Google Nexus 4

To buy or not to buy Google Nexus 4, that is the question. I was seriously tempted to spring for this phone yesterday morning.

I went through all the steps. And for people like me located outside the US, that includes a few annoying steps, such as connecting via VPN and updating all my addresses in Google's services to US addresses before I was even allowed to get to the Google Play page.

I went all the way to the last page and just needed to click on that last button. But I ended up not pulling the trigger.

Two reasons:
1. The price.
The phone itself is US$299.00 for the 8gb version and US$349.00 for the 16gb one. It's another US$14 for shipping within the US. So even without the price of the shipping to Singapore, that's more than the magical tax mark of S$400 and this means I'd have to add at least another S$30 in my contribution to the taxman.

2. The long wait
Yesterday morning it was 7-8 weeks for the 8gb and 2-3 weeks for the 16gb. It's now 1 more week of waiting time. 2-3 weeks for the 16gb is acceptable but this combined with the extra US$50, I just opted to keep at it on my iPhone 4 for a while longer.


The Google Nexus 4 sure looks great though. I could just lick it. If only I had been brought up to be a big spender. Or even a moderate spender.

Mangroomer

Holy cow! This just proves you really do learn something everyday.

Saw a picture of this item on Amazon.com and going by the Mangroomer name, I thought maybe this is a pubic hair groomer. At least I knew those existed.

But as you can see from these pictures below, that's not what it is.

Yep, it's a back hair shaver.

That's a new one on me. I guess we don't see these so often in Asia because we just don't have hairy backs like some Westerners do.

Egh! The video further below is hilarious though, especially the guy at 6:19.

US Shipping - Borderless Buys

I wanted to locate the US-shipping service provider that grants some perks to American Express cardholders. But navigating through Amex Singapore's website proved futile.

A quick search on Google and found it: www.borderlessbuys.com.sg, which basically just uses ComGateway but with some added benefits to people like me.

I have never used this service but these perks do seem rather interesting:
- Free upgrades to Express Delivery
- Automatic upgrade to Prime Membership, the highest membership tier offered by comGateway

With all this Black Friday mania going on, maybe I'll get to use them soon.

Who is Mary Kate Olsen dating?

Holy cow. This is so disgusting.

Mary Kate Olsen is dating Olivier Sarkozy, half-brother of Nicolas Sarkozy!

She's 26 and he's 42. But in the picture below, he looks 60 and she looks 10. Does not help that he's holding and kissing her like this. He's no Dad giving a good night kiss to his youngest daughter.

Selena Gomez breaks it off with Justin Bieber

A few days ago, Selena Gomez finally dumped Justin Bieber.

Somehow this took a lot of people by surprise, including members of the press. This really just shows how blind all these people are. Anybody with half a brain should have seen this coming.

Here's a couple of reasons why Selena dumped Bieber.

1. He's gay. Looking at this picture below, can there really be any doubt? She did a flash forward to 5 years from now when most of his female fans will be sick and tired of Bieber, so he will finally have nothing to lose (and only some last gasp attention to gain) by calling a press conference to announce he has always been gay.

2. She got tired of having to look so damn young. She looks about 13 in the picture below and it's all because she had to dress younger to match Bieber's barely-out-of-primary-school looks.

Well she's not 13. She's 20! She'd get many more movie roles if she could afford to look her age.