Few weeks ago there was Crocs – The Feel  Good Carnival @ 1 Utama organized by Crocs & MYC magazine.

They were promoting their latest Crocs Band

Emcee Liang was there to host the event

There were various games and prizes to giveaway. One of it is the Guitar Hero booth, top scorer wins a Crocs voucher

Dance performance by Royal Phantom Dance Studio (Fellest Yan)

The main highlight of the event was the various band performances (to suit the brand name – Crocs Band lol)

Kugiran Di Tepi Pantai (Yes, that’s the band’s name lol)

PG165

The Signature

Rosevelt

Car Crash Hearts

and of course, An Honest Mistake

So, that girl in yellow shirt asked…

Are you ready to join the band?

Go get the latest Crocs Band collection at your nearest Crocs concept store! (Buy me one as well please!)

Alternatively, you can visit their Facebook fan page for more info as well: Crocs Malaysia

EwinEe invited us to his CNY open house earlier…

We had ‘nian gao‘ in da house!

Jason Goh, Jonathan Yip, Jason Ong, Bryan Lim, Ewin Ee, Yin Xie, Yvonne Sim, Leonard Chua

Oh btw this is something which you don’t usually do during CNY open house lol.

FREE workout lesson by Ewin Ee’s dad hahah!

You gotta see the collection by both EwinEe and his dad at his house! Impressive!

Chin up FAILED! Muka x boleh blah! Lulz.

Imma start going for gym already! Motivated! But expensive! Anyone wanna sponsor?

Woots EwinEe’s house ‘studio shot’ ahaha!

*All pictures by EwinEe

The world’s first full cinematic screen mobile phone – LG Chocolate BL40

My mum previously used an LG Viewty and i gotta say they had definitely improved a lot in terms of their features as well as design, good job there! But anyhow, i’ll still be giving my own personal opinion regarding the phone.

DESIGN

I love the design – cool glossy jet black, thin, slim and slick finishing! The only thing i despise about the design is the length of the phone. Yes, i know it’s for fitting in the 4 inch full cinematic 21:9 aspect ratio screen thus the elongated design. But i don’t think you could comfortably hold on to the phone with only one hand typing messages or doing something on your phone. Though i think it’s not really a big issue because the phone design itself is already very ‘chio‘! In other words, it’s excusable due to the stunning beauty of the phone design lol.

DISPLAY & USER INTERFACE

It has an unusual 21:9 aspect ratio 4 inch display screen on it. Though the 21:9 ratio is not that popular for phones these days YET, i think it’s very nice, really. Add-on to its S-Class 3D interface, the animation, 3D cube and widget makes the phone looked more ‘chio‘! With the large wide screen on the phone, it makes the icons looked better than any other ordinary touch screen phones. However, there’s always an imperfection. For the phone’s interface, it feels very sluggish at times. After a long period using LG Chocolate BL40, i lost my patience to continue using this phone. If you think Nokia phones are slow, this is slower! Nevertheless, it has definitely improved from their previous phones (my mum’s LG Viewty KU990 is VERY MUCH slower than this phone! hardly tolerable if you’ve used a faster phone before that)

INTERNET BROWSING

Internet browsing experience on the LG Chocolate BL40 wasn’t really up to standard. It’s a pain-in-the-ass when you’re trying to load heavy content websites or those with Flash file on their site – the phone hangs if you’re unlucky! The speed isn’t fast, but it isn’t that slow as well (BUT i realised the browsing speed slows down after long period of web browsing). The only thing that made up for this phone’s internet browsing is the pinch-and-zoom function (but not as smooth as iPhone’s pinch-and-zoom). It also shows website screenshots as bookmark thumbnail instead of just the website title.

MULTIMEDIA

Video playback on LG Chocolate BL40 is really cool with its 4 inch 21:9 wide screen. The 3D gallery (where you see all your photos, videos, etc) is really cool as well. Flicking through the thumbnails on landscape mode with its 3D animation looks really cool. As for the speakers, it’s just… okayyy, that’s it. Good enough if you’re not picky on audio quality lol.

CAMERA

Aha! Here comes the interesting part! Unfortunately i have to say this, the phone camera is disappointing. Even though it’s 5 megapixel packed with Schneider Kreuznach lens and LED flash and what shit i really don’t care, it’s still mediocre for a decent 5MP phone like this. It’s very hard to get a sharp image, the colours are ‘off’, the image noise is seriously worse than my DSLR camera putting on ISO1600!

As if they haven’t gotten enough… Capturing photos are already a pain, recording videos is much worse! Its maximum capture resolution is VGA and the format taken is 3GP! I hate 3GP! It’s a low quality format and you’ll need to convert it to other video format before you could actually edit it on a video editing software. Besides that, the videos taken are blurry (most of the time) and with distant sound. The sound recorded in the video sucks to the max! Sorry LG i have to say this, but it’s the truth! Try watching the video below and experience it yourself!

Bottomline is that the LG Chocolate BL40 is not recommended for those who uses their phone to take pictures/videos frequently.

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Oh well probably my expectations were high, but still… it’s my personal opinion wert. I’m sure you won’t wanna read “wah this phone damn good, this one the best, this one blablablah” biased review right?

Anyway, special mention to LG Malaysia for providing me an LG Chocolate BL40 for review!

Heard of Studio C?

It’s a live music event that has been ongoing since January and will be ending next month.

The likes of Pop Shuvit, Bunkface, One Buck Short, Estranged, and many other local & international bands had performed/will be performing in the regional Studio C event!

Interested? Come for the next one!

It will be at Hard Rock Cafe KL (25th February 2010) featuring…

The Applicants, Disagree and Pesawat

If you think 25th February is too soon, not to worry… Make yourself free on the 6th March 2010 and join us at KL Live, Life Centre KL! (Yes i’ll be there!)

Pop Shuvit, Sundays Record and Moving Units will be playing on that day! As well as…

An Honest Mistake playing as the special guest band of the night!

(Rosevelt, A Ruthless Cleansing, Once Upon A Time There Was A Sausage Named Bob, Azure For Janne will be joining as guest band as well!)

So if you’re interested to join us, let me know/drop me an email/MSN nudge me or something la

See you on 6th March 2010 @ KL Live!

= Studio C =