Tuesday, January 30, 2007

hot ...


... and humid. feels kinda like KL weather at the moment. Could be worse I suppose. At least its not a 40 degree summer in Sydney.

I'm planning to get myself 2 pieces of new loot:

an Xbox 360!!

and to go with it...

a 22" widescreen LCD!


Roughly $1K aussie all up. The monitor is one of the value in the market now. Its not particularly super, but you can't find anything else that can beat its price for its class. Its a Chimei 221D. Don't *ptui* at the Chinaman brand though (its actually Taiwanese), its pretty good stuff. The 22" Acer widescreen is the pretty much the same thing. Same panel but rebranded as Acer with a different body. The Acer does look better though, but for about $50 more. You'd probably get this monitor if you order a Dell computer with a 22" monitor widescreen too. Apparently Dell made a big order for these monitors from Chimei.

I'm actually not so sure about the 360 yet. Especially since I haven't even started playing Burning Crusade, but I'll definitely get the monitor, if not something better. Will have to wait till I get back from KL though. Kinda moot buying it now if I'm already leaving next week.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

aihsss...


I just paid off my credit card bill from my christmas shopping. Comes to about $1600++. Thats like RM4400. I spent that much in just about a day of shopping? phooiyo... I don't even rememer what the hell I bought.

Monday, January 22, 2007

past few days have been pretty hot. doesn't help that my room faces the morning sun. makes my room pretty hot. At least its been very windy as well, so being outside is actually quite nice if you stay in the shade. but that doesn't help me since I just stayed home over the weekend. no mood to do much except for sleep. and watching some jdramas that I've downloaded. Recently finished Nodame Cantabile and downloading My Boss, My Hero now. Nodame Cantabile is nice, a drama/comedy themed around classical music. Its especially good since I've started downloading some classical music to listen as well. Ran out of things to download at one point ^_^

If u'r interested, you can get dramas from http://www.d-addicts.com. Gotta love these ppl with so much free time to upload and sub all these dramas and animes.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

haven't been blogging much since its pretty uneventful over here. its just been work and trying to study for my last exam. gotta try to get that done in 2 weeks in order to attend a migration training course for BusinessObjects (I need to be certified in order to go for that course)

Work-wise has been a cruise for the past week, until Friday came along. The manager finally got a chance to review the report that we've (me and the other consultant, although its just me now) been working on and discovered a few values that don't add up properly. Had a hell of a time trying to figure out why the values are off. I've been doing analysis all of yesterday and today. It would have been sooo much easier if the other consultant was still around, especially since he pretty much built the whole process from ground up.

The reports are being sent out to the state managers for review, so hopefully they don't come back with too many issues.

Apart from that, I was engrossed in playing Company of Heroes all weekend. Its a relatively new RTS game based on WW2. Bloody good, and I'm learning some history too!

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

aced...

92% for my exam today, and finished 30 minutes for a 100 minute paper to boot! Sweeeet. I feel so proud of myself.

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actually wanted to blog about other stuff... but got caught up in doing other things, and now I don't remember what I wanted to write. I'll just bum out and watch anime.

Saturday, January 06, 2007

its a new year!

my first post of 2007. Its been sort of busy, so I haven't found time to blog. I've got one of my certification exam on Tuesday, so have to study for that. I have been slacking off on that. Was supposed to be gung-ho on the stuying over the holiday period, but oh well.

Andy introduced a new TV series to me as well. Heroes. Its really good! Only the 1st season is out in the US, so I downloaded it and been watching the whole thing the past week. Its only 11 episodes for now. Its apparently one of the hottest TV sensations in the States. Check it out!

I'm getting pretty hungry now, so gonna go down the city to grab some lunch. Wondering if I should go to the gym as well. Gym has been going pretty well. I've been going fairly consistently, at least 3 times a week. I'm gonna try make it 5 times a week. Do weights 3 times a week, and cardio 2 times a week.

I'm off...