What To Do During Forced $$-less Leave

Yeah, economy is bad.
Tauke (Boss) less business, employee less bonus.
Employee less bonus, shop less business.
Shop less business, price less digits.
Oh wait sorry. The price is still the same. And weird enough, food outlets are still packed with people. What recession? where, where? At least it happens in my place.
*rabble rabble*

When you have too much time at home, your fingers start to get itchy. When your fingers start to get itchy, you want to play with something. Then the seal breaks. The forbidden happened. And you bought.

Ta daa.... My very first Gundam modeling kit. As you can see from it short and fat body, its an SD version. Thinking it will be easier for me since its my first. Less parts and bigger parts.

00 Raiser SD - unboxed. So far so good.
*fiddle fiddle* *gasp*

WTH. I thought SD should have bigger parts. This is quite small for me. I not that good with baby unfriendly parts. Here's another one.

Okay. Only two parts. I can handle this. Just make sure I don't sneeze when I put this together.

Next Action Item:
Find a whole bunch of guys to waste money together. BTW this set costs RM37. Its about 3 Starbucks trip only okay...don't say RM37 for a set of plastic is expensive.

Top 10 Best Selling Camera - 3rd April 2009

Another Top 10 Best Selling Cameras from Amazon

1. Canon PowerShot Canon PowerShot SD1100IS 8MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Blue)
Price: $149.95

2. Canon PowerShot Canon PowerShot A590IS 8MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
Price: $109.99

3. Canon PowerShot Canon PowerShot SD770IS 10MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black)
Price: $200.81

4. Canon Powershot Canon Powershot G10 14.7MP Digital Camera with 5x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
Price: $409.99

5. Canon PowerShot Canon PowerShot SD880IS 10MP Digital Camera with 4x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Silver)
Price: $247.95

6. Canon Digital Canon Digital Rebel XSi 12.2 MP Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens (Black)
Price: $679.95

7. Canon Powershot Canon Powershot SX110IS 9MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black)
Price: $189.99

8. Canon Rebel Canon Rebel XS 10.1MP Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens (Black)
Price: $489.00

9. Canon PowerShot Canon PowerShot SD890IS 10MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
Price: $199.95

10. Sony Cybershot Sony Cybershot DSC-S950 10MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom with Super Steady Shot Image Stabilization (Black)
Price: $129.00

11. Canon PowerShot Canon PowerShot SD880IS 10MP Digital Camera with 4x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Gold)
Price: $246.95

12. Nikon D90 Nikon D90 DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED AF-S VR DX Nikkor Zoom Lens
Price: $1,149.00 (Sale)

13. Nikon D40 Nikon D40 6.1MP Digital SLR Camera Kit with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens
Price: $409.95

14. Canon PowerShot Canon PowerShot SX200IS 12 MP Digital Camera with 12x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3.0-inch LCD LCD (Black)
Price: $344.00

15. Canon Powershot Canon Powershot SX10IS 10MP Digital Camera with 20x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
Price: $369.99

Extended the Canon-ising list to Top 15 to reveal Sony and Nikon cams. Hmm I wonder where will Canon T1i '500D' stand in this list.

Peeking back

Looking back to my 2nd most recent post, its posted on the 1st of September 2008. Wow, I'm one big fat slacker.
Let's look at some numbers from the Indices (September 2008 ► March 2009)

Nikkei 12,834 ► 8,236
Hang Seng 20,906 ► 13,456
Singapore ST 2,709 ► 1,673
Topix 1,230 ► 789

Wow.. All main Asian Index shaved off either one digit off, or decreased one, to the first digit that is, not the last. How I wish I still have all my cash before the stock market microwaved it. Microwave is faster than roasting ay?

Another interesting back peeking to my Crude Oil Price per Barrel post.
Crude oil is actually at $50 now, comparing to averagely $120 then. It was actually even lower at $37 few weeks back. Production cut at its best. Anyone going into Crude oil futures?

Cheap vs [$]Better[/$]

Latest Microsoft ad campaign attacks Apple pricing - from Hexus.net

This advertisement is about a girl wanting to get a 17" laptop for $1000. And if she finds one, it will be hers. So she went into a Mac store and found out she can only get a 13" laptop with a budget of $1000. And she later found a HP 17" laptop for only $699.

And from the replies posted by readers, seems that Mac is not having too many fans. One saying Apple laptop uses Seagate's seconds, meaning refurbished? And dodgy Nvidia display chipset with bumps, meaning artifacts?

And some about the resale value being higher, and another replied the percentage of value decrement is actually the same. This is quite interesting. Like a BMW 3series bought at RM200,000 and later sold at RM150,000 comparing to a Persona bought at RM50,000 and later sold at RM37,500. And you say BMW has a higher resale value. Good point mate.

I would slack on the fence for this case.
First, why would ANYONE with a budget goes into a Mac Store, dammit. Only people with spare cash goes to Mac Store Okayy?
Second, I would think carrying a Mac laptop is like driving a BMW/Mercedes/Porsche. You can get any Japanese car for RM120,000 why would you get a RM400,000 car?
Too many ZEROs in bank account, duh. *Lim Peh got too much money, choi meh*. Its the best way show that you are rich. Or taunt a robber to rob you.

Don't get me wrong, I'm the one buying a motorcycle and assembling my own PC, aka Poor Dude.
Morale of the day: Don't go into a Mac Store with a budget. Nah.
Morale of the day: Please know your wallet's limit. Nah.
Morale of the day: This blog is full of nothing-ness okay.. you don't get morales from here. Sheez.

1/3 Rest Day to go - End of day Asian Indices

Was lurking around Bloomberg.com and I came across this "Guess whose wine might appeal to teenage girl" by Richard Vines.
Article - Marc Andrea, head sommelier, young 22 years old, tasting wine. Great summary with 95% compression ratio. A few wines with names I can't pronounce, then this one caught my attention - Chateau Clarke Listrac-Medoc, 2002, France. I think i tried Medoc before. This guy has about 60 words to describe the wine, professionally.
I will say "Dry, Merlot like, more bitterish dry after taste" - 8 words ^_^ UNprofessionally. I just realised that taste can be described as 'oak-y'.

Let's get back to Indices;
Ok, my bad, the wine that will most likely appeal to teenage girl you need?
=Te Mata Gamay Noir, Woodthorpe, 2007 New Zealand=
Andrea for a while thought this is fruit juice ^_^

Indices

Nikkei 12,834 down 238
Hang Seng 20,906 down 355
Singapore ST 2,709 down 29
Topix 1,230 down 24
Looks like all Indices listed here are slightly weaker than 1st trading session.
Crude Oil is still at $116 slightly down from last week at $117. Oil rigs still pumping vigorously despite hurricane risks? The black Gold now costs more than Mineral or Drinking water. Some life your car has ay?

Source: Bloomberg