Do You Really Want To
February 24th, 2006
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!
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19 Comments Add your own
1. alvin | February 24th, 2006 at 6:56 am
could have tried pulchritudinous.com or comely.com
Right, go open your dictionary.
Now you know how we felt. :-D
2. Johann | February 24th, 2006 at 7:18 am
It looks like they melted in the post? Glad you like them more than godiva, as it costs a tiny fraction of those fine chocolates. You know, the postage cost more than the contents :D Better deliver the next ones myself ;)
3. Jay | February 24th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Opps! Umm…about the digicam, you could get the powershot A520. I have one of those and it’s cheap and awesome. However, it’s a bit of a downgrade when compared to the one you have currently.
4. sieutheng | February 24th, 2006 at 8:48 am
OMG PEANUT BUTTER KITKAT
I WANT :O
5. kristof | February 24th, 2006 at 11:09 am
‘blithely’ sounds kinda cool. blithely. blithely. blithely
6. irinaa | February 24th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
kodak v530. excellent camera, in my opinion. but maybe that’s cos i’m using it :p
7. AbbyC. | February 24th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
COOL!! Kitkat filled wit peanut butter.. wee wee..
hehe.. Casio Exilim are some good stuff… Z3 is good.. the option and image capture speed is superb
8. booha | February 24th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
check out the panasonic’ lumix series? got image stabilizer etc.or stick to ixus.hehe.ixus 55
9. Asyraf Lee | February 24th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Contax i4R
10. lishun | February 24th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
melbourne rocks. i just came back from that place. why wait till june? it’d be so cold then. go in april or something while the weather’s still good.
11. Lalita | February 25th, 2006 at 7:53 am
I can’t believe people do not know what quaint means! Seriously wan??? OMG! And a bigger OMG, OMG, OMG!!! Kit Kat PEANUT BUTTER??? Yummy.
In answer your question, we live in Jolly old England. (I try to keep my extra languages sharp by teaching hubby a word a day - starting with “Your Basic Guide to Scolding - How To Do It In Malay and Tamil”. MUAHAHA!) Although here not so jolly at the moment lah, weather sucks. It’s so freakin’ cold. Back to the Kit Kat, WHY do they not have peanut butter here? What a serious waste.
12. pinkpau | February 25th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
alvin : i know both words! hah! :D
johann : yep they were melted.. but no worries, a couple minutes in the refridgerator did them some good! :) and yes i agree, you should hand-deliver the next batch yourself!!! :D
jay : an upgrade would be nice, my dear!
sieutheng : haha i know you want! i got one more left. wanna? come get from me before i leave :D
kristof : yea i really liked blithely! but some of my friends thought it had a negative-sounding connotation (?!?!) so .. yep
irinaa : will check that one out. thanks!! :D
abbyC : look it up i will :) thank you!
booha : ooh lumix, my friends use that and they like it v much! wah ixus 55? i didnt even know that existed. haha okok will check it out!
asyraf : okie dokie :D hey if you were to recommend dSLR would u recommend the new canon 30d?
lishun : oh haha but i’m going there specifically for winter :D april’s booked for bkk again..!
lalita : hee i believe your husband is in good hands with you :D no worries, the sleet in england will clear up soon enuf, then you can tralala about in the spring warmth! hey yea i wish they had ‘em pb kitkats here too :( do they have em in england?
13. gabrielle | February 25th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
check this out! This is the enhanced version of EX-S500, long battery life (about 300 shots)! It’s ’round RM1,499 in the market.
14. pinkpau | February 26th, 2006 at 12:19 am
wow that does look spiffy! but eh sadly no image stabilizer :( too many n00bs handle my camera for me to have to pass up on that feature..!
15. Lalita | February 26th, 2006 at 6:48 am
Sadly, no PB Kit Kat here. =( Too sad !
16. lishun | February 26th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
my panasonic lumix isn’t too bad. i’m using fx-9. i just have to read the manual to get the most out of it because i find the pics turn out either too dark or overexposed. that’s the main flaw.
17. pinkpau | February 27th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
lalita : i sympathize and emphatize!
lishun : okay got it! :D thanks!
18. quaintly.net » Take&hellip | November 19th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
[...] that’s the thing about Pods - addictive. they’re light enough that you can actually eat a whole lot of them without feeling sick, unlike with other chocolatey snacks. i mean, i popped half the box before i even knew it!! upon realizing i was going to spoil my dinner, i gave the rest of the Pods to my brother. but then snatched it back within minutes. sigh. Australian snacks will be the death of me. the last time it was peanut butter kit kats. then just when i get my fix of that, snail mailed to me courtesy of Johanny once again, those damn kangaroos come up with COOKIE DOUGH KIT KAT. arghghghghghh. [...]
19. Kat Von D&hellip | July 2nd, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Kat Von D…
I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….
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