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My 2nd LEGO iPad stand

I think either I got too much time on hand or I really like to build LEGO iPad stand LOL...Anyway this is my 2nd stand. Looks more sturdy and wider(thanks to D for the comments) :

My very own LEGO iPad stand

Actually this is my 2nd iPad stand but the FIRST LEGO stand for my iPad. The first stand is made of clothes hanger within 30 secs(watched a YouTube vid for instructions). Saw in the Net how people managed to built their own LEGO iPad stand from LEGO(obviously) thus I decided to have a go in building one since I do not wish to spent extra $ on getting an expensive stand LOL...Thus went to Toys'R'Us today and was haveing a hard decision which LEGO sets to get since I am on a budget and do not wish to spent more $. Finally got a basic set which is over 400 pieces and a petrol station set which both cost me aroud $50. Went home and in total blank how to build. HAHA... Unwrapped all the boxes and LEGOs and anyhow built one. Used super glue to act as a safety precaution since LEGOs bricks although are sturdy but I do not wish my stand to collapse while I am using the iPad with it LOL. Thus this is my end product. Simple but cute(maybe I can post in the Net for people to see ya) :

Moonse E-7001

Had read in the Net that there is a china made iPad called the aPad that can rival Apple's iPad thus ordered the Moonse E-7001 from one of the online electronics store. Actually when D went to Chengdu for company's trip I asked her to get for me the aPad or whatever china-made pad she can find but she is unable to find one. If I knew that it is the Moonse E-7001 I will tell her straight away. Speaking of this aPad, it has Android OS but is only V1.5. Was told that it is sluggish but who cares since it is so much cheaper than the actual iPad and the reason I bought the aPad is to have a feel of how a Android tablet looks like. After testing it, IT IS REALLY that sluggish but it is still good lah. Now prays that there is a FW that can update it to Froyo and I will be the happiest people in the world. HAHAHA.

My iPad...

Finally IT has arrived on the 13th May 2010. At first I told myself I do not need to get one but after seeing how great this device is from web or forums, I felt like I need to own one. Thus D got for me as a birthday present although my birthday is still many months away LOL...After I got the iPad, I tried to search in HWZ forum how to cut my normal sim card to a micro-sized one as the iPad requies it. I anyhow cut till the whole card is spoilt, thus I got no choice but to get a new one(FOC) from SH. Finally managed to cut it and it is working well in my iPad. Whoohoo. Also ordered a few sim-card trays from Russia and sold to people @ hwz since I only need 1(although I don't really need one since I had applied for the muli-sim card service).
Since the birth of my iPad I bought 2 casings and the latest casing which is the Hard Candy casing Sleekskin(green melon) is my true love. The pasting of the Bodyguardz for my screen of my iPad requires some skill. Was sweating like mad when I tried to paste it. Overall result is still not that bad LOL.
Then got the Camera Connection Kif for iPad from someone in facebook. I can tell u that this cutie has been sold out in US completely as it can connect USB devices besides camera to your iPad. If u managed to find it then the price will be horrific. Someone in eBay is selling for US$100+ and one idiot won the bid LOL...Maybe I should sell it as mine is unwrapped. NONONO...
After I got the iPad I find that I am spending lesser time on my desktop. Must reflect liao LOL...

Hokkaido Trip May 2010

Ya ya I know that I am so many mths below in updating my blog but sometimes I felt lazy to update or dunno what to update at all lor...
Btw click on this link to view all my pics which I took from Hokkaido in May 2010 :
http://s188.photobucket.com/albums/z255/lorettatay79/Hokkaido%20Trip%20May%202010/
Speaking of Hokkaido, it is a very beautiful place to go to. I hope I can go there again soon. The Uniqlo designs in there are in a wider variety and cheaper than in SG. Thus I bought a whopping 4 big bags of Uniqlo tess and pants and blouses over there. Bought one big box of tibits for other since when I saw them I dun feel like eating them...See till sian...LOL...

IT has arrived !!!!

Woot woot my Alienware M11x has arrived...One thing I can say is that DELL's CS support and their delivery department is so FUCKED UP and sucks to the core. Long long story. Dunno what the hell a piece of beauty like Alienware can be bought over by crappy DELL...SIGH...Anyway these are the pictures of this piece of beauty :

My Dream Laptop - Alienware M11x

Hurray...Mummy dearest has bought me my dream laptop as birthday present although my birthday is in August. LOL. Have been thinking of getting Alienware desktop/laptop since I know my ABC as I very likey the alienhead logo. Last time I can't buy it cos Alienware is from US then need to ship from US and no international warranty somemore but Dell has bought over Alienware already so it means I can purchase it from Dell Kiosk or online via Dell's site. Has a hard time deciding should I get it or not and have been doing my homework for it lately so finally decided to get the M11x as it is the cheapest amongst all laptop and I don't like to have another desktop yet as I am a lazy person and don't like to shift here and there. But I need to wait for 2 weeks for the lappy to be delivered to me as stated in their site. I hope that I can get it before my Hokkaido trip which is on 03/05/10. Pray for me. The ordering process is very cool as I get to customize each part of the laptop beginning from the color of the base to the AlienFx Color. Cool cool cool... When IT has arrived, I will blog again with pictures...

My Latest Baby - HTC HD Mini

This is my latest addition to my smartphone collection. The guy who served me has a very good personality and he tried his best to look for a suitable screen protector for the MINI although there isn't any suitable ones in the mkt now. So he told me usually the matted screen protector will arrive around 2 weeks times and he will sms me once stock has arrived. He even gave me a free screen protector as a temporary solution and pasted it on the MINI for me. So good of him. We even had a short and funny chit-chat blah blah. Thinking back I also dunno y the MINI is being selected as I'm liking my iPhone to death with so many pages of apps majority being games and most important got We Rule inside. The reason might be cos I'm so obsessed with the color yellow and the MINI has a yellow back structure and even the battery is yellow in color. It has been donkey years since I last touched a HTC phone although it has been only 2 years since I touched a HTC G1 but that doesn't counted cos the G1 is a Android phone whereas the MINI is a WM phone. So in other words it has been years since I last touched a WM phone LOL...Another reason why I liked the HTC MINI cos I super adore the BIG BIG calendar display of all HTC phones whereby I need to jailbreak my iPhone in order to get this feature but since I am sicked of jailbreak iPhone, thus for my iPhone 3GS I did not or even bother to jailbreak it.

So hope that Del will call me within 2 weeks for the actual screen protector cos I dun dare to bring the MINI out w/o a proper screen protector. Now is time to learn all the tips and tricks of the WM phones after I got a prepaid card.

Exclusive Collectibles from HTC Singapore

Was told on Monday via Facebook that I'm one of the lucky winners for the exclusive collectibles from HTC Singapore. Was damn elated and surprised cos I dun think I will be selected. HAHA. Once I'm notified, I quickly go and see the T&C as to what did I won. Afetr flipping thru the wordy T&C, there are some winners for notebook, teddy bear and umbrella. Then someone posted in the HTC Singapore wall what will the prizes be(obviously they entered blindly LOL...). So I also join in the discussion and someone talked about what top prize and I was thinking WTH is the top prize? Then I copy and paste the prizes section from the T&C and posted at the wall. But that doesn't stop the speculation of top prize(LOL). So I said maybe they will ballot and let fate decide what we deserve HAHA.

Once I looked at the address for the collection of the prizes I was thinking maybe it is near my ex-co. So yesterday being a famous road-idiot, I drop off at Tanjong Pagar station and walked thru the tak boleh tahan sun and reached the place at exactly 2pm. But before that that place is just besides my ex-co duh.

To my surprise, I was given tons of collectibles like teddy bear, notebook bag, notebook and recycle bag. All have the HTC logo and slogan. When the person-in-charge told me "all these are yours", I am speechless as I expect we will be given only 1 or even ballot. So I suppose he read about our posts about the prizes and be so so kind decide to gave us all of them LOL. As I can foresee they will took pictures of the winners so before I stepped out of the house I took the initiative to dress formally and indeed was told to hold all the barangs barangs and he took some pics of me and the collectibles. WHAHAHA. But after I walked out of the office I realized that the recycle bag that contain all the barangs has a small hole LOL. So no choice but to carry the whole bag and took the train home. Once the train reached Pasir Ris station, I buay tahan and took out the notebook bag and it is SO SO SO NICE leh..Then i dump all the barangs including my personal bag into that notebook bag as so heavy to me. HA.

Took a pic of the collectibles and posted it on HTC Singapore wall. But in the end that is not the end of the matter. 2 winners(who also joined in the discussion of the prizes earlier) also commented on my picture and here it goes tons of comments for a single picture LOL.

Might go to the HTC Mini event tomorrow at Ion to get the Mini or just to see see LOL.

p.s : one of the winner said that I'm very contradicting cos I'm a iPhone user but joined HTC Singapore group in FB and won HTC Singapore collectibles. LOL...

Anyway i will like to say a BIG THANK YOU to HTC Singapore for the exclusive collectibles.

My new iPhone 3G S

Got a new iPhone 3G S as X'mas gift from MUMMY DEAREST...Hoohoo...Did pre-order it before I went for KL and Genting trip which is weeks ago. The whole procedure to collect is a bit hard to describe it lol...Will be passing my old iPhone 2G to Lilian & family...Heard that the kids are all so excited about it since they r into watching vids and listen to mp3s...

Nook is on the way...

Yippee my precious Nook is on the way to me...It has been a long long journey as the release of Nook keeps delaying by Barnes and Nobles. It will arrive latest next tues but in the mean time I had sign up for the sms notification via DHL site which means when it is out for delivery to me I will be notified.SO SO excited...I will post pics when it has arrived...

Cute devices that come in cheap price

Was window shopping at BHG Bugis while waiting to collect my books today when I chanced upon Otoizm and Hatching Lab. These 2 are the products of Konami and manufactured in 2006. Guess what's the price for each ?? Just $ 8 and $ 5 respectively. Damn dirt cheap. So I bought each w/o looking lol...Otoizm is like a electronic pet device whereby you connect it with the wire to yr mp3 player and the pet will dance when are are listening to music. Refer to here for more details :
http://www.otoizm.konami.jp/what%27s/index.html
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2006/12/a_tamagochi_for.html
The stoopid thing I did is that I didn't know the box inside has a cover for the device so I threw the whole box away into the rubbish bin with the cover inside sigh...
On the other hand, Hatching Lab is similar except it comes in the form of an egg. I'm too lazy to post pictures and also unable to find any info about it in the web. So just make do with it LOL.

My New Indulgence

Last weekend M and I were talking about G-Shock watches which he is a collector of those watches. He told me that there is G-Shock Mini for women or those men who has small wrist. Then I searched the web and saw that ONLY Japan(AGAIN) has those limited edition of G-Shock Mini watches and a model which is the CASIO G-SHOCK Mini GMN-50G-1BJR caught my eyes instantly. So after a lot of hassle I ordered one from a Japanese company from Rakuten(which is like a Japanese online market) eventually. It took EMS 3 days to deliver the watch to me. Got it today and I'm so happy with it. Liked it cos of its gold color plus it comes with a english manual as well. Thought jap stuff always in jap wordings and no english wordings etc. Hope that next year when I go to Japan I can hoot some more of G-Shock Mini to add to my collection...
View more pictures of it from here :

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/standa/gmn-50g-1bjr/

The Hossan Leong Show

Went to The Hossan Leong Show yesterday @ The Drama Center Theatre with my mum. Both of us had a very great time laffing like mad. His jokes are so damn hilarious lol...Now I know why the 1st Singa Lion is a failure(LOL). Try to compare the 1st and 2nd Singa Lion and you will know the answer(Not for the underaged). So good got goodie bag given and inside is a plastic clapper which is made up of 3 plastic hands. I find that it is invented for lazy people who are just to lazy to clap so use that to clap lor...

You know what, at the start of the show, I am shaking the clapper so hard that both plastic hands flew to dunno where so my clapper is not a clapper anymore but a SLAPPER lol(left one piece of hand so can ONLY slap people huh)...I am so MALU when my left-hand side audiences looking @ me trying to figure out what is going on. Then my mum quickly say faster pick them up as she saw one of it flew to my left and another dunno where. I told her no need lah never mind...Imagine if I am sitting @ the front seat and the 2 hands flew to the stage then I will be triple MALU lol...Overall it is a very funny talk show and it is my first time to attend this kind of event. Thanks to inSing for the pair of tixs. My mum enjoyed it so much that next year she wanna go see again...

Surprised...

Lastly someone who is involved in writing in Digital Life emailed me asking me to be interviewed regarding the Sony RPS-505. As mentioned in my earlier posts this is the ebook reader from Sony. As I am camera-shy so I informed him I am busy but we can correspond via emails for the interview questions. Then he really emailed me tons of questions which I answered to my best knowledge. Anyway I will look out for this wednesday's Digital Life edition. Stay tune !!!

Lesson learnt...

Damn damn damn...lately bought a 2nd hand Palm Centro and Archos 506 wifi from ebay and hwz forum and both r having problems. The former has a dented call button which I went to exchange for a refurbished set from Palm(luckily the set is still under warranty) while the Archos 506 wifi's battery suxs big time. Always left less than half a battery when turned on and lasts for less than 1 hour. Sigh...in the end I used back my old Nokia phone which my mum passed to me 2 years ago and I used back my Cowon 02 which I bought months ago when I went to Korea in January this year. The moral of the story is that old stuff STILL DA BEST and don't ever buy 2nd hand electronic goods. Many lessons ought to be learnt. Anyway I will be getting a Nokia 5530 Xpressmusic within this week with the courtesy of my aunty who always make me angry lol...Anyway the CS @ Centruy Sqyare Nokia SUCKS...Anyhow say I write the wrong handphone number in my preorder list(which I have not written the number yet) and then the way she told me to confirm my color of the phone sounds so rude(although at first I want a black then in the end i want a white). Machiam I own her like that...Sucks lah...Next time must try other Nokia stores and see if their CS are all the same...Can't wait for my new phone...Yipee!!!

Damn you H1N1!!!

Bloody idiot h1n1...Make so many people suffer and also of all people why must kena her. Sigh...Got to stay @ home and take care of her for 5 days leh...Scared when she is at home cos she will make a fuss out of nowhere like why is this so dirty etc. Sigh...I hope after next monday then she can go to work...I hate it when people make a fuss...Argggg...Buddha bless me...

Palm Centro

I played too much other kind of OS phone till I wanna play with a Palm OS AGAIN. It's has been ages since I touched one. Will be getting my 2nd hand Palm Centro tonight after searching high and low cos this phone is over a year plus and everything also sold out or no stock cos waiting for Palm Pre to be released in this month for Asia. But I dun intend to spent $1k+ for it. So spent $300 for a 2nd hand Palm Centro is fine with cos just sold my Hanlin V3 and Panasonic G1 lately so got a bit of cash on hand lol...

So long Hanlin V3 and Pana G1

Finally sold off my Hanlin V3 yesterday for a good price...Got some jokers bid $50 or $120 for it and I am thinking come on lah so low price I might as well keep as backup, there is one joker says $250 but if condition is good he will pay $300 for it after I say too lower what abt $300???...then someone make me a offer of $420 for it and I immediately agreed. But that guy last minute when I am going to meet the seller sms me say that he offered me too much so I say what abt $400, he agreed. In the end the buyer is an Indian guy and I was thinking no wonder so meow lor...I came across Indian customers during my push-cart days @ the NLB and they are the meowest people in this planet.

The second white elephant that going to be sold is my Panasonic G1. It is a beauty but I rarely use and since it is left with 4 months of warranty I might as well sell it while it is at its prime time. I wanted to sell it for $800 but just now someone asking me if $750 is fine with me. I immediately grabbed this chance and agreed cos I might as well sell it and keep the cash...So meeting the buyer next monday lol...