Living it BiG

Got that new PSP? That brand new phone? Ever wished for more functionality out of them?  I recently went to an underground gadget mecca (of which I won’t name) with a friend to get his PSP modified.  There were tons of merchants hawking mp3 players that are dead-ringers for ipods, mp4 watches (yes!  a tiny screen on your wrist for divx movies!), brandless digital cameras boasting of megapixels waaaayyy up there, and alas, the illegal console mods ... Read More

There’s just something about StumbleUpon that gets me --- I say, gimme the goods and it fetches something I’d really like. I especially like this comic about the flight attendant's dance.   It reminded me of a classic music box, you know, the one with the steel ballerinas? After quite a few flights, you’d begin to notice, that, if the flight attendant gave a really enthusiastic safety demo, you start feeling even more confident about the flight, compared to, say, a jaded ... Read More

I had this interesting talk with a couple of my friends – we were talking about, how, when as you grow up, a person tends to think in a higher level of abstraction. How, we were both post-appreciative of things that happen to us, good times start seeming like REALLY good times when we look back, maybe even years later. Since I have this fondness for remembering things, it really resonated with me – how the “bad” times in my life could’ve been ... Read More