Charles Lau

I was at the PC Show for two days last weekend. We went there to look for cameras. On Saturday, i went with my wife and we walked around the whole place to have a look.

Some interesting products caught my eyes are the power saver which can instantly save you about 15%. The salesgirl is pretty good at her selling skills as she tackles me from how much i can save, with 90 days money-back guarantee. However, i didn’t buy it in the end as my wife don’t think it’ll help much.

We did our research for a camera over at the PC Show on saturday. Then, we went to buy on the last day. Indeed, there was a further discount of $30! But one thing i don’t like is that the salesguy used the no-stock method to close us. As we were about to decide to buy from him, he used the method of saying the pink color that my wife chose is out of stock. So i told her if she likes the blue one. The salesguy showed us the blue camera, saying that this is the last piece. After discussing with my wife, we decided not to buy on impulse as we rather pay more to get what we want.
Guess what happen? We went to another salesgirl and she showed us exactly what we wanted and we bought immediately!

The moral of the story is that sometimes the buying button is already pressed, hence don’t think too complicated…

At the end of the day, my family bought a total of 3 cameras costing us around $1500..

It’s been a while since my RSS feed seems to be facing problem.  I was so frustrated with my feed problem that I just asked Carl for help out of desperation.  It’s just in case he may know what happens…

We went through a couple of things.

Disabling the feed redirection

First, we disable the feed redirection first.  This is the most headache one because I don’t seem to find anyway to disable that.

1. I disabled feedsmith.  It is still redirecting!
2. Carl asked me to look through the .htaccess in case I do my redirection from there. It’s not there either.
3. I removed my feedburner link in this UBT theme option as well.  (It’s a blogging theme created by Carl.)  It don’t work either.
4. Something came to my mind about WP-Insert.  I went  there and found any  redirection there.  So I disabled it. My raw WordPress feed finally shows up!

Something seems to be preventing feedburner from updating

Strangely speaking, after I disable that link redirect, everything works  really well!  From then on, I decided not to enable feedburner in WP-Insert anymore.  It has caused me enough problem and getting zero feed update for my readers.

Here i come again with my blog!  :)

While I have been posting over here, my feed is out of sync from my blog postings.  I really don’t know if it is Feedburner’s problem, or WordPress is not updating my feed.  There is no clue after trying so long.

After trying so long configuring my Feedburner settings, it is still not giving me  any clue.  Does it have to mean that I cannot keep my feed readers happy any more?  I really don’t know.

I’ll just try it out and find out the root of the problem.    I do realize that there are a couple of  people complaining the same problem at Google Group and there is still no reply.  In the hope of getting it to work, I have also posted up my question there. Just cross my fingers that a miracle will happen…

http://groups.google.com/group/feedburner-services/browse_thread/thread/17c755ed295dcf36#

Amazon Kindle DX has been released on 6 May 2009.  I have been wondering whether I should buy this little gadget or not at $489.  (Tha’s about $740 in my currency!)

There is a very big problem here.  I have a lot of PDF files to read, and I have been  reading them on my Nokia N95.  It’s pretty convenient but the screen is a little too small.  Reading them on my laptop can really strain my eyes after reading about 20 pages.

Sounds like Amazon Kindle DX is the right choice for me to buy now! 

However after considering for a while, I start to wonder why there is no color.  We have already passed the black and white mobile phones, palmtops and even television.  Can I just wait till there is color version of it?  Oh yes, I read about E-Ink.  Looks like E-Ink has only black and white version.

Engadget has done a good job for covering the news about Amazon Kindle DX.  Here’s a video I’ve embed from their site.

I haven’t have the time to talk about my wedding experience which I have gone through with my wife.  Now I have finally done all the celebration with my wife, I finally have the time to talk about my experience with the companies we had to talk to.

After I had proposed to her on her birthday on 28 August 2008, we have decided to start our venture to look for the various companies to help us with our wedding preparation.

Our Bridal Shop Experience

First of all, we went to look for a bridal shop who can fulfill our needs of taking wedding photos, and to dress up for our wedding night.  We went to the first few shops along Tanjong Pagar.  We went to the first few, and find it really exciting to look for more to find out which one is suitable.  Then, we met ZWedding.  The salesperson has been telling us that 24 full page photographs and 8 digital photographs for our photo album is good enough at a few thousand dollars.  My wife-to-be has been hearing from her friends that it is not enough, while the salesperson kept on arguing that we don’t need so many photos.  I trusted this salesperson for what she said.  Guess what?  We really chose only just nice for what we needed, and they kept on pushing for more photos while they can.  Reason being “These photos are so nice, it will be a waste if you don’t print them out.”  

I just find it a little mismatch between the two sayings in the previous paragraph.  I knew my wife really wanted the photographs because her mindset is that this is only once in a lifetime.  I did not reject any of the photos for sure, and go for as many photos as we think are nice.  And the price shot up to two times more than the original amount I have spent.  In the end, we have 51 digital photos.  Take a look at them in my flickr.

You might think the clothes are very nice on my wife.  Actually, she wasn’t very happy because she just cannot find the dress that she wanted.  As for me, I have less than 5 clothes to choose from.  Just trying to make the best out of what I can since I have already paid up a few thousand dollars.

I heard that Bridal Concept seems quite good, but I just didn’t have the chance to go there…

Our Hotel Experience

We chose M Hotel to have our wedding dinner.  This hotel is best recommended by me!  I like the hotel room that they have prepared for me.  I feel like a king there!  Thanks Simon for helping me to arrange such a wonderful night!

I find this hotel is giving us at a very good value for its money.  Thank God that we are able to break even for the dinner.  They are very professional in their serving of food, wedding ceremony and everything.  No amount of words can sufficently describe how much I am really appreciative of them.

My Wedding Video

I met Jimmy and Alicia when they are looking for couples who are preparing for wedding.  We are very glad to have them as our actual day videographer, and he also brought in a very good photographer to help us take photos throughout the whole day.  You can view Jacky’s portfolio here.   See my videographer how professional he is when he is taking photos of a car.  The two of them are perfect for my wedding that day.  Take a look at our photos.  Also take a look at our video.

Our Story in Video

This is another well-spent investment to make memorable wedding dinner.  We had two videos done by Coffee & Tea Dreamworks.  They are as follows:

1. Cartoon Animation of our story
2. Photo montage of our story

I think the guys are fantastic over there!  Check them out!

Conclusion

As a whole, the whole experience is still not so bad.  We had also spent other times to go Courts to buy our bed, Ikea to buy our wardrobe, and some other furniture shop to buy our cupboard and such.  This is my experience I had.  A very good first experience which I think any wedding couple will never forget too.

The other day, I was rambling about a nice weekend I had with my wife.  It was a Valentine’s day.

Yan Susanto thought I am going to teach a thing or two about making your wife happy.  So, I thought that might be interesting to talk about, and decided to talk about that in my blog.

Sorry, there’s no 101 things to talk about.  Only 10 of them!

1. Focus on the key things in your life: Family, Friends, Career, Fitness and Religion/Belief.
   Trust me that your wife will be very happy that you are serious in your life.
    
2. Give her a good massage when she wakes up.  She will feel grateful that you are helping her to be awake with a very nice feeling.
    
3. Make more money.  No need to explain over here.  So you all better get your affiliate marketing work as soon as possible!
    
4. Bring her out once a while to keep memories of the times when we were still in BGR mode back then.
5. Create a scrapbook for her on special occasions.  She likes “redundant” things.
6. Buy flowers of her favorite.  No brainer here. 
7. Take more photographs and print them out.  She likes to keep them for memory.
    
8. Come home earlier to accompany her as much as you can.  She will appreciate it.  I am lousy at this as I am a workaholic.
9. Do up a website just for the two of you.  We are all experts in creating websites, right?
10. Forget about how she treats you, and always treat her well.  That’s because I found that girls tend to echo back louder accordingly after you say/do/treat something good or bad.*

*Don’t understand what this is?  Just do all the good things to her, you should be safe.

Ok, let’s sidetrack a bit.

As I mentioned to all of you previously, my review blog is moving house and I am busy building up the contents and adjusting the designs.  This blog shall contain more of my life as a reviewer, as a husband, as a friend and as a business partner to you.

Valentine’s Day was just over yesterday.  It was quite an experience when I said the wrong words on the eve of Valentine’s day (Friday) and had to do 101 things to make my wife happy.

We watched Slumdog Millionaire on that day.  Here’s the trailer.

I find this movie quite interesting as Jamal is trying to get the girl’s attention by participating in the game show “Who wants to be a millionaire”.  It’s especially cool to see him getting what he wanted even if he has to jump into the pool of shit!  It was so funny!

Then on the Saturday, we went to visit a good friend’s baby’s birthday party. Looking at my friend having her own baby, I realize that my friends are all getting married one after another.

Afterwhich, we went to Mr Bean restaurant at Selegie.  It was recommended by my wife.

I had a very bad impression of their service.  I waited one hour for my food, and decided to ask if it is ready.  Only then to find out that they had run out of stock!  Am I going to wait forever for my food till they buy from the market??

In the end, we went to the Hong Kong cafe which provides really good service!  Thanks!

It’s a Sunday today, and I have spent the whole day planning and working out for the whole business plan.  Bought quite a couple of domain names for my business plan (as an Internet reviewer), lots of anticipated activities are going to happen pretty soon.

I also found out that my good friend Carl Ocab gave his seminar at such a young age!  Check his seminar pictures out at his blog!

Hi guys. Hope you have all built great plans for the new year 2009. I am just married with Simin on 20 January 2009. And this year has started well with many plans to work on.

I have been holding on to my web projects for the last few months due to my job as well as my wedding preparation. Now that I am married with my beautiful wife staying by my side, I am focusing on recovering from all my “financial damages” from the wedding preparation.

Life has just gotten more meaning with God’s help. Guys, I will talk to you very soon.

As it’s our Chinese New Year, I wish all of my readers a very happy new year! Gong Xi Fa Cai!

It’s 1.25am now. Good night!

Dear friends and blog readers,

I am getting married today on 20 January 2009 (Singapore date). As my good online friend Azmi Jahan wanted to see how marriage works, I have put up this Qik video which is being broadcast live for all of you to see. It will start from 6am to 11pm (Singapore time).
Please see the agenda at the bottom for your reference.

My good friend, Vick, will be my Qik capturer. He will be using my N95 phone to capture the whole marriage process. He will capture and stop from time to time to capture the marriage moments. And if any of you have missed the previous live video, you can still catch the archived videos at my Qik page.

Agenda:

6am: Setting off to my wife’s house

7am: Requesting my wife’s sisters to open the door

8am: Setting off to my house

9am: Reaching my house for Tea ceremony

11am: Setting off to my wife’s house again

12pm: Tea ceremony at my wife’s house

2pm: Setting off to Registry of Marriages to

3.05pm: Sign my marriage certificate with my wife

4pm: Setting off to hotel

5pm: Hotel briefing

6pm: Ready to serve

7pm: Guest arrival

7 to 11pm: Wedding dinner

11pm onwards: Happy hours

Please do send me some comments while you are here!

Thanks for dropping by my blog.

Charles

First of all, I am getting married in about 2 weeks’ time. That’s going to have a major change in my life. How I am going to live, how I am going to accomodate my life with another lady, how I am going to work for the rest of my life. It’s a turning point for me. And it’s time for me to make even more money than ever because I have to get myself prepared for the expenditure of the two of us. I am going to provide comfort to her. I want her to live in the best life as much as I can provide her.

That’s to say that I have to make my blogs better than ever. I have to do a better job at work. I have to keep myself abreast in the Internet arena since this is my career.

I must say that all my ex-partners from 2004 onwards have given me the best presents ever. That’s “experience”. I have learned something important about being positive in life. I have learned something about focusing on getting better and better. I have learned something about my wants and needs.

I am seeing more and more people focusing professionally in their online business. People such as Dan Schawbel whom I have met in midst of 2007. He is getting his blog up to speed right now as well. Carl Ocab is also another good friend who has been working really hard online. Been hearing him juggling between business and study. That’s really very taxing for a 15 year old boy. Yaro Starak is planning to focus on his blog in 2009 more than ever since he has been on travelling from places to places in 2008, making his time unsuitable to blog as frequent as he should.

Ok, it’s getting late. I am going to take my rest now. Take care my friends!