Archive for June, 2009

Editing photos,for dummies like me (Part 1)

2009 06 16 Editing pictures for Dummies

Some of you guys & gals,who are like me, are dummies when it comes to picture editing , but over the weekend I have learn some neat basic tricks to help me re-size and crop the picture I want, and there is actually a few ways to do it!

Thanks to having 2 different computers, one at home and another at the office with different versions of windows, I was able to learn how to re-size and crop pictures on both windows XP and Vista, for those of you using Mac, I’m afraid I won’t be able to help you there, you’ll have to find help somewhere else, since i don’t own a Mac :(

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Shopping Online Is Better!

Every woman used to go to various branded shops to buy all the new and fashionable designer clothes. If you want to know how crazy we girls can be on designer stuff, wait until there is a warehouse sale. They don’t mind tearing other people’s clothes just to be the first to enter the shop, and recently, on Zara warehouse sale, they even crash the front glass door! Gosh, guys must be scared of us when it comes to shopping!

Well ladies, I got a solution for you to have the latest collection in your wardrobe without sweating your arm pit. How?? Easy, just go for online shopping.

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Online Shop vs Retail Outlet (Part 1)

I saw the movie “Confession of a shopaholic” on DVD recently and I actually found the show to be quite entertaining.

The story takes us on a journey of a small time journalist and a major shopaholic, Rebecca Bloomwod, as she rises to the heights of her career as a wildly popular columnist for a financial magazine, whilst possessing no better knowledge on the financial world and all of its jargons than an average Joe. What made her so successful was actually her ability to translate the complex financial terms and jargons into a language that is spoken by most of us, shopping!

And hence the “girl with a green scarf (her pen name)” was born, a financial columnist that made the financial world simpler for everyone to understand and relate to.

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