(Part 2) A Tribute iPod Fanatics (May Chwyn)

I remember the time when I was doing my industrial training in Robert Bosch... That was almost 3 years ago *reminisce*

There were a few people who were communicating with me via e-mail every single day and May Chwyn was one of them. And one of our favourite topics was IPODS! hahaha... I was so excited about my iPod mini (which was on its way back from New York) and May Chwyn was confiding in me about wanting to buy an iPod but was contemplating hard because of its cost.

Well, whaddaya know... almost 2 years later, she did get one!! :D *clap on the back* I was so happy when I saw pictures of her iPod and when she told me she got the JBL Creature Speakers, I was GREEN WITH ENVY *I'm still green with envy*

Check out her baby...

Showing off Christina with stark clarity

her iPod in a jelly-case resting on the much coveted JBL speakers

*I'm turned so green that I think the colour has become permanent*

The many facets of her iPod / Apple addiction! hehe

(Kudos to her because you'll never find me owning much original soundtracks except broadways and musicals!)

And now... a special tribute to the JBL Creature Speaker / JBL Creature Speaker II :

Available in so many different colours :) *drools*

One can only look in envy

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This post is dedicated to May Chwyn,

A friend who's always been cool and loves gadgets as much as I do. I miss those times we had in college as well as the madness that envelopes us when we 'torture' jwo huei ;) hehehe... Missing you guys loads...

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Stay tuned for more posts on iPod fanaticism!!

(Part I) A Tribute to iPod Fanaticism -- my iPod Family :)

With my brand new modem, my bandwidth makes photo uploading a breeze!~!~

Here are some photos of my iPods :) I could stare at them all day... *dreamy smile* If only everything in life could be this perfect... *sigh*

Enjoy!~

*** My iPod Mini ***

my iPod mini's shiny baby blue exterior

When my aunt got this for me, she got Apple to engrave my name on it :)

Left: My 3 year old baby... has scratches on its back *heartache*

Right: my iPod mini in its jelly-skin protection

An STM hard case for it because I have the tendency to drop things

*** To Rock it With ***

Portable Speakers and iPod dock from Sonic Gear

(bought this when I first got my iPod mini)

JVC Jelly Earphones and a pink Rubber Roller from Mac City

(I'm dying to own Apple's In-Ear Headphones!)

*** my iPod Video ***

Green Day rocks my iPod video

Plenty of storage -- plenty of music :)

No engraving on this one though :(

A Pink Capdase casing --- it's all about aesthetics ;)

*** My Personal iPod Family ***

Since I'm an Apple supporter and an iPod addict, my friends would naturally have inclination towards the same things :D hahaha... I guess most people like beautiful things and you have to admit that Apple makes the most beautiful gadgets! ;)

Once you go MAC, you never go back. The sound quality that is produced by the iPod is magnifique! It's positively divine!! You can hear every decibel and if you close your eyes, the music will sweep you off your feet into a world where only sound, matters...

Once you own one... Music will never be the same again.

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I'm gonna posting tributes to a few of my buddies' iPods -- currently still awaiting some photos from them!! So keep your eyes peeled for the latest tributes!

So for now, it's toodle-doo~

A New Wave

.... a WWW wave generated by a modem, mind you! hahaha

My Internet connection has been really screwy for the past few months because of my easy-overheating modem. Everytime I need access to the `Net, it's bound to overheat and I'll have to put it in the fridge for 5 - 15 mins to cool it down (when Chin Aun and I went shopping for a new modem, the look on the vendor's face when we mentioned this little tidbit was PRICELESS!! -- as though to say "you idiots did what!?" *palm on forehead*)

That 'obstacle' was really putting off my blogging, pissing me off on a daily basis (and trust me when I say I don't need more reasons to be pissed off) and I made up my mind that SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!

I blew another 200bucks on a new modem... *sigh* now there are holes everywhere in my pocket...

Anyhoo... to celebrate the livelihood of my new modem, the following posts are a little something that I should have done a long long time ago... (but was put off by my mad modem)

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Apple lovers, you are soooooooooo gonna love the next few posts :D

Apple haters, you can go shove your opinions up where the sun doesn't shine and screw yourselves *give you the sweetest smile that I could ever muster*

*woot*!

22nd May 2007

22nd May... Hmmm... Do you know that on this day, Chin Aun and I have officially been together for 5 years?? 5 long years ya... How time flies... It seemed like just yesterday when he was still studying in Kelantan and I was still studying in Penang. And now we are both here, stuck in the misfortunate city of Petaling Jaya, miles away from home...

To celebrate our 5th year together, we left work early and went for a nice dinner at Planet Hollywood on Bintang Walk... Though I've been here for 3 years, I have never been inside Planet Hollywood. Sure, we've always said that one day we'll go check it out, but we never had the time or the chance and now opportunity has presented itself :)

Started off just like any other day... gruelling day at the office for him and for myself... Then these came for me :)

Chocolate Flowers!

A photo of me and the bouquet taken using Chin Aun's phone...

We both got off work on the dot and I drove over to his office to pick him up. Then he drove us to Bintang Walk. Surprisingly, there wasn't any traffic jam! :) A good sign??

In the throes of my menu-madness

Planet Hollywood's Signature Starter

(the mozzarella was soooooooooo good!!!! as were the quesadilla!)

Signature Ceaser Salad
(awesome!!! the only other nice one I ever tasted was from MFM)

By the time we were done with these two appetizers, we were almost too full to eat anything else! And we both had an order of main course on the way.... each!!!

Chin Aun's Tequila Chicken

(When we were served this, Chin Aun asked to pack half of the chicken home --- so you can imagine, this is only half portion of the serving!)

My choice of main course --- sizzling beef fajita *yum*

Like him, I was too full to eat so I had to ask them to pack it up nicely for me to take home together with the Tequila Chicken after taking only 1 wrap)

We packed so much to go, that we had enough food to last us until the next day's dinner! hee hee... Ultimately, the food there wasn't bad, it wasn't bad at all! However, the service was barely mediocre. The guy who waited on us was pretty attentive, but the hostess was distant and disinterested and the girl tending the souvenir section was ill-mannered and asking for a good-hard slap.

My conclusion --- go to Planet Hollywood KL if you don't give 2-cents about customer service. If customer service is what you thrive in, this is the place you have to skip. Remember y'al, There's nothing like bad customer service to spoil a special occassion!

All that aside, I was in a great mood and nothing (not even lousy service) could spoil it :)

After 5 long years...

Awesome Cute Stuff

I went shopping just now... (for work *sigh*... not for pleasure... which explains why there is no exclamation mark after my sentence). Went to Low Yat, Sungai Wang (ughh!!) and Times Square to look for original PS2 games (don't ask me why, I'm too tired to explain) but to no avail.

Just when I thought the day was at its suckiest point, I saw something awesome!! :D

Cute hor???? :) Anyone knows what that is????

No prizes for guessing... it's a mousepad.

It isn't just any mousepad though... it's HUGE!!

(the LUNA Mousepad nice boh??? hehehe)

Check out the size difference! :) Awesome right?? I was so impressed when I saw it... and it's made out from the nice material that's really soft. The price tag on the box says it cost RM17 but the nice man sold it to me for RM15! Chin Aun saw the same thing when he went to Singapore and it costs SGD$20! Madness!!

It also comes in a really cute box... Because it's made from a soft material, you can just roll it up and put it into the box (looks like a box of biscuits to me :p)

Check it out...

Roll it up and slide it in

voila!~

damn cute right???? I so syok with the box! hehehe...

Chin Aun also saw something else in the shop that is super-duper cute... It was just sitting there gathering dust. I guess that's cos most people go to Low Yat for serious IT business but us two jokers are just mucking around and it's people like us who buys things like this from Low Yat :D hehehe...

It's a CAMERA BAG!!!

Can you imagine if I own this super, top-of-the-line digital camera with 15megapixel and 10x optical zoom and looks really techie? I wonder if the camera would feel insulted if I put it in such an adorable bag... My camera's the outdated 3.2mp with typical 3x optical zoom by Nikon (Nikon rules!! It is still in a fabulous working condition after so many years and so many times of falling down!) so I think it feels right at home in this homey bag :) Damn cute, really cannot tahan! I've put aside my dowdy black leather nikon camera case and replaced it with this!

There's no way Chin Aun will use my camera now *evil laughter*

Life as it is...

Life couldn't get much better than this...

My definition of a good day :)

No... wait... life can get better than this... hee hee...

It's been a while since I last enjoyed a good book, really savoured the delectablity of coffee and chilled to the wonders of music. And it's also been a while since we've had some together-time...

An even better day :D

After a few long weeks working my a** off, it's a good way to chill for the weekend. Sure, I have niggling thoughts at the back of my mind but at least there was something non-work related involved. Don't get me wrong, I love my job. But I also love me-time... And I have SERIOUSLY been lacking in that department!!

Nothing that a good book, some blogging, and a dose of music, coffee and some together-time can't solve :)

Hope everyone had a great weekend and here's to a great week ahead!~

iPod Accessories

I'm blogging at 2am because I can't decide on which iPod accessory to get *mad laughter* Don't get me wrong, it's not like I have so much money to spend that I have nowhere else to spend it on and decide to randomly buy accesories for my second baby. It's also not like I have so much time on my hands that I have nothing better to do that I want to stay awake at 2am and think of iPod accessories.

It's just that when you have it, you have this urge to get little-somethings to make it more complete. Kinda like getting a PSP -- you'll want to get more games for it along with casings and etc. Well, it's kinda like having a baby when you'll want to dress her up in little dresses and buy her cute shoes... get my drift??

I actually got a casing for it already.. and it was not easy to find, mind you! I went to 1-Utama, Digital Mall, and Low Yat to search for casings but there weren't much around. I even went hunting back in Penang but to no avail. Then when I got back here; I went to MidValley and there was this shop called "MAChines" and it was AWESOME!! So many different types of accesories there; I didn't to leave...

Anyways, I got a PINK casing from Capdase for it :

So pretty right? ;) hehehe.. I looked high-and-low, left-and-right for it ok! it HAD BETTER be pretty!!

It came in this packaging -- which is really cute. Comes with a strap too but I left it in the car.

I also bought the iPod power adapter -- the ORIGINAL one.. ;) hehe... Didn't want to risk blowing up my iPod with compatibles *bluek*

I also got a set of JVC Jelly Headphones and a pink wheel for storing the headphones (I couldn't afford the original iPod in-ear headphones) but I left them at the office so no chance to take a photo of it.

Now I am looking to get a new set of speakers for it... Looking at a white one.. Saw this cute Yamaha one that's in the shape of a cube but when I looked for reviews of it on the Internet, it was quite negative :( -- check out the pic... cute right?? :)

The Yamaha NX-A01

Any recommendations anyone? I actually like the iPod hi-fi but it's so huge! (not to mention so damn expensive!!) I need something lightweight so I can bring it along when I go back to Penang. I'd like to have something lightweight but can blast my music as well.. Also, something that isn't too pricey. I'm currently using the Sonic Gear one but I don't really like it cos whenever I dock my iPod there, it sometimes malfunctions :( I'm considering one maybe from Altec Lansing but it's really pricey? I like the JBL Creature speakers too but they are too huge. What do you guys think? Any recommendations??

Zeeks -- I'd like another tune-tie ;p preferably a PINK one!!! -- on top of some other accessories as well ok!! :p

An Awesome-Something

I know I haven't been blogging consistently for the past months... and I know my last post was like a couple of weeks back (or was it months?) I forget...

It's just that I haven't had much inspiration to blog and basically, there is nothing much interesting happening in my life that has impassioned me to post anything. Sure, sometimes, some things happen and I take some photos and think about blogging but that's about it... I just think about it and I can't bring myself to do anything about it.

Well... THAT IS ABOUT TO CHANGE! :) I AM GOING TO START BLOGGING AGAIN!!! *muauahahaha* (besides, if I don't continue blogging, my command of the English language would be taking a major skydive)

Ah well... actually, something awesome happened lately and I JUST HAVE TO blog about it. If I don't, I will rasa bersalah to myself :p hehehe... I feel so tired and so stoned but I know if I don't blog about it now, I'll probably have to wait another weekend :( So I'm putting aside my tiredness and shoving my stoned-ness into a box and here I am :D

And that awesome-something that warranted this blog post is....

*drumroll please*

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**LET'S HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE & BASK IN ITS MAGNIFICENCE***

Have you seen anything that carries such a magnitude of sublimity?!?!? I could stare at it all day and not get bored. It's like my ultimate dream come true... The only experience that I have ever had that could contest the this is my first glance of Sleeping Beauty's Castle in Disneyland. (please note that I deliberately took a photo of it when it was playing The Calling's "Wherever You Will Go" because Alex Band is sooooo soooooo fine... hahaha... (of course he isn't as fine as Johnny Depp but I do not have Johnny Depp's picture in my iPod so that's that)

Anyone who knows me knows that I have been oogling and lusting after the iPod since goodness-knows-when but I have been too scroogey to buy it (it so pricey!). Besides, my trusty old iPod mini is still in excellent working condition and it wouldn't seem fair to it to buy a new one...

My little baby's going to be 3 years old already...

I don't know why, but I just love the iPod so much... All other MP3 players don't catch my fancy and the only one that I actually even like a little is just the Samsung K5 because of the built in speakers and the flip mechanism. Other than that, it's ZILCH!

So now I have the new iPod video and the iPod mini in Blue (3rd generation). Anyone cares to donate an iPod nano and an iPod shuffle? :D Then my collection will be complete (if there's someout out there who's willing to donate each item in different colour, I would be eternally grateful *grin*) -- okok.. I won't be so greedy.. Donate to me, I'll share ;)

Actually, I didn't buy the new iPod video. Chin Aun got it for me *beam* He went to Singapore on a company trip for training and visited his brother when he was there. So his brother took him shopping for the iPod -- the 80G one too! *cartwheels* ... *fall flat on my face but still get up smiling because my iPod has obliterated my sense of pain*. He also got loads of other stuff for me (which he told me over the phone, but he never mentioned that he got the iPod too! hehehe...)

You know... I just noticed that both my iPods are not bought in Malaysia. And both are gifts from people who went on trips. My aunt went to New York and bought me the iPod (okok... I called her everyday when she was there and hounded her for it cos I wanted to get the engraving done.. but still; it's a gift!) and now this iPod is from Singapore :D hehe.. So Zeeks, you're going to US right?? I would love to have an iPod shuffle from there ;) hehe.. Anyone going anywhere else????


Some of the other stuff that Chin Aun got for me from Singapore:

Winnie the POOH tea-sets :)

Winnie the POOH bag

Winnie the POOH mobile thingies.. :)

POOH STUFF!! WAH... HAPPINESS!! *GRIN*

I didn't know Winnie the POOH was so hot there :D hehehe... I love them!! So if any of you goes to Singapore; please buy more POOH stuff for me.. you know I'm a sucker for it :) hehehe...

Anyways, I'll be going to fondle (for lack of a better word) with my iPod's sleek curves (damn... this sentence sounds so obscene O_o) so it's toodles!~ :)

On an end note:

LET'S UNITE & SWITCH! MAC RULES!!

Note: Check out the left-panel of my blog in the "I want I want I want" section. I can now use the strikethrough format for the sentence "the new iPod" *grin*