My New LCD TV

Last Monday, I bought an LCD TV for my new place. A 32" Toshiba Regza. Well, my place isn't ready yet, but I got this at a bargain so I grabbed it while I can. You see, my brother's friend won this off a lucky draw, and she wanted to sell it away. I only paid RM1900 for it. Not bad right? The specs are not really high end, but it's good enough for me. Right now, it's being hooked up to an Audiolab amplifier and a Bose speaker system which I will also bring over to my new place. *drool drool* Sweet huh?

16-03 Update:

On another note, my condo renovations are scheduled to start mid May. There's lots of things to be done. Hacking down a wall from the master bedroom to the study to become a walk-in wardrobe, changing tiles in all 3 rooms to timber flooring, plaster ceiling in the main hall for downward lightings and corneys all round the place. Right now, I'm still thinking of what colors to be up on the walls. I'm pretty much set on the wall in dining area to be mustard yellow together with dark brown furniture. There is another wall which is going to be a feature wall where there will be paintings and photo frames. The feature wall is the first wall upon entering the place. I was thinking of painting that either Olive Green or Rust Brown color. The rest of the walls are cream in color. Below is a sketch of my reno plans...what do you think?

my renovation ideas..

Disgruntlement: The Death of My N80

Sighs! It is official, my N80 finally died. Well, at least it cannot function properly for normal usage. All I see on my screen now is a white background with no interface, therefore making it totally useless. I think this is a common problem with slider phones as it has something to do with wear and tear issues. The phone is about 1 and half years old and I’m a heavy phone user. My backup phone which is an O2 Xphone II, wasn’t much help either. You see, the reason I bought the N80 was because the O2 couldn’t really function properly. A few of the keys on the keypad are jammed making it hard if not impossible to access key menus like creating text messages. I can still make and receive calls normally though but I can’t reply nor create text messages.

It was when looking for another phone from others to use when I just realized that I can’t do that because all my contacts are stored on my phone’s memory and not my SIM card. I bet you will be asking….why can’t I use the phone to copy the contacts to the SIM right?...Well, there are 2 reasons. First, I can’t access the copy menu due to the jammed keys. Second, even if I could, my SIM card can’t store all of my numbers (I have about 400+ contacts). Right now, I managed to copy a backed up address book from my laptop into the O2’s phone memory, so I still get to browse through my contacts. Only thing, I CAN’T DO TEXT MESSAGES!!...can you see my frustration here??!!!!@%#&@!!!

Time to get a new phone? Maybe not...again, due to financial constraints and limitations, I think its better bet for me to revive the N80. If you know me well enough, you would know I would never settle for a downgraded phone or any gadget for that matter even if it’s cheap. I will only upgrade but never downgrade…so yes...stubborn me. Sigh!…I really hope it’s not going to cost a bomb to repair it. But for now, I shall stick with my O2. So if for some reason I don’t reply your text messages, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Showing Off Time =p

Well, like I said, I will post pictures (and bore you) taken from my new camera just to show you all how good my baby is (hey, give me some chance for bragging rights lah! :p). This was taken while I was having dinner with Calyn earlier this evening.

Pictures below were taken at lowly lit conditions. Neither pictures were not "Photoshoped" to adjust brightness nor color. The only thing done was resizing for obvious reasons.

This was taken using strobe flash mode...and yet it's not over exposed

Calyn & I - Noticed the natural lighting? Again using strobe flash mode.

Ok, I think I shall end it here, if not later you people will start boy cotting my blog.

Quick Update: 25 October

There seems to be so much going on this week, and I don't think I have the time to write each event as a new entry. So I shall just summarize it here.

Actual Stupidity:
I actually saw this one guy at an optical shop the other day who was there to change the lens of his glasses. Why? Because the dumb ass stuck a screen protector on both his lens and now he needs to get them out! I was holding back my laughter when I heard what he wanted to do. I mean a screen protector on a pair of glasses?? WTF??!!

My New Love:
YAY! I finally bought the camera. I was playing it yesterday when I got it and there is only one word to describe it.....AWESOME! OMG! The night shots I took were so clear and it looks so natural even with the flash on! I got to say, at first I felt guilty for buying it, but after using it....NO REGRETS what so ever. Well, I will post up some pictures taken using my new camera later on, so look out for it.

Current Hooks:
I've been trying out Bursa Pursuit which is an online site for people who wants to get a taste of how to trade in the stock market. I got to say, it's quite interesting, although I am a newbie when it come to trading and investing in this area. Nevertheless, it's a good way to learn. Who knows I might even win something out of it!

Upcoming Weekend Events:
This weekend seems to be packed. Hey, I'm not bragging that I'm happening or anything but you know how sometimes everything just seem to happen on the same weekend? Yea, so this weekend things that I'm looking forward to are:

1. Oktoberfest
RM1 for a mug of beer? Yeah, you can bet me and my friends will be there.

2. Ee Laine's Birthday
Not sure where the birthday girl wants to go, but all she hinted was she wanted to get super wasted (I wonder why)..so will be in for a not so sober night.

3. Time to Pay Saman (Elaine's Wedding)
Yup, my high school classmate is finally getting married. Congrats Elaine!

4. Reban's Night Out?
I'm not sure if this will actually take place, but May Lynn says Suzanne wanted to go somewhere and get everyone together. But nothing confirmed as yet.

So there! All the updates for now. Check back soon for errr...more updates and of course photos! :)

Decisions

Here is the thing...in my previous post I said I wanted to get those limited edition Woven Airscapes. NOWWWW....I saw something else that I wanted. A new digital camera! The FinePix F50fd . Just look at the features and the review on PC Magazine and you will know what I mean. So how now?? Well honestly, I think it's a better (or a wiser) decision to be investing on a digital camera rather than a pair of over priced sneakers. But.....that would mean I have to sell my old one! So who wants to buy my old Fuji FinePix F455, do let me know. It's in extremely good condition for a camera that is slightly over 2 years. Not even a scratch - it looks like it came straight out of the box...honest!


Well what attracted me to the Fuji camera was because it comes with high ISO capability (ISO 6400) and has a night auto-focus PIM. In layman terms, it takes very good night shots. It also comes with the standard anti-shake function. Also, it's the first camera that takes both xD and SD memory cards, so I can have an option (finally!).


So how?
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Well, those who wants my old camera, I'm willing to sell it for around RM 400 (still negotiable though) which comes with an extra battery and extra xD picture cards. But then, I think I will most likely get the camera...wait...sneakers.....no wait...camera....arrrggghhh!!!