Monday, August 27, 2007

New Phone and Newly made Headphones!

Ah yes... once again its been a while since my last blog post, and again i've got over 40 pictures for you today haha... not much variety but meh, its something. Photos contributed by the Sony Cybershot and the Sony Ericsson K750i. Yes thats right, K750i and not K700i... well come K700i... ARGH BOTH. -.-

First off, I just saw Hoie Chew off today. He went back to Canada, 16 hour flight lol... i'd hate to be on that flight... And i gotta admit since i'll be here for a while, its sort of getting a tad more sad and lonely seeing him leave and driving my car home alone although i'm used to, just seemed more lonely this time around. Oh well, he'll be back :P

For now, some chewable pictures!

All the photos in here are taken by the SE K750i haha... Its got pretty nifty features. And here's one with chew acting worry like xD


I decided to take one of his family while we were having dinner... Its a nice photo :)


Chewy & Hammy! :D


The Chewable Laptop.


Chewy and Kay Kay haha

Gonna miss you bud :P

The other day as well i went out for a dinner with my more extended family, extended to the extent that i don't even remember 1/2 of their names... ok so its not really their fault but i just didn't bother to remember or i'm just a crappy cousin/ nephew haha xD

The little monsters that were constantly bugging me while i ate.


I had no idea why they decided to hang near me as i didn't really communicate much with them before, more like hardly O_O


Then all of a sudden bucky here decides to come and poke me from behind >_> and thats when his sister decided to pitch in as well lol...


Both very cute kids but annoying ROFL XD


On to the better quality pictures ( Yes, i'm saying you suck u... u... VGA cam thing on my K700i!), My grandma, sister and of coz t3h HaMz donning a red,white and black mercedes shirt ;)


A pic of me taken by my sis haha... Pwning with t3h kossies!


I GOT ATTACKED I TELL YOU XO ITS A GHOST! X_X


OH NOES HE'S PLAYING KISSY KISSY X_X


And t3h blurness lol... : D


Pic of my bro taken with the glory of my K750i ;)


Granmama in her new house! she's still kicking strong ;)


Dad gets us to visit her every week, and yes, she has two houses now o.o


Dumbass & Articulacy


HE WOULDN'T SMILE FOR ME! >_<

This one however, is forever willing to do some Borat action.... VERY NICE!


K700i pic, at Leos in god knows where lol i can't remember... Their ice coffee was REALLY good (Might be even better than Starbucks & Coffee Bean), and it was 1/3 the price at starbucks and coffee bean. The reality of that statement was that Leo's was located with Coffee Bean on its right and Starbucks on its left LOL.


SonicGear Blue Thunder II ;) I saw Blue Thunder 3 the other day and it looked quite awkward in a way but it was a 5.1 so whats to complain haha


Yes yes, of course as usual with every snappy snappy session i take more pics of my dog lol -.- its an infatuation what can i say >_>


He's like a little fox~ he's soooo cute T_T


Ah YES, stealing some work time to take pictures of myself and how i looked like at first day at work lol...


Though it doesn't really show that i was wearing black slacks and looking all suave like... oh well :X


Data Entry was one of my first works... i mosaic-ed more personal details of the person but take a look at this LOL. Name: Hong Hwee Tin, Race: The White Race???? ROFL. I swear that has got to be the funniest thing i've ever seen written in a form xD


Workstation before i cleaned it up :P


And this should've been on top but oh well >_> They plugged me! like the matrix kind of plug! XO O_O lol... Yes, this is me after i regained consciousness after the surgery o.o


And ooh... maybe i didn't mention this but the zipper on my jacket broke so i took it to the tailors and they managed to hook me up a new one ;D


After all, i'm not about to ditch the very jacket bought for me by a few very special girl

-= NEW PHONE SEGMENT =-

Got a new cover for the K700i... was nice blackness, ordered off ebay...


Was quite happy with it and happily installed it when....


OH NOES. WHEN I WAS TAKING IT APART, I ACCIDENTALLY TUGGED THE LCD RIBBON A TAD TOO HARD AND NOW MY SCREEN ONLY DISPLAYS WHITE! It works fine but UGGH... its all white... tried numerous times to fix it up to no avail :(

Went to a repair shop the next day to get a quote on a new LCD and they said it'll cost me RM250 WTF >_> i could get a new phone with that... not only that they said if i chose to repair it i could only trade off the phone for RM100 here so.... wtf? lol >_>

Not only that, checked out what i found when i examined the new casing i got...

Wtf? the aluminium plate came off so easily and a massive crack on the side? O_O


Distorted 'QuickShare' logo? >_>


Cracked plastic below the 'QuickShare' logo? O_O


Another crack below the LCD protective plastic? wtf? >_<>_>

Regardless on getting a new case and all, i still didn't have a phone to use... thats when i took the bold move of swiping the card...


Hence The Sony Ericsson K750i ended up in my possession.


With a stunning 2.0 MegaPixel Camera with Auto-Focus, it was a good deal for me at RM640... Take away the fact its a 2 year old model, its a stunning phone.


It just screamed of "GIVE ME T3H S3x0RS" As i looked at it above the counter lol >_> so i took the plunge...


I actually saw this model back when i was getting my K700i but if i recalled it costed 1.2 or 1.3 ish K back then (thats RM1200 or RM1300 to you guys who have no idea what the last sentence meant)


All these pictures are taken by the K750i itself, and you gotta admit its pretty sex ;P


My K750i's picture taken on its box... No flash in this one i think


This used a soft flash ;)

-= HEADSET MODIFICATIONS SEGMENT =-
Once upon a time, i owned a K700i which was working, and it came with a headset. By some stroke of bad luck, it was left near the hamster cage and somehow it managed to make it out and turn the cabling of the Handsfree for my mobile into some sort of delicious snack. I was henceforth left with nothing short of a screwed up headset. Boo...

That was more than 2-3 years back. I then decided then to try and salvage it by a method i've never threaded into before, which was making it a 3.5mm earphones instead which was taken from my old pair of Altec Lansing headphones which screwed up on a speaker level. O_O

At first, i failed horribly with no one being able to help me, not even my electronics expert Woolford.

It was left to rot and gain dust until i recently learned that the wire coating on the stranded wire needed to be applied some heat to reveal the copper underneath that actually was the one carrying the current, e.g. the music >_>

It was then restarted after i worked on the OTHER screwed up Altec Lansing headset which i'll show you in a while.


Thus this was born. Through a magnitude of soldering attempts, i finally did it. I'm using it now, Sony Ericsson earphones plugged into an mp3 player ;)


Initially i thought it was the fault of the 3.5mm jack but turns out it was working fine haha...


So its resurrection mission began! its outer casing was opened, taken apart and resprayed ;D


And now it shines a glossy black with full pride : D


The headset with just the bottom plastic housing in place. The top suffered massive cracks from my opening back then and now its being rehabitated lol :P


This is the one i was working on before i started with the Sony Ericsson ones. Initially i bought this pair with quiet some high expectations, but after a while i found out that it was seriously flawed... Its variable resistor used was seriously screwed up and you at times didn't get sound out from the headset... boo... So i took an older cheaper headset pair, Somic brand if you must know and since it was blown as well due to one side not kicking any sound, i swapped it around.

To see the original looks of the Altec Lansing, look for the AHS 302i in Google Images haha...You can see in this one the mic on the headset itself is removed, thats because the variable resistor i swapped it with (Volume controller in lame man's terms) Had a better built in mic in it... who would've known the Altec Lansing lost to a cheaper china brand lol >_>

The earpads as well i modified to adapt with the ones used in the Somic pair as it gives this one a bass lift as well as passive noise reduction :)


If you compared you can actually see the noticable differences... this is the older photo with the mic still attached.


And thus, with that, 2 new headsets were born :3 I love toying with stuff hehe...

Now time for sleepy... its 2:34am and i got work that needs me to be up by 6:15... >_> i'm so screwed lol >_<