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Despite all the publicity and media reports on such scams, there’s still plentiful of such scams going on. They always go by the same sequence or with some differences for the sake of variety. First, you received a telephone call from an unknown number from a China-accented person to do a survey by some company. After that, you will receive another call a few days later that you are being invited to an event in some convention centre. On that day or the day after, the same person will call and inform you that you have won a prize in a lucky draw that you won’t even know that you are in it. I think that part is sort of to have you think that you joined the lucky draw because of the survey. So, you have won something but to collect it, you will have to pay a percentage of the money as tax/trust insurance/administration fee or whatever they call it in order to collect your prize money. Apparently, there’s no lack of idiots in this world, people still fall for such scams due to their greed.

I received such a call last year but brushed it off. But a few days ago, I got another such call. This time, I decided to play along and do a bit of detective work. I questioned the lady why I should pay the tax to the Hong Kong government when I am a Singaporean. I don’t even think that there’s a tax on lottery or lucky draw winnings in Singapore or Hong Kong. I managed to get a phone number and a website address from the lady. That’s where things starts falling apart for her, the website redirects to a company of the same name but does mortgages instead of the electronics like the scammer told me. Furthermore, the web address is only registered in November 2007 (There’s what you get when you are dealing with an IT savvy person). Anyway, I am still considering if I should report this to the Police at the moment. So stay tuned to my detective work.

For more details on such scams, head over to KennySia.com, he scored one over the scammers.

I don’t really like dolls, and the Blythe Dolls are no exception. However, I do love their clothes and the collection never fails to amaze me. To me, Barbie’s clothes collection pale in comparison with Blythe’s exquisite designs. This is exceptionally so, when you have dedicated people like Superblythe, who offer handmade clothes for your Blythe dolls!

Here are some of my favourite designs (roll over to view the item name):

 The price range for the dresses range from $8.00 to $28.00. For reviews, you can read the comments from the people who bought from Superblythe HERE.

Hey all, here’s the next batch of photos from the concert! Alternatively, you can also read Part 1 of the concert!

Shortly after her costume change, Liang Jing Ru re-emerged.

There was this couple role-playing during one of the songs, which I find were rather out of place. They walked across the stage, holding hands and the guy was holding on to the biggest suitcase I ever saw in my whole life. I guess it’s not just me, because I overheard a girl behind me muttering, “The luggage is freaking big!” The stage couple stopped in the middle, a short distance beside Jing Ru, put the suitcase on the floor, and then walked off hand in hand. Okay… I didn’t really know what to make of that. It turns out that in the ending lines of the song, Jing Ru went over and knelt beside the suitcase, opened it, and out comes a row of balloons (secured by a line). Okay…

Liang Jing Ru mingling with the crowds. Later on, a group of fans were screaming, “Jing Ru, I Love You!” to which she remark with a pout that, “How come you didn’t tell me just now when I was walking around? You were all frantically taking my pictures only!”

One of the props. The Effiel Tower.

Earlier on, Xavi was telling me about the ‘tradition’ of Fish Leong’s concert – Couples would take this opportunity at her concert to propose to their other half, or to declare their love and appreciate.

After all, this year’s concert was titled “Liang Jing Ru Qing Ren Yan Chang Hui”, so I had somewhat expected there to be a session of such declaration. However, all I saw were clips of past couples and their declaration. Luckily, some of the featured celebrities made the video clips darn interesting.

I love Mayday’s portion of the video! See them mimicking the poster in the background of the first picture! They were hilarious with their love declarations and marriage proposals to each other!

Liang Jing Ru’s fan club, Fish Dream. Okay…

Once the clip ended, Fish Leong re-appeared.

(See Maydays’ Ah Xing in Part 3!)

I came across Snapfish, HP’s photo service, yesterday and noticed that there’s a Singapore edition of the website. I went ‘Woot! Someone finally noticed the red dot on the map!’. Anyway, Snapfish is offering digital prints at S$0.19 for each print. I did some calculations and that comes to about S$0.224 per print if I am printing 55 4R photographs and inclusive of the S$1.90 standard mail cost. The cheapest I have seen so far is only S$0.25 for small amounts so Snapfish definitely catches my eyes for low-cost digital prints. What’s more? The prints are delivered to your door step or at least your mail box. For me, taking a bus to the shop and another trip to do the collection will exceed the S$1.90 mail cost.

If that is still not enough to entice you, there’s more! Snapfish offers printing of posters as well as gifts. It’s definitely a unique gift for someone you love and the shipping costs are reasonable as well. From the looks of it, Snapfish is my current best route to printing digital prints since there’s only the need for me to upload my photos and wait for the delivery. At the moment, Snapfish is offering the first 20 prints for free not inclusive of the postal cost.

For those of you who are running outdated antivirus software or running always-free versions, Grisoft is offering AVG 7.5 Professional for free. The offer is valid until 17 January 2008 and only for personal usage so grab it fast as AVG 7.5 Professional retails for US$29.95.

Those running AVG Free edition should consider upgrading as the Professional version includes advanced scanning and scheduling options. Also, AVG is a lot better than Norton and McAfee in my opinion as it is a lot leaner on the system resources.