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This is based on the article on Dynamic Drive. I applied the technique in one of my posts early this month. That single post contained 32 images. To display all of them within a post would take up a lot of space, so the CSS Photo Gallery is the perfect solution.
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This may not be my ‘very first meme assignment’, but it sure is the first meme on Narrowband.org! Thanks Che-cheh :D. Favourite movies, hmm. Here’s my list (there could be other nice movies which I’ve forgotten):
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According to the university’s planner, we should all be in our final week of internship. I’ve been busy (hence the blog inactivity, guys). But I’m enjoying every passing moment. While most of us will bid our colleagues goodbye at the end of this week, Jin and I will be extending our employment for another week. Heh. Goes to show how much we love working here. No kidding. Well, for me at least. It doesn’t even feel like I’m working - right from the very first day. I still remember we went to KFC for lunch that day. Oh, in formal attire, too. Our lunch hour lasted long enough for me to go home and change into casual wear and then return to KFC again. Well, at least it felt that way.
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Less than a week after introducing its iPhone to the world, Apple Inc. is being sued by Cisco for using the name ‘iPhone’. Infogear, which was acquired by Cisco in 2000, had originally filed for trademark registration for the brand ‘iPhone’ on March 20, 1996 [source].

The iPhone is scheduled to go on sale in June. However, if the lawsuit is successful, Apple will not be able to sell the phone unless some sort of agreement is reached between itself and Cisco.

The lawsuit has drawn mixed responses, though. Some people opine that it may not be “strategic or even productive” for Cisco - the most richly valued company in Silicon Valley [source].

“Bottom line is that you’d think Cisco had a better use of its time and money than suing Apple over a word”

More updates on the iPhone lawsuit on Google News.

I want one.

[Updated 1550hrs, 12th Jan]: You can now get your iPhone here. All you need is a printer to print a PDF document. Ah, preferably coloured (not in greyscale).

[Updated 1552hrs, 12th Jan] An excerpt from MSN chat:

.. xxxxxxx , ^_^ says:
you filled ?
.. xxxxxxx , ^_^ says:
=_+
.. xxxxxxx , ^_^ says:
hahahha
.. xxxxxxx , ^_^ says:
idiot
narrowband says:
hahahaha

No there isn’t any form to fill-up to get your free iPhone.

Since yesterday evening, hundreds (if not thousands) of people have logged on to AirAsia’s website to book their free seats. My friend informed me of the news shortly after we ended our meeting at 6:30pm yesterday. We went to AirAsia’s site to take a look and to our delight, we were greeted by countless “0.00″s on the page (hehe). But the thing is, we had no plans to go for any trip, at that time.

Most of us are making reservations just for the sake of ‘getting the free seats’. Freeloading at its best, that is. Despite the fact that other charges still apply, many are contented with the scrapping of only airfares. We talked about going for a trip last night on MSN, but found it quite difficult to decide on a travel period that best suits everybody - within a short time. This itself is a big headache. It seems like the trip would need to be planned in a haste.

As hundreds of free seats are being snapped up with each passing hour, hopes of getting our ideal travel period and destination is quickly fading. One of us even suggested that our company trip be ‘down-scaled’ to somewhere nearer - somewhere that doesn’t require air travel. That’s not a bad idea at all, actually. But the thought of forgoing the free seats………

Gah!

We had a BBQ-cum-steamboat gathering at Jimmy’s place on new year’s eve. It was an all-guys kinda thing before Toong’s babe came along. We rarely had meet-ups since we left school, so that night was really nice. Yeah we’re all unhappening peeps - tried to shun every single crowded place we knew on new year’s eve. But we later decided that we couldn’t miss the fireworks, hehe. We deliberated over this for a while, and then made our way to Sunway Pyramid. And no, we didn’t go inside where the party’s at (you need to pay!). We did it the el cheapo way - watched the fireworks from the outside. Hell yeah.

Our steamboat. Thanks to Jimmy for the venue!
Jimmy’s cat, Tigger.
It was so cute I couldn’t resist disturbing it.
Towards our el cheapo fireworks-viewing area.


Thanks to ‘our leader’, we managed to beat the jam and get a nice parking.
Clear skies! Perfect!
Obviously we weren’t alone.
And let the fireworks begin!

Fireworks as seen from outside Sunway Pyramid
Fireworks as seen from outside Sunway Pyramid
Fireworks as seen from outside Sunway Pyramid
Fireworks as seen from outside Sunway Pyramid


Fireworks as seen from outside Sunway Pyramid
Fireworks as seen from outside Sunway Pyramid
Fireworks as seen from outside Sunway Pyramid
Fireworks as seen from outside Sunway Pyramid

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I just got a call from my parents in Langkawi. At the time of the call, they were supposed to have boarded the plane. So when my phone rang, I thought, “Aren’t they supposed to be on the plane right now?”.

Apparently the engine (or engines - it was unclear as the call was brief) could not start. All passengers were stranded and things were (and still are - as I’m writing this, I believe) in a mess. Mom said that AirAsia would probably put them on a new flight if that particular plane couldn’t take off. Whatever it is, their departure is delayed indefinitely.

The irony is that, in just less than 10 minutes before I received mom’s call, I was telling sis about how we could fly on FAX and go yamcha in London, as suggested by Papimami and yit4s. Ho-humm…

(AirAsia X is a sub. of FAX, which, again, is a sub. of AirAsia and if you’ve seen today’s paper, you’d know that they’re chanting “Now Everyone Can Fly Extra-long”.)

Probably, for AirAsia, they could use “Now Everyone Can FlyWait Extra-long”.

I created a new section called ‘Photo Gallery‘. It’s simply a place where I share ’some’ photos (my first one has about 400 photos, hehe). Currently there’s only one album - You’ll need to have Macromedia Flash installed to view the photos. There were at least 1,000 photos taken during that holiday trip, so I filtered away more than half of them. It was easy - as I only retained (mostly) scenery shots.

I don’t want to have my friends coming up to me and say “Dave! Why you put that pic?? That angle very bad lar!”. It always happens :p. I’ve been careful this time (at least I tried to filter properly, k!). All photos in the album were taken using my friends’ cameras - Mine was dunked into saltwater, remember? I replaced the camera only several months later (repair costs too high!).

Didn’t have the time to write a caption for every single photo. I’ll try to write captions in future additions, though.