National Day Rehearsal at Marina Bay
Hot afternoon as we reached marina bay stadium for national day rehearsals. We got tickets at yellow sector and already one third full. First time attending one live so should be interesting.
<Insert Transformers transformation sound>
Finally Transformers hit our shores on 28th June and Yh managed to get some tickets after hitting a bit of a snafu with GV’s booking system at GV Bishan and we ended up watching at GV Plaza Singapura. Actually we should thank them for making a mistake with the listing since they gave 2 complimentary free tickets for the mistake 
Anyway, as we settled in to the movie and sat through the obligatory commercials and blah blah stuff, the prologue started up and gave everyone a quick intro into the movie. The special effects are great but you really haven’t seen anything yet till they hit the scene in the desert and in later parts of the movie. Without giving away too much specifics, the scene when a Decepticon transforms from a combat helicopter into a Transformer was priceless. The last time I heard that cool sound was as a kid watching Transformer’s cartoons and it gave me goosebumps watching it on a huge screen with the sound effects pumping out in a theatre.
Michael Bay managed to bring something new to a generation who probably never heard of Tranformers and also something to relive for countless of people who grew up waching robots transform into vehicles to protect Earth. I am definitely not a fanatic who keeps track of every detail of whether specifics are accurate but the experience was definitely something worth going to watch and enjoy. Even Yh who didn’t know what the movie or story was about commented later that the special effects was quite amazing.
iPhone gets a 25 minutes video tour
With 25 minutes, iPhone does something which most companies don’t even other to do, a video tour that showcases its more impressive features. I think its pretty considerate of them considering how a lot of people probably don’t know how to work their phones. Using a video is rather clever since they created a clear cut manner to deliver a tutorial rather effectively and at the same time create awareness of the features without making the user read the manual!
I recently had to configure a Samsung SGH-i600 for a customer and even though I consider myself quite tech-inclined, I had trouble making sense of the options and how to get to them. In a device with small screen real estate, user experience and simplicity is paramount. While I think Windows Mobile is a great platform (and I even develop on it), it isn’t the most efficient manner to address a broad audience. So kudos to Apple for remembering the customer and letting them know that not reading the manual to make sense of their purchase is ok.
999 days gone unnoticed
Mic had surprised me on our 99 days together with a bouquet of red roses at my office, and so I had told him then that we should also celebrate our 999 days together.
Well, in my mind i was thinking 999 days is more like almost 3 years later and before we know it, more than a thousand days had flew by. Yes, we missed the 999th BIG DAY!
With the daily demands of life to conquer, this had slipped our minds altogether though we had a programme to keep track of our special days. Well, that’s what you get for having a hubby who can programme, something to make his life a little easier
Anyway, I realised it when Mic wrote the no. of days we were together on the back of a photocard he printed for me for our 33rd monthsary. It was then that I realised we had already past our benchmark of 999 days.
Oh well, now I had just asked him to programme something I can use to find out the date of our X number of days together. That is, just key in the X number of days desired and the programme will give me the date to mark down. Oops, that is one more thing to be done on Mic’s To Do List (in the vague future).
PS: For the curious, our 999 days was on 11 June 2007.