Non-blogger

Sorry blog. 

I've been neglecting you.  

I promise to write some stuff soon, but I've just been busy with a lot of things - been working on my tax return, working on a friend's webpage and I've been working on my second platinum trophy.

Mobile blogging

Really digging mobile internet now :)
So much that im writing this post on my phone during my lunch break.

There was a time not so long ago when i hated mobile internet. WAP was so slow, really expensive, not fast, chuggy and non- mobile pages looked fubar.
Did i mention it being slow?

Thanks to 3G phones and the awesomely awesome Opera mini Browser, i now haz useful mobile intrawebz!!!111

Im using the non-contracted $10/300Mb plan from Virgin which is more than enough for checking email, myfacester, blogs and NSFW pages several times a day :)


3Willings
1) My new man bag. I love the smell of fresh leather :)
2) Usher - Get my swagger back
3) Grand Theft Auto 4 - Nikko ftw!!!

Nuffnang Perth Blog Meet

Yesterday I went to my first ever blog meet!  Thank you Nuffnang for organising this!

To me, bloggers in Perth are about as rare as numbats.

Endangered

There's definitely Perth bloggers out there, but you actually have to dig pretty deep to find them (or maybe they are purposely avoiding me?). 

Where as Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines are practically drowning with bloggers! So the opportunity to meet Perth based (Perthians) bloggers was not to be missed.

Plus Nuffnang dangled the 'free nibbles and drink' carrot! hehehe

Who says no to freebies?

To me, blogging is all about sharing.  Sharing discoveries and experiences so we can all enrich each other lives. And its really just nice to meet like-minded people.

Kinda like the support group I frequent.

That night I met Mesha from KL, Ryu also from KL and Eugene from New Zealand. Sam too.  Marie was there, but I didn't get a chance to speak to her, the poor girl was too busy avoiding bouncers.

There were the big wigs.  The Australian Nuffnang directors Martyn and David.

  

David explaining big brand clients

 

And Nuffnang Co-founder Ming.

Also Karen Cheng! Big big big big time blogger!  #12 in the Top 100 Female bloggers in the world!

And she's from Perth!!  Imagine that.

She has a 'pose' named after her and has a big Facebook groupie.

Really quite inspiring.

Maybe one day I will be like her.

Not pregnant with a second baby.

But a big time blogger.

Convergence

Convergence - noun  The act of two or more things coming together.

Converging blogs

I'm so happy I changed my blog theme. 

I discovered that Blogger has an import/export blog function! With that I was able to merge my old blog with this blog.  Convergence!  Hehehe.

I spent some time looking at past posts.  Some of the posts... I have no idea what I was thinking. 

Still fun reading through my web diary though.

Funny how it all started though.  First I just wanted to post some photos.  Then I added comments.  Then next thing I know, I'm commentating 'til the cows come home.  

Hopefully all of this will come handy when I write my autobiography.  3rdWill - the diary of a saucy legend.

Converging gizmos

During my last holiday, I went through the pains of using my broken Lumix digi cam  :(  

I loved my camera. It wasn't sexy, but the pictures it took were impressive.  

Sadly my mom messed it up on her USA trip.  I don't know what she did but the dial is forever changing from picture mode to movie mode to macro to view.

Then a few weeks into the new year and my Samsung phone died!!!!  

I can't tell you how gutted I was!  My phone was ringing but nothing I could do would answer the call.  The buttons died! :(  

That day I had like 5 messages that I couldn't read.  

My fans would have been upset.

I bought the phone from ebay, so even the authorised Samsung repairers can't fix it (or refuse to fix it).

So I tried to fix the phone myself (with the help of the Samsung U600 technical service manual I got from torrent sites).  I successfully opened up my phone and cleaned the lint and dust inside.  I checked the flexi cable to the buttons to make sure it was connected properly.  When I put the phone together again, I was two screws short!  

Hahahaha, I wonder where they went :P

So I spent a whole day stressing over a new phone.  I mean, I love gizmos, I just don't love the fact that it will be worth nothing in two years.  Mobile phones still evolve too fast.   And phones these days are loaded with too much gimmicky technology.  Smile detection?  Shake controls?

Plus the phone will most likely die after 12 months (funny that..  phones die just after their warranty period)

The dead ones. Photo taken by the new baby.

So after much deliberation, I got myself a camera phone. Its not that sexy coz its a brick, but damn... I'm loving the cyber-hotness of the Sony C905.  Don't really care much for its other functions, I just like the fact I don't have to carry a camera AND phone.  

Only two bulges in my pants now *wink *wink  :P

Converging relationships

A wedding proposal this month! 

And there's a wedding around the corner! I'm at a point in my life when all my friends are getting married.   

It won't be long when they start popping out kids and were all going to each other's kid's birthday parties.  Ohhh the humanity.

I learnt something the other day though.  Its quite interesting.

My friend told me that relationships and marriage is like a math formula.

He said that 1+1 = 0, doesn't work because that's a relationship where there's no love.

He said that 1+1 = 1, doesn't work either because that means someone in the relationship has taken over and is overshadowing the other.

Surprising, he said 1+1=2 was wrong as well.  In a working relationship, it should be 1+1 = 1+1,   a union of two individuals who remain themselves - unique and quirkily themselves.

  

I pondered on this for a while.  Was I still me? 

I mean, its true.  After a while of being together, sometimes its hard to distinguish if I should be thinking 'me' or 'we'. 

I concluded that my girlfriend and I have not mutated into some four armed freak with two heads.  

So its still all good.

3Willings

1) Really enjoying pretending to be a lawyer in Apollo Justice

2) I thought Paris is Burning was by Birds of Toyko (although this group is pretty good too!). Its by LadyHawke.  Awsome vocals. Digging the tunes.  So much better than the Ting Tings - their song drives me nuts.

3) Best dish I can recall recently is my sister's Chicken Biryani. Inspired by Cinnamon Club she says.

Politcally Incorrect Queens

Nothing gets you publicity faster than by being overly politically incorrect.

Take these three ladies for example. They were virtually unknowns who have turn themselves celebrities (in that they're very famous) by simply speaking out their minds.

1. Pauline Hanson (Australia) - "Please explain?"

This is NOT Pauline Hanson. But I'd rather have a picture of Kristin Kreuk than of Pauline

Before 10 September 1996, Pauline Hanson was a nobody on the Australian political landscape. She made international headlines when in her first ever parliamentary speech, she voiced her opinions on (the undoing of) multicultural Australia.

Nice. Read her story here.

She single handedly divided the nation and catapulted herself (temporarily) to the front lines of Australian politics.

Not bad for a Fish N Chip shop owner.

She also single handedly killed my attraction for red-haired women.

2. Wendy Cheng (Singapore) - The Blog Princess

Xiaxue (aka Wendy Cheng) is a multi-award winning blogging princess of Singapore. And she no stranger to political incorrectness.

In fact, her blog is popular because she openly speaks her mind, regardless of how tasteless, selfish, degrading and rude they are (That's what makes it so interesting!) She is really bold and is very popular. She registers almost 12,000 hits a day and has made a living out of blogging.

Her posts on the use of disabled toilets and her opinion on the rape of a Filipina is quite a frightening read.

Which is a shame coz she's actually quite alright looking. I don't think she needed a nose job or needs to Photoshop her photos though.

She's a tad conceited (by tad, I mean very very very very very conceited).

Her most recent scandal was her post "Singapore's Most Disgusting Bloggers" where she openly slugs a 60 year old blogger!

Nice. Nothing like a good old flame war to raise dropping internet hits.

3. Malu Fernandez (Philippines) - Divalicious

Again, this is NOT Malu. I needed a picture of Jessica Alba to offset Malu's photo below.

Malu Fernandez has recently set the Filipino blogging community on fire with her remarks about overseas Filipino workers (OFW).

You can read the article here - Page 1 Page 2.

Then she followed it up with an even juicier post.

My favourite quotes from Malu:

“This time I had already resigned myself to being trapped like a sardine in a sardine can with all these OFWs smelling like AXE and Charlie cologne while my Jo Malone evaporated into thin air."

"Although it may sound elitist to you the fact is this country is built on the foundation of haves, have-nots and wannabes."

Irritated filipino bloggers then joined arms to stop the juggernaut (literally?) that’s is Malu and is pressuring her to resign.

Malu should be worried.

In the past, the Filipino blogging community banded to stop Pamie, an American who negatively critised Philippines' most beloved fast food chain Jollibee.

I don't think Pamie knew how big the can of worms she opened.

She got hate mail after hate mail. I think she's shut down part of her forum because it was inundated with hate comments.

I don't know how if the 'ugly american' incident had ever finished, but there's still hate mail going around. I wonder how Pamie sleeps at night?

In their defense, these women proclaim 'freedom of speech'.

And thats okay. Everyone has a right to say what’s on their mind. Their claim self-righteousness is based on what they believe, what have or what’s been taken from. Its based on life experiences and no one, no matter how many hate mails or death threats you send, can take that away.

Certainly, I’ve done my share of preaching. And I too have upset a few. I accept that. I’m about as wrong as they are right.

(I'll give you another second to think about that last line)

When you state your opinions, it isn't always going to be of everyone's taste. It might get praised or it might get hurled-out and thrown back at you.

But you'll certainly be remembered if your taste is bad.

UPDATE - News just in - Malu has just resigned as a journalist following pressure from the Philippine blogging community (23 Aug 2007).

That didn't take long.

Happy New Year from Google

What a great start to the new year!

I garnered enough courage to sort out my increasingly steep pile of letters. My phobia stemming from the words "BILL INSIDE" stamped on most of them.

But then I found a letter from Sweden! I don't remember subscribing to a Swedish porn site.

I opened it to find a pleasant surprise!

Google sent me a cheque for US$100. WOOOOOHOOOO!! Only a few more to go until I have enough for a PS3!! Bhehehehehe. Happy new year indeed!!

Above: Google adsense pays out! Its not a myth!

3rd Time Lucky

Welcome to the brand spanking new 3rd Will blog page!

Named so because this is my third blog page, I'm the third child, I like threesomes, my favourite number is three and my name is Will,

Ive done the move because Blogger has evolved and I need a new account to take advantage of the features. What better time to move than the new year right?

You can still enjoy my project site here.