Winmo again! :)

I've always had an inclination towards PDA phones.
From the O2 Mini (HTC Magician) to Dopod D810 (HTC Trinity 100), they have been my steadfast media companion. The vast library of *ahem* easily accessible software made it very customisable and could play almost every media format out there.
The love affair started when I won a lucky draw in which a Cross pen was the first prize. It had a stylus as one of the options, and my friend made this passing remark, "Now you have to get yourself a PDA". Well, as I had just started working and wanted to reward myself (ok, I did get a Radeon 9800pro with my first paycheck..), I took the plunge.. and never looked back.
(well recently, that same friend also got himself a HTC Touch Diamond 2 too).
Why not the IPhone?
The price..and the fact that you the "3rd-party" library isn't that big. You'll also need to jailbreak it before being able to install anything outside of the Apple App Shop. But I must admit, the interface is way better than WinMo despite all the available shells..but my guess is that it'll catch up soon.
Upgrade
I gave myself some time up to the end of the year before I upgraded my phone, which was getting a little long in the tooth coming to 2.5 years, and the web browsing experience wasn't that great. All the new browsers were slow on this old geezer. Then came along the Samsung Omnia 2 pre-launch promotion which I signed up for.
The phone call came and to my pleasant surprise, was only going for $198! That's a new low for a PDA phone that's is brand new in the market.

So I've got this new toy now..Barney is a content little dino.. :)

I Went, I Saw, I Conquered

BH did the most intensive shopping trip in his life when in the US. Here are the spoils of his victory!


Hmm.. why is there no guy stuff?

Choto...here's something fit for a man:

A gadget of course!

Why so much VS stuff? Well, he rushed to the store an hour before going to airport to catch his flight back to SG. This was inspired by a sign that said "Store closing early at 4pm today to prepare for semi-annual sale tomorrow starting at 7am" at the SOHO outlet he walked past just the day before.

Having found nothing much at the Charlestown mall branch, he decided to give VS a second chance at this sale. When he walked in, he observed that he was the only guy around this early in the store. The sales person gestured for him to take a shopping bag but being the cynic and geh-kiang guy, BH declined.

In less than a minute, BH returned and humbly requested for a shopping bag. At half price or less, how can he resist? :P

Valentine's Day Dinner

This is our first Valentine's Day after getting married. Instead of trying to find seats at packed restaurants or subject ourselves to pricey set meals from which you have little choice, we decided to DIY :D

We have bought 2 packs of Japanese curry from our honeymoon in Japan earlier, and decided to put them to good use. After getting some pork sirloin chops from the nearby Cold Storage at Compasspoint, together with some Nissin panko (breadcrumbs used for deep frying your typical Japanese Katsu pork chops), it's time to experiment!

..and here's the results!

Not too bad! The panko on pork chops tasted like the real thing (better than some chain restaurants if I say so myself).

Hehe.. Post dinner plans - how about slow dancing in the room, followed by an exhilarating ride through the Journey to the Centre of the Earth 3D?

What Wii Got for Barney's Birthday?

2 weekends of Wii playing fun with different groups of friends :)

Aching arms aching arms...