Pillows and PHP and here comes Nostalgia again

About 13-14 months ago, as I was struggling with PHP and MySQL, I was
listening to an old album of The Pillows, White Incarnation.


Today, I had to revisit my 1 year old project which started out as
ASP+Access, converted to PHP+MySQL along the way. I’m making changes to that
project and listening to the same album. Somehow if you think about it, you
realize another year has passed.


I don’t think I’ve matured in anyway, physically or mentally. All I’ve
achieved over the past year was newer toys and no more money-worries when
shopping/eating.


Looking back at my blog entries, here’s my top highlights for the year 2004
in chronological order.



  • Jan 9th – Made my first online transaction with my debit card, Golden
    Village movie tickets.

  • Jan 18th – Enjoyed Lineage 2 on the Taiwan Open beta followed by the Japan
    Open beta.

  • Jan 21st – Bought a Radeon 9800Pro. Always wanted a high-end graphics card.

  • Feb 14th – Registered domain name: wyred.nu

  • Mar 7th – Attended my first lan party at Funan IT Mall.

  • Apr 5th – Visited Paris due to work circumstances.

  • Apr 18th – Setup a second machine for hosting this blog and some other sites.

  • Jun 3rd – Began playing FFXI.

  • Jun 21st – Lineage 2 account on Japan Open beta got banned because I supplied a fake Japanese address.

  • July 1st – Sourced myself a new machine. Runs an Athlon 64 3200+. Gaming purposes.

  • Nov 6th – Took a week long vacation from work for the sole purpose of
    playing FFXI.

  • Dec 6th – Flew to Hong Kong due to work circumstances.

  • Dec 30th – Purchased 17″ LCD monitor.

Also, a list of tasks I failed to accomplish in 2004. [:(]



  • Develop my own collaborative blog site.

  • Learn how to administer a Linux machine.

  • Adopt a CVS system at work.

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