to my nineteen year old self.....

I started this blog in 2004, back when I had just jumped my teen years and reached my twenties!

Wow, can't believe how my nineteen / twenty year old thought back then. But, boy as I proud of him. He has made some decisions that have made me what I am today, and to my future self I hope you can be proud of the two of us.

Well as a thirty year old what I would have liked to tell my nineteen year old is, thanks to all the hormones running through you at that time you have been one emotional person. But a true friends to people around you. I am that still, you have made me now in to a committed husband and father as well as a committed worker to my job.

You were always disciplined, I think it is partly due to your parents and school, however mostly it is because of you. You were either respectful of the rules or understood them well, some of the disciplines you had were not because of the rules really it was because you had it in you. So the background your grew up in only makes part of you. Most of it comes from within.

Well, for now. thanks!

Reactivated

After many attempts I plan on reactivating this thing using the power of mobile and pictures.

Using this medium as a way of saving snapshots of minor details in life that make it wonderful.

So let's do it!!!

New story

I have a new idea to blog a story which will continue like a series? With updates in weekly. What do you think of the idea?

All My Life lyrics - K-Ci & JoJo

I will never find another luva sweeta than you,
Sweeta than you
And I will never find anutha luva more precious than you
More precious than you
Girl you are
Close to me you're like my mother
Close to me you're like my father
Close to me you're like my sister
Close to me you're like my brutha
You are the only one my everything and for you this song I sing

And all my life
I've prayed for someone like you
And I thank God that I, that I finally found you
All my life
I've prayed for someone like you
And I hope that you feel the same way too
Yes, I pray that you do love me too

I said you're all that I'm thinkin' of.....baby

Said, I promise to never fall in love with a stranger
You're all I'm thinkin' of, I praise the Lord above
For sending me your love, I cherish every hug
I really love you

And all my life, baby, baby, I've prayed for someone like you,
And I thank God that I, that I finally found you, baby
All my life I've prayed for someone like you
And I hope that you feel the same way too
Yes, I pray that you do love me

You're all that I ever known
When you smile, on my face, all I see is a glow
You turned my life around
You picked me up when I was down
You're all that I ever known
When you smile on your face all I see is a glow
You picked me up when I was down
You're all that I ever known
When you smile on your face all I see is a glow
You picked me up when I was down
And I hope that you feel the same way too
Yes I pray that you do love me too

All my life
I've prayed for someone like you
And I thank God that I, that I finally found you
All my life I've prayed for someone like you
Yes, I pray that you do love me too
All my life I've prayed for someone like you
And I thank God that I, that I finally found you
All my life I've prayed for someone like you
Yes, I pray that you do love me too

Speed Paintings

Once again I would like to share with you some speed painting from movies, please enjoy:

OPTIMUS PRIME - Speed Painting by Nico Di Mattia

THE DARK KNIGHT - Speed Painting by Nico Di Mattia

THE DARK KNIGHT

The Joker Speed Painting by N.Suarez

Hellboy speed painting in photoshop by Manlio Noto

IRONMAN - speedpainting by Nico di Mattia

WWE SummerSlam 2007 & with the return of HHH (my commercial)

Andura - Stigmata

Cruel World, oh! Cruel World...

Ok, I haven’t written something original in my blog for a long time. So here it goes this post describes how evil the world is to me. I have listed down 10 things that make the world such a cruel place to live in.

1. The world has given me great friends the right ones at the right time.
2. The world has taught me how to heal, taught me how to get up on my own two feet again.
3. The world has taught me how to make my sadness in to something good. After all experiences are things that go wrong in your life.
4. The world has given me so much happiness, sometimes I fail to see this happiness because of the momentary sadness in my life.
5. The world has given the ability to understand. I know the world doesn’t revolve around me :-)
6. The world has given me the ability to feel, to know when other people are happy and when they are down in the dumps.
7. The world has shown me there is more than stress in my life, there are also things like relaxation and recreation :-)
8. The world has shown me that there are many paths in life, and that I deserve happiness
9. The world has given me understanding parents. The secret is not in them understanding me but me understanding them.
10. The world has given me the internet and IM, to say hi to my friend on the other end of the world.

Come to think of it the world that I live in isn’t that cruel. The world is everything that surrounds me; you are part of my world.

Thanks for being part of it…

Facebook Song

10 Awesome Things Built on the Facebook API

REF: http://mashable.com/2007/05/02/10-awesome-things-built-on-the-facebook-api/

May 2, 2007 — by Adam Ostrow

As opposed to the relatively new Digg API, the Facebook API has been available to developers since the summer. With more than 100 applications now featured in the Facebook Developers Product Directory, we decided it was time to cut through the clutter and pick out the ten that we think add the most value to the Facebook experience:

1.) Facebook Toolbar for Firefox – This application extends the Facebook experience to the browser. You receive automatic notifications of friend requests, new messages, and can check what your friends are up to in the “Facebook Friends Sidebar” feature. The toolbar also comes with the “share” link which allows you to quickly import and share any web site with your Facebook friends.

2.) rendezbook – Serving as an anonymous “MeetMe @ HotOrNot” type service, rendezbook lets you identify Facebook friends as someone you a) would like a stronger friendship with b) would like to date or c) would like to have a “random fling” with. Your preferences are anonymous, until of course the person you desire indicates the same feeling. The homepage claims more than 1,700 users so far, with a surprising 200+ matches already. I have left all boxes unchecked in this example :

3.) CampusRank – This site allows you to nominate people in the type of categories you might expect to find in a yearbook – Best Smile, Campus Clown, and even “Metrosexiest.” The service doesn’t appear to have a whole lot of traction yet, but perhaps they’re just waiting to show off users once they have more nominees.

4.) Friend Analyzer – This tool shows you which of your friends are most similar to you in a variety of categories. You can also see what the most popular items are in your network. It appears that I have rather feminine taste in music:

5.) College-Roomies – This service lets you search for other students looking for a roommate at your school. In addition to being able to check out the Facebook profiles of other students in search of housing, there is a cool split screen feature where you can see housing preferences (for example, cleanliness, smoking habits, etc.) that prospective roommates that they have filled out on the College-Roomies site:

6.) Your True Self– This site is built around the premise that “your friends say a lot about you.” It analyzes your friends’ political views, favorite movies, music, television shows, and books to guess at things that you might like. For example, 5 of my friends like Family Guy, so Your True Self indicates that I might like it:

7.) The Friend Match – This service randomly pairs up two of your friends and allows you to rate on a 5 star scale how good of a dating match you think they make. If someone has matched you with someone else, you can see it under “My Matches.” I’m pulling a big goose egg so far.

8.) FbCal.com – The Facebook Birthday Calendar Generator creates an iCalendar (.ics) file with your friends and their birthdays that can be imported into iCal, Sunbird, and Google Calendar. For Outlook users, there is the Facebook Birthday Exporter.

9.) Facebook to Twitter – Facebook and Twitter in the same application? How have these guys not received millions in VC funding already!? In reality “FT” will save you maybe 37 seconds per year, as you need to point to the fbtwit.com site each time you want to automatically post your Facebook status to Twitter. Additionally, Facebook recently added the ability to update via SMS, so it’s unlikely many Facebook users will care much about updating Twitter with the same status message.

10.) Votetronics – This simple voting application allows you to setup a poll that only your Facebook friends can participate in. It seems like this would be an easy and logical feature for Facebook to add to the main service, as polls and surveys are always popular on social networking sites.

PlayStation 3 firmware upscales to 1080p

REF: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12383/532/ By Stephen Withers

Thursday, 24 May 2007

New firmware for the PlayStation 3 will upscale DVD movies plus PS1 and PS2 games to 1080p resolution on compatible HD TVs. "The capability to upscale DVDs to HD quality is a feature normally only associated with top range DVD players, and its inclusion in the latest firmware upgrade now allows PS3 owners with an existing DVD collection to dramatically enhance the viewing pleasure of their DVD collection when viewed through a compatible HD TV set," Sony official said. Upscaling DVD content requires an HDMI-compatible TV. Available from today, the 1.80 firmware upgrade includes several other significant features, including the ability to view or play content stored on DLNA-enabled devices such as PCs and media servers on the same network. Dedicated media players sell for $US200 and up (significantly more for HD models) so this is a valuable feature. The ability to print photos stored on the PS3's hard drive or removable media such as CDs will also be welcome, and will help extend the PS3's appeal. While nobody is going to buy a PS3 just for this capability, we can imagine younger would-be PS3 gamers saying "But Mum, if we get a PS3 you'll be able to print your photos without having to mess around with the computer." The downside is that it seems only certain Epson printers are supported, but we would expect to see other brands and models added if this feature proves as popular as we predict. But upscaling of PS1 and 2 titles isn't the only thing the upgrade does for gamers - it also enables remote play of content stored on the PS3 across a broadband connection to a PlayStation Portable. Exactly how much bandwidth is required remains to be seen, and the feature requires the PSP to have the 3.50 firmware due by the end of the month.