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