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Brain’s been feeling a little dull lately. Too much FFXI and 5-6 hours of sleep a day.

Here’s some reading tips I learned about the other day from reading this book. Supposedly increases your reading speed. Works well for me but I still need more practice.

1) Concentration. Well… It’s a basic requirement.

2) Read with your eyes. Don’t read and pronounce every single word. Your brain can actually work fast but if you try to pronounce every word, you’re slowing yourself down. They call this subvocalization.

3) Read every word right the first time so you don’t have to read the same word twice to re-confirm. This is also where concentration plays an important role.

Let me know if it works for you. [:D]

I have in front of me right now, the latest Final Fantasy XI expansion, CHAINS OF PROMATHIA!!

At a special pre-order price of $50. [XD]

Received my 12th paycheck. Meaning I’ve worked for a year already. Time flies
especially when I enjoy what I do at work. [XD]

By right, I should have at least $1000 or more of savings in my bank account.
But what I have left is an amount less than $50 every month. What’s new in my
room is a stack of Newtype USA
magazines, more manga, audio CDs and some href="http://wyred.selvani.com/hostedpics/figure_pinky.jpg" target="_blank">figurines in my
closet, a powerful href="http://wyred.selvani.com/hostedpics/wyred_room.jpg" target="_blank">Athlon64 machine
and a comfortable chair. Mental note to do an inventory check and see how much
I’ve spent on my interests over the past year.

If only I had my own room, I would’ve bought some shelves, big table and a
sofa. If I had higher pay, I might consider installing an air-conditioner in my
room. It all boils down to money. Something I’m trying not to focus my life
on.

I might get a discman this month. It’s old but should be cheap. Audio quality
definitely beats MP3 players. My MD player can no longer record, a new MD player
costs $499, a good discman should be a lot less than $100. Recommendations
anyone?

Just went on an educational visit to the above mentioned place. It’s where a lot of fishermen come and place their catch for sale.

We reached at 1.30am, a group of 5, shopping for some meat for tomorrow’s birthday bbq. At this time, the fishermen were coming in one by one bringing in baskets and huge boxes of fresh fish and crabs. I had a chance to look at all kinds of fish. There were even weird yellow striped and huge snails.

By 2am, most of the stalls have their catch organized and ready to sell. Before the sellers from the market come in, we went around and bought kilos of baby stingrays, prawns and crayfish. Everything costs $107 including $2 for half a huge packet of ice. It’s nice to know they sell so much ice at $4 and 7-11 sells you a small fraction of that huge packet at $4. Then again, the ice we bought at the fish port are probably not healthy for consumption.

It is darn cheap I say. Buying straight from them fishermen.

Wow, this feels a bit freaky. I did a google search on my mobile number and guess what I got?

http://1580697858.0x800ccc0d.com/1101010110011011010110100011

Edit: My number no longer appeared in that page. Google returned the results because it had a cached version of that page that still contained my number.

Finally reached level 30. At 30, we can now unlock various advanced jobs. Being evil at heart, I chose the path of Dark Knight. [X)]

At Bastok, I discovered information about a certain Dark Knight spotted at Palborough Mines. So I travelled down on Chocobo and searched the place for him. I found Zeid, a Galkan Dark Knight, who gave me a 2-handed great sword: Chaosbringer. I was to kill 100 creatures with this sword.

Took me about an hour to kill 100 easy monsters outside Bastok. This sword had a delay of 666 which is roughly 10 seconds between each swing. A very slow weapon if you ask me. T_T

Then I travelled down to Beadeaux to seek Zeid again. He gave me some advice and afterwards, I was granted the job, Dark Knight. To get to Beadeaux, I had to travel across Passhow Marshlands. A great place for a picnic in real life. Minus the monsters of course.

Later that day, one of my LinkShell members had also attained level 30 and needed help to unlock his Samurai job. I joined in to help and so did some higher level seniors. The first part involved killing Forger and the second part, Guardian Tree at Sanctuary of Zi’Tah. A very beautiful forest. This was when I first met with my LinkShell holder, Apocalypse (Lv75 Dark Knight). Who aided us in killing the Guardian Tree.

Next day, helped Evasama unlock Summoner and Bard. First, we need to find a Carbuncle Ruby for each of us who wishes to unlock Summoner. A LS senior Bard helped with getting this rare ruby from the Leeches in Maze of Shakhrami. After a discovering it’s powers back in Windurst, we had to bring it to absorb from 7 different weather conditions, Cloudy, Sunny, Rain, Sandstorm, Windy, Thunder, Snow. Snow was the hardest to get.

Travelling around Vana’diel on Chocobos can be costly. Places like Jeuno where the demand is high, so is the rental for a Chocobo. Lucky the Bard quest we were unlocking gave us some rewards, a total of 5100 gil to fund our travels.

I’m a quality freak! Hate me if you will cos my motto is if the art is good, it must be appreciated at it’s best!!

Well, I’m just excited by the much better sound I’m enjoying on Kotoko’s Hane album. A whole lot better than the Variable Bit Rate MP3s I downloaded weeks ago. While most of you will definitely say it makes no difference, either you are a casual listener or you probably don’t listen to music as much as I did.

All I have left now is to get a pair of popular Panasonic earphones and another Creative Audigy sound card for my machine at work to up the pleasure another notch. [XD]

When listening to music, I go into detail. I had a problem listening to songs encoded with Sony’s LP4 mode for the minidisc. The sound is so “hollow” it makes me physically uncomfortable. I want to hear clearly, each instrument that contributes to the overall piece of work. My Sony earphones that block out external-noise has helped me with this.

Physics taught us that the human ear cannot hear sounds with frequencies beyond the 20Hz-20,000Hz range, but it never said you can’t feel them. This explains how in some movies, very-high frequency sound can be used to hurt people’s ears till it bleeds. This also explains why I find the sound of violin so soothing to my ears. Same goes for the human voice.

Since I listen to music/songs so often everyday, I feel I might as well take the extra step and let my ears feel the goodness too~

Lastly, I’m open to constructive comments/flame. [:)]

The CDs I ordered from Japan have arrived!!! [XD]

Even though it’s just 4 audio CDs, they feel extra special to me. [X)]

Over exaggerating am I? No. I’m just much too in love with Japan’s culture. [:D]

Today is the first anniversary of my company. It’s also the first day of a new staff, Martin (I guesstimate him to be in his forties), dealing with sales and marketing for my company’s partner. Everyone had a good lunch at Silkroads restaurant at Amara hotels. I had “Sichuan Tan Tan Noodles”. Very delicious, spicy but within my tolerable limits. [XD]

Martin is a funny person and he talks smoothly. He’s the first person from the office that made me laugh with his past office stories.

I just remembered why I disliked people in formal wear (long sleeve, basically office attire). Because when things look bad, even though the smile is the same, it now gives off an aura of hostility. This has got nothing to do with my boss or colleagues. Just an event that happened today.