28 May 2009

updating facebook status from twitter


What is twitter? its a micro blogging platform that allows you to blog whenever you wish.

Why micro blogging platform? This means that they will only allow you to blog in 140 letters or less. That the meaning of micro blogging.





To update, go to http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/session, input your twitter username and password.

Once you are in this screen, your twitter account and facebook application is linked. Whatever that is updated in twitter will be reflected in this application and vice versa.

However, your facebook status is still not updated yet.


Click on the link "Allow Status updates from twitter" and allow the settings. and now your twitter account is fully linked with your facebook.



By updating your status on the main page, it will be updated in facebook as well.

However, it will be a one way traffic from twitter to facebook. Whatever that is updated on facebook, will not be reflected in twitter.

China - Dangerous Product - NEW

Why the above title? Read on


China was never known for its strict regulation about manufacturing and had invited several scandals and accidents over its manufacturing process.

In 2009, a new china dangerous product was found and it was baby's clothing! It was believed that a chemical, which could leads to breathing problems, was found in baby's clothing.

Seems like nothing really safe, from china now!
We cannot really blame china, because, their labours are cheap and the richer countries prefer to save money and purchase from china's factory.

In fact, i believe 1 of the reasons that leads to the poisoning and corner-cutting methods was due to the richer countries! (which i shall not name) The richer countries will demand for lower prices from china, and to keep up with competition and to earn more margin, the chinese, unable to keep up with the times, cut corners, scrimp on production costs and thus the birth of the China's dangerous product.


Should the richer countries are able to accept the price hike from the chinese, i believe there will be lesser such incidents will happen.



A brief history of china manufacturing infamous moments in history
As you recalled .the infamous China dangerous product was the milk scandal in 2008 which caused hundred of babies to have kidney stones due to an ingredient in the milk powder that caused it to report artificial protein levels.

In 2007, toys that were produced in China, was deemed dangerous due to the high level of heavy metals such as leads which leads to a country wide recall in US.
The heavy metals were found in the paint as well as material leads to the labelling of China dangerous products.



For a list of China dangerous products in chronological order, pls click


Easy Money Job Scam

Gullible kids and they were tempted by easy money, which brought them the unexpected consequences.

More info


Which job in the world other than loansharking, requires your bank account number during work?
And the bank account is like a medium, to deposit money and withdrawn money for the boss?

Young people are really too trusting because they do not have enough real life experience. And they assume well-dressed people are rich and trusting people.


I recalled an incident when i was around 20, the same age as them. Though i did not face anything like paint splashing or burning of my shoe rack, but i did not really receive my full month salary due to some cock and bull stories created by my old boss, which i naively believe.

Well, that was then, now not anymore (=

27 May 2009

Facebook games



The score board for facebook bejeweled blitz officially reset today and to be honest, i kinda got a bit sick play this game.

Though it had the addictive feature on me, but after playing for almost 3 hours, with breaks in between, i think i gonna bid farewell to this game and cut down on facebook games for this week.

OverPlayed the games, need to control~~

First Swine Flu in Singapore

Seems like today the day where singapore is finally hit by sw
ine flu after 2 months of false cases.
Being such a globalization country, and getting hit after 2 months of swine flu diseases worldwide, can we say that singapore has done a great job in keep the disease off the shore.


a 22year old woman was hit after travelling from new york to singapore on 26th May 09 on flight SQ25
Estimated date time of arrival in Singapore was 630am.
If you know anyone that is travelling from new york to singapore during this time, and is sit around row 52-58, wear a mask, call them to see a doc~ or call 1800-333-9999 (Ministry of Health)


More info





SideTrack :
Seems like the first swine flu in singapore is a big hit! Til www.channelnewsasia was down. Asiaone was much better, the pages load instantly without any lag, seems like CNA need to do a better job upgrading their servers

26 May 2009

2 Years Old Toddler Pool Table Prodigy

Believe that a 2 year old kid could play table pool? check out the video! He's a table pool prodigy!!




It may seems simple to poke the ball into the hole at our age, but for 2 years old baby wearing diaper, it is certainly not easy.

I even think he might play better than me.

His website

Check out some videos at his website, he seems to already playing at the 8 or 9 foot pool table.

25 May 2009

Facebook Bejeweled blitz MIRACLE


Can you believe this?!

This is what i call luck... or rather miracle, for a last 5s of whopping 92800 in the facebook bejeweled blitz.

Everything happened so fast, 4 power gems explode in a combo which drops the 3x gem, which explodes, and caused a series of combos! I wish i had video it down.. but i din.. )=

this was what i called a miracle!

I guess i am really a bejeweled freak to even post this. lol





If you like facebook bejeweled blitz, you will definitely like popcap bejeweled twist. The game is free for download. Click on image below to download.

PopCap Games

Facebook Bejeweled blitz truth







127800!! my highest so far. i know as compared to the rest of the 15% my score is lower. I admit i was lucky in the game in the 35s-40s slot, the gems just blast themselves off!
But, let me show off here, just once (=

With reference to my previous post of Facebook Bejeweled blitz tips and secrets, i found out even more thru my days of addictive playing. And here the truth which i discovered while playing facebook bejeweled blitz.


Multiplier Gem
Multiplier gems multiply your score on anything, including your speed bonus! if you were to get the max speed bonus of 1000, and you have a 3x gem, it will work out to be an additional 3000 points!

If you do not have at least a 3x, do not expect to go beyond 100k! It can be done with a 2x multiplier gem, but certainly not on a 1x multiplier.

With 2x multiplier, you will be able to get estimated at 20~50k, if you fully utilise the speed bonus.

Once you have a multiplier gem, do not hesitate to match it and blast it off, as your score will increase according to the multiplier you matched.

*If you blast off a 2x, your future move will yield you 2x of the base score.
* If swapping for a cascade gives you 200, with a 2x, it will give you 400

How to get a Multipler Gem for bejeweled blitz?
Multiplier gem will drop once you eliminate 12 gems in a single swap. And how?

Typical method : Blast off a power gem (9 gems) , and hope for a cascading match (3 gems).

More effective method : Plan in such a way that, after you match a cascade, the power gem is the next to explode, which gives you a multiplier.

*note, the next multiplier gem will appear 10s later, hence, if you match another 12 gems in a single swap within 10s of the prior multiplier gem, it will not appear.

* Example, a 2x dropped at the 0:55 mark, a 3x will only appeared at 0:45 or later.


Hyper Gem and Power Gem
Make a Power Gem and blast your ways to higher score. Why not a hyper gem? Hyper gems are much harder to make. Very hard, unless your luck is extremely good.

And blasting off a power gem has an estimation of 50% chance to trigger another combo, which gives you the multiplier gem, which multiples your score.
On top of this, a power gem clears off 9 gems, which immediately gives you 9 more new gems for new matches if you almost ran out of tiles.

I am not saying that hyper gems are worthless, but the effort of thinking a way to get one, is not worth losing the speed bonus which i am focusing on.

Thus for me, i go with a power gem anytime over a hyper gem.

For proof, check out the first image. I had 7 power gems and not a single hyper gem and almost every blast of power gem explosion gives me a multiplier gem.

What i do with a hyper gem?
Usually i use a hyper gem to clear a power gem, or a multiplier gem.



Speed Bonus
Forget about plotting your gems falls and comboes, they are useless and takes up your time. Plotting is useless if you spend more than 1s on it in this game.
Snails will be eliminated

Instinct and alertness is an traits which is needed for 80% of this game. which is why this game is called FaceBook Bejeweled Blitz and not Facebook bejeweled SLOW.

The all the important clue to break, the barrier of high scores!
As per image, the speed bonus i got was 7000! which was assisted by my multiplier gem as well.

As you can see from the image above, at the last 3s, my score was 120200 and at the end score, i rack up an additional 7600 points!

I have to stress this point.

DO NOT THINK

Just play and swap, by thinking, you are missing out the valuable speed bonus



To sum up, the ways to get high score for facebook bejeweled blitz,
- Fast instincting swapping is a must
- Power gems will greatly assist you in getting your multiplier gems.



If you like facebook bejeweled blitz, you will definitely like popcap bejeweled twist. The game is free for download. Click on image below to download.

PopCap Games

24 May 2009

Useless Blogspot "Next blog" function


Saw the navigation bar while logging into your blog account or while navigating through my blog?
If not, scroll to the top and you will see it.

Does the "Next blog" function serves you well? Its main function is to bring you to another blog for blog surfers like you and me.
I have totally no complains about the that. but i have an issue with the blogs it brings me to.

1st - language
i totally do not understand most of the blogs the navigation bar "Next blog" function brings me to. Other than english, chinese, and probably some hokkien, the rest of the languages are illegible to me.

I believe google, being google, will certainly have some information about me such as my languages. I am always log in to google when i surf.

Its not that bad if every 1 out of 2 blogs are not in english. I fine with that. But with an estimation of every 5 blogs out of 7 being non english. Naturally, human will feel fraustrated!

Probably if any google employees read this, they could have improve with the languages settings, that will do us, readers a big favour by implementing this into blogspot navigation bar "next blog" function.



2nd - Repeated Blogs
Are there only these 50 blogs or 100 blogs in blogspot database that are listed? Out of 10 clicks on the "Next blog", out of 3 are repetitive.

As per above image, by default, all blogs created under blogger are set to "allowed listing"

With millions, if not billions, i believe 30% to re-read a blog pretty high. With such luck, i could have bet in the US Lottery, i believe my chance is extremely high =D
Some US resident please buy the ticket for me. We share 50/50 each =D



Any of such issues faced by you? or is it such only me?

23 May 2009

Brainless Kid almost hit by train



I was browsing youtube when i saw this!
Obviously they are brainless kids trying out this stunt for the thrill of it. The 2nd kid that tripped had the instinct to lean back and grabbed his bag. If not he will become the fertiliser for the plants in the area.

It still gave me shivers even when i watched it the 2nd time.

From a kid's point of view, probably the 2nd kid was taunted by the 1st kid to cross. thus the train-coming-lets-cross-if-you-got-guts adventure.

The original video can be found here.

And this video was tagged with the keyword "comedy", which i do not really find it amusing.

22 May 2009

Facebook Bejeweled Blitz Tips and Secrets You Need to Know


My previous post on facebook bejeweled blitz, was written in clean fun.
Now here the serious post. How do we really increase our score in facebook bejeweled blitz?

Some known ways to increase score in facebook bejeweled blitz.

Off the sound
Playing the game in the 15s of the game are stressful with the alarm and especially when you are doing a speed streak. Playing without the sound will enable you to enjoy and play the last 15s of the game with full concentration.


Play from bottoms up
Combos have a higher chance of being created! As the top gems shift down, new alignment are being created and if luck is on your side, you will score a lot of combos.

Check out the top image. Check out the 4th row.
If you were to swap the circled red gem with the orange gem at the top, you will get only that. That all!
However, if you were to swap the circled yellow gem with the blue gem at the bottom, you will score at least a 2 hit combo. Get what i mean now?


Create combo streaks
What is a combo streak? By swapping 1 gem, multiple explosions are triggered due to the way the gems fall. In usual games, this can be slowly plotted out. However in facebook bejeweled blitz, with only 1 minute, this game is geared more towards instinct rather than brain power.

Swap the tiles fast - Play for speed
This will earn you speed bonus which gives pretty attractive returns.
After the 2nd swap, you will earn an additional 100 points per swap p to 1000 extra points. Do note that the speed bonus will reset if you did not make any swap within 2s. If you are on a 2x or 3x multiplier, you score multiply accordingly.


How to get Multiplier gems, 2x, 3x, etc
Not sure if you noticed, but after a Power Crystal explosion and there is an 80% chance that the falling gems will create another explosion which will drop the multiplier gem. Refer to the top image for the 2x red multiplier gem.

For a Hyper gem explosion, the chances to receive a mulitplier is much lower,unless i manage to achieve a 3rd combo or more.

I think it has something to do with clearing a certain number of gems, though i not sure. Based on a power crystal explosion and combo, it should be a minimum of erasing 12 gems with a single swap.

Power Crystal is the gem that can sparkle. You can get power crystal by erasing 4 gems in a row or 2 rows of 3 gems with a swap.
Hyper gem looks like an energy ball. it will appear by clearing 5 gems in a single swap

And now, the BEST KEPT Bejeweled Blitz Secret

You can swap the gems before the game starts
The gems will switch places but will only explode when the game starts, thus you save 1-2s of you time waiting for the crystal to swap

try this game, you will definitely love it!
A face book account is required though~




If you like facebook bejeweled blitz, you will definitely like popcap bejeweled twist. The game is free for download. Click on image below to download.

PopCap Games

first $0.06 earned


What a pleasant surprise when i log in adsense, was expecting to see $0.00 for this channel when, i saw $0.06!

click more people =D

21 May 2009

Facebook bejeweled blitz cheats - updated



haha cheater

if you stumbled on my blog with the above keywords from search engines.
You aint cheating if you came thru the normal feeds and blog posts (=
(Edited, add in the words in red, a lot people seem to be offended when they see the cheater word, my mistake)

Cheats, Cracks and hacks on Facebook bejeweled blitz. No, they will not be available yes. Tips yes. All based from my own addictive experience of playing this game. I am a sucker for high scores and breaking own records.

I discovered that the high score will reset itself every 1 week and heys, its not a bad idea. You might be the next week top scorer.



Here are some simple Facebook bejeweled blitz tips i have gathered from my experience.


Tips # 1 : Wear sunglasses
When you connect 4 tiles of a kind, the same color tile will be produced and it will have a much shinier surface, light will be reflected off it, distracting your vision, thus it better to wear sunglasses to prevent too much glare.


Tips #2 : Play this game at a hair salon
Why hair salon? Because frustrations will lead to heavy hair pulling, especially when you mis-placed a tile and miss a whole chain combo that could pull a 99 hit wolverine combo to shame.
Your hair stylist will be able to rectify the various craters in your hair after you played. And you do not have to sweep up your hair.


Tips #3 : Pray and Pray
Gather all the objects that could give you luck, you need lots of that. Whatever that is gonna drop from the top of the sky of the game is not within your control. Wish you had some tiles like mine?


Ultimate Tip : Have a good laugh over the above tips


I hope the above tips for facebook bejeweled blitz will assist to clear your mind and destress you the stress of wanting to break your friends' high score.

Try playing the game now, probably you may even break your own high score



PS : The 2nd photo is ms-painted. I cheated (=


This is a humour post written purely for some relaxation, to get to the serious topic of bejeweled blitz tips, refer to the posts below


for other related bejeweled blitz post, pls refer to

and my facebook bejeweled blitz miracle!

Bejeweled blitz extremely high score




If you like facebook bejeweled blitz, you will definitely like popcap bejeweled twist. The game is free for download. Click on image below to download.

PopCap Games

Swine Flu updates 20 May 09


Swine flu seems resurrect on its own again. After a cooldown period in early may, complacency seeps in and swine flu is spreading again. This time, happily taking holiday flights even to Tokyo.

Scientists have found that swine flu does not have much difference with the common flu virus and the way to kill them are similar. However why people still afraid of this virus and taking such significant notice?

Probably, this is something new? Ya agree, its a new virus. So? I believe scientists discover new virus everyday too.

Probably, this flu is in the media and is spreading around the world and killing people. The death rate for each infected case is estimated at 1% as by wikipedia, (Click here for Wiki) Common flu with vaccines available kills about 500,000 people a year, yes 500k, no typos.

With Singapore being a tourism country and globalisation nation, i believe that its only a matter of time before it reaches our shores. Even our neighbour Malaysia had 2 cases of swine flu, however, the infected are being treated and are in stable conditions.
And yes, i believe the efficiency of our Health board and government will prevent it from spreading in Singapore.

As long as we are vigilant and alert, this swine flu virus will be tamed and kept at bay.



19 May 2009

Man signs 5 mobile lines - Greedy or naive or clever?

Not sure about other countries mobile phone law or how they operate, but for Singapore, the flow is pretty unique as i have checked with my Malaysian friends and they do not seems to have such offers.

In Singapore, consumers have a choice of signing for just a new mobile line without contract or with contract.

Without contract
End user pays
- registration fee for applying of new mobile line
- pay full price for mobile phone if he has the intention to purchase 1
- Able to terminate the mobile line anytime he wishes

With Contract
End user pays
- partial price for mobile phone, the higher the monthly subscription, the cheaper the phone is.
(For me, i purchased an Omnia i900 at 299 or 399 (cant remember the price), when i signed for a 2 year contract, when the market pricing for i900 at that time was 1099)
- usually the registration fee is waived.
- locked in for a 2 year contract, should he terminates the line prematurely, a termination fee is imposed.



That is the case for the man in the article below. I believed that he could have been desperately short on cash and was tempted to sign on mobile lines in return for cash.

How this thing works? An agent will convince the buyer to sign up for a contracted line, thus the agent will be able to get the phone at a cheap price. The agent will sell the phone and pay a partial of the profit to the buyer in return for signing up a contract and earn quick bucks.

To be more specific, take my i900 as an example.
I sign a 2 year contract and get i900 for $399, which $399 was paid by the agent. He sold off at $1099. which he earns $700!! and passes $500 to me, and himself earning pure $200 net profit. While i am straddled with a 2 year contract which i have to pay off monthly.

However, he should have been aware that Singapore mobile line subscription usually comes at a cost for early termination.
Maybe he was aware of such mobile line subscription termination costs, yet was he naive to sign first before getting the money?

Or Maybe he was too clever, he got the cash from the buyer. And report the case to the police?
No one knows~


Modern Formal Proposal Letter

I came across this while clearing my emails inbox, enjoy


Dearest [Girl] :



I am very happy to inform you that I have fallen in love with you since
Tuesday, the 03th of April 2001.

With reference to the meeting held between us on the 31st of March 2001
at 1500 hours, I would like to present myself as a prospective lover.

Our love affair would be on probation for a period of three months and
depending on compatibility, would be made permanent.

Of course, upon completion of probation, there will be continuous
on-the-relationship training and relationship appraisal schemes leading
up to promotion from lover to spouse.

The expenses incurred for coffee and entertainment would initially be shared equally between us. Later, based on your performance, I might take up a larger share of the expenses.

However I am broad-minded enough, to be taken care of, on your expense
account.

I request you to kindly respond within 30 days of receiving this
letter, failing which, this offer would be cancelled without further
notice and I shall be considering someone else.

I would be happy, if you could forward this proposal letter to your sister, if you do not wish to take up this offer.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Yours Sincerely,
[Boy]





MODERN REPLY OF MODERN LOVE LETTER

Dear Boy :

Please refer to your letter dated today.

I am pleased to inform you that I hope to accept your proposal for romance.

However, you should be informed that there are certain conditions of acceptance.

Promotional prospects are to my satisfaction. However, please enlighten me as to your retirement benefits. Gratuity should be generous.

I also need to be assured that there is sufficient security with regards to this commitment. If there is any chance at all of retrenchment or consequent disinterest on your part, then I should receive monetary compensation according to union standards.

Due to the nature of my position, I am sure you will agree that an expense
account should be arranged for my access in light of the 'VIP'. I shall be entertaining.

In addition, housing and transport allowances should be in order and nothing less than a luxury condo and a Jag are in order.

Please also note that there should be no moonlighting restrictions placed on myself.

If you are still interested in the relationship, please reply on an urgent basis as other prospective lovers have sent indications of interest. Please also note that my sister is happily employed.

Yours perhaps,
[Girl]

18 May 2009

bejeweled blitz - facebook game




I am sure no one had not played bejeweled before, thus i am going to skip the explanation of how the game work.
If you find bejeweled to be addictive, wait til you try bejeweled blitz in facebook!

Instead of a normal game, where you play til there is no tiles to swap, this is even more exciting. you are given 60s to play. That it!! 60s to get the highest score, that is why this is named bejeweled blitz! Only 60s to break your friend's score.

As this is only a 1 min game, you tends to overplay. Since you will usually tell yourself "1 more game, its only a minute!"
and this will accumulate into an hour EASILY! and i meant it!
Since reaching home today, i believed i have spent at least 90min on this game, trying to break my facebook bejeweled blitz score.

The highest i have is 69300 as of this post which i attained yesterday and is still trying to break it. Btw this will show your facebook friends' score if you are playing through facebook.

If you have facebook, play through this link

have fun =D



If you like facebook bejeweled blitz, you will definitely like popcap bejeweled twist. The game is free for download. Click on image below to download.

PopCap Games

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