Marina’s Bloggariffic

Last Saturday, I joined Nicole and Miccheng to the Victoria Concert Hall to listen to the NTU Symphonic Band presenting their yearly concert.

Admittedly, I’m not that used to listening to these types of music. Nevertheless I found myself enjoying the evening. Below is a quick clip of two of the segments that I enjoyed tremendously.

Sojourn 2008 from rinaz on Vimeo

What do you think?

Link :

• NTU Symphonic Band

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• An Evening of Southeast Asian Music and Dance
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Its been about a month now that I’ve been using the eee pc. So far, its been pretty good. It is really handy to have especially while waiting in public. Just yesterday, while waiting for my turn at the customer service, I was so engrossed that I missed my turn! :P

Using Skype with webcam on the eee pc

I’m definitely getting used to it. There is a couple of neat programs that I enjoyed using. In fact, I could touch type with no problems now. The interesting bit is that when I use regular laptops, sometimes the keys seems unfamiliarly large!

It took a lot of hair pulling, but finally I could install Gimp

However, one of the downside is that, once the novelty has worn out, my insatiable mind started to get frustrated at the extreme difficulty in trying to do the simplest things like changing the wallpaper and installing programs in easy mode.

After trying several sites, this thread was the only one that worked for me

Nevertheless, its kind of amazing the responses that I had while using it in public. Many of the people who sees it would be exhilarated by it.

Like some of these people here :D

An engrossed Attilio on the eee pc

A happy Claudia on the eee pc

DK promoting the eee pc

Farinelli holding the eee pc proudly while NTT looks in jealously

CC and Mintea looking good next to the eee pc

Nadnut with the eee pc

It even attracted the attention of a stranger while I was blissfully engrossed between sips of coffee and surfing the net. My womanly instincts noticed someone peering over my way.

It was a man. He was using a subnotebook too – a Kohjinsha. Instantaneously we bonded and spent time postulating about the merits of subnotebooks.

His Kohjinsha and my Eee pc look like siblings!

Moral of the story : Everyone should get a subnotebook because owning one immediately makes you more attractive to the opposite sex.

Links :

• My first look at the eee pc

Disclaimer : I dont work for Asus :P