[REVIEW] OPTUS PREPAID MOBILE BROADBAND PLANS

When I arrived in Australia, I was surprised to see the cost of internet service. Before coming to this country, I had lived in a location which charges $20 for unlimited Giga speed internet. I surfed unlimited amount movie in Youtube and even I could watch HD movies from Movie streaming service from NAVER.COM unlimitedly. Here Federal government is building NBN (National Broadcasting Network). But the internet installation and mamangement cost is quite expensive till now.

Because I have traveled frequently, mobile broadband service was quite useful for me. I compared the prepaid mobile data rate among Optus, Telstra and Vodaphone.

Best plan I could choose was OPTUS $130 recharge for 17.5 Giga bytes of data. The cost per 1G is $7.42.

My next favored plan was OPTUS $40 recharge for 3.25 Giga bytes of data. The cost per 1G is $12.34.

(image from optus.com.au)

Most interesting optus plan is $2 A DAY. With this plan 500Mbyte of data available per day. And with $40, 20G bytes of data can be optained from this plan. And the cost of 20G is equal to $140 worth of credit in prepaid mobile broadband plan. We can use $140 worth of data with $40 only. (image from optus.com.au)

The link of this plan is available from following link.
https://www.optus.com.au/shop/prepaid/sim-card/plans

The cost of Telsta and Vodaphone was about 40% higher than Optus plan.
But in terms of quality of data and speed, TELSTRA or VODAPHONE may be better in some location. Amaysim and Vivid wireless has very attractive unlimited plans. But the coverage does not include the  locations where I frequently use internet.

I hope Optus can prepare more attractive plans for heavy users who work in connected internet cloud environment.

[WISH LIST] HAIER HWMP55-918 5.5KG WASHING MACHINE

HAIER is recently quickly drawing attention for brand value management, modern product design, and its confidence for quality by 2 year manufacturer warranty.

I liked the design of control panel of this model, coloring of the body, and nice photo in the website, as well as the friendly and detailed manual design and page alignment of manual. Their product level is approaching to the world class brand value and function, with reasonable price. 

Also this price includes free installation.
This product can be purchased at Buy Smarte from following link.
http://www.buysmarte.com.au/haier-hwmp55-918-5-5kg-top-load-washer-brand-new-2-yr-manufacturer-s-warranty.html

(Photo from www.haier.com.au / www.buysmarte.com.au)

[WISHLIST] HAIER HRZ-113 BAR REFRIGERATOR 115 LITER

Recently I am practicing a life without refrigerator. The reason is that I have no enough cash in hand to buy one, as well as it takes much more cost to move refrigerator when I move my room. Besides I can save electricity. 

I got used to live without a refrigerator. I stopped to buying something that should be stored in refrigerator.

But as the summer is coming near, sometimes I want to store a cold drink, some pasta source or other vegetarian food in the refrigerator. (Image from www.2ndsworld.com.au)

I like the model number HRZ-113, which has meaning of the date I departed to this country. And this amount of capacity 115 LITER would enough to store some bread or processed food.

I found "2NDS WORLD" is selling this product at wonderful price $145 + $49 (Shipping). 

The link of the shipping mall is as follows.
http://www.2ndsworld.com.au/fridge-freezer/fridge/bar-fridge/seconds-hrz40-sb-id-hrz40-id-HRZ40/

(image from www.haier.com.auwww.confidentcarenz.co.nz)

[REVIEW] INTEX JR SINGLE INFLATABLE AIR MATTRESS BED DOWNY CLASSIC

     INTEX JR SINGLE INFLATABLE AIR MATTRESS BED DOWNY CLASSIC     

Features:
Item #  66950
Size  N/A
Age Grading  adult
Package Dimension  17cm x 35cm x 10cm
Package Weight  2.5kgs
Product Size  76.2cm x 190cm x 22cm

Because I move by a little amount of baggage, I searched for easily movable beds in the internet shopping malls. INTEX was the vendor which seems to have great share in air bed, because most of the choice of air bed were supplied from INTEX. (Photo from ebay.com)

1. Feeling in time of sleep
I worried for the effect of air bed to spine when I sleep for hours in the air bed, because it was first time for me to sleep in air bed. But after I spent almost 2 weeks, better feelings than traditional mattress I noticed, as well as I suffered from no pain in my spine.

The feeling is not so firm like spring bed mattress, but quite soft and easy to fall a sleep. Moving and changing body position on the bed was a little hard but If I keep straightly in the center of air bed, I can sleep well with that pose for even more 8 hours.

2. Easy to install and Uninstall
This INTEX SINGLE AIR BED is easy to inflate and deflate. This bed can be stored in a small box of 30.5 cm x 24 cm x 7.5 cm. The weight without air is about 2.5 kg. Very useful if you move your room frequently. (Photo by James Kim, Nikon Coolpix)

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HOW TO INFLATE AND DEPLATE
(1) Valve Cap
(2) Exhaust Valve Cap

1. BEFORE INFLATING
Make sure that the exhaust valve cap is securely tightened

2. TO INFLATE
* Pull valve cap to open. See Fig 1.
* Insert the nozzle from an air pump into the inflation Valve. See Fig 2.
* Inflate the product to approximately 80% of desired firmness.
CAUTION : To prevent bursting, do not over inflate or use high pressure air compressor.
* Close valve cap securely after inflation. See Fig 3.

3. TO DEPLATE
* Carefully unscrew the exhaust valve cap to release the air. See Fig 4.
CAUTION : When opening, point the exhaust valve away from any person.
* Replace the exhaust valve cap back when the product is completely deflated.    
  See Fig 5.
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3. Save the room space
Air bed is less than 3 kg with air inside, so the bed can easily moved to the wall side to save the space of the room. When you need to do exercising or other works in the room, you can easily move the bed to corner size and put up to the wall. 

4. Easy to inflate
Without pump, you can breathe the air into the bed. Before you do this, you need to wash a little near the air valve. For my experience it took around 10 minutes to fill enough air to Single size air bed. It does not take much strength if an adult breathes the air. (photo by James Kim, Nikon Coolpix)

5. Low shipping cost
The seller ships the product at $4.95 by Australia Post.

Quite particular sleeping experience in INTEX SINGLE AIR BED. A lot of unique products are available from INTEX for SOFA, BED and FURNITURES.

This product can be purchased from following link : 
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Genuine-INTEX-JR-SINGLE-Inflatable-Camping-Air-Mattress-Bed-Downy-Classic-/221258509110?pt=AU_Sleeping_Gear&hash=item338408eb36&_uhb=1

(image from www.intexcorp.com)

[REVIEW] GORGON PROJECT LPG PLANT - HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES

One of the valuable resources in Australia is Fossil Gas. Especially it is found in the northern side of sea coast. This Gorgon project is one of the biggest scale of gas project in Australia. (Photo from hhi.co.kr)

Extracting valuable resource is important business to maintain and advance the civilization. In this point of view, the fossil fuel stores concentrated solar energy, and the human uses it to get the compressed energy which can be extracted in a short period with magnified power.

LPG plant is the facility to refine and store the gas. Ground-based plant can be built at the lower budget, than the offshore LPG plant in many points. Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI) applied offshore plant technology to Ground-based plant, and won Gorgon LPG PLANT PROJECT which is the biggest single project in HHI's history. Gorgon project site is located at Barrow Island, the northwest shore of Australia.
(Image capture from map.google.com)

This project is operated by Chevron and ExxonMobil, and it consists of 48 Plant modules weighing 190,000 tons, and is expected to be delivered until 2013 by HHI. LPG Plant Module technolgy was originally applied for HHI's Offshore Plant, but it is firstly applied to Gound-based plant, for this technology greatly reduce field labor works, and lower the cost while acquiring better quality by standardized procedures in factory environment. (image from hhi.co.kr)

For more detailed article, visit following link.

english.hhi.co.kr/news/view?idx=258

(Photo from hhi.co.kr)

[REVIEW] 19.7% EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELL FROM HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES

COPPER-CONTACT SOLAR CELLS              
of HHI (Hyundai Heavy Industries)                  
achieved 19.7 % conversion efficiency.           

This NEW innovation of cell fabrication technology of HHI broke the world record of SOLAR conversion efficiency. This breaking technology includes standard 156 mm commercial-grade p-type silicon wafers. HHI announced this new record of solar conversion efficiency was confirmed by the Fraunhofer Institude for Solar Energy Systems in Munich, Germany. (Photo from HHI, posted in SOLAR AUSTRALIA, )

HHI's Chief officer in Green Energy division said, "The new cell technology is important advance in semiconductor photovoltaic products which enables low manufacturing cost for higher performance."

HHI is constructing new research and development center in Eumsung, South Korea, which is located beside of 600 megawatt silicon cell and module production factories. HHI is setting up the hightech test equipments to maintain the world's first performance in solar cell efficiency. HHI is ranked at first position in the manufactured amount of solar cell and modules.

HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES
 - GREEN ENERGY [WEB]
english.hhi.co.kr/biz/green_over

[REVIEW[ CARIBEE FAST TRACK CABIN BAG

Previously I had another CABIN size bag, which I purchased in AMAZON.COM. But the zipper caused irreparable problem before I take the flight. And I bought a low cost cloth bag from duty-free shop and put the damaged bag into it. After I arrived in this country, I needed a new CABIN bag, which can give enough extendable inside space, and the special structure to store laptop and tablet. (Photo from theluggageprofessionals.com.au)

I kept searching some models in AMAZON.COM again, but all the practical models hided itself from the list of products. And when I searched in Google, and other price comparing website, I found this cute and very useful-looking bag. And after I read the detailed specification and looked detailed photos, I came to like this bag. 

The price $74 was a little higher than my budget, but I thought if I can use this bag for more than 1 year or 2 year, I can save money because of such long endurance. A couple of months ago, I lost much money and suffered from pain because my previous CABIN bag was damaged during my flight travel.

When the bag arrived to my cabin, the weight was quite light. I opened the plastic packing and took out the bag. And I was impressed by the many practical and sophisticated design and consideration which were contained in the CARIBEE FAST TRACK CABIN BAG.

The first point which remains in my memory, is the green-fluorescence-colored zones hidden in various position of the bag. Its design was very unique, and enhanced the product brand quality, for I did not see such trial before with other bags. When I opened zippers, inside of bag was covered with full green-fluorescence-colored material. And the color made me feel new and gave me the heart of concentration to new jobs. (Photo from theluggageprofessionals.com.au)

Second point I want to explain for the reason I like, is mini pockets inside of front cover pocket. There were a lot of useful mini pockets, and I used those pockets very usefully during train travel. I came to think out various ideas to use each mini pockets. A pocket for mobile phone battery, a pocket for pens, a pocket for zip bags, a poclet for mp3 player, and a pocket for DVDs.

Third point I want to say, is the side mini pockets. I sometimes put cosmetics, tissue, soaps,or tower. 

Fourth point is the laptop storage place in the back pocket. It can be extendable enough to put even 1 laptop and 1 ultrathin laptop such as tablet.

The final point is the bottom of the bag. On the bottom surface, there are 2 rubber supports which make the contamination of the bag least. And it makes bag washing easy.

This bag is designed to satisfy the regulation of most airline companies for CABIN carry bag. And I chose this bag as a best option for flight, train, and bus travel. Sure it gave best function for my frequent travel in this country.

I wish to see the advanced versions of CARIBEE FAST TRACK CABIN BAG soon, which would give more practicality and endurance of the bag materials, as well as various creative pocketing ideas.

This product cab be purchased from following link.
http://theluggageprofessionals.com.au/business-bags/caribee-fast-track-cabin-bag.html

Gray color version

[REVIEW] TOSHIBA 1TB CANVIO® BASICS USB 3.0 PORTABLE HARD DRIVE

I purchased this external HDD for important data backup 3 months ago. Backup is always important, and I saved a lot of time, which would have lost by disk failure or file delete by accident.  (Photo from toshiba.com)

I prefer TOSHIBA brand for TOSHIBA is the brand which made and patented the laptop computer first in the world. Since that time, TOSHIBA has developed its technology to downsize the laptop computer and its components. I myself changed my work platform from Desktop to Laptop since around 2006, because I can save space and I can work in any place particularly in the work fields.

This Toshiba 1TB Canvio® Basics USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive has unique exterior design. HDD is completed wrapped in a firm plastic enclosure which ensures high level of protection from the damage by disassembly, dust and water.

Another important feature is this product supports USB 3.0 which enables higher speed than previous version of USB. I noticed maximum 30-40% of speed seems to be enhanced when a big movie file is copied.

Another special thing I noticed with this product is the LED, which displays BLUE color for USB 2.0 connection, and WHITE color for USB 3.0 connection. (photo by James Kim)

This product is installed and recognized as it is without driver installation by plug-and-play in Windows 7. It is great point when you install driver in newly formatted Laptop HDD, because just after the Windows installation, only available media access is either DVD drive or USB. Without USB access, you cannot install needed drivers for Video, Sound and LAN, which are usually stored in USB after the drivers are downloaded from internet, because internet is not set up and enabled just after the Windows installation.

Another appealing point for this product is THREE YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY. It shows TOSHIBA's confidence and efforts to guarantee the product quality.

TOSHIBA is one of the major manufacturers which produce FLASH memory to the world. I have 4G SDCARD for NIKON camera, which has kept working for a long time without failure.

I expect more advanced products with reasonable price would be available from TOSHIBA, as well as TOSHIBA makes the advanced technology available at the proper expenses, enabling the consumers to enjoy better benefits from new technology from recent  advances from TOSHIBA.

(Photo by HTC Wildfire S A510, James Kim)

(Article and image from toshiba.com)

[REVIEW] MUSASHI SOY PROTEIN POWDER LOW FAT CHOCOLATE 350G

I have exercised VEGETARIAN diet near nearly for 9 months. Before 9 months ago, I rarely had beef or pork for nearly 1 year. Sometimes I had meat by mistake, I tried my best to keep vegetarian menu. The reason I chose vegetarian diet is because it reduces the time to cook and saves money, as well as it is good for health. Furthermore to keep my body in the best health condition with green diet, is an important duty to God, for my body is the tool and place where the Spirit of God gives inspiration to achieve God's works. 
(photo from woolworths.com)

But the problem with such diet is the lack of protein in food. Because I quit having milk, eggs and cheese recently, not much various protein sources are available for me. Recently I found I am losing my hair. If protein supply is not sufficient, many types of symptom start to appear. It takes more time for a wound or a cut to be healed. And finger nail gets thinner. Hair becomes thinner, even lost. Also protein does important role to make the elements of blood , which are needed to protect body and destroy viruses and repair the damaged or aged body cells.

So I had canned beans, and it surely works well, giving quite amount of energy. Later I tried this MUSASHI SOY PROTEIN. MUSASHI is the given name of renowned Japanese Ronin - Miyamoto Musashi who was swordsman, battle strategist and artist. He is well known for his excellent swordsmanship in duels of the Mideaval time of Japan. [1] MUSASHI has been frequent subject material for Japanese martial art fictions. He is said to have trained by himself until he got the high level of swordmanship in his age. And this historical brand name MUSASHI encourages the people who train their body, dreaming to achieve the high level of physical capability.
(photo from wikipedia.org)

(image from www.musashi.com.au)
This product helps to get protein in a cutting-edge way. This product has concentrated SOY protein, and reduced the amount of material mass enough to refill the necessary protein amount for body. Also this product helps to repair the damaged muscles after harsh physical training and weighting, as well as it causes muscle to grow.

The taste is a little like soft chocolate oatmeal, but quite pleasant after finishing 1 cup. Inside of the product is a spoon which is useful to measure the amount exactly. I make drink with this MUSASHI SOY PROTEIN POWDER before I start daily exercise. And surely it gives better power and efficiency of muscle in time of exercise. I believe this product is opening the way to future food, which helps the health more efficiently while saving the space, time, fuel and wasted byproduct of crops.

Also the customer can buy highly quality-managed and ingredient-controlled food product, which gives less chance to contact harmful chemicals and FATS. Also the customer can exactly control the amount of protein for each day or each meal.

New food technology would help human to reach superior ability which gives better concentration to work, better memory, and enhanced physical capability. I want to experience more advanced food products from MUSASHI and other manufacturers which seek to find the alternative advanced source of nutrition.

(capture from musashi.com.au)

This product can be purchased from Woolworths Online.

http://www2.woolworthsonline.com.au/Shop/ProductDetails?Stockcode=375968&name=musashi-soy-protein-powder-low-fat-chocolate&search=musashi

note

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi

{Photo by Kim James}

(Photo from  www.musashi.com.au)

[REVIEW] NAVER - KOREAN PORTAL AND SEARCH ENGINE

NAVER is the internet portal service company which covers very broad commercial fields, including advertisement, shopping, internet phone, classified postings, email, blog, and game, news service. (photo from naver.com)

Here I want to describe what kind of influence NAVER's service gave to my life since I started to use internet for job, study, entertainment and communication.

(image from www.navercorp.com)
The most frequent service I use with NAVER is email service. This service has evolved since the year 2000, and now I want to believe the functions of this email system is close to the world's best. I tried the email system of many famous international portal, but NAVER provides most time-saving tools to manage emails and classify them. Also NAVER provides very easy function to download whole emails from mail server to PC. (capture from mail.naver.com)

NAVER integrated email system with CONTACT management system and user can send notification SMS immediate after he sends email. 

The most important protection of NAVER's service to remember is high level of security protection. IP hijacking is the hacking method that steals the IP of victims who logged in the portals, and uses this logged-in ID to pick the privacy information or get the emails, even without need to acquire his password. Also when illegal login trial happens, it blocks IPs or it requests verification by phone SMS. If IP address is changed during user's activity in the NAVER' service, the system asks the password again to kick out the IP hijackers.

The most benefitted service of NAVER was classified posting service, called CAFE. This cafe is membership based posting service. I mainly used this classified posting service for short-term project contract searching, and to sell my new or used items. Surely I made quite money from these classified service, by contracting projects, selling items and comparing prices. 
(capture from cafe.naver.com/joonggonara)

The most useful tools of NAVER were the language dictionary service. It is most monumental works of NAVER, because such methods greatly changed the method to learn language fastest ever in the history. In English dictionary, it updates most newly made terms every day. So if I cannot find a new term in English news service from traditional dictionary, I should search in NAVER English dictionary. Another impressive works of NAVER dictionary is Japanese dictionary which I got much help to enhance the understanding for Japanese language. Chinese dictionary, German dictionary and Russian dictionary is also quite useful to study those languages. Recently NAVER added French dictionary, and it gives quite challenge to restart study of French language. (capture from jpdic.naver.com)

Also NAVER started to support Mongolian dictionary, Vietnamese dictionary, Turkish dictionary and Spanish dictionary. I expect to see the more languages such as Arabic, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish would be added. To have an electronic dictionary was a great dream when I was in middle school. Such dream was beautifully achieved by NAVER's language service.

The most inspirational service of NAVER is ASK service called JISIK-IN. In this special posting place, user can post any questions and the people who have either casual knowledge or professional knowledge to the question, can answer to the question. And this system greatly stimulates the sharing of useful information and makes collective intelligence made by a great number of people. Sometimes, I could get quite valuable information for the topics I want to know. Also I answered 50s of questions in this posting, in the field of German language, English language, Electronics, computer software and religions. (capture from kin.naver.com)

The NAVER's service in which I spent most money, is online Movie streaming service. I purchased 30s of movies for download or watching online in the portal's website. But if the movie file is moved to other media, it cannot be played. It is great problem, but I enjoyed this service much. It was one of the most advanced entertainment business which enables people to purchase movies easily and in a lower price, as well as protects intellectual properties of movies. (capture from movie.naver.com)

Another entertainment service by NAVER is an online game service called HANGAME. I sometimes enjoyed TETRIS with other online gamers and also I purchased special coupon to extend the daily time limit of free gaming of TETRIS. It was quite interesting experiences, even though I came to rarely do this game service recently for I am very busy recently.
(capture from hangame.com)

Finally BLOG, about 5 years ago, I did much posting for news articles in my BLOG every day. But I quit it. Recently when I did searching in NAVER, many useful and interesting information was found in other people's blog in NAVER. 

And NAVER's membership information is very easy to understand and manage each items, saving time to find how to access needed information.

The most unfortunate thing is that NAVER is available only in Korean. Recently it started service in Japanese. If I have more time, I would like to remind my memory with NAVER.

God gave today a special word for NAVER. God said, NAVER provides precious service, something like sapphire stone shown in the firmament, having the appearance of the likeness of the throne of God. 

I expected to see further advanced technology and service to speed up the development of human mind, and to save costs by sharing information, and to enhance the ideology and system of the world, from NAVER's service.