Brendan Chan

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Time on Flickr.

Timestop.

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Pool chairs on Flickr.

True blue.

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Platform on Flickr.

Ready, Set, Jump!

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Biscuit on Flickr.

My petdog, Biscuit portrait shot.

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Moonshot

The Moon by Brendan Chan

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Here is a video to show Nokia N9 touch-to-focus video recording. As you can see, you can easily shift the focus from the business card to the N9 sales box and vice versa. 

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Nokia N9 - Screenshots

Instead of showing you guys photos of the physical device. I will be posting up screenshots of the various functions that you can find in the latest device from Nokia, the Nokia N9.

If you are not sure what is N9, you can goto its official website to get acquaintance with it at http://swipe.nokia.com 

I'll be posting a few snapshots of the functions of N9 in each post over the next few weeks. 

For this week, I will show you guys the 3 home screens of the N9.

   Applications View - This is where all you apps will be located.

  Events View - This is where all your new messages, missed calls, tweets, wall posts and other notifications will appear. 

Open Applications View - Basically allows you to see the applications that are still running behind. A showcase of the multi-tasking prowess of the N9. As you can see, I have 12 apps running  behind and the device still didn't show signs of lag at all.

I will continue to post more screenshots later on. By the way, I took those screeshots using Screenshotme application.

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Pictures from Bali

This type of fence with elaborate carvings is actually a common sight throughout Bali?

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New Nokia Store Client - Preview

The Store client received a huge revamp courtesy of Nokia Betalabs. This beta Store client will replace the current Store client on your Symbian^3 or Symbian Anna device, and it supports nearly all of the features as the official Store client (Web Runtime). The key new features this client brings include:

Easier navigation

Improved product details view, for a rich and fluid discovery experience

Quicker, smoother and more responsive than WRT client

Head over to http://betalabs.nokia.com to download the beta client.

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Touchdown: Nokia 700 & 701

Fancy being the first to own one of the Symbian Belle smartphone? Now is your chance if you are in Malaysia. The Nokia 700 and 701 are the first two smartphones from Nokia sporting the 1Ghz processor and running on Symbian latest OS; Symbian Belle.

The retail price for 700 and 701 is RM1,025 and RM1,130 respectively.

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Bali

Bali here I come. 9 Sept 2011 to 13 Sept 2011.

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Weekend Shots - Who Am I?

Only have a week of playtime with this baby. Really impressive so far. Would choose this over all other devices even those that are about to be launched.

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Random Shots - Casual Friday

This is my casual wear. Don't you just love Friday? 

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Rise of The Planet of The Apes

Rise of The Planet of The Apes is another science fiction film where CGI triumph over storyline and the actors casted for this film. The CGI generated apes especially Ceasar (Andy Serkis) takes the credit for this reboot of the apes series.Some notable cast includes James Franco who portrayed Howard Osborn in the Spiderman trilogy, Freida Pinto from Slumdog Millionaire, Tom Felton from Harry Potter series and Andy Serkis from Lord of The Rings trilogy. 

James Franco's performance in this film was not his best, he was much better in 127 Hours. But thank goodness for Ceasar the lead ape for this film who was motioned captured by Andy Serkis and also the rebels that followed Ceasar. Credit also to the orangutan and gorilla whom in my opinion were much better than their human counterpart.

The film may portray the apes as the protagonists but I'm definitely on their side for this story. Not to delve too much into the details, it was the human who created the entire problem in the first place. But we won’t have a movie to watch if that wasn't the case.

To be honest, I'm not really good in reviewing a movie. For me and this is my opinion, Rise is worth the watch. 

Take a look at the trailer and I'll let you decide if that's the case.

P/S: It's like a trend nowadays to have post credit scene for every movies. So please don't jump off your seat and head for the exit just because you want to be first in line at the parking pay machine. The scene certain lead us to believe that there will be sequel to this film.

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Flavors - Make a homepage in minutes

For those who wants a simple page to show your profile but doesn't have the time to create a website from ground-up. Flavors.me would allow you to do just that. You basically can have your profile page up in minutes with the simple to use interface.

Basically there are two type of subscriptions, free and paid version. Free version will allow you to setup and create your own homepage but the paid version will give you more control on your page.

Have a look at my page at http://flavors.me/brendanc

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Random Shots

Caught this tornado like sky formation while waiting at a traffic junction. 

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A Pig's Tale - The Hungry Hog

If it wasn't for Twitter and @nigelais, I wouldn't have discovered The Hungry Hog even though it's situated within walking distance from my office at SS15 Subang Jaya. As you might have guessed it, Hungry Hog's main ingredient for their menu is pork.

The restaurant has the rustic feel to it with exposed cement flooring to decors such as those in the above photo. Right let's jump straight into the reason I'm writing this; the food.

First up, the Keropork. It's basically fried pork skin served with vinegar dip. It was slightly on the hard side and bland for me. Perhaps a sprinkle of salt & pepper might do the trick?

Next up is the in-house made sausages with caramelized onions as sauce. Juicy and seasoned to perfection. Recommended.

Now for the main act, the signature dish, cutely named as 3 Little Pigs. The proper sized burger consists of in-house made pork patty topped with streaky bacon, ham, caramelized onions and melted cheese. The juicy patty was grilled perfectly and all the toppings combined well with it. A must try!

Bacon pasta, the spaghetti was cooked just right with generous amount of bacon.

Our own mini pork fest would not be complete without siew yoke (roast pork). Unlike the others, Hungry Hog's siew yoke is marinated with five-spice. The crispy skin and fat that melts in your mouth was served with rice doused with minced pork.

Overall, the environment is great, place is clean, food is good, service is friendly and price is reasonable.  I would definitely give Hungry Hog another try again.

Website: http://www.hog.my