Category: Life

Going to Bangkok, Thailand…

I don’t like to travel overseas unless the country I’m heading to is Japan….

Noooo…..

FFXI…. ( ´Д｀)ノ

I think I’ll be spending a week there. Of course, I have to go there because of work. I’m not sure what I’ll be doing there but I’m guessing a bit on the administrative workflow in hotels. I hope I get my own room again~ I think this will be the hotel I’m staying in.

Blah.

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Also, FF7:Advent Children DVD was released! A fansubbed DVDrip was also released on bittorrent. I’m still downloading… ( T-T) 60% done at slow speeds… Should be finished by tonight. Cloud may probably turn me gay but Tifa will be there to set me straight.

Now listening to some early 90s songs sung by Megumi Hayashibara for various animes. Feels good…

It was so sudden. I learned that the Comex 2005 begins on the 1st of September so with friends, I went down to Suntec Exhibition Centre where this computer exhibition was held. 1 of them traded in his Audigy 1 for a $50 discount off the normal price of $229. Another brought an old and faulty SoundBlaster AWE. I just went ahead with the normal price.

Because I recently switched to new speakers, I didn’t have enough time to get used to Audigy2 + Klipsch so I couldn’t tell how much improvement this sound card brought me.

But I’ve tested the 24bit crystallizer and it makes music clearer. I’ve yet to test the Game Mode which supposedly improved game sounds. Also, my Winamp ASIO plugin can now resample music to 96KHz from the previous 48KHz which makes music very more natural!

Now more reason to open up the Half Life 2 voucher I got from buying my 9800PRO graphics card and install it.

As I step out of my house for work this morning, I see a cluster of dead bees on the floor outside my neighbour’s apartment. Let’s say about 20-30 dead bees.

A stone’s throw distance away, another cluster. And another, and another.

Walked down the stairs to the lift lobby. Found a huge cluster. Inside the elevator, about 3-4 dead bees on the floor. I took a closer look and notice the abdomen is light yellowish. Could these be wasps instead? I don’t know myself.

I have no idea what happened last night but I’m glad it wasn’t those nights that I would go out and meet a friend for supper.

Seeing these clusters of dead bees on the floor makes my skin crawl…..

Anyone have any clue of what could have happened?

Without hesitating, I purchased this new set of speakers! Quite expensive (S$279) but all for the sake of music~ [XD] I wanted to get 5.1 speakers before but it seems I can’t really free up any more space in my room for it. ( T-T)

Read a bit on HWZ forums and learned that it’s recommended to upgrade the stock cables that came with it to minimize the hissing sound problem and better sound quality. So I went the extra mile and spent another S$75 for some good Canare cables.

The cable in the photo above belongs to someone else’s.

Need to make another trip down to Sim Lim Square to collect my cables. I think I went too late yesterday so the nice uncle didn’t have time to make for me.

Creative is going to release their new soundcard, the X-Fi series and I’m looking forward to getting this one this Comex 2005. I heard rumours that you can trade in your old soundcard for a $50 discount. But if you buy it without trading in, you get a set of headphones free. Also, I’ve read reviews about the X-Fi series and they are enough reason for me to get one.

Anxiously waiting for this weekend to come so I can pump up the volume in the afternoon!

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Update: Oh my fucking god!!!!!! Orgasm for my ears!!!!!!!!

Moving upstairs next week! There’s going to be a new guy coming in to assist me and there’s no more room on the second level of my office. Problem is, my desk is situated quite near to the toilet so if anyone of the 3 people that are located upstairs has a bad diarrhoea…. Ugh….

On the other hand, I will be free from people occasionally coming behind me to collect stuff they printed because the office printer/scanner/fax machine is located behind me. Yay! More privacy! [XD]

Ahhh… 1 year and 11 months of working in this company already… Time flies when you’re enjoying every second of it.