I got my nails done, woo-hoo and just in time for the long weekend too! Like ‘em? Wicked, huh?

No, I didn’t spend hours having my nails painted on at the nail salon. Neither are they press-ons. Guess what? A laser printer did this for me !

As you can see, I have a different floral design on each finger. I’m wierd that way, always the rebel. It’s pretty cool actually, I picked a different .jpg file for each finger and the laser printer did the rest.

You would’ve thought my hand was a freaking sheet of paper being fed into the printer. The printing itself only took a few minutes and voila! I absolutely love this crazy idea !

If you want to have yours done, find out where you can go. Offer is only on this weekend.

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Saturday morning, DH was off at 5:00am to line up for the Playstation 3. Even getting there that early, he was number 70+ in line. Some of the early birds had been camping there for days, wth!

I was happy to be fast asleep in a cozy bed rather than sitting out in the darkness on the cold, hard floor outside 1 Utama. Seems DH is the only one who’s excited about the Playstation 3. My three teens think “it’s lame and overrated”, in their words.

But the least we could do was to bring the man his long-awaited breakfast from McD. We didn’t hang around there very long. The place was smoky and there was nothing happening. I don’t have much patience for geeky events, I’d rather be shopping .

I can’t believe they make people pay the full price for something that’s two years old. That tiny discount is nothing after you factor in all the proprietary stuff the Playstation 3 needs in order to work.

I expect the man will play with it for two weeks tops, then it’ll end up in the storeroom with all the other white elephants *sigh*.

Steev does practically all of his college assignments online. Oftentimes, group projects are also done online though I don’t understand how it is possible to have a ‘real’ discussion without meeting up face-to-face. But I’d best keep those doubts to myself lest I be labelled a dinosaur .

After each person in the project team is done, they’ll pass along their portion of the paper to someone to compile. Steev doesn’t like being that person. It’s not that he hates doing the work, his biggest concern is whether his friends’ files are infected.

Apparently there’s a high incidence of viruses being passed backwards and forwards between students working on common files and documents.

I wonder if the college has any data protection solutions since they’re likely to be hit since the students access the college computers so often. I’m pretty sure their IT department would’ve taken care of that. Still Steev is very careful with what he loads into his laptop.

We’re still waiting for Skye to say, yes, I want my own handphone. But she hasn’t said it yet . She says she doesn’t need one and it’s a hassle to have to take care of it so it doesn’t get lost.

My 3 teens had a shared handphone up until this year when Steev started college and only because he needs to communicate with us about daily transport arrangements.

Before that, we had one handphone for the 3 of them. Whoever was going out somewhere (school activities, friend’s house) would take the phone.

When Steev got his own phone, the girls started sharing the other phone. They still are now. But recently I got my new handphone (see, pretty cool, eh?)…

… so we’ve got a hand-me-down phone for the girls now. My old handphone is also a pocket PC phone so we thought Raine, being older, should get that while Skye takes over the shared handphone.

Skye is 12 and next year, she’ll have more activities and running around to do when she goes to secondary school. I would feel much better if she’s just a call away.

Many of her friends at school have had their own handphones since they were, what, 8 years old?? A handphone at that age is excessive, if you ask me. What do you think? When’s the right time for a kid to get their own handphone?

I have a girl friend who is a doctor and she’s always joking about how she’s the most technologically challenged person I ever met. Of course I know better than that.

I mean she owns a Blackberry and is known to tap away into an online drug guide when we unfairly fire off questions at her about what she would recommend for this and that.

I know doctors hate people to do that especially when they’re in a social setting . It makes them feel like people are trying to freeload medical advice off them when they’re trying to have a good time like everyone else, ya know.

But she knows us, and she’s quite happy to dish out free advice since as she says, free medical software is easily and freely available online these days.

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My first car was a Toyota and I loved that thing. It never gave me any problems and even after years, I’d only changed the tyres and battery but not the Toyota Radiator or any of the major parts.

Well, if I’d needed to look for spare parts, I’d have gone to Radiators.com as they carry a wide range of parts at very affordable pricing.

But here the mechanics will do everything for you. They’ll source the parts and fix everything. I don’t have to lift a finger but then I have to pay the price. I have no control over what they charge me.

Being online as much as we are these days, the biggest challenge seems to be remembering all those passwords I need to log into everything I’m signed up for. Either that or I’m growing old.

Seriously, I think we could all do with a password vault to lock up the ever-growing list of passwords we have to remember.

When I was working in Corporate Tower, we used to have a security administration product like Symark to help us manage stuff like that. I thought that was only because we were dealing with so many computers and users.

Right now as it is, we all know that all we need is one computer and we’re already swarmed with passwords. So either way, if you’re looking at something to keep you sane, you’d want to look at Symark.