My weekend shopping experience was ‘great’. Great in a way that there was a long queue into the shopping centre’s car park, all free car parks are full and the shopping centre was pack with people buying Christmas presents. It was fine for me because I do not usually go to town centre. However, I would wish that I could stay at home and browse the items online. A few clicks later, I will have the items sent to my home.

Most of the price comparison websites do not show all the online stores that are selling the products that you searched for. For example, when I was looking for my Samsung NC10 netbook, I only got a few stores to compare and Dixons was not in the list. The online stores that were in the list were selling Samsung NC10 in full price excluding delivery. Obviously, not the best price.

ShopWiki is where we need to go. It searches just any stores that you can find on the internet. It does not only give you the best prices but you can find information on the item that you choose. The categories are neatly organized and if you are not able to decide between, say, Playstation 3 or Xbox 360, pop in ShopWiki’s Video Game Consoles category and it will explain from head to toe what a Playstation 3 and an Xbox 360 is.

If you go into the shopping directory, ShopWiki offers lots of guides and ideas when you are shopping for a gift and you can even start your own guide to help others.

As usual, two days without postings especially on weekends. Yeah, I got my netbook already however; I was busy configuring it on Saturday. Now, it is up and running and most of the programs that I am going to use with it are portable programs. I can delete them and reinstall them whenever I want without affecting the system registry. I have also burn a DVD of a modified version of Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5 and soon, I will have it installed into my netbook.

As for Sunday, Mee was not able to get any shift and we went to the town centre to shop. There were lots of people in the Festival Place shopping centre and everyone was carrying loads of shopping bags. We went into TKMaxx and found out that they are charging 4 pence per plastic bag since 4th August 2008. You can imagine how long Mee and I have not gone for shopping in Festival Place.

We had McDonald in the afternoon and Nando’s as dinner. Well, we have not been there for three months in a row. The last time we went there was before I bought my car.

The weather is getting cold towards the weekend. And it is reported that the weather will reach minus 2 degrees on Saturday. Well, that is not bad considering that it was report minus 10 degrees a few days ago. As I mentioned before, the sexy swimwear was out of my colleague’s mind for now but she has something better in mind. She is hoping that her partner will buy her a set of sexy lingerie or more for Christmas present.

As far as I know, not many boyfriends would really accompany their girlfriends to shop at lingerie’s department. Let alone that those boyfriends will go into lingerie’s department alone to buy sexy lingerie as present for their girlfriends. Would your boyfriends do that for you?

As much as I dislike working with tools, I believe that good preparation beforehand will make things work out better. In the market, there are various types of work holding devices that are created to hold different types of material. In fact, these work holding equipment are created precisely in order to avoid any mishap when and after creating the finished products.

Hence, if I ever want to get serious when working with tools while eliminating any fear that I may have, I will need to spend some money in getting the right tools as well as the precise work holding devices.

When I post anything about gadgets in My Ideas 4 You, I try not to talk too much about it because I have All My Reviews. Thus, sometimes it is quite hard avoid duplicate contents when you have more than one blog. I believe that you know what I am going to talk about.

Yeah, it is the Samsung NC10. I read a lot of comments and reviews as well as searching for the latest pictures of Samsung NC10. I really like the design of it and the specifications. Initially, I planned to do a full backup but I guess it is not necessary now because of Samsung Recovery Solution III. And also the CD that comes with it. As expected, Samsung NC10 works well with the preinstalled Windows XP. Gosh, I think I should stop commenting Samsung NC10 right now and leave it to All My Reviews. I have since posted Samsung NC10 – First Impression.

Overall, I am glad that I purchased Samsung NC10 and it does not disappoint me so far. I played around with it last night and was struck by a question that Mee asked. If I use the netbook at home, should I use the battery or power supply? She has the point, though. If I use the netbook with its power supply, I can unplug the battery and thus prolong the battery lifespan.

I used to think that I have wasted a lot of my time during college. I played computer games, snooker and eating supper was definitely one of the activities every night. Well, I am and was still skinny even though I ate almost four meals daily at that time.

If I started blogging much earlier, I could have fully utilized my time as well as learning some extra computer languages such as XML, C#, ASP and the likes. Even so, I never regret. I still know bits and pieces of C#, ASP, HTML, CSS and SQL even though I started late. The most important thing is to know how to improve.

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