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Author: Hosea

  • 2007 The Hosea Awards

    So the winners for the year 2007 The Hosea Awards…

    Medal of Friendship (Penis)
    Chiang Mun-Kein aka MK

    Medal of Friendship (Vagina)
    小雪 (JY)

    Safari Award
    Ebay (US) http://www.ebay.com/

    Techno Award
    SonyEricsson Bluetooth Headset (HBH DS980)

    Oscar Award
    墨攻 (刘德华）

    Psalm Award (China)
    当你孤单你会想起谁 (张栋梁)

    Psalm Award (England)
    Girl You Know Its True (Milli Vanilli)

    Medal of Friendship is given to my new friend found during the year. Among all my new friends, the one that I am bond to or have affection with. This is really a tough one to decide with so many friends I make this year.

    Safari Award is given to the website that I like most during the year and access it frequently. The Safari name come from the Mac OS X web browser that I like to use and is my number one web browser after Camino.

    Techno Award is given to the recent technology I am fascinated with and impacted my life.

    Oscar Award is given to the movie I like to watch during the year.

    Psalm Award is given to the song I like to hum or sing during the year.

  • 千古武当名天下

    千古武当名天下

    从没想过我会到武當山。终于在山顶拍下了这张照片。上山真的好累啊！可是，一切都是值得的。

  • Yangtze River Delta Autumn Tour 2007

    Shanghai South Station

    I went to Shanghai a couple of times but this was the first time I was travelling from Shanghai South Station. The train station was beautiful and look more like an airport than a railway station.

    I was a tiring week and I was travelling in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region. Somehow ended up in Shanghai South Station to travel to my next destination.

    Interestingly this station stir up my emotion and made me ponder deep into some of my pending life issues that were on my mind.

  • Mission To Mission Hills Golf Club

    Dongguan Mission Hills Golf Club

    After hearing so much about Mission Hills Golf Club in Dongguan, this day I finally made a trip to the golf course and see for myself.

    I enjoyed the greenery fresh air of Mission Hills and the company of new golfer friends. I also took them to Hillview for golfing too.

    To avoid disappointment for veteran golfers, Olazabel and Norman courses were recommended.

  • Change of My .Mac Account

    my email account for .Mac

    I managed to recover my member since 2004 .Mac account, I lost three years ago. Glad to find back my email account for .Mac. The sad thing was, I could not merged two of my .Mac accounts. So I made the decision to keep only one of them.

  • The Venetian

    The Venetian Card Key

    My opportunity came and complimentary from my friend, MK, I got myself a free one night stay in the junior suite at the hotel, The Venetian in Macau, China SAR.

    It was a great night hanging out at The Venetian, enjoying myself playing baccarat and later eating and drinking at Starbucks from my winnings.

    The shopping mall was fantastic. It had a mock up Venice inside and you could take a boat ride too.

  • Apple Hotline: Case ID vs CS Code

    Applecare Hotline: Case ID vs CS Code

    Many times, when we have technical problems, we call Apple Hotline for support to determine if it is a hardware or software issues. If it is a software issue the Hotline will provide support. If it is a hardware failure the Hotline will ask you to bring the hardware for warranty exchange at one of the Apple Authorised Service Centres.

    Everything we make a call to Apple Hotline, a Case ID will be issued to us. A Case ID is a reference number that refer to your report with the Hotline. That is it. Is a reference number for your reported case.

    When a user is told by the Hotline he has a hardware failure, the user happily bring down the faulty device to the service centre and expect a replacement. Sad to tell all Apple owners, calling Apple Hotline and given a Case ID do not entitle you to any free or warranty hardware replacement at a Service Centre.

    The Service Centre’s decision supersede the Hotline and the Case ID is just a reference number for your case. It only proves that you have logged a call to the hotline, not an agreement to carry out the repair. The Service Centre is bounded by the laws of Apple warranty, for which anything not of electronic failure is not covered under warranty. The only thing that can overwrite the Service Centre‘s decision is a CS Code.

    CS Code is Customer Service Code issue by the Customer Relations Officer. This CS Code will only be given if the Customer Relations Officer is satisfied that the issue is not under mishandling or the repair is given under good will. The CS code can then supersede Service Centre decision and even free replacement for out-of-warranty hardware.

    Co-author with Puat.

  • Fixing Macbook Pro Fan Problem

    Fixing Macbook Pro Laptop Computer Fan

    After two weeks of waiting, my fan replacement arrived.

    My Macbook Pro laptop computer fan, left side fan suddenly produced some flapping noise. I thought was the anti-static film wore out and went into the fan and created the noise. After fixing the anti-static film, the flapping sound was still there. So, I ordered a replacement.

  • Bye Bye Microsoft Office

    Bye Bye Microsoft Office
    Earlier years I used Microsoft Outlook and when I shifted to Mac, I migrated MS Outlook to MS Entourage. All in all, ten years of Microsoft Office slavery. Over the years, I slowly moved away from Microsoft products and moving my data to other platforms. The toughest of all migration was moving away from Microsoft Entourage.

    Finally, this day, I decided and migrated to Apple Mail and iCal, replacing MS Entourage. Replacing MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint with Apple Pages, Numbers and Keynote respectively.

  • Vista In Parallels

    Vista In Parallels, Not Boot Camp Windows
    I am now running Leopard 10.5 with Windows Vista in Parallels 5540 Beta.

    Have some errors during setup but manage to solve them and now running well on the fourth installation.

    Vista is a bit laggy compare to my previous Windows XP in Parallels.

    I realise Leopard 10.5 manages swap files much better than Tiger 10.4. Running Parallels in Tiger will use 1 to 2GB of swap files. With Leopard, I hardly use up to 64MB of swap files when Parallels was running.