I was at the mall earlier today for some errands and while passing by Borders I noticed that they had posters up of an e-reader they were launching. Didn’t have time to  check it out but got an email today about it.

Here’s the Kobo reader .. a new competitor to Amazon’s Kindle.

One of the major things that attract me to it is the price point, it’s selling at A$199 and available locally compared to buying Kindle from Amazon’s US website and at a higher price plus shipping. Kindle does have the advantage of more book selection. Hmm, me thinks me likey Kobo haha .. is it worth to get though?

On my birthday, I wasn’t expecting any gifts since we’ve had a lot of expense the past months with a new baby and with E’s school. But when Ichi went to the mall purposely to get me a gift, I started to wonder what he’ll come up with. I was thinking that maybe he’ll buy me some blouses or perfume or if he’ll splurge maybe a wii since he knows that I want that esp with the games that whole family can enjoy. So what did I end up getting for my birthday? a Nintendo DS Lite, the special mario edition and E has been the one putting it to good use haha!

With the weekly catalogues from the stores that we’ve been getting we’ve always seen wii bundles always on offer. And with little boy getting interested in some of the games we’ve been really tempted to get one. I think for now it’s a matter of being able to choose the right bundle at the right price. I think there’s one now that seems like a good deal and with the included games just right for little boy. Hmm, seems I need to take a quick look at the budget now haha!

I mentioned in a previous post about my mum’s birthday that even though it was her birthday it was E that received a present. Actually he got two, one was a space police lego that he has been wanting for a long time (leave it to mamita to buy it for him haha .. lucky for him that it was one of the cheap ones and that it was on sale) and this … a BEN 10 bike. Early Christmas and birthday gift for E. We asked him if he wanted the cars one (which was cheaper) but he really insisted on getting the Ben 10 bike. It’s timely too that it’s nearing summer when we can bring him to the park so he can get lots of practice riding the bike.

Will be off for a while as we move to the new place. I thought we’d have the phone and the connection up and running by next week but as it turns out our current broadband provider put in a wrong address on the new application (we decided to bundle our phone with our current adsl provider) for the phone installation so instead of this saturday the installation would be next week. So that would also mean a delay in our application for the broadband to be relocated. Anyways hope we’ll be back online by the end of next week. Happy valentine’s everyone!

I was thinking for the longest time what to get Ichi for Christmas, was initially wanting to purchase a dslr lens for him but those don’t go cheap and even with the discounts it was still way out of my budget. But I was still determined to get him an accessory for his camera. So this is what I got him, it fit my budget (what little it was from my blogging money) – The Puffer, a pop-up flash diffuser. I ordered it online from one of the local distributors here and got it the day before we went to Canberra to visit friends. Just in time to test it out. I had to make him open his present as soon as he got home from work.

Images from Gary Fong.

Oh and this I like haha! Flash diffuser for point and shoot cams. Size 4 for me please!

Image from Gary Fong.

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Speaking of Christmas, I’m sure our families in Manila are busy preparing for Christmas eve dinners and pre-Christmas gatherings with friends. Hopefully they’re still mindful of their diets so that they won’t have to look into fenphedra or the likes to slim down after the holiday season.

With a lot of people owning digital cameras these days, it’s not surprising that flash memory cards are getting cheaper and cheaper. I saw an ad the other day for a 4GB SD card that went for less than $20. We’ve been planning to get one to add to the 2GB we already have, so that we don’t have to worry about running out of memory for pictures when we’re away for a trip. Too bad the type of memory card for my point and shoot is different for the dslr that Ichi has or else we could just share the cards.

Along with getting a car, this is one gadget that we think we really need to get around. Though having a map will suffice, we thought it better to have a GPS to make life easier. No more trying to figure out how to go from point A to point B, with just a few clicks our little friend will tell us which way to go. Hopefully, the car can be released this weekend .. am soooo looking forward to the road trips to come!

Help vote Manila into the wildcard cities for the Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition. Just go to the monopoly website and vote your favorite 10 cities from a pre-selected list and then vote Manila or any other city not in the list for the wildcard cities. Who knows we may just end up seeing Manila as one of the cities in the world’s first global Monopoly.

Voting for the top 10 cities ends on February 29, 2008 and March 9, 2008 for the wildcard cities.

To E’s godparents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, here’s his wishlist. hahaha!

• Anything Transformers (he’s watched the movie lots of times!!)
• Cars Mack Truck playset
• Cars Mack & McQueen Megabloks
• Additional accessories for his Thomas the Train playset (set, tracks, etc)
• Lego Duplo
• Leap Frog
• educational toys
• bicycle or trike