I'm a bit bored now. Another one of those days that you have tonnes of stuffs to do that you just feel like .. sigh .. i need a break.
So for the benefit of my visitors, i am taking my break to sprinkle a little delight on your eyes.
These are my pics form my last trip to the capital of Taiwan, Taipei, from 25 Sept till 11 Oct.
It was a trip that was filled with mixed experience, from my first Typhoon (Hurricane) encounter to my second earthquake and having to privilege to stay in one of the most luxurious hotel in Taipei. Enjoy.
kuancheen|kualalumpur|20051025.2010
... Lord, I need Thee, I long to hear from Thee, lead me to Thy righteous path, reveal to us Thy plans.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
More Pics from Germany ... Finally
As a continuation from my previous post on my trip to Germany, here are the rest of the pics.
I have managed to updated my pic links and now it is grabbing the images from my flickr account rather than from my imagestation account as it seems they have some BW hogging prevention system on.
This kinda a slight delayed post as i was having a torrid time uploading my pics. (maybe there are too many of them). Okay, enuff said, it's picture time.
kuancheen|kualalumpur|20051018.2000
... ah ... finally an entry from back home
I have managed to updated my pic links and now it is grabbing the images from my flickr account rather than from my imagestation account as it seems they have some BW hogging prevention system on.
This kinda a slight delayed post as i was having a torrid time uploading my pics. (maybe there are too many of them). Okay, enuff said, it's picture time.
kuancheen|kualalumpur|20051018.2000
... ah ... finally an entry from back home
Thursday, October 06, 2005
5.2 on the Richter Scale
At about 0015 today my Taiwanese friend pinged me on MSN.
Just as I saw her message popping up, i felt a tremor.
Immediately i pinged her back, "earthquake ah?"
It was the second time i felt an earthquake tremor. The first was also in Taipei about 3 months ago. That time it was stronger, i in the hotel room that time and suddenly i thought i saw the lamp stand was shaking and then i felt dizzy for a while and then i switched on the TV and saw the news.
This time however, it last less then 2 seconds and was just a slight movement.
The Taiwan Central Weather Bureau reported that this earthquake was 5.2 on the Richter Scale. The epicenter of the quake is to the south-east of Taipei City as depicted in the diagram below.
kuancheen|taipei|20051006.0145
... wind, earth and ...?
Just as I saw her message popping up, i felt a tremor.
Immediately i pinged her back, "earthquake ah?"
It was the second time i felt an earthquake tremor. The first was also in Taipei about 3 months ago. That time it was stronger, i in the hotel room that time and suddenly i thought i saw the lamp stand was shaking and then i felt dizzy for a while and then i switched on the TV and saw the news.
This time however, it last less then 2 seconds and was just a slight movement.
The Taiwan Central Weather Bureau reported that this earthquake was 5.2 on the Richter Scale. The epicenter of the quake is to the south-east of Taipei City as depicted in the diagram below.
kuancheen|taipei|20051006.0145
... wind, earth and ...?
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Hurricane LongWang Hit Taiwan
[k ... this is not really a breaking news, but could be a late, way late, breaking news, hence the past tense]
LongWang hit the Central East Coast of Taiwan as what the Americans will classified as a Category 4 Hurricane (Katrina land fell at Category 4). The typhoon made its land fall with a maximum sustained wind of 225 kmh (140mph) which was also classified as a Super Typhoon.
The classification of the storm in numeric categories is of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
Hurricanes and typhoons? What's the difference? Well the difference is purely geographical. A short answer will be that hurricanes are from the oceans around US, typhoons are typically from Western Pacific (East Asia). And all both are called Tropical Cyclones in meteorology.
This was my first account of a tropical cyclone and apparently for some others that was captured by a of Taiwan news channel. A reporter was approaching a group of people watching the waves, braving the pouring rain and strong gust. When approached and questioned, a person from the group said in Mandarin,
Who said Malaysians are not adventurous!
Longwang (龙王/龍王), or "Dragon King" in Chinese, though the name sounds scary, the typhoon was not named right after it was spotted but rather from a list of names contributed by a group of Asian countries.
And our own Malaysia contributed to one of this year's super typhoon: Super Typhoon Mawar.
Did you know that from around 1953-1977, hurricanes are having only female names? They were initially names of girl friends and wives of the people that found them. Hmmm...
Here is an article that explain why hurricanes are named in the first place.
kuancheen|taipei|20051002.0145
... braving for more storms
LongWang hit the Central East Coast of Taiwan as what the Americans will classified as a Category 4 Hurricane (Katrina land fell at Category 4). The typhoon made its land fall with a maximum sustained wind of 225 kmh (140mph) which was also classified as a Super Typhoon.
The classification of the storm in numeric categories is of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
Category One:
Winds 74-95 mph (64-82 kt or 119-153 km/hr).
Category Two:
Winds 96-110 mph (83-95 kt or 154-177 km/hr).
Category Three:
Winds 111-130 mph (96-113 kt or 178-209 km/hr).
Category Four:
Winds 131-155 mph (114-135 kt or 210-249 km/hr).
Category Five:
Winds greater than 155 mph (135 kt or 249 km/hr).
Hurricanes and typhoons? What's the difference? Well the difference is purely geographical. A short answer will be that hurricanes are from the oceans around US, typhoons are typically from Western Pacific (East Asia). And all both are called Tropical Cyclones in meteorology.
This was my first account of a tropical cyclone and apparently for some others that was captured by a of Taiwan news channel. A reporter was approaching a group of people watching the waves, braving the pouring rain and strong gust. When approached and questioned, a person from the group said in Mandarin,
我们从马来西亚来的When asked why there are here (in the middle of the typhoon storm), they answered,
wo me si chong ma lai si ya la de
We are from Malaysia
马来西亚没有台风吗
ma lai si ya mei you tai fong ma
There are no typhoons in Malaysia
Who said Malaysians are not adventurous!
Longwang (龙王/龍王), or "Dragon King" in Chinese, though the name sounds scary, the typhoon was not named right after it was spotted but rather from a list of names contributed by a group of Asian countries.
And our own Malaysia contributed to one of this year's super typhoon: Super Typhoon Mawar.
Did you know that from around 1953-1977, hurricanes are having only female names? They were initially names of girl friends and wives of the people that found them. Hmmm...
Here is an article that explain why hurricanes are named in the first place.
kuancheen|taipei|20051002.0145
... braving for more storms
BLOG is a four-letter word
BLOG is a four-letter word
so are LOVE, HOME, FOOT, BALL, ...
hehehe ... sorry, i just have to get that off my chest!
kuancheen|taipei|20051002.0015
... man, i wonder how much lower can i stoop ...
so are LOVE, HOME, FOOT, BALL, ...
hehehe ... sorry, i just have to get that off my chest!
kuancheen|taipei|20051002.0015
... man, i wonder how much lower can i stoop ...
Sunday, October 02, 2005
No Live EPL in Taiwan!!!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man .. Taiwanese are crazy about basketball, baseball, but not soccer!!!!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fulham 2 - 3 Manchester United
They scored three and I missed the 5 goals thriller!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
kuancheen|taipei|20051002.0030
... man .. i soooooooo missed blogging ... heheheh
Man .. Taiwanese are crazy about basketball, baseball, but not soccer!!!!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fulham 2 - 3 Manchester United
They scored three and I missed the 5 goals thriller!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
kuancheen|taipei|20051002.0030
... man .. i soooooooo missed blogging ... heheheh
Saturday, October 01, 2005
I'm Back!! Finally ....
I'm Back!!
Wow, I can't believe it's more than one month since I last blogged.
Too much things been happening.
When I came back from Europe, I had a lot of things to settle, since we were moving. Had to make calls, faxes and emails to change my address last minute, since I was away for 1 month in Munich (it was supposed to be two).
Then took three days off to move. First day help out in packing all the stuffs then second day unpack them. This time round, my dad used his moving allowance to hire movers. Man, can't imagine moving all the things we had by ourselves!
Years and years of stuffs accumulated [i got a feeling i got the plurals wrong here ^^]. From Kedah, to Sarawak, to KL, back to Kedah, then to Kluang (Johor) and finally in KL. And not to mention we moved 3 times in span of 3 years in Kluang.
My dad is officially retired now and we (my parents and my brother) are no longer allowed to stay in the government house that we have been in since 1993.
So we moved from Sungai Besi to ... Bandar Cheras Mahkota, in Cheras of course. That adds up to extra 10km, RM3.60 of tolls and 15 mins (one way) of driving!!
I still have plenty of things to unpack. I left my room coming to Taiwan with most of my stuffs still in boxes. I need some book shelves and cupboards. Saw this nice shelve in Carrefour the Thursday before I left but it was out of stock!
I kinda have too much things liao. Need to find place to keep my stamps collection, my coins collection la, my currency collections, my coke collection, my Cleo collections, k ... you go the picture.
So much to do in so little time.
Then, back to work on Thursday after moving, have to make settle the rest of the contacts that I need to change my address. Then have to rush down to one of my company's customer to troubleshoot.
Then the week after it was training and training. After training every day except on Tuesday was dinner and dinner together with our colleagues from US, Japan, Singapore and HK.
And at the same time, we the Young Adults are given charge of this year's church Christmas event! What's more, I had to speak for hte first time in my church on the pulpit on Youth Sunday!!! By the way, the youths were awesome, a BIG BIG hand to them!!!
Then I have to rush the projects for Europe and Taiwan and now end up in Taipei.
What's more typhoon LongWang approaching!!!
First typhoon after my first earthquake also in Taiwan few months ago.
kuancheen|taipei|20051002.0015
... nope, i do not have internet connection at home ... yet
Wow, I can't believe it's more than one month since I last blogged.
Too much things been happening.
When I came back from Europe, I had a lot of things to settle, since we were moving. Had to make calls, faxes and emails to change my address last minute, since I was away for 1 month in Munich (it was supposed to be two).
Then took three days off to move. First day help out in packing all the stuffs then second day unpack them. This time round, my dad used his moving allowance to hire movers. Man, can't imagine moving all the things we had by ourselves!
Years and years of stuffs accumulated [i got a feeling i got the plurals wrong here ^^]. From Kedah, to Sarawak, to KL, back to Kedah, then to Kluang (Johor) and finally in KL. And not to mention we moved 3 times in span of 3 years in Kluang.
My dad is officially retired now and we (my parents and my brother) are no longer allowed to stay in the government house that we have been in since 1993.
So we moved from Sungai Besi to ... Bandar Cheras Mahkota, in Cheras of course. That adds up to extra 10km, RM3.60 of tolls and 15 mins (one way) of driving!!
I still have plenty of things to unpack. I left my room coming to Taiwan with most of my stuffs still in boxes. I need some book shelves and cupboards. Saw this nice shelve in Carrefour the Thursday before I left but it was out of stock!
I kinda have too much things liao. Need to find place to keep my stamps collection, my coins collection la, my currency collections, my coke collection, my Cleo collections, k ... you go the picture.
So much to do in so little time.
Then, back to work on Thursday after moving, have to make settle the rest of the contacts that I need to change my address. Then have to rush down to one of my company's customer to troubleshoot.
Then the week after it was training and training. After training every day except on Tuesday was dinner and dinner together with our colleagues from US, Japan, Singapore and HK.
And at the same time, we the Young Adults are given charge of this year's church Christmas event! What's more, I had to speak for hte first time in my church on the pulpit on Youth Sunday!!! By the way, the youths were awesome, a BIG BIG hand to them!!!
Then I have to rush the projects for Europe and Taiwan and now end up in Taipei.
What's more typhoon LongWang approaching!!!
First typhoon after my first earthquake also in Taiwan few months ago.
kuancheen|taipei|20051002.0015
... nope, i do not have internet connection at home ... yet
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Master of Disaster
Hmmm.... I was just being referred to Master of Disaster.
Today is my last working day in Munich, am leaving on tomorrow's 12 hours flight at 0845.
Been here for one month and there are been a lot of challenges we have been facing and finally i am ready to wrap things up after managed to calm things down.
Then this colleague from the German company which is the client of my company came up to me at the end of the day to bid me farewell and said some thing along line.
"Hi, how to see you again, and have a safe trip back Master of Disaster"
I was like ... errr ... not really sure how to react, was not sure whether it was a compliment or being sarcastically condemned.
What will you think?
Master of Disaster?
I create disaster every where I go is it?
Wah liao ...
Then i politely and a bit 'shy'ly asked,
"Errr... Sorry but i am not really sure what you mean by Master of Disaster"
Then she revealed, "You managed all those problems that are not caused by you and handled it and solved other's problem"
I smiled, and thanked her for her remarks and then i think to myself, "Ah, Master over Disaster"
kuancheen|munich|20050831.1930
... master of puppets is hungwy, please feed
Today is my last working day in Munich, am leaving on tomorrow's 12 hours flight at 0845.
Been here for one month and there are been a lot of challenges we have been facing and finally i am ready to wrap things up after managed to calm things down.
Then this colleague from the German company which is the client of my company came up to me at the end of the day to bid me farewell and said some thing along line.
"Hi, how to see you again, and have a safe trip back Master of Disaster"
I was like ... errr ... not really sure how to react, was not sure whether it was a compliment or being sarcastically condemned.
What will you think?
Master of Disaster?
I create disaster every where I go is it?
Wah liao ...
Then i politely and a bit 'shy'ly asked,
"Errr... Sorry but i am not really sure what you mean by Master of Disaster"
Then she revealed, "You managed all those problems that are not caused by you and handled it and solved other's problem"
I smiled, and thanked her for her remarks and then i think to myself, "Ah, Master over Disaster"
kuancheen|munich|20050831.1930
... master of puppets is hungwy, please feed
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
The Colourful Malaysia(n)
In celebration of the country's 48th Independence and in keeping with my earlier promise to blog in Malay, I will now humbly attempt to blog with the assistance of my 'other' blog personalities.
I am sure you will able to make up who they are not requiring me to review them explicitly.Malaysian #1
For this merdeka ah, 48 years one, let me try to blog in Malay la since i promised you all, what to do promise lioa have to do lor.
But then hor, i say i will blog in malay only, din say i will blog evebryting me self in malay right, so this time i ma call me fwens to come.
They oso mouth itchy wan to blog. Me will not tell you who my fwens are, you guess guess urself, ok?
Their style very telling one, when they open mouth only ah you know who my good fwens ah la so no need me to tell you straight straight la you all smart right.Malaysian #2
Sempena sambutan ulang tahun kemerdekaan yang ke-48 dan dengan tekhad menunaikan janji saya untuk ber'blog' dalam bahasa kebangsaan.
Izinkan juga saya untuk mengundang 'rakan-rakan' seperjuangan saya untuk menyampaikan sepatah dua kata.
Daripada cara pertuturan mereka, nescaya tuan puan dapat mengenalpasti siapa kah mereka, tidak perlu saya namakan mereka secara terbuka.Malaysian #3
Semasa kita bersama-sama menyambut festiviti kemerdekaan negara kita yang ke-48 ini, sila memperizinkan saya untuk mengambil kesempatan ini, dengan hati yang amat tulus, untuk mengotakan janji saya untuk memperbahasamelayukan 'blog' saya.
Saya akan memperlaksanakan percubaan ini tanpa kompromi dengan menfituritasikan barisan panel jemputan saya.
Adalah dengan penuh keyakinan, saya berpendapat bahawa kekalian tidak akan bermasalah untuk mengidentifikasikan identiti-identiti para panel ini, daripadi penganalisisan sifat kepertuturanan mereka.Malaysian #4
Jom, jom , jom! Jom kito semue sambut merdeka nie ramai-ramai.
Iskh, iskh, iskh, dah tua jugak malaysia nie, dah 48 tahun dah usianya.
Tapi pak cik tua lagi, tu sebab nye hangpa, cucu-cucu pak cik kalian kena dengar cakap pak cik ya.
Masa kite dok sambut merdeka nie, baik jugak pak cik ambik sempat peluang ini, kata omputeh, untuk blog dalam bahasa melayu.
Sebab pak cik dah janji pada cucu-cucu dulu, bak kata pepatah "... manusia dipengang dengan janjinya", baik jugak sebelum pak cik nyanyuk sat lagi.
Pak cik nie sebenarnye memang dah tua dah, dah tak larat lagi nak tulis banyak-banyak, nak cakap banyak-banyak tu lain cerita la.
Maklumlah mata dan jari-jemari pak cik nie dah tak seperti dulu, nasib baik ader kenalan pakcik yang sudi menulis blog nie sesama pak cik.
Tok sah la pak cik bagi tahu nama depa tu ya, pak cik percaya cucu-cucu bijak untuk mengenali siapakah depa tu semua.
Selamat membaca ya cucu-cucu pak cik.Malaysian #5
Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka! Mai kiter rayakan merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka! Caya la dapat makan preeee lagi!!!
Ahem... Dah tua gila malaysia nie, fuhlamak, kelip-kelip je bijik mata dah 48 tahun dah.
Eh, teringat jugak i kena blog dalam BM nie. Nah, sebab i dah janji, i kena jugak kena tunaikannya, betoi tak?
Tapi kalau nak blog solo nie boring gak, baik jugak i cari member-member i skali. Lagi ramai lagi best kan? Baru ader oommpph!
Member-member i nie ader problem personaliti sket, tapi tak yah i introkan kat korang kot, korang teka-teka je la, mana la tau tikam-tikam kena gak.Malaysian #6
Wah liao eh, wa tatau ini malaysia ah, sudah empat puloh lapan tahun sudah wor, wa sei.
Sebab wa punya janji sama lu olang, wa sikalang mau cuba cakap melayu.
Wa tau wa punya melayu lu olang semua mesti ketawa punya.
Tapi lu olang wa mintak tolong jangan ketawa la, wa punya muka nanti tatau mau letak mana.
Kita olang semua olang malaysia jugak betoi tak? Lu tolong wa, wa tolong lu.
Pengyu, pengyu wa ada banyak kamcheng sama wa, dia olang ada tau wa mau blog dia olang mau tolong.
Ini macam balu ngam. Lu olang teka sendili la sapa wa punya pengyu.Malaysian #7
Emmmmpat pooloooh lapan tahun sudah kah malaysia ini?
Maaaanyak jugak tua, tambi pun tarak tua itu macam jugak.
Itu hari ada jugak tambi kasi tambi punya janji sama macha-macha semua.
Tambi manyak baik punya, tambi cakap mesti ada buat punya, tarak tipu sama macha.
Pasal tambi punya janji jugak, tambi jugak akan blog dalam melayu.
Tapi tambi mau blog sorang-sorang tarak larat jugak, itu pasal tambi jugak ada panggil tambi punya macha.
Macha semua kasi teka sapa mereka.Malaysian #8
This all started when few weeks ago I bumped into some blogs that suggested Malaysian bloggers to come together and attempt to blog in Malay, at least for a day, to celebrate the country's 48 years of independence.
I took up the challenge personally and was determined to blog in Malay and ended up doing it with a twist.
It's really been a long while since I actually sat down and really wrote or composed anything in Malay.
I mean this have been the language I grew up with (apart from English and Mandarin), the language I studied and went to exam with and made some of my earliest friends with.
But since university, where English was the medium, it became had less and less opportunity to use the language in writing that often anymore. I still speak it though but not composing a formal writing.
So when I actually had to write in Malay, I found myself struggled through! I had difficulties describing the accident in my police report!
Just to think that I used to write in Malay like nobody's business in high school!
Anyway, wanted to take this opportunity to write something back in Malay and hopefully at the same time demonstrate how colourful our beloved country is.
Happy Birthday Malaysia!
kuancheen|munich|20050830.2222|@|20050831.0422|kl
... man that is taxing ... half way through it, i kinda got tired already
... was about to repeat all in different version
... obviously i gave up :P
... guess i'll stick to being me
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!
That's the declaration of independence in Malay for you guys who are Malay illiterate :).
Let's celebrate it by declaring it across the blogsphere. And ... let's all try to blog in Malay on the 31st ya.
These nice logo are designed by galvin!
You can check out some other banners/logos at irene's.
See you all and take care.
kuancheen|munich|20050827.1800
... happy birthday malaysia!
standard: sempena sambutan hari kemerdekaan tanahair yang tercinta, marilah kita berusaha untuk ber'blog' dalam bahasa malaysia
non-standard: tuk hari merdeka nie, mai kita ramai2 blog dalam BM ya!
Let's celebrate it by declaring it across the blogsphere. And ... let's all try to blog in Malay on the 31st ya.
These nice logo are designed by galvin!
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 200×190 pixel |  100×100 pixel |
You can check out some other banners/logos at irene's.
See you all and take care.
kuancheen|munich|20050827.1800
... happy birthday malaysia!
standard: sempena sambutan hari kemerdekaan tanahair yang tercinta, marilah kita berusaha untuk ber'blog' dalam bahasa malaysia
non-standard: tuk hari merdeka nie, mai kita ramai2 blog dalam BM ya!
(”,)(’-')(,”)
Friday, August 19, 2005
Pictures Galore!!!
Fuh ... finally extracted all the links.
Been trying to find the most effective way to share my trips abroad.
Well, hope this humble attempt helps to give you all a feel :)
The pics are from my ImageStation account.
Mouseover for more comments!!
hmmm... some of the images below might not load completely, may be some bandwidth issue or something ... but go ahead and click ... the links are alive!
kuancheen|munich|20050818.2300
... waiting for the data to load and the server to restart ... i wanna go home
Been trying to find the most effective way to share my trips abroad.
Well, hope this humble attempt helps to give you all a feel :)
The pics are from my ImageStation account.
Mouseover for more comments!!
hmmm... some of the images below might not load completely, may be some bandwidth issue or something ... but go ahead and click ... the links are alive!
kuancheen|munich|20050818.2300
... waiting for the data to load and the server to restart ... i wanna go home
I MISS HOME!!!!
I MISS HOME!!!!
Man ... finally it's time to say ...
My family
My house (which i am moving out this Sept!)
My Church 0.o
My Youth
My Cell Mates :P
Okay, I said it liao!
kuancheen|munich|20050818.2030
... hmmmm ... thought that supposed to make you feel better
Man ... finally it's time to say ...
missing ...I MISS HOME!!!!
My family
My house (which i am moving out this Sept!)
My Church 0.o
My Youth
My Cell Mates :P
Okay, I said it liao!
kuancheen|munich|20050818.2030
... hmmmm ... thought that supposed to make you feel better
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Blogged Too Much?!
I may have just said too much ...
Blogged more than I should have blogged about ...
Revealed too much ... feels kinda naked ...
kuancheen|munich|20050816.2030
... =_=" (cold sweat)
Blogged more than I should have blogged about ...
Revealed too much ... feels kinda naked ...
kuancheen|munich|20050816.2030
... =_=" (cold sweat)
Monday, August 15, 2005
BlogMap 4 BlogDrivers!
Great news! I have just discovered a way to add blogdrive's blogs to BlogMap, with a little bit help from the blogdrive forum post on "How to add a rss feed".
Alright let's hit it.
You will need to modify your blogdrive's blog Main Template.
To do this, log on your blogdrive account at http://www.blogdrive.com.
Next, select the blog you want to edit.
Navigate to the "Layout & Designs" section by clicking on the link on navigation bar on the left of your screen.
Then scroll to the bottom of the "Layout & Designs" page to till you find this label.
Then, click on "MAIN TEMPLATE EDIT" and you will be brought to the Main Template edit page.
Once you are at the edit page, look for the <HEAD>
Paste the following lines right after it.
[Title] - is the title to appear on the map
[Your Blog Drive Blog] - is the first part of your blogdrive address
[latitude], [longitude] - these tags holds the value of your current location in decimal degree coordinate values
To get your coordinates you can either:
1. Use the BlogMap's BlogExplorer! tool at http://www.feedmap.net/blogexplorer/ (Recommended). Right-Click on your location and click on "Add a Blog" menu item.
- OR -
2. Drop by my previous post here.
Remember to save your changes to your template by clicking on the "Save Changes" button.
Once you had that out of the way, you can continue to Step 3 of this guide.
kuancheen|munich|20050815.1720
... 24 and counting?
Alright let's hit it.
You will need to modify your blogdrive's blog Main Template.
To do this, log on your blogdrive account at http://www.blogdrive.com.
Next, select the blog you want to edit.
Navigate to the "Layout & Designs" section by clicking on the link on navigation bar on the left of your screen.
Then scroll to the bottom of the "Layout & Designs" page to till you find this label.
Template Quick Links for [yourblogname]:
e.g.
Template Quick Links for mywalkwithchrist:
Then, click on "MAIN TEMPLATE EDIT" and you will be brought to the Main Template edit page.
Once you are at the edit page, look for the <HEAD>
Paste the following lines right after it.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="[Title]" href="http://[Your Blog Drive Blog].blogdrive.com/atom.xml" />
<meta name='ICBM' content="[latitude], [longitude]" />
<meta name="geo.position" content="[latitude];[longitude]" />
e.g.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="My Walk With Christ" href="http://mywalkwithchrist.blogdrive.com/atom.xml" />
<meta name='ICBM' content="3.07755, 101.59000" />
<meta name="geo.position" content="3.07755;101.59000" />
[Title] - is the title to appear on the map
[Your Blog Drive Blog] - is the first part of your blogdrive address
[latitude], [longitude] - these tags holds the value of your current location in decimal degree coordinate values
To get your coordinates you can either:
1. Use the BlogMap's BlogExplorer! tool at http://www.feedmap.net/blogexplorer/ (Recommended). Right-Click on your location and click on "Add a Blog" menu item.
- OR -
2. Drop by my previous post here.
Remember to save your changes to your template by clicking on the "Save Changes" button.
Once you had that out of the way, you can continue to Step 3 of this guide.
kuancheen|munich|20050815.1720
... 24 and counting?
Sunday, August 14, 2005
BlogMap Made Easy ... with BlogExplorer!
Chandu Thota, the BlogMap creator, had done another great job in coming up with FeedMap BlogExplorer!
Now, you can submit your blog's location accurately (decently accurate) using the FeedMap BlogExplorer!.
Go to FeedMap BlogExplorer!: http://www.feedmap.net/blogexplorer/
Right-Click on your location and click on "Add a Blog" menu item.
kuancheen|munich|20050814.1130
... ain't it scary what technology can do for you?
Now, you can submit your blog's location accurately (decently accurate) using the FeedMap BlogExplorer!.
Go to FeedMap BlogExplorer!: http://www.feedmap.net/blogexplorer/
Right-Click on your location and click on "Add a Blog" menu item.
You still need to have a valid RSS and ATOM feed though.
kuancheen|munich|20050814.1130
... ain't it scary what technology can do for you?
Of a train ticket and a bar tab
Here we go ... again
It is the kick off of the English Premier League season.
Had to find an irish pub to catch the opening match, Everton vs. Manchester United
Spoke to katherine from the hotel this morning and she mention that there was a pub near this particular station right in the middle of munich
Thus began my journey to catch my fav team in action
I drove to puchiem to catch a train to munich ... and managed to snapped a few shots
I hopped on that train ... got off the station ... and walked around to find the pub
Asked a shop attendant at the station where is the nearest irish pub
And his reply was that he was not aware of any pub around this station, but mentioned that there is one near the station before
Walked a while and then stopped by starbuck and asked for further direction
She asked, "which one?"
I said (thinking to myself, there are more than one?), "which ever is the nearest"
"They both are about the same, one to the left and one to the right" (so katherine was not wrong after all)
She then gave me direction this particular pub called Shamrock
"Aha ... that rang a bell, as one of the German colleague mentioned it few days earlier"
So i got excited and hurried to the place ...
When i finally there ... it was closed, you call yourself and irish bar?!
Anyway, i hurried back to starbucks and asked for the direction for the other one
And finally made it to murphy's, over 20 mins into the game and still 0-0!
It was a nice game at the end
Great game for the younger neville
It was surreal seeing him in blue playing against us
And his signature a long throws ... and those hard tackle ... gotta miss him
It was a great gesture to the players greet one another after the match
Great outing by both EPL debuttants, park and van de sar!!!
Great runs and threat down from each flak and through the middle by park
And great goal keeping by VDS who kept us in the game, have we finally the one?
Hope this will be a great start to the new season.
And giggs and ronaldo still yet to come on and not forgetting solskjaer!!
The trip however did cost me 10 euros (inclusive 0.40 euro tips), so had to be worth it :)
By the way, in case that you are wondering, the germans loves their football, so there are bundesliga matches live on free tv, but EPL's only available on ppv
kuancheen|munich|20050813.1630
... one down, and hope plenty more to come. come on reds!
It is the kick off of the English Premier League season.
Had to find an irish pub to catch the opening match, Everton vs. Manchester United
Spoke to katherine from the hotel this morning and she mention that there was a pub near this particular station right in the middle of munich
Thus began my journey to catch my fav team in action
I drove to puchiem to catch a train to munich ... and managed to snapped a few shots
I hopped on that train ... got off the station ... and walked around to find the pub
Asked a shop attendant at the station where is the nearest irish pub
And his reply was that he was not aware of any pub around this station, but mentioned that there is one near the station before
Walked a while and then stopped by starbuck and asked for further direction
She asked, "which one?"
I said (thinking to myself, there are more than one?), "which ever is the nearest"
"They both are about the same, one to the left and one to the right" (so katherine was not wrong after all)
She then gave me direction this particular pub called Shamrock
"Aha ... that rang a bell, as one of the German colleague mentioned it few days earlier"
So i got excited and hurried to the place ...
When i finally there ... it was closed, you call yourself and irish bar?!
Anyway, i hurried back to starbucks and asked for the direction for the other one
And finally made it to murphy's, over 20 mins into the game and still 0-0!
It was a nice game at the end
Great game for the younger neville
It was surreal seeing him in blue playing against us
And his signature a long throws ... and those hard tackle ... gotta miss him
It was a great gesture to the players greet one another after the match
Great outing by both EPL debuttants, park and van de sar!!!
Great runs and threat down from each flak and through the middle by park
And great goal keeping by VDS who kept us in the game, have we finally the one?
Hope this will be a great start to the new season.
And giggs and ronaldo still yet to come on and not forgetting solskjaer!!
The trip however did cost me 10 euros (inclusive 0.40 euro tips), so had to be worth it :)
By the way, in case that you are wondering, the germans loves their football, so there are bundesliga matches live on free tv, but EPL's only available on ppv
kuancheen|munich|20050813.1630
... one down, and hope plenty more to come. come on reds!
Saturday, August 13, 2005
BlogMap Me Please, A Guide
IMPORTANT UPDATE!:
Chandu Thota, the BlogMap creator, had done another great job in coming up with FeedMap BlogExplorer!
Now, you can submit your blog's location accurately (decently accurate) using the FeedMap BlogExplorer!.
Go to FeedMap BlogExplorer!: http://www.feedmap.net/blogexplorer/
Right-Click on your location and click on "Add a Blog" menu item.You still need to have a valid RSS and ATOM feed though.kuancheen|munich|20050814.1130
BLOGDRIVE UPDATE!:
For BlogDrive bloggers, please start here.kuancheen|munich|20050815.1720
BEFORE attempting anything, please first read through the steps below..
** The following tips are for GENERALLY intended for blogs hosted on blogspot.com (| blogger.com) and in the area of Subang Jaya, Selangor :) **
Step 1: Get a blog
(obvious, but not technically neccessary)
To get yourself blogmap'd first of all you need a blog!
Step 2: Get a geo-tag
The next step is to insert geo-tags of the following format with into your web page's header tag, i.e. between <HEAD></HEAD> in your blog HTML code block.
<meta name="ICBM" content="[latitude], [longitude]" />
<meta name="geo.position" content="[latitude];[longitude]" />
Like i mentioned on my previous post, the [latitude] and [longitude] tags holds the value of your current location in decimal degree coordinate values.
Typically, i will insert it after the <$BlogMetaData$> which you will find in your Blogger's Edit Template section.
For Subang Jaya bloggers you can use this
<meta name="ICBM" content="3.07755, 101.59000" />
<meta name="geo.position" content="3.07755;101.59000" />
Check out my previous post for some suggestion to find other coordinates. Or check out the links below: -
Worldwide:US only:
Before you proceed, make sure you save the changes and republish your blog. (you can choose republish index only)
Step 3: Get registered
The third step is to get your blog registered.
Go to the BlogMap blog submit page.
At the "Enter your blog (or feed) url" textbox, enter your blog address e.g. "http://kuancheen.blogspot.com".
Then click "Submit Blog!"
Step 4: Get a badge!
If you have been successful up till now ...
CONGRATULATIONS! You have been BlogMap'd
Now, that you have been blogmap'd i am sure you want to display it on your blog.
After a successful registration in the previous step, you will be directed to a page that gives you the code to be inserted into your blog to display your blogmap.
At the "Adding BlogMap to Your Blog" section, Copy paste the following html source to display your blogmap badge.
It should look like something like this
<div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.feedmap.net/blogmap/blogapi.ashx
?method=blogmapbadge
&feed=http://kuancheen.blogspot.com/atom.xml">
</script>
</div>
Copy this an paste it where you want it to appear on your blog (which, in my case, i placed it on my sidebar)
Finally, republish your side voilà!
Hope that this have been helpful, all the best!
This post was inspired by the feedback requesting for less technical instruction, hope this helps :P
BlogMap FAQ #1 - ERROR: undeclared namespace prefix
kuancheen|munich|20050813.1200
... 3 new neighbloggers and counting up! welcome to the neighbloghood
Friday, August 12, 2005
I'm BlogMap'd ... and how you can too
hey ... i just got myself blogmap'd day before yesterday.
check out my blog map below (and my side bar)ain't it cool? now i can see who are blogging around my "neighbloggers"!
so, let's all get one ... so that we can start our own community :)
this nice little idea was the brain child of Chandu Thota, who created this site riding on the Microsoft® MapPoint® Technology coupled with geo-tags.
To get your own BlogMap click here
Here are some pre-requisites though that i gathered from the website
You can either submit your feed (RSS, ATOM) or blog url.
Apparently, you blog MUST have RSS or ATOM feed on your blog. When i tried to entered my blogdrive site, i get this error
So far, i am not aware whether the rest of the blog hosts have these feeds except i know Blogger have it.
If you have ICBM or geo.position tags in your feed/site, you need not enter your location.
First of all you need to insert the geo-tags into your web page's header tag, i.e. between <HEAD></HEAD> in your blog HTML code block.
There are the older ICBM tags and the newer, more generic geo-structure tags.
I inserted both.
The ICBM (original acronym is Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) tags derive from a more historical application, as described in the AntiOnline jargon dictionary:
Now will be a good time to thank your geography teacher ...
The [latitude] and [longitude] tags holds the value of your current location to be mapped in decimal degree coordinate values.
And if you must ...
My coordinates for Sungai Besi, Kuala Lumpur are ...
Therefore my geotags are ...
for south (S) and west (W), these values are in negative, and if you haven't already know ... the range is from -180 to 180 for both the latitudes and longtitudes.
so now you can go and calculate yourself your own geo-tags ... this is what geography class for ... hint .. the decimals are converted into minutes and seconds
well ... if you are that lazy you can always use this tool
but since i love the people in Subang Jaya so much, your geo-tags are ...
If no ICBM or geo.position tags are found, you need to manually enter your location.
but .. the location are not accurate for places outside the States (so typical)
this returns you the Latitudes and Longtitudes value, or you can try for Malaysia, here.
quoting the BlogMap people, ...
kuancheen|munich|20050812.1200
... now, if you will excuse me, i need to evacuate, now that my coordinates are public
check out my blog map below (and my side bar)ain't it cool? now i can see who are blogging around my "neighbloggers"!
so, let's all get one ... so that we can start our own community :)
this nice little idea was the brain child of Chandu Thota, who created this site riding on the Microsoft® MapPoint® Technology coupled with geo-tags.
To get your own BlogMap click here
Here are some pre-requisites though that i gathered from the website
- You can either submit your feed (RSS, ATOM) or blog url.
- If you have ICBM or geo.position tags in your feed/site, you need not enter your location.
- If no ICBM or geo.position tags are found, you need to manually enter your location.
- To update your location, simply re-submit your blog with new location information.
You can either submit your feed (RSS, ATOM) or blog url.
Apparently, you blog MUST have RSS or ATOM feed on your blog. When i tried to entered my blogdrive site, i get this error
Sorry! Unable to detect RSS or ATOM feed from the url: 'http://mywalkwithchrist.blogdrive.com'.
So far, i am not aware whether the rest of the blog hosts have these feeds except i know Blogger have it.
If you have ICBM or geo.position tags in your feed/site, you need not enter your location.
First of all you need to insert the geo-tags into your web page's header tag, i.e. between <HEAD></HEAD> in your blog HTML code block.
There are the older ICBM tags and the newer, more generic geo-structure tags.
<meta name='ICBM' content="[latitude], [longitude]" />
<meta name="geo.position" content="[latitude];[longitude]" />
I inserted both.
The ICBM (original acronym is Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) tags derive from a more historical application, as described in the AntiOnline jargon dictionary:
ICBM address n.
(Also 'missile address') The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project, back before the day of pervasive Internet, included a blank for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This was actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it became traditional to refer to this as one's 'ICBM address' or 'missile address', and some people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target elevation.)
Now will be a good time to thank your geography teacher ...
The [latitude] and [longitude] tags holds the value of your current location to be mapped in decimal degree coordinate values.
And if you must ...
Latitude = Garis Lintang
Longitude = Garis Bujur
My coordinates for Sungai Besi, Kuala Lumpur are ...
Latitude: 3° 4' 12'' N
Longitude: 101° 43' 12'' E
(DMS: Degrees, minutes and seconds)
which converts to
Latitude: 3.07000
Longitude: 101.72000
(Decimal degrees)
Therefore my geotags are ...
<meta name='ICBM' content="3.07000, 101.72000" />
<meta name="geo.position" content="3.07000;101.72000" />
for south (S) and west (W), these values are in negative, and if you haven't already know ... the range is from -180 to 180 for both the latitudes and longtitudes.
so now you can go and calculate yourself your own geo-tags ... this is what geography class for ... hint .. the decimals are converted into minutes and seconds
well ... if you are that lazy you can always use this tool
but since i love the people in Subang Jaya so much, your geo-tags are ...
<meta name='ICBM' content="3.07755, 101.59000" />
<meta name="geo.position" content="3.07755;101.59000" />
If no ICBM or geo.position tags are found, you need to manually enter your location.
but .. the location are not accurate for places outside the States (so typical)
this returns you the Latitudes and Longtitudes value, or you can try for Malaysia, here.
quoting the BlogMap people, ...
Come on, don't you want to know who's blogging near you?
kuancheen|munich|20050812.1200
... now, if you will excuse me, i need to evacuate, now that my coordinates are public
My First Image Post
i have finally posted my first photos on my blog.
been delaying cause i was trying to script some nice mouseover tooltip
tried a few times and failed to come out with one that i am satisfied with and a one that works nicely
another reason was that i was looking for a place that i can host my photos. came across a few, some blog have their own services.
was looking at walagata for a while, then came across flickr (apparently bought over by Yahoo! in March 2005) which i was quite impressed till i saw the 25MB of upload per month ... that was like ... err ...
so needless to say i was put off by the restriction. that was when i landed myself at textamerica (if you are wondering ... i get these list of photo storage sites by looking at the image source of other blogs)
and this is when i am introduced to the term photoblog or moblog. the opportunity to not just store my pics to be linked to my blogs but also to create my first photoblog is just too good to be missed.
this is also where i bumped into this cool mouseover tooltip
this site uses a script from Dynamic Drive
one thing cool about using these readily available scripts as opposed to trying to write one myself is that these scripts (at least for this example) are written and tested across different platform and browser. unless i have installed multiple browsers or have easy access to them, it will be hard for me to really right a cross-browser script.
unless of course you have a brilliant suggestion in this field that i have shallow knowledge of.
okay, enough babbling ... here are my first two pics on this blog
kuancheen|munich|20050811.1830
... so how many thousand words are spoken already?
been delaying cause i was trying to script some nice mouseover tooltip
tried a few times and failed to come out with one that i am satisfied with and a one that works nicely
another reason was that i was looking for a place that i can host my photos. came across a few, some blog have their own services.
was looking at walagata for a while, then came across flickr (apparently bought over by Yahoo! in March 2005) which i was quite impressed till i saw the 25MB of upload per month ... that was like ... err ...
so needless to say i was put off by the restriction. that was when i landed myself at textamerica (if you are wondering ... i get these list of photo storage sites by looking at the image source of other blogs)
and this is when i am introduced to the term photoblog or moblog. the opportunity to not just store my pics to be linked to my blogs but also to create my first photoblog is just too good to be missed.
this is also where i bumped into this cool mouseover tooltip
this site uses a script from Dynamic Drive
one thing cool about using these readily available scripts as opposed to trying to write one myself is that these scripts (at least for this example) are written and tested across different platform and browser. unless i have installed multiple browsers or have easy access to them, it will be hard for me to really right a cross-browser script.
unless of course you have a brilliant suggestion in this field that i have shallow knowledge of.
for more on photoblogs @ wiki
okay, enough babbling ... here are my first two pics on this blog
kuancheen|munich|20050811.1830
... so how many thousand words are spoken already?
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Of Two Tones
i am always fascinated with black and white (b&w) photography
since young i loves things in black and white
love to do pencil sketches more than colour pastel
(this helps to hide my lack of creativity with colour ;))
on monday my fren abner was 'advertising' about his trip to taman negara and posted my his friend's link as well.
his fren sengkit had this photoblog, which i think he just started it, called "sengkit's Sayomellete".
i was particularly attracted to the pics here, which inspired me to go out and snap few b&w myself around munich. and it turn out quite well. i would like to share some here, but still have not sorted out where to upload them yet.
found this pages while surfing for more b&w info ... here are some topic and links i found from there
din get to read them though ... hehehe ...
kuancheen|munich|20050808.0530
... yes you read that right!!! 0530!!! not that i am early, but been up for the whole night (or watever left of it) ... trying to get something sorted out in the office ... called for a cab but they are all out to the airport!
since young i loves things in black and white
love to do pencil sketches more than colour pastel
(this helps to hide my lack of creativity with colour ;))
on monday my fren abner was 'advertising' about his trip to taman negara and posted my his friend's link as well.
his fren sengkit had this photoblog, which i think he just started it, called "sengkit's Sayomellete".
i was particularly attracted to the pics here, which inspired me to go out and snap few b&w myself around munich. and it turn out quite well. i would like to share some here, but still have not sorted out where to upload them yet.
found this pages while surfing for more b&w info ... here are some topic and links i found from there
Converting colour images to black and white [go]
Resources and Info [go]
din get to read them though ... hehehe ...
... sometimes skill not really play important role here. It's depends on how u see something thru the viewfinder, and how u judge whether a shot is nice or not. you can take good pictures too...*sengkit*
... agree[d] ... it's all about "framing" and ... "photo-directing" ...kuancheen
kuancheen|munich|20050808.0530
... yes you read that right!!! 0530!!! not that i am early, but been up for the whole night (or watever left of it) ... trying to get something sorted out in the office ... called for a cab but they are all out to the airport!
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