Monday, June 15, 2009

Lower Ground FTW!

As per last week, joined a friend for his flea market conquest :p yesterday. This time, we were positioned in Lower Ground floor. Woooo... Business was very good! Wanted to take more pictures but it was either too busy or I got too tired and lazy. So only have 1. For more pics, go on to Ahsi's album in facebook. :)

Photobucket Partners setting up stall. :p

And since this was a blog which was "suppose" to be about my hobbies in the first place.. I thought I'd just post a pic of my latest hobby. Collectible figures or rather known as "Toys" for all you haters. :p Won't be going into detail here though, gonna post it up on my Anime3r blog instead.

Photobucket Hmm.. I think I'm getting the hang of my camera. Doesn't change the fact it sucks though. Lol!

It's been a while since I said this, but I am officially broke! Lol! Blew all my earnings from the flea market on 3 other collectible figures. Actually spent more than I made. So... anyone got any junk I can sell? :p

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Romeo and Juliet

Thought I needed a time out from anime for the day. So dropped by Jay's Sunday hangout and helped him out with the store (erm.. I think I did help out?) Took the opportunity to look around the nearby Toy shops and see what was around. Wow! There are way too many Transformers stores. Every single corner had AT LEAST one Transformer collectible stall.
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Why the Romeo and Juliet title? Cause I remember the uncle from the stall beside us asking Jay if he and Mary was ROmeo and Juliet.

A side note to self, Fs7 flash functions sark! Every iA (automatic) picture shot used the flash and came out badly. Instead, I manually turned off the flash and pictures from that came out fine. So out of a bunch of photos, only the first one came out fine. Others became too dark.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Music r RoXXors!

Well.. another month past, got my salary and did you check my last post? Lol!

Jeng! Jeng! Jeng!
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Rm309 from Machines Mid Valley. Ipod Shuffle 3rd Gen.

Initially I really wanted to buy it online. If you do, they have a free service of engraving whatever you wanted on your Ipod Shuffle. But as usual.. I don't have a credit card. :p Was gonna engrave the title of this post and my short name.

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First off.. unwrapping my gadget. Apple packagings are like the best ever. Everything was neatly positioned in the box and had wrappers around them to make sure they will not scratch or fall out of place.

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As for the hardware itself, my only complaint is that the earphone wires are way too short. To be honest, I am a really short guy. I mean really! Erm.. 5 feet plus if I'm not mistaken. And the earphone wires are already stretched to their limit if I put the iPod Shuffle into my pocket. And if you think of it, finding a better replacement will not be easy since they incorporated the controls into the earphone set. Dear Mr.Apple, If you wanted to reinforce your earphone sets to make it compulsory then at least have the foresight to include longer wires. I know that they will probably be third party earphones with controls in the near future too. But that would still mean I have to spend additional money.

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iTunes is another prick I am really disliking. 2 reasons, I find the equalizer functions really inadequate and weak. I was using JetAudio Basic which was so much better. It also allows me to sort files by their actual file names. I had to spend 1 hour just to edit the information on every song just to get iTunes to arrange them right.
Second and the more important point, it doesn't recognize A FEW of my favorite songs. Hence I cannot load it into my iPod Shuffle since it needs to go through iTunes. That's really a major piss-off, when I was looking forward to rocking to those songs on the go. I have been using a lot of different mp3 players and none has ever not been able to recognize all the songs I have. There is no error message or anything, nothing just happens when I select the file. If anyone has any solution to this please drop me a comment of something. I have tried Googling but to no avail.

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Ok.. Now for the most important part which I initially left out because I wanted to fully charge my iPod before I use it. The playback quality... which is absolutely superb! I am noticing notes and details of songs which I have not noticed before. Voices are clear and crisp. Initially I was worried whether not having the option to play around with the equalizer will lower the quality of playback from the iPod Shuffle itself. But my worries were in vain.

As for the Voice feature, I'm not really getting it to work. The only thing it ever says is "All Songs". I think I'll need to fool around to see if I can get it to finally say the song titles. Will update on that, if I can remember to. Lol! As for now, I'm gonna go enjoy my music.. :p

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Shuffle
http://www.apple.com/my/ipodshuffle/

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Bang!

It's about time someone gave the music industry a gun so that it can shoot itself in the head. I stopped listening to english radio stations a while back when most of the new songs were crap. And the old song they kept repeating were mostly crap too. None were to my liking, rap, tech, love songs, none!

But now, even the chinese radio station I listen to at work started to air english songs. Bah! Humbug! As if the songs they played weren't boring enough. So thought about it and since I've always said I wanted a Mp3 player, guess the time was right. Digital Mall PJ here I come! Lol! Again... :p