After using Wordpress for so long, I have got acustom of this CMS engine and grew out of Movable Type. My long standing photo blog which was previously powered by movable type have been migrated to wordpress. The migration was fairly simple, just export from MT and inport at Wordpress and it was done. I manage to tweak the 555 photoblog theme to customize it to my liking and what you see above is the fruit of my customization. In addition, I have also moved from /pblog to the root of my domain. So, now who ever comes to wekgna.com will first come to my photo blog, which fits into what I want to maintain of my personal existance on the web. When I first start blogging years back, I hate to write, and I only post photos, and hence the my photoblog was born. I was on blogspot then. I could still remember, I first subscribe to a free host 100mb that host perl, and movable type was free for all at that time. I name my blog Sweet & Sour, witih the notion that life is full of sweet and sour memories, and they are captured through my photos. After some revisions of movable type upgrade, wordpress starts to spring up on the side. I started to use wordpress out of curiousity and created my ‘blog‘ named ‘My So Called Life’ with wordpress. By that time, I started to write more and took photo less. As my ‘blog’ on wordpress grew, my photoblog powered by movable type starts to be neglected. I have also moved into my own new domain called wekgna.com, which is my name spelled backwards. Not untill a few days ago I tried to post a photo and found issues with movable type. I have upgraded to the latest version and it seams to be so much complicated. So, I decided to ditch movable type and migrate my entire photoblog into wordpress. This brings us here today to this post. I would like to annouce that my old photoblog at wekgna.com/pblog has been shutdown, and now moved to the root of the domain, which is www.wekgna.com. Enjoy the photos, and subscribe for new postings if you like my style of photography.

I seldom read fictions. Its as rare as the blue moon. Somehow, seeing this book lying in my library yearns me to pick it up. And once I pick it up, it stuck on me like a fly sticking on the salamander’s tongue. I was already familiar with the story, I’ve watched the movie. As I go through the pages, the movie scene keep flashing through my head. The movie differs from the book, but the entire plot still stays. The story begins with the characters being innocent in school and starts to fall in love. They spend wonderful time enjoying each other’s company for a couple of years and out of a sudden, the female lead was sick with leaukemia and she died. Ops, did I spoil it for you? Don’t worry, I have known the plot of the story from the movie and yet I enjoy the book very much. The story was average, but the way the author words it, makes it facinating. The description of Love and the structure of the story, makes it enduring and a best seller. There were instances, my emotional buttons were hammered so profusely that the dam of tears almost broke. As interesting as the book was, the ending was a little weak. Knowing the characters so much more, I was yearning for a eleborated ending, instead, it just fell short and Bam, the end. However the weak ending should not stop you from seeking out the book. The movie adaptation gave a slight different variation, mostly I believe because some of the content in the book would be confusing if not explained in detail, and so the director took the alternative route of changing the story a little. Overall, 5 star out of 5 rating for the book. I enjoyed reading it every moment I spent on it.

Prologue
I came across this book rather accidental. After purchasing a bunch of books, we learnt that Borders give out extra cash voucher if we were to spend another RM40. Being penny wise pound foolish, I went over to the Manga section looking for a nice Comic to indulge into. This is when I came to this book. It was wraped and I didn’t had the chance to open it. At the back, the book boast the popularity of the book, wich was made into Manga, TV serial and movie. It has to be good to command such follow-up I thought. And the story plot sounds familiar, it sounds like a Japanese movie that I have watched. And so the book made it into my shopping bag and I was happily going home thinking this was a manga. Upon arrival at home, to my surprise, this wa no manga at all, it was a story book, filled with words and no pictures. To my utter dissapointment, I discarded the book to a corner of my library. Not till a couple of weeks back, I start to take notice of the book.

I bought this book mainly to find out what my strengths were. I was intreague by the method how the queries were structured. I have done many of these kind of personality finder and they often allows you to think of whats right and whats wrong and your answer were skewed. The book on the whole does not worth a dime for it. It was first published in 2001 and extremely outdated. This was just on the book version and not actually the content. The book helped me to identify and realize what my strengths were. To the purpose of the book, it was extremely useful and it serves the purpose well. However, after reading to the middle of the book, which calls the reader to go online to take the strengthsfinder.com test, I found out that there is a newer book, titled Strenghsfinder 2.0, with an updated version of test and a structured method of improvement. Of which this version of book severely lacks. This book only helps you to realize who you are and stop short on that. It encourages you to go improve, but provide no means of achiving that. Therefore, my summary of this book is to bypass it, and go to the next stop, which is the latest and greatest version of the book Strengthsfinder 2.0. Rating of 4 star out of 5 for the content of the book, while I encourage to get the later version.

One of the place that warrant a quick check out for any tourist and at any destination is the local McDonalds. Every country have their own variation of McDonalds and did Japan. McDonalds in Japan is not cheap at all, it is actually more expensive that the local ramen stalls around the tube stations. Nevertheless, they have a few meals that I don’t see in Malaysia. First off is the McPork. Though sounds interesting, it does not taste that well, its kinda blend, and chicken taste much better. Our favourite were the McGriddles. Its just Sausage, Egg, Cheese and top off with a nicely baked sweet bread/muffin. Just mouth watering. For non-porkes (non pork eaters), this should be a good alternative. There are the regular Cheese Burgers and Big Mac, but why have them while we can taste the local specials. While we were Tokyo, there was a Japanese Talk show that compares the McDonalds across Asia. India has the cheapest Meals, and they have a Double Chicken burger in place of Big Mac. And this is huge, so huge that the host almost puke finishing it. Thai has some spicy stuff and Malaysia was not mention at all. McDonalds pricess across the world have been used as economic comparison, its just interesting how a global company can have such an impact in so many ways. Anyway, if you are ever in Japan, checkout some of the local McDonalds pick, its just boring not to.

McPork – kinda slopy and does not look like in the pictures (common around the world)

Chicken Filet-O

McGriddles

McGriddles

Dock stacking as being used by OsX Leopard, has now come to Win XP through the stack docklet. Its a nifty little docklet that works on RK Launcher, ObjectDock, RocketDock and Yz Dock. There are two options of stack, one is the ‘Fan’ mode, that opens the stack up like a fan (above), and another is the Grid mode, that opens all the applications up in a grid format (below). To use it, you will have to first create a folder and create shortcuts to all the applications you want to stack up into the folder. Once you have download and enable the docklet, you just need to point the docklet to the folder of application shortcuts and whoala, its done. When I first enabled it, I was blown away by the nice animation and look of the stack. Its a cool edition to the RK Launcher that I am currently using. You can get more information of this docklet from OSX-E.