Category: Life

Delicious, spicy, fragrant asam fish. Cooked by my mum. Soft juicy fish meat.

I bought a bunch of The Pillows album. I like this band a lot.

I also bought albums by Go! Go! 7188, Fairy Fore and Penicillin. They are very good rock bands!

Also grabbed the OST for Final Fantasy 3 DS. This is the first Final Fantasy game I played. Back then, I played it on the Famicom platform and it was in Japanese. But somehow I managed to play through a few levels (Weird eh?) and I liked the gameplay. I guess this is how I ended up liking RPGs a lot.

I’m very glad SquareEnix is remaking in the game. This time in 3D and with CG cutscenes and for the NDS and in English! 

Lastly, owe money, pay money! ヽ(｀Д´)ノ

 

After like 5 or 6 years of 256kbps/512kbps ADSL internet, I’m finally moving on to 10Mbps ADSL2+.

The activation date is on the 13th of October 2006, Friday. There will be downtime as they upgrade my line to ADSL2. On the next day in the morning, a Singnet representative will come down and give me my ADSL2+ modem router and configure it for my PCs but I intend to just tell him to leave and I’ll configure it myself.

10Mbps, roughly 20 times faster than what I have now. My upload speeds will be 1Mbps, 4 times faster than what I have.

Excited, I am. More harddisk space, I need.

…is making me more and more impatient!

I’ve never liked the idea of travelling because of all the hassles and expensive air tickets and other expenses. But because of this recent planning, I’ve been searching the net for all sorts of information I can find.

After looking at many photos and reading about other people’s experiences, I may have found a way to spend my yearly vacation instead of staying at home and playing FFXI all through the week.

I’ve read a Singaporean’s story that he spent $1200 during his trip to Japan, but that was because he stayed at a friend’s home there. I can afford to spend $2000 just for a week of sightseeing in Japan. $2000 is close to how much I get paid a month.

Previously, the thought of going to a faraway place where nobody knows me, and where I don’t speak their language, scares me. Thinking back to my first overseas trip to Paris, I was so scared. But for some reason, I don’t anymore. Perhaps it’s because it’s Japan, a place I’ve always wanted to visit.

Bought a bunch of CDs from CDJapan.co.jp again. I’m going to log the whole process here for interested Singaporeans.

Firstly, a brief introduction on the process from the beginning.

I registered an account with vPost to have them bring in my CDs at a cheap rate of around $15 SGD. You will need to fax them a copy of your Identification Card to have your account authenticated.

Once your account is ready, you will be given an address in Japan for all your orders to be sent to. You will also have to use a special name (example: Wyred VP123456) for the vPost office in Japan to identify that the package belongs to you.

When your vPost account is ready, register another account with cdJapan and use the shipping details that vPost has provided you with. After that, you’re ready to shop. Browse for the CDs you want and add them to your cart. Proceed to checkout, you will also be asked to enter your credit/debit card info if you haven’t entered them.

After completing the checkout process, cdJapan will send you an invoice email with the list of your orders. Forward this email to vPost and they will process it within 3 working days. You will also receive an auto-reply from vPost to confirm that they have received your invoice.

cdJapan will ship your order within 3-5 days if the CDs are available. Or longer if there’s no stock or the CDs have not been released yet. When vPost receives the package, you will be notified and asked to make payment for the shipping charges before they ship the package back to Singapore.

It will take a few more working days for the package to be delivered to you. I’ve put my work address in vPost as the address to ship the package to since there’s no one at home most of the time.

Log:

So yea, whole process takes 2 weeks.

WTF is with product names starting with "i"? Perhaps I should label this water bottle sitting on my desk at work: iBottle.

Anyway, last Monday, I headed down to Funan IT Mall after work to buy my copy of Harvest Moon DS from Gamescore. After buying, I took the escalator down to level 1 and proceeded to the exit. I walked passed the Osim shop and saw their salesman sitting on their iGallop product.

He looked at me, I immediately but naturally looked to the other direction and began giggling. I couldn’t hold my laughter.

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