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December 28, 2009

My gadgets in review 2009

Filed under: Personal Ramblings, Technology — hendrikch @ 9:34 pm

Year 2009 is coming to an end, and it’s that time of the year again to evaluate if I have been stopping myself enough from excessive spending on gadgets.

I will end year 2009 at $3,023 spent on electronics. Are they excessive? Let’s review.

For myself totalling $2,301.

  1. Canon EOS 450D + 18-200mm lens – $1,835.
  2. Sandisk 16GB SDHC card – $62.
  3. Holux M-1000C GPS logger – $104.
  4. Canon EF-S 17-55mm lens – $1,100.
  5. Sold Canon EF-S 18-200mm lens – ($800).

For families totalling $722.

  1. Kington 4GB microSD card – $14.
  2. Creative Live! Cam for notebook – $29.
  3. K-World DVD Maker 2 – $110.
  4. Sony earphone – $49.
  5. HP Mini 5101 netbook – $520.

Come to think of it, the only spending I did for myself this year were all camera-related, and here hoping all those investments actually produced great shots this year and beyond.

So, what do you think? Excessive? Or not?

December 19, 2009

Christmas Gospel Rally

Filed under: Christianity, GRIIS — hendrikch @ 8:29 pm

Christmas Gospel Rally at TrueWay Presbyterian Church (next to Queenstown MRT), TOMORROW, 20 Dec, 4pm for Bahasa Indonesia service and 7 pm for Mandarin service with English translation.

For more details: http://stemi.ws/kkr/natal-singapura-2009

Be there.

November 15, 2009

Aircon Attack – reloaded

Filed under: Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 10:38 pm

Last year, my house’s aircons decided that we have turned it off for too long, so it turned itself on. All commands from the remote were disregarded.

Tonight, those same aircon automagically turned itself on again. So, before our electricity bill shoot off the roof, preventive measures have to be taken. We’ve cut down their electricity supply for now, so it’ll keep them quiet until we decided it has to cool us, humans, again :-)

October 20, 2009

Room for Rent at Jurong West Central

Filed under: Family, Miscellaneous, Singapore — hendrikch @ 11:02 pm

Friends who would like to stay in Jurong West area, for Masters/PhD in NTU, or who prefers to stay in Jurong West, I have ONE Master Bedroom available from 01 November 2009.

The unit is located at Block 683A, the HDB area which is much more modern than the rest around them.

Amenities around:
- 10 minutes walking distance to the huge Jurong Point shopping mall, which have virtually everything you need.
- Next to Jurong Point are Boonlay MRT and Bus Interchange.
- Express bus 502 located below the block goes straight to Orchard, City Hall, Esplanade, etc.

The Master Room is complete with aircon, attached bathroom, wardrobe, dressing table.
The unit itself has a big living room, you can cook in the house. You’ll be staying with other Indonesian female professionals.

Price: only $800 (neg.) for up to two persons; Utility bills to be shared with everyone staying in the house.

Contact Hendrik @ 9856 5589 for viewing/details.

October 15, 2009

Wednesday in Jakarta

Filed under: Dining, Family — hendrikch @ 11:30 am

I spent whole of my Wednesday literally taking photos. This time, I was taking product photos for Photoworks Indonesia, a photo lab with very nice print-outs on albums, boxes, frames, etc. for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and many other events.

Photoworks Indonesia in Biak

Photoworks Indonesia in Biak

Collection of photo albums

Collection of photo albums

If you’d like to know more about Photoworks Indonesia, keep an eye on http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=252072090065. I took over 100 photos of different items in that whole day, it tells you how many items and customizations that they can handle and provide you, it worth checking when you have the need for a photo album.

Photo album

Photo album

Customized boxes are available too

Customized boxes are available too

I had lunch at Hoka-hoka Bento, *finally*, and it tasted great as usual. For drink, it was Teh Botol, what else right?

True to my IT background, after seeing the PCs there without proper backups, shared terminals were given Administrator rights, etc., I couldn’t help myself NOT to fix all of them. At least, I didn’t spot any viruses around this time :-)

Dinner time

Dinner time

Dinner time, few family members gathered at Ikan Cianjur at Batu Tulis. Their signature dish is Ikan Fesmol. I don’t know what Fesmol is, I only know Fesbuk :p

My two nieces, however, are not interested with the food on the table. They preferred chocolates bread and avocado juice instead.

Eldest niece with avocado juice

Eldest niece with avocado juice

And this is when you give a 1.5 year old kid a chocolate bread

And this is when you give a 1.5 year old a chocolate bread

October 13, 2009

Weekend in Jakarta

Filed under: Christianity, Dining, Family, Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 11:30 pm

I reached Jakarta for one-week holiday on Friday evening, 9th October with Valuair for a planned-fully-packed vacation. I started Saturday by visiting my grandma, then upgrading my mom’s laptop to Windows 7 Home Premium. The upgrade took a full two hours, and after upgrade, everything works perfectly fine. In the afternoon, I assisted my mom to calculate and manage employee’s salary, which surprisingly took me almost two hours to go through everything. My brother and I slept in our sister’s apartment that evening. I spent the night there editing photos that I’ve taken that day.

Sunday was even a longer day. I woke up at 6 AM, reached GRII church at Kemayoran for 7 AM Sunday service. After the service, I went to Bakmi GM for breakfast with Evie’s family. The breakfast was soon followed by me and Evie visiting my grandma and my parents for mango dessert and Hokkien Mee lunch. After lunch, we quickly dashed to Vivien’s holy matrimony in a church in Sunter. With me having no clue on where the church was, I drove around Sunter area with Evie’s holding my phone with GPS on. We got lost for a while before we finally found the church half hour later.

Evie and Me

Evie and Me

After the holy matrimony, we drove back to Mall Kelapa Gading to meet my high school friends for a mini-reunion between 3-5 PM. We walked around the mall for an hour, then we went to Mangga Dua Square for Vivien’s wedding dinner. After Evie went home, I drove home, getting lost in Kemayoran area, but found my way back home safely.

Me, Evie, Tung2, Meli, Wylma, and Sara

Me, Evie, Tung2, Meli, Wylma, and Sara

With a draining Sunday, no wonder I only woke up at 12 PM on Monday, a novelty, haha… I went to optical shop to buy a new glasses for myself. This one I wear is more than 6 years old now. The good thing is, the power of my right eye has reduced though the power of my left eye has increased a bit. The cylinder power in both eyes have magically disappear, so after 6 years, it seems like my eyes have actually gotten better. Me and family went for dinner at Duck King, and ended the day at bowling’s alley. I took 431 photos that day, and spent the night editing photos *again*.

Me at bowling alley

Me at bowling alley

My youngest niece

My youngest niece

Tuesday was not much different. I went to my dad’s office, helped to digitize handwritten notes I found there, and finished up a product brochure’s design. After dinner, I browsed the net for images for my next product’s brochure’s design.

No doubt, tomorrow will be a long day again, I’ll update again in a few days :-)

August 31, 2009

Upgrade to Snow Leopard

Filed under: Mac OS — hendrikch @ 12:51 am

I pre-ordered Snow Leopard last week, and on Friday, DHL delivered the DVD to my office.

As planned, I upgraded my Macbook to Snow Leopard on Friday evening without any issue. However, I like things clean, and in the past year, I have dumped so many rubbish into it, and so I thought it’s a good time to do some house cleaning.

Saturday morning, I backed up everything I have, erased my disk, and install Snow Leopard fresh. 30 minutes later, I have Snow Leopard clean-installed, and few hours later, I have all my usual apps installed as well. Restoring backup took a few more hours, as I have ~70GB of videos and ~115GB of photos.

So far, I am impressed, everything ran fast. Launching Safari is something like a second, shutting down a mere 3 seconds, not more than four.

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