Let travel~

November 17, 2007 at 5:47 pm (Uncategorized)

Woohoo!! My new passport is here already. It took me around 1hr ++ to get it. When i took my queue number, it stated that there are 322 people waiting. Anyways, it different from the previous ones that i have. It has an electronic card as big as the passport and the new passport has it’s own identity. No longer your NRIC number. Let’s not venture into that. Anyways, i just got back from home. Wanted to meet yee meng to fix his cpu. In the end when i called him, he just woke up from his sleep ( i think). Since we can’t meet, i went to sim lim myself to look for a decent headphone. And man, i walked up and down the whole building for 3 to 5 times and i cannot find a single decent ones. I decided to walk back to Bugis hoping i can get one there. WEEEEE!!! It’s worse than sim lim. Lol. Getting tired, i called my friend for help. I asked him where is the nearest COURTS i can go since i knew there sure got alot. He than told me that the COURTS are all far away from bugis and suggested that i should go to funan IT mall to search for it. It wasn’t very far so i made my way there walking. Reached and i went to Challenger at the top level of funan. There, i found much more headphones and i saw amenda (4E4) and her bf. Back to choosing the headphones, there are many prices for it. For sennheiser, there’s like ranging from 20+ to 300++. I even saw one that’s made for travelling on plane which cost 300++. After looking over and over again, i got myself a sennheiser which cost 99 bucks. WOOHOO!! I’m broke now. Left that the building and headed home by bus. It took me about 2hrs to reach home which i don’t care since i can use my new headphones and enjoy it. The specs and pictures are below from the sennheiser webpage.

PX 200

General Description

The closed, dynamic, supra-aural PX 200 mini headphones are an ideal choice for mobile audio sources. Their excellent isolation lets you enjoy music without being disturbed or disturbing others. Folded and packed into their rugged transport case, these headphones will accompany you anywhere.

  • Dynamic stereo mini headphones

  • Great for travel and outdoor use with mobile sources such as CD, MD or MP3 players

  • Fold and flip: registered design allows the ear cups to be turned through 90° and fold the headphones closed (headphones will lock in open and closed positions)

  • 1.4 m Kevlar-reinforced OFC copper cable with 3.5 mm stereo jack plug

  • Fits into the shirt pocket: rugged transport case with cord take-up (145 x 75 x 27 mm)

  • Ideal for use in coaches, trains etc.: soft ring ear pads with improved fit and closed ear cups ensure excellent passive attenuation of ambient noise (–15 to –25 dB for frequencies above 1,200 Hz)

  • For all types of modern music: detailed sound reproduction with a slight emphasis on the bass

  • High-resolution sound due to Sennheiser “Duofol” diaphragms with spiral embossing (reduces and spreads eigenforms)

  • Strong Neodymium magnets for extremely low distortion

  • High efficiency and powerful reproduction

  • Adaptive baffle damping (patent pending)

  • Bass tube for powerful, punchy bass

  • Lightweight: only 60 g without cable

  • Comfortable: headband with split padding

  • Rugged and durable: robust steel headband with metal joints, steel-reinforced headband ends, connection to the ear cups tested for durability

  • Easily replaceable ear pads and headband padding (ear cups and headband can be replaced by your dealer)

  • 2-year guarantee

Also Includes

  • 1 transport case

That’s all for today. Feeling tired and hungry.

 Ps. The other time i said i was watching power ranger while waiting, it’s not power ranger but raikendo ( dunno how to spell).

So here comes the word of the day!

aggrandize \uh-GRAN-dyz; AG-ruhn-dyz\, transitive verb:

1. To make great or greater; to enlarge; to increase.
2. To make great or greater in power, rank, reputation, or wealth; — applied to persons, countries, etc.
3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt.

All over the country, trial lawyers and activist judges are locked into an embrace cemented by their mutual contempt for democratic self-government and their desire to aggrandize their own power at its expense.
– Rich Lowry, “The Gore Hard Core”, National Review, November 20, 2000

It looks to me instead that one rising power center . . . is seeking to aggrandize itself by discrediting the principal alternative.
– David Frum, “Diary”, National Review, April 30, 2003

I think that using your public-sector contacts to aggrandize yourself when you leave . . . creates a view that the public sector is for sale.
– Marcy Kaptur, quoted in “Connections and Then Some,” by Greg Schneider, Washington Post, March 16, 2003

These small worlds periodically featured pageants or fetes to aggrandize local despots as they celebrated such occasions as empire-building marriages or the birth of an heir.
– Robert Greskovic, Ballet 101

Aggrandize comes from French agrandir, from Old French, from a-, “to” (from Latin ad-) + grandir, “to grow larger,” from Latin grandire, from grandis, “large.”

restive \RES-tiv\, adjective:

1. Impatient under restriction, delay, coercion, or opposition; resisting control.
2. Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn.

He turned restive at the least attempt at coercion.
– Ouida, Held in Bondage

Broadcasters, along with the commercial gambling industry, have grown increasingly restive under the advertising prohibition.
– Linda Greenhouse, “Justices Strike Down Ban on Casino Gambling Ads”, New York Times, June 15, 1999

The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were to drag him to the gallows became restive, and went back.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II

He proved as ready a scholar as he had been indocile and restive to the pedant who held the office of his tutor.
– William Godwin, Caleb Williams

Restive comes from Medieval French restif, from rester, “to remain,” ultimately from Latin restare, “to stand back, to remain behind,” from re-, “back” + stare, “to stand.”

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for restive

Now i shall serve the videos!!

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