I remembered during my school days, people use to talk about I-Mac (1st Gen). Whoever got hold of those devices will certainly kick start their graphical works in no time, best of all peripherals were pretty simple in use, no CPU but just a complete core with a screen – The G3. Expensive but it's pretty cool to say a reflective dawn of apple's product line and came forth, The Ipod devices.

Apple's revolutionize their products for years and the sleekness had proven positive with remarkable feedbacks on simplicity, usability and feasibility. Apple later made a leap onto the phone industry and came up with I-phone in 2007 cling with affordable price plans offered by AT&T and attracted the world's attention, threatening Nokia (biggest player at that time) & Motorola's sales. If I were they, I would get a pine before apple launch their products and re-engineered it. That'll make the industry dodgy! Oh, too bad there weren't any spies known of yet.

Back then, everyone was eager to hold an I-product – whatever! Say I-Phone! I don't know what's so fancy about but I was attracted with those features never be seen; the retina display, zoom in/out with a pinch, and those illegal jailbreaking process. I must highlight that apple will not even improve without the help from the DEV Team which develop missing features from the I-phone OS. Millions of users complaint that copy and paste / message forwarding features were missing in the phone which trigger massive wave of jailbrken phones. New firmware updates with added features was released in OS3 a year after i3G was launched – that would be i3Gs.

While the Iphone frenzy continues, the I-pad was launch recently, baiting bunch of I-freaks (fans) into the queues overnight just to grab those cool looking gadgets. It's currently out of stock across asia. Marketing gimmicks created wonders and could be a powerful tool to benefit business around indeed.

Needless to say, the apple products has been dominating the market for quite sometimes; to home entertainment, business needs and played major role on today's lifestyle. Incoming, the I-phone 4 introduced amazing features like Facetime & high definition video recording can be even more tempting. I believe many out there are looking forward to possess it albeit the antenna woes surfaced a few weeks back. Have a look into the peers and see which phone these days doesn't come with a touch screen with incredible features? Those who failed to achieved what consumer wants will be phase out eventually. The competition is menace no doubt!

Last but not least, take a look on the collage of Steve Job himself with his kingdom of devices. (Image acquired from web) Whoever did this is a genius.

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I don't like the idea of delays or re-timed without having acknowledge customers first, and Airasia is doing that to me. Not until my friend told me that our Krabi flight on this coming August will be delayed, by triggering a search on their website. To her surprise, the timing has been changed and little did she realized that the Airlines did not update her with the latest timing and there comes the anxiety of my connecting flight back Singapore. In other words, I will have insufficient time to check-in on the spot / via kiosk and gotta do an online check-in 48 hours before.

Okay cut loose with the rants, their customer service HOTLINE is even worse! I was on the line for an hour and all I got was this little recorded response, "All our customer representative is busy at the moment, please stay on the line and we will entertain you shortly". Luckily my keyphone is able to sustain speaker tones and didn't heat my ears much. It just got frustrating waiting aimlessly!

Last Saturday, I went down to their Customer Service Center @ Peninsular Plaza (SG) and they told me there's a penalty fee incur for any changes made –

that would be S$75! It's their fault in the first place and they have no intention to make any amendments for me? Bull! I checked the flight from KL-SG and it was RM39 only. S$75 my foot!

21.07.2010 – A stranger that I knew online for more than a year had visited Singapore for leisure. His name is LG, carried NOKIA & SAMSUNG phone, but didn't see his SONY ERICSSON along, utterly not a fan of APPLE. LOL!

Okay, the meowgite had a short visit to Singapore and his schedule was pretty tight and gotta rush back to Sentosa to catch his last bus back to JB @ 10.30pm so this dinner was meant for him and surprisingly, to my amazement, a lot of netizens from Multiply social network turned out; 19 of us including me, separated into 2 tables.

Woot! What a huge gathering with strangers I say and only knew a few of them in the group before this, the rest are just sheer new faces first time seen on the spot and again, I had problem remembering those names. Forgive my rusty RAM! Definitely need a hot swap! This time we're heading to a Heng Hua Restaurant named Pu Tian (莆田兴化菜馆). First try on the dishes and concluded it doesn't pleased my stomach (too much Teochew dishes I supposed!) much but some dish are still acceptable as appetizer.

Ah, didn't really chat much with LG bro but glad 3 Kuchingites were present though which includes Gomus. Whilst, enjoy all photos below.

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Stir fried kailan with bean curd skin.
They should blend some enokitake in it.

Pu Tian Sweet & Sour Pork with Lychee.
Probably I ate this often and didn't impress me much. lol.

Deep fried duck with yam.
Okay, this yam taste alright but I couldn't gnaw on any duck chunks?

Deep fried chicken with garlic.
Taste like any other chicken. It's kinda unique to chew with the leaf I say.

Steamed prawn with minced garlic.
Tasteless but garlic with prawn is fine for me.

Fruit platter.

Tony ↑

Albert ↑

YT ↑

Gomus ↑

Phang ↑

Alger ↑

Harnes ↑

Vinci ↑

LOL! He loves that camera!

Table 2 with the girls. Didn't get a close up shot for each and every of them. Dunno who is who.

Group photo

Previously in OCKL, I did mentioned about the video that am gonna post and here you go! Apologized for the delay of this compilation! Back on that weekend, I didn't shoot much and the intention was clear though, just for holidays. Obviously, this OCKL I had less photos taken than previous ones but one thing for certain, that I enjoyed a lot (with the food, the thrills), and same goes to The SFWs! Can't wait for next future Operation Chiong somewhere~ hahaha!

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