Now that I have decided to say goodbye to my Nokia N95, I have to fix the volume hard keys that I had broken when I dropped the phone while crossing a street in Osaka last month. That drop is costly as I just found out at Nokia it would cost HK$360 to replace the casings. Fixing the volume keys doesn’t cost though as they couldn’t tell whether it was damaged by me or just normal wear and tear. When I checked out last night with my favourite second hand phone dealer at Causeway Bay without the phone with me, she said she would pay me HK$3,000 for a N95 in mint condition. I wonder if she would consider mine as in mint condition. Well, I guess just as long as the difference is less than HK$360, I will sell it to her. Otherwise, I will try to sell it on eBay and then let the winner to decide whether the case should be replaced. It is a bit annoying that I have to write the description for this photo in a single paragraph. There is no way I can begin a new paragraph in ShoZu. I hope they can improve it in the next version. It would be nice to have built-in spellcheck too. Like TypePad Mobile, it has the same limitation that only one photogragh can be commented for each entry. I can’t insert multiple photographs into the same entry to tell a more “photographic” story. I will have to edit this entry at my blogs after the upload to add additional photos and videos to spice this message up. And, of course, breaking it up into paragraphs.
My eligibility for next year’s grade 8 piano exam has yet to be confirmed, pending the result of the theory exam I took last month. It doesn’t bother me at all whether I pass it or not. I didn’t start learning the piano again to pass exams. I am learning and taking exams at my own pace. I don’t want to spoil my learning experience. But, of course, it would be nice to passing the theory exam as it opens the door to more advanced learnings. In any case, I have discussed with Kimberly last week and decided to start preparing for the grade 8 practical exam now. I am not taking the 6th grade because I think it would not be a challenge and I am skipping the 7th grade because there is not a single Mozart in its syllabus. I love the Mozart sonatas. I have learned K330, which was an exam piece for this year’s grade 8 exam, even though I know I won’t be able to seat for the exam this year. And I am still enjoying it every time I practice it. I am so thankful that I have developed a passion for each of yoga and piano in the last two years. They have not only changed my life but also given me a lot of joyful experiences which my new TyTN II and KU990 don’t even come close to offer.
This is the room where I have been learning piano each Tuesday for the past 6 months or so. I have been assigned to at least three different rooms since I started learning with Kimberly at Tom Lee last May. This room is the smallest of the three though. The door is just behind my back when I take my seat.
Haven’t worn a mask in a vey long time. Probably since SARS. This is my first upload using ShoZu which I had only just signed up this morning. I have been trying TypePad Mobile and Yahoo Go on my TyTN II in the last couple of days to upload photos. Both manage to do the basic job of uploading pretty well but they have their own shortcomings beyond uploads. For instance, TypePad Mobile obviously wouldn’t help me to upload to other web services and so does Yahoo Go, which will only upload to Flickr. Since I have accounts on both platforms, it would mean I have to upload twice for every picture I take on my TyTN II. ShoZu solves my problem by offering to upload a photo together with description and tags to not just Flickr and TypePad, but almost all the web 2.0 services, like wordpress, YouTube and Facebook. This is what a call a killer app. It also means I can remove two programs from my TyTN II to save space
