New toy!

Excited over the new gadget with these features:

Canon Digital IXUS 210
• Stylish, 14.1 Megapixel, metal body IXUS in four colour options
• Genuine Canon 24mm ultra wide-angle 5x zoom lens with optical Image Stabilizer
• Wide 8.8cm (3.5") PureColor II Touch LCD with touch control
• Touch AF, custom icon layout and tap control
• Easy to use with Smart Auto, Face Detection and on-screen Hints & Tips
• HD Movies (720p) and HDMI connection
• Smart Shutter with Smile, Wink Self-Timer and FaceSelf-Timer
• Smart Flash Exposure and i-Contrast for best results in all situations
• DIGIC 4 and Servo AF/AE for ultra-fast response and high image quality
• Shooting modes including Low Light, Fish-eye, Miniature and Creative Light Effect

Pink!

LCD the size of a credit card.  Love it!

And I was quite successful placing the screen protector, which is of extreme importance, as I have the tendency to nick even the scratch-proof ones.

I was hoping that there’s a unit in any shade of green but there’s none so I had to settle for pink.  I am happy, nevertheless, but extremely confused. 

Time to read the user guide again. :-p

Happy Friday!

Before we even started shopping, I asked A to decide where we’re having dinner.  And as always, we still had to walk around and check every restaurant in the vicinity.  This time, we decided to try “Rasa: The Best of Singapore”.   We’re not into heavy dinner so we settled on 2 dishes, one of which, I have been craving for…Hainanese Chicken Rice.  And since I’m not good doing food reviews, all I can say is that there’s still a lot of room for improvement in Rasa’s Hainanese Chicken Rice.



Probably just the "Okay of Singapore", not the best



With a so-so dinner, I had to satisfy yet another craving…the Triple Decker Cheesecake of Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.  I can’t remember all of the things A and I talked about because I was into a major laughing fit when he showed me a couple of text messages.  A almost bathed in my Moroccan Mint Tea Latte because I can’t stop laughing.

Yum!

As an overview, A’s company ventured into a water refilling station.  His colleague forwarded these text messages to him...I will write it as it was composed by the sender…complete with punctuation marks.

Sir, kindly, the deliver can come to make a put d new dispense to change it coz d dispense was broke thru water.  It isn’t include bring with water.  Only just change d new dispense.  Just make faster.  By the way, I am live at #.15 dapdap st.  Thanks.

A’s colleague forwarded this text message seeking help with a note that says,

Hindi ko maintindihan itong major-major order. Ha ha ha.

I suppose they were able to decipher the hidden message in that text message because after a week, the customer sent yet another message.

Gudpm poh!  Kindly, just come hir 4 get d dispense water coz its gone already.  So dat I’ll pay u 25php later.  By the way, I’m live at #.15 dapdap. Thanks.

And since Customer is already a valued customer…a text message was sent to her asking for her name.  And this was her reply:

Oh well, I’m mhajo.  It isn’t real KATIE.  Coz u was put on my name from d dispense water last tym.  Tnx poh!

So what’s the point?  I don’t really know because frankly, I’m at a loss for words because I still can’t stop laughing. 

Oh, there's another thing.  A and I agree that it's perfectly okay for people to wear anything they like, whatever their fashion sense (or lack thereof) may be...whatever floats your boat, right?  But if there's one thing that i remember out of reading fashion magazines...the one big NO-NO is the VPL...the Visible Panty Line.  I didn't really care much about the fashion rule until A and I saw this matronic-being sashaying by our table...it wasn't VPL...it was VP...as in Visible Panty!  To you matronic-being...how can you put us through that eyesore?  Man, it wasn't even camel-toe...it was moose knuckle! :-p 

A…it was fun as usual.  Let's do it again soon.

On books!

Only a couple of people know that I have this habit of collecting series of books by certain authors before I can actually start to read. And the clutter that the growing collection makes is driving me nuts. I took shots of some of them while dusting my book cabinet.

This posts a major dilemma for an asthmatic like me…as books gather dust and it must be because of humidity that they tend to smell funky after being stored for a long time.  I had put up some for sale (to buy new ones :-p) but there’s still a lot packed in boxes.  And with the issue of space, I sure have contemplated on getting the Kindle but I somehow cannot bring myself to actually get one because I’m…old-school.

photo grabbed from flickr



 

I still cannot trade the joy of… bringing home crisp bags filled with books…carefully tearing off the plastic wrapper…running my fingers through the sharp edges and the smell of a just-unwrapped paperback over a gadget that would probably heat up within a few hours of use.  Yes, I’m a bit odd.

Plus the fact that I haven’t heard any report of a paperback being snatched away by our friendly neighborhood petty criminals.  But I’m not closing my doors, if a Kindle comes knocking…it can always come through the window and softly land in my welcoming arms. :-p





Dinner for a loner!

When you live alone, you become an expert sandwich-maker.  Tonight...it's grilled cheese with spam turkey.

Paired with everything frozen...frozen apple, frozen yogurt and frozen apple tea.  Want to have some? :-)

How they've grown, Mama!

Just a typical scene after Sunday mass...

It's just that Lola's not there anymore. :-(

Twilight...ride...not the book!

No thanks to the power outage that lasted 12 hours, I was not able to ride at 6am as usual.  But I’m deadset on riding today so I geared up at around 4pm to meet with my favorite mtb lola, C.  It was just the two of us riding as the usual suspects were nowhere to be found.  I think that we truly are crazy because both of us were running on nearly flat tires, no lights nor reflectors and no knights in shining armor to help us in case something happens.

C in a hurry...because it's getting dark.

  

 Me, taking in all the fresh air.

It’s a fairly easy trail but quite far from the national road so I urged C to pedal fast as I didn’t want us stuck in the middle of the forest when it’s dark.

C entering the forest.

  

 

I had fun because I was able to ride with my favorite mtbiking partner again. And as they say, time surely flies when you’re having fun…because before I knew it…it was already dark.  Before heading home, we stopped for our cola and chismis fix and agreed that we should do it more often. Riding sans the boys…not riding at dusk. :-D