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Fancy Fans

November 18, 2010 By View Comments

Sunflower Fan.

I just saw the coolest ceiling fan. Now this is what all fans should look like – which is not to look like a fan. This one here is called the sunflower fan. When not in use, the blades are folded in to look like petals and when you turn on the fan, the blades fan out into, well, a fan. Watch the video here. It looks really cool.

I’ve always imagined ceiling fans to be boring which was why I set out to buy a white ceiling fan so that it’ll blend into the white ceiling and disappear. The first shop I walked into, funny enough was called Fancy, in Uptown Damansara. They had fancy fans like this one and propeller looking fans with fancy prices in the thousands of ringgit. I was mesmerized, like a kid in Charlie’s Chocolate Factory. I wish I could take them all home but I had a boring white fan budget. Maybe one day I’ll have a fancy fan in each room of the house even though there’s an air conditioner there. I’d like them to stand out and make the ceiling look less boring.

Found a site that has more fancy fans. Check out G Squared Art. Here are two that I like.

The Artemis

The Cirque

Have you seen some really cool fans?

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Yahoo! kicks off treasure hunt ahead of the new yahoo.com.my launch.

October 28, 2009 By View Comments

It won’t be official until next year but the site is live and Yahoo! wants young Malaysians to explore what’s in store at yahoo.com.my with a treasure hunt called Youreka!

How it works is pretty simple. Hidden in all the Yahoo! services – the News page at http://yahoo.com.my, Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Mail are tickets in either red, blue or green. If you hunt enough to be one of the top hunters you can then hunt for the purple ticket. Once you find a ticket, click on it and login with your Yahoo! ID. If you don’t have one, you can register for it. Successful hunters have a chance at winning adidas accessories, blockbuster movie screenings, BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphones, customizable mi adidas Supernova Sequence and Microbounce shoes, and exclusive passes to the YOUREKA! Finale party on November 25. One lucky hunter will walk away with a Digital Entertainment suite. You can find out more at the Youreka! microsite in http://yahoo.com.my.

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“Tweepavali” : A Deepavali Tweetup

October 23, 2009 By View Comments

It’s always nice to meet folks from twitter. People I talk to like I’ve known them forever but have never met are especially interesting to meet in real life. Sometimes you meet people completely opposite from what you know them to be online. The surprize is pleasant in most cases. And when I find a cool bunch of people, I whip out my camera.

 

Make Your Own Music Video With Animoto

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The Rahman Code

August 20, 2009 By View Comments

Apparently there’s this Rahman Code that guides the selection of Prime Ministers in Malaysia. Nah, it’s just a coincidence. Right? I asked my muslim friends including Amir himself and was met with “What, you haven’t heard of this before?” Well no, seriously, I haven’t. Amir by the way gave a brilliant presentation at the recent Pecha Kucha Night in KL.

Now I’m wondering if there are more “codes” running the country. Enjoy the video, celebrate our filmmakers while they’re still alive (that’s Amir) and long live Najib.

What is Pecha Kucha Night?
Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds

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Google Wave Hackathon

August 18, 2009 By View Comments

The first Google Wave Hackathon for Google developers in Malaysia was held last Saturday at iTrain. Nazrul, Chief Thug of the Google Technology User Group in KL (GTUG KL) sat down with me and recounted the events of the week that almost led to a non-event. People had no Google Wave accounts up to 10am that morning. Thank gawd Google came through by 11am and everyone got down to business around noon.

If you’ve missed this one, you can look forward to the second hackathon which should be before Google’s public preview on September 30th. Follow @nazroll on twitter or join the GTUG KL facebook group for updates.

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Gadget Envy

August 10, 2009 By View Comments

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Niki organized a Poken meetup in Bangsar on Saturday. Of course, everyone came with their Pokens. Then I had a thought, since we got a bunch of geeks together, let’s see what other gadgets they have on them. So I went around the table with the Vado HD. Thank you everyone for sharing what you have.

If this was a group research, here’s my observation:

  1. Everyone has at least 1 poken and 1 mobile phone.
  2. Most popular phone is Nokia. Only one iPhone owner.
  3. Almost everyone has a laptop (wifi ready) or a device that can connect to the internet.
  4. And the one with the most gadgets is a girl.

Have I missed anything?

This video wasn’t encoded in HD, btw. My machine has gots no juice. I need a mac (you hear that Santa?).

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Poken Meetup #2

August 3, 2009 By View Comments

Tfirefoxpokenhe second Poken tweetup happened again at the same place (D’lish in Bangsar Village). This time we sat outside which was great. We had the outside all to ourselves and there was space to move around to poken peeps. There were familiar and new faces, people we know through twitter but never met irl. There were young and old too. Youngest being Eric’s son. His kids are Japanese and don’t speak a word of English. They speak the universal language of Poken – by holding up their pokens. When you see that, you know exactly what they want. The eldest girl also helped pimp my Poken with multi-colored blings. Was going to toss the fox earlier and carry a ninja instead but I think I’ll keep my sparkly fox now.

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