I know the photoshopping on this is poor. But you get my point right?
Danny Choo’s autograph
After AFA09, K-on seiyuus, May’N and Danny Choo, each had their autographs up for auction.
I’m not sure if you can call it an auction because you can only bid once, and you cannot find out what’s the current highest bid.
But just for fun, I bid SGD$50 for K-on seiyuus’ autographs and SGD$20 (USD$14.20, JPY1308) for Danny Choo’s. I already have May’N’s.
I bet if the organizers announced the current highest bid for those autographs, they could fetch higher prices for the autographs.
Because I actually won the bid for Danny Choo’s autograph, lol. But I’m going to assume there was a higher bid for it but that person didn’t show up to claim his prize.
My colleague says the costs for framing this autograph is definitely more than SG$20, lol
My iPhone stories ep1
As I spend more time with my iPhone, I love it more and more. So once in a while when I have enough real life stories to tell about my phone, I will share it on my blog. Stories of how it has made my life convenient.
Firstly, my iPhone is not jailbroken. I do know that only by jailbreaking this phone can I unlock it’s full potential. But due to warranty reasons, I shall hold back on the thought. Yes, you can still restore the phone to a non-jailbroken state and Apple will not be able to detect it. But what if the data cable port is damaged, or if some hardware on the phone fails and prevents me from restoring it? That’s one of my concerns.
But anyway, on with the story!
The other day I was at Liang Court. A friend was on his way to meet me from Funan mall. Although Liang Court is quite close to Funan, he forgot where it was. He too had an iPhone.
Instinctively, I started the Maps application on the phone. Dropped a pin on Liang Court on the map and proceeded to see if I could send this location someway, somehow, to him. And sure enough, I had the option of emailing him or sending him an MMS. I chose the email option and sent it to his gmail.
I then sent him an SMS to tell him to check his gmail. He did and the pin that I dropped on my phone showed up on his.
I did not know that this could be done. I just felt that it should be possible knowing how Apple can make good software.
And here’s another tip for those who regularly buy manga and have a lot of series to keep track. This can be done on any phone with acceptable camera performance.
Oftentimes I forget what’s the last book of a series I’m following. So I started keeping a list of manga of all the series I’m following and the next book I should be buying.
Which creates another problem, I forget to update that list sometimes.
So to remedy this, each time I buy from Kinokuniya, I arrange my books and take a photo of their sides with my phone. Then in future when I need to confirm if I’ve already purchased a certain book, I can refer back to these photos. It’s easy to take a photo, and it’s not that often that I will need to check back on my purchase history.
2010
On the last day of 2009, I lazed around the whole day. Lay down on my bed and read manga, played FF13. During the last few hours, I watched all 3 “Back to the Future” movies. Loved them back when I was a little boy.
On the first day of 2010, I lazed around too. Just didn’t felt like doing anything.
I’ve been looking forward to 2010. It has a cool futuristic feel to it. :D
Gah, just realized that back when I had a bad harddisk crash, my January 2009 entries went poof as well. Can’t recall what new year resolutions I’ve made and whether I’ve fulfilled them or not.
Since I’ve got my iPhone now, I’ve been contemplating getting a Mac mini just to learn how to write software for this phone. However, I am totally clueless on what software I should code out because there’s probably a software for everything, anything, out there on the app store already. It has to be something interesting enough to keep me going.
For career, all I can think of is finish up this CMS system I’m working on for my company. This should look good on my resume.
Acquiring a few more new skills are good too. Knowing lots of things broadens one’s opportunities. And by skills, I mean ones that can potentially help me in earning my bread and butter. Not like having the top driving skill at Initial D at the arcades.
Photography is an ongoing thing. I find that I’m bad at framing for portrait shots. That’s one area I need to brush up.
Japanese too, I’m still far from being able to have a proper normal conversation in Japanese. Although my previous Japanese teacher says there will be a lot of speaking in Pre-advance level, because my class has about 10~15 people, I only speak 1 or 2 lines each lesson. That’s fine. I can always do image training myself. :d
Ah yes, I’m going to try and get back into jogging now… Must make it a weekly thing!
paintball and cranium
A friend organized a paintball game last Saturday at Red Dynasty. This would be my first time.
It was pretty fun. And I love how it was drizzling, adds on to the mood.
But getting shot at isn’t fun, lol
Someone shot me from the side. First shot slid off my chest but left a bruise. The next 2 shots hit my side and hell they hurt. I thought we would be provided with vests but they didn’t. I regret wearing just a thin T-shirt.
I was so sure I was in a safe place before I felt the pain. Yea, they should call this painball.
We had 12 so we were split into 3 teams of 4, each team gets to play twice. Each round didn’t last very long. The objective is to bring 2 pieces of items back to base while dodging the other team’s bullets and preventing them from doing the same.
I think my bullets got stuck a few times. Like out of 10 shots, I could only see 2 coming out.
There was one occasion I saw a bullet flying towards me and I managed to duck in time.
If there ever was going to be a next time, I’m definitely going to wear thicker clothing.
After that all of us went to this friend’s home for a early Christmas party.
We played Cranium, good party game. Some of the activities involved having to sculpt something out of dough to get your friends to guess what it is. I did most of the sculpting and drawing for my team.
Some of the things I sculpted, and managed to get my team to guess correctly was: rocking horse, solar system.
There was once I had to sculpt out “holy cow”, so I made a weird looking animal, and held a halo over it, hahaha. My team couldn’t guess but a rival team member got it.
For sketching, some of the cards require you to sketch blindly. I got a card that says “seasick”, so I quickly drew a boat and a simple face with wavy lines coming out of it’s mouth. My teammates got this pretty quickly.
The only hard category was the one which require you to act out characters and hum out songs. As this game was initially designed for the US market, a lot of the characters and songs have never been heard of by many of us.
Later that night, I opened a small bottle of Otard cognac that someone brought. Drank like half of the bottle without mixing. I wanted to get drunk as quickly as possible. I did end up comfortably drunk and it was all good.