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Every day when you flip through the newspapers, there would be at least one if not more crime news about somebody being attacked, robbed and more. So much so that there are more and more compact and easy to carry self defense products which are being sold in the market. The first ever self-defense product that I got as a gift was a keychain alarm, which would give out a very loud noise when I push a button on the keychain. Fortunately, I never find the need to use it.

There are other kinds of self-defense keychains that would make a great gift for your loved ones. Pepper spray, electric zapper and even a harmless looking cat keychain.

Look pretty harmless and cute eh? But can you imagine the sort of damage which they can cause if held this way?

You can buy this at plenty of online stores and even on ebay.

Electronic pets has always been fun for me. Though I know they can never replace real live pets, but they are good enough when you want to have a pet and yet don’t need the hassle of caring for a real one.

We’ve heard about virtual pets, electronic pets, and virtual babies. Now you can even own your very own Virtual Emo kid. What are emo kids anyway? I think they are like version 2 of Gothic kids. Those who goes around in all black. Dye their hair black, black nails, black eye shadows and lipstick.

Anyway, you may choose to have either a virtual Emo Boy or an Emo girl. Unlike ordinary online tamagotchi that you need to feed, play with, clean and such, this one you only have to visit. If you do not visit him or her for a day, the depression meter will go up 10%. For every visit you make depression meter goes down 20%.

What will happen if your depression meter goes up to a 100%, you ask? Well, it would commit suicide. Errr, there won’t be any gruesome scenes to see, like finding your emo kid hanging by the neck on the ceiliing when you visit him or her, but just like a tamagotchi or any other virtual pet, I suppose they just die and you just don’t see them anymore. This is fairly new so I suppose they will develop it somehow. More things to do with your emo girl/boy perhaps. Let’s hope so. Check them out at emogochi.eu.

I am going to run along now and go create my own emo girl called alli.

Currently, I am looking for the best bargain I can find for a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop. This would be my first laptop and I am pretty excited about it. Before I decided to get myself one of those nice looking and colourful laptops, I had to read articles on how to choose the right laptop for myself. There are so many brands, models, price range, specifications, etc that I had to consider. After deciding which particular laptop that I would love to own, I still have to look from one online store to another to find the best bargain. So much so that I wished that someone would just save me all the hassle by doing the bargain search for me.

Well actually, there is a website that not only gives plenty of information through well written articles, but also do the unbiased bargain search for you. At shopwiki.com. The website, I believe, is like a cross of wikipedia and a  search engine. When it comes to guides and articles about products, I find it one of the most comprehensive websites out there. You can find guides and tips articles for any kind of product category. From Personal Care products to Tools and Hardwares.

Now, about the bargain search capability. When I keyed in “Dell Inspiron 1525“, the website searched for me the online stores that are offering the laptop  for sale. What’s more, it even list down which website is selling at what price. So you see, this way, you can check out those websites that are offering the laptop at the price range that you have in mind. I find this feature a time saver.

So if you are currently looking for a bargain for something, you got to try out shopwiki.com.

Despite that we read about people (mostly children) suffering from hunger all over the world almost everyday of our literate lives, there are still people who make the most expensive “this” or “that. It is okay to do what ever you like with your own money. But to have the most expensive office chairs in the world?? You need chairs to just sit on them no?

Here’s a gold plated chair designed by Hadi Teherani. It’s worth about €50,000. So expensive you’d be afraid to fart on it.

Here’s the silver version.

With €50,000, how many little mouths can you feed?

I remember the mood ring fad first came about in the mid 90’s where I grew up. Nearly all of my friends had at least one of those. I had a couple of them myself. I even had a mood watch. After some time I didn’t see the jewelry sold anywhere for a long time.

However a couple of days back I saw the rings sold somewhere. I immediately thought, “are they back?” Fashion and craze usually goes on a ferris wheel. They go back on the top after a while. The ones I saw came in many designs compared to those days when you can only find them in plain designs.

You can get them directly online too at moodjewelry.com.

Here are a few examples of their collection. Have loads more where they came from. Anyway, looking at the nicety of the jewelries, perhaps they never really went out of fashion after all.