Finally, N97 was released and I was fortunate enough to get a chance to play with it for a bit. With all the hype that it gets, like Nokia’s answer for IPhone and BlackBerry, it was suppose to be THE PHONE!

But somehow I was left dissapointed. Im not going into the full specs coz there are dozens pagges explaining it in detail out in the web. But I’ll say this, N97 should be the phone if it has the ‘juice’ to run it.

You see, the high powered phone runs at such a small memory RAM. Its like running your car on AA batteries. Its not strong fast. It makes you wait a long time just to access your browser and other installed applications. Even my E71 runs faster than the N97. Even with new firmware release, its still slow. One thing’s good is its 5MP camera and the touch screen.

Now, Nokia E72 will be released soon. Basically its an E71 upgrade. 5mp camera and 250Mb Ram (same like N97). Maybe should consider N97 instead??

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Okay, this saturday 7 Nov, big Sis will be joining an english competition. Basically its more like a understanding given instructions and solving it in english.

Although I must say that Big Sis is pretty good in understanding written instructions, but she tend take her time and be overly thorough. the competition however is based on quickest time and least mistakes.

Anyway, she has been practicing with mommy and the school for this competition.  Honestly, we are hopeful. But we just expect her to do her best. If she wins, it’ll be a bonus. Either way, we’ll treat her something nice afterwards.

Here’s the competition poster in her school. Lets wait for this saturday!!

This is my first attempt to post a blog entry from my E71. If it goes well,… Then I’m loving my E71….. (or maybe soon E72?)

Let’s see how it goes.

UPDATE:
It seems that I cant run WordMobi with my Nokia Messaging running in the background on my E71. Oh well, simple. Disconnect Nokia Messaging , then run WordMobi. Problem solved. (Im not using push email like Blackberry anyway, so its okay)

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17th August was Indonesian Independance Day. Being a public holiday, we spent the holiday at a resort in Magelang, central Java called Puri Asri (close to Borobudur Temple). First impression,..they have tight security,… which is Good! Secondly, just beside Puri Asri was a public fun park called Kyai Langgeng. It has rides like the ferris wheel, mini roller coaster, …..and a mini water park too. But we opted to stay in Puri Asri coz its more private.

Puri Asri offers a lot of recreational activities, such as Water Rafting, offroad ATV, Softgun field, and Flying Fox. Too bad that the river has low tide so our water rafting option was off.  But there are other things that can be done. There’s a the swimming pool (especially for the kids of course), a huge playground, mini bike circuit, water becak, giant chess, and other traditional games like stilts and congkak. Personally, I felt this place is suited better for a church retreat or a group team building activities. Lots of things to choose and do….

Mini Bike Circuit.

There’s a pony for ride/hire. Check out the Giant Chess and Stilts.

Pool with Slide

After a long day of play!

The rates are reasonable, approximately USD45.  Not bad for a 4 star hotel, considering that its the weekend too. Our room was the Executive Double, very spacious for the 4 of us. Here is a view of the cafeteria from our room.

Next day we also spent some time exploring the area. We found this unique tree, which had a red seed inside it’s fruit. According to Intan, its called the chinese red seed. We collected some of the seeds for the girls show and tell session in school.

Later, I asked big sis if she wanted to see Flying Fox, and I think what she had in mind is an animal that flies,.. After some explanation, big sis was a little bit skeptical to try it. But Lil C just say YES,… (I think she has no idea what she said yes to, hahah…)

So after setting up all the safety harness, first up was LilC,… the climb up was a bit hard, so they have to be pulled up with a pulley. Wooossshhh…. she reached end point in approximately 10 seconds. With all the adrenaline running, Lil C was grinning widely and said “Again Daddy!!” . This encouraged Big Sis to go,… and sure enough, after reaching down, she wanted to go again too.

So what is a daddy gonna do?  Put them up in tandem (2 for the price of 1) hahahah,… check out this video.

When we are about to leave, all the ATV was just brought in. Maybe next time I’ll try the off-road.

It was a nice holiday treat. A very good R&R. Cant wait to go there again soon.

Last week we went to Jogja again over the weekend for a bit of buisnes and R&R. This trip we found a very interesting new place. Its a seafood restaurant called Mang Engking.

Its a restaurant with surrounded by Koi fish pond giving it an outdoor nature like ambience.

The speciality of the restaurant is the Udang Bakar Madu. I’d give it only a 6 out of 10 coz firstly, the prawns are not fresh,.. and secondly its a bit pricey.

But whats unique about this place is the castle entrance of Mang Engking. My first impression was it looks like the castle in King Arthur movies.

It appears that the front part of mang Engking can be used as a wedding photoshoot for those who wants to have the castle and fairytale theme.

We had a nice family outing then. Another reason to visit Jogja again the next time round. but the one thing that I will remember most, are the Knights at the ‘Castle’ entrance.

Check out the smiley face on the Knights chest armor…hahahahh!

You can see the rest of the photos at our Flicker. http://www.flickr.com/photos/98376877@N00/sets/72157621789045305/