of Scorpions & Tarantulas

We saw these at the Myer store. Its cool and disturbing at the same time.


Would you get this for your kid?

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Let's go picnik-ing!

At picnik.com that is. Picnik is an online photo editor which I have been using for quite some time. I was looking for a good photo editor back then and to be honest I can't be bothered with Photoshop. I just wanted a beginner-just-one-click-will-do-the-job editor.

These are the details about the website:

Membership:

-FREE (You do know I won't subscribe or use it unless its free!) but for some reason I'm so tempted to join the Premium *sigh*

OR

-Upgrade to Premium

Features:

Taken from their website

"What can I do with Picnik? Pretty much everything! We've got amazing Edit tools that can fix just about anything that could possibly go wrong with a photograph. Lacking photo-editing prowess? A bunch of our editing tools are one-click fixes, including auto- fix, exposure, colors, and red-eye. And the others, like rotate, crop, resize, and sharpening, can be controlled with easy-to-use sliders. Move over to the Create tab and you'll see our custom-made Effects (most of which have the ability to be painted into just the areas of your image where you want them), an awesome text tool with dozens of fonts, dozens of shapes, including seasonal shapes for holidays and events, and some super customizable frames. Not to mention the touch up tools and new Advanced Editing tools."

Below are just some samples I did using the site:

So, if you're like me, why not?

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Family & Community Day

It's a public holiday today in the Australian Capital. They are celebrating Family & Community day. This holiday started last year and is held on the first Tuesday of November. The idea of this holiday is to foster quality time for workers to spend with their families. Coincidentally today is also the Melbourne Cup Day(Horse Racing).

My family and I went out and it was so quiet. The shops closed earlier than usual and they weren't many people around. We went to this d.i.y shop called Bunnings Warehouse and I saw some of the staffs were actually sitting and watching the Melbourne Cup. I guess they just love horses or betting...hehe.

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Burn!!

I haven't had time to blog lately. I was too caught up with playing Star Wars TFU on the Wii. But after 12hours of playing it(not in one sitting and without using cheat codes), I've am pretty much done with the game. Unless, of course, I have someone to play it with in combat mode.

And now, the fun part. I downloaded the game from Torrent. LoL. Although I disapprove of doing this illegal act *cough* *liar* *cough*, please buy original games kids! During this process I came about and downloaded a burner software called ImgBurn. The software is free and it works great. I was having a bit of a problem burning my image to DVD especially since my image was close to 4.5GB. I have Roxio as my Burner software(which sucks BIG time!) and kept doing errors while burning the dvd. I read a couple of the forums and it suggested that I try this software(ImgBurn) and using a Verbatim dvd.

I tried the software and used a blank Sony dvd-R( yes, i never learn) and the software worked but the disc didn't read too well. It kept jamming my dvd-rom. So I went out and got some Verbatim blank dvds and this solved the problem I was having.

So, if you're sick and tired of using Nero or like me, Roxio, have a go at this software.

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JayJays

JayJays is a local clothes outlet and kind of reminds me of the Giordano outlet back home. Not that I'm a fan of Giordano(especially the one in Kiulap). Anyhow, this shop is decent in terms of price and selection. I especially like it if they're selling those vintage/retro t-shirts. For example they'd have a Transformers t-shirt but it looks kinda faded and the design is really old school.

Total: AUD 30 for 3 shirts.

Once, I even bought a shirt with a pic of Pacman...cool rite??!!

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