Samsung Mp3 Recorder Review

Dear Samsung,


I am penning you this letter not out of grudge. Rather, I need to remind myself as a lowly being from the bottom of the food chain, I can never afford your products.


Your Mp3 recorder sold at around RM200, seems to be reasonable. With a little catch.


In order to transfer sound files to and fro the computer and MP3 recorder, there is the software Emodio attached. Emodio works, only with licenced version of Microsoft Windows. Which means, low-lives who use pirated Windows can never install emodio therefore, end up with an almost useless MP3 recorder.


Unless, these low-lives buy an MP3 recorder with the sole purpose of recording their own voices for the sake of narcissistic pleasure of listening to their own sweet voices.


Assuming a person could be so narcissistic to the point of wanting to hear only his own voice, surely he would prefer to make his voice coming out crystal clear from Winamp...he would still have to cough up another RM500 to buy the Windowns licence.


Ah...Samsung is a henchman of Microsoft. Support Samsung, you are stuffing more $ into Bill Gate's obese wallet.


Yours who almost puke in disgust,

Poverina.

Dear Greg Pritchard,

1. I thought only perverts enjoy watching a castrato sing. How can people tolerate the excruciating pain of cutting one's manhood prior to the era of anesthetics - in the name of music? That, followed by a lifelong indignity of being an incomplete man. I can still recall the scene of wrinkled eunuchs carrying their preserved ahem balls as they were driven out the Forbidden City in "The Last Emperor".


( Uneasy gulp )


Then I discover Vitas.


A prince must have galloped out of fairy tale books on his white horse. However when he sang "Ave Maria". Mamma, I heard the eerie similarity to Alessandro Moreschi no...it's better than Moreschi. It's Farinelli in his prime!


I ain't a dumb blonde who would doubt your manhood. I don't need thick glasses to see that your goatee is genuine. By now we all know you can sing like Freddy Mercury and a castrato can't.


( Smacks forehead in disbelief )


However, I almost thought Vitas was a castrato - he is not hairy, he is not musculine, the feminine facial features and the ethereal high pitch of the Greek mythical Siren.


Until the camera zoomed to his Adam's apple.


0 _ 0 >>>>>>>> So relieved he is "intact".


I ain't a Catholic and I don't fancy stepping into Catholic Churches after reading about "The Bad Popes" and the Inquisition. Well... I might stand a wee bit outside to hear this seraph.



( Does that make me a pervert now? )


Vitas sang for the Olympics in China. His songs in Russian are given Chinese sub-titles, receive rave reviews from the Chinese press. Ah...


$_$


Countertenor + clean cut image + Chinese subtitles = China Market$


2. Well, you might be reluctant to sacrifice that goatee of yours.


There's a countertenor who sells millions of CDs by singing he's a slave of his dirty baby and he'll let her whip him if he misbehaves.


X_X ( Wonder how does his mother take that ? )



I haven't seen him shaved for years.


He doesn't show off his high range that often.


Doesn't matter, he plays piano and he is a great dancer.


Errr I guess THAT infamous wardrobe malfunction turned on girls to buy his CDs.


$ _ $


Countertenor + Unshaven image + Wardrobe malfunction = American Market$


3. Classical countertenors. The only one I like is that Japanese short short guy who plucked his eyebrows.


( Shudders - males plucking their eyebrows with tweezers are freakier than males singing female voices )


A poverina cannot imagine how you will generate that kind of cash to get an education to sing opera. Besides, a poverina doesn't have the chance to fathom the $ in this tight high class niche.


4. Rock Opera ? Freddy Mercury's cool but he reminds everyone of AIDS and it doesn't help to sing like Freddy and looking like Adam Lambert.



Hope to hear more of you,


Muaks~~

An Unforgettable Incident for Nicole

Nicole,

I was growing white hair after reading your essay. Your topic was " An Unforgettable Incident" and you wrote...

*Let me draw a deep breath first*

You wrote about me as a clown in class. Then you dreamed about me. You must have watched a lot of cloud queen cartoons because you saw me with the cloud queen. Some evil character cursed me and turned me into Pegasus, giving you rides in the sky.

*Neigh*

I do appreciate you trying to make an exciting story out of me though I am sure your teacher will mark your essay as " OUT OF TOPIC".


Then the unthinkable happened. Paveet put a dried gecko carcass on your shoulder.


"Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"


Your shriek scared everyone in the class, including me. That effectively lifted the curse and transformed Pegasus into myself again.


True, the gecko mummy reduced you to tears. But poor Maljeev who sat next to you, was so shaken by your scream that he couldn't do simple multiplications and divisions.


Personally I think the gecko was a beautiful preserved artwork though I can also understand your phobia. Without a doubt this is the most unforgettable incident for you and I. I pray that you won't dream of dead geckos tonight.


*Muaks*

Hawaiian in the Filipino Market

Next to the central market in the heart of Kota Kinabalu city is the so-called Filipino market.

I said : "so-called" because I was in the filipino market of Pasay city where I bought straw hat for RM1 and rattan basket for RM20 - hand made and of excellent quality. I should mention a pair of hand made leather sandals in Pampanga cost about RM40. The variety of choices and the filipino charming creativity enthrall even me -a nerd averse to shopping.

The so-called Filipino market here, well, started out as a Filipino market. They don't have the things I mentioned above but at least they used to sell barongs and the pineapple fibre blouses which I love very much. These Filipino blouses have a timeless feminine appeal to me.


Then the market was renovated and the proportion of Moslem vendors increase, and gradually metamorphosized into...


"A market of China glasses", according to Alice.


Coming to think of it, ALL the stalls sell mainly crystal beads threaded into bracelets, necklaces, rings and trinkets reminisce of what they have in Chinese amulet stalls. The vendors tell us that the cheap crystal beads come from China and better ones, from Austria.


I can never understand this crystal beads fad craze. *Yawn*


Alice gazed at a string of seashells, the type many Filipino homes hang in cascades as door partitions. She asked for the price and the reply was RM15. She turned to me and said:


"They have this in Hawaii and they give away a string for FREE."


I grumbled to myself: This woman is so spoiled by garage sale back at home. Will she ever buy anything here? Why don't we just pick up a few of these ugly sompoton key chains and get the heck out here?


She bought a leather hat. The kind that flamenco musicians wear she said but to me, they are cowboy hats. RM20. She needed one to protect her skin cancer.


" This is the most expensive hat. Usually I pay only a dollar."


She wouldn't nag if we were in Pasay.

Unusual Home Remedy for Cough

This is according to Philip.


A friend of his has been coughing for months. He visits doctors and specialists, taking medications - nothing works.

Philip notices one detail: His friend's cough is caused by itchiness in the throat every night.

Philip has an idea.

He gives his friend one pill. The next day, his friend reports the cough is gone like 50%.

So Philip gives his friend a second pill which, gets rid of the cough.

Can you guess what he prescribed?

DE-WORM PILLS.

Philip's theory was : since his friend also feels itchiness at the anus, the worms must have traveled up to the throat and cause itchiness there as well.

He gave the same pills to another lady friend with the same problem and she coughed worms...

Doctors will laugh at this.

Well, if your butt and throat itch at the same time and you eat out most of the time...where cooks don't seem to wash their hands properly after using the toilet...well two de-worm pills only cost around RM14.

How to Watch Movie "Free" Online - Streaming

Incredibly loads of trashy websites on this topic, infected with bugs that kept my norton antivirus on constant alert.

I try to brainstorm with flesh and blood for an effective keyword. Then I read about this 7-year old girly fan who asked Pattinson to bite her.

*Eyes heavanwards - "Mamma! Girls these days..."

I typed: "how to watch twilight online", found info on ehow.com that leads me to tvshack.net

What ehow does not have time to mention, let me add salt add vinegar here ha ha:

Why I prefer streaming to downloading a movie. Last week, my little student told me, " Dad's downloaded bugs from online movies and his computer crashed." Buffering is a pain in the asparagus but I'd rather play safe.

There are 4 alternate links on tvshack.net, each are of different quality and nature of service.

1. zshare.net- blurry brown colour picture quality like muddy water. I skip this.

2. youku.com-better than zshare with chinese subtitles which distract my concentration on the dialogues. Forever buffering.

3. megavideo.com-orignal picture quality. I absolutely have no patience for this buffering business so I went to sleep and was hoping to replay the whole thing in the morning only to find out they don't allow an immediate replay, have to wait another 52 minutes or, I can pay them.

$_$

4. tudou.com-quality=youku minus the annoying subtitles. The buffering is tolerable.
They divide the movie into part 1 and part 2. They chopped the movie at where the twilight couple lay on the beautiful grass looking into each other's eyes. The mushiest moment when both look the hottest. Nice cut.


That's my first free movie online, yay.

The Most Famous Italian Saying, I Bet

"Gallina vecchia fa buon brodo"

An old hen makes good broth. Only this one is mentioned by both commentators and I often read Italians quoting this saying.

I received two versions:

1. L'età non è tutto se la persona è buona.

Age is not all ( there is ) if the person is good.

2. l'interpretazione ormai invalsa per questo proverbio è di natura strettamente sessuale: le donne mature riservano più gradevoli sorprese a letto di quelle giovani. Di solito pronunciato proprio dalle donne mature, in competizione con le più avvenenti donne di giovane età.

I don't know what is "invalsa" so can't figure out the initial part, I think he meant this saying is more of sexual in nature: mature women reserve more surprises in bed than younger ones. Usually this is typical of older women to compete with the more attractive women who are younger in age. Personally I think Italian men love to use this saying to flatter all women. Italianos want to sapu all women young or old.

Cluck!!!!