This is my own little collection of pez dispensers. I love eating the candy and I love to see the dispensers being displayed right on my little secretary desk. The Hello kitty ones are especially my favourites. They are such eye candies. 
Pez dispenser collecting is new for me. Well, if a bit more than a year is new that is. If I see a cute one I just can’t help myself but to buy. I’ve not a big collection but so far I’ve got about 30.
I’ve got to slow down on the collection as the price of these dispensers, just like everything else, has gone up as well. I can only fantasize that I work with the company that make these dispensers and they have Employee Pricing event – special price for employees. 
Once I hit 50 I’ll make a special shelve for them.
I posted about getting the Lumix DMC LS5 sometime ago. A pretty pink, powered with 2 AA batteries camera. With all the nice feature advertised that made me decide to buy it – 14 MP, Optical stabilization, 2.7″ LCD screen and HD video - I finally had to send it back as soon as the shop opens.
I do not know whether it is that particular camera or all Lumix LS5 is the same. I have a Lumix fz28 and very satisfied with it so I was sure that this Lumix would be the same (well, a little less quality as it is a way cheaper camera than the fz28). However, what a let down. The image is average at best and the interesting thing is, it could not focus close up well. What my Samsung Gio phone camera could do it could not! How can a phone camera be better at focusing? This is a point and shoot camera, so even set on Auto it should be able to take simple pictures nicely. Well at least better than a phone camera. That is all I expected it to do.
So that was the short lived relationship I had with the camera. Right after the 28 trial picture I took, I packed it and sent it back to Mediamarkt. Good thing that it has a “2 weeks no quibble” policy. They took it right away and asked whether I would like to exchange with something else. Which I did.
I took the Canon A3200 is. I had the Canon A400 and loved it ( I still have it now after 8 years). I have been using the A3200 for two days now and loving it so far. Will post up some picture soon.
It is never to soon to shop for Christmas. In fact it is better to start early as you don’t have to do last minute preparations. Many shopping centers had already started selling Christmas tree decorations, gift wrappers, holiday cards and christmas gifts even though we still have more than a month to go till the much awaited holiday of the year.
I’ve started to shop for books for starters before I think of buying some other things. And also got some materials to make homemade gifts at home. Even thinking about Christmas gifts makes me feel all excited about it.
My verdict after using the phone for 3 weeks – it is okay, but not that great. Even with an 800mhz processor, there is lag. I mean really bad lag. Not only that, it froze on me a few times that even by pressing the off button would not do a thing until I had to take off the battery and put it back in again. The other drawback is the battery life. It totally sucks. I need to recharge the phone everyday even after very little usage a day. After experiencing these thing, I found out that it seems to be a pretty common problem with this phone.
Other than those drawbacks, the phone is good enough for me. I love the googlemap. Though not as good as a portable gps but it does it’s job. The hotspot tethering to share my mobile internet on my phone to my laptop through usb or wifi is also a very useful feature.
So if you don’t mind the mentioned drawbacks, I would still say this is a good phone to have.
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