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Etymotic Research ER4P

Ok remember when I was rationalizing how getting the EM3s was enough to not get the upper class headphones (e.g. e5c, UE10 pro, ER4P/S)? Well I friggin’ caved! As of tomorrow morning I’m going back to the Norman Audio showroom, to get a pair of Etymotic Research ER4Ps.

These are one of the many “upper class” canalphones I rationalized to be too expensive to invest in (but never did I question their quality), hence settling for the kick-ass FutureSonics EM3s

This has a backstory to it, which of course is a further rationalization of how weak I am when it comes to technolust hahaha. Surprisingly though my mom didn’t question my decision at all… maybe it was because she just bought a digicam for herself without actually knowing what the hell she wanted. We chose for her, and I must say it was a nice Panasonic Lumix (Leica lens) bargain. Anyways, I digress. Read More

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Hola from Singapore

Just wanted to say hi from Singapore. Went on a tour half of the day today (and the whole day, a day ago). I have to be honest and say that Singapore has it’s share of “sites,” but it really isn’t for sight seeing. The aura it exudes is similar to that of Hongkong’s (at least for me) and is better for shopping than for tourism.

Tomorrow however, the fun begins as we have a whole free day and I plan to go to Funan IT center, which also happens to be really close to the Etymotic Research main office in Singapore.

Unfortunately, they don’t have any products on stock at the country at the moment, but I wanna check out what offers they may have even if it means shipping to the Philippines once the stocks get here. After all, Singapore is said to be the electronics heaven as far as price is concerned… and July is sale month here.

That’s it for now… oooooh and I have a treat for those reading the blog: 10 megabytes/30 chapters of utter bliss. Download the zipped PDF (the book title’s initials are the filename, and you’re damn right it is what you think it is!)

I prepped it myself, from an OCR trace to HTML, I thought it would be better to put it in one file, and format it better (bookmarked it too).

It’ll be up for about a week since I don’t want to get into trouble, so snag it while you can.

You ready? Here it is!

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Before I leave…

We’re headed for Singapore this weekend. I’ll be back on Monday.

It’s a bummer I don’t have a camera with me since I plan to just do some sight seeing when I get there (because I focused on shopping the last time I went). But now that I don’t have anything to document it with, I guess I’ll just look for some cool stuff to buy.

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Back from Cebu and random thoughts

Arrrgh! Blog still acting up! So I’ll try not to include any URLs in this post just to be sure I don’t get any errors. The issue should’ve been resolved already but apparently the DBD::mysql module of my server hasn’t been updated yet.

Anways I just came from a trip to Cebu. Second time I visited the place, first was for work and now for a wedding. And what a wedding it was! I’m glad I don’t live in Cebu since this guy really set the bar. I can just imagine all the men there feeling mightily inadequate after hearing about it.

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