Gay feelings

SteveKoo — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:55:28 +0800

hi all
i've just rediscovered myself as a gay.
hope u will help me and won't mock me.

i have feelings for a male colleague.
he is not the macho type but is the nice scholar type.
so far, he has been kind and receptive after i confessed to him.
so now we had decided to bring our relationship into another level.
i.e. we are willing to express our love for each other in a physically way.

if there are established gays here, can u tell me what happens ?
do we take turns to "receive" and "take"?
or it's just one role only?

i also know we need to use lots of lube.
from the farmasi, it is mostly recommend KY.
but quite expensive. any other options?

pls help.

the problems with android

SteveKoo — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:07:34 +0800

Android enthusiasts are under the illusion that once anybody holds onto an Android device, it will completely transform their lives and render all other devices worthless. If you deviate from this line of thinking, you’re an outcast. Mob mentality at its finest.

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So, maybe my problem isn’t that I have opinions that I’m not afraid to share, but sharing them before “everyone else” does? Or, perhaps it’s just a problem with other people being so uncomfortable in their own decisions that they need to admonish those who have disparate points of view.

“Geeks” are quick to pit any Android device against the iPhone, but… it’ll always be an unfair comparison. Apple controls the hardware, the software, and the experience. Google doesn’t. You could try to compare hardware features, but even that’s unfair. It’s never about the raw power of the hardware but how a feature it enables is actually implemented.

Microsoft Windows 7 on a state-of-the-art PC will more than likely outperform Windows Millennium Edition on the same machine. Get it? The hardware’s the same, but it’s the software that spells all the difference.

So, anyway… back to the whole “problem” with Android.

the Samsung SGS2 is almost too geeky. There’s an array of options and widgets and possibilities available at a moment’s notice – and that’s entirely overpowering. Some might be quick to blame Samsung for the software experience, but Google is who allowed that to happen. It’d be like blaming the dog for eating the cake that you left on the floor. It tastes like there were too many chefs in the kitchen with this one. And you know what? I’m not alone in this belief.

A solution? Gingerbread.

So, apparently I’m wrong to say that the user experience in today’s Android platform is lackadaisical – but Google already sees the problem and is making moves to fix it. How, again, is this MY problem?
Take off your Android-enthusiastic goggles for a moment and see that I’M ON THE SAME SIDE AS YOU ARE. I want to see Google make Android better – WHO wouldn’t?!

As a tech enthusiast, I don’t want ANY device to fail. I want EVERY device to be perfect. But you know what? They do, and they’re not.

So, then I posted my “second impressions” after practically using the device for a couple of hours. I needed a recharge:

WTF? People were screaming for me to adjust this, download that, and stand on my head the right way in order to save battery life.

You honestly believe that the average consumer is going to know to do any of this? You really think they’re going to buy this shiny new device only to be told that they have to throttle back the features which make it so attractive to them in the first place? Excuse me? You MUST be joking.

I repeat: WTF?!

My favorite moment in this entire situation has to be when I was called “biased” for pointing out somebody else’s BLATANT USABILITY ISSUE. While I have enough knowledge to figure out that grouped dots typically indicate a draggable element, I wasn’t able to ascertain the proper direction to slide the bar to unlock the device. I was holding the phone upright, so sliding up was more intuitive a motion. Nope. You have to slide it down Of course, nowhere did the UI explain that I needed to slide the bar in a downward fashion.

This is why when I use iPhone4 for 4 months, then use a HTC Desire, I felt dem kaw irked. I used WinMo before, and using iPhone4 is like a breeze, and this is why Apple'd product is superb. They think until the human factor.

Still, people called *ME* stupid?

Yeah, well… if having to figure out a device makes me stupid, then I dare to be stupid. As an adult, I want to use something powerful that even a toddler can figure out. If you don’t understand that the simplicity of experiences is what makes them powerful, then you need to wake up and smell the usability.

Blaming a user for poor design choices isn’t just asinine – its an exercise in futility.

I never said that the Samsung SGS2 didn’t have amazing capabilities – it absolutely does! I’m seriously interested in exploring its ability to act as a mobile hotspot (though, again, will wrestle with a 1hr battery life as indicated by other users). I’m excited to be able to dive into the Android Marketplace.

I haven’t spent enough time with the device to give it an official review (even then, I’ll be likely put to blame for any further perceived shortcomings). Geeks will defend it to the death, I see – but I’m under the belief that this particular communications gadget is being marketed to more than just the nerdy crowd.

A “first impressions” is just that – my first impressions. I stand by my original “okay” sentiment in respect to the Samsung SGS2: extreme power limited by haphazard usability. It requires an incredible amount of refinement.

I’m guessing, however, that the most ardent Android supporters will not have made it to this point in the post, blinded by whatever self-appointed righteousness that drives ‘em. For someone to become enraged when anybody dares suggest that a product they support isn’t as sweet as they believe it is seems to speak to a wealth of personal insecurities more than anything.

Android still needs to grow up – and apparently, so does 90% of its community.

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