Posts Tagged ‘2008’

New(now old) Guidelines on Hand-Carried Luggage

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

For short trips, I always like to hand carry my luggage onto the plane. Reasons are:

  1. My luggage on wheels is small and light even with my macbook in it
  2. I do not have to worry that my check-in luggage gets smack and smash by the airport staff.
  3. One particular experience was that I forgot to take out some coins and a nokia battery out of the zip of my check-in luggage. I only notice the coins and battery stolen when I reach home.
  4. After arrival and clear custom, I can move out of the airport in super sonic speed. Not many airports has a efficient and fast system like Changi. I waited close to 2 hours once for my luggage in another international airport.

Sounds cool with the reasons above. However, things get edgy with your favorite (more…)

15minutes new WordPress header for busy people

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Due to special request by Ndmervin on my previous WordPress post, I wrote this quick guide. As mention, i am using the default WordPress theme based on the famous Kubrick. So if you are using themes, you might have to tweak around abit. This is a unorthodox way to set up a header. Login to your admin portal

  1. Got to theme editor and edit style.css and find the text
    #header {
    background: #73a0c5 url(’images/kubrickheader.jpg’) no-repeat bottom center;
    }
  2. Notice the location. In your blog site web host, this image is located in
    wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpg
  3. The size of this image is 760×200pixels. So for your image to be use here, it has to be the same size.
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Think of grandma, we always will and smile

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Do you always think of your Grandma? I do. My Grandma pass away peacefully in her sleep last year on this exact date 5 January 2007. I manage to see her and tasted her cooking on 4 January, the day before she left. Lucky might be a too simple word to use, I would say thank god I was able to see her. You see, I was away for holiday and nearly wanted to extend my stay. However as I have class on 4 January, I decide to come back. On that day, she called and ask me to go to her house for dinner on that day I said no and put down the phone as I might not have enough time to do so. After thinking that I have not seem her since my holiday, I called her back and said I be there.

Reach her house, shake her hand(I always do that with her, like businessman), talk and went straight to eat. Was in a rush to school and when i finish, I have to go. Went off and bid her goodbye while she close the door and that was the last time I saw her alive.

4 or 5am in the morning of 5 January while I was sleeping, (more…)