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• A far cry from the tabloid look

 by admin, May 15, 2008

A few months ago, I saw Bond girl Michelle Yeoh at a shopping mall’s cafe. I remember my first reaction was hey, that lady looks familiar. She had her shades on so I can’t really tell but my sister-in-law insisted it’s her alright.

She’s not aging well for a woman her age. Her complexion is fairly dark, and coupled with a thin frame and tired looking skin, is a farcry from the tabloid images of Michelle Yeoh. I’ve seen women nearing their 50’s faring better with age. The rich ones of course, those who can afford the best nutritional diet, best wrinkle cream, spend half of their day at fitness gyms and free from stress and worries.

• My LCD monitor may be dying

 May 15, 2008
I’m blogging from my wife’s ThinkPad now because lately there’s something weird going on with my LCD monitor. Whenever I switch on my PC, sometimes my LCD monitor fails to power up. Everything else is fine. It’s especially annoying when I’m in a rush and need to get a few things done on the PC. The [...]
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• Hook up multiple HDMI devices to the TV

 May 15, 2008
When you have a DVD player, Playstation 3 and cable TV connecting to a high-def TV with a single HDMI input, you have a problem. How do you connect them devices to the TV simultaneously? That’s when you need to hop out and look for HDMI switches. A HDMI switch looks like a multiple router [...]
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• A new high that feels really low

 May 13, 2008
Goodness! I’ve just reached a new high! No! no … NO! It’s not what it sounds like. To be precise, the weighing scale reached a new high and the problem is … it has ME ON IT! How did I manage to put on 20 pounds in less than year! Inactivity probably is the biggest culprit. [...]
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• What I’ll do with my next bonus

 May 7, 2008
Never a day goes by I don’t regret not maxing out the RAM in my computer. My AMD Sempron box uses DDR1 sticks and I’ve got 512MB x 2 which makes it 1GB. One gigabyte of RAM was enough three years ago. Then again I was only photoshopping pictures downloaded from a 4 megapixel digital [...]
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• Vinyl instead of wooden shutters

 May 7, 2008
My in-laws house underwent some minor work to repair some old wooden shutters. 15 years of rain and shine took it’s toll on them. The shutters are barely usable and if not repaired, it might just break apart when you least expect it. Instead of replacing the wooden shutters with wooden ones again, they used [...]
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• A business startup that didn’t come through

 May 1, 2008
You know, years ago I’ve thought about starting a business that does open captioning, closed captioning, webcast captioning, video subtitles or DVD subtitles. From transcription to encoding, anything that has to do with subtitling. My friend and I shared the same enthusiasm but we lack follow through. We couldn’t find the right people for the [...]
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