Category: Life

Lately, I’ve been listening to their songs a lot. I like their fast paced rock. Here’s a few youtube videos for your enjoyment.

Good Vibration

Aijin 28

Guitar demo

I was watching a few Sex MachineGuns youtube videos on my second PC when my whole room blacked out. I thought there was a power trip somewhere in the house but when I opened the door to my living room, the lights were on and everything was normal.

After some troubleshooting, I found out that the cause was my main PC and it refused to boot up after. I panicked a little. I was afraid of losing the data on my RAID harddisks if the motherboard was dead.

Next day, Singtel’s line-fault technician came to my house to check the lines. Everything seemed fine with him. He trimmed the wires for me and tidied up the wires outside my house a little. The problem didn’t go away still.

When he left, I rushed down to Corbell’s office at AMK techplace to get my Antec PSU replaced.

Since they don’t have anymore PSUs of my model, I was offered a choice to upgrade to their newer models with an extra $30. But the 3 year warranty will continue from when I bought my previous PSU. I have 2 months left. >_>

Went home, installed it, my PC booted up with no problems and everything was intact. *phew*

Later that day, I went to meet a friend at SimLim Square to buy my digital camera. A Canon Ixus 800 IS. SGD$629, free digital camera kit (mini tripod, some cleaning stuff, a bag), free 512MB SD card and a 1GB SD card, free case. And the best surprise freebie: a calculator.

That was when things start to get worse.

I had my PSP with me. I carried it in my waistpouch together with my earphones. At one point while waiting for the bus, I was leaning against a wall on the waistpouch when I felt a little crack sound. Checking my PSP, I found this….

Sucks… ( T-T)

Update:

I’ve sent in my PSP to Sony for repairs. It costs $178.50 to replace the LCD and a few parts. A brand new PSP costs around $330 but I don’t want to have 2 PSPs at home. 1 for playing, 1 for smashing cockroaches.

A firmware upgrade is a must. They will be upgrading the firmware to 2.82 for me. Sucks because I can’t play homebrew. I’ll have to hope someone manages to come up with an easy way to downgrade the firmware. 

Another user offered me $120 to replace my LCD using parts from his PSP which he bricked. I think it was a good offer but it came too late as I’ve already sent it in and said to go ahead with the repairs. 

I had a very pleasant dream and I can recall a few things about it. It felt like it was how life after death would be.

I bought a pastry for $6.20. It was delicious. As I chewed, I had my eyes closed and it felt I was falling down in a dark place slowly. When I finished, I told the French Patissier "It’s good! I’ll be back for more." to which he replied "pleasure" (can’t remember clearly).

Then I met my pet dog who passed away many years ago. He grew a little larger and had grown very beautiful fur. In my dream I recalled the places I used to talk him for a walk to (I’m quite sure it was along Kovan Road).

He had a child too, and looks very beautiful.

Lastly, I found myself in a place where I suppose games(not electronic games) were played and there were a lot of bite-sized foods placed for people to eat freely. It was like a huge roman-style palace. I looked down could see many huge golden bowls very far away below. It was a magnificent sight. People were relaxing and watching the games below. 

Then I woke up to my alarm clock ringing. I sat down and tried to recall everything, replaying what I saw in my dream, picking up bits and pieces along the way before I forget them and started writing this entry.

Lots of things are happening around me.

Firstly, construction has begun in my block. They’re upgrading the elavators that are more than 10 years old to new ones and they’re breaking holes in the walls so the elevators will now stop at every floor.

They’ve recently just begun and the estimated finishing time is the 3rd quarter of 2007. Wow…

Because of them breaking holes in the walls, there’s been a lot of dust floating around. On day 1, when I reached home after work, I noticed dust on my computer desk. The desk is black so it’s easy to see. Now I close the windows and my bedroom door before I leave for work.

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I’ve decided to get a digital camera. A Canon Ixus 800. About $629 SGD. And there’s some freebies like a 512MB and a 1GB SD card. Promotional poster here. I’ll need to get a tripod too, to take nice quality pictures.

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I forgot about signing up for Japanese lessons! But perhaps, this might be a good chance for me to consider another school, Bunka Language Private School. They seem to be famous for conducting fast and effective lessons.

3 hours a week, total of 8 lessons. And I can choose either Tuesday or Thursday which is friendly to my busy schedule. I hope to start around March or April 2007 because….

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I’m planning to go back to Malaysia during Chinese New Year in February 2007! The main reason is to escape work and FFXI. It will also be a good chance to relax and eat lots of delicious food.

The best thing about visiting my relatives in Malaysia is that we go out in a big group every night for dinner. 

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Haha, seems like I will have to postpone my plans for visiting Japan to Nov/Dec 2007. I need to accumulate enough days of vacation first to apply for leave. 

After installing a new graphics card on my server machine, it’s been acting a little weird. Might take a few tries to get into my blog. I don’t know how this is possible, but maybe I need to reformat this machine soon.

Anyways, the photos I promised in my last entry~

 

 

 

 

Some dust managed to find it’s way into the lenshole of my handphone. I think that is why my photos now look ugly and blurish than before…

PS2slim!

 

Resting on top of my old PlayStation

This PS2slim can’t seem to play PS1 games… Hmmm…

Also, loan sharks have become a little more girlish now.

Picture a fierce looking gangster in his 40s, drawing this pig head with a black marker pen.