Asian Tiger

Sigh! I have been rooting for England to win the World Cup 2006 but it was not to be. Yes, I know this post came 2 days late - that’s because I’m down right frustrated by England’s departure from the World Cup.

The match between England and Portugal which went into penalties saw England’s dismay performance in taking penalties and not converting them into much needed goals. Highlight of the match:

• Wayne Rooney was red carded for stomping on Ricardo Carvalho’s family jewels. During the scuffle for the ball, I saw the incident as an accident. Rooney never meant to stomp on Carvalho’s balls.
• Immediate after the stomping event, Cristiano Ronaldo ran towards the referree in a bid to get Rooney red carded (Rooney gave a light push at Ronaldo). That unsportsman-like attitude towards his very own Manchester United teammate is deplorable. Call it national patrotism and what nots but I really hate to see Ronaldo playing for Manchester United now.
• The referee could have very well yellow carded Rooney but no - he had to give a red card. Come on, it was just a small push that event infants do it to their siblings.

Now that the World Cup has also ended for me, I conclude that it was a good fight for England with only 10 men in the field against Portugal’s eleven. I look forward to supporting England again in Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010. In the meantime, I hope France will trash Portugal in the semi finals.

Tags: England, World Cup 2006, World Cup, Portugal, Wayne Rooney, Ricardo Carvalho, Cristiano Ronaldo

March of this year, I got myself a Samsung X200 mobile phone. I liked the phone for its simplicity and design aesthetics. However, there are 2 shortcomings that I observed.

Firstly, this nifty little mobile does not word wrap when composing or receiving SMS. That makes reading SMS difficult and troublesome. It is really a hassle to read SMSe if you are behind the wheel.

The second shortcoming is that of their preloaded ringtones. There are only limited selections of polyphonic tones available and mostly suited for the much younger generation’s taste. I hear that T-mobile ringtones which is available in the United States are awesome and there is a large collection of tones for download. I’ve not checked it out but I sure will immediately after this post. For me personally, I prefer those monotones that goes ring-ring…. ring-ring; a simple tone to tell me that there is an incoming call.

If you own the same mobile as mine, do yourself a favour and download free ringtones for your own mobile.

Tags: Samsung, X200, ringtones, shortcomings

Wordpress 2 by default, comes installed with a rich text editor. I’ve been struggling with some of my blogs as the alignments or formatting that I specify is consistently overwritten by Wordpress. I have no idea what or why this happens but it does.

To alleviate my headaches, all I need to do is turn off the rich text editor and write using HTML codes. The steps to do this is pretty straightforward:

1. Go to your WordPress Dashboard
2. Click on the “Users” link
3. In “Your Profile“, scroll to the bottom of the page
4. Under the heading “Personal Options“, untick the box next to “Use the visual rich editor when writing”
5. Click “Update Profile“

Done! You can now write your blog posts according to whatever formatting or alignments you desire.