Exam Stress

To all who are having a hard time staying awake to study, to all who are struggling to understand what's going on, to all who are relying on luck, I wish you guys all the best in your exams and pray hard!

Think Green

God put man on earth and entrusted the whole of His creation to us man. Well, that turned out well. Pollution, global warming, resource depletion, increased cancer risk, increasing unhealthy lifestyle, species extinction, you name it, we've got it. Sometimes I wonder what all of these mean.

In everyday life, I have seen how polluting and environmentally insensitive we've all been. It's not because we want to, but because we have no choice. There are still no viable substitutes for pollutants such as polystyrene and PET bottles, we still burn petrol like nobody's business, electricity is still being generated by burning stuff, and we're all waiting to see what will happen when we run out of fuel.


Oil and gas still dictate the way we live. It affects power generation as well as transportation, thus dictates the prices of virtually everything else. Imagine, for a moment, that if free electricity were to be pulled out of the wind and sun, it would mean that it would not cost a single cent to transport anything and power would be cheap and abundant. Imagine how things will be like then. 

While green technology has been gathering momentum thus far, it is still very far from actually changing the world. For all we know, we might have already been too late. My prayer is that mankind realize their role as stewards of God's creation and act to sustain it. Each person's effort, no matter how small will definitely make a change.

Just some food for thought: If the world were to change so drastically that all life as we know perish, it will hardly be the last of Mother Nature. It might be the end of mankind, but certainly not the world.

What to do when you're BORED

Here're some healthy alternatives which I find helpful whenever I'm bored:

• Doodle. Sketching or drawing something that you're interested in will not only improve your drawing skills, it actually stimulates brain activity and develops your right brain and who knows, you might end up like Walt Disney!
• Do push-ups or sit-ups. This is for guys who always find the perfect excuse not to go to the gym. Besides, simple exercises will keep you healthy and gives you just enough toned muscle to get noticed ;)
• Watch cool educational shows to keep your mind thinking while doing absolutely nothing. Mythbusters is my personal favourite. It's always a good excuse to watch TV.
• Think of ways to make money. This is for those up-and-coming millionaires out there. It is where Google and Facebook first started. IDEAS are INFINITE and can change the world.
• Think of small weekend projects which you can do. If you are a hands on type of person, this is for you. Small projects can include cool paper airplanes or models, a decorative item you can put on your desk, or even a Christmas gift for somebody!

These are just some of my suggestions to help you kill some time. It's also an effective stress relief avenue for those who are going through stressful times. If you have any suggestions on how to kill time effectively, I'd like to hear it!

IDeas

The main problem I find with maintaining blogs is that there are just too many things to blog about that eventually nothing gets blogged about. I therefore need your help (yes, you!) to figure out what my next topic should be.

If you have any questions or just want an honest opinion on something, please feel free to comment! I'd be happy to share my take on whatever's out there :)

Samsung i900 (aka OMNIA 1st gen) Re-review

As some of you know, I bought a Samsung Omnia 2 years ago during my first year in uni (you can read about it here: http://gilbertchia.blogspot.com/2008/09/responsible-use-of-wealth-sirach-13-3.html). At that time, touch phones were just getting popular and iPhones were already marking their territory all over the place. My previous phone was a Nokia 3250, which was fine and all, but I gave it to my sis before coming over to S'pore.

Big n Bulky

Like they say, when in S'pore, do as the S'poreans do. So there I was getting my hands on my first ever touch phone. It was cool at first, having a phone without a keypad. Then, the problems started cropping up, namely, windows, and samsung. Having a windows os meant that the phone was really laggy and even though it didn't hang very often, it didn't exactly go at the speed of sound either. Internet on the phone was a nightmare. I'd rather go to the library and access the web there than to stare like a dummy into my phone for ages waiting for pages to load. Another downside is that there is an irreplaceable earphone, literally. It only came with the original phone, and can't be purchased. This, along with not-so-stainless 'call' and 'end-call' buttons and a 'lost' navigation system, is a big enough letdown for me. It didn't help that samsung had very poor customer service, with only ONE service centre in the WHOLE country. However, it wasn't all that bad, especially with a very reliable 5mp camera (probably my favourite function of the phone). 

Very expensive letdown

What's the next step, you ask? Well, having used a touch phone, keypads just don't feel the same. And although there's windows mobile 7 and samsung has already improved a fair bit from then, but considering the bad experience with windows and samsung, they're both out of the equation. Honestly, I see a lot of potential in Android phones. I haven't tried any of them for myself, but I've been hearing good reviews so far. Who knows, the future might actually belong to droids after all (for the record, apples are meant to be eaten. period)