
Holdfire
It’s been 3 months since Amour Chaleur moved to Holdfire and I decided it’s time for me to tell others how I feel about the services provided by Holdfire. Amour Chaleur was previously hosted at a Singapore based hosting company but due to certain issues whereby majority of my visitors outside Singapore are not able to access the website, I made the decision to move the website to Holdfire in August. It was highly recommended by fellow Snarkers. Holdfire assisted me in moving all my files from the old server to the new one at no cost. It took them a day or so to finish moving all my files which is extremely efficient in my opinion. I did not have to do anything regarding the move aside from giving them my cPanel details.
As my previous hosting plan with another company had not yet expired, Holdfire offered me a contract buyout so that I do not have to pay extra for the excess months of hosting not utilised at my previous host. Technical support is fast as it usually takes them less than 24 hours to reply to my support tickets. Holdfire is also on twitter and sometimes I @reply them with certain questions I’ve as I do not feel the need to raise a support ticket for general enquires. The staff at Holdfire are really friendly people.
During these 3 months, there were no major downtimes as far as I remembered. There was only once when my website was down for about 3 minutes and only a few people (including myself) realised it. It recovered by itself by the time I filed a ticket so I guessed it might just be a small glitch. Other wise, it’s good. The loading time for my website on the same connection is comparable to my previous host (which cost twice as much) which I’ve no complains about.
Affordability is one thing I like most about Holdfire. For a basic plan I’m having, it has a lot more space than how much I actually required at an affordable price for a student like me. It has doubled the disk space for the same plan at the same price during the recent update. To sum up this review, I’m a happy customer of Holdfire and will definitely recommend it!

Samsung Corby
I received my first Christmas gift of 2009 – A Samsung Corby from Chewy. It was an early gift as we wouldn’t be celebrating Christmas together this year. He’s going back home to Kuala Lumpur so I’ll be alone during Christmas.
Chewy seems to like the touchscreen of Corby. I can’t remember how many times I’ve said this but I am not a fan of touchscreen phones. I think I’ll need some time to get use to using such phones again because I spend 10 minutes trying to send an SMS this morning. I know I fail.
My friends from school highly preferred the Corby over my INQ mini. They are like “oh my gosh Dayna, your new phone looks great. Glad you decided to get a new one.” when they see me with my new phone in class. By the way, my INQ mini is still alive and I gave up my LG Viewty for adoption today. I’m going to miss it. So, back to the Corby… there are 3 colours – white, yellow and pink. There are also green and orange in Korea but somehow they didn’t bring those into Singapore. I like the orange and yellow one but Chewy is a fan of white and black phones so I got the white one. Even though I’m a huge fan of pink, I decided a universal colour will be better. It’s easier to sell it off in the future since not everyone is a fan of pink like me. On a totally random note, according to the korean drama, You’re Beautiful (which I’m so in love with), white stands for purity. It’s not a bad choice eh?
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INQ mini
Like I said last week, I was going to pop by Jurong Point over the weekends to check out on the new INQ mini. If you have guess I would buy the phone, then yes you were right! I got the new INQ mini at SGD 0 when I renew my mobile contract with SingTel. I upgraded from iOnePlus to 3G Flexi Lite – Amped at no extra charge and I’m now the happy owner to my INQ mini.
I have only started playing around with the Twitter, IM and Facebook functions this morning. For the past few days, I’ve been trying out the basic functions of the phone such as text messaging, camera etc. Text size is a bit too small but I really like how an SMS can fill up the screen without any scrolling required. If you have used the LG viewty before, I think you’ll understand what I meant. So, why do I love the INQ mini?
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