Just when I was permanently going to shift my calendar to google, I found out that Yahoo! has just recently come out with a new Calendar early this month. It’s still at it’s very early stage but at least, there is an improvement and a CHANGE since 1998.

It uses the iCal format where you have multiple calendars and it tries to integrate Flickr into it. Maybe this will be a useful feature for me as I will then be able to see what pictures I have taken at any particular time from my Yahoo! Calendar.

Oh well, guess I’ll still update and manage BOTH Google and Yahoo! Calendar in the meantime. Apparently, I can integrate both calendars together but it doesn’t seem to be working very well. Guess I’ll give it a few months to finally decide which one I’ll stick to.

If you’d like to change or try the New Yahoo! Calendar, you can do so here.

I was browsing and surfing around the net yesterday and wanted to try something new.

It started from blogger’s “Blogs that I read”. I thought of subscribing to those since it kinda looks more ‘organized’. From there, there was a link to “Google Reader” and I went there.. and started playing with it. It’s basically an RSS reader but a much more organized one. Previously, I was using “My Yahoo” where I organize all my feeds including news and friend’s blogs. But after seeing what Google Reader can do, I officially made it my “default” information reader. It’s really much more user friendly and faster too!

After that, there was the embedding Google Reader into iGoogle. It’s basically the incorporation of Google Search Website and something similar with My Yahoo. I was thinking whether to use it and after much consideration, I decided to replace My Yahoo with iGoogle since whatever I have inside My Yahoo can now be found from Google Reader. It’s that good. Much faster than My Yahoo. Probably the only things I miss from My Yahoo is my Yahoo Mailbox Preview and my Yahoo Calendar.

Which leads to the next thing; Calendar. Currently, I organize all my events, birthday reminders, meetings and such in Yahoo Calendar. I started using Yahoo Calendar back in 2004 if I’m not wrong. So, I decided to see what Google Calendar offers and to my amazement, it kinda beats Yahoo Calendar.

Firstly, Google Calendar is able to let you use multiple calendars where you can separated your calendars to categories like “work”, “personal”, “birthdays”, etc and can set different colors for different calendar views.

Google Calendar is also much faster than Yahoo Calendar.

They have intelligent time detection where you can just write “Meeting 7pm tomorrow”

Not only that, Google Calendar is able to send reminders to my Mobile for FREE! How nice of them.

Too bad the only thing that is not letting me migrate fully from Yahoo to Google is that my primary email is still Yahoo. All my emails are sent to Yahoo! and Gmail is er.. well, storage for me. Maybe next time if you want to send email to me, you can send it at gabsch@gmail.com =)
I’ll still be able to check that email as I can see my inbox preview inside iGoogle.

I was back in Malaysia during the Raya Holidays where I skipped my Thursday and Friday classes. Went to Cameron Highlands with my family and it was a great break!! Shall blog about it when I have the time. But for now, I have lots of catching up to do; almost like I’m one week behind…

Things will get busier now.. I wonder when I can have another break.. From what I can see, most likely after my examinations… No wait.. I still have to do my FYP!! argh!! *sigh*

Feeling a bit wuliao today and went to read friend’s blogs… I saw elaynne’s tag and was about to do her tag but since Thean Seng “officialy” tagged me, shall do his instead. sorry, elaine.

Rules:

1. Each player of this game starts off with 15 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself.

2. People who get tagged need to write a post of their own 15 weirdthings/habits/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly.

3. At the end, you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names.

4. No tag backs!!

Gabriel’s weird things/habits/little known facts:
1. I always wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid. But think that ambition is quite hard to achieve knowing how difficult it is to score a full straight As in STPM so that I can further my studies in medicine in local universities; hence, i forgo the idea and ended up in NTU instead to study engineering

2. I have a full book collection of “How My Body Works” where I collected since I was a kid.

3. I have a nail-biting habit

4. I used to have an in grow toe-nail

5. My first phone is a Nokia 3210 at the age of 17

6. That particular phone, I’m supposed to share it with my mum.. But it became mine in the end.

7. I prefer not to eat spicy food

8. I used to cheat in exams during high school years. (Discuss with friends for monthly tests)

9. I used to be a VERY VERY QUIET and SHY person.

10. I had my first crush when I was 6 years old.

11. My mum is a Mandarin teacher and I can’t speak Mandarin for nuts… until, I met Yin Sin of course..

12. I record down every single money transaction I make everyday.

13. I used to love numbers a lot. I play with the calculator to find patterns when I have nothing to do when I was a kid

14. I joined the Malaysian Mensa Society at the age of 13

15. My gf is 153cm tall and I love her very much.

The people I’d like to tag…
Anyone free enough to do this… (you know who you are.. *winks*)

I read this in Edy Chandra’s Facebook and I thought it’s something worth sharing.
Enjoy. =)

A philosophy student once asked his teacher how he could find his LOVE and be sure of it? The teacher then brought him to a garden with lots of trees. He said “Go inside the garden, and pick a stick that you think the finest, most appealing and supportive. But you can only choose and pick one. If u decide to go pass one and move on..then you are not allowed to go back and pick it later. You can only go forward and decide once you see the one you want. Plain and simple!”

The student then stepped in. He first found a good one, but he thought he would get a better one if he went further. He passed the first one. Then he sighted the second one, but he decided to pass and go further expecting to get a better one. He kept repeating doing this until he got to the end of the garden, but with no single stick with him. Then he realized that he had walked passed hundreds of good sticks and every single of them has its own uniqueness. But he didn’t pick one because he always compared the real one with the imaginary one. That’s why he failed to choose and pick one for himself.

The moral of the story is:
Finding LOVE is plain and simple as long as you have your feet stepped on earth. Don’t try to compare the one you have found with the one in your head. Cause you’ll never find it……….