Saturday, October 25, 2008

Chapter 2: In The City Of History

Whoever in Malaysia sure know this place: Melaka, the Town of History. (But I prefer "city" rather than "town", it,s getting better. So below here "city" is used)

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As the day started, I rode my usual Mouse Deer to Tampin, the Town of Swallows, to give some mechanical check ups for my dear deer. As the check ups done, both of us ran to Beautiful Garden in the Town of Swallows to fetch Poisoned Swallow as planned, that is to have a swim in the Bluish Pool of City of History, i.e. swimming pool.

We actually planned to have a movie after swimming (Eagle Eye). But I think better we have a trip to some special places in this city which we never been to. So we canceled the movie and planned the destinations. We planned to go to the Istana, the newly re-placed Eye of Malaysia, the cruise trip on River of Melaka and the Jonker Walk. Unfortunately for Eye of Malaysia and the cruise trip, we unable to go. First, the Eye only started to open on 7th November (source: my brother) and second, the cruise has too many students there (9 buses total), and they don't want to sell the ticket unless the students finished their cruises.

Well, that's ok. At least we still able to go to the Istana and the Jonker Walk, and additionally, Dataran Pahlawan and Mahkota Parade. Not sure how Poisoned Swallow think, but I like the trip to the Istana and the Jonker Walk. For the Istana, it's my first time to go there, where we just used RM 1.00 for each person with our beloved student card. For the Jonker Walk, it's my first time too to park the car next to the river, i.e. another parking area which mostly my family won't use. Moreover, I've got the first chance to get our trip tracked and, again, photos geotagged.

Overall, I'm quite satisfy for this day.

p/s: Again, here goes to map with photos and trip track integrated. Unfortunately, free account of Flickr doesn't allow me to publish more than 20 photos outside the website, i.e. on Google Maps. So I'll just put the photo slide show from Flickr here too. ^^

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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Chapter 1: The Continued

This the third blog of mine...=.=|||

I know this is not a good sign. It feels like I'm a flower heart guy.
But I'm still new to blogging (i think la). Trying every blog system to see which fits me is my task. ^^

I tried Live Space at 1st, while I'm still in high school, and it ends up being abandoned due to not many of my friend can involve in internet.

Second, I tried Multiply, which I got from 1 of my RO friend. first I see the system is quiet good with its very easy "drag and drop" photo upload system. But after some time, when opening the photo posted, it feels slow. In the mean time, most of my friends started to get involved in internet surfing (after graduation of high school life) and also started to use Live Space to share their life. Because of that, I started to change back to Live Space.

Now, after I got my new phone with geotag functionality, I decided to share my geotagged photo in blog. But after some searching, I knew that Google Maps is the easiest mapping system that people can interact with it while embedded in a blog system. In the same time, I found out that Live Space doesn't support the iframe system, which Google Maps featured for users to embedded their own map in their blog.

So, I opened this third blog, to make sure I can share my photo on a map in my blog.

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Finish talking about introduction of this blog. Today I wan to share a few photos taken at my grandmother's house. Today it's her 80th birthday. We are having a small celebration for her.



This is the map showing the location of the celebration and the power of geotag!XD


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My comment for this celebration:
This celebration ends up with my mother and 3 more uncles sitting at a table playing "bricks" at the dining room, some of the relatives staying outside don't know doing what, and a few of us staying in the living room singing birthday songs for my grandmother...

2 alphabets... NG! Not even like a real 80th birthday celebration... haiz...

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I ate 2 slices of cake in this celebration, which the aftermath is it makes me feel want to spew. The thickness of the cream... unbelievable!

Overall conclusion:
I wasted another day without doing my assignmentS and redo...OTL
Anyway, I feel good as the map works here... thanks to Google XD