Mars and Venus are now friends.

I saw something funny on my Facebook news feed today and had to share:

Can you see it?

Apparently Mars and Venus are now friends.

Melody Ehsani jewellery

I am loving these gun designed rings and necklaces from Melody Ehsani (click for more designs and prices).

 

All images are from nitrolicious.com

Poor doggy

P.S.: I don't like Apple iPhones.

The Playstation 4

No, it's not the official Playstation 4, but nevertheless, it's gorgeous! I'm not much a gamer myself (my hand-eye coordination is nonexistent), but WOW!!! I want one!

Designed by Tai Chiem (click for more designs and pictures).

 

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. Gorgeous!

Look of the day 7/10/09

The Mad Hatter

Hard and shiny on the outside, soft and sweet on the inside :P

Champagne and glass slippers

Christian Louboutin has teamed up with Piper Heidsieck, the champagne makers to create the "Le Rituel" boxset. This limited edition luxury set contains a bottle of champagne, and a glass shoe.

In typical Louboutin style, the shoe is sky high, dead sexy, with a red sole. The boxset was inspired by an 1880s ritual where it was considered the ultimate decadence to drink from a lady's slipper.

1880s rituals aside, the shoe is pretty and champagne is always good :)

The boxset will be available from 26 October at Collette in Paris. 

Is it just me, or is anyone else thinking of Cinderella?

Two yobs attack "transvestites" who fought back

When Dean Gardener, 19, and Jason Fender, 22, (the idiots must be named and shamed) chose their victims, they never thought that they might fight back.

The drunk yobs picked on who they thought, in their drunk daze, were two transvestites. They threw abusive words and tried to throw a punch, only to be knocked to the ground -- they had picked on two cage fighters who were dressed up for their friend's stag 'do.

Way to go, dumbarses!

Pics and full story on Dailymail.

Would you want to know if...?

Ladies,

If your boyfriend or husband had a female (attractive or not) make a pass at him (this includes flirting, excessive touching, kissing etc), whether he was attracted to her or not, would you want to know?

Would you want him to 'fess up right after it happened, or would you rather he didn't tell you (and run the risk of hearing from someone else later)? Would you be able to handle the information if he did tell you?

Guys,

Would you hold back information like that from your girlfriends or wives, for whatever reason (you think she won't be able to handle it, she might get jealous, there isn't anything there to tell)?

Or would you 'fess up immediately to clear the air before it blows out of proportion if she found out from someone else?

Note: this did not happen to me, I'm just reflecting on something I heard. More on this later.

To make this easy, just answer the poll on the right :)

Watch!

Photo IDing gone bonkers

I have had only one incident (outside of bars and clubs) where I have been asked to prove my age. I was doing a midnight shop and spotted Bailey's going for cheap, so I stuck in my trolley. The cashier stopped me at the till and asked how old I was. I had been joking around and talking to my friends right up until that moment, so she caught me off guard. What was even funnier though, was that for the past few years, I'd stopped counting my age (I'm still 21! :P). So when she asked me, I had to stop and think about it. 

My hesitance made for a bad answer. She didn't believe me. So she asked for ID. Because I hadn't planned to buy any alcohol, I didn't bring any photo ID with my birthdate on it. Well, I was prepared to put the Bailey's back because I didn't need it. It was an impulse buy. We had a little conversation going, but eventually she let me have my Bailey's, but reminded me she was just doing her job, which was fair enough.

Now the whole IDing people for alcohol, cigarettes, knives, cleaning products, etc is getting out of hand. A lady was recently stopped for buying a 5-pack of teaspoons! Honestly. TEASPOONS! Read here.

What did she think the lady was going to do? Brandish her teaspoon as a a weapon unless she got her morning coffee? Grow a brain.

Most embarrasing public breakup?

These makeshift signs were erected overnight along a busy road in New South Wales, Australia.

Poor Jennifer.

Phishing scams

I received this in my inbox:

Lalalalalalame!!! 

I tried not to laugh, because phishing scams are not funny at all. However, did you see the lame attempts they made at trying to convince me that they actually sent this from Maybank? This is the third "Maybank" email sent to me in the month since I've returned home.

First off, Maybank doesn't send me emails. Period. Although something has to be said about the extremely coincidental timing of my receiving 3 phishing scams via email, when there has been something actually going on with my Maybank account... It's impossible for the scammers to know via the internet because I don't do Maybank internet banking. So someone somewhere must've gotten hold of confidential information somehow. 

Anyways, back to the phishing email. 

Their biggest mistakes? The atrocious spelling. You can't get past me with spelling mistakes. Ever. It's just not possible. I can and will shame you, irksome retards! I've even lost respect for these scammers! LOL. Not that I had any in the first place, but I think proper spelling is crucial when you're trying to be convincing.

Cheers

 

Some Shine Solar Energy Storage Solution

Wow, this is clever!

Designed by Ming-Ching Hsueh

This is a solar panel designed to look like window curtains/blinds. It has a rechargeable battery pack you can hook to the base. The battery can then be used to charge your electronic gadgets at night.

Solar panels used to be huge and ugly, but this one's actually pretty! Most importantly, it's functional and it helps save the environment :D

You can't get one yet, but you can read more about the Some Shine Solar Energy Storage Solution.

This probably won't work in the UK though, for obvious reasons :P

Cheers

Smell like a Trekkie!

Did you enjoy the Star Trek movie as much as I did? Or more? Was I the only one thinking "OMG Sylar!" everytime Spock @ Zachary Quinto appeared onscreen? :P

If you're a die-hard Trekkie, or knows someone who is, you might like to check this out...

Star Trek Colognes and Perfume! 

Sold on Firebox, these fragrances "boldly go where no scents have gone before".

Cheesy lines aside, the fragrances have received quite good reviews. Check it out here.

I love Firebox for many reasons, one of them being their product information/write ups. With lines like: "Live long and smell great" and "To boldly smell like no one has smelt before", how can you not click here now?

Cheers

La Vie En Rose Magnetic Bra

An otherwise plain and unassuming looking bra has been made "special" by placing a front-opening with a super strong magnet. Presumeably to keep gropers at bay?

They took the bra on a trial run to the streets where men had to try to undo the clasp. Apparently it took a lot of effort, with The Star reporting, "Why did they invent this? Is it supposed to make it easier? ‘Cause it’s not".

I don't know about you, but I find this hilarious. Yes, so what if the magnet is strong? Can you imagine the things that you'd attract to your chest? (And I'm not talking about sleazy members of the opposite sex, although that may happen). Imagine being on a date, sitting down to have your dinner and having the cutlery zipping along in mid-air, as though held by wires and with a loud, metallic clang, stick to your chest for the entire duration of the meal? Nice. You'd probably get extra points for tricks you can do with your body *ahem*.

The secret behind the bra is here, boys (and girls... you don't want to be stuck wearing that until a strapping young man releases you from captivity, do you? Okay, so maybe some of you might...).

Cheers

Guess what this is...

It's a shoe!!! Amazing. It supports the sole and heel, and wraps round the top of the foot.

The shoes are named Mojito and designed by a British Architect named Julian Hakes.

This range of sculptural shoes, although amazing to look at by itself, I doubt would look as nice when worn. The fun part is looking at it and imagining how it would hug the foot. I would definitely love to try them on, though!

Yes, it comes in other colours as well :)

Read DailyMail or check out Dezeen for more details.

Cheers

Kameraflage

Have you heard of Kameraflage? It's an exciting new technology which is bound to take the advertising world by storm. We're constantly inundated with all sorts of advertising in our everyday lives, to the point where for most of us, it's become background noise.

Kameraflage Inc is has come up with a technology for high resolution indoor lightboards. These lightboards are embedded with a secret message that is invisible to the human eye. Right, so what's the point if you can't see it?

Well, the idea is, you take a picture of the lightboard with a camera, and upon tilting the screen, the message "appears". Clever, huh?

Here's a video showing how the Kameraflage effect works:

Now if you consider the fact that the teen masses, not to mention just about everyone owns a camera phone, what this could mean? You'd have people taking a closer look and paying more attention to advertisements, if only to see if they can get any secret messages off it. That means that people will be paying attention to your advertising!

Of course, there are even better ways to improve your advertising campaign, say, by placing different messages in each lightboard, so that they would have to stop and take a picture of each advertisement you place. Or perhaps making a treasure hunt of sorts, placing a secret code only in selected lightboards, and being able to redeem the code for a gift or something exclusive like that. I love exclusive stuff! But you already knew that :P

The Kameraflage website suggests hiding secret web addresses, hidden coupons that can be printed, or clues to solve a mystery within the advertisements.

I think this is awfully clever, considering how we tend to ignore most advertising campaigns nowadays. It makes you stop and look just a little bit harder for something you hope to find, and even if you don't find it, you'd have seen the ad anyway.

That's from the advertisers and marketers point of view. Now what do you, as a consumer, think of this sneaky way of advertising?

Cheers

Chanel Coco Cocoon

What do you make of Lily Allen as the new face of Chanel? Personally, I find Lily rather chavvy, and I thought The Chanel Girl ought to be more groomed, posh and proper. It IS Chanel after all. Or is that just me?

I mean, even if I could afford a Chanel bag (which I can't. Not yet anyway :D), I wouldn't go out and get one and then pair it with just about anything. I mean, it's not a bag you match with grubby jeans and a T-shirt!

Not that Lily Allen does that, but although she cleans up nicely, I don't think she's the right fit for Chanel. I'm not dissing Lily Allen. I like her songs, I like her fine. But not as the face of Chanel. It sort of tarnishes my image of Chanel.  

Lily Allen aside, I am loving the whole Breakfast at Tiffany's Holly Golightly look. Done in classic Chanel style and gorgeous black and white.

I especially like this picture, because of the ruffled cuffs! I want!!!

Yes, I know the campaign is for the Coco Cocoon bags, but I need those ruffled cuffs!!

In fact, I need all the ruffled items she's wearing and the tailored jacket that fits like a dream.

Click to check out the Chanel Coco Cocoon campaign for more details and pictures. 

Cheers

The Photo Crasher Squirrel, Emo Bun and the Dramatic Prairie Dog

Remember this? 

This squirrel reminds me of *some people* I know (and adore), who just love crashing other people's photos. 


Anyway, someone has come up with the brilliant Squirrelizer so you can have that cheeky squirrel ruining any picture you want it to! Check it out here.

I had the squirrel crash the picture of Emo Bun.

Isn't Emo Bun The Most Handsome Bunny, ever? If I were a bunny, I'd want to look like that :P

What about that legendary dramatic prairie dog? 

I don't know if they're still available, but the last time I checked, they were still selling 3 of these little rascals in the pet shop in 1 Utama. It's worth popping by just to watch them wrestle each other. It's the funniest thing!

Cheers

 

The Individualist - An Introduction

If you haven't noticed by now, this blog is about individuality, which I strongly approve of and am trying to promote.

I get slightly miffed when I see a group of girls milling around shopping malls or in any public place, all dressed in similar clothing (or even *gasp* the same! clothes), but you know they are not in uniform (unless tiny skirts and tiny tubetops count as uniforms? And no, I wasn't at a Formula 1 race, nor was I at a car show). No, I am not hating on scantily clad girls because I have body envy. They can all wear jeans and T-shirts and I'd still be annoyed because we're all meant to be different! Why would you want to look and dress like someone else?

 Cookie-cutter clones istockphoto©renejansa

Would you not feel horrified if you walked into a posh event and found someone in the same dress as you? I think the vast majority of us would hate that. So why would anyone go out dressed in similar clothes to someone else? And no, when you were a kid, it doesn't count. Yes, you can blame that on your parents' bad judgement.

If you want to know, I don't agree with the whole burkha-wearing thing. No disrespect or anything, but I feel bad for them, having to look like everyone else in burkhas when they're out. How about getting mistaken for someone else? I'm sure that happens a lot. Poor things. I'm aware that they can get burkhas in a really nice, expensive fabric, and some even have pretty details! But what about colour? Is that too much to ask for? I'm all for being conservative, but in this case, it seems like they can't show off their individuality at all (unless you count fabric details)! Anyone out there with experiences or thoughts about this? Leave a comment at the bottom of this post.

Anyway, I digress. Back to the theme.

I picked individualizer.blogspot.com because someone already picked theindividualist.blogspot.com. If you care to, you can pop over to that blog and you'll see that the little gnat has only ONE post. And that was *gasp* 6 years ago!!! =.=

I wanted a name and theme that would reflect on being an individual, so what better name than The Individualist. Individualizer to me sounds like hmm... a machine where you step in et voila! You come out an individual! Yay! So in it's own way, this blog has the intention of providing people everywhere with the motivation (for lack of a better word) to be their own person!

Three cheers for individuality!

I trawled lots of sites to find a theme that suited this blog mission. I wanted a plain, classic (not boring!) theme, with little distractions (I have matured!! I think some would sigh in relief for I have finally let go of most of my love of bling. Imagine trying to read my blog whilst being incessantly visually assaulted by the constant blingature of various gifs and whatnot *phew*). After considering a lot of solid black or white themes, I chanced upon this blog theme by Gisele Jacquenod, and the more I looked at it, the more I liked it. Why?

First of all, you see all those pink flowers at the top? Yeah, they're not the same, but they're all pink! Yes, I know it looks nice and it's meant to be matchy-matchy and all, but hear me out. You see that little yellow birdie? And you see how it looks like it's kind of being snooty and sticking its nose in the air? Well, to me, this totally represents me sticking my nose up at all those cookie-cutter clones that exist everywhere (refer to above pic! And before you whinge that you can't wear anything else to the office, I'd like to say, "YES, you can!" Ask me how). So that's why I chose this theme.

Secondly, I wanted a theme with 3 colums. Again, why you ask? Have you ever been to blogs where you had to scroll all the way down to Antartica and back looking for a link but couldn't find it? Well, I have and I don't like it. Therefore, I decided on a 3-column design, where the number of links will be split on either side of the page, cutting your scrolling time in half! (Your index finger will thank you!) There are not many links at the moment, but if you'd like to be linked, drop me a line at purplemunzter@gmail.com and I'll link you gladly, in exchange for a link on your blog, of course.

What's with the uber cheesy/lousy-excuse-for-a-breakup-reason doing under the header? That, folks, is this blog's motto (my personal one is "There is no box"). Yes, but why?? Because I thought it fit nicely. Yes, it might have started out as a really bad excuse which can only have been thought of by a guy (sexist joke :P), but I'm trying to give it a second life on this blog, by giving it a positive spin.

"It's not you, it's ME."

How this would work in a conversation:
"Why aren't you dressed like me?"
"I'm not dressed like you. I'm dressed like me! I'm being different! I'm special!" :P

Jokes aside, it really just popped into my head and yes it fits, but mostly, I tacked it on because I thought it would be a laugh.

So, who am I? Why do you want to know? No, really. Why do you want to know?

My name is Munz @ purplemunzter and now also known as The Individualist. Yes, I like purple and no, I'm not a monster. Munz is not my given name but I'm considering changing it by deed poll (only joking!). Munz is a twist on my given name, and I got it in highschool and it kind of stuck. I'm not complaining! I have had my share of nicknames growing up (which I may share in a different post. Yay or nay? Leave a comment!) and I've learnt to first ignore them, then I dealt with them. Now I've come to embrace them :)

So yeah, you can call me Munz, purplemunzter, purplemunz, munzter, etc. You can call me anything you want as long as you don't call me in the middle of the night! :P Or anything mean, nasty, irrelevant and uncalled for.

Oops. It looks like I've already started on one of my long essay posts. Right, I better stop here. Check back soon for updates!

Cheers

Welcome to The Individualist @ individualizer.blogspot.com!

Hello and welcome to my brand spanking new blog!

I say brand spanking new because I used to keep a blog (which is old and manky by contrast), but I have since shut it down because I found it too personal...

This new baby right here is going to be an outlet of expression for my likes and dislikes (hopefully not too many of those). Basically, I'll be writing about things that tickle my fancy on a daily basis.

Posts could range from a single-picture-wordless post, to an essay of 1,000 words (hopefully not too many of those, either!). I hope to update this blog at least once a day, so check back often!

Cheers <3