Initially when I moved job to Kulim, I thought there would be more time to blog. This is mainly because of the shuttle commuting time of at least 45 minutes each way. That is if there is no jam on the Penang Bridge. I ended up sleeping or resting most of the time, too tired to open up the laptop. On days when I open up the laptop, I need to complete some kind of work. Finally, after 13 weeks in Kulim, I finally can blog on the shuttle. Blogging on the shuttle is not something trivial. The shuttle is like a shock & vibe machine where there are constant movement in all directions. Its like one of those astronaut training machine. At times, I just felt like puking and usually leaves me with a headache or a bad wind problem. Somehow, my stomach just cannot take the constant push and jerk. I guess the company have been kind enough to provide the shuttle service. It would be nice if they could provide a more comfortable ride. With all kinds of cost saving initiative lately, especially the elimination of coffee/tea/vico during b’fast and also the reduction of shuttle service between campus, the last thing the company will do is to pay the shuttle vendor more for a better shuttle.

Maybe feeling nausea on the bus is a physiological effect? I used to be tougher, and could withstand even rough sea ride, somehow, as the body ages, the tolerance to such conditions seams to be diminishing. Somehow lately, I felt so old, kind of lost the zest of youth. Again, I think all these are more psychological than physical and a healthy mind will lead to a healthy body.

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GSC is carrying a promo for this school holiday which started yesterday. 2 tickets for the price of 1 and limited to asterisk marked movies only. At GSC Queensbay Penang, the movies are Ghost Rider, Protege and Lady Iron Chef. We made it to Protege yesterday and Ghost Rider today. Protege was exciting, and was thought provoking. Why do people take drugs? Daniel Wu (undercover narcotic agent) concluded that “emptiness” that drives drug abuse, and asked, which is more scarier, emptiness or the drug itself. Ghost Rider on the other hand, was a comedic movie and truly entertaining. There were some rempit scenes, and towards the end, the caretaker reveal himself to be the previous ghost rider. After the revelation, both the new and old Ghost Riders, berkonvoy to meet the devil’s son. Ghost Riders berkonvoy…

I have been craving for an Apple Mac for quite sometime now and have not been able to afford one. Even there was an Employee Purchase Program at my office where a good 6% discount were given, I always have other priorities rather than satisfying this craving. I have made my XP to look so much like OsX for now I guess I should be able to go on without one for a while.

As ‘300′ the movie was released this weekend, I went over to the official site to check out the movie. As I came to the wallpaper download section, I notice how tedious it is to just change wallpaper on OsX. I include a screenshot above. With WinXP, I just need to right click on the image and select ‘Set as Wallpaper’, Bam, I am done. But with a Mac, I have to first safe it, then open the System Preference (Control Panel), and do some drag and drop. I am beginning to start to feel that OsX is not as cool as it seams. Especially coming from a window user.

Stand aside Myspace, here comes Virb. Similar to Myspace, Virb is a social networking site, with a good taste. I have always thought myspace is ugly, and how could so many people in the world put up with such ugly theme for their blogs or sites. The thing about Virb is that, it is more than just a blog or social networking site, it is an Art Festival. From Photos, to Music and Video, it is an all in one web presence. If you ever want to leave myspace for a better application, Virb is the one. Within minutes, you can create a Web 2.0 look type of blog, and I am so jealous of it, it made me thinking of dumping my paid host to join Virb. Virb users are given a great deal of flexibility to configure their site with CSS, and if you dont know what CSS is, there are also easy drag and drop menu to use. Just to give you a taste, check out the screen shot below of Musician Andy Davis. See the difference between Myspace and Virb?

Musician Andy Davis @ Myspace:

Musician Andy Davis @ Virb:

Virb is not new to the web scene, they are the same people who brought you purevolume.com, and this explains why they look quite alike. Purevolume.com is a site that provide musicians the means to share their musics online. These days, almost all musicians, especially those without a label, owns a myspace site and they share their music, interact with fans and blog. UMI (Unborn Media Inc), who started purevolume.com must have seen the success myspace have brought to the musicians. Since they already have a succeful music sharing platform, why not take it a step further and embed in the blogging and social networking features, and finally, throw in web 2.0 features and look. This should be enough to wrestle myspace, but with countless numbers of social sites, Virb is in a crowded room.