YATTA!!

We've made it as one of the 10 finalists of the Star Drive For Food competition.

Freddi, May and myself attended the briefing last Saturday, and we had the chance to meet our rivals. The organisers also showed the videos of the 10 finalists (except ours, don't know why) and boy oh boy, the competition is going to be extremely tough. Maybe that's why I'm not as excited as my friends are for me. Doing a travelogue has always been my desire, and I really felt I could impress The Star with the 2nd phase of the competition. But it didn't turn out the way I expected it to be.

The task is this: showcase the nice places to visit & food to eat along the route from KL to Penang, and do it all in a 3-minute video. 3 MINUTES?!! That is going to be tough. Another tough part would be that we don't know when we are to submit our final video. Organisers are keeping it a surprise. But they are asking that we bring laptops to edit our videos in Penang, so I'm guessing that we'll have to get it done by the following day.

1 thing I like about the competition is that we have about 8 - 10 hours to travel from KL and Penang, thus having much time to explore the countrysides. So friends, if you know of a really nice place with beautiful scenes & tasty food along the KL-Penang route, please let me know. And when I meet tasty food, I don't mean FAMOUS FOOD. I mean TASTY FOOD. REALLY REALLY GOOD FOOD. It would be nice if you used to live there before or something... Email me at joashchan@gmail.com or leave a comment here.

I thank you so much for your help. Wish us luck.

Oh, by the way, our team is called Freddi & Co., named after my ex-colleague.

Star Drive For Food Contest

This is the joint effort of me & my ex-colleague, Freddi. Wish us luck...

A New Blog

That's right, folks. This blog of mine has a new title & a new bloglink. Unfortunately, some random dude has immediately snatched up my old address, so I think I'll have to rebuild my reader base all over again. And that might be a good thing too. After all, I do have a new name.
Why the new name? Well, it just inspires me to write. I suppose it serves as a new motivation for me to express myself with words again. Thinking about the new blog title itself has inspired many many materials. And I'm really excited about it.

So why haven't I blogged lately? Well, my blogging mojo is at a halt because my neighbour has ceased to provide me with free WIFI (God bless him), and I have just recently purchased a new connection. It's IzziYou - a 4G wiredless broadband thing, something very new on the market. You can check it out at www.izzi.com.my. I just hope I didn't jump onto the bandwagon too early. My house has no phone line, so adding that to the Streamyx subscription, the cost is about the same as Izzi. The fact that Izzi is mobile made it a simple choice for me. The device is as big as a mobile phone, maybe half as heavy.

Anyway, back to the reason why I haven't been blogging as frequent as I wished. Well, simply, the connection speed is very slow. It's so slow that sometimes I can't open my gmail or blogger. It's so slow that I did a speedtest provided by their website, and there were several times where the test couldn't be completed. And when there was a result, I took a screen shot of it, but it's so slow that I am unable to show it to you here. That's right, I am no longer able to upload any photos or videos online. To a blogger & vlogger like myself, that's huge.

But I'm still giving Izzi a chance. I called the hotline today, and the customer service rep was kind enough to call me back (I got no more credit). And somehow he managed to convince me that he'll be able to take all my connection blues away, & will extend my full-refund period (originally 1 week) until they stop trying. I think you can't ask for more.

So, until I'm able to post photos and videos, it's going to be just me and my words. Seems like I've not done that in a while. Thank you to all the readers who continue reading my blog & somehow find me more interesting than I really am.

My New Tripod

Went to IKANO the other day & Caleb became an excellent salesman for ACE Hardware Shop... He convinced me to buy a few things, including this....

I don't really know what I would do with it, and I forgot why I bought it in the first place (see, that's how good Caleb's salesmanship is...).

Caleb's camera certainly look nice with the tripod (or is it because I took a nice picture of it with MY camera?), but it can't completely carry the weight of my video camera, especially if you want to hang it on a tree branch...

I think this setting will stay for a while... picture taken with Caleb's camera.

Clearly I don't have much to say.... This post shall go under Randoms & Lame.

p.s. I won't be updating much here. I'll come back when I sort things out =) Please visit my b4jc blog if you want to get updated on my life. Or see nice pictures & videos =)