Jennifer Aniston - In 2008, Earned USD27 Million

Parade's annual "What People Earn" issued that in 2008 Jennifer Aniston pocketed a cool USD27 million. She bagged the same amount in 2007.

Jennifer Aniston is no match for Jay-Z and Beyonce: The power couple combined for a household income of USD162 million (USD82 million for Jay-Z; USD80 million for Beyonce).

On the other side of the spectrum, comeback queen Britney Spears earned USD2.25 million (must have spent a lot on lawyer fees, huh?). Country-pop princess Taylor Swift earned USD5.5 million.

Tina Fey (One-woman comedy machine) made USD4.6 million, but Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin only reeled in USD125,000.

Other celebrities on the list include Patrick Dempsey (USD3.5 million), Alex Rodriguez (USD34 million) Will Ferrell (USD31 million), Kelly Ripa (USD8 million), and Tiger Woods (USD125 million).

Random boring updates

Bah! I totally need to be more motivated to blog.

But it's not my fault that nothing has been angering me recently! Reminds me of the good old days when Plasticzilla threatened to sue me and jolted me to blog like 10 times a day.

Time really flies doesn't it? Would you believe it... In 2 months' time it would have been one freaking year since she yabbered some rubbish about being very determined to sue!

Now I've got money!!

Come and get it!

Ahem anyway enough about Powdery Plastic Plagiarizers! (I totally made that up isn't it ingenious?! PPP!!!! HAHAHA)

I got good news for YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!

I've finally had enough of lousy compact cameras, and I BOUGHT A SEMI PRO one!

It's the Panasonic Lumix Lx3!!

I bought it for $699 and it's the best 700 bucks I've ever spent!

I've always thought there are your normal digicams and SLRs and nothing in between, but there is!

SLRs were obviously out of the question for me because I won't bother to bring it out since it's so goddamn heavy (and ugly - totally un-zhng-able man).

And I've been complaining about my Canon Ixus for the longest time. Everybody loves Canon and maybe it is indeed the best among the compact cameras, but still... There are limits.

I find that my ixus's flash is way too strong and consistently overexposes close subjects. If I do not turn on the flash, the photo will turn out either too dark or completely blur.

I love taking Macros (close-up shots) but the macro mode does not allow flash and for some reason it is ALWAYS too dark.

It's just annoying lah... For example right, to get that photo of my ulcer, I had to take like seriously at least 30 shots before I could get one that's not blurry.

I HATE it when people help me take photos and they go and shut off the flash simply because everyone looks less harsh without flash. WITHOUT FAIL THE PHOTO WILL BE BLUR.

Or orangey. Very annoying right? What a waste of time!

OMG MAJOR PET PEEVE.

And blurry non-flash shots are so fucking irritating because sometimes the moment just passes you by and all you have left is a photo of indistinct shapes.

Flash shots might be bright and harsh but at least it will ALWAYS be sharp. The rest can be edited by photoshop.

Nonetheless I love that Canon's cameras take really vivid photos. That I have to admit is better than my old Sony compact cameras. (Although admittedly Sony takes better macros lah.)

And for some reason the Powershot E1 I was sponsored (Remember the candy pink camera?) performs much better than the Ixus!

I gave that to Shuyin for her birthday though. I meant to wait till 19th of April to surprise her with it but the stupid woman came to my place and saw the camera box on the shelf and asked me why I chose white for the camera instead of pink.

I tried to patronise her but she kept asking questions so in the end I just gave it to her early. Neh neh!

So anyway back to the Lx3.

I knew I wanted a new camera so I stopped at a camera shop at Far East thinking of getting a Cybershot specifically for macros. I asked and the guy said the model I was looking at is selling for $320.

The next shop I went to said it is selling for $260.

Then I went to Sim Lim.

It was selling for $220. (!)

I said I will think about it and walked away because the storeowner was becoming very aggressive.

He tried to coax me back and said he will sell it to me for $150!!

WTF MAN SERIOUSLY!

How can it be possible can drop from $320 to $150 one?? Less than half price leh! Anyway so cheap I don't want already lor!


I floundered around a bit more and went to more shops irritating store owners by completely not knowing what I want because I didn't do any research and didn't know what kinda cameras there are.

No research because words like "F2.0 2.5x 24mm ultra-wide angle lens" scare me to death. Who the fuck knows what that means?!

Anyway finally this young salesgirl was being nice and patient to me!

Me: "I want a good camera. I don't care about the price but I want something not too big! Do you have anything like that? Like in between SLR and those." I pointed to the mass array of colourful compacts on display.

Actually I have no idea if those cameras are called compacts but I can't be bothered to find out.

She tried to coax me to buy another small Canon camera for a bit until I told her I already have that. -_-

And she finally brought out the Lx3!!

She took a picture of me in the store and I WAS SOLD.

IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!

And best of all it's really not big (about maybe 30% bigger than my canon and amazingly about the same weight) and it comes in silver (besides dull black), which can be zhng-ed!!!

See the lens cap? It can be detached completely from the camera. To prevent you from losing the cap, the camera has two loops for you to thread a string through!

MUAHAHAHA MY "STRING" IS A STRING OF CHIO WHITE PEARLS!

I threaded the pearls with a transparent fishing line!! WOOHOO! I am mega innovative!

I'm now waiting for my diamantes to arrive, and when they do, Imma transform the whole camera into this bimbo looking toy!!

Then after I take the photos people will go like WOW YOUR CAMERA TAKES SUCH GOOD PICTURES!

And I can huff and go like "EXCUSE ME IT IS A SEMI-PRO AND IT COSTS $700 BUCKS OF COURSE TAKES GOOD PICTURES RIGHT! YOU SOUND SO ILL-INFORMED. THAT WILL TEACH YOU TO JUDGE PEOPLE BY THEIR LOOKS!"

Totally hmpf and walk away.


MUAHAHA!


Ahem.

I posted about my purchase on fb and suddenly loads of people were complimenting me on my camera choice and Rozz and another blogger friend Coleman totally has the same camera!

Why didn't anyone tell me about the Lx3 before?!

I fucking LOVE the photos it takes man.

- Non-flash photos are never blur unless the subject is like Pumpkin bouncing around.

- The colours are totally vibrant.

- It can do the depth of field/field of depth thingy.

- It lets me name 2 babies (left blank) and a pet!! I'm serious! It has a doggie mode and you can put in the name of your pet and its birthday!! Everytime I take a photo of Pumpkin her name appears and the camera tells me EXACTLY how old Pumpkin is (down to days)!

She just turned 6 months btw. I won't know if not for the camera. I suppose the people at Panasonic think that people who buy Lx3s all are the sort of people with 2 kids and 1 dog. Just goes to show them - Rozz, Coleman and I all don't have babies hor!!

- Accidents when you try to take an upskirt photo sneakily and the flash comes on, embarrassing you to death? Never gonna happen because you literally have to manually pop the flash up or it will never go.



There are also loads of other good stuff about it lah but it involves talking about ISOs and that makes me slightly nauseous so I am not going to.

This blog entry is so boring!! You think so? Well fuck you! Hahahahaha! I love my camera wheeee!!

Ringo also got herself a swanky camera some time ago and I told her I was thinking of getting a nice camera too. She told me I really should do it and I won't regret it!

Completely true man. Now I look at my old photos in major distaste. They are all so gross and FLAT looking. Is true story.

I took loads of pics with the new camera so hold on for them!

p/s: I am totally singing my own gabbled version of the Korean Nobody song by Wonder Girls as I am blogging. It's stuck in my head. I wanna learn the dance!

p/p/s: Anyone else plays Word Challenge on FB? My high score is almost 63k!! I am totally amazed by my ability to decipher anagrams!!

UPDATE: NOW 71k!!

Best Wedding and Party Gowns and Dresses

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Some of the benefits of investing in gold

Gold is a universal standard for ages so that itself constitutes to be a pro but it is an investment like anything else, it can go up and down. But you can always be assured that Gold will never go out of business and when the United States dollar gets weaker the gold goes up. On the contrary have you realized that just because the dollar is down doesn't mean the price of gold is not over inflated.

So gold investing is like any investment you need to be comfortable with what you are buying.

However getting the hot stock is not necessarily the best thing to invest in, looking at undervalued stocks can make you a healthy profit, especially if you are investing over the long term which is the smartest way to do it.

So here are the pro's and con's of investing in Gold.

Pros:

• Universally accepted traditional store of value.
• Gold will still exist if/when paper dollars and other currencies collapse and also in times of crisis.
  

Cons:

• Gold does not produce income by itself.
• Gold can suddenly lose favor and stay depressed for a long time (but this has rarely been a case in the present age)
  

How to Uninstall Windows 7 easily without any hassles

Many of you might have installed Windows 7 and may have found a few of the features annoying and would like to Uninstall Windows7.

If you previously had Windows XP or Vista exist in another partition and having problem to boot into Windows XP or Vista. Then follow the instructions below to restore your desktop or laptop to boot only XP or Vista and completely remove Windows7

• First insert the windows 7 dvd into your DVD drive.
• Next goto Start > Run in the start menu and type cmd
• If your dvd-ram drive for example is on E: (where the dvd inserted) then type "E:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force" in the DOS window opened by the cmd command.
• Finally Restart the machine
  

This easy procedure will restore to boot only Windows XP or Vista and after you log in you can format/delete windows 7 partition from the computer where you had installed it.

I got a lot of inspiration from my previous article How to Uninstall Windows Vista easily without any hassles. Hope this article too helps.

Easy to use Free iTunes alternative software for Windows Vista

Most of the folks will say that Apple’s iTunes software used for syncing and storing music/videos on your iPod is not a lightweight application - makes your system to run much slower.

I have been installing and testing iTunes release after release for quite sometime and I have noticed that the total over all installation does grow to include several hundred MB of temp files (much like Nero does). First of all, iTunes is a 80MB installable. One may argue that 80 MB is not much of disk space nowadays, but installing software isn’t like storing files. Software registers itself to thousands of places, adds many, many files to many, many different folders. Also, it may add services, which also run in the background, thus perhaps slowing down your computer. 80 MB may also be compressed. It might be much larger when installed and all files are taken in to account.

This is exactly where Free iTunes alternatives come into the picture and Froddle Pod is one such alternative. Froddle Pod is awesome. I was using iTunes and now I’ve tried out this app, I don’t think I’ll be going back to iTunes. Froddle Pod already has heaps of features iTunes doesn’t. I loved the normalization feature, just plugged my iPod in, clicked normalize iPod, went and got a bite to eat and came back to an iPod with completely normalized music. Froddle Pod is definitely worth the download!

It certainly is not as feature rich as iTunes but it has the essential stuff hat you need: It can copy music and videos from and to an iPod which is the most wanted feature for an iPod user. Froddle Pod can also backup and restore all data that is stored on an iPod. Go ahead and give Froddle Pod a spin!!

Does eating Candy really damage your teeth? The truth is here

Most of us believe that eating large amounts of Candy will cause irreparable damage to our teeth, but that assumption is not always true - I'll get into the specific reason in a giffy. But lets get the facts straight before we can dwell on the real implications of candy on our teeth.

It is very true that eating bulk candy leaves behind a lot of sugar in our teeth. And the good old bacteria eat the remnants of sugars and produce acids right in our teeth. These acids are produced by bacteria on breaking the sugars in a process called glycolysis. In this process the bacteria produces energy for themselves and acids which help our teeth decay!!.

Well, that's not it - there is always another problem. It is to do with those bacteria. It can store these sugars found in our tooth for later use, so they can produce the acid any time they'd like to. Well, the answer to this is simple, brush your teeth twice a day at least 2 min per brush with a fluoride containing paste. Now this is very important as it is a good idea to ask the dentist for brushing instructions, believe me its more complicated than it seems. Also floss daily and use a daily mouth rinse if possible.

If you do all these things consistently every day and go to the dentist for a check up once in 6 months or so, the chance that you will have a cavity is largely reduced. Talking about the body, this depends greatly on the amount eaten, your metabolism and amount of exercise you do regularly. I hope all this information was helpful - I had taken my wife over to the dentist last evening for a Root Canal treatment and had a casual chat with the dentist and the conversation opened up all this information.

Also, one more thing which I forgot to mention - when I mentioned sugars I meant white sugar(sucrose), fructose and similar ones. There are other sugars which are helpful for the teeth such as xylitol. So chewing gum with xylitol is great for the teeth, it mechanically cleans the teeth and provokes saliva secretion which reduces the acidity in the mouth!!