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If KL was a family, Pudu would be its bast*rd child. The first time I stepped off my KKKL bus onto the platform at its infamous bus station I knew I had landed on bad grounds.

As polluted and congested as Pudu might appear during the re-assuring rays of sunlight, it takes on a whole new level of malice in the glow of the night. It was my first trip to KL alone. I was a teenager with a measly 50 ringgit note tucked in the confines of my worn-out wallet. The same wallet I Instictly kept checking as I walked down to the streets below. Even at 11pm on a Sunday night, the streets were crowded. Didn’t these people have work to attend to the very next morning? I realized then that for a majority of Pudu’s citizens – this was work.

I tried to look as invisible as possible. Bag in one hand, heart in the next. My mission was simple enough, grab a taxi to a friend’s apartment. Thankfully situated a good distance away from my arrival destination. The touts we’re pushy, shouts of “Seremban”, “Johor Bahru” and “Penang” rained in my ear as I navigated thru them clumsily. The desperate one’s resorted to tugging at your shirt sleeves or placing a hand around your shoulder. I politely declined, sometimes with a confident “no” and other times with a nod of the head.

As I climbed up the pedestrian walk, I was greeted to the sights of beggars, each one of them had allocated a comfortable seating position along the lines of the dusty and dirty elevated walkway. Their coins jiggling in their plastic containers as the people walked by trying not to make any eye contact from point A to B. As I reached the opposite end, an old Malay lady – wailing child in hand approached me “anak nak makan” she kept repeating. I knew I was probably giving my spare change away to a syndicate more than that poor innocent child but at that moment, it was a 2 ringgit escape from a cloudy conscience and a crying kid. Hopefully I told myself, that kid had got half the share of the night’s profit.

A pimp approached me as soon as I had reached solid ground. “Nak tengok perempuan?”. I acted like I didn’t here him. “Want to see girl?” he persisted. Walking backward to meet my pace. I wondered if he might actually rephrase the sentence in Tamil, but I decided that a wave of the hand to signify my disinterest would suffice. I approached a group of taxi drivers nearby. The drivers we’re busy talking among them, cigarettes in hand. “Kelana Jaya?” I asked, wondering which one of these kind gentlemen would have the honour of ripping me off.

The Indian taxi driver spoke up, “35 Thambi, now late – meter runs double”. I could have argued. There was no way I would be able to live in KL for the next two days on the remainder of 15 ringgit, but I knew if I stayed here any longer, the chances of living in itself would be questionable. I agreed and got in the taxi, just in time to see the pimp I had avoided earlier, escorting a middle aged white man thru the alleyways into the darkness.

Speeding up your Nokia S60 Device

The Nokia N97

Now the Nokia N97 is a pretty sweet phone, bringing social networking to the forefront for symbian devices. However one the major flaws of the device is it’s processing power and speed. The device has a tendency to lag like a Streamyx connection on a busy Sunday (pun intended). In this case you can eitheir do away with it and op for a lighthing fast Iphone 3Gs or if your like me and you’ve been a Nokia fanboy for years and immune to Apples brainwashing campaigns, you can choose to apply this pretty cool “easter egg” which speeds up your Nokia symbian S60 device to a certain extent (don’t go expecting a 200% increase ok?).

This trick fix is applicable to all Nokia S60 models, I’ve tried it on my very own N97 and 5800 and it seems to give a pretty decent boost. Keep in mind however, a reset/reboot to the device or use of the “Switch” function erases the fix. Let me know if it works for your device.

* First change the date of you mobile to “01/05/2005”

* Open the Calendar now.

* Create 2 new To-Do (For this go to calendar-options-new entry-to do)

* Now insert the following information in the newly created To Do.
To Do 1:
Subject: Speed
Due date: 04.08.2005
Priority: High
To Do 2:
Subject: Qoukie
Due date: 04.08.2005
Priority: Low

* Now confirm both To Do by selecting Done, but don’t close the Calendar.

* Again go to options and select To Do view.

* Now mark both To Do “Speed” and “Qoukie” done.

* Close the Calendar and change the date of the phone back to normal.

* You are done; check if there has been any improvement in terms of speed (try opening the gallery for instance)

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