HTC Touch2

Date to own: 09 Dec 2009, Wednesday
Buy from" Bukit Jumbul Mall, Penang.

08 Dec 2009, Sunday... I lost my Samsung SGH-E840... don't know where I drop it :,(
Just realized it when I back to the office on the following next day. I had not much worry at that moment... because I think it probably drop at either inside Alfonso's car or house. End of the day, Alfonso told me he did not find it from his car... even thought every angel of his room/house. I think: Shit lo... really have to spend money to buy the new one?! No no, I tight of money... cannot spend such money on this kind of thing already. Tuesday, I search again his car... really don't have. Can't give up... since I haven't completely search it. After work, I purposed drove 25km from my office to the food court at Tg. Tokong there. This is the place that we had dinner and last time I used my HP here. So I searched the car park... too bad, cars were parked there. So I can't really completely find it. Well, last place - Alfonso's room. I drove further a bit and arrived his house... went up and search. Again, don't have. So, confirm lost! No choice, the next day, Wednesday Alfonso accompany me went to BJ to buy the new one during lunch. I already have thought to buy HTC brand. Actually I prefer to go Gurney to buy it which is the official kiosk selling HTC smart phone. But, it is too far for me. In fact, no many counter is selling HTC phone after we asked around the kiosk in BJ. Fortunately, we found one counter do selling it... called Mobile Hunt. The price his display was RM1599. I asked for RM1400 and straight make a deal. Well, uncle (tauke) told me he can't make it. My asking price was under his original price already. Well, I asked again for RM1500. He think and shake his head again. He said up a bit. Then I asked for RM1520. OK, uncle said deal! We collect it after work because he needs around 2 hours to do the setting for me. End, RM1520 comes with 2GB memory card.

SPECIFICATION:

Model	HTC Touch2 (T3333)
Processor	Qualcomm® MSM7225™, 528 MHz
Operating System	Windows Mobile® 6.5 Professional
Memory	ROM: 512 MB RAM: 256 MB
Dimensions (LxWxT)	104 X 55 X 12.9 mm (4.1 X 2.16 X 0.51 inches)
Weight	110 grams (4 ounces) with battery
Display	2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with QVGA resolution
Network	HSPA/WCDMA: Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz Up to 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Europe/Asia: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz (Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent.)
Device Control	Zoom bar
GPS	Internal GPS antenna
Connectivity	Bluetooth® 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g 3.5 mm audio jack HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0)
Camera	3.2 megapixel color camera with fixed focus
Audio supported formats	AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, QCP, MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI, M4A
Video supported formats	WMV, ASF, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, M4V, AVI
Battery	Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery Capacity: 1100 mAh Talk time: Up to 370 minutes for WCDMA Up to 440 minutes for GSM Standby time: Up to 500 hours for WCDMA Up to 370 hours for GSM (The above are subject to network and phone usage.)
Expansion Slot	microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
AC Adapter	Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz DC output: 5V and 1A

I saw this phone review from
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-Touch2-Review-review-r_2291.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/HTC-Touch2-Review-121493.shtml

I"m still not yet completely explore this smart phone yet.
Anyhow, so far what I feel not so good is
1. resistive touch screen - not smooth when you going to touch and drag
2. Camera color not sharp enough.
3. Not much edit and setting feature on the camera if compare to my previous Samsung.
3. No repeatedly notification for miss called or text msg.
4. Cannot set my ring tone and msg tone as MP3 song.
5. stay tune...



Sayorana... my cool cool.
This is the 1st HP that paid by my own pocket money and get the totally new one.

As I remember, 1st HP that I had was Nokia 8250 during my TARC life. My friend- Kenric was found it when we finished our yamcha at food store. Since he doesn't want so I buy from him with RM200. I used to play the snake game, haha.


My cell phone renovation:
small without antenna (Nokia 8250) -> color screen + camera (Motorola ) -> Up down slide + slim (Samsung E840) -> smart phone ( HTC Touch2) :)

Daorae Korean BBQ Restaurant - Part 2

Date: 26 Dec 2009, Thus
Celebrate photography session going smoothly... this is just a reason for us to have a great dinner. Haha!



Appetizer - soup (F.O.C)


Korean Pancake (F.O.C)


Korean Taufu (F.O.C)



Yook Gae Jang, RM19



Gal Bi Sal - Grill beef RM55






Dak Gal Bi - Grill Chicken RM27







This time we spent RM111.10 again.... same as 1st time visit.

Wedding Preparation - Photography session preparation

Date: 25 Nov 2009, Wednesday
Weather: Good
Bridal House: Ideal Wedding
Makeup Artist: Jess
Photographer: George

As usual, no panic, no excited... I was slept at 11+pm last night. We arrived the bridal house around 10am. Jess was there. No more chatting, Jess started to help me for make up.

1. The ampule that I brought was too oily. Jess advised me not to use it and let apply for Alfonso. Well, I just follow what she suggested... get the ampule from her. Total ampule was used = 3 bottles! 1 for face, 2 for body/shoulder. So I better buy 4 free 1 from her.
(after: I think no need ampule for body... feel kena tipu... but it is ok for me... no try no gain experience)

2. Jess needs put 2 fake eyes lash for me. Ok, I have no objection. 2 eyes lash cost me RM40.

3. My tear keep on coming out because I'm not use to put something on my eyes. I need to take an hour to used to it and control it... my eyes looked red. Jess finished it around half an hour, so fast... professional... (?) To me, it just look so so.

For Makeup and Hair stylish, what I need to complain are:
(a) The foundation is not good enough. Maybe for them is PASS.
(b) I requested to cover my small black scar. Well, she just put the cream to cover it without 补粉 on top of it. I still can see it if I get closer to the mirror. Well, she said this can edit. Yes, I agree. Now's technology so advance... photo can be edited as long as you feel satisfy it. That's why the makeup artist will not help you do 100% on it... because photo can edit if you see that your skin does not look fair enough... so they no need to apply too much foundation for you... as long as your eyes are look bigger enough. This is what I guess from their point of view.
(c) Get closer to the mirror... I encountered that my eye brows was looked not balance. up down, short long... It's ok if you not look it closer. But, as professional... it should not happen! I really feel that she so 'cincai'!
(d) Sponge needs to charge me for RM10... for what? I'm not sure. I think is for the body foundation. Well, now I think back... after photo shooting, Jess asked me what shape of sponge do I prefer... square or circle? Jess is prefer circle. She is professional so I better follow her preference, take circle but circle was no more stock, they will give me when I come next time. I have doubt of this sponge but I can't find out what is the problem on that moment. After payment, I only realized that why she give me the new sponge? Just now makeup I did not use that sponge? If yes, why she needs to charge me the sponge cost? They only should charge me if I did use that sponge and just pass me the sponge that I already used and not take the new sponge for me. I need to find out the answer for my next visit. I don't mind that RM10... it is because of the honest.
(e) Cherlyn told me they will cover my unbalance skin color between my shoulder and hand with body foundation during the gown fitting. Well, Jess only apply the body foundation for me with '1 layer'... damn, the unbalance skin color still can be seen so obverse. Again, it can be edited... that's why. If this is the case, what for for the body foundation? I know it has shinning and bright effect... but this effect can be added in photo. I do not need to buy it, right? what they say and do are not what I'm thinking. (I'm gaining experience)
(f) I'm trying to give my suggestion on my hair style. Jess said it is not suitable for my gown. Yes, I agree. She is professional... knows it more that me. Well, we need to creative and 'innovative'... cannot everything also same as what we used to do in last time. This hair style is very subjective... some say it's good... some can say it's not good. Anyhow, I need creative... not follow the old style. Fine, I can't do much on it.

What I can praising are:
(a) Jess also did try to fulfill my request such as
- I prefer the hair accessory looks obverse. For the outdoor, she tried to find the bigger one as I mentioned but she does not have it. End up, she gather more flower and make it looks bigger.
- For outdoor, she was asking me want fake long hair or original short hair. She tried to give me opinion and end up I want long hair.
- For traditional gown, I said I looked so mature(old) with that hair style. Well, she put one more fake hair at another side to make it look younger. Yes, she did it.
- For traditional gown, I was wearing my own high heel shoe which not match with the gown. I asked George will you shoot for my full body. Before he answer, Jess told us she has red shoe... Jian Kang (asistance of George) was helped me bring that shoe for me.
- For the blue gown wedding, Jess brought me hand accessory at the middle of shooting.

Well, for the photo session... we started the indoor first.
1st gown - Can Can + black coat with white tie, relax style
2nd gown - Blue tight gown + black vest with blue tie, George style
3rd gown - Yellow gown + beige coat with bow tie, George style
4th gown - tranditional gown, George style

OK, it was fun. Before 4th gown, we took our lunch (chicken rice) at around 2:30PM. After 4th gown, we prepared to going out for outdoor shooting. Jess said she wanted to go wash room where almost done for my hair style. I waited for ~20 minutes... Jess and George were discussing their arrangement stuffs. We arrived Teluk Kumbar ~5PM... new place for me. SanKaLa place via Malay village. Forest, old all and beach shooting. Luckily today weather is good... we able to take a sunset photo at the rock side. I was asking when we go to the jetty side... George were surprised and saying that we are running out of time to go jetty already because now already sunset... no more sun light when arrive there. Now I only know the Jetty place is not in his schedule. Well, I insisted to go because this is the main place I want to take photo... not forest not beach. We mis-communication... I'm not aware he don't know I want to go Jetty. Before this, we did discuss about the place for shooting... I said I like blue sky. So to him, I wanted natural place... correct, not wrong at all. But to him... natural is mean forest and beach side - teluk kumbar. That is the ideal place for him. Well to me... I want Jetty -> beach -> building -> transport -> forest. I thought the forest + beach + jetty is near together... and this is his schedule. Well, the Jetty is located at Batu Maung and jetty is not in his list. Anyhow, we arrived there and found that... I like the view VERY MUCH! It is the good place for me to take photo that I wanted! George tried to take few for us... but from his face... I know that the photo does not looks nice becaue the sky is getting dark... the effect is not good enough. I suggested we sit at there and he help us to take it from that angle... we get our post but... he tried... end up he said really can't make it even thought we have the portable light. No choice, I only can bring my 'can't let it go' mood get back to the van. Me... no mood already. Felt not syiok... not syiok why George did not allocate the time for Jetty... not syiok why George did not double confirm with me the place... and not syiok why I did not ask it earlier, did not confirm it earlier.... I feel so sayang we did not take a nice photo at this place... I already got the posing for it... aiiiii...

Complain? Yes, only 2 things... 1. mis-communication 2. I don't like some of the poses that requested us to pose. That's why I tried to pose by myself and some he accepted. 3. I shown him some of the photos that I collected. He willing to see but turn back he using his own shooting style. Now I only know... what is the main point I should look for the photographer.

Anyhow, god bless us... no rain today and everything is running well. Only thing is.... JETTY :(



Package we signed up.

Photography Session:
20x15 Creative Artwork Design Album 10 Pages (30 poses)
20x30 Enlargement Photo & Frame with Lamination (1 pc)
2 Wedding Gown, 2 Evening Gown, 1 Traditional Gown & Accessories For Photography (Ideal's Collection)
1 Outdoor Location
80+ Photo Sample for selection
1 Make up for photography session
5 Image styling & Hair do
1 Photographic Flower
1 Original copy CD (30 copies - same poses)

Wedding Day:
1 wedding gown & accessories
1 evening gown & accessories
1 groom coat & accessories
1 bridal hand bouquet + 3 corsages were changed to 8x12 photo with frame
1 car decoration

Remark:
Paid 30% down payment - free 4 items. We selected
a. Custom made Album Bag - Leather
b. Additional 1 groom coat
c. Additional 1 evening gown for dinner day (Ideal's Collection)
d. 3.5"x5" Album 1 Set (20 Poses - Same as album)

We paid 50% down payment which can upgrade 1 wedding/evening gown to designer collection for photography session.



This is the NOTE for the couple... preparation and precaution before and during photography session.


Bride shoe, RM56 after discount.


Nail Art, RM75 (RM15-tips, RM60 - design)


Nail glue from SASA, RM12 after discount.


Silicon Bra, RM39.90. This bridal house also selling this brand of bra, selling price is RM80!


Collagen ampule (left) bought from bridal house, buy 4 free 1.
Aqua ampule (right) gave by my facial beautician but I can't use it because it is in oily type. Well, Jess applied it on Alfonso's face.


2 eye lasher were used. Total cost me RM40.


Body foundation, RM60


After photography session, we need to pay 30% as 2nd payment for package which is RM720. The rest 30% have to pay after the photo selection session which is on this next Saturday 5 Dec 2009. Another receipt is the stuffs that I used for the today photography session.


I lost 3 nail art after that :-(
Have to go back and do the new one for that 3 pcs.


My makeup after take off the eye lasher. Can't see clearly here.

Well, I'm so nervous to see the photo on next Saturday. Don't know it is good or bad. Sure I will complain a lot. Alfonso already has preparation to listen my complaint.

Wedding Preparation - Shirt Looking

Shirt Looking
Date: 20 Nov 2009, Saturday
Venue: Gurney Plaza, Penang

Today mostly is looking for his stuff for the wedding photo shotting on this coming Wednesday. Well , guy buy stuff is fast enough. Anyhow, we spent around 6 hours (~12 noon to ~6pm) to settle it.


His friend, Ah Po is helping him for shirt fitting. We managed to buy the white shirt and the pant at Polo, Parkson. He had spent RM79.50 for white shirt and RM127.20 (RM159-20%) for pant.


After that, we managed to get another shirt in G2000 shop. We choose Grey instead of light purple lastly. Only the shirt, it cost him RM152.10 (RM169-10%)... damn expensive!


Ha, this is the most 'expensive' part - gold choosing. We went to TOMEI to looking for the gold which as the wedding present for his friend wedding on next year. At the same time, we also looked for the earing and necklace for myself as 'wedding gift'. My 'gift' was spent RM650. Now, gold rate is 1 gram = RM134. The gold price will increase very soon.

Wedding Preparation - Gown Fitting

Date: 15 Nov 2009, Sunday
Time: 3:00PM
Venue: Ideal Wedding, Batu Uban, Penang

At first, I did not feel as excited as what I expected when I was imagine during my 'young'. I reached there around 2:55PM after Alfonso arrived for few minutes/seconds. Before Alfonso go to the bridal house, he went to Gurney to collect the wedding band. He showed me the wedding band... hmm... not feel very excited as well. Honestly, this time I looked at it... I just feel nothing special. Don't understand why it cost us so much. Maybe my mood not very good... see or do anything also feel not good. After few minutes, Sue was coming.... she so on time.

Well, we went into the bridal house. Cherlyn asked us waited for a few minutes... hmm... ~15 minutes. We start choose the gown ~3:20PM. Cherlyn was recommended few to me. I wanted to take a look all the gown one by one... but it was a bit hard because all gown was hanging with the model... not easier to take out and see the gown at behind. Anyhow, we almost managed to see all the gown for designer one and dinner gown... about wedding gown... we just roughly go through.

Liang Nie was coming (~3.30PM) when I talked with George (Photographer). We were discussed where we take the outdoor. I suggested 3 or 4 places... Wawasan University, Khoo Kong Si, Bkt Kumbar Badminton Court, Vista Gambir Building... I wish can have natural, building and transport scene. Well, they always complain that not enough time to go so many places which has a bit distance from one place to another place. Lastly, I suggested Vista Gambir Building which is the most nearest building from here (anyhow, this is not my 1st choice)... but George told me he don't know which building is that... alamak... anyhow, I suggest him goes and take a look see whether it is the good place for photo shooting or not.

At the end, we choose wedding and dinner gown more than 10 pcs for each type. Honestly, I feel that dinner gown is not much choice for me. I prefer their wedding gown rather than dinner gown. I feel that Cherlyn is not that person like to put her smile on her face always and won't feel 'excited' for her customer. So I a bit 'scare' about her... not dare to try all the gown in this bridal shop. Just picked those I think I suitable one. No photo/camera is allowed here... of cause, we 'curi' take photo when they are not aware laaa.... hehehe.

Anyhow, I tried to chat with her to make our relationship getting better. We chatted a lot when she help me changing/trying the gowns... her wedding (Jan 2010), her relationship... more personal topic. She told me she already feel not interesting/麻木 about wedding management. That's why I understand that why she gave me 'that' feel.

Try and try... my mood getting better... but I saw they face getting 'sien' already, haha. Lastly, we spent almost 2 or 3 hours on this gown fitting... end ~7pm. Before we leave, Cherlyn listed out what should and what should not do before/during the photo shooting session. After that we went to town eat Seafood dinner.

I like this gown. This is the designer gown. Unfortunately, this gown has been reserved for someone who top up to get this gown. Cherlyn said that she needs to make the size to fit that person, so I can't choose this. I requested to let me take photo since I cannot 'have' it. Well, she allowed me 'secretly'. Liang Nie and Sue helped me take few shoots as fast as possible. Haha... unless I 'own' it few minutes.




This is the wedding band that we bought.