I have a twin - well not exactly a twin, but we were both born on the same day, same month and same year and are Hong Kong Chinese. I didn’t think we were that much alike until recently….

Every year we send each other birthday wishes, (it’s not hard to forget when you share the same birthday!), and in her last correspondence to me she mentioned that she will be tieing the knot later on the year.

Recently I got engaged, and was telling her of my news, informing her I’ll be tieing the knot later on the year also. In which she replied ‘When in December?’ The way she worded the question was a bit queer but I gave my reply informing her of my wedding date. At the back of my mind I was thinking surely she’s not thinking of the same day.

In the next email from her, I couldn’t believe my eyes. She’ll be getting married on the same day!! Admittedly there are only a selected few good dates to be married based on the Chinese lunar calendar (about one a month). But of all the dates in the year, we’ll both be getting married on the same day. We were both are bit freaked out about it.

We continue to exchange notes about wedding dresses and styles, and would you believe she’s been looking at dresses from the same designers as me, and she’s over in UK and I’m in Sydney Australia!

What would be even freakier would be if we both become mothers at the same time, where our kids are also ‘twins’.

I recently got a T-Mobile, MDA Compact II with windows mobile 5 and a generous GPRS option as part of my plan.

One of the first things that I wanted to do was hook up my Gmail account.. but found to my dismay, that it didn’t seem to work quite right. Messages would be downloaded and not displayed, or deleted on the next send/receive, or worse - just seem to do nothing at all.

Most of the various solutions I found online involved setting an option in my device to “download headers only” and download a large amount of the body (eg 999 kb). This solution had limited success in that I semed to read through a large number of headers, but still didn’t end up wiht any messages.

I decided to connect to my gmail pop using outlook to try and see what was going on. It turns out that I had a huge amount of email on my pop server (I have set gmail to provide all emails via pop). Something in the order of 300 mb - and all unread. I deleted all of my old emails from the gmail pop server… then removed gmail pop from outlook. Wow now Gmail seens to be working on my device!!! Hooray!

Hope this helps someone.  

Yes fellow mowabians, I have converted to Mac! Please before you scream in rage and uproar, please allow me to share my thoughts with you on why I converted.

Firstly, apple finally tolerates intel. Not saying this is a good or bad thing, but it does reduce one less barrier for me in terms of not crossing over.

Secondly, the MacBook Pro 15.4 inch notebook spec I purchased is very well put together. I struggled and agonised and finally features and asthetics made me purchase it.

Still getting used to its features I must say but thanks to Sir Flakey, I am well on my way to better using the machine. I currently have parallels running on it which has also eased the pain in some respects.

Stay tuned folks for any further developments….