Kicking it Old School! :))

Limited Time Only: Efficient Card Mastery Farming in Marvel War of Heroes

While playing through the Deadpool Raid Event in Marvel WoH, I noticed a simple but effective way of "farming" your cards' mastery.

Here's what you need to do:

1. Fix your ATT and DEF decks. Cards within these decks are the candidates for mastery increase. If an unexpected card gets mastered, check the system's "suggested" decks.
2. Proceed with the latest Raid Event Missions continuously. If you get a Deadpool fight, proceed to step 3.
3. In the Deadpool fight menu, do the following:
1. Use Light attack (1RDS);
2. (Optional)Ask for Support from your team; then
3. Go back to playing the Raid Event Missions, step 2 above.

Marvel WoH: My Page. Click on "Newest Event Mission"

Something to think about...

Rundown of a typical day of a 12hour shift employee

Saw a post in this format and I found it interesting. So I'm doing it here as well. Here's what a typical day for me looks like:

1. 5:45 iphone alarm went off. Already wide awake. Had a good night sleep even if it's quite hot. Aircon's busted again.
2. Did not just snooze, but turned off the 5:45 and 6:15 alarms. Like I said already wide awake. Might wake up the wife and kid unnecessarily.
3. Reminds me of an earlier episode of Elementary, in which Holmes psychoanalyzes Watson having two alarms as a sign that waking up to work is something that she "needs" to do rather than what she "wants" to do. Or something...
4. I'm not like that though. I really like my job now. 12 hour work shift, 2 days on 2 days off, follow the sun model. Just need the alarms just in case.
5. It happened before. I woke up to the alarm then I snoozed/turned it off. I thought to myself just gonna lie down for a minute more. Then when I woke up, 30 minutes has gone by. Missed the bus that day. I said to myself. Not. Again. :)
6. It's the typical morning ritual. Bath. Brush. Suit up.
7. Finished earlier than usual. Can't find the damn phone though. Took me a while to navigate through the dark room.

How to Begin Simplifying your Life

A Dragonlance Quote about Respect

Here's a quote from Dragonlance quote about respect. In my opinion, something we could apply in our daily lives....

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"A #dragonlance #quote about #respect"

Taken from Dragons of Summer Flame. :)

Our Chance Encounter of the Port of Lost Wonder

Port of Lost Wonder (POLW) - Singapore's First Kids' Club by the Beach. It's one of the newest attractions in Sentosa, specifically intended for kids! :) It's a pirate-themed swimming resort that offers a lot of attractions and facilities for the whole family.

Last week, we had no intention of going here. We originally planned to take the cable car and get off at Beach station, then walk towards the Southernmost Point of Continental Asia to have our picnic there. Along the way past the carpark building, we got a glimpse of this huge pirate ship and right then and there we decided to go in and have our picnic there.

Obviously, that was a good call. :)

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TIP: POLW is the first stop of the Palawan-Tanjong Beach tram from Beach Station. Can't miss it.

The BIG difference 50 cents make.

The iRemit branch in Lucky Plaza in Orchard Road is offering a special Easter promo. 

(Long queues at iRemit @Lucky Plaza)

First is the extra 50cents. All the other remitting companies are at 34.10.

Next one is the service charge. Service charges for any transaction type is now at SGD1.00 only.
Everyone in Singapore probably know rhis already. :) Just posting for the sake of posterity. :)

And a reminder for Easter next year. :)

Sent from my iPhone

A Word of Caution for the Apple Buyers

In light of the upcoming release of iPhone 5 and iPad 3 in the next few months, I was reminded of a couple of sketches from Conan. They are taking stabs on Apple and is meant to be funny... although there is a little ring of truth in it.

March 2011 - Release of iPad 2

My Megabloks Spider-Man

I'm actually a LEGO-guy myself. But this one time, I'm willing to go for Megabloks simply for this set. Just this once. :)

Megabloks Product Code #1994 (view full image)

I remember getting this on one of the Toy Sales a few months ago... or was it a year ago? Anyway, it was in the Takashimaya Toy Sale and I bought the set for around SGD 15. So that's SGD5 a piece. Not really sure, but sounded very good bargain at the time, so I just bought it.

Riley drunk with Milk

Taken the other day. He was sooooo sleepy he ended up sleeping in that position, right next to his half-full milkbottle. Yep, one of those precious moments. :)

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"Drunk! Too much milk! :))"

Can Glass Number 4: the Purple one

Just bought another upsized McDonald's value meal to get this week's purple can glass.

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So that's four out of six. Two more weeks and we'll have the complete set. :)

Finally, the Lime CAN Glass is here.

Got the third one! Now we have the Green, Pink, and the Lime CAN Glasses. And I'm still having problems with saying "can glass"; I'd rather say "glass can". Oh well. :)

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"Three's a crowd! Green, pink, and lime CAN Glasses"

Flashback: Riley's First Month Footprints

I was going through some files looking for some of Riley's documents because I remembered that I was supposed to get the Philippine government certified registration of birth. (See here.) Then I saw this:

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"Riley's foot prints, first month"

Riley's good hair day!

I posted this picture of Riley in Instagram the other day. :)

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This is what you get when you tie the curly hair of a baby boy who doesn't want his hair to be tied up :)

First thing that comes to my mind is Mister Swabe. Also, Ace Ventura. :)

Got the PINK; two CAN glasses down

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"And now there are two: pink and green"

Riley's Special Agent Oso prize

C/o Instagram, taken a few days ago.

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My May 2011 To-Do List in the Philippines

Just got back, and here's my to-do-list. I used the iPhone application "aNote" to keep track of things...

Riley's Nice Hair!

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"Riley's nice hair!"

Taken with Instagram with "X-Pro II" setting.

Checking out iOS 4.0 for iPhone 3G

Note: These are my observations for iOS 4.0 on iPhone 3G only. Many features are only supported in iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4.0, most likely due to the hardware limitations.

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Supported Features:

Folders
You can now organize apps further by placing them into custom folders. While in "wiggle" mode, simply drag one app on top of another. This will automatically create a new folder.

At least for the 3G, each folder can only contain up to 12 applications. And you cannot create subfolders within each folder (we tried, no luck). Although a bit limited, it is a great additional feature that should help clear up the clutter.

And if you're not comfortable setting up Folders on your iPhone, you can set up Folders within iTunes instead.


New Mail Features
The biggest new feature for Mail is that now you have the option to view your mails in all of your email accounts into a single unified mailbox.

You can reply, reply all, forward, and download images. You can even move mail from one account to the other.

In addition, by default emails are organized by threads. You can enable/disable this on Settings > Mails, Contacts, Calendars and slide on/off Organize By Thread.


iBooks
New addition, though frankly, this came in a little too late. There are already too many eBook readers online. Still, you do have the option to browse and buy books online, so if you are into that kind of thing, having the iBooks would be a blast for you.


Create Playlists
My personal favorite new feature!

Before, the only playlist you can edit is the "On The Go" playlist; you had to connect to iTunes to create and edit playlists. Also, if your existing "On The Go" playlist, if different from the previously synced "On The Go", will be updated to "On The Go-1", and so on. Quite irritating.

Now, you can now do this on the fly. Not just the On The Go. You can now create multiple playlists on your iPhone. On top of that, you can also edit any of your existing custom playlists.

All in all, a great improvement.


Photo Sharing and Copying
In Photos, you can now only Share or Copy at most 5 images at a time. The five-image limit prevents the memory leak issue experienced before when one tried to share/copy unlimited number of photos at a time.

When sharing large images (via email), you will be prompted that you can reduce the message size by scaling images down to Small, Medium, or Large. Or course, you can stick to the Actual Size if you wanted.

In case you wanted to send more than five images, simply Copy five images at a time then Paste them to your email.


Photo Places
Photos with geo-location data are now organized in the Places feature under Photos. You will be presented with a map (c/o Google). The locations where your photos are taken are marked with pushpins ala-Google Maps.


Location Services
Prior to iOS 4.0, Location Services can only be configured globally. Now, it can be configured on a per-App basis. That is, you can opt to enable it for Camera, and turn it off for everything else.


Safari Search Engine
The default search engine is Google. If you're tired of it, you can select Yahoo! or Bing instead.


More Secure Passcode Lock
The Passcode Lock can now be alphanumeric, providing even more security.

In case you still wish to stick to the simple 4-digit passcode lock, you can select that instead as well.

All of these can be set in Settings > General > Passcode Lock


Gifting Apps
The new Gift This App option is now available in App Store. After some experimenting, I noted that this option is only available in iTunes for applications which are (1) paid apps and (2) currently installed on your iPhone.

I haven't actually tried gifting an app yet. Anyone already tried this one out? :D


Expanded Spotlight Screen
The search feature of the iPhone now includes searching the Web (via Safari) as well as Wikipedia.


Other Features:
Messaging Character Count - now configurable on/off
Hiding Calendars (in case you sync your iPhone on multiple machines)
Cellular Data - now configurable on/off
Lyrics and Podcast Iinfo - now configurable on/off

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Unsupported Features:

And now, we come to the more heartbreaking part -- the unsupported iOS 4.0 features in iPhone 3G:

Multitasking
The greatest and perhaps most hyped feature of iOS 4.0 is NOT supported in 3G. Oh well, that's it for the 3G then.


Orientation Lock
You can now lock the iPhone to portrait view. That is, it longer changes to the landscape view the moment you shift your iPhone a little to the side. This is a feature that is part of the Multitasking controls, so obviously this was a no-go as well. It would have been a great addition, though.


Customizable Homescreen Background
Just to clarify, there used to be only one wallpaper -- for the Lock screen. Now, there is the Lock Screen wallpaper, and there's the Homescreen wallpaper -- the background behind your apps -- and you can assign a different one for each page, as I understand.


Spell Check
The typical word processing application feature is not available in 3G -- or at least I haven't been able to make it work yet. Supposedly, when using any application, say, Notes, any misspelled words will have the familiar red zigzag lines under the words. So far, I've not seen it yet.


Digital Zoom
The Camera app still does not have the digital zoom. This is easily remedied by using third-party apps though, although quality... well, it's best left to the user.


Zoom while Shooting Video
Well, iPhone 3G is not capable of shooting video in the first place, so no surprise, zooming while shooting is another no-go.


Video Playback in Page
Supposedly, in iOS 4, videos will now play right on the page, instead of launching the video player. Still a no-go for iPhone 3G.