daft punk goes to australia

Somehow, to me, the name Australia has a very womanly feel to it. If I were crazy enough I would name my daughter that.

I was in Australia in December 03. It was great. Went to Sydney to watch fireworks on New Year's Eve. Went to Melbourne to visit one of my super-old-school friends/neighbors. Stayed in Canberra with my mum's sister. To wrap it up shortly. It was an intense family holiday.

And now, I want to go back again this year in December. You know why? Because a pair of my favorite robots are performing there for the last time this year.

Daft Punk

I won't start an obsessive rave about them being one of the pioneers of French house and give you details that were snatched out of Wikipedia. But the fact that the visual/sound combination at these concerts is highly praised by critics just makes me want to be there in person. I've been following their music for three years now and you could say I'm a huge fan of their work.

The Light Pyramid (The colors are amazing)

The last time they had a tour, was in 1997. And Daft Punk said that this performance in Sydney is going to be the last time they use the Light Pyramid!

So I'm super-hyped about them. But let's face the odds. I'm in Canada. Australia isn't exactly near. After a distance calculation from here, my dreams are quite squashed!

Ok, this is the only dream-squash analogy I could find on Google.

Oh, and the distance is 16613 km.
One more sidetrack, from here to Brunei is 14451 km.

A round trip to Sydney departing Saint John on 19 December and leaving Sydney 3 January, costs US$4,000. The concert ticket costs AUS$127. The expenses (hotel/motel, eating, transport, buying CDs, buying spoons for my dad's collection) there are probably going to be AUS$1000.

So all in all that comes to - using today's latest technology and conversion rates; - CDN$5000. That's pretty huge. And in conclusion I doubt that I can go. Hopefully Daft Punk will have another tour sometime.

But does it depress me that I can't go? Actually, no. I somehow woke up feeling rather happy about the way things in my life are going.

So for now I'll just Photoshop them standing next to me.

iWish iHad an iPhone

It's the brand spanking new and revolutionary iPhone. Now everybody wants one. But people in Asia are gonna' have to wait till 2008 for shipments. And don't expect the price to be nice.

I'd only use this as a keychain.

I think I'd have to be re-incarnated 23 times to listen/see all those combinations.

Apple is good for your health, but not your wallet.


Anyway, onto the iPhone.
It's unbelievable technology.
Get this: you can use your two fingers to touch the screen and resize a picture by using a 'pinching' motion. No mobile phone/PDA/smartphone in the market today can do that.

Unbelievable technology indeed.

Some interesting iPhone fan-art.
This one's too colorful. And no noticeable Apple sexiness.


This one looks rather pleasing.


This one looks like someone glued a silver iPod on top of an old Sony Ericsson phone.


Wow. Old-school dial? Nokia's oddly designed 7610? Outdated screen?
I really don't know what to say.

Anyway this is what it really looks like.


And now my latest single:
"iWish iHad an iPhone"

Well I don't really want an iPhone. It'd just be nice to own one.

Maybe some nice person will just randomly go
"Man from Asia, I reward you with an iPhone".

Yes, that'd be nice, although he probably called me 'man' because of my uncontrolled mustache.