back to the past 3....

starting from today, mediacorp is showing their repeat broadcasts of the infamous gambling drama..... the unbeatables III...... oh btw it's showing now at 0001 hrs......

haha..... really brings back the memories....

ok goodniteeeeeee.....

back to the past 2....

a few days ago, someone posted a thread in echoloft forum seeking opinions about bookshelf speakers....

while i thought it wasnt worthwhile to join in, the thread made me travel back in time and recollect my experience with some of the memorable mini-monitors .....

like this one....

the venerable acoustic energy AE1......!!

my first encounter with them was around 20 years ago at ultralinear in supreme house....... YES!! SUPREME HOUSE!! can you remember where is this place...??? if you have no idea where supreme house is, well today it is known as park mall......

haha ...... haha.....

back then the AE1 was already an amazing loudspeaker..... my cousin and i had never never experienced any loudspeaker this small that sounded SO BIG...... the BASS produced by the pair of little metal cone woofers was just out of this WORLD..!!

if i remember correctly, ultralinear was the dealer for merlin loudspeakers, michell turntables and krell amplifiers........ and today they are still carrying michell and krell.......

supreme house was also the home for CD acoustic..... and today CD acoustic and ultralinear are at the adelphi..... :)

WOW.....they are really among the few long-lasting players in the industry.........

AHHHH..... time really flies....

some just dun get it

yes some ppl just dun get it

they think we owe them a living, owe them an explanation and what we do must be palatable to their liking

dream on

back to the past for music....

for sunday night's listening, i pulled out a few CDs that i'd not touched for many many years...... so long that i cant even remember when was the last time i cast an eye on them.....

i didnt play these CDs bcos i wasnt too keen on the recording quality...... most of them were harsh and forward sounding .... and i dunno why a few of the recording labels were able to get away with using so much reverb....... it just sucks when u know the producers did not do justice to the artistes.....

especially this one from 裘海正.........

the songs were brilliant and she's such an excellent singner.... but the recording sucked big time......

strangely with the latest setup it sounded pretty ok......... not GOOD but still satisfactory...... which is already a big step ahead as i could not have endured through more than a couple of songs from this album previously.....

the next album that i played was by 许茹芸......... in terms of quality, this CD is significant better than the first....... and i really enjoy the tracks that i chose..... good stuff....

to end the night i have i fed 王傑 into the tray of the CD transport......

all are oldies from my school days..... it was like back to the past......

hmmmmmmm.....

cool little jacket.....

while browsing at the good price centre, i came across this nifty little product......

so what is it? well nothing earth-shaking of course as it is only a transparent shrink-wrap jacket for remote controllers....

if u have the time, go and take a look at those numerous remote controllers u have around the house.......

are they often dusty and oily..???

if u said yes, then u should get this jacket.....

to use it, simply slide over any controller and use a hair dryer to heat and shrink the jacket.......

ok from then on, u need only to clean the jacket.......

beats using a plastic bag which is unsightly ....

the big one bows out...... sayonara sembawang...

the writing was on the wall..... for quite some time in fact

and we all know that sembawang has been having 50% and clear-out sales.....

but i was still kinda surprised to see their store at parkway closed when i walked past last week....

so today's papers confirmed everything and covered abit on their demise and bankruptcy.......

now i feel a little upset over their loss cos i was already buying music at their very first store in sembawang shopping centre back in my secondary school days.... and they have been a big part of my involvement in music and audio for all this while.....

wow, it makes me shudder to realise that it has been SO MANY years........

goodbye sembawang...... sayonara..... you will be missed.....

no more...???

yesterday i went over to leng kee to check out the renault sport R27......... mainly out of curiosity and eagerness to know more of 2.0 NA sports cars....

ALAS, there is no more of this limited edition..........

however, there is one more unit of the R26...... which is the test drive car actually with about 500 km on the clock......

too bad i am not looking at force-fed options......

mind your steps... !!!

oh my oh my...... yes indeed there was a huge downpour yesterday but while i expected that some parts of singapore will continue to be hit by flash floods, it's always a horror if this happens to YOU....

according to the news reports, 10 mins was all it took .....

OUCH..!!