Google Inbox

So Google made a new email app. Inbox. You can either download the new app from the AppStore or you can access the PC version through inbox.google.com. Provided you're invited to try it out. 

I'm assuming it's not available for everyone yet. 

The great thing about Inbox is that it allows you to sort your mail based on importance. And by importance, I don't mean just by labeling an email important. 

Inbox lets you add a reminder to your emails and have the emails reappear in your inbox at the time you will be ready to deal with it. It lets you deal with important tasks first (tasks, not emails) and you can either snooze or set reminders on the rest for a later date. Once you're done with the task you can simply archive the email by selecting "done". 

Inbox allows you to handle emails as a to-do list. Which is great because I am sure most emails are just that. Something you have to deal with when you have the time. 

What I don't quite like about this system is the way it handles labels and incoming messages. On my mobile app, I no longer know which account has the new email. A notification will be apparent on the app icon but once you've opened the app, you can't tell which account that notification is for without checking everything. 

Next, I label all my emails because it's just easier to browse through them when I'm looking for information or things I need to do. I do not enjoy having to double check if every email is labelled. This is important to me because I have people coming to me asking about when certain emails were sent or received or if certain documents have been sent out. 

If these two issues can be fixed I'll be very happy with the new changes (that may replace gmail). 

Point of View

As it turns out, no two persons can ever share a perfectly identical point of view. You may be able to get what someone else is saying but you'll never truly understand why. 

Everyone leads a different life no matter how similar their upbringing. No two siblings are 100% alike, despite growing up in the same environment. 

If that's true, is it worth arguing or wondering why people don't get what you're saying or is it worth trying to make people see things your way? 

Is my way always the right way? Is your way always better? 

Was the last argument you had worth it? 

Everyone sees things the way they want to anyway. Would what I say change the way they think? Would my words enlighten them or belittle them? How are my words perceived? 

I write in awe and wonder and I wonder if some might find me bitter or sad. Or simply unsatisfied with an imaginary situation. 

Sometimes I don't understand what you're saying or why you do what you do. But I have learned to accept that people being people are different and I know I shouldn't be bothered if I don't understand. 

Yet, when I see the look of confusion in your face and that twinge in your expression that says you can't accept that I don't understand, I'm equally as confused as you are. There are many things you may believe to be common sense, but I may not know what is common sense to you. 

So I smile an empty smile. I let out a breath or two to simply let go. It's okay. I'm me and you're you. If I like you just alright, I hope you'll like me enough to hang around long enough to be okay with what I am. 

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Activating a Dormant Malaysian CIMB Savings Account whilst Overseas

This issue has been resolved!

I got an e-mail today from my customer service representative. She had been giving me weekly updates about the status of my account.

Today, she e-mailed to inform me that my account is now active. Thank God!

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What I did:

1. Posted my problem on CIMB Malaysia's facebook wall, explaining my circumstances and why their solution is unavailable to me.

2. Wait for a customer service representative to contact me.

3. Sent my contact details to the customer service representative to formally submit a complaint. (A reference number or case number will be assigned to you. Use it for further correspondences.)

4. Sent a formal letter (physical and electronic PDF copy) addressed to my home branch.

5. Wait for news.

6. Receive good/bad news. (In this case, it was good news for me.) ^^

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Initially, I had asked my brother and another friend to ask the people at CIMB (face-to-face inquiry) on my behalf but they were both told I had to be physically in Malaysia to activate my account and that there was no other way. But, deciding not to give up or to resort to other... err... ways to "be" in Malaysia without actually being there, facebook turned out to be another reliable channel for customer service complaints.

SNS, people! If they are properly manned, they should be a good channel to submit your complaints and have the right people deal with your problem.

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Grammarly

Have you ever heard of Grammarly?

It's an online grammar checker that does more than just look for strange grammar. It points out grammatical and spelling errors; it gives suggestions for what it thinks is correct. Highlighting words also brings up a list of synonyms. Of course, if the human thinks they are correct, they may override that correction. It's not obnoxious like Microsoft's autocorrect, which insists it is right regardless of what you say.

Anyway, I recently found out about their chrome extension and decided to give it a go. It's fairly accurate and mostly free. If you are not confident in your choice of words or sentence structures, it is a great free app.

However, for more advanced users, if you have advanced issues (such as choice of words, colloquialism, or other less common grammatical errors secondary language learners rarely have the chance to make, having not learned them) they require an upgrade which you have to purchase.

While I say why waste money on a free service, I feel that this particular service is worthwhile. It's like having an English teacher watching over your shoulder, telling you where you're wrong and why.

It's a fairly straightforward app and I think most people could benefit from its free services. Do check it out at grammarly.com.

Sarah J. Maas

Sarah J. Maas is now an author on Goodreads and I am truly inspired by her success. I have followed her work on fictionpress from high school and to finally see her published and a successful author is nothing but inspiring and amazing. I am in awe!

The story she initially posted as "Queen of Glass" is now published as "Throne of Glass". I still remembered the what she wrote at the end before it was taken down (I suppose in preparation for her book). The story was inspired from the scene when Cinderella was running out of the castle at the stroke of midnight. She asked the question "what if Cinderella was running away because of something she did". Her list of what ifs led to the thrilling adventure that is Queen of Glass.