Praise the Lord!
Shared this wonderful testimony at cell group tonight, which was held at Raymond's place. His apartment really had a view to die for. The city skyline at night was simply breathtaking.
The lights from the fast moving vehicles on the freeway turned into blurry bright lines with the shutter slowed to 8 secs.
His mum was around, and we were treated to delicious home cooked food. A tradtional spread of fried wantons, stir fry broccoli, onion omelet, braised duck and chicken cooked with ginger in oyster sauce.
The quality of the food and the love that was put into the dishes shamed all the commercial chefs who were just out to earn our money.
Some cool stuff happened while you were asleep.
Meet the new pods on the block. Lots of gorgeous gizmos from Apple this time, which includes an overhaul of its existing iPod lineup, new earphones (finally) and iTunes 7.
The new nano is now wrapped in an aluminum casing. Looks scratch-resistant which makes it a mega improvement over its more fragile predecessor. Let's hope the screen has been reinforced as well. Big surprise over iPod shuffle. No one seems to be expecting that one. Probably because it's so tiny. The new shuffle is cute as a cuff button and almost as small. While it still lacks a display, its mini form factor would make up for it. Apple also up the stakes for the iPod, with a new gigantic 80GB version. And for the new iPods, short of the shuffle, Apple has vastly increased the battery life and lowered prices to keep up with all the new MP3 players that have mushroomed.
My white nano will become a collectible! I still prefer white.
I had been catching up a bit on YouTube, and was one of the 3 million who watched Lonelygirl15 babbled about poor Pluto not being a planet anymore.
The secret's out. YouTube mystery woman Lonelygirl15 has been identified as 19-year-old New Zealand actress Jessica Rose.
"She is Jessica Rose, a 19-year old actress from Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. She recently moved to Los Angeles/Hollywood area to find work."
Contacted at her home in New Zealand yesterday, Jessica's mother told us that she had been asked to direct all questions to Jessica's publicity agent and provided a telephone number for a Hollywood public relations firm.
For the past three months, Lonelygirl15's confessional videos have been a huge hit on the video-sharing site YouTube.
Her 30 videos have been viewed almost 3 million times and her video feed is among the site's most popular.
In the videos, Jessica (who calls herself "Bree" and uses the YouTube nickname Lonelygirl15) talks - in an American accent - about life in a small town, her religious parents and her "study buddy", Daniel.
But some viewers began to suspect that the videos were not the work of a 16-yeard-old but a sophisticated viral marketing campaign planted on the site.
Last week, the Los Angeles Times revealed that online sleuths using email tracking software had pinpointed the source of emails sent by Lonelygirl15 to a Hollywood talent agency called Creative Artists Agency.
Soon after the report was published on the internet, a notice purporting to be from a group of independent filmmakers appeared on one of the Lonelygirl15 discussion sites saying that the short videos were part of a project, a "new art form" of interactive storytelling.
According to a report in Wednesday's New York Times, the masterminds behind the videos are two filmmakers, Ramesh Flinders and Miles Beckett. They enlisted a third man, Grant Steinfeld, a software engineer, to help produce and distribute the videos.
The paper's report said the project appears to be the "early serialised version of what eventually will become a movie". It also indicated that the project would continue.
For me, this just opened my eyes to a whole new dimension of marketing. Pictures blogs are so passe, with video blogs making the real hits, literally. For this one, it was a million hit in a month on average.
Maybe I can be a YouTube Steven Spielberg. And you could be a star!
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