My NEW Blog Site

Hello everybody, you must be wondering why I have been quiet, look busy and not updating my blog so frequently. You are partly right, I am not leaving my blog alone and stay quiet, I was busy setting up my new blog site – www.kevckw.com. Please update your bookmark.

I knew that setting up a blog for myself is not so easy (as in having my own domain name, customized template and so on). Sometimes it back me off when I come to think of it but I told myself, it's time, I can't just sit there and wait for miracle while using the old one.

Anyway, to keep the long short, I have successfully setup the site and guess what? IT IS READY TO GO LIVE!

So In the future, please visit www.kevckw.com instead of this site as I am not going to update here anymore.

Welcome to my new place and leave your footprints over there.

Maxis Broadband and Customer Experience

First of all I wanted to say thank you to streamyx. If streamyx didn't go down on me and used days to solve the problem, I don't have the chance to hook up with maxis BB.

I was discussing this maxis BB promo package with my friends and even tweeted it, the reply was why don't you try digi, it is a lot cheaper. It was because Digi didn't cover my housing area with 3G but with EDGE only. I tried to use the EDGE to go online, oh well, the speed is like snail and I think my 28.8k modem is even faster. Then I continued to try on maxis and wow... I was amazed by the performance. Maxis did cover my area with 3G and the speed is even slightly faster than my streamyx.

I was using my friend's maxis and digi bb so now I have decided to sign up with Maxis. I had an appoinment with my friends at the Curve and since I am going there, so I went to the Maxis Center and asked for this package. I was very disappointed when I had been told that they don't have stock (the modem) and asked me to leave my contact so that they can contact me when the stock arrive. Ok, fine, I left my contact and I asked for the ETA (Estimated time of arrival) of the stock, they told me ONE week.

I came back to the service center near where I stay, they told me the same story, out of stock but she promised me the stock will arrive by tomorrow and I left my contact there as well.

I wasn't believe that my luck is so bad, I tried the center in The Mines and they also tell me the whole KL is now out of stock and don't know when will they have stock. This one even worst!

Well, it seems like only one center can promise me the ETA of the modem is the one near me.

I waited until the next day, I called the sales person and asked before I go. She told me the stock is ready. I was so happy because at least I can use it to hook on to the internet again and bare in mind that, my streamyx is still down although I have made a few phone calls and it was down since 4 days ago.

OK, let me show you what I got from Maxis.

This is the box I got from Maxis, it gave me a feeling like a CD casing. And it is sealed with some security stickers.

The back of the "CD Casing" is written with the technical spec of the device. It is manufactured by Huawei, the model is E1762 and here are the list of key features:
1. Absolute mobility across HSPA/3G/EDGE/GPRS networks
2. 7.2Mbps download and 5.76Mbps upload capabilities
3. Multi-functional USB drive with Micro SD Card slow
4. USB 2.0 for simple plug and play

From system and OS perspective, it can support anything that's from Windows 200 SP4 onwards and even Mac that's running OS 10.4 and 10.5 with the latest upgrades.

Most importantly is this device – the broadband modem USB stick. It came with a USB extension cable as well, just in case you need it. Not a bad idea. Basically I like the physical appearance of the device, glossy white color.

That's this user manual included in the casing as well and I took out the device so that you can have a closer look at it.

Not to forget about the SIM card. It is printed with the word "maxis broadband" on it and it is so green. Haha...is it another way of supporting go green?

 

The sales person told me I should be able to use it in an hour or two. I will try it out and have another short write up about the installation process and QoS (Quality of Service) later.

Hennesey Artistry in Opera Sunway

Sorry for the delayed posting about the event that happened last 3 weeks, as I was one of the official photog and you will know why if you read this post.

I was in charge of the photo board right at the entrance so I can capture almost everyone who wanted to enter the event and most of them are willingly to stand at the board for photography.

This is the place where you can try on how DJ works and play with the intruments.

 

There were a few entrance to cater for different category of people to enter. There are guests, VIP, VVIP, media and bloggers.

I caught DJ Sarasa too. She was one of the DJ on that night. Scroll further and you will see her in actions.

 

Shawn Lee, the beatboxer, small boy with big sounds.

One of the leng lui who in charge at the photo board as well.

 

The managing director of Advertlets, Josh Lim with some leng luis and len zais. If you wonder what advertlets is, click at the hyperlink and check it out, at least I am one of the supporter. :)

It is always fun to attend such an event with a group of friends. Don't believe me? Look at the photo below, you can always see from their faces.

The first 3 people are the part timer for this event. I had a great experience working with them too. Whenever I press the shutter button, they will come and ask me for the file name of the photo. LOL... It was great working with you guys ya, hope that we have chance to work together again.

OK, before I went into the club to snap some nice photos of course I asked another OP to take a photo of myself first. For record sake?

This photo was taken at the top floor, roof top of Opera Club. They had a press conference here in the evening before the event started at night.

The pretty girls in the club, you can just walk to the counter and they will serve a good cocktail for you.

Trying out a shot in the club. Seems like not bad ya?

Shawn Lee was performing.

 

And you see how high are the guests. Full of joy.

Here you see, DJ Sarasa in action.

Last but not least when I walked out from the club, I met @JonYKT and his gang. His blog has been featured in 8tv before. Want to know more about this person? Click the hyper link at his name to find out. :)

Portrait – Felix and Phoebe (Part 2)

Finally, I have completed the processing of all the photos taken last weekend and as promised from the previous post, this is the second part of it. Enjoy!

Leave me your comments if you have any. :)

Portrait – Felix and Phoebe (Part 1)

There are a lot of people come and asked me what type of photograph do I like to take. I will answer them human and scenery. Those moments that got human in it are very unique and different because they will not come back again.

Let me share with you some of the photos that I took last weekend.

I need more time to process the photos, so these are the photos for part 1 and part 2 will be coming soon. Stay tuned and keep checking my blog.

Sleep Cycle

I came across this software in Apps Store and also heard people talking about it in twitter. Initially, I don't bother about it because I don't think it can really works until my friend started to use it and recommended it to me. I was telling myself why not give it a try and see how it works.

I will briefly tell you how it works here.

It act as a natural alarm clock to wake you up when you are in the lightest sleep phase so that you won't feel reluctant or tired after getting up.

It is also relying or utilizing the accelerometer in the iPhone to detect your movement while you are sleeping. Therefore in order for it to work, you must put it on the bed and the closer to your body the better so that it can detect movement and record your sleeping pattern.

One more point that I like about this apps is it will record what time you gone to bed, what time you wake up, total hours of sleep and also average how many hours you slept thru out the nights.

Let me also share with you my personal experience on this apps.

 
From the graph showing above, you might think that I was sleeping very well whole night long? And I only had one big movement (turning) at around 4am? Actually you are wrong because I wasn't placing my iPhone at the correct position and it can't detect my movement properly.

So I tried again the 2nd night and the graph is showing ups and downs. According to sleep cycle's research, this is a more ideal situation that we should achieve.

3rd night, I was not having a good night sleep, I remembered I was having a dream but I couldn't remember what was that. Anyway, what I was trying to say is the graph is quite accurate, most of the time I was dreaming instead of having deep sleep.

4th night, I couldn't remember why there were big movements from 1am onwards until 4am. From 4am to 6am, I don't think I am having such a sound and deep sleep, it might detected wrongly because I have kicked my iPhone to no where. At around 7.30am, I wasn't at deep sleep, I remember that.

5th night, I need to wake up early on Saturday very early in the morning and I had the shortest sleep among so many days, it was only 5 hours 42 min. Although the graph is showing that I was having a dream (or nightmare), I woke up during deep sleep and sleep cycle's research was true, I was so tired and felt so reluctant to wake up.

6th night, I don't have to work the next day and of course I don't have to wake up early. Sleep all I can until wake up naturally. The sleeping pattern showed below was quite accurate, I don't remember I had any dream at all, it was a sound, sweet and very deep sleep.

7th night, I was feeling so tired the night before I slept but I just don't understand why I couldn't fall in sleep. Even I managed to fall in sleep but the whole night I just feel like I was not sleeping and half awake. I believe that created so many movement and resulted in this pattern.

After a week of testing, my average total time is 7h 09m for 7 nights. I have set the target to increase it to at least 8 hours. Looks like I need to put in more "effort" to sleep earlier to bring the average up. :D

Conclusion, this software is good to have to analyse your sleeping pattern and improve on the sleeping hour. It is interesting to look at your sleeping pattern every morning. If you are iPhone or iPod user, why not give it a try? And then share with me your experience / comments / feedback ya. ;)

OK, the time is getting late, I should sleep now else I wouldn't be able to make the average goes up. Haha...

Want to know more about this apps? Click here.