Plans. Planned?

They said that people who failed to plan, plans to fail.

This is a quote that you'll have to remember for the rest of your life. Everything needs to be planned. From the moment you wake up in the morning to the moment you sleep again when the night comes. But that is daily plan. How about weekly plans? Monthly? Quaterly or yearly? Or even a decade plans?

Note that plan and wish and New year's resolution are all located in different pages though they may somehow sounded familiar. I'd just got my first G-Shock though I wished that in the year 2011. Though it wasn't the one that I wished, it is in the same model range (Military Watches). Maybe I'll blog about that later ;-)

I wished that. But I didn't plan properly on owning that GA-100-1A. I thought whenever I want to buy it, I can get it online. Furthermore I've seen the exact model selling at Giant (watch shop). I didn't realize on the exclusiveness of it. So that what's its worth. When I came back a couple of weeks later, the watch was not there anymore. And to make it worse, it can't be ordered anymore as they are almost impossible to be obtained. Casio had released a new model range (GA-110-xx).. I went to many watch shop, and guess what? I couldn't find the exact model which I want.. It is real exclusive and hard to find..

So that means: I failed to plan, and it also means, I plan to fail on that (without realization). Though it can be bought online (a few pieces still on sale), it is located at the States and might cost me quite some hassles just to get it here. Ok, let it be. I'm now with a 'hard to find replacement' of it.. Hehehe *evil*

Will start to draw plans and work on it. If you only wish for it and in hoping that the thing will appear in front of you, big mistake. In any possible ways, we will have to plan with whatever. And this applies to everything in life. You'll never know when you'll be leaving the world for good.

I cant help myself on being sorry...

Imagine you had just gave birth to a very healthy baby and your baby is just a couple of weeks old.
Imagine a hot sunny day.
Imagine your baby is hungry (or something else) that he/she cried.
Imagine that you couldn’t stop the baby crying by using pacifier.
Imagine that the baby cried so loud.
Imagine you are waiting for the red light among other vehicle.
Imagine you are with your husband are riding a kapcai bike together.
Imagine you are with your husband are riding a kapcai bike together with your baby.

Imagine all the above, are happening in the same time for you, your baby and your husband.

I met with a couple with a baby wrapped in blanket, with a cap that shield his delicate eyes, faced up towards the scorching sun (it was a hot day), with a pacifier but he keep on crying, with his mom trying hard to keep him silent, with his dad looking long up the road, with the cries that made everyone look at the trio.. It would be quite OK if the baby is a one year old son, but i can place a bet, the baby is merely a month old..

I would say that only a heartless person will not feel anything about that condition..

Questions pondered:
[1] Why is the baby being transported in the middle of the day? Why not a later evening or early morning when the sun is not that hot?

Anyhow, lessons learned here.
[1] Always be thankful to Allah of what we have. If we have a car, some of us can barely own a motorcycle. If we have a motorcycle, some of us would barely have a bike. If we have a bike, some of us would barely have anything and have to walk. If we have to walk, some of us would barely have any slippers to shield the feet. If we walk barefooted, some of us do not have a leg to walk.
[2] For whatever reasons, take good care of all the lives we had. In other words, your decedents, your spouse and everything related. If we have a son, take good care of him with whatever constraints that we had. Some of us gaining five figures monthly but couldn’t conceive a baby though with countless of effort being put.

Again, feel sorry for the trio, hope that you guys can manage a better way of transporting the young, as the hot sun can actually made your baby fall sick, in most cases: fever. Hope all went well, hope that the baby will soon give the mom and dad a better life when they are old. Aamin.

How to charge Ipad2 on a Windows PC.

Not Charging. =(

This is what my Ipad2 is showing when i plugged my ipad on a windows PC. It will say it is not charging. However, though it is showing that it is not charging, it actually 'is charging' but will require a longer time (can't exactly tell you how long it'll take, never tested).

Can you solve this? Yes, by using any Mac. Given it an iMac or Macbook(s).
However, there is a thing called Asus Ai Charger.

Asus Ai Charger.
Download and install this and walla! Your ipad will start charging just like whenever it is connected to a Mac.

Notice that the icon is now with a power (lightning) icon, not a word stated "Not Charging" anymore.

Enjoy your i-devices! Yay!

Heheheh

Sent from my iPad

Photography 101: Long shutter exposure.

The picture above is a sample of a long shutter exposure. It was taken with 1/8^th of a second with F7.1. Super Steady Shot ON, handheld. A man with his satay. A long exposure picture is a good example on to show the pathway of the fire, and also the movement of the man.

 

What is a long shutter exposure? Well, what is shutter anyway? ;-)

A shutter is just like a window blinds. If it is open, it’ll let the lights come in. If it is closed, it won’t let any light go through. The window glass is your lens. Behind the shutter is the sensor (this is only applicable for digital cameras). The sensor is very sensitive to light. When the sensor is exposed to light, it’ll draw pictures. Basically, that is how a digital camera works.

 

Light go through lens, through an opened shutter, exposed the sensor and produced pictures.

 

If your shutter opens too long, you’ll risk an over exposed picture. What is an over exposed picture? A picture which looks too bright, lost details on most of the subject, and worst case, it went white. If your shutter opens too short, you’ll risk under exposed picture. A totally opposite of the overexposed, still not that much details captured, and worst case, it went black.

 

But, how can I create a nice long shutter exposure by not risking my picture to get overexposed?

 

Not that hard. Remember the basic principal of window & blinds? Yes? Good. Actually there are one more thing to that basic. It is the aperture. It is basically the opening diameter of the lens blades. Means, in other words, between your blinds and your window glass, there are another blinds that are adjustable on the amount of light allowed to come in.

 

In simpler noob calculation, if a perfect picture (P) is 100% consist of 50% (S) shutter opening and 50% (F) diameter of aperture

 

100% P = 50% S + 50% F

 

If you still want a perfect P but with higher (& longer) S, you’ll have to minus the F:

 

100%  P = 70% S + 30% F

 

And vice versa.

 

BUT in photography, a smaller F means that a bigger in F numbering format. For example, F2.8 aperture is bigger than F16 aperture. I think you’ll get confused with it. Ok, example below:

 

100% P = 1/125 S + F2.8

OR

100% P = 1/4 S + F16

 

In example 1, a higher S is needed to get a perfect picture, but your Aperture has to opened big enough to let the light come in through. In example 2, a slower S is needed to let more lights come in because the Aperture is small (not that many lights allowed to go through the lens as the aperture opening is small).

 

Slower S means that your camera has to be that steady and should not move at all to let the picture evenly formed. If else, you’ll result in ‘shaking’ picture. And if you purposely want a shaking picture, just don’t put your camera on tripod~ ;-) Take long shutter picture while jumping, then you’ll get it. Happy shooting Long Shutter Exposure pics!

Options

In life we have options. Is there anything such as 'no options?' I don't exactly tell. Complicated circumstances, yes. But anyhow, options will result in decisions. Either it is a right decision or a wrong decision, they are your decisions..

I am a computer programmer. While I may not extensively writing programs anymore, but I like to write programs. There are many languages, C, C++, VB, UniVerse, jBase, or even SQL, the main ingredients are just equally the same (for some sort). They contains: IF, ELSE, THEN, FOR, CASE, DO, WHILE and the most important thing is END. I can relate this to our life, and yes, they 'are just equally the same (for some sort)'.

No matter what you do in life, no matter what language are you verse with, the things are just the same. The only difference is the way. Whatever you do (or decide), there are always in 'cause and effect' clause. IF you do this, THEN this will happen. WHILE you do this, IF you come across this, DO this. ELSE, do that. In CASE the thing is this, you DO that. IF the CASE is this, you DO that. Our brain is so that powerful that they can 'write' their own programs, without you realizing..

Your brain store A LOT OF PROGRAMS.. You, yes you, helped in the creation of the programs.. Any program will have options. Most of my 'writable' programs will have IF THEN ELSE in it, some of it contains just too many that me myself would have difficulties on 'reading' it all again after leaving the program for some time. But worry not, your brains will not have any problem on reading it all again, rewrite the programs, edit, or even delete them. It is an unfortunate if somehow our brain is damaged and failing to read and write those programs anymore.

We have options, and we always think of options.

Options. Think of options. Don't blame others or blame اَللّهِ for not giving you options.

Since we have so many options, its up to you to choose one that best suits you, or option that is better for others but not you. In Malay traditions, we are being thought to always have courtesy. It is a very good thing to have, but as always, you are the one who possess the key to choose. You decide you own self (and the one that relies on your decisions)

Most people will not liking 'programming language class' (furthermore if you're required to take it for exams), but I don't know why, I like it from the very first minute up till the time of writings. I would say for the rest of my life? But that would be over exaggerating.

Did I mentioned about the most important thing is the END? Your program is not a program, not until it had the END. You do the thinking.

END.

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Missed

Missed could have meant many things. I missed the train. I missed her. I missed the spot for an inch. Completely missed the point of the conversation. Honey never missed to call her mom. Missed my blackberry while in the train. Missed Universe *joking*

 

But anyhow, I am missing them. My honey and Naima. This morning was the first time in my life, leaving home with Naima alone, while honey stayed at home. Feel abundantly  awkward. No joke. The moment I set her to the nursery, feels like crying, feels like I wanna take her along to the office. But that is not possible. As yet. Not until I owned my own office, not until then Naima..

 

Life’s like that. One have to change to change oneself. I thought I have heard that too many times. Yes, I did.

 

Missed. A lot of things.