Update: While I was updating this post, I received another phone call from the company which called me yesterday. Now I have about 65% to say that their company are using VoIP to make that call because of the delay. Never mind, I am going to interview tomorrow. Hopefully I could get the job.

On Monday, I sent out my resume to six companies which is located at Singapore. And so far I only received one reply from one of them. Yesterday I received a phone call from a polite lady (sounds sweet too) and chatted for about 10 to 15 minutes. However I think that call was made using VoIP because there seems to be some delay in our conversation, or perhaps because of my phone weak signal?

Today when I waken up, I saw one missed call with (No Number). I was kind of happy but with nervous feeling as well. I was wondering who could that be?

1) Telekom Malaysia (Malaysia ISP) – call me and said my home connection was fixed bla bla bla… (continued lying)
2) Some insurance seller – stop calling me because I am not going to buy it with you. You sounds like scamming.  
3) My brother?  

Anyway I just hope that was not the previous company which called me, one missed call for me right now means one lost chance. By the way I have three phone numbers (included in the email), in case when the primary number is unanswered or busy, you also may call the other two numbers. These two numbers are connected to my laptop so it will notified me when there is a call or SMS.

Currently I am busying with the following:

• Bandwidth monitoring (Linux OS)
• Setup download and upload (including FTP) for remote usage
• Mobile phone SMS sorting and auto-replies scripting
• Website project (CMS)
• Finding new web hosting provider for the new projects

I am kind of free right now, so I am available for interview.

Here is a little update:
AhYap
Kwok Tzea
Sou Peng
Izzwan

Who else I missed out? Notify me

I thought Mediacorp webmaster won’t do such limitation for voters, yet they did.
But never mind, I will still vote for Jessica Liu of the drama “Rhythm of Life”. Love her so much in that drama!

Google Chrome (Beta) vs Mozilla Firefox 3

Chrome is a new browser created by Google. From the picture above, as you can see from the Task Manager, Chrome is not grouped into one process, but it is seperated, just like Internet Explorer by Microsoft. Hence, you don’t need to worry about closing everything in the future.

The features of Google Chrome.

• One box for everything
  “Web search. Web history. Address bar. Suggestions as you type. One unified box serves all your browsing needs.”
• New Tab page
  “Every time you open a new tab, you’ll see a visual sampling of your most visited sites, most used search engines, and recently bookmarked pages and closed tabs.”    

  

• Application shortcuts
  “Use web apps without opening your browser. Application shortcuts can directly load your favorite online apps.”
  
• Dynamic tabs
  “You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs however you wish — quickly and easily.”
• Crash control
  “Every tab you’re using is run independently in the browser, so if one app crashes it won’t take anything else down.”
• Incognito mode
  “Don’t want pages you visit to show up in your web history? Choose incognito mode for private browsing.”
• Safe browsing
  “Google Chrome warns you if you’re about to visit a suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe website.”
• Instant bookmarks
  “Want to bookmark a web page? Just click the star icon at the left edge of the address bar and you’re done.”
• Importing settings
  “When you switch to Google Chrome, you can pick up where you left off with all the bookmarks and passwords from your existing browser.”
• Simpler downloads
  “No intrusive download manager; you see your download’s status at the bottom of your current window.”

Which one is better? Let me do some comparison between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox 3.

Chrome vs Firefox3 (Zooming in)

For sure Chrome need some improvement on this. When I zooming in for 4 times, that’s what I get. The web page shown on Chrome are cramped inside, meanwhile Firefox 3 are able to zoom on everything (images, text and so on).

To be honest, when I run Google Chrome on my laptop, it is kinda slow. Perhaps I don’t have enough RAM to run Google Chrome, my current laptop only have 512MB of RAM installed. The moment I read Google said that they want to make a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier, I think of my friend’s work.

Svante from Sweden has developed his own browser, eFree Surfer. It is a browser that used Internet Explorer as it’s rendering engine. Svante developed this browser, because he also wanted to make the web faster as well. However, Svante said to me that the leading browsers have gone so far. He don’t really see the point for continue developing his own browser at the moment.

Well, I just hope that Google Chrome would be perfect browser for me in the future. I am still using Mozilla Firefox, meanwhile I will be using Google Chrome as well. This is because I have to report the bugs and so on to them, in order to make a better browser for everyone.

Our lecturer, Mr Din encouraged us to join the competition to get some experience or meet the other competitors of the industry. As a External Content Provider (ECP), for sure I joined without second thought, together with another 3 friends of my class.

Mr Nizam Karim are giving his speech to the challengers (students).

Mr Roslan Mohamad, the Director of Content Development of the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) are also giving his speech.

Wemel Cumavoo giving his talk of Business, Commercial & Marketing.

I remember clearly what Mr Wemel Cumavoo said on that day, that is:
“Before you sell your product, you are actually selling yourself to the customer. So your first impression is very important, don’t simply wearing just a t-shirt or jeans to attend the seminar.”

Indeed that’s true, but somehow I am quite disagree with him on certain issue. I felt like he is beating around the bush and said our team aren’t wearing formal on that day? (Or I think too much is it? Haha…) Don’t simply judge a book by it’s cover, that’s not good. Times has changed, sometimes don’t be a stick in the mud, it is just a appearance anyway.

The PhD student were asking some questions.

Ravinder (left), Karthik and N (writing on the board).

Our team members. Karthik (left), Ravinder (middle) and N (Right).

One of our team member was absent for the workshop, hence only left the three of us. I gained a lot of information from the seminar. However, our team has given up on the competition since the times are so tight for us. We will be having our final examination soon, but thanks to Maxis for giving us the opportunity for attending the seminar. We really appreciate that.

Maxis 3G conference at Puteri Pan Pacific Hotel

Actually before attending the Maxis MCC workshop, I had attended the Maxis 3G conference at Puteri Pan Pacific Hotel on October 2005. The first meeting was held only for the Maxis Authorized Dealers or Maxis Authorized Service Agents (MASA). I got the chance to join because previously I was working in the mobile phone shop.

We were told that Maxis 3G coverage soon will arrive to Johor on January 2006, that conference helped most of the mobile phone shops a lot for the preparation of launching Maxis 3G.

I’m on standby

So far, things are going smooth for me. I will go back to my previous occupation soon, mobile phone External Content Provider (ECP). Everything is under progress, waiting for the right time to launch it with together with some other partners and companies.