Nov 21 2012

Perfect Telephone!!!

I got this vintage design brushed nickel telephone at one of my favourite stores POTTERYBARN, which I wanted to get one a long time ago.  Back in the days, it was only $90ish but it disappeared for quite sometime everywhere, but luckily I found this again, so I totally ignored the price and bought it right away because I know it would complete the look that I wanted for my kitchen corner 😛  Anyways, just wanted to show off one of my best finds and I will keep hunting for more everyday 😀

PB GRAND PHONE from POTTERYBARN

PB GRAND PHONE from POTTERYBARN

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Nov 03 2012

Niagara Falls Weekend 2012

We planned going to this event for sometime because of the 30th Annual CAA opening ceremonies with Disney Winter Festival of Lights at Niagara Falls Ontario.  It was cold and rainy all day Friday but our trip still went on no matter what :p

After our breakfast and 1.5 hrs of driving, we arrived at our first stop, Niagara Parks – Butterfly Conservatory.  Most people know that I hate anything with more than 4 legs, but because I had never been there, I had to take a look inside…  When we first got in, I almost freaked out, seriously…  It was a glass house full of butterflies flying around, so many kinds and different sizes, the biggest one was as big as my hand…  Well, after a few minutes of walking around, it wasn’t as bad as I expected BUT I still can’t stand the fact that sometimes those butterflies would land on your head, arms, legs, etc. …  Anyways, it was a good experience for all of us for sure, it was probably a fairy land for most people but for someone that hate anything with more than 4 legs, umm, I don’t think I will go back :-p

We stayed at Embassy Suite, one of the tallest hotel in Niagara Falls with Falls view, really not bad if you are not afraid of heights :-p  Our dinner was on the 9th floor at the Keg, which also had an amazing view of the falls and food was very good as well.  We were expecting the Grace family to arrive at around 9 but instead, they arrived at  10ish…  Anyways, didn’t really do much that night, went to the bar downstairs with Simon Lam and went to bed after :-p

On to the next day, after having our breakfast at Canada one Factory Outlets, of course shopping time for me, yay!  Didn’t really buy much but we did spend a long time there tho :-p  SkyWheel for Marcus next and we killed sometime there until the time for the Winter Festival of Lights.  It was freaking cold when the event started, I think the temperature must had been about 0º not counting the wind tho but the kids there were soo excited to see Mickey and Minnie and they already forgot about the cold weather…  Anyways, it was a fun experience over all, the shows they provided were a little boring, maybe good for kids but not for me, hehee, fireworks was amazing, extremely close, thumbs up for that 😀

The most horrifying experience was the walk from the event area back up to the eating area.  Like I said, it was really cold, and the walk towards the wind up was horrible…  Anyways, if I even do this again next time, I would be totally prepared I am sure 😀  It must have been like 15 minutes walking but it really felt like 30…  Luckily, with all our toes still attached, we got to Outback, a restaurant that don’t exist any more in Toronto area, don’t really know why but everything there still taste very well :-p  Anyways, I had a great weekend really, the whole trip cost me only $130 with hotel, food and everything, not bad huh?

Tons of facebook pictures here http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151276448875211.515167.689775210&type=1

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Oct 31 2012

Sony Internet Player with Google TV (NSZ-GS7)

Yes yes, another Android device in my house, call me an Android freak :-p, Sony Internet Player with Google TV (NSZ-GS7), something that will let me browse web, watch YouTube and tons of other fun stuff on my TV, not going to talk about the specs and features, just click the link above if you don’t know what it is :-p

I was dying to try out the Bluetooth remote control since it is the main key feature of the whole package.  Touchpad and everything are on the front side, and the keyboard is on the back, when you turn to the keyboard side, the touchpad disables, cool as hell 😀  Overall it’s just another Android device, one thing I didn’t understand tho was when I go to the Google play store, there aren’t a lot of choices like on my tablets and phones, I guess Google restricts a lot of apps for some reasons, especially I couldn’t really find any video players that would play .rmvb, .avi and others…  Well, that’s ok, I am sure someone out there must know how to, I just need to spend a little time to do some research to make it work, hehe.  If you are thinking about getting the most for your TV, this is really not a bad choice 😀

Sony Internet Player with Google TV (NSZ-GS7)

Sony Internet Player with Google TV (NSZ-GS7)

oh oh, I totally forgot to mention, thanks Sony Card for giving it to me free, hehe 😀

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Oct 30 2012

How to import Facebook birthdays to Google Calendar

Do you forget your Facebook friends’ birthdays because you are too lazy to check every time you log on Facebook?  My old Android phone (HTC Raider) used to have a built in contact list that had a Facebook birthdays sync, but my new Samsung Galaxy S3 doesn’t really have any built in apps to sync like the way my HTC does.  And because of that, I had already missed a few friends’ birthdays and had to write belated birthday wishes on their walls…  So decided to do a little research and discovered a very easy way to import Facebook birthdays to Google Calendar since all Android users should already have a Google account.

I definitely have to share this with you all and here’s how.  (Note that I am using Chrome as my browser)

 

Step 1.  Go to your Facebook main page, find and click “Events” on the left side bar (usually under “FAVORITES“)

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Step 2.  Then on your top right hand corner, you should see “Today“, on it’s right side there should be a settings icon.  Click it and a drop-down menu should pop, then select “Export”

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Step 3.  Then you should see a pop up window that says “Export Events and Birthdays“.  right click on “export you friends’ birthdays” and select “Copy link address” to copy the URL

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Step 4.  Now open up your Google calendar on your browser, Look on your left side bar you should find “Other calendars“, click that little arrow on the right side of “Other calendars”  and select “Add by URL”

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Step 5.  An “Add by URL” window should pop up, right click in the URL field and select paste PASTE the webcal URL you copied from facebook. (e.g. webcal://www.facebook.com/ical/b.php?uid=!@#$%^&*&()^$#@54345678832) then click “Add Calendar”

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Step 6.  That’s it, you should see “Friends’ Birthdays” on your calendar list.  Now all you have to do is to make  “Friends’ Birthdays” calendar visible in your Google calendar on your Android phones and Tablets, enable alerts if you want to and you will never miss a birthday again :-p

Step 6

Hope this helps, I found it very very useful on my Android phone since I had been trying different apps that would do similar things but nothing worked the way I wanted.  At the end, I found importing Facebook birthdays to Google Calendar works the best, yay Google Facebook I love you!!! 😀

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Oct 27 2012

Halloween Party 2012

It was an event that we had been waiting for, cosplay time of the year, Halloween Party 2012!!!  It has been a long time since the last gathering event like this, everyone had to dress up for the occasion and had tons of fun.  We decided to have the party this weekend instead of on the actual Halloween day which is the coming Wednesday so we could spend more time to have more fun :-p  Seriously, I think some of us looked even better than their normal looks after they are dressed up in costumes, hehe  and you can tell some costumes really fit their personality perfectly, just take a look at Grace, Emily, Karen, Marcus and some others including me, seems like the costumes really reflect our inner selves to the real world, hahaha.  Anyways, we had a blast, food was amazing, games were fun to play and the fun time/minutes was high 😀  I am sure we will do it again next year since this was a success, thanks Cheryl for setting this event up, and of course a BIG THANKS to Corolla for spending the time to make me a Waldo costume, YAY!!!

a full album on my facebook link here http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151264418350211.513147.689775210&type=1&l=a158541795

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