As you can see, the new blog looks pretty dull and incomplete for now, but I will update it incrementally. To answer my own question posted in the very first post – 5 years and 310 days.
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 9:50 pm. 1 comment
5. Rain Boots
After 12 years of living in Vancouver, I finally bought my first pair of rain boots. Every time I wear them in the rain/snow, I ask myself why didn’t I get them earlier. It took me a while to find the ones I like, too. Most of them either look too kiddo, or too fish market-ish.
4. Dell Mini 10v (Hackintosh’d)
Running OSX on a $300 netbook is about the most frugal thing I have done. I love travelling with my netbook. Most of the time I just check it in with my luggage so I don’t need to worry about the TSAs.
3. Kindle
I already feel more literate than I used to be. Thanks to your generous gift dollars, I have charged up my Kindle with a few books and I enjoy all of them. The Kindle will make my upcoming 13 hour flight way shorter. The only thing I hate about it is so many people, after knowing I own one, told me why they decided not to get one, but you can tell they never needed or wanted one. If you don’t buy books, the Kindle’ s not for you, period.
2. Panasonic Lumix LX3
I have a lot of bumpy relationships with my digital cameras. 2 Nikons, 3 Canons, 1 Ricoh and finally I am settled with a Panasonic. I love taking videos with it, the quality is amazing. I like the LX3 even more than the good old IXY 400 (Sorry, if you aren’t familiar with my camera love life). I would have used it a lot more if I didn’t have an iPhone.
1. iPhone 3GS
I am pretty up-to-date with gadgets and I have bought a lot of them, including the iPhone 2G, but the 3GS still managed to WOW me. Instead of using pay-as-you-go with no data on a 2G, I am now locked to a contract and paying a premium fee monthly for the iPhone plan. I can’t speak for other people, but for someone who is addicted to the internet, constantly reading 180+ feeds on RSS, there is nothing better than being locked to a contract and paying a premium fee monthy for the iPhone plan. There are too many things I love about it.
Honorary Mention: Pure Komachi 2
I don’t even cook at home, but sometimes I feel like buying something to chop so I can use this knife. It’s super sharp and I almost always cut myself every time I use it, but it’s pink and I am happy.
Watch this video, because you are invited. I need to borrow a token black gentleman in a bright colour shirt for my Windows 7 launch party. Oh man, I can’t wait to receive my party napkins and tote bags.
Here’s my party application:
Party Name: Shirley Wants a Copy of Windows 7 Party Party Mantra: It’s all about Shirley getting a free copy of Windows and her friends getting free tote bags. Details: Bring your own harddisk, so we can format and defrag all night long. Tags: Geekery, Windows, BSOD
One of my earliest memories is writing endless pages of copybook in kindergarten. I remember getting caught for not following the stroke orders and the teacher made me redo my homework. It’s not like I didn’t know how. There were little arrows on the page showing the stroke order, but I found it faster to do it my way. I would flip through the pages and fill out all the vertical strokes in all the numbers and alphabets (1, 4, 7, 9, B, D, E, F..), and then I would flip to the first page again and do a pass on the horizontal strokes. Everyone was working on the “B” pages, but I had the “K” pages half done. The teacher was right and that is why my handwriting is so horrible. My Chinese/Kanji writing is even worse. Since I didn’t follow the stroke orders when I learned the words, I have to construct a mental image of the word before I write it. “There is a box in the bottom, one on the right with a a cross inside, and then there is water on the side.”. Whenever there is a box I just draw a circle, because a box has four strokes and a circle only has one.
Create your own personal handwriting font at YourFonts.com. Here is mine:
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago at 1:09 am. 0 comments
I really should go to bed now, but this is too awesome not to share. Google Maps Street View now covers major cities in Japan. Here are some screen captures of my favourite restaurants. Click on the Google Map links to try it out. Continue Reading…
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago at 7:43 pm. 0 comments
Not too long ago, I dumped Tumblr for FriendFeed as my live stream. I am going to integrate it to this site eventually, but for now you can subscribe to the RSS feed, or see it here.
What’s on my FriendFeed:
Posts from this blog.
Flickr updates, which I have removed from this site’ s feed. Most of my photos don’t get posted on this blog, so you catch them from the FriendFeed.
YouTube videos I fav’d.
Google Reader shared items.
Videos uploaded to vimeo (rarely used now, since Flickr supports videos).
Diggs and Reddits.
LinkIn updates, Twitter brain farts and Pownce updates (not used at all).
My bookmarks on del.icio.us. I don’t bookmark with my browser.
See, Tumblr’ s five feed limit just can’t handle my needs. :)
