Feb 02 2014

Chinese Lunar Calendar for your Google Calendar

If you use Google calendar on your browser, you might already know you could put an alternate Chinese Lunar calendar in it, if you don’t know, here is how, go to your browser, Google Calendar->Settings->General->Alternative Calendar->Chinese Calendar-Simplified Chinese, then you will get something like this, the little dates in Chinese on the upper left corner of every rectangle.

Google Calendar Web

Google Calendar Web

but even after you did that, your Google calendar won’t show on your Google Calendar app on your android devices because it just won’t give you an option to show your alternate calendar.  Well, there is a way, you could either import it to your calendar or add by URL.  After trying a few methods, the easiest/best way is probably this, use your web browser and go to this link here and click the “+Google Calendar” button in the lower-right corner to add it to your calendars. By doing this, you will get a little number on each rectangle upper right corner on your Google calendar (browser version)(picture above),  and you will get the little numbers with month and date in each rectangle (app version)(picture below).

SamSung S Planner app

SamSung S Planner app

P.S. tho the screen shot is SamSung S Planner app, but it works the same way as Google Calendar app.

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Jan 29 2014

LOSI 1/24 Micro Brushless Short Course Truck RTR

Really wanted a small scale RC car that has mostly everything a 1/10 has, think about the fun you would have when you are racing small scale RC cars with friends down in the basement or something :-P, so I did some research, looked around a few brands, thought about getting the new LaTrax 1/18 On-Road Rally Car, also looked at HPI 1/18 Micro RS4 and I came across this, LOSI 1/24 Micro Brushless SCT RTR.  Inexpensive ($150), small, 2.4 Ghz control, brushless motor, 4 oiled shocks, 4WD and, full bearings (doesn’t say it on their site but it was because I took it apart :-P).  The size it’s just as big as my hand, speed is pretty fast considered it’s 1/24 scale, and it is ready to run right out of the box.  There are tons of upgrade parts available if you looking to speed this baby up in the future as well, so if you have some spare money for a toy, this is actually not bad 🙂  FYI, LOSI has a Rally version too which uses the same chassis.

LOSI 1/24 Micro Brushless Short Course Truck

LOSI 1/24 Micro Brushless Short Course Truck

On a side note, if you want to do future upgrades or something custom to it, you will probably need a precision screwdriver set because the screws are very tiny 🙂

converted to Rally

converted to Rally

picture added 10 Feb, 2014
all I had to do was to buy another body, bumpers and a back tower for the body clips

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Jan 17 2014

ESTES proto X nano quadcopter

RC quadcopters have been around for a long long time and I really wanted one, so I did some research and found myself a perfect RC quadcopter, a ESTES proto X nano quadcopter, probably the smallest quad in the world.  it uses a 2.4 GHz controller instead of those cheap infrared ones, USB charging, built in gyro, tons of LED lights and it is super small (take a look at the size of it on my Samsung Galaxy S3)!!!  Charging time is about 20 mins and you get about 5-8 mins of play time, with the built in gyro, it is very stable while flying BUT you will probably need some practice first because after all, it is very small in size and IT IS a quadcopter.  I find the controls are very very sensitive but after a few small crashes, flying in a small room is really not a problem at all.  Price wise it’s very affordable, only $40, sadly I had to get it in Mississauga because I couldn’t find it in GTA area.  Anyways, you never know if it would become available everywhere in Toronto soon because it is really a super fun toy to have.  BTW, their official website is estesrockets.com but they dont have this on their site yet, maybe this is too new?!?

ESTES proto X nano quadcopter

ESTES proto X nano quadcopter

P.S.  because it uses 2.4 GHz, you could actually have a few friends flying a few of this at the same time, sounds like fun doesn’t it?  hehe

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Jan 11 2014

The Cheesecake Factory

If you think they serve dessert only, you are very wrong 😛  The Cheesecake Factory, a big chain restaurant you would only find in US, and the one I went to is located inside Walden Galleria Buffalo.  The place was packed with people at all time, there is always a wait time of over 30 mins if you want a table at the dinning area, luckily, we found a table at the bar area so no need to wait 😛  For a restaurant in a mall, this is gigantic, there are entrances from the mall and the outside and this place can probably hold at least 300 people.  I was very surprised when I saw the menu because there were just soo many different varieties of food you can choose from, they also have a skinnylicious menu which delivers a smaller portion of food, and of course, they have a freaking big varieties of dessert as well.  Food was delicious as expected, that’s why the place is always packed right?  So the next time if you are headed to Buffalo shopping, you might want to check this place out because it is a place to remember.  If you just want a little dessert and don’t want to sit in, they do have a take out counter 🙂

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Jan 10 2014

Napoli Ristorante Pizzeria

pictures added 31 Jan 2014

Napoli Ristorante Pizzeria, a very unique Italian restaurant located in Niagara Falls that truly delivers the word Italian and very glad to finally have a taste of this place because it was rated one of the best on tripadvisor
 2013.  The inside of the restaurant is very simple, nothing fancy or anything, the waiters are kind and polite, and their menu is filled with their inexpensive home made style Italian, food was of course amazingly good, not too oily or salty, their dessert choices were very unique and not to mention they also made their own pasta as well which not a lot of restaurants do that.  I would totally recommend this place to any locals and tourists and you won’t regret it 😛

P.S. reservation is recommended because they are always booked 🙂

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