It is time to search for car insurance again. Imagine that I already have no claim bonus of more than three years and I have to fork out more than what I paid two years ago. The cheapest that I can find for now is about £360 and the next cheaper insurance price I can get is with my current insurance provider, £450. Almost a hundred pounds difference. By switching to any other insurance provider, I will be looking at £600 figures. I find it quite appalling by the amount each insurance provider charges. It’s not like they are offering a better cover compared to the cheaper ones.

Advertisement can be quite deceiving too. Every day, there are dozens of car insurance providers advertising the money one could save when getting a quote from them online. I tried them all and none of them gave me the prices that were mentioned. Yeah, it all depends on the information that I provided. But honestly, only one company managed to quote me at £360? I have been with my current insurance provider for two years now and I am sure they can come up with a better deal! Well, I shall see how they response when I call them to say that I want to switch.

Since I bought the iPad2, I find that I have been using it most of the time particularly for social networking, gaming and light browsing. Even though MacBook Air is already almost instant on, which is already quite impressive as it is a laptop, I still find that iPad2 is a joy to use and help me get things faster. As they say, there’s an app for anything. I have started using Twitter actively and iPad2 is a treat. I can tweet and browse tweet in no time. Checking email is also quicker through the mail app where I can check several different email accounts at once. I find it a struggle using Mac OS X mail. Having said all that, I believe that Mac OS X Lion will improve things drastically as it is said to act similar to iOS. I am quite determined to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion when it arrives in July. As said, it costs a lot less than usual OS upgrade. After all, I am always after for the latest and affordable upgrades.

You might be thinking that why do I still need my MacBook Air. Well, there are several reasons. Having a proper laptop is still beneficial. Like right now, I am using Word to type this post. I can plan my next vacation easily as I always prepare a word document with maps and directions. These types of things cannot be done using iPad2. And the most obvious reason is the inability to play Flash! I may be a little extreme now as the next time I travel, I will certainly be travelling with both MacBook Air and iPad2. I don’t really have a reason for that but I just know I have to have them both.

Starting from today, there’s a two-day non-food sale at Lidl. Mee and I went there this morning and gosh, the car park was almost full. Tons of stuffs were on sale; from riding boots and clothing to stationeries and cooking utensils. Most shoppers were able to fill up their shopping trolleys easily. But they didn’t seem to want to miss anything at all and they just kept stacking anything they like on top of their already full shopping trolleys. Mee and I did manage to grab a few stuffs but we just passed on things, which may just clog our room.

My normal routine at work is usually reading online newspaper during lunch hour. Lately, there has not been much news at all. I mean not many interesting news. The most I read about is how cruel human can be; hit and run cases and one that I read today, eating a baby mouse. I can quite understand why people in the past created war because they simply had not that many things to do. Today, there are so many things a person can do in a day and why there are still people trying out sick act or acting ignorant to just about everything?

Celebrities going in and out of alcohol rehab treatment centers is a norm and it is something that should not be set as an example to young generation. Unfortunately, I have met youngsters who think that the path on becoming a celeb is to learn to party hard and take drugs. How naive? So much so they want to be left alone yet they couldn’t even think straight! One of my college lecturers used to urge us not to be too sad when reading this kind of news. Somewhere in another part of the world, there will be good news and it will never be a case where bad news are more than good news and vice versa.

There have been lots of zumba lessons going around here. The gym that I often go to has been recruiting members who are interested in zumba. For a certain amount of fees, anyone of all ages can learn zumba. I just don’t quite understand why members have to pay too. Well, maybe the zumba lessons are organised by individuals who are not related to the gym. Instead, they are just borrowing the advertising space as well as renting the gym’s exercise room for the lessons. Anyway, I am not ready to fork out more money than what I have already paid for my gym membership.

iPad2 jailbreak is still like a myth. There have been promises after promises and yet, it is still not available yet. It’s good in the sense that it gives me the time to think. I have not made the decision as to whether or not to jailbreak my iPad2 if and when a jailbreak solution is available. I struggle to think the benefits of jailbreak. Yeah, I may save a lot by downloading cracked apps and games or have the opportunity to install apps that are not approved by Steve Jobs and team. But what about iOS 5? I have seen what iOS 5 is capable of doing and it will be a shame if jailbreak is limited to iOS 4.3.3 and not able to progress to iOS 5. I am sure it will be able to go to iOS 5 once iPad2 has been jailbroken but when? Well, I guess, I can’t really know all of this unless I tried it. As of today, iPad2 is still un-jailbreakable!

Experience with Apple iPad2

Nowadays, I sleep later and later in the night. It is mainly down to my recent purchase of iPad2. I can’t seriously get off it and every now and then, I kind of need to touch it for a while. Is that some kind of addiction? Most of the time, I will be browsing the app store. The problem is there are so many apps and games and I wonder if I can really play or test them all. Just last night, I came across an app which allows iPad users to watch movies and dramas from around the world. I tested a few clips and it worked great. There is also a PC version of the software and that is also the reason why I actually installed Windows 7 on my MacBook Air. However, I haven’t got the chance to install the software which is called PPSTV.

Now that I have it on my iPad2, I might not install it on my MacBook Air. As said, there are lots of apps but I was having some trouble finding good document scanning services. Most of them require payment while the free ones don’t do a good job.

Well, I must force myself to sleep early start from today. I certainly hope so, even though I have failed to force myself on several occasions previously.