Driving Class - 2

Tiring! Hurting all my left bodyparts! But it was fun! heheh... Today I learnt how to side-park a car + the continuation of last week 3-point turning. I drove quite an old Kancil that has a hard clutch (countless engine stalls!!! Yikes!!) + a difficult gear to deal with (asik-asik tak masuk gear... naik lenguh tangan).

It was drizzling a bit when I get the hold of the whole thing. Let's give myself a round of applause 'coz I didn't hit a single pole!! YaaaaaaaaayyyyY!!! The only thing that sucks is the clutch. Still had trouble controlling the clutch. Haihhhh... I need a car to practise....

Motorola L6 Review

Features of the Motorola L6:

• Size: 113 x 49 x 10.9 mm
• Weight: 86 g
• Display: STN 65,000 colours, 128 x 160 pixels
• Triband
• VGA camera (640 x 480 pixels) with 4x digital zoom
• Memory: 10 MB
• MP3 ringtones
• Phone book: 500 entries, Push to Talk, Picture caller ID
• Handsfree speakerphone
• Messaging: SMS, EMS 5.0, MMS Instant Messaging
• Java games, downloadable screensavers, images, animations and sounds
• Connectivity: Bluetooth®, USB, SyncML,WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10
  
• Talktime: up to 250 minutes
• Battery standby: up to 345 hours

First impression: Very thin! But WIDE and it comes in PINK (I HATE pink). But let's not be biased OK. The WIDE size of it makes it fit comfotably in anyone's palm especially gentlemen although the design (thinness & lightweightness) might appeal more to the ladies. The very thin but sturdy metal metallic (silver, baby blue or neon pink) housing is the main key to its thin design that is envied. And oh yeah... looking at the features in its package and comparing it with the offered price... Whoaaa you have one very affordable phone!

However... further scutinisation shows...

Display: is STN instead of TFT which is only capable to display up to 65K colors only so the display is pretty dim and blur. Any thoughts on authentic color photos should be forgotten. The low resolution also made the round corners of a picture a little bit rough.

Camera: Another weak link although the 4x zoom might made your eyes widen a bit. But don't be fooled! The zoom only produced photo "crops". As for the maximum resolution, the camera only provides you with a 0.31 megapixel thus the picture produced will be slightly blur and hazy especially if it is underexpose. However, it is sufficient for basic photo-taking or during those emergencies when you don't have your digital camera at hand (like involving yourself in a car accident :p). Despite all the weaknesses, Motorola L6 provides us with quite a big range of photo effects for a phone camera (e.g. white/color combination, sephia, etc.) and these visual effects can be used for the video camera.

Memory: Motorola L6 is very rich in features. With its capability of storing up to 500 contact numbers, storing MP3, downloading screensavers, images, sounds and animation the non-expandable built-in memory of 10MB somehow made me think either those designers & engineers in Motorola came from the same company or not. It is just NOT SUFFICIENT. Somehow it renders all the great features almost useless.

Speaker: This is one of the L6 strength. The 3D sound produced is very good although the placement of the speaker at the lower back of the phone made is a pity because the sound will be muffled or sharpen based on the surface the phone is put onto.

Keypad/Messaging: As an avid user of SMS, I was appalled and frustrated with Motorola L6. For me, this is the weakest link of all. The design of the keypad requires user to add more pressure while typing their message and after a while you tend to hurt your fingers. Due to this, you aren't able to type with one hand (or it is very hard even if you manage to do so) and if you cover your phone with a crystal casing (the ever current fashion for a phone), you are likely to type wrongly especially the characters at the '*' and '#' buttons. That is just the keypad. I found that the sofware speed to be very slow especially when you are publishing long messages. This makes it hard for you to edit it if you are in a hurry. However, the ability of the software to allow users to key in by character was a little bit consoling although this little facility is not available when you are using the phonebook to search for contacts. Searching phonebook & renaming files in your multimedia folders is done by string characters - meaning you have to search the appropriate string of characters to match your contacts' name or word. Such a troublesome way especially if you are in a hurry to contact an important person.

Conclusion: All in all Motorola L6 is good for those users who make frequent calls and use basic fundtions of a phone. The package twinned with the very affordable price make it an eye catcher for these kinds of users. However I would suggest that this phone be suitable for a second phone only.

Pictures grabbed from gsmarena.com

Happy New Year!

Happy new year to all!!!! Yes I'm back! Actually after the new year I had published another blog (ThinkTankerTwoTown) where I'll be ranting on DIY, gifts, safety, health & environment. Huuuu quite a heavy topic eh? Hope I can keep on updating it regularly. Kind of hard to maintain 2 blogs at a time.

This blog will still be the 1st love... heheh... my life diary (if I dare to bare to all here). New year was great for me. I had a new haircut! Yeah.... a bit tom boyish. Remember the hair problems I've been having? Well... It was THAT bad that I decided to cut it.

O yeah.. I had received the Loreal elseve products I ordered with my fwen... (hey, I got discounts for all Loreal products all year round, anybody interested, PM me!). The mask was just great. I'll be doing the review on that sometime soon. I had just used it twice, so it's not gonna be fair for a review now.

New Year Resolution. I don't have any. Resolutions should be made daily. So that's it.

Confuscious Confusion...

Seawal 8:30 am tadi aku dah menunggu di depan Masjid Al-Hidayah tuk Cikgu (aku panggil Pakcik jer...) Karim pick me up there (Hish... apesal tetiba aku guna bahasa Melayu nih? ni mesti sebab puisi jiwang karat tu masih bersisa dalam template blog aku nih :p). Today is the day for the 6 hours of theoretical/practical class for driving!

After quite a long wait (usual-lah about 1 hour) baru la kelas bermula... The instructor introduced himself as "MEC" wallahua'lam is it his real name or not. But he IS such a confusing teacher. As a matter of fact, today is full of confusing people & things. The analogy he used was so confusing that if one stops listening for a while, one cannot get the meaning of what he is trying to relay. For example he used his (so-called) name MEC in a sentence to make us remember the 6 major errors done by students. The sentence goes like this; "MEC Dah Tak Suka", so the 6 errors are MECDTS which are actually for M=meter (as in > 50 km/hr), E=enjin (stalled, etc.), C=cermin (forgot to check the rear & side mirrors), D=divider, T=traffic lights, S=simpang. Can you catch it or not?

Altogether it was so confusing that we paid so much attention to it that we remember almost all of the lessons (huh, I guess his objective of catching our attention paid off afterall). After that it was the other 3 hours of workshop class where we were tought how to service the car, change tires, lubricating oil, etc. I was in a class of 10 people (7 females + 3 males) with a Kancil and an Indian instructor (quite old, around 48-55). You can imagine how the instructor would talk. Indian-slang Malay mixed with the technical terms of the engine. Sooooooooo confusing! I thank God so much that I've learnt about engine when I was in Form 3, learnt about it again when I took NGV class with Dr. Zul in UTM, thank God 'coz I've been exposed to servicing a car by my dearest Papa since I was a child. And thank God again for His wonderful gift of a great intuition and brain. Or else I don't think I'll survive that class 'coz I won't be able to understand what the hell the instructor was babbling about.

All in all, although I'm tired (wrecking my brain to max limit to understand everything) and hungry (yeah, thinking took a LOOOOOTTTT of efforts, that's why you rarely see a huge/fat/ college professor), I came back home with a lot of new information for me to use in another 2 weeks... on the track. Huhuhuhu... couldn't wait!!

And talk about confusion... I am currently reading 3 books (my usual habit ever since I started working). 1st book is One for The Money my Evanovich. This one is an e-book so I only read it during lunch hours at the office or when I really had nothing tangible to read on hand. So far as expected of the Stephanie Plum bounty hunter series, it was hilarious. Some confusion in there but still understandable by the ever so complex mind of mine. I really wish I had a PDA or a tablet so that I can read the e-book anywhere because I had nearly 500 (I think) titles of e-book that I downloaded over the net. It's hard to read them all or even one without a computer and a Microsoft Reader (it's in Lit. format).

Another book is a Malay novel called Rengsa by Zharulnizam Shah. Just started this one last night. The introduction was a bit confusing but after a few more pages I started to understand the whole picture if not the motive of murder (O yeah... I tend to like mysteries, murder & science. Romance I layan juga.... hey, I have TWO sides of brain to satisfy, OK!).
And the most confusing of all is the novel by Michael Crichton called The Andromeda Strain. I bought this piece at the Payless Books last week (you can check out the rest of my collection here) for RM 2.40 and I'm beginning to think that this one worth every damn cents. Well, to tell you the truth Michael Crichton novel made your money worth it (even if you buy it firsthand at about RM 50). I'm quite a big fan of his novels (not him). Actually I just started this book this morning while waiting for Cikgu Karim to pick me up and continued reading during the breaks & boring minutes I was at the institute. I'm currently at the 3rd chapter & I already found a binary code to crack. Fuuuuhhhh... Really exciting and mind boggling + yessss... confusing. For simple minded people who are looking for light reading material... don't ever touch Michael Crichton's. Or 2 pages you'll doze off to lala land. Heheheh...

OK, to bookworms, happy reading this nice weekend! To the people who's taking classes for their P driving license like me, Good Luck! (Suddenly I remember Takuya Kimura... never mind I'll talk about Good Luck in another post). Happy holiday to all, we'll face a new year in just about a week, stay alive!!

LULUS UJIAN BERKOMPUTER KPP!

Yay!! After the long wait (more than an hour after registering), I finally finished taking the KPP Computer Test and passed at 46/50. Got 4 questions wrong in the B section. Hehhe... So, tomorrow will be the starting of the real driving lessons! Fuuuhh... wish me luck!

Thank God today is pay day. I'm nearly out of $ (my worn out wallet had only RM 8.86 in it for about an hour). I usually kept extra RM10 hidden somewhere in there for emergencies but that emergency $ was also used (yeah, emergency la, no more money & still have to pay for taking the test maaa). So I've settled all the PTPTN, savings & extra $ for the driving lessons. Then the fund transfer for Ibu & Papa at home online. Unfortunately my printer's nozzles stuck, so I didn't get to print my receipt like usual. Even after cleaning it up with alcohol swabs (actually it was a facial toner hehehe) it is still not working (maybe I can cilok some methanol from the QC lab next Tuesday to REALLY clean it... hmmm). Or more money to change that as well... *sigh...*