Do You Really Want To

my bandwidth died on me yesterday, so i was blog-less for a day :( but Quaintly.net is back up and running now that i’ve got more money sucked out from me by my webhost, so yay, go me and the commanding power of the Visa card!

i was listening to the RBJ Podcast the other day, and in it Jay mentioned my Vday gift ideas post, BUT pronouncing quaintly.net as quality.net! *shakes fist at Jay* so that, stirred with a couple thousand people having asked me “WTF does quaintly mean??” since the launch of this domain, and mixed with a little bit of indignance on my part, has led to this somewhat didactic section of today’s post.

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Quaintly
adverb of the adjective ‘Quaint’
pronounced kwaint-ly

1. Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way
2. Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange
3. Cleverly made; artful
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i don’t even remember why i picked Quaintly as a domain name in the first place. for the longest time it was either going to be blithely.net or peachiness.net, but even less people knew what the former meant, and the latter tended to get a bit nauseating after being repeated one too many times. so Quaintly it was :) people have asked why not pinkpau.com, but that name very boring lah, so i’ll save it for another time, perhaps when i get too pissed at all the pinkpau impostors (hey really got wan you know) out there!

went for the first run of Actorlympics yesterday with Aira and Waimin, and shit it was side-splitting laughter from beginning till end. i laughed and giggled and chortled like a hyena until i almost died from lack of oxygen intake. i’ll be heading for tomorrow’s showing as well so i hope that i remember to breathe in and breathe out in between laughs otherwise i will be pretty green in the face by the time the weekend is over.

oh oh oh oh guess what came in the mail today for me!!!!!

PEANUT BUTTER KITKATS!!!!!!!!!!!!! LYKE OMG.

all the way from Melbourne, courtesy of my darling old man :D i’m absolutely thrilled cos i LOVE peanut butter anything. we dont get them here in malaysia, so when i heard about ‘em PB kitkats, i was complaining and complaining to the old man about how malaysia never gets the good stuff … and then 2 weeks later i find them on my doorstep!!!! i just polished off a bar, and arghghghgh, they’re even better than Godiva. thanks so much, my future husband :D you always know how to make me smile!

i’m thinking that tentative trip to Melbourne in June has to be confirmed pronto. this peanutbutter kitkat stuff is too good.

and um.. *embarassed shuffling of feet* the tech-n00b that is me has another one of those tech-probs, AGAIN! see, when i was in Kuantan, my camera kinda got rained on cos i was too busy building sandcastles to notice that it was drizzling skyjuice :( i managed to rescue it before the downpours were released, but it’s still kinda wonky now. so i’m thinking i need a new camera before this one disintegrates right before my eyes, leaving me high and dry.

sooooo. *bats eyelashes* does anyone have any good digicam recommendations? *bat bat bat bat*

i’m currently using the Canon Ixus 500 (Powershot 500 to some of you, i believe), which i love. the AiAF is nifty, and i really really like the Quickshot feature which the Ixus 400 did not have. my only gripe is that the flash sucks and always ruins my shots, and when i take pics in natural sunlight the shots come out overexposed more often than not. also, the wide-angle is not nearly .. well, wide enough.

something that’s about the size of the Ixus 500 would be fine - i’m not a stickler for ultra uber super duper micro mini compactedness, so i dont need one of those creditcard cameras or lipstick camera things. anything with image stabilizer and anti-shake features would be great, too!

and dont recommend me dSLRs okay :( i would probably die with one of those, cos i would NOT know how to operate it at all. there’s nothing professional about my photography, so a simple point-and-shoot digicam will work just fine :)

let me know, let me know! flood stupid me with them good recommendations, i beg of you!

19 comments February 24th, 2006