Being in the amidst of uncertainty and there God was...~~

Just wanted to share of a wonderful testimony that reminds me to trust God in the most unforseen circumstances in the world. It has been quite a hectic few weeks that consists of rushing of thesis as well as finishing assignments and also wrapping up a some final papers before I get to leave uni life for good. 

Planetshakers conference and concert was around the corner...

In the last few weeks leading up to it, I was pretty positive that I wouldn't even think of going for the concert, but I was pretty mistaken. As the concert came closer week by week, day by day... I was only thinking about finishing my exams and finally my thesis, freedom was on my own mind. That's all I could think of during that period of time about how I am gonna struggle with thesis and the tight schedule that follows. 

Since the conference and the concert was a 3 days 3 nights thing, I was very much bombarded with news on facebook in regards to how awesome the conference really was. As for the concert, I have already knew how awesome it was through the sound of it, through the Youtube videos I have watch through the last few years when I was a new Christian growing at a local church. I was pretty crazy about it but as time went by, the fire and craziness start to die down. 

So you can say that this concert came in at a time when I was pretty close to being ignorant about how I personally felt about Christian concerts and evangelistic events. 

Anyway, back to the story... 

I was starting to have a very indecisive train of thought where I was laying out the pros and cons of attending the concert, and how much everything will cost me that night just to go out there and enjoy myself. I finally decided that I couldn't make that decision on my own. It was then when I decided to pop God a random question..

what do You think? should I go for the concert? You make that decision for me 

After that, I just decided to randomly place a statement on facebook to get some replies or at least rant my indecisive yet frustrating train of thought to the world. Lo and behold, a course mate of mine decided to pop in and ask if I will be making a trip down to the concert. I was then being my indecisive self and just told him yes, I am... 

And then down in my heart, I was like dude, someone made that decision for you already, why not just take that decision and go for it. 

Then, I actually planned it all out with him about going down to PJ where the concert will be held. It never once cross my mind that God was behind all of this from the beginning itself. After that, as I was late in getting back from my workplace, I decided to grab Mcd and I was pretty much in a rush. 

When I got to the meeting spot where I was supposed to meet my friend and I was pretty late when I got there. He was nowhere to be found...and I started munching on my already cold chicken burger and just sucking furiously at the straw, but I was like well, I was in a very fortunate state where I did not need to drive down to the concert venue with an empty stomach. My friend actually got to the meeting spot 15 mins after I got there which gave me lots of time to finish my meal. 

Drove down and guess what, found a parking spot next to the church, no traffic jam on the highway so we reached there at a fair travelling time. While it was believe to be lucky or people would say luck being on our side, I think that's probably more than just luck. Luck don't come at you over and over again just on that very fine day. It was definitely God at work calling me out at the right time to the right place. 

Came down and join the overflowing line already at the church where we were finally place in the "overflowing" room where I believe it was just gonna be a telecast session while the real thing is happening down at the main auditorium. I decided to try my luck when the concert started, by sneaking out of the room and down to the main hall. I just pop in a random question again to one of the ushers there

is the hall really packed already? 

She just said yes but went on and asked me if I would like to go in, since there will be one more spot left in the upper part of the main hall. Without thinking, I just said yes and went in. I was so excited that I broke into a run on the way up the stairs. I really did enjoy myself that night with all the songs that blasted through my soul. 

Being able to stay positive through the whole session from the beginning leading up to the night was the best thing that ever happened to me. But my point here was just trusting God, not worrying what will happen next... to be honest, it never slip my mind that I will even be praising God in the main hall that night. Everything have been so random to the point that I wasn't even sure where to start. 

The night was truly remarkable, and I don't think I regret going, or missing any part of it in the nights before.. Because I could continue to praise and worship my wonderful and faithful Creator, Saviour and Friend wherever I may go through the days of my life 

Chat ON finally became THE Famous!

When u think there's not enough of interactive chatting apps around, here comes Chat ON!

Chat ON brings messaging and online interaction to a whole new level, not to mention the uniqueness of each individual's theme, the app has different themes customized on them to make it unique for each user.

I was invited to join the launch for the newly celebrated Chat ON last Friday. To be honest, orange wasn't one color that stands out in my closet. Best thing to do was shopping for new clothing with new colors. Back to the story, I was greeted with very cheerful laughs and sound when I first reached the venue which was at Butter Factory Club KL.

The thing that greeted my eyes that pleases me a lot was a Starbucks truck standing directly outside the club. The best part of the whole scene when I was outside was free Starbucks for all who have registered for the event. I came under MYC naturally as a Mobiler. Got a cute sticker to mark myself as Chat ON territory (just kidding).

Going on with the club entrance, there were Chat ON ambassadors there that were holding brand new Samsung phones, all pre installed with Chat ON app on them ready to be shown to the public what this baby can really do.

I first saw one of the features shown which was very much different from many of the messaging app that I knew. One of which was Real Time Drawing. It was something that you could do to actually be creative as a user or a sender. Here is a drawing of which I could express more about this feature.

There's also emoticons that Chat ON specially names as Anicons, they are the cutest things I will ever see as emoticons and I have hard copies of it as stickers, part of the freebies that I received in the bag that was given upon registration. The Anicons is another way of expressing one self as it always have been to keep the conversation interesting, not dull or monotonous with just words all over the messaging app.

Here are the pictures of how the Anicons looked like.

Besides the Anicons, there are also much expressive fonts that are available on the app giving it a full wave of variety to express oneself better. It also gives the app a platform to be interesting rather than dull.

Being able to express oneself thru these features while interacting makes our thoughts and feelings dynamic and it also gives our conversation a sort of flow that can make life fun and lively.

To add on to Chat ON, the app doesn't just have the traditional calls and messaging abilities. The app also has the ability to conduct a video call in real time face to face making it a wonderful experience interacting with friends and family wherever you are.

Chatting with friends in 2 or more languages have never became any easier on Chat ON. Chat ON gives the user the ability to translate from one language to another via the auto translation function. This can also be done by tap and hold a speech bubble to translate messages instantly. This has become quite the solution to communicate with friends all around the world and given this opportunity, the world is now at our finger tips by given this ability to do so.

There's also a feature known as the trunk on Chat ON, giving the user a space where searching for shared material, such as audio, images or even video gets easier. The accessibility in the app makes it really easy to share and re share moments and materials again and again without giving much difficulty in sharing with other users.

Chat ON celebrates friendship and comradeship. This was clearly shown thru the partnership with third party vendors giving the user opportunities to be informed about new promotions and products by just adding the pages as "special buddies". For example, when Starbucks is added as a friend, it automatically sends out ongoing promotions or new products that are on the shelf at Starbucks. This keeps the fans updated about new things going on with various products giving us the heads up thru this app.

Chat ON gives a really a whole new way of interacting with the world. With its cute, unique, and many functions/features, users of all ages are able to experience a really enjoyable way of messaging and interacting with other people in this modern world.

The Real Story of Christmas

Have it always been snowing, laughter, bells ringing and Santa Claus or even Jesus being born into such a happy environment? Think again..

I was at a Christian fellowship with my other fellow students on campus listening to the talk about repentance given by Rev. Pax Tan.

What caught my attention and thoughts for the night was merely about the life of Jesus and how He came as God and also as man to identify with people lower than u and I. When I say this, it has to show the humility in all of this and it ain't just about having no money but more negative that the world would normally have rejected "it" among them.

What I was referring to were the poor, the rejects, those who don't smell the same as everyone else, the bastards, prostitutes, loan sharks, prisoners, refugees, those have are different and ain't accepted in general by the community. Jesus came to live among us, that's y He was known as Immanuel, which meant God with us, man of this world.

He was born in such an environment where u would not ever believe how scandalous the situation was. I never thought of this story in that manner, I have always thought that Jesus was born in such and such a place but things like sleeping around and getting impregnated, smell like animals, being a true disgrace, and the whole story was a fraud. It was so saddening and there's much negative emotions revolving around His birth. And yet many failed to see this and still sings "Joy to the World" approaching Christmas when all it truly was on earth was anger, disappointment, sadness, betrayal, jealousy, lies, gossips and things as such rather than what everyone thought it is, let's see, happiness, laughter, joy, magic, comfy, warm, 5 star hotel, a luxurious place of birth for the little king.

We were challenge to ask is this an accident or was it all planned that he will be given birth to in a manger (place where animals have their meals). Being the King of kings, the only begotten Son of God, I can't imagine someone like that to even be born in a place of such as the manger. Any earthly parents would never have done something like that to their children, don't u think so?

Nevertheless, for that have been spoken, i have really been very blessed by the message he has to share with the students of our Christian fellowship. It is always important to have revelations of then Word every now and then and I believed that night, we did! Praise unto God

I hope all of you are blessed or inspired by this sharing.

P. S. Sorry for the profanity used in the context.

World War Z on MY Smart Stay Samsung Galaxy Note 2!

World War Z trailer thru the screen of my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 was despicably great for its continuous  

display using Smart Stay mode, it's one great feature that both Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 2 have that gives 

the user a sense of comfort when watching great scenes through the phone without being interrupted or cut 

off especially thru the jammed pack action scenes of zombies flowing thru each scene of the movie, the 

horror and thrill that each scene has to offer there 

Being selected to attend the Samsung GALAXY S4 roadshow!

That evening right after class was announced to be canceled at COE, Uniten, I got this phone call from Samsung Mobilers at MYC.

As always that call gives me a sense of an overwhelming excitement. I was right to be so excited about the call, this is because I was selected to be one of the Samsung Mobiler Writers that rides in the pilot team, or also known as the pilot test group. I am grateful for being selected again as part of another pilot team in Samsung Mobilers under MYC. 

This has given me a head start in being expose to a smaller group working on a similar project as well as having the opportunity to be familiar with the system before the system is open up to the public. 

OK, back to my story. After being brief about this pilot test group, we were given our first assignment which was at Taylors Lakeside Campus the next day. 

A roadshow for Samsung devices took place at the campus that morning and among the 5 that were present during the briefing, me and Summer decided to go for the roadshow to carry out the first part of the assignment (there's part 1 and 2 in it). Part 1 was to get ourselves a video shoot session with our pro videographer Gary! While part 2 was an assignment for those who couldn't make it to the roadshow that morning. 

Made it to the roadshow that morning almost afternoon in a hurry due to bad transportation schedule. 

Devices on the table (Samsung Galaxy 8.0 and Samsung Galaxy S4)

The Samsung Galaxy S4 was left on the table waiting to be tested out by curious passer by. I was just as excited to be able to find myself playing the phone in front of the camera. Took some time figuring out the features and everything on the phone should be at. 

Samsung Galaxy S4 has some cool features:

• Drama Shot
• Sound and Shot
• Dual Camera
• Group Play

So I got to try every new feature that the phone has to offer on the spot with the widest grin on my face. I could never stop smiling from the time Samsung Galaxy S4 was shown and explained to me by an ambassador at the roadshow that morning. 

The first feature that I tried out was Drama Shot. It was a new feature that allows the object to be shot at different times during an act. I shot a few pictures of mine while playing around with the phone. Mind you, it was an exercise program needing to jump all over the place just to test how good the feature really was. 

Exercise program for Drama Shot

A good sample shot from one of the ambassadors

As for the Sound and Shot feature, me and Summer decided to take each other's shots and then comment into it. Too bad I wasn't able to catch the sound part that came together with the shot. Though I would imagine this feature to be a great one especially for keeping memories of travelers traveling to different parts of the world catching wonderful sound with beautiful pictures too. I seem to also believed that having sound together with the pictures, it seem to make the pictures more lively and not just something plain to look at. 

As for the Dual Camera, I should believed that the pictures can say much for itself. Its like having 2 cameras working at the same time. the smaller frame will normally represent the secondary camera, while the whole picture will be for the primary camera to capture its shots. I would really so love to have this particular feature integrated into my Samsung Galaxy Note 2. The frame that covers the side of the mini pictures that have taken thru the secondary camera can be changed to different designs too.

There is the heart shape design, fading circular design, fish eye design, and i think side by side design, and a few others. This feature makes it easier to get a full view of what needs to be taken as well as placing the photographer within the frame of the picture. I wonder what can be anymore better than having such a handy feature in various situations such as traveling, or any shots that the photographer wants to be part of as well such as gatherings, outings, or being part of a family portrait. There are other creative methods of using this feature too. 

Group Play gives a whole new definition to the term sharing the smart phone world. This feature enables its user to have a very rare style of sharing information, and media such as music, games and pictures. So far I have not found any style of sharing in the market enabling the user to connect wireless to other devices and being able to synchronize the devices to either have a slide show for pictures or being able to play songs at the same time. Group Play also enables the users to have 2 or more devices being enabled to challenge one another in multi player games making it so much exciting, and it is done wirelessly. 

We finally ended the whole thing by doing a small commentaries by both me and Summer. I took a few times trying to sound natural in my words and I finally did it. Not too perfect like some advertisers on TV but it should do for now being a newbie at this. 

So after covering every part of the features that were key parts of the phone. Summer and I narrowed down our discovery to other features that are pretty new in the market and also an exciting feature to behold. They are known as Air Gesture and Air View. There are some demos that I could share thru the pictures that I have about this features. Hopefully you guys get to understand better what is this all about :)

Air view (pictures popping out in gallery with finger hovering above the phone)

Message preview pops up with finger hovering above it (air view activated)

An overall summary is that I personally felt that I wouldn't get to enjoy all this benefits, being in front of the camera and getting to play around with gadgets, traveling and doing stuff people rarely do. It gets possible by being a Samsung Mobiler and I am very glad that I am one right now. I can't speculate how much more I would get to participate in the future. I am really excited and this is only the BEGINNING! :D

Galaxy S4 featuring Jurassic Park 4 (3D)

I know that there are many great movies that have either been screened earlier this year, or movies to be screening in the later part of this year.

One of the uprising movies that seem to have rise from the ashes seem to be none other than Jurassic Park 4 (3D). Being a remake of the last Jurassic Park movie makes it a great come back since it was done using 3D settings, giving a sense of thrill and excitement to the movie. 

It was similar to the recent launched of the Galaxy S4, that was a flagship of Samsung at point of time, which was formerly from Galaxy S3. 

The only similarity that I could see in both events is that both turned out to be the fourth installment of its kind. Both the phone and movie has a deep sense of surprise and is uniquely designed to give the user an out of this world experience in the latest form of technology and entertainment that it has to offer. Galaxy S4 has its unique gimmicks and live up to its tagline "LIFE COMPANION" and Jurassic Park 4 being remake into its 3D form gives a sense of suspense to it. 

I am personally very excited to catch Jurassic Park 4, as much as I was excited to be part of the country's first Galaxy S4 launched here in Malaysia back then. 

Right now, I could just imagine the image of a dinosaur coming out of the screen, that's how excited I really am, and giant reptiles running across the field through the faces of amazed audience in the cinema!

I hope to be able to catch that imagination and truly enjoy the magic of dinosaurs coming to life on screen. It's gonna be like what people say MOVIE MAGIC!

Exciting updates for Galaxy S3 in June !!

It looks like the Samsung is rolling out updates for one of their high end phones, which is none other than Galaxy S3. 

I actually found out about the upcoming update for the phone via one of the websites:

http://www.fonearena.com/blog/69970/android-4-2-2-jelly-bean-based-i9300xxufme3-firmware-leaked-for-the-galaxy-siii.html

So it still classifies as a leaked though I am very excited to say it doesn't matter since anything that comes out as a leak tend to be true. Worse case scenario, it may just be as close as possible to the real deal. 

So as I was saying, Galaxy S3 will be given an update of Android 4.2.2 and most of the features in it is similar to the features that we are familiar with in the recent Samsung flagship, Galaxy S4. 

Features such as multiple widgets on the lock screen will be available to the upcoming Galaxy S3 update.  The light effect on the lock screen of the phone will also be available to Galaxy S3 in addition to a better improved ripple effect that the Galaxy S3 is currently available with: ripple effect. 

I was personally looking forward to the update for the camera, which is on the Galaxy S4. The Galaxy S4 has a very interesting add on feature which is the dual camera feature which can take picture from the photographer's point of view as well as the object that it is supposed to take. I guess I will still have to look forward to the next update for the phone then. 

There are many other features that the update has included, but I will just list it down, since it doesn't really catch my interest, besides the extra features that I have explained earlier

- Android 4.2.2 – Build ID: JDQ39

- New S4 Lockscreen: Multiple Widgets, two Unlock effects (Ripple and Light), improved ripple effect than Android 4.1.2, ability to change clock size and set a personal message- New Screen modes (From S4): Adapt Display and Professional Photo- Daydream- Driving mode- Actionable notifications- New Additions in Notification Center- Completely revamped Settings UI (Tabbed interface – Exactly like the S4)- Addition of Voice controls (Let’s you control various parts of the phone using voice commands – Galaxy S4 feature)- Gallery modes have white background (When changing gallery modes to 3D the background changes to white)- Full screen Samsung apps- New S-Voice (from S4)- New smart switch widget

This video might help to give the read a clearer picture of what I have explained in my post earlier :)