[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