All posts by The Artist

Addicted To iPhone Games

This is bad. My iPhone is my new toy. I know that I recently swore off playing games but I can’t help it. I have games installed on my Nokia E61i, an enterprise mobile device that we could hardly find any free games for it because it is an ENTERPRISE unit!

But now, as if those mobile games are not enough, I have games in my iPhone and I have bookmarked a whole list of iPhone games sites. You may know that iPhone does not allow the installation of third party applications *ahem* so there are not that many games that we could install. Oh, I thank God for this!!! Otherwise, I would be spending way more time playing and playing.

I think it is not that I love playing so much but the fact that I always want to out do myself, yes, even in games that I play alone. There must be something wrong with me. LOL

I hope that this addiction to iPhone games will be just a passing fad and that I will outgrow it as soon as possible so that I could concentrate on more important things in life!

Eating A Balanced Meal

It is very rare for me to get a balanced meal because I eat on the go due to my hectic work schedule. Most of my meals are takeaways or instant food that only requires heating up with the microwave oven.

Yesterday, a friend told me that she heard of a product called Body Balance which is a liquid food supplement that helps to replenish whatever nutrients that our body did not get from our food.

This sounds like what I should be taking as I know eating the way I do is unhealthy but then how often do I get to eat home-cooked food? I think only once a month!

Body Balance, which comes in a bottle, is also very convenient as it doesn’t need extra preparation. Just my kind of supplement!

Traffic Down Due To Holidays

With the long holidays from now, the weekend, right up to Christmas and then New Year, internet traffic is expected to dive. Well, the effect is already showing on my blogs. The problem is that the holidays have already started for some people since Thursday!

I know of friends who took a few days of leave off from work to make up almost two weeks of holidays. Some of my friends are already on holiday and left the country! Amy and her family flew to Bangkok this morning.

Most Malaysians would only get online at the office, using company resources to enjoy the web and when they are home, they won’t get online because they want to spend quality time with the family. And during the holidays, some of them don’t even have internet access in their kampungs. They are not like me who need to be online the whole day.

So there’s not much point in blogging because we would not get to reach out to as many people as we normally would on a work day. I think I also take a break from blogging soon!

Right To Be Debt-Free

It is everybody’s right to lead a debt-free life but that is not possible in today’s modern world. I know quite a few people who are so heavily in debt from over changing their credit cards without being able to settle their bills at the end of the month.

What these people need is the ability to manage their finances well. I also discovered that they are actually also not able to manage their debts well. I think that for people like these, they would be better to see request for professional debt management service like the one being offered by Consumer Credit Management Services, Inc. This is a non-profit organization and it is their aim to help everyone be debt-free through credit counselling.

I think that this is a very valuable service considering that more and more people are getting into a financial fix due to the misuse of credit cards!

QWERTY

A met a friend for dinner the other and she saw me using my Nokia E61i and she said that it’s boring. SOB I know!! But the reason I bought it is because I could use it as a modem and I dig QWERTY. People who have not used QWERTY before would not understand.

And it is really helpful when I have so many things to write, write and write that having QWERTY stops me from keying in my letters more time than I should. Just imagine how many keystrokes I save myself by using QWERTY keyboard.

Sometimes, while I prefer to type on my computer properly, it could not be helped since work continues to pile up even when I am away from the computer so having an internet enabled mobile device with QWERTY is very useful.

Also, I use it to take down whatever notes and blog ideas I have so that I could expand on my ideas when I have the time. One idea, one note. Then add text to the title LOL That’s how I blog!

Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez Tickets

I marvel at the passion Americans have for sports. My sister tells me that every year, they are waiting for one major event after another and everyone would queue up to buy tickets to the big games. People who are not able to get tickets would be outcasts and losers. Well, at least they are made to feel like that at my sister’s office!!!

After six years living in the Untied States, my sister has adopted this part of their sporting culture and I find it funny that she will be saving up money the whole year only to splash it on a ticket. But I think it is better for her to be able to BUY those tickets than feel frustrated not being able to view live sports matches and have to watch pay-per-view.

Like the Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez boxing match which has been the talk of the whole country, I told my sister, better to get the Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez tickets online or she will lose out.

Although the match is scheduled on March 15, 2008, in Las Vegas, and may seem like a lifetime away, who knows, time flies so fast, it will be here sooner than we thought and only to realize that the tickets are all sold out!

New Year’s Resolution

It’s the time of the year where we have to make our New Year’s resolution. I never make my list and even if I do, I will only not follow whatever that I wrote down!! Maybe that is why I see time flying past me without achieving anything great the year past!

This year though, I only have one resolution. Something that is in my control and that is to stay focused. I want to be focused in my work, in blogging and in life. I want to be able to achieve my ambition and with focus, I know I can do that.

I hope I will not get distracted by serious time wasting stuff like playing games and watching movies. I used to like telling myself that I am learning SOMETHING by playing games or watching movies hehehe but that just waste my time and take me away from my tasks at hand.