new gadget

Initially I was planning to get laptop as my new gadget for 2009, but 'cos laptop here is based on US$ rate, the price has increased un-reasonably. So then I thought I don't really need laptop that urgent, my bro's computer is still working OK though there are few hiccups since it's quite old, but for browsing and games, I suppose I can live with that. Plus rumours saying that my office is gonna replace us with laptop this year .. so no reason for me to get laptop on my own.

Instead I've decided to get 2 gadgets .. one is this iPod Nano Chromatic (getting the blue one definitely), it's available in 8G and 16G. Second is SE W595i, blue one again. My current phone W810i has been playing on me lately. The earphone connection is loose and it hangs on me sometimes, specially when I'm sms-ing and phone call comes in. All this while my phone is my music player, I suppose that's the reason why my phone breaks fast. I survived with my previous phone for 4 years, but my current phone is only entering its 2nd year.






Market has been overwhelmed with Blackberry, even Obama has his own special Blackberry model. Few of my office friends have changed their phones to BB, but I'm not interested in smart phone .. as I'm not into high-tech stuffs. I'm happy just settling in with normal phone and now iPod. I'm familiar with Apple products since back in uni, I dream of having Power Book or MacBook Pro, but with US$3,000, it's just not worth it.

So, if I'm really getting these 2 things shortly, I'm gonna use my phone as phone and maybe music every now and then ... and will use the iPod for music and watching my fave vids.

Gonna browsing around for prices.

Missing Lyrics

"Missing Lyrics" is a game show on local TV which was adapted from somewhere, where popular singers trying to win the grand prize by filling in the blanks in song lyrics. They will sing the first verse to reff and in the middle the lyrics will go in blanks, they have to fill them in.

Lee Hom was in the Taiwan version of Missing Lyrics is called "The Million Star" sometimes ago, he raised money for the World Vision by trying to win the prize money. He did well 'till stage 8, managed to sing 2 of his own songs "Long De Chuan Ren" and "Wei Yi". He also managed to sing some old songs including his rumoured ex-gf song perfectly. But at the end he stumped from singing Mayday's song which according to bloodbubble it's a popular song they always sing during encore. LOL!! It was very funny, he went home with NTD50,000 -- not bad at all.

stacking, sorting, packing ..

I spent the whole day yesterday sorting out Lee Hom's new album pre-order. I've never had so many LH's CDs and stuffs in my room like yesterday before. I think I'm drunk of him now .. I was so dizzy sorting them out and I have back-ache now for sitting on the floor for too long.

Four medium boxes containing 93 albums and 72 pictorial books were spread out on my bedroom floor .. from sorting out the address based on province, piling which to mail and which to distribute, separating who order what and which go where, countless mis-counting of the albums, inserting left-over Sands concert flyers, re-attaching the plastic wrapped, and finally wrapping and labelling - ready to send. What a work .. thankfully I'm doing this for LH.

Stacking went like this .. still neat when they came out from the boxes. Once the sorting out started ...

Sorting who order what and which address to mail ... went a little in mess. I could barely move around in my own room.

Finally .. batch 1 is done. Buyers outside Jakarta, get ready to receive the CD. Yesterday I managed to wrap 21 CDs to 17 different destinations and sent them all today. More and more to go .. there are still 31 CDs to be sent to Jakarta and around, I'm aiming to do that all within this weekend, so help me people!

one more to go ..

Finally I own Hao Xiang Ni CD .. Lee Hom third album. Phewww ... very rare CD for quite a price, but thank goodness I got it. So one down, one more to go :D

It leaves with Bai Zhi (White Paper) to complete my collections. But I'm sure the last one will be more difficult to find.

Many thanks to my gal pal bloodbubble for finding it on eBay and Gotep for settling the payment in SG. Yippeeee!!! :)

Jakarta's New Season

Jakarta - Indonesia in general only has 2 seasons, wet and dry season. Same goes to most Southeast Asian countries. But cos of the global warming and climate change, the weather has changed dramatically all of the world. No, we don't have Winter yet (hoping so though), but we're starting to have Autumn/Spring season.

For the all 4 seasons, I love Autum and Spring season .. when it's not too hot and too cold. Just nice! I get to wear my light stylish jacket instead of thick and bulky winter jacket. I just don't like when the rain comes adding to the beautiful weather like these last few days.

Though I don't mind a little winter in Indonesia .. having a view like this, who would object? Though it might be too much to ask for a tropical island like us here .. :)

Michael Bublé's Call Me Irresponsible

I'm in need of a change of music .. it has been all about Lee Hom and Chinese music for a while now, so I need a little break from it.

There aren't many International artists I like too much. I don't have any preference, I just buy random CD and listen to music which I think it's good. I don't hold any collections of specific artists except for Josh Groban and Michael Bublé ... they are the two artists that I really like adore. I have all Josh's CD, since he came out for the first time and stunned the world with "You Raise Me Up" and love him ever since.

As for Bublé, I wasn't too fond of him at first 'cos I'm not a jazz fan .. but his jazzy style is really nice, easy and enjoyable. I don't own any of his albums until today, I only downloaded few of his songs.

Anyway, I watched an on Rachael Ray show last weekend and Bublé was the guest, he introduced his 3rd album back in 2007 called "Call Me Irresponsible" and today I went to get it. Finally I got new collections of Michael Bublé, which left me with his 2nd album.

Bublé and Groban have different genre of music, but yet it was amazing seeing them combine their music style on stage. This is my fave performance, when Josh made surprise appearance at Bublé's concert .. funny!! Imagine having both of these two talented musician on the same stage .. I hope they hold concert in Indo soon.

connection .. confusion ..

I've been having dreams lately which involved this special someone from the past, sweet dreams which keep me wonder .. someone who was very important and very close to me. Someone I used to love and adore .. I have let him go ages and ages ago but somehow someway I still feel connected to him. I don't know even know how he is doing right now with his new life .. but why does he keep coming back to me?

Perhaps we once shared special bond and it hasn't disconnected completely .. that's probably why, unconsiously I'm still hoping for something to happen, like in the dreams .. the connection still there and someway somehow it's still trying to find their way together to be fully connected again.

Sigh, now I miss him! Where are you? I hope you're doing well with your life .. no matter how bad you've hurt me, deep down inside, you are still special ...