Showing posts with label technobabble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technobabble. Show all posts

Apr 19, 2010

The naked, the famous and the video game freak

This is the first weekend in 2 months that I had the opportunity to take leaves, finally... so took the opportunity to plan for a couple of interesting activities on my itinerary for last Saturday and Sunday ( which involves video games and what else - perusing/ window shopping and/or shopping)

I must confess when I was a child I, or probably most of us used to spend hours in front of the TV set playing video games. I once played for so long that my small TV set shut down and couldn't be turned on! How furious my parents were... But somehow over the years my obsession faded - my pastime shifted on computer games (that hobby also dwindled down for some reason... perhaps I was too 'busy' during my student life?)

Anyway Arman had a good job at relieving the past when he bought the tickets to see Video Games Live last night. I had no idea what it was all about- all I knew was it's a show where an orchestra plays the songs from popular video games. I did not anticipate for anything incredibly wonderful initially but boy was I wrong! I was blown away by how well planned the songs and the graphics were. It turned out that Video Games Live was founded by Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall for over than 8 years ago and the show had toured quite a number of countries before Malaysia. As a host Mr Tallarico was witty enough and knew just the exact words to make the audience burst with laughter. Near the end of the show both of Tallarico and Wall even played the guitar on stage!
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Not to mention the Malaysian National Symphony orchestra did a very remarkable job re-intepreting the pieces from various video games. Not bad for a local musical organisation at all. The 'repertoire' (such a big word for this casual show really) was arranged basically chronologically in order - the music from the arcade games of the 80's /early nineties were featured first followed by more current 3-D ones.

I was especially excited in the first phase of the show particularly because I myself (and most of the audience I believe) had the memory of playing the evergreen Tetris / Contra / Mario Bros... I'm sure the frisky melodies of Mario Bros and the Russian folk song in Tetris is playing in your mind right now haha!
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The show was a blast and I had a lot of fun that night. And yes, there was that weird fanatic fan moment when I took picture in front of the show banner...

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Enough rambling about non-fashion topics...And last but not least the dying personal style section! Oh my was excited to dress up a bit for that evening (given that my everyday workwear is obscured by my blood-stained white coat). I wore this ultra crisp Naked and Famous shirt (yes it was so crisp it deserves ultra as the superlative).
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I am pleased to inform you about Naked and Famous, a rather popular Canadian denim label but quite a stranger to most of us here in Malaysia who believe Levi's is the only denim brand worth buying.... Naked and Famous actually specialises in premium denim and shirts, and the fabrics are all imported from Japan. It's no secret that Japan has the most advanced technology in producing high-quality fabrics. I once read that the degree of fabric innovation and research is highly invested in that country, and most European fashion houses wanting to look for the latest hybrid fabrics or organic cotton will source them in Japan. It is even more unbelievable (like any other unexpected Japanese achievements) that not all discoveries of new fabric technology was revealed to the outside fashion world.
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Well not wanting to sound/pretend like I'm a fabric expert I'd just say the shirt is surprisingly well-fitted to my petit frame and the arms are of appropriate length, no less..
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Oh and this is the rad pair of canary yellow Sperry Topsiders that I got a while ago at Buntil.

Have a good Monday everybody!

Dec 4, 2008

Contribute and Edit

Check out this new blog Contributing Editor. As its name implies the blog is the place for people to showcase their talent in professional fashion editorials, aiming solely for menswear. Thanks to this blog I don't have to search all over the place for menswear pics! No, I don't have the moolah to buy all the GQ's or Dazed and Confused's in the world. I'd rather invest my scarce student income in a cheap thrift bargain which cost less than these magazines, thank you.





all images from contributingeditor.blogspot.com

Nov 15, 2008

The experimental game

Recently Mr Najmi has been creative with his photoshop settings and voila! Thanks to him look at what he's done to my fugly backdrop ! No more piles of clothes lying all over the place. No more pain in the eyes. Just pure focus on my outfits! Of course there are more possible ways to enhance the esthtetics of the background, but for the time being this will suffice. Well now I believe how much wonder photo-chopping can create. The possibility is endless!

  • jacket MNG
  • oversized sweater Sisley
  • jeans H&M
  • bag Adidas for Stella McCartney

Nov 1, 2008

Oh no she didn't!

This morning my sister buzzed me through YM. I thought it was going to be our typical conversation about how things are going with our lives etc etc... But this time it's different - she wanted to brag about her new handphone!!! Gosh I thought I won't give a damn as I'm not really into techno and stuff but once I saw the images of the phone, I shat my pants y'all! Lo and behold it's the new Sony Ericsson C902 Titanium Silver - The James Bond Edition!!!






Look at the sleek and simple design of the phone! Me likey!


Ooh aahh.. Mr. Daniel Craig looking haute. Check out the matching colour of his eyes and the box!! Click click for a better view of his gorgeous eyes!

For you techno junkies out there, here are some of the phone specs:

The C902 Cyber-shot is a HSDPA phone featuring a 5.0 megapixel camera with face detection and auto focus in a slimline, stylish body. The C902 Cyber-shot has eight camera touch keys that illuminate in camera-mode, enabling easy camera option selection. The C902 also features a 320×240 pixel 262K TFT QVGA display, 160MB internal memory, picture & video blogging, media browser and Media Manager PC software.

The C902 is based on Sony Ericsson’s Java Platform 8 (JP-8), supporting Mobile Services Architecture (MSA) JSR 248, the next-generation Java umbrella standard. Mobile 3D gaming is enabled by Mascot Capsule v3, Mobile 3D Graphics API (JSR 184) and OpenGL ES API (JSR 239), and boosted by motion sensor access with JSR 256.

Obviously I don't understand the technical jargons but the 5.0 megapixel camera with face detection sounds good enough for me!! Hmm is that all I know about how to buy a good phone? Even I am laughing at myself! Haha!

Quantum of Solace (the latest Bond instalment) will be out in Volgograd theaters next week. Anybody want to join me watch it?

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