Bluetooth is TOOTHLESS!

For sometime now I had wanted to get a bluetooth adaptor. My lappie unfortunately doesn't come with a built in one. So a few days ago, while at MidValley I decided to pop into an IT shop to purchase one. There were 3 choices. 2 were RM29.90 and 1 was RM18... For me it was a no brainer. Jen sometimes can't understand why I always choose the cheapest things. To her, cheap means lousy. Till this day we still have debates about my choices and hers. Anyway, I got home and tried to get it installed because I had this funny picture on my phone which I am dying to show you guys. Well, it doesn't take an Einstein to figure out why the picture is not up yet. Needless to say, my bluetooth is toothless! Well, some support guy is going to get a nasty email soon...nah just kidding. Me nasty? Perhaps just a toothless growl. =)

Gong Xi Fa Cai

It's been said that the Yee Sang dish originated from Singapore somewhere in 1964. Don't really know much about the history but if you like to read about it, you can go to to wiki Yusheng. Anyway I look forward to Chinese New Year each year as I'm quite fond of this dish and you can usually only find it during the New Year Period. As usual, the Lee family came together on the eve of CNY for our reunion dinner. We would do it ala pot bless style and each family would bring or cook a different dish to be shared by all. This year it was decided that we would meet at Uncle Arthur's house. I managed to get some sparklers this year from the pasar malam and the kids had a gala time with them. Daren managed to capture some good moments... Just posted it on the CNY2010 album.Go have a look.

What in the world is this?

OK. So most of you might be wondering by now, what in the world is this? For those of you who are percussionists or drummers, you might recognize what these are... although they're not exactly the conventional type. For the longest time I've been wanting to get a pair of...ok, they are called drum mallets but have been reluctant to cause they are not exactly in the cheap dept. The cheapest set I found costs over RM80 and most are over a hundred ringgit! If you want to do a nice mellow dampened cymbal roll, you've gotta have mallets man, the sticks just won't cut it. Anyway, I was walking around Curve today after dinner and stumbled upon this Japanese shop opposite Beat Box (Yamaha) and it was selling all kinds of strange things like most Jap shops do and at one corner I found these beauties. I thought to myself...hmmm...it just might work, the head is made of rubber, the sticks are pretty sturdy, WHY NOT? So I bought them and it only cost me RM10 !! Was tempted to pop over to Yamaha to have a go but nah... they might kick me out. So for you drummers who want a cheaper alternative, go look there. It's called finger sticks. =)

Kapersky blocked my adsense

Kapersky antivirus blocked my google adsense today. OK, it might sound funny to you but if you run a site that sorta depends on google adsense for an income, it's NOT SO FUNNY after all... Yeah so I was doing some updates to cutideals today and suddently when I tried to refresh it to review what I did, up came this small little box at the bottom saying that "page2googlesyndication js blah, blah, blah URL was deemed malicious and was denied" At first I thought it was a joke, google ads malicious? What's going on?? Anyway I did some searches and apparently this happened quite extensively on the 25th of Jan 2010. Why it didn't come up on my pc then baffles me! Needless to say I was a little 'concerned'. Tried doing an update, crossed my fingers and hope it would fix things but it didn't. Anyway, I left it alone as I had other stuff to work on. Well, it's 3pm now and I think the problem is solved. Maybe Kapersky was flooded calls and emails from angry adsense dependent client like me. haha... Don't get me wrong. I really like Kapersky and I think it's a great software compared to the other resource hungry antiviruses. (You know what I'm talking about) Perhaps someone was just having a bad day... Anyway it's solved. I'm happy! =)