Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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Way back in July (whoa, that seems like a lifetime ago 
), I told y’all I got myself a new toy and that I needed time to play with it first before I can tell you what I think about it… so you too can run out and grab one!! Remember?
Yes, so this is it. My new, now semi-new, iPAQ Business Navigator, the best darned thing ever… as far as I’m concerned.
… better, slicker, faster than that silly, oh-so-clumsy iPhone DH has. Blek!! Yes, we have 2 camps in our family - the Apple haters (aka my 3 kids + me = 4!) and the Apple polisher (aka DH).
So you tell me, who’s gonna win when it comes to buying pocket PCs? By the way, we only have one cell phone which Skye (my 12yo) is currently using. The rest of us have pocket PCs.
Okay, back to my iPAQ. I love that it’s black, very professional-looking, no-nonsense and being somewhat of a tomboy myself, I find black looks rather masculine.
This new iPaq has everything my old iPaq (which Raine, my 15yo is using right now) had + more, including a much louder ringing volume, a huge screen (gotta love that), a keypad which was missing from my old iPaq and a 3 megapixel camera that takes great quality shots.
Functionality-wise, it keeps me on my toes with my
- schedules of when I’m having coffee with my friends
- alarms to remind me to pick up my kids and pay the bills
- grocery lists coming out my ears
- music playlist for my gym workouts
- games to keep me occupied while waiting for my kids at school
- and basically whatever else a fullblown PC can do.
So I’m one happer camper *whistles a happy tune*.
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
I was excited at the prospect of going to watch Star Wars. I’ve watched almost every Star Wars movie that was ever released.
So quite obviously, I was excited about seeing the familiar faces of Hans Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca again. My heart sank when I found out that this Star Wars is an animated movie.
Seeing that we got free tickets, I had to swallow my disappointment. Okay, I thought I’d be seeing an animated version of the old familiar Star Wars.
Well, some of the old characters are still there like Jedi, Obiwan Kenobi and the 2 loveable robots, R2D2 and C3PO.
The strapping Anakin (er, where’s Luke and how are they related?) Skywalker is forced to take on a padawan (aka apprentice), name of Ahsoka Tano, at the height of the Clone Wars.
The two are somehow caught out and ordered to rescue Stinko the Huttlett, son of Jabba the Hutt who’s been kidnapped by Lord Dooku.
The fighting sequences are reminiscent of the other Star Wars movies I’ve watched before. As for this movie itself, I’m not sure what to say except that I enjoyed the popcorn and hotdog .
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
We got free tickets to watch Wall-E, short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth something-or-other last weekend. Kids think this would be a cute movie to watch.
Wall-E, as you probably know by now, is a garbage-collecting robot that’s trying to clean up the Earth that mankind has messed up.
The filthy environment left behind by man is one heck of a job for a single robot but Wall-E, with only a little roach for companionship, is working hard day and night.
One day, Eve, a huge spaceship lands and drops off a female robot by the name of Eve to look for possible signs that Earth may still be inhabitable.
Wall-E falls in love with Eve and shows her all his “treasures of trash”, one of which turns out to be the last surviving plant, the very thing Eve has been sent to Earth to find.
Her mission having been accomplished, Eve shuts down and waits to be transported back to space where Earthlings are now living lives of absolute inactivity and obesity.
When the spaceship lands again, Wall-E, not wishing to be separated from his lady love, hitches a ride into space.
Yeah, it’s a movie with an environmental message. There’s not much dialog though so you have to figure most of it out yourself. Maybe a bit obscure for young kids to understand. But hey, you could use this movie to open up a discussion with your kids about saving the environment.
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