Sometimes immitation is not the best form of flattery. Like when McDonalds becomes McDuck or Nike becomes Naik. Logos are similar but the brand is worlds apart.
[link: Funny Pictures]
Monthly Archive for January, 2008
Coming to a computer near you, Amazon PM3, the digital music store of Amazon.com, which promises DRM-free MP3s to consumers all over the world. This is indeed exciting news. After waiting for years for the iTunes store to open locally, the opening of Amazon MP3 is just great!
The actual date of the opening of Amazon MP3 internationally is still undisclosed.
[link: Amazon.com--News Release] via Boing Boing
When I say hip, I really mean HIP. This piece of fibreglass enables you to attack it to your hip, giving you the freedom to place your laptop on it for added mobility.
Weird!
[link: geeksugar]
The red carpet season is well and truly under way with another awards show tomorrow.
But if you’re to walk the red carpet, it’s probably not a good idea to be hoisted up in the arms of someone when you’re wearing a short dress. A near ‘oops’ moment is surely waiting to happen with the glare of the world’s media on you all along the red carpet.
[link: PageSix.com]
Interesting ad for Aniela Bras. The tagline reads, "48 years experience in handmade lingerie". Thus the hands on breasts picture.
[link: Ads of the World]
New Kids on The Block. Remember them? Years after the band disbanded, they have decided to get back in the recording studio again.
I’m all for reunions and bands making a comeback. Some bands have had great success with their comeback albums, like the Eagles, for example.
But the NKOTB? I’m not so sure about this ….
The band’s new website is up.
[link: People.com]
Mr Aragorn, Viggo Mortensen has been nominated for Best Actor in the Oscars for his portrayal of a Russian mobster in the movie Eastern Promises. Only best actors can do a fight scene totally naked. Funny, though. He doesn’t fight at all like Aragorn. 
[link: The Superficial]
After the upgrade, which broke my blog (again!) by the way, it’s time for a fresh start. I seem to do that all the time whenever something goes wrong. I’m done with upgrades. Maybe I’m done with this blog altogether! We’ll see ….
I haven’t been to the office on a Saturday ever since the organization implemented the 5-day work week. To make up for the time that I am away from the office in order to be in class with Ajab, I had to come to work on one Saturday a month.
Came in to a near empty office. Got my long-neglected filing done. So peaceful!
That is not how my workstation usually looks like. God forbid! A neat-freak like me working in such a messy environment? Hell no!!
See the above picture? That’s how a neat-freak does his filing. Neatly arranged forms according to departments and sorted by dates in descending order.
After a half-day at work, it was off to pick up my mom and brother before heading home to fetch Trin and the kids before going to my grandmother’s place for the usual weekend, “laze-around and do nothing but eat” session. By the time we left in the evening, Ajab was exhausted and fell asleep in the car.
Ayeed was still wide awake, flipping through the pages of my auto magazine as he patiently waited in the car for Trin to buy dinner. He also fell asleep soon after.
I’m glad it’s just one Saturday a month. The long drive and the stupid, F*&CKED-up Central Expressway traffic jam at 10 in the morning on a Saturday, picking up people and going to my grandma’s was really exhausting.
No, she’s not my new Russian bride but a camera. Anyone who knows photography will know Lomography and this plastic ‘toy-like’ camera is really fun!
Colourful box containing the Holga. Boxes of film added for ‘dramatic’ effect. They don’t bundle the film with the camera, of course.
My new toy revealed! The Holga 135 35mm camera!
No LCD screen here! Just a simple viewfinder.
Simplicity in black.
Aperture control by way of a simple sliding mechanism. A hot-shoe is available in which any regular flash system can be added (no built-in flash on the Holga).
No need to worry about lens speed, aperture, etc. The lens has 4 simple settings for portait, small groups, large groups and landscape.
It’s been so long since I’ve used film! Film advance button by way of a wheel on the right. Forget to advance the film and you’ll get multiple exposures, which will give you very interesting results. Shutter speed is controlled when the shutter is held open for as long as you press the shutter release button.
Can’t wait to develop the film! Now, the only thing I have to do is to repair my printer/scanner, which somebody (looks at Ayeed) broke! 
I’m having bad luck with my blogs it seems. Yes, it’s broken again. I was upgrading bubblekid.net and curlywurlybooboo.com to the latest version of Wordpress (2.3.2) using Fantastico. Usually it would be a simple, faultless operation - a couple of clicks and it’s done. But I got this when I tried to view the blog:
Warning: Unexpected character in input: ”’ (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/curlywur/public_html/wp-includes/post-template.php on line 486
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<’ in /home/curlywur/public_html/wp-includes/post-template.php on line 486
Anyone knows what it means?
Looks like I’ve got a bit of repairing to do.
Sigh!!
Maybe I should just blog from Wordpress.com huh? Having my own domain has lost it’s attractiveness. What do you think? Let’s take a vote shall we?
1) Keep bubblekid.net and curlywurlybooboo.com and probably suffer more stress trying to repair more broken databases and blog templates?
2) Blog using Wordpress.com, have less functionality, but enjoy blogging without having to worry about upgrades and databases and templates and everything else.
Option (2) looks good actually. Probably save me some money at the same time.
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Is it just me or is McDonald’s Big Breakfast for kids? I mean the size of the so-called ‘BIG’ breakfast set is immensely ‘SMALL’! Take a look:
The macro mode on the cameraphone doesn’t give the full picture of the size of the meal, but believe me, it’s small! That goes the same for all the other items on the menu at McDonald’s, the exception being perhaps the foldover wrap thing. The one that’s giving me the most grief being the Filet-O-Fish burger. It’s smaller than the palm of my hands (and I have small hands for a guy!). I can gobble down the burger in two bites or less and most times I have to order two burgers to satisfy my hunger. Even the ‘BIG’ Mac isn’t really big.
That’s why I’m a Burger King fan. Double whopper with cheese! Now, that’s what I’m talking about!
While we were at the airport I saw this recycling station and a directional sign for the nearest restroom above it on the glass panel. I don’t know …. somehow the placement of the restroom sign above the recycling station conjures images of NEWater, you know, where they recycle pee and turn it into drinking water? Hmmm ….
I think more of such tests should be conducted in our schools, not only to help the teachers understand the need of some of their students who may have autism, but also for parents and the kids themselves who may not know of their condition.
“One of the challenges we face as educational psychologists (EPs) is that we need a more fine-grained tool to assess children with mild cases of autism that has less obvious symptoms,” said Dr Mariam.
“We also needed something that could better determine the level of severity among children who are already diagnosed, so that we can develop more targeted intervention methods for them,” she added.
Previously, she said, it was up to EPs to use their own methods of testing for the cases they see.
[link: Channelnewsasia]
Well, he’s not really against breastfeeding, but master spoofer Alan Abel probably echoes some of the sentiments that real nutters who are against public breastfeeding. Things like:
“…. breastfeeding was incestuous and that it led to oral addiction. He also stated that the ‘naughty nipple’ was responsible for many of society’s ills.”
‘Naughty nipple’, eh??
