The Child In Me... - Part 1

Presenting my current collections of:
The Takara Tomy range of Transformers action figures....

Wheelie Robot Mode

Soundwave Robot Mode

Skids Robot Mode

Star Scream Robot Mode

Bumble Bee Robot Mode

Optimus Prime Robot Mode (Semi-Side View)

Optimus Prime Robot Mode (Front View)

Voyager Class 'Starscream:
F-22 Raptor' Mode (Front View)

Voyager Class 'Starscream:
F-22 Raptor' Mode (Side View)

Voyager Class 'Bumble Bee:
Camaro Concept' Mode (Front View)

Voyager Class 'Bumble Bee:
Camaro Concept' Mode (Side View)

Leader Class 'Optimus Prime:
Peterbilt 379 Big Rig Truck' Mode (Side View)

Leader Class 'Optimus Prime:
Peterbilt 379 Big Rig Truck' Mode (Side View)

Voyager Class 'Skids:
Chevy Beat Concept' Mode (Side View)

Voyager Class 'Skids:
Chevy Beat Concept' Mode (Side View)

I have pre-ordered a few more items which half of it will only be available to me end of July and the other half end of August ... ranging from Megatron Leader Class, Jet Fire Leader Class, Skids/Mudflap's alternate Ice-Cream Truck Voyager Class, Fallen Voyager Class, and Iron Hide Voyager Class.....

*Mimicking Gollum's voice*
'Myyyyy preciousssssss'


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WD TV HD Media Player Review

There is a new product in town by Western Digital which is the HD Media Player. This jukebox is basically a little black box that allows you to transform (I just seem to love this word lately..) any of your USB drives be it thumb drives or USB hard drives (IDE or SATA) to stream out HD quality videos.

Oh ya, and it also comes bundled together with a small remote control as well....

The wonderful thing about this approximately 125.5mm x 100mm x 40mm black box is that is supports a brilliant range of video playback from MPEG1/2/4, WMV9, AVI (MPEG4, Xvid, AVC) including H.264 codec/X.264 encoder, MKV, MOV (MPEG4, H.264) formats. I have been trying to find a DVD player that can support MKV format for some time and so this little gadget does the job just fine.

Device punya 'front-side' with a hdd beside

Device punya 'back-side

So last night when I reached home after work, I immediately yanked open the box containing this 303 gram dock, powered it up, plugged in my spare 2.5" 120GB IDE HDD, and connected it directly to my room TV using a HDMI cable (Am using a Samsung 32" Series 5 LCD, btw) to see the magic of this little device. Unfortunately I did not have any 1080p videos in hand so I had to settle with the best video file I could find - a copy of the *cough* downloaded *cough* Transformers 1 movie which is only 720p.

Ok, the speed for displaying the contents from my drive was pretty fast plus the output was superbly crisp and crystal clear. I had 2 partitions inside (both NTFS drives) and it managed to display both drives beautifully with the folder names intact. Scrolling was pretty smooth too but since my drive is only 120GB, not sure if it will lag had I used a 1TB drive instead.

The streaming video results were really nice. It did not give me any problems at all and I ended lying on the bed, enjoying the first half of the movie until my husband got home from tennis cringing at the sight of another new gadget I 'lovingly' brought home AGAIN. I told him it was just a testing unit and that I had not bought it just well...yet.... :)

Anyway, I also tried playing other dixv/xvid avi videos and again the results were satisfactory. I even tried playing a few episodes of Korean dramas with SRT subtitles (I had no SUB files to try so too bad, but do take note that this device supposedly supports SRT (UTF-8), SMI, SUB, ASS, SSA)

I even played around with the other features such as music playback using the few formats I could find in my stash - mp3, flac and aac. The only intermittent issue I kept facing was with the Photos/Images playback. Sometimes it can display nicely on the TV (although it was frigging frigging *repeat another 10 times* slow) but more often than not, it acted up on me by only displaying an empty black screen.

Initially I thought it could be due to the motherfucking huge size/resolution of the photos my husband keeps taking on his DSLR camera but even after I tried clicking on a few reasonably small re-sized files, it still failed to display properly. I mean the damn specs of the thing does state that it supposedly supports JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG yada yada... I dunno why, so please do not ask me because this feature is the least of all, a problem for me anyway *shrugs-off*

The few complains I have however, apart from the whacked photos/image display is that it does not support wired or wireless storage network over local area network or internet. It would be a huge plus point if it supported that sort of feature... Also if it had a certain storage built internally say a few hundred gigabytes would come in handy for me to directly transfer over some movies, either from an exernal drive OR over the network, sort of like using ftp or something... and now that, ladies and gentlemen would definitely come in very handy...

Overall, this product is pretty good, easy-to-use and absolutely hassle-free since its' like ultra small. The physical dimension for this advance jukebox is as below:

Height 1.57 Inches
Length 3.94 Inches
Width 4.94 Inches
Weight 0.67 Pounds

Price in the market currently is quite reasonable, around USD129.99 (around RM450.00 to Rm460.00) but latest news I just heard is that the price will be increasing very very soon...

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MJ's death is starting to annoy me...

*Disclaimer: I know I'm prolly gonna get my ass kicked
for posting this but hell I don't care... *

LOOK PEOPLE, I GEDDIT! He's a legend, I KNOW....
I DO LIKE most of his songs too....

...but...It's annoying, really... when the The Legend a.k.a King of Pop himself was still alive and kicking over the last decade or so, nobody gave any shit about him at all. Nobody mentioned his name, I barely heard any radio stations playing any of his old hit songs, nobody went around idolizing him, no promotions or advertisements included him ... None, Nope, Nada, ZILCH...

The only time I actually read anything that even had his name mentioned were scandals and scandals and more scandals... from plastic face to pedophile to wacky-jacko plus other grueling insults...

And then all of a sudden, just overnight, he gets a deadly cardiac arrest and everyone is talking about him, playing his songs over and over and over again, idolizing him, whatsoever like he was everybody's bestest buddy in the whole wide world...



Chronological events today:

• I woke up early in the morning, showered and came upstairs like every normal working day and I got to know the news when I saw 3 sms-es on my mobile. Ok, breaking news indeed....
• I went down for breakfast and my mum started talking about MJ and also Farrah Fawcett's death and before I left the house the news on TV was playing some old music videos of MJ...
• I got into the car, every radio station in the country was mentioning him, how they loved him and his songs, bla bla bla.... ok fine...
• I reached the office and the first thing I hear when I opened the main door was a MJ hit song in the background plus on-going discussions about him... ok nevermind...
• I booted up my laptop, opened my email and I see forwarded emails and news about his death... sigh....
• I logged on to my facebook account and fuckkkkk.... a whopping 99.999% of the statuses updates were about how miserable/how sad/how much they loved MJ... UGHHHHH!

• And I can bet you with my last dollar that this is not the end yet.... :(
  

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You know all these hype reminds me of typical funeral dramas I've seen/witnessed:

Person A and Person B are close relatives/bosom buddies, etc etc. They had a catfight and they's lost contact with each other for a gazillion years. Then one day Person B dies and Person A immediately receives the notice from a fellow relative. Person A rushes to Person B's funeral wake and starts bawling his/her eyes out like there will be no tomorrow..

Person A (In between chocked sobs) : *wails* Why did you leave this world so fast???... *wails*wails*wails*

Person B: *Silence* (Well, obviously since he/she is already dead, remember?)

Person A (Still in between chocked sobs) : Why didn't you wait for me to bid you my final goodbyes????

Person B: *Silence*

....Then to the most classic question....

Person A (Still in between chocked sobs) : Why didn't you tell me earlier that you would be dying????? Did you know how much I loved you........

Person B: *Silence* (probably cursing Person A if he/she could hear)

Ok, boo hooo hooo but enough already la...
*rolls eyes*
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Verdict - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen...

....was fucking AWESOMENESSSSSSSS.... no make that fucking FAN-TA-BU-LOUS! That is if fantabulous is even an actual word.

Anyways... I know everyone anticipated this show to be 'the movie of the year' but I'd say, are you kidding me? It's 'the movie of the decade'!!! I honestly cannot remember ever watching something this entertaining before.

It was soooo good that I previously said Hugh Jackman was damn smokin' hot Wolverine and Star Trek were both awesome too but I tell you, halfway through the movie, if someone were to tap my shoulder and say Hugh Jackman is sitting just beside you, I'd go ..."HUGH-Who? Is he an AUTOBOT? If not shuddup and fuck-off" ...And sadly no... Hugh was NOT sitting beside me at all but rather an equally awe-strucked Kumar was... hehehe...

It was sooo good that I bought a pack of Cheezels and was clutching it throughout the whole movie - completely unopened. Yes, I actually forgot to open it... By the time the movie was over, my cheezels looked like they were ran over and reversed by Optimus Prime himself...

Yea it was thaaaat good...

...from the superb story line to the action-packed scenes to the special effects to the brilliant witty lines to the handsome charismatic robots, to to to the every damn thing about the show...

...Dammit I just can't wait to watch it again this weekend...

*gleefully rubbing both palms together*

P/S: Do you know how much will-power it took me not to post the spoilers here?
...ARGGGHHHH!... Somebody kill me already!!!

PP/S: Michael Bay, you R.A.W.K!!!!
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I guess I am 3 days late....

...but nevertheless,
Happy 1st Birthday to my blogging resurrection...

minus the irony that my posts are getting lesser and lesser :P

Anyway, somebody sent the below ad to me and I think it
contains one of the most brilliant father's day message
e-verrrrrrr!

Hahahaha....

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