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Another New Toy

I've got a new toy recently as a Christmas present - an eeePC mini laptop. This is my first ever laptop.

Though I've a desktop with a huge monitor at home, I've been looking around for a mini one that I can carry with me on the go - perhaps sometimes to be used in office for jotting notes and more importantly for use when I'm on trip. During the recently trips to Vietnam and Cambodia, I felt that having a laptop will be really good for writing blog entries and organize my pictures when I'm back to hotel.

To my surprise, I've got an ideal one effortless over Christmas! :)

I spent quite some time during my holiday time to equip the new toy with a slipstreamed WindowsXP + some minimal software applications that I think I'll really need when I'm on the go. And I've bought an additional SD card (it's called SDHC card, to be exact, a new version of SD card with are of higher capacity) as the secondary storage since the new toy only comes with 4GB hard drive - which is definitely not enough. But considering this mini thing is meant for real mobility, I'm very happy with its configuration already.

Just like iPhone in the mobile phone area, this eeePC has become a hot topic in the laptop industry with a lot of newsgroup, websites, forums and people talking about it (i.e. tips and tweaks, ways to upgrade and optimize it ...etc.). I can even see a number of groups already in Facebook!

Labels: christmas, eeePC, facebook, hotel, iphone, laptop, mobile, picture, present, travel, windows

Christmas in the Venetian Macao (Dec 2007)

I visit Macau from time to time but I've never been to the Venetian since it was opened earlier this year. Interesting enough, I was there twice this month.

Taking the opportunity of the Christmas holiday, I booked a room to try out the Venetian on the Christmas Eve. The first impression was that the hotel complex is huge in Macau terms. While I was walking towards the hotel, millions of people marched into the hotel lobby concurrently. I spent over 20 minutes in the queue just to wait for check-in. The room was pretty good, very spacious for 2 people and nicely decorated - though I would love to stay in a higher floor next time.

Everywhere in Macau was decorated for the festive season. But I felt that people in Macau didn't really celebrate the Christmas.

Labels: casino, christmas, macau, venetian

Christmas Party in Office

Today is my last working day in 2006 'cos I'll be taking 3 days annual leave next week making the entire week a relaxing one.

See below photos of a mini-Christmas party in my office today ...