efficient way. Building out the network to support your peak times. Getting the right servers in place at the right time, managing and maintaining the systems.

For full video of keynote address and details of PDC 2010, please check out to: www.microsoftpdc.com
Have fun!