Hmm… 166 blog entries for the year of 2004. 166 is also the bus I take to
work every morning.
If you check my first blog entry at page 1, you’ll find the reason to why I
am no longer interested in going out for a celebration. And another added reason
would be that it rained almost non-stop for the past few days.
As usual, I enjoyed another long session of Final Fantasy XI.
There was also a little celebration my friends and I did for another friend
who had his birthday on 1st Jan. What we did was ask him out for dinner, and
then we gathered at his void deck of his HDB flat and discussed what to do. Two
of us guys hid at the back of his pickup whereas the other 4 ladies equipped
with a bottle of cherry soda and some eggs hid behind a building nearby.
My friend and I crept into his pickup with a bag of washing detergent powder.
The birthday boy came down, opened the door of his pickup to put his PDA phone,
went to the back of the vehicle to open the flap to find 2 of us inside with
powder. [XD]
So it’s 2005 now. I don’t feel any difference nor feel the new year mood,
which explains why I keep forgetting to greet others “Happy new year”. The
holidays passed just like any other weekend. Is it because I’m getting older? Or
just too much time spent without regret on FFXI.
- New look! New design! Whatever!
- 3 more blog categories: Work, Play, RandomThoughts.
- Get more involved in the PHP community and keep myself updated on the latest
happenings. Perhaps even brush up my C knowledge so I can go deep into the PHP
source code and try my hand at customizing PHP like removing a few functions I
have no use of. - More efficiency at work. I’m quite confident my position here is secured but
I would need to put in more effort to turn this wooden rice bowl into an iron
one (chinese phrase). That is assuming this company does well this year and for
more decades to come.
By the way, I bought a new LCD monitor last Thursday. A 17 inch Samsung 710T
with DVI. Response time 12ms. Good for gaming purposes. I love the extra viewing
space. My new screen resolution is now 1280*1024, an increase from the
previous 1152*864. Paid S$599 and sold my old CRT monitor to an old friend for
S$100. I also get to enjoy extra space on my computer table, less electricity
consumption, less heat generated.