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I just got my BB Bold few days ago, and I’m loving it!

Yea, I heard that the new BB will come out soon. How fast they can get.

Downloaded MSN, Gmail, Google Maps, BBM5, Twitterberry and UberTwitter at this moment. But not sure what else I can download. Any suggestions? Hmm.

I downloaded UberTwitter just today, as it came with a good review. Actually the Twitterberry didn’t work out too fine for me, for I tried to upload a photo but it gave me an error message. So I thought I’ll try the former and see if it is better. I’ve not tried the same thing on UberTwitter yet, but the functions I see there seems to be more, and that it doesn’t load very slow like Twitterberry.

And Twitterberry icon had come up twice on the screen, despite me going thru the whole thing, I couldn’t find out why the icon appeared (with a 2 beside it). Had to reboot to make the icon disappear.

Now wat else can I download? Suggestions?

Oh, one sad thing. The Speedy was out of stock already. Only Azure but the Paradizer has got the same colour and I still prefer the Ebony Damier.

I hope I can get it early next month from G. *crosses fingers*

Restaurant City vs Cafe World

Playing Cafe World now. Got sucked into playing that.

Slightly different from RC. RC requires more artistic talent in decorating and fun in swapping ingredients. But gets slightly mundane after going up to the higher stage where you just need to swap, upgrade and feed the employees.

Cafe World requires more planning and thinking and not so into decorating your place. Coz each dish you make takes time, and you need to plan when you will log on next coz the food will take up to 2 days to complete (depending in the dish). So if you leave it on the stove for too long, it will turn bad.

Only thing is, it’s a bitch if you get disconnected. In addition, no ’save’ button around yet, and the coins it yields actually doesn’t reflect that much. Hmm…

Anyway, I’ve lost quite a few dishes by decomposition, and one dish coz I was trying out something.

Will explore more in that.

New Macbook battery, and disgusting scene

I got my Macbook new battery already! And it costs less than half of the original battery from Apple. Woweeee~

It’s from this Sim Lim Square’s battery shop on the 2nd level. I can’t tell the name coz I’ve never been there, but just heard all these info from G and sis and frens. No more worrying about suddenly plugging off the powerplug, which I’ve done a couple of times (maybe not just a couple…).

On the other hand, here’s an update on something rather gross today:

Was sitting in front of the stall, which captured my attention coz they offer slight discounts for NTUC cardholders, students.

Thankfully I already had my lunch, but I still can’t forget the moment where the sticky snot was hanging from his nose trying to drip off from his nose, which failed.

He wiped off the snot with one hand (the other hand had plastic glove on).

Eeeeeeeucks!!!!!

By the way, this stall is the second stall, beside this stall which sells chicken rice. Just look at the signboard. It’s written some community project by NTUC. Can’t remember the name coz the disgusting scene kinda wiped off my memory.

After that I told my colleagues to quickly leave the place.

*trying to delete scene from memory*

Phones & pooch

I ignored calls today. I missed calls but I didn’t call back.

Lemme have a break ok? At least I answered emails.

I’m thinking of switching my service provider. Not my company phone, coz I dun decide for that. But for my other phone. I’m also thinking of selling my G900 for another phone. I duno if it is because the phone is darn stupid, or I’m the stupid one who duno how to utilise it properly. But it hung on me several times.

Speaking of phones, I think we are going to get the BB Bold after all. Wheet!

I had some problems with my trackball several times. Got so frustrated. Looking forward to the new phone. At the moment it’s outta stock, that’s why had to wait.

They say there is the BB storm, which is touch screen, like iPhone.

This is nice…but I think it’s not in Singapore yet. Or is it?

The letter ‘G’, and the number ‘9′

I finally laid my hands on them.

Camera: Canon G9
Mobile phone: SE G900

Phone first.

I got the phone on Sunday, and a tad regretful because the screen is not pretty at all! Of coz, I believe it will spruce up with some colourful themes. As compared to my K800i. For those who wants good quality pictures out of their phones, this one is a bit lacking though it has a 5MP camera.

The thing is, it’s not a cybershot phone. More of a smartphone, actually. So the WiFi is ok in there.

I’m a bit disappointed about the fact that it doesn’t have the fish game & golf game which SE phones have. Some stupid software wiped my default games out of the K800i and I kinda expect them to be in there. But there was only Sudoku! Anyone knows how to get those games in the phone for FREE?

Ok, to be fair, I’ve yet to explore every of the functions in there (with the camera distraction). One thing is, I do not need to use the stylus. Just tap tap with my finger(nail). Reminds my of my Oriental time where we like to tap tap the Micros screen with our nails. Tiak tiak tiak sound.

Camera next.

I got the heavy box from SC yesterday, and for the whole day I was like having arthritis (sorry do you spell it like that?) because I was itching to get my hands on it.

When I got it, I was having a whale of my time fiddling with all the knobs and buttons on it. Wah….it’s like some DSLR cammie. So many functions and formats together. I was trying out the macro function and was pretty amazed by the effects. But I duno how to really get a nice rich photo coz I was trying out some self shots (自拍) and all turned out quite dark despite being in the light.

I really need to read up more on it. And, I might end up using the auto function first. Hiak.

Going to try some shots on the pooch first. He’s always a ready model for me, and super camera sensitive. The only thing is, once he realises you are taking photo of him he will look away from the cammie at that moment you press the shutter.

I need to get a bigger capacity memory card though.

G900, Grill out & everything nice

I think I might buy this phone to replace my dying K800i.

Will go and see it tomorrow.

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Went to this restaurant called Grill Out at Sunset Way for lunch on Friday. They have a promotion for lunch, that is, you pay the price for each item on the menu (which is the price of the main) and they throw in a soup-of-the-day, drink and dessert. Quite a good deal, ain’t it?

I had the lamb rack with mint sauce. It was fabulous. Cooked just nice, and none of the toughness at all. The potato soup was nice, but the garlic bread that came with it was mediocre. I tasted a piece of the pork collar…mmm…nice.

The dessert was brownie with cake, and for a moment I thought it was a brownie separate with ice cream. It actually came with the ice cream wrapped with the brownie cake. Quite different from the normal cake.

Overall, slightly less than $30/pax.

Try it. It’s quite a cozy place to be at.

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Drove on the Benjamin Sheares bridge just now. All the cars slowed down at the part which overlooked the Marina Centre. Coz the fireworks were going on!

Wowwee~

They were very nice, and even Caramel who was in my car at that time was attracted by it. Heh.

Of coz, the police patrol cars were lined along the bridge as usual, to prevent cars from stopping and jamming up the roads.

Nice.

UW camera and housing…akan datang

I am getting pretty excited.

I have my Canon G9 coming in on its way from Japan, and I’ve got a nice discounted price from one of my mum’s customer in Malaysia for the Ikelite UW housing.

Woot!

How nice they look:

Combined, I could get a few hundred bucks less.

The only thing I dun like is that this thing is damn heavy. Not a problem underwater but a bitch to carry around. Thus the hesitation on whether to get this or the normal Canon housing. I’m n00b in underwater photography too.

Preferably to decide before I go to Lombok on 24th.

But still…very excited now.

Yay.

War of the phones

Yay! The 3G iPhone is coming out!

And it’ll be marketed in many more countries than it used to be.

I realised it’s going to be marketed to quite a bit of African countries later on (after the first launch in July), which is definitely a move to lure users away from competitors.

The crowd cheered when Jobs announced the iPhone 3G will sell for 199 dollars with eight gigabytes of memory. Apple will charge 299 dollars for a model with 16 gigabytes of memory.

“It is a very aggressive price point and it is going to do some damage to the other players in the market,” Gartner analyst Van Baker told AFP, listing BlackBerry and Nokia among competitors in iPhone’s crosshairs.

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I know a lot of African businessmen use Nokia smartphones because of the email functionality, being always on the move. Don’t think that all Africans are poor and backward. They are already using wireless internet widely and they use phones with more functionalities than ours long time ago. It’s just that their internet is not so stable as ours.

If the iPhone can serve them better than their trusty Nokia phones, I reckon it’ll be a bit hit with them, being somewhat a tech geek.

But I think the BB Bold will be a strong competitor for the iPhones. Let’s see.

High drive mode

Went for the new Audi A4 launch Tuesday nite. It was quite far off the roads, being at the Changi Exhibition Centre (where the Aerospace events are usually held).

It was quite fun, but it was a pity I was such a scaredy-cat.

The entrance to the exhibition centre was blocked off, and I felt the signage were not enough to guide people to the place, expecially the place wasn’t too brightly lit too.

The event was supposed to start at 7.30pm. We arrived quite late at 7.45pm, and most of the people actually started arriving then. Those there before were enjoying the snacks and drinks provided.

We were led into the presentation venue for a intro to the new A4, accompanied by a performance which they call ‘car ballet’ with about 8 Audis (I think) behind the screen. Then we were divided into 2 groups.

We were ushered to one side of the whole area, to test out the A4, whilst the other group went to the other side. First there was a crank course route, to try out the dynamic feature of the steering. I knocked over a few cones, and it was quite funny because there were so many cones out there, which can be quite confusing. One can easily miss the turn and end up getting out of the correct track.

This we tested out the A4 1.8L and 2.7L diesel cars. Erm, first time attempting a left-hand drive coz the 2.7L in use was a leftie.

The 2nd part of at the first corner will be testing the braking system of the A4. The EPS and the ABS combined together stabilises the car when doing an E-brake. I was supposed to accelerate at a speed of 80km/h within a space of I think….100m, then do a sudden lane change then brake.

Because the cones in front which determines the portion to do a sudden left turn was a bit too intimidating, I ended up releasing the accelerator when nearing and couldn’t really experience the power of it. Aiyaa.

The car proceeded on to the next station where I accelerate to 60km/h and then do an E-brake when the car reaches a sandy area. Here…I think I was too excited to step on the brakes to feel the effect, but didn’t floor the accelerator enough to constitute an E-brake.

Wasted man…the Audi guy there said I needed breakfast, because within a range of 10, I only put in 5. Wakaka~

The other corner was to test out the quattro 3.2L. This time, we were not allowed to drive the car, but the Audi guys were to drive, and then we become passengers.

I duno how fast it went, but it was to experience the difference between comfort mode and dynamic mode. This is a new feature where they see it as a 3-in-1, with auto, comfort, and dynamic mode, depending on your mood which you would choose to drive.

Ok, this one is not recommended for motion sickness people, because it was travel at a high speed with turnings. So if there is no seat belt, you might find yourself being flung from one side to another or even out of the window. Even with seat belt, the centrifugal force is still great because of the speed.

Last part ended up with a test drive out to the roads and back.

The whole thing ended nearly 11pm. But it was fun. Though I regretted holding back during the test drive at the first corner.

Oh ya, we were given pretty lanyards with names on card. Unfortunately, they recycle the thing, because it was damn pretty. We had to return the name tags with the lanyard.

Got off with a T-shirt for this event, that’s all.

No pictures coz after taking this, my phone batt went flat. Diao.

Quattro demo

I want that!

I wanted to get an iPod Touch for myself, but held back coz the updated version was supposed to come into Singapore soon (after the keynote). Now the newly upgraded sets are already in Apple stores in Singapore, but then came again some news.

US Apple shops released it with bigger memory space.

GAH!

Now I want to ask if they will come to Singapore stores soon.

Should I wait somemore?

*taps fingers*

Shoots

I’m trying to learn some photography now. Not very sure how it goes, but will slowly try to get the hang of it.

The only thing is, the 40D is freaking heavy. My arms get aching after some time, and affects the way I take pix (shaking and all that). Heh~

But it’s fun trying to get a nice shot with different lightings, angles and lenses. Need to read up a bit more on it and hopefully soon that I will get a really artistic looking pix. One which I always felt nice and have the urge to get a perfect picture whenever I look at it.

Slowly.

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Random updates

With the invitation of a certain shipping line, we are invited to visit the port in Malaysia, as well as get on their cargo vessel to look see look see.

I’m thinking whether to go or not…hmm~

It will be an interesting visit, to see how it goes about. But the thing is, I’m not feeling THAT enthusiastic.

Weird.

Our preparations for the D&D are going on quite slowly. First thing is, there was some internal shuffle in the committee members and things were not looking that ok initially. It looks quite daunting that I might be the one going to hold the reins.

In the end the problem was settled. Partially maybe. Hopefully nothing else goes wrong for I do not want to be the person responsible for making or breaking it.

It’s getting a bit boring for me too now.

Speaking of boredom, I’ve reduced the number of times I’m going into Facebook these few days. I know I got lotsa stuff and notifications in there but I’ve yet to approve them.

I said I’ll be bored soon. Heh~

Yesterday I was over at Wheelock Place for dinner with the dive gang. Since I was there early I went to Epic Centre to take a look at the iTouch and iPod Classic coz I’m alternating between buying either one since the passing on of my iPod (unfortunately it died-ed again).

The iPod Touch is really beautiful, though as compared to the Classic, it’s not really value for money.

Nice right?

Now the thing is, shall I buy either one soon? Or just wait? Coz I’m not really in need of it at the moment.

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Dinner last nite was at Borders Bistro which was not too bad a place. Though I’ve been to Borders several times (I actually prefer Kino better), I’ve not stepped into there. They serve pretty much pasta and pizza.

I had the Oktoberfest set dinner which consisted of pork sausages, soup of the day, apple strudel and coffee/tea for $22.90++. The pork sausages were actually too salty for my palate, and I actually didn’t really enjoy that. And they were humongous. I had to try to give away some sausages because I was already feeling full.

As they had run out of apple strudel, they lead me to their counter to see what desserts I would like. I chose the walnut cheesecake which I liked pretty much. But I was too full to actually finish the whole cake. A pity.

There is also this cake called ‘Champagne’, which is a sponge cake with a hint of champagne in that. Out of curiosity I would have tried it, but I wasn’t in the mood to have something alcoholic. Next time.

The pasta which EC ordered looks pretty good. Maybe will go there to try that the next time round also.

Snap of the finger

I think I am a genius.

Remember I said that I can’t transfer files via Bluetooth to and fro my Blackberry (BB)?

I got it now.

Ok, maybe you who owns a BB knows how already. But no one told me how to do it leh…Been trying so hard that I gave up in the end and had to use a USB card reader. Coz I end up using a SD card.

Even my IT colleague had no idea, other than installing the BB software that comes with the phone and using the USB cord.

Time to sell ‘it’ to my colleagues on Monday.

Oh ya, I’ve also customised my BB phone to look like iPhone.

Nice….

Edit: Chey…BB to BB phone still cannot. So weird.