The Passing of The King, Michael Jackson

The world is in shock with the sudden demise of the King of Pop. The world mourns for him, say what you want but if you can for once, separate his personal life from his music, you will see a brilliant, talented man, a great entertainer, a magical chameleon who brought music to life. MJ was truly the music icon of our time, his legacy will live on, his music will never be forgotten.


I grew up listening to Beat it, Thriller, Billie Jean and even tried doing the moonwalk with my brother.


And who can forget the "We Are The World" cause that he championed?

Watch the rest of them here


MJ, Rest In Peace.

Coming Home

Shane has gone for a two-day sleepover at his BFF's, totally making it meaningless for me to come home. I didn't wanna come home.


But i still did. Suddenly the house seems too big; the dinning table is too tidy without his toys lying around strategically; the tv room sounds eeriely quiet; the piano feels lonely without its master; the drums yearning to be thoroughly jam up; the flight of stairs up to the rooms seem to take forever; the bed in my room is definitely too big, too cold, too neat; everything is just not right.


A home without Shane suddenly seems so wrong.


I want him back.

Nokia E72

If you, like me, is a fan of Nokia's E-series, especially its monoblock with QWERTY keyboard, you'll be excited with the new E72, scheduled to be released later part of this year.

This new E-beauty, only 0.1mm thicker and 2.5mm wider than its predecessor, spots many new features, some of those which i like include:


1) Updated version of its operating system - S60 (3rd Edition Feature Pack 2) with a longer battery life, speedier interface compared to E71 plus many others.

2) Improved messaging software suite and supporting of multiple email accounts.

3) 5.0 megapixels camera, a much more pin-sharp images.

4) Higher sound quality - with active noise cancellation.

5) An iPod-like navi key.

6) *3.5mm audio jack - a standard for music headphone, which means what you use for your iPod can now be used for E72. No more carrying two different headphones around (unless of course if you need the one that comes in the box for whatever purpose you need that for).


Read the specs at the official Nokia site and watch the video below. You will love the new Nokia E72.


I fell in love with it already!!

In The Mood

I'm in the mood to create banners for my header and as you have probably guessed, i've figured out how to have different banners for my page at every refresh :)


No, actually the credits not mine. I'm not that smart when dealing with html and javascript (yeah, i know, yawn...you have heard this many times and probably bored of hearing it again). Actually i learned it all from freeyasoul.blogspot.com. So go ahead folks, if you have a webpage, give it a try, you might end up having more banners than i do.


So did you all have fun grabbing your Facebook usernames yesterday? It was like Great Singapore Sale, except this is on a global scale and what's more, it's free! Was it tough coming up with something other than your firstnamelastname? I knew mine would have being long gone by the time i reached home since i have such a common name. A search on FB for my name returned over 500 results so it's no surprise i didn't get it. Out of curiosity, i searched for facebook/angiewong to see who the lucky girl was and know what, i sent her a congratulatory message.. haha, i know i have gone nuts. But thankfully my blogging nick is not that common, so i got it. Some people were telling me that this is the most crazy thing ever, well, crazy in a bad way for them but i like it. Now i have one more personalised shanewei url added to my collection!


However, my OktoberSixteen page on FB is not eligible for username creation yet because i don't have the minimum 1000 fans to qualify for one. But the update from mashable.com brought me hope that i can claim a name for OktoberSixteen on June 28th!

What's Your Username For Facebook?

I have friends telling me they will stand by their comps to chop their usernames for facebook. LOL.


At that time, i will be stucked at a big mall with thousands of people, all the way till 5pm. My young man has his two-hour Chinese enrichment class follows by piano and drum lessons after an hour's break. I have them all on the same day at the same place so that we don't have to rush from place to place. No don't feel sorry for him, you silly, he actually is enjoying himself. In between breaks from the different lessons, Shane gets to go to the toystores to see his friends and decide which to bring home. I don't buy him toys every weekend but i do reward him generously when the situation calls for it. And we do spend lots of time at the bookstore after his lessons. That's also my very own sanctuary while waiting for him. I love the smell of books and i always end up buying a few (which sometimes include delicious-looking cookbooks), totally fogetting i have half-read ones and a couple of dozen cookbooks waiting at home. Contrary to what some people thinks, i do read. And i'm not talking about hollywood gossip mags.


Coming back to FB usernames, have you think of a unique name for yourself? It'll be interesting to see what my friends will come up with. I'm sure it will not be the usual 'firstnamelastname' sort. Actually being very conventional and sometimes too boring, that is exactly what i am hoping to get for myself.


Can someone chop for me? :)

Oops, I Did It Again!

Yes, unfortunately i did it again on the third day of my HK family trip. My precious family pics and vids were all accidentally deleted. On the fifth day, i dropped my cam at the Ocean Park entrance just before entering! After that, every time i turn the cam on, the lens vibrates and i couldn't take any decent pic. I then deliberately dropped it gently a few times, hoping that this would put the lens back in place but it didn't help :(


I have some pics taken with my BB but the qualities were not the same as taken with my Sony T-100.


Maybe time to get a new one. I have been thinking of getting a DSLR but not sure which is good. What do you think?


Btw, anyone has any recommendation for a good software to recover deleted pics from Sony's memory stick? Can't remember the last software i used to recover my Taiwan pics but it wasn't very good. Some of the pics were only recovered half, meaning i could see the top half of the pic but not the bottom half.


Really, someone should just glue my fingers together.

Time For Maths Lesson!

This is one of the question for Shane's maths test. Granted, it's only a practice paper prior to his mid-term, but how many eight year olds can answer this question logically? How about you, big brothers and sisters?


Interesting indeed.


I wonder how his year end maths questions will be like.

My Twilight Journey

Emptiness. Always felt and always have whenever i turned past the last page of the book i was reading. End of my twilight journey. Completed within three weeks, the last three books within one week and the final book within a day. All 754 pages of them, in a day. To be exact, 23 hours, 37 minutes and 6 seconds. Impressive? Nay, i'm sure many of you hold Guiness records for speed reading. I am but a late bloomer.


I was craving for more, like a hunger that kept on building even after a full meal, so much so that i even read the whole aknowledgements twice just before closing the back cover. Still hungry.


Superhero. Bad or good, no problem, as long as they can fly a plane or profess undying genuine love for you. Ahh, fantasies, like the matchstick you hold in the dark, giving you the little hope for a moment of light.


I watched the movie first before reading the book, watched it three times before the suspense was killing me slowly. I wanted to know more, i needed to know what was in store for them. Hence, my journey to the twilight saga began.


Now, the journey has ended and i'm searching. Searching for my next obsession, waiting for it to erupt, taking over my willpower to do anything meaningful.


Books. My bff.


ps: i was kidding on the exact time i took reading the last book. No folks, i do not time how fast i read :)

I'm A Mother, Call Me A Nagger

A woman who conceives, gives birth to, or raises a child: mother.


A person who continuosly scold non-stop in a monotone: nagger.


Unfortunately, when i became the former, i also ended up the latter.


Plus i have picked up the habit of being a constant worrier.


Mother, the very essence of love, warmth and selfless devotion. She wanted nothing for her children but their well-beings and happiness. She would defend them fearlessly and stand up for them.


Mother, the one who gave you life and sheltered you within her womb, endangering herself to give you a glimpse of the world.


Mother, the greatest lady of them all, the only one who will; protect you with her life, shower you with her never-ending love, cry with you when you fall, hold your hands when you are scared, hug you when you feel unwanted, watch you when you are sleeping and kiss your little tears away when you are sad...


Mother, the multi-tasker in the family, the one with one body but six pair of hands.


Today is Mother's Day.


Today, i salute all the Mothers in the world and at the same time, pray for those who yearn for a taste of being a constant worrier and perhaps, a nagger? :)


Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful women in the world..

Image taken from the web

Regrettable

I did something i kinda regret. Well, u see, i was with my curling tong and camera that nite...


Hours later, i had my hair permed!!!


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