TECHNOLOGY

Triumph’s Street Triple in matt graphite

Published by
cheryl
at October 25, 2009 in TECHNOLOGY. 6 Comments

Triumph Street Triple R, Cheryl Marie Cordeiro-Nilsson, Sweden

On the 2009 Triumph Street Triple.
Photos © Jan-Erik Nilsson, Cheryl M. Cordeiro-Nilsson, Adrian Cordeiro for CMC, 2009

I grew up with having bikes around me, where as far as I could remember, I was hopping on and off a bike, to and from school mostly, with my dad in the rider’s seat.

The pictures below were taken in the early 1980s, in the East of Singapore. They show my brother and I on my dad’s Suzuki GP 100A, taking turns to be in the front seat of the bike. It wasn’t a big bike at all, but it was a stretch for the both of us, to reach its front handles!

And when I turned 18, encouraged by my dad, I went out and acquired both my car and bike licenses. I took the lessons simultaneously and the bike license came to me just two week after I received my driver license for cars.

Cheryl Marie Cordeiro, Suzuki ca 1980s in Singapore

On darling little turquoise tanked Suzuki GP 100A. Small, fast and fun to ride, this bike’s an absolute classic in today’s auto world. Both my brother and I grew up to love bikes as more than a means of transportation. My brother has had several Hondas in the 750 cc range, both to himself and shared with my dad.

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Cars that go BOOM

Published by
cheryl
at May 31, 2008 in PEOPLE, TECHNOLOGY, TRAVELS and USA. 0 Comments

Nibbling the Big Apple VIII

At around 07:30 hrs, Stephen Korte, myself and his Dodge

It was such dreary and cold weather to begin the day. Walking down the street half frozen and half awake, I expected nothing to happen, at least not before the first triple vente whole milk latte at the first Starbucks. And then I heard, an unexpected hip-hop beat in the far distance. At 07:30 hrs in the morning?

As I walked, the street beat got louder and louder. It was catchy. So catchy, I began to walk to the beat of the music, not caring if the DKNY black patent coat looked displaced in the hip hop genre. Perhaps it was a club that forgot to turn down their music from the previous night? Continue reading ‘Cars that go BOOM’

Anticipating hot latté laptops

Published by
cheryl
at April 14, 2008 in ART & DESIGN and TECHNOLOGY. 3 Comments

The Asus EEE PC in Lush Green

I wrote about laptop bags and the newer smaller latté laptops awhile ago and it seems that these little portable technologies are well anticipated in Sweden. Everyone is excited about them!

Being absolutely French & Saunders on the aspect of computer technology, I tend to shop techno gadgets by design and colour rather than function, which is probably why I love Mac – you don’t need a clue to be its user.

No doubt, these EEE PCs are not Macs, yet. And in the rise of my own anticipation for these practical and adorable little gadgets, perhaps I’ll need to get down to understanding computers a little more in the near future?

More luxe gadgets

Published by
cheryl
at October 10, 2007 in ART & DESIGN, FASHION and TECHNOLOGY. 3 Comments

I wrote about designer mobile phones not too long ago, but today, in Aftonbladet, was a slew of designer mobile phones where the iPhone didn’t even make it to the list of top five most desired.
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The newspaper was asking readers to vote on their favourites. I think I could go for the Prada or the Armani. The Armani being a tad pricier than the Prada and a tad smaller in size too. Specs? What specs? You’re talking to a girl here and I buy cars by colours!

But those designer phones certainly pale in comparison to what Apple is still churning out.

All that gleams is definitely 24k gold!

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Photo: Aftonbladet

Price tag on that one? A cool 50,000 SEK or SGD $11,300. On second thought, that isn’t all that bad considering a non-plated gold one costs about half that price already. Oooh, I forgot to mention that the little Apple logo on the front is also embedded with glittering brilliant cut diamonds!

Still have cash and that bar of gold laptop is not your thing? Then how about a diamond studded iPod – the world’s most expensive iPod to date.
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Photo: Prylportalen.se

From Prylportalen.se

Den norske guldsmeden Thomas Heyerdahl har designat den ultimata bling-podden. Med sina 430 diamanter och lurar i vitt och rosa guld är iDiamond troligen världens dyraste iPod.

[2007-10-09 15:00]

Prislappen för den glittrande lilla skapelsen är satt till £21 000 vilket motsvarar ungefär 285 000 kronor. Det kan ju tyckas vara lite dyrt för en mediespelare som bara har plats för ungefär 250 låtar.

Men det är knappast innehållet eller minneskapaciteten som kommer att vara avgörande när denna blingPod går under klubban. iDiamond har 430 andra företräden som pockar på uppmärksamhet.

Men förutom den extrema blingfaktorn som iDiamond kommer att ge till sin nya ägare så är det även en god gärning att köpa den då pengarna som den inbringar kommer att gå till välgörenhet.

iDiamond finns just nu att beskåda i Thomas Heyerdahls juvelerarbutik i Oslo.

Points to note, the iDiamond costs a whopping £21,000 or ca. SGD $65,000 to own and was designed by the Norwegian goldsmith Thomas Heyerdahl in pink and white gold. It holds a disappointing 250 songs only (I mean, shouldn’t an iPod have 5,000 songs?) but with 430 brilliant cut diamonds – who cares the capacity! And it can be found in the Thomas Herydahl’s boutique in Oslo.

I’m packing my bags for Oslo just to get my grimy paw prints on it!