Going Premium

I have been using “Day One” app since 2011. It had been great to put together my ideas and doing drafts of my blog entry. Over the years, the app developer - Bloom Built Inc - had expended with many features including photographs upload and syncing across platform.

An entry on my iPhone would instantaneously appear on my iPad and my computers. Six years on, the company behind it needed to pivot into a subscription model and I kinda understood their predicament.

When I use the app this much I felt that it was only right to contribute. So, I went premium. This only affected my iOS version as far as I could see but with the one payment, the subscription was upgraded to my iPad as well. I didn’t notice much change on the MacOS version thus far. The syncing still works fine and I hope by this new model, the app would expand in the future to offer more features ....

Decided on Me Time

Enough was enough and I decided to devote my Sunday .... to me. Good thing that Anita was out with her friends, I went into town, had some biryani lunch at Masjid India. Took my camera out and walk around town.

Catching my ride from my parking spot, KL SentralFirst stop would be to get some biryaniThe biryani here at Restoran Shahira is not bad at all. A hidden gem!Managed to catch an exhibit or two, before sitting down for a long lunch. For the last 6 straight Sundays I had been at the hospital and it was high time that I stayed away for once. I also had a few days leave lined up from next weekend, so I decided to switch off.

Seeing what's cooking in the bazaar ...Plenty of people coming and going ....Before I walk across to Medan Pasar ....The weather was nice for a walkabout, and I used the time to get myself acquainted with my new camera bag. Yesterday I put a couple of camera bodies in them and it felt a tad too heavy. It had better balance with just one, plus an iPad and some dongles. That was better. And I didn't have to worry about my wallet as well. Everything was in the bag. I only wished that the sides were a bit more sturdy and it tended to lose its shape if I didn't put the content the right way.

Off to Suria for some coffeeThat escalated to some bite ....And a bit of blogging ....So, I planned to enjoy another couple of hours to myself and hopefully there won't be anybody ringing. Happy Sunday!

Full Week

Suffice to say that I had been busy for the last few days. Too busy to pen down an entry, although I had been tweeting quite a lot. I guessed I should've had an extra couple of days off. But the work days had been long.

Saturday came and it was time to chill a bit. We would be attending a birthday party this afternoon in Shah Alam, and Anita had been out all morning visiting her friend who had recently had a baby. I was waiting for her to return before we set out again, plus the boys.

But in saying that, Anita organised for us to go out to watch a movie last night at Pavilion. Luckily I didn't have to do the driving. I was too tired after work. More about what we watched later. Needed to get change for the afternoon out.

Four Years and Counting

It had been 4 years since I uploaded my first entry into this blog. The first real upload happened while I was contemplating the projects to do during my sabbatical, which hopefully would lead up into a PhD plan. It was way past midnight, in the bedroom in front of the laptop when everybody else had been fast asleep.

I decided, why not structure a blog. I had been hearing about SquareSpace, and decided to give that a go. The platform let me blog from anywhere, and I just caught the big from then on. And this would be my 1666th entry, just on this journal alone. Not exactly prolific but often work got in the way.

It was always great to be able to post up my own photos, document my travel, and after a few years look back at what was penned down. Certainly brought back great memories, and a few no too great ones. I had certainly aged a lot since then. I left the University, got my own practice, my boys all grown up. It formed my personal diary, and I felt I got a lot from the writing.

I hoped to be doing more traveling in the future, and enrich the blog with more tales. I wish that I could have more free time to do just that, but hopefully when we move into our new apartment, I would be able to cut down on the traveling time - for me time wasted on the road - and consolidate my other blogs, which I have a problem updating.

Here's to four more years. Cheers!

Write with Write

I have been looking for a reliable method of crafting blog entries on the Nexus device, but had so far been frustrated one way or the other. None of the available softwares have the slickness of Day One app on iOS with its seamless integration between the iPad, iPhone and the Mac desktop. Occasionally I do fancy updating from the Nexus.

So, I came across a new app called Write. Well, not exactly new, but something I just explored. It allowed for direct upload into the SquareSpace app. No more need for cut a paste. Hopefully the transfer and upload worked flawlessly. So, here we go .....