Monday, October 13, 2003  

Fun stuff today. Firstly, my Kirby Air Ride review went up on 1UP on Friday, and only today did the shit hit the fan as people suddenly realised that... I didn't like it. And complained about it. Repeatedly. In a big thread on a message board. Honestly, I'm not out to create controversy or anything, but I'd be lying if I said that this didn't put a big grin on my face or amuse me.

I met up with Kristie earlier than usual today because we had to do a shoot in Sham Shui Po to finish off this story we've been working on. It's about exploding Nokias. Yeah, you heard me right. In the last two months, three Nokia mobile phones have exploded (two in Holland and one in Vietnam) thanks to what seem to be faulty counterfeit batteries. All the more reason to stick to the real thing, I guess.

For anyone interested, the segment will air tomorrow on CNN International's NewsBizToday morning show (around 7-9am Hong Kong Time) and on the Asia Now evening show (7pm and 10pm HKT). The segment will also likely appear (for free!) on CNN.com's TechWatch microsite, so check it out here sometime tomorrow and you should have it.

Posted at 11:18 PM

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