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I am not a pink fanatic – I only go ga-ga over it when this colour turns out to be more attractive among the other available colours. My favourite colour would have to be yellow, but most of the time I don’t choose this colour though I used to have lots of yellow tops. Pink is usually associated with girly stuffs, and is considered to be the female colour in my opinion.

I am also not a Hello Kitty fan. I don’t queue up for the McDonald’s Hello Kitty soft toys when the mad craze occured about 5 years back. The only times I ever got a deep impression for Hello Kitty were the candy-and-toy packs that I had in primary school; and the time my youngest sis (she was about 5 years old that time) drew a mouth on the Hello Kitty soft toy that one of my aunts gave her.

So why am I even putting this entry? Well, love it or hate it, we just got to post up the pictures (which we received in our emails) of a hotel called the Hotel Hello Kitty. We are not sure where it is located and call us sterotyping if you want, we just can’t help thinking it’s in Japan, the land of the wackiness.

I am a Death Note fan, and if you are one too, I am sure that you would be excited to know that there is going to be a Death Note related movie coming out, starring just L.

Yes, this is the L I am talking about. For non-fans, you can hop over to Wikipedia HERE to read all the previous two films. The new film, titled L Change The World, will be out on the 9th of February 2008 in Japan. I have not read any news about the opening date in Singapore, but let’s hope it will open at about the same time. To clear some basic questions, this film is all about L, so do not expect to see Kira. The film will focus mainly on the last 23 days of L’s life (If you are familiar with the film, you will know that L sacrifices himself to find out who Kira is).

There will also be a novel, which will be out on Christmas Day in Japan. Same with the film, I have yet to read about an English/Chinese version to be released locally. This book is written by a well-known author, who will not be attaching his/her name to the novel, instead he/she will write under the pen name ‘M’, which would refer to “where those who have used the Death Note go”, which is “nothingness” (“mu”). For people who have read the manga, we can’t help but wonder if the name “M” also refers to Mello, one of L’s successors.

We usually see auctions in either eBay or Yahoo auctions, and usually these sites have a standardized bid price, reserve price (if any) and selling price. There are some sellers who sell their stuffs on their own sites, majority of which states a finalised price.

Now, there are also some sellers who auction their items, and by the definition of the word, it means, “a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder”, which Xtitude is based on. The site mistress, Celine, lists down all the items that she is selling, and their description details would include the item name, the price she bought it at, her requested quotation range and a brief mention of the item. What I like about her site is that, there are lots of pictures of each particular item from different angles. Doesn’t it annoy you sometimes when the item you are interested in, has only a maximum of three product shots? For example, I would see a front shot of a bag in a Yahoo Auction, and that’s it. There’s no side view, no back view and most importantly, there’s no inside shot of the bag! Imagine buying that bag, and then realising that the back of it has some really chunky and cheap-looking accessory (zip colour, metal buttons, etc) that turns you off immediately?

Yes, Orinity will be hosting our very own contest for the first time. The prizes this time are partly sponsored by me and mostly provided by Cyrene. Here are the prizes to be won:

Bausch and Lomb Lens Kit

Casio Digital Camera Kit

E.L.F All Over Colour Stick/Blusher

Samsung Digital Camera Outdoor Kit

One pair of Dangling Earrings

So the question now will be how to enter the contest? It is very simple. Just post a comment on Orinity (remember to input your email) and you get one chance for the contest. There’s no limit to the number of comments you can post but no spam please. Doing a blog post on your blog about this contest and linking back to Orinity will give you another chance into the contest. Just remember to email me with the URL of the post you did. Finally, you can subscribe to our RSS by Email updates on the sidebar get another chance! I will be drawing the winners of the prizes one by one once 2008 arrives. Are you ready to win some prizes?

Update: I have got several comments asking to take part in the contest. Just post any comment (non-spam) for any article on Orinity dot com and you will be entered automatically with one chance. Each contestant can have a maximum of 5 chances. Our system will take note of your comment and I will retrieve the emails before I draw the lucky winners. So, there’s no need to post comments asking to take part, the comment you posted will give you one chance already!

I was in Takashimaya the other day, looking for some appropriate gifts for some close friends. It is always during Christmas-time that you see the weirdest, wackiest and most I-have-too-much-free-time kind of gifts.

This is one of the items I saw that make me roll my eyes, yet I couldn’t help but chuckle. One thing that I don’t really understand though, is that we have been tortured by such fill-in-the-blanks close passages in school. Why would we want to re-live the experience? But I do have to state: This letter is for very lazy people, because it is printed on the back of an envelope and you just fold the blue patterned portions and you have your letter cum envelope!

Click HERE to read the letter. How would you write your letter?