Reservist funded for my iPhone 4

My reservist wasn’t for nothing.

It earned me $200 for getting marksman.

It earned me $200 for getting IPPT silver.

It trained me to wait patiently.
(if you didn’t know, a lot of time in army is spent waiting)

That’s how it worked out for me. Of course, iPhone 4 costs $888 if bought without contract. I signed up with M1, and switched from Singtel, giving me an additional $100 discount. Therefore, I only have to pay $380.

The micro SIM should have cost me another $20. But I refuse to pay for something so simple, and which should be free. I choose to cut my own way.

My iPhone Without Camera, for Reservist

I will be going reservist for 5 days. In case you don’t know, army camp does not allow you to bring in camera phones.

As I only like to use iPhone.. here is my solution:

The Nokia E61 (a non camera phone) is equipped with Joiku Premium, which lets you tether the 3G data via wifi to the iPod Touch.

Secrets of Steve Jobs Presentations

I have read the book and would like to extract a few points.

 

You don’t create the slides first

To prepare for a presentation, you have to write the script first. Just like shooting a movie, you have to first write the script, then go on to sketch out the scenes. Finally, you create the slides to assist with your show.

 

One passion statement

You have to fill in the following:

I’m excited about ________ because it ________________________.

 

Persuading people

This is nice quote on what Steve said when he finally persuaded John Sculley, former president of Pepsi, to join Apple.

“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want to change the world?”

That is a good reality distortion.

 

10,000 hours to be an expert

No matter what subject you want to be an expert in, you will need to spend 10,000 hours doing it.

And 10,000 hr = 3.5 years X 365 days X 8 hr

 

Questions for your answers

Presenters will prepare themselves with questions that could be asked from the audience.

The truth is that they have prepared their answers, placing them into certain categories and keywords. When they are being asked a question, they identify the category and keyword, and use their prepared answers (and it might not answer the question).

In other words, during Q&A sessions, the presenter is basically asking “what questions do you have for my answers?”.

My Desk at Home

This is how my desk, chair and the devices I worked with at home.

Ok, you probably realize I showed off too much.. It doesn’t make sense for me to be using 1 desktop and 2 laptops at the same time.

I admit, I use only the iMac at home.

Nonetheless, I felt a need to proudly mention my family of great gadgets: iMac + MacBook + MacBook Pro + iPod Touch + Nexus One + iPhone (used to take this photo) + my dear latest indispensable Aircon (the air filled in the photo)!

Switching to Nexus One

Ok, I once said that I don’t think much of Nexus One.. but Google is generous enough to give me one.. and since I promised, I shall switch to use Nexus One for a week (:

 

And ya, her name is iNexus.