Weddings and other things

June 13th, 2010 The author

I just returned from yet another wedding last night.  This will already be my second wedding in the year, the first being my brother’s wedding which happened in April and this time around it was my sister-in-law’s sister wedding. And in two weeks time my dad will be having his wedding, so 2 weddings in 1 month, 3 weddings in total for this year! And looking down the road for this year, I will have to attend some of my friends’ weddings as well. I think all in all, this year alone I will be attending around 5 weddings!

Looking at my own sibling preparing himself for marriage made me realize that it’s more than just the wedding day itself, it’s more than just that fancy gown, or the attention being focus all on you. As they say, a wedding is just one day, but a marriage is a lifetime, I find that to be very true. I have encountered some people who have just looked at wedding purely from a socialistic point of view (i.e. – making a guest list of who to invite, where to have their photo shoot, what dress to buy, what should the groom wear, what the theme of the wedding should be.) and while I do try to ask them whether they have thought about the whole idea of marriage (i.e. – living with the same person for the rest of their lives and being with them through thick and thin), most just shrug and don’t really give a straight answer.

Oh well, we’ll see how that one works out!

For me personally, I am not ready for marriage. I thought I was, but I am definitely not ready at all. And partly maybe could be because of the obvious fact that I have not found my significant other yet, but also another part of me is still afraid of making that commitment at this point in time. I personally feel I have some more things to accomplish in my young adult life before I look into marriage. Perhaps this is why I am also shying away from relationships…

Other things

1. On to other matters. I have actually made a list of stuff I would like to blog about, just random casual observations which have been stuck in my head for some time now. Lets hope I get sometime this week to materialize them!
2. Speaking of this week, I will be off for my FIRST official company training for 2 weeks! The good news is I have heard this training is not that hard and it’s pretty relaxing actually, as the objective is more to get the participants to network with one another, however the crap part is this training is in KL itself, so boohoo, no travelling plans for me!
3. Hopefully I will be able to spend more time on my blog during the next couple of weeks. I have plans to change the theme of my blog and give it a more sassy feel and look. It’s been a while since I tweaked anything on UncannyPhilosophy!
4. My brother, who I hardly get to see will be staying with us for the next 6 months! (July – Dec 2010) as he will be posted for his practical neurosurgery training at a local hospital here. This is awesome news for us all! I am definitely looking forward to having him with us!
5. I have been hooked on this new podcast called In Between Sundays. I really love the show and I guess the main reason behind my devotion to it is because I really love seeing young adults developing an interest for their faith and actually sharing their faith experiences with others. Check them out here . The Padley brothers are really awesome! In fact I am so into this show I even ordered a t-shirt so that I can help get the word out over here at Lifeline Ministry. And yes, I have their app on my iPhone

 That’s all for now. More stuff coming up soon so stay tune

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Transferring your Phone contacts from your old phone to your iPhone!

April 16th, 2010 The author

Okay, here are the steps on how to go about doing it. I decided to create this simple step by step guide so that people will not have to struggle too much with this. It wasn’t that hard for me… the hard part came with actually importing the contacts.

Note : Your SIM card is also able to save numbers too and unless you have saved all your numbers into your SIM card, then you shouldn’t have to worry about it as all your need to do is put your all SIM card into the iphone and just copy it.  (My mobile provider actually did this for me so yes you can just get them to do it for you!)

However if you’re like most people (me!) and you have some contacts in the phone memory and some in SIM card, then these steps will be applicable to you. In my case, almost 80% of my contacts were in the phone memory so I NEEDED to do this urgently! Anyway lets see how it’s done!

What you need?

1. The software application for your current mobile phone – make sure it’s already installed in your PC

2. A google mail account. If you already have gmail, just create another email account. You will be using this email account to sync the contacts with iphone

Note : I tried using windows live mail and Yahoo mail (these 2 are also supported when syncing with iPhone) but they could not import my contacts csv file correctly, so I ended up using my backup gmail account!

3. iTunes and your iPhone (duh!)

Step 1

From your current mobile phone software application, export your contacts. Since my pervious phone was a nokia, I used the nokia PC suite to do this.  Just click on the Contacts Icon (make sure your phone is connected to your PC) and in the File tab, click on export and save the file in CSV format

Step 2

Create your backup gmail account and log in. In your gmail account, click on Contacts

Then click on Import

Once you’ve clicked on import, just click on Choose File and import that CSV file you created earlier!

Gmail will then import your contacts from the CSV file.  Once gmail has imported all the contacts, now we need to look at iTunes.

NOTE : This is why I chose gmail ; gmail had no issues at all reading the CSV export file that my Nokia software application had created!

Syncing your gmail account with iTunes

iPhone allows you to sync your contacts with either, Yahoo, MSN Live, Outlook or Gmail.  So remember, you can’t just import your CSV file straight to your iPhone. I am not sure whether this will work (didn’t really explore this anyway!)

In your iPhone (in iTunes), clieck on the Info tab. You will see the following. Select on Sync Contacts with Google Contacts and click on Configure.

iTunes will then ask you to specify your gmail account details. Just enter the Google ID username and password of your newly created email account.

From there, iTunes will automatically sync the contacts with that particular Gmail account you specified. Once everything is done, just click on the usual Sync button, to sync iTunes with iPhone.

And that’s it you are done!

pretty easy no? Please let me know if you need more help and clarification or if you found this helpful!

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Playing sins of the solar empire

February 14th, 2010 The author

Alright alright, I spent the entire morning trying to figure out how to properly instal this game. I had downloaded the whole 1.13 GB file last night, so today morning, upon installing, I got a rude awakening from the system saying that I needed to enter the Activation key!

And if you notice, there is no activation key in the folder of the 1.13 GB file. Therefore you would need to download the patch. Now, if you’re a nut like me and you don’t know exactly which patch to download, just follow my steps below:

1. Download Sins of the Solar Empire Trinity (It covers the full game, the Diplomacy Upgrade and the Entrenchment upgrade – hence Trinity )

You can download it off from here:

http://torrentz.com/dadf68e89ea0551bf95d35a049707ddc7800d62c

(There is another file you need to download, refer to step 4).

2. Once the download has finished, go ahead and mount the game (the file is an ISO file, so you need to either mount of burn) . Just search for some ISO mount software on google. There are plenty free ones out there.

3. Once you’ve mounted the game, then just run the ISO file. The installation process should start. Just install it to your hard drive.

4. Once the installation process is completed, then you need to download another file. This file is the patch which allows you to bypass the stupid activation key.

http://torrentz.com/7e7678e66f94576cfaedf51f2f0980ec72d0b0f1

5. Once you’ve gotten both the files, just extract the 2nd file and proceed with the installation. Make sure you install the patch file into the same directory…otherwise it won’t work! The file contains two folders, one for the game itself the other for the Entrenchment update. I’ve only tried for the one with the game only. I didn’t try the other one yet cuz I am halfway through a session and installing the upgrade will wipe out my existing save game files, but I’m sure it will work as well.

Anyway this is all…it’s an amazing game, if you’re into those sci-fi shows

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