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Now I guess you know I like gadgets being a geek and all, and I always liked the look of the Nokia E61 with it's big screen for surfing...but it was ugly as hell.

Thankfully Nokia updated and came out with the Nokia E61i with a camera (albeit a basic one) and a funky new full metal body which was sexy as hell. I grabbed myself a Nokia E61i back in May last year.

I have to say I've been really happy with the phone, it's tough and it just works. It has been getting a bit sluggish lately but I have filled it up with stuff and it's took a bit of a battering.

So recently Nokia announced a new update to the family, the far sexier and slimmer Nokia E71. It dead leak a fair while before that, but you can never believe those dodgy prototype photos.

The specs are pretty impressive, it has an updated camera (with Autofocus!) and it has GPS, finally I have less excuse to get completely lost now. It's available in Grey Steel and White Steel, I of course opted for the far more manly Grey version...the white one looks a bit Apple-fanboi-ish.

Introducing the Nokia E71.

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I used to play a lot of DoTA, DoTA Classic of course when it was still on RoC. I'm really not into all this new DoTA Allstars nonsense, too much farming, item stacking, and endless gang banging.

The games just take too long over an hour on average, a high level of RoC DoTA took only about 20-25 minutes.

I even have quite a famous page hosting DoTA Classic maps. Back in the days when it was getting big I used to play 22 hours straight in Horus cafe in SS2, I even got up to the level where I was playing in International tournaments online. It was pretty fun and extremely competitive, it sucked playing from Malaysia though when everyone else had 45ms pings and mine was at least 350ms!

That's where tournaments like the WCG or World Cyber Games come in, they level the playing field and everyone can get on a LAN and compete on an even level - then it comes down to pure skills!

It's coming up soon August 15-17th 2008 at Mid Valley.

You can find more info at the Samsung WCG Microsite here:

Samsung WCG

Unfortunatley for me they only play DoTA Allstars nowdays, along with some cool games like FIFA Soccer 2008 and Need For Speed: ProStreet.

Don't forget you can also win some awesome prizes by Challenging the Nuffnang Team and fellow Nuffnangers in Counter-Strike.

Thanks to Samsung, on the 16th of August 2008, there is going to be 8 teams of Nuffnang Bloggers pitched against each other in an elimination based tournament for Counterstrike!!

Oreos are actually a fairly new phenomenon for me as we don't really have them in the UK, they are something I only saw on US sitcoms and in movies and wondered what they actually tasted like.

Thankfully they actually have Oreos over here in Malaysia so I could try them out!

Now you get to publish your own Oreo and Milk moment for a new contest! This is a Global contest and the medium is Video!

The contest is held on Youtube so you can check out the current entries, vote, and upload your own at this special Youtube URL:

http://www.youtube.com/oreo

The awesome part is the winner’s video will be featured on the YouTube Home Page on or about August 26, 2008!

The deadline for Submission is 11:59 pm ET on August 10, 2008.

Think your video could use some music? Download the Oreo jingle song HERE.

You can check some of their favourite moments here:

So get filming, make your own, upload it and make Malaysia proud!

The terms are as follows:

• Your submission must be YOUR original work!
• All Submissions should include Oreo Cookies and Milk.
• Everyone in the video must have given their permisions
• Please be respectful of the Oreo Cookie (they aren't to be eaten by animals).
• 1 entry per person only.
• Please avoid having any items or clothing with logos in your video.
• If your submission includes music be sure it is your own composition or the Oreo Jingle.

Full rules and regulations are here.

The official website is here:

http://www.nabiscoworld.com/oreo/moments/

Ok so what have a lot of people been doing lately when they should be doing other important stuff like blogging? They've been playing this addictive flash game...till they get hand cramps.

The game is called "FlipFlop" Flippy....and it's infuriatingly addictive - especially when you are trying to beat someone else's score.

I was so happy after spending quite some time playing when I beat KY's score of 12,750 by getting 12,900 I went back to his blog to comment....but he'd updated! With 13,350 - I was gutted.

I kept playing though....and eventually got 14,100! Yay I beat it. I still can't break 15,000 though.

I almost double that noob Timothy Tiah though with his pathetic score of 7,200. Even Wong Wen Qi beat him with a reasonable 10,800!

It's actually quite a strategic game, you have to think about your tactics and gameplan...it seems terribly simple at first but it's not.

Quite a lot of it is down to luck too, how many big fishes swim through and the timing of the electric eels and what they block you from fishing out.

It's super frustrating when you have a record breaking score with about 20 seconds left...then the final 20 seconds is just filled with eels and you can't fish anything out!

You can actually win prizes playing the game if you get into the hall of fame but you need to be a Hong Leong Online user. For every 2 bill payments you make you are eligible for one entry to the contest.

Hong Leong Online is now one of the most recognised banks in Malaysia as they're quite smart in their marketing. They've even arranged this Made of Honor event where the people with top scores will be invited to their 8 course dinner at JW Marriot and a free screening of the movie.

Do try out "FlipFlop" Flippy here:

"FlipFlop" Flippy

And let me know in the comments what you can get...without cheating of course Anything over 11,000 is reasonable I think.

Stand a chance to win RM10,000 with the Big Mac Chant Contest!

The Big Mac Chant

“Two All-Beef Patties,
Special Sauce, Lettuce,
Cheese, Pickles, Onions
On A Sesame Seed Bun!”

Here's my effort - Big Mac in the HIZZOUSE!

I do actually really like the Big Mac, it's a nice combo and it's not too rich. Back in the UK we used to have Big Mac eating contests because back in those days you could get vouchers quite frequently that offered 2 Big Macs for £2 which is really rather cheap!

I had one friend that could fit the whole thing in his mouth...I never could as my mouth is rather small hoho.

Anyway what you need to do is take a video of yourself doing the Big Mac Chant and will stand the chance to win RM10,000! The judging is part by popularity (40%) and part by McDonald's judges (60%).

Once you've made the video of yourself doing the Big Mac Chant, upload it to http://www.youtube.com and email the URL of your video and your contact number to the friendly contest master at bigmacchant@nuffnang.com.

Contest is valid only until May 28 2008.

Find out more, view the current entries and stand a chance to win RM10,000 at:

http://www.nuffnang.com.my/bigmacchant

So it came down to the Malaysian Dreamgirl Final 3 for Season 1!

Adeline, Cindy and Hanis - Hanis being the clear public favourite, Adeline seeming to be popular amongst the young Chinese population and Cindy being expected to win due to certain 'outside factors'.

The finale itself was held as part of Fashion on 1 at 1-Utama new-wing Oval, on the main catwalk for the Fashion shows.

I propped myself up on the photographers platform with Kimberly and Mike and my new monopod and got a few shots in.

The stage was set for the MDG Finale in 1-Utama.

There was a pretty decent crowd in and outside.

And the photographers were ready on the platform.

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Hanis - 3rd place *sigh*

Why like that one?

So it'd down to the top 3, I would have liked to seen the top 3 as Hanis, Fiqa and Nadia or Jay. My thoughts and predictions.

3rd - Adeline

I think Adeline has progressed the most, but some of the comments in episode 16 are true. She doesn't seem that driven and she doesn't seem that serious about being a model. I think she'll be great in Chinese Drama/Serial though or adverts for local products/services. She has good features and she has learnt to pose effectively.

For some reason they light her very badly in pictures too, her features are nice they don't need to keep her in half a shadow to make them look sharper.

Sadly due to Cindy's 'family' support I think she will come 3rd.

To vote for ADELINE: SMS to vote, send DREAM 01 to 33001

2nd Cindy

I don't know really why she's in the top 3 unless the rumours about a rich family are true, her catwalk is THE WORST amongst them all. It's not smooth and it's way way too fast. She poses ok and she's quite pretty, I think she'll do well on TV or in commercials if she can be less annoying.

She still has a long way to go if she's serious about this.

To vote for CINDY: SMS to vote, send DREAM 03 to 33001

1st - Hanis

If Hanis doesn't win there's something wrong serious, so vote for her now. She really has it, she has consistently blown me away.

Her photoshoots have been my favourite every week since the second week.

She looked so natural and stylish on the catwalk I couldn't believe it was cute little Hanis, somehow I feel strangely proud of her.

To vote for HANIS: SMS to vote, send DREAM 06 to 33001

The Three who went OUT!

Ringo...let's face it she's not model material and she's frankly too skinny. She was gorgeous last time when she started posing with the cosplay stuff, now....not good.

Jay, she was the best to start with being somewhat more experience than all of the other girls. But she just didn't progress from there, I don't think she's versatile enough or has enough expression to do serious print modeling. She will do well on the catwalk though.

Nadia, she's too fierce and too arrogant. Yes she has a strong look and she works very hard but there's no need to be so competitive and keep rubbing it in everyones face.

The Malaysian Dreamgirl Grand Finale will be held at 1 Utama LG Oval on Tuesday 29th April 2008 at 6.30pm - see you there!

You can find all the related posts here Malaysian Dreamgirl.

Monster.co.uk was a huge hit back in England and always a great resource when looking for jobs. As the Internet took off job sites got larger and larger and they were certainly far easier to use than browsing the newspaper. You can't search the newspaper, or look for jobs in specific areas for example.

In Europe it's actually the largest career site with over 13 million resumes and a new CV is submitted every 12 seconds!

Anyway in January this year Monster has launched the Malaysian version at www.monster.com.my and straight out with some positions from big companies such as HSBC, Tyco, Maxis, Mitsubishi and more. As they already have a pretty strong global brand in the job market it's not too difficult for them to move into Malaysia.

I do wonder how they will compete against Jobstreet and JobsDB which are already well established here and have a strong brand amongst local job seekers.

Seen as though Monster is here now it's good to know about it and there's no harm in using multiple sites to increase your chance of finding a suitable job.

There aren't that many jobs on Monster Malaysia right now, but it's fairly new so it'll take a while to build up some momentum.

I'll be keeping an eye on it anyhow!

So last week Tim called me and asked me if I wanted to go the Dreamhouse! I said yes of course, actually I wanted to go earlier before Jean, Valerie, Natasha and Alison had gone! I went along with Wen Qi and of course the other official blogger for Dreamgirl - Su Ann!

We headed down there this Saturday afternoon and had a chat with the girls, they made some food for us and we started off with Tim telling some stories and talking a lot..normal for him la!

After that we played a game where you have to draw a face on a piece of paper with your eyes closed! Someone else will give the intstructions and the components will go in a random order like fringe then neck, then eyebrows, then lips etc.

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