i'm all giga-d

finally...at long last...got lexi's HU changed...to make a long story short, a friend of mine gave me his component speakers and HU cos he's scrapping his car...i just paid the labour and materials for swapping over both sets of car stereos...all in all spent about a third of what i would have had to fork out had i gone and got new stuff...reasonable i guess...

see the HU fascia above...it's the SONY MEX-1GP (Gigapanel)...the receiver has 1GB of flash memory and a USB port engineered into the faceplate. when the faceplate is removed from the receiver and connected to a Windows-enabled PC, it is recognized as an external drive. with the provided USB cable, users can quickly transfer and save MP3 and WMA files to the faceplate...kinda frickin' cool!

now i can blast my muzak and not have the speakers explode...the stock HU and speakers in lexi were utter rubbish, man!

and here's a little review done by car audio magazine of the HU installed in a FORD GTX...if they can use it on a 1-off "concept" car, heck it must be good innit?

colbie caillat...

COLBIE CAILLAT's music has just blown me away...folksy yet contemporary, lyrical, whimsical and wonderfully melodic are her songs and i find myself compelled to go and buy the album ASAP!!!

caillat's debut album, Coco, was released on July 17, 2007. with tracks like "The Little Things", "Feelings Show", and "Bubbly", Coco reached number one on the iTunes chart; it also debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, selling about 51,000 copies in its first week. on October 2, 2007, Coco, was certified Gold by the RIAA...

my fave song from this album, Oxygen, has yet to be released as a single but you can check out on youtube below...go see and listen...you won't regret the time spent


Colbie Caillat - Oxygen

I came apart inside a world made of angry people
i found a boy who had a dream
making everyone smile
He was sunshine
I fell over my feet
like bricks underwater

how am i supposed to tell you how i feel
i need oxygen
oh baby let me be your lady
i will make you happy
never gonna leave, never gonna leave
oh baby can i be your lady
i am going crazy for you

and so i found a state of mind
where i could be speechless
i had to try it for a while
to figure out this feeling
this felt so right
pull me upside down to a place
where you've been waiting

how am i supposed to tell you how i feel
i need oxygen
oh baby can i be your lady
i will make you happy
im never gonna leave,
never gonna leave
oh baby can i be your lady
i am going crazy for you

you dont wanna keep me waiting
staring at my fingers feeling like a fool

oh baby can i be your lady
i am going crazy
im never gonna leave,
never gonna leave
oh baby let me be your lady
i will make you happy, yeah-ohhhh

tell me what you want,
baby tell me what you need
anything i ask baby give it to me
baby give it to me, give it to me

give it to me, give it to me
baby give it to me give it to me

the rest of her muzak can be sampled on her official website HERE.

dominoes i've seen but eggs????

good grief...one sneeze and it's back to square 1i can't imagine the amount of intense concentration required to set this up...

hurrah!

was out @ lunch with a friend and we decided to head over to MBM to check out the new MITSUBISHI EVO X (now that's a story for another day)...by chance, we parked in the wrong building (blur cocks that we are) and in this same building there was a big TAMIYA store...

so here we were browsing within and i came across IT!!! the very AUTOART 1:43 diecast model that i was searching so hard for...and discounted by more than 50%...needless to say, money was extracted in a flash...hurray!!! sooooo happy

please excuse the crap photo...mobile phone lah...

the man of iron cometh...

...well, at least on 2nd may 2008, that is...

am waiting with bated breath, anticipating the opening of IRONMAN starring robert downey jr...view the trailer below and see why...looking exceptionally good...

hilarious!

dunno whether this is for real but "apparently", this note was handed to the crew of a Qantas flight just before the plane was about to land...

oh scheizer!!!

"dun look now, conrad...but i think there's something behind us....*GULP*"

man, this fella really loves his spot...

for serious beer drinkers, i guess...

...gimme a gal anytime, especially if they look like HER!

click for the large picture to see all the words ya...

public service announcement - CARL'S JR

unfortunately only valid for singapore...but what the hey eh?

strike while the iron's hot, people!! just print out this coupon and present it at your favourite CJ outlet

women and cars...a baaaaad mix...

...albeit quite hilarious in many instances... what was that lady thinking, driving her car into the water-filled sinkhole????

the aftermath of the IRB WC07

ok, so my faves AUSTRALIA got bounced out like a bunch of dunces by an inspired ENGLAND team led by bonny jonny wilkinson...big deal...the way that the aussies played, the lack of urgency and the numerous handling errors...yeah they quite deserved it...but george gregan sure didn't deserve to draw the curtain on his international career by being on the wrong end of the scoreline...fare thee well, george...you will be missed...

my second faves NEW ZEALAND also got got ambushed...this time by an inspired FRANCE...a national catastrophe if there ever was one...they've certainly be well dubbed as "chokers"...could it be the heavy hopes of a nation for which rugby is akin to religion and the expectations of being THE team of the last 2 years on the international circuit? welllll, suffice to say that they have a lot of self-reflection to do...

i really do hate the way the english play...all forward rucks/mauls/lineouts and kicking for position...it's just damn bloody boring with a capital B! they do it without an iota of flair and this crazy dependence on jonny for his penalty kicks and drop-goals...crap on them!

did SOUTH AFRICA deserve the win in paris? judging just by the finals, yes...they dominated the forward-pack battle and manage to win more than their fair share of the line outs...and crucially, did not give away silly penalties or handling errors when the english were camped out in their 22...so basis that, yes...but still it was a somewhat lacklustre final for me as there wasn't a single try (albeit there was a disallowed one...but that one will be debated on for years to come)...

haizzz...if only the other 2 southern hemisphere giants had played to potential...

a scrabulous interlude...

This has got to be one of the most clever E-mails I've received in awhile. Someone out there either has too much spare time or is deadly at Scrabble.

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

Yep!

Someone with waaaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands...Probably a son-in-law...

one last static shot of lexi by marc

he's obviously photoshopped it to render the background colours black n white but i lurve it...so much that i am using it as the wallpaper for my lappy now

tsk tsk tsk...i really am turning into one big...

...shoeslut!!!

i am soooo in lust with the adidas samba 85...eeps...how to control myself? someone please tell me!!!

back to one of my...

...fave peeves...RICEBUCKETS!

look at this moron wannabe...ape-ing the golf GTi with his grill and front fender and that horrid cheapass scoopwhat the flying fiak?

bleddy loser

a notion of motion...

a passionate amateur is my friend, marc...picked up photography only last year and yet he's far outstripped my best...such is his sponge-like rate of absorption and enthusiasm for this hobby that he's even DIYed his own rig for taking photos of cars on the go...with fantastic results, if i may say so...

judge for yourself below...2 pix of lexi...