cool ideas

saw this online on one of the sites i regularly keep track off.. and am constantly amazed at the things people come up with...

the following was one of the top 10 IKEA-hacks of 2010....

IKEA Hackers: Bedroom dress boys

but top prize for last year goes to the young genius who had to create his ideas out of sheer necessity!

IKEA Hackers: Turn your studio apartment into a 1 bedroom with P...

sweet!

MixTape.me

found a site that lets you create your own playlists and play em ... no downloads needed... all u do is create an account, and ur set to go.. free!...

MixTape.me

so far so good.. some drawbacks of course... you need to know the songs you want to add... and as all databases go.. you don't always get the right match (sometimes it's live versions.. unless of course that's your style) or the system can't find your song.....

likey so far!

high drama

u know sometimes u read news n u go.... Hhmm wonder what it was like there?

well yesterday there was a peaceful rally in London against the cuts , so there was a march, some talks ... all in all a rather festive feel to it.

of course when people flock together, they end up becoming a mob. a bunch of folks decided to do a Bahrain n occupy Trafalgar Square. alls well, nothing wrong with a sit in.

then another bunch of people decided to start targetting certain establishments , blaming them for avoiding taxes etc hence some vandalism in Oxford Street.

and where were we in all of this? no no, not the march but we wanted to do some shopping , n ended up in regent street, somewhere in between the fun mob n the yobs. so day went on mostly without drama , there was even some bagpipers n folks in costume.

late about 6 pm ish things started to get edgy. could somehow feel it in the air. so we thought of making a last stop at a sport store in Piccadilly, lo n behold there was a large presence of riot police.

we were still in the store when the fire alarm went of n we were evacuated! drama. noise outside! smoke in the air! we were part of news!!

once outside the police actually directed us away from the mob n we passed an alley right behind the store. some idiot had set fire to a vehicle (eavesdropped on a bobby for this juicy bit :p) n there was a crowd of morons busy taking pictures with their phones(!!!) ... we made a dash for it though. did consider stopping by tesco for some milk , but decided otherwise.

Jas n me then hightailed it outta there. headed towards the tube station at green park, yup after a roundabout way.

funny thing though, after reading about budget cuts n peoples plight , the only outcome of the rally n the mob that I perceived was more expenditure by the goby in cleaning up the mess left by these folks.

learn a new thing each day...

went out for a TT session with Mex...and while messing around with the cam.. realised that i had forgotten to use a simple technique that i had read about early when i started fiddling around with me cam....sigh... guess this proves that there's no stopping learning as long as u keep pluggin' away!

going for a St Patricks Day parade today, with initial hope that i'd be able to garner some cool parade-y shots.. but woke this morning and the damn sky is overcast... siiggghh.. mother nature pulls another one over the bbc weather team again!

well, lets see if i can get some kind of result later!

update : bloody hell... not only overcast it rained for about half an hour n still very gloomy, skyline was actually obscured during that time... boo so no point heading into the city cos by the time we get there, the parade would be at it's tail end... talk about a dampener.... in more ways then one.

guess it's plan B then.. look for an irish bar n get some Stout to celebrate St P day!!

tale of two world cups

tis was not long days past that i was sitting in a pub with me mates n bro watching the footie world cup, and somehow while it doesn't too long back, as i sat watching the cricket world cup matches last sunday... it somehow feels weirdly similar yet hugely different... not making much sense am i?

hehe .. well for starters never had much chance to follow cricket on tv as the local satelite tv provider (read : ASS-TRO) charged and still continue to charge unworldly amounts to subscribe to major events. hence, lack of coverage mostly equaled losing touch with the sport. but here, with most chances to watch it (on tv when i get the odd chance) on broadband over streaming websites (since i don't own a tv) i've re-kindled my shool-days connection with it! woohoo...

there have been some awesome matches so far... the Irish giving the English proper beating, the English drawing the Indians with a thrilling game, New Zealand upsetting the Pakistanis... will there be more? i hope so!!

on another note, hey it's St Patrick's Day celebration and Parade in London this weekend! woohoo... prob got chance to get some pics of some cool party-scene or even floats (dare i hope) at the least some drunk tourists probably competing with the locals over who can be more Irish! :D hopefully this weeks sunny weather holds!

hmmmmmm

wow.. why has it been so long since my last post? wonder why eh....was it cos i was home most of the time? doubt it .. cos i do go out here n there... heck couple of weeks back i was at a travel technology exhibition for two days... fun stuff.. learnt a lot...

been going here n there for pics as well... but no posts....

i think it's down to being bored of sitting in front of the laptop.... mostly i'm here either busy searching and applying for jobs, downloading n watching tv series.... or just plain being an active member of the social media.....

so from here on .. let's re-kick start this journey. and look forward to new updates from myself soon! and if there's nothing in the next few days .. someone lemme know :P

pics

last weekend we went to visit a chum of mine from school. he's been over here in the UK about 8 years now, finished his studies n been working for a while. settled down pretty nicely, n misses home, but i don't think he will go home. odd thing is, he says every year they been saying it's time to go back next year...and according to the wife she's heard that every year for the last five.

back where i asked him... to bolehland? and yes i did catch him hesitating...but i'm not against him or any other fellow malaysian who wants to return to do so. but i realised when i came over a few months back, it's one thing to uproot yourself and move to another country on the opposite side of the world, but it's another thing altogether to pack up after spending some time to move back.

why? u miss so many things back home (well i don't miss much .... yet, but that's the usual argument) food, people, places etc. sure u do! but then i miss a lot of places i've been and want to go back to.

why? everything back home also so maju adi (progressed already)... yeah but is it the same? will u be able to fit in back home the way you've been living and earning over here (or anywhere else non-bolehland).

well i donno. i've got pals who have moved back.... n regretted it. some haven't. was i being naughty in asking my friend that question? not really, cos in all fairness, i was just gathering as much feedback as possible, about the emotions and rationale behind making such a decision when the time comes for me to ponder the same scenario. till then.. i'll keep on clicking and typing!

happy thanksgiving all!