look again...

...beaut of a photograph! click to see the bigger pic.....the black parts are NOT the camels...but their shadows....

fantastic!

obvious ain't it?

perhaps for some people, it isn't....hmmmm

aiyooo, i'm all wet...

...from drooling at the new Nikon D90

this is everything that i've wanted in a DSLR (no disrespect to my current D40)...i want/crave/lust after it as much as i lust after jessica biel....

a hands on review from DPreview HERE.

have you ever wondered...

...how the word DICKHEAD came into being?


















well, wonder no more...

new wrestling hold...

looks darned effective!

Omnia Viral Vid

cool as heck!

bought one of these for the missus...she lurves it...me, i just think that i'm not smart enough for the phone...

i'll stick with my SE k850i thanks...

not that way, you idiot!

A woman was in a coma. She had been in it for months.
Nurses were in her room giving her a sponge bath.
One of them was washing her private area and noticed that there was a slight response on the monitor whenever she touched her there.
They tried it again and sure enough, there was definite movement.
They went to her husband and explained what happened, telling him, ‘As crazy as this sounds, maybe a little ‘oral sex’ will do the trick & bring her out of the coma.’
The husband was skeptical, but they assured him that they would close the curtains for privacy.
The husband finally agreed and went into his wife’s room. After a few minutes the woman’s monitor flat lined, no pulse, no heart rate.
The nurses ran back into the room. ‘What happened!?’ they cried.
The husband said, “I’m not sure; maybe she choked.”

i wanna be like mike...

all hail the Mike! click to get the larger picture (6 Mb)...

payback time!

hilarious!!!

A man walks into a pharmacy and wanders up and down the aisles. The sales girl notices him and asks him if she can help him.

He answers that he is looking for a box of tampons for his wife.

She directs him down the correct aisle.

A few minutes later, he deposits a huge bag of cotton balls and a ball of string on the counter.

She says, confused, “Sir, I thought you were looking for some tampons for your wife?

He answers, “You see, it’s like this. Yesterday, I sent my wife to the store to get me a carton of cigarettes, and she came back with a tin of tobacco and some rolling papers; cause it’s sooooooooooo much cheaper. So, I figure if I have to roll my own ………… so does she.”

this chap should retire...

...from a life of crime, seeing how damn hopeless he is at it!

John Pearce had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glass window of this UK home. It is believed that the lace in one of his tennis shoes became caught in the window frame as he tried to clamber through. He hung like this for over an hour before police and paramedics rescued and arrested him.

more HERE.

a cow compass?

A study of Google Earth satellite images has revealed that herds of cattle tend to face in the north-south direction of Earth’s magnetic lines. Staring at cows may not equal the thrill of spotting celebrities in public or rubbernecking at car accidents, but the researchers found nonetheless that our bovine friends display this strange sixth sense for direction.

how ever so odd...

more HERE

cor, vegas has EVERYTHING!!!

really!

happiness in a song

there was a time when ms ciccone made pure pop music...something essentially heart-felt and not "tainted" (for want of a better word) by the cares of the world...that was the time where she broke out into complete superstardom...

CHERISH is a song that is almost belligerently happy, both in terms of music and the lyrics and it still resounds nowadays with sheer joy...inevitably, it still never fails to put me in a good mood everytime i hear it...hope you guys like the rewind

she looks pretty damn hawttt in the vid, i must admit...




Madonna Lyrics
Cherish Lyrics

now for the 50mm/f1.8

gotta get me one of these babies prior to the trip...the Nikkor AF-D 50mm/f1.8...cheap as chips (well, comparatively speaking of course) and blardy good lens no caveats...

except on my d40, it will not AF...but MF is easy as well anyway

man, this fella really needs to get a life...

...outside star wars!

sharleen spiteri jumps on the bandwagon...

...of retro-sounding music a la duffy and amy winehouse...and she's actually done a damn good job...not only did she write and sing the songs, she produced it as well, taking control of every sonic nuance...

it's decidedly different from her old sound when she was with the band TEXAS, but it's still pretty awesome...steeped in the sound and textures of ’60s Soul, ’50s Rock ‘N’ Roll and Doo-Wop, hers is an album that’s vintage in flavor yet utterly contemporary in spirit

this is actually one of the best tracks on her current album MELODY, called I WONDER...beautiful...i love it! too bad there isn't a vid of it tho...it's just the album cover being shown on this youtube "vid"...



All i know i should come clean
See exactly what i mean
Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more
But each hurt makes my mind stronger than before

If your memory serves you well,
Were gonna meet again some day [hey yeaah]
I look back on these things
I said its before its too late

[Chorus]
I wonder when you cry
Tell me no lie
Is this how you feel
I wonder when you cry
Tell me no lie
Is this how you feel

I'd like to think you'd understand
Now theres someone else holding my hand
Your not the one i love so dont stand in my way
You know my life for me has changed in many ways

If your memory serves you well,
Were gonna meet again some day [hey yeaah]
I look back on these things
I said its before its too late

[Chorus]
I wonder when you cry
Tell me no lie
Is this how you feel
I wonder when you cry
Tell me no lie
Is this how you feel

With every chance you get
Cause every time we met
Oh you tried to hurt me, hurt me more and more
If your memory serves you well
Were gonna meet again,
I'll look back
I'll look back
I'll look back on these things

[Chorus]
I wonder when you cry
Tell me no lie
Is this how you feel
I wonder when you cry
Tell me no lie
Is this how you feel
x2

[I'll look back on these things...]

i know, i know...

...i haven't exactly been the most faithful blogger in the recent weeks...just that i have had a lot of my plate both personally and work-wise...

i hope to be back better than ever in a week or two once things have quietened down somewhat...

gawwwwwd, i need a holiday...

temples...like, WOW!

simply gorgeous!! can't wait to see it for real...


kinkakuji (golden temple) - kyoto


sensoji at night - tokyo

hokkaido vistas

gorgeous images pulled off the internet...i'm all agog with excitement at the thought of seeing it for real...

backup...

we bought this nifty little sony digicam as a backup to my d40 for the upcoming japan trip...as it is pretty much a trip of a lifetime, it would be an utter catastrophe if the d40 were to somehow go bonkers when we're over there...hence the "backup plan"...otherwise we'd be up the proverbial river without any paddles...

this is the SONY DSC-T2...with 8.1MP (more than my frickin' nikon), 3x zoom (6x digital), a carl-zeiss vario-tessar lens (whatever the heck that is) and a whopping 4Gb internal drive (yes 4 GIGABYTES...count them!) capable of storing 1266 images at full 8.1MP resolution...

we first saw it about 9 months back and it was truly intriguing as a point and shoot camera for daily use...the wife lurves the pink and it's just so damn chic! and it doesn't take half bad photos either...and the best thing is, since the intervening months since it was first released onto the market, the price has plummetted considerably...in fact, comparing it to the RRP at point of launch, it's a colossal 40% off...yeeehaaaa!

online reviews HERE and HERE.

wonder if they're easy to remove with 1 hand...

the things that people think of...

German police women are to be issued with bullet-resistant bras to give them complete undercover protection.

The new underwear was developed as a second barrier of defence after normal bras were found to cause injuries while on duty. The officers' bullet-proof vests, while stopping the force of gunshots in an attack, pushed the plastic and metal parts of their underwear into their flesh, causing injury.

Carmen Kibat, a policewoman in Hamburg who tested the new underwear, said: "These can save someone's life so it's not a laughing matter." She organised "Action Brassiere" across Germany, getting hundreds of policewomen to try the bras out in the line of duty.

They are all emblazoned with the word "police" and made from cotton, polyester, elastic and some other synthetic materials, thickly padded and with no metal or plastic studs or fasteners.

Three thousand front-line women police officers will now be required to wear the bras on duty. Their bosses have decided to allow them to have three each. Ruediger Carstens, a spokeswoman for the police, said: "This was pioneering work. The safety of our officers is paramount."

read HERE.