Rabu, 28 Januari 2009

5 Mins Illusion Challenge

We've all seen stage magicians doing their magic before. Some of them have really long "stories" and others have almost none. However, what is the most number of complete illusions that can be done in 5 mins? Here is Hans Klok to show you.

Sticky Notes

Sticky or Post It notes.. Small pieces of coloured paper which can be stuck anywhere. They can be used as reminders, notes, memos, bookmarks, etc. But have you ever used them for entertainment? LOL. Watch this video. Absolutely fantastic.



EepyBird's Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.

Senin, 26 Januari 2009

New Facebook Account

I finally set up a Facebook account because of Daniel. Keep persuading me to set up one. So I eventually succumbed and just created one last night.

Now I have to go thru the long process of having to customise my profile page. Such a daunting task that I just left it as it is. Until I can muster my courage to move the mouse and tap away on the keyboard, Manfred's Facebook account will just be a big blank page. I did upload my display picture though. Yay! =P

Happy Chinese New Year 2009

Let me start off by wishing one and all a very Happy Chinese New Year 2009!

It's the year of the Ox or bull. So let's grab the bull by its horn and hold on tight for this unpredictable year. May God bless this year and keep all my friends and family safe from harm, healthy and happy.

Just a nice random post here. =)

Sabtu, 17 Januari 2009

New LG Watch Phone

Talk to the hand... literally. LG has recently unveiled a new Watch Phone. Basically, it's a digital wrist watch and a phone combined.

Some features:
- LCD Backlit Colour Touchscreen
- Phone with Touch Keypad
- Built in Speaker
- Built in Microphone
- SMS
- Music Player
- Wrist Watch
- Bluetooth 2.1

*Not a comprehensive list of features but you can read up more about it online.*

I think it's interesting to have a watch double up as a phone. But I wouldn't want to be caught talking to my hand in public whenever a call comes. I can pretty much imagine others looking at you and thinking, "eww, look at that dude, still so childish, trying to be cool and acting as if his watch is a phone". Which also reminds me of Power Rangers, where the rangers communicate with their base via the watch. So stupid. Thankfully the watch phone supports bluetooth so you can connect and talk via a bluetooth headset. However, no-one is going to wear a headset 24/7. So mostly, I may just use a regular phone for calls.

On the plus side, I think having a watch that can blast music is a nice feature. I wouldn't mind having such a device. And yeah, that's about what I can say about this watch phone now. According to LG, it should be for sale later this year. So look out for it.

Meanwhile, here's the demo video for the LG Watch Phone at Consumers Electronic Show 2009 (CES 2009).

New Blog Design

I'm back! With a new blogskin and blog header picture. Was so tired with the last blogskin. It was so green and glaring. Just makes me want to go emo. Lol. That was illogical. So I changed to something simpler and more pleasing to the eye and yet looks elegant.

Well anyway, it's the new year and since my aim in life is to be a media designer, I figure a good way to get my brain to start churning out creativity is to design anything I can, thus for this year, one of my goal will be to create a new blog header at least once a month. If I don't, just shout to me in my tagboard. Lol.

Selasa, 13 Januari 2009

Long Fingers

While I was driving back from camp today, I tuned in to 91.3. Listening to the Married Men chatting on the radio. They started talking about long fingers for men. Apparently, there was a research at some London university about long fingers. And the conclusion was the men with ring fingers longer than their indexes tend to be more financially sound or able to make money or somewhere around that line.. Wow.. I really can't help but wonder how did the researchers ever come to this conclusion. Lol..

Adding on to that, Rod Monteiro made a joke. Here goes: "In Singapore, if you find men who have pinkies (last fingers) longer than all the other fingers, that is the last finger nail has grown so long till it extends over all the other fingers, chances are their noses are very clean."

LOL.