Ken's Kindergarten Graduation Photo

As it is raining with thunder and lightning, we try not to on any PC.. hence,

1. i snap the grad photo using my Samsung Omnia II..
2. send the photo via Bluetooth to EM's Nokia E51 Non Camera handphone.. cos his mobile phone cannot take picture..
3. upload to http://pages.google.com via his mobile surfing plan
4. access to the above using our notebook via Singtel Broadband on Mobile (BBOM)
5. download to our notebook
6. upload to photobucket.com (biow's account)
7. and post here.. :)

so, we managed to do everything wirelessly.. and why oh why i didn't plug a wire straight to my Samsung Omnia II in the first place??!?!.. my brain think too complicatedly, that's why.. or rather, i'm lazy to walk to the living room to pull out the wire.. as oppose to doing all the above within the comfort of the bedroom.. :D.. macam our house very big like that.. i'm just plain lazy to walk la.. can bo?!? also, quality of photo not so good.. some glare as the photo was inside a clear plastic bag which i'm even too lazy to remove.. :P

Updated:

rotating banner or random banner generator

For the longest time, i had wanted a random banner generator.. however i had been prosticanating.. always there are some other more interesting thing to do.. today, suddenly decided to do something about it.. if you notice, my banner now display 12 random pictures from the time i started having this template.. i have abt 120 images to rotate.. i referred to this Banner Rotator Generator site for idea.. changed it to suit my template.. however, i still need to tweak further to check that when an image was selected, it will not be repeated.. will further fine tune the script later.. my coding skills is rusty.. can't do it so fast anymore.. will ask EM to help me later.. he's zzz liao.. *hint: you need to refresh to see the change of photos*..

i didn't need EM's help.. just need Google.. *heh*.. check this thread, specifically Post #4.. now, let's see if my banner will have repeated images?

drawing smiley alphabets..

Ken wanted to give Yu Jia, his classmate, his drawing of Little Miss Trouble.. asked me to spell her name.. so I wrote on the paper on the Ikea easel.. the following day, i saw this.. really smiley madness these days for ken.. not that i'm complaining.. very cute, i find.. heh

Agis Navfone GPS software on Samsung Omnia II audio setting

My NavFone operates in silence.. how can a GPS has no audio?!.. some googling and found the answer..

NAVFone/Settings/Audio
And, nothing is found in the drop down of Language

You gotta install the software to you Storage Card. It has the files for the audio. The installation cab file doesn't install the audio files. Alternatively, you can copy the below data folders over from Storage Card/agisNavi/ to wherever you installed your Navfone. Storage Card/agisNavi/DATA Storage Card/agisNavi/ICON Storage Card/agisNavi/WAVE

See also:
1. Samsung Omnia II - my early birthday present
2. I so *heart* my Omnia 2

Primary School Admission Day for Ken

So, we filled in some forms.. "Pupil Data Form", "Dental form", "GIRO form to deduct school fees", etc.. probably we don't write with pen much.. so kayu (stiff) our writing.. and i filled up two items wrongly.. "what language regularly spoken at home"..i blacked out 1 language only, ie English.. EM gave me an earful.. i doubt my kids speak Mandarin regularly leh.. REGULARLY u know.. heck.. i don't understand that word.. we probably speak 5% mandarin with ken.. consider regular meh?.. anyway, too bad, it's ink.. i can't erase.. heh

then we proceed to tryout unifom to buy.. we bot 3 sets of uniforms, 2 sets of exercise attires (polo t, shorts).. i wonder why i buy so many? i have a maid AND a dryer at home!!.. i used to own only 2 sets of unifom and 1 set of PE attire for my ENTIRE primary school.. it helps i din't grow much AND my mom folded inches of extra cloth in the hem of my skirt.. so, she let some go as i grew.. doesn't matter that my uniform have different tone around the hem.. what matters is to make my uniform last.. and here we are, "spoiling" my kid.. damages on uniform $71

nametags.. sold in 4 pieces or 8 pieces.. we used to have one the pin type.. now is iron on cloth!.. 8pcs for $8!!

exercise books and misc come next.. collected from the bookstore.. $43.90

textbooks i purchased from popular as it's cheaper!!.. $82.78

Total spent = $71 + $8 + $43.90 + $82.78 = $205.68.. and this not yet calculate the school shoes and school socks..

my parents used to drag until dec.. until cannot drag anymore before giving us money to buy books.. and here we are, more than 2mths before school starts and we are ready!!.. gosh..

And finally photo!! ken was so bored waiting for us.. see his bored face?.. and the sales aunty was so impatient that i did not attempt to take a better picture.. the lighting all wrong.. ah well.. and i wore over his clothes.. so the beige part was not part of the uniform la.. heh..

Singapore P1 Textbooks List

Singapore is really "canggih" (malay trans. advanced).. To get the primary school textbooks list for ken, all i have to do is to:

1. Go to the given URL.
2. Click on the "Buy Texkbooks Here" button.
3. Select the "Educational Level".
4. Select the "School".
5. Select Primary 1.
6. Select "Mother Tongue".
7. Click on the "Next" button. And, ta-da.. i'm shown the school's Primary 1 textbooks list.
8. For those I do not want, I set the Quantity to 0 (zero). Or if I need more, I just adjust the Quantity.
9. Click on the "Add To Cart" button. Opps, before all these I actually need to click on the "New Member Registration". OK. Anyway, you get the gist of it.

Amazing right? And for an additional fees of abt $7-8, you can get them to home delivered to you. Or, you can pick up from their main office. Or, from 3 of their branches. Or, from school. And payment method is sooo flexible as well.

gone are days of Q'ing.. gone are the days of having a paper list and tick on the items.. gone are the days of cussing the person in front of you for gotten the last text book! gone are the days of older siblings being forced to buy books for the younger wards.

keke.. it used to be I'm at the mercy of my older siblings to bring me to school to buy the textbooks for me.. actually more like workbooks / exercise books, as i'm on the textbooks loan scheme all the way.. depending on the moods of my older siblings, they will either threaten not to buy for me.. or, they will use the opportunity to then hang out with their frens after "shopping" for me.. and, i was such a timid kid who dare not buy by myself.. but by the time i'm in p4, if i don't buy myself, i might as well as go to school without books! i guess, ken will miss out all those.. cos of cos, we will help him as it's such a convenience..

Now, if any kind soul can tell me if I do need to purchase those pink arrowed items i marked?